Michael Ellick

In the Hebrew tradition, the past is a time of paradise where we were connected to God in the garden, right?

Mythologically.

The future is going to be a time when the Messiah returns and we'll be with God again.

But the present is a time of exile.

where we are stranded, waiting in between one thing and the next.

And so Mircea Eliade argued that that sort of sense of being stranded in time and time as being exile speaks to me.

And I think part of what that experience did was sort of unhook me emotionally.

And

You know, I could just waltz through class.

I wasn't invested, you know what I mean?

And I think on some level, that has carried with me even... Like, I don't feel like I'm entirely in this timeline anymore, you know what I mean?

Like, it's sort of... I don't know.

I think in a weird way, it detached me from something.

And...

I think, I don't know if I would have named that moment, but part of me still doesn't get caught up in the way I used to around social, you know, like,

I don't really care.

I don't know.

It's weird.

But I feel like something about my psychological perception of time has shifted.

And that's left me to think that what Jung and a lot of the quantum physicists say is true, that time, the way we conceive it, is a psychological projection.