Em-Slice

The question of the day: Is there a way to know truth? What is truth? How does one know what is truth? Aren’t we as humans a manifestation as truth?

• There is a way to know different levels of truth. Biologists study biology, psychologists study psychology, and mystics study the mind. Can these really be separated into separate truths or is there one that can encompass them all? Perhaps this is what integral theory attempts to do, while at the same time acknowledging that in order to have a complete picture, one must take on and look at their reality. That which is continually shaping and determining their worldview. Of course this assumes that there is a complete picture at any given point in time. However, at some point it might be understood that everything that takes place in the world is part of the overall searching for what and who this is. Perhaps even thinking that there is separation on the relative level and the nonpersonal level is creating a duality and implying that this world is not the only place to discover the potential of the universe.

• Nonetheless, the relative truth is always changing and evolving and it appears that evolution can only take place on the physical world. However, since the nonpersonal truth of the way things are seems to be linked to the way things are it would be easy to assume that this would evolve as well. Perhaps there are two things going on at the same time. The evolution of the human species and the evolution of consciousness as a whole. Neither of which can be separated from the other. However, the part that is changeless is important to understand in order to fully grasp the implications of evolution on the physical level and in order to see how all levels are influencing the whole. This is where there can be value in seeing the importance of our human potential and at what level we bring nonpersonal potentials into the physical plane. There is a tendency to reduce everything to either the spiritual aspect or the physical plane. To realize that they are not separate nor can they create at their potential without acknowledging one another is in itself a part of evolution. Perhaps even the next step.