a time as a vector

As per usual, this post is a workout session for the mind, as if the mind were a fully independent part. While we teach children the inheritance of progress (linear cause and effect of time, as an abstract mover) there is no stasis of which time could subsist inside a linear scale.

Sufis, philosophers and deep thinkers alike challenge the notion of a progressive, linear time that unfolds and it's often out of bounds to imagine, among common thought, that time could exist any other way. We walk forward, we turn, we twist, we reverse, all in a very specific linear way. Yet, the tense of those motions are not, in fact, linear alone. Change of direction is change of progress/regress, none of which exists in and of itself, even as a cause/effect described as random.

One of the major caveats that science enjoys invoking is that the human mind simply cannot wrap itself around such concepts, that we maintain some sort of independent thought function of any given machine, programmed to follow commands, step-by-step. Yet our experience is often (if not always) two-fold. The illusion of a vapid yet predictable, future and a past that sits idly behind us.

While you contemplate this, you can, come across a realization that there is only the now moment, even as prediction for the future are also past-tense, and all of which have always converged in the central now. This has never changed in any way, we are already eternal, even as we persist to imagine anything else.