The Ultimate Truth in 4 pages. The Present by Michael Smith Last updated: July 16, 2014 First Edition www.truthcontest.com el 08 Table of Contents Chapter 1 - The Ultimate Truth 1 Chapter 2 - Big Picture of Life - The Present 16 Chapter 3 - Big Picture of Life - Past and Future 36 Chapter 4 - Heaven: Last Step in Evolution 51 Chapter 5 - Heaven on Earth 69 Chapter 6 - The Beatles 77 Chapter 7 - The Nature of Nothing 90 Chapter 8 - Living and Dying 97 Chapter 9 - Seeking and Knowing 102 Chapter 10 - Balanced Universe 108 Chapter 1 1 - The Real Story 119 Chapter 12 - Transition 129 Chapter 1 The Ultimate Truth A man should look for what is and not for what he thinks should be. Albert Einstein Truth you can check: It is as matter of fact as the ground and as useful as food. It's the kind of truth that can make hate and war as unnecessary as ignorance. Charles Darwin revealed how evolution works, but not what it really means. Evolution is no longer just a theory; it has been proven true beyond a reasonable doubt. The problem is, even people wlio believe evolution is true disassociate themselves from the process. They somehow skipped all the lower forms of animal life and just started out at the top of the evolutionary ladder. The evidence says we evolved as life evolved. Human beings did not just appear at the top of the evolutionary ladder to reap the benefits of those millions of years of evolution without having to live through it. In other words, you were those other animals. Someone had to be them. You had to be lower animals to be a human now. You lived as all the different animals in your evolutionary line. You lived through millions of years, and millions of lives and deaths to get where you are now. That's what Darwin's book means. In addition to the fossil evidence, the genetic code proves that all animals, including us, evolved from bacteria over the last 700 million years on earth. In other words, you were a microbe, an insect, a fish, a dinosaur, an ape... When all of the evidence (100%) says something happened, and there is no evidence (zero) that anything else could have happened, it is the truth beyond a reasonable doubt to honest, rational people. We have come a very, very long way, but we have a little further to go. The next and last step in our evolution is learning and accepting the truth of life, and this includes acknowledging our true past. The truth will free us from the animal world we all evolved from. 1 www.truthcontest.com Immortality: "It is impossible to be conscious of being unconscious." It is not possible to be aware of being unconscious from your own perspective. You cannot be aware of not being aware. You can be less aware/conscious, such as when you are asleep, but not completely unconscious (dead), because time would stand still for you. A billion years could pass, and you would not know it. How do you know you are dead? It is not possible to be aware of any gaps in life; it is continuous and never-ending from your own point of view. Death and birth are a continuous event from your own perspective. You will die physically, but you will be bom into a new physical body. Being bom happens, or you would not be here now. You were born into this life. It is what we know happens. There is no evidence anything else happens. True or false? The "you only live once" theory: Many people say that they do not believe in reincarnation; they believe when you die, you're dead. What about fish, clams, horses, bears, flies? People that say you only live once are saying some souls get to live just one life as a worm, and that is it for all of eternity. Other people believe you are judged by a god after you die. Is the wonn judged? Many people think human beings are the only animal that is conscious. Is a dog or cat conscious? Where do you draw the line? Is a bird conscious? The truth is that all animal life is conscious and alive just like us. The only thing that makes humans different from other animals is that we have a mind that can think and reason at a high enough level to know the truth of life, and those that know rise above animals. It Is time to see and accept the truth the evidence supports. You are Immortal; it is impossible to not be, because it is impossible to be conscious of being unconscious. Just that one sentence proves it. It is like these sentences: It is impossible for it to be light and dark at the same time, you cannot have your cake and eat it too. They are simple, but certain facts. The sentence "It is impossible to be conscious of being unconscious" is a simple and certain fact. Energy cannot be created or destroyed; it can only be changed from one form to another. Albert Einstein Like energy, consciousness cannot be created or destroyed. This revelation will change your life. Now you know where you come from and what you've been doing for about half a billion years (evolving). The next question is how does life work and what is next, and we can know that too. 2 www.truthcontest.com People are trying to understand life and the universe independent of consciousness, and it is the most important factor in the equation. The universe as it relates to conscious life can be understood now. It is the ultimate truth; the truth that will transform mankind and the world. "For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction." = -Fg^ People do not realize what Isaac Newton's third law of motion really means. Everything Is balanced. Everything physical (matter/energy) goes back and forth in balanced circles, cycles, or the equivalent. Birth-death, old- young, big-small, strong-weak, start-stop, up-down, rich-poor, beginning- end, fast-slow, hot-cold, pain-pleasure, win-lose, day-night, full-empty, high-low, in-out, success-failure, united-divided, give-receive, creation- destruction, on-off, positive-negative, etc. Positive and negative forces moving In balance are the physical universe. There are no exceptions to the laws of nature Newton revealed. They apply to all matter and energy. Human beings are matter and energy, thus you and all humans are governed by the same laws. Luck: Good luck and bad luck are the balance in action and the way the balance most affects our lives. Luck is manifested on many levels. There is the day-to-day luck, from little things like getting a good parking space or a bad one, to big things, such as winning the lottery or finding out you have cancer. Then there is the long-term luck. You are lucky if you are born with good looks, money, health, talent and intelligence. You are unlucky if you are born unattractive, poor, sickly and without talent or intelligence. Most people are in between the extremes, but it does not matter, because we are immortal, and it will all balance out. Luck will move back and forth; everyone will get equal amounts of good and bad luck. What goes around comes around. Everyone gets their turn. Death Is the great equalizer: If you are born with advantages, you can have more good times than bad times in your life, but when you die, you are reborn with disadvantages, and have more bad times than good times and vice versa. In the long run, no one has it better or worse than anyone else does, because life will always balance eventually. It is the known nature of the universe we live in. 3 www.truthcontest.com If you flip a coin a thousand times, it will come up heads about half the time and tails about half the time. The odds of random events are predictable; this is why Las Vegas always mal<es a profit on gambling year after year. You can see the truth if you look at the big picture. You will see that random events are predictable because they balance. It's a fundamental truth of life everyone knows, but ignores. This is why on the Fourth of July, 162 people will be killed in auto accidents, and every fourth, about the same amount are killed. An average of twelve auto accidents happen every minute; about six-thousand teenagers are killed in auto accidents every year in the US. About four million people are bitten by dogs. Why is the number about the same every year? Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for insects as well as for the stars. Human beings, vegetables or cosmic dust; we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance. Albert Einstein Destiny: Not being in control does not mean our future is predestined. No one knows the future; the future cannot be known. Anything can happen. The only thing we can be certain of is that it will be balanced. The good news is, all of the best things are going to happen to you; the bad news is, so will all of the worst things, if you do not learn the truth. Consequences: People may think, if everything is balanced, then it does not matter what you do. That is true, if you want to continue living in the savage animal realm. If you want to evolve past the animal realm, to a realm where there is no fear, pain or death, you have to learn and spread the truth of life. You have to live as a spiritual being. If you live like an animal, you will continue to be one. The greatest present: For the first time in history, the first time in our 700 million years on this planet, we can know life, know what we are, where we come from, and where we are going. We have to take advantage of this brief opportunity. It has been a long time coming and will be a long time gone. This book will give you the power to change our present course to one that leads to a place without pain, fear or suffering, a place some western religions call heaven. 4 www.truthcontest.com Keep reading: New and different revelations about life are not easy to accept. Do not let the things you disagree with stop you from reading further. Many of the things you do not agree with or understand when you first read them will make sense after you read more of the book. Do not skip around; it needs to be read in order to make sense. It is a small book (134 pages) that does not take much time to read. It is worth it. Visit www.truthcontest.com/comments to see comments from readers. Sometimes people hold a core belief that is very strong. When they are presented with evidence that works against that belief, the new evidence cannot be accepted. It would create a feeling that is extremely uncomfortable, called cognitive dissonance. And because it is so important to protect the core belief, they will rationalize, ignore and even deny anything that doesn't fit in with the core belief. Frantz Fanon Cognitive dissonance: Get to know these two words. It is the unseen enemy of mankind. It does more to cause war, crime and suffering than anything else, because it prevents people from learning and changing. If you are ready to overcome your cognitive dissonance and learn the truth of life, keep reading. The first four pages of this book are a game changer, because they are true. The problem is, most people cannot see the truth of life. It's not what you look at that matters; it's what you see. Henry David Thoreau When you see the truth for the first time, it is what people call a peak moment, or a moment of clarity. You get a larger percentage of what each moment of life actually contains; you are filled with life. Your mind is the gatekeeper of life, and sometimes it lets a little true life in, but most of the time it does not. Figure 1 shows how mankind currently perceives life. Figure 2 shows true life. The arrows represent life coming to you from all directions. The dotted line shows how your mind blocks most of the life coming to you. Without the mind blocking life, you receive all of life, true life, and reflect it all back out. 5 www.truthcontest.com Seeing Niagara Falls or the Grand Canyon for the first time is a peak moment for most people. Why does it mal<e you feel so alive? Nothing really happens to you. Why doesn't it feel as good the second time you see it? You are seeing the same thing. The reason is, your mind opens up when something is special. The truth is, every moment of life is special, and you can be completely open to life most of the time. You have to see the truth to see true life. The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply. Khalil Gibran The truth of life does not change anything in life except people's minds. Things stay the same. The truth just removes the unnecessary suffering, conflict and confusion from life. The truth about life is actually very simple; it is just hard to see for the first time. Life: It all boils down to how you feel from moment to moment, how often you feel good and how often you feel bad, and it will be balanced like everything else physical. Your infinite past was balanced, and your infinite future will be too, unless you change from a physical being into a spiritual being. To change into a spiritual being, you just have to know the truth, which changes your point of view and your perspective of life so that you start to live your life as a spiritual being. Our life does not have to be just fifty-fifty like the physical world, because our spiritual-self, our immortal-self, is not physical and does not need to be balanced to exist. Our physical environment cannot fundamentally change, but we can. You just have to know it to do it. Nothing is going to make any real difference in your life except separating yourself from the balanced physical world. It can and will change everything. The truth reveals that you do not need to experience the bad to have the good. The bad will still happen, but you will perceive it differently. Good/bad: When you know the truth, you take the two sides of life, the good and bad side, and see them as one whole. You do this by understanding what the balancing force means. It means all bad times will pass and be compensated for by an equal amount of good times. It also means all good times will pass and be paid for with an equal amount of bad times. It will always balance. 