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  %MULTI-DIMENSIONAL UNIVERSE OBJECTS RELATIONSHIPS+951202
    %ORTHOGONAL CHARACTERS CONFLICT RESOLUTION EVIL+951202
        %PERCEPTION APPROACH ASSUMPTION IDEAL VALUE 951202

     We  live in multi-dimensional universes of  objective
and  reflexive relationships.   Scientists  before  Albert
Einstein  analyzed the objective universe in terms of only
three objective dimensions.   Since Einstein developed his
Special and  General Theories of Relativity, it  has  been
common for scientists to analyze the objective universe in
terms   of  four  or  more  objective  dimensions;   e.g.,
including time as a fourth dimensions in terms of which to
talk about the "coordinates of an event"  along with three
orthogonal  other coordinates such as latitude,  longitude
and   elevation.    In  another  pattern  of  coordinates,
scientists use the four coordinates  (x, y, z, t)  where t
represents time.   Other times the four coordinates may be
written down as (x,  y,  z, ict)   where  i represents the
square root of  the negative unit number and c  represents
the speed of light.

     Each  system of dimensions/coordinates is  especially
suitable for the analysis of certain phenomena; e.g., high
speed  phenomena,   ultra small  phenomena,   ultra  large
phenomena,   objective  phenomena,   reflexive  phenomena,
intimate    relationships,    alienative    relationships,
conflicts, cooperation, etc.

     People  who analyze various phenomena come to diverse
conclusions  regarding  the phenomena, due to  the diverse
ways  in  which  they approach the phenomena in  terms  of
their chosen multi-dimensional  coordinates.   They may be
talking about the same events, relationships and realities
in quite  different  ways --- due  to  the  differences in
categories,     vocabularies,    assumptions,     beliefs,
coordinates, and attitudes with  which  they  approach the
events, relationships and realities.

     Some  people  may label  events,   relationships  and
realities as  "evil"  because of the paths,  ways,  roads,
approaches,    categories,   vocabularies,    assumptions,
beliefs,   coordinates and attitudes with which they  have
approached the events,  relationships and realities.     A
real-estate  agent  wanting to sell a house  in a racially
mixed neighborhood will drive the prospective  customer to
the house  along  roads  through  the  best  part  of  the
neighborhood near the house---taking care  not to approach
the house on roads through the  deteriorated parts of  the
neighborhood of the house.   Thus the buyer  will perceive
the house to be in a "good" neighborhood.

     Beware  the  real-estate agent who opposes the  buyer
driving around the house in "circle"  of increasing radius
and who opposes the buyer flying over the house and around
the   house   at   different  elevations  and   radii   of
exploration.

     Similarly,  beware of people who limit their  own and
other  people's  dimensionality  of  exploration  of   the
neighborhood  of controversial events,  relationships  and
realities.     This   is   especially  true   of   events,
relationships  and realities pertaining to opening  up  or
closing  down  channels  of  communication  pertaining to:
intimacy,   openness,  honesty,  spirituality,   religion,
affection and sexuality.  Similarly, for clarification and
confusion; repressing and liberating,  etc.  Wisdom is not
promoted  by  ignorance and  confusion,   but  by widening
dimensions  of  exploration  and  clarification;   not  by
exclusivity  and specialization,  but by  inclusivity  and
integration.   People with diverse kinds of knowledge need
to   be  included  and  integrated  in  decision   making.
Exclusive  specialists  are not well  qualified  to  guide
decision making in controversial situations.

     People who become familiar with events, relationships
and realities may label them "good"  or "evil"   depending
upon both the dimensionality of the "space"  through which
they  pass in their approach to the events,  relationships
and  realities---and upon particular "places"   within the
multi-dimensional space.     Some people may label certain
events, relationships and realities as "evil" because they
have  always experienced them within the context of a  set
of dimensions which is so limited as to  make the paths to
those events,  relationships  and realities  pass  through
highly objectionable "neighborhoods".    Yet, other people
who  live  in  a world of more dimensions can  openly  and
honestly   report  that  in  their  experience  they  have
approached  the  same  events, relationships and realities
along  paths  and in  ways  which  are  without  exception
characterized by personal and communal integrity.  We need
to become open, and remain open,   to the possibility that
our  differences  in perceptions  of the nature of events,
relationships   and  realities   may  originate   in   the
differences  in   the  dimensionality of the universes  in
which we have chosen to live our lives.  There are as many
different universes of experience---as there are different
people  and  different patterns of paths,   ways,   roads,
approaches,   assumptions,   categories,     vocabularies,
beliefs, coordinates and attitudes   with   which   people
approach the  events, relationships and realities of their
lives.

     In  light  of  the above ---  when people differ with
each other  about  how  "good"   or  "evil"   some events,
relationships  and  realities  are---it  will be wise  and
prudent  to  seek  to  discover  the  differences  in  the
patterns of paths, ways,  roads,  approaches, assumptions,
categories,     vocabularies,     beliefs, coordinates and
attitudes   with   which   people  approach  the   events,
relationships  and  realities of their  lives.    Not  all
events,   relationships and realities are objectively real
in  ways  which are independent of the observers  and  the
ways in which the observers approach and perceive them. It
is not wise to pretend otherwise.

                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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