A Record of Meetings held by P.D. Ouspensky - HolyBooks.com

five-dimensional world, and the question of remembering really refersalready to six dimensions. In the fifth dimension man returns andreturns without knowing. Remembering means a certain growth in thesixth dimension.Dimensions you must understand simply in this way. The fourthdimension is the realization of one possibility of each moment—whatwe call time. The fifth dimension is the repetition of this. The sixthdimension is the realization of different possibilities. But it is difficultto think about this so long as we think about time as a straight line.The problem is not a real thing. It is just our weakness, nothing more.MR. S. I do not understand what you mean when you say the fourthdimension is the realization of one possibility.MR. O. Life is the fourth dimension, a circle, the realization of onepossibility. When this comes to an end, it meets its own beginning.The moment of death corresponds to the moment of birth, and then itbegins again, maybe with slight deviations (but they do not meananything, it always returns to the same line). Breaking a chief tendency,starting this life in a quite different way will be sixth dimension.We cannot think of simultaneous moments; we have to think ofthem one following another, though actually they are simultaneous onanother scale. But our own experience in relation to small particles,electrons, is that their eternity is in our time, so why can our repetitionnot be in earth's time, for instance?MR. L. Are there very definite possibilities for one man at any givenmoment?MR. O. People think there are many possibilities. At any rate it lookslike that. But really there is only one possibility, or sometimes two.Man can only change in the sense of the sixth dimension. Thingshappen in a certain way, and one possibility out of many supposedpossibilities is realized at each moment, and that makes the line of thefourth dimension. But conscious change for a definite purpose, whichis the idea of work, the idea of development, when you seriously startin this system, that is already a start on the sixth dimension.MR. F. You say there may be two possibilities at a given moment. Doyou mean one mechanical and one not?MR. O. No. There may be several mechanical possibilities, becausesmall deviations are possible, but you always come back to the line. Iremember, long ago, before I became interested in these things, I