Discerning Truth, Love, and the Rhythm of the Heart
The public is perceived to be unable to see through the lies that “checkbook scientists” present as truth.
I take in much more information than I put out. I carry 3-5 books around with me virtually everywhere I go. I watch a lot of video on YouTube these days. (Some wonderful stuff, I might add.) Not only is there a lot to sift through, there’s the sometimes thorny question of what’s true, and even if it is true, is it meaningful?
The thorniness of the matter of discerning truth is greatly compounded by the fact that many of our general understandings about reality, science, religion, and even the “laws” of nature and the universe, which are presented as incontrovertible, are in actuality, not true.
For example, we’ve been told that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light (approx. 186,200 m/s). Before Chuck Yeager managed to safely pilot his Bell X-1 aircraft through it in 1947, the sound barrier was presented as the upper limit of air speed, in the same way that the 4-minute mile was considered the human speed limit in track and field before Roger Bannister surpassed it in 1954.
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