What do we “know”?

In actual fact, we use only physically provable facts (first hand seen, heard, smelled, tasted, touched), to substantiate what we say we know. Until the very recent time of movies and photographs, (which could also be forged), there was no proof of anything: unless the person was standing present and acknowledged it to someone else who was also present.

If we use “provable texts” for facts that come from trustable sources, or read scientifically proven facts, we can add historical and scientific literature. But these provable texts must be seen to be secondary in their provability, and keep clear that only directly experienced happenings are true “facts”.

Facts can be disputed, and often are, but if we are to live in the world our body has placed us in, we must be able to establish the most rudimentary facts to even take one step, or get through a single day.

So, speaking to these secondary sourves, as soon as we shift to this source of facts, we must trust those secondary sources and “believe” those sources.

If we do not directly see, hear, smell, taste or touch something, all else is secondary sources.

Those are the hard facts, and they become more and more important to understand every day, as manipulation of all media is becoming so prevalent and of such high quality.

Because of this, it is truly difficult to make our way in life without having some manipulated information being used to “pull the wool over our eyes”.

In our current world situation, almost all communications are bent and manipulated to a persons or groups agenda.

This has made our establishing facts and stable ground to understand the world around us….. stable enough to make good decisions about even daily life, almost impossible. The lack of this sense is very dangerous to our mental health.

More and more, we must rely on our inner person to relate to us what is real and what is not real, or has been interpreted due to one or another persons or groups agenda.

It becomes a matter of living on shifting sands or on a stable rock.

How do we do this? Where can we turn? Are we at the total mercy of those around us who are bent on brainwashing us in this or that ideological thinking? It seems that in the past, there were trustable sources to turn to, but even these trustable sources are being eroded, and manipulated in their meaning: equivocation is rampant. (words meanings being twisted so that the message is changed and sometimes even overturned to man the opposite)

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Our human inner world is made up of images and senses of what those images mean.

Why do I say this?

Because regardless of how we see humankind coming into being, there were many years, and almost certainly many hundreds of thousands of years that humans existed without anything but grunts, pointing and exclamations that were the sum total of interpersonal communications.

I venture to say that what formulates in the human mind, are images which are then translated into some form that has the ability to help a person function in the world……. to “stick” in our neurons to form a set “fact” or “memory”….. and then to communicate those things interpersonally.

Originally, parents and our direct environment were totally depended on to “tune us in” to how to see the world clearly…. and also to understand correctly our inner sense and feelings towards what was happening around us.

But in our current upheaval, even those sources are being questioned and quashed.

In our present state, government can make decisions about what is true and what is not.

In the past, I often wondered why on earth they would go to such great lengths to undermine our essential skills to function. But lately, I understand the following:

Power will do whatever it is necessary, to obtain the outcome they want.

What can we do then to maintain a healthy inner understanding of the world around us?

The first step is one of trusting in our own senses and the information that they give us. We must realize just how important our direct experiencing of what we believe to be true is. Without this tool, we lose our only hope of understanding reality. This means that we will necessarily follow our own path, but the wonderful part of this is, that we will be able to participate with others using their first hand knowledge. It will also mean that we will need to have our “wits” about us, and not indulge in drugs that alter our sense of reality.

Second, we must spend enough time inside our own minds to come to an understanding of what Nature is.

Third, we must trust in our instinctual understanding.

Fourth, we must strain any other incoming information through our own instinctual strainer.

Fifth, we must use our best resources to find where we ourselves have been brianwashed and indoctrinated in our lives.

Parents, in the coming times, will need to provide the best possible tools to their children for critical thinking.

But…… thinking is NOT the best tool. The best tools are:

Centering: having a sense of center inside ourselves… a safe harbour.

Primary sensing: using our own individual senses to distinguish “is” from “is not”.

Self – Inquiry: to strain information thru our teeth, and to pluck out the rogue data that has managed to find its way in to our “beliefs”.

These processes ARE our protectors, and will never bring us emotional or mental harm. These processes MAY guide us towards a more primary and direct understanding of ourselves and the world around us.