The Only Two Human Rights You Need

The Only Two Human Rights You Need

Simplify and Get Back to the Basics

Human rights continue to be difficult for some human beings to comprehend. The UN has composed a list of 30 specific human rights, which can be found on their website with a simple search. Perhaps that compiled list of detail-oriented rights is too specific, too confusing, or too long. While those who are intent on not observing human rights may never recognize any list that delineates them, it may be beneficial for the rest of society as a whole to keep it simple. Life is already complicated. Therefore, I have compiled a list of human rights that is meant to be broad in scope but also very clear in the language so that as many people as possible can read and understand them. The rights as I see them are as follows: the Right to Live and the Right of Free Will. Within each right is a subsection relevant to the topic for the sense of clear communication.

Rights are given to every human being freely the instant they are born. They cannot and should not be denied in any circumstance. 

Right #1: The Right to Live

“Every being has the right to live.”

This right involves the basic survival needs to sustain immediate life and every necessity required to be able to contribute to modern society. 

Examples of Immediate Life Necessities:

• Clean environment, clean food, clean water, clean air, clean shelter, clean clothing

Examples of Social Life Necessities:

• Safety, privacy, love, freedom, recreation, education, employment, healthcare/counseling, transportation, technology, knowledge

The biggest aspect of this Right to Live is the concept of “love.” If a being is loved, they will be afforded, without question, everything possible to fulfill this right. A being is not truly loved by society when denied even one of these rights, needs, or pleasures. 

Loved is the homeless being when given shelter, clothes, food, access to social necessities, and a position in society which gives them the ability to sustain themselves. While it may be difficult for an individual to provide for these rights for one that lacks them, it would be easier for a group of people to provide aid and help the bereft one to regain the ability to prosper for their self. When personal problems prevent one from having the motivation to provide for themselves, showing love for them manifests an additional social need of being counseled to a point of self-reliability. 

The Right of Respect

“Every being has the right to be respected.”

This right is a subsection of “love” as outlined in the Right to Live because respect is a form of love. However, I have provided space for it here because of its integral importance in social life today. When respect is not given to a human being, it becomes one of the lead escalators of emotional reactions. Respect is a large idea, and it may be so large that it can be confusing. In an effort to explain more in order to communicate clearly and to reduce the need for overcomplicating things for future reference, respect boils down to one thing: manners.

Examples of Respect:

• Politeness, gratitude, humility, patience, trust, courtesy, forgiveness

The above is all that should be necessary to detail what is meant by “manners,” but to be yet clearer in communication, I believe it is best to provide a bit more details. Respect means giving someone their own personal space (usually the width of their arm span). It means giving someone the benefit of the doubt before making assumptions. Respect is giving someone your trust automatically with every intent to be observant of their potential deceptions. It is about showing concern for others’ discomforts by not infringing upon their own rights. Respect is laying the blame on yourself first before clarifying where the real mistake was made. It is about forgiving, not forgetting, a fellow human being for the mistakes they make. Finally, respect is given without need of earning it because everyone is a human being. Respect should never be removed or restricted, even when a human being is convicted of having committed monstrous acts of violence. The criminal is still a human being and retains entitlement to their rights, for denying them places the denier on their own level: a violator of human rights. 

Right #2: The Right of Free Will

“Every being has the right to decide for themselves.”

Free will is a human being’s ability to choose for their self. It is an essential tool used to interact with reality. Combined with the Right of Free Will is the idea that the human being must also be accountable for the outcomes of their choices and decisions. Free will is a powerful tool, and as Stan Lee said in his Spider-Man comics, “with great power comes great responsibility.”

The Right to Harm

“Every being has the right to inflict harm on others but, in doing so, must respect human rights.”

This right is a subsection to the Right of Free Will, but it is detailed here because it is a massive part of free will that is difficult to talk about. Harming others is an essential parameter in our reality. Try as any human might, it may prove impossible to live an average lifetime and harm no one along the way. It is an inevitability when a human being sets the limitation of expectations on the outcome of certain events.  For example, a best friend may wish to move away from another in order to pursue a more fulfilling life for themselves, thus inadvertently causing harm to the one who expects them to stay nearby. With the amount of interactions involved with living life, such as emotional attachments, living within comfort zones, and the like, a human being entangles their self in the strings they tie around the things they care about. Losing one of those ties may be emotionally disturbing. This would be an example of a reasonable amount of due harm.

An unreasonable amount of undue harm comes from the infringement of other human being’s rights, such as torture, murder, or other such egregious acts. A human being may have the free will to participate in these horrendous acts which purposefully violate other human beings, but they also must deal with the consequences. This Right to Harm does not support the idea of inflicting egregious acts upon other beings as being socially “correct.” The idea of this right is to communicate harm healthily insofar as it is necessary to the situation. Violently violating any other’s Right to Live is never an agreeable position as far as this right is concerned.

