Is the past and the future connected, by the sliver which is the timeless present? If our origins are as vague and inexplicable as the our future, our past best described as a nothingness, as well as our individual future equally a nothingness, promising on the belief that we around in life only once, where is it really that we come from, and where are we going?
If there is no past or future spatial-temporal past or future, what does it imply for the past or future of individual existence?
The best guess is, that the individual ego also floats in an imminence, constructing pasts and futures by architectural , cultural and semantic markers on one hand, and prophetic self fulfilling prophesies on the other.
The cure to modern angst is the realization, that these constructions are as easily deconstructed, whereby exposing the myth of both: an inviolate past structured in immutable belief systems , predicating necessary, foreward conclusions.
What are the implications of such belief systems regarding the ideas of reincarnation, eternal return?
Do we ever return, when there is only the existential present, and nowhere in the past to come from, or nowhere in the future to get to?
Is the state of the universe based on absolute imminence, or relative transcendence, without beginning, or end?
Is this existence the Golden Eternity? So why worry?
If so, are ego states only a manifestation of this great cosmic emptiness?