States of mind, moods, feelings are fleeting are experienced as merely passing events, but with a certain dissonance. Every state must also be as if eternal and timeless. In the alternate topology of experience it is the positive content that is static, is arranged in a mandala like configuration and the unchanging now which moves. In this perspective anxiety, which is the quality of experience of the narrowest now, a frightening state of immediate cessation, that is the steady background to all other states, the grain, the brushstrokes. The background radiation of the moment of birth in its identity with the moment of death, the living screen on which, given time as change, life unfolds.