What is Truth?

What is Truth?

Reply to a comment on my blog: https://nochairpledge.wordpress.com/2024/09/04/the-paradigm-shift-and-the-body-change-happens-from-within/comment-page-1/#comments

Jeffrey, a lot of people say there is no truth and the best we can do is approximation. However I don’t think we’ve really given the truth a chance. I think that we engage in an awful lot of avoidance behaviors around the truth. Commitment is scary and yes reaching for rigid and premature commitments can have unexpected negative outcomes.

If we apply the standards of abstract reason and require mathematical precision then we will never get started and we will never finish. We will stay with our heads in a realm of abstract contemplation. If we require some kind of cosmic standard of spirituality of the truth… well frankly I don’t know and I don’t care.

But if we take an organic perspective and say that a seed contains the truth and when planted and nurtured it becomes a great tree or a tiny flower then this is a meaningful definition of the truth. But if we say the truth is like a seed and the seed contains the germ of life, that is not all there is. It also needs the earth and the sky and the sun and animals and birds and people. This is life. This is a way of understanding the truth from the bottom up rather than the top down, from the inside out rather than the outside in, perhaps.

There is truth, beauty and goodness. If we say there is really no truth then is there also no beauty and no goodness? Must everything be a platonic ideal? Because of the dominance of abstract reason and the intellectual part of our mind we have these unrealistic expectations and use it as an excuse either to cop out on the truth or to exert authoritarian control.

Have I found myself and the truth? Yes. I can say that I have found the truth. Does this mean that I know everything? Does it mean I have to know everything? Does it mean that I never make mistakes and can never change my mind? I believe I have found the truth in my research and I call it three bones theory. I believe that it is true because of the Consilience it generates with so many diverse other facts and phenomenon in so many different different and diverse realms of experience.

I think the truth is more like a starting point, a seed, rather than the perfect realization of its purpose and life path. When I say that I have found the truth then I mean that I have found something that is profound enough for me to work with endlessly and something that is deep and consistent and factual enough that it takes the form of my own bones. For me the truth amounts to a handful of bones that together make a bodywide synergy that is the very core core, of who I am. It is as true as any part of me and perhaps far more profoundly so. It is the very core of my being and having discovered it yes I say I have found myself. You may walk through the streets of the city and come to the café where I sit. Then you too have found me. Like a seed it is only the beginning and it depends on where we go together weather life and truth result.

Maybe the truth is a key that unlocks a door and it is when you walk through the door and what you do afterwards that determines the value and the outcome of the truth. The truth itself does not predetermine the outcome does it? That is up to us. That is life.

If I say that I have found myself does that mean that I am done looking? For me it means that I have found something to hold onto. A handful of bones. The truth is that these bones are in a profound relationship and this is a very real semblance of my own inner identity. That is enlightenment.

This body part, my deep core, has always been there and always will be and so yes it is a kind of a truth. If I find myself there it is is a starting point, a beginning, not the end. There is a big difference between finding oneself and then moving forward with the security of that knowledge, and the dilemma of having to start over again and again and again.

I say that my deep core is me. It is a universal axial structure and design element that is common all vertebrates and many forms of life. It is an abstract thing in a sense because we can find it reflected on so many different levels in so many different ways. But the truth is alive or it isn’t really a truth. Within me as my own deep core, my own axial structure, my own animal intelligence, it cannot be reduced to an abstraction. It is infinitely complex and unique and contains I believe the essence of my own soul. There’s nothing perfect about it. But it is a truth.

I say I have literally found my -self- in my deep core because my life has changed profoundly with its discovery. It is like meeting an old and faithful friend. If for example you didn’t know that you had a brain and suddenly found out that you did have a brain and learn something about what it does then you might experience that as a form of enlightenment, of finding yourself and the truth. It doesn’t make sense to say that the brain that we possess is not truthful. We may never fully understand it and can argue about its meaning and we can express that meaning in an infinite variety of ways, good and bad. This is life.

The deep core is really just a tremendously profound body part and even to comprehend it requires skills that we have never exercised before. Because of it’s importance, it’s relevance, and it’s impactfulness, I say that it is an important truth.

I also believe that my theory is truthful because of the tremendous Consilience of diverse meanings and agreements that it generates. It works and it works well and it works in a tremendous variety of ways. This isn’t such a big deal and it is a also a really big big deal.

If I told you that you had an arm and you never knew you had an arm before but now you could start to explore and use it this would change your life forever. The deep core isn’t an arm; it is a lot more subtle and profound but the body doesn’t intend to hide even the deepest parts from us.

Even our most profound inner parts, like the deep core, are not trying to be mysterious and obscure. The opposite is true and obviously so. Our deepest self is where our richest sensory organs and our most abundant and active neurology exists. The deep core is our interoceptive sensory motor system. It is a fundamental and vital if profound and different form of self-awareness than the conventional exteroceptive five senses that we know so well. Living from the inside out and knowing ourselves from within may seem like impossible spiritual fantasies but in fact it is basic anatomy and is already always at work within us, whether we are aware of it and take the time to pay attention, or not.

Jeffrey what I am talking about is an exciting new discovery. It is also and ancient animal inheritance. I believe it is a truth: you have a deep core. You have the same bony servomechanisms as everyone else. You contain the same neurology and organs of perception as every other human being on the planet. You possess the myofascial synergy that ties us together and holds us together from within. I am not sure what it will mean for you personally, but take some time and think about it. Activate the muscles. Visualize a collaborative and loving relationship with these bony servomechanisms of the jaw in the throat, and the pubic bone in the groin, and the toe in the feet on the ground, and the scapula in the armpit. It may sound silly but these bones no themselves too be part of a coherent body wide system. This bodywide system is self-aware; it knows itself and so it knows you. This means that you also know this though perhaps not in your conscious narrative intellect, yet. You will know that you have found it when you see that it already knows you.

Perhaps you will find yourself and perhaps like me it will be both momentous and mundane at the same time.

Saying that the world is round doesn’t change the world but it changes our understanding of it. For some it will make all of the difference in the world and make possible things that were only fantasy before. This is the nature of truth.