What's true these days?

In the past several decades in the Western world, there’s been a steady erosion of the idea that there are things that are true. Often attributed to poststructuralist theory and nihilistic thinking, Truth has been characterized as a dominating and colonizing claim designed to suppress dissent or effective challenges to power. Many truths that were trotted out as Universally valid turned out to be exactly that, from the construction of racial hierarchies designed to naturalize inequalities to the idea that there is one linear path of human evolution that we all have to walk to be human. Yet, there are things that are true. Some are Universally True and others are true about the ways we have constructed the world.



The Truth of the Matter is that we are emanations of Spirit, and Spirit is One, Undividable, Whole, Absolute, Omnipresent and True. Spirit is another way of saying Life, Life is another way of saying God, and God is another way of saying something that makes us who we are beyond our physical, biological and material manifestations. All Life emanates from the same Source. That Source is infinite, unlimited, continuously Present. Once we become Present to the Presence, we see the Truth of the matter and see that it is not dominating and colonizing, but in fact, is the Supreme Liberation.

The truth of the matter is that we live in a world of human-designed oppression, immiseration, devastating deprivation, horrifying violence, and everyday heinousness, hatred and bigotry. We have constructed a world that is out of alignment with human rights and human dignity, a world that is out of alignment with respect for life in its myriad and diverse forms, a world that is out of alignment with Life itself.

We denigrate anything that has to do with femininity, from the characteristics of nurturance and cooperation, to the casual abuse of women here, there, and everywhere, to the hobbling of our collective power to truly and genuinely connect with one another.

We entrench and re-entrench racial hierarchies and then wage bloody hate-filled wars to ensure that black and brown peoples of the world remain contained in the place of debtors and supplicants and outsiders to the full and equal enjoyment of their own and the world’s material rewards and benefits. We’ll justify any amount of violence to keep 2/3 of the world’s resources to ourselves when we are a mere 1/8 of the world’s population; we will send black and brown peoples of our society to fight to their deaths to make sure that 20% of the world’s population continues to consume 70% of the world’s resources.

And this in a situation where there is more than enough to go around. We are in a world of abundance. Just look at the over-bloated houses, cars, malls, children and adults all around us in the US. We are busting out of our seams. Even in a recession, we are circulating per capita 3500 calories per person, per day, throwing out a substantial portion of that everyday while many in the US do not get enough to eat. We have this much for ourselves not because we are more worthy than others, or because we work harder than anyone else, or because there was a natural division of Good and we happened to get the bulk of it. No. We have it because we fight people to the death for it.

The truth of the matter is that we are against love. It is love to be fed, clothed, housed, and to have our material needs met. It is love to ensure that we have it and that others have it. It is love that seeks to legitimize same-sex couples. Our conception of love could expand if we could recognize it when we see it.

So, this is the material, historical, political, social, earthly truth of the matter. It is one dimension of this moment in human history, alongside the Truth of the Matter, that God is all that there is, God is Love, we are each unique expressions of God, and we ourselves are Love. If there’s not enough Love, it is because we are not bringing it in its fullest expressions. My commitment is to figure out ways to bring the Love and to shift out of the prevailing narrow consciousness that keeps us divided, fragmented and blind to our Divine connection to each other.