I know that to minimize the pain I experience while escaping the second place I must follow the most potent truths I can find. Truth is like a trail that leads me back to myself every single time. When I follow the most potent truths I stay on the trail and my pain is more muted. I may experience some mild restlessness, but if I begin to follow less potent truths, I leave the trail and begin to experience increasing degrees of pain, discomfort, and distress.
I can assess the potency of any secondself proposition by simply asking myself a question: do I know this with absolute certainty? If I can say yes to this question, then I am dwelling on a potent truth. I can find the most potent truth of all by asking myself: Am I? To that, I clearly answer “yes”. I am. And do I know this with absolute certainty? Yes, I do. This is the gold standard of potency, and I can use my degree of certainty in responding to this question as the measure of all others.
If I find myself saying or expressing or conceptualizing that which I cannot know, then I have left the path. When I speak about politics, I have left the path because I speak in hypotheticals and not absolutes. I pretend that there is something I do not know when I speak about the various ongoings of the world. But I have created this world, so why would I speak about it hypothetically? Why would I engage in conversation with these creatures I myself have made, and say I do not know. If God were to sit across from me in my room and I asked him what he thought about the upcoming election, what would I expect him to say? Would he have an opinion? Would he say he doesn’t know what is going to happen? Would he say it is going to be an interesting election?
No, he wouldn’t. That would be a confused God. A creator who doesn’t realize he is the creator. A creator who has left the path and is confused and disoriented and lost in his own creation. I must grab and hold onto the most potent truths: those which I know with complete and absolute certainty. If I find myself uncertain, then I must stop, rediscover what I am certain about, and return there. The potent truths are those which lead me Home.
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