A peculiarly important quote:

“Viewing our consciousness in terms of its dimensions, we see that it is not a three-or four-dimensional field, but a multidimensional manifold, a manifold in the sense that it is a dynamic structure of dynamic structures. This manifold is characterized by a nonlinear — Riemannian — geometry, in that all the dimensions open up to all the others in nonlinear ways.” — A. H. Almaas (via J.L.G. Soler)

This is interesting, but incomplete, because it neglects to mention that although some of these ‘ways’ here described are methods, some of them are more properly understood as -beings- or what we might call intelligences.

Intelligences -who are (nonlinear connectivity) ways-. And we are like them, but do not see this, for there are none as yet to reveal it to us.