Evolve Consciousness.Org

 I printed out a copy of a video by Kris Nelson of Evolve Consciousness.Org. He like others thinkers denounce solipsism as selfish, immoral, nihilistic and fanatically skeptical. They seem to be on the right track.

Nelson accuses Solipsists of repeating a big lie over and over again that is gaining injurious influence with the public. He defines solipsism as: "The view or theory that self is the only object of real knowledge or the only thing that is real."

Nelson again: "Solipsism is the most dangerous ideology that exists and is the biggest lie ever told. The mind-virus is so prevalent and insidious that it has infected the consciousness of many people. Solipsism is the primary deception manipulators use. They want people to unknowingly accept the tenets of solipsism, even if it is in the back of their minds at a non-conscious level. In its extreme form, one becomes unwilling to accept anything else no matter how much contradictory evidence is brought to one's attention. Some people are adherents to solipsistic forms of thinking without realizing it."

Nelson worries that solipsism is infecting minds of millions of unsuspecting victims. He refers solipsism as "The Anti-Truth".

Solipsism is the notion that one's own mind is all that really exists, Nelson writes, or, I add it is the notion that other minds and objective reality are not knowable.

Nelson wants each person to seek after truth by awakening their consciousnesses and embarking on seeking truth which is flowing from the Absolute. He denounces solipsism's advocates that teach that there is no truth and such denial of truth kills journeys towards spiritual growth and awakening.

Solipsists insist that their subjective truth, as gods, as arbiters of truth, have all the answers. That is not acceptable.

To quote Nelsos: "To be convinced that there is no truth--it is all relative and based on one's own perception no matter how contrary and oppositional that may be from what 'is', reality, truth, Natural Law principles--is a modality of consciousness and conditioning where you are open to have your sense of reality manipulated."

Obviously, Nelson approves of objective reality and worries that subjective truth is rife with the aptitude and opportunity for self-deception.

Nelson writes of the "Three Central Aspects of Solipsism":

"1. The most extreme delusion is that nothing really exists: there are no actual experiences; it's all just one's perception. If my mind ceases to exist then the universe ceases to exist. The only thing that exists is the  moment between when I am born and when I die. Nothing really matters."

His reading of solipsism is fair here. We cannot prove or disprove the solipsistic outlook, but common sense and living by the principle of probable certainty as a fallibilist informs me that I exist, others exist and the external world exists independent of my perception of it.

"2. If the first is demonstrated to be false there is still a second delusion to fall back upon. Even if we can prove that something actually exists, we can't know anything about it, we can't understand anything about it in fullness. There is no knowledge. Truth does not exist."

Truth exists, I demand, and it flows from God, and we must live in accordance with.

"3. If the other two tenets are recognized as false, and you could know truth about something that exists, you still could never express it. Knowledge and truth can't be communicated because it's too complex. The limitations of language can be used as an excuse for believing that truth can't be expressed, thereby allowing us to accept not caring or searching for truth since we can't do anything with that truth anyways even if we do find it, as we will only be able to understand it, not express it. Either way, it kills or stifles right-action."

I an am optimist epistemologist: I accept that language can roughly express what is true and to describe what exist. Communication, right-living and truth discovery are still possible.

Nelson warns: "Manipulators  and deceivers need people to buy into this lie to prevent them from beginning the awakening process . . . The dark occultists continue to speak their lies and deceptions into existence and more people buy into them, meanwhile, the truth is not being spoken into existence by enough people. Now it becomes clear how and why we are in our current condition."

Awakening requires embracing the objective truth, I suggest, and to lie is to remain sluggish and intellectually undeveloped.

Nelson raises two other serious objections to solipsism: first, without objective truth, there is no recognizing right from wrong, and immoral acts can be committed unchecked, without opposition, without repercussions. Second, tyrants rule most successfully where submissive citizens are solipsists, unsure of what is true, and so lacking in will and energy so as to quietly submit and go to sleep.

In the main, Nelson criticisms of the solipsist position seem justifiable.