Conclusion

The good news is that human beings can limit the amount of harm that comes to them by lowering expectations and by observing the human rights. Emotional attachments can become simple attachments alone. Enjoy the strings as they are attached, and express gratitude for when the strings are cut. Release the human nature of control, and this may become a natural thing as easy as breathing. Emotions are inevitable, and the releasing of such attachments are not meant to claim that human beings should discard emotions. Instead, releasing attachments encourages the acknowledgement of emotions and encourages the ability to see the impermanence of those emotions and their attachments. Live life knowing emotions are there and are useful, but break free when those strings turn into the chains that emotions use to bind. Growth comes from pain, and emotions can be the delivery of pain. Embrace all that comes from interacting with reality and other human beings encountered, and be thankful for those interactions however they may end. 

The Myth of My Life: Found High School Essay (~1997)

An essay that I wrote in high school, circa 1997-98. I've come so far!

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Brandon Kelly

World Literature 1

Essay 1

The Myth of My Life

            Myth exists in everything.  It permeates the impenetrable and creeps like late-day shadows into our everyday lives.  During this semester, I have been able to confirm my belief that myths can be personal, as well as universal, thanks to the epic works and encompassing comprehension of Joseph Campbell.  In his life he has executed a pervasive study of myth, and myth itself is most often a journey into spirituality.  It is a device through which we explain how civilizations, how life, came to be.  My own life has been filled with myths, thusly spirituality, and I have come to form a culmination of beliefs pulled together from various sources.  Upon watching a video interview of Mr. Campbell, I realized that he came to summate precisely in what I had come to place my faith.  What I believe to be the meaning of life is truly myth, for it is the confinement of what is infinite into a vessel that I, as a human, can understand.  What follows is my life experience of spiritualism, based deeply in myth and forged from religion and extensive soul searching.   

            In the beginning, there was a vast consciousness (as I have derived from the teachings of Carl Jung, Genesis, and parts of Gnosticism wherein the Supreme Being is both male and female simultaneously and separately.)  It held no body, yet was a collective of individual globules of light.  An individual particle of light represents a living soul.  Apart from each other they were small, but in community were massive.  For a lack of a better term, I call this amorphous form "God" or the "Higher Being." 

            God, in this stage, is a creator of things and of all things.  Mere thoughts, spawned from the souls that comprise God, form the building blocks of creations, are physical things and can be combined to create any matter.  They are, as I call them, the currency of creation.  The souls of God, the same souls that drive human beings, created Earth, the universe, and all other worlds where life (or no life at all) may yet exist.  We comprise God, we are the creators, and thus, we are all gods.  We have power yet untold in this realm of Earth.

            After the wondrous creations had been made, a desire came about to experience the creations as a creation.  It is these souls (God) that experience the world through the vessels of life: physical human bodies.

            Through experience, souls improve upon themselves and thus improve the whole.  God cherishes every individual experience, no matter how minimally circumstances differ with a similar experience.  God wants to be the tiger stalking the deer.  God wants to be the deer hunted by the tiger.  God wants to be the jungle in which this struggle of life and death takes place.  The only way to facilitate a spiritual entity to know what life is like is through a device called birth – as we all know, book knowledge is extremely different from hands-on experience.

            Let us look at the process by which the soul transfers itself as a spiritual entity to a physical, living creature.  Outside of space and time, a soul flourishes.  It contributes to creation, it lives an eternal life, separate but connected to others just like it.  To better itself, the soul decides to manifest and transplant itself into a physical realm that is subject to time.  Before doing so, it uses a limitless repository of information (what Jung calls the collective unconscious and the Hindus call the Akashic Records, or Hall of Records) to form the circumstances of its future life.  Through usage of the collective unconscious, that which is a library of all life experience in all realms, key events are planned for the life, leaving periods of ambiguity separating them.  This plays in part with the idea of "fate" and that "things happen for a reason."  Few things in life, thanks to this pre-planning session, are coincidental.

            This step complete, the soul prepares itself to enter life, which is in itself a gargantuan step.  Earth, in my belief, is one of the most difficult worlds into which one can be born and experience life.  Simply by entering this world, one forgets where it comes from.  Gone from its mind is the fact that it is a god, that it has powers incomprehensible and that it is still connected to that timeless, boundless realm from whence it came.  In this cocoon of forgetfulness, one despairs and searches for what it has lost, yet without fully understanding for what it searches.  The human simply feels that something is missing.  Some forget to search because the weights of this realm are so cumbersome.  Since I believe wisdom is drawn from the collective unconscious and because they forget they have access to it, they sometimes don't make good life decisions.  They forget entirely their origin and have little comparative wisdom, drawn from the unconscious, upon which to base well-informed life decisions.

