Meditations

How to Experience the ‘Collective Dimensions’ of Spiritual Reality (1D to 5D)

[Updated April 22, 2022] Meditations to take you to each of the first 5 spiritual dimensions.

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CONTENTS

[0] The ‘Collective Dimensions’ — [0.1] Consciousness in the ‘Collective Dimensions’ [1] The 1st Dimension (1D) — (Singularity) — [1.1] “I Am Presence” meditation — [1.2] The Silence That Surrounds Us [2] The 2nd Dimension (2D) — (Duality) — [2.1] “Panoramic / Spacious Awareness” meditation — [2.2] “Walking In Place” meditation [3] The 3rd Dimension (3D) — (Diversity & Infinity) — [3.1] “I Love You and Wish You Happiness” walking meditation — [3.2] The “Room Sensing” meditation [4] The 4th Dimension (4D) — (The Non-physical Realm) — [4.1] Connecting with ETs and Spirit Guides & Lucid Dreaming and Dream Work [5] The 5th Dimension (5D) — (Heaven on Earth) — [5.1] Visiting 5D Earth meditation — [5.2] Creating Your Reality meditation [6] Related Material — [6.1] Matias De Stefano — [6.2] Seth on Exploring Dimensions Through Dreams

“You cannot trust your physical senses to give you a true picture of reality. They are lovely liars, with such a fantastic tale to tell that you believe it without question.” — Seth/Jane Roberts, Seth Speaks, part one, chapter 1, session 511, on January 21, 1970

[0] The ‘Collective Dimensions’

The “Collective Dimensions” refers to the commonly accepted first 5 dimensions of spiritual reality. These dimensions share the characteristic of having some degree of “physicality”. Most believe that we can, for example, keep our physical bodies in the 1st through 5th dimensions (1D to 5D).

I created this table ⬇ for an article on Earth’s ascension from 3D to 4D/5D. I include it here introduce a few different perspectives on the spiritual dimensions of reality. It only covers 3D, 4D, and 5D, but I think it is clear enough.

For more on the spiritual dimensions, see my article ‘The One Most Complete Guide to the Spiritual Dimensions of Reality’, in which I try to sort out many of the varying definitions and issues that I have come across on this topic.

Compared to the Collective Dimensions, the “Spirit Dimensions” (6D and up) are entirely non-physical. Most of us humans have a difficult directly experiencing and comprehending those higher dimensions because we are physically in the 3rd Dimension — the middle of the Collective Dimensions. As a result, information and opinions on the Spirit Dimensions vary a lot across different spiritual teachers and teachings.

But being in the middle of the Collective Dimensions makes it much easier to experience what consciousness is like across the first 5 dimensions, using different meditation techniques and practices. (For higher dimensions, see the section on Matias De Stefano, below.)

[0.1] Consciousness in the ‘Collective Dimensions’

I briefly describe the consciousness in each of the first five spiritual dimensions in Figure 1 and in the sections below. I provide at least one meditation technique or practice that might help you experience each dimension. (We are all different, so there are no guarantees on that.)

A general rule is that someone in a higher dimension has full access to dimensions lower than the one they are in. But we are usually not evolved enough to have full access to dimensions above the one that they are in.

Therefore, those of us in the 3rd Dimension can access the 1st and 2nd dimensions much easier than the 4th and 5th dimensions. I think you will find that this is true.

[1] The 1st Dimension (1D)

— Consciousness is a single point (Singularity)

This is awareness of self and nothing else. This *might* be like the consciousness of a rock, which is often considered an example of a 1D entity. However, it could also be the sense that there is only one consciousness that encompasses everything, although we also associate that with the highest dimensions.

[1.1] — “I Am Presence” meditation (1D)

This type of meditation has you bring your awareness to, well, your awareness, and nothing else. The goal is to have the simple experience of existence, with no thoughts, judgements, opinions, or feelings.

⬆ This 17 minute guided meditation from Lincoln Gergar is one of my personal favorite “I Am” meditation. (The meditation starts 2 minutes into the video.)

However, there are gazillions of other “I Am Presence” meditations online, and especially on YouTube. You can find them with a simple internet search. So if Lincoln does not work for you, try someone else. Or you could develop a practice that uses a different source every day, though I personally would not be crazy about that.

