About Higher Dimensions

Did you know there are higher dimensions than the four physical dimensions (height, width, depth, and time) that we interact with every day?

Why would you see a discussion about that here, on a religious site? Well, the answer has to do with an invisible creator who might live in those higher dimensions.

Click on the image for a clever YouTube video that explores higher dimensions.

It's hard to become aware of dimensions we can't detect with our senses, or build devices to study them. In fact the only reason we know about higher dimensions is that some of the brightest minds of Science like Albert Einstein conceptualized them using complex math and physics models; creating new branches of science like Quantum Mechanics and new theories like String Theory. But because those dimensions are above our physical/natural dimensions we have no way of operating in them; they are in fact invisible to us.

If whole universes exist that we can't sense or measure in dimensions higher than ours, life can exist there too. So if there is invisible life, could someone exist there who is sophisticated enough to invent and build the physical/natural world? Wouldn't that explain an invisible Creator at least enough to seriously consider it believable or possibly true? Remember Science has proven those dimensions do exist; we just can't easily sense them or explore them with our limited physical abilities. Remember too that Scientific theories we use to explain life's origins do not even consider these higher dimensions, so reliance on Science alone is a sketchy proposition at best.

Depiction of the shadow of a four-dimensional cube cast on a two dimensional surface.

To help us visualize worlds in higher dimensions and why we can't see them, imagine a world that has only two spacial dimensions, depth and width (a plane...like a piece of paper only without thickness), and then imagine we are life-forms living in that two-dimensional world. We can only move forward and backward, to and fro; but we can't move up or down because there is no dimension of height...at least as far as we can perceive.

Suppose a three-dimensional object from a higher dimension passed through our two-dimensional world. What would that look like to us? Viewed from above our two-dimensional world, it might look a lot like the images created with a CAT scan machine; a cross-section of a person as they pass through the scan. Only if it were an object passing through our two-dimensional world, it would suddenly appear without explanation, changing shapes until it had completely passed through our two-dimensioned world. If that object were a three-dimensioned sphere, it would look to us living in our two-dimensional world, as a dot suddenly appearing with no explanation, then expanding into a line...ever growing until the three-dimensional sphere passng through our world reaches it's largest circumfrence (the widest line we see in two-dimensions), then shrinking back down until it is a dot; and then disappearing. If you witnessed that, and tried to tell another two-dimensional being about it, you might get dismissed as superstitious or crazy.

CAT Scan images of a human brain by cross-section. The images are of an x-ray beam scanning through the human head one plane at a time.

Now flip that around and look at things from the perspective of the three-dimensional sphere in a higher dimension. You have a perspective into the two-dimensional world that two-dimensional lives don't have about three-dimensions. You could hover in three dimensional space above the two-dimensional plane and the two-dimensional lives would be oblivious to your existence or proximity to them. Yet you exist in the same location, at the same time; just in different dimensions. The three dimensional being able to see the two-dimensional being, but the two-dimensional being incapable of seeing the three-dimensional being except in their imaginations.

Now substitute the sphere for a living being. Imagine the problems that exist in interaction and communication between lower and higher dimensions. Just how would you get a two-dimensional being to understand what they saw was actually a life from a higher dimension? And if you lived in the lower dimension and saw the higher dimensional being pass through your world, how would you prove that using the two-dimensional methods available to you?

Are you ready for this? Take that concept and up the dimensions; now instead of a two-dimensional being you're a three-dimensional being (which you are in reality); call those three dimensions the physical/natural universe (which we do in reality), and that sphere is a being from higher dimensions...call that dimension the spiritual/supernatural universe, and the sphere we turned into a living being, call that being "God" or "The Creator", and give that higher dimensional universe the name "Heaven". Now you see why higher dimensions relate to religion.

All the same issues exist between the natural and supernatural dimensions that exist between a two-dimensional and three-dimensional world. There is difficulty in communication...even just perceiving a higher dimension, and for a higher-dimensional life form it is difficult to communicate with life in three-dimensions. People who have witnessed interaction with higher dimensions are looked down upon as superstitious or crazy...but they aren't; they just happen to have witnessed something unusual that is difficult to witness under typical physical circumstances. It is very difficult for us to concieve of higher dimensions, and it is very difficult to interact between those dimensions. Remember higher dimensions actually exist; science has proved it. We just can't describe or measure them, and the idea is so foreign to us that we have very little experience interacting with them; and we can't prove that life exists in higher dimensions. Or can we? Well, let's just say we can't prove life exists in higher dimensions using the usual physical Scientific methods we are accustomed to using.

