However, various experiences, experiments, and observations suggest that the past be not absolutely fixed. In psychotherapy this insight may set free much helpful healing power. In physics, too, certain aspects of the past, or of what we think is past, are still open. These are still free to manifest themselves in various ways, particularly when they have not yet been noted or archived. It is only t-hrough conscious registration that reality is forced to choose one definite way among its various possible ways to show itself.
Any question concerning a temporal or spatial 'beyond' is empty and without meaning.
In the beginning there is neither space nor time, but unity - nothing but unity, into which the infinitely rich manifold of our whole universe is enfolded. Time is a dimension of the soul, not of the outer world' Augustine, Confessions, Book 11. For where the beginning is, the end will be. Gospel of Thomas, logion 18. Brill, Leiden 1959.