I've read your last few posts with interest, mlyn. Each of them seem to be packed with intensity and brought to mind some of my own frustrations with explaining this experience to others.
It seems to me that this experience unfolds on a number of levels but most people can only "hear" on a linear level: past, present, future. The idea that each of those states could be occurring in one singular instance is difficult to wrap a mind around.
I get the impression that you are telling me something about yourself that is occurring on several different levels. Because I don't understand all those levels in the same manner you do, I'm having difficulty grasping exactly what is it you are meaning to say. I consider that irrelevant to your communication and relevant only to my interpretation of same.
Something I've had to do for myself is learn how to speak on a linear level once more. In this respect, a very simple tool that I suggest to others (if they wish to make use of it) is the use of a timeline. A timeline is a linear model. We can use it to place events upon and in this way, begin to see the relationship between those various multiple-levels of experience.
It is what you are to see. sing it, say it it is ok.It will be ok.
Okay. :-)
Meanwhile, speaking of singing... you may enjoy the following:
Big Calm
[I hope that loads up for you. It's been giving me difficulties of late.]