The Fifth Dimension
As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. As a man sees in his heart, so he sees. Through unclean windows, lenses, senses, we see things not as they are but as we are.
~Jersey Journal, 1914
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As soon as I wake up in the morning, I remind myself that nothing exists as it appears. Then I think about sentient beings who want happiness, but experience suffering. I generate compassion for them, determined to help them as much as I can to eliminate their negative emotions
- Dalai Lama
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Our civilization is at the edge of a new experience of the sacred. The sacred is about to be realized in the realm of nature, earth, embodiment and physicality. This is a momentous change not only for the West, but insofar as a Western-style mentality has infiltrated everywhere, for the globe. The shift is a relocation of the sacred from the heavens to the earth, from the cosmic realm, to the realm ‘below’. Typically, in the monotheisms of Christianity, Judaism and Islam, the divine has been located ‘above’, in the empyrean of starry space and distant skies. In symbolic terms, the figure of a Heavenly Father has ruled over our apprehension of the sacred. But the Sky God has expired, ‘God is Dead’. and the divine effulgence has fallen to earth, lighting up the world of nature with an otherworldly glow.
