Our view of the world depends on our sense of time.
In the following text you are being presented with numbers, for example, that man can consciously perceive 18 sensory impressions per second, which I could not find anywhere confirmed, therefore it remains for me a personal open question and allows, for example, also conclusions on what has happened since and apart from the here mentioned persons like Karl Ernst von Baer, Aloys Christof Wilsmann and last Vera F Birkenbihl in the meantime in the field of perception research.
Nevertheless, the game remains absolutely exciting, precisely because it is a mental experiment that is not often heard of.
The source I can only refer to is Vera Birkenbihl, who writes:
Through a quote in a book by an author who (cleanly!) stated his sources, I came across a title by Aloys Christof WILSMANN: "Wunderwelt unter der Tarnkappe" (Wonder world under the magic cap). Unfortunately, his work has been out of print for many years, so I could only get one copy - but it was worth it. This WILSMANN knew how to present the scientific "newest" results from the thirties (of the last century) in a brain-friendly way. In this book I found an example, which impressed me very much, which I quote since then in lectures or seminars, if it concerns to show that we do not live in an "objectively existing" world, but in a completely specifically human world! In the meantime we know a lot about the organs of perception of animals, e.g. that the frog primarily sees what is moving - be it a predator (e.g. stork) or a food victim (e.g. mosquito), so that a still standing tree for the frog de facto does not exist. But the author quoted by WILSMANN - Karl Ernst von BAER - goes on the time axis and offers us the fascinating fact that our view of the world depends not least on our sense of time. Excuse me? ... Well, read on
Birkenbihl refers to Karl Ernst von Baer, German-Estonian natural philosopher and biologist, born in 1792, died in 1876, who gives us a task to still think about today:
How would we see the world if we had another measure of time in us than our innate one?
[Lets assume] On average, a person can record about 18 impressions per second. This means that a sensory stimulus must last at least one eighteenth of a second so that we can consciously absorb it with all our sensory organs.
Processes that last less than these eighteen seconds, for example the flap of a hummingbird's wing or a shot arrow or bullet, a rotating propeller, we cannot consciously perceive, but experience only as an abstract understanding of the process. However, this process is not directly observable for the human eye.
Addition: Everything we perceive through the eye remains on the retina for 1/10th of a second longer than it actually "existed". [again, nothing I have checked, but be with it]
If we were equipped with a different temporal rate and perceptive faculty, about a 1000-fold time pace,
then we would not live about 80 years on average, but much shorter, about one month. Given, the amount of sensory impressions would not decrease, but the quality of these impressions would.
For example, we could literally see the wing beat of the hummingbird and even the bullet fly by "leisurely". To follow this with our eyes.
On the other hand, the movements of the celestial bodies (moon, sun, stars) would not be visible to us, since we would only be alive for one month and the duration of one moon orbit would already cover our entire existence.
And also the change of seasons we would never get to see.
What about passing knowledge?
But the previous knowledge of the men of the month would have already provided us with hypotheses which would say, for example, that through innumerable data collections a theory would say that the earth would be periodically covered by a white substance, or that periodically the leaves would fall from the trees, etc.
Wouldn't this be the same as what to us is known as myths and fairy tales?
We would read that, but we could not really imagine it.
What if there were a minute human creature?
If our life clock would be 1000x1000 times faster, i.e. if a human life took about 41 minutes? Then how would our reality present itself to us?
Von Baer says: "Concerning the day/night change such a person could not possibly develop an idea of it during his life, rather a philosopher among these minute people, if he had been born around 6 o'clock in the evening on a summer day, would perhaps speak to his minute grandchildren like this towards the end of his life":
By Ryanicus Girraficus - Own work, CC0,
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=65858333
When I was born, the shining star, from which all the warmth seems to come to us, stood higher in the sky than now. Since then it has moved much further west, but sunk ever deeper. At the same time, the air has become colder. It can be foreseen that ... after one or two generations ... it will have disappeared completely, and that then the freezing cold will have to spread. That will probably be the end of the world, or at least of the human race.
As far as the perception of such minute people is concerned, it would be so incredibly fast that the world would almost seem to stand still, the minute people could not see the growing process and changes of any plants growing, every leaf and every flower would appear to them imperishable, permanent. As if always there and never to disappear.
Sound waves, which we perceive as tones and sounds, would be inaudible to the minute people. The minute people, on the other hand, could perceive those inaudible vibrations which we call "ultrasound".
