Book two

Secrets from the Ages

Chapter Zero

Information concerning Enlightenment

The first thing to understand concerning Logical Enlightenment is that it comes from knowledge of the truth. The second thing that one should understand concerning Logical Enlightenment is that there is a difference between proven knowledge (truth) and beliefs. For many thousands of years there has been little or no understanding concerning the difference between these two things. Down through the ages mankind has believed that there is no difference between truth and beliefs. This one singular concept, misunderstood by mankind for millennia, has prevented mankind from progressing spiritually into this modern age.

You will probably say at this point, "Well, I know the difference, and most of the people I know, know the difference between proven knowledge and beliefs." In that case, let me ask you, "Why is there more than one religion on Earth and more than one philosophy?" Why indeed? Because, each person is convinced that his belief is truth. Logical Enlightenment is practical useful enlightenment while normal enlightenment down through the ages has never even approached useful enlightenment. It has been used mostly to impress people.

Religions and philosophies have not improved because men have believed that their beliefs are truth. As long as a man believes that his belief is truth, he will not seek further knowledge in that area. The believers of all religions have never allowed for the tiniest possibility that their beliefs might not be correct. One reason is that it has always been felt that to admit the possibility of being wrong would be the maximum insult to their God. To admit even the slightest possibility that their belief might not be truth, means that they really are not converts. This total inflexibility in the belief in one's beliefs has resulted in untold millions of people being killed.

The killing has been the result of each religion's believers inability to admit the possibility of being wrong, that is, admit the possibility that their beliefs are not total truth. Thus the various religions have been willing to kill, since they are certain that there is no possibility that they might be wrong. In this modern age that fact has still not changed. Unfortunately this belief, that one's beliefs are truth, has extended over into almost every other area of life. The differences between Republicans and Democrats is one example, with each side certain that their belief is truth, and usually neither side wanting to be confused with the facts. The total belief in modern medicine kills millions each year, and makes millions more fat like pigs, because of the belief that low fat, high carbohydrate diet prevents heart disease and overweight.

Go into any ghetto in the U.S. or in the world and talk to any gang member. You will find many beliefs that have not been questioned, because the gang members know their beliefs are the truth. Yet those beliefs are what brings about the killing and the crime and maintain the poverty conditions found there. It is a fact of faulty logic, making logical thinking impossible in those who have learned this mode of thinking which, unfortunately, is the vast majority of mankind.

The likelihood that people will ever learn to think correctly in the area of beliefs is very low since children are taught that beliefs are the truth from their earliest moments. If a child anywhere in this world is not taught anything else, he is taught that beliefs are truth. Children are taught that what their parents believe, is the truth. They are taught that since beliefs are truth there is no point in questioning these beliefs. For example, a child is taught that there is a God who sets on a thrown somewhere, and a great deal of data concerning this God he is taught to believe as truth. The fact remains, there is no proof either way, not even one tiny scrap of proof. Yet most humans take this point for granted. It's a point of falty logic that cannot be unlearned. And even though it may be true, as long as one does not admit that there is no proof, he cannot think logically in this area, and that spreads to most other areas in his live. Maybe there are a rare few adults who can unlearn this method of thinking, but the vast majority of man cannot admit that their beliefs might not be the truth. Thus, they simply cannot be taught to think logically.

The truth Paragraph: So what really is the opposite of belief? Well, that isn't so hard to understand. The opposite of belief is that which can be proven practically. The rules in a court of law are good enough. If you can prove it with logical data, or truthful witnesses, or just logic, and it is practical, and it works, that should be good enough to call it truth.

So in the question of Enlightenment, you may have to give up your most treasured belief and look for the real truth in things. You can do this, because you are truly looking for Logical Enlightenment. You are tired of all the promises of ascending into heaven, or traveling around without your body, or moving objects with your mind, or overcoming all of your cares, or being able to heal yourself, and so on. You have noticed despite all the various technologies no one has ascended to heaven or has become a God. You have noticed that there is still around 35 wars going on in the world, and it doesn't seem to really change a lot.

One of the fondest beliefs of New Age people, people in the various clearing movements, and Christianity is how much better people are becoming as time passes. Maybe you have been in these groups and still have beliefs in this area. Maybe you believe that the clearing technologies, or other philosophies or religions are going to make us all clear, or Gods of some kind. In that case, since you are looking for real enlightenment you must look at these beliefs and apply The Truth Paragraph to the beliefs. For example, Christians are sure that their belief in God makes them a much better person, but will the evidence brought to a court of law prove this. My family was totally into Christianity, and their pastor ran off with the Church's money twice when I was a child. You never saw so many different people sleeping with people other than their spouses than those in our church, and I was in many churches in many Christian areas. It would be a little troublesome to try to prove that Christians are really better than people of other religions or other philosophies.

Another very fond belief of the New Age people is the idea that what you believe is what is going to happen. In other words, if you believe you are going to get cancer, then you will get cancer. If you believe that you are going to be rich, then you will be rich, and so on and on. But the fact is, this is simply another form of believing that what you believe is the truth. No, just because you believe it, does not make it the truth, and just because you believe something will happen, does not make it happen. Maybe a few people will believe that they will be dead tomorrow, but the vast majority of those who will be dead will have believed that they would go on living.

