Prosperity Engine — Update — Mastering Space
Physical reality consists of four key dimensions or “elements” (STEM):
Space,Time,Energy, andMass
In this article, we will look at some drills we can do to master this dimension of space.
Space has been defined variously as,
The three dimensions of dichotomous direction: up-down, left-right, forward-backward.Volume.The viewpoint of dimension.Separateness.
Space allows freedom of location, but it also allows separation. In this regard, space is sort of the opposite of love. The greater the distance between people, the more challenged is their love for one another. And when two people hate each other, the “space” between them is huge, even when they are sitting right next to one another.
The Limits of Space by Scale
[image error]Distant galaxy, NGC 4450, 50 million light years away, part of the Virgo cluster of galaxies. A lot of empty space in between. Copyright Adam Block, Mount Lemmon SkyCenter, UofAz (CC BY-SA 3.0 US).
On one end of the scale, space is measured in Ångstroms or nanometers. This is the scale used to measure the distance between the electrons and the nucleus within an atom.
On the other end of the scale, space is measured in giga-parsecs or giga-light years (“giga” being the prefix for billions)—distances between galactic superclusters, or the size of the known universe. We live in the Virgo supercluster which is one of about 10 million superclusters in the known universe.
And on the moderate, middle range of the scale of space, we have the size of planets and the regions within a galaxy. But most people are more familiar with the smaller end of the scale, from micrometers to hundreds of kilometers—from the speck in our eye to the size of our own country or continent.
Burdens of Space—Various Forms of Overwhelm
[image error]Lonely highway in the middle of the semi-desert southwest of the United States. A long way to walk for gas. More space. Photo: #5499156_1920 Manniguttenberger (CC0) Pixabay.
Suffering can come in many forms. One set of suffering involves overwhelm of extremes using the four elements of physical reality—in today’s case, too little or too much space.
An example of too little space might involve an avalanche of rock or a cave-in while working a mine. It might also involve piling into an automobile already crowded with passengers. Sitting on someone else’s lap could prove to be awkward or even more uncomfortable. Such crowding could trigger claustrophobia, or a strong case of death from being crushed—or a broad range of discomforts in between the two.
An example of too much space might involve the distance to the next town to get gas for our car, or the distance across the desert to find fresh water. It could even include the immense distance to the next star system when our heart aches to explore other planets like Earth.
In each case of overwhelm, we are left with the sense of importance—finding more space, or less space.
But how do we do this, especially when there are so many “significant” barriers in our way?
Exercising Our Control Over Space
[image error]Our imagination is a powerful tool, especially for “playing” with space. Daring to imagine a different perspective. Image: #3000060_1920 PatoLenin (CC0) Pixabay.
We are not the body we wear. Our physical, Homo sapiens body resides in the space-time continuum, but it is not us. While writing my book, Four Elements of God, I came to realize that the four elements of the physical realm were opposites to God’s four elements. More on that in Friday’s summary article on the four “elements” or “dimensions” of physical reality. (Note: Here, I’m not talking of chemical elements.)
We can gain control over anything by increasing our familiarity with it. This goes for riding a bicycle, typing on a keyboard, playing a musical instrument and manipulating the elements of physical reality.
One way to increase our power over space is to “see” or “feel” space. Now, since space is invisible, and all we ever really see with our human eyes are the objects embedded within space, we have to use a different sensory method. This will involve our conscious mind and imagination to “view” space intellectually. But then, it helps to stretch beyond this physical connection to a spiritual one—to “feel” the space with our spiritual awareness.
First, if you’re sitting in a regular room with standard floor, ceiling and four walls, close your eyes and imagine reaching back behind you to the two corners near the ceiling where they meet the wall behind you, and the walls on either side of you. Then, imagine reaching forward to hold the other two corners near the ceiling. Finally, imagine holding onto the four corners at the floor. In all, you should be holding onto eight corners.
Another exercise involves looking at a distant object, like a building out your window. First, look at the building, then picture the distance between you and that structure. Picture yourself holding that space in your mind.
And another exercise involves changing the scale of your viewpoint. At one edge of your natural perception, look at a grain of sand, salt or sugar. Imagine walking on that grain as if it were a huge boulder the relative size of a mountain.
[image error]The epitome of “space”: Earth from orbit with a backdrop of a galaxy. Composite Image: #3608029 Lumina_Obscura (CC0) Pixabay.
