A couple of other things myself and others have noticed that are interesting. Here’s a link to the Wikipedia page for the Garden (So grain of salt and all that). It indicates that the figure in the picture is referred to by some as the “Prince of Hell”.
Also, the Einstein quote is a misquote, at least according to Wikiquote. (Source)
Here is the section of the article if you don’t want to search:
Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
- Letter to the family of his lifelong friend Michele Besso, after learning of his death (March 1955), as quoted in Science and the Search for God Disturbing the Universe (1979) by Freeman Dyson Ch. 17 “A Distant Mirror”; also quoted at Einstein’s God (NPR)
- Sometimes misquoted as “Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”
Just for funsies, here is another Einstein quote I found that seems to be relevant to the Tension Experience.
A human being is a part of the whole, called by us “Universe,” a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest—a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. The striving to free oneself from this delusion is the one issue of true religion. Not to nourish it but to try to overcome it is the way to reach the attainable measure of peace of mind.
