Now you might think that just being honest would solve the worlds problems. While I think it is a good start, being honest won’t fix the problem. We can’t be completely honest until we realize what the real problem is. We segregate ourselves and each other. To define ourselves, we learn to find our identity. Instead of finding our identity by finding our truth, we define our identity by separating ourselves from others. We find a group by choice or by lack to choice that we want to associate ourselves with. We define ourselves by whatever group we associate with or what group we don’t associate with. We define ourselves by our gender, religious beliefs, country of origin, sexual orientation, hobby, political affiliation, music, art, movies, the cars we drive, or choice about marriage, children, jobs, clothes, etc. Every choice we make defines us. At the same time, it also segregates us.
Segregation is a choice. We choose to be around those individuals we deem are like us in some way. We then judge and stay away from those we don’t identify with. This can be due to lack of openness to other’s ideas or ways of life. It can be due to being taught differences are bad. Some of it is other peoples way of controlling the masses. If other religions are bad. More people will join the religion that is deemed good or true. This creates not only a financial gain but also an increase in importance, value, and control. The government is the same. The more people identify with the government or political party, the more power, resources, and control they have. The system is designed to keep us separated from others. Set us against each other. As long as we are fighting with each other or believing that I’m right and your wrong, the more we lose sight of finding the ultimate truth. If and when we work together, we discover we can do amazing things. Those amazing things can be breakthroughs in whatever truth or outcome we seek. Until we collectively decide to be truthful with ourselves and each other, work together and unite, we will never see or know the truth. The likelihood that this will ever happen is very unlikely. So can the problem be solved by an individual or is it only solved by the collective group? Can one person know the truth and if they do and no one believes them, are they destined for peace and happiness or suffering and ridicule?
We have been pre-programmed with a vast amount of layers of control that creates parameters for us to live or operate in. These can be psychological laws, cultural norms, and even physics. We believe that there are certain rules that dictate what we can and cannot do. We can’t fly or levitate or teleport or predict the future. Yet we believe in miracles, the power or prayer, psychics, and angels that protect us. Maybe we have abilities that we don’t know how to access or we have forms of regulators that inhibit these functions. When someone is able to lessen their inhibitors either through taking substances such as alcohol, level of their true self come out. They are no longer able to hide their true self. Some become angry or violent, some cry or feel insecure, others are happy and free. Doctors prescribe medications to inhibit behaviors. Patients describe feeling like a zombie. They are overly inhibited and feel less than human. Other people take drugs like marijuana, LSD, mushrooms, etc. and have visions and experience increased senses or travel to other dimensions. People who meditate have the ability to reach other states of being or find clarity. They become uninhibited. This inhibition has lead people to have the ability to do things that we believe or are told is impossible, yet it is possible.
The problem is that we are not connected. We are not connected to our true selves, to each other, and to the world around us. When we become uninhibited, uncontrolled, and are free to find our true self, we can connect with every other individual in a way that connects us to the universe and every cell and atom in it. We can connect to the larger truth. The problem is that we are separate from our truth, each other, and the true world around us.
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