Our knowledge is grounded in an 'intuitive cognition' of a particular aspect of reality. We know through our senses and by making judgments on what we have directly experienced in the world or in ourselves.

‘Intuitive cognition' organizes many particulars in acts of induction which prompts the recognition of similarities among things.

Knowledge comes from actually experiencing contact with reality. What is known is the concrete particular, reality.

The human mind is in contact with actual reality.

The word or symbol for a thing represents the thing but can never be the thing.

A memory image stands for a real event that occurred in actual reality.

Logic is the arrangement of these images in order to obtain clarity of thought and an organized body of truths.

We must cut away at the elaborate hierarchy of ideas and concepts in the attempt to grasp the truth.

Truth lies in a close correspondence between what one believes reality to be and what reality actual is.

Ockham's Razor states in the simplest of terms that the simplest, most logical rational explanation is most likely the truth.

William of Ockham, English philosopher

William of Ockham was a Franciscan who taught at Oxford between 1309 and 1323.

William of Ockham taught that Jesus and Saint Francis of Assisi taught by their lives that spiritual perfection could be achieved only by the renunciation of worldly goods.

William of Ockham branded the Pope John XXII a heretic as, at the time, the office of Pope was bought and the Pope declared authority over all things, temporal as well as spirtual.

William of Ockham was condemned and excommunicated for his views and forced to flee to exile in Bavaria.

William of Ockham believed that the law of freedom at the core of the biblical gospel meant that individuals will find liberation from ignorance in their faith in a partnership with God which alone can bring contentment.

William of Ockham stands at the beginning of a long modern tradition where the human mind in its struggle with the contingent order of being seeks to overcome the gap between itself and reality.

Martin Luther

Immanuel Kant, Niccolo Machiavelli, Friedrich Nietzsche, George Santayana, William Blake, Baruch Spinoza

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This website defines a new religious ideology to which its author adheres. The author feels that the falsification of reality outside personal experience has created a populace unable to discern propaganda from reality and that this has been done purposefully by an international corporate cartel through their agents who wish to foist a corrupt version of reality on the human race. Religious intolerance occurs when any group refuses to tolerate religious practices, religious beliefs or persons due to their religious ideology. This web site marks the founding of the religion aptly named The Truth of the Way of Life - a rational religion based on reason which requires no leap of faith, accepts no tithes, has no supreme leader, no church buildings and in which each and every individual is encouraged to develop a personal relation with God through the pursuit of the knowledge of reality in the hope of curing the spiritual corruption that has enveloped the human spirit. The tenets of The Truth of the Way of Life are spelled out in detail on this web site by the author. Violent acts against individuals due to their religious beliefs in America is considered a “hate crime.”

This web site in no way condones violence. To the contrary the intent here is to reduce the violence that is already occurring due to the international corporate cartels desire to control the human race. The international corporate cartel already controls the world central banking system, mass media worldwide, the industrial military complex of America and is responsible for the collapse of morals, the elevation of self-centered behavior and the destruction of global ecosystems. Civilization is based on cooperation. Cooperation does not occur at the point of a gun.

American social mores and values have declined precipitously over the last century as the corrupt international cartel has garnered more and more power. This power rests in the ability to deceive the populace in general through mass media by pressing emotional buttons which have been preprogrammed into the population through prior mass media psychological operations. The results have been the destruction of the family and the destruction of social structures that do not adhere to the corrupt international elites vision of a perfect world. Through distraction and coercion the direction of thought of the bulk of the population has been directed toward solutions proposed by the corrupt international elite that further consolidates their power and which further their purposes.

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