Really? I've been on a bit of a weird kick lately. I hate thinking about realities and mysteries as spiritual. I suppose one man's spiritual experience is another man's Euclidean algorithm.
Anyway concerning some threads from a few days back about lucid dreaming and OBE's has really got me going.
One thing has always fascinated me: dimensional space. I could never do it better than Carl Sagan when he explained it as everything beyond our 3 dimensions as merely spatial dimensions.
Line:
Squre:
Cube:
Hypercube:
The hypercube is of course not accurate because we can't actually see it "4 dimensions". We just have to imagine that in a hypercube, everything is a right angles.
Now on the metaphysical side, there are those who say that everything above the 3rd dimension deals with time and space. A 2D being would only be able to see us 3D beings as a cross section;kinda like an MRI image. Now. They say that the 4th dimension being the past, present, and future of any given point and that 4th dimensional beings would appear like undulating snakes with their embryonic selves at one end and their deceased selves at the other. We are like the 2D beings. Only able to see cross sections of 4D beings like a snapshot in time.
They say that the line that you draw from yourself now, to the you next your appears to be a straight line. Hence, why we see time as a straight line.
Now the 5th dimension would be like the 2nd. It would branch off into other directions. This is influenced by our actions; each having a different outcome.
Dear god, this thing is getting so big, it's driving me insane. I'm going to stop on that right there. Now what I want to know is this: Is this a spiritual thing or are some new age hippies just assigning spiritual qualities to what really amounts to just the fundamental nature of existence? Cause me,the whole idea blows my mind, but it has nothing to do with god or any kind of spiritual mumbo jumbo.
Also, please tell me if you think that I've completely gone off the deep end.
Anyway concerning some threads from a few days back about lucid dreaming and OBE's has really got me going.
One thing has always fascinated me: dimensional space. I could never do it better than Carl Sagan when he explained it as everything beyond our 3 dimensions as merely spatial dimensions.
Line:
Squre:
Cube:
Hypercube:
The hypercube is of course not accurate because we can't actually see it "4 dimensions". We just have to imagine that in a hypercube, everything is a right angles.
Now on the metaphysical side, there are those who say that everything above the 3rd dimension deals with time and space. A 2D being would only be able to see us 3D beings as a cross section;kinda like an MRI image. Now. They say that the 4th dimension being the past, present, and future of any given point and that 4th dimensional beings would appear like undulating snakes with their embryonic selves at one end and their deceased selves at the other. We are like the 2D beings. Only able to see cross sections of 4D beings like a snapshot in time.
They say that the line that you draw from yourself now, to the you next your appears to be a straight line. Hence, why we see time as a straight line.
Now the 5th dimension would be like the 2nd. It would branch off into other directions. This is influenced by our actions; each having a different outcome.
Dear god, this thing is getting so big, it's driving me insane. I'm going to stop on that right there. Now what I want to know is this: Is this a spiritual thing or are some new age hippies just assigning spiritual qualities to what really amounts to just the fundamental nature of existence? Cause me,the whole idea blows my mind, but it has nothing to do with god or any kind of spiritual mumbo jumbo.
Also, please tell me if you think that I've completely gone off the deep end.
Comment