{"id":414,"date":"2012-04-07T12:21:31","date_gmt":"2012-04-07T20:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=414"},"modified":"2012-04-07T12:21:31","modified_gmt":"2012-04-07T20:21:31","slug":"meta-existence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=414","title":{"rendered":"Meta-Existence"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"spacetimetwists\"<\/a> In a recent Discover<\/em><\/strong> magazine there\u2019s a small article and visualization titled \u201cWhen Black Holes Collide<\/a>, which illustrates in 3 dimensions (plus color\u2014which adds another type of dimension) \u201chow black holes stretch and bend the fabric of space-time.\u201d Now this concept of stretching or bending space-time is inconceivable\u2014Dr. (Kip) Thorne says that \u201cThe human mind just can\u2019t make sense of them [i.e., the mountains of numbers generated by computational models].\u201d <\/p>\n

All comes clear (as mud) when we recognize that space-time operates within yet a larger, mind-like field, which in turn has its own variations. As an analogy, consider the old story of the blind men encountering an elephant. Cut to the chase, if they would only pool their observations, say yes-and instead of no-but, as folks are trained to do in improvisational drama, then they\u2019d realize that the elephant is multi-faceted indeed. But now comes the fun part. <\/p>\n

These guys aren\u2019t just blind men, they are blind to certain \u201cesoteric\u201d dimensions beyond sight, and yet smart enough to realize this. They calculate that the elephant has two sides and depth\u2014that is, there\u2019s an \u201cinside\u201d not directly available to their senses. What, then is on the inside? The entire technology and knowledge field of dissection and anatomy lies ahead. <\/p>\n

But wait, there\u2019s more. Even supposing they learn how to \u201csee\u201d what they have dissected (not an easy job for those who are not able to access certain modes of perception—i.e., the symbolism of \u201cblind\u201d—there\u2019s  another frontier: microscopic anatomy, also known as histology\u2014seeing the make-up of cells and tissues and all\u2014which is a whole \u2018nother frontier. Again, it\u2019s difficult to appreciate this if one is blind. And then making sense of both levels of anatomy\u2014gross and microscopic, and figuring out what these discovered cells and organs \u201cdo\u201d\u2014and that\u2019s physiology—which symbolizes fields of endeavor several generations beyond us—fields that we would have to invent and master that allow for the perception by \u201cscopes\u201d of that which is not available to the ordinary senses. <\/p>\n

But wait, there\u2019s more! One of the brilliant \u201cblind\u201d men notices that the penis they have found on the elephant implies\u2014they have to stretch here\u2014might there be female elephants, and babies? Other elephants? (Hint: I\u2019m alluding to the weird idea that got Giordano Bruno<\/a> burned at the stake\u2014that there might be other worlds, stars, universes.) Could there be a whole ecology of elephants, courtship, mating, friendship, herds, and the interrelationships with the land? <\/p>\n

So to suggest that, by analogy, in spite of my own profound ignorance, it no longer is inconceivable to imagine other dimensions. I simply suggest that indeed there are, and they are mind-like, they represent aspects of consciousness that operate within all this material expression just as there are bones and muscles, heart and blood and all the rest suffusing and supporting the \u201cskin\u201d of the \u201celephant\u201d = existence as we thought we knew it. Stretch those minds!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a recent Discover magazine there\u2019s a small article and visualization titled \u201cWhen Black Holes Collide, which illustrates in 3 dimensions (plus color\u2014which adds another type of dimension) \u201chow black holes stretch and bend the fabric of space-time.\u201d Now this concept of stretching or bending space-time is inconceivable\u2014Dr. (Kip) Thorne says that \u201cThe human mind […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,13,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-spirituality-and-philosophy","category-wisdom-ing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}