            Before a soul descends into mortality, it plans a series of life lessons to learn or improve upon.  These lessons become the trials of that individual's life.  In essence, the soul either learns the lesson in a lifetime or it doesn't, and it must spend yet another lifetime trying to grasp the true concept and improve itself.  These lessons could be such things as loyalty, what it feels like to be isolated, what it feels like to be a hero, and others.  In my beliefs, I am not sure there is room for good and evil, there are only decisions and experiences.  At the end of life, there is no Hell, for I believe that Earth is the real Hell.  Every good and every evil comes down to one core idea, and that is an experience.  A chain of human emotions brings an individual to make decisions; that, and the doing, is what a soul is after.

            At death, the soul transitions from the realm of life to the realm of eternity, slowly recalling its full power as a soul.  There is a process of review of the life it had just lived.  Through use of the collective unconscious, it studies the aspects of its former life and decides whether or not it has learned the lessons it set out to learn.  If the decision is ultimately no, the soul must live yet another life focused on that lesson.  If the answer is yes, the soul may then decide to learn another lesson or remain in eternity.  Upon injecting itself into a living world, it completes the cycle of life. 

            These series of beliefs have taken me nearly all my life to collect, form, and mold.  While I hold them very dear to me, the truth of the matter is that it is myth.  I have created my own myth based on the myths of other cultures and the ideas of other people.  But there is a key that ties it all together.  I knew these elements of faith to be true before I heard of the collective unconscious, before I knew what the Akashic Records or Gnosticism were.  I had a belief in them, and when I discovered for myself that others believed the same, I felt I knew it to be a truth.

            For a period of about four years I was a devoted Christian.  I went to Sunday school, the service thereafter, youth group Sunday nights, Wednesday service, and a summer camp called Falls Creek in Oklahoma.  Christianity permeated my life, but back then I'm not so sure that it was true faith so much as a social habit.  In any case, I was very dedicated, that much is clear.  During the fourth year of witnessing to friends, as I often did, I came to recognize contradictions in the Bible, and it disturbed me deeply.  If God (the one in the Bible and not my God) is so great, why should we fear him?  If God is love, why does he destroy as He did in the Old Testament?

            Such things as these awakened me spiritually.  I realized that I had not contemplated the myths of the Bible.  I had not filtered them through my personal battery of experience.  Did I really believe that Jesus was resurrected in the flesh and climbed up to Heaven?  No, I decided, it was a metaphor that people translated literally.  The true essence of myth is metaphorical and the real danger is literal translation.   To do this is to miss the point entirely and is similar to focusing on the beauty and craftsmanship of a pan when there is food within it.  Many do not think to eat the food, so intense is their devotion to the beauty of the pan.  People don't think for themselves.  They pass the responsibility of their spiritualism on to another, whether it be a pastor, a rabbi, the Pope, or even God.  The truth is that they are responsible for themselves.  Organized religion is a tool for segregation.  They all have the right idea, but they are fighting over the metaphors of their own particular myths.

            The truth, mythologically speaking, is that we are all part of the same being, and thusly we are connected to each other in a very deep-seated way, no matter the differences we share.  We are, as individuals, a cosmic speck in an immense super creature.  In the same way that our bodies are micro-universes, for we contain millions of organisms that are alive and work together to make us healthy, we are the tiny organisms of a superior power, working together to improve upon its nature.

            I will always remember the day in Ms. Easley's class that I watched the video interview featuring Mr. Campbell.  For me, it is a great feeling of easement to know that such a scholar of myth, religion and spiritualism can back up a belief system that I myself contrived.  It supplies me with a feeling of unity with the world that I have never experienced before.  A feeling that I really do belong here, when all my life I've felt like I should not be here.

Aul The Creator

Aul saw to the end of Its senses, and there observed was Nothing. Aul moved over Nothing to the frontier, observed a second time, and again encountered Nothing. 

Aul, limitless in power, created Everything. There was land, water, planets, stars, people, animals... Everything accepted all except Nothing. 

Everything was a product of Aul and maintained a link to Aul.

Aul's existence is without challenge, for one with limitless power encounters no obstacles. Could Aul's existence be interesting without challenge? Could there be motivation when there's no resistance? Yes, but it depends on Aul's ability to imagine and care. 

To understand Aul's world, we can imagine something ourselves.

Imagine that Aul is a human child playing make believe with dolls. Change it in your imagination a little such that Aul created the dolls. Then, alter it further by imagining that Aul placed within these dolls the power of Free Will. Suddenly, Aul is watching the dolls interact together. They use the tools It creates, such as a motorcycle or a bed, and the dolls "live their lives." There is nothing that Aul can learn from these dolls. Aul knows Everything.

As true as that is, Aul takes the responsibility of caring for and motivating these dolls. Aul watches them live, inspires within them ideas, but for all things, the dolls have Free Will. Aul derives entertainment from the dolls, yes, but it is more than this. Those dolls are Aul, and whatever the dolls experience, Aul also feels in a very real sense. Aul experiences their lives both vicariously and firsthand. 