6 www.truthcontest.com When you know the truth, you will enjoy the good times more and still avoid a bad time when you can, but when you cannot, the l<nowledge of the balance helps you get through the bad times. This is because l<nowing that the worse it gets, the better it will be, mal<es bad times almost enjoyable. More importantly, it centers your perspective of life. You see both sides of life; wliole life, true life. You do not get just 50/50; you get 100%. The knowledge of the balance takes away your reasons to be mad, sad, hate, worry, envy, be disappointed; it takes away all negative emotions and feelings. It removes all stress and negative mind-made feelings from your life. The mind starts disappearing, and true life starts appearing. As the mind gets smaller, life gets bigger. As the mind shrinks, life expands. When the mind disappears completely, your perception of life becomes clear. Eventually, you will only think when you have to, which is not very often. You will be able to accept the present of life, no matter what is happening. You change into a new being, a spiritual being, and you become the present, the eternal NOW. We want to expand our life, not expand our minds as they did in the 1960's. The more you live in the present, the more fulfilling life gets. Time will slow down; you will see the magic and wonder of life you saw as a child, and you will experience it without the ignorance and all the negative emotions of childhood. Soon, you will be able to see life better than a child sees it or any animal has ever seen it. You will see the real world, an enchanted world. Your two selves: Most people are not aware of the fact that they have two different selves. You have a mind and a spirit (consciousness), and though they seem like one thing, they are separate. The way to realize that this is true is to realize that something has to be listening to the thoughts created by your mind. What Is it that hears your thoughts? There is the part of you that thinks and the part that hears the thoughts. The thinking part is your mind; the part that hears the thoughts is your spiritual-self. You do not actually hear thoughts through your ears, because your mind is already inside your head. The point is, your spiritual- self receives the things the mind creates in a similar way to hearing them. 7 www.truthcontest.com Check it out: Just ask yourself, what is it tfiat is fiearing tfie tfiouglits you are thinking right now? It is your spiritual-self, the same thing that receives all life. As shown in the drawing, mankind is currently living as their mind-self, and as a result, does not know their spiritual-self. "Know thy self," as Socrates said. You have to know true life to know your true self. Perspective and perception: The same world is perceived differently by a frog and a cat, a cat and a dog, a dog and a human, a child and an adult, a woman and a man. You see something different than I do. All perspectives are unique. We do not see things the way they are; we see things the way we are. People see and experience life through their own mind and senses and from their own unique perspective and awareness level. This does not change the truth. Tine physical world will never change; it cannot change and still exist, but the way you perceive it can. Perception and perspective determine how clearly and truly you see life and how fulfilling or unfulfilling life is for you. Knowing the ultimate truth makes it possible for people to see life clearly and to be filled by it. You cannot control life, but you can change the way you see life. Animals other than man are more fulfilled, because they have less mind blocking life, but they are stuck with the perspective and perception they are born witln. As human beings, we can greatly improve our perception by learning the ultimate truth. All the problems we have stem from people not knowing the truth of life. Unhappy: People look around and think, why are there so many people that are unhappy? We have progressed so far, yet people are still unhappy. Why isn't this world the wonderful place it could be? Changing the world doesn't change us. It does not matter how much we progress materially; it will not change anything. Only learning and seeing the truth will change us, and thus change everything. The truth transforms a mortal man Into an Immortal spiritual being. It does this because the truth just shows you what you truly are, and that changes everything. The truth does the same thing for the way we see the world and for the same reason. It shows you life clearly; it shows you true life for the first time. 8 www.truthcontest.com True life is perfect: You can see and experience a perfect life, because that is the way life actually is. Our imperfect minds mess it up. It is hard to believe from your current perspective and level of awareness, but it is your own mind that makes life imperfect. The universe has to be perfect to exist. You do not have to believe it; you can know it. The present: It is interesting that the "NOW" is called "the present." The present is the ultimate gift; it is the gift of truth and life. You are given the present every second, and you will receive it forever. The present is the only thing that exists, the only thing you are ever conscious of. Your life is a series of presents moving through time. The future does not exist until it becomes the present. Life is one perpetual present. Creation is happening now: Your body, mind, and the world around it are being created from microsecond to microsecond. Things may look the same, but they are not; everything is constantly changing and being recreated. Our life and our world is being created from moment to moment. Life and everything in it is always new. People think that they are not good looking enough, young enough, thin enough, smart enough, rich enough, etc. They live on the edge of the circle and just go around and around forever, lost in the illusions of their minds. Greener grass: The concept of past, future, and a distorted perception of the present keeps people running for the greener grass on the other side of the fence. They miss the present in the process. Chasing the horizon: It is like running after the horizon; the faster you go, the faster it moves away from you. One day, you realize that you are standing on it. What you were running after is where you already are and always will be. All people want is what is in the present, but they do not know it because they have never opened it. Almost no one knows what the present really is. The present has to be our goal, because it is the only thing that exists. The big tease: Your mind will open up part way from time to time to give you a taste of true life, and then take it away. It will attach the open moments to things that are hard to do, like things that cost a lot of money, things that are difficult or dangerous, or things that the mind considers to be new or special. Your mind makes you pay for life in one way or another, and never lets you have it for free. 9 www.truthcontest.com A fulfilling life is always free and always available once you know the truth. Fulfilled: It is the way we feel when our minds are completely open to life; we become "filled" with life. Being filled with life makes you feel the way you want to feel all the time. Fulfillment is true happiness. Doctors say that you feel good or happy because of the release of chemicals in your brain that make you feel good. This is true; chemicals such as endorphins, adrenaline, serotonin and dopamine make you feel good, but they do it by just allowing you to feel a little true life. Like all drugs, the effect is temporary, and it has a balancing downside. The ultimate truth is not temporary and has no down side. No drugs are necessary. In this animal realm, physical pain and pleasure will come and go, but you can always be filled with life (fulfilled) once you know the truth. Freedom: If you tie your fulfillment to things that happen in your environment, you are at the mercy of the constantly changing environment. You will only get a taste of fulfillment when things go your way, when you win or get what you want. Spiritual people are fulfilled when they lose. If you do not attach your fulfillment to what happens in your environment, you can be fulfilled no matter what happens. True freedom is having the ability to be fulfilled independent of what happens in the environment. Almost no one is free now. Only the truth will set you free. Being free means being free of the mind that hides true life from people. Instant gratification: Why put requirements on feeling good? True life is being given to us all the time; we just have to let it in all the time. True life is instant and complete gratification that costs nothing. Being free is in your head. The secret: Most people know you do not need "things" or things to happen to be happy (be fulfilled), but most people do not know how it works. The secret is opening your mind. Without thought and negative emotions, the same thing happens that happens when you get what you think you want. You become as sensual as you can possibly be; you become your senses. You can feel better than you would feel if you just won the lottery everyday. Why not? It is just a state of mind, or state of no-mind. It is your life; just take what is coming to you. You can be fulfilled whenever you want. The present is for you. Being fulfilled, being filled by life all the time, is the true goal of mankind. Everything that people do, directly and indirectly, good and bad, is to be fulfilled by life. Once you know the truth, you can skip all the things and just be fulfilled. 