By G.L. Millington, creator of Vitaglyph
A core tenet of spirituality is that we’re related to one thing higher and extra true. That the world we see really obscures our true nature. Typically 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, despite the fact that this prospect was revealed to us by one of many smartest individuals in historical past.
After we have a look round us, we see a world of 3-dimensions (size, width, top). However, in accordance with many theoretical physicists, resembling 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 in accordance 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 (resembling this one) is layered upon the final and has the following second layered on prime of it; much 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 based mostly 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 assume that there are unseen, bodily connections extending from our legs and arms and our bodies. However, think about if we may 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 actually 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 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 inner motion as nicely. Our very ideas, based mostly on mind exercise, forged off layer upon layer. The thought you may have now provides on prime 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 may be much more happening inside us that might additionally characterize the layers we forged off: your circulatory system, the way in which your muscle tissue contract, your heartbeat, and so on. Every expertise you may have informs what sort of layer you forged off.
What’s wonderful about that is that once 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 really make up your environment in all House-Time. Though our ideas appear to return and go, in actuality, they’ve a everlasting, fastened deal with 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 generally illuminated by energies past our data. Regardless, we are able to know that, nevertheless ephemeral and insignificant our lives generally 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 appear like in all House-Time. Or, put one other method: What Evolution would appear like to God.
