TIME

Part ONE
CHRISSY
PHILP

You are here

now.

HELLO
Hello

Now you are here

Hello
again

now!

Changes keep happening

Nighttime

Day-time

Nighttime

Day-time

But

now does not change

-

- you are always here now

... you are always here

now.

Hi

Now appears to move from

one moment to the next in
a steady flow

wnownownownownownownownownownownownow

... but this is an illusion.

There is NO FLOW:
There is only...

NOW

You know that you are here now

because you are conscious. Even
if you are asleep, if I wake you,
you will still be here now.

Isnt that exciting?

You are not only conscious you are aware that you are

conscious.

You are not me so

you can be laid
back and not
excited at all if you
like.

I will use the colour orange

to represent consciousness
here now.
I have no special reason
this computer program chose
orange so thats as good a
reason as any for me.

Although I am writing this

now, when you read this I will
be here now - just like you!
Unless I am dead.
When I am dead I am not
absolutely sure where I will be
so Im not going to comment.

An important point to
note is that while you are
conscious that you are here
now, everyone else is
conscious of being here
now ...

AT THE SAME
MOMENT IN TIME.
There is only

one

Consciousness experiences
itself as separate when
embodied in separate
physical forms.
I am a
man
I am gay
I am a
beauty

I am the
president

I am a
girl

I am a
nervous
wreck

Embodied in human form it

experiences through four functions
of consciousness; thinking,
feeling, sensing (this includes
hearing), and seeing (this is the
same as knowing
I see also
I sense I
am a
means I know doesnt
it?)
I sense
man

I see I
am a
beauty

I think I
am the
president
?
I feel like
a girl

and feel
that I
am gay

I feel a
nervous
wreck

Whether animal or human,

furry, fluttery, big or small ...
I could do
with some
help

meow

... focused in a physical body,

doing its own thing, it feels
individual.
mo
o

Did someone
say
something?

Buz
z

BUT IS IT?
WHY IS IT ALWAYS
ONLY

HERE NOW?

Hello
EVERYONE

Because consciousness is
focussed in different places in
space, in each space individual
experiences are different.
Daytime

Nightime
Morning

Nightime
Morning

Daytime

For you it might be night-time while for

me
it might be day-time.
Nightime

Daytime
Evening

Daytime
Evening

Nightime

For you it might be Winter while for

me it might be Summer. The
possibilities are endless.

Winter in
UK

Summer
in
Australia

Spring in
Italy

Summer
in New
Zealand

Winter in
New
Hampshi
re

Changes never stop but remember - you are always

here

NOW.
Hi

Here is an experiment: Pick up a

chair and move it to the other side
of the room.

st of
a
P on
iti ir
s
po cha

st of
a
P on
iti ir
s
po cha

NOW attempt to sit on the chair

in the position it was before you
moved it.

Oops ... you will notice a definite

lack of supporting matter.

ma
tte
r

Yippee!
Youve got it!

NOW is what

MATTERS.

Our brains store MEMORIES.

We remember yesterday ...

?
yesterday

.. and the day before yesterday ...

?
the day before
yesterday

... and the day before the day before

yesterday .

?
the day before the day
before yesterday

Our MEMORIES go back for as long as

we can remember.
Wow!

Recordings of past events boost

our MEMORY.
Oh yes.
Photogra
phs
CDs
Diari
es

Lette
rs

We have archives of stored

information ...

!
Mars

Dr
Adams
Plesiosau
rus
Adam
Stuart
Smith

Einste
in

Old
LOND

Spacetime

Zodia
c
Old
Palesti
ne

Henry

Christop
her
Columbu
Neptu
s
ne
http://www.wikipedia.o

But it is important to remember

that information is not totally
trustworthy.

Information can be
recorded and
Information
is
not
interpreted incorrectly.
FACT .
(Remember the
chair).

The past is

GONE .

The past was THEN .. you are not

here THEN. You are here

Hello

NOW.

Information stored in your DNA is

ancient ...

wow

..

.. while information carried by

the cosmos stretches back to
what is presently considered to
be the beginning of time!

BANG?

We dont only have a memory

to supply us with a past - we
also have an

IMAGINATION !

Ah ha
Our IMAGINATION imagines
the future happy (yippee) -

Ouch

- or bad- (scary).

Yet, however happy or tragic our

memories, however complex our DNA,
however vivid our imagined future, we
are ALL always here Now.

I can state this with

confidence cant I?
Hello
again..

The verb to be is the first verb we

learn to conjugate.
Sum, est, es, sumus, estis, sunt.
I am, you are, he is, she is, we are, you are, they are.
Je suis, tu es, il est, elle est, nous sommes, vous etes, il
sont, elles sont.

