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If you will allow me a necessary indulgence this section will be of a personal nature simply to illustrate the start of my own journey, I hope this will be the only time that it will be necessary to inject myself into this unfolding development of ideas.

After a fashion I had it easy as all around me as the 1960s drew to a close was a sense of mysticism. We were encouraged to tune in and drop out, The Beatles had been sitting at the feet of Indian Gurus. George Harrison was writing and singing songs like Within You, Without You. Meditation and mind expansion was in the air.

So in my late teenage years I began to experiment not with drugs but with my mind. At first it was playing with words, poetry, ideas and the beginning my life long passion thinking about the nature of time. I was fascinated by the Theory of Relativity and all the questions that flowed from Einstein’s conclusions about time and speed and space. It was a time of great wonder.

Concepts of otherness and alternatives seemed to be in the very air we breathed.

All this was but a tiller no of the soil that prepared me for the start of what looking back must have taken me three years of daily toil. I’m sure my memory isn't accurate on this time scale or indeed the frequency with which I worked on the idea, nevertheless it was a long process, an intense process and that!s all I want to convey. This was no overnight event.

At the end I had only just begun, barely having taken a first step.

I started on the process of deconstructing my mind. That sounds really weighty nonsense so I will have to try and explain this further and as best I can.