Geometrical Representation of Our Multidimensional Reality
In order to represent our metaphysical reality we are obliged to imitate the draughtsman who presents, on a two-dimensional plane surface, that which he perceives in three dimensions, by means of a device known as false perspective. This necessity is imposed upon us because we have no way in which we can either conceive or represent any further dimension except by means of mathematical formulae.
Let us regard total reality as an infinite sphere, and let us make a model of it, of finite and practical dimensions. Take a transparent globe and pass it through a slicing machine, thereby reducing it to the greatest possible number of transparent rings of negligible thickness, each one representing two dimensions only. Each of these represents the individual subject/object, the inner surface representing the subject-aspect, the outer surface the object aspect. When we reconstitute the globe and place it on the level of our eyes, each of the superimposed rings of two dimensions, visible or not as individual rings, represent what I have been calling I-dream subject/object. Then let us regard the globe from 'above'. From that angle the rings, seen in what we may colloquially describe as 'thickness', i.e. in a further dimension, represent the relative subject/objects, which I have been calling I-subject/objects. It will be observed that the rings are of decreasing diameter as they approach the 'poles', until thereat they have one dimension only. That which appears as one-dimensional at the poles increases towards the centre of the globe, and constitutes the entire within of the structure. That represents a further dimension, and is I-Reality itself.
Seen from the poles, three-dimensionally, the individual rings no longer exist as such - they, I-dream subject/object - are merged in the totality of rings, which represent I-subject/objects. But at the poles that totality appears as one, I-subject having merged in its centre (which, in this image, has to appear as an axis). But that centre, viewed as an axis but not really such, spreads out in all directions within the globe, and is in direct contact with all parts of it. Not only is it in direct contact with all parts of the globe, but it is inevitably itself all parts of it - so that, in effect, the globe no longer has any parts. That is, from within it is one whole, whereas viewed from without it appears to be composed of a solid mass of rings, or of individual rings, according to the dimension from which it is viewed.
This representation may enable us to envisage Reality as the totality it must be, in direct contact with every part of itself, also its relative aspect, I-subject/objects, as a solid surface or sheath (expanding to infinity), and, from yet another angle, each individual ring, representing our conceptual existence, composing that sheath. From each further view-point or dimension the lesser one appears as a unity, although it has an inner and an outer side which represents its aspect as subject and as object.
I do not know if it may be possible more accurately to represent visually our multidimensional reality.
