Recent Ideas: The Dimensions of Separation

Everything is closer than imagined. In order to describe what is outside of our perspective and senses, we like to create artificial separation. It appears frequently in our language. People look at reality as existing in different dimensions, planes, or realms. Yet everything exists together in the same space and time (not counting Havona or Paradise). The astral plane just includes a morontial energy system enveloping the planet, overlapping and impacting the material realm perceived by the senses. It is not a new fairyland separate from the planet. Astral travel simply involves an improved awareness of space, time, energy and matter. Even the angelic realms use atoms and ultimatons to some extent. When understanding this idea, a simple way to categorize reality appears. There are both true/real and false/unreal dimensions of separation.

True dimensions of separation: space and time
False dimensions of separation: sensory deficiencies

True dimensions of separation can be crossed by spirit or God. The omnipresence of God should come to mind, as well as the timelessness of the Trinity. And lower orders of being can attempt to overcome these forms of separation through reflectivity, communication circuits, historical records and calculated projections of the future.

False dimensions of separation are simply a lack of awareness of what is present. Not everything is picked up by one’s senses. While the separation is lessened with knowledge, there is still a lack of experience which must be overcome with faith, trust or imagination. This goes both ways, as many higher spirit personalities cannot see or impact matter the way we can. They require our world to be translated by other beings (and shown through displays, for instance) in order see what we experience, but the actual experience is beyond complete understanding. The same is true from our perspective, but we have far fewer visual aids. An angel may be capable of seeing us, but they lack the perception that we ourselves have of the flesh. And if we were to get a glimpse of their own shape and energy, we could still not perceive their heavenly beauty or understand how they see themselves.

If a being experiences differences in perception, or a different form of perception is needed to identify it, it is not interdimensional -- it is simply interperceptual. If a being experiences space or time differently, it is indeed interdimensional. The midwayers are a good example. Note that while both deal with perception, the experience of space and time has more to do with physical laws than physical senses (though senses are impacted by laws as well). In other words, it is about the state of being.

I believe my interpretation of dimensions is correct in its own way, but the concept of "interdimensional" from revelatory sources has more to do with material composition, be it matter, morontia, or spirit. Thus, a human with a morontia soul would be interdimensional.