Oct. 5, 1952. Running time: 34:41. For Thurman, there is a spirit in humanity that is fundamental to all of its thinking, feeling, and doing. Thurman explores the contribution of this spirit to a person's experience as a time-space binder in the sense that human beings are participant-observers of life. As participant-observers, persons both participate in the events of life and observe the events of life.  The imagination is the expression of the time-binding aspect of personality.