Originally posted by Emily_Cragg
... In the spectra of experiences you are describing, whose job is it to prod in favor of the Truth when Truth is being suppressed and concealed?
... Is that midway, or toward one end or the other?
I think I can see your concern. I used to share such a similar outlook that things are not the way they are supposed to be and that there is something
fundamentally
wrong with the manner in which things are being done in today's society. It is true that there are many secrets being kept from
the mass public about certain things that might either allow us to help ourselves greatly or hurt ourselves greatly as well.
To attempt to answer your question I would say that it is anyone's job who chooses it to stand forth in the favor of Truth. Yet different people feel
differently about what is actual Truth, and as such their actions and perspectives will reflect this accordingly.
However, as I see it, Truth is something that is eternal. Man's being is a spectrum of existence that encompasses at once the entire scale between
temporality and eternity. We have the innate capacity to sense both timeless and time-dependent things. Of course, this applies for space as well: man
has the capacity to see things apart from one another
in addition to the ability to see analogies and absolute connections between things.
Since each person has within himself the entire spectrum to choose his experience from, he is therefore free to mold his experience around whatever
level of bias or absence of bias he may choose with regard to one aspect of being over another. Ultimately it is up to each individual to resonate
with the things that he feels he currently indentifies most with.
The qualities that are available for man to experience will not, themselves, ever go away. The reason that things apparently stop happening anywhere
is because someone has made a
choice to stop resonating with them in his own being. For example: the
notion of war will not ever go away
for what it is,
yet it is entirely possible for it to
simply not show up in our experience because we have chosen to no longer give it such
attention that would create it in our world and being.
This can be easily seen with what is understood with vibration: when a color changes, we don't ever claim that the color itself no longer exists,
instead we understand that it's
simply not showing up here anymore. Of course, the same applies with music: if we imagine a note rising in
pitch, quickening its vibration, we can see that once the note has passed a certain pitch, the pitch itself has not been eliminated from the
possibility of existence, it is simply not being
resonated with where we are experiencing things. Its potential for existence has not been
eliminated, only its
outward existence has been silenced, for now.
This does have its analogy with all things as well: when we
choose to see things in one way as opposed to another, that is why we see things to
be the way they are for us. If we allow for the possibility of all things in our experience, then we do see how anyone could be saying and seeing what
they are claiming is truth. Its all about understanding the
context of things as the most accurate way of describing them.
If we simply take into account the
context that someone has gone through whatever experiences they have in order to come to the conclusion that
they have come to, then it becomes a great deal easier to see why someone would act the way that they are. This amounts to a simple understanding of
compassion for others, and actually for the act, itself, of misunderstanding.
What this results in is a level of tolerance for things in general: not just things in other people, but very much so the same things in ourselves.
The reason that we dislike anything that anyone else does is because we dislike that aspect of ourselves. In disliking and pushing away from us the
things we find repulsive, we find them coming back to us in our experience with the same urgency that we pushed them away with.
Whenever we try to specifically get rid of something because we don't approve of it, the thing comes back to us
always in the exact form that
we tried to get rid of it in. This is simply because everything is a part of ourselves, and the act of pushing it away when it wants to be accepted
can do nothing but send it right back to us, regardless of the manner in which we have rejected it. The
only manner of changing things in our
life is through the healthy acceptance of them for what they are right now, which will neutralize them completely of their dominating effect in our
world and life. All we have to do is look at things honestly, without looking away in repulse. Nothing that we do not choose can possibly persist in
our world when properly paid attention to.
The reason that this is true is because of the nature of consciousness and light. Everything in our life is working toward being brought into
conscious understanding. It is only
us who ever pushes things
back into the darkness of our own ignorance. Consciousness
is the
light that we see things with. Once things are understood,
there is no possible way for them to bother us ever again.
Now (to address your question in a more direct manner), if you choose it so, then
your job is to bring the Truth into greater consciousness for
everyone. But there are two general ways of doing this that each have their own most effective means of working.
One way of doing this is outwardly: attempting to show others how things can be more Truthful by means of a variety of techniques ranging from simply
telling them to
outwardly forcing them to change. This means of changing things is very risky, as it does encompass all of what creates strife
and havoc in our world around us. On the one hand, there is the peaceful side of outwardly affecting things: through speech. On the other hand there
is the very unpeaceful means of outwardly affecting things: through force.
The reason that outwardly changing things is risky is because risk is an outward characteristic. We can start by telling people what we think, but
this may very easily become the attempt at
telling people what to do. This jeopardizes freedom very much so, and is unhealthy at best, because
whatever force we bestow onto others for our own ends (which may even appear to us to be for the greater end of all) will definitively come back to us
by means of someone else forcing us to do something that
we do not want to do. If I were to give anyone advice on the matter of outwardly
trying to change things, it would be to 'watch out' in what you're doing, because it is
very easy to forget about the line between simply
saying what we feel and trying to force it on others.
That being said, we can move on to the other manner of changing things: by inwardly changing ourselves into what we want the world to change into.
This method is
absolutely by far a more effective means of changing our world than
any outward means of changing things could
ever be or result in. There are multiple reasons for this being so. The first and foremost reason that this is true is because we are
hugely more connected to each other on the inside of our being than we are on the outside. By allowing ourselves to see the greater purpose for
changing
our own inner nature (which instantly effects an outer change in our being), we make it much easier for
anyone else to see for
themselves the advantages of changing
their inner nature, which does so quickly filter into the outer world of their being as well.
When we see the path of freedom and change our direction such that we trod along its path, we make it
much easier for others to see the
advantage of doing the same. The reason that outwardly trying to change things is so ineffective is because the inner
guides the outer. For
example: no one will ever change their ways of doing things until
they see the reason for doing so. This is why the attempt to
force
people to change is so futile. Indeed, outwardly attempting to change things is tantamount to futility itself.
This is also why some medicine can fail so harshly in treating a problem: because the problem does not lie on the outer side where the effect that is
the wound shows up. The problem lies on the inner side where imbalance is being played out, and without inwardly changing the
actual imbalance,
there can be no way for the outward
effect of the imbalance to possibly change. Outwardly changing things must be placed into the context for
what it is and therefore does best in order for harmony to prevail. The context of outwardly changing things effectively
is by working hand-in-hand
with inwardly changing things. Only by placing outward things into their context of being merely
effects of inward causes can outward means
be utilized to create harmony.
So to bring this back again to the immediate discussion at hand, Truth is brought to the conscious understanding
most directly by bringing it
to
our own conscious understanding. Only in conjunction with an inward change of respect towards things, and therefore responsibility toward
them as well, can any form of outward change have any meaning to it. The reason for this, quite bluntly, is that meaning stands in the realm of the
inner nature of our being. The outer nature of our being is only symbolic of such meaning that lies strictly on the inner side of things. This of
course would go on to show how disagreement is a
strict result of symbolic interpretation of things inherently clashing with one another,
because such is the nature of multiplicity, whose language
is the symbolic.
It is not our job to get others to reveal what they are hiding, but instead to reveal it ourselves by means of discovering it within the midst of our
own being.
[edit on 27-11-2004 by airfoil]