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The 3d consciousness is aware of objects entering from 4d in the similar fashion to that of a 3d object appearing and moving through 2d. Assume the object is a 3d sphere. To a 2d being, let’s call him Abe, it will look like a circle that starts from a dot, whose horizon expands into a circle till it reaches the same size as the sphere, the zenith, at which point it will start to shrink, until there is nothing.
Update 2025:
This was based on an assumption from the concept of Flatland as an accurate explanation of 2d existence, which I no longer understand to be so. Firstly, rotation is not included in the movements possible by the Flatlanders. If they can only exist on the plane, there are an infinite amount of planes that intersect any line on any plane. The whole scenario is limited to a single flat plane. But what is not taken into account, is that a 2d Flatland would exist in a 3d space, like the 2d skin of a soccer ball. Another issue is that we envisage a 2d object always having some (even minimal) 3d aspect. For instance, graphene is a close as we can get to a 2d material, and it has an atomic scale thickness, but it is there. A further point is that we assume that a 3d object can easily pass through a 2d object, and that might not necessarily true—as in the case of the aforementioned graphene, which is, apparently, stronger than steel.
For Abe, experiencing this 3d object moving through his dimension, at time zero, Abe sees nothing. At time 1, he sees a mysterious bulge appearing in his world. It is small, almost like a mole-hole, that begins to grow horizontally, larger and larger until it reaches its zenith, whereupon it will begin to shrink until it becomes a dot again, and disappears.
That is fairly easy to comprehend as a 3d being looking at a 2d event. But, what if I was the 2d being looking at this event of the shrinking and expanding circle – rather like an eclipse. For the 2d being, it will look something like a shockwave, a moving horizon, approaching it as it grows, which, at some point begins to recede, and then disappears.
A necessary first element that is required for the 2d being is time. Depth and relationship being the 3rd dimensional element arising out of 2-dimensional interactions. Something we can even refer to as “consciousness”, that is, consciousness of an event occurring. The second element is the ability to remember the occurrence of that event. In order to be conscious that you are conscious, you need to have memory. It is memory, an element of your consciousness that creates your “narrative”.
If this happens only once, it is unique and perhaps aberrant. If it occurs periodically (like the sun rising over the horizon), then measurements can be collected and some theories as to what mystery is occurring here can begin to be formed. Perhaps the genius will arise who can put all the hypothesis and conjectures come up with the conclusion that it is a 3d circle, or a sphere. Prior to this genius, there must have been one or another who proposed the existence of another dimension — the 3rd dimension. That was the truly evolutionary step in their “science”, for our investigator would have to have some concept of 3d in order to even propose it might be a sphere. So, although living in 2d, he would now have the awareness of the possibility of 3d existence.
In our present 3d world, we are encountering the same phenomenon. Using a similar metaphor as the one previously. Perhaps a photon is some 4d object touching our realm. Perhaps we, even, are higher dimensional beings that are “passing through” this 3d realm.
Human
If we are beings of 4d consciousness — or higher — having a “real” experience living in a 3d reality, it makes sense that there is something always missing, something that we are always seeking, and the only way we can find it is by accepting the higher consciousness that we are.
Even though we are in a 3d world, it seems most of us are born with 2d awareness — those that live in a world of right and wrong, good and evil. If you, being aware of the 3rd dimension, have to calculate for 3 dimensions, while another is only working in 2 dimensions, the latter will be able to arrive at a decision sooner. It can even implement it more swiftly, while you are hamstrung by the extra dimension you are taking into account. One could say that the 2d being has immediate advantage, but, because it has only taken in 2d effects, although your action might take longer to prepare, it is likely to be more effective in the long run.
Influence of 4d
Already you manifest in 3d due to the immanence of G!d. Rather it is to be “informed” by 4d information/perspective. Just as 3d adds depth and thus perspective — which is information — to an image, so 4d adds a 4d perspective to the 3d image. Already we are aware of many of the effects of this 4d information on 3d. Like quantum effects, electricity/magnetism, etc. It has a distinctly non-physical 3d presence, recently uncovered and described by mathematics, which has a distinctly non-physical 3d presence – yet, also, has had a huge impact on our 3d world.
We cannot sense it, with any of our physical senses, but we know it is there. Do we contain another sense, one that is not part of the five known ones? Is it even a sense? Perhaps “extra-sensory perception” is a much more descriptive name for it. Everyone can “see/feel” a parabola in the curve of a ball thrown, for, without knowing any of the mathematics involved, you are still capable (perhaps intuitively) of “working out the equations” and catching the ball thrown to you. How? Taking all the calculations entailed in that catch, calculating trajectory and speed swiftly enough to position yourself in the correct place to catch the thrown ball — how do we actually manage to do that? Some part of us is an incredible mathematician… we just can’t express it in the language of mathematics – though we might have more human ways of expressing it.
One might even describe mathematics as a 4d language. For we cannot use it in any social or interactive context. None of our human languages can be described mathematically – nor can we speak “mathematics”. It can only be used to describe elements – and in its lower form (accounting/arithmetic/geometry) it controls this world, but recently it has been describing a fascinating “new” world – which consists of the world of quantum and cosmology, worlds that seem to be intimately connected to this one. In fact, it was by trying to understand and penetrate the mystery of this world in which we live, that we entered into this realm.
Perhaps the shamans and mystics of yore (and present) were also trying to explain this “other” world, and were using the symbols and languages available to them at the time. Some of the more ancient languages also seem to have elements that point to these influences – though that might be a reading and perspective we have developed recently.