Fifth Dimension:
The Mind of Light§
OUR PERCEPTIONS IN THE FIFTH DIMENSION§
The perspective that all is well in the world, the experience that everything is as it should be, perfect right now, is of the fifth dimension. In this state we realize a great bliss, a comprehensive, all-encompassing acceptance of the universe as it is, which reveals that the whole of existence is working proportionately one with another. Everything is right, just right, and if you moved even one thing…you wouldn’t want to move one thing. You wouldn’t want to change or improve one thing, or stop something or start something, because everything is all right. Now, you would never feel that way in the third dimension or even the fourth, which would inspire philosophical discourse.§
The fifth dimension is powerful. It eradicates concepts of imperfection in the flash vision of perfect harmony of all things. It is pure insight. Then insight is translated to the fourth dimension, where it can be comprehended by the outer consciousness of man.§
Metaphysicians call the fifth dimension the “mind of light,” for it is the superconscious area from which the clear white light is inwardly seen to fill the head. Others call it God. As man comes into the sixth dimension, that light extends throughout the physical body and can even be seen in the feet as he walks.§
When people function in the fifth dimension, they are not out of touch with daily realities. It makes them extremely alert and bright. They’re right there. They see things that have to be done and do them. Since they draw from a vast storehouse of energy and a broad evolutionary vantage point, they even do unfamiliar tasks with confidence—as though they had performed it a thousand times. They haven’t done it before, but they have. They feel they have. Nothing seems strange or awkward. Everything is familiar, and they bring grace into every department of life.§
In the beginning, we discover the fifth dimension only through flashes, brief insights. People have had intuitive flashes that have altered and changed the pattern of their entire life. The still, small voice, or the inner voice, comes directly from the fifth dimension. The third eye functions from the fifth and sixth dimensions. Then one of the difficulties comes—that of translating knowledge and insight into a conceptual understanding. Very often fifth-dimensional insight is so deep, so subtle that we cannot label it and therefore cannot reconstruct it in our memory patterns. We think, “Oh, this is so clear, so obvious I could never forget it.” Ten minutes later we are struggling to maintain the continuity of the experience which, dream-like, begins to fade. Yet, as we become more and more acquainted with these strata, the memory is impressed easily on the physical brain cells and the fifth dimension comes more into focus for us.§
In the fifth dimension of the mind the total evolution of form is perceived. When we see a flower, we not only see it as it is at that moment, but simultaneously actually see the stages of its life from creation to preservation to disintegration. This is where we see “life in a blade of grass and the universe in a grain of sand.” All things are within all things. The fifth dimension is not timeless, but it has no consciousness of time or even of the third dimension.§
Great inventions and music have come from the fifth dimension in a flash, followed by years of working all of the details through to the fourth and third dimensions. Awakened psychics enter the fifth dimension and are able to read patterns of the future and past through the third eye.§
The fifth dimension can be related to the kalingkasim° chakra, located at the throat. People who are conscious in the fifth dimension have a deep universal love for other people. They are often humanitarians. Life for them is a joyous, even blissful, experience with events happening in perfect timing. Other people like to be with them, for they are open, right there, present to the needs of others. The forces of their life are not so much consciously directed as directed superconsciously from the fifth dimension itself, which keeps all aspects in proportion. Of course, they also need a strong fourth-dimensional capacity to follow through on these subtle directions, and a strong third dimension to sustain the forces of superconsciousness. If they find themselves struggling with forces of the third dimension, the rules and regulations of which may not be totally familiar to them, they resolve their problems from the fifth dimension. Solutions come clearly to them, and with strong fourth-dimensional capacity they follow through and do it.§
In the fifth dimension we have no sense of ego, no personal me or mine, which after all are composed of the elements of the second and third dimension. People who experience this metamorphosis from ordinary consciousness, and then discipline themselves so the intensity of fifth-dimensional being is sustained, love their fellow man with quiet compassion. They are great humanitarians and understand the predicament and problems of others without criticism. Timing in their lives is right, and things happen for them. They’re open. They’re right there. They receive positive direction from the fifth dimension, which periodically, shall we say, adjusts their forces, keeping all other aspects in line. They find out how to do things—they’re creative.§
FIFTH DIMENSION MANAGED POSITIVELY§
Although the trained mystic can remain in intense states of the fifth dimension for long periods of time, the first experiences are generally brief intuitive flashes. Yet even these seemingly short encounters represent vast mental, emotional and spiritual adjustment, so potent are the superconscious forces.§
