However, when I saw her for the first time, two days after the massage she said to me, "You are a massage genius."
She told me that my style of massage is completely different from hers. I approach the knots in a completely different way. And it worked wonders. But she would have never have thought to do it that way.
That led to us having a conversation about the different types of massage and how they all do work. One isn't right and the other wrong. They can all be really effective, one isn't necessarily better but are more just a matter of person preference.
Which Becky said fit in really well with her belief in universal truths. She said that if something is an universal truth, that people will take many different paths but still come to the same conclusion. In this case the truth is the manipulating the body with your hands can relieve knots and tension. But there are other truths.
Take energy work and movement for example. It is practiced in many different ways all around the world but does the same thing. The Chinese came up with Tai Chi, the Indians came up with Yoga and the Native Americans did drumming and dancing. All different ways to get the energy flowing through your body.
I like her theory. But does that mean that God is an universal truth? If all these different cultures have gone about it in different ways but came to the same conclusion that there is a god up there looking down on us, does that mean it is true?
Fascinating.
ReplyDeleteMy two theories:
1. The fact that people all over the world have all come to the conclusion that there is something out there bigger than they are makes the existence of such a being a universal truth.
2. The fact that people all over the world have all come to the conclusion that there is something out there bigger than they are proves that it's a universal truth that people NEED to believe something like that to make sense of the world.
Now that I've offended everyone reading this, I'll sign off.