Finding the Truth

IKE: The world is what we think it is.
This principle represents the basic idea that our world corresponds to what we think about it. Strictly speaking, we go through our thinking
People and events in our lives. The problem here is that it is not only our conscious thinking that achieves this effect,
but also the thinking of our unconscious. This leads to problems when our subconscious has a different idea of what we want than our mind has.
Especially since most of our thinking happens unconsciously.

This is the first principle of HUNA from Hawaii, which is a very practical implementation of the universal hermetic principles. Something to work with directly.
But how can we be sure that we really think "the truth"? Say that our thoughts are right?

If you simply observe what information is constantly presented to people, then it becomes clear that thinking is to be directed here in a targeted manner. This is called manipulation and most of these methods are very easy to understand. This ranges from constant repetitions to targeted framing, which means that content is formed from the information that they do not originally have and that usually has nothing to do with the truth.

But how do we get to know the truth?
Quote Charles Haanel: "It is the few who know that the things they see are only effects, and understand the causes by which these effects were brought into existence." (MKS 8.29)
Here I would like to insert the exercise from the 8th chapter of the Masterkey System, and yes, I know some are reluctant to do the exercise as prescribed by Haanel with a warship. Because you don't want to manifest something like that. Well, is an argument, so if it bothers you, take something else big, a cruise ship, a merchant ship or whatever.

But now to the exercise:
Take the same position as before and imagine a battleship. See the grim monster floating on the surface of the water. There seems to be no life anywhere; everything is silent. They know that the vast majority of the ship is out of sight underwater. They know that the ship is as big and as heavy as a twenty-story skyscraper. They know that there are hundreds of men who are ready to go to their task immediately. You know that every department is run by capable, trained, experienced officials who have proven to be competent in leading this wonderful piece of mechanism. They know that although it is seemingly unnoticed by everything else, it has eyes that see everything for miles, and nothing should escape its watchful eye. They know that although it seems calm, submissive and uninvolved, it is ready to hurl a steel projectile weighing thousands of pounds at an enemy many miles away; you can remember this and much more with comparatively little effort. But how did the battleship get to where it is; how did it come about in the first place? You want to know all this if you are an attentive observer.
Follow the large steel plates through the foundries, see the thousands of men employed in their manufacture. Go back even further and see the ore as it comes out of the mine, see how it is loaded onto barges or wagons, see how it is melted and treated properly. Go even further back and see the architect and engineers who designed the ship. Let the thoughts take you back even further to determine why they planned the ship. You will see that you are now so far back that the ship is something intangible, it no longer exists, it is only a thought that exists in the architect's brain. But where did the order to plan the ship come from? The order probably came from the Minister of Defense. But probably this ship was planned long before the war was thought of, and that Congress had to pass a law approving the funds. There may have been dissenting voices and speeches for or against the law. Who do these MEPs represent? You represent you and me, so our line of thought begins with the battleship and ends with ourselves, and we ultimately find that our own thinking is responsible for this and many other things that we rarely think about, and a little further reflection will develop the most important fact of all, and that is if someone had not discovered the law, by which this enormous mass of steel and iron could be made to float on the water instead of immediately getting to the bottom, the battleship could not have arisen at all.
This law reads: "The specific gravity of a substance is the weight of any volume of that substance compared to an equal volume of water." The discovery of this law revolutionized any kind of sea voyage, trade and warfare and made the existence of the warship possible.
You will find exercises of this kind of invaluable value. When the thought is trained to look below the surface, everything takes on a different appearance, the insignificant becomes significant, the uninteresting interesting; the things we thought were unimportant are seen as the only truly vital things of existence. (MKS 8.30-8.33)

If we practice in this way to trace events and things to their origin, we already come quite close to the truth and do not allow ourselves to be manipulated so easily.
Here I deliberately omit the question of whether there is one truth or only many realities, this would be a separate topic.
And coming back to the exercise, it suddenly makes sense to ask who even came up with the idea that you need something like a warship (or military power in general) at all.

To conclude this long text, I would like to mention the inductive thinking that Charles Haanel speaks of specifically in Chapter 11:
"Inductive reasoning is the process of objective reasoning by which we compare a number of separate instances until we see the common factor that produces them all." (FMD 11.1).
"Induction is done by comparing facts. It is this method of studying nature that has led to the discovery of a law that marks an epoch of human progress." (MKS 11.2)

Bottom line: If the world is what we think of it (and it is), we should constantly carefully review what we think. Otherwise, we make ourselves vicarious agents of forces that pursue goals that usually do not serve our well-being.

Question everything. Really everything. And if you ask why, you've already made a lot of progress.

Thanks for reading this slightly longer text.