Multi-dimensional

July 1, 2008 by Mary Wynne-Wynter 

One of my challenges as a professional services practitioner is developing unique and rigorous personal, professional and organizational growth and improvement models and communicating those simply, creatively and effectively. I’m always encouraged when clients use similar terminology.

That happened recently when one expressed the desire to be more multi-dimensional with respect to blending various careers, talents, skills and abilities as an independent business, thinking about slash-career in a new way.

I personally got enthused about the term multi-dimensional in the early nineties reading Peter Drucker’s predictions that future organizations must succeed on all 3 dimensions – economic, social and human – rather than succeed on just one.

Recently, I was reading Florence Scovel Shin, a spiritual and metaphysical writer and practitioner in the 1920’s. She writes of the importance of the fourth dimension, a term she used to describe intuition.

In the past 10 years, astounding gains in cosmological knowledge is increasingly supported the theory that the known universe itself is multi-dimensional, in other words, one of infinite parallel universes all part a grand multiverse.

Now that I’m coming across the phrase “multi-dimensional” in many contexts in addition to those I’ve mentioned, I’m wondering if our traditional linear models are no longer sufficient to describe states of change at this stage of our individual and collective evolution.

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But since we’re limited by our physiology to experience a multi-dimensional existence, how does understanding the multi-dimensional improve our lives if we’re not physicists or scientists?

I think in some respects its better to not know but rather to sense that there’s infinitely more to our reality than what we see and directly experience in our linear timeline and with our existing perceptual abilities. If we can be still enough to sense what we can’t directly experience, and make that stillness and sensing a practice, we can learn to be in touch, or to make friends with, the multi-dimensional. Heightening this sense enhances life experience at every level – from practical personal, professional and organizational problem solving and decision making to truly transformational shifts in consciousness when the things we want begin to spontaneously and naturally feel like probabilities rather than possibilities.

Try replacing “anything is possible” with “everything is probable” and you’re likely to feel energized and naturally influential. If you fully believe the second statement, and refuse to believe anything less, you’re being the fulfillment you desire, rather than having to do something to get it. This might feel like going against the wave (and airwaves full) of artificial influence and resultant reactivity that presently dominates our one world. But often the right direction is to go the other way.

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