Click the image for several videos and an article on a researchers exploration into life after death testamony from people who experienced near death situations.

Actually there are stories of the Creator reaching out to mankind from a higher dimension.

It turns out that the Judeo-Christian religions are the only two religions in which God (or the Creator) reached out to mankind. All other enduring and widely accepted religions are about mankind reaching out for God. Well, except for Islam, which came about 700 years after Jesus Christ walked the earth, and it is a mixture of cherry picked scriptures and concepts from both the Jewish and Christian religions, that advantaged the viewpoint of Islam (or the Ishmaelites who were born to Father Abraham of the Jews, and an Egyptian servant of Abraham's wife; who are also known as the Arabs), combined with visions Muhammad had in a cave. It is a religion borne out of a need for identity that legitimizes the Abrahamic tribe of Arabs over the Abrahamic tribe of Jews (and by extension, Christians) who, up until Muhammad, were seen...even by Arabs...as "God's chosen people". So in a disconnected sense, Islam can be catagorized as a faith in which God reaches out to mankind as well, though it's origins make it sketchy at best, and just plain wrong by many accounts, as a reasonable explanation of God reaching out to us. Just the fact that Christianity extended the Jewish story (Jesus was Jewish) and the story began before recorded history, versus Islam using bits and pieces of the Judeo-Christian story and altering it greatly some 700 years after Jesus, (and with an obvious motivation for altering the story), makes Islam suspect and the Judeo-Christian story worth more plausible exploration.

The interesting thing is that in the Jewish faith, God continually is reaching out to people through sudden appearances with specific people who are open to learning who God is, (much like a three-dimensional sphere suddenly appearing in a two-dimensional world). And in the Christian faith, the Creator designed an elegant way to communicate with the lower dimension we live in; He slipped into a three-dimensional body and dwelled among us in the person of Jesus Christ, having been concieved to a virgin human woman by God Himself.

The idea that a higher-dimensional being could dwell inside a three-dimensional body brings into the picture another concept that is difficult to understand scientifically, yet even the most primary, neophyte of Christian has an intuitive understanding of...that we are not just three-dimensional physical beings, but we have a part of us called a spirit that dwells (temporarily) in a three-dimensional body. Our spirit-being also simultaneously exists in the higher dimensions, just like God existed simultaneously in higher dimensions and also in the body of Jesus Christ. And because of this phenomenon, God's spirit (called the Holy Spirit) can also dwell inside our physical bodies, and guide us in His ways. How do we know this? Because the Bible tells us so.

And this is how science and religion interrelate.

Now the Creation Theory is like any other theory put forth about our origins in this way...the exact truth is inconclusive because there are no human witnesses to the events that took place, (unless you accept the written evidence of Judeo-Christian Scripture as an actual account of our origins). The theory is just as comprehensive as theories that only consider our three-spacial dimensions of the physical/natural world (in fact many Creationists accept physical/natural theories as plausible and even integral to Creation theories), yet it considers more spacial dimensions, and the possibility of life we cannot percieve of in our limited physical minds. So in some ways, the Creationist theories are more comprehensive than the physical-only theories.

There is a next question in the progression of the Creationism that naturally comes to mind: "If there is a Creator, wouldn't s/he have purpose in creating us?, And if so, wouldn't they want to interact with us in a relational kind of way?, And if so, wouldn't there be some way for that interaction to take place?" OK, that's more than one question, (and there are many more that come to mind), but you get where this is leading.

What it comes down to is this, if there is a Creator and they wanted to create us for interaction with them, there would be some physical mechanism for that interaction; some mechanism for communication and interaction. It would need to be a mechanism that demonstrates the Creator reached out to us rather than humans reaching out to the Creator, because humans reaching out would not show a Creator existed, but that humans were searching for a Creator. And that mechanism does exist, since the beginning of recorded human history, and it contains descriptions of interactions that occurred before recorded human history. It comes from the Judeo-Christian religions, and we will explore that further on this website.