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Time Tricks!
2014 Brent Phillips
So, the 4-D space time that we live is what happens when you take an 11-D object
the truth of the Universe - and project it onto a 4-D space the illusion we
humans live in! Our physical senses and minds can only directly perceive in 4-D, so
we can't anymore directly perceive 11 dimensions with our bodies and minds any
more than you can take the Earth and stick it in your wallet!
Time is one of the 4 dimensions of space-time that we can directly perceive and
interactive with via the human mind-body organism. (Warning: this next concept is
not easy, so don't worry too much if this doesn't make a lot of sense!) You can't
separate out the dimension of time from the 3 dimensions of space; that seems
impossible. But what you can do is create projections of 4-D space time onto lower
dimensional "fabrics" that don't eliminate time, but they do fix a specific point in
time. For example, taking a photograph of a busy marketplace is taking a
fundamentally 4-D thing - the marketplace - and projecting it onto a 2-D photograph
by eliminating two dimensions: depth and time. But due to clues still left in the
information projected into 2 dimensions, our brains are like clever forensic scientists
and are actually capable of partially recreating the missing dimension. In other
words, when you look at the picture of the busy marketplace, your brain is able to
figure out roughly how far away things are (recreating the missing dimension of
depth) and when the picture was taken (recreating the missing dimension of time)
from depth and timing cues present in the 2-D photographic image.
When you consider how much information is lost when we project down just a single
dimension (such as turning a globe into a map), its almost unimaginable how
distorted reality gets when we project from eleven dimensions down to only four.
And thats why so many of us have such distorted, incomplete, and outright wrong
ideas about our lives, the world, God, and the Universe: were missing 7 dimensions
worth of information!
You can also find within Time what has been called "The Holy Trinity", one of many
metaphors and teaching tools that have been handed down through the ages to
assist in our enlightenment. (If you're like me and grew up really confused by the
Holy Trinity, you'll love this section!) Time consists of the past, present, and future,
which is a direct metaphor to the Holy Trinity of the Father, the Son, and the Holy
Ghost. Everything happens in the present moment of "now", but in order to give
meaning to what "now" means, there must be something that is not "now", and we
call those things the "past" and the "future".
In fact, there must be two things that are not "now" to allow "now" to exist, because
the past, the future, and the present are analogous to here, there, and the
space in between. In other words, in order for "here", "there", and "the space in
between" to exist at all, all three must be present - two is not enough! It doesn't
make sense that you can have "here" and "there" without space in between, in the
same way that it doesn't make sense to have the present and the future without the
past.
In fact, each of the 4 dimensions of familiar space-time consists of 3 "pieces", which
for the spatial dimensions we might call "here", there", and "the space in between",
and which for the time dimension we might call "past", "future"", and "present".
And that's why we have the "holy trinity" instead of the "holy duality"...and it's why
we have the past and the future; it just can't work any other way!
There's more that can be said about time - for instance, we didn't touch on the
circular or cyclical nature of the time we experience that is the basis of astrology