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Originally Posted by craig1120
How much value is there in truth seeking when you are in misalignment with ultimate reality?
Would you agree that the alignment problem between the human individual and ultimate reality is foundational to truth seeking?
If so, would it then follow that denying or suppressing the feeling of being misaligned is a death sentence to truth seeking?
1. Ultimate reality is not found in a magic story from superstitious cultures thousands of years ago. Hello.
2. There is no alignment problem from not presupposing such magic as true (the only way to defend its "truth").
3. There is such a thing as archetypal stories ... thousands of them.
4. There are no truth seekers ... most especially those that claim it for themselves. Any realistic view of this for someone on the path is acknowledging how averse, avoidant, denying and resisting we generally are to truth ... and thus manifest a great humility about our meager attempts to align with it, this instead of cliched claims about "being a truth seeker."
5. A feeling of misalignment and lostness is a prerequisite to being on the path, and a presupposed certainty about truth is the enemy of truth.