If we were to take another factor of 1000, an age would expire in about 21/2 seconds.
This second person could not hear ultrasound either, but those waves which we perceive as light and colour, but which he would HEAR.
What would happen in the opposite direction?
If we went in the opposite (time)direction, if we did not accelerate the tempo, but slow it down?
If a human age did not last 80, but 80,000 years
always assuming that the sensory impressions always remain the same, because we are playing through a mental experiment - In which world then did we live?
Even the eternally resting forests got into ghostly motion. In just a few hours, the seasons would take over.
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Hardly after the winter melt flowers, bushes and grasses would shoot out, trees would get leaves, fruits would sprout, leaves would lose again immediately. Some plants - such as mushrooms - would appear and disappear so quickly that you would hardly ever see them. Some things would fizz and explode like fireworks, and shortly afterwards everything would be over again. Other plants would look as if they were crawling around on the ground, looking for some prey.
In other words, the plants would stop showing the contemplative slowness we are used to today.
The sun, which would have a tail due to the rapid change, would rather resemble a comet.
And the 800,000 year old man?
Day and night would be perceived as flickering northern lights all the time. Seasons would run every second.
Wilsmann:
As soon as we had risen from the chair to look through the window into the spring-like garden, the rushes through the tops of the bare trees and a few seconds later the whirling dances of the white flakes chased over the empty beds.
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What about the mountains? Wouldn't we also see whole mountain ranges wandering, experience the melting of an ice age?
Do you now have a different view?
So what Birkenbihl said is what we so naturally call "our world" would change in the world view if we had a different temporal rate than the one we were born with.
It is also not the world of sub-atomic particles (whose world is many times faster than that of the 80,000-year-old human) and it is not the world of bacteria, plants or insects, but a special human world, our world.
Time is just sometimes a strange thing. Same with space. Space-time is all the more.
A few weeks ago, I had once racked my brains over calendars in order to devise a calendar that was as accurate as possible, that did not have these unspeakable leap years and that also finally fitted in with the actual names of the months, which - I believe some pope Gregory - changed and, if I remember correctly, plunged people into deep confusion and excitement, because suddenly ten days had disappeared somewhere.
Then I thought about synchronicity, the simultaneous movement of particles that are in completely different places and why this is possible.
Since I don't believe that we will ever be able to bend space with warp-bubble formation, I'd rather stick to the more esoteric version, and think it would be easier to cultivate and train long-distance perception, since we can practice our resonance abilities much more easily than producing anti-matter.
;-)
source I let myself be inspired and translated also from:
Vera Birkenbihl
It's definitely an intriguing thought experiment, and I think many thinkers have wondered similarly about our perception of time, and how it defines who we are.
But your concluding statement has me completely at a loss! You seem to be very open to possibilities that are revealed via poetic analogies, but somehow reject out of hand the idea of EVER being able to bend space! Lots of things seemed impossible to people just a few decades ago. Before the invention of the airplane, the New York Times newspaper, if I recall, predicted that the first flying machine would be invented in roughly a million to 10 million years! Lol! They may as well have said 'never'! (here, I found a link)
Also, the idea that something (which I would call impossible) like long-distance perception (do you mean ESP?) is easier to cultivate than something which science does not rule out, is also hard to fathom! Indeed, I have often said that if extra-sensory abilities existed, all animals would have evolved ways to use them. Why waste calories moving, when you can just telekinetically bring a deer to your mouth? Why develop language when you can just communicate telepathically? Nature is like Scrooge: it is absolutely ruthless when it comes to expenditure. If there was an 'easier' way to do things, she would've figured it out, especially considering the claims of people that they already possess these powers, which would mean that Nature has already hit upon this cheap invention, but is still stubbornly refusing to use it. (It's possible of course I have misunderstood your last point.)
Hey Alex,
nice you swing by.
Wrong. I don't reject the idea, in fact I was a little sad to give it up for myself at the moment, because I actually wanted to write before that I as a Startrek fan find the warp drive a fascinating thing.
And that I put myself into this warp fantasy. But then - because I also don't reject the possibility that nothing seems impossible - I read from serious scientists of the space institutes and physicists that warp is theoretically possible, but that you would need so much anti-matter (of which you don't even know yet, what this anti-matter is supposed to be) or a similar kind of unspeakable matter, and even if you could manage to summon the enormous amounts of energy, you would end up sizzling the spacecraft crew, as the spacecraft would be pushed to the end of its own bubble and pulverized by the strong radiation. Exactly, as by the way, the destination, which one would flare off immediately with.
