“The Blue cannot be measured by the mind” is a beautiful line from the Lyric Dramas by Alexander Blok (using blue as a symbol of the infinite), a late 19th-century Russian poet, which expresses the frustration of trying to understand the higher dimensions of existence using the limited means of our rational mind.

What Is a Higher Dimension?

But… what is a “higher dimension”? Why, when I try to present the concept of HyperLiving, do I speak of a “multidimensional experience” or of “moving to the next dimension”?

In fact, what is a “dimension”?
In our everyday world, dimensions are the coordinates that allow us to determine the position of an object in three-dimensional space. This seems so obvious to us that we cannot imagine that other types of space exist. But an object moving along a line—a train, for example—can be identified by just one dimension: its position on the track.
Similarly, a car turning in a yard needs only two coordinates to identify its position (of course, let’s ignore thickness, which doesn’t concern us). So far, nothing new.

The Ant on the Folded Sheet of Paper

But what happens when two different dimensions meet? What happens when a “higher dimension” is introduced? How can people living in different dimensions communicate? Let’s imagine an ant moving across a sheet of paper: its position is two-dimensional and is defined by two coordinates on a Cartesian plane, as any high school student knows, and—on this plane—to go from point A to point B, it must follow a path, remaining within the two-dimensional reality.

But suppose we take the sheet of paper and fold it: now the ant can go from point A to point B instantly. The point, however, is that the ant does not “know” that we have folded the paper, because its reality is two-dimensional and it does not understand how it was possible to move instantly from point A to point B; another ant that witnessed this scene would simply call it a “miracle.”

Flatland and the Limits of Perception

The conceptual conflict between a two-dimensional world and a three-dimensional one was described very well in a late 19th-century novel, *Flatland*, by Edwin Abbott.
The author tries to imagine what a two-dimensional world would be like: everything would unfold on a single plane, so that, for example, a house would be enclosed only by a perimeter line. The inhabitants—who are geometric figures—would see only lines of varying widths, and Abbott has fun explaining all the implications of life in a two-dimensional world.

But—and this is where it gets interesting—a person living in 3D who observes this world could “see” inside a house; they could even see inside the inhabitants’ bodies. In fact—continuing the thought experiment—the character from the third dimension, conversing with the one from the second dimension, shows the latter that they can “touch” their internal organs—and, of course, the two-dimensional being doesn’t understand how this is possible, being limited by their own perspective.

Why Different Dimensions Cannot Understand One Another

The idea is that the experiment continues, and then Abbot imagines that a hypothetical inhabitant of the fourth dimension can “see” inside a closed box and inside a human body.
The dialogue is fascinating because the roles reverse, and once the two-dimensional being has opened up to the idea of higher dimensions, it moves forward, while the other remains in the third dimension and fails to understand how others can exist.

The result of all these discussions is that our mind—which has evolved to survive in a three-dimensional world—cannot conceive of other dimensions, and those who have ventured into the spiritual realm cannot communicate with those who have remained confined to the ordinary.

Kant and the Starry Sky Above Us

In the final section of the Critique of Practical Reason, we read one of the most famous passages by the German philosopher Immanuel Kant, which goes as follows: “Two things fill the soul with ever new and increasing admiration and awe: the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.”

Kant refers to the way in which we manage to position ourselves in relation to what is immense—that is, to the way in which we manage to reconcile our micro-existence with the cosmos and, at the same time, to the way in which the grandeur of our inner being compensates for the apparent insignificance of our physical existence.

Meaning, Direction, and Alignment

Thus, HyperLiving is my humble proposal for finding the meaning of our existence (which, as I repeat at every opportunity, in Italian and other Romance languages, the word for “meaning” is “senso”, and can be used as  “direction” and as “significance”), by attempting to communicate with the immensity that the universe presents to us, finding its direction, and finding a way to align ourselves with it. Similarly, finding fixed points in our minds—the “moral law” that allows us to understand what is right and what is wrong—is the way to connect our inner world with the outer world.

Lincoln’s Lesson on Alignment

In a famous reply to a general who—before a battle—told him, “Let’s hope God is on our side,” Lincoln responded, “No, let’s rather hope we are on God’s side.” This is the entire concept of alignment that I am trying to convey. We cannot expect the universe to take care of us and satisfy our every little need. All we can do is try to communicate with the higher system—regardless of how we conceive of it—and try to understand, with the help of the “moral law,” what it wants from us.

Flow as Our Natural State

When these two universes are aligned, we find ourselves in what I call the “flow state.” We always talk about flow as defined by Dr. Csikszentmihalyi (I mean, as something mysterious, something that magically happens to successful people) but we fail to realize that—in my opinion—the flow state is nothing other than our natural state: the state every child is in before being blocked, conditioned, inhibited by the toxic and paralyzing messages that society and its representatives (parents, teachers, priests, influencers, etc.) continue to convey to us.

The Moral Law Within

Therefore, living in a higher dimension means being able to align ourselves with the will of the universe, with the “starry sky,” with the “blue,” through the moral law within us.

Microcosm and Macrocosm

The alignment of the microcosm with the macrocosm is one of the best-known precepts of Hermetic philosophy: “As above, so below.”

And when we succeed in doing this, we enter the higher dimension—the one in which we can “see” what others do not see, we can instantly move from point A to point B, we set synchronicity and the law of attraction in motion, and we manifest our potential effortlessly; for if we imagine the universe as something that has a direction and a meaning, and we move in that direction, we are like a swimmer swimming with the current: we hardly need to swim at all, because we’re using the river’s power.
Unfortunately, in everyday language, “going with the flow” has a negative connotation, because it’s interpreted as a way of giving in to conformity, but in reality, that’s not the case at all: as Krishnamurti, a famous mystic of the last century, said, being adapted to a sick society does not mean being healthy.

When Magic Becomes Normality

In a frequently quoted statement, Einstein said that problems cannot be solved with the same kind of thinking that created them. So, while moving to higher dimensions in the physical sense is probably just an interesting hypothesis for science fiction writers (who, in fact, often speak of Hyperspace to make interstellar travel possible), those of thought and imagination are available to us at any moment.

The Higher Dimensions of Thought

And, as we’ve seen, what seems magical in one dimension becomes normal in another, once we manage to free ourselves from the barriers that exist only in lower dimensions.

It’s possible! Welcome to HyperLiving!

by Bruno