Discover the Spiritual Concept of Relativity

 

 

Whether you believe that God created the universe and then just sits back and watches us or you believe that God created the universe as an ongoing process and we are partners with God in that process, one thing remains the same. We live in a relative universe.
The physical world is a relative world where one concept can be matched against another concept and the result will be an experience of some kind.
Given that premise, and in order for us to know relatively who we are, we must therefore also know who we are not. The relative world requires this. We cannot know something to be until it is known in relationship to something it is not. That is what relativity is all about. That is why, in the realm of the absolute from which "all that is" came, things were only known conceptually. To know things experientially requires a differentiation between "all that is" and "all that is not."
In order for God to create relativity, God had to take her known concepts into the physical world, concepts such as pure unconditional love, and bring into existence its exact opposite. God had to bring into the relative world everything that love is not in order for us to know love as something that could be experienced. So, the opposite of love, which we call fear was brought into existence. Now we could know the experience of love as opposed to what we know love is not, namely fear.
You cannot have a concept of tall until you relate it to the concept of not tall, which we call short. Of course the concept of tall is relative, given what you are comparing. For instance if you were to compare a tall man to a tall building, in that relationship the tall man would be considered short.
Relativity is what our physical world is based on. We all give the events and experiences of our lives meaning by how we view the events in relationship to the past and current events of our lives. It is hard to think of a world without relationship.
Imagine that you are in a totally white room, dressed in a totally white gown. There are no doors or windows or any other physical things in the room. You are alone in the room totally surrounded by white, no distinguishable corners, no shadows, just a sea of white. You start thinking about your situation. Thoughts race through your head to try to give meaning and understanding to your situation. This process continues for some time, but time becomes irrelevant because you have nothing to compare the passage of time to.
Eventually your thinking slows down because there is nothing to think about. There is no stimulus to make you continue thinking about your situation. Your thoughts slow down until you have no thoughts left and you believe you are going out of your mind.
In fact, that may be the case. Not that you are crazy, but that you have to go out of your mind for your being because the mind has no stimulus to continue what it does best, which is to think about the things that are presented to it for analysis. When there is nothing to analyze, the mind can shut down.
Because this is so out of the norm of our human experience, we begin to imagine the notion of unworldly experience, or craziness. This is why one of the best tortures devised by man, for use on his fellow man, is the idea of solitary confinement, to remove a person to a state of no outside stimulation in total darkness. Amazing what we do to each other, isn't it?
Now imagine that a black dot appears in the room. The mind wakes up and takes note because now it can start thinking again. It can compare the dot in relation to everything else it knows. The dot is black, as compared to the whiteness of everything else. The dot is small compared to the size of you. The dot is stationary compared to your ability to move. Now your brain heats up and begins to experience the dot in relationship to what the dot is not.
Next a chair appears in the room. The mind compares the chair in relationship to the dot and to you. The chair is bigger than the dot. The chair is smaller than you. The chair is a different color than the dot. The chair has dimensions of length, width and depth, compared to you and the dot. You are able to move the chair, which gives you and the chair another relationship. You can interact with the chair and create the experience of sitting.
What we see by this experiment is that without the ability to relate and compare one thing against another there is no thing called experience. Only in relationship can we know experience. It is the relationship between people, places, things and events that allows us to experience those people, places, things and events and put meaning to them.
Relativity is one of the greatest gifts that we have and the greatest tool devised by God in order for her to know herself experientially. Each one of us was created in the image and likeness of God. That means we all have the same powers and abilities as God. We are all creating our lives by using the concept of relativity to experience whatever it is that we desire.
Just understand that you can't know what abundance is without also knowing lack. You can't know what perfect health is without knowing illness. You can't know harmony without also knowing discord.
So treasure every experience because it is all part of the process of life in a physical, relative universe.