Layers of Truth

Navigating the Objective from the Subjective

The Search For Total Truth

It's been over a year since the release of my first book, Consciousness Reality & Purpose. What a lot of people didn't know though, was that I had already begun into my second by that point.

Recently, I completed what was nearly a year's worth of effort in writing called, “Layers of Truth”.

This was a very difficult book to write. But I'm extremely happy with how it came out! It focuses on one of the most foundational concept of reality — Truth.

The difference between the total, objective Truth and our personal, subjective perceptions of it.

The navigation of those differences projects the very reality we accept! The deeper you go into what that means for us individually and as a species, the more vast the landscape of total reality becomes in contrast to our meager ideas of it.

Within this book, I present my own framework of how I view Truth. In it’s entirety (I use the word “Emmet” for this, which is a Hebrew word for “the entire Truth”), as well as in our limited constructs within emmet.

How the varying layers of total Truth that we know about at this point cannot be the entirety of them all. And how even the ones we know about are almost certainly incomplete within our knowledge of them!

The Three Pillars

In Layers of Truth, I bring back a construct that I first introduced on the Social Disorder Podcast and later expanded upon in my first book — the three pillars.

I consider it necessary — if you hope to obtain a well balanced world view — to build out the pillars of the Scientific, the Philosophic, and the Theologic.

As such, the bulk of this book is broken down into three major chapters:

1. Truth in Science

2. Truth in Philosophy, and

3. Truth in Theology

Here is a sample from the introduction of the chapter on Truth in Science:

The world in which I write this is a technological one. One that is inundated, even over-saturated, by mechanical and electronic marvels that would boggle the minds of our ancient forebears. The generations that have been born into and inherited the bounty of 21st century technology are the heirs to thousands of years of human striving in the sciences.

Of all three pillars, the scientific is the one responsible for the majority of all tangible, material progress that humanity has made over the millennia. Miraculous inventions of engineering and real world problem solving have built the throne of prominence that science has been seated upon for at least 200 years. We now find ourselves as the wealthy benefactors of the many discoveries, and their implementations, that define our age.

Even though this is the position we hold due to the power of science in action, as this pillar has been hyper-focused upon, its predominance over the other two has caused a bloating within its hallowed halls that has lead to corruption and rot.

I start with this pillar among the three, partly because it is the most universally recognized in our society. Partly because it has the most obvious affects within it. But partly because it has become so trusted in its ubiquity that society has become myopic to its faults, limits, and snakes within.

I, admittedly, may come across as the most critical of this pillar out of the three. In this present age, I see what amounts to a monolith where a triumvirate should reside. And in the monarchical status it holds above society, its dictates and prescriptions create wide reaching and deeply affecting shock waves that carry significant weight behind each. Many of them lead to prosperity. But many others create suffering. Suffering not only in the corporal sense, but in the cognitive and spiritual spheres it overshadows by its eminence.

The spirit of science is one of unencumbered Truth. The scientific process is a framework that’s meant to hone in on what is reliably true about anything that can be tested. But that spirit has been ossified into a totem, an idol. Man, in his hubris, has situated himself as the steward of science. But as the translator of its spirit, has injected all of the shortcomings of a person whose other two vital pillars have atrophied from neglect.

My aim in this chapter is to unearth the unadulterated spirit of the scientific. Its history, both good and bad. The strength that its light brings to man when followed with deference and attention. And the monstrous horror it can inflict when mismanaged, misrepresented, or idolized.

The Truth of science can be a powerful blade that cuts both ways. And lies, in the name of science, can be a cancer that grows within a society that is ignorant of those within it who feed it.

Pre-Order

I am very excited to announce that Layers of Truth is now completed and available to pre-order in hardcover on Amazon!

Pre-ordering your copy will help immensely, in its April 1st official release, to get it ranked on Amazon and push it into Best-Seller status just like its predecessor Consciousness Reality & Purpose was!

I thank everyone who helped me along this path and hope those of you who will read it find something of meaning and Truth therein.

~ Drew Weatherhead

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