Indy Boswell

Drawing conceptually from Franklin Merrell-Wolff’s Experience and Philosophy and somewhat from Wilber’s wave theory of consciousness, I have developed my own simplified view and structure for the different levels of consciousness that we as human beings experience. My simplified structure consists of the following Five Dimensions:

The First Dimension is what I have come to call the “I” Dimension of consciousness. In this dimension consciousness is raised to the level that one can acknowledge one’s own Existence. Descarte’s famous “I think, therefore I am” statement falls within this First Dimension, but other than a first “Awakening” of an “I”, there is nothing else here to conceive. At this level of consciousness, without expanding consciousness into higher dimensions, one could possibly wrongfully believe that he or she is God Supreme.

The Second Dimension is what I have come to call the “You” Dimension of consciousness. In this dimension one becomes aware that there “exists” similar entities to oneself, or in other words, one becomes aware that he or she is not alone and not one of a kind and thus must not be God Supreme. This Second Dimension raises consciousness to a level where one can group oneself into a category called, for example, human beings or homo sapiens and can begin to develop concepts such as the Golden Rule and the Ethic of Reciprocity.

The Third Dimension is what I have come to call the “Other” or “Non-You” Dimension of consciousness. In this dimension one becomes aware through the senses that entities or things different from oneself (animate or inanimate) exist. In this dimension consciousness is raised even further to acknowledge the existence of everything other than another “you”. In this dimension consciousness is raised to the level where “Environmental, Worldly, and Cosmological” issues can begin to be addressed.

The Fourth Dimension is what I have come to call the “Space-Time” Dimension of consciousness. In this dimension consciousness is raised to the level that concepts regarding the past, present, and future can be recognized and conceived. This Space-Time Dimension allows for the development of “Evolutionary” concepts, including concepts such as “Survival of the Fittest”, the “Survival of the Finest”, and that of “Exponential Reality”. Some people say that this is the consciousness level where all science takes place.

The Fifth Dimension is what I have come to call the “Pure Consciousness” Dimension of consciousness. In this dimension one’s consciousness is raised to his or her highest level, a truly “Enlightened” level of consciousness. This is not a theoretical or conceptual level of consciousness, but a “real, attainable” level of consciousness that a few “enlightened” beings (myself, not included) have in fact experienced. At this level of consciousness it is reported that one actually experiences Truth in the Absolute, God, the Tao, Suchness, the Greatest Abstract and is reported to be a very, very Blissful State of Being. Word is that this level of consciousness is only achieved through diligent hard work, simplicity (not complexity), and Grace–the freely given, unmerited favor and love of God.

God, please grant Me your Grace.

As consciousness works according to Merrill-Wolff, the First Dimension of consciousness is necessarily included as a part of the Second Dimension of consciousness when the second level of consciousness is reached. Similarly, the Second level is included as part of the Third, the Third part of the Fourth, etc., as one climbs the ladder of expanding degrees of consciousness. Each new dimension of consciousness that one achieves opens up an infinitude of new capabilities for understanding Truth. The rub is this: Like water, Truth flows only downhill. What is Truth in the Fifth Dimension will and must hold as Truth in the lower dimensions; however, a so-called “truth” developed singularly alone in a lower dimension, may not in fact be a “Truth” in a higher dimension.

Real Truth, Real Unchanging “Eternal” Truth, can only come from the Fifth Dimension or from the “Pure Consciousness” level. It is in the Fifth Dimension where Truth leads one to “Nothingness” and “Everythingness”, both of which I have labeled as the same thing and something I have called Perfection. Perfection without Love (without anything) is “Nothingness”. Perfection with Love (with something) is “Everythingness”.

Probably the three most important Truths that have been passed down to us from those who have achieved the Fifth Dimension of consciousness are the following: (1) The HighestUnderstanding is of the Eternal, Non-changing Nature of Being; (2) Extreme Love and the Highest Knowledge Are One; and (3) The Eternal, Non-Changing Nature of the “I” consciousness from the perspective of the “Pure Consciousness” consciousness is Possibility.

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