UnderStanding Reality

A Note To Humanity It is time we as a species examine our true purpose for existing in earnest. Establishing the understanding and simply stating a belief, the belief that our inalienable rights were endowed by the Creator, are two entirely different things. What is different is the approach. For hundreds of years, perhaps thousands of years, isolated pockets of humanity have professed the altruistic belief that individual rights are endowed by our Creator. The idea was always based upon an intuitive sense. The esoteric means by which a few select individual could understand the rationale for such an altruistic belief was little understood by the masses. , As a species we have never focused upon building a rational model supporting the idea. ... A model of reality gives us a picture demonstrating where we as individuals stand in reality, which in turn leads us to understand our true essence. It is the understanding of our true nature, which then leads us to understand why we exist which in turn leads to the rational understanding regarding the significance of individual and regarding who or what granted us our individual rights. If our rights were endowed to us by other physical beings, be they human or otherwise, then said rights can rationally be ungifted by those that gifted them. If, however, The Creator of the physical universe endowed our individual rights, then only the Creator can rationally remove them. ... Why Now? What is different regarding humanity’s present point in history, which clearly cries out for a new understanding of man’s true nature? There are many answers to the question: Why now? But three answers immediately come to mind. First: Today humanity stands on ‘the cusp of the third millennium’, stands at the gates of the Age of Aquarius. Second: At this point in the history of the human species, we stand on the verge of stepping off our planet and dispersing throughout the near and potentially far reaches of the universe. Third: Osho’s words give us some insight regarding the question: Why now? ‘When a Buddha moves the wheel of dharma, it takes two thousand five hundred years for it to stop completely. The wheel that Buddha [500 BCE} moved has stopped. The wheel has to be moved again. And that is going to be my and your life's - work - that wheel has to be moved again. Once it starts revolving it will again have twenty-five centuries' [of] life.’ The Diamond Sutra, Osho IDF317, 2004 Tao Publishing, p289 ... What rationale leads this metaphysicist to understand it is possible to develop an advanced model of reality capable of validating the concept of a Universal Brotherhood of Humanity without distinction of race, color, creed or gender’? ... So it is this book provides the rational arguments needed to support the intuitive faith based words: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.’ The unanimous declaration of the thirteen united states of America, 7/4/1776 Daniel J. Shepard Metaphysicist/Theosophist