Deep time is geologic time.
The term is also used in the following ways:
- Deep Time is a phrase also used in experiential deep ecology workshops run by Joanna Macy, to express the approach of using guided meditations to visualise contact between ancestors and descendants of those involved in the exercise.
- Deep Time or the zone is also used in artistic activity to refer to the experience of being lost in the act of creation or the consumption of a work ; authors may get into this state while writing, readers while reading.
- The Zone: A sense of timelessness, the experience of unusual freedom within time, and unawareness of time, being "in the zone," is experienced by athletes in a variety of sports disciplines : The Psychic Side of Sports (1978) and In the Zone: Transcendent Experience in Sports (1995) (Michael Murphy and Rhea White); Playing in the Zone: Exploring the Spiritual Dimensions of Sports (1998) (Andrew Cooper ).
Famous quotes containing the words deep and/or time:
“Joy wants the eternity of all things, wants deep, wants deep eternity.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched seabeams glitter in the dark near the Tennhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time like tears in rain. Time to die.”
—David Webb Peoples, U.S. screenwriter, and Ridley Scott. Roy Batty, Blade Runner, final words before dying—as an android he had a built-in life span that expired (1982)