[1.2] The Silence That Surrounds Us (1D)

Now, the universe speaks in many voices. And, it can indeed speak through a leaf if you have the wits to listen. Then you can learn much. It can speak in the silence of a room if you have the wits to realize that beneath sound there is what our friend, the physicist over here, might call antisound. — Seth/Jane Robert, ESP Class Session, November 2, 1971

In my article, God Surrounds Us Everywhere and Always, I suggested these 4 way that we can get a sense of the infinite in our normal waking reality:

(1) Sense of Time (2) Sense of Space (3) Sense of Physical Reality (4) Sense of Others and Self

You can read that article for all of those perspectives. Here I am copying a portion from the first one — Time.

1. The present moment point in time is infinite. Our past and our future meet in our present moment. If you try to find that present moment between the past and present, you will see that no matter how deep you go with your mind and senses, the past and future will always be there. Transcending your thoughts and senses can bring you to that infinite moment point beyond the past and the future.
2. The moment point of silence between each sound, word, and thought is infinite. Sounds, words, and thoughts require silence between them for them to exist. The silence can be long, or it can be infinitely short — both work, and both transcend the sound, word, and thought. Listen and look for that silence that transcends sounds, thoughts, and words.

For both these the single infinite “point” is the 1st Dimension.

Also see this poem and meditation:

[2] The 2nd Dimension (2D)

— Consciousness is split into two points (Duality)

There are now two things: “me” and “other” (realizing, of course, that the “other” is a mirror of “me” and that at our deepest level, there is only one). For this meditation, the “other” is a singularity; it is all just one everything that is not my pure awareness.

So there are only two things in 2D: my awareness and everything else. We can think of this as how a plant might experience the world: it knows itself and it knows its environment — and that is all. There is no judgement or opinion about the “other”, there is simply awareness that it exists in some kind of relationship to “me”.

[2.1] — “Panoramic / Spacious Awareness” meditation (2D)

For this meditation, you can do the same meditation as for the 1st Dimension, except with your eyes and senses open to experience the world (or space) in your perception.

While listening to the guided 1D meditation, gently allow your attention to be aware of the difference between you as the “I Am” and everything else that arises in your perception: what you see, hear, feel with your skin, the sense of your body, and thoughts and emotions that arise.

The goal is to see everything that is not “I Am” as a singular “other”. Everything in your perception is a single “environment” for your “I Am”.

We can do this by not focusing on a single object, but by trying to take in all the space, objects, and forms that surround us, while also holding the “I Am Presence” awareness.

⬆ See this short (4 minute) video from Loch Kelly for tips on how to do Spacious Awareness meditation (what he calls “Panoramic Awareness”). He tells you how to get into this state of visual and mental spacious awareness, but he does not guide you in a meditation. It is up to you to do the meditation on your own this way. You can use an “I Am Presence” guided meditations to do that, if you have difficulty doing it on your own.

Note that there are different interpretations of Spacious Awareness. If you do a search on that term online or on YouTube, you will find some guided meditations that are “eyes-closed” and focused on different parts of one’s body. But that is more like a 3D meditation, as described below.

⬇ For a detailed understanding of Panoramic or Spacious Awareness, see this interview with Paul Holman discussing his book: “Freedom Through Spacial Awareness” (2019).

[2.2] — “Walking In Place” meditation (2D)

“Walking In Place” is a name that I use for this walking meditation. What you do is simply go for a walk in your neighborhood or some other outdoor place. It is easier to do if the place is relatively quiet, without a lot of busy distractions.

While walking, imagine that you are not the one that is moving. Instead, imagine that your awareness is perfectly still, and that it is the entire world around you, and planet below you, that is moving past you — as if you were on a treadmill.

This requires a still state of mind. When you are in this state of awareness: — Observe how everything moving toward and past you is a single three dimensional “not you” (like you are in a moving diorama). — Observe how even your thoughts are part of this one “not you” that is moving past you (this is harder to do). — Observe how you drop out of the stillness of mind whenever you engage with a specific object in your environment or thought in your mind. But you can stay in that stillness when you simply allow all of the “not you” to arise and pass.

