From one district to the next, you can experience centuries of European and Asiatic diversity, from from boutiques that wouldn't look out of place in Paris or New York to religious monuments that have barely changed since 500AD.
Wealth-driven overconsumption has flourished within the culture of chronic food deprivation that Indian society had experienced for centuries; hence any form of socioeconomic advantage was utilised for accumulating extra calories.
There may well be more radical examples of the same phenomenon: some hallucinogenic drugs are reported to leave subjects with the impression that they have had vast temporal tracts of experience (centuries, epochs) in only a few objective hours.
Tapping was able to successfully portray a woman who's experienced a century and a half of isolation, strangeness, and relentless compassion.
Carved out of wilderness areas, amid dense forests, glacial lakes and rugged mountains, these destinations allow 21st-century guests to experience 19th-century travel.
Indigenous systems of medicine, the Ayurvedic and the Unani, have centuries of experience behind them.
The indigenous Aymara women have centuries of experience of knitting and weaving distinctive woollen hats, sweaters and blankets.
Boredom, scholars argue, was something new, different from the dullness, lassitude and tedium people had no doubt been experiencing for centuries.
