Linear or Nonlinear
LINEAR OR NONLINEAR… THAT'S THE QUESTION.
One evening, I was sitting down with friends for dinner (it was before the covid pandemic) and we were talking about one thing and another. At one point, we got down to talking about the linear, the nonlinear, and space-time considerations.
I am an accountant and who says "accountant", in general implies a rational, Cartesian and, by extension, linear person ... that is, someone who sees things along a "logical" line, even time.
Our thinking was that if you stick to a purely linear view of life, it's like painting yourself in a corner, locking yourself into a rigid framework. One gets the impression of being caught in time, of going only in one direction.
Intuitively, we feel that there is something that escapes us in the full understanding of life, and this is what allows us to think that there is also a nonlinear dimension of time.
If we want to grasp the essence of life, then we must dig, and go to the source of Life ... to God. When we stop there, can we say that God is limited by the linear? ... On the contrary! God does not have this restriction. We can believe that He acts in both the linear and the nonlinear. There is no limit. There is nothing that holds back the Spirit of God in his action.
What's the point of thinking about all this?
These reflections are important because there are many realities that we experience that seem limited to us. If we get closer and closer to the reality of God, of God who has no limit, it becomes technically possible to extend our own limits…
This conversation has left a deep impression on me and I wanted the memory of it to remain. To remind myself of the complementarity between the linear and the nonlinear, I wanted to get a representation of the Holy Spirit that would evoke the nonlinear. The Spirit of God is often represented by a bird. So I started looking for a pendant depicting a bird, but which would be round in shape to evoke this reality. I found it in Finland. It is the photo that accompanies this reflection.
