Truth Schmooth
There is only one truth that I agree with and that is this: The only absolute truth is that there are no absolute truths. Notice I said "agree with" and not "believe in." Agreeing with something is one thing but believing in something is different. When one believes in something that something is taken as absolute and never questioned. I think it is a horrible mistake to stop questioning anything. When we stop questioning we stop exploring and when we stop exploring we stop expanding our awareness. As our awareness expands our perceptions expand and we start seeing these so-called truths in new light and we realize that they are not absolute, that there are other dimensions to them. Reality changes as our perceptions change. That is why religions insist that their devotees never question their "absolute truths" because if they did they might expand their awareness to take in new perceptions that would show those absolute truths to be not so absolute. When you can get people to stop questioning and stop exploring and to simply believe then you can use those beliefs to control them. Religion is one of the biggest obstacles to expansion of human awareness.
Personally, I do not care for either religion or science. Both are in the business of establishing absolute truths. One hundred years ago science had established many "truths" that have been proven either wrong or not absolute in the subsequent one hundred years since then. Likewise, one hundred years from now the science of today will seem almost primitive because we will have learned so much more by then. Why? Because there will be those who refuse to believe and continue to question and explore, pushing the envelope of our awareness to reveal new perspectives. But as in religion, there are those in science who insist their truths to be absolute and we are asked to believe. Not me! I don't ruin anything by believing in it.
As a species we are obsessed with truth. We want everything to be absolute so that we do not have to think about it, question it, or explore new possibilities. It is so much easier to have science or religion do our thinking for us. We seek comfort in the status quo of absolutes. Out of fear we will not rock the boat. We fear the unknown, we fear change, we fear disruption. Believing in truths, we are comforted and our fears are assuaged at least temporarily. Of course, change is inevitable (my favorite oxymoron: change is constant). So since change is inevitable, a change in our perception is inevitable which means we will inevitably see all "truths" in new ways and realize that nothing is absolute. "Believing" in a truth is closing the door to the inevitable. It is trying to make absolute that which cannot be absolute.
Having discarded "believing in a truth," I prefer to simply gauge resonance. Instead of trying to decide whether or not I believe in something I simply feel how much I resonate with it. If I resonate strongly then I can acknowledge or even agree with that something while leaving open the doors of change and exploration. Resonance has to do with vibrations. Our rate of vibration changes constantly as does the vibration of everything. I could be vibrating at a certain frequency today and that frequency may resonate with something but six months from now I may be vibrating at a significantly different frequency which does not resonate with that something. And that something may be vibrating at a different frequency as well! By not trying to make a truth absolute by believing it then it becomes easier for us when our vibrations change. Our "truths won't be shattered." It becomes easier to change vibrations and thus expand our perceptions and awareness.
You can take a truth and set it down in the middle of a football field. Then you can take one hundred people and put them in a big circle around that truth. Everyone will see the truth from their own particular perspective. You will have one hundred different perceptions of that truth and all of them are valid and none of them are absolute. If you are one of those one hundred people and you begin preaching that your perception of that truth is the only valid and absolute one, then you are creating either a religion or a science. And I will not believe you or even agree with you, except that I will agree that your perception may indeed be valid for you personally--provided you do not move from your spot and experience that truth from other perspectives. I have a feeling, though, that you will eventually move from your spot. Who is going to stand in one spot forever?
So personally--and this is strictly my opinion--I feel that believing in truths is a waste of time. I want to keep moving and not have any truths tie me down. I will gauge resonance but will then move on, knowing that resonance, like everything else, changes. I prefer to be at the edge pushing the envelope, not searching for truth but rather for experience. As a species, we are not happy with experience. We are more concerned with labeling things as truth or not. It is like someone who goes on a vacation and spends the whole vacation taking pictures of everything. They come home and show all the pictures to their friends. It is like proclaiming to those friends, "See, I really did go on vacation." But if they spent all their time taking pictures were they really on vacation? Or were they just gathering proof (establishing truth) of a vacation without actually experiencing one?
So truth, to me, is just one particular snapshot taken from one particular perspective at one particular point in time. Truth is available to everyone. But I am not interested in truth. I am concerned with experience, with life itself.
Personally, I do not care for either religion or science. Both are in the business of establishing absolute truths. One hundred years ago science had established many "truths" that have been proven either wrong or not absolute in the subsequent one hundred years since then. Likewise, one hundred years from now the science of today will seem almost primitive because we will have learned so much more by then. Why? Because there will be those who refuse to believe and continue to question and explore, pushing the envelope of our awareness to reveal new perspectives. But as in religion, there are those in science who insist their truths to be absolute and we are asked to believe. Not me! I don't ruin anything by believing in it.
As a species we are obsessed with truth. We want everything to be absolute so that we do not have to think about it, question it, or explore new possibilities. It is so much easier to have science or religion do our thinking for us. We seek comfort in the status quo of absolutes. Out of fear we will not rock the boat. We fear the unknown, we fear change, we fear disruption. Believing in truths, we are comforted and our fears are assuaged at least temporarily. Of course, change is inevitable (my favorite oxymoron: change is constant). So since change is inevitable, a change in our perception is inevitable which means we will inevitably see all "truths" in new ways and realize that nothing is absolute. "Believing" in a truth is closing the door to the inevitable. It is trying to make absolute that which cannot be absolute.
Having discarded "believing in a truth," I prefer to simply gauge resonance. Instead of trying to decide whether or not I believe in something I simply feel how much I resonate with it. If I resonate strongly then I can acknowledge or even agree with that something while leaving open the doors of change and exploration. Resonance has to do with vibrations. Our rate of vibration changes constantly as does the vibration of everything. I could be vibrating at a certain frequency today and that frequency may resonate with something but six months from now I may be vibrating at a significantly different frequency which does not resonate with that something. And that something may be vibrating at a different frequency as well! By not trying to make a truth absolute by believing it then it becomes easier for us when our vibrations change. Our "truths won't be shattered." It becomes easier to change vibrations and thus expand our perceptions and awareness.
You can take a truth and set it down in the middle of a football field. Then you can take one hundred people and put them in a big circle around that truth. Everyone will see the truth from their own particular perspective. You will have one hundred different perceptions of that truth and all of them are valid and none of them are absolute. If you are one of those one hundred people and you begin preaching that your perception of that truth is the only valid and absolute one, then you are creating either a religion or a science. And I will not believe you or even agree with you, except that I will agree that your perception may indeed be valid for you personally--provided you do not move from your spot and experience that truth from other perspectives. I have a feeling, though, that you will eventually move from your spot. Who is going to stand in one spot forever?
So personally--and this is strictly my opinion--I feel that believing in truths is a waste of time. I want to keep moving and not have any truths tie me down. I will gauge resonance but will then move on, knowing that resonance, like everything else, changes. I prefer to be at the edge pushing the envelope, not searching for truth but rather for experience. As a species, we are not happy with experience. We are more concerned with labeling things as truth or not. It is like someone who goes on a vacation and spends the whole vacation taking pictures of everything. They come home and show all the pictures to their friends. It is like proclaiming to those friends, "See, I really did go on vacation." But if they spent all their time taking pictures were they really on vacation? Or were they just gathering proof (establishing truth) of a vacation without actually experiencing one?
So truth, to me, is just one particular snapshot taken from one particular perspective at one particular point in time. Truth is available to everyone. But I am not interested in truth. I am concerned with experience, with life itself.
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