Truth Teaching Q & A

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TRUTH TEACHING: Questions and Answers

Questions asked and answered from Internet forums about Truth Teaching

By Rev. Dr. Ray C. Pasold

Published by S.E.L.F. Publishing Division of the Sacred Eternal Life Fellowship

This entire document is in the Public Domain

1. What conclusions have you reached about God from your Truth Seeking?

There are many discoveries, however, the most important one is this:

I serve the God of Truth, Who is Light, Love, and Freedom, the only God there is.

2. Please explain more about what you found out and how you accomplished this.

There is a challenge with this type of discovery. Before one can know, they must firstbelieve. Now belief means it may be true, it could be true, but I do not know if it is. Then the

experiment can begin. If you decide what the answer is before you experiment, before you

believe to do experiments, the conclusion is just a mental one, another form of belief. I believe todisbelieve in God. This is just another worthless opinion.

Its not easy, or everyone would do it, though many claim to have done it. Safety for

yourself is a key element, to keep you from the snares of those who believe a certain way and try

to enlist you in that belief system, such as religions, gurus, etc. The key then, is to have theunquenchable desire, the burning need to KNOW and not just believe. However, in order to

know if something is true or not, one must first believe, and then experiment to find the truth.

Belief only means it may be true, it could be true, but you dont really know yet. Thats whatTruth Seeking is all about. The mastery of self is the journey that leads you to higher

consciousness, and needing to know and not just believe, protects you from all other teachings

that are not verified by yourself. At a certain point you begin to realize that everything you foundto be true and in error, are subject to change as your understanding grows, your consciousness

evolves. This means what you found for now will change as you evolve. 2 + 2 = 4 or is 2+2 = 22,

or both?

Self Mastery is the answer to achieving higher states of awareness and consciousness.

There are thousands of paths calling to the seeker to follow, but only the Truth you find is realfor you. Eventually, the doors of consciousness are open and you are ripe for that experience of

the dimension of the Spirit Realm. It is quite amazing.The most important thing I have found is that the Truth cannot be a belief, or it could be

wrong. It must become a part of you, so that you KNOW it, feel it, experience it, and live it

every moment of your life.Spirit Consciousness is not just a new knowledge, or a different kind of knowledge.

Above all that which it is, it is a new conscious awareness, a different or higher, state of


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consciousness. Consider Truth to be a cone, spiraling upward and ever expanding. The truth you

have discovered lays at the beginning of the cone, the bottom. As you gain higher awareness,

higher consciousness, that truth is expanded, as your realization moves up the cone of truth, everexpanding. You need no one to help you achieve these states and all will eventually do so.

However, if you wish to speed your spiritual awareness to higher levels of consciousness, there

are tools that have been found to be very effective to volitionally force yourself into a higherstate, instead of waiting on natural evolution of consciousness (which may take many lifetimes

and thousands of years).

There are those who can give you these tools, and if the tools work for you, you can

achieve incredible progress on the journey to Spirit Consciousness. These teachers are calledTruth Teachers. There is no universal tool to achieve Spirit Consciousness, but there are tools

that work for most everyone. Just remember, a real Truth Teacher knows they cannot give you

Spirit Consciousness, but only give you the tools to achieve it.The tools are many and consist of two types. First, to build your awareness that higher

states of consciousness may exist, there are books and writings that describe it and tell of other

peoples experience with higher consciousness. There are many such writings, and I can only give

you the ones that helped me. You might enjoy them also. (Remember, you must first believe thathigher states of consciousness exist, before you can experiment and discover if they do or not.)

Cosmic Consciousness, by Richard M. Bucke

Jonathan Livingston Seagull, by Richard Bach

Illusions: Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah, by Richard Bach

The Aquarian Age Gospel of Jesus, the Christ of the Piscean Age, by Levi Dowling

You will be led once you begin sincere Truth Seeking to many other writings. However, if you

dont ask, with all your heart mind and soul, you may not find the answer you seek. It must beyour priority, above all else in your life. The second types of tools are those that require you to

do the work, to work on yourself, to look within yourself and find the Christ within. All the

writings mentioned speak of this requirement.Meditation is the first way of self-examination. There are many forms of meditation,

however, the meditation you seek is one of self-mastery. I could post some of my classes on this,

but it would take much space here. Self-mastery is an on going experience and never ends. The

growth into awareness of the Christ within is also an on going experience. However, there is aLINE of higher consciousness one crosses; you are blessed with an awareness and knowledge

that can never leave you! It is called illumination, or re-birth into Spirit Consciousness. Your

Truth Seeking takes on a new dimension once you have gained this state.Once you obtain a break through, a confirmation of experience, an illumination, you no

longer depend on texts, other people of the physical realm, for further spiritual growth. Note the

word depend. I still read as much as possible about this and learn from other people, howeverthe knowledge obtained is always tested by the truth of my experience and the teachers I have,

who are of the Spirit Realm and not the physical. Direct communication with the Spiritual Realm

is one of the blessings of illumination.In order to maintain the knowledge you acquire before illumination, and not to let the

day-to-day life and contacts with others rip the awareness from your consciousness; I have two

suggestions. First, let your spiritual journey be shared with only others on the path, and no one


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else. Second, do a study on assertiveness, so you can free others from your manipulations as you

free yourself from theirs. I highly recommend this book.

