We live in a time when it’s impossible to tell the difference between true and false. Right? So many conflicting stories out there, so many untrustworthy ‘experts’ weighing in on all sides of every issue.
The alterna-facts are flying thick and fast, these days. But no, it’s not hard at all to tell the difference between what’s true and what’s false. Because true and false actually inhabit different universes. Or different frequency bandwidths, to be more precise.
What’s true is eternally true. It has no shades of gray; it remains 100% unchangingly true from every angle. You can’t spin it. You can’t manipulate it. You can’t break off a chunk and recontextualize it to fit some other agenda. The truth remains only itself, whole and holy. And if you’re on a wavelength to perceive the truth, you absolutely know it when you see it. It makes itself known and felt throughout your entire mind, body and energetic field.
And if you’re not on the wavelength where truth lives? It doesn’t exist for you. Simple as that. The truth is always here for every one of us, and it’s always pristine and perfect. It’s just not available on that lower frequency bandwidth where we tend to hang out. Our radios can’t pick it up. And that’s why most humans have never encountered it.
It really isn’t true and false that we’re struggling with, here on Planet Earth right now. It’s the rampant manipulation of facts. Which certainly sucks, no doubt about it. But even that appalling situation isn’t quite as big a deal as we might think.
It really isn’t true and false that we’re struggling with, here on Planet Earth right now. It’s the rampant manipulation of facts. Which certainly sucks, no doubt about it.
Because facts are never the same thing as truth. Facts always belong to the lower frequency bandwidth; they are never of the divine. And as such, they’re endlessly squishy, endlessly manipulable, and always open to a vast world of interpretation. So they’ve never actually been a reliable benchmark of anything. Not really.
But...what about all the factual facts? Y’know, the good ones. Aren’t they solid and trustworthy and believable? Well, no. Again, it’s down to that interpretation thing that we do. Because, no matter how meticulously proven a fact may be, each one of us filters it through our own lens of distortion. We subject it to our own personal databank of prior experience. And that databank tells us how to understand the fact, and whether to accept or reject it.
Now more than ever, when fact manipulation is at an all time high, it’s a great idea to take your own personal lens of distortion (and your own personal viewpoint which is derived from it), with a large truckload of salt. This kind of detachment has always been fundamental to spiritual and emotional freedom, by the way, not to mention general peace of mind.
But especially now, the less attached we all are to our own viewpoint, the better off we’ll be. We can only be manipulated if we buy or reject the facts being offered, based on what our own prior databank of experience is telling us to believe. By remaining unattached, you’re a free agent. Plus, it’s this very unattachment that helps us visit those higher divine frequencies where real truth resides. So it’s win-win.
But in case you’re not 100% entirely convinced about the uselessness of facts yet, I’ll explain a little more, about that personal lens of distortion. And why there’s actually never been any such thing as consensus, about which facts are the ones we should all believe in.
Think of it like this:
You might say each one of us is the star of our own movie.
In your movie you’re written into every scene. The story is always told from your perspective. Everybody else, even a Very Special Guest Star, is by comparison a bit player. And naturally, in other peoples’ movies, you’re the bit player. It’s just how consciousness is structured.
Due to the fact that we’re only the star of our own bio-pic and nobody else’s, we don’t ever truly know what another person’s life is like. Even if it sometimes looks as if we might. We’re never privy to their full storyline as seen from their perspective.
Maybe you think you share the same values or principles as somebody else. Yet their personality self has led them to embrace these core principles through associations, opinions, beliefs, judgments and random linkages pertinent only to their own historical experiences. Which actually have nothing to do with yours.
Their ideas of right and wrong, moral codes, their likes and dislikes, all mean something specific to that person, based entirely on their own personal historical references. You might very well share many of the same core ideas, but even if the two of you are identical twins brought up in the same household, the road you’ve each independently traveled to arrive at those conclusions is very different. It can’t be otherwise.
So let’s say you both encounter a fact. Maybe you yourself embrace it wholeheartedly, because it lines up neatly with your preexisting databank of experience. But the other person, inexplicably, doesn’t. Maybe they’re lukewarm about it...or maybe they even reject it outright.
What?? How could that be, you wonder incredulously? The fact is so OBVIOUSLY factual. And yet no amount of persuasion changes the mind of the other. Because their prior databank of experiences has led them to a different conclusion from yours. Same fact...two entirely different interpretations. And neither is more accurate than the other.
Have you noticed it’s impossible to force another person to hold your same worldview? No matter how hard you try? No matter how many facts you throw at them? This phenomenon has always been present, but it’s become pretty starkly in-your-face clear for all to see, in our current time.
Bottom line: Even though we sometimes seem to interact very intimately or directly with others (the bit players) in our daily life, each of us is doing it in a completely separate movie. There’s only one hero in your film, and it’s you. Your conversation partner is immersed in their own motion picture production.
There’s only one hero in your film, and it’s you. Your conversation partner is immersed in their own motion picture production.
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Just to recap: Nothing about the personal viewpoint can be relied upon as factual. And there’s never any such thing as real consensus. And that’s because we don’t experience life the way life really is. We experience conscious existence and interaction with others the way we do, strictly for filmmaking purposes. So even without the current climate of fake news and rampant falsity, we’ve never had a clue about what’s accurate and what isn’t.
So with all of the above in mind, it’s a great idea to take your own factual certainties (and everybody else’s) very lightly. Don't you think? Especially now. And above all, never forget the true divine essence of that other person, even though they may disagree completely with your viewpoint.
Spend time exploring the world’s amazing pristine beauty, and other peoples’ eternal holiness, from outside your own personal movie frame...and you'll notice your own higher wisdom will start to ignite within you. You'll start to recognize that suffering is optional. That you are not your history. That the world, and your relationship to it, is not what you think. Not even close.
Because, to walk around believing ourselves separate from each other takes several kinds of brilliant illusionist tricks piled seamlessly on top of one another. But it’s all just special effects. Don't fall for it.
Instead, dare to take your movie off-script: Set yourself free from your own limiting viewpoint, and see what unfolds. And then go on enjoying the movie by all means, if you want to. But you won’t be so easily fooled anymore, by the tricks that hold the simulation in place.
Stepping outside your own movie frame just means you’ll be slowly releasing your identification with the hypnotic action taking place onscreen. Instead you’ll be watching the story unfold with interest, (neither cheering for the hero nor booing the bad guys), all from your seat in the upper balcony.
I’ll meet you there.