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EnPassant
tanka418I do so hope y'all understand that something like this; a parallel city, in another dimension" simply isn't physically possible.
That depends on what you conceive physicality to be.
Blue Shift
It's unfortunate that there's not a very good definition for this. "Extra-dimensional" or "inter-dimensional" really doesn't work well, and has a tendency to send the concept off into New Age kook land.
I'm willing to try to accept the possibility that there are intelligent entities or creatures that exist in a kind of reality that is different than the one I inhabit and experience. The problem is my limitations. My senses are limited, even enhanced by machines. So my experience of reality is probably extremely limited. I'm a pretty intelligent guy, but how smart can a person or being be? On a universal scale, I may only have observational and intellectual abilities that are practically indistinguishable from a slime mold.
I always like to use the example of a cat trying to understand income taxes. Cats and humans are mammals and have a similar kind of intelligence, and similar way of experiencing existence. But human beings are smarter than cats to such a degree that we understand that income taxes are real and exist. Taxes are completely beyond a cat's ability to understand. So are there other beings or creatures out there who are smarter than we are the way we're smarter than a cat? Such that there are things about the way they experience and define reality that we could never, ever understand? You gotta admit the possibility.
But how does one deal with the idea that there are aspects of reality that are simply incomprehensible? And if they are incomprehensible, do they actually exist? If I can't perceive and understand something, does it exist? Over the years, I've slowly come to the opinion that I might just be too dumb and perceptively limited to ever really understand what UFOs and "aliens" are.
So I tend to think of extra- or inter-dimensional as meaning something along the lines of, "existing in a kind of reality that is normally, usually beyond my ability to perceive and comprehend, but once in a rare while intersecting with my reality just enough to suggest its existence."
I understand what you are saying and agree but our ability to understand these beings/spirits is not equivalent to our ability to be aware of them or of any other spiritual reality. The intellect understands - on its own terms - but consciousness is something beyond intellect. It is direct perception and a lot of what we comprehend comes from direct awareness. In traditional terms interdimensional beings are just spirits, minds that cannot be perceived by the senses or understood by the intellect but can be seen with the conscious mind.
tanka418
reply to post by EnPassant
I understand what you are saying and agree but our ability to understand these beings/spirits is not equivalent to our ability to be aware of them or of any other spiritual reality. The intellect understands - on its own terms - but consciousness is something beyond intellect. It is direct perception and a lot of what we comprehend comes from direct awareness. In traditional terms interdimensional beings are just spirits, minds that cannot be perceived by the senses or understood by the intellect but can be seen with the conscious mind.
Have you ever heard of the "Occult", or "Western Ceremonial Magick" and that whole "genre"? This "understanding" you speak of is part of what many "esoteric schools" are about. The study and comprehension of these "fringe" things.
It is actually much easier to understand when you use an old / proven approach.
I see y'all make statements like this and I wonder how sheltered your lives have been. Some of this "spiritual" / "extra-planar" stuff I sorta take for granted, like you do with the normal reality. I though everyone understood that their own being existed on more than a single plane of existence, and that these planes extend throughout "creation". Guess I should leave the Temple more often
Willtell
There’s an old maxim in metaphysics
There are 4 worlds 7 levels and infinite dimensions
There is no limit to dimensions. They are limited in one respect:
Let’s say we are on a world with 15 sections and each section is a channel that has its own 15 sections. With that we can go on and on into infinite dimensions. But we are limited to the 15 sections.
Of course a section is akin to a dimension.
Willtell
reply to post by tanka418
You have read everything in existence or heard everything?
The best stuff is probably unknown to the average person based on
Cast not pearls at the feet of swine; I guess you know Jesus said that!
Willtell
reply to post by tanka418
My friend of course dimension is a misnomer. We can’t be literal in colloquial spiritual or metaphysical conversations.
The actual technical metaphysical proper term would be—I refer to the Sufic tradition—“world” or in Arabic Alameen.
The Sufis say God or Allah is lord of the worlds (Alameen).
This term actually connotes a high knowledge or world.
Spiritual systems have developed over time their own language therefore all we can do is try to bridge these different references in order to better understand each other.
One of Crowleys first efforts was with Sufi masters. I know his work very well.
As for Hermes…well I met him one day in the tavern of ruin
xstealth
They are inter-dimensional being, because they are not from another planet. The Bible will tell you all you need to know about UFO/Aliens. Start in Gen 6.
They are in the dimension we used to be in before the world began, we die and go back to it. They have the ability to go back and forth in dimensions, but we can not.