In Hiroshima, Japan 20,000 people believed that they would eat dinner that evening, but they didn't, they were all dead that evening. There were many people who believed that Hitler was a good man, but that did not make him a good man. Many people believed that communism was good and would make the world a better place, but that did not happen. In fact over a period of 70 years more than 110,000,000 million people were murdered because some men believed that communism would work.

A belief is only effective to the point that it causes you to ACT. Beliefs can be very important and cause many things, but they affect you only to that extent that you act upon them. You cannot create by believing. You must create in this universe by some sort of action. Thinking comes first, but action must be involved before something is created in this universe. "Think and Grow Rich" is not possible unless you act. You cannot believe yourself into being rich, no matter how fond New Age people are of this idea. You can believe to the point where you do things that will make you rich, but then it is actions that make you rich. It is important to believe under this situation, but the belief will not get it done. You must do. This should be obvious. You should be able to look at the logic and prove it to yourself from your present knowledge.

It was evidently God's agreement that in this universe he would create through his viewpoints only by actions, because that's the way it works. When using The Truth Paragraph, even when people testify about how much better they are after clearing procedures, I have not been able to prove that these procedures produce any better results than standard psychology, or any number of other mental technologies.

During many years in Scientology I read thousands of testimonies of success stories of people who had been improved by Scientology therapy. But for 17 years I also listened to hundreds of testimonies of people who had been improved by being born again in various Christian churches. I saw very little results that could be actually proven to be better than standard psychology with either Scientology or the Christian religion by using The Truth Paragraph above. I've noticed they all work pretty nearly the same, maybe there is a tiny bit more noticeable positive results from being born again than there is, for example, in clearing procedures, but not much. The reason for this is religions open the door to delude oneself more than clearing allows. On the other hand, clearing procedures can be very harmful, but that is another story.

Modern psychology gets more results that anything else. The point being, if you are reading this data, you are still looking for Logical Enlightenment, and if you find it here in these pages or anywhere else, it will be because you decided to actually look. It will be because you have realized that your beliefs are not necessarily the absolute truth, and thus you can look further. It is up to you to evaluate these pages. The following Chapters cover mostly logic and your own knowledge (things you know to be true, rather than believe to be true). If you have succeeded in allowing yourself to question your beliefs, rather than continuing to hold on to them as truth, there may be some truth here for you, and there may not.

You may find that the game of life, once explained, is a hell of a lot more fun when you know what it is. You may find that you have reached Enlightenment far beyond clearing, far beyond going to India and studying for 40 years in some ashram. Then when you arrive in India and meet the Holy men and women, you can really evaluate their situation. You can look them in the eyes and know exactly what their game is and be glad for them or not as you see fit. But you will never again think that they have something that you do not have. It will be the opposite, you will have something that it isn't likely they will have for many lifetimes. However, always remember, it is up to you to evaluate the data given here and know for yourself if it is the truth for you.

This does not mean that you should not learn more, or that you could not benefit from some kind of therapy. On the other hand, you will never need to teach yourself lessons, or learn lessons of life other than just living life, or do anything in any of the religions, philosophies, or teachings of wise men for your immortal soul or anything like that. You can play any one of them or none of them. You will be able to play a real game instead of one of the false games. If you bother to understand the data written here, you will become more and more enlightened as the time passes and as you dwell on what for you is the truth. You will not need to go anywhere else for your enlightenment, but rather, you will want to get on with the game of life. You will go for the fun in it all, and the fun will be in the drama that you create. We will cover this point very carefully later.

Always remember that anything that you believe, may or may not be the truth. If you can prove it, in a court of law, with logic, with witnesses, and with scientific data, then you will know for a fact that it is the truth. But even then, a really careful player will always leave an opening for further truth. If you are like many searchers, you might have started off this lifetime with religion when you were a kid. After a few years it really didn't seem to make much sense, and religious people seemed no better or worse than the rest, so you tried something else. You might have become a hippy and walked around with a sign on your chest saying, "Ascension or bust."

Then if you were really into it, you might have traveled to India and talked to various Holy men and Yogis about going into the light, or some such thing. You may have spent 20 or 30 years in one philosophy or another studying and planning on going to the next plane of existence. Here in these pages you may find knowledge that for you supersedes them all. I can't guarantee it, but it may happen. Read on.

So let me say again, the first step toward Logical Enlightenment must begin with an understanding that one's beliefs might not necessarily be the truth. Although all of mankind will mouth the conviction that they understand the difference between beliefs and truthful knowledge, yet thousands of people continue to die every day, because men continue to believe that their beliefs are the truth. Only the truth will set you free, and that just might not be what men believe is the truth at this time.

If what man believes at this time is the truth, then we would all be free. There would be no sickness, or war, or starvation, or even third world countries, since the true answer to all of these problems is already available here on Earth, now. Only beliefs prevent them from being used. The greatest evil of all comes from this one faulty point in logic. The belief that one's beliefs are true. The millions upon millions of people who have been murdered and tortured to death would never have happened if people had questioned their beliefs.

There are other evils, such as the evil that men do for greed, but that never equals the evil that is done for beliefs. I expect less than 1% of mankind to read and understand this book, but if over the next 50 years 1% does finally understand what is written here, we will be able to bring peace to Earth in the next 200 years. A practical understanding of God will be the only thing that will save mankind. Without that understanding, mankind on Earth will finally cease to exist. A practical and logical understand of God does not now exist. So if you do find the ultimate Enlightenment here, what do you then do, or where do you go? Well, that's covered as you read further.

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