Have you ever wondered what exists beyond the 4th dimension? It must be the 5th!
All of us are now fully cognizant with the four dimensional world in
which we live. It consists of the dimensions of :-
Height, Width, Breadth, and Time. They are the measurements by which we
explain the space within which we function, using the senses, of touch, taste,smell, sight and sound.
These senses are are of little use in defining the 5th dimension, where we must use
conscience. Conscience is an additional sense. There are others.
We are told that in 'reality' Time does not actually exist! It is possible for time to cease if
we travel far enough out into space. Any clock that we carried with us would
gradually get slower and slower if compared to a similar clock on earth.
The clock we carried with us would maintain the same apparent time but the earth
one would appear to gain speed if we could see it from our space craft.
There is another dimension within which we live and that is the 5th dimension.
This is the dimension of CONSCIOUSNESS or Spiritual Awareness or "goodness" and "evil".
If we were unaware of the difference between good and/or evil we would
not function properly as human beings. It is essentially that dimension
which separates us from animals. It is this dimension or locational awareness
which makes us unique.
Animals will respond to stimulii which seem to give the impression that they are aware of goodness or badness. For example a cat will jump down off the table if it is caught stealing food. Likewise a dog. It appears that they recognise that what they are doing is wrong. In fact they have learned that if they are discovered doing such a thing they are attacked - hit, scolded, whatever. Likewise with a dog under similar circumstances. They are not responding because they 'know' what they are doing is wrong (though some owners of pets would like to think this were so!), but because they are usually attacked if they try to get food from that location if a human is about. Their reason for their behaviour is survival.
Similarly, being human, we learn that if we do things that are 'anti-social' then we
too are 'punished' and will respond in such a way as to avoid punishment.
But we more often respond because we wish to
have the approval of our peers. Additionally, we are often aware
instinctively that certain behaviour is not acceptable because it sets up
an adverse reaction within ourselves. We experience guilt feelings.
We recognise a conflict between what is right and what is wrong within
ourselves - quite separate from whether
we receive punishment for our actions or not. We retain the memory based on an
inner awareness. With animals it is not so. Animals are not aware of the
difference between what is 'right' and what is 'wrong'. A cat kills birds - not
because the cat is 'evil', 'bad', neither can it feel remorse for its actions.
It kills the bird because that is part of its conditioning to succeed as
a species, a survival mechanism. Not so in man! We really are different
from animals. We have evolved to live within 5+ dimensions.
I do not believe that if left to our own devices we would not have guilt feelings
or would always respond as animals do, devoid of feelings, regard, or
remorse for wrongdoing.
It is because we are human, and because we live in five+ dimensions, that we
respond the way we do. We have a natural sense of goodness/badness as part
of our evolutionary mechanism. It is not, so far as I can see, a part of a
survival mechanism, but one of spiritual evolution. We are spiritual beings.
We are children of the stars. We exist inside and outside of our normally
accepted senses. We are different.
I am aware that cannabalism is accepted by some societies and not others. I
accept that some people murder and others do not. But what we are all doing, as
humans, is living within and under the influences of the fifth dimension.
The dimensional influence of which we are naturally aware is the difference
between that which is right and that which is
intrinsically wrong. We are very spiritual, but generally seem to
ignore the fact. It is easier 'not to be' than 'to be'! To recognise
conscience, spirituality, requires effort. We are generally basically lazy!
Evenso, we have the ability, the general natural desire even, to be able
to choose between what is right and what is wrong. Everything is 'relative' and never 'absolute'.
Everything is 'relative' and never 'absolute'.
All of us have that ability. In some it is less well-developed than in
others. Some might call it 'conscience'.
I leave the actual method of deciding degrees of goodness as opposed
to badness to you. Everyones 'standards' vary.
What is certain is that there is an actual effect in our personal development
which is influenced by this dimension of 'goodness/badness'. The Egyptians
were aware of it and they considered that at death one's soul would be
weighted against the weight of a feather. To ascend to the heavens one would
have to have a 'good' soul which weighed less than the feather! I guess that
would leave an awful lot of us earth-bound!
Nevertheless, although 'relative', the fact of leading a 'good' life, as
opposed to a 'bad' one is a functional dimension of our existance. It is
a dimension within which we live, move, and have our being.
How is this dimension measured? Just like all other dimensions one cannot
do so.
Consider for a moment a line drawn on a piece of paper which is joining
two points. Now, where does the actual first point begin? In this instance we have
to have the absolute answer - not an approximation.
As part of the exercise we will reduce the first point to its smallest size. What and where is it?
It cannot be defined! Neither can the 2nd point! And neither can the thickness
of the line between the two points. The thickness of the line is infinitely
small, thin, unseeable, unmarkable, it is as small and as large as infinity!
It does not, in actuality, exist!
Likewise the difference between 'good' and 'evil'. One thing we can be sure of is that the difference between one to the other is infinite - but we can't measure it! We cannot say that one manifestation of 'goodness' is any less 'good' than another. it will depend on our individual sense of 'right' and 'wrong' at that particular moment. Besides, we can never be aware of all other 'good' or 'bad' events which occur at that moment, or in the past, or in the future - but we are aware of that goodness. If not, why do so many people pray? What would be the point?
Our task, as humans, is to be as 'good' as is possible for us to be - individually.
By being so we become more 'good' collectively and become more evolved, more humane,
more human. That is the direction we are expected to progress. If it was towards
the other end of the spectrum towards 'evil', then we would not feel
guilt or remorse. We would feel quite the opposite. Some people obviously
have a defect in this respect and they become positively evil personalities and
do not have the usual senses of right and wrong. Nothing is an absolute! The points
and the line on the paper could not be shown or defined as absolutes.
That is how it is meant to be. There is always an element of choice.
Possibly Nature takes care of this by giving us a rather short lifespan! After all
we are not the deciders when it comes to how long we are able to live.
That is the choice of the Creator - whoever, whatever that may be -
but so surely exists.