If we suppress one dimension of space, we can see the All as a model. Space is the Shell to the Sphere holding Creation as Memory within. Manifestation which follows absolute time, is compressed into a "2-dimensional skin surrounding the All".

Figure 1 shows the relationship between space and time in a 4-dimensional presentation. If the universe is expanding, then space as a field is defined by its distance from the point in time which is known as the origin, or just "big bang"; or so it is thought. This is a simplified vision, a wish to mix absolute time with relative time, or to ignore the absolute part in Creation at all. However, expansion and contraction are an absolute event, a measurement regarding the universe conceived of as one Body. It requires an absolute time measure to register its stages of positive and negative recessional velocities in a non relative field. Absolute time as a 5th dimension is needed to show the distance of manifestation (x,y,z,t), represented by the shell (x,t), to the origin in absolute terms. "The Body of Creation is a function of absolute time." We substitute the above term "SPACE" with "SPACE-TIME" and "TIME" with "ABSOLUTE TIME", and replace the title "Cosmic Dawn" with "Unified Mind Theory" (thanks to Eric's wife with full support to the unified Mind and who did the drawing :), and we declare that Figure 1 represents the classical vision of the cosmological model of the universe, while Figure 2  (just described and only visualized,) represents the modern model of the Body in Creation, showing the Oneness of all aspects in Life.

Since we live in the now, 4 dimensions is all we can see. This is the world we live in, and we feel quite comfortable with its environment and its defines. We have 3 dimensions for the location of our point in space, and we add time to get the point moving, like in a movie, one frame after the other, in the description of the event. However, this picture is not good enough. It does not give us Life. The "pump" which gives us Life in manifestation lies in the expansion and contraction of the universe itself. "The Body of Creation is breathing". We have to add a 5th dimension to give us the tick of the universal clock indicating the state of recessional velocity of space-time, not of space alone with relative time seen as the radius to the universe starting with big bang. This is wrong. The universe is a "space-time continuum" with emphasis on the word "continuum". With our spherical model, the Body of manifestation from the begin to the end is described with "big bang" as the origin, "absolute time" as the radius to our sphere, and its "shell" representing space-time reduced to or compressed into 2 dimensions (x,t). At maximum universal expansion, absolute time is zero, and starts counting backwards. "The Body of Creation" is on its way back to where it came from. It is not possible at maximum universal expansion, or close by, to detect absolute time by way of measurement using light. Try to stop a battle ship sailing into a harbour. Try to turn expansion around of the entire universe. This takes a long time. There is no need to invent a cosmological constant either. For all practical purposes we have a "steady state" plus/minus a few million years, enough to outlive our existence on earth or anywhere else, and as seen from the viewpoint of eternity. We will not live in a body to see and witness the effect our increasing, negative recessional velocity has when it comes within a percentage of the velocity of light in the relative domain. Then we would be able to see the direction we take with our 4 dimensional "spaceship", the "whole balloon" of manifestation. "Zooming down on highway #5", we are heading straight towards big bang for the complete annihilation of all there is. Now can we outrun our light on earth, and see where we are going. From within, the "skies are fallen in", from without, the sphere is collapsing. (Okay: "shrinking". Takes a while.) Before that, we have a little encounter with Andromeda which comes flying fast, eager to embrace us, faster than we think. That's the way it starts, and solar systems fall apart. They have outlived their purposes. Thereafter comes the merger of the super clusters. This is the demolition phase. We are only here to witness to the perfection of Creation in completion. In the cleaning process of Creation, there is no litter left. All goes back into radiation, and from where all matter stems.

Let's be a bit more specific. Does the presence of matter distort our space-time geometry? And if a genie fulfilling an absurd wish to take out the sun and wait and measure the interval of time it takes when the sun light on earth disappears, and check if this is true and in accordance with the speed of light, and therefore gravity at that moment must disappear and not earlier, and only then do we fly out into the universe released from our gravitational strings, and that must mean that even gravity is subject to the speed of light, therefore dislodging Newton to give Einstein's general relativity a great victory. Very nice. But how does this look like on the surface of our shell? Does the huge sphere of Now, under the microscope, become a carpet of "strings"? What does that mean? How about parallel existence? Isn't that sort of weird? (To be continued.)