10 www.truthcontest.com Empty: As shown in the drawing, the mind makes it impossible to know reality (true life) and to be fulfilled. The present with the mind blocking and distorting it is not fulfilling. It leaves you empty and full of desire for something to fill the emptiness. The things the mind does to try to fill the void just blocks life more. The more people run towards what they think they want, the more they miss it. Something missing: People feel that something is missing, because something is missing; true life is missing. The door: Your mind is like a door, and for most, it is currently closed. You have to have a truly open mind to learn the truth and experience true life (the present). That which is: The literal meaning of the word "truth" is "that which is." The living truth = that which is. That which is = the present. The truth of the past = that which was. The truth of the future = that which will be. You can only truly know "that which is," because now is the only thing that exists. The past is a memory or a story. The future is just an educated guess. You can only know the true past and what the true future will be by knowing "that which is possible." If you know how life works, you will know everything. Definition of ultimate truth: It is knowing the truth of life. It is knowing the fundamental, eternal laws of nature, and the nature of the mind which distorts and hides the truth. It is an accurate and complete understanding of "that which is." You do not and cannot understand every detail of life and do not have to. You just have to understand the big picture, the fundamental nature of life. This truth never changes, because "that which is" can never change. It cannot change and exist. When you know life completely, you become life completely. Self-evident: There is nothing easier to know than the truth, because it is life itself. It is nothing more and nothing less. The truth is the present, THE NOW. 11 www.truthcontest.com It is all true: The truth is simply everything there is, everything that truly exists. If it does not exist, it is not the truth; if it does, it is. "That which is" is everything except for the deceptions created by the mind. The truth is incontrovertible; malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. Winston Churchill 2 + 2 = 4: It does not equal anything else. The truth is, there is only one truth. Believing 2 + 2 = 5 or 6 or anything else does not make it true. There are an infinite amount of wrong answers, but only one true answer. Hope/belief: Believing and hoping something is true or going to be true does not make it true, if you do not start with the real truth. It is the truth, or it is not. There is no way to make something that is not true, true. There is only one truth. Faith in faith: In and of itself, belief, faith, hope, wishing, good luck charms, holy relics, symbols, positive thinking, good intentions, praying, curses, voodoo, magic spells, fortune tellers, psychics, etc. do not do anything except make people feel like they have some control over life. They are just coping strategies. If you believe a fairytale or myth is true, you will not live happily ever after. People that currently have faith/belief in a myth are a force against the truth. Believing in things that do not exist is the worst thing you can do. Religious people want to believe so badly, they will Ignore scientific evidence, reason, common sense and their own better judgment. Religions have perverted the meaning of the word "truth". The Webster's Dictionary definition says what the word means - truth: being in accord witfi fact or reality Many things religious people say they believe are not in accord with fact or reality. They are myths, superstition, hope, not truth. To say it is truth is a lie. True or false? In other words, most of the world's traditional religions are spreading lies and many know it, which in addition to being liars makes them dishonest hypocrites. The ones that do not know they are lying think they are doing the will of their god, when in truth, they are doing the will of the enemy of their god, Satan, who is defined in their holy books as the great deceiver, the king of all lies. 12 www.truthcontest.com The real truth unites people; it does not divide them. It makes sense, and it applies to everyone, everywhere, all of the time. It creates clarity, not confusion. The truth leads to real equality, freedom, peace, love and understanding. The real truth only asks you to believe in something you can check for yourself. Anyone who cares about the truth enough to check what it is will know the truth. Those who do not care enough will not learn the truth and will be lost and deserve to be lost. Monkey see, monkey do: Most people just tell people what they have been told the truth is. They just accept what others say the truth is, especially if it is what people have been accepting as the truth for thousands of years. It is monkey see, monkey do. Second-hand truth should not be believed or repeated without checking it out for yourself. The age of playing follow the leader is ending now. Second-hand truth is called hearsay in a court of law, and it is not admissible for an important reason; it has proven not to be a dependable source of the truth. What could be more irresponsible than saying something is true without knowing beyond a reasonable doubt that it is true? Billions of people are doing it. Do not believe what anyone says, including me; check things for yourself. You have to see the truth yourself in life itself to know it. You are at what could be the end of a very long and difficult quest. You now have the opportunity to complete the quest and leave the animal realm forever. The only real difference between mankind and other animals is our ability to reason and think. Thus, reason has to be what we have to use to evolve further. We have to use what sets us apart from other animals. The truth: You now know "the truth" part of the truth and life. There are only five essential or fundamental things you need to know, and they are the following: 1. Our true history. 2. You are immortal. 3. Everything will balance. 4. You are a spiritual being. 5. The present is everything. 13 www.truthcontest.com Like water: The thirteen pages you just read explain the truth of life, but just reading the thirteen pages is not enough; it is just the start. The truth is lil<e water, and it will slip through your fingers. You need to read this whole book and do the things the book says to do to hold onto the truth and benefit from it. Repetition: If something is repeated, it makes a bigger impression and changes your brain more, changes your inner environment more. Thus, the more repetition, the better. That is why I repeat some things many times and say the same thing many different ways. TV advertisers repeat commercials for this reason. As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives. Henry David Thoreau Simple: It is important to simplify the way you see and know life; it is the only way it can be known. It can be almost infinitely complicated, and trying to understand it all is what mankind is trying to do. We have to go the other way and see and know it in the most simple way, because it is the only way we can know all that can be known. We can never know all the details, they are infinite and it is impossible, but we can know the simple big picture of life. That is what this book attempts to do. Everytiiing should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler. Albert Einstein What is said in this book is not just a theory; it is what the evidence says. It is truth you can check, and that makes it the real truth and the only truth. You just have to check it out for yourself so you know you know it and remember it until it sinks in. It has to go deep into your subconscious. You have to see the truth in every moment without thinking about it; you have to know it intuitively. Without the truth, there can be no real morality, justice, equality, unity, success, freedom, love, security, peace, spirituality or even survival. Only the truth can stop the wars and make the world the paradise it can be. 14 www.truthcontest.com Friend to all: It is important to understand we do not want to fiurt anyone or anything. We want to fix people and institutions that are flawed, that are sick and infected with BS. We just have the medicine, the cure. We want everyone to get better, especially the "bad guys." We are not anyone's enemy; we want to mal<e love, not war. When the people living in the dog eat dog animal world, playing the power game, the get rich and famous game, see the truth of life, they will realize that they are their own worst enemy. They will change, because it is in their best interest to change. They will change for selfish reasons, which is fine as long as they see the truth of life and get on the path to a paradise on earth. Common denominator: The truth is the only thing that can unite all human beings. It is what we all have in common, and that will never change. There is only one sky for all of us. Everyone eats, breathes, is born and dies, etc. The ultimate truth is universal truth; it is the same for everyone, everywhere. It always has been and always will be. We can now know the truth about life and death. The difference between believing and knowing is checking. Nothing could be more simple. If you care enough about the truth to check what it is, you will know the truth of life. The sad truth is, most people do not care, and mankind and our world are being destroyed as a result. If you care, now is the time to prove it. If everyone looked at the big picture of life, we would see the same thing. This simple thing would unite human beings, and we would live in paradise. Reason: We can now use our ability to reason, deductive logic, and extrapolation of the known evidence to know and understand things the evidence does not reveal directly, such as life after death. We have progressed enough to know and understand the fundamental truth of life. It will transform us and our world. Truth alone will endure, all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time. I must continue to bear testimony to truth even if I am forsaken by all. Mine may today be a voice in the wildemess, but it will be heard when all other voices are silenced, if it is the voice of Truth. Mohandas Gandhi LIFE KNOWING LIFE IS THE WAY 15 www.truthcontest.com Chapter 2 Big Picture of Life Experienced in the Present The overman, who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character and become creative, aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment. Friedrich Nietzsche The truth of the balance is the most clear at the edges of physical reality. If you look at the biggest things in the universe, the stars and planets, you will see that they are all going in balanced circles (orbiting) around each other. If you look at the smallest things that make up all matter and atoms, you will see the same thing, electrons going around a nucleus. The edges reveal clearly the fundamental nature of our reality. Everything is going around in circles. As you become more aware, you begin to see that all physical things in between the biggest and smallest are doing the same thing in one way or another. Soon it will be as clear to you as night and day, and you will know the nature of everything. On the quantum level, things are not predictable, but we do not live there. Change: The key truth is the knowledge of the balancing opposites, because you can see this truth in action everywhere you look. Change or movement is caused when parts of a cycle or system are out of balance. They always will move or change to balance. Example: in the weather system when there is a high pressure zone and a low pressure zone, the air in the high pressure zone will move into the low pressure zone causing wind and bad weather. If you are hungry, you eat, etc. There are two types of truth: truth you know and the truth you experience. The mind truth is the opposite of the living or real truth. They cannot exist together, so you have to sacrifice one for the other. Mankind is currently sacrificing life for the mind. We just have to do the opposite. We have to start living in "that which is" and stop just thinking about it all the time. We just have to get our minds out of the way; they are blocking true life. You do not have to think if you know life. The truth and life: When you know the truth, you can be completely aware of everything coming to you through your life senses; you will experience true life. Truth = life, life = truth, but you have to learn all the truth to get all the life. 16 www.truthcontest.com The more you see the truth, the more you will see the life. The more you see life, the more you will see the truth. They build on each other, and your knowledge of them grows until you know life completely and become life. Truth first: People have it backwards. They want true life before they know the truth, and as a result, they never get the truth or life. People can get close and look like they have it all, especially the big stars in show business. They look like they are full of life and everyone wants to be like them, but they do not have it all. Even having 99% is not all of it. You need it all to take the next step in evolution and become a spiritual being. How can you live completely what you do not know completely? When you know life completely, you start living it completely. How can you enjoy life before you know liow life works? No one can fully enjoy life until they know why things happen and where their life will lead. Money, sex, success, power, fame, will not work. The truth is the only way. Many spiritual teachers who claim to be enlightened say you need to experience life first, through meditation, etc. They say that the way to know the truth is through the experience of life. They say that because they do not know the truth, not all of it, so they cannot say what the truth is. They say to experience life to know the truth, because it seems like that can be done, but actually that cannot be done. When people do not know the full truth, it means they have never experienced life fully, or they would know the ultimate truth. How can someone be enlightened and not know the truth? Knowing the truth would have to come with enlightenment, or you would not be enlightened. True or false? There are revelations in this book that no guru, prophet, or any spiritual master knew, so no one has really been enlightened. There have been many that thought they were and convinced others they were, but they did not know all the truth of life, and that is a fact you can check. Many have known parts of the puzzle of the truth of life. This book for the first time adds the last pieces to the puzzle. Many of the great prophets of the past knew the time was not right, and they did what they could until the right time came. That time is now. I am not saying the great prophets and spiritual leaders of the past did not become enlightened masters. They did, but not when and how the unenlightened people of this world think. The prophets and seers of the past brought new revelations and built on each others understanding, but the ultimate truth could not be fully revealed until now. Now you can know the complete truth of life for the first time in history. 