There is what we know, what we think we know, what we do not know and what we do not know we do not know.

What is Truth?

What do you know to be true?

What do you really know?

Who are you?

Life is a narrative told from within When we ask what knowledge is we must also ask what is truth.

We know that throughout time people have believed one thing to be true until they believed another. We know that the western world once believed that the earth was flat, the center of the universe and even within our own lives Pluto was a planet until it was not.

In medicine once we believed that to cure mental illness we only had to cut a hole in the skull of the afflicted individuals head so that the spirits could escape.

 In hindsight it is obvious why this approach killed many and saved none but clear vision now does not save those we have lost.

Throughout time our heroes, the people who have stood against the times with a divergent thought were persecuted and hated.

Copernicus (Galileos predecessor) was burned to death for asserting that the earth was not the center of the universe, Martin Luther king was assonated, Nelson Mandela was locked away for 27years, Lincoln was assonated, Aung san suu kyi was arrested for 15 years, Malala Yousasazi was shot, John & Ted Kennedy were assonated, even Jesus was crucified.

 All of those that fight against the status quote have been scared or whipped from the face of the earth. But what does this perpetual naivety say about us and where we are going if we continue on this path of intentional ignorance.

Truth is a collective figment of a populations imagination as far as time has told. The group sees some facet of the world and agrees with the knowledge that they have at the time. Then that belief governs their world and this is the danger.

All believed whole heartedly in these truths regardless of how faulty to the point of taking and surrendering their own lives.

When the earth was flat people lived in fear of sailing off of it. This was common sense. Because they believed it was true in their actions. Their flawed perspective kept them from progressing beyond their own knowledge.

Because church officials believed that the earth being any less than the center of the universe conflicted with our own understanding of the bible we burned a man to death for heresy.

We have all heard about the people who follow an occult into a mass suicide and judge them for their stupidity but we fail to acknowledge the ways in which we are similar.

Whether it is the story we hear on our favorite news channel or the ideas we believe are possible we have the choice every day to step out beyond our constructs of reality and live life more freely knowing that we do not know what we believe we know but instead choosing to realize we know not and can learn more.

Take nothing for what it seems there is a world of mystery in every morsel of existence.