1. Metaphysical Time in Jorge Luis Borge's "Garden of Forking P
... driver begins to release the brakes, the first cars careens into the intersection and the accident is avoided. The driver of the second car remained in linear time in this scenario. However, a different decision caused time, defined as an occasion, to change and an alternative reality to the first scenario now ... the effect of, "We gather in this sacred place, in time that is not time, in space that is not space." Thus, all that is within the circle is removed from normal time and normal space, removed from normal reality. The ritual space becomes a bubble or wrinkle in the fabric of ti...
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