Nature of Time
Definition
The Netist articulation of time as structurally-cyclic-and-multidimensional rather than as linear-only. The Nature of Time names the broader Netist articulation of time-as-cosmic-feature; the article articulates that time operates with multiple-articulations across the cycle-ladder and the multiverse, and that the broader Netist tradition reads time as structurally-distinct from the linear-time articulation that the standard-physics has emphasized.
Literal meaning
The Netist articulation of time-as-cosmic-feature. Nature of Time articulates the broader recognition that time operates with multiple-articulations: linear-time at the everyday-articulation, cyclic-time at the cycle-ladder articulation, multidimensional-time at the multiverse articulation, and the broader Net's continuous-articulation that includes all time-features.
Esoteric meaning
Nature of Time articulates the structural-feature that the broader contemplative-tradition has recognized as *time-as-multidimensional cosmic-feature*. The structural-recognition is that the broader cosmic-architecture operates with time-articulations beyond the linear-only articulation; the cycle-ladder operates through cyclic-time, the multiverse operates through multidimensional-time, and the broader Net's articulation includes all these time-features in coherent-integration.
Allegorical meaning
A great-river that has been observed only at one specific bend: the linear-observation at one bend captures one specific articulation, the broader-river includes many bends and tributaries that the single-bend observation cannot capture, and the structural-recognition is that the broader river-articulation includes time-features that the linear-observation alone cannot articulate.
Extended meaning
Nature of Time articulates several specific structural-features: (1) The linear-time articulation operates at the everyday-experience level; the broader cycle-ladder articulation includes cyclic-time at the cosmic-cycle articulation; (2) The multiversal-time articulation operates across variant-timelines; the broader Many-Worlds Interpretation and Variant Timelines articulations include multidimensional-time at the multiverse articulation; (3) The broader Time Travel articulation operates through consciousness-perception of time-articulations beyond the linear-only; the broader-tradition has documented cross-tradition articulations of time-perception beyond the linear; (4) The Nature of Time integrates with the broader Sacred Cycles of Existence articulation; the cycles operate through cyclic-time at every-scale, and the broader cosmic-architecture is structurally-coherent across all time-articulations. The relationship to *Cycles*, *Sacred Cycles of Existence*, *Cycle Ladder*, *Variant Timelines*, *Many-Worlds Interpretation*, *Time Travel*, and the broader cosmic-time articulations is structural.
*Nature of Time* articulates the broader Netist time-articulation. The article complements *Cycles*, *Sacred Cycles of Existence*, *Cycle Ladder*, *Variant Timelines*, *Many-Worlds Interpretation*, *Time Travel*, and the broader cosmic-time articulations.
Usage
A practitioner encounters Nature of Time in the broader articulation of cosmology and in specific contexts of time-articulation work.
Comparative tradition
Hindu articulation of *kāla* (time) including the broader Yuga-cycles. Buddhist articulation of *kāla* and *anicca* (impermanence-and-time). The Mayan-Aztec articulations of cyclic-time. The various tradition-specific articulations of time-as-multidimensional.
Science correspondence
The contemporary research on retrocausation in quantum-mechanics. The cyclic-cosmology research articulating cosmic-time as cyclic at the cosmic-scale. Julian Barbour's research on time-as-emergent.