Prof Bernard Carr Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy School of Physics and Astronomy Queen Mary, University of London Astronomer and mathematician Bernard Carr theorizes that many of the phenomena we experience but cannot explain within the physical laws of this dimension actually occur in other dimensions. Albert Einstein stated that there are at least four dimensions. The fourth dimension is time, or spacetime, since Einstein said space and time cannot be separated. In modern physics, theories about the existence of up to 11 dimensions and the possibility of more have gained traction. Carr, a professor of mathematics and astronomy at Queen Mary University of London, says our consciousness interacts with another dimension. Furthermore, the multi-dimensional universe he envisions has a hierarchical structure. We are at the lowest-level dimension. “The model resolves well-known philosophical problems concerning the relationship between matter and mind, elucidates the nature of time, and provides an ontological framework for the interpretation of phenomena such as apparitions, OBEs [out-of-body experiences], NDEs [near-death-experiences], and dreams,” he wrote in a conference abstract. Carr reasons that our physical sensors only show us a 3-dimensional universe, though there are actually at least four dimensions. What exists in the higher dimensions are entities we cannot touch with our physical sensors. He said that such entities must still have a type of space to exist in. “The only non-physical entities in the universe of which we have any experience are mental ones, and … the existence of paranormal phenomena suggests that mental entities have to exist in some sort of space,” Carr wrote. The other-dimensional space we enter in dreams overlaps with the space where memory exists. Carr says telepathy signals a communal mental space and clairvoyance also contains a physical space. “Non-physical percepts have attributes of externality,” he wrote in his book “Matter, Mind, and Higher Dimensions.” He builds on previous theories, including the Kaluza–Klein theory, which unifies the fundamental forces of gravitation and electromagnetism. The Kaluza–Klein theory also envisions a 5-dimensional space. In “M-theory,” there are 11 dimensions. In superstring theory, there are 10. Carr understands this as a 4-dimensional “external” space—meaning these are the four dimensions in Einstein’s relativity theory—and a 6- or 7-dimensional “internal” space—meaning these dimensions relate to psychic and other “intangible” phenomena.

1. MATTER, MIND
AND
HIGHER DIMENSIONS
Bernard Carr
Esalen (2010)
Worlds Apart? Can Psychical Research Bridge
The Gulf between Matter and Mind?
Proceedings of SPR, Volume 59, 1- 96 (2008)
• Why the bridge is opposed but necessary
• Overview of attempts to connect psi and physics (2nd session)
• New proposed paradigm (1st session)
Matter, Mind and Higher Dimensions
Paper circulated before meeting, outlining recent developments in
• physics
• psychophysics
• philosophy
• psychology
• hyperphysics
• feedback from Eric/Ed
Network Review April 2010
A Brief History of Higher Dimensions
Not circulated but available upon request

2. UNIFICATION OF FORCES
ELECTRIC
MAGNETIC
ELECTROMAGNETIC
WEAK
ELECTROWEAK
STRONG
GRAND UNIFICATION
GRAVITY
M-THEORY electric
weak
GUT
big bang
MACROMICRO
strong
Pyramid of Complexity
M-theory Multiverse
Higher dimensions
Missing Jewel
Crown of Physics
Mind?

3. ELECTRIC
MAGNETIC
ELECTROMAGNETIC
WEAK
ELECTROWEAK
STRONG
GRAND UNIFICATION
GRAVITY
M-THEORY
CONSCIOUSNESS
?
THEORY OF EVERYTHING …. but half world missing!
Is psi a field/force?
Pyramid of Complexity
physical
living
mental
WHAT IS MEANT BY DIMENSIONALITY?
Newtonian picture assumes absolute 3D space (and time)
hypercube
Christus Hypercubus
Salvador Dali

4. Cube as square in square
Hypercube as cube in cube
Einstein “Special relativity” (1905): eliminates absolute space and time
Minkowski (1906): 4-dimensional spacetime
Kaluza (1919): 5th dimension unifies gravity and electromagnetism
Klein (1926): 5th dimension compactified on Planck scale
General Relativity (1916): gravity from curved spacetime
M-theory (1995): seven compactified dimensions => 11D
Randall-Sundrum (1999): 4D brane in higher-dimensional bulk
Calabi-Yau
Superstrings (1984): six compactified dimensions => 10D
3-brane
compactified
extended

