Dimensions

AWARENESS

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by Kenneth Harper Finton

How do children develop a sense of self?

Before we can have a world, we need events. To have events we need an observer. To have an observation we need awareness of an object or an event. The essential quality for observation or interaction is to have awareness of an object. Observers are generally thought of as being people, but they can also be a system. An observer is a person or a system that observes. An interaction is an observation. It is part of the cognitive universe.

Alertness is triggered by perceptive awareness. Awareness is then the first cause because it is responsible for recognizing objects and events. Objects and events exist in time and space. In the two-dimensional plane, objects are flat, like drawings. They can barely be distinguished from their backgrounds. Awareness, certainly, appears in three-dimensional realities, as the third dimension is a conceptual dimension; three dimensions have to be seen from above conceptually.

Life is awareness, and awareness is life. Perception comes in myriad forms and degrees. It is present in all living things. It is present as prehension and in inanimate things. When organized, awareness becomes consciousness. All things are formed from the eternal and non-material awareness, which has always been present, as the eternal now is ever-present. This is where the concept of the cognizant universe is most evident. If there were to have been an evolutionary path through the birthing of elements in stars, there had to be an observer.

When a change occurs in the dimensional universe, it is recorded physically by changes in the matter of the universe. [Rock hits a rock, and forms a crater. Cut your toe, feel the pain, see the injury.] Every event occurs at a specific point in time and space. Spacetime is a recording device in which every event, no matter how large or small, is recorded.

Matter behaves like both a particle and a wave. Matter is the temporal recording medium of physical change. Events are coded physically and stored to form our mental experience. The dimensional process of thought and alert awareness constantly creates our consciousness in the present moment.

WHAT IS THE ZERO DIMENSION?

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Dimensions are mental constructs. A dimension is a measurement of something. These measurements are in the mental world of conscious awareness. We can only measure things with our conscious intellect. When we become aware of a dimension, it is a viewpoint.

This parade of dimensions begins with the zero-dimension, a non-dimensional viewpoint without material content. For dimensions to come into view, both awareness and information processing is required. That is why the zero-dimension is a mental world of awareness. It precedes the existence of being. This non-material zero-dimension is without time, without space and is eternally present everywhere at once. The zero dimension is the source of the awareness that projects the universe into being.  

This is where each of us came from before birth and possibly the same non-place that we dwell in when we die. We all remember this place. Since we have all experienced the place where our awareness of ourselves was united with everything before we began to exist in this time and space. Everyone has experienced an infinity of endlessness. 

Timelessness can be pictured as a sleeping form of awareness that—when  awakened—develops into the recognition of sensory touches and perceptions. In time, awareness births the subconsciousness and the self-consciousness. 

As the universe is born from infinity, we are as well. Infinity is that which was before this life experience. The world about us is similar to a continuous dream that is made real by our consciousness awareness.

Because the zero dimension is static and unchanging, the first and second dimensional structures are also timeless in that they are everywhere at once.

To see something in three dimensions, one has to view from outside and above the apparent dimensions. A circle on a plane—like a drawing on paper—does not appear as a sphere until viewed from above the plane. The added dimensions of height, width, length, and duration create a space that becomes visible in three dimensions while height, width, and length are being experienced. 

Duration is not only an element of time but it is also an element of length. “Length” commonly refers to physical size, as in the length, the width, and depth of an object. Duration measures the time period, but the term length  is also used to define a period of time as in: “How long have you been waiting?” 

When and space and time are molded into a common dimension, they become that fourth-dimensional viewpoint which Einstein called spacetime.