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The Key to Truth
Simplicity and Common Sense... "Except you become as a little child…"
The easiest way to discover truth is through the observation of
nature. When we walk through a forest, we know without a doubt that
it’s real. We don’t question the reality of the birds chirping
and the squirrels running up and down the trees. The solid earth is
felt under our feet and we don’t question the validity of the
breeze blowing gently in our face. All of this so familiar since our
childhood that it still brings back to us the enjoyment we had
playing outside in nature.
As the sun shines in through our bedroom window in the morning,
we arise and begin a new day. Do we question the existence of the
sun, our bedroom or our cup of coffee? We sit down to enjoy our
breakfast without even thinking if it’s real or not.
We know food is for eating, water is for drinking, clothes are
for wearing, cars are for going places and never do we doubt these
things or anything else in our everyday world.
A newborn child first learns of their existence in the world by
feelings of comfort or discomfort, contentment or discontent that
forms a bond between them and their family members. They
progressively gain more awareness of everything about themselves as
they explore with their eyes and ears and experiment with hands and
feet. The child learns and develops every day changing from year
after year until they are adult, and still the changing keeps
happening. All this time, as their learning expands, there is never
a doubt in the individual of their being alive and real. The world
around them in all of its aspects, is taken for granted and never
questioned as to its realness.
How can you say something is not real when you see it, feel it
and have experienced it ever since birth? This is where the
simplicity of common sense begins.
I don’t know if Steve Jobs intentionally named his computer
‘Apple’ with the bite taken out of the apple on the back of all
of his computers, but to me and probably many others, it surely
symbolizes ‘the tree of knowledge of good and evil in the Garden
of Eden.
Our computers have opened us up to the world of knowledge and
information, so much so, that we are overwhelmed by too much of it. In
many ways it is good, such as, communication with family and friends almost anywhere in the world, we can be aware of most aspects
of world politics and take some responsibility to explore their validity. we have access to unlimited resources and even able to view courtroom processes. On the other hand, I don’t need to
explain the bad parts of the internet because we have all been
warned about them. It is simply a choice to use the internet for
good purposes and stay away from the other side of it and teach
our children to do the same.
How does this relate to simplicity and common sense? When I came
to a point in my search for truth where I felt I was inundating my
mind with way too much spiritual information, I had to acknowledge
finally that I was off course. Studying many religions, not too
in-depth but enough to know the basic elements of each, I found
there are several identical premises in each belief system. My
belief since childhood was Christianity and I found many places of
compatibility in all of the ‘God of love’ based religions. This
helped me to simplify my beliefs by realizing that if everyone
practiced love with understanding and kindness, there would be no
need for religious institutions. God would simply be in our hearts
and thus, our actions, and God is love. So all the trappings of
religion would be unnecessary.
I begin with myself as the focus for my spiritual understanding
because Jesus said “The Kingdom of God is within you”. This made
me feel that I needed to know the truth of who and what I really am.
To explore oneself, it is in my estimation, most important to first
‘let go’ of ‘all’ the beliefs I had acquired throughout the
years. I let go of, not only all of my spiritual information, and
there was a lot, but the worlds so called knowledge also. I doubted
and questioned the validity of everything from science, history,
philosophies to the paradigms of our societies. The only things I
kept, were the beliefs I held were true from personal, proof
and evidence in my own personal experience. “Faith is the
‘substance’ of things hoped for, the ‘evidence’ of things
unseen.”
Through the years, I have experienced dreams, visions, physical
anomalies and astral travels or obe’s and trying to evaluate and
differentiate them became important. I tried to understand their purpose as
to their expression. I could interpret their personal meanings to me
in most instances but soon it became obvious that what was actually
essential, more than anything else, was knowing my own state of mind
and intention.
This, I quickly discovered is no easy task. It’s like playing
hide and seek with all the ‘stuff’ inside my head. Soon I learned how
to ‘let’ the awful feelings be there and play out while not
thinking about anything in relation to them. If I kept stewing over past regrets and mistakes, it never changed anything for the better. Instead of trying to figure everything out, I began to slowly turn these things over to the Lord and quit tomenting myself over them, (it took me way to long to do this). There is a
scripture song I always remember the words of:
"Create in me a clean heart, oh God...and renew a right spirit
within me. Cast me not away from thy presence, oh Lord, take not
your Holy Spirit from me, restore unto me, the joy of my salvation
and and renew a right spirit within me."
It became apparent that the Kingdom of God within me could not be
established without providing an empty and clean space within for it
to grow and develop. With all of my explorations came a lot of
negative energies that needed to be released but I do appreciate the
knowledge I acquired as I dealt with a lot of attacks by spiritual
enemy forces. For me, it was better to suffer from the learning
process than to be ignorant and possibly deluded by my own
interpretations of what I wanted or expected. As I realized this, I
formed new ideas about what I took from each religion as a jewel of
truth. I saw them flowing together and revealing more truth. The
ideas I felt were possibly false dissolved and floated away from the
flow.
Learning that it wasn’t about my failures but how I grew from
understanding why I had those failures, I tried to stop judging and
blaming myself or anyone else for my problems. ‘Loving thyself’
is something we all need too do and it becomes easier as we apply
the reality of nature into our lives. Trusting that God knew what He
was doing when He created us and He is not judging us but waiting
for us to return to the simple truth that we are his children. He is
growing us up so we can move on in our spiritual evolution and leave
this dimension of suffering and death. A
little child is devoted to simply enjoying things. They believe,
trust and love as long as they are not taught by others to doubt and
fear. It is sad because we have complicated everything so much that
we can’t express the love, belief, trust and enjoyment of a child
anymore. We judge, criticize, demean and crucify anyone we consider
deserves it. Just look at the political and religious ranting in our country and
see the fingers pointing at the opposition, or the so called enemies.
We are filled with judgments toward others and this fills the space
in which the Kingdom should be developing in our hearts.
In our world, right now, we are confronted with the idea that we
don’t even exist as a viable reality. Maybe we are in a digital
world and we are just avatars in a video game. Maybe this world is a
digital creation of some kind and we, as humans will someday soon
cease to exist when God decides to "roll us up as a scroll".. This leads one to think maybe we will do better with
technology enbeded in us. It could make us smarter and
enhance our lives in so many ways. This idea is also in some
religions. They say that we need to disregard our identity, our name
and our body as ‘not real’ and move into our God Self. Our body
is shed when we die and we then can move on to higher places or
Heaven and come back as someone else. They also say that we don’t
need to worry about this world or all the people in it because they
are not real either, just bodies with minds, names and
identities.I feel that there are so many more possibilities then we can ever imagine
and we all will,at some time, search out truth for ourselves because every human being is of ultimate importance to our Heavenly father.
What I feel is true, is...
We do have a God Self within that dwells with God and
our human self is within God also. “In Him we live and move and
have our Being”. He created all of us on this Earth as well as all
others anywhere else. I feel it is the responsibility of this God
part of myself (personal Holy Spirit) to transform the human part of
me, this body and mind, and to merge us together as one higher
being. Then we will be able to leave this dimension through the door
Jesus opens, which is Christ Consciousness. This is when we
will have victory over death.
1 Corinthians 15:55 - "O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?"
We will live forever as us, always learning,
always growing and changing but with our name and identity and loved
ones always with us in different ways and times. We may
inhabit many dimensions as we grow but we will remain the same human-being
identity always.
** I will post an article soon on the subject of continuums and explain some ideas I have about us as the beginning and end of a continuum: a 'human' and a 'being' that will eventually merge spiritually and become a higher being or 'Light Being'.
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