5. QUANTUM
MECHANICS
GENERAL
RELATIVITY
6D
5D
4D
3D
event horizon
log (R/cm)
log (M/gm)
Planck scale
revised
Planck
scale
-5
proton
LHC
-24 -20 15
-13
-18
-33
Com
pton
wavelength
Black hole radius rS= 2GM/c2
Uncertainty Principle !x >
!
h
"p
!
"p
h
Generalized + lP
2
!MBH
1/(n-2) if n spatial dimensions
=> R >
!
h
Mc
CLASSICAL
tim
e
funny
space
funny
PSYCHO-PHYSICS: THE PROBLEM OF TIME
Einstein “block universe” does not describe flow of time => need extra mental time
mystical union
religious epiphany
creative insight
distant healing/PK
gut feelings
mundane profound
telepathy
premonitions
clairvoyance
genius
saint
psychic
everyone
healer
rare
common
FREQUENCY
IMPACT
EXPERIENCES oceanic feeling
deja vu
NORMAL
PARANORMAL
SPIRITUAL

6. mundane profound
rare
common
frequency
impact
EXPERIENCES
Rare experiences
beyond the reach of
science, but well
accepted
Common experiences,
amenable to scientific
study, but highly
controversial
Universal experiences,
amenable to scientific study
and uncontroversial
mundane profound
rare
common
frequency
impact
EXPERIENCES
These experiences
transform the
world
These
experiences
transform us
PARAPSYCHOLOGY AS A BRIDGE
MindMatter
Experiment Experience
3rd person 1st person
Science Spirituality
Double-bridge!
Science Parapsychology Spirituality
Paraphysics Transpersonal
New Paradigm

7. We need
A NEW PARADIGM
* consciousness
* transcendence of space and time
* mental phenomena in some radically new way
which incorporates…
“Parapsychology is littered with hypothetical structures to explain the
psi process, or some features of it, but no comprehensive theory…
Either psi does not exist or psi is so fundamental that it is intimately
interwoven into the very fabric of reality” (Jim Beichler 1998)
MATTER
External Internal
Objective Subjective
Public Private
3rd person 1st person
Real Imaginary
Experiment Experience
Science Mysticism
Outer
SPACE
Inner
MIND
TWO WORLDS
CONSCIOUSNESS
MIND ConsciousnessPerception
Emotion
<
_
Cognition
Volition
_
_
_
>
Meaning
PHILOSOPHY PHYSICAL PERCEPTS
4D view: 4D object " 3D object + 3D percept
• Broken circle " non-physicality because spatial and null slicings equally physical.
3D view: 3D object " 2D percept
• Multiplicity of cats is illusory since there is only a single 4D cat.
• Perceptual cat is not in the brain itself.
• Solid box = spatial hypersurface => object-percept relation reflects nature of time.

8. Phenomenal space for any consciousness is the part of spacetime
connected to worldline of its body and sensory extensions though
nexus of signalling worldlines.
4D EXTENDED MIND
Spacetime diagrams of various perceptual processes
(Whitehead/Weiss/Culbertson)
telescope photograph mirror neuronal signals
brain
world
tube
PHYSICAL MEMORY PERCEPTS
Memory C2B1 = C2B2+B2B1
Memory is not in brain but
channeled through brain.
Memories of physical events reflect direct access of consciousness to
spacetime which contains events => memory is re-experiencing of past.
4D spacetime provides extra information capacity
=> evolutionary role of consciousness.
(James Culbertson)
NON-PHYSICAL PERCEPTS?
But brain can replicate nexus to some extent => both tag and trace
PARANORMAL PERCEPTS
ClairvoyanceTelepathy
or
or
=
=
A SPACE FOR MIND?
PHENOMENAL SPACE
Percepts associated with physical world (i.e. with external reality in standard view).
* Representative theory => phenomenal space is secondary (internal construct)
but development in physics => object is itself a representation.
* Naïve realism => percept is object => perceptual space is physical percept.
Difficult to uphold now but neuroscience only implies mapping between physical and
perceptual space when consciousness associated with brain.
* Phenomenal space is different from physical but just as real.
Intersecting hyperplanes with moving intersection associated
with flow of time (Smythies 1956).
* Object and percept are lower-dimensional projections
of single higher-dimensional object.

