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Long ago, we as a people left on a journey then one day while traveling through a forest we lost our way. After some discussion, the leaders of our group decided that no one should be told about this because they feared it would cause a panic jeopardizing the safety and morale of the group. We trusted our leaders so we continued on our journey not knowing that we had strayed off course. Members of the group who enjoyed a high level of status and privilege, also, knew that we had lost our direction, but didn't say a word to prevent anything that might affect their standing within the group. Some other very intelligent members eventually realized we were going the wrong way, but sadly decided nothing could be done about it so they continued on with the group opting to only care for those closest to them while secretly losing hope in our journey as a whole. Many members were so distracted by their own lives and the inner drama of the group that they never realized we were off course and some were just too busy keeping up to notice. I, like you, was born in the group and grew up long after any of this happened. As I was becoming a young man, I started noticing inconsistencies between the direction we said we were headed and what direction we were actually going. I got the feeling that something wasn't right so I tried to talk to some of the elders of the group about this, but no one wanted to listen. I was raised to be honest, hard working and to always do what's right which made it impossible for me to follow in the direction that I was expected to go. Instead, I believed that if I could secretly find the place where we were all truly trying to reach and bring proof of it back then maybe someone would listen, so I left. Over the centuries, the group has become a world in and of itself so much that many people have forgotten that there is a world outside of it. The forest is no longer real to them or even part of their journey. Only the group is. The natural world is just something in the background or in photographs. Because people consider the group the whole world, its leaders can control this reality, but, unfortunately, our leaders are the ones who got us lost in the first place. Although there are those who haven't forgotten what our journey truly is about, not many people are interested in what these few people have to say anymore. Most people's minds are controlled so much by the world inside the group that they wouldn't recognize the truth even if they walked right past it, which many do every day. I've learned a lot since I left the group. One of my first lessons regarding the place I believed we are all trying to get to is that more people than I ever imagined have given up on their own journeys, as well as on ours. I was shocked by how many people don't really mean what they say and that many words are just ideas that do not actually represent anything in reality, but because so many people only live within the group, they do not realize this falsity. I don't believe this is a reflection of human nature as much as it is a reflection of how far off course we have traveled. Too many people just can't see a light at the end of the tunnel from where the group is, now, because the artificial distractions created by our leaders keep their eyes out of focus. The good news is that there is a true light and I have seen it. I finally reached the place we're, all, trying to get to and it's more amazing than I ever dreamed. The bad news is that many still do not or cannot listen. My plan to bring proof of it back didn't work out the way I expected, at first, because I was naive to think people wanted to know the truth. In a fear based world created by untrustworthy leaders, all people really want is to feel safe and the truth when people are living a lie is very scary. Most ambitious goals we attempt for the first time rarely turn out the way we planned. However, if we don't give up and keep trying, we gain the necessary experience through trial and error to do it better the next time and the next time until we succeed. If what I say is true and this place does exist, I should be able to give people a glimpse of it with these words and actions because they are based in the reality of what I have seen and experienced not simply ideas. Other people who have found it, too, on their own journeys, because I know I'm not the only one, may even want to share their light as well until we can make it there as a group. In the meatime as the world becomes more crazy, I thought it would be helpful to share some truth, common sense and good values. The immediate need for these basic principles is what compels me to post this live as it's being written. As we continue to be bombarded with inadequate information from questionable sources, people need to hear solid, down to earth truth. There's power in the truth. Nothing else is required, no membership fees, no fine print, no coercion, no choosing sides, no selling of one's soul. Like a seed, all the truth needs is a little light shined on it to grow. Writing about it here is one small way to do this. The Truth Farm will someday be a place. This book is its blueprint. The first thing I should mention is that if you're not already living off the land or growing your own food, you should probably read this gradually rather than all at once. This might sound condescending or impractical, but the truth is uncompromising and when you've been fed lies your whole life beginning at childhood and unknowingly accepted them as reality, it's going to take some time for your brain to consider something vastly different even if it is true, let alone adopt it into your life. Our minds are creatures of habit. People believed the world was flat a lot longer than we've known it to be round. I've had decades to compile what I'm about to share with you. Read a chapter and put it down for even a year. I'm not trying to sound patronizing, but this information