Quite by accident, I ran across anthropologist Edward T. Hall’s Map of Time in his book “The Dance of Life: the other dimension of time”. In it, he shows a mandala of different notions of time which tries to answer the question, “what is time”? The mandala consists of eight (or nine) different notions of time, organized as a fourfold of duals:

• Physical / Metaphysical
• Micro / Sync
• Biological / Personal
• Profane/ Sacred

In addition, there are four duals of attributes:

• Group / Individual
• Cultural / Physical
• Conscious/ Unconscious
• Low Context / High Context

So that the different times have these attributes:

• Physical: Low Context, Conscious, Physical, Group
• Metaphysical: Low Context, Conscious, Cultural, Group
• Micro: High Context, Unconscious, Cultural, Individual
• Sync: High Context, Unconscious, Physical, Individual
• Biological: Low Context, Unconscious, Physical, Group
• Personal: Low Context, Unconscious, Physical, Individual
• Profane: High Context, Conscious, Cultural, Individual
• Sacred: High Context, Conscious, Cultural, Group

And the different attributes belong to these notions of time:

• Physical: Physical, Biological, Personal, Sync
• Cultural: Metaphysical, Sacred, Profane, Micro
• Group: Biological, Physical, Metaphysical, Sacred
• Individual: Profane, Micro, Sync, Personal
• Conscious: Physical, Metaphysical, Sacred, Profane
• Unconscious: Micro, Sync, Personal, Biological
• Low Context: Personal, Biological, Physical, Metaphysical
• High Context: Sacred, Profane, Micro, Sync

The ninth notion of time is a synthesis of all eight which he calls meta-time.

Further Reading:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_T._Hall

http://people.brunel.ac.uk/bst/vol0202/robdoyle.html

[*10.4]

<>