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Subject: Re: Multiple Universes and Infinity
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Date: Sun, 17-Feb-85 17:52:00 EST
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Nf-From: rna!serge    Feb  4 17:52:00 1985

I refer you to the writings of P.D. Ouspensky, a turn of the century
philosopher best known for his involvement with Gurdjeef (spelling?
see the film Meetings with Remarkable Men for the story of Gurdjeef's work).

I have read two of his books, Tertium Organum and A New Model of the
Universe. In Tertium Organum he describes the hierarchy of dimensions
and it's relationship to our consiousness and perceptions.
In regards your idea of a tree of events, Ouspensky speaks of this 
dimensionally.  Specifically, an instant of what we (physical plane humans)
know as time is the third dimension. 
A string of instants is the fourth dimension. The fifth
dimension is a tree of instants. I don't recall what the sixth
was. And of course, the magic number seven, was eternity or
the whole ball of wax, as it were. Within this eternity, our
consiousness moves experiencing those dimensions it is capable
of understanding as space and those it cannot as time.