Hands of Light – Guide to Healing - Soul Circles

clash. This "knowing" can be explained by the
harmony or disharmony in our field interactions.
Relativity
In 1905, Albert Einstein published his Special
Theory of Relativity and shattered all the principal
concepts of the Newtonian world view. According
to relativity theory, space is not
three-dimensional, and time is not a separate
entity. Both are intimately connected and form a
four-dimensional continuum, "space-time."
Thus, we can never talk about space without
time, and vice versa. Furthermore, there is no
universal flow of time; i.e. time is not linear, nor
is it absolute. Time is relative. That is, two observers
will order events differently in time if
they move with different velocities relative to the
observed events. Therefore, all measurements
involving space and time lose their absolute significance.
Both time and space become merely
elements to describe phenomena.
According to Einstein's theory of relativity,
in certain conditions two observers can even see
two events in reverse time; i.e., for observer 1,
event A will occur before event B, while for observer
2, event B will occur before event A.
Time and space are so basic to our descriptions
of natural phenomena and ourselves that
their modification entails a modification of the
whole framework that we use to describe nature
and ourselves. We have not yet integrated this
part of Einstein's relativity into our personal
lives: For example, when we get a psychic flash
of a friend in trouble, say about to fall down the
stairs, we check the time and call the person as
soon as we can to see if she is all right. We also
want to know if such a thing happened in order
to validate our insight. We call, and she has had
no such experience. We conclude that it was
our imagination playing tricks on us, and we
invalidate our experience. This is Newtonian
thinking.
We must see that we are experiencing a phenomenon
that cannot be explained by Newtonian
mechanics, but we are using Newtonian
mechanics to validate our super-sensory experi-
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ence. In other words, what we saw was a real
experience. Since time is not linear, it may have
already occurred. It may occur at the time we
see it, and it may occur in the future. It may
even be a probable occurrence that never manifests
itself. Just because it didn't happen at the
time we tried to correlate it, by no means proves
that our insight about the possibility was wrong.
If, however, within our insight about our friend,
we also saw a calendar and a clock with Newtonian
time on it, our insight would be such as to
include that information about the space-time
continuum of the event. It would be easier to
validate in Newtonian physical reality.
It is time to stop invalidating experience that
lies outside our Newtonian way of thinking and
broaden our framework of reality. We all have
had experiences of time speeding up or of losing
track of time. If we become proficient in observing
our moods, we can see that our personal
time varies with the mood we are in and with
the experiences we are having. For example, we
see that time is relative when we experience a
very long, frightening period just before our car
crashes or barely misses another, oncoming car.
This time, measured by the clock, is a few seconds;
however, to us, time appears to have
slowed down. Experienced time is,not measurable
by a clock because a clock is a Newtonian
device designed to measure the linear time defined
by Newtonian mechanics.
Our experience exists outside the Newtonian
system. Many times, we have experienced meeting
someone after several years separation; it is
as if we had just seen them yesterday. In regressional
therapy, many people have experienced
childhood events as if they were occurring in the
present. We also find our memory has ordered
events in a different sequence from someone
else who has also experienced those events. (Try
comparing childhood memories with your siblings.)
The Native American culture, which didn't
have clocks to create linear time, divided time
into two aspects: the now and all other time.
The Australian aborigines also have two kinds of
time: the passing time and the Great Time.
What occurs in the Great Time has sequence,
but it cannot be dated.