Multiple Dimensions of Reality

 

       “ I AM NOT  I”

 

I am not I.

                        I am this one

Walking beside me whom I do not see,

Whom at times I manage to visit,

And at other times I forget.

The one who remains silent when I talk,

The one who forgives, sweet, when I hate,

The one who takes a walk when I am indoors,

The one who will remain standing when I die.

                                                                  –  Juan Ramón Jiménez

 

 

To me it is wonderful – that there are (a few) actual people who are able directly to apprehend such truths (as expressed in the epigram, by Jimenez)    

Rilke has such insight, and Machado … probably Neruda (and others, no doubt)

Me – I’m a thinker and a philosopher (and I’ll write a poem when I HAVE to), and I’ve studied some.  But basically such ‘direct apprehension’ seems to be above my pay grade. The reason that I regard as true – the basic notion in the epigram – is that it is confirmed by my studies.

I happen to have a very high regard for the British philosopher, G. K. Chesterton, who said –

“The whole order of things is as outrageous as any miracle which could presume to violate it.”

We all believe in the ‘physical world’.  And we’ve heard rumors (at least) – of ‘metaphysical’ phenomena.

‘Metaphysical’ means – ‘beyond the physical’ … things that are ‘way out there’ on the iffy rim of the horizon.  And we say this because we imagine that here at the center of reality – things are physical; and out there somewhere, in ooga-booga land, may also exist realities NON-physical.

But really, I think, we have it backwards (or maybe inside-out) … because here at the center is the ‘EXPERIENCER’, who is wonderfully non-material and airy.  And we do NOT just experience material things; we also experience joy and sorrow, loneliness, beauty, grief, music, humor, love … quite a range of emotions and feelings.  I suggest this is good reason to conclude that we are multi-dimensional beings. Mmm ?

[“Spock!  You green blooded, pointy-eared hobgoblin!”   “Calm yourself, Doctor”]

For several years I worked as a Hospice CNA; and I think it’s fair to say that we humans live in more than a single dimension … (certainly, at least) if we take into account the ‘normal’ experiences of people who are nearing death.

Dr. Christopher Kerr (a physician, who has bothered to study the experiences of the dying … and work up a data base)   gives a very good TED talk:

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbnBe-vXGQM    (dreams & visions of the dying … data)

 

His findings corroborate my own experience – that even while the body is dying, real healing may be happening at other levels.

 

In general, here is what I suspect from many decades of (broad) enquiry and thought –

that we all live in a vibrational BAND (or dimensional frequency range); and this band is not completely narrow.  And it is also somewhat labile. We are capable (sometimes, under certain conditions) of upshifting slightly … maybe even more than slightly.

You are probably familiar with the ‘single photon, double slit’ experiment – which seems to suggest that there is ambiguity regarding particle and wave … and (unavoidable) interaction of the ‘observer’, the observer’s “participation” in the outcome.

                             https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=546&v=p-MNSLsjjdo

But, I wonder – maybe light (for example) exists SIMULTANEOUSLY as Particle and Wave … only in DIFFERENT DIMENSIONS.

Mmm ?

(and WE happen to SHARE these same dimensions with light)?