You left out Heidegger and his being and time. My point is that time has a lot to do with state of mind. How we perceive time subjectively is really more relevant than how time might objectively be defined. Particularly because we seem scientifically unsure if time is indeed a separate "Force" from matter and gravity. You also skip Einstein and his space time continueum which suggests that time is inseperable from space and yet his clock experiments prove that time passes different in different places. In other words, time is a local phenomenon. Hence, the space I am consciously holding can create a time bubble which can slow down time or speed it up. We feel this quite easily, but we are taught to ignore this sensation as a kind of hallucination. But it isn't actually a hallucination. It is a portal space that most of us haven't been taught how to use. And there are very specific conditions of use which makes it hard if not impossible to objectively measure, because the realms of divinity are guarded and protected against exploitation, by science, or capital, or demonic urges.
But there is a way and a path of revelation that can be explored. It is multidimensional. Not linear, not perfectly round, but corkscrews interwoven with other corkscrews. A fabric of sorts. A weft and a wane as they say.
Perhaps the two are not mutually exclusive--the snake never quite eats its tail--and time and becoming is a spiral, always gathering up into Pleroma.
The river is most commonly associated with life. Its continual flow to the ocean is a key metaphor.
I submit periodicity within linear flow. Rivers have been described as rolling for that reason.
You left out Heidegger and his being and time. My point is that time has a lot to do with state of mind. How we perceive time subjectively is really more relevant than how time might objectively be defined. Particularly because we seem scientifically unsure if time is indeed a separate "Force" from matter and gravity. You also skip Einstein and his space time continueum which suggests that time is inseperable from space and yet his clock experiments prove that time passes different in different places. In other words, time is a local phenomenon. Hence, the space I am consciously holding can create a time bubble which can slow down time or speed it up. We feel this quite easily, but we are taught to ignore this sensation as a kind of hallucination. But it isn't actually a hallucination. It is a portal space that most of us haven't been taught how to use. And there are very specific conditions of use which makes it hard if not impossible to objectively measure, because the realms of divinity are guarded and protected against exploitation, by science, or capital, or demonic urges.
But there is a way and a path of revelation that can be explored. It is multidimensional. Not linear, not perfectly round, but corkscrews interwoven with other corkscrews. A fabric of sorts. A weft and a wane as they say.