# notes --- - [[{1.1c3a1} time-binding refers to our ability to pick up where the last generation left off]] - [[space-binding refers to environment and traditions that do not change much over time]] - [[healing is reorientation to time and space]] ## further research: - Still not fully clear on space- vs. time-binding. A quick Google shows [Harold Adams Innis]([Harold Innis's communications theories - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Innis%27s_communications_theories)) might be an interesting person to read up on? - Claims of ibogaine’s efficacy. # summary --- We underestimate how important the time and space in which we live is to our lives and mental health. Korzybski, Alfred introduced the concepts of “time-binding” and “space-binding” as a “bi-focal lens that clarifies how we perceive ourselves as humans our relationship to each other and our environment”. These ideas are helpful in healing processes, including the use of psychedelic plants like iboga, which can help “bind individuals back into a collective identity”. # highlights --- >…feeling disconnected from our histories can have a destabilizing effect on our lives and our mental health. >Time-binding provides the foundation upon which we build our future, drawing wisdom from the past to inform our present actions. Space-binding anchors us deeply in our environment and our traditions, >Fernandez found the pathologies of the colonial world arose from the “diminution or loss of one’s [orientation] in time and space,” something equally visible in colonialism’s historic interruption of native cultures, as in the chronic influences of imperialism within occidental culture itself >…<mark style="background: #D2B3FF;">healing emerges through a reorientation to time and space </mark>.