THE RANDLE REPORT

TRUTH TO TELL

Truth is the engine and the origin. It is what was there before everything else. It underlies and gives existence to all that we perceive, all we imagine, all we do and all we create.

Matter, religion, science, mathematics and philosophy are not truth but manifestations of our viewpoints upon it.

Truth would not need to assert itself. It is superior to, and unchanged by, all debate and conflict.

You can’t be partisan with it. It has no parts. It is the blank upon which opinions, concepts, beliefs and dogmas are constructed. You won’t find it by elaboration, but by looking beyond these things.

If you fill a blackboard with formulæ and ask a class what they are looking at, one in a million or more will say ‘a blackboard’. Human systems of ‘science’ and ‘belief’ fill ever more blackboards with diagrams and formulæ. The writing becomes ever more dense and significant. When it is solid enough, it becomes holy writ or a fundamental of science. Erstwhile authorities are invoked to add further weight before it is finally locked into bibles, computers and other unquestioning machinery, where it is hoped it will be held inviolable until the end of the apparency of time.

At which point, its edifices and graven gods are to be found crumbling in the desert, or mangled and blasted in a post-nuclear junkyard.

Truth will have been there all along, as if none of it had happened (if any of it did happen).

Like the projector concealed behind the rear wall of a cinema, it will have beamed some flickering images upon a screen, and collected them, their life and light, their noise and petty dramas, back into itself.

From BLINDED WITH SCIENCE available from The Book Depository