Three-Dimensional World
Living in a Three-Dimensional (3-D) World
Paul Dejillas, Ph.D.
July 19, 2023
Inhabitants move (1) forward-backward, (2) left-right, and (3) up-down.
This kind of life is common in the agricultural or rural sector. This can be a
(1) farmland engaged in crop, plant, or tree production,
(2) fishery involved in fish breeding,
(3) coral protection,
(4) or livestock engaged in breeding of chicken, hogs, poultry products, etc.
The farmer’s movement is limited:
(1) from the house to the farm and back,
(2) from the farm to the neighbors as a form of socialization like singing, dancing, cockfighting, and back home.
(3) of course, farmers can also climb up trees to harvest fruits, or coconut trees to produce wine.
This is the farmer’s daily routine. Simple, but happy, blissful, loving, and compassionate.
In addition, farmers can be very much aware of the existence of other invisible inhabitants around them, living in trees, rivers, caves, streams, stones, hills, mountains, skies, etc. They can feel and even see the presence of spirits, ghosts, dwarves, fairies, gnomes, and even centaurs, etc.
Farmers are conscious that the world they live in is both physical and spiritual as well as enchanting, magical, mythical, and mystical.
Farmers live life fully and happily in their 3-D world by communing with the minerals, plants, trees, animals, invisible spirits, performing rituals like food offerings, dances, songs, memorial celebrations, annual festivals, and holy days, etc.
There’s no awareness or concept of time. The only time they know are the periodic seasons of the year. Unlike those in the metropolis, they don't wear watches or hang clocks on their walls. Their life is not dictated by Bundy clocks Yet, they know time simply by looking at the skies, sun, moon, and stars, or by the sounds of their animals, the seasonal appearances of crops and fruit trees, weather fluctuations, climate changes, etc.
They are not pressured to do planning. They don’t keep tight schedules daily. They are not busy at all since everything proceeds according to the vagaries of nature. They simply go with the flow of the seasons.
They know when a storm, flood, or hurricane is approaching. They know when to till, plant, harvest, celebrate, tend, and play with their pets and animals.
Our life in the urban areas is far more different. I wonder who is happier. My grandparents live on top of the mountains and me who is surrounded by all the amenities and perks as a result of globalization. Our urban life is already a highly 4-D construct.