Thanks for the link - I don't know why the link I have does not work when posted. Maybe I will read again - it is interesting to travel back to those fun memories.

Anyhow, here's an excerpt from "Chapters of life"

"You see,
we live in a three-dimensional world, but the highest form of
Truth can be perceived only when we go beyond a three-
dimensional world. We have to go beyond Time and Space,
for Time is relative. Time is merely a convention established
by mankind to suit his own convenience.

You think that Time is not relative? All right, supposing
that you have to go to the dentist, and you have to have a tooth
or teeth extracted. When you are having your aches and pains
time appears to stand still. It appears that you are in the dental chair FOR EVER.
Now, you have a very enjoyable experience with a person to
whom you are deeply attached. You will find that time flies.

So, Time is just a relative thing, it appears to drag or hasten
abominably according to our mood.

Well, back into our dimensions. Let us suppose that there
are some form of people who live only in a two-dimensional
world, that is, they live on a world on which there is length
and breadth but no depth. They are like shadows, they are
thinner than the thinnest sheet of paper—but having no per-
ception of depth they can have no perception of space, because
space is that which is beyond the sky, and to bring in the sky
would be to bring in a third dimension. Thus, to them space is
inconceivable.

A railroad track is similar to a world of one dimension—
length. A train conductor could indicate his position from just
one point of reference, he could say where he was by referring
to the known location of a station or from a signal, or from
some other well-known mark.

Let us go farther and agree that a ship upon the sea is as a
person occupying a two-dimensional world, for the ship is not
confined to rails but it can go forward or sideways or even
backwards, so it has the use of length and width.
An aeroplane is a creature of three dimensions. It can go
forward, sideways, and up or down. That, you will perceive,
gives us the three dimensions.

This theory (actually, to us it is knowledge) of dimensions
will explain many things which otherwise must be considered
as a mystery—teleportation, for example, in which an object
is moved from one room to another without any visible person
doing the moving. An object can be moved by teleportation
from a locked room to another room. Actually it is quite
simple because we merely have to think of our two-dimen-
sional being. If we three-dimensionals had a series of boxes
without any tops to them, the two-dimensional people who
could be in those boxes would be completely confined, com-
pletely enclosed, because not having any conception of height
they would not know that there was no roof above them. And
so if we three-dimensional creatures reached in through the
open roof and moved something from one box to another it
would, to the two-dimensional people, be an absolute miracle
in which an object in one secured room was moved to another
secured room. Remember the two-dimensional person would
have no conception of the roof above. In just the same way we
three-dimensional people could have no conception of an open-
ing which is quite clear in the fourth dimension, so that the
person in the fourth dimension could reach down into a locked
room (for the room would be locked in three dimensions only)
and move that which he desired to move through what was an
opening clear to four-dimensional people. The object would be
moved from the three dimensional world and for a moment
would be in the four-dimensional world, where it would pene-
trate through what we prefer to call solid walls. We have
something of an illustration when we think of the way that
radio or television waves can penetrate apparently solid walls
and still activate a radio or television receiver.

Time, to which we have already referred, plays a very im-
portant part in the life of Man, but that which we call ‘Time’
differs from man to man and animal to animal. Again we sug-
gest that you think about this under different conditions in
your everyday life. When you are late for an appointment, see
how the hand races around the clock face. When you are
expecting someone and he or she (more usually she!) keeps
you waiting, time appears to stand still.

Animals have their own conception of time, and their con-
ception of time is quite different from that of humans.
Animals live at a different rate. An insect which lives for
twenty-four hours of human time can still have as full a life as
a human living for seventy years, the insect can have a mate,
can raise a family, and see its own family have their families in
turn. If the allotted span of an animal is twenty years, those
twenty years will appear as seventy years or so appears to a
human, and within the space allotted to the animal he will be
able to function just as a man could function in his longer
lifespan. It is worth a thought that all creatures, insect, animal,
or human, have approximately the same number of heart-beats
in a lifetime.

All this about time was readily understood by the wise men
of centuries ago. There is a very holy book, one of the great
‘Bibles’ of the Far East, which is called the Srimad Bhagavate,
in which appears this:

Once a great king took his daughter to the home of the
Creator, Brahma, who lived in a different dimension. The
great king was most concerned that his daughter had arrived
at a marriageable age and still had not found an acceptable
suitor. The great king was anxious to find a good husband
for his daughter. After arriving at the home of Brahma, he
had to wait for just a very few moments before he could be
escorted into the Presence and thus make his request. To his
intense amazement Brahma replied, ‘Oh king, when you go
back to Earth you will not see any of your friends or re-
latives, your cities or your palaces, for although it seems to
you that you arrived here only a few moments ago from the
Earth you knew, yet those few moments of our time are the
equivalent of several thousand years of your time when you
were on the Earth. When you go back to Earth you will find
that there is a new age, and your daughter whom you have
brought here will marry Lord Krishna's brother, Balarama.

Thus, she who was born thousands of years ago, will be
married to Balarama after several thousand more years, be-
cause in just the time it takes for you to leave my presence
and journey again through Time to Earth several thousand
years of Earth time will have passed.’

