By G.L. Millington, writer of Vitaglyph
A core tenet of spirituality is that we’re related to one thing better and extra true. That the world we see really obscures our true nature. Usually this implies searching for deeper reference to nature, or turning to the concept of a better energy, and so forth.
Nevertheless, there’s one other prospect for connection to the universe that many non secular folks ignore fully, despite the fact that this prospect was revealed to us by one of many smartest folks in historical past.
Once we have a look round us, we see a world of 3-dimensions (size, width, peak). However, in line with many theoretical physicists, reminiscent of Albert Einstein, there’s one other dimension that we can not see.
That is the Time Dimension.
Our on a regular basis expertise has a sense of impermanence about it. Issues occur, then they’re gone, evaporated into the previous, as new issues begin to occur. However in line with theoretical physicists, this isn’t how the universe really works.
As a substitute of disappearing, moments persist. They live on even when our expertise of them doesn’t. Every new temporal second (reminiscent of this one) is layered upon the final and has the following second layered on prime of it; just like how a 3D printer creates objects by including layer upon layer to it.
And, as with the 3D printer, the collected moments within the time dimension in the end create new related, contiguous shapes primarily based on adjustments throughout all of the layers. That is the additional dimension of our universe that we don’t see, being that our notion is restricted to the current.
It’s weird to suppose that there are unseen, bodily connections extending from our legs and arms and our bodies. However, think about if we might really see the moments which have simply handed, our neighboring moments. These moments showing to us, revealing new shapes and textures, as actual as those we already see round us. Visualizing this begins to disclose our connection to the universe because it really exists.
The form and orientation of your physique in previous moments determines what layers you at present sit upon. Even whereas sitting at a desk, layers and layers of moments are perpetually forged off. A change in posture creates a layer that can distinction barely with the final one. Sitting completely nonetheless creates uniform layers, one after one other.
It’s not simply the contours of our our bodies that creates new layers, it’s our inside motion as properly. Our very ideas, primarily based on mind exercise, forged off layer upon layer. The thought you’ve gotten now provides on prime of the thought you simply had and so forth. The altering neuronal exercise from second to second accumulates into lengthy, advanced patterns throughout Area-Time.
There may be much more happening inside us that might additionally characterize the layers we forged off: your circulatory system, the best way your muscle mass contract, your heartbeat, and so on. Every expertise you’ve gotten informs what sort of layer you forged off.
What’s superb about that is that if you begin to think about the traces your physique and thoughts depart, you might be additionally imagining your true environment within the Area-Time universe. The character of your lived expertise and the motions you endure are what really make up your environment in all Area-Time. Despite the fact that our ideas appear to return and go, in actuality, they’ve a everlasting, mounted tackle in all Area-Time.
Nevertheless huge all of Area-Time is, that is our little nook. Our small nook. Our span of rock wall in a darkish cave. Maybe, by no means interacted with or maybe typically illuminated by energies past our information. Regardless, we are able to know that, nonetheless ephemeral and insignificant our lives typically appear, we’re most assuredly part of one thing bigger.
G.L. Millington is the writer of Vitaglyph, which explores what a complete evolutionary system would appear to be in all Area-Time. Or, put one other approach: What Evolution would appear to be to God.
