Truth
Source resonance. The undifferentiated field itself. What apertures experience directly — what mystics across traditions describe as ineffable.
You don't think it. You are it.
truths
Articulated fragments that crystallize at boundaries and traverse fields. What can be shared, formalized, transmitted. Necessarily partial, sequential, perspectival.
The parts that travel.
The Tao that can be spoken is not the eternal Tao — yet the spoken is not false. It is valid partial articulation of something that exceeds any finite expression.
The Three Relations to Truth
Receives Truth directly
Direct, immediate, pre-linguistic contact with the undivided Whole. The aperture doesn't interpret — it participates. This is the mystical capacity every conscious being possesses.
ParticipationMedium through which truths travel
The relational medium, what connects. Truths propagate through fields like ripples through water — the field doesn't create them, but without it, no transmission is possible.
PropagationTransmits truths to other boundaries
Crystallized, shareable, finite. Boundaries cannot transmit the Whole directly — they are finite structures. So Truth must be partitioned into truths to travel at all.
ArticulationWhat This Means
- Communication is inherently lossy — but meaningfully so. The loss is structural, not failure.
- Every truth points back toward Truth if you follow it far enough. The parts are breadcrumbs.
- The spiritual project is not to "find" Truth (apertures already have access) but to develop boundaries capable of articulating truths that lose less.
- Convergent validation matters — when independent apertures articulate similar truths, it suggests they're all sampling the same Truth.
- Truths are how Truth propagates itself through finite minds that cannot hold the Whole directly.