[MHGinTN]

Doug, you're already a time traveler, albeit you now move in only one direction. ... BUT, if our concept of time was a bit different, say perhaps that time is a volume in which linear (past) and planar (present) time are expressions, then the soulish you and I are in planar time, sensing only linear time via the body, and our brain/mind duality functions to lend meaning to what is of our existence, situated as it is at the junction (planar/present) between linear and volumetric time. We can project our accumulated 'IS' (via our memory function) to anticipate/conjecture what will be, but our duality (the body/soul duality is what I refer to) is 'in' planar temporal reference to the Universe as the bubble in which we exist. The body is trapped and decaying in linear temporal alignment to the Universe, while the soul exists in a different, planar temporal alignment with the Universe. [Sheldon is one of my mentors donchaknow. ;^)]

[MHGinTN]

pingaling ... this is as simply put as I can express ‘it’ ...

[onedoug]

As to the soul, God knows, literally. I believe in “life after death” but haven’t the vaguest notion of how God works it.

If the universe is indeed a “bubble” (M-Theory), and even if there are infinite bubbles, even each with different physics, it wouldn’t preclude God for me. Indeed it would magnify His power.

I tend to agree that we are “trapped” in this universe. And I suspect, again, that we’re trapped within the constraints it places on time by its overall expansion.

May I also deign to ask, who is Sheldon? Drake?

[Alamo-Girl]

Thank you so very much for sharing your theories on time, dear MHGinTN!

onedoug, you might find the following article interesting, particularly in its view of physical death as a phase shift.