A Mystic Friend

[bearheart]

The quote is humble enough to acknowledge not knowing everything, unlike the frequent mystical claims to have discovered truth and everything through "an experience". As I said before an experience is very qualitative, subjective and truth cannot be deduced from experience alone.

We need to expand what "religion" stands for, this word should grow out of its metaphysical and supernatural origins, and should represent the way an individual looks at and behaves in his environment.

Of course truth cannot be deduced from experience alone, the experience of truth is secondary to that which was experienced, we can never know of truth as a mind body organism. We as an organism can only know what we know through our senses, as all other organisms do. The world is much different to other organisms, they can only know what they know through their senses just like us.

So what is truth ?, and who's truth is truth ?.

How do you know the world is much different for other organisms? Which sense helped you deduce that conclusion? I agree the world is perceived differently by all life.

From my perspective, finding the truth is a means to explain why things are the way they are. In the context of the physical environment its to keep progressing into the depths of our understanding of the laws of nature .In the context of human consciousness it is the endeavor to find a solution so as to create a society where everyone (all life) is happy.Happiness requires a myriad of ingredients, unhappiness included.