Prometheus 6

Direct Pointing
by Earl Dunovant
Copyright © 1995

"I will speak plainly. If you understand my words, you may stay. If not, you must go.

"To begin with, I am discussing both the planet and the world. The planet is real, vast, and you are but a single element of it. . . a mote, composed of motes, on a mote of a planet circling one of a vast number of starts in one of a vast number of galaxies in what may be one of a vast number of universes. The world, on the other hand, is internal to you. It's the network of laws and expectations that defines the future, intersecting the network of memory and explanation that defines the past, and the perceptions made relative to these networks. Our bodies live on the planet; we are creatures of the world. Do you understand?"

The crowd looked at each other uneasily. They had not expected to be tested until the lesson was complete.

THE TRUTH

Accepting the truth is the only way to be able to change the truth. Accepting the truth is difficult sometimes. We often think things are other than what they are, and that desire makes us search for evidence that something hidden will come to light and prove things were the way we expected them to be all along.

Meanwhile, had we just accepted events as they happened, unpleasant as they may be, we would have been freed immediately to work on changing things.

Choosing which truth to accept and which to reject is just as bad as rejecting all the truth. We accept pleasant truths and deny unpleasant ones. Or we accept unpleasant truths and deny pleasant ones - you know people that do that, don't you? Go on, tell the truth.

How do you know what the truth is, though?