What Are The 3rd and 4th Dimensions?
- By Jim Self
- Published 11/15/2008
- Mastering Alchemy with Jim Self
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Many of us know or intuitively feel that we are transitioning from the third-dimensional reality, passing through the fourth and are on our way to the fifth dimension. Dimensions are not places but instead levels of consciousness, each with its own characteristics and ways of thinking and feeling. Our Third Dimensional Experience
The third dimension is very dense and operates within a specific set of rules and structures that hold many vibrations of thought and emotion. One of those vibrations is known as fear. In our spiritual quest to fully explore All-That-Is we went deeper and deeper into density choosing to incarnate many times upon the Earth. To maximize our third-dimensional experience we purposely left behind Higher Aspects of ourselves and lost our sense of connection to the Creator. In this perceived sense of separation we lost our way and, like abandoned children, we began to experience the energy we call fear. This state of fear created rigidity and made it more difficult for us to move freely. As we continued to passionately play in this rigid third dimension we began to take on many uncomfortable attributes such as dis-ease, victim, guilt, lack and resistance. We chose to do all this in order to know ourselves better, and in spite of what we may think, we have been very successful at playing in this third-dimensional game.
Many who cling to fear have created a default system which gives them a false sense of security. “If I just go inside my house and close the door, I’ll be safe”. This reaction has closed down our ability to expand and grow, re-merge with our Soul, and re-member our Higher Selves. Too many humans have stopped living their passion as they argue for their limitations within a web of fear.
Third Dimensional Structures
Let’s explore the composition of this third dimensional world we live in. If we look carefully, we can see three structures of this playing field or ‘game board’. Understanding these will allow our transition through the Grand Shift of Consciousness to occur more comfortably.
1 – Duality. The purpose of duality has been to help us learn how to walk in balance while experiencing contrast. Our intention was to have experiences without becoming affected by them. Living within the field of duality was simply meant to provide us with a broad array of choices and opportunities to ‘Know Ourselves’.
To assist in this adventure, Creator made the Law of Attraction available. Like a compass, this unwavering Law reliably shows us where we are and what we are experiencing at all times. The Law of Attraction simply says ‘what you place your attention on is what will be given to you’. This also means that ‘what we resist will persist’. As we resisted our fears, a greater range of duality or polarity came about—good and bad, right and wrong, should and shouldn’t—and with our attention on the uncomfortable experiences, these fears magnified. We resisted this discomfort, submerging many of our fears in our unconscious mind where we would not have to look at them or deal with them (we hoped). But the Law of Attraction doesn’t just bring us the ‘good stuff, it responds to the loudest feelings and thoughts we broadcast (those holding the greatest emotional charge) whether they are conscious or unconscious, comfortable or uncomfortable, desired or unwanted.
2 – Reactionary Present-Time. As we learned fear, we also began to project experiences which did not feel good a moment ago (past) out in front of us (future) thinking “I hope this never happens to me again”, and thus we began to create Time. Third-dimensional time was not created as a straight line of events with a beginning, middle and end. It was actually a time-loop consisting of past and future, with a single insertion point known as the ‘present moment’ where we make new choices based on past experiences and future desires. By reacting to situations from fear, we began making fear-based choices. Our decisions about the future were based upon the past. Our 3-D life became a series of reactionary experiences founded in resisting rather than allowing, thereby dragging the past with us into the future. And because the Universe adores us, the Law of Attraction will never object to, or challenge, what we place our attention on; it simply delivers what we ask for. Most of us waste a great deal of our energy ensnared in an endless cycle where our past haunts our future and our future echoes our past in a continuous 3-D Time loop. Also built into the structure of 3-D Time is a wonderful mechanism that can keep us out of trouble in this adventure. A buffer or lag-time gives us the chance to reconsider the consequences of our actions, reactions, thoughts and emotions before we react and create something we might have to clean up or apologize for afterwards. This built-in structure allows us a moment of Choice. During the Shift this buffer is getting shorter and things are manifesting faster than ever.
