The Seeds of Simple Truth

The seeds of the simple truth have been planted during one man’s life. The examples given to us through His life and teachings provided us the seeds for mankind’s long-term survival on this little planet. No! This writing is not based strictly on the “Christian” religions. In fact, the first three chapters are devoted to looking at the influence we humans have in complicating the simple purpose of religion in all of our lives. We have, with our perceptions and often our illusions made-up our own rules that have blunted the simple messages of love and forgiveness that are the bases of the simple truth. The truth is that life just “ain’t” as hard as we make it.

It is the character of us humans to complicate almost anything we desire including religion. THAT INCLUDES THIS AUTHOR. The cure for this complication is to determine which is the REAL WORLD existing for our discovery, and the “world” we created through our individual and group perceptions and illusions.

The man being referred to here is identified by us as Jesus Christ. He most likely did not intend to have a multi-denominational religion named Christianity as the sole benefactors of His messages (John 10:16). His messages were for all members of the race we call “Human”. His life and teachings of “simple truth” offer to us the knowledge we need to survive as a peaceful human race worthy of existence in this magnificent universe.

We have been shown all we need to grow into a healthy, viable earth community. We either learn and grow with the simple truth of His messages, or lose our tickets to the Universe. It is simple as that. An honest review of the historical consequences, and often poor end results of our past and current behaviors, will show the need for His simple truth.

Generally, the discussions in the following text will cover for the reader’s consideration what little we know of our Universe, is there such a thing as beginnings and endings to the Universe, who are we really, and do humans have a dualistic existence (a composite of a body and a soul)? Other questions to consider are how important is human diversity, and does our conscience give us a purpose, and what negative or positive influence does our Ego play in how we act?

This writing is meant to encourage sincere introspection of our behavior and discusses what we really think we know, and how much we do not know. How much we do not know far exceeds what we think we know. Therefore, some hypotheses are included in this writing as “food for thought”.