[orgaelin]

I'm looking through your site at the moment James, though I should say looking 'down' as it's one hell of a long page!

You said in it:

"['For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction'] implies cause and effect, which in turn implies a separation in time between the cause and the effect, the action and the reaction. But in truth there is no separation between them. They are the same, unified phenomenon. Not a plural but a singular. Forces occur only in pairs. Neither the action nor the (so-called) reaction can exist without the other, and they happen at the same time"

Ah, but no two things can happen at the same time. Imagine a hand moving around a clock. As it gets to twelve there is a moment of transition where it must go from one side of the clock to the next. Effectively what you are saying is that second 59 happens at the same 'time' as second 01.

Could it not be that the very end of second 59 is immediately preceeding the very beginning second 01, or rather, that the very final moment of some cause is immediately before the effect thereof. There would still be no passage of time in between, so one could argue that in the moment of contact they were both in the same moment, but that depends on the length of moments you're measuring!

For me, cause and effect includes much more than action/reaction. a/r is physics, but c&e could be like one person causing another to be upset. That's how I see it anywho.

I love what you have to say about ideas taking shape across time like a single mind. Normally when people speak of 'collective consciousness' it is a 'present moment' thing. I've never thought of it happening over hundreds if not thousands of years. That's a wonderful idea.

There's an element of, if you don't mind my saying so, 'hippy' in your ideas. That's meant only as an observation though. The story about the animals watching you play guitar says it all!