Now

is

consciousness
of being.

Without

consciousness

we would not

BE at all!

The next slides present information from a

dissertation written in 2006 in which I asked
Is There Anything in Astrology
(If you are interested
Independent of Culture?
see website
You can skip these pages ifwww.chrissyphilp.com)
you are not into being academic.
When I set out on this project I had no
idea what the answer to the question posed
would be. I was surprised when the exercise
not only answered the question but also
supplied additional information. It combined
Platos Cosmographia (his description of the
soul) with Herman Minkowski space-time,
utilising information from philosophers as
th

The Platonic/Ptolemaic Cosmological

Model
Ferguson, K. Measuring the Universe: The Historical Quest to
Quantify Space (UK, The Softback Preview, 1999), p. 22

Plato recognised time and

heaven as synonymous; time
and the heavens, said
Timaeus, came into being at
the same instant framed
after the pattern of the eternal
nature, that it might resemble
this as far as was possible
the heavens were not so much
a metaphor for the divine, but
rather the divines very
embodiment. It was Platos
student Euxodus who worked
on a Platonic cosmographic
model. Timaeus, B. Jowett,
trans., The Internet Classics
Archive.

Peter Apians Cosmographia.

(16 April 1495 21 April 1552)
Until science took over
Platonic natural philosophy the
search for a model that would
place humanity in relation to,
what Ponty calls the perceptual
field, was a valid philosophical
preoccupation. Indeed this is
exactly what natural
philosophy, in its new guise as
modern science, is attempting
today with its hunt for a Unified
Field Theory, though many
would argue that science has
objectified this investigation,
la Descartes, to the point where
it has lost all connection with
reality.

The focus of the diagram A, is

the actor in a social Weberian
sense. While Dao means field, De
means focus, and stands for any
incarnating entity whether
quantum, chemical, physical,
biological, cultural, social,
psychological or ideological. The
actor A, in this case an astrologer, is
surrounded by a subculture (1)
within a culture (2) based on planet
Chrissy
Earth (3) enclosed by a solar system
made up of bodies of mass that
Philps
move with mechanical precision (4),
Cosmographi
generating in their geometric
a
aspects one to the other changing
(16 April
patterns that are meaningful to the
Soul/UnusMundus/Dao/A
1942 -)
astrologer at point A. These bodies
mbient/Phenomenologica of mass can be precisely positioned
scope. Timaeuslequates
is corporeal;
has an
on aCosmos
horoscope
against a itmoving
Field.cosmos with soul.
exoteric reality. While the materiality of the
cosmos
is intrinsic,
the ambienttropical
zodiac.
The galaxy
(5) acts
dao-field is esoteric. We have reached theas
outermost
rim(or
of arche)
our
a template
for naming
understanding. Here, incorporating the totality,
therefore
not to beTropical
regarded
divisions
in the seasonal
as disembodied, are Platos forms/eide/arche/first principles (7).

Herman Minkowski was Einsteins tutor. This is

Minkowskis space-time diagram copied from Page 26 of
Stephen Hawkings famous book A Brief History of Time. It
illustrates a past time cone and a future time cone and,
between the two, a point called The Present. You can
understand now why I decided memory and imagination
should take the form of cones.
Having come up
with the updated
Cosmographia
(illustrated on the
previous slide), a
diagram of an
incarnating entity in
SPACE, otherwise
titled The Cosmos,
familiarity with this
diagram suggested I
combined my
Cosmographia with this
model representing

Plato/Ptolemy/Minkoski/Ponty
SPACETIME

The Future

Time

So, here it is.

This diagram models
an incarnating self
identifying through
memory with the past
and through imagination
with the future. It
illustrates, not only the
incarnating self, but also
the outer incarnating
soul. Indeed, the total
cosmic field is focused at
this point.
Minkowski labels
anything outside of the
space-time cones
elsewhere. It represents
information inaccessible
to this self at this
particular place and time.
Um like a message
sent today from a being

You are
here
NOW

BIRT
H
The Past

Space

The Present, (Minkowski).

The De, (Lao Tzu). The
moment of incarnation, (Ponty).
The Self (Jung). The Actor, (Weber).
The Will, (Neitsche).

Each one of us is incarnating separated by our position

in space. This diagram not only illustrates our shared
relationship with the cosmos but also the influence we will
have on each other in the future. The closer we are in
space the sooner our influence is experienced.
Individuality

Shared Past

Shared Future

Past life cone

FUTURE
5 years
10 years

Now
PAST

Space

Jung: Probably none of my empirical concepts has met with

so much misunderstanding as the idea of the collective
unconscious. ACU, p. 42.

