When I was 12, there was a neighborhood peeping tom who had started breaching the homes of girls who lived on the riverbank. Two of my friends woke up to find him in their bedroom, staring. He was chased off by angry parents, but was never caught.
One night, in my bed that was inches from a window on the river side of our porch, I was laying quietly, listening to Mystery Theater on the radio. I then noticed, through the cracks in the curtains, someone right outside the window, attempting to open it. I was paralyzed with fear, not being able to yell for help or move, as I watched his moon shadow. I was afraid he would break the glass and grab me if I yelled.
Within a couple of minutes of his attempts, he left, kicking a box we had on our porch that was full of Styrofoam peanuts. I relaxed my hand gripping the blankets, but still could not speak or move my body. In that moment of me trying to find my voice, I felt a loving, soothing hand rub down my open palm. I looked toward it, seeing nothing but air in the moonlight, and found my voice.
This was the start of a lifelong quest to explain these very real experiences with empirical proof that could not be questioned.
Over a decade ago, I found the musings of Michio Kaku, a renowned theoretical physicist, and started absorbing his thoughts on quantum physics. I could see the connection with my experiences without him actually calling it out. This became my running theory of the mechanism that allowed me to have these experiences.
Perhaps no other topic so drastically divides educated people in contemporary Western society as the subject of whether or not paranormal events genuinely exist. Most of society’s belief in God would be shaken and shown to be false if it could be shown that the human brain can get information and move things in ways that don’t align with what they have been taught as truth.
Claims of ghosts, alien abductions, and spoon-bending are typically founded on questionable evidence, while efforts by parapsychologists to duplicate paranormal events under controlled laboratory circumstances are rife with challenges. Although positive outcomes are very common, they are seldom replicated.
Using quantum mechanics to explain the nature of consciousness in the normal mind, some scientists feel that quantum mechanics just needs to be altered to integrate paranormal occurrences. The phenomenon that so many have experienced is within empirical reach.
The scientific community is now clear: quantum processes would assist us in comprehending the mind, but we must go beyond that. We need a more comprehensive quantum of supernatural causation.
Paranormal occurrences may be explained by considering the idea of parallel universes, or multiverses. In quantum physics, this is a fundamental principle of string theory.
Consider alternative universes. I had already been introduced to the concept that there must be a perfectly scientific foundation for eerie and enigmatic happenings that have been recounted from time immemorial, sitting a hair’s breath away from our own, and a field of nothing and everything that binds it all together. I once knew a woman who claimed to travel consciously through a fourth dimension, simply by her will. Years later, I had a personal experience that made me a believer.
I had just moved into a home that was on the historical registry of the city I lived in. When I lay down on my bed to rest, exhausted from the move, I very quickly transformed into an alternate, wavy version of this new home. As I rose and moved from room to room, I saw people who acknowledged my existence. A man in an orange jumpsuit on a ladder with two women in gray hair stood around him gossiping. They all watched me as I moved through the room, asking them to leave, saying that I lived there now. As I reentered my room, I saw a small woman in a brown leisure suit, running out of the room to get away. I grabbed her and told her to leave me alone. This is my place. The next thing I knew, I was laying on my bed and my body was paralyzed.
Then, after mere seconds, my body connected to my spirit and I could move. I knew immediately that the experience I just had was real, recognizing that I had moved into an alternative dimension to confront others who were also there and claim what was mine. I still remember every second of that event, which I found to be a good way to tell the difference between a fantasy or dream and a real paranormal event.
I never saw anything definitive (shadows in the corners of my eye sight line occasionally) in my home after that experience. However, another person did. While visiting, my friend saw a smaller person walking through my kitchen as it passed by my bedroom door, all over my shoulder. This was the same door that I had confronted the woman in my own experience. She reasoned that maybe it was my son, who was not there, though something inside her knew there was another explanation. I knew she had experienced something paranormal because I knew this woman would eat glass before wishing to see a ghost. It took a lot to get her to come back after that.
The dimension of a mathematical space (or object) is defined informally in physics and mathematics as the smallest number of coordinates required to identify any point inside it. According to the theoretical framework of Superstring Theory, the cosmos exists in 10 distinct dimensions. These many parts are what control the universe, the fundamental forces of existence, and all the particles that make up the universe.
A dimension simply implies direction to a physicist — or, more accurately, a pair of directions opposing each other and at right angles to other dimensions. We live in the third dimension, ruled by height, length, and width.
Fourth-dimensional entities would be able to do the same things with our lives as we can. These species would be able to perceive what is within things in our three-dimensional environment. They will also have accessibility to things beyond our consciousness.
As our consciousness expands, we begin to experience the fourth dimension, or inner reality. The other three parts, the mind, the body, and the external environment, do not vanish throughout this process. The subconscious accumulation of ideas, experiences, and memories is progressively melted by awareness.
This argument would discount religious spiritual ideology in the literal sense, and opens up a massive world of exploration as to what this universe is all about. From this vantage point of scientific proof, a ghost would be a soul who moved or started to exist in a fourth, and beyond, dimension.
Many people have had similar experiences to mine, which makes me think that people who seek enlightenment or higher knowledge can start to move from their current dimension to a higher one.
Asking for guidance outside ourselves, using the musings of others (i.e. the bible, preachers, leaders) is not what I am talking about. I’m talking about the truth that lives and breathes within us when we ask and allow our mind to travel beyond our consciousness. This is outside, and inclusive of religion at the same time. Our paths may be different, but we can all end up in the same place. The difficult aspect for both is that this will also mean shedding previous held beliefs.
Using this philosophy, it means that spiritual enlightenment could one day be empirically proven within the confounds of physics. It will also begin to explain experiences with aliens, sasquatch, and other entities beyond our conventional explanations. They could be transdimensional beings. What are the pronouns for that?
Or has it been proven already, just not brought to the scientific community because they are not ready to accept the massive quantum waves it would mean to humans? Are we ready to accept this?
I am.