3 – The Rational Mind. Our analytical, reasoning thought process is known as the rational mind. When we came to play in this adventure we disconnected 90% of our available awareness in order to have this experience. The development of the rational mind served us well in this environment. Its purpose is to keep us safe and fit in. But due to fear and misuse, the rational mind operates more in limitation than in possibility and opportunity. Because we have given assignments to the mind that it was not designed for, our awareness and spiritual ranges of choice have greatly diminished. While the logical mind is a wonderful tool for measuring, comparing and storing information, it only knows what it knows and does not know what it does not know. For thousands of years the rational mind has kept humanity tightly focused in the three-dimensional realm. This is now changing.
These three energetic structures are intricately woven into the fabric of the third-dimensional matrix. If you focus on only one of these the other two intensify, creating more distraction and more pressure until you reset your focus and allow them to come back into balance. By becoming aware of the underlying templates from which the third dimension is born, we can begin to reconstruct and re-member a significant part of ourselves, freeing us to move beyond the limits of the third dimension and begin to experience the possibilities of the fourth and fifth.
Fourth Dimensional Structures
Now let’s explore the elements of the fourth dimension.
1 – Eternal Present-Time. Where 3-D time is a charged, Reactionary Present-Time, 4-D time is the Eternal Present-Time. NOW. In 4-D the past is simply history without emotional charge and the future is an opportunity waiting to be fashioned in this now moment through choice. Yesterday has no bearing on tomorrow. The eternal present is all there is. We can plan for a future event using information gathered from the past, but decisions are conscious choices that are made in the present moment. What we think is what we will experience in the moment. There is no lag-time in 4-D. What you think about will manifest so be mindful of what you think!
2 – Choice. In the fourth dimension, ‘choice’ replaces ‘reaction’. Reaction is an emotional 3-D response, whereas choice provides flexibility. Flexibility creates expanded opportunity and a greater ability to combine possibilities to produce a variety of outcomes. In the fourth dimension you take back your power to choose.
3 – Paradox. In 4-D the past and future become points of reference or information and have no emotional attachments. What was true a moment ago is not necessarily true in this present moment and what was false may not necessarily be false any longer. This opens up more possibilities to experience, releases judgments, and increases our ability to allow.
4 – Alignment/Balance. In the fourth dimension we are constantly moving towards balance and re-alignment. This structure is very open, entertaining and allowing of all possibilities. Well-being, Beauty, the Inner Smile, Appreciation, and Love are options in 4-D. Whereas Fear is a choice which will place us back in 3-D reaction and limitation.
Our spiritual journey includes the movement toward a higher, lighter way of life. This is a life of community, cooperation and co-creation in 4-D while we walk in the density of 3-D. 5-D opportunities are not far behind. This is remembering how to be in the world but not of the world. This is remembering who you came here to be.
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Jim SelfFeatured on the Virtual Light Broadcast in 2009 and 2010 and a co-creator of the 10-10-10 Event, “The Next Convergence – Spirit into Human” with Steve Rother, Jim is often introduced as a teacher’s teacher and a healer’s healer. He has been leading seminars and teaching healing, clairvoyance and higher dimensional energy management tools throughout North America since 1980. As an author of Spirit Matters: Down-to-Earth Tools for a Spirited Life, Jim’s Spectrum column includes excerpts from this book, his free tele-classes, seminars and his second upcoming book.Since childhood, Jim has had a conscious awareness and ability to remember his experiences within the sleep state. Over the last ten years, this awareness has expanded into relationships with the Archangels, Ascended Masters and Teachers of Light. The tools and information presented in the Mastering Alchemy programs are co-creations of these relationships.
Jim walks with a foot in both worlds. At the age of twenty-six, he was elected to his first of two terms to the San Jose, CA City Council and later became the Vice Mayor. Before completing his second term, he was asked by President Jimmy Carter to be the Director of Governmental Operations for the Dept. of Energy. As an entrepreneur, he has successfully built and sold two corporations, and is the founder and current Board Chairman of a third.
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