All truths are true?

[Aaron]

But this begs the next question, if all entities in the universe including those on Earth were 100% convinced there were no oceans on Earth, would there still be oceans? We're bordering on further paradox here, at least in my limited understanding!

If all entities in the universe were 100% convinced that there were no oceans on earth, and were somehow closed off from "discovering" that there were oceans, then any experience having to do with oceans, from sensing to conceptualizing, would be ignored. Perhaps when an ocean is experienced in some way, the experience remains essential, fragmented, and ethereal instead of being consolidated into and labeled by the intelligence as the concept of "ocean". I don't think that one could conceptualize "ocean" if one had never experienced anything like it and was incapable of discovering it. So, if every entity in the universe was 100% convinced of no oceans, and was prevented from discovering them, they would not exist.

This is amazing to me. We can take this even deeper and see from this that our human intelligence cannot conceptualize of any new idea unless it experiences through sensory input (emotions included) something in the creation. Our brains are the blank sheets that the projector is aimed at, and a slide has to be put in the projector in order for something to be displayed, you see? If an entity were closed off to "ocean" and yet was swimming through one, "ocean" remains in potential, unknown by the entity. To that entity, "ocean" is part of the Tao unmanifested. Do you see the parallel here? As a planetary entity, we swim through an ocean of cosmic love and knowledge that we know nothing of. We're closed off to it. It's unrealized to us right now. Basically, we are all experiencing everything in the universe, but because of our particular level of consciousness, we are only capable of being aware of a finite amount at this time. What raises our level of consciousness? What causes us to become more aware, to evolve? What causes the entity experiencing the ocean to suddenly realize that it is ocean and conceptualize the idea of "ocean" in the head? I think that's directly controlled by our Higher Self.

If you would both humor me for a little while longer- I think there is more fat here we can chew. Setting aside the multi-verse for a minute, how can we further explain this concept with regards to a shared reality? For example, we have a great thread called 'Hellfire' in which many thoughtful posts explain how Hell is really just a controlling device made by humans (or perhaps in part by Orion entities). Yet for millions of people, hell is 100% real. How can believers in this concept and non-believers both be right? Or can we conclude that as far as consensus, shared reality is concerned, all truths are not true?

Hell means many different things to many different people. We're not unified on the idea. We might as well have a million different words for hell because when each person says it, there may be a slightly different or radically different concept behind the word. In that way, every hell is 100% real to the person who wills it to be 100% real to them. Likewise, every non-believer is right because their concept of hell is a no-hell. If they have no knowledge of it, it doesn't exist as per my whole ocean deal up above. lol If the concept has been shared with them, they will morph that concept into one that's compatible with them, even if it's a "hell doesn't exist" hell, the concept is still there. Something's still filling that brain space, so to speak, that is 100% true to them.

Or, just one more example, there were points in time where there were no humans alive who were aware that the Earth is actually a sphere. I'm talking back before it was ever even conceived of. But, the earth was a sphere back then I think we can agree. Quite confusing!

I would say that the concept of the sphere shaped Earth didn't exist to early humanity. (Once again, see "oceans" above haha) Or I could word it positively instead of negatively and say that the concept of the sphere shaped Earth was only known to early humanity as the unmanifested Tao. That is, we knew it, but we didn't KNOW it, if you catch my drift. Because all truths are true! Everything that can be known is known (whether realized or unrealized) simply because it can be known! Mind bending.