TIMEPart ONE

CHRISSY PHILP

You are here now.

HELLOHello

Hello again

Now you are here now!

Changes keep happening

Night-time

Day-time

Night- time

Day-time

But now does not change -

- you are always here now

... you are always here now.

Hi

Now appears to move from one moment to the next in

a steady flow

... but this is an illusion.

ownownownownownownownownownownownownow

There is NO FLOW: There is only...

NOW

You know that you are here now because you are conscious. Even if you are asleep, if I wake you, you will still be here now.

Isnt that exciting? You are not only conscious - you are aware that you are conscious.

I think that is even more exciting.

You are not me so you can be laid back and not

excited at all if you like.

I will use the colour orange to represent consciousness

here now.

I have no special reason this computer program chose

orange so thats as good a reason as any for me.

Although I am writing this now, when you read this I will be here now - just like you!

Unless I am dead.

When I am dead I am not absolutely sure where I will be so Im not going to comment.

An important point to note is that while you are

conscious that you are here now, everyone else is

conscious of being here now ...

AT THE SAME MOMENT IN TIME.

There is only one consciousness of now for

everyone!

I am a man

I am the president

I am gayI am a beauty

I am a nervous wreck

Consciousness experiences itself as separate when embodied in separate

physical forms.

I am a girl

I sense I am a man

I think I am the

president?

I sense and feel that I

am gayI see I am a

beauty

I feel a nervous wreck

Embodied in human form it experiences through four functions of consciousness; thinking, feeling, sensing (this includes hearing), and seeing (this is the same as knowing I see also means I know doesnt it?)

I feel like a girl

Whether animal or human, furry, fluttery, big or small ...

I could do with some

help

meow

... focused in a physical body, doing its own thing, it feels individual. Did someone say

something?

Buzz

moo

BUT IS IT?WHY IS IT ALWAYS

ONLY HERE NOW?

HelloEVERYONE

Morning

Morning

Nightime

Nightime

Daytime

Daytime

Because consciousness is focussed in different places in space, in each space individual

experiences are different.

Evening

Evening

Daytime

Daytime

Nightime

Nightime

For you it might be night-time while for me

it might be day-time.

Winter in UK

Summer in New

Zealand

Summer in

Australia

Spring in Italy

Winter in New

Hampshire

For you it might be Winter while for me it might be Summer. The

possibilities are endless.

Hi

Changes never stop -but remember - you are always

here

NOW.

Here is an experiment: Pick up a chair and move it to the other side

of the room.

Past

position

of

chair

Past

position

of

chair

NOW attempt to sit on the chair in the position it was before you

moved it.

Oops ... you will notice a definite lack of supporting matter.

matter

Yippee! Youve got it!

NOW is what

MATTERS.

Our brains store MEMORIES. We remember yesterday ...

yesterday

?

.. and the day before yesterday ...

the day before yesterday

?

the day before the day before yesterday

... and the day before the day before yesterday .

?

Our MEMORIES go back for as long as we can remember.

Wow!

Recordings of past events boost our MEMORY.

Oh yes.

CDs

Photographs

Letters

Diaries

We have archives of stored information ...

!Mars

Christopher

Columbus

Einstein

Space-time

Old LOND

ON

Neptune

Henry VII

Old Palesti

ne

Zodiac

Adam Stuart Smith

Dr Adams

Plesiosaurus

http://www.wikipedia.org/

But it is important to remember that information is not totally

trustworthy.

Information can be recorded and

interpreted incorrectly. Information is not FACT.

(Remember the

chair).

The past is

GONE.

Hello

The past was THEN .. you are not here THEN. You are here NOW.

Information stored in your DNA is ancient ...

wow

..

.

BANG?

.. while information carried by the cosmos stretches back to

what is presently considered to be the beginning of time!

We dont only have a memory to supply us with a past - we

also have an

IMAGINATION !

Our IMAGINATION imagines the future happy (yippee) -

Ah ha

- or bad- (scary).

Ouch

Yet, however happy or tragic our memories, however complex our DNA, however vivid our imagined future, we

are ALL always here Now.I can state this with confidence cant I?

Hello again..

The verb to be is the first verb we learn to conjugate. Sum, est, es, sumus, estis, sunt.

I am, you are, he is, she is, we are, you are, they are.Je suis, tu es, il est, elle est, nous sommes, vous etes, il

sont, elles sont.

Now is consciousness of being.

Without consciousness we would not BE at all!

The next slides present information from a dissertation written in 2006 in which I asked Is There Anything in Astrology Independent of Culture? You can skip these pages if you are not into being academic.

