Let’s talk about dimensions and manifestation in the physical sense.

There is a process in becoming physical as you would know that description of reality. It begins with the energy source, which is all that we truly are. The application of deliberate, focused intention to create physical form is all that is required to begin the process. There are stages to be passed through, just as a flower unfurls to be a fully-formed bloom, so too does the process of unfolding energy into physical form. Once formed, there is also the requirement for energy to be continuously fed into the form such that its apparent physicality is maintained. it is unrelenting and ceaseless. Think of spinning a plate on a pole. The moment the plate slows down below a threshold for maintaining its gyroscopic stability, the plate ceases to be atop the pole and destruction follows soon after. We recreate the physical form over and over again many times per second yet this is seamless to the outward senses, just as a spinning rainbow disc shows only the combination of the colours as white. When we sleep there is a temporary slowing of the spinning plate so to speak and it is this which causes our awareness to drop below the threshold of fully-formed physical reality. The dimension we drop into exists just below the surface of the outward physical form and once we are freed of the perceived limitations of time-space we are free to create dreams without constraints of accepted physical form convention.

When the plate is spinning at full speed, such that our waking state is able to create/perceive physical form, we are observers of that spinning plate state. We are not the spinning plate, even though at times we do overidentify as the plate itself. We can influence the plate and it is this control over the plate which we identify as personality. It becomes our plate, complete with wobbles and identifying features. We ride the plate as it spins and the movements and sensations of that spinning translate into our awareness as reality. However, we are the ones spinning the plate on the pole for our edification and experience. We are not the plate, nor the pole. We are the observer of the plate which we have caused to spin through our focused attention and intention. Meditate on the thought that we are more than the plate. What we witness in our reality is the spinning of the plate. Everything we witness is what we are deliberately creating and allowing to be created. The wobbles and patterns created by the action of the spinning plate is what gives us the details of our reality. We have the ability to adjust that reality by how we choose to spin the plate. Our energy can deliberately be directed and steered such that the plate wobbles and rotates in a different manner, albeit it is still a spinning plate. When our plate stops spinning and falls, we are still standing there as the observer, only now we don’t have the distraction of having to spin the plate. Without having to focus our energy into spinning the plate, we are free to easily witness the other plates spinning all around us and not only the plates, but the souls who are doing the spinning. We get to see behind the curtain to see who is pulling the strings, or rather, spinning the plates. We can still stand there in the same room as we have always been for as long as we choose to. We get to view the room whenever we like. Occasionally, the plate-spinners might get a sensation that they are being watched or observed yet it is difficult for them to take too much of their attention away from spinning their plates without losing their grip on reality.

This analogy is all very well but where is the value for the reader? It is interesting but does it offer anything of practical value? Does the awareness of such an analogy empower the reader to be able to influence his plate more than would normally be the case? Does it add a more useful perspective? Does the awareness of us as the observer diminish the difficulty and drama of day-to-day life? How do we influence the spinning of the plate? In what way can we make adjustments, such that our experience of reality is more enjoyable or of more value?

Let’s revisit the analogy. The spinning plate is the simplest of analogies and served to introduce the concept of observer/spinner and the manifested reality of the spinning plate/colour wheel. However, so that we can begin to draw out the ways in which the awareness of us as an observer can give rise to our conscious modification of the spinning plate’s characteristics, we need to expand this analogy.

We are not simply the observer. Yes, we can observe the created reality of our focused intention, but our involvement is much more than simply being the observer. There is an observer who observes the observer. Let me explain. The observer who witnesses the plate which he/she has caused to spin, is akin to being the person responsible for production line quality control, rather than the person responsible for making the products. If we wish to change the product, the observer needs to feed back the requirement to the higher observer, the product maker.

With that in mind, let’s take the example that we wish to change something in our reality. Perhaps we would like to a new job. We need to communicate that requirement back to the higher observer, the creator of our reality. This is where a little lateral thinking comes into play. We need to choose a language which the creator will understand and that language is not the same language as spoken by the plate. We need to visualise how the modified spinning plate will look and behave when the changes have been made. What characteristics will the plate have? How will it wobble? What appearance will it have? We need to run those sensations through the closest observer, in other words, allow this observer to experience how it will feel to witness the plate with its modified spin. It is not enough to use words, but rather, capture the sensations and emotions of witnessing the modified spin. Human spoken and written communication has become detached from the descriptive, emotional communication which we have at the level of the observer; that is the language used for universal communication.

Returning to the desire for a new job, we therefore need to communicate back through the observer to the higher observer using descriptions of emotional responses and observations. In other words, how does that new job, the new spin of the plate, feel? What emotions are strongest when the observer gets to witness the modified spin characteristics? Once those emotional responses have been captured, then can be fed back up the chain through sensation. Witness how they feel, experience the emotions as if the plate has its new spin, as if the new job is being experienced. The greater the degree those emotions can be experienced, the more accurate the message will be for the higher observer, the creator, such that the plate can receive its new spin with characteristics as close as possible to the original intention. Without the communication of the observed and sensed emotions, the dream of that new job will remain simply as that, a dream; unmanifested for the lack of awareness of the need to communicate with the universal language.