Though Aul is timeless, limitless, and omniscient, Aul is concerned with the lives and experiences of those which It created. It is even more amazing and exciting for Aul when one of the dolls "awakens" to its own spirituality and oneness with Aul.

Thus, Aul, whom encountered no challenge that wasn't created by Its imagination, gains a sense of fulfillment of experiencing Itself in a way It could not have done if there was no creative expression, imagination, or sense of compassion.

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As a writer and citizen of Earth, I was contemplating this today. If a being had limitless power and infinite in body, could their existence be interesting? The above is the conclusion I came to. It very much reflects the predicament humans find themselves in on Earth. Could we be Aul?

Spiritual and Physical Dimensions

Recently, a friend of mine asked me what I thought of the 5th dimension. I hadn't really considered it beforehand, so I thought I would feel it out and get an impression. Some of the graphics used here have no credit to the original author because they were designed by me.

The Physical Dimensions

In this blog, I'll take a look at first the physical definition of dimension, then the spiritual definition. As it is now, these two disciplines of thought, science and spirituality, see things very differently in regard to dimensions themselves. Spirituality makes the claim that there is no beginning to the universe and there is no end. Scientists explain that the 0-2 dimensions don't actually exist, but those dimensions work together to make something from nothing: the third dimension.

Right there is the rub! Scientists, who have no evidence for a deity creating something from nothing, purport that their model of physics is correct even though, at the very simplest level of physics, they admit that the non-existing dimensions 0, 1, and 2 combine to create real objects. Something from nothing. Scientists cannot make the leap to believe in some governing spiritual force, yet they accept that make-believe dimensions, basically ideas, contribute meaningfully to matter.

The exact purpose for creating these first three dimensions is to simply illustrate mathematical equations with more ease; therefore, let's agree that these first three dimensions are simply ideas. Nassim Haramein, theoretical physicist, explains this concept very well in this video (3:12-10:00). His conclusion, and it is quite convincing if you watch the whole video, is that only dimension 0 exists. He goes on to show you how that is possible in the video.

Physical Dimensions 

Before we understand the physical 5D, we have to understand the physical dimensions zero through four. As shown above, the zero dimension is simply a point that doesn't exist. It is not a physical location, you cannot sense it; it is just a point in space. The first dimension, then, is simply a line between two points. Neither does this line exist in space; it's intangible and insensible. The second dimension is a plane which consists of a mixture of at least three points and lines. Neither is a plane tangible, nor is it sensible. Thus, dimensions zero through two are phantoms in the world of physics. When we get to the third dimension, suddenly, there springs something from nothing. The third dimension is the first dimension directly observable by the human being.

Dimensions zero through three make up everything you need to have a physical world in which one could experience things. The fourth physical dimension is that of time. Like dimensions zero through two, it is imperceptible except to measure the effects of change. For example, change could be catalyzed by an action from moving object, a minutely imperceptible action (such as age), or through other means. Thus, it is suggested that time is simply the observance of change.

The combination of the physical dimensions of zero through three and the abstract fourth dimension is what scientists call "spacetime," 3D space plus time. Or is it?

According to this article written in 2011, some physicists are suggesting that time has no dimension at all. Their argument is that in experiments, scientists never actually measure time. Instead, they measure velocity, frequencies, etc. Therefore, the scientists featured in this article consider time to be relative, as they are quoting Einstein, "Time has no independent existence apart from the order of events by which we measure it." Physicist Amrit Sorli continues by saying, “Time is exactly the order of events: this is my conclusion.”

This is something I can appreciate, time being just the measurement of the passing of events. My problem with Sorli's assessment is that his proposed model to replace time as a dimension is based on the smallest unit of measurement observed by man, the Planck. What of the smaller particles that we have yet to observe? If there are smaller particles, does this make his model null?

Let's move on and offer another point of view for discussion. Enter the fifth dimension of history?

The Physical 5D

The physical fifth dimension is not easy to picture, but John A. Gowan figures it to look something like this. Gowan is the son of one John Curtis Gowan, a psychologist. Gowan, Jr. was a support staff member for Biological Sciences at Cornell University. There, he wrote many papers concerning the way he perceives the universe to work. On his webpage, he freely admits that his papers are speculation, so take from his writings what you will.

The Spacetime Map (Source)

In his writings, Gowan, Jr. explains that the fifth dimension acts like history. It records events, registers them, and stores them in the past. It is the binding membrane around the 4 dimensions previously discussed. He suggests that, as beings travel through the physical fifth dimension, we leave a trail behind us, which is our particular history of recorded events. He calls this line the "light line," as he seems to regard beings themselves as lights.