I found the current state of research so sad that I gave up and thought about the tragic end of crew and destination: Hm ... the warp drive probably won't become anything, since bending spacetime has such considerable disadvantages for man and destination that I said goodbye to this possibility from my lifetime and then thought: Where else are the possibilities of one's own influence?
Besides, I thought about good old Bucky and agree with him that we probably have the most beautiful spaceship of all and the idea that we are racing through space with our earth has reconciled me. To be honest, I don't like flying at all and therefore the warp thing was very inviting, because you stand still and let the space fly around you.
No, no, I mean the ordinary remote perception of the intentions of living beings. Something different than reading "thoughts", because in truth thoughts are far too fleeting to be read. It's more about an impression you get from the other the minute you think about him or her or resonate with him or her. One thus bends the space-time mentally, only completely without burning anybody. LOL.
I once wrote about intuition, which one can train, so that it can become well developed. Otherwise intuition is about as precise as if you were an inexperienced shooter. With a lot of luck you hit your target, but in most cases it's a matter of chance. In my article from that time I wrote that intuition is something quite normal for the guys from the military as well as in espionage and detective work and you develop a sense for it if you are "shadowing" someone, because it is generally known that the person being watched notices this when, for example, you stare at him directly from behind and turn around because something attracts his attention. And so on.
All this also has to do with mental training, that I don't find it paranormal but consider it normal and that I am only too lazy to take up this "resonance training", as I call it, in my everyday life. Probably also because so few do. And because developing new habits is so much effort.
Very well-written! I do agree that pragmatically speaking, we are far from bending space! But, like you said, don't exclude anything yet. See this for example (which, as you know, is my hope for solving all the problems in the world!)
At the very beginning of this video I found a quote which takes up what you said - maybe you like to read it, I quoted it here down below in a response to @vieira:
Yes, I follow this tendency of mine which I think Terence McKenna described as an aesthetic approach.
I really enjoyed reading from you again (the last time I did was very long ago). It is an interesting and amusing thought experiment to imagine how we would perceive the world if or internal clocks were ticking faster/slower.
At the end of the day, it is clear that we understand the world from the data we collect. With a much shorter (faster) life, we would need many many lives to collect enough data to be able to go back to understand how the world works as we do. I still believe human's curiosity will make this process happening. It is also clear that there should be a lower limit (if we would live in a couple of seconds, we won't have time to prepare the process).
At the end of the day, I know I didn't address the main topic about perceptions. To which I agree. Humans perceive the world from how our internal mind is set. This is our bias :)
PS: if I may, would you mind using the following (standard markdown) syntax for image,
which would make them also visible on steemstem.io.
Hey, nice of you to comment.
People now have a rich collection of data, it is, as you say, due to their curiosity to learn more about the world and about themselves. The return of the interpreted data to oneself, the personal relationship to what people explore, always leads me to wonder. The questions we see answered lead to new questions, a process that never stands still. The future is a space full of possibilities and probabilities, the past a retrospective and interpretation. Every wave represents such a process and I find it fascinating that the processuality of relationships is an issue of interest at both the micro and macro levels.
For me, matter is still a mystery and something that can be viewed not only scientifically, but also poetically and aesthetically.
I tried your hint to encode the images as you suggested, but somehow it doesn't work, because the square brackets and the exclamation mark then become visible in the text. Hmm ... I will try it maybe the next few days again.
Thanks for the hint.
Interpretation really (really really) matters! Getting to the results is one thing, but managing to interpret them correctly is actually the most complicated way.
For the images, are you sure there is no space left (at all)?
What a great thought experiment. When you were going shorter and shorter I thought to myself, It would be fun to do this in the other direction as well and boom, there you go, 80.000 years.
What I find crazy to image in the insignificance of our presence in the grand time scale of everything in existence. Just to think that the human species evolved 200.000 years ago and covers only 0.0017% of the universe's lifetime. If people lived 80.000 years your grandfather would have been/witnessed the first human standing on two legs. even in the thought experiment where we live 800.000 years and where we witness the actual movement of the sun, we are still dwarfed by the grandeur of time.
HaHa, thank you. You were aligned with the experiment right away!
