Maitreya World - Time and Space and the Problem of Free Will . An excerpt from the book of Lama Anagarika Govinda A view into space is at the same time a view into the past.
Space is visible time-visible, however, only in one direction.
We are like travelers on the backseat of a fast-moving vehicle, from which can be seen only what has passed by, not what is coming. Even if the circle would not be closed, but develop into a kind of three-dimensional spiral, there would be a great deal of similarity between past and future. The discovery that no straight movement can be found in the universe, but that everything, including the light, moves in curves, justifies the above-mentioned idea. We can see worlds which are many thousands of lightyears away, and perhaps even more distant worlds may be discovered, until one day we may find out that one of them is our own world - however, not as it is now, but as it was billions of years ago. And this is perhaps why we shall never discover, or rather, recognize it, and why we shall go on penetrating the universe without ever coming to an end.