Events are multidimensional

Seth's comments below remind me of the difficulty physicists have in explaining the "double-slit experiment" ... an experiment in which small particles (e.g. electrons and even small nuclei) exhibit completely different responses going through a diffraction grating depending on whether they are being observed!  Since mainstream physics does not see matter as conscious, they are stuck trying to explain this phenomenon as well as the appearance of consciousness in life forms such as the very physicists conducting the experiments.  Seth's explanation makes so much more sense!!!

Seth's comment also hints at the multidimensionality of reality ... both in terms of space or time-like dimensions but also in terms of dimensions of probability.  We literally take 3-D snapshots of an omniverse - snapshots that best fit our belief system ... and then we take those preselected snapshots as proof for our belief system!  That sounds pretty circular to me!

“Any event that you perceive is only a portion of the true dimensionality of that event.  The observer and the object perceived are a part of the same event, each changing the other.  This interrelationship always exists in any system of reality and at any level of activity.  In certain terms, for example, even an electron “knows” it is being observed through your instrument.  The electrons within the instrument itself have a relationship with the electron that scientists may be trying to “isolate” for examination.

“Quite apart from that, however, there is what we will call for now the collective unconscious of all the electrons that compose the entire seemingly separate event of the scientists observing the electron.  In your range of activity, you can adequately identify events, project them in time and space, only by isolating certain portions of much larger and much smaller events, and recognizing a highly specific order of events as real.”

(Dreams, “Evolution” and Value Fulfillment, Session 888)