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How do you think about yourself in such a way? That you live a limited existence of a bigger mind that experiences more things? Like you'd be living in the "left" brain of a mind and only see the "left brain things?"

If you experience a "shadow", what is the thing/being responsible for the shadow doing?

How does this help you think or rationalize about existence?

I'm asking from a purely curious place. I've come to similar perspectives but I kind of get stuck with "I exist here, and I only experience this reality."

The only thing that has really gone beyond the above line of thinking is when contemplating what the "mind" is. It seems to be the only thing truly beyond "space-time" and limits of "speed of light." Your mind can imagine any point, and travel there one way or another. It's a bit of a logical jump, but it does break the limits of how fast one can travel in some type of definition. So the mind is kind of the "4d/5d being" and everything else is the 3d/4d.



A fun way think about it is pressing on a filled balloon from the outside. Inside the balloon is our whole reality/dimension. Everyone is poking inwards and bending the rubber is what we see and how we interact with each other. But we're completely locked into our current senses.

In some ways, it sounds awfully... "spiritual", right?

The challenge is there's no point in trying to imagine what existence or thought outside of our reality looks like. Carl Sagan's FlatLand helps illustrate how stuck we really might be.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnURElCzGc0




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