Time Runs Backward: The Block Universe, The Tibetan Book of the Dead, and Quantum Reality

What if time doesn’t “flow” the way we think it does—what if it’s already there, laid out like a complete 4D structure, and what we call “the present” is just a moving slice of attention traveling through a finished spacetime? In this longform monologue, I explain the Block Universe idea from relativity, then dive into why so many fundamental equations in physics are time-symmetric, and how boundary conditions, entropy, decoherence, and information create the arrow of time we live inside. From there, we connect the philosophy of modern theoretical physics to the Tibetan Book of the Dead—not as a physics textbook, but as a disciplined map of transitional experience where linear time can collapse, expand, loop, or feel simultaneous. Finally, we fuse it all into a narrative frame: an observer at the point of origin—where time both begins and ends—dealing cards at the final table as the simulation approaches its closing hand, watching minds try to understand what “before” and “after” really mean when the universe is a sculpture, not a movie. If you like simulation theory, consciousness, metaphysics, quantum weirdness, and deep philosophical storytelling, this one is for you.