Addison: Yes, it is much more difficult to do than it is to say. However, if one takes the first steps in the process and as one makes progress with the steps, one will see "forward" movement and that in itself can serve as a wonderful incentive to carry on.

Catharsis: It seems to me that there are too many obstacles and diversions for one to even begin to discover what steps are necessary to make, let alone do them!

Addison: That is where the words of others who have made the necessary steps come in. There are authors and poets who have written sound advice and given clues on this very thing, myself included. Of course words written in ancient texts can be useful as well. However, one still has to wade through sometimes archaic, misinterpreted, misperceived, misunderstood, misplaced, and inaccurate words. That is why one needs to develop what Truth feels like to oneself. It may take a while to filter out things to get to this feeling of Truth, such as one’s own ego. When you learn what Truth feels like to you within your present understanding, it will serve as a good guide to help keep you on track to understanding this Truth in greater depth and detail.

Catharsis: Why can’t I just pull out the encyclopedia to discover this Truth you mention?

Addison: Encyclopedias can be a wonderful time-saving tool for looking up facts. A fact is a piece of information presented as having objective reality. In other words, a fact represents something that has actual existence.

Catharsis: Then anyone can look into an encyclopedia, pick a topic, and have the truth about anything that is covered. What a wonderful time-saving tool. However, if everyone can do this then why is there so much confrontation, conflict, argument, and war taking place on Earth?

Addison: That is the trouble with facts. One person’s fact can be another person’s fallacy. Facts are only good as long as they hold true.

Catharsis: I thought you said facts were representative of actual existence! It seems to me that if facts keep on changing then they are not Truth.

Addison: One has to keep in mind that facts change because perceptions of the objective reality they represent change for the user perceiving them. Facts in an encyclopedia are a collective agreement on what the latest perception is. In other words, they are acceptable to those in authority describing the facts. However, an encyclopedia in one country may differ in its facts than one in another country. Perhaps there are encyclopedias even in the same country differing on many points of perception.

Catharsis: This sounds way too chaotic. Why can’t we just have one encyclopedia set with the latest facts listed in it?

Addison: Science strives to have a set of facts that are universal about the objective reality that scientists observe and that are repeatable by anyone using the same techniques to observe as well. However, many people choose not to agree with scientific observations and use their own oftentimes nonscientific standards as their guide for what is real or not. These latter people choose to not accept what the scientists say.

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