Space, Time and Self

E. Norman Pearson's Space, Time and Self is a philosophical exploration of the nature of consciousness, time, and personal identity — approaching these themes from an idealist philosophical tradition that understands consciousness as the fundamental reality rather than an epiphenomenon of matter. Drawing on the insights of Theosophy, Kantian philosophy, and the quantum physics emerging at the time of writing, Pearson argues for a model of reality in which space and time are not objective features of an external world but structures generated by consciousness as the framework within which it experiences its own creations.

The implications Pearson draws are both philosophical and practical: if space and time are constructions of consciousness rather than its containers, then consciousness is in principle capable of transcending them — an insight that makes the reported phenomena of clairvoyance, precognition, and out-of-body experience not merely anomalous but naturally to be expected from a consciousness operating beyond its ordinary limitations. The 'self' of the title is examined from multiple perspectives — the ordinary ego-self, the higher self, and the universal self — with Pearson arguing that genuine spiritual development consists in the progressive recognition of the deeper layers of selfhood that ordinary consciousness is too contracted to perceive.