When I set out on this project I had no idea what the answer to the question posed would be. I was surprised when the exercise not only answered the question but also supplied additional information. It combined Platos Cosmographia (his description of the soul) with Herman Minkowski space-time, utilising information from philosophers as disparate as Lao Tzu (4th century BC), Ptolemy (90-168), Nietzsche (1844 1900), Weber (1864- 1920), Jung (1875-1961), and Merleau Ponty (1908-61).

(If you are interested see website

www.chrissyphilp.com)

The Platonic/Ptolemaic Cosmological Model

Ferguson, K. Measuring the Universe: The Historical Quest to Quantify Space (UK, The Softback Preview, 1999), p. 22 Plato recognised time and

heaven as synonymous; time and the heavens, said Timaeus, came into being at the same instant framed after the pattern of the eternal nature, that it might resemble this as far as was possible the heavens were not so much a metaphor for the divine, but rather the divines very embodiment. It was Platos student Euxodus who worked on a Platonic cosmographic model. Timaeus, B. Jowett, trans., The Internet Classics Archive.

Peter Apians Cosmographia. (16 April 1495 21 April 1552)

Until science took over Platonic natural philosophy the search for a model that would place humanity in relation to, what Ponty calls the perceptual field, was a valid philosophical preoccupation. Indeed this is exactly what natural philosophy, in its new guise as modern science, is attempting today with its hunt for a Unified Field Theory, though many would argue that science has objectified this investigation, la Descartes, to the point where it has lost all connection with reality.

Soul/UnusMundus/Dao/Ambient/Phenomenologica

l Field.

The focus of the diagram A, is the actor in a social Weberian sense. While Dao means field, De means focus, and stands for any incarnating entity whether quantum, chemical, physical, biological, cultural, social, psychological or ideological. The actor A, in this case an astrologer, is surrounded by a subculture (1) within a culture (2) based on planet Earth (3) enclosed by a solar system made up of bodies of mass that move with mechanical precision (4), generating in their geometric aspects one to the other changing patterns that are meaningful to the astrologer at point A. These bodies of mass can be precisely positioned on a horoscope against a moving tropical zodiac. The galaxy (5) acts as a template (or arche) for naming divisions in the seasonal Tropical zodiac. The cosmos (6) encompasses the horo-

scope. Timaeus equates cosmos with soul. Cosmos is corporeal; it has an exoteric reality. While the materiality of the cosmos is intrinsic, the ambient-dao-field is esoteric. We have reached the outermost rim of our understanding. Here, incorporating the totality, therefore not to be regarded as disembodied, are Platos forms/eide/arche/first principles (7). .

Chrissy Philps

Cosmographia

(16 April 1942 -)

Herman Minkowski was Einsteins tutor. This is Minkowskis space-time diagram copied from Page 26 of Stephen Hawkings famous book A Brief History of Time. It illustrates a past time cone and a future time cone and, between the two, a point called The Present. You can understand now why I decided memory and imagination should take the form of cones. Having come up

with the updated Cosmographia (illustrated on the previous slide), a diagram of an incarnating entity in SPACE, otherwise titled The Cosmos, familiarity with this diagram suggested I combined my Cosmographia with this model representing TIME.

AA

Plato/Ptolemy/Minkowski/Ponty Spacetime

Space

Tim

e

The Present, (Minkowski).The De, (Lao Tzu). The moment of incarnation, (Ponty).The Self (Jung). The Actor, (Weber).The Will, (Neitsche).

The Past

The Future

So, here it is. This diagram models an incarnating self identifying through memory with the past and through imagination with the future. It illustrates, not only the incarnating self, but also the outer incarnating soul. Indeed, the total cosmic field is focused at this point. Minkowski labels anything outside of the space-time cones elsewhere. It represents information inaccessible to this self at this particular place and time. Um like a message sent today from a being in the Andromeda Galaxy (you will understand this soon, I promise).

You are here NOW

Plato/Ptolemy/Minkoski/Ponty SPACETIME

BIRTH

Shared PastIndividuality Shared Future

Past life cone

Space

Now5 years10 years

PAST

FUTURE

Each one of us is incarnating separated by our position in space. This diagram not only illustrates our shared relationship with the cosmos but also the influence we will have on each other in the future. The closer we are in space the sooner our influence is experienced.

Jung: Probably none of my empirical concepts has met with so much misunderstanding as the idea of the collective unconscious. ACU, p. 42.

personal unconscious

moment of incarnation

Future

The worlds vast Memory. Ponty p.18.

