RECOGNIZING THE FOURTH DIMENSION by S Alexakhin SIGNED 2005 Paperback

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Recognizing the Fourth Dimension by S. I. Alexakhin

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Self-Press, Oregon House, California, Printed by Lulu, 2005, Second Revised Edition, First Paperback Edition, 148 pages, profusely illustrated (black & white)Some Second Revised Edition paperbacks were self-printed in spiral bound. In a small amount (just for friends) First Edition (comb bound) was self-published in Isis, Oregon House, California in 2004.

"We are trained to perceive the surrounding world as three-dimensional. The fourth dimension is not a trick. In the same way that we don’t notice the air we are breathing, we do not notice a lot of things that are around us. One of them is time. We do live in four- (or even more) dimensional reality. Usually we just don’t pay attention to this. The first step to broadening our vision is to learn and to develop features that allow us to experience the world as four-dimensional."

In "Recognizing the Fourth Dimension," author draws on a wealth of diverse yet connected material to help the reader exercise her awareness of spacial and temporal dimensions: from the geometry of the hypercube, to the philosophical allegory of Plato's cave; from astronomical observations of the planets and solar system, to the music of the spheres; from visual art, to the psychology of perception. Underlined in all of these exercises, however, is the idea that we have the chance to understand ourselves as four-dimensional beings, as not simply possessing bodies, but possessing time-bodies.

The idea of recollection and remembrance gave the title of this book, in which we try to recognize the fourth dimension in our everyday life and to recollect this kind of experience for our soul.

This book is based on Fourth Way ideas developed by Peter Ouspensky, George Gurdjieff, Rodney Collin, others and Modern Science.

REVIEW by Christine Gentilhomme on Recognizing the Fourth Dimension by S. Alexakhin, Second revised edition, 2005<<The book starts by quoting Plato's concept that our souls have been born many times and have acquired omniscience in the process. We remember only a tiny bit of it. So when we help our souls remember something of that vast amount of knowledge, we deepen our experience of reality, and ultimately can gain access to other dimensions of being, to a "4th dimension".In order to give us a taste of this "4th dimension", the author sets up a buffet of very diverse and unusual topics. Apart from the chapters on geometry which are best read in order, one can pick and choose between the other chapters at will. The different chapters are: - The Fourth Dimension as a Geometrical Object- The Hypercube- Plato's Cave- From Second to Third, From Third to Four- Rotation and Mirror Symmetry- Reality Level, Color and Time- The Fourth Dimension as the Object of Movement in Time- The Dance of the Spheres- Music, Architecture and Microcosm- What if We Could See in Any Wavelength of the Electromagnetic Spectrum?- The Time-Body It may take a certain amount of intellectual effort to study certain chapters. Some are easier to grasp (Plato's allegory), some less (the hypercube). But no matter how difficult the subject is, the author has done a good job at finding a variety of examples and explaining them point by point. The numerous illustrations are a great help, as well as welcome aesthetic surprises revealing hidden aspects of our worlds' beauty.An astounding variety of sources, examples, and reflexions is presented, spanning antiquity to present day, from art to physics, geometry, philosophy, medicine, astronomy, literature ... It would have been nice to have all the sources cited listed in a complete bibliography, though. Nonetheless the book is useful as a reference, as a spring board to further explorations.While certain books focus more on the mathematical aspect of the 4th dimension, or on the time aspect, etc., this book focuses on the connections between the different aspects the 4th dimension can take. The chapter Music, Architecture and Microcosm is a good example of this inter-weaving, because it shows the different manifestations of our world as they are linked together through harmony.Little known informative snippets are peppered throughout the book. For example, the harmonograph of the 19th century could trace the paths of pendulums on paper and reveal fundamental patterns that are the same as the paths of astral bodies. Underlying the book's explorations are suggestions about the state of mind necessary to grasp other dimensions, that is, the "casting off of the self". Now that quantum physics has proved that by observing an event, we modify it, it is  more necessary than ever to suspend judgment, and perhaps try to re-discover our world without the limitations of our ordinary 3D perception. And if we still cannot obtain a direct experience of the 4th dimension, at least knowing that it is "out there" provides us the inspiration and the room to grow.I highly recommend this book for those in search of remembrance of the Higher Dimension of Self.>>