Notes From Gordon 250315: The Next End Of Civilization (Part XIX)

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What Is Truth?

“The unexamined life is not worth living.” — Socrates

There are essentially three types of people in this world.

1) Those who will never awaken to the truth… because they will never learn that they are asleep.

2) Those who could awaken if they wanted to, but will hold back due to fear of the truth.

3) Those who cannot be held back, such is their desire to know the truth.

The latter leaves you with two choices.

The first is to be intellectually courageous and face the truth, whatever it may teach you, and whatever the consequences may be of learning it.

The second is to shrink from the truth, remain ignorant and reject those who attempt to enlighten you.

Truth is the opposite of falsehood. Most of what you have been taught throughout your life by the schools, the government and the media is provably false.

Some of the truths that have been withheld from you are of marginal consequence, while others could not be more consequential, like the fact that you live within a conscious universe—a manufactured reality with an operating system that many call God.

Or that each of us is an eternal being who connects with this universal field of consciousness on our own unique “channel.”

Or that each of us is here, in this time and place, for a reason.

By learning these truths, a funny thing happens.

• We come to realize that we are not alone.

• That we really are connected to everyone else.

I offer an exercise for the reader. Go to a mirror and look yourself in the eyes. Then ask yourself who you really are.

For there are three basic ways in which we present ourselves to the world.

The first is our public face. This is the façade—the veneer, if you will—that we put on when dressing up for a night out, applying for employment or running for office.

This is us in our High School yearbook, our profile on LinkedIn, etc.

Then there is the private self. This is where we keep our confidences close and share them with trusted parties only. Married couples and life partners usually know much about each other that is kept private from the world.

Finally, there is our secret self. Some never allow anyone into their secret space, not even their spouses. This is the real self we know at 3:00AM when various devils return to haunt us—when we tell ourselves the truth about who we really are.

• Are we good people, or do we just pretend?

• Do we genuinely care about others?

• About our freedoms?

• About the fate of humanity?

• Or are we just along for the ride?

Each of these three persona can be seen as various layers of truth telling.

Our public face may be just a mask. Many politicians function within this realm—where preening and posturing are the order of the day.

Our private self is the space we allow close friends to enter. We may gossip, but we don’t share bank account logins.

Then there is our secret space—that quiet space in which we tell ourselves the truth, no matter how much it may frighten us.

The truth about what?

• About the future.

• About what “they” have planned for us.

• About what is important to all of humanity.

Want to make a real difference? Perhaps it’s time to “Screw your courage to the sticking place” and start telling the truth.

Because only the truth is going to save us.