Operating out of the Truth only and exclusively, with only a minor and ineffectual portion of your consciousness being still engaged in less than the Truth, one can function at a level that creates a tremendous amount of positive energy and forward movement.

When pursuing one’s desires, the clear path to it is the Truth, because the Truth was designed for that purpose. The Truth only operates at a level of complete fulfillment of all desires. Even though fulfillment happens within the mind, the events within mind mimic the world successfully and even exceed them in realism. So, there is no loss of fulfillment even if one chooses to experience a more idealized version of a physical event as one’s fulfillment. Rather, the nature of the mind and its complete ability to see reality in its own creations can be easily seen in the way the physical experience expresses itself in our minds, as though it was real.

Reality as we feel it is a continuity of events, uninterrupted by events that are incongruous with the reality being created. The moment-to-moment shifts of awareness and “external” phenomenon all relate to the constant states of focus on one thing while awareness is withheld from other things (that could successfully reveal the Truth and break the illusion we are creating).

Like all acts of consciousness, the physical is a realm of action and reaction, which defines experiences in time. Time is likewise a bit of a trick, meant to deceive the mind into thinking that “events” happen and there is an absolute timeline running through and defining all things. Instead, the Truth is just now, with no awareness of any past or future; events previously witnessed are just those ideas in the eternal present we have explored. The "future" events will be made out of ideas we have not yet explored in conjunction with ideas we have already explored. We have a personal timeline, but there is no overreaching timeline of events that define the Truth.

The word “reality” is fundamentally flawed, which is why we use the word “Truth” to describe what is real. Reality suggests that some things are real while other things are not. In actuality, it is meaningless to discuss what is real or unreal in a world where every event springs from the mind of the being that is creating their own experience. Each being is the creator, creating what they desire and giving those desire-ideas a form and a period of time needed for them to be expressed. Likewise, God/Truth is the sum total event of consciousness as a single mind that conceives of all these identities that in turn act as creators of their own experiences.

The creator-mind of each person is not separate from other minds, but is perfectly aligned so that their desires are automatically mutually shared and complementary, allowing both or all of them to create without any worry about the nature of how or where these events can happen, or with whom. Consciousness likewise does not have to be reduced to the use of mannequin-like ideas stripped of their own identities, playing our roles in our minds where we are the only real players in the game. Instead, every being that we imagine interacting with is part of the consciousness of an existing real being; the building-blocks of our creations are actually the wholes or fragments of all other beings in Truth.

Because we cannot hurt others, due to the fundamental nature of the mind as a single entity cooperatively creating with itself, there is no need for hurt or harm which would occur if there was any real conflict of interest between beings. If hurt is imagined, as it is in the physical world, it is created by each player and the combined effect is the physical experience of everyone involved. No being can “do” anything to any other being; we all create our own experience only with the use of our own mind and never at an expense to others.

Desire is the building block of the identity that we have in Truth. It is only desire, not neurosis or pain or fear that drives the psyche at this level. Portions of the consciousness each experience their own desires and as a desire conceives of an idea, that idea comes into focus fully in the mind of the conceiver. Then, when the idea is grasped, it contains both the experience of that desire and the experience of the fulfillment of the desire. If the desire is concerning the idea of physicality, which is understood to be an idea of something that cannot exist, the experiences that make up that desire and its fulfillment contain physical experiences, including, for example, your current physical life.

The “facts” of your physical life are seemingly daunting. It creates a fortress of experience that cannot be overcome by any amount of desire or effort, seemingly. And yet, despite that feeling, the truth is that it is as fragile and easily overcome as any other illusion in reality. The real trick is not in proper effort but in specific desire.

If one has a thing, let’s call it “A,” and this things A is not what we want, we must have in our mind at least some idea of what could replace it. Pursing this idea to its logical conclusion, we establish that it not just an idea but a possible replacement for A. Then, this alternative, which we can call “B,” begins to take on a shape and a life of its own. Eventually, B becomes a real possibility. And when we know that we both believe in the existence of and the merit of B as what we want to replace A, then A effortlessly falls away and B takes its place. This is the real nature of change, a well-established and credible fully-formed desire.

The credibility of B is founded in logic. As we examine A, we see and count its flaws and weaknesses, and do not duplicate them in B. We deduce the ideal from what we see in and see lacking in A. B then is the next logical step in an evolutionary dance towards perfection. Belief in B, logical analysis of A and B, comparison between A and B and finally a desire to replace what is fictional with what is true are all necessary steps in establishing B as the replacement reality.

While all these steps seem cumbersome, they are only necessary because they reflect how by degrees we have an idea in our mind of what we want and then see how what we have is not what we really want, and we choose against it. This initial desire of wanting what we have has to be completely worked through, as well as establishing the new desire. B is a superior desire to A because desires evolve, and because the Truth always draws us back from the darkness of our own imagination.

There are a million and one ways of looking at our own mental creations of experience and identity. Each one can be seen in many different lights. But the fundamental overriding truth of things is this, that we can only be truly happy by creating our experiences in the light of the Truth and not in a world that can never work, such as the “physical” world. This is because the unreal does not love or support us, and our experiences must carry some degree of superficiality and emptiness that cannot be overcome at this level. One cannot cut off a person’s breathing and then ask them to sing, and likewise one cannot expect a person to thrive in an environment that is meant as an attack on our own being and others. This is because the nature of lack of nurture IS attack.

Because the things we take for granted as realities in the physical world are in essence impossible in Truth, it stands to reason that love, nurture and respect and so forth are all present in the Truth at all times. But it goes far beyond that. For, what makes the real “real” is that it is true, not that it has a form or shape separate and discernable from other things. Its power lies in its nature as an abstract idea, not in its ability to prove itself through a form. This is why science chases its tail as it tries to prove or disprove the supernatural through the study of forms.

The forms themselves are meaningless, as they represent ideas in our own minds. They are metaphors. They only act to elicit specific thoughts and feelings within us, much as dreams create environments that elicit the pent-up feelings we need to give expression to.

We never go outside our own mind as we are dreaming our own dreams. The nature of mind is that it owns itself and is not victim to anything. The alternative to that would be an impossible situation where mind would be proven to be a thing under the control of other things, thereby negating the very nature of the mind itself.

Consciousness only imagines it is hurt in the physical by fragmenting its own concentration and choosing to see only tiny portion of a much larger whole truth. In finding that wholeness at last it proves to itself that it is made of consciousness and that consciousness must own itself, as the alternative to the physical illusion is a Truth made of only consciousness.

As an exercise, ask your Self in Only Truth to come through you and to express itself in your own mind. As you do this for a succession of days, your own mind will transform and bend to allow this truth to come through, and when it does it will show you a world free of pain and filled with love and pleasure. Only then will you really appreciate how much the physical world has disappointed us, and how badly we need to leave that illusion behind.

-Until next time
-Chris