
Originally Posted by
Fredrick
Thank you for sharing what is a personal experience, Mikal. If I were to place your words and experience into an image, I could actually also use a pyramid. Though in our younger years we are fully grounded in this reality, we do not get the whole picture or consider the pyramid in front of us the whole picture. Over the years we start to climb and rise on our side of the pyramid of life, and though we see more, we also have a blocked view by that very pyramid itself. At some point in life, we either get to a corner location and view so much more than before, or we can even reach the apex, and get a full 360 view on our reality (which can be fascinating but also scary).
Have you considered placing the 6+ senses in a 12 format, Mikal? I am reminded of the zodiac in which the first 6 signs are the singular (the me) signs, and the last 6 signs are the plural (the us) signs. I can imagine that exactly at the border between me and us the view would be spectacular.
Yet, I want to honor Pat here as well. He showed that in space 8 is a very important number. A cube has eight pointy corners, and as such it is the groundwork for matter. Our reality, however, does not take place in space, but here on earth, and the maximum number of positions possible in our reality of a few feet removed from earth is 6. Two positions out of the spatial 8 are not real for us: we cannot stand in mid-air, and we cannot live our lives 6-feet under. So our reality can be translated into a cube standing on one of its corners: our reality is based on earth (the actual ground itself) of which we live off but are not actually part of. The 7th and the 8th positions are real from the perspective of mother earth, but not for the normal human body and brain. The 6 positions can be experienced from a me-perspective or an us-perspective (that of course includes the me-perspective), and that are always limited in perspective; only in the abstract can we reach the overall perspective.
What is interesting about the 6 positions is that each is a personal position or personal step. Our perspective informs us about our reality. The entire cube (tilt-pointed into earth) can be considered a different form of a pyramid as well. The pyramid is four bases, and a single top that both is and isn't singular (i.e. has a dual character): 6 positions.
Your 7th (or 13th) position is in that case the one up in the air: we may anticipate something that is not part of our daily reality, but which we hope will be part of our daily reality. It is a location of vision, of planning, of a view that stretches beyond our daily reality that is based on 6. In it, we cannot do anything additionally; we do not even have words to show others this is where we are at, but we realize we are in that special position nevertheless. It is as if we realize that there are 8 spatial directions (as if we feel with our feet and senses that the earth isn't flat), but we see and understand only the ordinary 6 of them (7 if you include the flat earth). The 8th position is out of sight for us.