This Is What You've Been Looking For

The worst possible things that could happen to the ancient people was the night. At night, it was dark. You cannot see. It is cold. You feel tired and the mysterious thing happens to you, called sleep. The carnivorous vicious nocturnal animals are out there in the dark looking for their dinner. You cannot see and cannot protect yourself. You are just afraid of darkness. On the other hand, during the day, you can see everything clearly. The sun is generously giving us the light. The Sun [not the Son!] is the light of the world. From sun's perspective everybody under the sun are equal. It is always there for you and will come back again to show his love for this world. Sun and its light supports and nurtures all lifeforms on earth and without the sun we are dead. Not only for our physical survival, sun's light is also essential for our soul to understand and to see. We are heavily designed to perceive the light, color, edge, shape, geometry of the things in this world. A big part of our brain (nearly 1/3) is directly involved in visual processing. The most of the rest of the brain is also indirectly involved in further processing and analyzing the details and its meaning. You are comfortable with visual inputs because you can see what's going on, what is safe, what is dangerous, and what is beautiful. We are dominantly visual creatures and hence we need light to see thing the way they are and to understand things as they are. Additionally, there is only one sun which it signified the single underlying reality and truth. No wonder why all ancient people in different cultures started to worship sun. Originally they chose sun as a symbols of underlying concept of light and its role in our life and as a means of understanding the world. The original sun worshipers used sun as a surrogate object because the concept behind it has no object, even today. But like all other human endeavor, truth is always distorted and people tries to overanalyze [over-anal-yze] or eventually trivialize the deep and hidden truth. Subsequent generations took sun symbol literally as "the truth" and started to create sun idols. That was the birth of paganism. If you think original pagan people were stupider than you, then think again. Original sun worshipers were as smart as you are ( if not smarter, plus they had an extra edge ie. they thought for themselves instead of priest or scientist in contrast to today's people). But if you take the words and what they are saying literally (which they themselves most likely did not take literally, especially at the beginning) then you will only see the utter absurdity and you will instantly discredit any merit they had behind the concept. You will treat them just a bunch of stupid and heretic pagans.

We just need metaphoric light for the purpose of vision, understanding, knowledge and wisdom but we don't want light for light's sake. Excessive light will bleach your vision and hence will block it. So you just don't want light for its own sake. Light's utility is also dependent on darkness. Without the darkness, how can you have any light? What we need is to understand, to contrast and to be able to appreciate. That is real meaning behind the metaphors of light. But, unfortunately, many people think god is light [as bible proclaims] and might be a special kind of light. Does this godlight falls into visible electromagnetic range or outside? If the godlight is not the visible then where is he and why is he hiding? Where we can find him out there? If you do a PhD in optics and light and after examining the all possible lights, you will not find any essence or light that you can equate with god's properties. You, rightfully frustrated, will naturally conclude that there is no god after all. This is the way, the poor scientist becomes agnostic or atheist, just by asking one wrong question and taking one biblical teaching without thinking about what that really meant.

Asking right question is approximately ~ 50% achievement towards right answer. Asking a wrong question, even though if you find any genuine answer to it, will take you in wrong direction. As there is only one underlying reality and truth, asking one wrong question is enough to permanently deviate the trajectory of your searchlight of thought away from the truth, no matter how many right questions you will ask after one wrong question. This is the real meaning of the expression of "the path to the truth is very narrow and straight". 

It is very critical to find what is really important and what is the right question out of the superrreal postmodern world. Original truth was encoded with sings and symbols which have now lost their meanings and replaced with similar but not identical imitations. Now the "garden variety" of reality is based on those false imitations, signs and symbols which is totally disconnected with original reality and replaced by more sensational superrrealty. To ask right question on right issues out of these garbage "truths", it needs some intense thought training. Good news is, this part you can cultivate. Do your homework on that, mostly by self-learning and observations. 

