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Kali opens the gates of freedom with this sword, having cut the eight bonds that bind human beings. Finally her three eyes represent the sun, moon, and fire, with which she is able to observe the three modes of time: past, present and future. This attribute is also the origin of the name Kali, which is the feminine form of 'Kala', the Sanskrit term for Time.

Excerpts: Time, Space and Medicine

I began to realize that I was witnessing patients becoming healthier through acquiring a new experiential meaning of what time was all about.

My patients were learning a strategy that held serious consequences for the improvement of their health. My own curiosity about this phenomenon evolved into a serious concern. If, I thought, patients can eradicate certain illnesses through adopting a nonlinear view of time wherein past, present, and future merge into a timeless stillness, the obvious question was: do we make ourselves sick by conforming to an idea of a strict linear time composed of a rigid succession of future, past, and present?

We visualize heaven as an eternal timeless state, and our religious traditions assert that it is the child who is its natural citizen. It is the child who is at home in a nonlinear time, and who fits the beatific visions of antiquity. In a way that goes unnoticed we conjoin the spiritual sense and the experience of time. Perhaps it is not surprising that most great religions have always prescribed methods such as prayer and meditation through which one can become as a child; for in practicing these disciplines one quickly discovers that the experience of time changes. It ceases to flow; and experientially one feels enveloped by the stillness of which all the great mystics have spoken.

Space, Time and Medicine
-- Larry Dossey