In the homeland of Homo Sapiens in Africa, all five dimensions of awareness became integrated into a single pattern of nature. The ancestors of the speakers of English left Africa when mankind was aware of four dimensions, and these four were integrated into a single pattern, although the fifth dimension, of which they became aware after they left Africa, was not integrated. Because none of the dimensions are integrated in Chinese, and because each dimension is therefore distinct from each of the others, Chinese provides the best evidence that enables understanding of each of the stages in the evolution of consciousness in mankind. The nature of the English language, the nature of the 'reality' of speakers of English, is explored by comparison of its similarities and differences with the nature of the Chinese language. The pattern of grammar of each modern language, the pattern of differences in grammar among languages, the pattern of cultural development, the pattern of human evolution, the pattern of evolution of the solar system, etc., all follow the five dimensional pattern of the universe.
Mankind symbolizes the dimensions of time and space on the fingers.
Symbolic finger signs are what enable each person to become conscious of the pattern of the universe. Part I of this book demonstrates the finger signs that speakers of English use to symbolize each dimension, in comparison to the finger signs that are used by speakers of Chinese. The evolution of finger signs for each dimension is demonstrated to parallel the development of language grammar, cultural development, physical and mental development, and other fundamental differences between English and Chinese. Once the pattern of language and the development of consciousness in mankind has been introduced, the pattern will be expanded in Part II to demonstrate that human instincts, human behavior, human emotions, and even the physical characteristics of the male and female sexual organs follow this same pattern, the pattern of the universe. Science and religion are two symmetrical expressions of understanding of the same one pattern of nature.