• Ötzi
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    Imagine a perfect circle. There is no beginning and no end. The shape appears the same from any point in two-dimensional space. Now imagine a perfect globe. Again, the same principles apply to this third dimension. Now imagine a perfect four-dimensional object. This is much more difficult to do. It helps to first visualize a circle becoming three-dimensional by adding an axis and spinning the circle around it. Secondly, visualize a second axis in the spinning globe, perpendicular to the first axis. One cannot imagine how a globe could spin about both axis at the same time. The surface would appear to never attain a state of equalized perfection. Yet this is exactly what time does.

    What we perceive when looking at a perfect four-dimensional object is still a globe, as two eyes cannot see further than three dimensions. Each eye receives a flat two-dimensional image and the brain calculates the difference to make up the third dimension. Our senses have evolved to survive, and are thus most attuned to moving in three-dimensional space. Our mathematical and conceptual thinking can go much further, though. Some people are blind in one eye. They are known to simulate depth-perception by counting objects at known distances. This is exactly how all humans perceive time. We simply count predetermined units, rather than seeing the depth and flow of it. The limit of our most primal senses is somewhere in between mostly sharp three-dimensional and grossly approximated four-dimensional perception. Becoming aware of this will help you understand reality as a whole.

    Enter the paradox. The whole can be considered an unmoving, perfect multi-dimensional object. Yet time, by its very definition, requires everything to always be moving, excluding a perfect and unmoving state. These two considerations are not as mutually exclusive as they seem. There is no perfect three-dimensional state of the whole and this perceived state is indeed forever changing, but it is in truth the perspective that's imperfect. That which does seem perfect to us, like a glass globe or a diamond, is still under the influence of time. This influence may seem negligible or even absent in our eyes, but it exists and is not ignored by the wise. One aspect of the perfect whole that can plainly be seen from our perspective is how three-dimensional objects always seek to attain a state of equilibrium or balance. This is, like everything, a manifestation of the ultimate omnipresent will. Gravitation and other forms of attraction are examples of this will of both mind and matter.

    For a practical application of the theorem, I will look toward liberating consciousness from its three-dimensional impairment. Observing the world and all its present sufferings may lead you to doubt the existence of a greater balance and fill you with feelings of dread. Yet pain might just help liberate us, detach us from our flawed three-dimensional perspectives. That's not to encourage cruelty. In fact, cruelty is a very clear symptom of being overly attached, an attachment that causes the cruel as much pain as it does the subject. Instead I encourage you, if you see someone who is attached and appears to want liberation, to help them see the truth. Do not do it against your better judgement, though, as some people may respond badly to reason. Helping another is easier said than done and you will sometimes need to settle for a few kind but seemingly insignificant words. Making the realization of multi-dimensional perfection part of your philosophy, however, is far from insignificant and will bring one or more people liberation if explained correctly.
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