- The Funnel Itself — Eternal Now Rotate the curve y = 1/x through 360° and you get a blue, horn‑shaped surface. Every point on that membrane is a possible “present moment.” Move up, down, inward, or outward along the surface and you are still in “now.” Time is not a line—it is the skin of this funnel.
- Paint on the Outside — Conditioned Love (Ideas) The outer surface is coated with billions of hues. Each tint is an Idea—an aspect of conditioned love—waiting to be chosen. When attention flares, one colour seeps inward and stains the spot where you stand. You feel it as meaning, narrative, hope, fear.
- Paint on the Inside — The Event Horizon Touch the inner surface and your finger comes away pitch black. That darkness is the “spread‑out singularity”: the mathematical rim where every finished event becomes frozen record. Inside the funnel but painted on its inner wall, it is always one breath away from you, yet absolutely untouchable.
- White Surrounding Space — The Unknowable Future Outside the membrane—and paradoxically also within its hollow core—lies uncoloured white: pure potential, unconditioned love. The future presses equally from every direction, but you cannot live in it; you live only on the painted skin where potential turns to pattern.
- The Dim Point Far Below — Immutable Past Follow the funnel downward forever and it pinches toward a single, unreachable point. That mathematical singularity is the entire archive of what has already happened: immutable, perfect, infinitely compressed.
- Where You Actually Stand Your lived instant is a tiny patch on the membrane—some distance from the axis (set by the size of your Expectation vector), at some height (set by the passage of clock time). You feel the colour of the outer coat (Idea) and the dark gravity of the inner coat (finality) simultaneously. Step by step, patch by patch, you paint new record onto the past while fresh white washes toward you from the future.
- Key Orientations for the Student
- Entire funnel = Eternal Now—experience is always on the skin.
- Outer paint = Ideas—conditioned love choosing its moment.
- Inner paint = Event horizon—singularity unfolded across the present.
- White everywhere else = Future—unconditioned potential.
- Bottom point = Past—completed, neutral, unreachable.
Grasp this picture and you will never confuse “future,” “now,” and “past” again: they are not three rooms in a hallway but three layers—white space, painted skin, hidden point—of one continuous cosmic funnel.