11 Dimensions???

I don't get it ... i know time is the 4th dimension ... but, whats up with the other 7.

Imagine a birds-eye view Flatland, everything is two-dimensional, that is, there is length and width, but no height. There is no third-dimension. Likewise, the inhabitants of flatland would also be two-dimensional. Take a piece of paper and make a square. Inside of it draw a few happy faces. Those are what the people of Flatland would look like on a good day.

Now let us imagine that a three-dimensional man walks across Flatland. What would this look like to the inhabitants? Draw some footprints in your square. What would the Flatlanders make of these strange shapes that seem to quickly appear out of nowhere and then just as quickly disappear again? Are they ghosts or spirits? U.F.O.'s perhaps? Is there the possibility that it may be God? If so, which one is God? And what is he trying to communicate by presenting this apparition? Each different interpretation of this communication would no doubt spark a new religion based upon it.

The religious leaders as well as the scientists of Flatland would have to get to work to provide a suitable explanation as to what they were witnessing (those that would actually admit to seeing it in the first place that is). Would they identify the toes as being part of the feet? Would they identify and classify a left foot and a right foot? Would they know that the 1st left footprint and the 2nd left footprint were actually one and the same?

This is all directly relatable to the quantum dilemma we are currently facing, except that we are having trouble imagining a four-dimensional reality due to the limitations of our three-dimensional perceptions, just as our friends in Flatland are struggling to understand a three-dimensional reality due to the limitations of their own two-dimensional perceptions. I won't even bother to mention the fact that Dr. Stephen Hawking suggests that there are actually no fewer than 11 dimensions... that would be pushing it. Abbot also goes on to visit an imaginary place called Lineland.

The long and short of it is that we have no way of knowing what reality really is because we just can't see the whole picture. We can't see the hundreds of possible dimensions because we only have the mental faculties to see three-dimensions, just as the Flatlanders can only see two-dimensions. Quantum Theory points to the holographic nature of the universe, which science is just beginning to unravel. We can no longer fight or ignore the implications of this new science, it's time to incorporate it into our existing understanding, and coincidentally this as of yet unraveled science provides a rather nice framework for understanding the science of Reiki.

Reiki energy, for all those who have experienced it is unquestionable and no explanation for where it comes from is needed. Reiki healers, Reiki teachers and Reiki practitioners all connect to Reiki energies in their own ways, based on the methods they were taught. There is no right way and no wrong way to connect to this energy and the fact that it exists is indisputable to those who have witnessed it. Reiki energy exists in a dimension that most of us are not able to directly perceive.