Dimensions of Consciousness

Written by Jay09784691

My vision and hearing give me the ability to understand spatial dimensions, I know that if I reach up in the air I’d be able to grab something above me. My hearing and sight allow me to understand approximate locations of objects. I see, hear, smell, and taste from my head, so it’s easy to comprehend that “I” am present within the confines of my head. It’s accepted as scientific fact. 

Our bodily senses give us exactly the impression, and we’re taught from a very young age, to believe we’re present within three-dimensions. Interestingly babies don’t even start to properly get self-awareness until they’re about 18 months old. We give a baby a unique name and immediately teach them about separation from the time they’re born. Their name would likely be one of the first words said to them, so we purposely instil the idea straight away. If we were to ignore our normal societal preconceptions about humanity might we and our children be further attuned to greater complexities not currently understood?  

I wonder if our bodily senses are limiting further comprehension and are giving us the illusion of limited human complexity. I get the feeling that we’re present in a subset of a much broader reality, but largely limited to a subset by our sense delusion. The delusion of self-knowing from our bodily senses.

Our bodies definitely do exist within spatial dimensions, there’s no question about that. However, our consciousnesses do not have those same dimensions applying to them. I’d like to think that goes without question too, but it is obviously against everything mainstream science believes to be the case, regardless of it being almost an impossibility to measure. Yes, I understand that we can view the magnetic pulses emanating from our brains using tools and that appears to add something approximately measuring a three-dimensional model of consciousness, but that’s the closest we’re able to get currently.

Mainstream sciences considers consciousness a problem, as it believes that consciousness arises from matter and is simply physical processing. Therefore it doesn’t appear to fit. I suspect that we’re viewing it from the wrong perspective. Maybe it would be less of a problem if we entertain the idea that consciousness isn’t derivative of matter, but rather precedes it.

Even David Chalmers, the man designating “the hard problem of consciousness”, states that it’s “objectively unreasonable” that an inner life occurs at all, so there’s some acknowledgement that the assumption of physicality-first may be wrong. My understanding is that he’s also open to the idea that consciousness isn’t here because we have physical bodies, even if the majority of others researching this area disagree.

Our sense organs perceive only 3D boundaries and only a very limited set of frequencies within those boundaries. Luckily we’re able to create tools that give us the chance to measure or visualise those frequencies that we’re not normally able to sense or feel. 

You’d think that is was obvious that if you use the wrong tool to measure something, then you’d consider using another that matched the task better. We wouldn’t choose to use a compass to measure the capacity of a jug of water, and yet here we are with people still arguing that subjective experience should be measured objectively. Seems a little absurd.

All we can say for absolute certain is that we exist as thought patterns and appear to have a body that’s in some way connected to it, but apparently it can at times be more loosely connected while doing something like dreaming. If we were better able to demonstrate collective thoughts or dreams, we’d go quite some way to showing how consciousness is not simply local processing.

It makes me think of death too. All we know for absolute certain is that the brain stops functioning and the body decays, only there’s evidence that the consciousness moves beyond the body in a similar way that it does when sleeping. Anyone close to death appears in an half-waking dream, their conscious experience wavers between material reality and sleep-like state. I wonder the same for people that suffer from Alzheimer’s disease. It appears that their consciousnesses moves through memories and time and can remember people as if they’re children or significantly younger than the present, as if the sufferer is more loosely attached to their bodies and this space-time.

  

Anomalous Information Receipt:

Accepting that nature and reality are more complex than simply physical systems, along with consciousness being non-local, it’s understandable that people would be able to receive information that they wouldn’t otherwise have access to in their daily lives. Consciousness, or information, may be the source of everything and explains why some “anomalous” knowledge can be received by people, as we’re all essentially surfing a wave of information. Most of us tend to ignore anything considered odd or coincidental. To our detriment.

I like to think that our consciousnesses are non-local and able to seep into the environment or wider informational field, as expressed with the light refracting and absorbing into other materials here:

Interesting that Philip Corso (who served in the US army as Lieutenant Colonel) wrote in his book “Dawn of a New Age” that a General he’d worked with had said that Corso had “instinct that came about in layers from another dimension”. I wonder if this could be further evidence that human complexity goes way beyond our physical bodies. I can’t decide if our senses are limiting our perceptions by making us believe we’re simply bodies, or if we’re going through an evolutionary process that gives us new senses progressively in order that we can slowly determine and examine wider and wilder aspects to reality itself.

At some later stage I may write more on Dr. Garry Nolan and Dr. Christopher (Kit) Canfield Green’s work on identifying a biomarker that appears to identify people that have a higher incidence of anomalous information receipt. For now I recommend an article I wrote on a friend’s website; “Experiencers, Unique Intuition, and Biomarkers". I also recommend an abstract that Dr. Nolan and Dr. Green prepared together titled “Incidental MRI and Genomic Findings in Human Striatum: Implications for Behavioral/Cognitive Research”.

Extrasensory Perception:

It’s particularly interesting that we’re all able to perceive without bodily senses. You’re able to close your eyes and can mentally project images into your consciousness and you’re able to hear their associated sounds, in a way abstracting yourself. So you can see without your eyes and hear without your ears. It can be quite a fun thing to experiment with after you’ve accepted that you’re able to do it.

I quite often will spend my quiet moments imagining an environment. Essentially directing a specific area. Once that’s done I’m able to mentally navigate that area and potentially accept inputs that I haven’t consciously manifested within my mind. Kind of a waking dream experience. Whether or not these are subconscious projections or input from somewhere else, I haven’t decided yet. I may explore and explain some of these experiences on the blog post at some later time.

I wholeheartedly recommend exploring your own conscious experience, determine your own boundaries. Try to both direct your thoughts, or simply receive information after some quiet time. My understanding is that some people may prefer to quieten their minds first, only I find that initially directing the experience works much better for me. You’re then able to follow something approximating a narrative.

If you’re easily able to perform the above, explore your consciousness, and you want to try and resolve a problem I’d suggest having the question or problem available to you before you start. Otherwise it’ll be tricky to think of a problem midway through the experience.

Consciousness Field / Dimension:

If we accept that consciousness is not limited to the body it starts to make other strange phenomena that occurs as somewhat explainable. Anything from people inexplicably being able to play instruments following on from brain damage, or having something approximating a visionary experience. All of it is our consciousness trying to interpret information that we don’t currently have descriptions or explanations for. So rather than trying to explain these inexplicable experiences, we tend to medicate them away. 

Western society understands experience as having basis in a physical-only reality, so can’t actually make any sense of these types of “anomalous” experiences. Regardless of our often they are experienced by the majority of people. It is also considered socially unacceptable to discuss these things publicly for fear of ridicule.

Quite what any of it is though is somewhat unclear, maybe it’s the sense of non-material attractions and interactions, along with their associated messages. If this were true, we have to ask ourselves what is it from; the mind of God, ET, discarnate consciousnesses from the departed, or the collective unconscious?

We should all be sharing our anomalous experiences with each other, rather than hiding them away within our subconscious. It’s easy to imagine that our knowledge base could increase substantially by simply accepting these experiences as part of reality, which they really are, and not ignoring them. I suspect that even the most die-hard skeptics have had experiences that are not explainable by conventional material means.

Consciousness itself could be something approximating a regressive fractal; it starts from the source (or God, if you like) at the greatest complexity and then all living things are essentially a weakened subset and those living things are also able to create through imagination and literature, etc. All eventually leading back to the source in an infinite loop.

Fundamentally, I believe that consciousness will always be a “hard problem” if we continue to apply mechanistic and objective solutions to a subjective experience.