[3] The 3rd Dimension (3D)

— Consciousness is split into a third point, which then creates infinite points (Diversity & Infinity)

The third point allows the one point to measure and compare the other two points to each other. Through comparisons we divide the other and so there is now “me” (my awareness) and an infinite multitude of different beings and objects with which I interact.

Through comparison, we judge others and our self using our senses, emotions, and thoughts. These interactions create our 3rd Dimensional (3D) experience. That experience includes our understandings of karma, our ego, and time and space.

We are solidly in 3D most of the waking periods of our lives. (Exceptions include meditation and daydreaming, both of which take us to the borderline between 3D and 4D.)

Meditations that specifically engage us with the diversity of our 3D world, and develop that experience, are not very common. Karma Yoga does that, but it is more a philosophy of how to live than a meditation.

Here, however, are two meditations that you can try:

[3.1] — “I Love You and Wish You Happiness” walking meditation (3D)

⬇ This video by Lincoln Gergar introduces the “I Love You and Wish You Happiness” walking meditation. In this meditation, you quietly think, “I love you and wish you happiness”, toward each being that you encounter as you move through your day.

You can start by only doing this with the humans that you encounter. Look at them and think (or whisper or speak) that phrase. You can also extend this to animals and possibly to plants (like trees, for example), although that can be challenging because there are so many plants.

[3.2] — The “Room Sensing” meditation (3D)

The Room Sensing meditation is from chapter 2 of the book, Working with Subtle Energies by David Spangler. That book includes other similar meditations that would work to enhance our 3D experience by developing our subtle senses.

For this meditation, enter a room in your house, close your eyes, and quiet your mind. Feel your energy expand from your heart to fill the room (like spacious awareness). Now, with eyes either closed or slightly open, feel or sense the energy, vibration, mood, or atmosphere of the room.

How does it feel? What makes it distinct in its own way?

Next, walk through a door into another room and repeat this process, sensing the new room’s energy / vibration / mood / atmosphere.

How is this room different? What makes it distinct and why?

Repeat this with other rooms in your house. You can also do this meditation in different kinds of buildings and outside when moving between different environments or spaces.

[4] The 4th Dimension (4D)

— Consciousness is split into a 4th point beyond space & physicality (The Non-physical Realm)

If the first 3 points create the diversity of our physical reality and interactions, then the 4th point is a perspective outside of that — it is the non-physical that encompasses the physical. We are still in our bodies, but our minds are more free to experience 4D through alternate realities, including dream worlds, out-of-body experiences, and channeling Extra Terrestrials and Spirit Guides. In these 4D realms, however, we still maintain a sense of having the same body, emotion, thoughts and ego that we hold in the 3rd Dimension.

[4.1] — Connecting with ETs and Spirit Guides & Lucid Dreaming and Dream Work (4D)

Connecting with our Spirit Guides and doing Dream Work are two of the more common ways that humans experience 4D consciousness. However, for most of us, these 4D skills require considerable devotion and practice to master.

Personally, I have found channeling non-physical or quasi-physical beings is easier than lucid dreaming and other forms of dream work. I have done both. I can easily slip into channeling most any time. But I really need to be focused and dedicated to get the dream work going.

There is a lot of free material online to develop these skills. Here, however, I am only covering Connecting with ETs and Guides. You can search for Lucid Dreaming material on your own if you want to explore that modality. (Also see section [6.2] below on dimensions and dreams.)

ET Contact — YouTube Video (4D)

⬆ This recording is one of many guided mediations on YouTube designed to help connect you with higher dimensional knowledge. You need to go to YouTube to view it (it cannot be viewed from this article’s webpage). Although this meditation, by Lincoln Gergar, focuses on ET connections, you can easily substitute his ET references with Ascended Masters, Archangels, The Akashic Records, your Higher Self, or some other entity or knowledge that you are interested in.

⬇ In this video, Tiffany Tin introduces 8 ways to connect with various forms of guides and other beings. Some of these techniques will probably work better for some people than others.

You might also find some help in this article that I wrote, which introduces channeling and different ways that it can be done: ‘How You, Too, Can Channel Higher Messages’.

