July 25, 2008
-
The 4th Dimension
Last night I was thinking as I lay in bed (because I usually come up with my weirdest thoughts when sleep eludes me) that science often posits that Time is the fourth dimension. But what if it’s not? They seem to assume that Time is the fourth dimension because it isn’t something that we can easily quantify. We seem to be immersed in it and so cannot look at it from an outside perspective as we can with the first three dimensions- length, width, and height (x,y,z).
But it’s hard for me to wrap my mind around this concept of time as a dimension, or at least the nearest one. What if instead, emotion or thought is the fourth, nearest dimension. Like time, it is something we’re immersed in and is not easily quantified. In addition, with the increasing number of empaths being born, it seems more plausible that as our awareness of the nearest dimension expands, that there would be more people with an innate awareness of its existence/interaction in this plane.
Some have posited that other dimensions radiate into this one and that this radiation may be the only way to experience them from our perspective. Time may be a near dimension, but the fact that some are developing the faculties to experience and manipulate emotion says to me that Emotion may be the next nearest plane to ours, not Time. There is also the fact that shapes and colors evoke emotional responses before we even begin, if ever, to query their impact on time. Come to think of it, color may just be another dimension for which we haven’t come up with a name or it may be one of the ways Emotion radiates into our dimensions.
While obviously there are people who are currently experiencing time-slips, the ratio of people who identify as empaths is much larger compared to telepaths, kinetics, and time-slippers. It seems to me that past the first three dimension in which we make our home, the next dimensions may be emotion, thought, and then time. Though some people say we are transitioning into a higher dimension, there’s really no way of knowing if the fourth dimension is one of these, or possibly encompasses all of these phenomena. In that case, the fourth dimension might very well be energy or all dimensions might be aspects of energy. Some have posited that when we transition to death, we are entering a dimension of pure energy where thought is translated into action. If this is true, then the transition is understandably traumatic for those who are unprepared. This may explain reincarnation. If the mind is not ready to make that transition and fully interface with the all encompassing dimension, we may of necessity devolve to a dimension that fits our comfort levels… this may explain why the Earth is currently so over populated as people have become comparatively less spiritual (from ancient society to today) and more materialistic, they have become less open minded to the other less concrete dimensions.
July 25th
(there were no entries for July 24th)
The Feast of St. Christopher, patron of travelers, occurred today. Much of his character was acquired from the Flemish by way of Thor, the god of thunder, rain, and farming. The Flemish would pray to the Saint in the same way they had prayed to the god. He was called upon to protect their crops from harsh weather.
Furrinalia honored Furrina, an ancient Italian goddess of springs. This festival was closely related to the Neptunalia. There was a Grove to Furrina at Rome, and the Furies may have been related to her.
The death of Pope Innocent III in 1492. He issued the anti-witchcraft edict Summis Desiderantes Affectibus.
Comments (19)
Very interesting. I’ve always thought that there was more to color than we really know, but I’d never thought about the possiblity of emotion being a dimension.
I love the insight that the inablility to sleep gives.
I always appreciate it when a person really thinks about our assumptions. If thought is the fourth dimension, is time not just then a subcomponent of thought. Maybe time does not exist outside the world of thought. Good stuff to think about.
@Zeal4living - That could very well be, but if Thought is the same as Energy and energy is the quality of all dimensions, then Time would still be a sub-component of whatever we would call the entire dimensional construct… the multimension? the googleverse? dimenity (dimension + infinity)?
@Wes_Gumbo - I think emotion is more like certain smells. They can “smell” very bad, but until you identify and remove it, you have to suffer with it. Empaths have an edge when it comes to identifying the source of the “smell” and can remove it by leaving or even block their perception of it, though that’s a double edged sword. Other people may experience emotions not their own and never realize the source is external.
If each dimension is an aspect to perceive the physical world. Then, emtion can certainly be considered as a dimension. Scientifically, it is hard to quantify emotion for measurements at this point. But I imagine someday that we can analyse emotion just like we analyse food. As I see it, it is very much like food. If we don’t like certain emotions, we don’t have to eat them or can actually tailor our emotion according to our tastes, so to speak.
I’m no scientist, but the way I see it is… giving each dimension an assigned number is a convience for us humans, like an index to the contents of the universe. I don’t feel they need be ordered, as many of them are integral to our experience, simultaneously.
Smells, colors and emotions are vibrations or waves. It’s possible that we can coordinate emotion with colors and smells.
