The shape of the Universe is also the shape of the mind There are two blockbuster ideas that come out of this.
The first blockbuster idea
is that, just as the Universe
is best understood in three dimensions, so the mind -
both individually and in
union - is best understood
as having three dimensions. Figure 1: Familiar 3 Dimensions These are not spatial dimensions, but virtual dimensions; axes that are abstract - but the more
real for being so. Dimensions are orthogonal (meaning at right angles to one another) so they give an inner space that extends over a distance.
They are also dimensions of personality, so that differing personality types would "map" to different dimensions or axes. Truth, goodness and chance, to give one
example of a trinity, would map to axes of intellect, emotion and socialisation, within a single personality, or a group of individuals.
Figure 2: 3 Dimensions of the mind So we might say that you are a particular type of person if you are drawn to a particular role.
What axis would an artistic person draw from and contribute to: intellectual or emotional? What axis would Mahatma Gandhi map onto? And what would an example be of someone on the intellectual axis?
Figure 3: 3 Types of poeple
Generally people are not keen to be pigeonholed - told that they are predictable because they are 'that type'. It turns out however that there is nothing to be afraid
of. These rules are there for a reason, and the reason is more important than the rule.Although taking different paths through life we find that the endpoint of it is the
same wisdom for all. Thus, Einstein at the end of his life is as admired and loved for his work as was Ghandi, or indeed for a third example, the modern-day artist Paul MacCartney. Thinking outside of the box is not comfortable ALL of the time. So, the principle of
three dimensions needs to be recognised not as new knowledge but as a rediscovery of old knowledge; of the original Trinity; as Father (or Parent), Son (or Child), and Holy Spirit (or Ghost). Figure 4: Savage Emporer Nero
Or even, ego, id, and superid.
The second blockbuster idea... The second idea is also one not to be afraid of: your ancestors are not alive today.They are not individuals walking the Earth alongside you.
If that sounds odd, let me put it another way: your mind is composed of the minds of others - those who have lived out their spans on Earth but who continue to live on, in mind but not in body.
They contribute to the work of the conscience. An example - one of many - is the artist Michelangelo. Michelangelo is one of the greatest artists of all time. His David; his Adam; his architecture, stand now as the
best of the best of a physically muscular masculinity; the definition of a sculptural ideal as much as Da Vinci, his peer, or Rembrandt; who might be the definition of a painterly ideal. 
Figure 5: 3 Types of Artists We find that Michelangelo's life was one of hard work, to make a living. Not, in fact,
all that different from yours and probably mine. But when you make art, as much as when you make science, as Einstein said, you stand on the shoulders of giants.
We find that we cannot make the same art all over again - there is only one Michelangelo - and we can't make art which rejects his art. Maybe a person can be
Michelangelo if such had happened not to be a sculptor, or that same person could be a great sculptor, as well; but no-one can BE Michelangelo.The job is taken. 
Figure 6: Evolution of Mind The job was not his alone; he also stood on the shoulders of his giants. Contrary to
sometimes-received opinion, intelligent intellectual life did not begin two thousand years ago. The mind of humanity has been built over a period of four million years,
since apes first stepped down from the trees to walk upright and knowingly forwards. The mind of homo sapiens has been shaped over a hundred thousand
years, with who knows how many countless prehistoric instances of Michelangelo, patiently sculpting endless flintheads in search of the perfect spear Figure 7: Prehistoric Art
The result is a mind which requires years of training - and is born hungry for it. It is a mind that has a conscience - if it wants to. It is also a mind with the free will to
reject that wise advice, if it so decides. This is how your mind is separate from, but linked to, the minds of your ancestors.Once you have these two ideas, you can work all the rest out for yourself.
You dont have to. Only if you care to. |
