Tag: time

  • Emotions and our sense of time

    Emotions and our sense of time

    time.  The deepest parts of our personalities are structured in terms of our sense of time, such as our memories from the past, our hopes and dreams for the future, and our awareness of our own mortality.

  • Some Indo-European thoughts on time

    Some Indo-European thoughts on time

    Our day-to-day experience of time passing can be highly non-linear and subjective, as we move from giving rapid presentations to enjoying lazy Sunday afternoons.  Science too has studied how our brains have the ability to slow down and speed up our perception of time.  In this way, our lived experience of the flow of time…

  • T.S. Eliot, the Vedas and the Concept of Time

    T.S. Eliot, the Vedas and the Concept of Time

    The concept of time seems to have been a preoccupation for many leading figures of this generation across a variety of fields, stimulated perhaps in part by the linking of hitherto distant regions through railway and telegraphy during the nineteenth century, and likely also by the impact of Einstein’s work.  Such figures might include Henri…