This was an assignment for Star Reach, which is a program offered by Higher Balance, who I highly recommend for personal / spiritual development, and there is _nothing_ I have ever found that even comes close to what they offer. Anyway, here are my reflections on the subject.

I can see and feel how this works in my mind, so I am going to try and break it down into the most readily form that I can. Not because I think you need me to do it that way, but rather because I really value the way that my coach (Matt Struve) and Eric (Eric Pepin, the founder of Higher Balance) take concepts that are beyond the bleeding edge of the study of reality and transpose the concepts from a very high level of understanding to an understanding that is simple, yet contains all the levels above it.

Each sense is like an input stream – the stimuli that our senses interact with is converted into electrical signals that are sent to our brain and interpreted into a form that we can appreciate (touch, taste, etc). These input streams from the different senses all form together in our organic awareness to give us a ‘complete’ version of reality as we experience it. It is all our senses functioning in unison that create our holographic reality for us – our senses are the tools through which our middle pillar experiences this reality – if our body had no senses, this reality would not exist for us.

If we think of the scope of this holographic reality as a 6 dimensional matrix (I.e. – 1 dimension for each sense) then the reality that each person experiences can be thought of as the intersect point of all 6 values in the matrix. This creates the basic framework through which beings interact with this reality, which is then added to by perceptions and identities that we create and live through that define how we see things in this holographic reality.

To illustrate the way this works, I will use the example of eating a hamburger. To begin with, let’s break the typical experience of eating a hamburger down into several separate experiences, one for each of the senses. We have that moment when you are feeling hungry, and you see the hamburger creating the anticipation (sight); next we have the feeling of the hamburger in your hand, the difference in texture between the roll and salad as they brush against your skin, the variety of textures that come from that first bite as your teeth break through the crusty bun through the soft dough and into the salad and meat (touch); the heady combination of aromas that seem to explode as you bite into the burger(smell); and the taste of it as the substance disperses in your mouth (taste). The sixth sense integrates with all of these and yet it is a sense all of its own. So in these ways, each separate experience with our physical senses contributes to the entirety of the larger experience.

Now imagine if your sense of taste was very weak, and your sense of touch was very strong – or even if you were missing a sense altogether (or perhaps had gained a new one!), would this not fundamentally change the way you experience this reality? This is represented in the 6 dimensional matrix I mentioned before – as the values for each sense go up or down, the intersect point between all of the senses also shifts, which gives a different construction of the framework to perceive and interact with this holographic reality.