The 8 Perception Densities
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The previous section explained how the dimensions of space and time are caused by the mind perceiving and stitching together the slices of space and time differently.
Cruder minds have a limited range and so can only perceive the basic dimensions.
For example a dot that just can go forward and backward can only create a line.
But a dot that can go forward and backward and sideways can form a plane.
So the ability to detect more dimensions is sourced from the freedom and strength of the perceiving mind.
- Freedom is from the Positive Force
- Strength is from the Negative Force
We say that a mind that has a higher density if it has more of the Positive and Negative, with more importance on the Positive.
These then correlates to the range that it can detect of the domains and dimensions.
| Domain | Density | Name | Manifestation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Physical | 1 | Identity | Pure Staticity, perceives as objects |
| Physical | 2 | Self | Perceives from a single point |
| Physical | 3 | Collective | Perceives as a group |
| Quasi-Physical | 4 | Lower Mind | In between physical and metaphysical perceptions |
| Metaphysical | 5 | Higher Mind | Start of pure metaphysical domain |
| Metaphysical | 6 | Soul | Universes in the Multiverse |
| Metaphysical | 7 | Brahma or Oversoul | Ultimate Cause |
| Void | 8 | Non-Existential | Void |
Currently, humans are on the early stages of the 4th perception density.
- We have long had the perception of the malleability or subjectivity of time since the time of the Vedas, Gita, Parmenides and the Stoics.
- We have knowledge of abstract philosophy which proves a belief in the metaphysical domain.
- Yet there is no consensus of what the “physics” of the metaphysical domain is.
This is what Superphysics aims to provide in order to help advance the human species to the upper densities and dimensions.
Connects to the Chakras
Of these 8 perception densities, 7 matches the 7 aethereal chakras in yoga since the 8th density is only theoretical.
Physically, the dimensions will be useful in Material Superphysics.
Metaphysically, the densities will be useful in Bio-Superphysics which deals with life and the chakras.
For example, after death a person’s soul might be subtle enough to move on to the metaphysical domain into the 5th and 6th densities as a spiritual or luminous entity.
Usually, a soul’s advancement is not so rapid and so it might go back into the physical domain as 4 th density.
More importantly, these dimensions and densities give the soul a direction in life – to aim for the subtler and higher realms instead of wasting time trapped in the lower densities. This goal is called the state of samadhi:
’Where does this Buddha come from and where am I going? As I think of this Buddha, He comes from nowhere and I am going nowhere. As I think of the desire realm, the form realm, and the formless realm*, these three realms are formed by my mind. I can see what I think of. The mind forms a Buddha for itself to see; the mind is the Buddha mind. As my mind forms a Buddha, my mind is the Buddha; my mind is the Tathāgata; my mind is my body.’ Although the mind sees a Buddha, the mind neither knows itself nor sees itself. The mind with perceptions is saṁsāra; the mind without perceptions is nirvāṇa. Dharmas as perceived are not something pleasurable. They are empty thoughts, nothing real. This is what Bodhisattvas see as they abide in this samādhi.
Buddha
Pratyutpanna Samādhi Sutta