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Last month we talked about Belief Systems (B.S.) and how they work. The rest of these columns will present a new belief system that isn’t really new, but is couched in language that might provoke an “Aha” or two, or maybe even an “Oi Vey!”
In our material world, stuff is three-dimensional. Everything has length, width, and depth. Think for a moment and you’ll realize there are additional dimensions that make up our reality. Two that occur offhand are Space and Time. Anything that has length, width, and depth must also occupy space and time. Streetttttchhh your mind and consider there may be other dimensions as well. We have emotions which help define our reality here. We also have intelligence which allows us rationality. Could these be additional dimensions?
Suppose they extend through other dimensions as yet inconceivable to us? It’s reasonable to assume rocks don’t have emotions, and animals have emotions but not intelligence. Can we figure that these two dimensions, while present in our world could also span into other dimensions? Sure. Maybe we can consider creative power a dimension, or perhaps Life itself. Why not?
Although our concern now is with the five dimensions of our physical world, the others are also present, and we can only imagine their extent. Now, before the elastic in our stretched minds snaps us back to limitation, let’s exercise the imagination:
Imagine a strange Entity. It has no personality; in fact It isn’t a person. It is neither solid, liquid, nor gas and exists in dimensions beyond our ken. Imagine It in a room about the size of your living room, and to nourish the imagination, we’ll use new dimensions to describe It. Instead of solid, liquid and gas, or length, width, and depth, let them be thought, feeling, and stuff, the world of all the other dimensions we talked about.
This Entity is raw power. It has the ability to do anything … anything at all or nothing at all. The power in the leg of a gnat, and the power of a million suns is all the same and all a part of our entity. Think electricity on steroids.
Feeling is the Motive Force behind the power. This dimension of our Entity impels and propels it like voltage to the electric current. It’s all there in the room with the power, and in the beginning, the only emotion is bliss — Love without an object.
There is the intelligence that directs the power to its ultimate activity. It decides where to apply power and the feelings propel it to its destination where it does what it is directed to do.
Finally is the substance — the stuff — energy in motion, vibrating like crazy. It’s what the thought and feeling act upon. Imagine our Entity a self-contained sculptor with sheer brilliance guiding the feelings to sculpt the stuff.
Now picture this multi-dimensional Entity filling up the whole room. Take a minute to catch your breath and get a picture of this Being in that room. It isn’t doing anything. It’s just being there. It’s “being”, not “doing”. Its only feeling is bliss. Since It’s all that fills the room, there’s nothing outside of Itself to fear, get angry at, or worry about. There’s not even anything to love outside of Itself.
Bliss is all there is — raw love without an object.
To help our limited imaginations, let’s take this Whatever-It-Is and create It in our image (it’s been done before). It’s a Being of Bliss, so we’ll call It by the acronym BOB for short. But remember, it’s not really a person. BOB was Thought, Feeling and Stuff all at once, and blissfully hanging out. It knew all there was to know, which was nothing. It had the power to do anything it wanted, but there was nothing to do, and all was bliss because there were no other emotions.
“In the beginning was the Word …” but BOB didn’t know any words and didn’t have anything to say anyhow, because nothing was happening. REALLY nothing. Zip! Zero! Nada! It was just hanging out in Its little room. Even bliss gets tiresome after a while, and BOB was bored. It was Brilliance with nothing to think about; Omnipotence with nothing to control; Love without an object; and Stuff without form. Advance a couple of eons and STILL Brilliance with nothing to think about; Omnipotence with nothing to control; Love without an object; and Stuff without form. Can we even begin to imagine the boredom!
Poor BOB — all powerful unlimited power — totally bored out of Its mind. It would be banging Its head against the walls
— if It had a head.
Then, on the first of Forever, BOB awoke to an idea. As we know, energy can’t be created or destroyed. It can only change form as it vibrates slower or faster. BOB thought, “Hey, I can slow down parts of my own stuff and make things out of Me.” So Thought sent a message to some of the Stuff “SLOW DOWN.” It did, and then there was matter. A whole new room full of form. What a BOB!
BOB filled Its room with little stars and planets, and all sorts of groovy things made out of Itself. Now It had a hobby and wasn’t bored any more, at least for a while. Since everything was still a part of BOB, but slowed down a little, It got to experience being a planet, a star, and even a rock. All that stuff was pretty, but it was only stuff, and let’s face it, a rock doesn’t have a very exciting life.
Put lots of rocks together and they’re still just rocks. After a while BOB got tired of making rocks in Its room. Once again boredom set in.
So BOB incorporated another dimension to Its entertainment. It added Feeling, and made things out of Its stuff that also could feel. If It had created vocabulary It would have called the things “bugs” or “fish” or “animals” or “dinosaurs”. They were all made out of BOB stuff but had the extra advantage of feeling. They acted on instinct but provided generations of entertainment for our BOB… But it got boring because it was out of balance. BOB needed to add Thought, the next step; the dimension of mind. Then they’d be just like BOB, only different.
This was the tricky part, because BOB’s mind created all the things and planets and animals and bugs and such. What would happen if It created other beings that could also think? They would have to be able to think of anything at all, and Thought is creative. BOB couldn’t limit what they’d think, because it wouldn’t be “thinking” any more. BOB took a chance… (To Be Continued).
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