Next, imagine floating in space with Earth the size of a golf ball, the Moon the size of a large pea (~1 cm). With the golf ball Earth just off the left side of our scaled up nose, the Moon stands about 1.3 meters away. About half a kilometer down below, the sun is a hot, huge beach ball about 4.66 meters (~15 feet) in diameter. Neptune—the outermost, full-sized planet—sits some 15 km to the side, at about 16.5 cm (6.5 inches) in diameter—somewhat larger than our Earth. The nearest star system to our sun is down below and to the right, about 138,449 km away on this scale. This distance would be about 36% of the full-scale distance from Earth to the Moon.
As you can see from this last exercise, space beyond our Earth is largely empty. There’s a lot of nothing between stars and planets. A lot of loneliness.
Now, picture the distance between Sol (our sun) and Alpha Centauri as only 10 cm (~4 inches) apart. Our sun is a moderately weak pinpoint of light. Alpha Centauri consists of three tiny dots of light—one similar to our own sun, another one-third as bright, but 0.01 mm apart, and a third, feeble flicker 4.7 mm from the other two. The three members of Alpha Centauri are, in decreasing order of brightness, Alpha Centauri A, Alpha Centauri B and Proxima Centauri (Alpha Centauri C). Alpha Centauri A is about 30,380 times as bright as Proxima.
[image error]Space narrowing between two galaxies — NGC 4567-4568, also known as the Butterfly Galaxies or Siamese Twins, 60 million light years away. Also part of the Virgo cluster of galaxies. Each of these galaxies contains some several hundred billion suns. Photo: Judy Schmidt (CC BY 2.0).
And on this scale, our Milky Way galaxy (our home galactic city of stars) is 2.29 km across. Our nearby, neighboring galaxy in the constellation of Andromeda, Messier 31 (M31 or NGC 224), similar in size to our own, is about 58 km away on this scale. M31 is the only full galaxy visible to the naked eye in our night sky.
On this second, reduced scale, the edge of the known universe would be about 316,000 km away. And on this scale, even the largest stars would be like sparkles of dust.
Benefits From Space Exercises
[image error]Hiker taking in the vista of space. Photo: #1245959 Free-Photos (CC0) Pixabay.
There are several benefits from this type of exercise. If ever you’re feeling claustrophobic, these could help. Or if you’re ever experiencing cabin fever or similar, this might also help alleviate some of the symptoms.
From the viewpoint of the last exercise, with 10 cm separating star systems, our problems back on Earth suddenly look “dangerously” insignificant—having as close to zero importance as we can get without actually being zero. This level of unimportance makes it far easier to picture (and to feel) an abundance of solutions to our insignificant problems.
One other possible benefit involves sports, but this requires some testing. If you know of any sports coaches, you might suggest they use these exercises on their track stars to see if it improves their times—especially their indoor times. A curious fact of track and field is that indoor times always seem to be longer than outdoor times. I suspect it has something to do with the runner’s sense of space. If they can picture having a set of anchor points outside of the building within which the meet is being held, they may be able to achieve “outdoor” times for their indoor competitions. I’d like to know if this hypothesis works. I wouldn’t mind being involved on such an experiment. For instance, I wouldn’t want the test of this hypothesis fail from a lack of belief or lack of enthusiasm.
Creating Space
Just as time seems to fly when we’re having fun, there might be a similar effect with space. Perhaps this is what happens when I feel huge and simultaneously close to all of humanity.
Space Gratitude Affirmations
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Affirmations are an old idea in the self-help community. Sometimes they work; sometimes they don’t. Now, of course, we know of the missing ingredient: a strong, positive feeling, like gratitude.
The following is only one example of an unlimited list of possibilities. Create your own and add whatever details mean the most to you. But most importantly, use the affirmation regularly so that the feeling becomes a new habit.
I feel so incredibly grateful to have all the space I need to get done everything I want to do.
Prosperity Engine Progress
[image error]Mountain vista. Photo: #192987 FrankWinkler (CC0) Pixabay.
My enthusiasm has improved. What is nice is that I no longer have to use the techniques detailed in my book, Taking Charge, to accomplish this. I’m no longer spending all my time fighting the source of inner self-sabotage.
I fell off the wagon, today, with regard to doing my daily routines. But with the successes I’m having, I’m not at all concerned about missing a day. The contrast of a day without might also help give me more clues.
Coming Up Next
Tomorrow, we look at the physical element or dimension of time, continuing our exercises to achieve spiritual mastery over physical reality.
