Watching these things, participating in them for the first time, had a huge effect on Butterworth, shocking him into a sense of mystery, of primeval stories told to make the necessary killing make sense; stories of old England pervade his play, giving it both high and profane resonance.
Temporal things participate in time, without being time.
And so, whereas for Plato all things participate in the form of being, for Ibn Gabirol, all things are grounded in / have as their underlying "true substrate" the substance of Intellect which is to say, they participate in matter (viz. the spiritual matter of pure intellect) plus forms.
Second, there are those analogical terms such as 'being' (ens) which are not equivocal, because only one concept or nature (ratio) seems to be involved, and which are not univocal either, because things participate this one ratio unequally, in a prior and a posterior way.
Most commonly, as in his chapter on the divine names in Openings, he uses presence to designate a name's realm of influence and then describes various ways in which the properties and traces of the name are displayed in the cosmos and human beings; one might say that he is describing how things participate in Platonic ideas.
Although every thing participates in the conscious life of the world self, not every "object" which one might nominate within the world of experience need itself be conscious, for these things are but thoughts of the world self and do not necessarily correspond to a being (or a sub-being) with its own mental life or consciousness.
It's true that companies like Fitbit and Apple are getting a bit more serious about the whole thing, participating in university studies and working with insurance companies, but on a whole, I certainly wouldn't trust my own well-being to any of them.
With Iamblichus, Proclus distinguishes absolute time, which is not participated in and exists 'prior' to all temporal things, from participated time, or rather the many participated times.
You can't believe these things and participate meaningfully in society".
If we could only write about things we participated in, there'd be a lot of stories in the magazine about sleeping and watching TV.
