I am an avid science-fiction reader. In fact - sci-fi, fantasy, magical realism, fairytales, spiritual supertexts, supernatural stories - you name it, I love it. Some of the books I’ve read and loved or been awed by are - Kindred, His Dark Materials, Wildseed, Mind of my Mind, The Shiva Trilogy, To the Left of Darkness, The Faraway Tree, Rivers Run Free… I know I’m blending a few genres here, but in my opinion genre distinction is just like western medicine - an artificial separation of a holistic body-system. I refuse to do it.
I spent a lot of my spare time last year working through the Three-Body Problem. Not the actual scientific puzzle, but the trilogy by author Cixin Liu (which Barack Obama calls “wildly imaginative!”). I’m currently in the middle of book 3: Death’s End and we’ve just entered the fourth dimension. Without much of a spoiler, I’ll briefly say that this refers to an added dimension beyond what we currently know from the physical world of space - up/down, left/right, and forward/backwards. The fourth dimension is time, so you must be familiar with a lot of mainstream science-fiction that explores moving in between the space-time continuum aka time travel.
In Death’s End, the fourth dimension is a physical, spatial dimension entered through a visible opening, or portal. Once you cross into this dimension, you can see everything to its innermost core matter aka material = energy which is slower than the speed of light, so it has solid mass, like humans or trees or tables. In this dimension in the book, you don’t just see a table, you can see each speck of wood inside the table. You don’t just see the outside of someone’s body or clothing, you can see every muscle, organ, blood cell, vein and so forth. Nothing is hidden.
To my surprise, this description was stunningly similar to something that occurs in Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramhansa Yogananda, which as the title reveals, is the true story of a remarkable yogi’s life. He beautifully details some very profound experiences he has through meditation. One of those experiences is of seeing someone far away, through a building. Once in a deep state of meditative bliss, all the matter around Yogananda is seen as pure energy waves, and everything becomes transparent.
You can see where I’m going right? Hardcore science fiction overlaps with deep spirituality in the dimension of truth. In this dimension, truth simply means seeing into the heart of the matter. Seeing clearly without barriers, without projection, and without the option to look away.
2020 was our portal into the fifth dimension.
It was a view into what already exists: brutal, bare, struggle, strength, resistance, resilience, hope. With what we have seen, we can make conscious choices.
So, what are the portals that bring you into the fifth dimension?
What helps you to see clearly on a daily basis?
How do you make sense of what you perceive?
What supports you to take conscious, courageous actions based on uncovered truths?
It is time for us to jump, hop or roll through every portal available into deeper dimensions of truth, into the widest realms of possibility, and the depths of a peace that is centered in a loving justice, divine dignity and abundance for all.
List of Books/Stories mentioned in this blog post
Three-Body Problem - Cixin Liu
Kindred - Octavia Butler
His Dark Materials - Phillip Pullman
The Complete Patternist Series (includes Wildseed & Mind of my Mind) - Octavia Butler
The Shiva Trilogy - by Amish Tripathi
To the Left of Darkness - Ursula K. Le Guin
The Faraway Tree series - Enid Blyton
Rivers Run Free - Charles Payseur (short story in the Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018 by editor N.K. Jemison and series editor John Joseph Adams)
Autobiography of a Yogi - Paramhansa Yogananda