The Spiritual Dimension

[Theland]

We live in a three dimensional universe, at least, that is all we can detect with our five senses.
Mathematicians and physicists however, regard additional dimensions as a reality that we simply cannot detect in our day to day life, but to them, these additional dimensions are real.
So, if you cannot experience a spiritual dimension with the usual five windows on the world, how can you conclusively deny its existence, when you cannot experience the reality of the world of physics and mathematics?
And, is this a reasonable question?

[jojojojoanne]

could reality exist in anyway in one dimension?

[mibn2cweus]

not for long

[Theland]

In my opinion, reenforced by what I have read on the posts above, the existence of a spiritual dimension, or our belief in it, has as much legitimacy at least as the eleven dimensions necessary for string theory, which itself is a convenient way of explaining the numerous sub atomic particles.
So the theory of spirituality is therefore not as weird as some would have us believe.
Added to that is the evidence of personal experience, which is subjective and, agreed, not testable, but no less real for all that.

[mibn2cweus]

Perhaps it would be helpful to our understanding to define the nature of this �spiritual dimension� to which you elude and consider from whence it arises.

Spirituality, I contend, is a product of consciousness and as any emotional response arises from an automatic mental process of evaluation of our observations and sensory experiences as determined by our beliefs.

By examining the beliefs which bring about a given emotional response to a particular situation or experience we can learn from them. As an example, the emotion of love in its various forms is an automatic response to that which we perceive as a value to be pursued and maintained in relation to its importance to us, again as determined by our beliefs of what is important and of value to us.
Without occasionally examining the beliefs that give rise to our emotions we can find them leading us astray as is often the case with misplaced love. Most of us know from experience the hazards that can be attributed to blindly following our hearts when our head is screaming at us to proceed with caution. Love can be one of the most wonderful or among the most spiritually devastating experiences culminating in some of the best or worst consequences.

Spirituality at its best is not a pursuit but a consequence of integrating the contents of ones mind to the reality it perceives and acts within to preserve and enrich its existence. It is a product of consciousness expressed in the act of preserving ones self and exists in proportion to the value one has for ones own existence.

Again, we are in danger when we let our spirituality lead us blindly into doing things that we would not do if we had carefully examined the beliefs that gave rise to it and maintained a correlation between those beliefs and the reality we can not escape but must learn to live in.