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verything related so far demonstrates that "three-dimensional
space" does not exist in reality, that it is a prejudice completely
founded on perceptions and that one leads one's whole life in
"spacelessness". To assert the contrary would be to hold a superstitious
belief far removed from reason and scientific truth, for there is no valid
proof of the existence of a three-dimensional material world.
This refutes the primary assumption of the materialist philosophy that
underlies evolutionary theory, the assumption that matter is absolute and
eternal. The second assumption upon which materialistic philosophy rests
is the supposition that time is absolute and eternal. This is as superstitious
as the first.

THE PERCEPTION OF TIME

What we perceive as time is, in fact, a method by which one moment
is compared to another. We can explain this with an example. For instance,
when a person taps an object, he hears a particular sound. When he taps
the same object five minutes later, he hears another sound. The person
perceives that there is an interval between the first sound and the second
and he calls this interval "time". Yet at the time he hears the second sound,
the first sound he heard is no more than an imagination in his mind. It is
merely a bit of information in his memory. The person formulates the con-
cept of "time" by comparing the moment in which he lives with what
he has in his memory. If this comparison is not made, there can be
no concept of time.

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