Future
moment of
incarnation
personal
unconscious

The Collective
Unconscious.

The worlds vast Memory. Ponty

p.18.

We understand dont
we?

It doesnt matter if you are on Mars, or on a

planet orbiting a star in the Andromeda
galaxy,
Mars

NOW

Andromed
a

is a Collective Experience.

It is

The Same
for Everyone!

So, if NOW is a Collective

Experience,

The Same

for Everyone,

(even if you are on a planet

orbiting a star in the Andromeda
galaxy) can we communication
with someone living in
Andromeda?

Andromeda
Galaxy

This is where we hit a problem.

We know information cannot travel faster
than the speed of light, so, as the Andromeda
Galaxy is 2.5 million light years distant, by the
TIME information sent to Earth by a being on
a planet in the Andromeda Galaxy (if there is
one) reaches us, it will be seriously out of date.

Milky Way 2.5 million years

away

2.5 million light

years
Hello
Earthman

Consciousness
on planet in
Andromeda
sends message .

Hello
Earthm
an

Consciousness on
Earth receives
message

Wo
w!

2.5 million
years later

Hello
Earthman

Consciousness on Earth
replies to message from
Andromeda Galaxy

2.5 million light

years

Hello
Andromeda
Galaxy being.

Andromeda 2.5 million light

years away

Hello
Andromed
a galaxy
being.

Wo
w!
Hello Andromeda Galaxy
being.

Consciousness on planet
in Andromeda receives
message.

2.5 million
years later

Consciousness on
planet in Andromeda
replies.

Hello,
great to
hear
from
you!

2.5 million light

years

Hello. Great to
hear from you

Milky Way 2.5 million years

away

Wo
w!
Hello. Great to hear from
you

Consciousness on
Earth receives reply.

2.5
million
years
later

That communication took just

7.5 million years.
But, of course, if we take into
account these two galaxies are
presently speeding towards each
other at 110 km per second, this
estimation is not to be understood
as strictly accurate.

I made this graph in an

attempt to make sense
of cosmic time-scales.
Each square represents
one thousand years. I
think one thousand
years is a lot (because I
am comparing it to a
human life-time) but,
compared to our
imaginary
communication with
Andromeda, one
thousand years is
peanuts. The total
area of this graph
covers the necessary
2.5 million years.
I wanted you to see this before the next slideThe
because
order
to
small in
blue
bit at
illustrate our relationship with a consciousness
have
thethat
top might
identifies
evolved in Andromeda I have exaggerated civilizations.
I not,
civilization. Had
Gobekli
is I

Our now and Andromedas now might share the

same past time cone but perhaps you can
understand now that cosmic distances (at least in
this rendition of reality) deny present being
now intercommunication. Shared
Shared
future

future

now
2.5 million light
years

CIVILISATIONS on
Earth.

2
.
5

Shared Past

Possible CIVILISATIONS
on planets in
Andromeda.

That diagram illustrated (very roughly) how it

looked before we invented communication
satellites. Now, on our world, it looks like more
this. Our shared future has become almost
immediate hasnt it? It is as if the space
between us has shrunk (Cant speak for
Andromeda.)
Shared
future

now

Modern
CIVILISATIONS on
Earth.

Possible CIVILISATIONS
on planets in
Andromeda.
Shared
Past

We can deduce from this that we

are stuck, for the foreseeable future,
with managing our inter-relationships
only in our own corner of the
universe .... and maybe that is a
good thing as we arent doing
especially well so far ... are we?
I have never seen one, but if you
are someone who thinks spacemen are already visiting our planet
thats fine too. Maybe there are
ways of moving faster than the
speed of light. Best to keep an
Open Mind.

This was going to be a presentation about

TIME, but, hang on, it will be ... its just
that we cant consider TIME if we dont
first consider what it is that is
experiencing this phenomenon.
Have we got this sorted?
Its

Consciousness

isnt it?
That includes US doesnt it?
We are experiencing the changes we call
TIME.
Well
This is getting pretty
Doneheavy - are you still

with me?

TIME
TIME is what we call our experience of
changes happening within us and
around us.
We have constructed ways of
defining these changes (some of which
are very reliable). We are now in a
position to identify successfully

In Part TWO we will look at the

result of our efforts. We will look at
LOCAL TIME (clock time); this tells us
where we are in our day enabling us to
interact successfully. Then we will look
at a map of CONSCIOUSNESS TIME
(horoscopic time) which offers us the
opportunity to understand where we
are at in our LIFE (big concept) so
that we may learn (given TIME) to
interrelate successfully.
Part THREE will look at RELATIVE

THE END
Part ONE

Goodbye