Truth vs Falsehood (4 page)
Numerous social puzzles and seeming dilemmas are resolved simply as a result of finding the missing pieces by which resolution is the automatic consequence of recontextualization. That process is the very basis for the “aha!” experiences. The data and information that follow are transformative and accelerate the evolution of consciousness and awareness.
Familiarity with the basic concepts to be presented is of benefit in that it results in automatically seeing things differently, with a consequent resolution of conflict and ensuing peace of mind. As will be discovered, the world is not what it appears to be, nor are its residents the ‘who’ that they presume themselves to be.
From earliest times to the present day, mankind has pondered and struggled with the enigma of its origin, purpose, and destiny: Who are we? Where did we come from? Where do we go after death of the body, if anywhere?
Over the millennia, a myriad of plausible postulations have sought to offer a satisfying resolution. There arose a number of myths, systems, and philosophical discussions as well as a plethora of imaginative and creative cosmologies, each of which, however, became the starting point for a whole additional set of questions, doubts, and conflicts.
It was postulated that mankind came from the heavens or that the earth was the primordial mother. Pantheism suggested that animal spirits and nature were the origin of human life that evolved into polytheism and pantheons of god-like, divine figures, each with personalities and limited, but specified, domains.
In various parts of the world, however, truth via spiritual inspiration and information emerged through the fabled sages and then in the form of the great avatars who founded the great religions that brought some resolution in regional sections of the world’s population, but again, neither peace nor certainty arose. In fact, the followers of each leader often fragmented themselves into competitive factions that utilized religious belief systems as the justification and basis for persecution, hatred, and genocide. Paradoxically, in practice, some misinterpretations of the major religions became the blatantly diametrical opposite of the core of their own teachings.
These deviations from the truth of their own teachings created skepticism about the authority and integrity of not only the institution but also of its theology. In addition to the loss of credibility, there was a negative impact on public opinion. Theocracies appeared to be not only dogmatic but also oppressive, and often adherence to their tenets was from fear rather than from respect for an intuitive recognition of truth. In many parts of the world, the reputation of religion progressively deteriorated. At the present time, for example, Western Europe and large parts of North America have shown a progressive secularization that is now accelerated by the negative impact of the current militant Islamics and the scandals of some Christian churches.
Religious and spiritual skepticism was also a by-product of the fall of authoritarianism as a sufficiency upon which to place confidence. In the last few centuries, the emergence of the dominance of science and the scientific paradigm of reality further diminished the credibility of religious dogma, particularly ecclesiastic authority. Religious conflict was progressively replaced by political ideologies that, paradoxically, were as oppressive as the dogmas they were purported to replace.
A new period of inquisition arrived, such as that to which the peoples of Tibet, China, Russia, Eastern Europe, Southeast Asia, North Africa, the Arabic countries, and Cuba have been subjected in recent times. Then, unfortunately for the world, there was a merging of political extremism with religious zealotry, as exemplified by Islamic radicalism that threatens the world with its violence and fanaticism, in contrast to which secularization seems a welcome relief.
Unlike power, which has no opposite, force always precipitates counterforce, whether the opposing forces are political, religious, or both. Truth, however, has no opposite because falsehood is not the opposite of truth but merely its absence, just as darkness is not the opposite of light but merely represents the lack of it.
At approximately the time of the Harmonic Convergence in the late 1980s, the consciousness level of mankind suddenly jumped from the limited level of 190, which had dominated mankind for centuries, to 205, which is above the critical level of truth and integrity at 200. In more advanced cultures of the world, this rise in the consciousness level resulted in replacing gain with integrity as the yardstick of success. Then ensued a period of time in which nonintegrous companies and their CEOs were at the center of scandal, while at the same time, the company that had the highest level of integrity of the giant corporations worldwide became the largest and most successful company in the world.
Of critical importance is that in November 2003, at the time of (but not ‘caused by’) the Harmonic Concordance, the consciousness level of mankind, after being stable for nearly two decades, rose again to the present level of 207.
During the same time period, consciousness research advanced as a consequence of the discovery of a means to differentiate truth from falsehood. It was found that truth was not a simple ‘yes’ or ‘no’ but that it was expressible over a calibrated, logarithmic scale from 1 to 1,000. Because consciousness is present everywhere and beyond the limitations of time or space, there is a whole new science of consciousness that, because it has no limits, also enables research into spiritual concepts, spiritual teachings, and the verification of spiritual realities as well as every aspect of society. A new definition of truth emerged that is defined not as a consequence of just content, as in Newtonian physics, but as the consequence of content within a specific field. It was discovered that without reference to the field, there was no possible, reliable statement of truth.
Because consciousness research has no limitations as to subject matter, it allows investigation into areas previously thought to be accessible only by advanced science, the mystic, or great spiritual geniuses over time. Thus, by the use of the same investigative method, it was possible to identify and calibrate the levels of truth of spiritual concepts, teachers and teachings, as well as religions and ecclesiastical doctrines. Upon investigation, it was found that the highest levels of truth in history were realized by the great mystics whose energy fields still impact all mankind to this day, whether acknowledged or not.
Even when spiritual reality is denied, such as by the atheist or skeptic, an overall context of ethics and morality still remains that rules all mankind in all ages, even though recognition of its origination is denied. At the present time, intellectual as well as ethical and spiritual endeavor are facilitated by these advances in consciousness overall as well as by the rapid development of information about the quality of consciousness itself.
