How understanding the fifth dimension will change your life
It's not just an intellectual exercise
I’ve written a number of articles, and some videos, on the concept of consciousness as the fifth dimension.
Most people who read this think of it as an intellectual exercise and think: how do these ideas help me in my everyday life of bringing up the children, going to work, dealing with my anxiety or depression etc?
One thing that separates religious and spiritual people from the confirmed atheists is the idea that events in life have a greater cause. The atheist deals in ‘science’. A saying that often annoys atheists is “Everything happens for a reason”, to which the atheists invariably responds on the lines of “Of course - it’s called cause and effect”. This is the limit of science. Given certain causes science attempts to predict an outcome given known scientific laws. If I hold a glass and drop it on a concrete floor it has a high probability of breaking. Cause: the dropping, gives rise to an effect, the breaking. It can extend into more complex ideas. If a person is a notoriously bad driver and they have an accident the cause: bad driving, gives rise to the effect, an accident. However, if someone has an accident and someone was to say it’s karma for the way they dealt with a business partner, the atheist would argue that there is no scientific relationship between the so-called cause (the way they dealt with the business partner) and the effect (the accident) and therefor would ascribe the event to coincidence.
So this marks a fundamental difference in the way of thinking between an atheist and a person with some degree of spirituality. Do thoughts and intentions influence the outside world? Not according to the atheist. Science assumes an objective world that we can study. If thoughts affect the world then science becomes problematic as it is not objectively observable with experiments.
For instance, the concept of praying is rooted in the idea that intentions and thoughts can bring about certain outcomes. The idea of karma is that destructive actions result in bringing about destructive outcomes to the perpetrator. The ideas in religious texts such as the 10 commandments in the Bible are that leading a good life will result in a good outcome in this world and the next. These ideas go way beyond the narrow scientific concept of cause and effect.
So when you understand the concept of consciousness as being the fifth dimension, it follows that there is not an objective universe but that the world out there and the inner world are part of the same thing. This could fundamentally change the way you deal with life. For instance, instead of getting annoyed when events don’t go the way you want, understand that these events come about in order to change your mental state. Many times we can look back on situations that frustrated us but we realise that actually we learned a lot from them or they caused our life to change in way that turned out for the better. When we are caught up in the process of course that long-term view is hidden from us.