Every narrative about how we understand our world is manipulated and manufactured by men (and women). There is no such thing as an immaculate reality. We are born into a culture and clan that have an inherited history that will be imprinted and impressed on us. A story that will morph and modify over time. A story we will edit and contribute too. An evolving story whose plot will be eventually embedded within the entire human story.
While humans busily work to structure or comprehend their story, their “reality,” there is an ultimate reality that is both inside and outside of human history. The fundamental reality that’s personal and transcendent. The singular reality that defines truth, creates beauty and whose entire eternal essence is love. God is love.
While the Truth shall set you free, it can and will be unsettling and unnerving at times. It’s also the only path to attaining the peace that surpasses all understanding. It’s the narrow road in this life that will lead to the eternal road in the next life.
This journey to realize and claim our birthright as children of God only begins when we ask why. When we question the world. When our heart whispers to our head because intuitively it knows that something is very, very wrong within God’s good world.
Whispers that will lead the way to the seven woes of why. Why am I here? Why do bad things happen to innocent people? Why do children suffer? Why do humans do unspeakable acts of cruelty? Why are humans selfish and self-serving? Why do people hurt defenseless animals? Why would God allow any of this to happen?
This path to pure Love can only be revealed when we humble our hearts. When we honestly admit to ourselves that we don’t know everything. When we realize there may be life questions that we’ll never understand. When we learn that it’s okay that the finite will never fully comprehend the infinite. When we recognize that life’s journey is all about asking, as opposed to knowing it all.
Sincere and self-effacing questioning of status quo reality terrifies those who manipulate and mislead other human beings. Our managerial class are specialists in crafting deceit, conjuring lies of commission and omission and casting dark shadows. Causing their brothers and sisters to stumble and lose their life both metaphorically and literally. Creating carnage and chaos by flooding communities with illicit and prescription drugs, funding the destruction of other nations and protecting powerful people who have committed heinous crimes against humanity and children.
This marketed reality of evil personified was invisible to me for much of my life. Never questioning this false narrative because I wanted to belong and believe in the glorious myths of my nation, my tribe and my own accomplishments. My reality was defined in my opposition to others as opposed to my love for others. Loving only God and neighbor when it aligned with my desired reality and my chosen truth, as opposed to the Divine reality of the Truth. That God created all humans in His image and every human is loved and worthy of love.
Later in life, I would hide my heart and numb my mind by seeking a hedonistic reality that was only about my comfort and cravings. Making a Faustian bargain with our ruling class by relinquishing my intellectual curiosity and inherited integrity. Absolving them of any accountability while they murder and impoverish countless humans because of their greed, callousness and lust for power. Crimes that I aided and abetted if I’m absolutely honest with myself.
My liberation from this cave of shadows, this path to self-destruction; didn’t happen through painted pills or psychedelic projections but through a series of life events that would eventually collapse my false cosmology and my fabricated ego. Eventually emptying my repentant heart of every worldly deception so I could fill it with Divine love not demonic lies.
True love that demolishes false ideas. Truthful love that destroys fabricated idols. Triumphant love that denies evil death.
Born once more, what remains of my worldly journey is full of inquisitiveness and fruitful questioning. Pursuing the Truth because Love is my moral center. Clear that evil exists in lies because lies, like evil, are a parasite. Feeding on the fears of the living because its soul is dead like the worldly leaders it’s enslaved.
Start your journey immediately. Ask why today. Question everything now; and you will begin to know Love.
Peace. God loves you.
If you want to learn more about how my spiritual awakening came to be, you can read about it in Finding God in Vegas: A Gen X Spiritual Awakening; available on Amazon and across all platforms in print or electronic or audio.