"Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow."
(~Oliver Wendell Holmes)
"Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons."
(~Aldous Huxley)
"Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought."
(~William James)
Tesseract: The four-dimensional equivalent of a cube. [Greek tessera, neuter pl. of tesseres, four; see tessera + aktis, ray of light; see actino–.] Alternately, some people have called the same figure a “tetracubeâ€.
Fourth Dimension:
A "higher" form of space that mathematicians conceive as another direction from which a fourth line may be drawn at right angles to each of the three lines (mutually at right angles) that three-dimensional space permits to be drawn through any point in it. A highly speculative form of the theory that such a higher form of space exists has been employed in the attempt to solve certain questions concerning psychic phenomena.
For beings living on a flat surface, having no thickness, and possessing all their nerve endings on the periphery of their bodies, only two directions could exist. A circle drawn on their plane with chalk would be a closed space into which they could not penetrate except through a cut in it. Having no concept of a third dimension, they could not picture objects passing out of and into the circle if the objects did not pass through the cut.
From a third dimension, however, both the inside and out-side of the circle are visible and accessible. Similarly, for beings living in a four-dimensional world, enclosed spaces would appear open. Persons could make objects mysteriously vanish in the direction of the fourth dimension and make them reappear again in an apparent transgression of the law of impenetrability.
A similar explanation is presented for apport phenomena, the reported materialization of an object in the midst of a séance. Johann Zöllner made the first attempt at the experimental demonstration of the fourth dimension in his sittings with the medium Henry Slade. Cesare Lombroso considered it an ingenious solution to many perplexing psychic problems. W. W. Carington, in A Theory of the Mechanism of Survival (1920), hypothesizes that after physical death the individual consciousness is embodied in a vehicle made not from physical matter, but from four-dimensional matter (i.e., that which in four-dimensional space corresponds to what we call matter in three-dimensional space). The connecting link between the physical body and the four-dimensional vehicle is the etheric double.
Clairvoyants who see the front, sides, back, and every internal point of three-dimensional objects simultaneously are thus believed to employ a four-dimensional organ of sight. Traveling and medical clairvoyance are better understood by using this hypothesis.
If the four-dimensional vehicle is so pliable that it is capable of being molded by the mere power of will, apparitions will find a ready explanation, provided the percipient is receptive to supernormal impressions. Another application is the phenomenon of prevision, bound up with the riddle of time. Its adoption as a working hypothesis has also been offered as a way to bridge the gap between religious and scientific thought.
Borrowed from: http://www.answers.com/topic/fourth-dimension
Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX)
This is my dream home: Sedona, AZ
Bell Rock, Sedona AZ...The first night I spent in Sedona I slept within 100 feet of Bell Rock. I fell asleep on Mother Earth's breast as she sang beautifully sweet songs to me. This was my first experience of Sedona's magic. It's been almost a decade since this, and she still calls me in dreams and thoughts. I will go back soon, some how, some way.
People who are into philosophy, metaphysics, revolution, any and all spiritual beliefs...those who are creative thinkers. Religious extremists need not apply!"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently."
~Friedrich Nietzsche, The Dawn, Sec. 297
Among famous people, I would absolutely love to meet Angelina Jolie (as if you couldn't tell! Ha!), Johnny Depp, Saul Williams, the late Bill Hicks, the late Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, the late and blessed Mother Teresa, and the late Paramhansa Yogananda.
I have hidden my friends list for a reason. I do not agree with having a Top Friends list of any kind, for WE ARE ALL ONE! Click here for my friends list. (Yes, I actually got the link to work! Woohoo!)
Some of my faves: Clint Mansell, NIN, Marley, Bjork, Deftones, Tori Amos, Rage Against the Machine, Primus/Les Claypool, Pink Floyd, Dead Can Dance, Jimi Hendrix, Loreena McKennitt, Mongolian Throat Singers in general, Tibetan Throat Chants, Faithless, Most Native American Tribal, Xavier Rudd (Now HE'S the Man!), The Doors, Grateful Dead/Jerry Garcia, Nora Jones, A Perfect Circle, Saul Williams, Led Zeppelin, Tchaikovski and other Classical; I could go on, but I won't!
I enjoy anything with Angelina Jolie in it. Not only is she my favorite actress of all time, but she is my idol. Some of my favorite all-time movies are: V for Vendetta, The Last Mimzy, Mr. and Mrs. Smith (sexiest movie there is!), The Fountain, What The Bleep Do We Know?, What Dreams May Come, Run Lola Run, Pi, Amelie, Waking Life, Little Buddha, Girl Interrupted, Pay It Forward, Lord of War, Pink Floyd The Wall, Stigmata, Fallen, Caveman's Valentine, Stay, Interview w/a Vampire, Devil's Advocate, the Golden Child, and last but certainly not least...all the Harry Potter movies.
(What the Bleep Do We Know?)
(Pi)
(The Matrix)
(Girl, Interrupted)
(Caveman's Valentine)
(Interview with a Vampire)
(Bram Stoker's Dracula)
(Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire)
('Hagrid' from Harry Potter)
I mostly watch Discovery, Sci-fi, History, TLC, and Spike channels. I actually have been watching less and less T.V., and I avoid the News like the plague! Boycott the News everybody! They're just feeding you fear and propaganda!
All from Carlos Castaneda, All from Edgar Allen Poe, The Power of Now, The Holographic Universe, Autobiography of a Yogi, The Key of it All (East and West), The Magician's Companion, Conversations with God, Ascended Masters, Doors of Perception, The Celestine Prophecy (and all books following it), A Wrinkle in Time, Where the Sidewalk Ends, Falling Up,... ad infinitum.
My mother is my hero. She went through an awful lot to raise my sister and me. She taught me how to make due with what I have, and to appreciate what I have. She also taught me the value of family...that it is the most important and valuable thing someone could have.
Mother Teresa
Tenzin Gyatso (His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama)
Paramhansa Yogananda