Your Wlll and the Truth

Will, is the force that drives our choices, affects our reality, and controls our perceptions. As a child there is no delineation of will. From the moment we are born others begin to instruct and teach us, that the will of those in power is the dominant force. At birth we cry for food, or to have some other need met. Depending on their state of mind and their current emotional state our caretakers may respond with Love or with Anger. They may meet our needs, or they may punish us for simply being there. They may even punish us for having needs, as in the child that is beaten for crying out in pain. They have complete dominion and power over us. As we begin to grow, we try to find other means of getting our needs met, we become aware of which behaviors induce sympathy or anger from our caregivers. We learn that our requests are denied or diminished if our caregivers are unable or unwilling to meet them appropriately.
Experience quickly teaches us that the will of those in power over us, takes precedence over our will. We learn to submit our will to the higher power, in order to survive and to prevent our caretakers from hurting us. This process is repeated over and over in our daily lives as a young child, sometimes with brutal force, sometimes with subtle manipulation. Eventually we completely sacrifice our will, and learn the behaviors that will give us the most benefit, with the least resistance, until our beliefs are firmly ingrained with the experience of giving up our own will to protect ourselves from pain. We become conditioned and domesticated. We no longer feel our own heart, or our connection to ourselves.
The result of this atrocity leaves our spirit broken and confused. We try to hang on to that little bit of ourselves that we know is our true selves. If that small piece of ourselves is not allowed to grow, eventually our souls feel “lost”. We get trapped in the maze of trying to understand where our power is, where our heart is and who we are. As a child that is a enormous undertaking, that we unable to navigate.
This abuse is continued and driven deeper into our physce when we are introduced to “Religion”. The Church in its efforts to save the souls of the earth, has established itself as the supreme authority on human behavior. Drawing on the teachings of Masters and teachers such as Christ, Mohammed, or Buddha, the leaders of the “church” have written books that are supposedly based on the teachings of these prophets. Other men have proclaimed their personal visions as words from God.



One can see in the variety and diversity of the worlds religions that something is out of balance. It took me many years of study and meditation to understand this process. What I discovered is amazing. When one discovers his “TRUTH” he feel alive and connected. This individual then tries to share that with others or writes a book, and begins to teach his “TRUTH” to others. Since most people have been conditioned to give their will to a higher power and this individual seems to have a connection to “GOD” they listen, and soon they are conditioned to that “TRUTH”, eventually an entire religion grows out of that. Now we have many Truths, from many groups, and all believe that their truth is the one and only truth. The real TRUTH is none of them are true for everybody. Each of us has his or her own Truth. Yes we can agree or certain principles or tenants, and in the big picture if we follow our own Truth we are actually all in agreement at the core of our being, as we have all come from the same place. As we live our Truth, all others are free to live thiers, and the Truth shall set you free! So find YOUR Truth and live it, in that you can be Your magnificent self.