Note 7

Someone once asked, If time, like space, is actually a physical dimension, could a higher dimensional being be able to physically cross through time the same way we cross a street?

That's one great example.    Another example of transcending ("to rise above or go beyond the limits of") time might be our natural deaths.  

To gain objectivity, let's try to re-think our notion of time and space.   (Einstein mentioned it as being one thing, "spacetime."  Let's not forget these are words our ancestors came up with to describe or define aspects of our natural world we had not initially understood.)
To suggest that "time" and "space" aren't really separate is to hint at a greater glimpse of truth:  that there exists no separation at all between anything in our known universe.  To see the entire cosmos as a singularity of which we all are necessarily parts.  
We must really consider what "language" actually is in order to transcend it.  It appears to be a labelling of the various parts of our existence in order for us to gain a deeper understanding of the whole.  Yet we risk forgetting *the original notion*--which is that all in the universe is one.  i.e, Our having labelled its various parts as "clouds" and "trees" and  "stars" and "molecules" and "atoms", etc., should be remembered as being a placeholder for the deeper truth of existence, which itself remains a mystery to both scientists and priests. 
What is a "physical dimension", exactly?  Rather than thinking of time and space as being one thing, I'd rather take that notion even further.  To isolate these two terms (time and space) as being "one" is to neglect that everything else also necessarily appears to be an aspect of that one thing.   Therefore, let's think of it this way instead.  There is no such thing as space.  Only time.  That time is the Great Universal Constant. I believe that is what Einstein's theory of general relativity is trying to illustrate. 
Speaking of "physical dimensions", what of that emptiness which exists between stars, between electrons and atoms, that cold void at absolute zero, in other words "nothingness"? Some might imagine there being no such thing, and they'd be right. Notness exists. It's paradoxical for our rational minds to process, yet that's what could lie at the heart of quantum reality. ("Quantum reality" is just a fancy term for "reality"). 
"If time, like space, is a physical dimension..." Stop.  *Space is not a physical dimension.*  Only time is:  visualize our planet spinning; every physical revolution equals one day of time for us.  Every revolution about our star equals one year of time for us.  Therefore, time is the physical thing - not space.  In fact - there is no such thing as "space", if you think about it.  i.e, "space" is the very definition of nothingness; notness.  That oblivion against which our existence is pitted or balanced.  The point of the mystery.
Sure, there are plenty of streaming *particles*, solar winds, radiation, flowing *through* space; but *space itself* may be better defined as the *lack of anything*.  Yet time is real. Our solar system, like the galaxy and the entire universe, appears to be in constant motion.  That is time.  And that is precisely where all sentient life exists in our universe.  This is the real reason we may never make contact with so-called "extraterrestrial civilizations" - because we all exist within this continuum of time. We make strangers of ourselves. By this reasoning the only contact we are destined to make is with oblivion itself.  

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