String theory depends on the concept of ten dimensions: xyz as 1-3, time as 4, and multiple timelines/universes as 5-10. I like to entertain Akasha as one of the higher dimensions instead, which may or may not agree with string theory–and also panpsychism.

I conceive Akasha as a fifth set of coordinates that would dictate individuals. Outside time, we may say a coordinate is a(n arbitrary) position like (1,3,1). This is a physical location. As time progresses, (1,3,1) may not change, but the fourth coordinate of time will change. Say, (1,3,1,1,) to (1,3,1,2). The Fifth Coordinate would then describe “who” the individual represented by the coordinate is. (1,3,1,2,1) is someone standing physically at (1,3,1) at the time (2) and the individual is (1). For the Fifth Coordinate to change, so must an individual. Hence different lives–different individuals–always have unique coordinates on the plane of Akasha, though many of us co-occupy the same fourth coordinate (we exist at the same time) and can occupy the same physical location at different times.

Individual humans experience time linearly, but time is not truly linear, and nor would the complex Fifth Coordinate of Akasha demand linearity of time. A point moving through this space via reincarnation will change locations in the other four dimensions too. There is still just one fifth dimension–our greater consciousness–that we all participate in together. A consciousness Community.