Yes, this magnitude is indeed one that leads man back to humility. I get a knot in thinking when I imagine how my grandfather, who would live 80,000 years, was himself among those who would "observe" their own primate evolution. Actually a thing of impossibility. It would be like remembering how we came into the world as babies, knowing exactly how we went from unconscious to self-conscious. We don't remember our baby and child years anymore and so this time is always a time hidden from ourselves, which at the same time encapsulated a lot of memories, physical sensations, to which we have no concrete access. The fact that there - in this recalled space - so much explanation is slumbering at the same time is both unsatisfactory and reassuring. If I start from probabilities and not from certainties, it is easier to live in the present - the only - life.
You're experimenting with reality and our perceptions. I don't know if I follow you exactly...it's not the first time (haha) I've thought about the elasticity or fluidity in our perceptions of time. I understand that you posit this is tied to the speed with which we can comprehend images. I've got to think about that.
I think of Borges and his treatment of time in his stories. One in which a man is about to be shot. Borges has the last subjective minute of the man's life lasting an actual year.
I'm not sure how your experiment fits in with Relativity or Schrodinger's cat. I don't understand both thoroughly enough to make sense out of it, but I have a feeling that discussion would be relevant.
There you go again... leading us into unaccustomed territory :)
As far as I understand Schrödinger's cat, the point is rather that there are the two possibilities that the cat is dead or alive. That as an observer and perceiver of a reality I have an influence on the result as soon as I open the box. Or that there can be more than one reality at the same time. If space-time does not "behave" according to the observable laws, the mind comes to all kinds of thoughts.
In the context of my research of this article I have seen a thought of mine for the first time (!) reiterated. That everything that comes to the mind of Science Fiction authors basically unfolds out of space itself, because nothing that does not exist in the universe is "new" from the ground up, but merely that space, which is infinitely folded, allowed a corner of its folding to pass through at one point.
It seemed to me as if I had had the thought sometime in my youth, because I wondered where such fantastic stories were supposed to come from, if they hadn't already been thought of somewhere or if it could have come from realities where such things are just as fantastic. Hard to describe.
The thought game of de Baer made something similar sound in me, I felt that despite the strangeness of this experiment it contained something familiar, because otherwise I couldn't imagine it at all.
Borges I hear the first time from. I'll take a look, thank you.
HeHe, yes, always interested in the crookedness :-)
My head is spinning :)
But do take a look at Borges. His writing fits perfectly with your line of speculation. And that writing influenced Latin American authors who followed him. Not just Latin American authors. I think you can see his influence in many writers across the world. His style is a bit sterile for some people. He was blind, and that may have influenced his tendency to describe things in abstractions.
Anyway Erika, rest that head of yours. Bake a cake. Handle something concrete, something that seems real, because wondering about the nature of reality sometimes undermines our own sense of being 😇. Does for me, anyway. After a while I feel like I've walked through a cellar filled with cobwebs.
Back to the collages. Really important stuff :))
Ich liebe Vera Birkenbihls unkonventionelle Methoden. Leider ist sie viel zu früh von uns gegangen...
Hey!!! Was für eine Überraschung!
So lange nichts mehr von dir gehört! Wie geht es dir? Bist du jetzt drüben?
Hier auf Steemit ist es still geworden. Aber wie du siehst, bin ich meiner Routine einigermaßen treu geblieben.
Ja, die Birkenbihl war echt ein Kaliber für sich. Nach langer Zeit habe ich mir mal wieder ihre Vorträge angehört und fand sie wie immer sehr inspirierend:)
Ganz liebe Grüße an dich!
Nee, du... wie das halt so ist. Das Leben lässt sich zwar planen, aber irgendwer da oben scheint dann doch am längeren Hebel zu sitzen. Ich habe nämlich Flugverbot. Und darüber bin ich sehr glücklich, denn ich erwarte im Mai mein -hoffentlich gesundes- Baby. 😍 Mein Mann kommt, wenn alles klappt, bald nach Deutschland und dann bleiben wir erstmal hier, bis uns alles aufn Senkel geht und dann düsen wir gemeinsam wieder ab. Es wird wohl so sein, dass wir immer hin- und her switchen werden, weil wir uns nicht entscheiden können, wo es schöner ist. 😆
Steemit ist bisschen still, ja, aber vielleicht wird es ja wieder besser. Allgemein ist der Cryptomarkt etwas schläfrig gerade. Grundsätzlich ist das ja ein gutes Zeichen, denn "what goes up, must go down." – und umgekehrt gilt das selbstverständlich genauso.
