1. Part ONE
CHRISSY PHILP

2. You are here .
HELLOHello

3. Hello
again
Now you are here !

4. Changes keep happening –

5. Night-
time

6. Day-time

7. Night-
time

8. Day-time

9. But now does not change -
- you are always here now

10. ... you are always here now.
Hi

11. Now appears to move from one
moment to the next in a steady flow
... but this is an illusion.

12. There is NO FLOW:
There is only...
NOW

13. You know that you are here now because
you are . Even if you are asleep, if I
wake you, you will still be here now.
You are not only - you are
that you are .
.

14. You are not me so you can
be laid back and not
excited at all if you like.

15. I will use the colour ‘orange’ to
represent here now.
I have no special reason –
this computer program chose orange so
that’s as good a reason as any for me.

16. Although I am writing this now, when
you read this I will be here now -
!
Unless I am dead.
When I am dead I am not absolutely
sure where I will be so I’m not going to
comment.

17. An important point to note is that
while you are conscious that you are
here now, everyone else is of
being here now ...
There is only of now
for everyone!

18. I am a man
I am the
president
I am gay
I am a
beauty
I am a
nervous
wreck
Consciousness experiences itself as
separate when embodied in separate
physical forms.
I am a girl

19. I sense I
am a man
I think I am
the
president?
I sense and
feel that I
am gayI see I am a
beauty
I feel a
nervous
wreck
Embodied in ‘human’ form it experiences
through four functions of consciousness; thinking,
feeling, sensing (this includes hearing), and seeing
(this is the same as knowing – ‘I see’ also means ‘I
know’ doesn’t it?)
I feel like a
girl

20. Whether animal or human, furry,
fluttery, big or small ...
I could do with
some help
meow

21. ... focused in a physical body, ‘doing its
own thing’, it ‘feels’ individual.
Did someone
say something?
Buzz
moo

22. WHY IS IT ALWAYS ONLY
HERE NOW?
Hello
EVERYONE

23. Morning
Morning
Nightime
Nightime
Daytime
Daytime
Because consciousness is focussed in different
places in space, in each space individual
experiences are different.

24. Evening
Evening
Daytime
Daytime
Nightime
Nightime
For you it might be night-time while for me
it might be day-time.

25. Winter in
UK
Summer in
New
Zealand
Summer in
Australia
Spring in
Italy
Winter in
New
Hampshire
For you it might be Winter while for me it might
be Summer. The possibilities are endless.

26. Hi
Changes never stop -
but remember - you are always here
NOW.

27. Here is an experiment: Pick up a chair and
move it to the other side of the room.

32. NOW attempt to sit on the chair in the
position it was before you moved it.

34. Oops ... you will notice a definite lack of
supporting matter.

35. Yippee!
You’ve got it!
NOWis what
MATTERS.

36. Our brains store MEMORIES.
We remember yesterday ...
yesterday
?

37. .. and the day before yesterday ...
the day before
yesterday
?

38. the day before the day
before yesterday
... and the day before the day before yesterday .
?

39. Our MEMORIES go back for as long as we can
remember.
Wow!

40. Recordings of past events boost our
MEMORY.
Oh yes.
CDs
Photographs
LettersDiaries

41. We have archives of stored information ...
!
Mars
Christopher
Columbus
Einstein
Space-time
Old
LONDON
Neptune
Henry VII
Old
Palestine
Zodiac
Adam Stuart
Smith
Dr Adam’s
Plesiosaurus
http://www.wikipedia.org/

42. But … it is important to remember that
information is not totally trustworthy.
Information can be recorded and
interpreted incorrectly.
Information is not FACT.
(Remember the chair).

43. The past is
GONE.

44. Hello
The past was THEN .. you are not here
THEN. You are here NOW.

45. Information stored in your DNA is ancient ...
wow

46. BANG?
.. while information carried by the
cosmos stretches back to what is
presently considered to be the
beginning of time!

47. We don’t only have a memory to supply
us with a ‘past’ - we also have an
IMAGINATION !

48. Our IMAGINATION imagines the
future – happy (yippee) -
Ah ha

49. - or bad- (scary).
Ouch

50. Yet, however happy or tragic our memories,
however complex our DNA, however vivid our
imagined future, we are ALL always here Now.
I can state this with confidence can’t I?
Hello
again..

51. The verb tobe is the first verb we learn to
conjugate.
Sum, est, es, sumus, estis, sunt.
I am, you are, he is, she is, we are, you are, they are.
Je suis, tu es, il est, elle est, nous sommes, vous etes, il sont, elles sont.
Now is ’consciousness of being’.
Without consciousness
we would not BEat all!

