Every meditation, is a little like running. Some days are better than others. One day it’s easy to slip quickly into a state of total quietude, while others…well, I can’t find my rhythm, my mind is all over the place and my muscles cramp!

But on those days where everything flows perfectly, a shift occurs. I’m in my chair, but outside of my chair. The light shifts behind closed eyelids, and I’m taken somewhere outside of myself. It can be hard to describe beyond a feeling. But peace comes to mind.

In the middle of it all, I started thinking about dimensions. Capt. Awesome sat me down one day and showed me a Youtube video of Carl Sagan talking about the different dimensions…and that despite the fact that we can only visibly see 3, there are at least 10 dimensions. The fourth being time.

So as the wheel started turning, naturally I totally geeked out and began watching all these Youtube videos and Ted Talks on string theory. (Awesome told me, “I got my nerd on!“) This is not a normal Marisa thing to do but I found it fascinating and a little mind-blowing.

I learned that:

• These other dimensions are so small, we are incapable of seeing them with our own eyes. But that doesn’t mean they do not exist.
• Space, in and of itself, is not empty. At the most basic level, all particles are comprised of a filament of energy, vibrating at different frequencies.
• These dancing filaments of energy make up the landscape of the universe. This creates unification in everything we can see, touch, etc.
• This theory is a mathematical equation. Could it also be an energy equation?
• These dimensions by no means function in straight lines, but fold in on themselves.
• When branching out into these other dimensions, we learn that time is not linear. An idea translated across many science fiction books and films.
• The further notion suggests that we can travel through these dimensions and access other universes; parallel or otherwise.

So it got me thinking, which can be dangerous…if we are made up of the same particles, at the most basic level, vibrating with energy; this signifies that we are not separate from the universe, but very much an active part of it. Energy is neither created, nor destroyed.

Einstein says “everything is energy and that’s all there is to it. Match the frequency of the reality you want, and you cannot help but get that reality. It can be no other way. This is not philosophy. This is physics.”

Energy can flow freely. It is unconstrained. It can travel between space, across galaxies, through dimensions.

Here’s the million dollar questions: If we are also energy…should we not be able to flow in the same way? Perhaps tied to this three dimensional body, the perception of what we are capable is limiting. But you hear of those who are able to transcend during meditation. Is it then that far of a stretch to believe we can cross into other dimensions during meditation? That we can access the far recesses of time and space with our minds?

These ideas can seem a little out there but I also believe there is so much about this world that we don’t understand and that we cannot measure..and that doesn’t make it wrong or untrue. I also believe that what was once science fiction is now science fact. There are still so many new discoveries to be made in this lifetime and beyond; anything is possible…

On a personal anecdote, I remember this one meditation quite vividly. I captured a vision of my father as a toddler. He was staring deep into my eyes and I recognized that he was not staring at me, but his mother; my grandmother. Further realization hit, as this wave of unconditional love rushed over me out of nowhere, for that moment I was not myself, but experiencing this breath as my grandmother. The emotion, so strong, sent tears to my eyes.

Is it possible, if we are all made of energy, energy can travel through dimensions, and time is not linear…that I was actually there to witness this special bond between my grandmother and father?

Certainly, I do not presume to have all the answers. And for this little artist, dabbling in the scientist way of thinking is not common place. But opening my eyes, creates limitless possibilities. And that’s the world I want to live in…