What is visible to us and directly (rather than indirectly) influential today is the bounding surface of this historic causal domain, our "light line", which is a 4-dimensional volume consisting of 3 spatial dimensions and one temporal historic sequence, visible as a whole, cohesive unit in each successive instant of the observer's eternally moving "Present Moment".  - John A. Gowan

 He claims that following this light line can take us all the way back to the "Big Bang." I have seen this logic used in a similar way elsewhere. This whole thing smacks of the Seed of Life pattern as well.

Fibonacci Spiral > Vesica Piscis > Seed of Life > Flower of Life

What follows is a is based off of the Spirit Science “Flower of Life” informative video. Take from it what resonates with you.

Math is the language of the universe. I’m not very practiced in the vibrations of mathematics, but I can appreciate the patterns that can be found there. One such pattern of numbers comes from the “Fibonacci series” of numbers, which themselves originate from ancient Indian mathematics. These series of numbers gave rise to the so called “golden ratio” or “Fibonacci spiral.” It is infinitely repeatable both increasing and decreasing in size. It naturally occurs in the nautilus shell.

Fibonacci Spiral (Source) 

lower left:
Complete Circle of Awareness (Source) 

From the Fibonacci spiral, we can complete the outer arc back to the top and get a full circle. Let us then say that at the center of this circle is a being and that the perimeter of the circle represents the distance of their awareness. When the being in the center of the awareness circle becomes aware of the things within the circle, the being will wish to travel to the edge of their awareness. In doing so, the being creates two circles of awareness. Where those two circles intersect is called the “vesica piscis.”

The vesica piscis is representative of many operations and calculations in mathematics, such as the square root of 3. It is a shape that is used throughout history a symbol meaning various things, such as the IXOYE symbol in Christianity and the central portion of a Venn Diagram.

Circle of Awareness

If the being keeps doing this at all angles, traveling from the center of the first circle of awareness to the intersection of two circles, the Seed of Life shape is formed. From the Seed of Life, if you repeat the process in the above “awareness circle” chart, you get the Flower of Life. This is said to be the pattern, building instructions, from which everything is physically created: elements, molecules, etc. Drunvalo Melchizedek, author, is attributed with the modern day usage of the ancient Flower of Life. He describes in detail his theories on this pattern in his book “The Ancient Secret of the Flower of Life” (1999).

Vesica Piscis (Source)

It seems hard to believe that everything that contains molecules is patterned after the Flower of Life. It all revolves around mathematics, the language of the universe. I cannot teach much about mathematics, but if this resonates with you, it may be prudent to research “sacred geometry” and find out more about the Flower of Life in your personal journey. Nassim Haramein, a theoretical physicist, expands on this idea using the Tree of Life in the Kabbalah of Judaism. Here’s a short video to explain what I mean.

Seed of Life (Source)

Flower of Life (Source)

Minkowski Space

According to this article by James Overduin, Hermann Minkowski, a German mathematician and professor, had a problem with Einstein's theory of special relativity, which did not see space and time as individual components and that they could rather be converted from one to the other but whereby light is the basic piece of both of them. In 1908, Minkowski argued that there need be a binding field that holds space and time together for it to ever be able to preserve any kind of independent reality.

Could this be Gowan's idea of the fifth dimension of history?

Overduin gives us an insight into Minkowski's model, which is pictured below. If you don't have time to read his article, let me do my best to summarize what he says in his article.

According to the article, time is labeled as the Y-axis, and Space is the X-axis in this chart. The center point of this chart reflects the present time. The light cone in this diagram represents a "flash of light" moving through time, from the past to the future. The space outside of the cone is labeled as "elsewhere" because it is not possible to reach unless one travels faster than light. The central red line, "worldline," is explained as "the trajectories of all real objects," meaning other objects that the observer encounters as a result of movement through time. Overduin states that the below chart seems static in nature and that "in which history does not seem to 'happen' but is rather 'already there'".

This gives me insight to three questions:

1. Does this mean that what we observe as lights moving through spacetime is a matrix of still images? 
2. By making decisions relative to our position in the matrix of events, do we then change our reality through the virtue of our willpower alone? 
3. Is it then possible to jump to any position in the matrix by willing ourselves there, and by the movement of time, arrive?

In my observation, the light cone around the present time looks, to me, reminiscent of an object traveling at or near the speed of light using time compression and dilation, as if traveling through a wormhole, for example.

The Unified Field Theory

Theoretical physicist Nassim Haramein has been enlightening many about his contemplations on the Unified Field Theory (UFT), which is itself a theory in particle physics built from the decades-long refinement of theories of physicists ranging from James Maxwell to Albert Einstein (source). The UFT, according to Britannica.com, is "an attempt to describe all fundamental forces and the relationships between elementary particles in terms of a single theoretical framework." From the microscopic world of cells to the macroscopic universe of galaxies, UFT aims to bridge the gap and combine them together into one plausible theory. As it exists in science today, relative mechanics (Einstein's) and quantum mechanics follow different rules. If you haven't already, I urge you to watch this video, referred to earlier, in full. Haramein reveals his methods of determining that the mass of the entire universe can fit into a proton, proportionately, through the concepts the Seed of Life demonstrates. This is the first time, in my view, that spirituality meets science.

