Who hasn’t looked into the night sky and wondered who am I in this vast universe? And why? What is the truth of my existence?
The hunter-gatherers of early humanity found their truth in animism, which is the belief in innumerable spiritual beings connected with the natural world who are capable of helping or harming human interests. Polytheism developed as humanity settled down to domesticate animals and till the land. Gods and goddesses were worshipped and prayed to for good crops and personal help.
Somewhere in the timeline, those illumined beings known as the Messengers of God started appearing in all societies to catalyze human spirituality, such as Zoroaster, Brahma, Buddha, Abraham and Moses, White Buffalo Calf Woman, Muḥammad, and the Báb and Bahá’u’lláh. The Bahá’í scriptures explain that each Messenger brought the same eternal truths, but that each was limited by the people’s level of understanding. For example, Jesus told His disciples, “I have much more to say to you, more than you can now bear.” (John 16:12)
Each Messenger not only repeated the eternal truths taught by previous Messengers but also told of the next one to come. As Jesus explained, “But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all the truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come.” (John 16:13)
Despite this legacy of divine truth given to guide our lives, most people have chased the “isms”––secularism, communism, fascism, materialism, commercialism, life coaching-ism, nationalism, and just about anything one can add an “ism” to.
As we search the isms for truth, we are assaulted by misinformation from many sources, AI images designed to outrage, propaganda of every persuasion, and scams of every sort. But as deplorable as these are, they are not the root of the issue.
The real problem is that most of us have never been taught how to think about truth in the first place!
We were never taught how ideology or our fantasies shape our perceptions before we even look at a source. We were never taught how emotional manipulation bypasses our rational mind – and why it works even on people who know it is happening. We were never taught how our assumptions, our tribal loyalties, our need for certainty, and our fear of being wrong all stand between us and actually seeing clearly.
That is exactly what Cameron Lee Cowan and Joseph Atman will dig into at the What Is Truth? virtual seminar to be held July 17-18. And I will be joining them!
I will speak about the eternal truths given to humanity by the Messengers of God and how following them can be our road to spiritual happiness and fulfillment.
I will also discuss the role of prophecy in the Hebrew Bible and then present a PowerPoint on the prophet Daniel’s five timed prophecies that foretold Jesus and Christianity, Muḥammad and Islam, and Bahá’u’lláh and the Bahá’í Faith.
Please clear your calendar for this virtual conference. This is not a conference about defeating any ism or winning arguments. It is about something harder and more valuable: developing the inner stability to hold complexity, ask better questions, and resist manipulation – no matter where it comes from.
We will cover:
- The habits of mind that make real discernment possible
- How ideology, emotion, and identity distort perception before you even realize it
- The philosophical foundations of truth - and how they have been weaponized
- Spiritual formation as a tool for seeing clearly
- What it actually looks like to live truthfully in the modern world
[REGISTER NOW - EARLY BIRD PRICING AVAILABLE] [YOUR TICKET LINK]
That is the invitation. All registrants will receive the link and the scheduled program.
FRIDAY, JULY 17: 3:00 PM - 8:00 PM ET | 2:00 - 7:00 PM CT |
1:00 - 6:00 PM MT | 12:00 - 5:00 PM PT
SATURDAY, JULY 18: 10:00 AM - 7:30 PM ET | 9:00 AM - 6:30 PM CT |
8:00 AM - 5:30 PM MT | 7:00 AM - 4:30 PM PT
You spend a lot of time consuming information. Imagine spending two days actually thinking about how you do it!
Join Eileen, Joe, Cameron, and Friends at the What is Truth? Summit on July 17-18.
About Eileen
Eileen Maddocks is an independent researcher and writer who lives in Vermont. She has written four books: 1844: Convergence in Prophecy for Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and the Bahá’í Faith, and the trilogy The Coming of the Glory: How the Hebrew Scriptures Reveal the Plan of God. She also writes regularly for her Substack. Her cerebral lifestyle is countered with the study of ballet, tap, and jazz.
