There are essentially two types of metaphysical seekers; those who seek truth within themselves and those who seek it from outside. However, we have to understand and beware of those who have found the truth as they are no longer seekers, but founders. Whether it is an objective or subjective truth, the founders may well try to engage you in their truth. Philosophers are seekers, whereas theologians, politicians, scientists, business and literary magnates tend to be founders and then become seekers of followers to implement their version of truth. This is profoundly why Socrates was adamant about not writing down his thoughts and views out of fear that they would become dogma and overshadow his belief that he knew nothing. He initially rejected the proclamation from the Oracle at Delphi, that he was the smartest person, until he found out that Their reason was that he openly stated that he knew nothing! He was determined that people should inquire about their own identity and not allow themselves to become enslaved. The Renaissance, Humanism and the Enlightenment from about the 14th to the 18th centuries throughout the Western world, still did not truly liberate the common people. It was not until Hegel’s writing, in the 19th century, did the masses awaken to their true potential. Hegel stated, “The ignorant man is not free, because what confronts him is an alien world, something outside him and in the offing, on which he depends, without his having made this foreign world for himself and therefore without being at home in it by himself as in something his own. The impulse of curiosity, the pressure for knowledge, from the lowest level up to the highest rung of philosophical insight arises only from the struggle to cancel this situation of unfreedom and to make the world one’s own in one’s ideas and thought.” Hegel’s teleology was that ultimate world history is the realization of freedom and the self-consciousness of spirit (Geist). The Zeitgeist is “the spirit of the age”, which we collectively create. My zeitgeist is from the late 60’s and early 70’s, of love and peace, although I recognize now that frustration and chaos are also a reality…