{"id":4203,"date":"2011-10-13T21:11:19","date_gmt":"2011-10-14T02:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/?p=4203"},"modified":"2011-10-13T21:21:30","modified_gmt":"2011-10-14T02:21:30","slug":"the-mythic-dimension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/2011\/10\/13\/the-mythic-dimension\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mythic Dimension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If I were going to help Deepak in his argument with Leonard (Leonard Mlodinow) I might say:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4205\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/spectrum.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4205\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4205\" title=\"spectrum\" src=\"http:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/spectrum-300x176.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"176\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/spectrum-300x176.png 300w, https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/spectrum.png 538w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4205\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Our eyes are only capable of seeing a tiny sliver of all the magnetic waves that exist.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Deepak, ask him whether he believes in the 4th dimension. After he says, &#8216;Yes,&#8217; ask him to point to it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He can&#8217;t. He can&#8217;t even imagine it. Our brains are incapable of even imagining it. They&#8217;re hard wired for only 3 physical and one temporal dimensions. Unfortunately they make a perfect playground on which Social Conditioning can make it&#8217;s stamp<br \/>\nof reality only consisting only of what our 5 senses are capable of experiencing. Note that even our eyeballs, as advanced as they are, are only capable of sensing a tiny fraction of the lightwaves that are (Conveniently coined the &#8220;Visible Spectrum&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>Isn&#8217;t that the same as Spirituality? We can&#8217;t point to it, but we know it&#8217;s there.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the &#8220;Mythic&#8221; dimension, which is constantly at right angles, known as &#8220;eternity&#8221;, to the arrow of time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Eternity is in love with the productions of time,&#8221; said Blake.<\/p>\n<p>Why?<\/p>\n<p>Because like a beautiful work of art needs a canvass to act as a medium for manefestation, even in some sense acting as &#8220;foil,&#8221; eternity needs the &#8220;foil&#8221; of time and space to act as &#8220;relief&#8221; in representing it&#8217;s message of the infinite.<\/p>\n<p>Think about it. In order to represent something moving, you have to have another thing standing still, or the message can&#8217;t be conveyed.<\/p>\n<p>In the same way, in order to convey the message of &#8220;revelation&#8221; you need to have the backdrop, the blank canvass, if you will, of a mundane, restricted, and merely mechanical &#8220;Worldview.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Without the Labyrinth, there wouldn&#8217;t be the adventure, the magical thread that leads one out.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I were going to help Deepak in his argument with Leonard (Leonard Mlodinow) I might say: &#8220;Deepak, ask him whether he believes in the 4th dimension. After he says, &#8216;Yes,&#8217; ask him to point to it.&#8221; He can&#8217;t. 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