Probably from experience?Posted by Mad Hatter (here)
Hmm...
Dimension: A physical property, such as mass, length, time, or a combination thereof, regarded as a fundamental measure or as one of a set of fundamental measures of a physical quantity:
So for example we have...
1st Dimension = Left / Right
2nd Dimension = Up / Down
3rd Dimension = Backward / Forward
4th Dimension = TIME (from the above)
Why do so many describe time as "a minefield of discarnate energy "
See the first three chakras as analogous to the first three dimensions, see the main upper bodily chakras as residing in higher dimensions. The throat is the gateway to higher dimensionality. Where the parts of us that exist below meet the parts of us the exist above is the heart. We may say heart matters are analogues to traversing 4D - a meeting point, the crossover point of the infinity symbol, the eye of the needle, the finger of God allegorically touching the finger of man on the roof of a chapel. Lose contact with the heart and we become like shades, energy with no form but illusion, no function but self-pity and loathing disguised by aggression.
Seeing things in black and white may be a symptom of lower dimensionality (duality consciousness), but black and white are analogues of but two parts of the true trinity of female/male/magic. If this is unpalatable we can try pos/neg/neutral, mother/father/child or any other permutation influenced by our temperment and informed by whichever currency of cultural shorthand we tend to deal in.
Most people see things like these in transcendant experiences; for many, attaining this state requires much discipline and privation; for some the journey leaves them less fit for 3D existence upon their return than they were before they left; some go insane. For example, my understanding of the trinity came from a vision I received when I was seven (which I won't bother to relate here), but my visions started because I was severely and repeatedly sexually abused as a five year old. My take on that is: my awareness was forcibly returned to our true state, because the illusion had become problematic and destructive to me.
Nobody is trying to force anybody to believe anything, we are all here merely to share the pieces of the puzzle we have found along the way.
Edit: As an aside, we could also say that "time" is a human construct that acheives nothing except providing a referrant for the imperfection of physical reality (decay/entropy)