If you do most of your typing with your thumbs then "the device in your pocket" is your PDA or cell phone. Speaking as one for whom the phrase "the device in your pocket" conjures the image of an object made before electricity was available to manufacturing (a key-wind pocket watch), I identify myself as a temporal visitor to what I consider as the future.

The concept as well as the sense of time is rooted in our biology, (of course the same may be said of all we experience). When we are very young, days, months and years seem vast, but as we age the duration of our experience of these objective time delineations, shrinks. As we reach adolescence, our biology sends as the message that our time has come; that's why old-timers use the phrase "back in my day". As one who frequents estate sales, I have observed that the decor in many of these estates seemed frozen at some previous era. One's home is a reflection of one's interior habitat, one's mind. As the flood of hormones, characterized by adolescence, begins to recede, the era with which one identifies becomes set such that all future nuance of a coming era is no longer as deeply impressed. As with all things, the one least likely to recognize such phenomena, are those most effected by it.

While identifying with manifested existence one is bound to the dictates of time and space, however, when one becomes aware of what lies beyond, recognition of the infinite and eternal self, dawns.

It is often claimed that we use only 10% of our brain. It would be more accurate to state that the average efficiency of the average brain is around 10%. Each brain constituent presents some degree of functionality most of the time. The key to functional efficiency of the brain, as a whole, lies in the degree of interactivity of its functional constituents.

The degree to which the information processing performed by one part of the brain is recognized as significant to the related operations in the other parts of the brain, dictates the level of synergy achieved between these constituents and therefore, the level of overall functional capacity attained.

When sufficient coordination between the various information processing centers of the brain is achieved, a shift in the quality of consciousness reflects this synergy at work. This expansion of consciousness has been referred to as: "an altered state, a religious experience, Cosmic Consciousness, and many other terms as well.

Since one's consciousness is experienced as "the still point around which one's world turns", a shift in consciousness appears as a change in the attributes of one's surroundings. Expanded consciousness reveals greater possibilities and potentialities in all that is beheld and thereby in the beholder as well.

It is true that one manifests the reality that appears in one's consciousness. The reason why one appears to have such limited conscious control of that reality is because that which is identified as "self" is limited to one's conscious mind, which is actually a mere shadow of the totality of what any given individual is. Most people have the illusion that their behavior is essentially under the control of their conscious mind, but in point of fact, most human behavior has been shown to originate from subconscious motivations.

It seems self evident that we are aware of who we are, and yet most of the time we are only aware of the conscious portion of our mind.

Consideration of the phenomena of lucid dreaming can be most revealing about our concepts of self. A popular misconception is that if you are aware you are dreaming you can control the dream. The misconception stems from the confusion between who is the "real you", the dreamer or the "dreamed you". When you become aware you are dreaming, your identity shifts from the "dreamed you" to the dreamer. The dreamer has always had control of the dream but this only becomes apparent when one becomes aware that they are dreaming.

In addition to the conscious and subconscious mind, each individual also has a "superconscious mind". This is the awareness transcending the limitations time and space that is experienced in deep meditation, trance and various other "altered states of consciousness". The degree to which an individual gains control over manifestation has much less to do with belief than it does with recognition of their subconscious, conscious and superconscious mind.

Issac Newton was an extraordinary genius but, occasionally, even he was wrong. It is unfortunate that, in an attempt to tie color with the diatonic musical scale, he proclaimed that there were 7 "prismatic" colors. The phenomenon we know as color is comprised of the interaction of three components: a source of illumination, an object to be illuminated and an observer. Color is termed a psychophysical property because it cannot exist, by definition it cannot exist without an observer; color is an experiential quality. Current color science reveals white light contains all possible colors that may be produced from combinations of the additive primary colors: red, green and blue and that pigments subtract (from white source light) by differential absorption in a manner that reveals the subtractive primaries of Cyan, Magenta and Yellow, familiar to the printing industry. These technical aspects of color are enumerated here because the true nature of color has much to do with metaphysical understanding.

Simple, unbiased observation reveals that all hues of color may be recognized as a shade of one (or two) of the following fundamental colors: Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue and Violet. The pure hue of each of these six colors may be depicted, by their spectral relationship to each other, to occupy equidistant positions from white light to form a circle of hue perception in which each the above six pure hues are located 60 degrees from each other, along a circumference of hue graduations.

Issac Newton was also responsible for presenting the visible spectrum as being linear but, in consideration of the psychophysical aspect of color, one may observe that the terminal colors Red and Violet appear spectrally between Orange and Blue.

Recognition of these fundamentals of color is key to understanding the significance of color in the language of the creator.

It has become a popular notion that the goal of science is to prove what is true. Actually, the scientific objective is to identify what is untrue since an essential quality of truth is that it cannot be logically proven (only inferred).

The scientific method resulted from mankinds frustration with trying to sort out speculation and out-right bullshit from knowledge and wisdom. Unfortunately, the scientific method is limited to consensual reality (i.e. physical manifestation), yet human experience has the capacity to extend beyond the physical. In non-physical realms of experience, scientific method, as we currently understand it, has little application.

Science enables the development of theoretical models that are consistent with verifiable observations. The currently accepted model of physical existence is called Space-Time. It is comprised of four dimensions: three spatial and one temporal. These four dimensions constitute the minimum number of quantifiable elements required to describe all physically observable phenomena. They are length, width, depth and time. The static elements (spatial) are used to describe matter, while the dynamic element (temporal) is required to describe energy.

The fruits of science have dominated western culture to an awe-inspiring degree. Unfortunately, many speculative writers have capitalized off from this by borrowing scientific-sounding terms to lend an air of credibility to their agenda. This irresponsible mixing of fanciful ideas with misapplied scientific terms constitutes a misleading influence on popular culture.

The specific example that Id like to focus on here is the understanding of dimensions. Metaphysical notions of dimensions are often confused with the physical (scientific) terms as they have been described above. The human mind has the potential to experience existence in a variety of nonphysical modalities that cannot be adequately quantified within the Space-Time model. These alternate realities are often referred to as various dimensions; however, this does not imply that they are physically quantifiable.

When a philosophically speculative writer refers to the third dimension it should be recognized that they are unaware that, in scientific nomenclature, the third dimension is the plane of the z axis of the orthogonal coordinates of space. Likewise, , in scientific nomenclature, the fourth dimension is time. Reference to numbered dimensions in metaphysical literature should, therefore alert the reader to the possibility of charlatanism.