And so the bemused king and his daughter returned to the Earth which,
according to their own estimate of time, they
had left but a few minutes before. They found what
appeared to be a new world, with what appeared to be a new
civilization—a different type of people, a different culture,
and a different religion. So, as he had been told, several
thousand years had passed in the time of the Earth although
he and his daughter, traveling to a different dimension, had
seen but a few minutes pass.

This is a Hindu belief which was written in the holy books
of the Hindu faith thousands of years ago. One cannot
help wondering if this is not possibly the foundation of some
of the things that Dr. Einstein produced as the theory of
relativity.

Probably you have not fully studied Einstein's theory of relativity,
but very very briefly, he explained Time as a fourth
dimension. He also taught that Time is not a steady, unvary-
ing flow of ‘something’. He realized that a second ticked on,
after sixty such second ticks a minute had passed, and after
sixty minute ticks an hour had passed. But that is convenient
time, that is mechanical time. Einstein considered Time as a
sense, as a form of perception.

Just as no two people see precisely the same colors, so Einstein
taught that no two people have precisely the same sense of time.

We call a year 365 days, but it is just a trip around the
Sun—an orbit around the Sun. So we upon the Earth do an
orbit of the Sun roughly every 365 days, but compare this with
a person who lives on Mercury. Remember that Mercury com-
pletes its orbit around the Sun in eighty-eight days, and during
that orbit it rotates just once upon its axis, whereas, as you
know, we upon Earth rotate once in twenty-four hours.
Something else for you to ponder; do you know that if a
clock be attached to a moving system it will slow down as that
moving system's velocity increases?

Supposing that you have a rod made of some material—
metal, wood, ceramic—anything you like, but it is a definite
measuring rod of a definite length. If you attach that to any
moving system it will apparently shrink in the direction of its
motion according to the velocity of the system.

All these things, such as changes in the clock, or the contraction of the
rod, are not in any way to do with the construction of the
things, nor are they of a mechanical phenomenon.

They are instead to do with the Einstein theory of relativity.

You may have your metre stick (let us say that our metal rod was 1
metre or 1 yard long), so now if it goes through space at 90 per
cent of the velocity of light, it will shrink to half a metre and,
in theory, if its speed is increased until it moves at the speed of
light it would, according to the Einstein theory of relativity,
shrink to nothing at all! And if somehow you could tie a clock
of some kind to that metre stick, its rate of time-keeping
would vary so that as the metre stick approached the speed of
light the clock would go more and more slowly, or would appear to, until at the speed of light the clock would stop completely.

You must remember when you criticize this by saying, ‘Oh
well, I have driven the car, and I haven't seen the car con-
tract,’ that these changes can be detected only when the speed
of the moving article approaches near to the speed of light. So,
if you have a brand-new car and you race along the road, it
doesn't mean to say that your car is going to get any shorter,
because, no matter if you can do 100 or 120 miles an hour;
that speed is still all too slow to make any measurable differ-
ence in the length of your car. But it does mean, according to
Einstein, that if a spaceship should be sent into space and it
could approach the speed of light, then it would contract and
disappear.

Do you know what that means, assuming that Einstein is
right? We, being able to do astral travel, we know that
Einstein is wrong, just as were those scientists who said that
Man would never exceed the speed of sound. Einstein is
wrong, just as wrong as the person who said Man would never
exceed 30 miles an hour, but we have to learn by the mistakes
of others. It might save us from having mistakes of our own.

So let us see what would happen according to the theory of
Einstein. Let us say that we have a spaceship, and the crew in
the spaceship are all wise men who are able to make accurate
observations. The ship is travelling at a very high speed in-
deed, almost approaching the speed of light. The ship is going
to a distant planet, so distant that it would take ten years to
reach from the Earth to that other planet. A light year is the
time and distance it takes light to reach a certain point by
travelling one full year, so ten light years is the time it takes
light to reach that distant object.

This ship is going to travel at about the speed of light. (Let
us forget all about Einstein for the moment, and let us say that
this ship can travel at the speed of light.) So, supposing the
ship is going ten light years to this distant planet, and then
without stopping it is going to come back. After all, as we are
‘supposing’ anything is permissible! Thus, we have a journey
which will last for twenty years-ten years out and ten years
back. Well, naturally, the poor fellows aboard are going to be
frightfully bored shut up for twenty years. Not only that, but
they are certainly going to need a whole pile of food and drink
with them. Anyhow, we are just ‘supposing’.

If you are to believe Einstein, there won't be these diffi-
cults, they won't need food for twenty years. If the ship is
going to travel at even close to the speed of light everything
aboard the ship will slow down. The men will be slow in all
their functions, their heart-beats, their breathing, and their
physical actions, and even their thoughts. Whereas with us a
thought may take a tenth of a second, when travelling at the
speed of light, according to Einstein, it might take ten seconds
for a thought on Earth but ten weeks for the duration of the
same thought when travelling near the speed of light. But
travelling at the speed of light is going to have certain very
important advantages according to Einstein.

For example, twenty years on Earth would pass, but to the people in the
spaceship it would be just a matter of a very few hours."


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