Rip Parker
1 min readNov 25, 2023

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I am honored to be tagged into your exploratory thinking. I’ve played with the idea of infinity being to hold the end of a stick, and it has no other end, nor is a loop, just a damned long stick. In the next step into timelessness, there is no stick. I see the eternal now, where everything coexists, this moment is determined by where my attention lies, what my current perspective is directed toward, a particular moment in the Now. Yes, everything is happening at once, when we set aside the convenient conceit of linear time.
Everything happening NOW implies to me that our entire existence is an organic whole, coexisting and interacting continuously, each part of the whole of our existence continuously influencing all other parts of the whole of our existence.
Seen in this light, there is no fixed past. What we think of as our “history” is not a past, fixed event. It is constantly evolving in this moment, as is what we see as our unknown “future”. As coach George Allen said regarding his attitude toward drafting, “The future is now.”
If I sound like I think I understand what I am saying, don’t believe it. My perspective is currently fixed on this moment in an infinite Now.

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Rip Parker
Rip Parker

Written by Rip Parker

Geophysicist, lawyer, mediator, student of Jung, phenomenology, semiotics

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