St Teresa/Vivekananda/Nietzsche
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The Book of Zarafuster
There is a narrative flow and yet one of the things that's notable about the book is that it takes a very particular view of time, which does not seem linear. And this idea of infinite recurrence of time seems to be quite central. The idea is your own life will happen an infinite number of times in exactly the same way. You don't think he was foreshadowing the multiverse theory, which is very popular amongst some physicists in the present day. I thought he is interested in physics of his time and in the notebook, see as playing around with possible actual proofs for this is a cosmological view.
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