52. The next slides present information from a dissertation
written in 2006 in which I asked – Is There Anything in
Astrology Independent of Culture?
You can skip these pages if
you are not into being academic.
When I set out on this project I had no idea what the
answer to the question posed would be. I was surprised
when the exercise not only answered the question but
also supplied additional information. It combined Plato’s
Cosmographia (his description of ‘the soul’) with Herman
Minkowski space-time, utilising information from
philosophers as disparate as Lao Tzu (4th century BC),
Ptolemy (90-168), Nietzsche (1844 – 1900), Weber (1864-
1920), Jung (1875-1961), and Merleau Ponty (1908-61).
(If you are interested see
website www.chrissyphilp.com)

53. The Platonic/Ptolemaic Cosmological Model
Ferguson, K. Measuring the Universe: The Historical Quest to
Quantify Space (UK, The Softback Preview, 1999), p. 22
‘Plato recognised time and heaven
as synonymous; ‘time and the
heavens’, said Timaeus, ‘came into
being at the same instant … framed
after the pattern of the eternal
nature, that it might resemble this as
far as was possible …’ the heavens
were not so much a metaphor for the
divine, but rather the divine’s very
embodiment’. It was Plato’s student
Euxodus who worked on a Platonic
cosmographic model. Timaeus, B.
Jowett, trans., The Internet Classics
Archive.

54. Peter Apian’s Cosmographia.
(16 April 1495 – 21 April 1552)
Until science took over Platonic
‘natural philosophy’ the search for a
model that would place humanity in
relation to, what Ponty calls the
‘perceptual field’, was a valid
philosophical preoccupation. Indeed
this is exactly what ‘natural philosophy’,
in its new guise as ‘modern science’, is
attempting today with its hunt for a
‘Unified Field Theory’, though many
would argue that science has
objectified this investigation, á la
Descartes, to the point where it has lost
all connection with reality.

55. Soul/UnusMundus/Dao/Ambient/
Phenomenological Field.
The focus of the diagram ‘A’, is the ‘actor’
in a social Weberian sense. While Dao means
field, De means focus, and stands for any
incarnating entity whether quantum,
chemical, physical, biological, cultural, social,
psychological or ideological. The actor A, in
this case an astrologer, is surrounded by a
subculture (1) within a culture (2) based on
planet Earth (3) enclosed by a solar system
made up of bodies of mass that move with
mechanical precision (4), generating in their
geometric aspects one to the other changing
patterns that are meaningful to the
astrologer at point A. These bodies of mass
can be precisely positioned on a horoscope
against a moving tropical zodiac. The galaxy
(5) acts as a template (or arche) for naming
divisions in the seasonal Tropical zodiac.
The cosmos (6) encompasses the horo-
scope. Timaeus equates ‘cosmos’ with ‘soul’. Cosmos is corporeal; it has an exoteric reality.
While the materiality of the cosmos is intrinsic, the ambient-dao-field is esoteric. We have
reached the outermost rim of our understanding. Here, incorporating the totality, therefore
not to be regarded as disembodied, are Plato’s forms/eide/arche/first principles (7).
.
Chrissy Philp’s
Cosmographia
(16 April 1942 -)

56. Herman Minkowski was Einstein’s tutor. This is Minkowski’s space-time
diagram copied from Page 26 of Stephen Hawking’s famous book A Brief
History of Time. It illustrates a past time cone and a future time cone and,
between the two, a point called The Present. You can understand now why
I decided memory and imagination should take the form of cones.
Having come up with the
updated Cosmographia
(illustrated on the previous
slide), a diagram of an
incarnating entity in ‘SPACE’,
otherwise titled The Cosmos,
familiarity with this diagram
suggested I combined my
Cosmographia with this
model representing ‘TIME’.

57. 6 . C o s m o s
7.Soul(Tim
ae
u
s)
,U
n
u
s
M
u n d u s ( J u n g ) , D a o ( L a o T z u ) , A m b i e n t (
P
to
le
m
y
),
F
ield(Ponty).
5 . G a l a x y
4 . S o l a r S y s t e m
3 . E a r t h
2 . C u l t u r e
1.S
u b c u l t
u
re
A
6 . C o s m o s
7.Soul(Tim
ae
u
s)
,U
n
u
s
M
u n d u s ( J u n g ) , D a o ( L a o T z u ) , A m b i e n t (
P
to
le
m
y
),
F
ield(Ponty).
5 . G a l a x y
4 . S o l a r S y s t e m
3 . E a r t h
2 . C u l t u r e
1.S
u b c u l t
u
re
A
Space
Time
The Present,(Minkowski).
The De, (Lao Tzu). The
moment of incarnation,(Ponty).
The Self (Jung).TheActor,(Weber).
The Will, (Neitsche).
The Past
The Future
So, here it is.
This diagram models an
incarnating self identifying
through memory with the past
and through imagination with
the future. It illustrates, not
only the incarnating self, but
also the outer incarnating soul.
Indeed, the total cosmic field is
focused at this point.
Minkowski labels anything
outside of the space-time cones
‘elsewhere’. It represents
information inaccessible to this
self at this particular place and
time. Um … like a message sent
today from a being in the
Andromeda Galaxy (you will
understand this soon, I
promise).
You are
here
NOW
Plato/Ptolemy/Minkoski/Ponty
SPACETIME
BIRTH

58. Shared PastIndividuality Shared Future
Past life cone
Space
Time
Now5 years
10 years
PAST
FUTURE
Each one of us is incarnating separated by our position in space. This
diagram not only illustrates our shared relationship with the cosmos but
also the influence we will have on each other in the future. The closer we
are in space the sooner our influence is experienced.