Die Birkenbihl war Autistin nach eigener Aussage, aber sie hatte eine wunderbare Art, die Dinge leichter zu nehmen, obwohl ich glaube, dass es in ihr drinnen anders aussah. Sie war recht schwermütig. Aber sie hat viel hinterlassen an nachdenkenswerten Thesen.
Ich freu mich auf weitere inspirierende Artikel von dir!!!
Oh Mensch, da freue ich mich aber für dich! Herzlichen Glückwunsch! Dann bist du ja jetzt im letzten Schwangerschaftsdrittel angekommen.
Und wie schön, dass ihr es euch ein bisschen aussuchen könnt, dass ihr zwischen zwei Kontinenten leben könnt.
Ja, du hast Recht, was raufgeht, geht auch runter, eine Art Naturgesetz ;-) LOL
Mein Bruder sagt auch immer, jedes Flugzeug kommt irgendwann wieder unten an. Er arbeitet ja auf nem Flugplatz. Galgenhumor.
Dass die Birkenbihl Autistin war, wusste ich nicht, sie hat dann aber das Beste aus sich gemacht und ich als Vollblut-Systemikerin denke, damit ist sie ein gutes Beispiel dafür, was als möglicherweise eine Schwäche begann im Leben auch zu einer Stärke gemacht werden kann. Die Potenziale der Menschen sind unermesslich und wir sollten stets auf das schauen, was einer machen kann, um in dieser Welt einen Dienst zu erweisen, so dass im schönen Nebeneffekt sich auch die eigene Freude einstellt.
Bis bald mal!
P.S. ich nehme an, du arbeitest nicht mehr? Oder bist du gerade in den letzten Wochen?
I don't speak German, but the words 'bald mal' (man?) make me think you're talking about me.
:D
Yup. Nailed. We talked about you. How could you know?? Guess you have a far better remote perception I have thought. :)
"Bald Mal" is our secret name for you.
😄
Ich arbeite immer. ;) Als Freiberufler kann man sich den Mutterschutz zwar im Kalender markieren, aber das Geld muss ja trotzdem irgendwo herkommen. Sowas wie eine reine Elternzeit wird es für mich daher leider auch nicht geben, aber ich hab Gottseidank einen super Ehemann, der mich da unterstützt. Wir machen's einfach wie die Seepferdchen... (da übernimmt das Männchen die Brutpflege). ;)
Eine schöne Seepferdchen-Familie wir das werden. :)
Ich drück dich!
I always love how you like to paint a broader picture and question understandings we are accustomed to ;) Your writings usually makes my thought wander around. Sometimes it goes in a totally different direction than what the post was about.
So, I will just share what I was thinking about while reading your piece. Just a tiny reflection of my thoughts and feelings :)
I like the way we perceive time right now :) Recently I've been terrified by time and aging. Maybe because I am not longer in my comfortable (and young) 20s and my husband turned 34 just yesterday. He was 22 when we met and I just have no idea where did the time go? 12 years of knowing him feel like 12 seconds. However, would I like to slow time down? I guess, I wouldn't if it means that I would freeze in a single moment. Realizing that time is moving and the clock is ticking is a great challenge but as every challenge, it could make your life even more valuable.
I guess I see and agree with your point of us, humans, jumping to the conclusion that our perception of time is a valid and a true perception of time. But the universe has its own timing that our minds hardly assimilate (or at least my mind). So, we tend to think that what we observe now is the entire picture, while it is just a small piece of the big picture.
Personally, I try to find some kind of a balance between being open for possibilities and being reasonable. Sometimes strange things happen and we are not able to explain it thoroughly. Just the other day my husband (a full-time skeptic) froze when we were walking in the park. He said that the day before out of the sudden he remembered a song from a single episode of Star Trek that he hasn't listened for a decade. Then, while we were walking he heard the same song from some other people who were listening to it on their phone. I joked that after trying to meditate every morning for a month now he has finally made a connection to the Mother Ship above us :D
Who knows, this could be exactly the case. Maybe we have some inner sense of future and past time or maybe as Jung says we are connected through our subconsciousness. Who knows, we cannot confirm, neither deny that possibility.
There is some crazy experiments on randomness going on for a decade now. It turns out that maybe there is a chance that human actions or minds could bend randomness. Check it here and here.
Going back to where I started. I think that our science still has a very narrow look at human existence and the universe as a whole. However, we all generalize what we know and try to make some kind of an explanation. Like the minute people you described. But this explanation is wrong because it doesn't have the big picture. Back to death, aging and calendars. I hope we got it all wrong with science and there is much more than just living, breeding, dying and turning into ... nothing.
