I believe the word of God to be the truth. I believe individualism to be the truth. I believe Protestant evangelicalism to be the truth. I believe properly done science to be the truth. I believe Freud and his understanding of the human organism to be the truth. I believe that psychical energy, is factically true.
Why even bother with the truth some might ask. Is it so important for something to be accurate? Is it at all relinquishable to have a state of being represent something authentically true about existence? Is it at all anybody's business, in the faith and spirituality realms?
One might have to suspect that the idea of Truth carries with it the implications of responsibility. If it's at all possible for ethics and morality to be existent, and we believe in a world of responsibility, then surely we should care about truth as such. Or even truth in and of itself.
What if what we believe to be truth is in fact false? It happens all the time! Well we should always hold out the idea, the skeptical idea, that our limited subjective worldview might not in fact be the truth. It might not even in fact be responsible, as a sinner like myself is won't to do.
When we think about the word of God, we should think about the type of truth it's attempting to address. Is the truth of the Bible talking about morals and ethics? I would have to say certainly. Is the truth of the Bible to do with phenomenological and empirically verifiable phenomenon of existence which is in fact the truth? Is the Bible to do with responsibility? Is the phenomena of mind and consciousness to do with existentialism? I would say all of these answer in the affirmative.
Perhaps even God's truth in the word of the Bible, has to do with the phenomenon Freud termed psychical energy. Sigmund Freud had a theory that the structure of the brain was of the same structure as the universe on larger levels. Which is to say the structure of the universe is correlative to the structure of an individual human mind, or spirit.
The term geist is German for mind, spirit, and ghost. So when we look at the phenomena of mind, we would do well to view it as in some sense a spiritual form, preceded by physical structure. Why is existence such?
Well if people throughout history had not asked the question what is the mind, what is the spirit, and what is the holy Ghost, then science would not be at the level that it is today, neurologically. Why is the mind in a psychological sense not just as pressing as the spirit, or the ghost of existence?
To answer these questions one would obviously have to look the psychological sciences, and our current developing and evolving understanding of consciousness and the Brain as it perceives are experience of the mind, brain, or spirit! The truth it would seem to me, beyond my own Christian pragmatic concerns, is that all is one....
Hence,
All for one and one for all.
Domestic Democracy United 2024
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