9. MEMORY AND VISUALIZATION SPACE
After-images akin to sensations - intermediate between phenomenal and memory space.
* All memories stored in the brain and derive from physical world indirectly.
Dream memories and reincarnation memories? All visualizations derive from physical world?
* Memories of physical events reflect direct access of consciousness to spacetime
which contains the events => memory is re-experiencing of past (Culbertson)
Brain can replicate nexus to some extent but nexus persists after brain dies.
4D structure never disappears!
Different types of memory: skill, episodic, semantic (Ed Kelly)
DREAM SPACE
“We inhabit two worlds simultaneously, the world of common experience governed by
physical law and another space, quite as real, which obeys other laws….continuous
dream-life goes on throughout our waking hours and occasionally we may catch a
glimpse of it.” (Price 1955)
“The distinction between the dream-world and nature is that thespacetime of the
dream-world cannot conjoin with the scheme of the space-time of nature, as constituted
by any part of nature. The dream-world is nowhere and at no time, though it has a
dream-time and dream-space of its own.” (Whitehead)
* Creation of brain. All dream images derive from jumbling up of images received through
physical sensors while awake.
Can be just as vivid as waking space (lucid dreams). Imagination can interact with dream
scene but different from visualization space. Obvious overlap with memory space.
* Different from physical space but may contain veridical information about past,
present and future of physical space.
* Physical events and dream events exist in different spacetimes
* Broad merges dream space into a single communal space of more than 3 dimensions
in which sensations of all kinds exist.
PSI SPACE
Core phenomena of ESP and PK but psi goes beyond this.
* Psi is delusional!
* Reductionist view in which brains communicate and observe/influence physical world
through some unknown physical interaction.
But psi associated with other phenomena less amenable to such explanations.
* Non-physical percepts have attributes of externality.
Telepathy => communal mental space.
Clairvoyance => contains physical space
(cf. Braude)
Link between psi and dream space.
Precognition => link with memory
APPARITION SPACE
* Hallucinations. But what about veridical or collective cases?
* Exist in physical space. But why no physical trace?
* Model 1: collective cases explained by telepathy and veridical
information by clairvoyance
“The visual solid constituting the apparition is provided by the percipient and in a
collective case each percipient is providing the aspect of the visual solid appropriate
to his own situation in space.” (Tyrrell 1943)
* Model 2: apparitions exist in some non-physical space (cf. Myers’s metetherial space).
But poltergeists imply some interaction with physical world?
Does psi create apparition space or does apparition space explain psi? Myers V Gurney.
SPONTANEOUS PSYCHOPHYSICAL INCIDENT
DATA ELECTRONIC RECORDER
Tony Cornell

10. THRESHOLD SPACE David Hufford
Pseudo-physical experiences on sleep/waking border, often associated with sleep paralysis
(hypnogogic/hypnopompic images, false awakenings, “old hags”, abductions etc.)
* Hallucinations associated with sleep paralysis. But experiences
are transcultural and not easily attributed to expectation.
* Real events in physical world since some features of
environment seem to be genuine. But would they be
physically recordable (cf. apparition/poltergeist)?
* Superposition of non-physical and physical space?
Obvious connection with apparition space and OBE space
OBE SPACE
* OBE space is mental construct with input from clairvoyance and PK if necessary.
* OBE space is the same as physical space. Physical detection?
* Duplicate of physical space. Higher planes suggest multispace model (Whiteman)?
* Physical space and OBE space different aspects of single higher-dimensional space.
WEIGHING THE SOUL (1969)
NDE AND SURVIVAL SPACE
OBE, tunnel effect, encounter with light and deceased love ones, life review, bridge.
Obvious link with survival space, where soul is supposed to reside after death.
* NDE space is mental construct of dying brain =>
nothing survives. Veridical information obtained from
mediumistic communications explained by superpsi?
* Space required for after-life is same as physical space but
occupies different frequency range (Spiritualist view)
* OBE space non-physical => survival space non-physical.
Associated with dream space in many traditions.
Obvious link with memory space since identity is associated with totality of memories.
Need some form of “mental matter” as container of memory after death (Stevenson 1974)
MYSTICAL SPACE Paul Marshall
“It's as though the meditator is adjusting the focal length of his mind and
encountering systematically different worlds depending on the settings achieved.
But what functional state of the brain could correspond to these adjustments of
focal length?” (Ed Kelly)
Extrovertive experiences include sense of unity and wholeness, transcendence of space
and time, eternal now/immortality, feeling of divinity/wonder/joy/beauty, deeper sense
of reality, ineffability, intellectual illumination etc.
* Delusory, result of cultural conditioning or even pathological. But many features hard to
attribute to Cultural Source Hypothesis (Hufford)
* Clearly not in physical world, although some mystical experiences triggered by nature
* Mystical experiences access higher level of reality or hierarchy of levels (Whiteman 1986)
Involve space but dramatic changes of specious present. Last plane may be state of pure
consciousness (“purusa”) transcending space or time.

