{"id":2602,"date":"2012-04-23T09:54:08","date_gmt":"2012-04-23T13:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=2602"},"modified":"2012-04-23T09:54:08","modified_gmt":"2012-04-23T13:54:08","slug":"thoughts-about-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=2602","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts about Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been sitting here puzzling over the nature of \u201ctruth.\u201d\u00a0 Someone who was at my presentation last night started talking about people living long ago being warlike.\u00a0 I asked \u201cHow do you know?\u201d and he couldn\u2019t really tell me.\u00a0 I find it fascinating that people can read something in a book, or hear someone say it, and take it for \u201ctruth.\u201d\u00a0 When I do that, it\u2019s because something resonates for me.\u00a0 I already have some ideas and this new notion fits in.\u00a0 If it doesn\u2019t fit, I usually think something like \u201cthat\u2019s an interesting story.\u201d\u00a0 When I first read Eugene Gendler\u2019s \u201cFocusing\u201d, I learned the technique of paying attention to my body to find the answers to personal questions.\u00a0 \u201cWho gave me that book? Was it Sue? No.\u00a0 Was it John? Yes!\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 How do you know it was John?\u00a0 Pay attention next time.\u00a0 (For me, in my body, it\u2019s a sensation of something socketing into place.)\u00a0 Martha Beck<\/a> has another body-centered technique you can use to make a choice (or to find what your deep self had already decided.)\u00a0 She calls it \u201cshackles on\u201d, and \u201cshackles off.\u201d\u00a0 Doing Somatic Experiencing is another technique that can add a lot of detail to the felt sense.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s all well and good for personal truths.\u00a0 What about bigger truths, scientific truths, or religious truth?<\/p>\n

I had a thought about \u201ctruth\u201d, about learning \u201ctruth\u201d from experience, rather than from reading or \u201cfiguring it out.\u201d\u00a0 It\u2019s a bit like there is no \u201ccorrect\u201d version of a folk dance, there is only the version that this group of people do at this time, in this place.\u00a0 On the other hand, there are versions that are more \u201ctrue\u201d to the way this dance has been done in other times and places.\u00a0 This makes \u201ctruth\u201d more like a line of flow that you are more or less in alignment with.\u00a0 On the other hand, if I pay attention to my body it will tell me whether something is \u201cright\u201d or \u201cwrong\u201d for me.<\/p>\n

Is there a \u201ctruth\u201d that holds true throughout all time and space?\u00a0 I doubt it.\u00a0 On the other hand, I can read something like the values of hunter-gatherers, and feel a resonance inside me \u2014 yes, this is the way human beings were designed to live.<\/p>\n

Niels Bohr, one of the great names in quantum physics, said “The opposite of a fact is a falsehood, the opposite of a profound truth is often another profound truth.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been sitting here puzzling over the nature of \u201ctruth.\u201d\u00a0 Someone who was at my presentation last night started talking about people living long ago being warlike.\u00a0 I asked \u201cHow do you know?\u201d and he couldn\u2019t really tell me.\u00a0 I … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","category-present-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}