What Dimension is This, Exactly?
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Where is the Virtual in relation to the Real?
Where are we right now — here, in this space of information where our minds gather? It seems to me that virtual reality | information space, must be somewhere between a Physical and an Astral plane.
Is this web page, my words, my voice, your attention
- In the screen?
- In the cable?
- In the satellite beam?
- In the tower signal?
- In the ground wire?
- In the server bank?
Is it where I write and code it, or where you find and receive it?
Your physical mind (your actual meaty thinking impulses) may not be located in just your brain, but distributed like a hologram across every cell in your body. The physical nodes carrying the network of your being.
What about your soul or your spirit?
- Are you in your head?
- Are you in your heart?
- Are you in the memories of the minds of others?
- In the photos of your face?
- In a shoebox or on myspace?
- In the words you leave behind on a page?
- Are you your name carved in stone?
- Are you your breath in the intervals you contain it?
- Or the space you occupy?
You are all those things, in all these places. You are the sum of them all and then some.
Is the man in the image with his face in the pool in the water or outside of it? Well, you’d probably say, he’s in both spaces at once. Have you taken a deep breath of spirit and plunged partly into this denser reality of incarnation, still mostly in spirit, briefly incarnated?
What about our collective consciousness?
We are all alive, all over the place…
But that still doesn’t answer my question:
Where is this Virtual Space? Is it somewhere in between the physical and the astrals? Is it maybe a new kind of dimension — a man-made astral?
If the physical plane is the 3rd Dimension, what dimension are we in here, exactly? Dimension 3.5?
I’ve asked my spirit guides — I’ve told them to back off on the explanations I can’t process, so they show me simple images like the one above.
So, now I’m asking you… I’m hoping you might tell me.
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You had me laughing, Slade. If you don’t know, with your more than active involvement with the spirit world, how the hell was I going to know? I thought that’s what I came to SYS for, to be educated/guided in ways other than those I am familiar with. However, I was intrigued.
I asked your array of questions. Rather than receiving a solid worded answer, I think I got experiential. I felt spaces move. Where things had been closed, I could flow more and more in that direction, the boundary moving equally in percent. If I was seeing a bit farther, the distance became more vast. And in some cases, borders fell away completely. Ideas came out of nowhere. So things kind of melted into one another rather than presenting as distinct.
I arrived at no exact answer. My knowing is feeling better as I let myself be taken wherever the dimension seemed to want to go. Whatever its name or number. Really very sensual.
It was definitely different than a normal question and answer session with myself. Obviously the questions provided. Thanks.
Oh what a beautiful post.
My brain hurts just thinking about it… because of course it can’t be ‘thought’ about.
Experienced perhaps.
‘You’ over there…
‘Me’ over here…
Where does one stop and the other start?
A wondrous question, Slade. What if it’s all just energy? My cells are attracted to your cells. Your message, your words, call forth my spirit. I’m not one of those people who cares how it’s done, only that it happens. I am grateful that you are in this time and space, calling forth others of like mind. Way to go, Slade!
After I pulled the plug on my last blog, I had a dream where I was visited by my grandma (who died in 1995). She told me she was sad that I stopped writing because she was using my blog to keep up with what is going on in my life.
The dream felt very real to me. It makes sense - in an inexplicable way - that people who are no longer physically with us on Earth can still access the Internet.
KL totally nailed it.
I’m with KL, too. All separation is illusion ….
Crystal, that’s an amazing thing! How is it that your grandmother could have an easier time accessing digitally encoded information than directly observing your life?… Perhaps it’s your act of writing that she was picking up on? People do say that writing or speaking things makes them more available to spirits.
Thanks for participating in this Very Special Quiz Show Stumper Edition of Visualizing the Invisible.
:-)
This probably represents the kind of irritating “extra credit” question I’d include on an exam if I was, say, a physics professor, or something (which I’m clearly not).
The good news is that you get the bonus points just for making the attempt — that headachey brain warp sensation is your gold star sticker. I feel that just asking, contemplating, is the point and concrete answers are secondary…
The interesting thing to think about though is that, yes, it’s all interwoven and the total tapestry loses sense when you unravel it or pull out a single thread, BUT –
-dimensions are real, they can be mathematically expressed
-same with vibrations, scales, frequencies, signals
-light, color, energy
-etc
I think there’s a good reason why it’s called metaphysics.
Let me add that I DO indeed observe spiritual energies in clairvoyant graphic terms that greatly resemble cells, molecular structure, constellations, solar systems… that’s what my Bubbles up there are all about!
:-)
I also do feel that spirits and discorporate entities have a better chance of manipulating energy and information that is “lighter” than 3rd dimensional matter, so it makes sense to me that it is easier for them to manifest energy that is “loosened” from the physical plane (such as thought forms and virtual space…)
It makes sense to me that spirits can access virtual information — but in the context of the dream Crystal shared, I agree that what may be observed, accessed, read, is happening at an energetic level, so we can explore a metaphorical interpretation in addition to the literal:
Why your engaging in creative expression might please a spirit observer?
Again, ask all the questions, from all different angles, and contemplate the greater sum. By simply taking it that far, regardless of any one explanation you arrive at, you arrive at a deeper place in the Mysteries. The Stump-factor is the awe and the wonder that makes you go “Wow, this shit is MAJOR! Beyond me…”
And that is really the best evidence of there being Something Greater, Something More…
Slade,
Like Barbara above, I felt these questions as an experience - they rotated my perspective around 180, and then the full 360 degrees:
like if you had been looking through a telescope at the “wrong” end that shows you the little, far-off picture; and then the whole world swung around so you could look at it from the “right” end and see the bigger, up-close picture.
Everything is still as it was, but from this shifted perspective, I think “oh, so THAT’s the point of the internet . . .” not the components, but the whole participatory act at once, seamless and swinging around this fulcrum of experiential perspective.
There is my way-abstract response to your way-abstract question!
How is it that your grandmother could have an easier time accessing digitally encoded information than directly observing your life?… Perhaps it’s your act of writing that she was picking up on?
More than likely. Not being much of a believer in the afterlife, I never talk to my grandma or try to reach her through prayer. We see each other once in a while in my dreams; in one dream she scolded me for never praying. So I’m not very good at keeping in touch.
It just doesn’t seem surprising to me that the dead could keep up with us through our blogs, given that the intent is to broadcast that material. So it’s not anything special about digital media, except in a McLuhan-esque sense. Y’know, how the medium incorporates the intent of sending it out to anyone, anyone who would be listening.
I just realize I’ve contradicted myself, saying I don’t believe in an afterlife and then discussing whether the dearly departed read blogs. All of which goes to show I’m not an expert on this.
Hoping this is not too out of place.
James Chartrand wrote a post on Copyblogger today. Couldn’t help but think of you and this post as timely demonstration, Slade.
James had a lot of things to say, but this in particular had apropos written all over it. Quoting him:
“Major players don’t rattle off what everyone already knows.
They shape their content.
They take time to observe and think.
They put forth unique valuable content that leaves people awestruck…”
Safe to say from the comments so far, people are struck.
I wasn’t going to comment on this one because I have no clue as to how to answer any of Slade’s questions. The idea of spirits reading our blogs is amazing since I think my dad was here last week reading an article about himself as I was writing it. I could smell tobacco so strongly. So could my husband and son so it wasn’t my imagination. I haven’t told them my theory about it being my dad letting me know he was here because they wouldn’t believe me. The tobacco smell was only around me as I was sitting typing at the computer. It was a very brief but very strong smell that I associate with my dad because he was a chain smoker all of my life.