Makes you wonder right? Untapped, unrealized, suppressed human potential?
I could point a few other candidates like Nikola Tesla and Adolf Hitler (or one of his staff). The natural ability to manipulate reality with far reaching effects (not due to their good or evil deeds) but stemming directly from the mind.
I gave it a LOT of thought at one point. I wrote this in 2005 - here it is again for you, never posted in these forums, but circulated amongst my friends at the time, most of who scratched their head and backed away from me
I'm not sure it's correct, I'm not sure it's not, but it is my thoughts on the matter at the time 14 years ago, and I think it goes with this thread. Enjoy
> Welcome to the River
> ==============
>
> Dimension 0 is a point.
>
> Dimension 1 is a line (an infinite number of points)
>
> Dimension 2 is a square/plane (an infinite number of lines)
>
> Dimension 3 is a cube/volume (an infinite number of planes)
>
> (but if you zoom waaaaaay far out, it looks just like a point)
>
> Dimension 4 is an infinite number of cubes (hard to visualize...)
>
> (...but if you zoom waaaaaay far out, it looks just like a line)
>
> (a timeline)
>
> (where things 'happen' and the outcome of B is certain because A preceeds
> it)
>
> Dimension 5 is an infinite number of timelines (possibilities)
>
> (but if you zoom waaaaaay far out, it looks just like a plane)
>
> (or maybe a surface of water)
>
> (the timelines are still flowing in the same direction...)
>
> (and taken as a whole, anything is possible)
>
> (except moving backwards)
>
> ...Welcome to the River.
>
> Most conventional theories of reality have anywhere from 6 to 10 dimensions.
>
> For my purposes, I only require that 5 exist.
>
> And a boat.
>
> And an oar.
>
> When we dream, the reality we experience is entirely private and personal,
> and it varies widely from moment to moment, shifting like water. It follows
> no rules, makes no 'sense' in the conventional sense of sense. It is often
> 'strange'.
>
> When we are awake, the reality we experience is no less strange. It is no
> less strange to exist on a ball of matter orbiting a billion ton ball of
> flaming gas in a void. To have a 'body'. The only difference between the
> strangeness of the dreaming, and the strangeness of the waking is that the
> waking is consistent, more or less, from day to day. But we are used to it.
> And it is consistent. More or less.
>
> There have been exceptions.
>
> Why?
>
> When you dream, it is private. Only your consciousness is on the boat. Your
> oar is the only oar in the water. And your subconsious is at the helm. The
> boat moves across the private river as it likes, and the perspective in
> reality you experience shifts more or less according to its whim. Until the
> alarm clock goes off. Time's up.
>
> It's trying to tell you something.
>
> If you lucid dream, which is hard because we seem to be built to accept what
> we are experiencing, then your consciousess takes the Oar, and you shape the
> dream as you wish. Things are completely malleable and under your control.
> Now you are moving across the private River in the private boat to where
> ever you wish to go, until you forget again or the alarm clock goes off.
> Time's up.
>
> But in the waking world... There are 8 billion oars in the water, all on the
> same boat. (someone is telling me that there are only 6, but I am certain
> that there used to be 8, so where did the other 2 billion people go? I guess
> they must have fallen off the boat at some point, but alas I digress...)
>
> None of them are going in the same direction. Very very few of them are even
> rowing. Of the ones that are rowing, even fewer still are rowing in the same
> direction all the time.
>
> What is the result?
>
> Consistency.
>
> The boat doesn't go anywhere, it is only carried by the current of time on
> the River and B will follow A more or less, day after day after day.
>
> I suspect that not everyone's oar is the same. Some may be bigger, some may
> be smaller. Perhaps this is a measure of faith or level of
> sentience/awareness. God would of course have the biggest oar of all, and
> when He intervenes, the boat moves anywhere across the river He wishes. We
> call these 'miracles'. For somewhere, across the possibilities of the River,
> Fire was raining down on Sodom and Gomorrah, the Red Sea was parting. He
> took us all there to show us, and then we moved forward from there. Yes, He
> is in fact in the boat with us. I find this comforting.
>
> In a sense, if you believe that there are at least 5 dimensions to reality,
> then He has built the possibility for miracles into the system. He's not
> even 'breaking the rules' by performing them. But I don't believe that He is
> in anyway constrained by the system (He designed it after all, and can just
> as easily step out of the boat, the River, and the rest of it. He's here by
> choice). Its just that in this theory, He also planned ahead.
>
> He also gave us all Oars. Perhaps even the lesser things have them. I like
> to think of my cat as having a small oar. The mountains even. Teeny tiny
> small oars, but all dragging in the water; mountains like to stay where they
> are. They don't like change. I wouldn't either if I was a mountain.
> Somewhere, across the river, I am being removed and hurled into the sea.
>
> But what does this mean? What happens when someone with a big oar starts
> rowing in one particular direction? And what happens when others see them
> and begin rowing in the same direction as well?
>
> The boat moves sideways maybe just a little bit, but it moves. And new
> possibilities open up. If it moves far enough, fast enough, we call these
> possibilities 'miracles'.
>
> And back to dreaming, I think that perhaps everything we experience is
> important. Scripture says that all of creation points as evidence to the
> Creator. I think that it is all an allegory, as well, pointing to deeper
> truths. Some people will try to interpret dreams for their content trying to
> fathom their meaning. I'm questioning their purpose in the first place, and
> I think I see it.
>
> Why did God build this into his creation? And have them do it EVERY SINGLE
> NIGHT?
>
> What is He trying to tell us?
>
> I think its a clue.
>
> Reality may be a lot more malleable than we thought.
>
> But now its 7:00AM in the morning and my alarm clock has just gone off.
>
> Time's up.
>
It had to be really really strong emotions to trigger it. I even keep having dreams sometimes I thought it's Jesus or the Holy Spirit. They keep telling me there's something inside me and I need to figure it out how to control it.
