Truth Revealed: My Answer to the World

Alan Anderson Christopher

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This writing comprises the author's definitive statement on the truth and answer to his critics. "Would you say that the whole universe is creative?""Yes, that is the point. This is a creating (or procreating) universe due to the reality of the two forces. If we were to begin from the premise that only a one singular force existed, we would end up with a primary creator creating a 'created' universe at a certain point in time, which is the belief of most of our religions. With the two-force model, we have the two forces creating the universe moment-by-moment through their interaction together." The Truth Revealed: My Answer to the World

Sujets

• Philosophie et théologie
• Dating
• Mind
• Body

Informations

• Publié par: First Edition Design Publishing
• Date de parution: 30 août 2012
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781622872060
• Langue: English

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The Truth Revealed: My Answer to the World
Christopher Alan Anderson


First Edition Design Publishing, Inc.
The Truth Revealed: My Answer to the World



Christopher Alan Anderson
The Truth Revealed: My Answer to the World
Copyright 2012 Christopher Alan Anderson
ISBN 978-1622872-06-0

Published and Distributed by
First Edition Design Publishing, Inc.
September 2012
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ALL R I G H T S R E S E R V E D. No p a r t o f t h i s b oo k pub li ca t i o n m a y b e r e p r o du ce d, s t o r e d i n a r e t r i e v a l s y s t e m , o r t r a n s mit t e d i n a ny f o r m o r by a ny m e a ns ─ e l e c t r o n i c , m e c h a n i c a l , p h o t o - c o p y , r ec o r d i n g, or a ny o t h e r ─ e x ce pt b r i e f qu ot a t i o n i n r e v i e w s , w i t h o ut t h e p r i o r p e r mi ss i on o f t h e a u t h o r or publisher .
Foundation of Man and Woman Balance
www.manandwomanbalance.com
Dedicated to:
My Other Half
Preface
This writing was born out of the hundreds of questions I have been asked over the years as I have endeavored to present the message of man and woman balance to the world. As such, I have placed many of these questions together in an order using a conversational format to better define and express, for you the reader, my definitive statement on the truth and answer to the world.
It is my sincere hope that after reading this publication you, too, will understand and experience the truth of your own man and woman balance.

C.A.A.— September 4, 1996
Santa Rosa, California
Table of Contents

Part 1—Understanding the Truth
The Necessity of the Truth
The Choice for the Truth
The Metaphysical Restructuring of the Truth
The Discovery of the Truth
The Test of the Truth
The Absolute Nature of the Truth
The Fulfillment of the Truth
Part 2—Some Implications of the Truth
The Religious Question
The Freedom Walk
Creativity
Spiritual Healing
How to Find Your Other Half
Part 1
Understanding the Truth

