Age as Psychological Currency Rather Than a Number

Age-gap relationships defy linear time. They produce relational paradoxes that neither culture nor psychology fully resolves. In conventional discourse, we treat age as a number, a simple demographic variable. Yet when examined through the lenses of consciousness studies (Hawkins), holographic reality (Bentov), dialogical exploration (Bohm), trauma theory (Rothschild & Carnes), and nonduality (Krishnamurti), age mutates into something far deeper: a psychological currency.