There is much that can keep you from enjoying this flight over the grand canyon truth. You may be overwhelmed with commitments and inundated with distracting requests and announcements. You may have conflicts with the truths of others or may be struggling with your own.
But take heart. Truth is a gift and endless in its forms. What is important in this flight is not what feels true for someone else, but what feels true for you. This flight will increase your awareness of the types of understandings shaping your world and your confidence in knowledgeably addressing them.
The flight begins with a quick look at the web of interactions in which we are all caught up. It starts with a daughter coming home and simply expressing her frustration with school. The webs interactive freedom is reflected in different ways her mother might respond. Your understanding of that freedom will deepen when considering the daughter’s possible reactions to her mother’s response.
Those who feel their personal truth is of little consequence will appreciate seeing the vastness in time, space, and consequence of their ability to express themselves and to interpret and share the expressions of others. The innateness of that ability together with its material and inclusive reality will become apparent. They will see how that expressive capability, suitably fostered, can deepen ones joy in this life and in the life hereafter.
We then look at the unique exchanges that take place when the personal truths of two individuals with marriage on their minds meet head on. Most of what takes place is too soon forgotten for the details of its significance to be examined. However, on this excursion, you are the “fly on the wall” in the minds of your guide’s parents as thy meet a year before the start of the second world war.
As we continue over the Grand Canyon of Truth, you will see why political or group truth differs so markedly from personal and marital truth. The importance of good rules and caring leaders in life’s competitive play will come to the fore. The founding of America and the game of basketball are used to illustrate the upsides and downsides of political truth.
The flight ends with a look at some truths transcending both time and culture. The interests and methods giving rise to these truths characterize the institutions of science, art, religion and philosophy. When this flight ends, you will see why we need all four.
