A new awareness of Einstein's Theory of General Relativity struck me, a higher level of knowing that, applied on the small scale, enhances our understanding on the larger.

Each of us has a concept of "Here", that encompasses the space we occupy at the moment. By mutual agreement, we can extend our personal concept to include someone in close proximity, so that we agree that someone occupying the same room is "here" to both. Within a larger space, two can agree on being "here", while a third party, within sight, is "over there".

Yet to that third party, he is "here" and we are "over there". Each has a subtly different concept of "here" in that particular space.

And yet we can consciously extend our concept of "here" to include all within a larger space. All, for example, can agree on "here" in a large stadium during a shared event. Even further, we can agree to extend "here" to mean in this city, or state.

Why not agree to extend that concept even further, to encompass all space? Why don't we agree that all of us are "here", and thereby know our oneness?

And why stop with "here"? You and I can talk, and agree that this is "now". But my deceased mother also had a concept of "now" when she was in a body. Was her concept incorrect while our "now" is correct? Of course not!!! Her concept "then" was just as correct as ours "now".

Though a little more difficult, can't we agree to extend our concept of "now" just like "here"?

As Einstein proved, the concepts of space and time, and energy and matter, are merely reflections of our choice of consciousness, and are all only relative to our individual concept of "self". Why not extend that concept to know our "self" as One?