Once you have decided what are the things that really matters, then it is time to ask questions about those. Be careful before you ask. You have to treat each questions as important as if your life depends on each questions. Asking 10 consecutive right question, for example, will bring you 99% towards the truth but even then, it will never take you to the truth itself. At the end, you need the gift of intuition. How can you make or train your intuition? Unfortunately, you cannot and fortunately, it's already there. In order to find it and use it, you have open up all options on the table. You have to travel the unknown abyss of yourself and you have to let go. Its like Heisenberg's uncertainty principle. If you try to catch it, it will only recede. You have to be submissive and humble, not by empty words, but by your whole self, which will be expressed in your acts and deeds. Then it will come to you, if you are sincere and honest enough for knowing. This is the rationale behind disciple, asceticism, sacrifice, chastity and meditation. It gives you the better chance of finding the deep intuition. Then the ultimate powerful intuition will come to you and you will find the answer of everything you ever asked.

When a child first becomes self-aware, he wonders about his surroundings and ponders about the sky. Children start to ask questions without shame and embarrassment about everything from trivial to deep, often inconceivable by the inert, already graduated adults. For children, the world is fresh, nothing is banal. They examine everything in details with awe and wonder with their greatest amusement. Children are born philosophers and scientists. It is the exasperated parents, the teachers and adults, by whom their curiosity is strangulated and sentenced to death. Gradually, the world becomes routine and they there is no question left for them to ask, because for every question, there is a ready-made answers coming from authoritative figures. Don't believe me? Go to the 1st grade classroom and then 10th grade. You will see, who are the real philosophers and scientists. By the time when they are grown up, most of them will not look beyond their day-to-day needs and choirs. Then they are occupied with hustle and bustle of modern life and their curiosity is deeply repressed in their subconscious. There always remains a hidden anxiety but they don't know exactly what it is. Instead they blame the anxiety for life stress, jobs, relationships or failure to achieve socially prescribed goals, although these goals themselves are often stressful too. To overcome this basic drive, they then buy and read self-help books, see priests for salvation or go to the doctors for their head scanned. The self-help book authors claims that they are not reading his book carefully enough. Priest claims that he is possessed by evil spirits. Doctors claim there are some chemical or neurotransmitter imbalance and recommends antidepressant or anti psychotic pills. Nobody sees the obvious problem. The madness is by design, and this madness is not necessarily done by some group of people or governments, intentionally. The blame is ours, collective. When nothing helps then they resort to drugs [illicit] or medications [prescription] to calm them down and to help them stop asking questions. This is the bane of modern or postmodern society. This is how born philosophers or scientists die. Curiosity and wonder of being and the drive to self-actualize is gagged and smothered. Instead, they are given the opium of institutionalized religion and mushroom of dogmatic, commercialized science. When this opium is not achieving satisfactory results in calming down the curiosity then they are given new opium of "Qualified Freedom", "Sexual liberation", Booze and footballs. For resistant and recalcitrant cases, psychedelics and Heroin become the only opium, which is, by definition, the infallible opium. This is how "defective" born philosophers and scientists die [apoptosis] and a regular, "normal citizens" are born.

Pythagoras or Pre-socratics knew the truth (Sophers). Plato knew from his masters that there is an ultimate truth but did not know what exactly it was. He did not achieved it and hence he fantasized and wrote about it so much (Philosopher) but the reader will feel some inconsistency and hence remained unsatisfied. Aristotle, although far more superior and honest intellectually than Plato, did not believe many of the the "Plato's truth", and rejected it. Rival (Aristotle) of the rival (Plato) of Truth does not mean that he has found the Truth itself. 

Similarly, Jesus knew the truth. Organized Christianity knows that there is the ultimate truth but don't know exactly what it is, except, maybe at best, a handful of High Priests. Fascinated and fantasize by the truth of Jesus they created a religion much later, but there are some self contradictory issues and inconsistency. Seeing the inconsistency, the atheist started the doctrine that there is no truth unless I can see it and prove it. If I can not do it in my method nobody can and if somebody can then their method is not valid [not suspecting that there is a hidden flaw in this method]. Poor organized christianity and poor atheist. Both are misguided.

This is the cycle inside the cycle. The entire history is repeating the events that of small groups of people's lives. And a small group of people is repeating what one single person is doing to achieve knowledge. Whatever going on inside you, the whole world is doing that and vice versa. As above so below. Can you see it?

