Life is a dialogue between the Invisible and the visible.

Heaven and Earth, the macrocosm and the microcosm

are composed of elements that exist within a dimensional Universe.

In physics, the elemental world of the atom is the world of Quantum Mechanics,

while the Cosmos and its whirling galaxies are in the domain of General Relativity.

Einstein brought these siblings into the world and they struggle to get along.

The Arthurian quest for the Holy Grail of Science –

a Unified Field Theory or a Theory of Everything – is a search for the bridge

that connects these two paradigms, something Einstein spent most of his adult life trying to do.

So, understanding the elements and dimensions of Life is a Key that unlocks the Mysteries.

Just as the ~100 chemical elements are the building blocks of the material world,

the philosophical elements are the basis of Creation.

And just as the colors of a rainbow have a natural ordering, being a frequency spectrum,

so to do the natural elements – earth, water, air, and fire.

The ancient philosophers, at least the ones who knew what they were talking about,

observed that all things in Nature can be categorized into a small number of energy states.

They chose the most common exemplars of these observed states –

solid earth, liquid water, gaseous air, and energetic fire.

The philosophical journey reveals that within the esoteric Arcana, as within the World,

we find another, a Fifth Element – the fire above the fire – the Quintessence of Life.

This Quintessence is the true Alchemist’s Gold

and the search for it is nothing less than the search for ourselves and the Meaning of Life.

This is the spiritual journey that is philosophy.

Walking upon the face of the Earth, we experience the dimensions of time and space –

space by virtue of being able to move in three orthogonal dimensions –

forward and backward, left and right, up and down –

time by virtue of seeing things change as we and the present moment that we experience as Now

move from the past into the future.

Like the frames of a movie projected upon the screens of our minds,

the moments that make up our lives speed by, creating the experience of movement

in space and observable changes in our environment.

Einstein unified space and time into a four-dimensional framework known as spacetime.

Time is difficult to actually see, except in our mathematical imaginations,

as there is no fourth orthogonal dimension within 3D space.

There is another, even more hidden dimension, which I shall call the Fifth Dimension,

five being the next integer in our dimensional sequence.

Here it is, the Mystery for which we’ve always sought –

it is in the exploration of the Fifth Dimension where things get really interesting ...

Stay tuned ...