We are all arguing so much about what is right and what is wrong, and the funny thing is that what we consider to be a dangerous error today might become the main accepted truth tomorrow, which only shows us how little we do know. Instead of this observation humbling us it seems to make us more arrogant and determined to own the truth.

Scientists already know that there is more than one truth, that there is a truth hidden in every single expression of life. They also know that all those truths will have to fit into an overall truth; they will have to be the parts that make up “The Universal Truth”. The whole of evolution, the whole of the universe with everything in it, is run on a few basic truths and their interactions. All of this is being explained in terms of waves, energies and interferences. But what does it mean to my daily life?

Everyone of us holds his/her own truth. We feel what we feel; we think what we think. In fact, we see the world around us the way we see it. We experience the world the way we experience it, and nobody can tell us that we are wrong, because we see what we see. On the other hand, people might say that “objective” truth is what truly matters, in spite of what each individual might make of it. And this is, I guess, where the arguments start. Who tells us what “the objective truth” is?

What is an objective truth? Should that be a truth that remains unchanged regardless of who observes it? But quantum physics proves to us that all things observed are changed by the fact that they are being observed. The observer changes the thing observed! So who does the observation to see “the objective truth”? Whoever it is will have changed that truth by the sheer fact of his/her observation. And when we look closely, in our daily lives we very often find that that objective truth is brought to us by some authority. It is, in fact, what they want us to believe over and above what we, as individuals, already believe.

But if every living thing has its own truth, then life becomes incredibly complicated and chaotic, doesn’t it? Well, we also have stated that all the truths there are in the universe slot together to form a bigger truth, underneath which all the individual truths find a place. This would mean that, although each human being has his/her own truth, they will also be subject to truths that have a more universal character and a wider spread of power. It may be that I personally do not need or like the place that I live in to turn into a very busy tourist attraction, because I can easily and happily survive without that, but the community I live in, as a whole, may welcome the transformation because without it, it was dying.

These dilemmas have never in the history of the universal evolution caused any conscientious conflict whatsoever. Until man arrives! The part that human beings are playing in evolutionary terms is to develop consciousness. As we are very much at the beginning stage of this development, essentially life still runs on an unconscious basis. All functions in the universe, including those inside our own bodies, are organised and completed unconsciously. Nobody is asking me to take care of my heart beating, or my digestion, or my thyroid function. It is all done automatically. Only occasionally we become aware of certain functions, more often than not when they change. When my heart beats way to fast, I notice it. When my food doesn’t digest properly, I notice it. But even then I am not being asked to ‘take over’!

In spite of what the medical profession would like you to believe the automatic pilot of your life does not make any mistakes. It has only one purpose in life and that is to support you throughout your journey in the best possible way. In other words, it will always try and do what is best under the given circumstances. So, automatic is not bad at all. It also relates to some innate truths as the basis on which it operates. It can only “know” what to do, when it was written down in its inaugural programme. In other words, it follows laws that are the same for all of us: given certain circumstances, a certain environment, it will act in response to that according to a specifically laid out plan. And yet, it is not because two human beings are confronted with the same environment that they will respond in the same way. Showering a person with love will not necessarily result in a happy relationship. In the animal or plant kingdom, where, to all intense and purposes, everything is certainly run automatically, intuitively, there too we can observe varying behaviours to the same set of circumstances. Therefore, the appropriate response from the individual depends on the individual, or more accurately, on the inner “truth” of the individual at a particular time in a particular place.

Remember, each individual has a truth. At the same time, all aspects of the surrounding world, be it the weather or the traffic lights, have their own truths and they all have to fit into each other if we want peace to reign in that world.

In our world we are so concerned with the truth of the outside world – we are constantly confronted with what is “right” and “wrong” – that we are in danger of losing sight of the truth within us. We trying hard to fit the truth, as it is presented to us, into our inner truth, but this is causing a lot of internal conflicts as our system cannot allow us to do so. It would totally mess up the automatic, intuitive, responses that we live by. It would, and is, destroying life within at an alarming rate. We cannot change the fundamental truth on which life, our life, is built without exterminating life itself. Today, many individuals are displaying this sad fact in front of our very eyes. They are dying because they are trying to be what they are not.