[5] The 5th Dimension (5D)

— Consciousness splits off a 5th point, which is completely beyond the 3D/4D ego realms (Heaven on Earth)

It is in 5D where we learn to transition from being physical 3D beings into being entirely non-physical spirit or light beings. To do this, we largely leave behind the physical sense of a body, mind, emotions, and ego, which were fairly strong through the 3rd and 4th dimensions.

We often describe 5D as a ‘Heaven on Earth’ experience. There is pure unconditional love, the instant manifestation of desires, and an end to fear, insecurities, and ego attachments. That description is likely an overstatement, but these qualities are certainly much stronger in 5D than in 4D and 3D.

Another way to look at this is that you enter 4D when you learn that you have psychic abilities. You enter 5D when you have mastered your psychic abilities. As mentioned above, the 4th and 5th dimensions are levels of consciousness that are more difficult for 3D humans to experience. That is because most of us are novices at using psychic abilities.

[5.1] — Visiting 5D Earth meditation (5D)

⬇ The guided meditation video below, by Nicky Sutton (44 minutes), is one of many that has listeners visualize what a 5D Earth would be like. This is actually a 4D guided mediation because she does not take you inside 5D consciousness. Instead, you are using astral travel to visit and interpret a 5D world.

I have had these kinds of experiences in lucid dreams, in guided mediations, and in unguided meditations (which I like to call “lucid meditations”).

Knowing what a true 5D consciousness is like is something we can only imagine from our 3D perspective — and a lot of people have done that. The belief that 5D is mastering our psychic abilities and creating our reality, gives us a basis for guessing what a 5D consciousness might be like.

[5.2] — Creating Your Reality meditation (5D)

⬇ This teaching and guided meditation, by Lincoln Gergar, explains how you are always creating your reality, and how you can do it intentionally. The meditation part is a 5D consciousness experience.

The meditation starts at 18 minutes into the video and ends at 36 minutes. Before and after that are teachings about bringing your Soul/Light/True Self into your life. Ultimately, that is what 5D is all about.

[6] Related Material

[6.1] Matias De Stefano

Matias De Stefano’s definitions of the spiritual dimensions of reality are among the most complete and contemporary of any available. He has described these several times, which I summarize in the article below.

In March 2021 he described each dimension over a 9-day period. He ended each video (on YouTube) with a guided meditation to experience that dimension. Someone compiled the 9 dimensional alignment meditations that Matias De Stefano did into a single 2hr 14min long video. It only includes the English portion for the meditations. (The originals are in Spanish first, followed by English.)

For more on Matias De Stefano’s 9 dimensions of reality, see:

[6.2] Seth on Exploring Dimensions Through Dreams

I am working on an article on dreams, but it still has a long way to go.

In the meantime, this quote from Seth (channeled by Jane Roberts) talks about how aspects of ourselves exist in other dimensions. We connect with them regularly in our dreams. But we can also connect with those other dimensional selves outside of our dreams.

“I have told you that portions of your personality exist in other realities. Other portions of the self are focused within different dimensions than you own. If you can, imagine a huge building with many rooms, each room entirely different from the other. The environment, the methods of perception, the reality system within each room is unique.

The building shares some common passageways, however, as well as a common cellar and attic… There are devices within each room that enable a dweller in one room to communicate with those in other rooms. But the guests are so engrossed by the wonders of their own quarters within this strange hotel that many of them do little investigating.

Sometimes in their sleep they sleepwalk and come upon the passageways, and meet, but in the morning they do not remember.

…It is quite possible however when you know how to use one of these passageways and look at yourself and your situation from a different viewpoint, to see it in greater perspective and from outside your particular room — to see it perhaps more clearly in its entirety.

You can do this quite alone. It is easier however if you have the help of one of the guests in another room who is more used to the passageways, someone [like Seth] who has been investigating a while longer.

Following our analogy, you will be his guest and from his rooms look down into your own with some greater objectivity. This is possible, feasible, since you are all portions, in our analogy, of this same inner self who maintains all of the rooms. While each of you are egotistically focused within your own reality, the deeper layers of the self are aware of the, quote, “family” relationship. — Seth/Jane Roberts, The Early Sessions, Book 9, session on June 9 1969

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