Truth Hurts

"The truth hurts." We've all heard it before, but what does it mean? Sure there is the common interpretation meaning when you are brutally honest someone is likely to get there feelings hurt, but what about another angle for this phrase. The angle I am referring to here is most commonly found in ordeal, but it's in everyday life too. When we experience pain (whether intentional or unintentional) for that moment the world around us slips away, when this happens we are able to gain truths. If we train ourselves to not concentrate so much on the pain our body is experiencing, but instead concentrate on receiving messages, revelations or epiphanies we can begin to truly understand. Truly understanding is not believing absolutely everything because "that's what you're supposed to do," but instead question, dig deep and find the hidden truths. Those revelations we can receive through pain can help to guide us to what we need to question, where we need to search and how to find those hidden truths (that are sometimes right under our noses). This is something anybody can do regardless of experience. If you're new to ordeal start small maybe a peircing or tattoo or simply going out for a walk in the bitter cold (if you do this please take precaution against hypothermia or frost bite and if you do it alone tell someone your route and when you expect to be back) and then slowly work your way to more "extreme" levels as you feel comfortable. Another area where truth hurts is when we discover a truth and are then rejected by our loved ones because of our findings. When this happens we feel alone and deeply hurt, but we can learn from this as well. By being rejected by loved ones we can empower ourselves and realize we really don't need to depend on anyone. We become independent, self sufficient and powerful in our own selves. Lilith is my great example for truth hurting. When she gained truth in Eden by eating of the fruit She was cast out by those she loved. But She stood defiant in the face of pain and from that learned many lessons that made Her powerful and immortal. Down through the passages of time She has been hurt, but as always She rises up above the pain stronger, more powerful and wiser. "The truth always sounds heretical, and the lie keepers always seek to keep it buried. Lost. Forbidden. Punishable by death. But without the shining truth in heresy, without the hammer-strike at the pillars of order, we are chained pit bulls- or poodles- at our lieges' tables." Those shackles around our ankles from childhood, that mold we were put in and are kept in by our society, they aren't locked all a person has to do is bend over and take them off. Once you do this you are no longer the slave you've been your whole life, but a freed person. Nobody what's us to realize they aren't locked though because we're easier to control when we're chained down. Sure it may hurt to take them off, people think we're crazy, missin a few screws up stairs but remember from pain comes great strength and wisdom.

Death and a mother's comfort

Just recently my rat Templeton died. Templeton was my baby and I loved him as a son. When he died I was devastated I didn't know what to do, finally after many tears I began talking to my Mother, Mother Lilith. I asked her to take good care of him and love him as I did, as I do. At that moment I felt a great comfort, I felt arms around me, I knew I was in Her arms. We sat there for a great while and as She held me I continued to cry, but this time was different, this time I had someone to comfort me, tell me everything would be all right. It felt wonderful to have Her hold and comfort me, for Her to assure me that she would care for him now and I had nothing to worry about.