Thinking Fourth-Dimensionally

There are two actual outlooks on the world possessed by every man, and the ancient storytellers were fully conscious of these two outlooks. They called the one the carnal mind and the other the mind of Christ.

To the natural mind (carnal mind), reality is confined to the instant called now. This very moment seems to contain the whole of reality, and everything else is unreal. To the natural mind, the past and the future are purely imaginary.

To the Christ mind — the spiritual mind — which in our language we will call the fourth-dimensional focus, the past, the present, and the future of the natural mind are a present whole. It takes in the entire array of sensory impressions that man has encountered, is encountering, and will encounter.

The only reason you and I are functioning as we are today, and are not aware of the greater outlook, is simply because we are creatures of habit. Habit renders us totally blind to what otherwise we should see. But habit is not law.

If you and I would spend a few minutes every day withdrawing our attention from the region of sensation and concentrating it on an invisible state, and remain faithful to this contemplation — feeling and sensing the reality of an invisible state — we would in time become aware of this greater world, this dimensionally larger world.

Are you living in the dead past? If you are living among the dead, your prejudices, your superstitions, and your false beliefs that you keep alive are the tombstones behind which you hide.

When this fourth-dimensional focus comes and shows you a new approach to life and casts out of your own mind all these things that bedeviled you, you are then cleansed and clothed in your right mind.

Now clothed and in your right mind, you can resurrect the dead. What dead? The child in the story is not a literal child. The child is your ambition, your desire, the unfulfilled dreams of your heart.