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to mystical simultaneous time – to observation from the “divine” viewpoint. It is possible nowadays to see or experience the whole world simultaneously, thanks to an immense capacity of memory, which is not unlike the complete memory that is possible on the level of a higher power such as God.59 The cre- ation of a virtual environment can also be likened to world creation.60 A virtual reality is not necessarily similar to everyday reality. The virtual world can be very different from the real world, even in its most fundamental principles. Such an environment takes us back to the dream time characteristic of surrealist art. The dream does not follow the laws of reality or of any particular style – every artist has their own personal, subjective environment. To sum up, let us examine this surrealist dream time in the painting “The Two Madonnas” by Chaya Agur (fig. 5), which depicts several realities existing simultaneously, side by side. This is a time that contains everything – the past, the present and the future (as it appears nowadays in the digital augmented 59 Rosen 2016. 60 Friedman 2006. Fig. 5: Chaya Agur, The Two Madonnas, oil on canvas, 60 x 50 cm. Western Apocalyptic Time and Personal Authentic Time | 113www.jrfm.eu 2019, 5/2, 95–116