I ask, "What is Truth?"

Zohar answers, “There is truth (lower case “t”) and Truth (upper case “T”). Truth is not the same as truth for whereas Truth is absolute and unchanging, truth is relative. You can only know things in relation to other things. You are restricted in our knowledge by our own beliefs which are paradigms that serve to reinforce and perpetuate a limited perspective.

“When you believed in a flat earth in western civilization, God resided in the “heavens” above, quite literally looking down on Earth. Creation was a literal, historical event that occurred 6,000 years ago.

“Then, when you believed in a heliocentric universe, God was “outside” the solar system looking in. Creation was still a literal, historical event, but the date was debatable.

“When you believed that the universe consisted of the Milky Way galaxy, God was somehow outside this special bubble looking in. Nobody had a good date for creation, but it was estimated using the age of known stars.

“Then, as more galaxies were observed, it was discovered that the universe is expanding. Space, itself, is expanding. Estimates for a date of creation were based on the big bang. God is outside the universe looking in and initiated the big bang in a singular and fiery act of creation.

“Now, you are beginning to understand that your universe is just one of an uncountable number of universes existing in a form of multiverse. God sits outside the multiverse in sublime contemplation of reality.

“This is the present limits of your understanding. None of these is wrong. They are each a progressive refinement of understanding and belief and knowledge, but as you are still as far away from the Truth now as your ancient ancestor who believed in a flat earth.

“Consider that in all these levels of understanding Truth in the west, God is somehow separate from His creation. These are theories of emanation where God somehow emanates reality from Himself. There is another way to look at things. This is thinking of creation as a theory where God and creation are not separate, but all things have their being in God, and God in them. In everything divinity exists. It exists within everything.

“Divinity then is the indwelling “within” of things that give rise to their reality. This is equally true for rocks as it is for people. Absolutely everything arises from an indwelling divinity that expresses itself as a real thing. In this view, all things have some more or less degree of consciousness. Note, I say “consciousness” not “awareness” or “intellect.” An insect has a relatively smaller consciousness than a person, and a rock has less consciousness still, but in a grand scheme everything is conscious and in a perpetual state of becoming.

“You live in a sea of innumerable universes, each an entire reality encapsulated within itself with its own laws of physics and forms of life. You look toward the source of this vast multiverse in which a single universe is like a bubble in the ocean surf upon the sand and say, ‘That is God!’ It is not.”