Hello, I've been a lurker of this site for some time but have yet to make an account. I wanted to see what the community had to say about this new way of looking at reality that DMT and other psychedelics have given me so I'll just turn it into an introduction essay.
I've always wanted to get some kind of meaning out of psychedelics. I had heard of shamanism, and the was interested in altered states, but was not in any circles of drug use. I was able to try cannabis in high school, and had very visual CEV journeys and intense feelings throughout my body. My friends were different and thought I was faking. In college I was able to find psychedelics and dissociatives and learned a lot about myself. It hasn't been that many years but I've had a good amount of experiences in there. The experiences eventually led me to meditation and otherwise improved my life. During many experiences I felt some kind of force that I could only describe as time unfolding. I found the same place during my first DMT experience. Although more confusing on salvia, I did it enough times to immediately understand it on DMT.
I came across videos by Rob Bryanton at tenthdimension.com describing something like what I experienced. And by the way, this is not the best way to represent the nature of the dimensions, but is not incorrect and is useful for explaining my thoughts.
Science has told us that space can be described by spatial dimensions. Each n dimension has n parameters. That is akin to saying the structure of each dimension is a collection of orthogonal (at right angles) spaces of the previous dimension. Descriptions of the first five are as follows: a zero-dimensional point, a one-dimensional line bounded by zero-dimensional points, a two-dimensional plane bounded by one-dimensional lines, a three-dimensional volume bounded by two-dimensional planes, a fourth-dimensional tesseract bounded by three-dimensional volumes, and a five-dimensional pentaract bounded by four-dimensional tesseracts. Whether some of these dimensions exist or not (many say the 0th-3rd do not), the visualization is helpful.
We know that the reality we experience is third-dimensional in nature. One higher dimension would be time (collection of all third-dimensional objects). Life could be then looked at as physically one thing branching off of the earliest bacteria in the third dimension. Picture a very complicated (flat) root system.
The fifth-dimension, orthogonal to the fourth, is composed of all fourth-dimensional space possible in our universe. If the fourth-dimension is viewed as a plane composed of 1-D lines of 4-D time (and anti-time), then the fifth-dimension is a sphere of all of the above 2-D planes.
To explain how the dimensions interact with one another, picture first a 3-D hand intersecting a 2-D plane, and somehow the existence of a 2-D observer. It would see one, two, three, four, five, two, and finally one lines of varying size as the hand moves through the plane. From the 2-D perspective, only 1-D lines of the 3-D object can be observed. In translation, if the hand was a 4-D object, and the observer experiences a 3-D perspective, it could only view 2-D planes of the 4-D object. If the hand was 5-D and the observer experiences in four-dimensions, it would only see 3-D volumes of the 5-D object. Therefore one can imagine that any nth-dimensional being can only observe and affect (n-1)th-dimensional space. This is only a visualization, and not the physics.
Now, if I've made sense so far, free will becomes an important topic. Most scientists today, materialist in nature, say that free will is impossible, and consciousness in turn stuck in a one fourth-dimensional timeline. However, if free will exists, consciousness actually make the choices that branch into different timelines. Such consciousness would reside in the 5-D space. As a 5-D consciousness, it can only affect 4-D space, and can cause branches of the timeline (manipulation of 4-D space). Our 5-D existence is represented by 4-D timelines, which we can only perceive in the third-dimension as 2-D planes.
So, if free will doesn't exist, we are a 4-D being consisting of a static 4-D 'timeline', represented in 3-D space two-dimensionally. But, if free will exists, we would be a fifth-dimensional being consisting of a 'plane' (pentaract) of possible 4-D 'timelines' (tesseracts). Each plane represents all of the possible outcomes of events since the big bang. A 6-D 'cube' (hexeract) would be defined by orthogonal 5-D 'planes' (tesseracts).
If free will allows us to modify a 4-D object, and because all possible arrangements of 4-D objects must exist in the fifth-dimension, then rather than 'modifying' the timeline we are moving our consciousness from one 4-D 'timeline' to another. All timelines are as real as any other, but, according to quantum science, the very act of observation collapses all of the possible 'timelines' into one point. In other words, our 5-D consciousness passes between 4-D timelines by collapsing the possible outcomes into a point. If one were to imagine a 6-D consciousness, it is conceivable to say that it could move timelines in 5-D space to completely different branches.
If each timeline has different set and status of observers, and observers affect (or are affected by) that specific timeline, then it may be possible to affect more choices than your own by simply being able to change one's self. Take for example two timelines, exactly the same in every way except in one, a branch is created when I spontaneously decide to smoke a cigarette. The other branch where I did not smoke still exists, but I would have moved my consciousness to a different 4-D branch. It has been discovered that although weak, organisms produce magnetic fields that change when the organism is under different conditions. Most of these come from the heart and the brain. As my body in one universe would be putting off certain vibrations because of the nicotine in my system, my body in another universe would have different vibrations. In turn, like the theory of the fractal universe, one change in the smallest scale causes the entire system to change.
Finally, the law of attraction. Now it is easy to see how one observer can cause a change to the entire system (or entering into another system). In each different system, there is a different vibrational signature. Hypothetically, if one has free will to move from one 4-D line to another, then one can willingly travel to timelines with more peace, or more war, which all coexist in 'future' timeline divergences.
Each observer, although the same being as the other observers, has the free will to change which reality they want to experience.
TL;DR if free will exists, we have the ability to 'affect reality' by moving to a different 4-D timeline. If this is true than we may be have a lot of control over what we want to experience. If free will is an illusion, we stay in one timeline permanently. In either case, however, it is easier to see that we are all the same being.
Thanks to tenthdimension.com and Grant Morrison's account of alien abduction to help me get this into words.
EDIT: The following is important to help understand the fourth dimension better.
One interpretation of space in the early 1900's by Hermann Minkowski, who used Einstein's theory of relativity to come to his conclusion, describes time as a spacial dimension. From wikipedia: "In theoretical physics, Minkowski space is often contrasted with Euclidean space. While a Euclidean space has only spacelike dimensions, a Minkowski space also has one timelike dimension." In his words: "The views of space and time which I wish to lay before you have sprung from the soil of experimental physics, and therein lies their strength. They are radical. Henceforth space by itself, and time by itself, are doomed to fade away into mere shadows, and only a kind of union of the two will preserve an independent reality.
First of all I should like to show how it might be possible, setting out from the accepted mechanics of the present day, along a purely mathematical line of thought, to arrive at changed ideas of space and time...Three-dimensional geometry becomes a chapter in four-dimensional physics."
In his project about the subject, Rob Bryanton says to not "get hung up on what label you put on each additional spatial dimension, as long as you are visualizing a way in which the new dimension encompasses the previous ones and is orthogonal to the previous ones, as that is a basic concept behind spatial dimensions. 'Spatial' is the important word here, because theorists do indeed say that the extra dimensions are spatial, or at very least "space-like". And finally, even if you're going to argue that it's incorrect to add labels of any kind to each specific dimension, it's very odd to say 'we just can't tell these dimensions apart'. So whether you call the additional degree of freedom added by the fourth dimension ana/kata, duration, time/anti-time, or some other words you want to make up you are still acknowledging that there was something you couldn't get to until you added this new spatial dimension."