I am rather sure that there are dimensions beyond what most folks can perceive, contemplate, travel in or beyond. My \u201cmagnum opus\u201d is an illustrated philosophical contemplation of the many facets of existence, most of which few people imagine much less contemplate. <\/p>\n
There\u2019s one dimension, which means more or less of anything. More brightness or contrast in the printing of these words, for example, or the way the letters are formed, more or less legibly. Large or small, elaborate or simple—and those are just parameters of letters, for goodness sake. What then for articulated concepts about philosophy, an acceptable possible tract on what seems to be magic.<\/p>\n
In two dimensions, pattern exists, and color, and all diagrams and drawn forms. <\/p>\n
Three dimensions gives substance. That\u2019s what many people think of as \u201creality,\u201d but if you think of it, there is birth, growth, elaboration, staleness, aging, familiarity, boredom, sickness, death—all four dimensional phenomena.<\/p>\n
The fifth dimension is real—that\u2019s the point here! And it offers not only perception of what was thought to be real at the lower dimensions, but alternative interpre-tations of whatever transpires next.<\/p>\n
The sixth dimension perceives all this, realizes that thought and perception can be fooled. It knows about illusions and propaganda, rhetoric and sloppy thinking. But it doesn\u2019t recognize itself (compounded thinking), or even thinking, as a dimension. Pity.<\/p>\n
At the seventh dimension all of human mind is included: Hallucinations, psychotic thinking, mysticism, songs and sentimentality, feelings of belonging, exclusion, victory or humiliation. Non-thinking mentation in its many forms operates here. Logic and coherence occupy a somewhat privileged stance, but not absolutely. Demagogues use slogans that bypass clear thought.<\/p>\n
The eighth dimension is called mystical or integrative: It recognizes eras of though, paradigms, the multiplicity of implicit thought in architecture and environmental design. One must figuratively stand on tiptoe to get intuitions about how mind forms are related.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s not as if the other levels are unreal or even less real. They\u2019re all real! But there are other realities that are also real! It\u2018s not less real, but rather a different kind of reality! That\u2019s hard to wrap your mind around, perhaps, because most educated people have bought into the idea that there is indeed a reality, one reality, and all should submit to whatever evaluations we conclude (it seems correctly) about it. But indeed, it\u2019s just one of many potential paradigms.<\/p>\n
Lastly, we may figuratively (again) stand on tiptoe and dare to imagine yet other realities that we can\u2019t precisely make out—but we sense they\u2019re there! All this comes from considering perspectives as dimensions of mind-reality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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