RELATIVE TRUTH

“The truth is always changing. Truth is always true, always false and always meaningless, all at the same "time". The truth changes depending upon your level of understanding. Sometimes it will seem impossible to explain something to someone; this will be because of different levels of understanding. Never make the mistake of being judgmental because they or you do not understand. We all are at our correct level of understanding at each moment. It is like we are on a giant staircase. Each one is on a step somewhere on this staircase. Maybe we are higher, or maybe they are. We never really know until we grow more.”

LABELING

“When you label something, you exclude information about it. This is because the thing becomes obscured by other information stored under the label for the thing.

If I were to say, "I study magick," this would immediately bring up all the associations and stored data under the label "magick." Some people would believe I am a stage magician; some people would think I am a satanist, while others would decide that I study magick as a historian. Yet none of these things actually has anything to do with what I would mean by the word "magick."

When you symbolize something, you impose the deep structure of the symbol system used on the way you perceive the thing symbolized. There is a Japanese proverb which relates that to confusing the Moon with the finger pointing to the Moon.

People tend to believe that they understand something when they have a name for it. This is called nominalization. It enables people to take very ill-defined concepts and continuing processes and talk about them as if they were concrete things. The problem is that frequently even the users of these terms (names) do not know what they mean.”