I am going to share my limited perspective and understanding of Truth… I know that’s not the sexy “hook” opening line to get you to read this.
The Truth is (pun intended)… I continue to deepen my understanding of Truth each and everyday. And I am far from an expert on the topic…
And I am not here to claim that “I know” the Absolute truth.
This being said… I have found elements of Truth that are substantial.
These elements of Truth changed my life. They are relative to my experience though…
And this is what I will be sharing with you today.
I encourage you to read with an open mind and heart.
And take what I say with a grain of salt…
I Did Not “Find Truth”… Truth Found ME!
My pursuit of Truth began when I was 27 years old. I was going through what many people call “The Dark Night of the Soul”.
People had warned me about this time… The famed and feared “Saturn return”…
I honestly thought they were exaggerating. Boy, I could not have been more wrong.
This story begins with me, pulled over on the side of the road in my 2007 baby blue Acura.
The rain poured down on the roof of my car. I could hear that familiar “tapping” sound of rain on metal.
It was January.
The only thing wetter than my car, were my cheeks…
I was on the phone with my (now) ex-girlfriend. The thing is, just an hour ago we were still together. So it was still pretty fresh…
I was balling my eyes out, as she told me that she was really concerned for me.
She was convinced that I was suffering from Narcissism and “Split” / Disassociate personality disorder.
She told me, “When you really start healing from this, you may never recover… You might be an emotional mess the rest of your life. You will likely need your mother to take care of you…”
She was very convincing… And I licked up every word of it like a starving puppy dog.
Sadly at that time, I did not have much of a back bone… Nor did I have self respect.
Therefore, I was now convinced that I was in fact an evil narcissist with basically an “evil twin”.
Seriously… I thought I was a demon straight from Hell…
I’d never thought this before, mind you…
But the thing is, it wasn’t just her telling me this.
There were many others… A whole community in fact.
They were on a witch hunt, and apparently I had a big red “bull’s eye” on the back of my head.
My Life Falling Apart Was The BEST Thing That Happened To Me…
In Truth, this was the best thing that ever happened to me.
It certainly was not easy…
But it redirected my life in a way that continues to bless me and my family.
Honest to God!!
The reason this was SUCH good medicine is because I had always assumed I was a good person.
For the most part, I followed the rules, helped other people, and did what “good” people are supposed to do.
I had never considered the possibility that I could have evil living inside of me.
By “evil”, I mean inner “demons”. For lack of a better term…
You know, the ones like fear, judgement, ignorance, control, hatred, resistance, & ego…
Words fall short. I think you know what I mean though…
This experience caused me to question EVERYTHING.
Especially myself…
I had a burning fire within me that I had never felt.
Because I knew at the core of myself I was not evil, or demonic…
But I felt like my whole life was filled with darkness… And what if I was the cause of it all…?
That seed of doubt was a beautiful gift.
It motivated me INWARD. A direction I had avoided most of my life…
Thank God my Ex didn’t just leave me with Doom and Gloom… She encouraged me to find what she called my “True Self”.
So like a good boy, I followed her directions. Both the wise and the foolish…
I began a long and fruitful search for Truth.
(Hint: I am still on it)
The Journey Of Truth Starts and Ends Within…
Along the way, I came across a LOT of darkness… What I discovered is that when “good people” ignore and push away their shadow, it actually gets stronger, darker and harder to see…
It is certainly not outright evil… But it is definitely manifesting chaos and confusion.
So as I came across a shadow, I acknowledged and confronted it… And moved on…
I knew this was not really “me”…
Eventually, I found something that was not darkness.
It was a glimmer of golden light, like a star off in the distance.
It was deep within my chest… As I looked deeper, it got brighter and brighter. As it grew, I was filled with a peaceful joyful sensation.
It was the best feeling imaginable.
This was it. THIS is my True Self!
I then spent 6 months taking every chance I could to connect with my “True Self”. Sometimes it was easy and obvious… Other times it was elusive and hard to track!
The hardest part was all the EMOTIONS! Wow…
Love has this magical ability to bring up all that is not Love… Like trauma, sadness, anger, rage, grief and pain.
So yeah, that happened. Half the time I was in heart expanding bliss. The other half, I was in a ball crying on my mom’s basement floor…
You know you have found Truth, when all your sh*t comes to the surface, and you are thoroughly humbled!
Here is the cool thing though:
I had been on the spiritual path for 10 years. But this is when my spiritually really “began”.
Truth had finally found me.
What Is Your True Self, and How To Find It…
With time I learned that I had not found “my” true self. I had found THE “Self” (with a capital S).
This is what some buddhists call the “No Self”… It is the One Self, manifested as a seeming separate self.
I know it sounds a little complicated…
But it’s really quite simple.
Basically, there’s this being called God.
No one really knows who God is… There are a lot of ideas ABOUT God. And a lot of WORDS for God…
The truth is though, no one actually “KNOWS” who and what God is.
For all intents and purposes though, I am going to use my limited frame of understanding (my “best bet”) to talk about this principle of Truth.
It goes something like this…
My Limited Understanding of God…
The whole Universe came from somewhere. Scientists call it the Big Bang. Religions call it God.
Basically, this manifested physical universe came from somewhere, or from some-ONE.
Let’s call that “ONE” God. From ONE, comes all.
And the all is God, and God is the All.
God split into two: Masculine and Feminine. We could also call this the “proton” and “electron”.
These divine polarities then created an infinite number of combinations… These “combinations” are also known as the “periodic table of elements”.