One does not have to wait for a still, small voice to speak. It is always there—a functioning part of the mind and not a once-in-a while exhilaration. Knowledge comes from nowhere. That’s the purpose of Zen koan—to awaken the intuitive faculty that transcends the reasoning mind. Ask a question; get an answer simultaneously. Knowledge comes right out of the light, right out of nowhere. Koans are carefully chosen questions that cannot be satisfactorily answered from the third or even the fourth dimension. The monk must reach deeper and deeper until he can get that intuitive vision.§
These strata operate totally separately from the third dimension and are extremely fascinating. However, the advanced jnani is not concerned with the intricate workings of the fifth dimension, which are vaster in their ramifications than the outer worlds. He is more concerned with stabilizing kaif»—pure consciousness of the seventh dimension—and with That beyond a stilled mind, the Self God. He knows that the fifth dimension is there, already totally unfolded, already perfect, already functioning to guide life along according to the spiritual laws.§
“This is very dear. I refer to this as a drawing that drew itself, or the hands that drew themselves. It just happened so fast and easy! I am sort of amazed how it just came out so quickly. This is like ‘Siva as friend,’ Siva as your friend, your intimate dear, he who sees into your soul, to your deepest self, expressing a closeness as if with your most precious beloved friend. There’s an intimacy about this one that speaks to my soul. I am especially amazed how well the hands turned out, without any struggle on my part.”§
Religious people or mystics who have plunged deeply into the fifth dimension and come out of that experience in a new channel acquire a firm sense of mission or calling. They feel reborn, awakened, transformed. The world is suddenly different, and their whole life has changed within an abrupt period of time by having gone into the fifth dimension and returned to the fourth through this new channel. They inwardly perceive the ability man has to transform himself in this very life, and they often assume a spiritual destiny to fulfill the larger pattern.§
Still other religious and mystical people have gone deeply into the fourth dimension, unraveled profound insights and brought forth great knowledge, and yet nothing changed with them. Why? They did not have the foundation—the control over the fluctuating forces of the second and third dimensions, and this alone kept them from going a little deeper into the fourth where it meshes and melts into the fifth dimension. The second and third dimensions always demand awareness to return to them if it is not totally in balance. For instance, if we are unkempt and messy in our housekeeping, if we strew clothing from room to room, that disorder is always nagging awareness, bringing us too far out into external consciousness and plunging us into the mire of “I should haves” and “Well, it really doesn’t matters.” Until the outer dimensions are ordered and stabilized in crystal-clear patterns of daily life, we never go deep. The foundation must be built first, and it must be strong. It is not advisable to overlook the importance of the most basic and ordinary daily chores and activities. No one wants to build the rest of the house, only to have to take it down later to repair weaknesses in the foundation.§
The way to get stabilized in the fifth-dimensional consciousness is to lead a positive and virtuous inner life and a positive and virtuous outer life. This simple act brings the subtle layers of existence to the forefront of awareness. In the initial stages of meditation, the fifth dimension seems extremely tenuous, almost non-existent or out of reach. Gradually, after years of sustained sadhana, we come to relate freely within its realms. It becomes very much a part of life as we discover it during meditation, then later in the midst of ordinary activity. When this happens, dramatic changes in our life manifest due to awareness’ migration to a new channel within the spinal column.§
“He looks like he’s in divine rapture, doesn’t he? A mystical union is taking place. When devotees merge with their higher self, the soul dissolves in this luscious Grace, a place of total bliss. Nothing compares to this bliss. That’s what we all seek for, I think, the small self dissolving and the pure love pouring through one soul. You can feel that in his eyes, receiving total Grace.”§
If you visualize the símshumbisi» current as a cord of wires all together, awareness would generally flow through just one of them. In order to get into the next wire, it is not possible to jump across the hiatus in the middle. You must go to the top, to the fifth dimension, for that is the only opening. Most people are only aware of one or two currents and believe that is all that exist.§
Most devotees on the path have already experienced the re-channeling of awareness from the fifth dimension. They may not know what happened exactly, or even when, but something did happen, and here they are seeking within, whereas before the within was perhaps a mental concept. Re-channeling could happen during an intense sorrow or joy, by meeting a holy being or even during sleep.§
FIFTH DIMENSION IN DEPTH§
The fifth dimension is pure superconsciousness. The mind of light. Absolute consciousness. In fact, it seems upon entrance to be a new mind, so unrelated is it to all known forms of outer existence. Yet, it does associate with the fourth dimension. There’s an overlapping there, an inter-blending of the fourth and fifth layers on the periphery of the fifth, which dissolves as awareness penetrates into the mind of light where there is no consciousness of time nor space and things are transparent.§
