The mystery of space : $b a study of the hyperspace movement in the light of the evolution of new psychic faculties and an inquiry into the genesis and essential nature of spaceBrowne, Robert T.
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The mystery of space : $b a study of the hyperspace movement in the light of the evolution of new psychic faculties and an inquiry into the genesis and essential nature of space
Browne, Robert T.
Hyperspace
The final issue then of the non-Euclidean geometry is neither in
the utility of its processes and conclusions nor in the increscent
inclination towards a new outlook upon the world of mathesis; but
resides solely in the possibilities yet to be developed in that vast
domain of analytical thought which it has discovered and opened to
view. To say that it sheds any light upon the nature of the universe
is perhaps to take the radical view; yet it cannot be doubted that the
researches incident to the formulation of the non-Euclidean geometry
have greatly extended the scope of consciousness. Whether the extension
is valid and normal or simply a hypertrophic excrescence of mental
feverishness; whether by virtue of it we shall more closely approach
an understanding of the true nature of the mind of the Infinite, or
shall all fall into insanity, are certainly debatable questions. It
nevertheless appears evident that humanity has gained something of
real, abiding permanence by this new departure. If that something be
merely an extended consciousness or an awakening to the fact that
there are stages of awareness beyond the strictly sensuous, and every
observable evidence points to this, then there has only begun the
process by which the faculty of conscious functioning in this new world
shall become the normal possession of the human species. But this new
world cannot be said to be of mathematical import; for it is doubtful
if mathematical laws such as have been devised up to the present time,
would obtain therein. So that if anything, it must be psychological and
vital.
On this view the worlds of hyperspace inlaid with analytic
manifoldnesses and constant curvatures are but the primal excitants
which will finally awaken in the mind the faculty of awareness in the
new domain of psychological content. Then will come the blooming of
the diurnal flower of the mind's immortality and the outputting of the
organ of consciousness wherewith the infinite stretches of hyperspaces,
the low-lying valleys of reals and imaginaries and the uplifting hills
of finites and infinites shall be divested of their mysteries and
stand out in their unitariness no longer draped in the veil of the
inscrutable and the incomprehensible.
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