Time Perception of Alchemists

Time Perception of Alchemists



Time is sequential only where the space exists and where there are forms and their dynamic interaction. In this specific case we are talking about our material three-dimensional plain. Outside the world of forms, the “flow” of the time - as a chronological sequence - doesn't have sense and it exists accordingly with different dynamics and meanings.

Time is the first effect of the meeting of laws from which the world of forms is born. Inside the time, each form - since its first manifestation and perception - determines the beginning of the flow, where cause and effect realize the temporal link between one event and another inside a precise plain of existence(Slanger, 2010).

The universe of forms is composed by many plains of existence, echo-words and parallel realities which exist also in ultra-luminal dimensions.

The complexity created by this vision of our universe leads our vision and experimentation towards different flows of time, which interact in many different ways. Especially from the alchemical point of view, Time is a parameter through which we consider each form, which is supported by the “particle of time” which participates to.

Time is the possibility given to forms to transform themselves along the axis of the temporal flow, instant by instant, event by event, towards the direction of the development of complexity.

Therefore, only from a theoretical point of view, past times are related with less complex systems and future times with more complex systems where the structure of the universe is composed by masses progressively smaller but able to manifest a wider functionality and to support a higher level of information/memory, inside a more and more evolved context.

Our perception is quite accustomed to the first point: it is a matter of considering time just in its function as a flow, from the past to the future. We are immerged in the time-river and participate to its unremitting flow. We see what we conventionally call “history' through our personal and collective conventional memory and perception.

Events arrange themselves inside precise temporal sequences that we call “time packages” (Le Poidevin, 2009).

Time packages contain events (forms) and each one of them has a sort of average “valence” of complexity. This is not the complexity of the events hold by the package, but the angular position of the whole in respect of the cone of the complexity. This parameter tends to be repetitive and follows a sort of rhythm accordingly with the characteristic of the plain of existence.

In the present it appears to be constantly updating itself . It follows from this that we believe that the past is fixed and the future is open. How we live our lives actively depends on this notion and we fall into the trap of chasing time and falling into the false belief there is just not enough of it(Eagleman, et. al. 2012).

As a society we've become obsessive at measuring time and our effectiveness because we believe that time is scarce we focus on maximizing ever minute of the ...