We’ve probably all heard: “Seek the truth, know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” But, is that true? What else have we heard?

Before I begin, I suppose I’m mostly talking about “unpopular truths.” And by unpopular, that means there is a majority that doesn’t believe one or more unpopular truths. To even read this article, you are somewhat agreeing with the idea that sometimes there is a truth out there that isn’t popular. You may also notice that the truth isn’t like some new “dance craze” that can sweep a nation. There was a metal band called “Brutal Truth.” And there was a movie once called “The Ugly Truth.”

Remember GI Joe cartoons where they had PSA announcements that said “Knowing is half the battle“? Clearly GI Joe didn’t equate knowing with being “set free.” They said it was half the battle. What is the other half of the battle?

Manosphere guru and author Joshua Pellicer used to say “Knowledge isn’t power, but application is power.” For example, he gives you knowledge about how to pick up chicks but if you don’t practice what you’ve “learned” there is no power. Another manonsphere guru and author, Rollo Tomassi, will tell you that if you tell the truth about women – to women – they can’t stand it and it will almost certainly ruin any date that you’re on.

I’m not sure who said this or if this is a misquote of a better quote, but maybe you have heard: “To know and not do, is not to know.” I think there is enough evidence to prove this trite little saying is false.

In the movie A Few Good Men, Colonel Jessup famously screams at Lieutenant Kaffee: “YOU CAN’T HANDLE THE TRUTH!” Alas, Rollo Tomassi certainly suggests women can’t handle the truth…

Donald Trump of course started his own social media brand called “Truth Social.” This suggests that anyone who tells the truth on there won’t get censored. Alas, I don’t believe that…

What about people that get martyred for telling the truth? It’s actually the mythological character Jesus Christ who is famous for: “know the truth and the truth will set you free.” Set you free HOW? Allegedly, a lot of Christian saints were tortured to death. That’s all fine if you believe in an afterlife and you are certain you’re going to heaven and not hell because you “told the truth.” Too bad there isn’t any solid proof of an afterlife, just a lot of strong hunches about it. So the takeaway here is there is a good chance the truth will get you censored, jailed, tortured, and killed in this life.

Not long ago, people that have seen UFOs, aliens, and Bigfoot used to be called liars. This is starting to change and now there is a lot more open-mindedness about people that have said they’ve seen these things. Psychologically, psychologists have concluded something like: “these people are telling the truth as though it were true, and it’s true according to themselves – it’s just that they have no proof.”

Occult scholar Jordan Maxwell used to wonder, “How important is the truth, really?” Maxwell further noted that there is a difference between Facts and Truth, and notes that Indiana Jones points this out in his classroom in the movie Raiders of the Lost Ark. Perhaps… Donald Trump should’ve called his social media brand “Facts Social.” In my opinion, I think Facts are a little easier to swallow than the Truth.

YouTuber “TechLead” recently posted a video saying The Truth is a Psyop.

So… the “Truth” is apparently kind of a problem. People that seek the truth do so because they get some gratification and personal satisfaction for finding the truth and knowing the truth. They have a “love” for the Truth.

Psychologists will say people that learn hard truths go through a 5 step process. 1) Denial. 2) Anger. 3) Bargaining. 4) Depression. 5) Acceptance. Pray tell, what exactly do they mean by “acceptance”?

But I’m here to give you some answers, not just throw riddles at you. In my opinion, the late Ho’oponopono guru Dr. Haleakalā Hew Len probably came the closest providing a solution to the “Truth Problem” in terms of offering a reasonable process that brings about a desirable outcome. In my opinion, I think a philosophy is precisely what you need to address the Truth Problem. If you have no philosophy, there’s a good chance you can be screwed by the Truth, most easily by talking about it. I think a lot of people probably have an “agenda” more than a philosophy. They want the Truth to cure them, or to fix society, or to help them score hot chicks, or to help them cure cancer, or to make themselves look younger, or to get rid of annoying homeless people, or to help them buy a sports car. What I’m learning is I don’t think the Truth gives a shit about you and your desired life-outcomes. The Truth is just out there, doing its own thing with or without you. It doesn’t care about you or whether or not you find it.

If you’re on this website, you’re probably a truth-seeker of some kind. And I apologize if getting this piece of philosophy out to you appears to be late! Especially if talking about the Truth has gotten you into some trouble.

