Reality and the Einstein Universe

Posted on November 4, 2007
Filed Under Society, Spirituality |

Have you ever noticed that, although the human ‘version’ of reality changes from century to century – heck in some cases even year to year; many people often get stuck in the current reality? For example currently our reality could in many ways be referred to as the Einstein Universe. Yet a little over three-hundred years ago reality was modeled under the Newton Universe.

Does that mean Newton’s reality was ‘false’? If so that implies that Einstein’s Universe is also false. Though of course it’s a fact of science that things change and new frontiers are discovered. Meanwhile these systems form the foundations of what we believe to be possible, and ‘real’.

But then I tend to look at reality in a more malleable manner – it’s all flexible and adaptable. As individuals we map our reality to whatever belief system we have, those thoughts define for us what is and isn’t real. Yet how real is a thought? You can go on a real mind-bender with that one. Buried somewhere in that is somewhat of an esoteric secret. It’s well understood on a superficial level – and used every day in the form of what I endearingly call monkey meta-physics. Although there is certainly a whole lot more to it.

If one person defines their own reality with their thoughts, and another person defines an alternative reality in with their thoughts – which reality is the real reality? Either? Neither?

…or perhaps both?

Recently I’ve been trying out a little experiment. I am trying to see how many perspectives on reality I can accommodate in one go. After all, why would my thought-reality be any more or less real than someone else’s? I am beginning to suspect that at a certain point the walls between our individual realities simply break down. Because when it comes down to it – these thought-realties are simply constructs of what people think and believe.

It’s amazing how far we go to bog ourselves down – and tie our thoughts into defensible positions. When all along what we are doing is defending our own little corner of reality. I think over the years I have stood on a pedestal of sorts, maybe I was way up there with a lot of other people – or maybe I was up there on my own, but the thing is – there’s an element of our being that exists beyond all that manufactured-reality nonsense.

I think the mind will only cope with accepting a certain limit of reality definitions before it simply gives up on the entire concept and moves onto something far more refreshing and constructive.