That was me reflecting on your article in something close to a free write :)
Thank you for this great comment, which once again puts a scoop on top of how one can feel about one's own temporality. To consider the unfrozen moment in life as valuable and to accept the challenge of being neither backwards nor forwards is probably one of the most difficult trainings in human existence. The present is all we have and in skillful spontaneity to achieve an ease of being, a very beautiful anchor. When one has such a long relationship with one's partner as you and your husband, it is beautiful to see how one can tune into one another and resonate with the other without tying him to oneself and without feeling alone in indifferent independence. The other does not seem to be the same anymore and yet he is. But you never see through the other's reality and a piece of strangeness remains, but that's exactly what makes it interesting, isn't it? To invent imaginative models in time lapse or time stretcher and in this contrast to gain a realization that reality are also the stories we weave around each other, an almost tangible thing and then again not.
The coincidences, the song you're talking about and your husband practicing meditation and now having contact with the mother ship, made me smile very much. I believe that the mothership is not extraterrestrial but intraterrestrial. But I do not exclude anything.
Very interesting, the two links you gave me. I looked at it and find the experiment very exciting and promising. Here again the phenomenon of the influencing observer is expressed.
The bigger we draw the picture, the bigger it seems to become. In its infinity we then lose ourselves and hopefully come to ourselves in humility. Only yesterday I listened to Terence McKenna who said: How can we understand singularity (the Big Bang) as coming out of nowhere? How can one describe something so amazing as meaningless? It is probably the greatest of all events. He said that science allows us this one miracle and from there it wants to explain everything without such miraculous influences. The physicists probably come closest to it, because they have to admit that quantum physics has made matter into a mysterious thing again, after everything had fitted so logically before.
Very good mental experiment. My perception of time has always sought to transcend the subject and be as objective as possible, which is not achieved by measuring it, or quantifying it, but simply by waiting for the right moment to do things. Kairos. Although for that we must accept that we don't have control over the most things that happen to us in life (which is true), and also that what seems possible or impossible to subjects is of little importance to the world. The world, nature, God, or whatever, is in charge of planning, and humans adapt to them. Have you not heard that God's time is perfect? Maybe it seems very religious, but it's not like that.
Synchronicity is a topic that I have been investigating for months, although especially in the last weeks. Pretty interesting. Although I don't believe in acausality, there is a reason that transcends human knowledge, and therefore, we believe that it lacks meaning, which is not, everything has a reason. Synchronicity is more like natural synchrony. Because you also have to look at the synchrony of things and people, there is always a synchrony, while something advances, the other goes back, if it is very fast, then slow, and so on with everything else.
Synchrony makes everything go to its course, breaking it with desire causes suffering, following it causes calm and tranquility, and contradictorily, freedom. The cycles can't be advanced unless we learn from them to the fullest. I've also been interested in researching a little about his theory of dreams, although I really have not reached almost anything.
The Neoplatonists had a method of reasoning that went backwards, and that is precisely related to what Jung says. For example, if we see through the sensations that something moves very fast, then you must reason inward and say, that it is not what we perceive that moves fast, but us slow. It's more or less like that, I just simplify it a bit so I don't dwell on that. And that gives explanation to many things, I think, mainly two; a) people are effectively the cause of synchronicity when they align with the whole (although people should not seek sinconicity but alignment) and b) what bothers us about others, as Jung said, is the way in which that we learn from ourselves.
Time and space are according to Neoplatonists, and it is a point that I totally share, a kind of illusion, because everything is connected, always. This is important not only as a theoretical understanding, but as a practical philosophy.
So, I would not give anything as impossible, not as possible, because I don't have control of such things, and I only have very little control, in what I control I can focus now, and focusing on that I can, in the future, have more control. But we need to trust that nature is good and just, and that its control is better than ours. By this point I can see that I have strayed a bit.
But I agree with you, and with your conclusion which is usual. :) Although I don't think it has anything to do with impossibilities or easyness, which are certainly two things present, but with the right thing for the right time. Or at least it is what I think.
I arrived two days later to this post, a multitude of a minute men should die, although from my angle, I think I arrived only a few hours late (which is a lot if you ask me), which is curious because considering everything we talked about, the only thing what we can realize is the irony with which everything works.
Maybe I lost the thread of your post, which I don't think, but if so, tell me. You will see that I am very precise in some topics, while in others totally confused. It's normal.
Have a nice day!