From Brainflix to Hyper‑Prism
How a DIY Nervous System, Tibetan Light‑Bodies, and a Sneaky Fourth Dimension Might All Be the Same Story
(Tone: me talking to you across a kitchen table, tea steaming, notebook full of scribbles.)
0 The Thread I’m Pulling On
I keep bumping into three apparently separate ideas:
- Neuroscience says reality is a brain‑rendered movie.
- Mystics occasionally exit that movie in bursts of rainbow static.
- Geometry gets weird when higher‑dimensional objects clip through lower ones.
Every time I rotate those facts, the edges line up like puzzle pieces. This post is me pressing them together to see what picture pops out.
Quick Q&A
| Question | Short Answer |
|---|---|
| Isn’t this cherry‑picking data? | Maybe, but a pattern that repeats across disciplines is worth a closer stare before we toss it. |
| Why bother tying science to mysticism at all? | Because if two fields describe the same odd contour independently, they might be pointing at the same mountain. |
1 Reality Is Basically Brainflix
Your cortex is a master editor, splicing raw sensory footage into the blockbuster you call my life. Shut the lights and it still runs midnight screenings, dreams that fool every sense. LSD, schizophrenia, VR goggles: same projector, different reels.
Key point: If experience is a render, then the render can glitch or reveal code normally hidden in daylight frames.
Q&A: The Brainflix Cut
| Q | A |
| Isn’t the external world still “real”? | Yes, but you never meet it naked, only through the headset of your nervous system. |
| Any hard proof? | See the 2024 Nature Comms study showing spontaneous neural activity shaping what subjects believed they saw. |
| Could a better brain mean a clearer movie? | That’s exactly what meditation traditions claim, upgraded render engine, cleaner pixels. |
2 When Bodies Go Full Prism
Tibetan lore says that when a meditator perfects awareness, their body contracts, glows, sometimes vanishes, leaving hair and nails (keratin is stubborn). Modern example: Khenpo A‑chö, 1998. Eyewitnesses describe the corpse downsizing over a week while light leaked from the skin. Academic Francis Tiso took notes; skeptics roll eyes; the story refuses to die.
Notice the pattern: physical form + radical mental state → visible anomaly. Bookmark that equation.
Q&A: Shrinkage vs Rot
| Q | A |
| Why does shrinkage matter more than ordinary decay? | Decay bloats then collapses over months; rainbow reports show uniform shrinkage within days and zero stink. That’s geometrically tidy, not entropic. |
| Could it be dehydration? | Dehydration mummy‑fies unevenly and leaves brittle tissue behind; rainbow accounts mention supple skin or no skin at all. |
| Any physical leftovers? | Just hair & nails. Regular coffins keep an entire calcium‑phosphate skeleton on file. |
3 Jesus, Saints & Other Spontaneous Supernovas
Historians like Bart Ehrman are pretty comfy saying Jesus of Nazareth was a historical guy; miracles are the debate zone. Yet the Gospels toss in rainbow‑body beats: blinding light, empty tomb, followers staring into space. Swap “rainbow body” for “glorified body” and the vibe is uncanny.
Same rhythm shows up with Indian sage Sri Ramana Maharshi and a grab‑bag of Christian incorruptibles. Either cultures are swapping fan‑fic, or they’re bumping into the same deeper mechanic.
Q&A: Cross‑Cultural Echoes
| Q | A |
| Is this cultural appropriation? | It’s cultural comparison, highlighting rhyme schemes, not stealing verses. |
| Could different traditions share an unseen practice lineage? | Maybe. Or the underlying “physics” is universal, and each culture reverse‑engineered a manual. |
| Why single out Jesus? | Because his story is pop‑culture common ground; readers already know the plot beats. |
4 Flatland Meets the Afterlife (a.k.a. The 4‑D Slice Trick)
Flatland thought‑experiment: a 3‑D sphere slams through a 2‑D sheet; flatfolk see dot → big circle → little circle → nada. Upgrade the sphere to a 4‑D hypersphere, swap sheet for our 3‑D space, and voilà: object appears, grows, shrinks, disappears.
Replaying the human script:
- Birth = something appears out of nowhere.
- Life = it enlarges, wanders about.
- Rainbow‑exit = it shrinks, maybe pops right out of the dimension stack.
Q&A: Dimensional Debrief
| Q | A |
| Isn’t the fourth dimension just time? | In physics‑class relativity, yes. In math you can juggle extra spatial axes freely, this is a metaphor using the latter. |
| Couldn’t normal death fit the slice, too? | Not cleanly: ordinary decay never finishes the to‑zero step; bones linger. The hypersphere metaphor needs the clean vanish. |
| Any way to model this? | Sure, code a 4‑D sphere intersecting 3‑D voxels, render the cross‑sections, and compare to reported body‑shrink curves. Citizen‑science project, anyone? |
5 Lining Up the Dots
- Brains render a limited slice of whatever The Real is.
- Certain mind states tweak that renderer hard.
- Tweaked renderer lets a person intersect the rest of the hyper‑object behind the movie.
- Onlookers in default 3‑D see light shows, mass loss, or full disappearance, exactly what 4‑D slice math predicts.
Q&A: Skeptic’s Corner
| Q | A |
| Isn’t this just unfalsifiable woo? | The shrink metric gives a falsifiable hook: measure body mass & dimensions over time under controlled observation. |
| Couldn’t folks be lying? | Absolutely. That’s why a rigorous, multi‑site study with cameras, thermometers, and independent auditors would be gold. |
| What if it’s real, so what? | Then consciousness can puncture spacetime in ways we haven’t charted, and the mind‑matter firewall is overdue for refactoring. |
6 Why I Care (and Maybe You Should Too)
- Curiosity upgrade. Even a 1 % chance the lore is literal explodes our mind‑matter model.
- DIY potential. Traditions insist this isn’t elite genetics, practice + ethics = ticket.
- Humility dose. Whatever that higher‑dimensional backstage is, it dwarfs our daily squabbles.
Q&A: Personal Stakes
| Q | A |
| Are you trying to become a rainbow‑body stat? | Mostly I’m trying to debug my own render and see further; if shrinkage is a side‑effect, I’ll buy smaller pants. |
| Isn’t meditation just self‑care? | Could be, but if these stories pan out, it might also be inter‑dimensional engineering. |