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Your Truth May Be Someone’s Piece Of The Puzzle

Someone Told Me That I Have A Lot To Learn

3 min readJan 16, 2025

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Shadow Enlightenment. 2022. Avatar created by Lensa from Karina’s photographs

He meant in terms of spirituality and “enlightenment.”

He claimed I am way into my ego, and that enlightenment is letting go of the ego. I certainly am familiar with that philosophy. And he may be right. And he is certainly right about me having a lot to learn. Isn’t that the case with all of us?

I write about woo woo stuff. But I do not claim to be some guru of enlightenment. What I seek to do is share my current thoughts and ideas from where I am now. Certain things resonate as true to me. I am here to share those.

Perhaps truth has layers. A rat in a cage may know it as “true” that if he pulls the lever, the food will come. A more observant rat may see that one of the big creatures stocks the canister with food. A really smart rat may come to understand that the canister is stocked precisely to feed it. That is as far as “truth” regarding the canister as a rat may go. Of course there are more layers. There is the truth that the entire cage and canister and lab were designed for a reason. Then there are further reasons as to why the human exists and needs to create these environments. And who knows how many more layers there are.

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Karina Pawlak
Karina Pawlak

Written by Karina Pawlak

Philosopher. Artist. Powerlifter. Author of Lifting Weights & Growing Organs. https://www.amazon.com/dp/1927023939

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