The most recent advances in scientific theory postulate that there is a common submatrix to all physical existence, consisting of high-frequency fields of energy (this statement calibrates at 1,000). The difficulty with integrating spiritual truth, consciousness research, and advanced theoretical physics is that the mind thinks dualistically. Thus, to observation and description, perceived ‘reality’ seems to be separated into different categories of domains or realms, such as the physical versus the nonphysical or the experiential versus the observable, as demarcated by the following list of comparisons:
Physical vs. nonphysical
Philosophy vs. materiality
Experiential vs. observable
Microscopic vs. macroscopic
Subjective vs. objective
Measurable vs. nonmeasurable
Linear vs. nonlinear
Predictable vs. nonpredictable
Secular vs. spiritual
Matter vs. spirit
Intellectual vs. emotional
Definable vs. ineffable
Scientific vs. nonscientific
Truth vs. falsehood
Spiritual vs. egoistic
Abstract vs. concrete
Known vs. unknown
Limited vs. unlimited
Science vs. religion
Phenomenal vs. actual
From the above, it becomes clear that what was thought to be distinct categories of existence, reality, or experience are primarily just different categories of perception and mentation, i.e., Descartes’
res cogitans.
In reality, as in Reality, there are no separations or distinct realms of independent existence
(res externa)
. Operationally, however, descriptions seem to apply specifically only to seemingly separate realms, and intellectually, there seems to be no common ground to these perceived disparate realms.
The sought-for commonality to all realms of subjective experience and investigation turns out to be the omnipresent energy field traditionally denoted as ‘consciousness’, the very substrate and core of all existence and of intelligence itself. Consciousness alone has all the qualities by which to compare and unite these seemingly disparate realms into a comprehensive unity with stratified expressions. Consciousness itself is the key to the sought-for ‘unified field theory of everything (statement calibrates at 1,000). Beyond the field of consciousness, nothing exists because it is universal and independent of time or location. Curiously, at the same time, it is knowable, able to be experienced, and its levels are discernable and identifiable.
We can start from the beginning and then address the following questions:
1. What is common, necessary, and intrinsic to all possibilities of existence, experience, or expressions thereof?
2. What is the irreducible substrate of the visible and the invisible, the subjective and the objective, form and formless, and identifiable anywhere in time or space, i.e., the Absolute?
3. Is the Presence of such universality identifiable, to what degree, and under what circumstances?
The field of consciousness alone fulfills all the requirements. Its presence can be discovered only via the exercise of its own innate quality, i.e., the sole tool by which consciousness can be identified, studied, and examined is by utilization of the qualities of that consciousness itself. Comparably, it is only life itself that can study and experience life because it is the core and substrate of awareness. For a comparable reason, the irreducible substrate of epistemology is subjectivity, of which gnosis is an experiential potentiality that becomes actualized at its highest level of expression in the enlightened state of the sages of all time.
As will become apparent from further examination and discussion, the understanding of consciousness reveals that all that exists, with no exception, both subjective and objective, physical and nonphysical, with or without form, irrespective of state or qualities, has its existence along an identifiable and describable continuum. There is no discontinuity, for in reality, there is only energy that is expressed in the characteristics of its different frequency ranges. The physical universe is a vibrational frequency spectrum, beyond which the physical dissolves into the invisible but increasingly powerful ranges of energy that go on up through extremely high ranges and their ultra-high harmonics to the very source of existence itself. At the most primordial level, the manifest is an actualization of the unmanifest, by which the potential becomes the actual (i.e., Creation).
Is a single ‘theory of everything’ a verifiable reality? Is it a practical tool or an abstract hypothesis? Through study, it will become obvious that such a theory is of the utmost practicality and equally applicable to every aspect of the human experience as well as the universe. Its utilitarian value is immeasurable in that it differentiates the possible from the impossible, the actual from the potential, and the unreal from the real (cal. level 1,000).
That a verifiable truth about everything and anything anywhere in the universe is accessible for the mere asking is so astonishing that it challenges every basic human assumption. Upon investigation, it becomes starkly obvious that all existence throughout all time, beyond all duration and location, including the human experience thereof in all of its possibilities, is an expression of one single, all-encompassing energy field of infinite potential, and that a quality of the field itself is its capacity to actualize potential from the formless into actual, identifiable form.
Whether one chooses to label the omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent, universal, all-encompassing, all-present, beyond-all-time-and-space field as divine or not is a personal choice. Historically, because the word ‘God’ has been so maligned, abused, and misrepresented over the course of time, the Buddha recommended that the term not be used at all because it is misleading and prejudicial. Any serious students of Truth (who themselves are integrous and whose questions are integrous) can verify the above statements for themselves. Factually and verifiably beyond measurable time, duration, or location, there is an omnipotent, omnipresent, all-powerful universal field of infinite potentiality that can become manifest experientially or in form, e.g., atomic energy.
Throughout time, spiritually inspired individuals who have been devoted to the inner search for the core truth itself have reported that beyond ordinary mind, there is a potential experiential capacity that enables the realization of the presence of the field itself as the source of all existence. Its innate qualities illuminate and reveal all that has ever been described as reality or Reality. The phenomenon traditionally called Enlightenment reportedly has been extremely rare because few are the persons able, karmically endowed, or willing to surrender their favorite illusions, identifications, or their personalities. This rarity exists because a clear, precise, and verifiable definition of truth was lacking. Advanced research into the nature of consciousness now demonstrates conclusively that there is no division between science and spirituality. In fact, they merely represent different frequency ranges of their common substrate.
