When I look at the "design" of the cosmos relative to life on earth, this is what I see:
A single sine waves describes everything:
The 25920-year cycle (great year) of 12x 2160-year "ages"
The Yearly Cycle of 12x months
The Daily cycle of 12x 2-hour "stations"
The cosmic calendar is thus divided into twelve "posts" or "signs" (remember from the books of Moses, it is written God made the stars and bodies as signs) and these twelve posts are depicted by such things as the twelve disciples surrounding Jesus (among many others).
Thus I must conclude that time is not linear, but rather cyclical; and therefor, spacial.
The picture depicts this sine wave incorporated into the famous work of da Vinci's Last Supper.
Everything is thus light; and the four "fixed" posts are STATIONARY relative to your traveling through the daily/yearly recurring cycles.
To tie this in to Alan Watts: he said that you ARE A PATTERN. He wasexactly right; we are all "pattern of conduct" embedded in a recurring cycle which produces the "fruits" of our own choices.
Therefor you can take control whatever you wish; the expression 'tat tvam asi' means "that you are" and it is 100% correct - you ARE that.