From the fifth dimension we can look millions of years into the past, the akashic records, or project an object into the future according to vibratory rate. In that sense, it is beyond time, whereas the fourth dimension encompasses a radius of nine days in its past, present and future.§
There are vast areas of knowledge in the fifth dimension that can be consciously tapped. Deep laws of the interworkings of form and force fields can be unfolded. From here we can penetrate the first dimension, the inside of the physical universe, and unravel the so-called mysteries of life from the cellular to the subatomic. From the fifth dimension we can also look into and know other deep mind strata—the sixth and seventh dimensions.§
“He is such a bright light peering at us here, his soul radiating out direct from Siva. This light holds all that will come to be and manifest, similar to the power of what a banyan seed may hold, which contains all that it needs to create an enormous tree, a tree that has roots stretching everywhere. He contains everything for the future in this bright, effulgent face.”§
There are a multitude of phases within the fifth dimension. There is one phase that handles karma, another controls time and time cycles, another provides for the coherent and disintegrating forces of evolution and forms, and still another oversees light in its multiplicity of vibratory expression.§
Faculties of the fifth dimension operate totally separate from the third dimension. They are independent faculties. For instance, you could be cleaning the house and simultaneously be working at the fifth-dimensional level in South America, and not be aware of it, or be aware of it. It is a totally different phase of the mind, almost like the beginning of a new mind from a certain perspective. It does not relate to your personality, to your intellect, or to anything you do or have done in the second, third or fourth dimensions. The only way to bring through this consciousness is to have a very stable fourth dimension, divorced from the second and third. Otherwise you would not be aware of your own functioning on the higher planes.§
From this we can see that the fifth-dimensional world, which is a very vibrant world, is the core of the body of the soul and the pivot point from which human destiny is mapped out. Yet, it is a world completely independent of all others. That is the paradox. It is all form in time and space and yet has nothing to do with what we normally call time and space.§
The fifth dimension is placid and contains every thing—every replica of every object in every stage of evolution. Take this book, for example. It has its existence in the fifth dimension, totally encompassing every stage of its construction, aging and decay, from split second to split second, as well as its final disappearance into other elements. If you were to look at this book from the fifth dimension, you would see it in its totality of evolutionary development and disintegration. And you would see this all right now. If you were to see a person from the fifth dimension, you would see him as an infant, a grown man, an old man, as dead, decayed and reborn right now. Totally now. In every split-second area of his whole life pattern. It’s the same with everything.§
There are fourteen distinct nerve channels within the spine, each governing a complete mind territory such as language, philosophy, music and art, science, medicine, politics, yoga, religion, and so forth. Only through the fifth dimension can awareness move into other channels. This is what gives people different mind structures, different points of reference, and different inner potential. They relate everything to the channels they are functioning in and appreciate and socialize with others in the same channel. People functioning in contiguous channels are close, but unless they are flowing through the identical channel of símshumbisi», they will not travel together in consciousness. They may travel closely, but not together. The scientist does not look at life in the same way the mystic does, and neither of them sees it as the musician would. Each channel has its own color. The scientific channel is a very pale green, for example. The channel governing language is lavender and pale yellow. If awareness, for example, is functioning in Channel “D,” it will normally flow there for the remainder of one’s life. Awareness cannot move to, let us say, Channel “F” from the second, third or fourth dimensions. We must meditate extremely deeply in order to reach the fifth dimension at the throat chakra, where entrance into the símshumbisi» is made.§
That’s the reason people are more or less set in their patterns throughout life. They are literally confined to one channel or another of their being, and there they remain, often appreciating others who function in vastly different ways but unable to be that way themselves. Or so it seems. Basically, they do not have the stability of second-dimensional materialism or third-dimensional mental and emotional forces well enough under their control to enter into the fifth dimension long enough to re-channel awareness.§
One of the reasons that devotees deeply enough evolved to perform sadhana seriously do not change teachers or maintain an eclectic attitude is that other teachers could re-channel them, unconsciously or even consciously, if he were unscrupulous. For that reason there is an unwritten code among gurus that no one will take another’s student unless concrete permission is given for a specified purpose, such as training in a specialized area. Each teacher works on a different channel or ray, and his devotees must work carefully with that energy and not get derailed. The elders of Sri Lanka say that gurus literally own these territories of consciousness, that you cannot enter them without permission. I had never looked at it quite that way, but it is more or less accurate.§