Okay, PP, into your thought world I step with mine:
I am confused about posts that use God because God would be the 5th dimension, and time would be the 4th dimension.
You need to provide your definitions of God and of time before we can have an expansive exchange. My definition of God is that It is the omnipresent moment by moment expression of Laws, Principles and Patterns of Pure Thought Awareness,
metaphorically suggested as The Spoken Word in Genesis I. Please note my use of the word "metaphorically."
My definition of time is the thought continuum of man's moving thoughts of good and evil relativity, brought into man's awareness by his belief that he stands outside the omnipresent laws, principles and patterns of God's Pure Thought Awareness [belief in dualism] and being that he believes that he stands outside God's Pure Thought Awareness, he also believes he stands outside his own Pure Thought Awareness. This seeing of himself as standing outside Life's Omnipresence is the bubble of man's repetitious intellect that gives him no relief or release from his ever moving thoughts of time, space, distance and matter.
being as I can theorise without the need for time, I can easily theorise without the need for God.
Again, your definition of time and of God is needed before we can dialogue fruitfully.
Everything about the Universe must be in the Universe, and should be close enough for us to examine in the X,Y,Z dimensions.
Right here, in this statement, you have pointed out why we cannot examine any dimension the intellect perceives in the Universe so as to find out everything about the Universe. My evidence of this is that you would have to literally remove yourself from being in the Universe so as to examine the Universe. This is the very lie or illusion of the dual awareness of man. He sees himself as being outside of the Universe so he believes himself able to peer inside the Universe.
Man is never outside of his own awareness of himself, by whatever name he calls this awareness of himself - Universe, Tao, God, Consciousness, Totality. This is the meaning of "I Am, That I Am."
The mind is an energy that may be invisible, but the invisible can be found by looking for its effects.
The invisible cannot be found by looking for its effects, for effects are products of sense interpretation. This is why the sense interpreting intellect is to be silent if the invisible is to reveal itself, not as an object or a subject which are effects/affects, but as revelations of the metaphorical nature of SELF, your SELF, my SELF,
THE SELF.
Like Gravity effects Mercury in it's orbit, it has an invisible force that makes it's orbit very strange, and nobody so far has figured out why it is strange.
There is a reason for this. Sense awareness cannot become one with "gravity" or "Mercury" or "strange" so as to
know these concepts, for these concepts are all products (effects) of the temporal, spatial sense mind. How can that which is temporal and spatial ever be "figured out" by that which is also of the temporal and of the spatial?
There will be a solution found for this some day, and I have already proposed one.
As with all solutions born of the dividing intellect that sees itself separate from the omnipresence of thought, there is never a going beyond the proposition stage. This is the ceiling of the bubble of the human experience of "perhaps" and "maybe" that no man who denies the existence of this ceiling within his own awareness can hope to escape. It is by acknowledging the limitations of the temporal and spatial intellect that man begins to prick holes in his bubble ceiling and begins to realize the light of his own awareness (of himself).
Finding the invisible is possible.
Finding your invisibility (spirit thought awareness) with your visibility (sense thought awareness) is not possible. The finite cannot find the infinite, for it is the finite that is an extension (an effect) of the infinite. However, what it possible, is the touching of one's sense awareness with one's spirit awareness so that one's spirit awareness expands into (consumes) one's sense awareness. Which is what I write about on this forum, to be accepted or rejected by all who step into the world of words that I write. From my comprehension, this is what I have done with what you have presented to me, thought by thought.