Truth Decay and the Vibrational Truth
Fake news. Deepfakes. Conspiracies from every direction. We are witnessing an unprecedented breakdown of truth. This didn’t happen overnight.
A while ago most of us tuned into just a few radio channels. We’d gather around and share the same program, the same news. Then came television, and the shared experience continued. For the most part, we still operated from a common reality, shaped by relatively few sources. News was not there to be a profit center but to disseminate objective truth.
Then cable arrived, and things started to fragment. The Internet took it further — exploding the number of sources and perspectives. DVRs untethered us from time, allowing us to consume media more independently from each other. Then came social media and algorithms, which fragmented our informational ecosystems even further, until each individual had their own personalized feed — curated to match and reinforce their preferences, biases, and beliefs. Furthermore, clickbait became a primary means of profit-making. Facts didn’t matter as much as getting your attention. The stage was set for the next breakdown catalyst…
…a deeply traumatized President with a megaphone and a diseased mind, who brazenly gaslights the public to this day with his own warped version of reality — one many choose to believe. And now, artificial intelligence and virtual reality threaten to shatter what’s left of a shared reality.
We are witnessing truth decay at an all-time high, one that shows no sign of slowing.
The Collapse of Objective Truth
The kind of truth we’re losing is objective truth — fact-based reality. This type of truth is concerned with what happened, what exists, and what can be verified. It’s grounded in evidence, measurement, and shared understanding.
Facts can be incomplete, revised, or misinterpreted, but they are not subjective. As the saying goes, you are entitled to your own opinions but not your own facts. Without respect for objective truth, science falters, justice erodes, coordination collapses, and society loses its ability to self-correct. Sound familiar?
Where this is headed is anyone’s guess.
Navigating the Noise
So, how do we navigate all this noise? How do we stay sane amid such rising confusion? If external reality is increasingly polluted with distortions, how do we know which direction to take in any decision?
The answer lies in accessing a deeper level of truth — one that arises from within rather than from external consensus — that which I call the vibrational truth, or spiritual truth.
Vibrational truth isn’t about facts and logic. It’s a felt sense — a moment-to-moment awareness of what feels true in your body, in your being. It’s not about analyzing or concluding. It’s about tuning into your internal signal and asking: Is what I’m engaging with right now in alignment with Reality as a Whole? But what does it actually look like to trust this inner signal in real-time, especially when the outside world feels chaotic?
Listening to the Inner Signal
Most of us have experienced this. A situation feels wrong, even before we can explain why. Something doesn’t add up and you know it. Or the opposite: it just feels right. Notice how, in retrospect, that signal was telling you the truth.
These intuitive nudges, when we strip away the desire to see reality a certain way, can reliably steer us. That’s been my experience. The more I prioritize this internal signal over mental narratives, the more clarity I gain. I no longer even need to know the “why”. I just know. This signal is telling me the truth, and I go with it. Often, I find out why later on and see how right the signal was.
What is this signal? It is inner discernment.
When Indigenous people say someone “speaks with a forked tongue,” they’re not just talking about factual lies. They’re pointing to a deeper dissonance — a split between the words being spoken and the energy behind them. The facts might be technically true, but the vibration is off.
That’s manipulation in action. The intent or alignment behind the words doesn’t match their surface meaning — and we can feel that. All of us have this capacity, but our culture often invalidates it.
It is time to reclaim your own inner authority and trust it.
Truth Decay as a Perceptual Crisis
Truth decay isn’t just cultural; it’s perceptual. When the external world becomes unreliable, it requires that we turn inward for orientation.
Those who rely solely on outer signals grow more confused—not because truth has vanished, but because they’ve lost touch with their ability to sense it. You can see this happening all over the world. It is what happens when chronically looking outside of one’s self for answers while denying the inner self.
Restoring Coherence
Objective facts are important, yet in these times, they are increasingly insufficient because they can be so easily manipulated. What we are in requires a deeper form of knowing, one that doesn’t debate or convince, but quietly discerns coherence from distortion. When we attend to the vibrational truth within ourselves, we don’t just orient our own lives more clearly; we help strengthen the collective sensitivity to truth as well. Trust your being and the signals it gives you. It knows. Find others who are dedicated to the vibrational truth. This will help by giving you a Reality check. We are all over the place.
🙏 🙌 🕉
Eric