How to overcome a World Filled with Lies?

[Killa Rican]

How can one rise above this? And how have YOU established your personal truth's? It just seems to muck up the mind when one heavily overanalyzes on a spiritual level that nothing makes sense anymore, and that this world is filled with contradictions. It's simply not healthy mentally or spiritually.

There are no truths espoused by any particular group of humans that we can all agree on. While that makes none of them true or false, it also makes all of them true or false, which means nothing.

I'm just having doubts right now. It just really irritates me that people say "Listen to your intuition" but then to others it seems like you have got it all wrong no matter how strong your 'gut' feels to this "Absolute" truth.

This is not directed at anything in particular. Just Broad Spirituality and Astral Perceptions. How do you avoid deception & lies?

[personalreality]

An old friend of mine just called me yesterday at work to talk about the same thing.  He was having problems because for a few years he was lost in an ungrounded spiritual wonderland and now he has returned to the rational reality everyone experiences and he doesn't now how to reconcile the spiritual "truths" he learned with what his rational mind says makes sense.

In some regards you're asking the same question everyone wants to know.  What is the absolute objective truth of reality.  That is the mystery.  But I think what you're more interested in is how to live an uncertain life, a life where the primary goal is to constantly chase that mystery.  That's tough.  This isn't a shot at you, but listening to your 'gut' is about all you can do.  The trick is to recognize what you already know, that nothing and everything is absolute truth, which balances out to neutrality.  This makes all of reality one great big ocean to swim through, with no particular landmarks to lead your rational self through.  So, what you're left with is your non-rational self, your spiritual self.  You could call listening to this self your intuition, which is what i'm referring to when i say intuition. 

So here's the bottom line.  The only thing I have discovered to really reconcile so much conflict on the quest for absolute truth is a philosophical perspective called solipsism.  Essentially, solipsism says that I can't know anything but my own mind and my own perception, therefore other people might not exist at all.  This is the source of the idea of philosophical zombies, creatures that can react as a human might but who have no consciousness of their own.  I'm not saying this is the ultimate truth, I'm just saying it helps.  When you acknowledge that all you really know first hand is what you experience, you can put more weight on your experience and intuition.  Maybe it's a stupid thing to do, who knows.  But it helps.  It puts more "importance" on your experiences, which is a great motivator.  However, (IMO) the most important point this brings up is that if you are the only one that you can truly KNOW is having a conscious experience, then the "truths" that other people propose are potentially just projections of your own mind.  This is one of the more extreme aspects of solipsism, that not only are other people not conscious, but they aren't even "real".  Rather, they are a part of your mind, projections created by your mind (maybe your subconscious) to function as a reflection of your inner turmoil.  In the end, your experience and your experience of these projections we call other people are a symbolic representation of that great mystery/truth and it's your job to understand what that symbol is and what it represents.  This may sound far fetched, but it's really not.  We are all one right?  And the way we see the world is often a projection of the depths of our mind laid over the world.  It's not so hard to believe that the world is literally ours because we are constantly interpreting it based on our experience. 

That may not have been helpful at all, but that's how I deal with it.  I treat every person as something from my subconscious that I have manifested into the world to teach me something.  I may not always know what that is and i may not always figure it out, but my subconscious never gives up.  I mean, it has created 7 billion chances to learn these lessons right?

[Killa Rican]

PR thank you. Indeed great perspective on it. That would indeed make the intuition naturally stronger by allowing your subconsious to simply be on it's own. I agree.

But I do still get some insecurities with my case in partiuclar. It's a long story, but everything i thought that was to be "Positive Energy" as well as others confirming so one other individual perceives it as entertaining "negative energy", and those insecure thoughts just hold me back on my journey. Sure i can keep telling myself thats only there perception of it And that its different from me and what i feel.

But where is the Line the drawn?