"Very patiently the Sphere explains that there is nothing strange about this. He is an infinite number of circles, varying from a point to a circle of thirteen inches in diameter, placed one on top of another. When he passes through the two-dimensional reality of Flatland - upon touching the plane of Flatland - he appears as a point; as he continues, to a Flatlander's eyes he looks like a circle, constantly growing in diameter, until he begins to shrink and eventually disappears again.
"This also explains how the Sphere managed to enter the Square's house despite its locked doors - he simply stepped into it from above. Finally the Sphere sees no other recourse than to produce in the Square what we would nowadays call a transcendental experience."
Paul Watzlawick - How Real Is Real?
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OEN and Flatland
It is interesting that the majority of articles on OEN do not reveal an awareness (or interest in) other planes of consciousness or reality.
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History
Mystics, throughout time [in America in the 1800s, for example - Emerson and Whitman - and recent psychedelic researchers such as Stanislav Grof, MD, Realms of the Human Unconscious - Observations from LSD Research and Rick Strassman, M.D, DMT - The Spirit Molecule] have reported much that confirms the 1902 statement by the world-renowned William James after he imbibed nitrous oxide.
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William James:
"Some years ago, I myself made some observations. One conclusion was forced upon my mind at that time, and my impression of its truth has ever since remained unshaken.
"It is that our normal waking consciousness... is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different. No account of the universe in its totality can be final which leaves these other forms of consciousness quite disregarded.
"At any rate, they forbid a premature closing of our accounts with reality."
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