Truth or Consequences: The Law of Mind and Spirit

"Whatever you hold true on Earth I will hold true in Heaven." This phrase can reinterpreted as a warning. Because a rare but real occurrence with lies is people believing them, and rather than the liar gaining from their lie, they suffer for it. Their Earthly mouth told a lie, and the Divinity of the listener held it true; because why wouldn't they? This puts the liars in an even bigger bind if their lie leads to bigger repercussions because it was believed, now when they want things to stop they can't.

It's a subtle warning about unintended consequences. For example someone is lied to at work about something by a co-worker or manager and believes it. Down the line this lie costs the workplace a lot of money or people their jobs. Meanwhile the person who believed the lie is oblivious or unaffected. Everyone else though reaps the whirlwind.

Another phrase that shortens this warning is, "Truth or Consequences." There is no in between, every lie requires more and more lies to keep up. It becomes work, and the amount of information a person has to keep at the forefront of their minds builds and builds.

Every lie is a consequence, immediately.

All this leads to stress on the body. Every conversation they have with someone has to maintain the lie, so in effect nothing about them or of them is ever "real" because it cannot be; and they have to remember all the parts of them that are fabricated, in a sense forgetting who they really were.

Looking at many who live very public lives and what's generally known about some of the goings on behind the scenes. It becomes apparent that lying is the standard operating procedure in many areas of life and society. We see how the mounting lies stresses and ages people. We often attribute it to the nature of their work or lifestyle. But these are worlds of money and power, their lies are monumental and monstrous. Sharing in the lie is how they can all manage to barely cope. They hate but don't want to leave the life that's destroying and killing them so they try to hide it. Shiny things and plastic surgery.

As things progress and they and their lives deteriorate, it becomes clear to onlookers that the root of the rot is them. The deceitful lying at the center of it all; always in the middle of something.

An ironic twist for the deceitful is a growing resentment towards those who believe their lies, for believing their lies. Because it is their trusting belief of that person that is keeping them locked in a prison of their own making.

And all the while the people that were lied to are unharmed or unaffected, or not left destroyed like those who lied. Some may have some hurt but ultimately they can simply move on and keep on never having to think about it. They never have to know they were ever deceived really.

Thinking of a consequence as something that only happens if you get caught is like thinking the only down side to drinking poison is if someone sees you do it. The damage is internal and instant.

There’s the saying, “what a tangled web we weave when we practice to deceive.” This is true in spirit but wrong in mechanics. Because it is the very nature and point of lying. But unlike Spiders, liars get caught in their own web of sticky situations. The Mind is meant to exist in aware stillness, not balance on the edge of the abyss. Evil is what we become when you begin to deny the soul; the devil is that life lived. People fear an afterlife of punishment and torment after living a life punishing and tormenting others as well as themselves.

Every lie is a consequence, immediately.

"See what a scourge is laid upon your deceit. That Heaven finds means to kill your joys with Trust."

They are a mind denying reality and suffering as the world bends to fit their narrative imprisoning them in it. Fearing a Hell in an afterlife as they create and live in one in the here and now. The irony is they have the power to change their reality. And what they create is turmoil.

It’s not shocking to me when people lose themselves after balancing precariously on the edge of the abyss. In the end they have become Ouroboros, the “Destroyer of Self.”