Our spirit essence knows all truths, but cannot say them in words.
When we find truth, we define it as words, thus understandable by our minds and filling in the mold of our spirit essence.
The feeling of truth is reading Jed McKenna in a hammock in someone else’s backyard (where you live), and it lasts roughly 5 minutes—the time it takes Jed McKenna to outline the crux of Absolute Truth, and in what way that untruth is impossible, which certainly helps his case.
The way Mr. Jed defines Absolute Truth, seems like a case of nihilistic depression…he says that the miserable feeling you get that nothing really matters, is the time when you are seeing the Truth. Jed’s philosophy is to live a life as full of pain as possible, to become one with the Truth.
His definition was basically Cartesian solipsism, laid out in the space of 3 pages, in Theory of Everything. That’s what his promise to reveal Absolute Truth in 5 minutes was. You may know more about the rest than me… I only read 3 pages.
This is a quite confusing mind. You know all truths but you still must find them? Nothing is innate to human regarding truth, just the self-love imagines it is self-sufficient, but yet it hits with its nose on other’s peoples’ discoveries.
The satisfaction which a philosopher gets from discovering truths is so huge that it throws over all other satisfactions in his life. Of course, we know that only history teaches us where to find this satisfaction, and history is a labyrinth!
“History is a labyrinth!” A labyrinth, or “The Labyrinth” -as in The Troy Game? (Sara Douglass [I like the way she spells her name]). I’m reading the second novel in her Troy Game series, which centers around the events surrounding the Norman Conquest, in 1066. I keep getting the feeling there are some dark forgotten secrets encoded in this Labyrinth she describes. This could just be my imagination, but it is the first novel I’ve ever read which I had dreams about, after reading it.
Define what You mean by spirit? By truth, do you mean metaphysical truths?
Understandable as we would wish by our minds but as is reality - who knows.
Separating facts from truth, I think that the only truth which we can know individually is our very own subjective truth.
You might say that it comes from our "particular’ spirit essence. If we know ourselves in part, intuit ourselves, we can put words to these experiences of truth. But they’re still only true for us though some may be more universal.
It’s nice to say that our spirit essence knows all truths, but how practical is it, what purpose does it serve, when those truths remain hidden, when they can’t be put into words.
It kind of reminds me of the charismatic (?) movement where individuals speak in tongues (supposedly lol). What good does it do to speak in tongues when one has no idea of what is being said. But it feels good to think that one can, that it’s inspired by some god, a generous gift given, that it is something which belongs to “me” and not many others. But what real purpose does it serve?
I disagree… I’m first bothered by the topic of this discussion initiated with a question without a question mark. What is a spirit essence? How does this spirit essence know all truths? It’s no different than me saying I know all truths, I just don’t feel like sharing them. How does one justify that knowledge as being true? I won’t be too harsh since I noticed by our very nature, we have some set of core beliefs that don’t have an explanation.
After meditating on the topic of epistemology (Study of knowledge) for some time now, I find myself running into a frustrating closed logic loop. Epistemology (tries to) answers the question, “How do we know something to be true”; it’s what we call justified true belief. What you believe to be true doesn’t necessarily mean it is. The means you went to justify such truth is likely flawed if you depended on your subjective senses to interpret the “truth” if they have proven to be inaccurate in the past.
My take on truth… It’s not something hidden to be discovered, if objective, it always existed independent of our logic; it just is. The truth we know is what has been depicted and interpreted through senses and reasoning dependent on our interpretation. Epistemology has taught me there is no way to justify it. As we progress as a race, we continue to shift our perspective on truth. Throughout the ages, what we believed to be true has continued to evolve ie… the world is flat, we are the center of the universe, rats came from dirty underwear, eggs are good for you, global warming etc… These things were all true at one point which begs to suggest that in 100 years what we believe to be true now will sound just as silly then. It’s asymptotic the closer we get to “is” never to reach it due to our limitations of subjectivity.