Difference between revisions of "I Saw Through Platonia"

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-* '''Platonia''' is physicist '''Julian Barbour''''s name (from ''The End of Time'', 1999) for the '''configuration space''' of all possible instantaneous arrangements of the universe &mdash; his proposed timeless substrate for a radically Machian physics in which time itself is an illusion. The title's '''"I saw through"''' is the visionary-mystical register: to "see through" Platonia is to apprehend the eternal One behind the procession of appearances.
-* The word '''Platonia''' also knits Barbour's physics to '''Plato''''s cave, ladder and ''Forms'' &mdash; and so to the whole Neoplatonic and Christian-mystical tradition (Plotinus, Pseudo-Dionysius, Eriugena, Eckhart) in which the soul ascends through layers of appearance to the Good / the One / God.
-* As the album's '''closing track''' ('''2:39'''), "[[I Saw Through Platonia]]" functions as the '''beatific vision''' &mdash; the ''Paradiso'' glimpsed at the end of ''[[Inferno]]''. The album began with "[[Introit]]" (entering the Mass); it ends by seeing through.
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