The Collective Unconscious.

We understand dont we?

It doesnt matter if you are on Mars, or on a planet orbiting a star in the Andromeda

galaxy,

NOWis a Collective Experience.

It is The Same for Everyone!

Mars Andromeda

So, if NOW is a Collective Experience,

The Same for Everyone,

(even if you are on a planet orbiting a star in the Andromeda galaxy) can we communication

with someone living in Andromeda?

Andromeda Galaxy

This is where we hit a problem. We know information cannot travel faster than the speed of light, so, as the Andromeda Galaxy is 2.5 million light years distant, by the TIME information sent to Earth by a being on a planet in the Andromeda Galaxy (if there is one) reaches us, it will be seriously out of date.

2.5 mil lion lig ht

years

Milky Way 2.5 million years away

Hello Earthm

an

HelloEarthm

an

Consciousness on planet in Andromeda

sends message .

2.5 million years later

Wow!

Consciousness on Earth receives

message

Hello Earthm

an

Andromeda 2.5 million light years away

2.5 mil lion lig ht

years

Hello

An

drom

eda

Gala

xy

bein

g.

Hello Andromeda galaxy being.

Consciousness on Earth replies to message from

Andromeda Galaxy

2.5 million years later

Wow!

Consciousness on planet in Andromeda receives

message.

Hello

And

rom

eda

Gala

xy

bei

ng.

Milky Way 2.5 million years away

2.5 mil lion lig ht

years

Hello

. Gre

at to

he

ar fr

om y

ouHello,

great to hear from you!

Consciousness on planet in Andromeda

replies.

2.5 million years later

Wow!

Hello

. Gre

at to

hea

r fro

m

you

Consciousness on Earth receives reply.

That communication took just 7.5 million years. But, of course, if we take into account these two galaxies are presently speeding towards each other at 110 km per second, this estimation is not to be understood as strictly accurate.

I made this graph in an attempt to make sense of cosmic time-scales. Each square represents one thousand years. I think one thousand years is a lot (because I am comparing it to a human life-time) but, compared to our imaginary communication with Andromeda, one thousand years is peanuts. The total area of this graph covers the necessary 2.5 million years. The small blue bit at the top identifies civilization. Gobekli is believed to be 11,500 years old.

I wanted you to see this

I wanted you to see this before the next slide because in order to illustrate our relationship with a consciousness that might have evolved in Andromeda I have exaggerated civilizations. Had I not, I fear you would not have been able to see them.

Possible CIVILISATIONS on planets in Andromeda.

Shared future

Our now and Andromedas now might share the same past time cone but perhaps you can

understand now that cosmic distances (at least in this rendition of reality) deny present being

now intercommunication.

CIVILISATIONS on Earth.

Shared future

Shared Past

2.5

2.5 millio n light

years

now

Modern CIVILISATIONS on

Earth.

Shared future now

Possible CIVILISATIONS on planets in Andromeda.

Shared Past

That diagram illustrated (very roughly) how it looked before we invented communication

satellites. Now, on our world, it looks like more this. Our shared future has become almost immediate hasnt it? It is as if the space between us has shrunk (Cant speak for

Andromeda.)

We can deduce from this that we are stuck, for the foreseeable future, with managing our inter-relationships only in our own corner of the universe .... and maybe that is a good thing as we arent doing especially well so far ... are we?

I have never seen one, but if you are someone who thinks space-men are already visiting our planet thats fine too. Maybe there are ways of moving faster than the speed of light. Best to keep an Open Mind.

This was going to be a presentation about TIME, but, hang on, it will be ... its just that we cant consider TIME if we dont first consider what it is that is experiencing this phenomenon.

Have we got this sorted? Its Consciousness isnt it?

That includes US doesnt it? We are experiencing the changes we call

TIME. This is getting pretty heavy - are you still

with me? Well Done

TIME TIME is what we call our experience of changes happening within us and around us. We have constructed ways of defining these changes (some of which are very reliable). We are now in a position to identify successfully where we are at in the midst of change.

In Part TWO we will look at the result of our efforts. We will look at LOCAL TIME (clock time); this tells us where we are in our day enabling us to interact successfully. Then we will look at a map of CONSCIOUSNESS TIME (horoscopic time) which offers us the opportunity to understand where we are at in our LIFE (big concept) so that we may learn (given TIME) to interrelate successfully.

Part THREE will look at RELATIVE TIME

OOOH !

THE END Part ONE

Goodbye

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