Fundamental Wellbeing has traditionally been pursued as a unidimensional construct. No matter which system one looks at, there is the perspective that there are different types of Fundamental Wellbeing and that the goal is to deepen into and isolate perception into one of them. Usually the locations favored by traditions are based on ideological reasons, often oriented to what happens beyond death. For example, in Christian mysticism, Location 3 Awareness Layer is the place to be, in Advaita Vedanta, Location 4 Life Layer is the place to be. 

The research has shown us that Fundamental Wellbeing does not need to be a unitary dominant experience. In fact, it may not even be the ideal way to experience it. In many ways, this unidimensional view is what leads to some of the imbalances we see in people in Fundamental Wellbeing. Instead, it is possible to experience a range of locations and depths within those location in a highly fluid multidimensional system. We’ve come to see the multidimensional form of Fundamental Wellbeing as the mature expression of Fundamental Wellbeing.

We first began to notice this when we ran into Finders that had really gone far on the continuum, and at some point had had a wake up call, and considered that perhaps it isn’t all about disassociating into narrower and narrower bands of experience. 

In essence, all states of consciousness are states of association with particular levels of experience within the total potential of the human nervous system. Someone rooted way out in late locations may be completely disassociated from the mind, but equally so, most people walking around in egoic consciousness are completely dissociated from what late location people perceive as reality. There’s nothing saying that either one is more grounded in reality than the other. In fact, someone deeply rooted in Location 4 or later might argue that they are much closer to reality than they ever were before, because all the filters have dropped away from raw perception. 

This means that any shift in locations or depth in Fundamental Wellbeing essentially involves a shift in association. Some parts of the system get included, and others fall out of subjective perception. These however, do not cease functioning on other levels. 

Therefore, just like egoic consciousness, any spot a Finder deepens into in Fundamental Wellbeing involves disassociating from what they would be aware of at any other spot. To achieve this, they are putting their subjective perception in a certain band of their nervous system, but that doesn’t mean the rest stops functioning. It’s not like they just cut out those pieces of their nervous system and toss them out of their body. 

In later locations, where someone is essentially disassociating into an increasingly narrow band of perception, this is particularly extreme, and these disassociated levels of the nervous system functioning autonomously are responsible for some of the problems and imbalances we often observe in late location people. By the time someone gets to Location 7, their experience is actually very flat, although they aren’t likely to realize it. They have to go back to Location 5 or 6 in order to realize how flat experience has become.

We’ve experimented with moving people between these different locations to correlate subjective reports across individuals, and it is a very consistent report that if we can get people who are in Location 7, 8 or 9 back to Location 5 or 6, they prefer it. There is a trade-off in the degree of freedom, but they realize that there is a richness of experience that they’d lost in those later locations. 

These often became Finders who see that a unidimensional expression of Fundamental Wellbeing isn’t the only possibility. Instead, it is possible to develop fluidity across a broad range of locations and depths in each location, in a highly dynamical multidimensional system. Research participants have likened it to being like an Olympic athlete who trains to achieve mastery in each discipline and be able to dynamically shift between them. 

This is something we call hyperfluidity. It means a Finder’s system is able to access a range of locations and depths in Fundamental Wellbeing, and is flexible enough to allow each moment to inform which location and depth they experience it from. 

It is more of a mature expression of Fundamental Wellbeing, because it requires a broader range of access to locations and depth, and because over time a Finder’s system learns which things are best experienced from which locations. It also requires release of belief systems around there being a “right” type of Fundamental Wellbeing, which is often a conclusion long-term Finders reach only after experiencing many different locations, all of which feel subjectively like the truth when they’re in them. 

Additional data on the natural fluidity in Finders’ systems came from the transition programs we’ve been running for years, where we often see people initially experiencing multiple locations. The traditional view of this is that their systems just haven’t settle down yet, and the right thing to do is to really lock in to one location and deepen there, so that life is increasingly experienced from that unidimensional construct and everything else just falls away. 

It is usually the case that the movement between locations is contextual. That is, there are different stimuli in the environment and the total context of each moment that pulls a Finder’s system in a particular direction in Fundamental Wellbeing. For example, someone may be looking out at a beautiful mountain and that would pull their system in the direction of Location 3, but when they turn to talk to someone, it would naturally come down to Location 2. When this fluidity is allowed to take place, it produces a more flexible and capable system than is the case if a singular way of perceiving life is isolated into to the exclusion of all others. 

In addition, hyperfluidity in Fundamental Wellbeing can have many benefits. It means that the trade-offs that are normally involved in choosing a location to live one’s life from are no longer relevant. Someone doesn’t have to think ‘well, I really want to live in Location 3, so I’ll just not run a business’, or ‘Location 4 is so amazing but I just can’t go there because it’ll wreck my relationship’, and so on.  

With a highly fluid multidimensional system, a Finder can relate to each moment from the location and depth that is most appropriate for it. This in turn minimizes the psychological imbalances that normally develop in Fundamental Wellbeing from the strong disassociation involved in locking into a single dominant location, especially in later locations. 

In addition, there does seem to be a benefit to having experience of and access to more locations. Whatever location a Finder is in, it feels more real or true to them than any other perspective, but they can still remember the perspective shift that other locations bring with them. These increases in complexity and dimensional richness are very beneficial and all contribute to increasing the capacity and dimensionality of the system.