The fifth element

Chris Tucker goes crazy in The Fifth Element. Don’t we all?

A friend asked how the cannabis business my wife and I had been creating was going. I told him we’d pivoted off the idea but carried it deep into the fire dimension — and, arguably, gotten a little watery.

There are dimensions within dimensions, most invisible to the naked eye. Collectively, I call these ethereal planes the spiritual realm.

Tuning into it is difficult for many of us. For those who do, the experience can be jarring. 

Navigating the physical and the spiritual realms simultaneously can overtax the soul. After all, just making our way through one or the other gets rough.

The spiritual realm transcends thought and language, which always distort the Truth. Yet words are the tools we humans have. Ones that helped me make some sense of the multidimensional experience we’re sharing track the four classical elements of air, fire, water, and earth — the air dimension as ideation, fire as planning, water as building, and earth as doing. Had my wife and I taken our cannabis license to market, it would have reached the earth dimension — the fourth element.

And then there’s a fifth.

The fifth element is the most powerful force in nature. It’s the energy that holds everything together.

Some physicists — Nobel laureate Max Planck among them — call it Consciousness, the foundational fabric of reality. Mystics call it Aether. Ancient Stoics such as my spiritual exemplar, Marcus Aurelius, referred to it as the Logos.

I call it Love.