How do you define Time?

And then there came the exploitation of this. Religions became organized, and people assumed power over others by controlling their beliefs. Whenever we think about religion today it is this form of religion; but it isn't true religion, it's a means of control and power.

True religion, as I see it, is the quest you undertake to return to the state we were in before the evolution of a sense of self. To return to the garden of eden without leaving anything that makes us human behind. To again experience the world with an animals unthinking presence, merely existing in harmony with everything, but with this new sense of self intact.

Religare means to bind, to unify, to organise. And you are in danger of making religion itself a material possession dedicated to the glory of your own charisma.

The problem of Time, like that of Destiny, has been completely misunderstood by all thinkers who have confined themselves to the systematic of the Become. In Kant's celebrated theory there is not one word about its character of directedness. Not only so, but the omission has never even been noticed. But what is time as a length, time without direction? Everything living, we can only repeat, has "life," direction, impulse, will, a movement quality (Bewegtheit) that is most intimately allied to yearning and has not the smallest element in common with the motion (Bewegung) of the physicists. The living is indivisible and irreversible, once and uniquely occuring, and its course in entirely indeterminable by mechanics. For all such qualities belong to the essence of Destiny, and "Time"---that which we actually feel at the sound of the word, which is clearer in music than in language, and in poetry than in prose---has this organic essence, while Space has not. Hence, Kant and the rest notwithstanding, it is impossible to bring Time with Space under one general Critique. Space is a conception, but time is a word to indicate something inconceivable, a sound symbol, and to use it as a notion, scientifically, is utterly to misconceive its nature. Even the word direction---which unfortunately cannot be replaced by another---is liable to mislead owing to its visual content. The vector-notion in physics is a case in point.

For primitive man the word "time" can have no meaning. He simply lives, without any necessity of specifying an opposition to something else. He has time, but he knows nothing of it. All of us are conscious, as being aware, of space only, and not of time. Space "is," (i.e. exists, in and with our sense-world)---as a self extension while we are living the ordinary life of dream, impulse, intuition and conduct, and as space in the strict sense in the moments of strained attention. "Time," on the contrary, is a discovery, which is only made by thinking. We create it as an idea or notion and do not begin till much later to suspect that we ourselves are Time, inasmuch as we live. And only the higher Cultures, whose world conceptions have reached the mechanical-Nature stage, are capable of deriving from their consciousness of a well-ordered measurable and comprehensible Spatial, the projected image of time, the phantom time, which satisfies their need of comprehending, measuring and ordering all. And this impulse---a sign of the sophistication of existence that makes its appearance quite early in every Culture---fashions, outside and beyond the real life-feeling, that which is called time in all higher languages and has become for the town-intellect a completely inorganic magnitude, as deceptive as it is current. But, if the characteristics, or rather the characteristic, of extension---limit and causality---is really wizard's gear wherewith our proper soul attempts to conjure and bind alien powers---( ...reference to Goethe...) ---if all law is a fetter which our world-dread hurries to fix upon the incrowding sensuous, a deep necessity of self-preservation, so also the invention of a time that is knowable and spatially representable within causality is a later act of this same self-preservation, an attempt to bind by the force of notion the tormenting inward riddle that is doubly tormenting to the intellect that has attained power only to find itself defied.