Multiple Views of Time
Sam smiled and pondered. His point of vantage offered him an unprecedented view
and perspective. He wished they could catch even a glimpse of it. But his desire was tem-
pered. How would they use it if they did? After all, so many of them misuse just about
everything, let alone the power that this kind of knowledge and understanding could
afford them.
And what of the apathy among them? So many no longer question the origin of the
constant drumbeat of the circumstantial conveyer belts that submerge them continually
in a multitude of exotic and mundane events. Instead, they simply accept that steady
barrage either with mild content or, in many cases, with a sense of resignation. Sam was
coming to grips with the realization that his audience might be limited because of so
many of them being engaged in what appears to be a never-ending struggle with forces
seemingly beyond their control. And for those interested, he would also have to be judi-
cious in sharing his insights with them.
They, the humans, are occupying a wobbling, spherically shaped rock that follows
what appears to be an elliptical orbit around Sam’s native residence. Suffering from a col-
lective amnesia, they’ve become bound by what they call time and confined to a minutest
fraction of what they call space.
The legion of definitions of time that they’ve come up with only aids them in per-
petuating this self-imposed ignorance of the time-transcendent laws that govern Sam’s
native habitat. They continually talk, write, and speculate about time. They keep track of
it and attempt to “maximize” it. Their scientists have developed constructs called calen-
dars and a stunning granularity of units to measure time’s “passage.” They identify some
of it as past and some as future that’s somehow divided by the elusive present.
As though it were a container of sorts, “their time” is filled with a host of routine and
unexpected activities. They ascribe numerous attributes to those activities but have not
yet grasped them as being nothing more than simple processes in energy conversion.
They routinely try to find more time and use it as a resource to fuel the achievement of
surprisingly meager goals. They repeatedly lament about being short of time as though
capricious gods whimsically throttled its flow to them.
Yet, few among the humans give thought to transcending time. Somehow, they’ve
become accustomed to its effects, even without understanding it. Their residence pro-
vides them with aids in perpetuating time’s illusions. The inclination of Earth’s axis to
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