Truth exists only within a chosen context. Truth believed becomes a lie.
In Erleichda, we are great admirers of Ludwig Wittgenstein, and many of our major protocols are based on our ideas about his ideas. Someone once said to Ludwig that people who lived before Copernicus must have been stupid, because they believed that the sun rotates around the earth. Ludwig considered this for a moment, then made a very important reply: "I agree. But I wonder what it would look like if the sun had been circling the earth." He understood paradigms.
Wittgenstein was greatly concerned with the scope and limits of language, and particularly with the consequences of being bound by the limits of language. The world, he wrote, is the totality of facts. The theoretical limit of analysis is atomic facts, which cannot be analysed into simpler facts, and which are mutually independent, the existence of one never logically requiring or excluding the existence of any other.
We've taken it a step further in Erleichda. We search for atomic beliefs, the basic beliefs which form our paradigm, the context of our lives, the template through which we restrict our idea of the universe, our reality. We have discovered the possibility that, if your reality doesn't suit you, then it's usually because you've got conflicting ideas about what you want, or what you're entitled to. Identify the beliefs, and you identify the confusion. Then if you don't like the beliefs, change them.
Change your beliefs, change your reality.
The close examination of our beliefs and their origins is taken with some seriousness in Erleichda. We have abandoned our search for absolute truth. Absolute truth, we have decided, is, for the time being, the atomic beliefs we choose to create reality. We choose to believe that what we choose to believe is true.