11. NORMAL
(1) Phenomenal space. Generated by perception of physical space through physical sensors.
(2) Memory space. Replay of images and events experienced through physical sensors in the past.
(3) Visualization space. Generated and controlled by imagination, related to creativity.
(4) Dream space. Like memory and visualization space but more vivid and with other elements.
PARANORMAL
(5) Psi space. Involves both mental space and physical space, so directly links matter and mind.
(6) Apparition space. Different from physical space but with some aspects of externality.
(7) Threshold space. Pseudo-physical experiences on the threshold of sleep and waking.
MYSTICAL
(8) OBE space. Resembles physical space but is subtly different and changed by imagination.
(9) NDE space. Relates to OBE space but other space-like experiences are involved.
(10) Survival space. Where ‘soul’ dwells after death or between incarnations.
(11) Mystical space. Associated with various extrovertive experiences, including ‘higher planes’.
TABLE OF MENTAL SPACES Four views of relationship between physical and phenomenal space
CONCLUSION. We need a space which unifies physical space, phenomenal space,
memory space, visualization space, dream space, ESP space, apparition space,
threshold space, OBE space, NDE space, survival space, mystical space.
=> GRAND UNIFIED THEORY OF MATTER AND MIND
UNIVERSAL STRUCTURE
* Step 1
There exists 3-dimensional space in which are localized both physical objects
and sensors through which we observe objects. Each observer has only partial
information about this space but there exists a 3-dimensional configuration which
gives 2-dimensional projections concordant with those presented. Physical reality
is 3-dimensional structure which consistently reconciles our perceptions of it.
This gives controversy between naïve realism and representative theory
* Step 2
Relativity theory implies that physical world is 4-dimensional, with the objects
and observers being represented by world-lines and perceptual fields being
3-dimensional. Physical reality is 4-dimensional structure and this consistently
reconciles our perceptions of it.
This partly resolves naïve realism V representative theory controversy

12. * Step 3
Space required to accommodate mental experiences must be a reality structure
of more than four dimensions. This “Universal Structure” is higher-dimensional
information space which reconciles our different experiences of the world. It has
a hierarchical structure and incorporates physical space (past and future), as well
as non-physical parts accessed only by mind.
* Step 4
To accommodate the experience of time, memories, conscious intervention
In the 4D structure and quantum potentialities, physical reality must be a
5-dimensional structure.
Brane moves through 5th dimension in static bulk,
with Universe emerging from 5D black hole.
5D structure also contains memories and possible
futures and quantum potentialities
* Step 5
Universal Structure is identified with the higher-dimensional space invoked by
Kaluza-Klein paradigm. In particular, with Randall-Sundrum model, in which
4-dimensional brane embedded in higher dimensional bulk. This leads to
“extended physics” which describes both standard physics and mental interactions.
5th dimension only gives global consciousness,
need more dimensions for individual consciousness.
UNIFICATION OF MENTAL SPACES
PHENOM’
MEMORY
4D STRUCTURE
5D STRUCTURE
6D STRUCTURE
SURVIVAL
7D STRUCTURE
MYSTICAL
APPARITION
THRESHOLD
OBE
NDE
DREAM
PSI
UNIVERSAL
STRUCTURE