“Life begins when the truth is known, not a moment before.”
The Necessity of the Truth
You claim to know the truth, but I question whether there is even a truth to know. How can you be certain that there really is a truth?
Because it is a logical necessity.
What do you mean, “logical necessity”?
In general, we cannot consciously exist without the idea of a truth. Our consciousness is built around the idea that something exists—life, etc., and that we are in some way capable of ascertaining what this something is. This is to suggest that we actually can know , which implies a certainty of knowing.
And what is it we can know?
The truth. Metaphysically speaking, the truth infers an ultimate order or reality. The truth is the metaphysical given , the what is . Whatever is, we can know it by observing it and identifying its existence, i.e., its nature. We identify that it is and what it is. And we are conscious that we are doing just that. We are conscious that we are identifying the reality of something by stipulating its inherent uniqueness. Thus we know. And what we know is the truth. When we are able to identify the ultimate order or reality of things, we come to know the ultimate truth.
Are you saying that the truth exists because we have an idea in our minds of some ultimate order or reality?
Yes, but more than that. We must have the idea of an ultimate order or reality (truth) in our minds in order to be conscious at all. Truth (order or reality) is the anchor of our thinking. Our whole thought process (of recognizing what is) is tied into the idea of an ultimate truth. From that inherent premise we think, act, and live.
So if there wasn’t an ultimate truth we could not think and would not be conscious?
That is correct. Without an ultimate truth what is there to be conscious of? Consciousness subsumes a consciousness of something. To know what a something is requires its identification such that we know what it is and know why we know that is what it is.
Yes, but can we ever know the whole truth? Some suggest that we humans can never fathom the whole truth as we do not have that capacity; only God does.
I am familiar with that argument. But remember, although we are speaking here of metaphysical truth, the ultimate order of the universe, the mechanics are the same. If it exists, it must be recognized and identified. And since it exists, it can be recognized and identified. Each one of us through our conscious minds has the capacity through our thinking effort to ascertain the existence and nature of anything that exists. If the universe exists, if “God” exists, if life exists, etc., we can recognize it and identify it and thus be conscious of its reality (truth).
Are you suggesting that it is through thinking that we come to know the truth?
Do you have a better mechanism? Thinking is the exercise of being conscious. Call it awareness or alertness or mindfulness, whatever. Through thinking we are able to recognize and identify the “what is” of a something.
I am reminded of some Eastern teachings that question the reliability of the mind and the thought process. They probably would suggest that we can never get to ultimate reality through thinking; that thinking, by its nature, precludes the experience of ultimate reality.
They are only questioning the method, not whether or not there is an ultimate reality to be known and experienced.
They might suggest that ultimate reality begins, or is experienced, when thinking stops.
I don’t deny that “thought.” But do you think that you can ever experience ultimate reality without having the thought that what you are experiencing is ultimate reality? We really can’t separate thinking and experience so easily. They go hand-in-hand comprising the make-up of consciousness. We aren’t denied access to the truth due to the aspects of consciousness required to be conscious. I will add, though, that in my concept of thinking, there is room for rest from thinking which is the still moment of experience . In this view, thinking is a continuous process: thinking-rest from thinking-thinking...that probably addresses your concern. It is the state of rest from thinking from which we extract or create our thought. My point is simply that the two go hand-in-hand, and in so doing, we are able to clearly ascertain the truth.
But how can you or anyone know the truth if the truth is not known? Anyone can step forward and claim the truth to be anything they want. How would you know if that claim is really the truth?
That is not an easy question to answer. To ascertain whether any claim is true or not requires we have a criterion of truth from which to evaluate the claim. The only criterion of truth I know of is the actual truth itself. But if we don’t know what the truth is, it is quite difficult if not near impossible to ascertain the truth of any claim, conception, view, belief, conviction, or opinion.
My point exactly. So, if one does not know the truth, one can never know the truth for one would first have to know it to know that one does not know it. But, unfortunately, because one does not know it, one does not know that one does not know it and thus one will never know what the truth actually is, right?
I get your point. Perhaps it is not quite impossible. Remember, it is a logical necessity. In ascertaining its existence, even though we have yet to understand its nature, we do create for ourselves a truth point (of metaphysical certainty) from which to begin. We can begin our inquiry into the nature of the truth from the absolute reality (truth) of its existence which we postulate as a logical necessity of our consciousness, i.e., existence.
It seems to me that you are saying that the truth exists because we have the capacity to be conscious of the idea that the truth exists. Isn’t this a sort of circular reasoning?
Perhaps, but we must start from some point. I begin from the point that there is an ultimate truth due to the fact I am conscious of that idea (potentiality) and that it, in fact, gives to me the order (organization) from which to be conscious even if I do not yet know its nature.
But why don’t we know the truth? Is it that complex?
Not necessarily. Let us just say it has been somewhat of a slow progression on our part. What we call history is simply our progression to the truth.
Sort of a conscious evolution?
Yes. Man’s initial birth into consciousness did not give to him an instantaneous understanding of the truth, only the potentiality to know the truth. It has been a long and hard climb. What we know as the field of philosophy, and especially metaphysics, is an ongoing recordation of that climb.
But you claim to know the truth.
Yes, I do.
How did you come to it?
I thought it through, logically.
I was going to ask you why anyone should believe you, but since you thought your way to the truth, logically, I would think that most people today would say that that is why they won’t believe you.
Would deductively or inwardly sound better?
Yes.
It is an inner thinking, but one that holds clearly to order. Simply said, the truth is axiomatic.
What is axiomatic?
Self-evident. Beyond proof as it, the truth, is the basis of proof.
So we will know it when we see it?
In a way. We must work for it.
Let me ask, is there a value for one in knowing the truth?
In the Bible it says that the truth will make us free. Let me just say, life begins when the truth is known, not a moment before.
Do you mean that we are not alive until we know the truth?
No, that we are not conscious of life.
And the truth gives to us this consciousness?
Yes, after all, it is the truth.
And you believe this “consciousness of life” has value?
I think it is the most important value we can have. But to know the value of the truth we must first know the truth.
Okay. Let me now ask, is there just one ultimate t