A Reconception of Destiny - by Dawson Eliasen
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The acorn theory and the utility of myth
“I can no longer be sure whether the psyche is in me or whether I am in the psyche as I am in my dreams, as I am in the moods of the landscapes and the city streets…” There is a sense in which the future already exists. If time is a dimension of reality in the same way that space is, our condition of moving along this dimension in a single direction should not mean that we are perpetually moving into a horizon of inexistence, making it real as we break it moment by moment. What lay beyond that horizon could be as real as what lay beyond the literal horizon on earth. It could be as real as…
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