So here’s some aspects of Dr. Haleakalā Hew Len’s philosophy.

1) We are all corrupted by influences and programming. Christianity, despite its non-belief in past-lives, goes so far as to believe in “original sin” which suggests that not even babies are born pure. And of course, some babies are lucky to be born healthy and some babies are unlucky to be born unhealthy. People that breed dogs and horses can tell you that you can breed them better and breed them worse. For the sake of shorthand, let’s say babies and even yourself are/were born 99% innocent and pure. From there, life happens and you get corrupted by influences and programming. From parents, family, teachers, religion, and everything in society ad infinitum.

2) We are mostly unaware of this. This is a mixture of blissful ignorance, and occasionally some casual and easy-to-field denials should an unpleasant or unpopular truth “pop up.”

3) You can’t really change yourself. Not so much.

4) You can’t really change other people. Not so much.

5) Dr. Hew Len says that “The Divine” (or God, the Gods, or the higher power of your choice) is ultimately responsible for changing yourself and changing other people.

6) However, Dr. Hew Len says that “The Divine” can be petitioned. He says this is primarily and perhaps even provably doable through a “forgiveness mantra” like the basic Ho’oponopono mantra. (The mantra: “I’m sorry. Please forgive me. Thank you. I love you.”)

7) Dr. Hew Len says that this forgiveness mantra can “erase data.” Recall the scene in The Empire Strikes Back where Yoda tells Luke Skywalker he must unlearn what he has learned. The data erasure deletes memory. Also recall, you may be familiar with spiritual persons that say it is important to “forgive and forget.” You might’ve noticed that they never really explain the “forget” aspect.

8) Dr. Hew Len says that there is “no such thing as good memories.”

9) Dr. Hew Len says the more data that is erased, the more the Divine will have a chance at a perfect and perhaps even original-style expression through you.

10) This is somewhat akin to cleaning a device or appliance. Think of a device or appliance that doesn’t work as well as it used to because it has not been cleaned.

Do you want to take this a step further? Sure you do…

I’m not an expert on Gnosticism. But, I would say Yoda’s quote in The Empire Strikes Back, “Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter,” is pretty darned Gnostic. What this suggests is that all of the metadata about you is not significant. By metadata, this means measurable statistics like: your genetics, your race, your sex, your height, your weight, your body type, your religion, your country, your ancestry, your astrological sign, your IQ, etc. Yoda is saying all of this is “crude matter.” By contrast, racialists say that humans are a “type” of animal. While humans are different from animals, we are not not-animals. In other words, our “crude matter” actually does matter. Or at least, it doesn’t not-matter. If you are honest about the 1-10 beauty scale in your dating life and have found yourself pursuing women that are at least 6’s and above, you have to agree that Yoda’s “luminous being” idealism isn’t realistic, and racialists are closer to… the Truth. Even if racialists are wrong, you are not going to be able to override your genetic “crude matter.”

Crude matter is your hardware. Programming is your software. From what I understand about petitioning the Divine, you can change your software but you’re not likely to change your hardware. Not by much. Changing one’s hardware is something people really try to do, however. By using deep meditation alone, Michael Jackson changed from black to white to East Asian. (That was a clever joke, btw.) Teenagers get their teeth straightened. Women get breast implants. Some men take steroids. Old women get facelifts. Some Jewish people get nose jobs. Goths put on lots of makeup. Some people really do get full-body tattoos. Alas, the genetic appearance and “crude matter” of offspring can reveal the truth of a parent’s original hardware. I won’t say the Divine can’t do anything to improve one’s hardware. Some Ho’oponoponists have claimed their mantras and philosophy have had positive effects on hardware.

The fact that anybody tries to improve their own “crude matter” lends credence to any philosophy that says crude matter matters. Has it occurred to anyone who’s changing their crude matter that they are doing it to get with somebody who’s crude matter is so awesome that they don’t have to change their crude matter? That you are born a slave to climbing the crude-matter pyramid?

So, how wrong is Yoda?