I believe this sums up the energy I have spent thus far in trying to understand the physical dimensions. Take with you what resonates.

Spiritual Dimensions

There are some people who believe in the idea of "spiritual dimensions." These, perhaps, are companions to the physical dimensions in the same way the metaphysical senses (clairvoyance, etc.) are companions to the physical senses (feel, touch, etc.). We must define the first four spiritual dimensions before we attempt to understand the fifth dimension.

Below is a diagram from Dr. Suzanne Lie's website, Multidimensions. Dr. Lie is a Ph. D. in Clinical Psychology. She claims to have spiritual insights from beings called "Arcturians," so named because of the central star, Arcturus, in their solar system located in the constellation Boötes. Her website contains loads of information she claims to be given to her through beings from this star system.

Dr. Lie's views heavily depend on the idea that life is a massively detailed hologram, a virtual experience that is not physically real and is only a "game" that our souls, or higher dimensional selves, agreed to participate in. In doing so, she claims, our souls have forgotten their original power as creators; thus, it is our task to remember and to raise the vibration of Earth and its inhabitants in order to achieve this on a planetary scale such that every living being remembers their original power.

In her articles, she constantly refers to parts of our reality as being analogous to parts in the information technology field. For instance, she refers to Earth as our "motherboard," and our state of consciousness as our "operating system." For me personally, her themes are catchy. It is fun to think of life as a holographic simulation, where different animals and plants may be considered to be "modifications" to the original game content. Whether or not you find this true or not, the theme is clever.

Dr. Lie's map of Dimensions 1-5 (Source)

According to this map, the five dimensions we are concerning ourselves with can be separated by levels of consciousness: unconscious, conscious, superconscious.

Unconscious dimensions categorize beings that have no real level of consciousness. Their presence and habits are resultant of their programmed functions within the hologram game of  Earth. Conscious dimensions categorize beings that are aware of themselves and the other levels of consciousness. This is also called "ego consciousness." Finally, superconscious dimensions are consciousnesses aware of the metaphysical, or spiritual, beings or places.

The first dimension represents the land, water, and so on of our mother Earth, as well as beings on a cellular level. This associates with the physical zero dimension because it focuses on consciousness at a point. On her website, Dr. Lie says that if we could connect to this consciousness as a human, we can connect with the rest of the physical world because it is the dimension that everyone shares. Similar to Haramein's assessment that the dot is the only thing that exists in the physical dimensions.

The second dimension is representative of groups of cells that together make the organs of our bodies. It relates to the first dimension of physical dimensions in that it is a line. Animals and plants are associated with this dimension of consciousness.

The third dimension represents the consciousness that is aware of themselves, their bodies, and especially their own consciousness. This associates with the same third dimension in physical dimensions, able to observe point, line, and depth. In line with the physical third dimension as well, third dimension consciousness is not able to see time, but they experience it. Beings in this category are the higher order of plants/animals. According the Dr. Lie, the third dimension is locked by time as a function of its purpose, which is to allow beings to learn through the process of tracking changes of things held in our consciousness at any given time. For example, if we want to feel grief, we hold the idea in our consciousness, time passes, we document our experiences through learning. Now we have experienced grief and have grown as a result of it.

The fourth dimension is representative of astral bodies, higher than human consciousness, imperceptible to humans without psychic abilities. Beings with this consciousness can perceive point, line, depth, and time. This relates to perhaps the fourth dimension of physical dimensions if we agree that this dimension represents time. Examples of beings in this dimension are "astral bodies," dream states, visions, or past lives. This dimension is accessible by third dimensional consciousness if the being remembers their multidimensional self, according to Dr. Lie. The outlook of the fourth dimension consciousness, she says, is like a person standing at the top of a mountain and directing parties below.

The fifth dimension is said to be aware of length, depth, time, and spirit. This is where one realizes everything is one being. All actions are love-based here, having ascended third dimensional concepts based on fear. In a fifth dimensional consciousness, one has applied, to all aspects, the lessons learned from their third dimensional consciousness. Human beings are able to access this consciousness in their form.

Do you see the irony here? The physical dimensions claimed that the zero - second dimensions, as well as the "fourth dimension of time," to be insensible. One cannot sense them. Here, spirituality seems to be making the same statement about the spiritual dimensions one, two, and four.

Aspects of Spiritual Dimensions

From another perspective, this article delineates how humans think from different levels of consciousness. I took it upon myself to make a summary, which I have shared below.

Third Dimensional Thinkers

These individuals approach life as a very grounded individual. They are fully convinced that the life they have is the only one they have. They are fear-based, materialistic, believe they are separate from others, seek after societal "success," and only use their five senses (as opposed to the metaphysical senses).

