I figured out early, when I was a kid, that I was going to be a failure in our mainstream culture. I wasn’t a good enough liar. Kids are into mischief, but teachers knew instantly who to grill.

Why couldn’t I lie like everyone else? Looking back 60 years later, I can see that I didn’t have an “off-switch” for my truth detectors. I couldn’t let go enough of the truth I knew in my bones, to really “believe in” the lies we all knew were being spoken.

I laughed later about having a good “B.S. detector”, but it wasn’t until recent years that I really understood. We all have infallible B.S. detectors. We all know the truth about everything – in every cell of our body. There is even a whole branch of alternative medicine, “kinesiology” or muscle testing, that is used to hear what the body knows. Malidoma Somé writes of not having to study in college. He’d just focus on the teacher giving a test, and know what answer they wanted. I once threatened to write a book to teach kids how to muscle-test during multiple-choice tests, to get a score of 100.

Marlo Morgan, in Mutant Message, quoted the Australian Aboriginals as saying, “We can’t lie. We always speak the truth.” Jean Auel, in her Clan of the Cave Bear series speaks the same of the “Clan.” In both cases, the older cultures actually knew, psychically, what was true and when someone was not speaking truth.

We all have lived different lives, and experienced different truths. That is something different from direct knowing on deeper levels. Even on that level it is amazing sometimes getting together with someone who adamantly “knows” exactly the opposite of what you do. A little talking often reveals that those apparently different truths fit together to reveal deeper truth that encompasses all the differences.

Ooops, I let slip out that red flag word. Psychic. Woo-woo stuff. Unfortunately for un-truth, that psychic realm exists, and isn’t going away. Instead, people’s psychic skills are bursting out all over. I’ve sat in recently on a couple of psychic skills classes, and the skills and consistency of results that a whole group of people have really gives goose bumps.

And it’s not just anthropologists having to acknowledge “talking truth” today. Even physics is having to do so. Quantum connectedness has demonstrated that everything in our universe is totally informationally connected. Even down to the photon level. Everything knows any changes anywhere. Instantly. Just like Superman – faster than the speed of light.

So it turns out we have two totally different kinds of consciousness. That mainframe “integral consciousness” in every cell that absolutely knows truth. And second, the weird “computer peripheral” appendages above our necks – our brains and our five senses that were developed to be more successful in this material world.

They work so well that they drown out information coming in through our integral consciousness. All kinds of tools, from meditation to dance to qi-gong to drugs, shut down that noise and let us hear the truth quietly arriving from the rest of the universe.

A lot of people are afraid of the psychic realm, They’ve never experienced someone able to see through the complicated layers of lies they’ve had to juggle to exist in our culture. They are afraid of people seeing what they’re really thinking or feeling. Afraid of the idea of living in truth, never having experienced that world.

It’s actually a wonderful relief. Really doesn’t matter what they see – it’s all worth a laugh. And, oh! … what energy saved from trying to navigate those layers of lies.

A culture of avarice cannot imagine real wealth. It’s not for sale. It’s the beauty of living in true, being in connection with all of creation through our integral consciousness, knowing our value to our community and all life. Talking truth, being open, vulnerable, and non-judgmental opens those doors and the wonderful world awaiting.

Tom Bender lives in North Tillamook County