>Could you explain what you mean by manage Multi-dimensionality?

Well, I see how that phrase could get misunderstood. But I actually meant "to manage"....in the primary dictionary definition:

MANAGE: "to handle or direct with a degree of skill"

MULTIDIMENSIONALITY: "many dimensions."

Obviously over-simplified, but why not keep it simple!?

I actually was thinking of starting a Magazine called "Living Multidimensionally." :-) There are so many facets and aspects of the process, that one could write articles about it for years! ;-)

Here's something I wrote about Dimensions:

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Focus in the 3rd dimension can be honed and strengthened by keeping it “simple.” “Chop Wood, Carry Water,” as the Zen saying goes. Doing something with total attention in the 3rd dimension strengthens the spirit and brings out the beauty of the 3rd dimension.

Focus in the 4th dimension is more like a Meditative Focus where a “witness” watches the thoughts flow through the mind without latching on to any one thought. If one wants to later focus on one particular thought/subject/symbol/sound/thing/etc., one can simply note it and come back to it when one is in the 3rd dimension again. One can take that one subject and also meditate on THAT, bringing the 4th dimensional focus on it and seeing it with the “witness” consciousness, without getting involved in it. It is essential, as a “witness,” to make no judgements, but simply to “observe” and “take notice.”

It is possible to develop the quality of “split-focus,” where one engages in the experience and still keeps a “witness” consciousness out there to watch over everything. Many priests/priestesses and shamans, drummers, musicians, dancers have developed this kind of dimensional “straddling.” There is also a kind of “split-focus” that manifests after the event. For instance, you may be in a drumming circle and really get into the music, yet you do not have any other perceptions at the time. But later, perhaps in listening to a person talk, or listening to crickets or something, you have new memories about the event...perhaps you suddenly remember that a blue light came out of your drum. This is simply the difference in memories of events of the 3rd dimension and memories of the 4th dimension, which can happen simultaneously.

We use “coordinates” to tell us “where we are,” or where our “focus” is. Castaneda (quoting Don Juan) would say it’s where our “assemblage point” is. We are the ones who assemble ourselves to function in each dimension.

Things are done differently in each dimension, to take advantage of the unique coordinates of each dimension. Take for instance, the process of Healing. In the 3rd dimension, you might use herbs, physical therapy, surgery....many methods. In the 4th dimension, you might enter into a meditation and search your body in a visualization, then send healing energy to the parts that need healing. Or, you might meditate on a past life where your physical problems may have originated, and suddenly find yourself healed, simply by realizing that you can let go of the past. In the 5th dimension, you might feel swept away into a powerful current and feel that God was touching you; a miracle would occur and you would be completely healed.

These healing procedures can overlap in dimensions, too. When they do this, they are even more effective. For instance, the herbs that you would use in the 3rd dimension might have spiritual “personalities” (like “deva’s”) who would help you utilize the herbs’ special powers. If you could somehow come in contact with the herb-deva (perhaps in automatic writing, or by simply sitting by the growing herb and “listening”), you would partake of a 4th dimensional healing, too.

Or, you could enter the 4th dimension in a “sacred place,” (whether in Nature or one that you constructed yourself) and feel the “eternal spirit” come in to the space and merge with you, for a miraculous healing. It is very possible that, at the moment of healing, someone looking at you from the 3rd dimension might not see you!

Shifting dimensional focus, for those who practice it, can become very natural, and almost instantaneous. In fact, some say we are born with this ability, but our cultural training has blocked it out. Some groups have developed different activating mechanisms (or "triggers") to help people shift their focus. For instance, the change of a drum-beat may signal a dimensional shift. A particular tone, or even a word or phrase--these triggers can come at any time from anywhere - such as from emotions, written material, TV, other people, etc. What these triggers have in common is an aspect of “harmonic resonance.” This resonance may come in the form of any number of things (a sound, a word, a flash of light, a sentence, or an event) which acts as the opening key to a specific range of knowledge. It is good to become more aware of how and when each of us, as individual Multidimensional Beings shift our focus. The more we understand this, the less susceptible we will be to outside manipulation, and the more power and freedom we will have at our disposal to access our own dimensional shifts.

We Multidimensional Beings exist in many dimensions at once. Obviously, we are not aware of each dimension with equal focus. And it is not necessary that we have “equal focus.” Think of it as cooking on a stove with 4 burners and an oven. When you have something simmering “on the back burner,” you might be focused on something else (those veggies you are sauteeing in the front frying pan), but you do have an awareness of it being there. And if you’re NOT cooking at the moment, it is OK to let your focus go.

The more we develop our consciousness and our focus, the more we are able to become aware of the qualities of each dimension and how we can use and enjoy BEING in that dimension. We can become “well-coordinated” Multidimensional Beings when we bring our different Aspects into some common action, movement, or condition. Eventually, we will learn to coordinate all of our Aspects along the lines of our intent....and we will line up our intent in each dimension. We probably won’t want to do this ALL the time, but when we DO, we will have to opportunity to take a quantum leap in dimensional consciousness.

What is your intent? What kind of meal are you cooking up? And who are you feeding? And what do you use as fuel? And what happens if, some day, you have all burners on “high” and the oven on “broil”? Will you blow the fuse????? Or will you be able to handle it.....? Will you be able to sustain that exquisitely high energy and feel it activate a whole new dimensional banquet?

Alignment along the dimensions is inevitable. Like Kundalini rising up the spine, igniting each chakra along the way, we are asked to align our intent with the intent of the Universe....which, if you look at it in a 5th dimensional way, is US anyway! This light and heat is the power of LIFE itself coming together with ITSELF; and dimensional alignment will obviously create new life....just as a plant grows from a seed; the seed will fall away and become compost for the plant which pushes out into its own NEW WORLD. Anything is possible--so let’s create something WONDROUS together!

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Well, I guess I was pretty enthusiastic when I wrote THAT, huh? (hee hee hee!)

For a good overview of the Dimensions, I like Barbara Hand Clow's book:
"Alchemy of Nine Dimensions."

Also, you can think of your different Aspects as Dimensions of the Oversoul.

Another way to see Multidimensionality is to think about the way we use Computers. We might have several Windows open on our Computer and we are doing and saying different things in each. We also might have a game open that we play while we download something else. We might also be running a Search or running a Security Program. You might also be jotting down notes for an article that you're writing.....etc.

The way you manage this process...that's what I'm talking about

(oooooo....this post is LONG! I'll try responding to your other ideas later.......;-)

>sometimes, I wonder if (some) old souls are not the worst to be around.

Ha ha! Well, "oldness" does not automatically convey "wisdom," nor does it always confer the ability to learn from our mistakes! (Obviously!) ;-)

That is WHY karma is real....at least for me! Karma means "action," and all it means is that when we act, there are consequences. We cannot always predict the consequences of our actions.....but often, we can.

It's like "the butterfly effect".....even the tiniest movement of an insect creates change. That's the nature of our world.

I DO believe we can learn from our karma. Our own attitude toward the things that happen to us....THAT is the thing we can change. I have noticed that when I change my attitude, EVERYTHING changes!

>Evolution is the only game in town. The reason we come here. We come here to acquire >experience and it is better when done consciously.

Ain't it da truth!!!???!!! Consciousness holds the Key, fer sure.

One of the reasons I want to share with others, is that they can remind me to stay conscious! Like you do, Ariadne!