Fourth Dimensional Thinkers

These individuals perceive that there is something beyond the every day events of life. They believe in some kind of higher power than themselves because they are aware of some kind of "connectedness" but are unsure as to why. Individuals experience duality-based thoughts, often meditate, consider diet, seek to find a purpose in life, experience coincidences called "synchronicities" (which are defined as hints from the universe to assist them in awakening), and that their actions affect the environment in both harmless and harmful ways.

Fifth Dimensional Thinkers

The idea of duality falls away. While the fifth dimensional thinkers are still aware of the concept of duality, they no longer see things as either good or bad; things just are. Individuals in this dimension of thinking don't pass judgment, don't seek to use labels, sees other beings as equals, understands one's life purpose, feels connected with everything and everyone, feel no sense of competition for materials as there is plenty for all, and one's intention is at its peak ability.

Conclusion

As I come to a close on this topic, it's taken me years understand any of this stuff. I've had some parts of it researched for some time, tried writing about it in the past, but eventually, I got too busy. Apart from that, it has taken me hours to type all this stuff up. However, please don't think that this is all my "evidence." I can't fit it all in and remember my sources.

My position on this topic might be clear, but if not, let me make it so. There is something inside me that points out the similarities of all these ideas and finds a central theme in all of them. I don't necessarily believe all the ideas presented here as solid truth. I don't presume to be so bold. All I can say is that as I live my life, I come across things that hit a certain heart-string, which sends my being into this sense of knowing something is pretty close to true. Truth is a relative, subjective topic, but for me, there's a core belief in here somewhere, and if you don't believe any of it, that's fine by me. I am not here to convert anyone; I just want to present my ideas for my own benefit and to help anyone I can to come to their own conclusions through their own research.

Madonna sang about life being a mystery. Well, that's for sure, but as it is, I stand here at 39 years old in my most confident stance on how the mystery of life is put together and how it unfolds. There is no measure of truth by which I can simply prove it. I must confess that the power to decide what is true is a right for every individual, and each individual will believe in a separate truth than mine. I only hope that they put a great deal amount of sincere thought into what they choose to believe and give power to, rather than to heft the responsibility of their own power on the shoulders of some one else who claims to be socially and spiritually above them. There is no greater lie than someone else having the ability to have any kind of power, but especially spiritual power, over anyone.  

May you all be blessed in your lives. If you feel the need to ask for help, I would love to hear your story. 

The One-Finned Fish

By Brandon Kelly

There was once a fish with one fin, called You, who swam in a sea, called Life. The Sea of Life was very deep. You became more and more curious about how deep. You knew that it must take a lot of effort to swim deeper because, for You, going even a few feet was tiresome. Having only one fin limited how fast and deep You could go. 

You was not alone, though. He had to think about his friends, family, and how You could survive deep in the sea all alone. In the school of fish, You's life was very comfortable. As a child, You's parents watched out for predators or fishing humans. They let nothing happen to You. Parents always warned their children about the fishing boat, called Difficulty. "When Difficulty comes sailing in, you had better come close, or they will scoop you up and eat you," they would say. 

But You always dreamed of going deeper in the Sea of Life. You didn't know how to do it, or if it was possible to do at all. One day, You was swimming with Loved Ones, and they all saw something amazing. It was a three-finned fish close to the surface of the sea.

This three-finned fish was very famous and was called They. Well, after seeing They, You became very emboldened and excited to start an adventure, but turning to look at the Loved Ones, they looked afraid. The Loved Ones said that they should all return to the surface and back to the school of fish immediately. No one wants to be separated from the group because then Difficulty may snatch them out of the water. As it was, they were already far away from safety. You was torn and didn't know what to do. 

Meanwhile, They swam by lazily, too big to be worried about Difficulty, and They's many fins helped glide through the Sea of Life with ease. That big fish didn't really seem to care about anything. They hardly noticed You at all. Regardless, You couldn't stop watching They. Inspiration, bravery, and determination each built up inside of You till bursting point, and each time You thought of the Loved Ones, those feelings deflated. You felt hopeless; the Loved Ones always talked You into going back to the school.

You did swim back to the school, but this time was different than all the other times. You thought about why the Loved Ones may not want to use effort to swim deeper in the Sea of Life. Why wouldn't the Loved Ones want to go into unknown spaces, learn new things, experience exciting details about Life? The Sea of Life is so big, perhaps even They doesn't know every inch of it. Perhaps one day, You could teach They a thing or two. 

You thought that the Loved Ones were concerned for You's safety. This was the obvious answer, the one that You thought of every time. You had a different thought that day: the Loved Ones did not want You to leave. They loved You, wanted to keep You around, and to lose You would make them very sad indeed.  You thought of You's feelings on the issue: if You stayed, then You would be the one who was sad. It seemed as though the game had no winner.

