Caring for truth will bring us to learn more about ourselves and the world we live in. We will seek to know, rather than ignore or deny. We will embrace what is, and admit what is wrong in order to imagine what is better that we can create.

This is a continuation from a previous post on care for truth. It has prerequisite understanding on the topic.

Apathy for Truth

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The Work of the "Dead" (Lower "Unconscious" Living)

In contrast to care for truth, if we are apathetic to truth, then we don't care for truth, and won't seek it out, accept it, and then live it. We remain in a state of ignorance, willfully ignoring, rejecting and denying the truth in the current condition of reality.

We choose to believe whatever we want, desire or wish to believe. We agree to the conditioned stimulus of the standardized and normalized acceptability spectrum for our society and how we live our life. There is no need to learn, be curious, doubt and question things, because we accept it in the illusion of "good" as being valid, normal, natural or necessary. This is the wrong kind of acceptance, tacitly accepting the current condition and talking about the same things, not really thinking deeply, not critical thinking about the current condition and seeing what is wrong with it.

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This leads to a lack of understanding, a misconception and confusion of reality, living in falsity and illusions, and ultimately being fooled whereby we accept falsity over truth because we don't really deeply care for truth nor realize the importance of truth in life.

As a result of being fooled by lies, falsity, deception and manipulation, we act foolishly and continue to engage in wrong-actions, even without knowing it. We support and participate in some form of creating wrong into the world because we remain ignorant that it's even wrong. We may even deny it's wrong, because we are too attached to it as the current condition that we have been conditioned into accepting uncritically. We often accept what is being done as needing to continue, because that's how it has been done. We "justify" it through ancestor, tradition or natural fallacies.

This prevents us from changing our ways, to not do the right-action, since we can't even recognize and realize we are doing a wrong-action. We are made impotent, unable to change through learned helplessness, accepting the standard normalization of our current condition and not trying to change it.

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To be apathetic, ignorant, confused and misconceiving reality and truth to then act foolishly, often means we are a coward and in fear of truth deep down within ourselves, in our consciousness. If we don't develop true care, we go nowhere. We are limited in our ability to create true freedom and peace (response-ability), and it won't work out in the end because we will be working against what is right, good and true in ignorance of what is right, good and true.

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The Remedy for Apathy is Care

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When someone is literally dead, there is no consciousness or action in life, hence the symbolism of being "unconscious".

To be unconscious is to lack consciousness in varying degrees. Being consciously aware, thinking and learning, increases awareness of reality. Being unconscious is akin to not increasing awareness of what is really going on.

When we don't really have care for truth ignited in a significant way, we have apathy for truth. This is to remain "unconscious", "dead", "asleep", "sheep", unawakened and uninitiated. We are "dead" in the coffin or tomb, unawakened, asleep and unconscious to various significant quality truths and the importance of truth in life. It symbolizes a "deadened" "heart" center, a "deadened" core, "essence", "spirit" and consciousness.

When someone is asleep, not awake, they are also unconscious and inactive. It's to be unconscious and inactive relative to being consciously aware of the importance of truth, caring for truth and acting in alignment with truth. Analogy, metaphor and symbolism is used to expressed this understanding of unrealized and unactualized potential to care for, seek, embrace, embody and live up to our potential truer, realer, higher version of ourselves that aligns with truth, and specifically moral truth.

Having life is related to consciousness and awareness. Higher consciousness is related to being more "alive", to having the light and vision of truth in our lives, to having the flame of truth burning and fueling us from within, to drive and motivate us in life.

Death is being dead, in darkness, no longer conscious but unconscious. Lower consciousness is related to this symbolism, where we are "dead" in a tomb within rather than being "alive", in the darkness and not in the light, blind instead of having vision from the light of truth, to be in "eternal slumber" vs. "eternal life"/"afterlife" of being risen from the "dead" underworld.

When we choose to Care for Truth, and specifically moral truth, we develop a higher consciousness. We become "initiated", "awake" and aware, where we are "resurrected", "rebirthed", "reborn" and "raised" from the "deadened" lower state of consciousness. We rise to a higher, truer and realer consciousness, and are now "alive", into a "new life", a "New World", an "afterlife", "eternal life" and "immortal life", a "paradise"/"heaven", that is given to us by the "light" of truth in our lives, the "divine Word", the Logos, the Good.

This is symbolism of internal states of consciousness and being, not literal external death/life, or a heaven/underworld in some other realm or whatever. Although we can create a heaven on earth if we externalize our internal state of being in higher consciousness awareness of creating what is right, good, moral and true.

Truth, moral truth, is what creates order and determines the overall quality and condition of our lives. Moral truth/Law is the foundation for higher, truer, realer, authentic (maa) living and life. If you are familiar with many of the narratives and mythologies of religions or "mystery" schools, this is the deeper esoteric message.

The "god" of the "underworld" was called Osiris. Osiris was the Lord of Life, the "eternal life" through "resurrection" and "rebirth". The meaning behind the black/green symbolism that some "gods" had, representing aspects of generation and creation.

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He is often depicted with a green head. The crocodile chimera beast that ate the corrupted "heart" also had a green head. Osiris, the lord of the underworld, was also depicted as green or black. These colors were chosen to represent the generative principle of creative potential, just as Heka (magic) was symbolic of, and to create order from chaos. The underworld was a transitional location for the symbolic Hero Monomyth journey to renew, regenerate and resurrect ourselves in greater alignment with the principle of maat, order, truth, authenticity, justice, etc.

The underworld is the previously unknown darkness and shadow within us, where we face our demons in the darkness, and we need to use the light of truth to battle these dark forces and put them to death. Then we gain life, are "resurrected" and "rebirthed", "regenerated" and "recreated anew", and reach an "after-life/heaven" of a new world of being. It's all symbolism, not literal. This is the journey to the underworld, facing ourselves in the mirror, where we are our own worst enemies, we are our own adversaries, our own opposers (Satan), that we finally have the care, courage and willpower to conquer and destroy.

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