17 www.truthcontest.com Finding the ultimate trutli of life and death is the true mission of mankind. The question is, winy is it so difficult to see and express the truth clearly now? Something has to be hiding the truth and life. Why do we have so much trouble seeing the true nature of our lives? It should be the most obvious thing there is. Why do people have so many different opinions and beliefs about what the ultimate truth is when it should be self-evident? We all live in the same world, so why does everyone see it differently? Your inner environment: This is your environment from your skin in, from your senses in. This environment is where your mind lives. It is between life and your spiritual-self; it is the closest thing to you. The mind is so close to your spirit that most people do not realize that they are two separate things. The mind creates the illusion that it is the spirit. Sixth sense: People do have a sixth sense; their own mind. You have the senses of sight, hearing, smell, touch, taste and mind. Your mind is like a sense, because your consciousness or spiritual-self senses or experiences the mind's thoughts, emotions, and feelings the same way it does light, sounds, sensations, scents and tastes. You receive the input from your mind the same way you receive input from your five life senses, but what the mind creates is not real/true. Word/life: Your five life senses sense life. Your mind produces and sends you things that do not come from life; it sends you things it makes up itself. It creates and sends you emotions, desires, thoughts, guilt, fears and worries, etc. Your mind blocks most of the life coming to you, and what it does not block, it converts into thoughts and feelings; it turns life into its mental code for life. Your mind attempts to reduce all of life to words, feelings, and abstract thoughts or bytes of data. Example: Your sense of sight sees a rose. Instead of coming to you directly as all that a rose really is, it is turned into the word "rose". It is then disregarded or filed away as a memory without letting you experience it. 18 www.truthcontest.com Editing your life: If you have seen something before, your mind does not consider it important to see it again and does not let you see it; the mind edits your life. When you see a rose through the mind, you do not see it as it truly is. Your mind does this with everything unless it perceives it as new, special, or dangerous. By reducing real things to words or thoughts, they can be processed in your mind. We are paying a high price for this; we pay with our life. It was necessary in the past to be able to process life this way to help us get control of an unl<nown and dangerous world. It is no longer necessary to do it much of the time, but people still do it all the time anyway. It is like a bad habit. All of this is going on between your spiritual-self and life. It is the reason why people cannot see the truth and experience true life. We paid a high price to get where we are now. The time has come to stop giving all our life to our minds. To do it, you just have to see things like you are seeing them for the first time. It is that simple, but you have to know the truth to do it. True religion is real living. Albert Einstein Take control of our minds: We now know enough and have enough control of the world. We no longer need to miss most of our lives. We need to see all of life now to see the real threats to our survival and become spiritual beings. It is time to start getting control of ourselves to get control of our minds. It is our false perspectives and lack of awareness that are the greatest dangers to us. The greatest danger to mankind is now mankind. The mind of human beings has become too powerful and dangerous to be out of control. The thing (our minds) that helped our survival the most will be what destroys us if we do not get control of them soon. Right and wrong: Without the ultimate truth, no one really knows what to do or why to do it, and that is becoming very dangerous. About ten countries are known to have nuclear weapons, and it is estimated that at least thirty-two countries are trying to get them. There are also biological and chemical weapons, and people do not know right from wrong yet. Weapon technology is evolving faster than we are. Technology is making it easier and easier for fewer and fewer people to do greater and greater damage. Just greed will destroy the environment if the truth is not seen soon. 19 www.truthcontest.com People are going to have to see the value of the universal truth. It will create a unity we need for survival and our future evolution. If people do not, tliere will be no future, no matter wliat you or anyone else wants to believe. Wisliful, liopeful tliinl<ing is wliat is creating most of tine BS tliat will lead to the end of mankind very soon. We live in a fragile environment, and very few can see how fragile. Optimism is a good tiling to a point, but people are way too sure everything will work out well. That is not what the evidence says. Without the truth, there is no hope. This is why it is essential that people learn the truth soon. Right and wrong cannot be known without knowing what is true and what is not true. Great power without great understanding will destroy much of what we have gained over a very long time. We may not kill the whole human race, but we will set it back in a catastrophic way for certain and do it very soon. It is like we are driving too fast on a dangerous mountain road blindfolded. The mind creates fear, worry, guilt, regret, sadness, envy, greed, hate and all other mind-made, negative feelings you receive. These uncontrolled emotions are creating all the misery in the world. You just have to realize that they are not real/true, and they will disappear. Why live with pain and suffering that is just created by the mind? Why let your own mind hurt you? Just as you do not have to think thoughts that you do not want to think, you do not have to feel the negative emotions and feelings the mind creates. If the mind is creating something, it can stop creating it. If you know the truth, you do not have to live with anything that is not real. You just have to live one-hundred percent with what is real, and it will leave no room in your life for anything that is not real. Displace the mind's BS with life's truth. It Is all about seeing true life. Most people have to suffer a lot before they even start really looking, but it is not necessary. Most of the suffering in your life is created by the mind, and most of the world's troubles are also. We have suffered enough; it is time to find the truth and divine life and be fulfilled. All we have to do is take control of our minds to do it. The age of the mind is coming to an end. The truth is the key to controlling your mind. 20 www.truthcontest.com The word "man" comes from ancient Sanskrit and means "mind." Mankind is mindkind. Mind-self: The mind is a great tool if we liave it under control. Tlie problem is that most don't have their minds under control. The mind has been so useful to our survival that we have given it complete power over our lives. We have begun to believe that we are our minds. This falsehood puts our minds in control of us. We cannot be our minds, because our minds end at death, and we do not. We cannot, because we are immortal, and our minds or brains are not. Our mind is a biochemical and bioelectric part of our bodies. It exists in the brain, and it is destroyed when the rest of our body is destroyed at death, just as a computer's data is destroyed when a computer's hard drive is destroyed. Your mind can be destroyed even sooner than death by brain injuries and diseases, such as Alzheimer's and some mental diseases. We can be certain that we are not our mind, because if it was gone, we would still be here. We would still be aware of life, actually more aware of life, completely aware of it. The mind does not give us life; we give the mind life. The mind's job is done: The mind is lil<e a sophisticated computer. Its function is to learn, remember, process, and understand life and the things in it. The ultimate thing for the mind to learn and understand is the nature of life itself; our true past, potential future, and the nature of nature. Once we know the ultimate truth, our mind's ultimate job is done. Its reason for evolving is accomplished. Thus, the mind's purpose is fulfilled. When the truth is known, it is finished. Master/servant: Once you know the "mind truth" or "intellectual truth," your mind can take you no further. The mind needs to relax and become just a technical consultant. The mind needs to become your servant and stop being your master. The age of the mind: The mind has been such a big part of our world that a worldwide religion of the mind has developed. People have faith in the mind. People think the mind is the key to our success in everything. This has given the mind too much power over us. The mind has become God on this planet. 