Let's take a brief look at non-linear
thought.
I'm not talking about seeing the future or
telepathy or hypnosis; let's take a much more prosaic example we are all
familiar with: dreams.
Now, in a dream we have certain experiences which
are very common: falling, size (things being very large or small), amounts
(there being a great deal or an impossible lack of something), experiences of
horror and wonder, and of course sexual experiences. All except the last are
well encompassed by a work like 'Alice Through The Looking Glass'.
Yet, one of the most interesting things about a
dream is the loss of the sense of time passing. It is explained in one way
simply by saying that you are aware rather than conscious, but this is overly
prosaic. What does it really mean?
Maybe we can widen our understanding by comparing
our human experience with earlier human and non-human experience of
dreaming.
For instance, lower forms of non-human life -
which we all arguably once were - are restricted in the senses that they have
compared to we human beings. Perhaps it could therefore be the case that
dreaming, and also the experience of being dead which we hypothesise, can be
explained by an increase in sensory experience - an increase in the number of
senses.
When we look outside we see (simplistically)
three dimensions: similarly, when we look inside, into the mind, as explained
earlier elsewhere, we see three dimensions. This gives us a total of six
dimensions - and this only occurred to me recently - these can inductively
be taken to map onto our six human senses: sight, sound, taste, smell, touch and
balance. So, you can mix and match the six senses with the six dimensions, inner
and outer. At any point in time you can 'explore' inner or outer with any or all
of your senses. Please stay with me for this, if you can. I won't explain
further for the sake of keeping it manageably brief!
One of our key senses is vision. Our vision is
the basis of much of our art and we are able to envisage in three dimensions (ie
with perspective), and in colour. It is these which are very recent evolutionary
developments. Many animals don't see in colour. Colour in human art is thought
to be a recent development. Balance as a higher sense really developed when we
left the trees; and perspective in art was a development of the last
millennium.
If our senses have been developing thus far,
could they not be continuing to develop?
Newton shows that light is
actually made up of seven dimensions.
Could it therefore be that when we are thinking
non-linearly, ie in dreaming or in death, we are perceiving primarily the seven
dimensions of light - and it is the overloading of our perceptions with seven
dimensions instead of six that creates in us a non-linear
experience.
My father's house has many rooms, as it is
written. I'm not suggesting the number is limited to seven; I'm only suggesting
that an increase to seven would be enough, and light is a new experience when we
have no eyes, but operate on a non-physical energy plane...
Just a fun idea,
maybe.
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