To Know All We Can Know

We operate in dimensions of space and time. In so doing we could be called four dimensional beings. We have volume (viz, take up space) which is manifested in what we have come to know as 3-D. We are a point that is extended into length and expanded into depth occupying space. That is the first three dimensions. Our fourth dimension is the consciousness and involvement in the passage of time. We are continuously moving through the passage of time.

There are other dimensions. Wikipedia informs us as follows:  

Abstract five-dimensional space occurs frequently in mathematics, and is a legitimate construct. Whether or not the real universe in which we live is somehow five-dimensional is a topic that is debated and explored in several branches of physics, including astrophysics and particle physics.

In physics, the fifth dimension is a hypothetical extra dimension beyond the usual three spatial dimensions and one time dimension of Relativity. The Kaluza-Klein theory used the fifth dimension to unify gravity with the electromagnetic force; e.g. Minkowski space and Maxwell's equations in vacuum can be embedded in a 5-dimensional Riemann curvature tensor[1][unreliable source?]. Kaluza-Klein theory now is seen as essentially a gauge theory with gauge group the circle group. M-theory suggests that space-time has eleven dimensions, seven of which are "rolled up" to below the subatomic level. Physicists have speculated that the graviton, a particle thought to carry the force of gravity, may "leak" into the fifth or higher dimensions which would explain how gravity is significantly weaker than the other three fundamental forces. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_universe_of_five_dimensions)

Physical space is often conceived in three linear dimensions, although modern physicists usually consider it, with time, to be part of the boundless four-dimensional continuum known as spacetime. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space)

Whether five or eleven dimensions, we have the capacity for interfacing in four of these dimensions.

Could we access more? We know what is within our view materially now, namely, presently. On information and belief we know that which we are told exists or conclude by the various methods of communication and measurement we have developed. We know the past. We do not know the future.

The future is not known to us because it has not happened yet in time. But, time is no more than a function of materiality. It doesn’t exist beyond its confines of material world.

We know many things, starting with black holes and particle composition of matter more by conclusion. Just as Einstein concluded about relativity and the facility of what has come to called wormholes, we reason to the likely existence of such things, and assess their power or potential.

On the level of spiritual transcendence many conclude there is a God who created us. There is nothing empirical that can demonstrate God. I believe the existential philosopher Abraham Joshua Heschel said it best. ”There is no way we can know God. We are finite, God is infinite. But then again we can know God by knowing finitely what God is not!”

As we spend that last part of our lives where we are given to being reflective, might we not do more to know, to see and to surmise? Is it possible to go back and learn other ways to access what about us? As we start musing through our right brain capability might we not intuit more than the evident?

With that capacity for intuition might we not take further steps into extra sensory perception, develop abilities for prescience, delve into the paranormal, detect and understand psychic phenomena?

These abilities have not been of practical use in our time in materiality. Because we haven’t needed them we haven’t tried to use them; does that mean they are not possible?

Reflection is that time in our life to expand what we have come to know. I would like to believe it is also our time to learn new things.

We should all keep an eye on what happens to us on this third stage of our worldly way and assess what new challenges we have. The times in mid-life as we concentrated on what we had become and endeavored to gather all the fruit of that, we did not have time or opportunity to look.

Now in our senior years we do have that time, also with the time the opportunity, and the wisdom of having been where we’ve been. Some of us need no more than reaching this age to harvest these fruits.

Some of us, me as an example, need a kick in the pants to go in that direction. I knew something was missing, I knew there was more for me to do, but I was trying too hard trying to hold on to bits of my professional life where I had a meaning I at least understood.

Kicked as I was by Dementia, I now have been forced from what I was holding to and forced into finding my fulfillment. Coping with this terrible disease made taking action necessary. That action amounted to getting out of myself and taking a real view of all that was around me.