@merridian - I’m not certain, since I am also not a scientist, but I think the closer the number to the dimensions we know (x,y,z) the more that dimension would be considered adjacent to the one in which we live, like plane that intersect. It would be possible for different dimensional planes to intersect on specific dimensions without intersecting them all, and so a higher dimensional number might have no direct bearing on what we can experience within our own framework.
Coincidentally, last quarter I was thinking of doing a paper on the 4th dimension in art. Techincally, a dimension is anything that could be measured, so there are really infinite dimensions. Emotion could probably be a dimension for empaths. I think artists of the 1920s who were influenced by scientific thought and the 4th dimension were more interested in exactly what you’re talking about–the idea that realities can exist beyond the physical world.
I beg to differ on your main point. Time has, in fact, been demonstrated numerous times that it is indeed quantifiable, if not in a way that is easily comprehended if you’re not an exceptionally gifted physicist (alas, I am not). One of the implications of Einstein’s special theory of relativity, which proposes that the uniformity of motion in the universe is relative to the observer, is time dilation, a phenomenon for which there is much positive data in multiple experiments that have been conducted. So effectively, if we define “dimension” as a “magnitude that, independently or in conjunction with other such magnitudes, serves to define the location of an element within a given set”[1], time is, in fact, a space in which an object can move somewhat independently, and thus, a dimension. Maybe it is rather arbitrary to slap the number “4” on Time, but only because of the context in which we live on earth – the difference relativity makes is obviously more than small enough to escape our notice.
Of course, everything depends on your definition of “dimension,” I suppose. Frankly, there’s no evidence at all so far to suggest that emotion and consciousness are anything more than constructions of small sections of our evolved brains (quite the opposite, actually, if you ask most neurologists). But quibble quibble quibble…I’m neither a physicist, nor a neurologist, nor a philosopher. All I do is look at what’s there.
What an extremely interesting post. Gives one something to ponder.
I’m the same when I can’t sleep. Of course, it could be my mind constantly turning that makes sleep stay away.
I didn’t read the other’s comments so I apologize if there is redundancy.
My first thought was that, us Humans (said in the voice of the seagull in the Little Mermaid) like to define and categorize things so it’s graspable, we feel like we have a sense of control/understanding about something, but I think that science is the tip of the iceberg (like our unconscious). Learning never stops, we can keep expanding, pulling back the lens and seeing the bigger picture. As we integrate what’s in the picture, then we can pull back. And then we can have a flexibility between pulling back and zooming in.
You ever read/see Hitchhiker’s Guide to the galaxy. “Mice” were protruding in our 3-D world but they are actually 5-D beings. We are under the assumption that we are doing experiments on them, when in fact they are doing experiments on us. I love that BTW. I just think dimensions depending on what you are talking about will be different. For example the references that science is based on mathematics. I was given another example, about humans which I can’t remember 100%, but it had to do with a person thinking, feeling, and doing (I think). There are some people that think and do, but don’t feel. There are other’s that just think. And then there are others that just feel and do. So I guess it’s all open to discussion….
When I read what you wrote though, I thought what if time and emotion are somewhat related and link and apart of it. I mean emotion seems to be related to time, if you think about healing. We cannot really move forward emotionally/time-wise if we don’t feel our feelings fully. A part of us gets stuck in the past (which is a component of time). Carolyn Myss once said that we have energy circuits that we invest in everyday. A large part may be invested against past grudges and other emotional baggage. Then she went to talk about manifestation and stated that the more WEIGHT we have (i.e. our energy is invested in) the longer the WAIT for things to manifest.
Another thought what if we don’t have a word in the English vernacular (YET!!!) that can describe what the 4th dimension is.
I identify as a telepath as well as an empath BTW. Does that make me a double breed?
GREAT POST, love your thinking. I gave you a mini, but the bubble is really suppose to say What’s UP? not Let’s Talk.
@le_vegetalien_timide - Exceptionally gifted physicist you may not be, but you still sound enough like a physicist to fool me! lol What I meant by not quantifiable, is that time cannot be measured in the same way are our mundane dimensions of length, width, and height. And if it can be, the math is Waaaay beyond me, so far beyond me that explaining how it might be done will only hurt my brain. I’m not a physicist; I’m a metaphysicist.
