All Human Truth Stands in Relativity

For Truth To Be Absolute It Has To Contain The Relative Contradictions That Make Up the Whole. Awareness of The Bigger Picture Is Not In Our Controlled Linear/Rational Thinking.

Intuition, Our Psychic Abilities, The Image Over The Linear, Or The Bigger Picture.

Each person only sees his or her "truth" limited within their relative position, that as a human being, as a human culturally conditioned, socially trained, linguistically molded, historically constructed.

We then take our "truth," our religion, our philosophy, our moral and ethical codes, our political ideas, our science, and so on, and view them as our absolutes, without perceiving the whole. And we do this very seriously. The word SERIOUS is an understatement. For we die and kill for our "truths," which we consider absolute, when in reality, they are only relative, while we are failing to perceive the whole. I think this type of seriousness is without humor and a sign of ignorance, the Greek tragedy without the comedy.

Life is a tragedy of misconstrued relative truths perceived as absolutes. To counterbalance, life must be viewed as a both a tragedy and a comedy. Failure to cease our "seriousness," in our so-called truths prevents us from perceiving our truths as relative "parts," and not as the "whole," resulting in the wars your reading about in the news everyday. Absolutes are partial observations, which ultimately ends in cold wars, wars and destruction. Ignorance surrounded by intellectualism, historical, political, national, scriptural, authority, divine authority or by what ever else we consider to be most important, still remains ignorance, all so in our serious view that lacks humor. I think this humor, this laughter, is something that comes from the depths of the soul, the existential laughter of painful angst, of reverent awe, in a paradox of both an empty circular void and yet a restful content of Being, in both a madness of the soul coupled with the insightful wisdom of higher awareness.

Ironically, each truth we perceive to be true is only a relative part of a greater whole, a whole that cannot be seen in linear thinking, logic and language, but can only be seen in pictures, symbols, images, metaphors - experience not explanation. But to understand the big picture is to take in the contradictions, to perceive the sudden images of intuition. The whole is the larger picture and "a picture is worth a thousand words." Anotherwards, linear thinking and language cannot convey, not even close, what the "flash" of holistic intuitive pictures and images can, where imagery, symbolism and metaphors convey flashes of insight, or sudden bursts of high intensity volume, (thought bursts) which occur in an instant, born out of nowhere, far greater than all linear thought. Uncontrolled intuition that is born, created from nothing.

The six blind men touching
the different parts of the elephant:

Tail	=	It is a Rope	=	It is the only true religion or God
Leg	=	It is a tree trunk	=	It is the only true philosophy
Stomach	=	It is a wall	=	It is the only true science
Trunk	=	It is a serpent	=	It is the only true political type rule
Tusks	=	It is a spear	=	It is the only true meaning of life
Ear	=	It is a fan	=	It is only the true moral code

How serious do you take the above interpretive views? Your views? Or do you have the humor to recognize your views - your most cherished truths - as limited, non-absolute, existing in their relativity in relation to the whole - the elephant?

All of the above views are correct in themselves. An ear is an ear, a trunk is a trunk, a tusk is a tusk, a stomach is a stomach, and yet they are only components. They all completely miss the big picture, the non-conceptual, non-linear, picture which is necessary for clearer, integral and holistic perception. Linear thinking cannot determine the whole, it must be joined with intuition - the flash of creation from nowhere. And yet this is not logical. Unfortunately, the majority of humanity does perceives their reality only in linear function, for the reality they perceive is limited to discursive and rational. Linear thinking and language are no doubt beneficial and necessary, but only when they are perceived with imagery, symbolism, metaphorical insight, that is intuition, our psychic abilities, where can we perceive the greater whole.

In this way we can end intolerance, nationalism, religious dogmatism, political, social, cultural, scientific, philosophic & etc. absolutism and exclusivity. We can then end our moral restraints of repression, move away from our ego-centric self and our ethno-centric groups and view the world integrally and holistically towards peace, tolerance, inclusivity and the relativity of truths and continue our progression of evolution towards higher consciousness.

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Excerpt of Thinking Allowed, Conversation with Jeffrey Mishlove and Patricia Sun:

SUN: You know the old parable about the six blind men touching the different parts of the elephant.

MISHLOVE: Yes.

SUN: They're asked to tell what's an elephant. The guy who's got his tail says, "Oh, he's like a rope." His leg: "He's like a tree trunk." The guy that's got his belly thinks he's a wall; the one that's got his nose, he's a serpent; his tusk, he's a spear; his ear, he's a fan. Now, they're all correct in their observations, except they're all wrong about what an elephant is. I even like to say we, as evolving people getting to become on good terms with our intuitive mind, with our right brain, all our experiences are true, except they're not quite, because we don't really allow that intuitive mind to give us all of its information, and it's why a picture is worth more than a thousand words
-- because there's no words in all the universe to tell you what a picture tells you. Because if I gave you all kinds of ropes, tree trunks, walls, fans, spears, and serpents, you'd still never get an elephant.

MISHLOVE: So in a sense we're like these blind men if we don't use our intuition.

SUN: Exactly right.

MISHLOVE: We operate through partial information, and intuition is somehow holistic. It gives us an overview, a whole sense of things.

SUN: Exactly. It gives that richer information that you know in one second. And so you can get information from that logically; you can extrapolate. And of course, as I started to say about genius, the word genius comes from genesis, and genesis means creation and creativity, and what creation and creativity are, are out of nothing, something. The very power of "Out of nothing, something" is the main point, but the linear mind rejects that, it doesn't like it. It doesn't even like the word infinity: What do you mean? What's the end? What's the beginning? It wants to contain. And as soon as, I think, we get on good terms using both the linear mind happily, and using it as a tool -- knowing it's a tool for sorting reality but not equivalent to it -- then the intuitive, acausal mind will have more room to speak in metaphor that we won't have to take literally, but get the meaning of the parable or the insight of the greater whole of reality.