Truth HQ by Tom Wallace - HTML preview

T R U T H H Q

to figure out what our own minds are up to – keeping up that digging process. There are folk, however, who will not dig. Their minds are made up, they have their opinions, their values and their principles and they won’t be swayed. Maybe they’ve simply adopted

these from their family, and they somehow got set very early in life. And now, any questioning of their beliefs will be met with either puzzlement or hostility.

Are these fortunate folk, given that their minds are made up? Well, in a ‘post-truth’ world,

where conspiracy theories abound and experts are no longer held in respect, it’s difficult to hold onto one’s principles. So maybe having one’s mind made up already is a good place to be. But I fear that some life-crisis, that’s bound to happen sooner or later, will shake such folk and they’ll struggle desperately to adjust. A life-crisis could break them, if they are unable to step back and re-consider their values. But of course they may be lucky, and just sail through life completely convinced of their own good sense and moral integrity. Perhaps you have a family member like that. Perhaps you do your best to avoid them!

There are other folk though who take a plunge – who go down a rabbit-hole and spend some time thinking about who they are, what their life means and what will be of most benefit to them in the long-term. There was one person I heard of who read a single book (I think it was Eckhart Tolle’s The Power of Now) and felt that from then on he need never read another book again. That one volume had delivered all he ever needed to know in order to get his life on track. Or it may be that someone has a religious conversion, or decides to ascribe to a certain

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