The Law of Gravity

Lately life has been teaching me a lot of lessons.  With new beginnings come new challenges. I’ve had some insight on what I will call the spiritual law of gravity. It’s my belief that all physical laws of nature have a spiritual side to them. Whether it is Newton’s laws of motion or the law of conservation of mass, all of these physical laws have deeper implications on our lives than just governing space.

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For the last couple of years I have been fascinated with the law of gravity and its implications on human nature. The ability that some individuals had to “draw” others near to them impressed me. I always wondered what made it so that these individuals were able to attract the support of others with seemingly no effort. There are a lot of different aspects that go into this idea, but that’s not what I would like to focus on today.

I’d rather focus on the law of gravity as far as our relationships with others are concerned. In nature there are certain substances that have an affinity for one another and others that seem to repel each other in opposite fashion. When talking about relationships, everyone has heard about having “chemistry”. Apart from romantic relationships, every human relationship that we form has some sort of chemistry or attraction involved; this is the law of gravity.

We as humans tend to surround ourselves with people who are like ourselves. We form naturally these relationships through common interests, hobbies or ideals. It’s natural. Who doesn’t want to spend time with those who share something in common with them? In a book, the War of Art, it was explained this way: people can be divided into two groups, hierarchical or territorial. When we think of the social ladder we are thinking in a hierarchical manner; everything has its own place in society. This ladder is built by the law of gravity, although I’d like to think of it more as a social network for our purposes here.

Our worlds are constantly revolving around different things and different people. It can depend on what is going on in our lives at the time but for the most part we like to keep everything orderly and in place as far as our lives are concerned. When life is going well, we like to maintain the balance and continue doing exactly what we are doing in order to not upset the harmony we have achieved. Because we have this natural tendency to focus our attention on certain things in life, we create mini “solar systems” which keep our lives revolving in a uniform fashion. The center star I would define as the one thing that drives us in life: God, family, work, etc. Everything in our lives ultimately revolves around that one thing. All of the other things are appendages, or in the solar system model planets, moons, comets etc.

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Now this model would be nice and simple if it weren’t for the fact that each one of us has our own solar system and these are impossible to keep from interacting with one another. The hierarchal society is the way that we cope with this interaction; each individual has a natural desire to minimize the effect that others have on their lives, in other words we like to find our niche where we belong.

Now, at times we will find people that vibrate at our same frequency. We find them “attractive” in some way and we feel drawn to them. This is chemistry. When electrons have the same frequency, they form bonds; we are the same way. These bonds take many different forms, some are stronger than others but all bonds are made to bring more stability and strength to our lives. And like electrons that are on different frequencies we can also repel one another. This doesn’t mean that we don’t like the person or that we rather eat a bag of dirt than spend time with them, rather it just means that we don’t coincide with one another. We are on different frequencies. We have a different focus in the center of our lives that don’t allow us to “gravitate” towards one another. And that is ok. It is just the way of the universe.

With love,

Will Glade

The one walking beside you.

p.s. Here is a shout out to #highfrequency: Ryan Faber, Cameron Taylor, Mark Lahtinen, and Jason Damm