21 www.truthcontest.com More than minds: The mind is tiie l<ing of tiiis world. Just about all institutions, scliools, businesses, and governments promote and support the mind. This is all fine and good, as long as we know that we are more than our minds, that our minds are just a very small and temporary part of us. Behind your thoughts and feelings, my brother, there stands a mighty ruler. An unknown sage - whose name is self. In your body he dwells. There is more reason in your body than In your best wisdom. Friedrich Nietzsche The truth and the life is the last frontier. Using our mind was the key to our success in the past, but it will have to see itself and change itself for us to be a success in the future or even to survive. The mind will still be the key to the next step in evolution, but not by doing what it has done in the past. Our minds have to change for us to thrive and survive. We need an age of the spirit now. Our spirit must be seen as the more important part of us. Spirit is the real part, the eternal part, what we have always been and always will be, the real us. Step up: Your mind must step down so that your true self, your eternal spiritual-self, can step up. This is the next and last step in your evolution. Your mind needs to get out of the way, so you can learn the spiritual truth, the living truth, the real truth, the truth that is beyond the mind. The mind: It is just a tool that should only be used when it is needed. You use a hammer when you need to pound a nail. When you do not need it, you put it away. Your mind is always there when you need it. You use a chair when you need to sit down, but you don't carry it around with you all the time. It would weigh you down. As the last Beatles' song said: "Boy, you're going to carry that weight a long time." Take care of business: You do not have to worry about not thinking enough to take care of business. The only problem you will have is the problem you always have had; thinking too much to live in the present, to live in the truth and the life. Computers: Let the machines do the thinking. Our goal is not to think, but to live, and we never have to worry about machines doing it better. Computers are being developed so that we can think less and live more. 22 www.truthcontest.com With the knowledge of the ultimate truth, you are no longer mankind, or mind-kind, because you are no longer going to live as a mind; you are a new being. You are going to live as an immortal spirit. It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know. Henry David Thoreau The full potential of the mind: Using your mind less does not mean you are not using your mind to its full potential; less is more. The less you block life, the more you will know it. The better you know life, the better your mind can serve you. Know everything: When the mind is on standby, it is still in the game. It is completely aware of the world right along with you. The only source of knowledge is experience. Albert Einstein You will think less, but know a lot more, because you will experience a lot more, and what you experience will be real, not a deception or illusion. When you use your mind less, you are doing what the mind is meant to do, what it evolved to do. You are using your mind to its absolute full potential if you use it to overcome itself in order to know true life. Friend or foe: Your mind can be your worst enemy or your best friend. If you are using it to overcome or transcend itself and realize the truth and life, it is your best friend. If not, it is your worst enemy; it will distract you and prevent you from seeing the truth and true life in one way or another. True life: You are only receiving a very small percentage of all the light that enters your eyes, the sounds that enter your ears, the sensations coming from inside and outside your body, all the scents in the air and tastes in food. Your mind is distorting, filtering, interpreting and blocking most of life, as shown in the drawing. The first time you experience life completely, it will astound you. It is the best thing there is or can be, and it is here all the time in every moment of your life, just waiting for you to let it in. You will be truly alive, born for the first time. 23 www.truthcontest.com You still have a mind filtering tine input of life. It does does not let everything in; it lets divine life in (perfect life), but divine life is not composed of everything coming to you. Your mind has to be discerning, or life would have no definition. It would just be a flood of sensation, and that would be too much; too much of a good thing. The mind that knows the truth of life lets in all that comprises the best possible life experience, true life. It's much more than the mind of man lets in, but not everything. The divine mind works like a sound equalizer that controls the volume of different instruments in a band, to make it sound the best it can sound. It is very subtle, and doesn't block life as the animal mind does, but it does regulate the input. People are too unconscious to know that they are unconscious. They are too closed-minded to know that they are closed-minded. They are too asleep to know that they are asleep. Hypnosis: Mankind is hypnotized. Hypnotized means to be put into a state of semi-consciousness, a waking sleep. The problem is that we have been hypnotized to not know we are hypnotized. Under a spell: It is like we are under a spell that has put us to sleep. We need the kiss of truth to wake up from this spell. You will be carefree, but not careless, child-like, but not childish, innocent, but not ignorant. You will not need anything, but have it all. Two ways: There are only two ways to experience life: through the animal mind or not through the animal mind. You have two choices in every moment of life: to be with your mind or to be with life. The choice is yours. Your five life senses are much more than the sum of their parts. Together, completely open, they reveal true life. You wake up from a long sleep. You do not need all five senses to know true life; you can be deaf and blind and still experience it It is just about getting your mind out of the way. It is just a change of perspective from being a man/spirit to a spirit/man. True life is everything except the mind's illusion of "reality." 24 www.truthcontest.com The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them. Albert Einstein The mind is the problem: The mind cannot solve this problem the way it usually solves problems, because it is the problem and did not know it until now. Its very presence is in the way of life. It is this awareness that gradually gives you the ability to change your mind's nature, to open up and stay open. It takes some practice before you can do it, but you will get a knack for it. Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. Theodore Roosevelt You do not have to go to a cave and chant; just start opening up your perception everywhere you are, whenever you can. Our senses give our spirit a window to the physical universe. Our bodies have just one purpose, and that is to support our senses. Our bodies are simply a physical support system for our senses. This is because it is our senses that open up the world of physical life to us. Our bodies just support and move our senses around for us. Our bodies and physical life have no other reason for existing. We need to become our senses. You just have to remember, the goal of your life is to be more aware of it. How can that not be the most important and most worthwhile thing to do? I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive. Joseph Campbell The things you get through your senses comprise your entire life, nothing more, nothing less. Life is everything; there is nothing else but life. True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future. Lucius Annaeus Seneca It is not the years in your life that count; it is the life in your years. Abraham Lincoln 25 www.truthcontest.com You should devote your life to life, because life is the only thing that exists. The present is the only thing that really exists; how can it not be the goal? Your best: To take the next step in evolution, you have to do the absolute best you can do in this life with what you have to work with. Your absolute best is to learn and live in the truth and life. It is all you have to do to win the game. Every moment in the present is perfect and complete in and of itself. Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning. Joseph Campbell What is life? It is simply everything real that is in the present. Life lasts forever, because it is impossible for it not to from your own point of view. We also know that life is balanced, that it is absolutely fair for every living thing. Overcoming: We also know how to overcome the balance with the truth of life (perspective), thus we are in the process of overcoming pain and all negative feelings and emotions, so we can be fulfilled by life forever. Could anything be more amazing or wonderful? How can people just take It for granted? How can you be unhappy in light of the true situation? Life is the most realistic movie possible; it is in the ultimate high definition and surround sound. It is even in smell-o-vision, and we are the stars of it forever. How can that be beat? Getting into life completely should be the obvious goal, but people are doing the opposite by trying everything they can do to escape it. The mind is anti-life, the opposite of life. The truth makes it possible to be into life completely and above it. By "above it," I mean able to see all of life. Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans. John Lennon Life goals: Naturally, you have other goals besides finding the truth and life. You will have a much better chance of attaining them if your primary goal is the truth and the life, the present. It will help you do everything you do better. 26 www.truthcontest.com The mind and society that is dominated by the mind is goal oriented, and that is a good thing to a point. You need to have goals and plans, but you do not have to think about them all the time as people do now. You just set them as a guideline for your life, and then live in the present as you work towards them. Your ultimate goal is always to live in the truth and life, the present. The future is not as important as the present, simply because it does not really exist. Keep your eye on the prize, true life. People now have their priorities backwards. Focus on the present instead of worrying about a non-existent future. It is all about accepting yourself and your situation, accepting the present. True love: When you succeed in opening up the present completely for the first time, you kind of feel like you did when you fell in love for the first time. You begin to notice all the little things, the birds singing, etc. You like it a lot, and you feel like you are reborn, because you are reborn to true life. You are falling in love with life itself. It will never leave you or stop giving itself to you completely. It is true love, a love that will last forever, a love that never dies. When you see true life, all you feel is awe and wonder; it is sublime. Commitment: If you commit yourself to this love affair, you will be completely fulfilled forever. It demands your total commitment, but that is not asking much when you get back literally everything. All you need is love, but not carnal love; you need love of the truth and life. Everything: When you commit to the truth and life, you are actually committing yourself to everything in life. Every part of your new life, from your job to your family, will benefit from it. By totally committing to just one thing (the present), you totally commit to everything in your life at the same time. How could it be easier? This is something you can start today. There is no time but the present. 2 = 0: When you really see the opposites as a whole, they disappear, and the mind disappears also. There is no you and life; there are not two, not even one. You are everything, and everything is you. Knowledge of the balancing opposites makes the mind disappear, because the mind knows it is not needed, that life is safe, fair, and that life is on autopilot. 27 www.truthcontest.com Nothing is more secure and certain tlian your life when you know the truth. The truth is the exact opposite of what people think, because they think on a physical level. On the physical level, nothing is more certain than death. On the spiritual level, the opposite is true; nothing is more certain than life. This is why the truth is so important; it shows you what you really are and what Is really happening all the time. The truth shows you that life is perfect all the time. Life is in absolute control, and everything will be fair and perfect. You and everyone else will live balanced lives, no matter what you do or do not do. The only question is, do you want to do better than a balanced life? No one is doing better or worse than anyone else. Some people are up right now materially, and some people are down, but it is a cycle, and everyone gets the same amount of good and bad. It would not be fair any other way, would it? When you see the whole of life, you get the whole, not just half-and-half. Any pleasure you get without true life will be balanced. Why pursue it? The only pleasure you really want is the bliss that comes from knowing the truth and life and living in the present. It is the only thing that has true value. If you just get your mind out of your own way and let life happen, you will get what you really want. You will get all that there is or ever will be. It is that simple. Knowing it and doing/living it are two different things, but knowing it is the start. The next best thing to finding true life Is looking for It. You cannot lose. Waking up: Your controlling mind will begin to know that it cannot help you as much when it is active as when it is on standby. It will begin to understand what it has to do in order to make further progress. When your mind understands, it will help you know true life; It will begin to open itself up when it is not needed. 