Central Australian Arunta people have the spiritual view that every person essentially exists eternally in all time or the Dreaming. And that this eternal part existed before the life of the individual begun, and continues to exist when the life of the individual ends. Both before and after life, it is believed that this spirit-child exists in this dream of dreamings, where time is this physical part of this set of time that contains all time, and that this child is only initiated into life by being born through a mother. In northern scandinavia there is also the view that this spiritual essence is first impregnated into the spiritual mother by the all creator being before being initiated to life and its physical mother, and then to time. This essence is brought to her for carrying by the spirit child. Here the child is the bringer of the relation to this spiritual essence in the set of sets, or ”all time”.
This spirit-child is the germ of a complete pre-formed individual.
I think its a wonderful way to describe the timeless experience we have of the human part of being.