People will listen to what they "want" to hear. People want acceptance from their peer/friends or relatives. People are gregarious. Nobody wants to be shun away. Why? Because of fear to be alone, fear of time and inevitable death, so they want to spend time and live the life with whom he can communicate. People want to be accepted by other in order their life to be meaningful. Now, in order to be accepted, people have to work within the society and family. You typically don't create rules in society. For most cases the rules are already there before you are born. And you can not change the rule all by yourself. It's too much work. And time is running against you. So the most pragmatic thing to get accepted by others is to go along to get along. That's how you don't have to spend lot of time to change everything. Instead you fit in. It's easy! Anything efficient, is also inbuilt in our system. Our entire learning is based on time efficiency. Look at those in Rescorla Wagner model. Look at Fibonacci sequence in the nature. Time is the constrain in the material/physical world. Time is the constraints of thermodynamics. As long as something physical, time constraints are always there. In this society people have no time or intention to discover everything all by themselves. They don't want to hear what's the reality. Honesty is, most of the time, time inconvenient. Honesty is painful. Honesty requires willing to accept inconvenience no matter what. Honesty is prime prerequisite to know the truth. And hence people are not interested in truth. There will be always some eyes that will not see, ears that will not hear, brain that will not perceive. Do you think, generally,  people is more ignorant than you. Think again. Its a matter of choice. The problem is people don't care about the real truth, they just care for convenience and time efficiency. In summary, people, generally speaking, don't care for the truth because its too time and effort consuming but unfortunately, in long run it's hurting themselves.

We human are influenced by words or ideas and our decision is only as good as our information. Most of the information we have is second hand and given to us like Mosaic Law written in tablets. Math using some axiom is vulnerable to err if the axioms are not true. No matter how rigorous and beautiful as it seems, no mathematics can prove its own axiom. We have to rely on the axiom to be true without proof. Similarly we build our world starting with second hand  and often politico-religiously biased words and information resulting in bad decisions and dissatisfaction which make us shun away from finding the question that is really important. All ideologies are biased and not helping much. If you need other person's interpretation to see whats going on then you are becoming a victim of ideology that might have a flaw or hidden agenda. Because you are attached to that ideology, you become blinded by the blind spots (of Godel). Unless you find out and assess the validity of the information that was passed to you, for yourself, where the information comes from, what was the original context, nothing will make any sense, and you will fall into prototypical "why bother, nothing is important. So just enjoy your life with football, alcohol, sex, drugs,  and rock n' roll."  As a matter of fact, nothing is hidden from you, everything is in front of your very eye. If one fool [like me] can see it, so does the other fools.
All it takes is the sincere willingness to know by observing and thinking for yourself and joining the pieces of puzzle that will show you the big picture. Its very convenient to pretend to be carefully oblivious so that no one can suspect that you are just an ignorant and thus avoiding the minor psychological inconvenience. Remember, there is a ongoing conflicts between light and darkness for your mind inside you and outside you. So don't be gullible. Don't assume any information unequivocally from one agent or another without assessing it by your judgement and wisdom. Put more weight on your own wisdom, only when you can see how your thoughts can be influenced!  

The Masters of the world once again [See the emphasis, "once again" indicating this is not the first or last time it happened or will happen] realize that conventional classical religion, although still has the essence and served the purpose well, will not be good enough to keep the herd in lines in an increasingly self aware, intelligent, more evolved human of its time and the time coming. They foresaw the problem and redesigned the control machinery with a new twist. No wonder why the same source in Italy/Rome and later Europe (esp. Khazars or Caucasus) gave birth to Renaissance, Commercial Science, Roman Religion, Financial instruments, Nationalism, Politics, Mafia etc.. No matter what you do, you will fit into one of those paradigm or at the very least you will need money [which is the bottom line and infallible tool for mass control], so these instruments can be used to control you and your service can be extracted for the Master's purpose. Is that all? Is Power everything? Is comfort or self gratification everything? I don't think the Masters aren't evolved enough to be consumed by theses earthly possessions or needs. After all, the Masters already mastered the alchemical secrets to be a Master and they are too smart to be consumed by those mundane affairs. So why they need power and a centralized administration? Are they planning to undertake some gigantic steps in future, that will need so much resources that the only way to achieve those is to have one single central ruling order? Do they think the steps they are planning to undertake have some eternal [ or for lack of a better term, Divine] purpose? How can they be sure, what they are doing or planning to do, is the best thing for the rest of the herd? What is that purpose and Why?