Kevin Ryan's reflection on Truth

[Keith Mothersson]

Kevin Ryan Endorses the Muslim-Jewish-Christian Alliance for 9/11 Truth By Kevin Ryan

MUJCA is dedicated to a Truth that is larger than a simple revelation of facts. These people of faith understand that there is a root cause which we all need to understand.

The lies of 9/11 point very urgently toward this root cause, and if we fail to realize and act upon it then getting the truth out could actually make things worse. That is, if we take the path of easy answers, and treat the lies of 9/11 as simply the acts of those we call “evildoers”, then we’ll miss the chance to make real change. We won’t see how similar lies have been behind almost all social crises of the past and present, and more importantly we won’t see how lies like these have always been used to control us, and distract us from higher goals.

In order to avoid a potentially greater catastrophe than we currently face, if that is imaginable, perhaps one day with a larger global population that is even more dependent on delicate supply systems, we need to learn how and why we lie to ourselves. In doing so, we may be able to prevent the greedy few from using our weakness against us as they’ve done with the crimes of 9/11. This kind of learning requires a real commitment to Truth, one which corresponds well with the intent of the world's great religions, and therefore with the mission of MUJCA.

Keith adds:
Not sure about the phrase 'the greedy few', maybe a more sociological-structural characterisation would be wiser. Seems to me that 'greed, hate and delusion' arise in the experience of all of us, wherever we are in various pyramids of power or privilege, and most of us tend to indulge these seductive afflictions quite a bit as we go. 'Attachment to having the world stable and reassuring' is also a kind of 'greed', as well as (self-)delusion. and is butressed by fear and hatred too.

Truth tends to emerge if we don't indulge these confusing thoughts, ego-colourings, that we add into the mixture, or as we starve them out, or as we file away at them. Truth is so all-inclusive: it compassionately includes the truth of all the painful oppressions which 'bad people' have themselves been on the receving end of; it also includes the mistakes and self-righteousness and 'certaintism' with which 'good people' pursue the 'bad people'.

To understand all is to forgive all, 'Tout comprendre est tout pardoner'.

I am told that in the Qu'ran every surah except one starts with the 'mother invocation' Allah, al-rahman, al-rahim, God/Goddess, the compassionate, the merciful. (RHM is root for womb).

A Sufi chant goes, 'Come, come, whoever you are, even though you've broken your vows a thousand times'. If people like moles and spooks and informers who have until now executed terrible schemes or petty persecutions or have told or repeated a thousand lies were to surface/'come out' in our movements, would we greet them with warmth or chase them back to their agencies with self-righteous anger?

The 911 truth movement needs to both develop both ourselves and help develop those we oppose. It is said that 'No ruling class leaves the stage of history without a fight'. Well maybe at some stage, the mainsteam breakthrought of 9/11 truth could create a context for lots of people to say sorry, step down, confess past involvements, give over, retire, reflect. Pehaps 'the system' will crumble if we are able to meet those external 'ripenings' with internal ripenings, e.g. if we are able to crumble our own Triple Towers of Greed, Hate/anger/aversiveness and Delusion/deluding.