28 www.truthcontest.com Eternal partner: Your spiritual-self cannot do anything for itself. It needs a mind as a partner to get tilings done, including opening itself up wlien it is not needed. Before the mind can help you, it first has to understand it is the problem. The solution is the problem: It is not easy for your mind to realize that it is the problem, because it has always been just the solution to problems until now. Understanding it is the problem will tal<e your mind some getting used to and some time to reprogram itself. It will do it; its true purpose is to serve the spiht. True perspective: You cannot see your mind from your current perspective and level of awareness, because you are looking through the mind at the mind. The mind is trying to see itself through itself. That is why your perspective must change before you can see it clearly. You have to lool< from your spirit, your true self, to see it. Then can you see the mind for what it is and how it is the adversary of life. What we are looking for is what is looking. Your mind is now in front of your spirit, and it needs to be behind you. People live as man/spirit and need to live as spirit/man. It is just a matter of perspective and awareness. The mind Is not alive unless you let it steal your life. The mind is not a living being, but it will resist giving up control as long as you give it your life. If you do, it will become a living being; it will be you and try to survive like all living beings. You have to take the time to honestly get to know yourself. You have to know the nature of both your mind-self and spiritual-self to know the ultimate truth. Black hole: Human beings are currently filled with the mind; there is no room for life. When you turn it off, you empty yourself, and life naturally rushes in to fill the void. You become like a black hole, and life pours into you from every direction. A black hole does not let anything out; a spiritual being reflects it all back out. 29 www.truthcontest.com Center of the universe: When you experience life equally from all directions, you experience natural life, true life. You become the center of the universe, because that is what you truly are. The universe Is infinite in all directions, so no matter where you move, you will always remain in the exact center. You may be saying that this is a good way to look at it, but it is more than that, because it is the truth; it is the only true way to look at the big picture of life. When I walk, I am not just walking on the street; I am walking through the center of my own personal universe. Religions were right; we are at the center of the universe. Galileo, Kepler, and Copernicus were also right from the mind's perspective, but from your own perspective, the only perspective that really matters to you, you are at the center of the universe, and that is the only place you can be in an infinite universe. First step: When you realize that you are the center of the infinite universe and always will be, you realize how special you are. You are always at the exact center of life. All life that comes to your center is just for you and no one else. You are living in your own unique universe where everything is just for you. Living with the awareness that you are the center of everything is the first step people take to becoming a spiritual being. This is because it is the easiest thing to do. You can do it with your mind the way it is, and with other people around. Most people can do it right away. Try it right now, and you will see it is true. You will see you really are the center of the universe. You will see that life really is coming from every direction, and no matter what you do, that never changes. It does not matter where you are; your home is your body. True or false? 30 www.truthcontest.com You have to let it all out instantly, or there is no room for the new life to come in. The more life you allow in, the more you have to reflect bacl< out to others. You become completely full of life; your cup runith over. As John Lennon says in song, "you can radiate everything you are." You can be everything and reflect everything to others. When you can let it all in and reflect it all back out without any mental intrusions, you have reached the ultimate level of consciousness; you are a spiritual being. You will glow and shine with life as shown in the drawing on page five. You will become the present. You will have presence. Great actors have what is called stage presence. They become life itself, and the audience can see it. Movie stars need presence, at least while they are acting. If you want to see someone living in the present, watch a movie. Presence is created by living in the present and reflecting the present to other people. The mind barrier: The very mind that has made seeing the truth possible is now the only thing preventing us from tal<ing the last step, the final step in human evolution. People are living as their false, mortal mind-self, and they should be living as their true, immortal spiritual-self, or the exact opposite of the way they are living now. Your mind is like a door or gate, and the truth is the key to that door. The truth causes the mind to begin to change its relationship with you; it turns the mind from your worst enemy to your best fhend. You liave to turn tlie key. You liave to open tlie door. No one else can. The mind is no longer you; it is just a small part of you. It is no longer your master; it is your servant. It has to do the exact opposite of what it has evolved to do (control). That is why it takes the truth and some effort to get free of the mind. It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil from the spirit of man. Albert Einstein The way: You just have to do one thing; learn to recognize what is true (life) and what is not true (mind). Then give your life to just what is true. If you do this, the false illusions of the mind will no longer control your life, and you will be free. Think about it until you understand the truth completely, and then just do what the truth dictates and live consciously. 31 www.truthcontest.com True life really is that simple, but most people cannot see the truth now. The mind is more powerful than the spirit in this world. The mind Is a dominant force: The mind will always infect a person living clear of the mind. A spiritual person cannot cause a person living in the mind to stop living in the mind, but a person living in the mind can cause a spiritual person to activate their mind. The mind is a form of energy; the spirit is like a void. Great spirits are always opposed by mediocre minds. Albert Einstein The mind has the upper hand In this world. It is the way it is, so you have to be alone or with other people that know the truth to live without the mind. Thus, it will get easier to live clear of mind in this world as more people learn the truth. Your mind and other minds will do everything to keep you out of the present and knock you off the path. Your job Is to just let the mind do It, watch It, and see it for what it is, and it will gradually get weaker. It will get easier to stay on path. Living with less evolved people: Imagine you were the only modem man in a world filled with cavemen. That is how a spiritual being feels living with mankind. The craziest people are running the asylum. Minds beget minds: Schools, family, work, social groups, religions and political parties are all minds creating other minds in their own image. Other minds are like an infectious disease; the closer you are to them, the more they infect your mind. It starts with the closest, most influential people around you, such as friends, family, and superiors at work or school. The truth stops violence: The truth makes people happy and secure. Only unhappy, insecure or fearful people fight. When the truth and life is revealed to everyone, everyone will be happy and secure, and this will stop all conflict. Spiritual beings could not win in the past, but the times are changing, and thanks to worldwide communication, spiritual people can win now. 32 www.truthcontest.com The collective unconscious: In the last few generations, we discovered two invisible forces: electricity and electromagnetic (radio) waves. No one believed they existed a few hundred years ago. In this generation, we are going to discover and confirm a new invisible force that I call the collective unconscious mind. It is the force of nature, or part of the force of nature, that gives us continuity from one life to another. Without it, there could be no evolution. The collective unconscious is not alive. It is just a part of our minds, an extension of our minds, not a separate life form. The collective unconscious is something like gravity that connects all of us. Religions call it the Holy Spirit. Every extension of knowledge arises from making the unconscious conscious. Friedrich Nietzsche In other words, when you get your mind out of the way, you become conscious of what you were not conscious of before. You become conscious of something beyond the mind. You can make contact with the universal mind of life. The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it intuition or what you will, the solution comes to you and you don't know how or why. The truly valuable thing Is the intuition. Albert Einstein Inspiration: The word means "breath of God." It is where ideas, art, poetry, movies, philosophy, music, inventions, revelations and all new creative things come from. It manifests in many ways, such as talent, intuition and insight. Intuition: Intuition and inspiration come from the same place. They are both manifestations of the collective unconscious. When asked where they got the idea for something, creative people will say they were inspired, they dreamed it, it just came to them in a flash, etc. All new, creative things come from outside our own minds. By definition, they have to come from outside your mind to be truly new. Paul McCartney was once asked where his songs come from. He answered: "I don't know; they seem to come out of the air." When real music comes to me - the music of the spheres, the music that surpasses understanding - that has nothing to do with me, cause I'm just the channel. The only joy for me is for it to be given to me, and to transcribe it like a medium... those moments are what I live for. John Lennon 33 www.truthcontest.com The evidence: There has to be an outside influence, because ideas can come to many people at about the same time. Example: Language developed at about the same time everywhere on the planet. Religions from different times and places have many things in common. Inventions and styles of music and art come to people at about the same time. It is not just a coincidence. You can know that all great or inspired music comes from the collective unconscious, because if it did not, the musicians that wrote the classic songs in the past would still be writing classic songs now. A few are, but most are not. Great inspirations come when they come, and when they quit coming, there is no way for the musicians to do it on their own. How well you play has nothing to do with it. The older musicians get, the better they get on their instruments, but they often have their great songs when they were young and could not play as well. It is the same with bool<s, art and inventions; every once in a great while, you get a Newton, a Beethoven, an Edison or an Einstein. These people were just more connected to the collective unconscious, thus they received more inspirations. My brain is only a receiver, in tlie Universe tliere is a core from wliicli we obtain [knowledge, strengtli and inspiration. I liave not penetrated into the secrets of this core, but I know that it exists. Nikola Tesia Mozart, TesIa, and Einstein were just more inspired than most people. Einstein had all his great ideas in one year when he was a patent clerk in his twenties. He called it his magic year; it was a year of great inspirations. He spent the rest of his life working on those ideas and did not have any more great inspirations. His life makes it clear that great ideas come in inspirations. This power of inspiration comes and goes. Italians are not Romans. Greeks are not as inspired as they were when Socrates and Plato lived. If you study history, you can literally see the inspiration moving around through different people at different times and places. It comes and goes, and a person's or people's power and greatness comes and goes with it. Inspiration can come and stay if you learn the truth and life. Connected: Being connected mentally by gravity and/or the earth's magnetic field or something like it is not so far-fetched; our minds are just bioelectrical activity in our brains. Gravity and electromagnetic fields are passing through our brains at all times. It would be more surprising if they did not affect us. Gravity is connected to everything in the infinite universe, and in much the same way, our minds are connected, more or less, on a subconscious level to all living things. 