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Re Talk: 133


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      For everything consciousness believes in completely, there is a corresponding lack of belief.  That is how the brain physically operates in the 3-D world.

     Keep this in mind as we go back to discussing numbers.  For every 2, there is also an unactivated aspect of 2, at a right angle to it.  Every 2 has a normally unrecognized negative reflection, or else it could not exist.  And I don't mean simply -- in the language of mathematics -- that for every 2 there is a minus 2. In another dimension, the unactivated side of a 2 could be a 3.  Another 2 could have an unactivated side that is a 7.5.  There could be many different 2s, each having a different unactivated side.  Thus, the equation which looks like this in the 3-D world:

                            2 + 2 = 4

could very well look like this if you added a dimension:

                   (2 + 3) + (2 + 7.5) = l4.5

     Do not get caught in thinking that this has to do with numbers, as you have always used them.  It is a reflection of something that is quite real, though.  Consider that all you have to do is add one dimension -- move at a slight right angle -- and everything changes.

     You cannot think of "good" without thinking of what is not good.  You can't think of "2" without being able to think of a non-2.  There can be nothing in consciousness standing by itself without some background.  That is what I mean, in part, by drawing an unactivated, negative, reflective aspect of the brain.  A person could not be conscious of 2 if that was the only number he knew, because then 2 would be no number.  There has to be a negative background composed of non-2s.  Similarly, a table could not be a "table" if you only knew one word.  If you knew only one word, you wouldn't know anything, because for something to be a table, you have to at least know that something else is not a table.  There is an unspoken, unrealized, negative aspect to everything.

     For a 2 to be a 2, there must exist another dimension -- at a right angles -- in which 2 plus 2 is not 4 only.  In that dimension, 2 plus 2 could be 4, or it could be 14.5, literally.  So -- on another level and for the purposes of describing another viewpoint -- numbers are as inadequate, as inefficient, as words. JC talk 133