Truth... & The Capacity To Recognize It

Without digging too deep into the well-understood common-sense psych bag: basic (or "core") trust is established in early childhood. Even with our own naturally inborn ability to grasp truth intact we are, from the moment we first arrive on the planet, practically bombarded with a plethora of what "rings true"...as initially given to us by the warm & loving (or cold, loveless & cruel) environment we find ourselves in.

Consequently, our first exposure to truth is, by default, bound up in the people who look after us... and in how they see (or saw) their own life & purpose and their own little corner of the world. At this stage, being children, we took in everything "as is" and  as if  it were true; at that point completely lacking the faculties to recognize the potential for error, confusion or even delusion... which our environment may have been afflicted with before we came along. When we take in stuff presented to us  as true  it tends to stick... so later on in life we have to get our facts straight! Volumes have been written about how the experience factor can play out, later on. (And about what came from lies being 'fed' to the vulnerable by a predator, a sect, a cult, etc. producing a mindset that made an individual or group temporarily blind to anything other than the "script" they were taught to follow--to their own detriment and perhaps that of others.)

But even in the best of circumstances we may have been subject to the "clouding" of truth that someone close to us could not deal with, at the time.. or had experiences we never got over. In such events the effects may linger on till we get so used to them that they become, we think, part of who we "are" when in fact we may have been injured, or broken.

The taught 'conditioning' (to see as they saw/see) of the environment may clash with the remembered  'facts' (which may be, or not) and 'unacceptable' urges we were taught weren't okay (that maybe were).. One or the other, or both, may be in hidden or blazing conflict with intuitive 'hunches' that may not seems to not fit together with the rest.

Somewhere between these 3 different and often gray areas lies hidden the piece of truth that is lacking that we must find, if we would have peace.  Without a "map" of some sort it would be difficult if not impossible to find our way; a more objective gadget than our own often jumbled thoughts and emotions seems in order; sort of like a yardstick to measure against.. (Even if you, my dear reader, happen to be one of the ones who completely escaped the potential hazards of one or the other you may be inclined to agree. Surely you know of at least one person who has been through hell on Earth; who desperately needs to find a way to get back to the truth in their life that they lost sight of?)

By no means is the writer of this blog claiming to be an authority on what truth is; nor is this blog an attempt to make anybody believe anything they just can't agree with. This blog is an attempt to share gleanings found ('on the way back'  from the pit that ignorance dug).. so that the journey that provided them will have had a purpose after all. Please regard this post and all others that follow in that light. Thank you. More soon. Ciao!