ABSTRACT
In this chapter I pursue my longstanding interest in the time of lived experience. ‘Time unhinged’ (Game, 1997) took up the question of living in the now and the status of ‘the moment’. There I argued that despite his critique of linear time and causality, Bergson remained too attached to a temporal logic of past-presentfuture and to the notion of a flow of time towards a future, to be able to recognise the significance of the moment. Here I take this further by considering experiences of the moment that might be regarded as extra-temporal, as outside familiar temporal structures of past-present-future, of either linear time or Bergson’s duration. Such moments are moments in eternity. In living these, we experience a now and then all at once, we experience a temporal connectedness. In other words, living in the now always implies a now-and-then. Corresponding to this time is a space that, in contrast to familiar notions of an empty space comprised of terms in separation, is full and alive in its connectedness. Developing an understanding of what I shall refer to as sacred time-space contributes to a broader project of understanding relationality, sociality, and the quality of experiences of living ‘in-between’. ‘Belonging’, I will argue, is an experience of living in-between.
