The admnistrator of ITSOT — In The Spirit of Truth — has always wondered why anyone should bother to establish a website anymore when there is almost a glut or a deluge of sites in the world-wide-web universe. As people in commerce say, find your niche in the market place and bingo you are in business of making loads of money.
Although this particular business of mine is not about making money, it is a business that is seeking to know what it means to be a living human being. It is a business, that I will advise, if taken up as the first cause of pursuit in life, will surely make a world of difference to the way we relate with every other life that crosses our path.
The niche I discovered is that the knowledge of spirituality is not prominent in the world wide web. Of course, there are loads of noises on the web, particularly noises about how to be prosperous and successful materially. There are many sites for the celebration of achievers and for promoting the worship of all kinds of heroes. Past and present heroes and heroines of religion, of business, of wars, of mammon, gold and silver, of political power etc., are conspicuously placed on very high pedestal for all to see, worship and emulate.
There are ample number of sites promoting the material consciousness of life and some have even deceptively disguised this as spiritual consciousness. These types of sites are sustained by ‘forcefully’ attracting our attention through repetitive marketing onslaught on our senses of perception under all kinds of psychological deceptions that appeal specially to our human weaknesses and spiritual disabilities.
ITSOT decided to enter the world-wide-web market not as a promoter of any product, be it material commodity or the soiled images of any human hero/heroine. But to promote the knowledge and the spirit of self. My market researches discovered that there is a gap in the knowledge-base of self.
Mankind, it seems, is being deliberately blindsided or outrightly blindfolded from perceiving or knowing our true essence as a human being. We are saddled with materiality to the point where the only thing humanity knows about each other is how much political power a person has got in the society or how much money a person has in his bank account.
By the popular culture in every society, the knowledge of the material possessions of a person determine the amount of attention and respect other fellow mankind will accord to the person.
Mankind have been brainwashed, after many centuries of deceptive religious teachings, to see and to know nothing else about ourselves as living divine beings. We are indoctrinated to focus all our attention on the temporary body that we brought to the world. We are trained to cherish the adornment of gold and diamonds that the materially ‘successful’ ones among us wear as a means of separating themselves from the throng of the masses.
ITSOT is not a proselyte or a preacher of any archaic doctrine. It will be a site for all seekers of truth and we are eager to share the fruit of our findings with those who are in the same boat as fellow seekers.
Love demands given to others all of oneself because the spirit of truth and the spirit of love know that all of the creations on earth belong and emanate from one divine essence.
So, dear fellow travellers and seekers of truth, come and join us as we walk and work together; share together our findings; and bond together under one spirit of love for knowledge and truth.
We hold fast to the principle that spiritual freedom depends on seeking to know the truth of life. Conversely, we also think that bondage to materialism lies in the human negligence to seek the truth of life.
The principal objective of the website — ITSOT — shall be a quiet assistance that can set truthful seekers on the path of a conscious devotion to the art of seeking and searching for the knowledge of truth. It is in the knowing of what the truth of life is that each of us can secure political, economic and spiritual freedom.
In The Spirit of Truth
SAM ABBD ISRAEL
ITSOT 