Discerning Truth

We are Boarders on a small planet, nourished by a small star, in a small solar system, in a vast universe. Together, we are all we have. All our hopes, all our dreams, our survival, and our salvation—rests in our hands.

To develop beyond the infancy of our nature and reach our full potential as human beings, we must direct our efforts toward overcoming the fear and divisiveness our beliefs have instilled, and evolve beyond the gods we know.

No nation, in the history of humankind, has long-survived the erosion of civil discourse and the loss of confidence in the integrity and credibility of its legislative institutions. Ours will not be the exception.

Now is the time to decide. Whether it is nobler to come to the aid of our constitution, or to be silent, and let it die a cruel death on a partisan senate floor!

The Divine Law is an inherent aspect of our earliest understanding that God’s Divine Essence guides us to love and help one another. And that our fundamental differences, are natural to our existence, and do not define us, as enemies.

When we allow our leaders to divide us along any lines, whether racial, ethnic, cultural, or religious, we are allowing them to maintain and control us.

Adam explains the Divine Law's concept of God's Divine Essence.

God is talking to you. Do you recognize His voice? Adam Reviews the book, Quietation, Quietening the Mind: The Return to Yourself. A new book by Derek Crockett, a long-time advisor, and contributor to the Discerning Truth podcast and the Beyond the Rituals community.

No matter the circumstances of our birth, wealthy, poor, middle class, or somewhere in between, we will come to a point where the condition of our lives will reflect the choices we have made. And it won't be what we believe that will have mattered, but what we have done!

For centuries, the world’s religions have taught us that God has a plan. And trained us to stand idle, and look outward to God, instead of looking inward to find solutions for ourselves.

The Divine Law teaches that for every decision and choice, there is a positive or adverse consequence. Although we are ultimately responsible for ourselves, the impact of our choices determines or affects not only the quality of our lives but the lives of others as well.

The podcast explains that at its core, the foundation of the Divine Law is the understanding that we must seek and accept the truth of the reality in which we live, no matter where I find it. No matter its bearer. No matter its bearer’s agenda.

We seem to have entered an age of being unreasonable. A time when our support of a person or an issue is paramount, and the truth and being honest about that person or issue, no longer matters.

Life, as many religions would have us to believe, is not a test to determine where we will spend eternity. It is the reality we live every day, in this here, and this now.

A nation that does not attend to the health, welfare, and needs of its children, or does not protect them from harm, is a nation whose future existence, is in jeopardy!

America is like a ship with a divided crew and a captain who benefits from their division, aimlessly sailing into an uncertain future. A nation in crisis!

Until the god of a religion gives us testable and provable evidence of itself and openly reveals itself to us, we should not allow religious beliefs to curtail the rights of other people, and that which, is the best interest of us all.

If the behavior of humankind is the measure of the success of the world’s religions, then their teachings, have not been effective. If the gods that represent them are omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent, these gods have not used their powers to convince us to conduct ourselves in a manner such power should demand.

God is personal. We cannot convey from one to another the truth, depth, or understanding of our experience of Him. His significance resides within. For those who have experienced His presence, God’s existence is conscientiously undeniable. And proof of His existence is wholly unnecessary.

We experience together, only one reality. The reality in which we live! It is where we are born, where we live, and where we die. It is all we have; and has become, what we have made of it.

The Divine Law holds that Good and Evil are not separate entities, but opposing aspects of a single identity. Duality! Like the two sides of a coin, one does not exist, without the presence of the other.

Some religions teach that we should fear God. But fear of God is not of God, but of religion itself.