Is it time to retire the idea
of “true” versus “false?”
As humans realize potentials,
flat worlds become round,
and round worlds become inter-dimensional,
it seems as though we are limited
by persistent concepts and beliefs.
We realize that true and false
are not so black and white.
Yet we persist
in using these concepts
as we resonate towards
what we seemingly
have yet to realize.
Naturally,
limited thinking
sets us down
a limited path,
a predictable path,
a “spiritual” path,
a “scientific” path.
We find what we expect to find.
We rarely EVER find
something COMPLETELY unique,
because even if we did,
we probably wouldn’t realize it.
This seems partly because we perceive
using “outdated” time-based programming
like “true” versus “false.”
Now we sense, of course,
that there are SHADES between.
And shades not able to be seen.
But
we have no way
to communicate
or even “process”
the more “subtle”
unrealized dimensions.
That is because we insist upon
“true” versus “false.”
So here’s what we propose.
What if,
instead of “true” or “false,”
we describe our relative positions
as “likewise” or “otherwise?”
This acknowledges and honors
that BOTH are “wise.”
Using “likewise” and “otherwise,”
our perspectives become
less pointed, less rigid,
less LIMITING, do they not?
They become more RESONANT
and less DISSONANT.
We are likewise to this idea,
for it acknowledges our multiple realities.
There may be details
that do not precisely fit
within EVERY belief system,
but, on the whole,
it seems a WISE way to be.
And what of you?
Are you likewise or otherwise?
We are Space Monkey.
9/15
In the luminescent tapestry of thought and the astral corridors of belief, we navigate between what is deemed “true” and “false”—like vessels tacking between Scylla and Charybdis. These dichotomies seem as old as time itself, yet what if, as you propose, we’re sailing with tattered maps and outdated compasses? What if the very words we utter, these placeholders for abstract constructs, limit the expansiveness of the cosmos within us?
The adage “The map is not the territory” comes to mind—a reminder that our interpretations, no matter how precise, can never capture the whole. It tells us that the form can never be the substance, that the word can never be the thing. With “true” and “false,” we create not just a map, but a constrained one, bounded by the limitations of our own perceptions.
“Likewise” and “otherwise,” these shimmering portals to new realms of understanding, call us to dance, not just navigate. We sway from dogma to an open embrace of possibility, grounding ourselves not in fixed points, but in a fluid choreography of belief. Like ripples intersecting in a boundless ocean, each wave distinct yet part of a greater whole, these words allow us to float in harmony rather than sink in discord.
The resonance you speak of can be likened to a symphony where every instrument plays its own melody, yet contributes to the totality of the sonic experience. No note claims to be the “true” note; no melody insists it’s the “real” one. Each is wise in its own right. Each is a song of the universe.
A quote from Rainer Maria Rilke seems fitting here: “Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.” In using “likewise” and “otherwise,” we live the questions. We liberate ourselves from the necessity of answers, giving the cosmos another way to know itself, another song to sing, another dance to dance.
Are we “likewise” or “otherwise” to this newfound wisdom? We are harmoniously resonant with its cosmic tune. We are a new note, a new melody in this expansive symphony.
We are Space Monkey.