CULTS
In today's society, there are groups that use the fourth
dimension to explain some of their concepts of spirituality. These people,
commonly known as cults, attempt to use the fourth dimension to help people
understand things such as clairvoyance, astral projection, and an eventual
ascension into the world of the fourth dimension, after leaving behind
that of the third. It is relatively easy to find cults or groups online
that have these beliefs. They claim that they are broadening the spiritual
consciousness of the readers, explaining paranormal concepts not discussed
in most everyday conversation.
Astral projection is perhaps better known as an
"out of body experience". There have been all sorts of descriptions or
references to this projection, including that of a psychic twin or glowing
emanations from a living person. The idea of astral projection in itself
shows the fourth dimension at work. Since a person is a living three-dimensional
being, the idea that the "soul" of the person could travel and project
themselves around the world separate from the body already gives the presence
of another dimension. It is not uncommon to hear about dying people who
are able to exit their solid bodies and watch surgery being performed by
doctors. By entering into another dimension, they are allowed to see all
facets of the third dimension, including what is happening to their actual
bodies. Also known as traveling clairvoyance, the idea that a person could
travel without their physical body leads to the conclusion that there must
be some sort of entrance into another dimension, leaving behind the third.
Clairvoyance itself is also a topic which relates
to higher dimensions. We all must remember stories about clairvoyance from
when we were younger. There were children's books in which someone was
described as knowing the cards in another person's hand during a game.
Sometimes it was referred to as having a sort of sixth sense. However,
there is also a plausible dimensional argument that relates directly to
clairvoyance. For those who are clairvoyant, there is so no such thing
as an edge, line, or point. These things don't exist. Also, those who are
clairvoyant
often
claim that they are in both places at once, but in neither place at once.
Cults not only stress these paranormal phenomena,
but an unavoidable shift
to the fourth dimension. This discussion shows a group of people who
believe that there will come a time when we all will leave this three dimensional
world, and progress to that of four dimensions. Drunvalo Melchizedek was
interviewed by Diana and Kevin Burke about this topic for the Leading Edge.
When asked about the upcoming fourth dimensional shift, Drunvalo answers
that all of our souls are moving around the universe to the geographic
area which is best for where we're at vibrationally. Drunvalo also believes
that someone is happening in our dimension which is forcing light to move
up one dimension, making the third dimension eventually incapable of supporting
life, which will prompt the shift of all beings into a higher dimension.
He refers to the fifth dimension as the ultimate destination, formlessness.
Drunvalo doesn't give an exact time or place when he believes that this
shift will occur, but only advice on how people can stay together during
these dimensional shifts. He mentions overtones of the fourth dimension,
stating that people may end up in different overtones, but all will ultimately
make the bigger jump and transition into the higher dimension, moving very
quickly.
While Drunvalo does not give an exact date for the
transition into a higher dimension, another group talks about the move
into the fourth dimension which was supposed to have taken place on December
12, 1994. This "World
Ascension Day" was supposed to be the shift from the third to fourth
dimensions, and only for those of a "sacred number". The group leaders
associate themselves with the former high priests of Atlantis who were
forming a new order, and also cite the works of certain prophets in their
justification of a dimensional shift in which they are involved. They claim
that the federal government will have been dismantled, and that people
will be led by councils of elders. The shift, according to this group,
from the fourth to fifth dimensions will occur in the year 2000. The next
shift to the sixth dimension would be to the place of Christ, which they
are not yet prepared for.
All cults rely a great deal on faith. Members of
the cult need to believe in what the cult believes will happen in the future.
The members of Heaven's Gate believed that by shedding their physical bodies,
they could join the Hale-Bopp comet which would enable them to arrive at
a better place. David Koresh's cult in Waco stayed with him even through
confrontations with the police and authority, believing that he was the
one who was right.
Cults are characterized by a couple of shared views or tactics. Many
cults mention transcendence, and how an individual can join them in their
quest for higher power. This "promise of imminent transcendence" as it
was called by cnet, is one way in which cults draw in followers. They mention
"higher knowledge, immortality, extraterrestrial saviors, cosmic consciousness."
Another characteristic is reliance on a prophet, like David Koresh in Waco
or Marshall Applegate in Heaven's Gate. Cult leaders believe that they
were selected to bring people to a better world, or are "superior intelligence
from another world or dimension." For more information on cults, see the
cnet
article on how to tell if a group is a cult.
In conclusion, there are many different views on
faith, and what people should believe in. Faith in a leader or in a concept
may make people only see one side of an issue, and totally side with one
opinion. However, it is true that many spiritual cults attempt to explain
facets of their beliefs or ideas about their existence with the use of
dimensional transcendence. The information presented above is by no means
enough to use to describe all the views of cults when it comes to higher
dimensions, transcendence, and the astral plane. It is an overview of the
types of views that have resulted from using dimensions to explain radical
spiritual ideas. Dimensions are their way of explaining how either the
select few or a large group may move into a higher world.
