The Fifth Dimension Perspectives
Evolving higher consciousness one understands many perspectives before getting “A Vision of the Whole”
In the early 1990s I was working on my 3rd grant award from NSF: “A 3-D/4-D Computerized Model for Human-Machine Integration in Apparel Manufacturing Engineering” NSF-SBIR #9161096. I became friends with a graduate student in the MIT Media Lab. Our discussions were on dimensions in apparel engineering. I asked her what she thought of 5-D as Perspectives? She replied, “Oh yes, that’s a really good idea. Perspectives became important to study and write about to this day.
“A Vision of the Whole …”, writes Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim in a book review for the New York Times and quotes Karl Schwarzschild, who sent a letter to Albert Einstein that contained the first precise solution to the equations of general relativity. He says: “Only the vision of the whole, like that of a saint, a madman or a mystic will permit us to decipher the true organizing principles of the Universe.”
I like to consider glimpses of the Whole as a start toward the 6th Dimension
In a letter to the Editor, New York Times, John Anton writes on: “Civil Infrastructure”. He says, “People can respectfully disagree, even modulate their own beliefs and perspectives … if more interchanges were published … to move toward civil collegiality, instead of divisiveness resulting from only extreme views that rile up opposition.” This is indeed a great perspective in 5-D Perspectives. Media does only publishes extreme perspectives, interested only in sensationalism.
However, in studying opposing views, even not agreeing. I begin to understand more and I am reaching 6-D. As in the Capital Riots on the 6th, the media talked only of Trump. I searched for why people followed him, why people follow a strong power, like Hitler, like Caesar. I think it is less a yearning for power and more a desire to be taken care of by a powerful father.
Dimensions are studied in both science and spirituality. In science, it has to do with math, geometry, and measurements. In spirituality, it has to do with evolving states of higher consciousness, way beyond the death of physical bodies, and beyond many lifetimes here on earth — toward higher realms.
In “The Six Dimensions in Modern Physics”, David Deutch, Fabric of Reality, explains and quotes P.D. Ouspensky, In Search of the Miraculous. “In modern physics and science, the first three dimensions are the same as those described everywhere. The fourth dimension, which is time, is sometimes described as space-time, which is actually the fifth dimension — as Ouspensky points out. The fact that space-time is curved requires another dimension. The sixth dimension is the line of the actualization of all possibilities.” For me, it is not physical possibilities, but possibilities of mind and thought-forms.
Of all books I have read, P.D. Ouspensky’s Tertium Organum, 1981, is a favorite because Ouspensky builds a bridge between science/technology and spirituality/philosophy. His subtitle is, “A key to the enigmas of the world.” He says in Chapter 21, “Science must come to mysticism, and then to the study of the forms of consciousness — and consequently of perception — other than ours. Science must throw off almost everything old and must start from a new theory of cognition, for mysticism offers a new approach”.
My lifetime this time around has been devoted to learning and understanding many perspectives — even opposing ones that I disagree with. It helps me to understand all minds, even their biases, to see how their beliefs and perspectives develop.
Some more perspectives:
Steven Gambardella says: “Philosophy is written in radically different styles in the ancient world because it was put to different practical purposes, all of which were intended to spiritually benefit the reader or the writer. All that happens — no matter how awful, no matter how seemingly unjust — happens for a greater good that the human mind cannot understand. This is because the human mind is but a fragment of the universe, inhabited by nature from a comprehension of the totality. But the human mind is nevertheless a fragment of divinity. … Stoicism is a spiritual way of life.”
Claire Elaine: “There is always a hidden blessing in ill health and afflictions … Never are these challenges meant as punishment: they are only ever a teaching tool… Even when healing occurs, it is not really about the physical, it is always more to do with the spiritual”
Dr Mehmet Yildiz: “Some talented people enjoy life using various emotions considered at extreme levels by others. For example, I naturally feel euphoria during the flow state at work. It is by design. My mood does not fluctuate, and I never feel a depressive state afterward. So, my point is some of us can manage extreme emotions in a controlled way. Those emotions observed at a point in time by another person do not necessarily mean mental disorders. …Despite great progress in science, our knowledge acquired through scientific studies for mental disorders are still limited. Some scientific studies often tend to look at disease phenomena from a single angle, ignoring or neglecting other dimensions due to methodological constraints. Mental health conditions might have their roots in several different dimensions of our being. … While we use right and wrong for results in science to prove hypotheses, there is no right or wrong in the spiritual domain, especially when intellectual judgment is isolated and focus is given on pure experiences. We also need to consider phenomenological studies and integrate multiple methods, tools, and perspectives to gain superior insights into mental disorders. Thank you for reading my perspectives”
I replied to Dr. Mehmet Yildiz: “Thank you. I am manic-depressive and suffered under psychiatry with hospitalizations in the 1960s. But the spiritual dimension of mania (the 1980s) eventually taught me how to balance my physical life — which now is great, even looking back … Many 5-D perspectives are needed to move onto a spiritual 6-D. “