When I Say No, I Feel Guilty, by Manuel Smith.

This is raw assertion, but you can transform it into spiritual assertion.

3. I assume that prayer was the main method used to connect with God. Is that correct?

No, it is not. Prayer usually means talking to God, but not listening. Most people whopray do not know but only believe there is a God. They cannot begin to even believe that God

would in any way bless them with a verbal response, or any other kind of communication. They

must defer to a book. Then there are those who imagine that God is speaking to them, andusually tell others all about it. Some believing they are Prophets and the like. Real prayer is

simply listening to the small still voice within you, that has no sugar coating and presents to you

what you need to hear and feel, whether it is comfortable or not, whether it confirms your beliefs

or negates them. Very few people take the time to master themselves to be able to listen to thatsmall still voice. Many believe they hear that voice, which is only the voice of their own mind.

They have not done the work, have not mastered themselves, and are still lost in belief.

4. How do you feel about people like Osama Bin Laden? Is he spiritual, faithful, evil, etc.

I dont know him. I have, of course, heard about him. I do know this. There are thosewho claim to be Spiritual yet their actions negate the Light of Truth, the Love of God, and life

itself. They all appear to claim a superior knowledge, yet if you do not believe as they do, they

will either kill your body or condemn you to some sort of hell after your body dies. These typesof people are lost in false belief and are a detriment to Truth Seeking and humanity in general.

Osama Bin Laden appears to fit this description.

5. Do you think many Christians practice the principles you adhere too?

The principles of Truth Seeking are not limited to Christianity. The Hindus call the Christ

within the Atman, just as an example. Yet most Hindus, just like Christians, will not do the workof Self-mastery and prefer to live in belief. They need to choose an authority to believe in.

Christians who are Truth Seekers soon realize that they are not Orthodox Christian believers, but

are Christines, those aspiring to become Christ-like and Free. Christian Gnostics, of which thereare many, all appear to be genuine Truth Seekers. However, youll have to ask them.

6. What percentage of Christians sees this issue the way you do in your opinion? I suspect thatit would be far less than half of them just from my experience with them.

It appears you are suggesting that force of numbers can have a bearing on what Truth is.If it were only I, it would not change. The Truth simply is. However, I suspect that no Orthodox

Christians whatsoever see this issue the same way. Remember, they are lost in belief, and refuse

to go beyond it. If Jesus himself appeared before them and spoke anything that was at variance

with their belief of what the Bible means, they would scream, Devil! and denounce him.


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Seeking. You appear to be spending more time denying the existence of Truth than trying to

discover it. However, that appears to be your choice. The existence of Truth is not contingent

upon your beliefs, and is higher than your religion of agnosticism, or any other religion.

12. There is something about God that is missing from pretty much all other religions/teachings

and I was wondering if yours contains it. My question is what, if anything, do you teach aboutthe Light and Sound.

Truth Seeking means to discover these truths for yourself. However, there is always a

need for something to experiment with that may lead one to higher consciousness. The Soundyou mention appears to be the Sound of the Universe, the vibration of creation itself. When

teaching how to achieve the out-of-body experience, this Sound can be heard and felt.

The feeling of the Sound Vibration is the important thing, for that is your Soul, your trueessence, doing the sensing. The Light as used in this example is the sensing that your true

essence is this Light, that you are a Spirit and not a physical body. The physical body is just a

sophisticated Space Suit, which allows the Soul to interact in the Physical Realm. The sensing of

the Sound and the Light can create a vibration that will lift you out of your physical body. At thispoint, all you need is a destination, a place to go.

The one thing that stops the movement of Soul out of the physical and into the SpiritRealm is fear. The fear of dying is the factor to overcome. The best way I have found to do this

is the simple acceptance of death. That is to say, if this means I am dead (I can't get back to my

physical body), that is accepted as OK, no problem. Once the barrier is broken and an out-of-

body state is achieved (out of the physical body) the realization that you can't die releases yourfear for further experiments. Sound, Light, and a place to travel to are the main requirements.

Thus, the Sound and Light are applicable in these experiments.

There is a religious movement called Eckankar that has Soul Travel as the basis fordiscovering truth. However, I have discovered that Truth is far more than the knowledge that we

are Soul, and not just a physical body. In addition, these types of experiments do not answer the

fundamental questions of what is the Sound, and what is the Light. If those answers could be putinto words, it would make Truth Teaching a simple process. However, they cannot be put into

words, written or spoken. They must be experienced.

