Inner dimension of reality

Namaste all,

I am quite surprised I have some followers. As you can see my last entry was last year in June. Since that time I have been rather busy with things in regular life, so I have not had much time to blog. I have a bit of free time now, so I can add some more entries. I think in the last year my knowledge in philosophy and spirituality has definitely increased, as much of my reading has been focussed in that. However, knowledge certainly has its limitation and I can feel that limitation everytime I read something new. Has my knowledge actually really increased, or have I simply reorganized old information? I feel it is the latter case. The great Greek philosopher Socrates once said that he knows nothing, and I feel exactly the same, that despite reading tons and tons of literature on philosophy and spirituality, I still feel like I know nothing.

Of course, it would be wholly inaccurate to say I know absolutely nothing, I know something at least, otherwise how could I talk about it? What Socrates really meant is that we cannot know anything in its totality or its noumenal reality, but all we can know is just empirical or intellectual knowledge of something. Knowledge is something transcendental. To truly know something is not just to look on it from outside, but to enter the being of that something and know it from the inside. Just as I cannot know you by simply looking at you, because you have an entire mental universe I am not privy too. Likewise everything has an entire inner universe that we are not privy too. We cannot know anything by analysing it, breaking it up into parts and looking at it, because it will never reveal the inner dimension of that thing.

What is the inner dimension of something? I am going to submit to the reader that it is none other than the mental dimension. This mental dimension is not just limited to us human beings, this mental dimension is in fact an objective dimension in its own right, and all things have a mental dimension. In spiritual traditions this is known as the astral and mental plane. We humans want to believe only we have an inner mental dimension and everything else in the world is just inert matter, but if we look closer we will see this is just an arrogant assumption humans make. The famous philosopher Betrand Russel has proven that is only an assumption through the argument on whether other minds exist. We only have evidence that our mind exists because we have intimate experience of our own thoughts, sensations, desires, but how do we know that anything out there has a mind because we cannot see their thoughts, sensations, desires. All we see are bodies. If we are going to draw the inference that all other human bodies have a inner mental dimension , then we should not object at the induction that all bodies in general have an inner mental dimension.

Of course there is an inner dimension of reality. There is no question about it today in science. In quantum physics it has been proven that reality at the quantum level is metaphysical. What do we already know that is metaphysical? Mind. We humans already know this reality quantum physics talks about because we have an intimate access to it. If you think about it we humans are very impressive detectors, not only can we detect the outer reality through the 5 primary senses, but we can also detect the inner reality through our internal 6th mental sense. If it was not true that there was no inner reality, then why can we not find mental content in the outer reality? Why can't I look inside your body and find your thoughts and feelings? The answer is clear, because they exist in another dimension of reality, much more subtle and fundamental than physical reality.

There is an axoim in the spiritual tradition which says, "Everything is mind" Surely enough this is what we are coming to discover in 21st century science. This world is not made out of a physical stuff, but it is a mental stuff - a spiritual stuff if you may. It is not hard and rigid like a solid substance, but it is soft, fluidic liquid-like substance intimately connected with minds.