34 www.truthcontest.com All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. Albert Einstein How I see life: In my books, you will see that I interpret things (movies, music, the Bible, etc.) from my own unique perspective. It is often different than the author's interpretation. I see everything as coming from what I call the collective unconscious mind. Religions call it the Holy Spirit. I see two distinct categories; the animal mind and spiritual mind (divine mind). All conscious living life forms (people and animals) get their bodies and life from one of the two categories, or a combination of both. These minds permeate all of reality like radio waves, but are not energy as we know it. Humans and animals are tuned into these waves like a radio receiver. All animals except humans and their pets are tuned to just the animal mind. Humans, dogs and cats are getting a combination of the two. Some are more animal than spiritual, and some have more spiritual than animal. Every human is on a different combination. People that can see the truth of life can tune into enough of the spiritual channels to connect with the mind of God (that which creates the universe). Once you make this connection, you leave the animal realm mentally, and will leave it physically when you die and are reborn. That is the goal. Not perfect: This book is not perfect. Anyone that can see the truth would not expect it to be. The reason is because the information coming from the collective unconscious has to pass through my imperfect animal mind. That said, it is the clearest, most accurate and complete explanation of the truth of life on earth. It has been at the top of the Truth Contest for more than five years. It will remain in the top position until something better is submitted to the contest. This book is constantly being improved and updated, so it should be re-read often. Repetition is necessary for it to go into your subconscious and change your mind and your life. As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To mal^e a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental patii, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives. Henry David Thoreau Repetition: It is better to read this book over and over than to read other books that are not as accurate and complete. Reading other books just sidetracks people from the best path. You should also copy this book to your hard drive from time to time, just in case the forces of deception remove it from the Internet. See www.truthcontest.com for download links. 35 www.truthcontest.com Chapter 3 Big Picture of Life - Past and Future Just as there are two types of truth, the type you experience, and the type you know with your mind, there are two big pictures of life. The preceding pages revealed the big picture of life experienced in the present. The following reveals the big picture of your immortal life, your past and future. If you die as an animal, you are reborn as an animal. If you die as a spiritual being, you are reborn as a spiritual being, so it is important to become one. There is no judge or judgment when you die; you will go where life forms like you go. If you live as an animal, you will be an animal in the next life. If you live as a spiritual being, you will continue to be one in your next life. As John Lennon said, "It is like getting out of one car and into another." Ghosts: Spirits do not live without a physical body of one kind or another. Ghosts or disembodied spirits that talk to people and haunt houses don't exist. If there were ghosts where people die, all hospitals would be haunted. The cycle of the mind: We know it can take about three and a half billion years to evolve from plant bacteria to mankind, but we did not take that whole trip. Plant life is not conscious life; only animal life is, so we got on the evolutionary ladder when animal life evolved about seven-hundred million years ago. Plant life does not have consciousness or a mind like animal life does. Cambrian explosion: When life became conscious, evolution really started moving fast. Consciousness hooked up evolution more directly to the collective unconscious, which greatly accelerated evolution. If you look at the fossil evidence, you will see that about half a billion years ago, evolution exploded on earth. Life started evolving very fast when the weather permitted it to. It did this as a direct result of consciousness in combination with the right environment. Come together: Where we are now has a lot in common with the Cambrian explosion a half a billion years ago. Then, we went from single cell animals to multiple cell animals. We had to in order to survive the future changes on the planet. Single cells came together for the benefit of all, and we are doing it again. 36 www.truthcontest.com Without the truth, it is every man for himself. With the truth, it is one for all, and all for one. The truth and communication technology are connecting us. Human beings are like big, single cell animals. We are not directly connected to each other, but we are in the process of connecting directly with the universal truth and advanced communication technology in order to take the next step in our evolution. We will connect spiritually when the truth is realized by the human race. The connection: The ultimate truth will connect us, and the human race will become like one big organism. It will make the survival of the human race possible, and it transforms us into spiritual beings as individuals. Currently, we are at the top of the evolutionary cycle of this world. There is nowhere to go except to the bottom and start over, come back as a human again, or evolve into a spiritual being. There are only three ways to go. Always getting better: Many people think that life will always get better, that we are always evolving more and more. It is just wishful thinking. The evidence does not support that. Our physical life cycle shows that you physically progress until about age twenty, and then you physically start going downhill, so things do not always get better and better, do they? They only do if you know the truth. The evidence shows that everything is going in a circle, a cycle. You will have to go to the end of the line, or it would not be fair to other animals in the evolutionary line. Evolution, linear or cyclical: All animals are doing the same thing; evolving. The big question is, is it linear or cyclical? If it is linear, we are way ahead of all other animal life on earth. If it is cyclical, we are ahead and behind, because we are ahead now, at the top of the cycle, but start over at the bottom when we die. We have to assume it is a cycle, because everything else in the universe is in a cycle. We have to do what has the best chance of leaving the animal cycle for a better realm. A better realm is possible, one where you do not eat each other and there is no pain, fear, and death. Some religions call it heaven. They say the truth, learning it and spreading it, is the way. Science and common sense say the same thing, so learning and spreading the truth of life is the way to go. 37 www.truthcontest.com The truth dictates that there are only three ways to go when you die. The best of the three options would be to move on while moving on is possible. If you start over at the bottom of the evolutionary cycle, you would have to live in the animal world, the world of fang and claw, for millions of life spans before you get back in this position again. Who wants to do it again? We have done it at least once; why do it again? You can only leave the animal cycle and become a spiritual being when you are in our very rare position at the top. If you realize your true nature and begin to live the life of a spiritual being, you will not go to any animal level again. Use it or lose It: The only real difference between mankind and all other animals is our ability to reason and think. Thus, our minds have to be what we have to use to evolve further. We have to use what we evolved that separated us from all other animals to actually separate us forever from the animal realm. We have to use the last step we took to take the next step. Our only job is to become more than we are while we can. If we do not use our ability to know the truth of life, we may lose it, and we may have to go to the end of the line. Ultimate purpose: Since we are the only animal with a rational mind, we must use it for its ultimate purpose. We are the only animal that can learn and understand the world we live in. No other animal even knows it is going to die. There can only be one purpose for mankind, and that is to transcend mankind, evolve past mankind, and in doing, evolve past the animal world. If you die living just as ignorant of a life as an animal, you cannot be anything more in the next life. You have to change yourself. You have to become more than just a smart animal while you can. How can anything or anyone else do it for you? Even people who are living a good, moral life are still animals; they are just well behaved animals. Criminals are the obvious animals, but at least they are being honest to their true nature. They are just acting like an animal acts. 38 www.truthcontest.com Criminals: Criminals live like animals. Tine worst is the serial killer, a recent and alarming development in our society. Serial killers are actually doing wliat comes natural to animals. All predatory animals live like serial killers, are serial killers. Costs everytliing: It is the natural way all lower animals live and always have lived. The predator/prey relationship is the animal world. So people, a lot of people, are going back to their animal-self, because they see no other good way to go, no reason not to do it. Religion is foolish in its current form; people do not believe it, even if they say they do, so it is not a powerful enough incentive to be moral and keep people from doing bad things to other people. Money/wealth does not bring fulfillment, so some people figure, why not have some animal satisfaction? They are going back to animal behavior that actually does fulfill them for a short while, but it costs tliem everytliing. Only the truth can give people a real concrete reason to be moral. It also gives them more than animal fulfillment, so they will rise above the animal. There is a lot of animal satisfaction in violent and predatory animal behavior, and that is why some people do it. The question they need to ask themselves is: is it worth the price? Everyone, even good people, have to ask that question. 