By G.L. Millington, creator of Vitaglyph
A core tenet of spirituality is that we’re related to one thing larger and extra true. That the world we see truly 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.
Nonetheless, there’s one other prospect for connection to the universe that many non secular individuals ignore fully, although this prospect was revealed to us by one of many smartest individuals in historical past.
Once we have a look round us, we see a world of 3-dimensions (size, width, top). However, based on many theoretical physicists, corresponding to Albert Einstein, there’s one other dimension that we can’t 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 based on theoretical physicists, this isn’t how the universe truly works.
As a substitute of disappearing, moments persist. They live on even when our expertise of them doesn’t. Every new temporal second (corresponding to this one) is layered upon the final and has the subsequent second layered on high of it; much like how a 3D printer creates objects by including layer upon layer to it.
And, as with the 3D printer, the amassed moments within the time dimension finally create new related, contiguous shapes based mostly on modifications 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 assume that there are unseen, bodily connections extending from our legs and arms and our bodies. However, think about if we may truly 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 presently sit upon. Even whereas sitting at a desk, layers and layers of moments are perpetually solid off. A change in posture creates a layer that may 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, based mostly on mind exercise, solid off layer upon layer. The thought you’ve got now provides on high of the thought you simply had and so forth. The altering neuronal exercise from second to second accumulates into lengthy, complicated patterns throughout House-Time.
There’s much more happening inside us that will additionally characterize the layers we solid off: your circulatory system, the way in which your muscular tissues contract, your heartbeat, and many others. Every expertise you’ve got informs what sort of layer you solid off.
What’s wonderful about that is that whenever you begin to think about the traces your physique and thoughts go away, you’re additionally imagining your true environment within the House-Time universe. The character of your lived expertise and the motions you endure are what truly make up your environment in all House-Time. Although our ideas appear to come back and go, in actuality, they’ve a everlasting, fastened tackle in all House-Time.
Nonetheless huge all of House-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 will know that, nonetheless ephemeral and insignificant our lives typically appear, we’re most assuredly part of one thing bigger.
G.L. Millington is the creator of Vitaglyph, which explores what a whole evolutionary system would seem like in all House-Time. Or, put one other approach: What Evolution would seem like to God.