All that I have just written may or may not be true. You will have to do the experiments

and discover for yourself, if you really want to know.

13. I enjoyed your presentation on the difference between believing and knowing, and also your

description of the fervor, the life and death intensity with which those who desire to KNOW, willSEEK. Right on.

It is always a pleasure to see yet another person that understands Truth Seeking. As youwork on attaining higher levels of Spirit Consciousness, it suddenly dawns upon you, BAM! You

are a Truth Teacher!


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14. But there are many, which serve that which they call god, who is hatred, and killing, and

plague, and oppression.

Here the need is for revenge, to get the bad people and teach them a lesson. If they are

deemed evil enough, then this god will send them to a hell forever. This is a typical feeling of the

human psych based upon the instinct for survival, to defend oneself and their family. The nexthuman emotion invoked for this type of god is the need to be accepted, to be part of what is right

and correct. This feeling dictates that if you are correct, everyone else is wrong. Those who

believe the same as you are sought out to support your belief, and in fact, converts are eagerly

made of anyone they can convince to believe the same. This gives strength and credibility to thebelief that they are right and those who believe different are wrong. As an example, there are

billions of Muslims, so we must be correct. There are billions of Christians, so we must be

correct. There are more Republican voters than Democrats, so we must be right. The list goes on,but you get the point by now. The justification of an evil god is a simple one; the bad people are

the blunt of this god's anger, not the true believer, who is saved from that wrath by whatever

belief is needed to appease that god. The greatest enemy of this kind of god is Truth Teaching

and therefore, Truth Seeking. The only attribute that saves a genuine Truth Seeker from thesnares of this false belief is the burning, unquenchable desire, to KNOW and not just believe.

15. I recently tried to explain this to someone, who claimed god refused to answer his prayers.

His prayer was to know if god was real. I felt sorry for him. I told him he had to decide FIRST.

How can a god answer him, whom he does not even believe exists?

This is called false skepticism. One must first believe before they can know. The

knowing may dictate there is no god, or it may be that there is. The false skeptic has already

decided there is no god, and demands proof from this god if it does exist. No proof acceptable isavailable to this kind of person. If they were suddenly taken out of body and shown the Spirit

Realm, shown that they are not a physical body but a living Spirit that cannot die, on their return

to the physical body, they would write that off as an illusion, a dream. The same if God appearedto them would occur. There is no proof for those who have already decided what the Truth is.

They refuse to do the work and again, as in the above statements, Truth Teaching and therefore,

Truth Seeking, is their greatest enemy. This is noted in the answer to question two:

"There is a challenge with this type of discovery. Before one can know, they must first believe.

Now belief means it may be true, it could be true, but I do not know if it is. Then the experiment

can begin. If you decide what the answer is before you experiment, before you believe to doexperiments, the conclusion is just a mental one, another form of belief. I believe to disbelieve in

God. This is just another worthless opinion."

Another aspect of discovering God is the idea that God is not just a person to be talked

with and shake hands with. God is an expression of Truth and therefore, of KNOWING and not

believing. One can learn to know this God by experience of the God Spell, the absoluteassurance and knowing that a higher power is at work, within the self, within you. It is a

discovery, not a revelation. It comes to anyone who desires it with all their heart, mind, and Soul,

with every aspect of their being, above all else in their life, the priority of their seeking. The Law

of Noninterference prevents any miraculous revelations; the Law of Divine Intercession provides


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all the experience and proof necessary. Could this idea be true? Do the work of self-mastery and

see for yourself.

16. Is the God of your understanding an entity outside of yourself?

First, let us consider that if God is within you, and me then the God within you is outsideof me. However, God is not an entity as we define entities. The God within you is a PART of the

True God, since you are a manifestation, a creation, of GOD.

Your first contact to KNOW and not just believe in this God is within yourconsciousness. You must know yourself in order to know the true God of us all. The mastery of

self is the first step in seeking Truth. Where do your thoughts come from? Are you your

thoughts? Are you more than just mind and thinking? Who is doing the thinking? Do you knowyou exist because you think, or do you know you think because you exist? Where did you come

from? Where are you now? Where are you going? Is there a state of consciousness beyond the

state of self-consciousness you now have? Do you only believe in the answers to these questions,

or do you KNOW beyond the shadow of a doubt? What is the difference between believing andknowing? Can you learn to KNOW things and not just believe? Is it possible to know, to have

the absolute assurance that can never be changed by any beliefs? Is there a Spiritual Realm? Areyou more than a physical body? If you are a Spirit, can you enter the Spiritual Realm now, leave

your body, and experience it? Do those beings exist who have already done the work that can

help guide you to your own experiences of this knowledge? Do you know, not just believe, with

absolute assurance that these questions can or cannot be answered? This is the journey of agenuine Truth Seeker, who has the burning, unquenchable desire to KNOW and not just believe!

TRUTH TEACHER

For God and Freedom, I AM

Rev. Dr. Ray Pasold

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