Fairytale rewards for adults
If you bring your Intuition to bear on a fairytale, it will, like Proteus, The Old Man of the Sea, reveal its Truth.
And sure, Truth is a useful reward, but not a very exciting one.
Sounds more like getting socks or a tie for Christmas, doesn’t it?
Where’s the magic reward?
Where’s the surprise trip to Paris or the new Lexus with the bow on top?
The real fairytale swag is coming, but first a little adult Truth telling.
Pontius Pilate famously asked Christ “What is Truth?”*
Almost as famously though, he didn’t wait around for an answer.
Maybe he was wise enough to realize there’s no adequate way to define Truth.
Not in words.
Of course, that hasn’t stopped people from trying.**
My own understanding is that Truth is not a collection of facts or factoids, no matter how verifiable they might be.
And it’s not something that can be measured by the senses — even if it can sometimes feel like a kick in the, um...well, yeah.
If anything, Truth has something to do with the relationship between fact and context, but I’ll stop now.
I just don’t think we need a definition in order to recognize it.
If anything, it’s more important to understand how Truth affects us.
We know from experience that Truth can leave us absolutely gobsmacked.
Especially when it shatters some deeply held belief.
Of course, we can always turn a blind eye to it — either willfully or in ignorance.
But if we want Truth, and if we’re open to it — which is all that really counts — it has the power to Transform us.
Transformation isn’t change.
Of course a dictionary will tell you otherwise, but most of those definitions don’t fit the real deal.
We can change all sorts of things about ourselves without being Transformed.
The real Transformation brought about by Truth doesn’t change who we are.
Instead, it takes us closer to the Truth of who we are.
The part that never changes.
Transformation means we’re free of whatever untruthful knots of belief we’ve tied ourselves into.
Transformation means we’re becoming who we intuitively sense we were meant to be.
Not who we think (or were told) we should be.
Transformation means we’re closer to what’s meant by our Original Face.
The deepest most original Truth of ourselves.
So how come I don’t feel Transformed just by reading a fairytale?
Transformation may be that New-Agey, feel-good thingy lots of people say they want.
But remember Menelaus and Proteus?***
Proteus didn’t just hand over the Truth.
Menelaus had to hang on for dear life before Proteus finally coughed it up.
In other words, he had to go through an Ordeal.
So it is with fairytales.
There's no Truth or Transformation without an Ordeal.
Transformation is just a nice, fluffy word for what comes after the Ordeal.
It’s the after-glow.
The victory party.
The celebration.
Transformation is Success!
And we all want a piece of THAT, don’t we?
If you do, just keep tuning in.
Your Intuition will thank you.
To be continued...
** Have a gander at the Wikipedia page on Truth or, much more invitingly, Nietzsche: On Truth and Lying in an Extra-Moral Sense
*** The Odyssey: Book 4 Lines 351 - 480