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THIS book is all about a difficult subject, truth - a rather inadequate word to describe its many potential meanings. The word truth conveys qualities which only the postconscious can fully comprehend, which are beyond the understanding of our conscious minds alone and can only reach human understanding by way of supraconsciousness. But conscious understanding may be helped by qualifying the word, eg humantruth, whole truth, utter truth and so on.
At one time we accepted the concept of absolute truth in matters of fact and belief, only to see these old certitudes give way and change into something else. So we have qualified our concept by referring to truth as relative only, and have rejected the concept of absolute truth. But in this we are wrong, for 'relative truth' is a false concept that results from confining the subject to our lesser conscious mind. We have not yet addressed the matter with our greater faculty of mind (see below).
There is absolute truth. I see it as possibly being realised when everything in the universe and beyond - if there is a beyond - has reached a state of rest. This can either be stagnation, when competing forces, at the end of a long and bloody battle, have at last reached a state of exhaustion, or it can be tranquility, the fulfilment of truth, the knowing achievement of a state of perfect balance between positive and negative, between activity and rest. Stagnation is reached under the influence of cause and effect. The tranquility of truth is to be reached under the influence of utterly fulfilled intelligence. The physical universe alone has no option but to battle fiercely towards stagnation. Intelligent life has another option - to adopt the way of truth and spread its influence. We embattled humans have failed to take up that other option by failing to recognise absolute truth. Instead we have adopted the concept of relative truth as a convenient means of hiding our failure and excusing our savagery.
Humans, on Earth, are made aware of certain absolute, or whole truths by their moral consciences, but they are also made aware, because of their actual circumstances in their financially, technically and politically organised world, of contradictory relative truths which are laid down under the pressures of AMORAL REALITY. Fundamentally true humanity would naturally be opening to the moral precepts of absolute truth but, at present, we humans follow the false trails of competitive instinct, and as long as we allow ourselves to be guided by the conflicting relative truths of this reality we shall continue in amoral chaos.
That which relates us to the absolute, rather than to existing reality, I call human truth, or preferably HUMANTRUTH. We cannot expect to know this truth by learning from reading alone - by having it spelled out to us from the outside. We must ourselves search the highest reaches of our greater minds for recognition and explanation.
Facts form the basis of current human wisdom, but though they pave the way to knowledge, this way does not lead unnerringly to whole truth because it lacks the backing of full reasoning . Current wisdom declares and lays down that for a proposal to be judged true it must be proven by evidence and argument. So we are influenced heavily by fact that does exist and hardly at all by reason which says much of that fact should not exist. Consequently, for all our knowledge, truth escapes us and we find ourselves living in the wrong reality.
Truth escapes us because we ignore its source - our greater faculty the POSTCONSCIOUS MIND. This mind alone is capable of making us aware of truth, but by complex processes of reason that are unconscious - beyond the conscious mind's comprehension and ability to prove. The postconscious is not spiritual, or magical, but our most advanced bodily function, the chief part of our being and nature. It provides confirmation of its own existence, and leads where we should follow, but we wilfully and stolidly deny it. We are blind to the postconscious's knowing of truth because we have not learned to see by opening to its eyes.
Early in our history we humans lived by instinct enhanced by a uniquely efficient conscious mind, a faculty which we used to our benefit in simple ways. In the attempt to explain our reality we took things such as the sun and moon to be gods, and worshipped them. We took the movements of the stars and planets as portents of our destiny. As our conscious minds developed they presented thoughts to us which we saw ourselves as unable and untrustworthy to have originated - as beyond our right, or capacity to think - so we 'heard' these thoughts as the words of our gods. At Delphi, in ancient civilised Greece, these words were attributed to The Oracle. In the course of time the Oracle was abandoned, and humans came to recognise their thoughts as theirs alone, coming from their own minds (although still confused by concepts of 'god').
At this point the human race, in its thought and action, came to be represented by its FULL CONSCIOUS MIND. It was a step further than the old Oracle, but still a big step short of fulfilment in that it again failed to recognise part of its mind, this time the major, utterly unique part, the postconscious, describable as the silent oracle because it is normally unheard excepting for its conscience. Ever since that time we have heard the voice of conscience, although we have largely rejected it, but other than that we have remained deaf and blind to the huge capacity of the postconscious. Despite its large capacity the conscious mind is itself incapable of discovering truth, and therefore believes the quest to be humanly impossible. Since the postconscious's thinking is unconscious, to the conscious self its true conclusions appear to be over-simple and ill-considered. Therefore the new oracle, inasfar as it has ever been acknowledged at all, is not recognised as true wisdom but as illogical intuition. So false conscious learning has always been and still is mistaken for truth, while the postconscious' genuine truth has been rejected, partly because it is, and clearly must be concerned with desirable but abstract potential possibility rather than unwanted but entrenched present practicality, however pressing. These pages represent the attempt of my self and its conscious mind, with all the faults and inadequacies of that faculty, to interpret the truths of my postconscious - the knowing of the 'silent oracle' which can be picked up intuitively - and to translate them, as well as I am able, into meaningful words. Current Chapter 1. OPENING Back to Home PageINDEX htm The Silent Oracle gives the updated essence of the author's work, the foundation of which is fully reproduced as Book 1 of this website under the title The Wrong Reality (formerly the Book of Supraconsciousness self-published in a very small way).
Next Chapter 2.EXPLAINING LIFE
3. FROM UNCONSCIOUS TO CONSCIOUS INSTINCT
4. MIND MUTATION ENDS IN DIVISION
5. CONSCIOUS RULES DESPITE CONSCIENCE
6. CONSCIOUS SUBMITS, POSTCONSCIOUS PREVAILS
7. SUPRACONSCIOUSNESS
8. COUNTERFEIT EXPLANATIONS AND PERSONAL EFFECTS
9. THE TRUTH ABOVE ALL