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Truth

Updated: Jul 17, 2024

Today, I had a fascinating coaching conversation about Truth. What is Truth and what kinds of Truth are there?


Truth is what we believe to be true. That depends on our beliefs. It can get more complicated when we have more than one belief system: For example, we may be a scientist, but have deeply held religious beliefs too. Then our beliefs and our Truths may be at odds with each other. I do believe that the next phase of our evolution is where we can hold opposing beliefs in our minds all at once and still hold them both to be true. In his day, Albert Einstein, the most famous scientist of all time, said, “Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.” More recently, a Nature survey of American scientists found about 40 percent of them to be religious, and 80 percent to have spiritual beliefs.


What is Truth?


In my Master's degree on the History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine at Trinity College, Cambridge, I did my dissertation on Truth. So, what kinds of Truth are there, and what do they represent? There are: Timeless philosophical Truths; Scientific Truths; Spiritual Truths; and Religious Truths...


These are Truths found in philosophy that are universally true, regardless of their historical or geographical context. These Truths are reiterated throughout all the healing disciplines, whether it be philosophy, psychology, spirituality, or Transformative Life Coaching (TLC).


Every philosophical genius and spiritual Master in human history as far back as we can remember, through to those people who change the world today, including the Enlightened Witnesses amongst us, have told of these same Truths. For my article on Timeless philosophical Truths click here:



Scientific Truths

Scientific Truth is a scientific theory that has not yet been disproved. You cannot prove anything to be true in science; you can only disprove it. So Scientific Truths are not absolute. They are simply our best guess so far that has not yet been proven to be false. And that's a fact!


Truth is a feeling. You know it's true because you feel it. When it brings peace, joy, and love, you know that you are on to a Spiritual Truth. For my article on Spiritual Truth click here:



Truth is Universal. Absolute Truth can't be put into words: It's 'unknowable.' The Buddha said “Truths cannot be acquired from words out of other people's mouths. Before Truths can be internalised, they must come from one's own realisations and practices. Through a lifetime of personal practice, human beings are capable of revealing all of the secrets of the cosmic essence.” Arthur Schopenhauer, the brilliant German philosopher wrote "The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable." Plato wrote "Truth is the beginning of every good to the Gods, and of every good to man."


Winston Churchill said "Men occasionally stumble over the Truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened." Yet the Truth it is so simple. Galileo Gallilei wrote "All Truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them." Yet Truth cannot be hidden, as Buddha said "Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the Truth." Elvis Presley said "Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away."


As Henry David Thoreau said "It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see." Truth doesn't change. Truth is timeless. Truth just is. The problem is that most of us don't know how to access it. Truth is not affected by emotion, even though Truth must be felt. Emotion may initially cause some people to react like a child, rather than respond as their higher adult true Self.


Truth is a feeling that can't be expressed in words. Therefore, Truth can only be described through metaphor. It can only be approximated, until you feel it your Self: The only way to understand Truth is to experience it. This only happens in conversation between one Enlightened soul and another. Between an Enlightened Witness and another higher seeker of Truth. Truth is the 'Great remembering.' It is the desire to know who you are. At the Temple of Apollo in Delphi the inscription above the entrance is "Know Thyself." the one Truth is that you have forgotten who you are. It's not your fault. It's the human condition and we all have it. The fact that you have forgotten this is creating all the limiting beliefs in your life and is the only thing holding you back from being limitless and glorious: From owning your Real Personal Power. 


My purpose as a Transformative Life Coach (TLC) is to help you remember who you are. The way that I do this is that I will see you, hear you, value you, not judge you in any way and will create spce for you to remember your true Personal Power. You are a limitless being who is being limited by your limiting beliefs! Who would you be and what would you do if you deeply remembered this? We will expand your consciousness until you step into BEing.


As the brilliant poet and philosopher Khalil Gibran wrote "The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind." It's your choice whether you go in. In the iconic film 'The Matrix' Morpheus reminds Neo “I'm trying to free your mind, Neo. But I can only show you the door. You're the one that has to walk through it.”


In TLC I will guide you to finding your own wisdom and Truth, not mine. You will find that they are the same, in your own time. To find Truth do we need a soul? John Keats wrote “Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?” Truth doesn't come easy.


Truth is what the still quiet voice says to you during meditation.


Religious Truths

Although these may include Timeless philosophical Truths and Spiritual Truths, they may also contain dogma, as the result of the 'editing' that has been done to these Truths over time to suit those in a position of religious influence. So, for example, Jesus' words may be recorded as 'Biblical Truths' but there would have been many 'Chinese whispers', much influence, and much time elapsed between Jesus saying them, and them being recorded in the Bible.


Namaste.


Sending you love, light, and blessings brothers.


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I have a Bachelor's degree in Natural Sciences from Trinity College, Cambridge; a Master's Degree in Philosophy from Trinity College, Cambridge; a PhD Doctorate in Scientific Research from University College London (UCL); a Medical Degree (MD/MBBS) from The Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine, London and have been a doctor and reconstructive trauma and cancer surgeon in London for 20 years. I have published over 50 peer reviewed scientific journal articles, have been an associate editor and frequent scientific faculty member, and am the author of several scientific books. I have written over 200 free to access articles about transformation. I have been awarded my Diploma in Transformative Life Coaching in London, which has International Coaching Federation (ICF) Accreditation, as well as the UK Association for Coaching (AC), and the European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC). I have been on my own transformative journey full time for four years and I am ready to be your guide to you finding out who you really are and how the world works.


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