Do you believe in the 5th dimension? Why or why not?

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Originally Posted by traceyacey12

Could you explain this a bit more?

I mean that consciousness is the fabric of reality, and less evolved forms of consciousness group into more evolved ones, which in turn group into even more evolved ones, and so on and on ...

An analogy: cells in your body group into organs, which make up your body, which is a part of a family, ...

An organ is more than a number of cells put together; a man is more than a number of organs put together; a family is more than a number of people put together; ...

Originally Posted by WildHairedWoman

and if you consider how we perceive the experience of being human on planet earth we all experience the 5th dimension.

The experience and the experiencer are one and the same, that is the non-Duality of Advaita Vedanta. Ahamkara is "The 'I' of invented things" and broadly speaking that is the perceptual reality that is the illusion. That's what Jung's model of the ego is based on, the science is based on the Spirituality. There's a whole raft of both Spiritual and science to say that perceptual reality isn't all it's cracked up to be.

Spiritually-speaking dimensions are 'objects' of consciousness and the differentiated consciousness of the ego/Ahamkara.

As for time, that's another perception and, according to the people who wax Spiritual about it, time doesn't exist. If you count time as a dimension then we are three and a half-dimensional because time is always forwards. Three dimensions mean we can go left and right, up and down and forward and back - we can't go back in time, only forwards. We can think about something we call the future but is that really any more than wishful thinking? We can divine a possible future of we have the ability but we certainly can't experience it. We also don't experience the past, what we experience is our response to what happened in the past.