59. Jung: ‘Probably none of my empirical concepts has met with
so much misunderstanding as the idea of the collective
unconscious’. ACU, p. 42.
personal
unconscious
moment of
incarnation
Future
‘The world’s vast Memory’. Ponty
p.18.
The Collective
Unconscious.
We understand don’t we?

60. It doesn’t matter if you are on Mars, or on a planet
orbiting a star in the Andromeda galaxy,
NOW
is a Collective Experience.
It is The Same
for !
Mars Andromeda

61. So, if NOW is a Collective Experience,
The Same
for ,
(even if you are on a planet orbiting a star
in the Andromeda galaxy) can we
communication with someone living in
Andromeda?

62. Andromeda
Galaxy

63. This is where we hit a problem.
We know information cannot travel faster than the
speed of light, so, as the Andromeda Galaxy is 2.5 million
light years distant, by the TIME information sent to Earth
by a beingon a planet in the Andromeda Galaxy (if there is
one) reaches us, it will be seriously out of date.

64. 2.5millionlightyears
Milky Way 2.5 million years away
HelloEarthman
Hello
Earthman
Consciousness on
planet in Andromeda
sends message .

65. 2.5 million
years later
Wow!Consciousness on Earth
receives message
HelloEarthman

66. Andromeda 2.5 million light years away
2.5millionlightyears
HelloAndromeda
Galaxy‘being’.
Hello
Andromeda
galaxy ‘being’.
Consciousness on Earth replies to
message from Andromeda Galaxy

67. 2.5 million
years later
Wow!Consciousness on planet in
Andromeda receives message.
HelloAndromedaGalaxy‘being’.

68. Milky Way 2.5 million years away
2.5millionlightyears
Hello.Greattohear
fromyou
Hello, great
to hear
from you!
Consciousness on planet in
Andromeda replies.

69. 2.5 million
years later
Wow!
Hello.Greattohearfromyou
Consciousness on Earth
receives reply.

70. That communication took just 7.5
million years.
But, of course, if we take into account
these two galaxies are presently speeding
towards each other at 110 km per second,
this estimation is not to be understood as
strictly accurate.

71. I made this graph in an
attempt to make sense of
cosmic time-scales. Each
square represents one
thousand years. I think one
thousand years is a lot
(because I am comparing it to
a human life-time) but,
compared to our imaginary
communication with
Andromeda, one thousand
years is peanuts. The total
area of this graph covers the
necessary 2.5 million years.
The small blue bit at the top
identifies civilization. Gobekli
is believed to be 11,500 years
old.
I wanted you to see this
I wanted you to see this before the next slide because in order to illustrate our
relationship with a consciousness that might have evolved in Andromeda I have
exaggerated civilizations. Had I not, I fear you would not have been able to see them.

72. Possible CIVILISATIONS on
planets in Andromeda.
Shared future
Our now and Andromeda’s now might share the same past
time cone but perhaps you can understand now that cosmic
distances (at least in this rendition of reality) deny present
‘being now’ intercommunication.
CIVILISATIONS on Earth.
Shared future
Shared Past
2
.
5
2.5millionlightyears
now

73. Modern
CIVILISATIONS on
Earth.
Shared future
now
Possible CIVILISATIONS on
planets in Andromeda.
Shared Past
That diagram illustrated (very roughly) how it looked before
we invented communication satellites. Now, on our world, it
looks like more this. Our shared future has become almost
immediate hasn’t it? It is ‘as if’ the space between us has
shrunk (Can’t speak for Andromeda.)

74. We can deduce from this that we are
stuck, for the foreseeable future, with
managing our inter-relationships only in our
own corner of the universe .... and maybe that
is a good thing as we aren’t doing especially
well so far ... are we?
I have never seen one, but if you are
someone who thinks space-men are already
visiting our planet that’s fine too. Maybe
there are ways of moving faster than the
speed of light. Best to keep an Open Mind.

75. This was going to be a presentation about TIME,
but, hang on, it will be ... it’s just that we can’t
consider TIME if we don’t first consider what it is
that is experiencing this phenomenon.
Have we got this sorted?
It’s Consciousness isn’t it?
That includes US doesn’t it?
We are experiencing the changes we call TIME.
This is getting pretty heavy - are you still with me?
Well Done

76. TIME is what we call our experience of changes
happening within us and around us.
We have constructed ways of defining these
changes (some of which are very reliable). We
are now in a position to identify successfully
‘where we are at’ in the midst of change.

77. In Part TWO we will look at the result of our
efforts. We will look at LOCAL TIME (clock time);
this tells us where we are in our day enabling us to
interact successfully. Then we will look at a map of
CONSCIOUSNESSTIME (horoscopic time) which offers
us the opportunity to understand where we are at in
our LIFE (big concept) so that we may learn (given
TIME) to interrelate successfully.
Part THREE will look at RELATIVE TIME –

78. THE END
Part ONE
Goodbye