will be hitting you all at once and this can feel overwhelming like crossing the Grand Canyon on a tight rope with the vastness of how far we've strayed from the truth below you. It's probably best not to keep looking down into the abyss until you've incorporated more solid ground into your life. Keep your balance by focusing on what's directly in front of you until you get to a more stable place. However if you are reading this book, you may be the type of person who is not deterred by the sometimes overwhelming weight of the truth, but rather continually searches for more. If you're already in a stable place and you're hungry for a lot of truth all at once then have at it. The other reason I'm writing this live is because writing a book takes time and so does working for a living. I'm not independently wealthy. I don't have the luxury to sit around all day and write. Time is money in this world and if you're not working for what you consume someone else must otherwise you will quickly find yourself broke. Who's going to pay my bills while I'm writing, some publishing company? I'm not interested in becoming a writer. I'm a worker, a farmer, a fisherman and a builder and proud of it. I'm not interested in sitting around while others work. And for the record, if someone doesn't mention money early on in your relationship with them then they're hiding something and most likely trying to sell you something else in the process. There's an unspoken rule in our society to stay clear of conversations about money, the single most valuable commodity in our world, but what this social moré is really an attempt at is pressuring us to avoid talking about the truth. If a person doesn't mention money, they're trying to get you to buy into one thing while hiding something else. There's no other reason to avoid the subject. Secondly, it's worthwhile to mention that if you do not have a healthy relationship with your heart much of what this book contains will not make sense to you and you will most likely mock or dismiss its contents not because it has no validity, but simply because you fear your own feelings. You're afraid to admit that you don't have a healthy relationship with your heart, but if you choose to continue reading you will have a much better one when you are finished. As you're crossing the canyon of truth and realize you've been walking on a rickety bridge of lies for most of your life that could collapse at any moment, it's important to become familiar with solid terms like work, fuel tank, joy, table, emotional availability and many more because these terms will be building blocks like bricks for the new road you're now laying down. The more truth you welcome into your life the more building blocks you will have until you fill the emptiness that was once below you. Quicker than you expect, you will find yourself walking on the solid stable earth. To find each block and put it to the test, I had to live everything I write about, first, to assure that it is reliable. This isn't a book of ideas. The words and terms represented here are tools that have been tried and tested. Ideas alone are nothing. Only coupled with action does something become real. If an idea or belief didn't work, it was thrown out. People write books for different reasons, maybe to make a lot of money or to become famous. That's not why I'm writing this and that's why it's free and anonymous. This is more like a shop manual for living an honest and happy life than it is a novel for entertainment. If people can't put this information to good use then there's no point in writing it. The other reason I'm remaining anonymous is because I like my privacy. I'm not interested in becoming part of the absurd world of the media. I don't need attention or the approval of fools. If honest, hard working people benefit from this, that's all the approval I need. A person shouldn't have to sacrifice their privacy in order to reach others. The truth should be free and available to anyone strong enough to carry it. Even though it is much easier to stay true to a solitary path, true happiness cannot be achieved alone. Do not try to live according to the truth by yourself. It is too much for one person to bear in a world of lies. Though it may require you to compromise personal preferences, find others willing to live according to the truth with you. Without others, we only serve our minds. Together we can serve our hearts which are our greatest links to the truth. Lastly, I'll say that the truth is not only vital to the survival of our species on this planet, but, it is, also, a requirement for living a happy, honest and useful life. Without happiness, there's no point in any of this. You cannot live according to lies and be happy, but to take everything in this book and apply it to your life idealistically could drive a person insane. Not because living according to the truth is crazy. It's not. It's beautiful, but the world we are living in at this stage in human history is crazy. Trying to live sane in an insane world can be very dangerous, but knowing the truth offers a person the comfort that it's not them who has lost their way. It's this world. It's a wild and amazing world, too, which is why it is very easy for a person to convinve themself that it's real. Some people even choose to stay lost rather than face what they know is true, but denial is not a solution, only a temporary postponement of the inevitable because even this artificial world cannot exist without the truth. The truth is "N", north, on your compass. Always keep it in sight. No matter how crazy this world becomes, you can always trust the truth. The more you build your life on it, the better your life will become while making the world a better place, regardless of how imperfectly you may think your progress is. Just keep heading in the right direction. The perfection is in trying. If you are trying, you are perfect to me. Good luck.
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