Einstein did not sufficiently enlighten us as to the nature and realities of time. Time may be understood as a dimension, but this is confusing because it precedes spatial dimensionality. My own understanding is expanding, but I currently recognize it as a way of both catalyzing and sequencing change within space. I also believe that time may well comprise a distributed mode of extreme intelligence.

While a being is alive, the entirety of its life is present in every moment, completely. But time’s -character- ordinarily imposes a barrier as to how this can be perceived. A remembered past, an experienced present, and a projected future. This is a fantastically erroneous vision of time’s nature or structure. The past and future are not as we imagine them, places along a line. They are, perspectival modes of now.

The import of this single fact is staggering.

Not only are all moments in our life ‘present and communicating with us’ (intuition?), but the same is true of the span of our species which, is ‘all here’ from the earliest progenitors to the most temporally distant progeny. But since our species cannot yet and will not yet admit this, we have strange ideas, wars, and rituals.

We do not understand the simple, obvious fact: time is a filter. If you cannot see past it, you become trapped in it, cognitively. But its nature is like space: deep, and (largely) transparent.

Time — is a way of knowing space (and thus relation).