These elements are the building blocks for this entire manifested reality… Billions of years go by, and eventually Life happens.
With time, Humans happen.
Eventually, Robbie happens.
And he wonders where he came from… So he looks for Truth.
Then he writes this blog.
Eventually, YOU happen… Then you read this blog.
Now we’re connected.
‘Hello!!’ *Robbie waves at you*
I am impressed you made it this far… (say hello back in the comments below… hah!)
Anyways… I think I am losing the plot!
Back to the topic at hand…
Basically, you and I are made of the same “stuff”.
That “stuff” is made from Atoms…
And those atoms are all made of God.
You are God. I am God. We are all God…
There is no “self”. There is only God…
The atoms of God are expressed as light… Everything in essence is made of “light”.
This is one reason energy work is so effective, even though it is so subtle… It primarily works with the light of God, which is the underpinning for our entire existence.
Adjust the foundation, the whole house moves…
So this is really the first layer of Truth. At least on an intellectual level.
The task is to KNOW this Truth of God on a DEEP level…
To really “know” truth, you need to be able to experience it with all your senses.
You need to experience it WITHIN yourself… As well as in everyone and everything around you…
This is when the Spiritual path gets fun.
There is the task at hand! Go forth and find Truth.
Search until you know this layer of Truth… Until you begin to Know God.
Practical Examples of Truth (God’s Truth vs. Human Truth)…
Let’s dig a little deeper into truth, and get a bit more practical. The esoteric, metaphysical aspects of truth are fun & exciting to contemplate. That being said until we ground them into our Human life, they remain illusive and impractical.
When one of my Elders began guiding me through this process of Truth, he told me to look up the Webster’s definition of Truth. Then he told me to hand write it on a piece of paper. 50 times every single day for 30 days…
He was old school like that.
This is what I wrote:
“truth (noun): the body of real things, events, and facts”
Seems simple enough right…? Well this is when things get tricky, because we live in a world of duality.
For example:
Let’s say one person believes women are entitled to the same rights as a man… That a woman should be able to earn a similar wage, vote, go where she wants, own property, etc…
This is a (fairly) universal truth in North America. For the most part, we all agree.
Now, if you go to other countries, this is a radical idea. In fact, women could be put in jail or even killed, if they tried to live a sovereign lifestyle.
In those places, this is the (fairly) universal truth. For the most part, everyone in those countries agree.
So what is the Truth…? Well, in this case the truth is relative. And relative truths are what spark wars and so much chaos in our world…
Both sides believe whole heartedly that THEIR truth is the absolute truth. But it is not. It is relative to their beliefs, culture, country, and conditioning.
This is Human truth.
Another example that I like to share is about dogs. Everyone, for the most part, loves dogs. Or at least likes them…
Unless you are an exclusive monogamous cat person. If so, I get it. I love cats.
That being said, it’s a common truth that dogs are loving, joyful, playful and fun.
Some people though, are afraid of dogs… They do not like dogs at all. In fact, they may believe dogs are ugly, annoying and terrible creatures…
You might think, “What is wrong with those people…?!?!”
Well, that is good to notice your aversion and judgement towards them. This is the dark side of a relative truth… We tend to stand on one side of the fence, and judge and hate those on the other side…
Now all this being said…
There’s a good chance that the person who hates dogs had a fairly traumatic experience at some point in their life with a dog…
For example, a 5 year old girl runs up to a dog at the park… This girl is SO excited at the fun fluffy dog, she runs up, arms up, hands out and she is squealing like a baby pig.
She grabs the dog by the head and starts squeezing… She puts her face in the dog’s face, and all of a sudden the dog jumps up and bites her.
The dog is scared and goes into fight or flight mode.
The child is rushed to the hospital, blood gushing from her cheek…
For the rest of her life, she hates dogs. She thinks they are ugly, annoying and terrible creatures…
That is her truth, based on a traumatic experience with a dog.
Is it the total truth…? No.
MOST dogs are awesome. It is very rare, especially in North America, to encounter an aggressive dog.
In fact, when a dog is aggressive it is usually because of trauma inflicted to them by a human…
This is the cycle of trauma and the “truth” that is rooted in pain and darkness.
How Trauma Distorts the “Truth”…
What this means, is that when we experience pain, trauma and negative conditioning we are implanted with certain “truths”. These truths then become the facts of our reality…
Many children grow up, and their parents teach them conditional love… Through these parent’s words, actions and behaviours they teach the child, that they are not good enough… That they need to be different than they are, to be worthy of love.
This becomes that person’s truth: “I am not good enough”
The ripple effect of this can be profound over the course of someone’s life… It comes with a whole host of beliefs, emotions and actions that produce negative and destructive results.
This is “Human” Truth.
God’s Truth…? That is what we want to know and understand.
At our core essence, we are literally made of GOD. How can we possibly “not be good enough”…? Is God “not good enough”?
Kind of crazy when we put it that way, isn’t it…?
The Truth is… The Creator loves us all unconditionally… There is NOTHING you can do that will take that love away.
Your essence is Pure. Your Spirit cannot be traumatized. God can’t be traumatized…
This Truth helps us to purify what limits our freedom.
When we come to know this Truth, the lies we have been told begin to burn away and purify.
Instead of “living a lie”, we can live in Truth…
Whole, Divine, Healed and Free.
Here’s the thing though, once you know Truth, you need to know how to LIVE in ALIGNMENT with Truth…
This is where Honesty, Courage, Bravery, Respect, Humility and Wisdom come in…
They teach us what to do with the Truth in a good way.
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