{"id":116,"date":"2006-09-26T01:15:30","date_gmt":"2006-09-26T01:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shekharkapur.com\/newblog\/?p=116"},"modified":"2006-09-26T01:15:30","modified_gmt":"2006-09-26T01:15:30","slug":"doubt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shekharkapur.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/doubt\/","title":{"rendered":"Doubt !"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is one of the more frighteniing  conversations with the Astrophysicist, Piet Hut (which I am serializing in The Film maker and the Astrophisicist blog )  :  From: Shekhar Kapur, Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001, To: Piet Hut  : You Said :  < Needless to say, IF linear time is not real, then a realization of that fact makes one a more effective player in alleged linear time; just like you can only be an effective film director if you realize that a film is not real -- which doesn't mean it is arbitrary.  >><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nDear Peit :<br \/>\nI am going a different way : I still want to see (because I imagine  everything as a picture) &#8211; time like a little canary in a cage :  caged by us  &#8211; therefore I look and say :<br \/>\n&#8221; this is a Canary in the cage &#8211; and that is the reality&#8221;  The cage is my  mind &#8211; and the canary a way of making time absolute.  In my mind I open the  cage &#8211; and the bird fies away and just in one whoosh disappears &#8211; as if there  was nothing else.<br \/>\nI have to destroy the cage and throw myself into chaos.  I have to understand  that I am not caged by time &#8211; but time is caged by me interms of a linear  concept &#8211; I would rather go this left field way because it forces me to  completely think chaotically.  Like the bird represents a spirit &#8211; and time  is actuall a free spirit.  But gentle and soft and ethereal.<br \/>\nTime is Space :  Free flowing like God.  Time is God.  That is the unknown  dimension &#8211; GOD\/TIME\/SPACE  &#8211; I know that in my bones &#8211; but my mind must force  itself through the pain of logic &#8211; I must put my mind through absolute chaos  and put it in self destruct &#8211; and the only way is chaotic thinking &#8211; not to  allow it to to hang it&#8217;s coat on any peg.<br \/>\nI know that at the end there is light.  But the the tunnel is dark and  dangerous &#8211; and for those without courage may get lost in the tunnel &#8211; and  destruct everything without understanding.<br \/>\nNo, not understanding, but  &#8211; without experiencing.<br \/>\nA half a Buddha is perhaps worse than someone enclosed in Maya.<br \/>\nLets keep up these conversations &#8211; I do not have to totally understand what u  say &#8211; nor do you, I guess.  But as long as we keep questioning each other &#8211; there will  be at some points of time a coming together &#8211; a synchronization &#8211; and then  like a wave &#8211; disbelief and questioning again.<br \/>\nshekhar<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is one of the more frighteniing conversations with the Astrophysicist, Piet Hut (which I am serializing in The Film maker and the Astrophisicist blog ) : From: Shekhar Kapur, Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001, To: Piet Hut : You Said : < Needless to say, IF linear time is not real, then a realization [&hellip;]\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-search-for-the-self"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Doubt ! 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