Un-intended thought consiquences

For a while the ideas of multi-dimensional thought and understanding have been prying, flowing,showing-up, and tickling my sometimes all to grey brain. In contemplating this post, the feelings I have come from a more straight forward approach. When first trying to grasp what wants to come out of this thought pattern I thought "New age religion" that is what I am trying to convey. No not at all actually (this is not an attack on any religion or thought process, just a bit of inter-connected thoughts that might make sense by the end of the article). I thought of where people are in the world that we are in and see great divides. Does this multi-dimensional thought have anything for all of them? I think about progress and the ability to better one-self. I think about what I feel means to better myself, and that it is probably something completely different for everyone else. Looking around and seeing all that we as a human species are doing to our planet, to each other, and to ourselves, I fell bogged down.
Multi-dimensional thinking for me is not that there are separate layers that we move through and each of these layers has its own set of thoughts, experiences and understanding. When you listen to music you might here the drums more distinct or the woodwinds or the piano or the strings, the brass. What is it that makes you here that? is it that they are more prominent at that time in the piece and all the others are not there? Of course the others are there, they are needed a little later for a change in tempo of volume or intensity. What if the orchestra or band is playing at once? Is it turmoil and confusion or is it sensible and distinct? Well it can be both.
To get music that astounds and uplifts, there is usually many layers or dimensions that interweave to allow the thoughts and excitement to scurry around you allowing for the connections to happen between thoughts, thoughts and people, people and people, and so on.
What does this have to do with art? well I work in different mediums and try to weave layers in and out of each other to allow for the previous layers to show through where they need to be and the new layers showing where they need to be.
Allowing layers or dimensions to interweave makes for a more unified piece of artwork. The same can be said about our lives. Sometimes one layer needs to be more visible and others receded or there may be a inter-lacing of many layers to show a more unified piece or there may be a jumble of layers that can be interpreted as chaos.
The ability to have many things in our lives, many thoughts, and many interests can be a burden and it can be a blessing. These many dimensions in our lives give us direction and inspiration. Sometimes when feelings of mud or lack of dimensionality comes along, someone might feel the need to make major changes in their lives. Sometimes they really do need to make major changes in their lives to accomplish this. I feel though that for many of us, if we add a little bit here and a little bit there, maybe take away a little bit or hide somethings that our lives (or our artwork) will be more balanced and unified.
Sometimes when a piece of art does seem to be going in any direction I feel it needs to, I try and do a few things. I will step back and ask my self or trusted others waht it is conveying. I will contemplate what the original intentions were and if they were off a little or I didn't have enough information then (the process usually gives more insight into what you were actually wanting to accomplish). Then with new thoughts, inspiration, understanding or impulse I will proceed. Sometimes this means that I completely change what was going on in the piece and sometimes, I just need to retrieve some underlying layers and bring them more to the surface. Both solutions (and there could be many more) work well as long as I have a clear understanding of where I and the piece want this project to go.
painting for me like running, music,biking,reading,dancing,and many others things for other people, gives me a great opening to allowing the art process to open my mind to new thoughts and to revisit older ones.

Until another flood hits my head I hope you fell this to.