39 www.truthcontest.com The vents pictured on the previous page are where the first life on earth is found, the actual bottom of our evolutionary cycle. Until just recently, we did not know that any life could live in super-heated water miles down at the bottom of the ocean. The food chain starts down there with bacteria that feed on sulfur (hydrogen sulfide) that comes out of volcanic vents in the ocean floor. Scientists just discovered that this bacterium was the very first animal life on earth, the start of the animal evolutionary cycle. These vents are called black smokers, because they spew black, sulfur- filled, super-heated water. A few feet from the vents, the water is freezing cold. It is totally dark, as black as ink; no light reaches that depth of water. You have made your way from worm to man, and much in you is still worm. Friedrich Nietzsche Giant tubeworms: Giant, blood-red tubeworms eat the bacteria that live around the volcanic vents. The bacteria actually live in the worm's gut, in the belly of the beast, in a symbiotic relationship with the worm. 40 www.truthcontest.com The blood-red tubeworms pictured on the previous page grow up to nine feet long, and can be over two hundred years old. These animals live in total darl<ness, miles beneath the surface of the ocean. At the bottom of our evolutionary ladder is a form of bacteria that actually lives in the worm's stomach. There are more bacteria living in their stomachs than there are human beings on the earth. This is a fact. Living in the gut of a nine-foot worm, miles down at the bottom of the pitch blacl<, freezing cold ocean next to scalding hot vents is the bottom of the food chain. If you return to the bottom of the food chain, that is where you go. You will be eaten alive by other animals millions of times before you evolve into a human being again. We already did it; we had to do it to get to where we are now. The stakes could not be higher. If you miss this chance, you face millions of years and millions of fights to the death to claw your way back up the food chain. We just got out of the food chain ten thousand years ago. Going back into it is the biggest mistake possible; that is exactly where mankind is heading. Never forget what we had to go through to get to where we are now. We lived for millions of years in a savage world. People need to remember where they came from to know and appreciate how lucky they are to be where they are now, and how easy it would be to go back where we came from. Just a few minutes. Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. You have to know the situation to take advantage of it. What separates us from the beast is that we can know the situation. We can know it and leave it. We also have to remember the truth after we know it. The problem is that most people forget that their true purpose is to escape the animal realm. People get caught up in their everyday lives and forget. To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity. Friedrich Nietzsche 41 www.truthcontest.com Farthest from the light: Those bacteria are farthest from the light and the farthest from spiritual life, both in distance and time. The way a bacteria feels is balanced lil<e all animal life, so being one is not any better or worse than being any other animal life form. What makes it the worst thing to be is that you are the farthest away from where we are now. Those bacteria are at least seven-hundred million years away. That makes it the worst place on earth. Someone has to be bacteria, a lot of some ones. There are more bacteria than there are human beings, a lot more. Why are they where they are, and why are you where you are? What did they do to get where they are? What did we do to get wliere we are? We did not do anything, and they did not do anything. We are both just animal life forms in different places on the evolutionary cycle on earth. A life form can really only do one thing that matters, and that is to learn the truth and the life and become a spiritual being. You can only do it where we are now. Life clock: If the time life evolved on earth was reduced to a twenty-four hour day, human beings evolved just two seconds from the end of the day. We take being human for granted. How can we do that with what we know now? What evolution means: It means we crawled on this earth for a lot longer than we have walked on it. We were on the exact same earth we are on now. We looked up at the same sky and saw the same moon, sun, and stars. The only difference is, we were living in a different type of body. We evolved from them, so the odds are we were them. If we were not them, who was? It had to be us. True or false? Just as you are looking out of human eyes now, you looked out of the eyes of a dinosaur. Life looked the same. The only difference is that you are looking from a different body. You should imagine what living in other bodies was like. When the dinosaurs went extinct, we went extinct as dinosaurs. Get it? Soul migration: Just as energy cannot be created or destroyed, it is the same with life. When one life form or species goes extinct, another fills the void, and the soul (you) goes from body to body, species to species, reptile to mammal, etc. 42 www.truthcontest.com As John Lennon said; death is like getting out of one car and into another. When one model becomes obsolete, it is replaced with a different, better model. Life does the same thing. Just as cars have evolved from the model "T" to the models of today, animal life evolved from bacteria to humans, and the drivers (us) remained the same. After the initial conscious life (souls) came to earth as bacteria, the evidence says all animal life, including us, evolved from them, but the initial souls had to come from somewhere besides earth. Most people do not see that there is absolute proof that souls migrated from someplace other than earth. Four and a half billion years ago, there was no life on earth, so all life had to come from somewhere else. Soul migration is saying that reincarnation is true. The alternative, the you only live once theory, makes no sense. It would mean that if you were a maggot, or a rat, you got to live as only a maggot, rat, or one of the trillions of other types of life forms one time, and that was it for all of eternity. Big realization: When you read books and watch TV programs about evolution, they always talk about the animals as if we were not them. In the near future, people are going to make the connection and begin to see what the evidence is really saying. Acknowledging our true past is the next big step for mankind. The real missing link: When we link ourselves to our true past, mankind will start transforming into spiritual beings in the evolutionary blink of an eye. Most people cannot fathom just how long we lived as savage animals, and they need to in order to realize how new being in a human body is for us. A billion is a big number: If you started counting non-stop, day and night, seven days a week, and said a new number every second, it would take almost thirty two years for you to count to a billion. Animal life has been on earth almost a billion years. If you put those seconds into years, you get an idea of how long we have been on earth as some other form of life. Someone had to be those animals, and since we evolved directly from them, it had to be us. Nothing else would make sense, would it? We cannot remember any of our past lives, because when one of our bodies dies, our minds and memohes die with them, but now we know, and it will change us. The truth sets you free: We may not remember we lived before, but we now know we did, and we must act on that knowledge if we do not want to go through the evolutionary cycle again. The truth sets you free from the animal cycle. 43 www.truthcontest.com Time machine: If you could get in a time machine and go back in time at the rate of a hundred years per second, you would only be mankind for about two minutes, and in a human body for about twenty minutes. For the next thirteen point eight (13.8) hours, you would be in the body of apes and monkeys. After you go back about seven and a half days, at a hundred years per second, you would be in the body of a dinosaur. For the rest of the next twenty five years, going back at the rate of one hundred years per second, you would be in an animal body that is below the dinosaur level. Most of the time, you would be living in the ocean, mostly as a form of bacteria and other microbes. The rock at the top of Mount Everest is marine limestone created by the shells of trillions of creatures that died at the bottom of the ocean. We were there when that rock formed. Some of those shells could be our shells. That rock moved from the bottom of the ocean to the top of the highest mountain at about one inch per year. We have been evolving during that same time into mankind. All we were was food in the food chain until just recently. You have been eaten alive millions of times by every species of predator that ever lived. Sharks have been on earth for over four-hundred and fifty million years, longer than any other vertebrate. Humans have only been here two- hundred thousand years, and mankind just ten thousand years. Fifteen million years ago, the king of all sharks lived, and it had the most powerful bite of any animal. It was called a Megalodon, and was the size of a bus. It lived in all the world's oceans for millions of years longer than humans have been here. They were the top predator, just as we are now. We lived in that world. We were them and their prey, mostly whales. Our spirit went from predator to prey and back again for millions of years. Our spirit bounced back and forth from predator to prey and species to species as we evolved. Those dinosaur bones we are always digging up were part of someone's body that lived a long time ago. It is no different than digging up the skeleton of a human that lived long ago. Bones are proof of a living being that lived before. A million years from now, someone could dig up the bones that are in our bodies now. Would people understand that they belonged to someone that really lived? Would they understand that they could have been them? Would they realize that they could be digging up their own bones from another life they lived? 44 www.truthcontest.com 100% of the evidence says it's true; tiiere is no evidence of anytiiing else. We have thousands of museums of natural history filled with the hard evidence of our evolution, and there is no hard evidence that anything else happened. Rational mind: A rational mind is the only thing that separates us from the lower animals. If we do not use it, we are not using what makes us special and superior to other animals. We are giving up what makes us different from other animals. If you do not use the rational mind, you are not using the one thing you need to use to learn the truth and take the next step in evolution. Reason is what we gained in our last step in evolution. It is what makes us mankind. We now have to use it to take the next step and become spiritual beings. Use it or lose it. When literally all of the evidence says evolution is true, and there is zero percent hard evidence for anything else, a rational, honest person has to accept the fact that we came from lower animals. It is what a rational mind would conclude. If you do not have a rational mind, that is what is not right, not evolution. The evidence is sacred: Evidence is the most sacred thing that there is, because it reveals the truth. The truth reveals true life and sets you free. The evidence: The bones are found on our planet in the dirt we now walk on, and we know their age for certain. Their ages fit perfectly with how long it would take to evolve from them to us. Everything adds up perfectly. The bones are from animals that are in our direct genetic line. We are genetically less than one percent different from chimpanzees, and we are connected genetically to all the animal life that ever lived on this planet. Dinosaurs had two eyes, a brain, backbones, a heart, lungs, a stomach, blood, a mouth, a nose, two ears, and four limbs. They have the same basics we have now as humans. They slept, ate, mated, and were born and died, just as we do now. The evidence says that we were once them, that we evolved from them. There is no evidence that we came from somewhere else. Thus, we have to conclude it is true until there is better evidence to show we came from somewhere else. Everything in this book just says what the evidence says, nothing else. 45 www.truthcontest.com There will never be any other evidence, because it would have to say the bones were planted just to fool us, and that makes no sense at all. We all know what the truth is; we are just in denial. The truth is the truth, and nothing is more important. We know we walked the earth in the bodies of dinosaurs for eight- hundred times longer than we have been in human bodies. This is the first book about physical and spiritual truth based on evidence. There are many books about what is true, but this is the first one that just says what the evidence says is t