Truth – A Common Medium Connecting Us All

By Jane Ilene Cohen, Ph.D.

(This is an excerpt from my new book called Your Life Is Designed to Work: A Psychological and Spiritual Guide. It has to do with the nature and importance of truth. It seems a timely subject in our current truth-challenged world.)

There is a common medium we all experience (but aren’t consciously aware of) that is the nonphysical equivalent to the air we breathe. It is all around us, like an interfacing. We are connected by it, like a common language, a common human experience. The very fact that we can communicate with each other is evidence of this common connecting experience. We assume this connecting experience but don’t really acknowledge it.

A basic aspect of this common medium is Truth.

Truth—The Foundation of Our Common Experience

Truth gives us fundamental stability in the real world.

Truth is what is really there, what actually exists. Being truthful means openly revealing your experience of what is actually there.

We often feel we have to avoid truth in order to maintain the stability of our substitute world*. However, at the same time we are avoiding truth, under the surface we often assume mutual understanding between each other about what is actually true.

For example, if you did something you know your wife would disapprove of (such as buying an expensive power tool), you might not tell her about it to avoid conflict. At the same time, your wife may be aware that you don’t always tell her what you spend money on. She lets it slide because she also prefers to avoid conflict.

We’re usually living in what could be described as a semi-opaque atmosphere that, to varying degrees, is masking what is true. Some people can see through it more easily than others can. There are also times (or certain conditions) in common human experience when that atmosphere thins out and becomes, for the moment, transparent. That is when something is so clearly true that no one can miss it.

For instance (to continue our example with the power tool), while you are eating breakfast with your wife, the phone rings. Your wife answers it. It’s a clerk at the local hardware store who asks her to tell her husband (you!) that his power tool is on backorder. Now the issue of your spending is out in the open, and both of you can no longer avoid it.

Truth is something we inherently have direct access to. For instance, it is far more difficult to memorize facts that have no inherent truth about them (such as an inventory of miscellaneous objects or unrelated, dry, historical details) than to remember some basic truth that you have direct access to (such as if you lie to someone, it generally makes you feel guilty).

The Two Levels of Truth

Many people talk about “your truth” versus “my truth,” as if truth were subjective rather than actual. What they are referring to as “truth” are their opinions or subjective experience. This perspective is inherently separating. It ignores the Larger Truth we are all connected to.

When I refer to “truth” or “what’s true,” I mean something more objective and inclusive. For example, it is true (a fact) that what you are thinking, feeling, or experiencing in this moment is whatever it is—perhaps it’s about the date you had last night. It is also true that five minutes ago, you were thinking about whatever you were thinking about in that moment.

What do you want to do right now, or what did you want to do ten minutes ago? Whatever that is or was, is the truth of what you want or wanted.

Are you judging someone? Your judgment doesn’t necessarily reflect what is true, but it is true that you are judging someone. And it is true what your judgment is.

In other words, truth is what actually occurs in a particular moment or where you really are in that moment. That is what I mean by the first level of Truth.

Our opinions, ideas, advice, responses, and judgments may or may not reflect truth. Some of them may be connected to inspiration, and some may be connected to limited human perception.

When connected to limited human perception, the content of an idea could be described as a reflection of your limited perception that didn’t make it past the walls of your substitute persona*. You can either open your consciousness to recognizing it as a limited perception or go in the opposite direction and bury yourself further in your substitute persona*. If you embrace what is true, it can lead to your transformation.

If your thought comes from inspiration, instead of coming from limited human perception, you are tapping into Source. The content itself then reflects what is true.

This connects you to the second level of Truth. You have reached beyond your substitute persona* and have broken through to a larger and real Source. You can feel the difference when you tap into something true. There is flowing and ease about it.

In this scenario, you are coming to Truth from two directions—the content of the thought itself and the fact that you had that thought.

* Substitute Persona: A made-up self that only shows up in the areas of your life in which you have made limiting decisions. Its function is to hold in place the distorted reality created by your limiting decisions. Your substitute persona exists only as long as you hold in place your limiting decisions.
** Substitute World: An inner experience in which the limiting decisions we have made determine how we experience ourselves and others. It is a model of reality we create for ourselves that is a substitute for what is real and true. It is a substitute for the real world.

Jane Ilene Cohen, Ph.D. is an Intuitive & Transformational Counselor, an NLP & TimeLine Master Practitioner, and a Hypnotherapist. She holds a Ph.D. in Transpersonal Counseling from the University of Metaphysical Sciences. You can learn more about her at: janecohencounseling.com

For more information about Dr. Cohen’s book, Your Life Is Designed to Work: A Psychological and Spiritual Guide, go to: lifeisdesignedtowork.com