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  2. Multiple time dimensions - Wikipedia

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    Multiple independent timeframes, in which time passes at different rates, have long been a feature of stories. [15] Fantasy writers such as J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis have made use of these and other multiple time dimensions, such as those proposed by Dunne, in some of their most well-known stories. [15]

  3. Wheel of time - Wikipedia

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    The Bakongo Cosmogram. In traditional Bakongo religion, the four elements are incorporated into the Kongo cosmogram.This sacred wheel depicts the physical world (Nseke), the spiritual world of the ancestors (Mpémba), the Kalûnga line that runs between the two worlds, the sacred river (mbûngi) that began as a circular void and forms a circle around the two worlds, and the path of the sun.

  4. Plane (esotericism) - Wikipedia

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    In esoteric cosmology, a plane is conceived as a subtle state, level, or region of reality, each plane corresponding to some type, kind, or category of being.. The concept may be found in religious and esoteric teachings which propound the idea of a whole series of subtle planes or worlds or dimensions which, from a center, interpenetrate themselves and the physical planet in which we live ...

  5. Outline of Western esotericism - Wikipedia

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    New Age - Western esoteric religious movement based off occultism, Spiritualism, New Thought and Theosophy that grew rapidly in 1970s and was started due to the counterculture of the 1960s New Thought - 19th century religious movement in the United States that combined elements of ancient Greek , Roman , Chinese , Taoist , Hindu , Buddhist and ...

  6. A series and B series - Wikipedia

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    The logic and the linguistic expression of the two series are radically different. The A series is tensed and the B series is tenseless. For example, the assertion "today it is raining" is a tensed assertion because it depends on the temporal perspective—the present—of the person who utters it, while the assertion "It rained on 31 January ...

  7. Four-dimensionalism - Wikipedia

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    The A-series identifies positions in time as past, present, or future, and thus assumes that the "present" has some objective reality, as in both presentism and the growing block universe. [8] The B-series defines a given event as earlier or later than another event, but does not assume an objective present, as in four-dimensionalism.

  8. Time series database - Wikipedia

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    A time series database is a software system that is optimized for storing and serving time series through associated pairs of time(s) and value(s). [1] In some fields, time series may be called profiles, curves, traces or trends. [ 2 ]

  9. Western esotericism - Wikipedia

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    The common esoteric principle is that attaining this unifying principle can bring the world's different belief systems together in unity. [ 67 ] "Transmission": Faivre's second secondary characteristic was the emphasis on the transmission of esoteric teachings and secrets from a master to their disciple, through a process of initiation .