The thing about time is, it can only be experienced one way, forward. Time cannot be turned back. See I can envision all these planes in my head (but I never took physics and I flunked geometry… I am not a by-the-numbers kind of girl), and I can see why time is only forward if it intersects only one plane of our dimension, most likely the first or second. On the other hand, I possess the psychic faculties to experience and quantify emotion, not as a chemical byproduct, but as a “tactile” separate sensation. I may not be able to give physical evidence or math to the satisfaction of the scientific world, but emotion for me is like swimming, breathing, or sweating. It is something I am saturated with simply by the environment I find myself in. If the plane of emotion intersects ours on some dimension, it is probably on the third or all three. Still, I don’t imagine planes are always in the same position, so it may be possible that there are more empaths now because the plane of Emotion (if such a thing exists) is moving into some kind of ascendancy.
That’s my theory at any rate. I respect science. I value the scientific perspective, but it’s just one perspective among many. I’m willing to look through the lens of science at different phenomena, but I think one of the failings of science is that they are so unwilling to step back and try different persespectives, different lenses of experience, to examine reality. Science is really a very narrow band for viewing such an expansive subject as existence.
Well obviously, science is “limited” in that it seeks natural explanations for natural, observable phenomena – that is the very definition of it. Still, there are times when rejecting it over other, less verifiable methods can at times be incredibly unwise, harmful, etc. Look at the so-called “faith healers”, or people who seek the help of psychics when what they really need is long-term, psychological therapy. I’m not a pessimist, or even really a nihilist, and I believe that people should do whatever is necessary to lead better lives, for themselves, others, and the planet.
@jaeyounglee - Ironically I used the analogy of the lens for describing using science to examine our reality in replying to le_vegetalien_timide before I read your post. Does this mean I was looking forward in time?
Yes, I’ve read all the Hitchhiker books and I loved the 5D Mice, even if they were technically evil, evil little critters. Or just insensitive. For an empath, isn’t insensitivity the ultimate evil?
As I posted in my reply to le_vegetalien_timide, I can see how Time might be a plane which intersects one of the lower planes in which we make our home and that Emotion may intersect all of the planes or just the third plane in which we live. That doesn’t mean that it couldn’t intersect near Time or bisect it at some point, causing a spill over so that one is never entirely free of the other.
If such a thing as “energy circuits” exist for humans, they are most likely to be found in the aura, rather than the brain. This would explain why some people are able to gather more information psychically than others. They just have better, more refined circuitry.
As for the differences between empathy and telepathy, I think it’s more a matter of spectrum. Empathy and telepathy and other related information sharing psychicism are to be found along a spectrum of phenomena. Some people are “broadband” and some people are “narrowband” with regards to what ability they exhibit. Even though you are both, you’re probably only exceptional in one area, right? I have limited telepathy with family, but I’m empathic with nearly everyone. So I call myself an empath. I have lots of other psychic skills, but empathy “flavors” them all. It’s the way I grok.
I think, of all the words introduced to the language by science fiction, grok is the most apropos when talking about psychic ability. heh Stranger in a Strange Land indeed. I’m a stranger here myself.
@le_vegetalien_timide - My point is that some phenomena is only observable through specialized means. Science is a specialized means that is capable of observing and dissecting some phenomena, but not all phenomena. Science, at this point, is barely capable of examining psychic phenomena, and that’s just the tip of the iceberg…. ghosts and the like. Mostly they dismiss psychic ability as outright fraud unless it serves their purpose to use alleged psychics in ghost hunts. That’s about all psychics are good for to science, and even that is consider pseudoscience most of the time. Science is unwilling to give psychic phenomena the benefit of the doubt long enough to legitimize even the most harmless of psychic abilities. I’m not talking about faith healers. I’m talking about regular people who just happen to have extra-sensory/tactile abilities. Point of fact, many empaths, even without being aware of their ability, are drawn to professions where they can help people. Many psychologists and medical staff are also empaths.
@harmony0stars - Science actually pretty much rejects psychics and ghosts outright, because there is no convincing evidence in any form for either of them. The human mind is a deeply complex thing that we do not and will not ever fully understand, but that does not mean that there is anything supernatural about what is otherwise called “psychic” or “paranormal” sensory.
@le_vegetalien_timide - But what about parapsychology? They have developed tools to indirectly examine hauntings by measuring changes to the environment. In some instances, they have debunk hauntings, while in others, the hauntings have been substantiated by the evidence they have gathered. (And I’m not talking about those awful tv shows….)
I never attach the word supernatural to human psychism unless the experience can be shown to come from outside the realm of human experience…. that’s the realm of gods and demons. Hauntings are not necessarily supernatural, and nothing about psychic ability is supernatural. Psychic and paranormal are just convenient words to describe sensations beyond the humble five.
Properly I need to come clean you must be righteous as forever
pinup dresses | demolition | Miami beach weather