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It would be very interesting
to me to learn how many persons
who read my monthly website
essays have been wondering a bit
about my references to other
dimensions that may lie beyond
our human, physical, life on this
planet and in the physical
universe.
I find myself thinking about
the implications. As I have
mentioned in these essays that
now cover almost five years," my
belief in eternal life seems to
be the foundation upon which I am
building my belief system. To
believe that human beings are
spiritual beings or souls and
that our unfoldment, growth, and
experience involve infinite
possibilities and perhaps
infinite dimensions other than
what we presently are
experiencing, is exciting to me.
As I have recently written, death
does not - in this framework -
end our existence, but is part of
the process of the unfoldment and
progression.
But I am not as otherworldly
as I was as a much younger man.
Increasingly I am becoming aware
of and excited about what life in
this dimension offers us.
More and more I am feeling
that all of us would do well to
honor our human, physical,
existence on this planet by
endeavoring to learn everything
we can about it. All this
learning will indeed prepare us
for life in the other dimensions.
But we may be living in this
dimension and having marvelous
learning experiences for a long,
long time.
I have been wanting to write
to you about this and so I
consulted some notes I have been
gathering for some time. I've
selected a few to develop the
theme of this essay.
In writing his book on
cosmology, COMING OF AGE IN
THE MILKY WAY, Timothy Ferris
says, "It is a book with one tale
to tell - that of the awakening
of the human species to the
spatiotemporal dimensions of the
universe."
I take this to be in
distinction to the dimensions
beyond our present one I have
been idealising.
Ferris is talking about what
lies within us and before us
right now in our human life
experience - life in this
universe as we know it.
Our wonderful Unity minister
here in Victoria, The Rev. Doris
Trinh Lewis, said in a recent
sermon,
"Our
purpose is to be the presence
of God, and that's what we
call the Christ, and that also
is our humanness! Jesus
brought God into our humanness
- we are in the same
process."
You may see - with me - that
it is somewhat premature to
emphasize the possible dimensions
that are so far beyond our
present scope of spiritual
development that it is too early
to think much about them. You and
I may get pretty excited about
space travel and colonizing other
planets, but this is a far cry
from the dimensions that would be
beyond our present cosmology.
Last month I entered into my
90th year. It makes me feel good
that I am writing to you as I am
in this piece: celebrating the
life that is here and now! One of
the great lessons our human
family is in the process of
learning is that we must not live
too much in the past nor in the
future. Our past is blending into
the present, which is
automatically becoming the
future. What the future becomes
depends on what has been learned
in the present - and in the
past!
I wonder how many times I have
told people that I don't believe
anyone has come up with a better
affirmation than that of Emile
Coue' many years ago:
"Every
day in every way, I'm getting
better and better"
I found a statement from Pablo
Casals among my notes: At 90, he
said,
"You
know, I think I'm getting
better."
I am feeling the same - about
a lot of things. And in this
writing, my point is to encourage
us all to continue to be curious,
to want to learn, to take up new
things, new interests. How long
would it take a person to learn
"all" there is to know about this
dimension? Quite a while, I
think. Looks exciting to me!
Don
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