DIMENSIONS AND HUMANS

Existence is the only dimension.  The ways in which objects and living things are described, such as having height, width and length, represent incomplete descriptions used by humans to facilitate the processes of placing everything into categories and then making comparisons.  These are not actual dimensions separate from the one in which we live.  They do not take into account important features such as mass, volume or weight.  Other characteristics not part of an imaginary three dimensional system are colors and the way things taste or smell.

Anything solid is capable of being measured.  There is nothing so thin that its thickness cannot be determined, or so tiny that its height cannot be established.  Nevertheless, most things in life do not lend themselves to such simplistic modes of measurement, since they possess irregular shapes and display curves and angles.  To describe something in terms of only three of its spatial attributes is woefully inadequate.  At the same time, to attribute any other dimensions to tangible items would be inaccurate. Nevertheless, man continues to engage in strenuous efforts to further identify, analyze, and classify all the myriad components of his world.

Earth and our universe display innumerable aspects that lend themselves to measurement.  Ever since humans reached a state of self-awareness, and realized that they were not just one more of nature’s unwitting subjects but also possessed the ability to modify their living environments, they have been devising ways to understand and control nature.  This eventually led scientists to attempt to measure and categorize everything they could observe.  As they went along, they attached designations to all animate and inanimate items that came to their attention.

The belief exists that if you can characterize something you can dominate it.  In past times, the naming of names was a serious proposition.  Designations carried with them mystical connotations.  Certain religious labels were so powerful they were not to be uttered out loud.  To say the true name of God risked bringing down his wrath.  To invoke one of Satan’s names was to call him forth. 

Such operations attempt to conjure up beings from the realms of desired heavens or feared hells, but these are not real places.  The mind is capable of constructing fantastic invisible kingdoms and of placing into them all sorts of fearful gods and demons that are not to be trifled with.  All of these fictitious areas and figures are intended to inspire awe in human beings in order to better control them.