There is an eternal state, the subjective quality of which depends upon the experiences lived through in the body. This state may be called heaven, hell, purgatory or limbo, but it is not a state of actuality. It can be compared with our dream life. Belief in such a state is very ancient and has recently been revived in the notion of spiritualism. It is not properly so much a spiritual belief as a psychic one. I think there are well-defined gradations of the state of eternal subjectivity. The key to the whole scheme is will-time or Hyparxis. This is the region in which the will is free to make decisions that produce something new and uncaused into the world process. Insofar as this happens in our present moment, it is the exercise of personal freedom. When it is directed to the past - the Hyparchic past - it opens the possibility of changing the past.

We usually think of the past as 'dead and gone', but this cannot apply to the Hyparchic past which by its very nature is perpetually creating and being created. It is very hard for our minds - conditioned as they are to think only in terms of functional-time – to grasp the idea that the past can still be alive. It is alive, it can change and it can be communicated with.

from "A Short Guide and Glossary to 'The Dramatic Universe'" 1970