On Seeing - The Hypothetical Perspective of an Individual Aligned in Time

*On Seeing* is a lyric-philosophical essay that asks what perception might be like for a hypothetical human being whose "jays" — in the author's cosmological framework, the alignment of intent that leaves legible traces through time — are fully aligned. It begins from a deceptively simple observation: that no one has ever directly seen their own face, knowing it only through delayed and external representations, the way an astronaut knows the Earth. From there the essay builds a thought experiment around a consciousness so complete in the present that it receives all of its sensory signals at once, time among them. Rather than treating such a figure as one who foresees the future, the essay argues that timelessness is not foreknowledge but a manner of inhabiting the present so fully that only a life's positive intent outlasts it. Reading episodes such as the Transfiguration and the 1917 Miracle of the Sun as cases in which a single event yields many irreconcilable descriptions, it locates the heart of the matter in a meditation on duality — the positive and negative branchings of one ordinary moment, and a fourth option that dissolves the binary altogether. Touchstones include Boethius and Spinoza on eternity, Jung's *coincidentia oppositorum*, and the Dzogchen notion of egoless awareness. Continues the author's "On —ing" series.