VOT Principles 2: The Pursuit of Truth
This is part 2 in the series of Visions of Tomorrow’s ever-evolving principles.
“When the sage points at the moon, the fool looks at the finger” - Proverb
Principle 2
The pursuit and love for Truth is the foundation of all our endeavors.
All questions emerge from a singular impulse, the desire for Truth. Whenever we ask a question, we seek the rightful answer, Truth itself. What unites all epistemological systems—philosophy, science, and religion—is this original calling towards Truth. In this vein, Visions of Tomorrow, like any genuine inquiry process, must place Truth at its heart. We love Truth and hence we pursue it for its own sake.
Yet Truth, though fundamental, is often elusive and intricate. Deception is tempting precisely because it can bring short-term gains, like cheating for an exam. Yet such gains come at the cost of long-term wisdom and erode the foundations of authentic relationships, governance, and unbiased sense-making. To care about Truth is essential for effective action in the world, striving to operate in tune with how reality actually works, instead of unconsciously living in the realms of belief, groupthink and paradigm lock. This institute stands as a refuge for those who hold fast to truth’s significance.
We have arrived to the million dollar question: What is Truth? It depends on whether we seek a relative truth or an Absolute Truth. Relative truth concerns science and practical philosophy; it aims to understand the natural world with its laws and mechanics, which are collectively verifiable and consistent over time. The survival of our species depends on these insights and they bring comfort and happiness around the globe. Yet these truths are contingent upon our human mind and a particular universe, therefore limited to it.
At some point in our life, arrives the great Doubt: Is this all? There's an intuition to include and transcend previous truths into a Universal Truth which is not relative to something but tautologically sovereign into itself. The path to The Absolute presents novel difficulties and with the intention to help fellow seekers we present our humble understanding: Absolute Truth is the existential groundless ground with the potential to metamorphize into every permutation Reality could assume; its medium is consciousness in which all perspectives and states are contained, including this present field of experience. Look around! this here-now field of experience is Truth at work. In its most profound metaphysical sense, Absolute Truth is the primordial omnipresent existence from which all limitations co-arise; hence every boundary is ultimately self-imposed, rendering existence Infinite by nature.
Analogy: When watching a movie, playing a video game, or dreaming at night, new worlds appear through our senses. Inside that cosmos, its inhabitants rigorously investigate their surroundings, piecing together explanations for events—oblivious to the screen that creates it all. In a moment of lucidity, the dream character asks: What is this magical screen that morphs into a myriad of worlds? It does not get wet when water flows, nor does it burn when fire blazes. What a mystery!
At Visions of Tomorrow, we are profoundly in love with this world while remaining expansively in touch with what is beyond it. We invite you to stand with us at the frontier of discovery, to advance the research of truth at every level, and to co-create a world grounded in genuine insight and collective intelligence.