Truth or Consequences

When we don’t know our own truths is when we suffer the consequences. Our truths are actually beliefs that are held as absolutes. They are so rock solid that we never question them as beliefs, but hold them tightly as facts and, therefore, truths. Cause and effect is a belief that we hold as a truth, and because we do so we assume there is no other way it can be perceived. This limits choice, and Essence abhors a lack of choice. I refer you to my blog, It’s a Fack, Jack, where I address our belief in facts. A fact is merely a belief we have turned into a truth, and therefore an absolute. When, on occasion, that truth is broken we give it a new name. Any guesses?…… We call a broken fact a miracle, as in the case of stigmata which I wrote about in a previous blog.

There is no expressed truth in beliefs, and yet we seek to find truth, but at the same time they are not true. This is the paradox. Here’s a simple example: I hate the taste of brussel spouts. This is a tiny truth for me, but I realize that many people love the taste of brussel sprouts. So, my distaste for brussel sprouts is true, but it is not truth. We can get our minds around this simple example. A more difficult truth to wrap our minds around is the truth of pain. For most of us pain is a truth, but the paradox, again, is that it is not true.

Luigi is working in the garage while keeping his eye on his four-year-old son who is riding his tricycle in the driveway. Luigi is building a workbench and whacks his thumb with the hammer. The pain is intense and his attention shifts immediately to the pain. Suddenly he hears screeching tires in the street and his attention shifts to the scene where his son is inches from the front bumper of an SUV. His attention has shifted from his thumb to his frightened and crying son. He runs down the driveway and scoops up his unhurt son, completely oblivious to the pain that only a moment earlier was the center of his world. The pain is gone. Once his son is .securely back in the house and comforted Luigi’s attention shifts back to his thumb and his belief in pain. His thumb begins to throb again.

This is an example of a belief held in the absolute (hit your thumb with a hammer and it’s going to hurt). Pain is a belief that is greatly influenced by the far larger belief in cause and effect. It is Luigi’s truth (probably yours also), but it is not true. The evidence is the complete cessation of the pain between the screeching tires and the comforting of his son. During this time his attention and, therefore, his focus on a belief (pain) had shifted.

The belief system of truth is the most difficult to identify and notice because we never question what we believe to be true. We respond automatically and without question. Luigi never questioned that he had another choice when he hit his thumb with the hammer. His response was automatic and unquestioned, and yet for a period of time he was totally without pain and didn’t notice that his belief in pain during that time was not true. We all have numerous beliefs that go unnoticed, and when we don’t notice we can’t question that there may be another way to respond; another choice.

There is nothing wrong with our truths. They align with our Intent and Value Fulfillment, but in holding them without awareness we become non-accepting of differences. This non-acceptance is what causes conflict. We will draw to ourselves that which we do not accept so that we may view the mirror action or the reflection. The typical response in any conflict, either individual or global, is that I/we are right and you/they are wrong.

There are truths, but they are not what we typically think of as truths. “Real” truths are those that are translatable within every area of consciousness and through all dimensions and all realities. Ours is but one of numberless realities. Truths are not associated with concepts. Truths are associated with action, for consciousness is action. Consciousness is a truth. Reality is a truth. Choice is a truth. Color is a truth. Tone is a truth and love is a truth. Remember, the new definition of love is knowing (that we are all Essence) and appreciation (of what each of us creates). Spanking-your-child-is-bad is not a truth. It is a belief. Truths are not things. Things are abstract translations of inner subjective states. The truths that I am addressing in this blog are our truths that are associated with our beliefs.

We typically draw others to us whose truths are similar to our own. If you are a neo-nazi you are not going to be hanging out with Jews. Conversely, Jews are not going to have neo-nazis as members of their synagogue. Most of us would agree that our preference is for a harmonious life, free of hatred and racism, but there are those, such as the neo-nazis, who consider us weak and non-protective of family and country. Each of these two groups embodies different truths that are not true, but are reality. Remember, reality is a truth, but the things of reality are not.

In session 1799 of the Elias Transcripts, Elias says: “It is not a matter of altering other individuals. It is a matter of you engaging your creativity to discover a manner in which you can generate cooperation with other individuals in which you are not compromising you, but you are also not discounting or opposing the other individual. Let me express to you, if you are not expressing an opposing energy to another individual, whether you dislike them or disagree with them, the other individual shall not project an opposing energy to you either, which neutralizes the conflict.”

We will continue in our preferences of good/bad, right/wrong for they align with our individual Intents. What needs to change and what is in the process of changing is not applying our own individual truths to everyone else. This is where the acceptance of differences comes into play. You don’t have to agree with someone who holds opposing truths, nor is it necessary for you to try to sway them to your truth, for this is the action of non-acceptance. It is not necessary to agree in order to cooperate, for all individual truths are true, but only for the individual.
Bill Marshall

P.S. Please take a look at my book, The Forgotten Self, either in the US or the UK.