Another thought occurred to You: what if other one-finned fish had the same idea as You, but were staying with Loved Ones because they needed them? Or maybe they were themselves afraid to leave the school and if You showed bravery and courage to leave the school alone, You's actions made them feel inadequate about themselves. If You left, then You would show them strength, true passion, and bravery. When they looked inwardly, they found that they were too afraid to try going deeper in the Sea of Life themselves. It was too much effort. The one-finned fish only had one fin, after all. In a way, these two things that made the school and Loved Ones want You to stay by their side was only serving themselves in the end.

They were Self-Fish. 

A shadow moved above You. It was Difficulty, and You's Loved Ones were shouting. "Swim, You! Come with us!" Though it pained You immensely, You decided to be happy. 

You swam deeper and deeper, tumbled about by the currents They was making in passing. You flicked that little tail as fast as possible in order to get deeper. You lost balance, twirled upside down, got whacked by They's big tail fin, but You kept up the effort to achieve a deeper position in the Sea of Life. Finally, You found a position under They where the current wasn't so strong. You observed the surroundings for a while and was very keen to notice even small details. You learned how to be a fish that dove deeper. You learned by doing, by observing, and by self correcting through humility. Before You knew it, another fin started to grow on top. You became happy after all.

You realized that in Life, You really is a small thing. 

Curtain, Oh Curtain

This is a poem I thought of whilst getting acupuncture. I was sitting across from a curtain as I waited 15 minutes with needles in my hands. There was a wind blowing the curtain around gently.


Curtain, oh curtain, won't you touch me please?
I don't care how, by whim or by breeze.

Curtain, oh curtain, won't you touch my hand?
Help me remember a soft reprimand.

Curtain, oh curtain, our time is nearly done.
It's OK you didn't touch me, my hand's already numb.

Truth

What is Truth?

I was inspired to write this by reading the article, In Search of Truth, after I had a question pop into my head: what is the difference between personal reality and collective reality? I suppose in order to answer that question, I have to first look at what Truth means. The answer I ultimately came to is that the Truth (yes, with a capital T) is unknowable to us in this flesh and blood form. This is because there are no words to express what Truth is. The author of the above article said that a stone may mean something to one person but mean something slightly different to another. In this way, our personal truth is also relative or, at least, subjective. What I write now is kind of a reflection/summary/example of what I learned through reading his article.

After having read the article, I summarized the process of filtering our perceptions in the following way:

First, consciousness perceives countless things but is limited to focusing on only a few at a time.

Next, we must decide what perceptions are important by attaching emotional significance.

Finally, we attempt to understand what we perceive by add meaning.

These three steps facilitate what it means to survive in the physical world.

Let’s say that you live in a desert, and you want for nothing; you’re mostly happy but alone. As you make your journey on Earth, you pick up things that ring as “true” for you. To appease the analogy, let’s say that these personal truths, in this example, are evidenced by materialistic objects, like a leaf or a twig. So as you go along in your desert-life journey, you pick up a cactus. This idea of a cactus or the object itself means something to you. Perhaps the cactus makes you happy because it reminds you of someone you loved who is gone and who hated them. Perhaps this cactus represents a virtue, such as striving for perfection. Whatever it is, this cactus represents a truth for you because you recognize it as important and you attach principles or emotions to it. This helps you survive in the world because it assists you in managing the multitudinous things we perceive. Whatever truth you associate to your perceptions, you carry it with you. These become your personal belief systems. 

One day, you come to a beach, and you encounter another person on their journey. They also carry objects, their truths, but they are much different than your truths. That person carries a fossilized starfish, a piece of driftwood, and a crab shell. However, after talking with them, you realize the truths are very similar if not the same, you just chose different ways to define them. What he believes to represent the idea of “loyalty,” you mostly agree with, but there are slight differences. You find getting along with this person is quite easy. 

The second day, you encounter a forest in which lives another person. The objects they carry and the truths they represent do not match your truths at all. What he defines as evil, you define as good, and then his good is your evil. You might then decide this person is not compatible with you and that you might quarrel. These truths are still true to him, and your truths are true to you. So which truth is “correct”?

Finally, there is the Truth. There is that which governs many things but that which remains undetectable to humans and other creatures. These things may be something like how gravity works, how the planets got started, what is good and evil, how many universes are there, the afterlife, etc. These things are usually things that humans don’t fully understand and are trying desperately to grasp. Wittingly or not, in our little scenario, you and the forest dweller and the beach dweller all agree on the Truth that there is gravity, 1 out of 3 believe in an afterlife, and 2 out of 3 believe that we are all connected to each other in some way. These Truths cannot be proven scientifically (yet) or are in the very early stages of discovery. More importantly, the fundamentality of these Truths are not capable of being expressed through words. Thus, until we reach a state where our language goes beyond words, we can never fully understand the Truth. 



Trying to understand the experiment of life is impossible because we are a part of the experiment.