Life begins, and ends, within. Truth begins within. Speak the truth in your heart, and listen to it. You have to find the truth, as it resides in your heart, not as your head, your logically trained brain, wants you to believe what it entails. Your true needs for life, the unconscious automatic plan for happiness, are neatly laid out in the rhythm and the strength of your heart beating. Find your personal truth. Once you know it, you need to let it do its work. That is, if you truly want to be happy.

However, now the conflict may have already started. What if what you have discovered does not stroke with the needs of the outside world? What if your personal requirements do not coincide with those of the world that surrounds you? Tension will appear and grow. This tension can be internalized or externalized depending on your decision.

All of life runs on automatic pilot, so how will it take notice of a decision I make regarding where I want the tension displayed? In any case, I do not have any power over, I do not control, the outside. No, I do have a say on the inside though.

From the moment there is discrepancy between the way of the outside and the way of the inside, tension arises automatically. Tension is the force of movement; it shifts things, it brings momentum to evolution. It is, in other words, very necessary in a changing world. Whenever something is evolving, tension is the force that makes that possible. Now, depending on who you are and what you have learned from previous experiences, you might gather power and prepare for a big fight with your environment, or you might curl up and become a servant to the needs of the outside world. And of course, anything in between. Your response will generally be an unconscious one based on the information gathered from your past, taken against the background of your constitutional make-up. No problem there then. Except of course that if there is no or little power from within to resist the growing power from the outside, you will get squeezed to death. You will disappear under the outside pressure, unable to create a world of your own. For that to happen you will need to grow internal power and strength.

When you have identified your own personal inner needs, when in your heart you speak the truth, you can build power by directing this truth outwardly. You need to communicate your truth to the outside world. You need to tell them. You need to show them. You need to start living it. Now the conflict is shifting to the outside. Now your outside world experiences the uncomfortable feeling of disturbed peace. Every single whim will no longer get served. It will learn resistance. And you will experience, as the conflict is shifted outwardly, a growing field of peace moving in behind it. Expressing the truth that is in your heart is the key to start the process, not only to start to process of “living” inside, but also to start to process of “learning” on the outside.

Keeping your inner needs hidden not only damages your own life but it denies the outside the opportunity of learning that all of life is in fact an interaction and not a one-way system. It is extremely important that the outside world learns to understand what the opposing force is about and why it will have to adjust. It learns in the same way as the individual does from experience, and if you never give it that experience, it is denied a learning opportunity. So, instead of feeling guilty for ‘hurting’ others and for making it difficult for our environment, we should realise that, in the long run, they will have to pass through this faze anyway. We should be proud that we have been chosen by our environment to teach them this particular lesson. By communicating who you really are, what you really need, you are aiding the world around you to move on on its own evolutionary path.

It is, of course, perfectly possible to not communicate and still do everything that you require in accordance to your own personal needs. This will certainly safeguard your life and help to put it on the road to happiness, but it leaves the outside world without its necessary experience to move on. You may have learned what you needed to learn, but the equivalent knowledge has not been delivered to the outside world. In evolutionary terms it hasn’t gained any greater awareness or higher consciousness by going through the experience of the conflict with someone’s inner world. And indeed, you may not care about that or you may still believe that you are helping by ‘protecting’ the world from the pain it may suffer. If that is the case, then you need to realise that there is no real learning without the experience, and the experience means experiencing the conflict, the tension, the pain that it causes. Being kept away from that experience lowers the quality of life for your outside environment. You are denying it the possibility to feel reality, to know reality, to live reality. It will not be able to make the transition that is occurring in your inner world and therefore the disharmony between your inner and outer world increases. This, in the long run, will once again disturb your inner peace and distort the evolution you thought you were going through. Never forget that life is about harmony, and past every conflict and disturbance it is seeking to return to peaceful and harmonious waters. You are only truthfully aiding this process if, from the inner strength you have bred, you allow truth to flow into the outer world.

Hear your inner truth.

Speak the truth in your heart.

Speak the truth out loud.

Live the truth, both in and out.

Your truth will help to mould The Truth, when you are brave enough to share it.

December 2008