I was reviewing some of the books that I have on my Kindle, and I think this old Skeptiko show is worth thinking about:
https://www.skeptiko-forum.com/threads/d...-402.4276/
Alex let's the guy speak, so it is an easy podcast to listen to.
I got White's book, which I am re-reading right now.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Other-Worlds-Sp...B079X3VQH4
It would seem that there was a lot of excitement at around the start of the last century that there is a higher dimension (literally) that contains spiritual information/places/souls. A lot of people were teaching themselves to visualise in 4 dimensions. That is 4 real spatial dimensions, not Minkowski space. I am staggered by how much influence this had, and I wonder if we are missing something by not taking this a lot more seriously.
Edwin Abbott popularised this idea (although the roots go further back) and Charles Hinton pushed the idea further, encouraging people to effectively enter an altered state of consciousness by visualising the fourth dimension!
White claims that the concept of the fourth dimension inspired many people, including impressionist painters such as Picasso. I find that hard to judge, however, because I am not much into visual art, particularly art of that kind - but I'm sure that is just my limitation.
https://www.skeptiko-forum.com/threads/d...-402.4276/
Alex let's the guy speak, so it is an easy podcast to listen to.
I got White's book, which I am re-reading right now.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Other-Worlds-Sp...B079X3VQH4
It would seem that there was a lot of excitement at around the start of the last century that there is a higher dimension (literally) that contains spiritual information/places/souls. A lot of people were teaching themselves to visualise in 4 dimensions. That is 4 real spatial dimensions, not Minkowski space. I am staggered by how much influence this had, and I wonder if we are missing something by not taking this a lot more seriously.
Edwin Abbott popularised this idea (although the roots go further back) and Charles Hinton pushed the idea further, encouraging people to effectively enter an altered state of consciousness by visualising the fourth dimension!
White claims that the concept of the fourth dimension inspired many people, including impressionist painters such as Picasso. I find that hard to judge, however, because I am not much into visual art, particularly art of that kind - but I'm sure that is just my limitation.