How can we truly know with any degree of certainty that we what hold as true is in fact true?
Our thoughts, attitudes, perceptions, affections, and relationship to the world and others are often based on feelings of surety, that what we are experiencing is truth. But what is a personal truth ("I like chocolate") cannot always be translated into a world truth ("Everyone likes chocolate") or certainly a Universal truth because it's unlikely that as much as we like or love chocolate that it exists in every corner of the Universe :)
Take another example: The roles in essence. Many of us reading this blog know about The Michael entity and what they have to say about the 7 roles in essence, (slave, artisan, warrior, scholar, sage, priest, and king) that our world is composed of millions of people who are all one of these 7 roles for each and every incarnation, a choice they made at the beginning of ensoulment. We read about this, and then apply it to the world- can you validate the 7 roles by looking around you? Do you see slaves serving the common good, artisans creating? Yes.
Here is the intersection of a personal truth with a Universal truth.
So we adopt this truth as our own and begin to apply it to our personal world view.
Then, a question might occur to us which goes something like "How can I with absolute certainty know that this is true?".
We can't. But we can look to see if there is evidence to support our beliefs (which in the case of the roles in essence there is enough supporting evidence for me to validate it) and decide whether to adopt it as a probable truth. We can allow for the possibility that some of what we have come to believe as true could not be (think The Matrix) and some could be. Here we have the opportunity to hold our thoughts lightly which then allows for us to be open, receptive, and joyful without the need to be right, or to know. We can allow for different perceptions without the need to change others for in truth how do we really know what is true?
Lots to think about.
Perfect title! ;-)
ReplyDeleteOne insight I can have is more from Advaita Vedanta. Whatever "truth" we hold as absolute, the opposite is also equally true from a different perspective or source. We can think there are roles in the universe, but this is only way of looking at it. There are 7 notes in our musical scale, but there are also an infinite number of ways to create structure in music, or have no scale at all.
ReplyDeleteThe Universe is infinitely creative Matthew and thanks Cameron!
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