Manifest Revolution Live Truth.

We have struggled for millenia with the nagging existential doubt whether there is anything absolute or whether we are just butterflies dreaming they are men. We have built absolute systems of belief and absolute codes of behavior then violated and reinterpreted them against the backdrop of changing culture We have fought wars in the name of one who taught, "Blessed are the peacemakers." We use subjective systems of experiential spirituality with relative morality to simultaneously devalue human suffering and decry animal suffering. We argue about what we put into our mouths without thinking about what comes out. We are still arguing about the actuality of the big bang and evolution instead of seeking meaning within the universe which they have created. Our mythical god is nowhere to be found in the sky, our self god is pathologically narcissistic, and our nature god is choking on the fumes of SUVs and coal-fired power plants.

Commitment is everything. Not the everything of hyperbole, but the everything of cosmogony, evolution and universal potential. Commitment is the relative made absolute. This goes back to the very beginning, not just of time, but of the whole process. Where does everything start? Everything starts with a spark. The universe started with a spark, an idea starts with a spark, a life starts with a spark -- or maybe that's a sparkle. The spark is an impulse, but an impulse goes nowhere, has nowhere to go. Until it does.

To know God is to strip away all interpretive contexts; to stand on absolute ground with respect to oneself and the universe. It is to look upon all of existence as it is, to stand naked before ultimate truth without pride or shame, without fear or deserving, and to be seen as you are not as you believe yourself to be. To know God is to be engaged in the creative process urgently, effortlessly, and without reservation.

All of the great spiritual traditions from which modern practices are derived predate the emergence of formal, rational methods of inquiry. Which puts us in an excellent position to start examining those traditions to find out what is essential to the human experience, as opposed to what is mythology or what is codified coincidence.

Occam's Razor, one of the first and most fundamental principles of formal inquiry, states that, all other things being equal, the simplest explanation -- that is, the one that rests on the fewest assumptions and hypotheticals -- tends to be the best explanation. Occam's Razor is your friend. Occam's Razor keeps you from inventing religions where none are required. It's a very simple tool, I carry mine wherever I go. You never know when Occam's Razor might come in handy.