The past influences the future, but what if the future also influences the past and present? A rainy Neil Young concert led to thoughts on the quantum nature of time and why "now" is so significant.
Karen. Thanks for this - timely, and provocative. More grist for my quantum milling. It had me recalling some past musings on the general integration territory you seem to be traversing, the importance of a capacious now-ness. It was in the context of some high-level ethos-making exploration, that came to be referred to as Yesterday's Tomorrows. If you are curious it's in Part 6 of this offering, beginning around p.16. It actually included a reference to some of your work. Keep up the good work, after having a good summer break! Cheerrrrrs! Ian Wight https://www.researchgate.net/publication/344362162_Ethos-Making_A_Place_We_Can_All_Call_Home
I found myself thinking about this post this morning, as I was in my garden, amazed (as often) at plants. This notion of time being not always progressive, and impacting the past (becoming the past at any rate)... somehow I began to see a connection in the garden. Cuttings, from now-and-future-plants, tucked into dirt, or into water, and taking root - sending out growth in the other direction from the one in which they seemed to be growing. Things grow and expand, bloom and finish, and then distribute seed, but also they can "pause" mid growth, and put down roots again in another place, growing again on another timeline. --Linda
I am so glad to hear you are taking some time for yourself, Karen. So well deserved. I hope it is lovely and that you get to savor every moment.
Reading your post today, I am reminded of how after the birth of my first son, the next six months seemed to last for 5 years, with everything so new about this baby, this new relationship, how it altered my life in so many contexts. Then gradually time speeded up again and the next 18 years passing in a flash. And of course now, his childhood seems eons ago.
Time is definitely relative.
We are at so many key junctures. What we do does matter. This moment matters. Life matters in all its nuance. Species matter. And yet, as Abigail Lynam (and others) says, sometimes you have to slow down in order to go fast. I wonder if there's a quantum hook in that notion? Seems like there must be, some place. --Linda
Thank you for this! I realised one day... the present rushes towards us from the future because the seeds of the future are sown in the past. I also love entangled musings! The question is, are you going to remember the conversation we haven't started yet?! 😉 Enjoy your holiday!
Thanks Karen. I appreciated your articulation of quantum time….a piece of the puzzle I have struggled to come to a working understanding of despite my intuition that in this a true magic awaits. Hope your trip to Florida is not too warm…you may end up missing that Bergen climate, rain and all.😉.
Karen. Thanks for this - timely, and provocative. More grist for my quantum milling. It had me recalling some past musings on the general integration territory you seem to be traversing, the importance of a capacious now-ness. It was in the context of some high-level ethos-making exploration, that came to be referred to as Yesterday's Tomorrows. If you are curious it's in Part 6 of this offering, beginning around p.16. It actually included a reference to some of your work. Keep up the good work, after having a good summer break! Cheerrrrrs! Ian Wight https://www.researchgate.net/publication/344362162_Ethos-Making_A_Place_We_Can_All_Call_Home
Looks like an intriguing read, Ian - thanks for sharing.
when you get caught up in decolonial discourse it’s hard not to see time as linear and material. thank you for the reminder that it is not. 🙏🏼
The idea that our future intentions can collapse into the past is revolutionary and needs to be understood by more people.
Thank you for sharing, I just restacked this.
I also have a personal question I wanted to ask, I left it inbox, when you have time please check it out.
I found myself thinking about this post this morning, as I was in my garden, amazed (as often) at plants. This notion of time being not always progressive, and impacting the past (becoming the past at any rate)... somehow I began to see a connection in the garden. Cuttings, from now-and-future-plants, tucked into dirt, or into water, and taking root - sending out growth in the other direction from the one in which they seemed to be growing. Things grow and expand, bloom and finish, and then distribute seed, but also they can "pause" mid growth, and put down roots again in another place, growing again on another timeline. --Linda
“Time is the fire
in which we all burn.”
Startrek
I am so glad to hear you are taking some time for yourself, Karen. So well deserved. I hope it is lovely and that you get to savor every moment.
Reading your post today, I am reminded of how after the birth of my first son, the next six months seemed to last for 5 years, with everything so new about this baby, this new relationship, how it altered my life in so many contexts. Then gradually time speeded up again and the next 18 years passing in a flash. And of course now, his childhood seems eons ago.
Time is definitely relative.
We are at so many key junctures. What we do does matter. This moment matters. Life matters in all its nuance. Species matter. And yet, as Abigail Lynam (and others) says, sometimes you have to slow down in order to go fast. I wonder if there's a quantum hook in that notion? Seems like there must be, some place. --Linda
Thank you for this! I realised one day... the present rushes towards us from the future because the seeds of the future are sown in the past. I also love entangled musings! The question is, are you going to remember the conversation we haven't started yet?! 😉 Enjoy your holiday!
Thanks Karen. I appreciated your articulation of quantum time….a piece of the puzzle I have struggled to come to a working understanding of despite my intuition that in this a true magic awaits. Hope your trip to Florida is not too warm…you may end up missing that Bergen climate, rain and all.😉.