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I of my own knowledge…
I of my own knowledge
tell you that this is the truth.
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In ancient Egypt (so says Joan Grant, in Winged Pharaoh), the priests used this formula in their teaching: “I of my own knowledge tell you that this is the truth.”
Not, “This is what I have been taught,” but, “I of my own knowledge…”
Where, today, would we find equivalent knowledge? Where would we find equivalent institutions?
Our universities and churches cannot produce such teachers. They teach what is said to be true, or might be true, or ought to be true, or what we wish were true. But knowledge cannot be transmitted by those who do not know.
Who can teach us from first-hand knowledge of the true nature of physical-matter reality? Of the worlds beyond physical life? Of what we as individuals and as groups can achieve? In this, religion and science both have failed us.
Religion fails us in attempting to teach strictly from faith rather than from personal knowledge. This leads naturally to a demand for faith and obedience as substitutes for study and knowledge. It leads, too, to fear of independent investigations and anomalous experiences.
Science fails us in refusing to investigate certain categories of experience or thought (such as what people call the supernatural, whether labeled as religion or parapsychology) because it believes, before investigation, that these categories of experience are nonsense. Again, though it would shock them to hear this, it leads them to a demand for faith and obedience as substitutes for study and knowledge.
In both cases, this failure is not necessarily the result of hierarchies scheming to obtain and retain power. Just as often, it is the result of people not realizing that first-hand knowledge is there to be obtained.
Obviously, both religion and science are at least partly based on truth, and at best they are based on a desire to find truth. But each would be more valuable if it were to ground its view of the nature of the universe less on inherited beliefs (no matter how widespread) and more on first-hand knowledge.
We are starving for that knowledge. In fact, we often kill others, and may kill ourselves, substituting arbitrary certainty for the knowledge that we do not have. Uncertainty – and the fear that uncertainty brings – leads individuals and societies to do desperate things. If you don’t know, you must rely on faith. But faith implies doubt. Doubt – and the resulting repression of doubt – breed fanaticism and intolerance, which breed ignorance pretending to infallibility, which breeds charlatans and blind followers.
The good news is that first-hand knowledge is available.
Many years ago, during an exercise at The Monroe Institute’s Gateway program, we participants were instructed, in one exercise, to ask the universe: "Who am I? "I got that I am "muddy footprints in the grass."
Being in an expanded state of consciousness, I understood the image.
When you see muddy footprints in the grass, , wet and indistinct, you may not know anything about who made the tracks, or which way the person was headed, or where they came from or where they're going or even if whoever made them knew where he or she was going. What you do know is that someone, at some time, for some reason, passed through what may appear to be a trackless wilderness.
That image came to me in December, 1992, in the course of a week that opened me up to many longed-for abilities and perceptions. After a while I wrote a book telling something of what had happened to me, as a way of demonstrating some of the possibilities open to us all. Recently, at the instigation of a friend, I began a weblog to put out the same message, and then came the opportunity to write this column.
So, dear reader, perhaps we can travel together a while. You came to this column for a reason, and you yourself probably don't yet know why. Perhaps you will learn why as we go along.
Naturally, I know that I haven’t caught The Ultimate Truth. I haven’t. We can't. But I have found a way of seeing that reconciles seemingly incompatible beliefs by showing that each was a partial view of something now seen whole, or, at least more whole than before.
I am not an Egyptian priest, and I cannot transfer my first-hand knowledge. But I can tell how you may obtain your own first-hand knowledge. You may consider this as an on-going report, in descending order of certainty, of:
- What I have experienced, as best I can reconstruct it.
- What I think that experience means.
- What others have reported having experienced.
- What they thought that experience meant.
- What light I think my own experience sheds on such reports, and vice-versa.
That’s what this column is all about. Among other things, I will share with you true stories that give a sense of what first-hand experience makes possible, hoping to describe my journey of self-discovery (self-creation?) in such a way as to encourage you on your own journey. In this I would be doing for you what Bob Monroe and his institute did for me. It is my hope that my own muddy footprints will help at least a few people to spend less time feeling lost, so that they can spend more time joyfully exploring.
I of my own knowledge tell you what follows.
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Frank DeMarco,
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Frank DeMarco holds an M.A. in History from the University of Iowa and a B.A. in History from George Washington University.
His work as co-founder and (for 15 years) chief editor of Hampton Roads Publishing Company brought him into close association with many brilliant and insightful minds, including psychics, remote viewers, channelers and mystics, and showed him the human side of extraordinary abilities.
In 1992, his psychic abilities opened up at a Gateway Voyage at The Monroe Institute in central Virginia. Since then he has been engaged in first-hand exploration of the nature and limits of all things psychic, especially including such areas as healing and guidance, direct access to knowledge, communication with past lives, and the integration of the spiritual dimension into everyday life.
His autobiographical work Muddy Tracks: Exploring an Unsuspected Reality describes the first stages of his discovery of the key to expanded awareness, and offers pointers for those just beginning their quest. In his weblog, www.frankdemarco.
wordpress.com, he shares the journey and the results of continuing explorations. His blog, “I of my own knowledge…” investigates what individuals can know first-hand about the purpose and conduct of life.
Contact info
blog: http://frankdemarco.
wordpress.com/
email:
muddytracks@
earthlink.net
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