"By whatever method one deploys to raise one's awareness, the most
obvious elements to tackle are issues of veracity. Many see adherence
to truth as one of the fundamental pre-requisites for spiritual
development. Surely, self-deception is a sign of low or selective
awareness.
Though self-deception seems to be a strength for those who resort to
it, it will ever be an impediment to higher awareness".
Truthful... to a point.
How does one adhere to something as malleable as truth? It being a
pre-request for anything with the vagaries of enlightenment seems a
riddle of the kind not found outside early Celtic mythology.
An acquaintance who assisted Joseph Campbell recalls Campbell saying
"the ability to hold a secret" as a good indication that one was ready
for spiritual enlightenment.
Yeats suggested "be secret and exalt, for of all things known that is
most difficult".
America�s favorite bulldog Norman Mailer sees fact as "concentrated
opinion"
A strict Freudian might recommend additional therapy.
There is a kind of self-centered blame necessary when assuming the
need for truthfulness. As time passes I find those who�ve held
truthfulness in such high regard relegated to a state of unconscious
passivity... and in the end following those extolling the virtues of
tr
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