There is one philosophy that doesn’t completely delete Yoda’s Gnosticism. This is the idea that we humans are in “Earth School.” Not only is there a reason that we are here, there is a reason we were gifted the bodies (crude matter) our souls are encapsulated in. Yoda didn’t exactly say crude matter doesn’t matter, he just said that that’s not exactly “what” we are. Further, let’s say you are a physically beautiful person. (Lol, and you’re reading this article because…?) Is it wrong to be thankful for your natural beauty? I would think being thankful for your natural beauty would be a good idea.

This is more of a digression than I had anticipated. So let’s get back to “The Truth.”

… Sorry Bible-believers, but the Truth doesn’t always set you free. Knowing the Truth can be anything from a nuisance, to a burden, or even a big responsibility. So you have to ask yourself: “What do you want to know the Truth for?” Is there something that you want? Do you have an agenda? Have you considered a philosophy about what to do when you find the truth? Have considered that some truths are painful and ugly? Have you considered that you might not want to know the truth?

Recall the movie The Matrix. “You take the blue pill… the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill… you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.” And then Morpheus follows it with this lie: “Remember, all I’m offering is the truth, nothing more.” Lol, no, Neo finds the truth and is then stuck with a massive, Quixotic, burden of trying to change the world. As I said before, the Truth is a la carte. Morpheus agrees with me and implies that the Truth is a la carte, but that’s not true in the movie about what he’s actually offering Neo. The Truth doesn’t care if it is found and it doesn’t care what you do with it once you find it. If you want to change the world just because you found the Truth – that’s on you.

But to play along with The Matrix movie themes, Morpheus asks Neo, “Do you believe in Fate?” This is a question everybody needs to ask themselves. Many people don’t believe in Fate. However…

The Truth suggests Fate is real. Why? Because as I have concluded: “The Truth doesn’t always set you free. Knowing the Truth can be anything from a nuisance, to a burden, or even a big responsibility.” Plenty of drug addicts and criminals know the Truth that their lifestyle is likely going to have a dark and painful end, and knowing this knowledge somehow doesn’t change their Fate.

I posit that people seek the Truth so that they may change and improve their Fate. Alas, what do you do when knowing the Truth doesn’t change and improve your fate? What if you don’t score any hot chicks? What if you don’t get a Lamborghini sports car? What if Neo and the Gang from The Matrix movie accomplish all of their goals and Neo still doesn’t score any hot chicks? (Do you think the token female Trinity in the movie was all that hot?) What if Mario wins the video game but still doesn’t get Princess Peach? What good is it being a Sci-Fi social justice warrior if it doesn’t help you score any hot chicks?

In The Matrix, Neo responds to Morpheus about whether he believes in Fate, by saying, “No.” And “Because I don’t like the idea that I’m not in control of my life.”

Alas. The Truth suggests that the majority of us are largely not in control of our lives. Lol, recall the 5 step process from earlier in this article: 1) Denial. 2) Anger. 3) Bargaining. 4) Depression. 5) Acceptance. Which phase are you in?

Thus there is something very real about Fate. And despite the reality of Fate, people can have a Fate in store for them and not have any idea what it is going to be until it happens. Perhaps this is the thrust of what keeps psychics in business. Perhaps you have a chance at improving or changing your fate if you are at least given a glimpse of what is coming down the road.

So even though the Truth is an a la carte item, because you’re human and you’re you, the arrival of the Truth in your world is kind of a strange existential crisis that mixes Truth, Fate, the Divine, and Yourself together into kind of a chess game or wrestling match. The Truth is merely just “the Truth,” but outside of that the Truth can be used as a tool to improve and change your Fate. That is not to say that Lies and Exaggerations can’t be used to improve and change your Fate as well. Recall the story of Dumbo and his Magic Feather. Recall how enjoyable your life was when your parents first told you about Santa Claus. (Lol, and then recall how enjoyable it was when they told you about Jesus.) Rollo Tomassi likes to refer to the myth of the porcupine being able shoot its quills at their target of choice. While not true, this has kept people a bit safer at the Zoo.

Generally, it seems most people prefer the Truth over lies. And generally, it seems people want the Truth and seek the Truth as they get time to pursue it. My advice as the Good Luck guru: when seeking the Truth, you should get a plan and philosophy together. The gratification and satisfaction of finding the Truth and knowing the Truth might not be enough for you. In fact, I would say it has its own honeymoon period, and then, life goes on.