To be in rapport with truth, one must (obviously) be parallel to the nature and dimension of truth.  Profound (not relative) truth may not at all be something that is merely acquired… like some kind of result (by way of a process), like some type of petty thing that comes about (by way of accumulation or calculated endeavor).  The immensity of profound truth is not of the realm of standard and ordinary results.  So, in a very real way, this negates a lot of what people do (in terms of ordinary meditation and orthodox religion… all of which provide you with concrete ways to come upon truth).

A very serious, truly intelligent person (unlike the indifferent masses who are caught and lost in rather superficial details) is extremely interested in the profound truth.  If that interest is a deep passion to find out without merely depending on others, then that passion may be beyond mere accumulation and calculated endeavor.   The others depend on people of “authority” to tell them what to do, how to behave, what and how to think, etc.  However, an individual with that rare passion (that does not depend) is truly standing alone.  (“Individual” means single and not dependent.)  An individual who does not merely depend upon the symbols, images, and patterns that others provide regarding truth… may be truly standing alone.  

You know, when I was a follower, going along with the crowd regarding orthodox traditions and all that popular stuff… nothing happened.  Nothing truly miraculous occurred whatsoever.  It was only after one had gone beyond all the bourgeois orthodoxy, beyond all the popular cults, beyond all the gurus, experts, and specialists, that something very special, immense, enlightening, and extraordinary happened.  Of course, people can say, “Well this bloke is merely deluding himself, imagining something or fantasizing about something profound.”  There exists palpable proof consisting of reflections (over the years) of the actuality of this; but people need to go in depth and discover it for themselves.  People each need to take the initiative and examine deeply for themselves; if they don’t do it (with tremendous passion) there is plenty of the ordinary for them to mundanely continue to experience (and remain as). 

Most of us do not realize the depth of the accumulations that we have psychologically absorbed from others (who, themselves, absorbed from previous others).  With this stockpile from the antiquated past, we look; and what we perceive is circumscribed by the extreme limitations of symbols, patterns, images, and fragmentary, archaic concepts.  (One has stated this time and time again.)  To be truly independent calls for going far deeper than merely going beyond outside authority… because the processes and ways of outside authority are in (and constitute) what you actually are.  (Our “inside authority” is an extension of — and it is — the outside authority.)  Our very concepts of self and of time are composed of crass, primitive patterns stemming from the musty past.  (When you look through the lens of the musty past, what you see will be very distorted.)  Only in the unconditioned intelligence of standing alone does the deepest magic truly manifest.  This standing alone does not merely seek a result; it does not merely attempt to catch truth in its web designed for contrived results to acquire; there may then be (within it) intrinsic beauty that is not merely acquired through calculation.

Halloween Arachnid. Photo by Thomas Peace c. 2015