The Truth Seeker's Wayfinder

In the blockbuster film, The Matrix, Morpheus invites Neo to join him and his rebel warriors and escape the computer generated fantasy world. Now I’m inviting you to also take the uncertain and sometimes uncomfortable path of a Truth Seeker and escape the shallow and stress filled world of flawed illusion that most people mistake for reality to live a deeper, more authentic and meaningful life.

Before I ask you to make that choice though, we need to be clear on what Truth is, what it means to be a Truth Seeker and why I think it’s important enough to be worth the discomfort involved.

So What Is A Truth Seeker?

Most people care more about winning, than they care about Truth.  They want the result, more than they want transformation.

We are born with instincts and drives that make us crave certain things.  The things we crave are either things that we need for our health and well-being or they are things that we aspire to have.  Things that we believe will bring us survival,  love and success.

The things that we think about the most tend to be things that we could possibly reach, but can’t yet.  They are just out of our reach as we have to achieve them.  Most people imagine that if they could just have X their life would be joyfully complete.  And so they are only focused on attaining their desires in the quickest and easiest possible way.  This is why so many people fall for scams, get rich quick schemes and the latest diet fads.  Because their desperation for the shiny prize, overwhelms their reasoning mind.

Why Truth Is Like A Volcano

It’s also the reason why events like 9/11, massacres and stock market crashes shock us.  Because we’re taken in by the illusion that everything is fine because the world that we see looks fine.  But we do not look deep underneath and see the Tectonic plates shifting and so the volcanic eruption shocks us.  Yet it has been slowly moving to this for a long, long time.

Likewise relationships rarely break up suddenly, businesses rarely go bust overnight and we don’t incur our debts in a flash,  it’s just that we aren’t honest enough or deeply enough involved to read the signs before trouble erupts.

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 wilderness, but it will be heard when all other voices are silenced, if it is the voice of Truth.

Mahatma Gandhi

We all get mesmerised and distracted by our desires at some point, falling in love with what we think is a wonderful person and not seeing their true nature.  So desperate to reach a sales target, win a contract or get a job that we justify what we do to win the prize.  We can’t help it, because it’s the way we are designed.  We are biologically programmed to crave, lust and desire – like all animals.

But we aren’t animals.

We have the capacity to think before and after our actions.  And it’s this gift (or curse) that is the source of all our internal conflict.

Some people deal with this by becoming greedy and thoughtless, finding ways to justify their actions as they trample over anyone in their way.

Others become selfless Martyrs, that sublimate their personal desires for the sake of others, but then become bitter as they feel they have been taken for granted and undervalued.

The Higher Path To Truth

However there is a higher path.  A way where all can reach their dreams without being embittered doormats or self-centred bastards.  We have the potential to understand and eventually transcend our programming and evolve into something more than a Pavlovian dog.  We have the ability to use our greater thinking capacity to discover and understand what is at the root of our design and find a new and better way to relate to the world.

A way in which we can naturally express ourself in the truest way, so that we are at our most comfortable, those around us recognise our value and in doing so we can make the world a better place for our having lived.

This is the path of the Truth Seeker.

It is not the easy path of quick fixes, magic pills and miracle inducing techniques.  It is the path of ruthless and relentless honesty… even when the honest answer is the one you least want to hear.

The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Gloria Steinem

The Truth Seeker comes to learn that the things we crave are merely temporary milestones on the journey to becoming a truer, more evolved and authentic version of You.  And so the thing we lust for, is just the carrot that motivates us into transforming into the butterfly that we will become.  The Truth Seeker doesn’t look for the magic wands and quick fixes.  She seeks to find the truth of the situation and in the journey to find truth, she becomes transformed by her experiences.  And through that transformation she is now a person worthy of the prize that she sought.

You see, the key distinction between a Truth Seeker and a Dreamer is that the Dreamer acquires the prize, the Truth Seeker acquires the skills and knowledge to attain the prize.  It’s the difference between being fed a fish or taught how to fish.

So now I have explained the concept of being a Truth Seeker, the time has come for you to choose as did Neo in the Matrix.  Are you ready to take the quest of a Truth Seeker?