People talk about “their” truth. Is there such a thing? Or is there really only one truth, along with people’s unwillingness to question and examine critically their own world views and assumptions compared to objective reality, in order to reconcile the sometimes blatant differences between the two?

In a big picture sense, there indeed is a single truth, it is the sum total of reality at a given point in time that has within it many things that are merely implications, potentials, and representations of prior circumstances, events, and energies that brought things to this point in time that we are focused on, but are implicit in the current makeup and energetic composition of everything present, and experiencing, and participating in an interchange. All of these attributes and aspects are complex, multilayered, and have rich energetic histories of their own that consist of many overlapping experiences and the impinging of energies from many other beings, as well as the environment, that go into shaping the makeup, the knowledge base, the history, and the karmic potentials, both for good and ill, through experiencing, and those experiences and their energetic signatures projecting into other timelines as a cause of influence and a governing factor in what transpires. There is no simple way to look at what you are posing with your question. It is truly profound. What is truth is nothing less than the sum total of existence. So within that there are many nested portions of that reality that have a stable existence and boundaries and are definable from various vantage points, in a sense, a type of relativity that is quite dependent on the observer and what interest they might have, or need to rely on, or might be influenced by, what energies are contained within that portion of the total reality, and for them as an observer and perhaps interacting with others in that locale, may have much at stake in what unfolds and the outcome of the potential interchange. So all the stakeholders taking part in an event within their local ability to observe it through the limited sensing of physical human, for example, will feel strongly about what is taking place in the moment in that location because they have stake in things and their future will be governed to some degree by the success or failure of what happens, or whether it is a positive or negative experience in some respect. So it is impossible for people to see much beyond their own perceptions and their stake in things because of this inherent bias. An aspect of divinity is to hold a higher awareness and to be aware of the higher truth that is always inherent in everything that unfolds. That degree of divinity will determine to what extent people can see and identify with the truth others hold and their stake in what is unfolding, and how they might experience it and evaluate it according to its relative merits for them, and it might well be quite different than your own. Wisdom comes from appreciating that with an interchange there are many perspectives, many consequences, and many potential interpretations, all of which will ultimately be sorted out by the Law of Karma in assigning an overall meaning to what transpires. This is how people ultimately will inherit their contributions to the universe, both good and bad. Karma is the ultimate seer of truth and has inherently the wisdom to assess things on their true merits with respect to the whole of reality. So it will take into account a person’s actions with respect to their own needs and history, but also weigh the implications for their conduct and its impact on everything else around them for better or worse, and this will be a part of the equation used to assign the energies interpreting what they have done. So this is the most profound issue of life, the interpretation of what it truly means in a big picture sense, because that is equivalent to the workings of karma and is the major driver of all that happens. The fact it is delayed in its consequences is an aspect of the current paradigm underway. So this will not be felt in the moment as a force of nature because the day of reckoning will be somewhat distant but, as a consequence, it means there can appear to be many truths in the moment, even though they may be quite in conflict with one another. So what this means is there is an error of interpretation underway because the ultimate truth will reckon the situation differently, and may reward the victim and punish the perpetrator when, in the moment unfolding, the perpetrator feels justified in taking something from another and seeing that victimization as just and well-deserved. The final arbiter will be the Law of Karma. The only thing that can compensate for the negative consequences of having a delay in the moment of reckoning that would be instructive, and act as a self-correcting force to prevent long-term damage from poor decisions, would be to have greater wisdom. That will help stay the hand of the perpetrator with the wisdom of knowing it will be a futile gesture to gain a physical advantage over an adversary through harming them, because they are truly harming themselves, and that will be brought to them in the future by karma, and their fate is being sealed even as they lash out to cause harm. So within the current paradigm of free will and free agency, where good deeds may not be rewarded and bad deeds go unpunished for considerable spans of time, the wisdom to see what is truly beneficial and in alignment and what is folly will be the saving grace enabling human progress.