It has occured to me that \u201cDimensionality,\u201d might be thought of as a new angle on metaphysics, or what people used to call \u201creligion,\u201d though of course I seek no converts. It notes that just as the third dimension adds dimensionality to the second dimension, and the fourth\u2014time\u2014 adds dimensions of duration to space, so does consciousness add the dimension of \u201cknowing\u201d or even vaguely recognizing all that.<\/p>\n
There is in addition, a 6th dimension of alternatives, \u201cif,\u201d the subjunctive, that humans share but animals, hardly if any.<\/p>\n
The 7th dimension recognizes modes of thinking might be viewed as dimensions!<\/p>\n
The 8th dimension is called \u201cmystical\u201d because most folks don\u2019t understand it, but it—the 8th dimension—thinks about music, art, play, poetry and other dimen-sions! Thinks\u2014intuits, not really thinking\u2014 about the whole idea that there are dimensions. It takes religions a step further, attending to the \u201cyearning of the soul upwards\u201d as poetry.<\/p>\n
In truth, the lower 8th dimension only tops out what humans can do, and angels do 9th dimensional thinking (or whatever) easily, as well as higher 8th dimensional thinking. Daring to think that these might be related in the same way that the third dimension (or \u201creality\u201d) is related to the second dimension is radical. It\u2019s also limited, considering the way 9th dimensional beings \u201cthink.\u201d<\/p>\n
It\u2019s all hypothetical, of course. It might be wrong in some key parts. I don\u2019t see it, but humility in the face of what seems like a bright idea seems not only admirable, but not improbably justified.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s religious metaphysics only insofar as it implies higher dimensions that include our familiar dimensions; they merit surrendering to, although there are no significant myths (that yet occur to me), that have to be \u201cbelieved in\u201d\u2014what a 6th dimensional idea!\u2014nor rituals, nor a sacred book. Yet much of metaphysical and mystical philosophy alludes to this. The very idea of a hierarchy of levels of being, mentality, understanding, or the like, all support this general idea.<\/p>\n
This metaphysical \u201cunderstanding\u201d (in quotes) realizes that understanding is limited, and is open to inspiration and ideas that were dismissed at the beginning as \u201cjust made up.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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