I Have Seen The Enemy

Ah, the ole meditation and near death experience connection. Two peas in a pod as they say.

“…the transformative effects it had on their lives…”

Actually, this is not as preposterous as it seems.

Don’t get me wrong: somebody is selling something.

But aren’t we all selling something in the end?

We are.

But consider the time-perception work of David Eagleman.

To me, Eagleman is creating a pseudo near-death experience to tell us that TIME SLOWS DOWN.

Not yet 21 years old I just missed a bad car accident and I can still remember with great detail the moments prior - the maroon colored car, my friend Jimmy Bell yelling, his hands on the dash, the field in the distance, the chrome bumper -because it seemed to be going in a slow motion.

Can Eagleman and his work lead to treatments for mental illness?

Maybe.

Maybe it can be tied to athletic performance to SLOW DOWN the opposition or the baseball or…?

You see where this is headed...MONEY.

This isn’t to say Eagleman doesn’t have altruistic intentions. He may.

That’s not really important.

What is important is our relationship with time.

Consider this sentence from Proust and The Squid: “Reading changes our lives, and our lives change our reading.”

Why should time be any different?

Time changes our lives and our lives change time.

Yes?

No?

Maybe?

Another thing I’ll never forget is my existentialism professor talking about time and how time will change for you when the doctor tells you its cancer.

Relativity isn’t the enemy folks. Be it time or ethics. Relativity is the truth that will set you free.