The entire modern world is in error in holding that time is the matrix of being. The Buddha, upon his enlightenment, recalled (all) his past lives, which means that he converted time into space — i.e., abolished time, and added to space. You wind up with no time and lots of space. And different temporal modes are superimposed (like the BIP, past present and future) like layers of transparencies of an animated film superimposed (laminated).
Not seen in sequence but as a multi-superimposition unity unchanging, no longer in flux.
Or — is it that as each lamination is superimposed, the previous ones (the past) remain? Like the phosphene "graphics" which I saw: constants emerged. So they did not replace one another but were added to.
Built up the entelechy assembling itself; when you go to step "y" you don't abolish step "x" nor "w" before "x"; they're added to: laminated: so-to-speak imploded (opposite of an "exploded" diagram). Yes; time explodes reality, the opposite direction of added-to “implosion” - or what I thought to be implosion; it was actually lamination.
So that's what I did in Ubik- correctly represented time spatially and the past as spatially within - literally within - the present. And in the speeded-up process (never mind how you "speed up" purely spatial information) I bet I was able to write Ubik because of partially having had a time-into-space-conversion experience prior to writing it (maybe due to psychedelics).
I was very right in Ubik to see how it related to Plato's forms. The past can be retrieved along a spatial axis — as in Ubik!
I did it, when I saw "Acts"
ACH!! VALIS is such an important book— it deals dramatically and theoretically with the issues first presented in Ubik and is Ubiks logical successor (finally — no more police state novel). Ubik, then, is a novel representing a partway enlightenment and Ubik is related to Stigmata and Maze, etc. I must in 2-3-74 have attained enlightenment as the result of decades of gradual spirit (evolutionary) growth. There is a direct connection between Ubik and 2-3-74: it has to do with converting time into space and the results obtained therefrom, as put forth in VALIS.
Where I lucked out was finding the "here, my son, time changes into space" utterance in Parsifal because it united:
- Buddha's enlightenment
- Paracelsus's inner space
- Plato's space as matrix of being
