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171. How can we illustrate multi-dimensional communication? In our freeway illustration so far, we have limited ourselves to one vehicle per person and one direction at a time. Of course, the mind has many more channels that operate at the same time. Say, for example, that my mind is represented by all red autos. You can see now that they may travel a multitude of different roads, speeds, directions. Some may be parked, waiting for use at another time. Some may be in need of repair. But all represent the workings of my mind.

172. Now let us suggest that your mind is represented by all vehicles with two doors. This also gives you the vast variety of travel, parking, repair, location, direction, speed, etc. But it will be obvious to you that some two door automobiles are also red.

173. This then is the basis of multi-dimensional communication. Each of us has our distinct identifying characteristics, but both of us have certain channels that follow exactly the same networks.

174. We may limit our vision and see ourselves figuratively as only red cars, or only two-doors; or we may expand ourselves infinitely and recognize that we network with each other and with those also who have 4-cylinder engines, or air-conditioning, or round wheels.

175. When we tune in with another person and begin to expand our own networks into theirs, we both begin to discover things about ourselves that we did not know. In the knowledge of those things, we gain a reservoir of power that exceeds not only either of our individual abilities, but which exceeds the sum of our individual abilities.

176. Hierarchical social structures are by definition degrading. A person cannot be elevated above his or her co-inhabitants. He or she may only hope to degrade others into his/her service.

177. For an entity in a hierarchical system to reverse his or her degradation, he or she need only exceed the expectations. If I am paid to do job A, then doing job A is my debt for what I am paid. I am forever owing the labor for job A to my employer for his/her beneficence toward me. If, however, I do both job A and job B, but am paid only for job A, my employer is indebted to me. I am no longer hierarchically degraded.

178. A savior once said, “He who would force you to walk one mile with him, walk with him two.”

179. Hierarchical systems are innately male-based.

180. When a person has become so transparently honest and undisguised (147) that they cannot believe that anything they say can be untrue, whatever they say must be or become truth. If I am at the point of honesty at which I determinedly (or better, naturally) speak only the truth, whatever I say is governed by truthfulness. Even if I say the table is floating three inches above the ground, because I speak only truth, it must float three inches above the ground.

Editor’s Note: Wesley recognizes that there is a difference between a person who routinely deceives himself or is mentally ill believing what he says and a person who only ever speaks the truth. Believing your own lies may be a future topic that Wesley comes back to, but in this case he is strictly referring to the transparently honest.