Epistemology & Truth

If the root is cracked, the fruit won’t heal, I’ve got to find the roots of the real.

This song was inspired by Square One: The Foundations of Knowledge by Steven Patterson. Chapter one hit me like a wake-up call: if the roots of your worldview are flawed, then no matter how many branches of knowledge you grow, the whole tree is fragile.

Most of us protect our roots at all costs — even if it means guarding illusions we’ve lived in for decades. But what if the bravest thing is to question them? To dig deeper, even when it hurts, and rebuild on something real?

"No knower. No known. No center to see. No 'I' left to say who’s asking to be."

This one isn’t just a song — it’s a conversation turned inside out.

It started with a simple question: How do we know what we know? We followed the thread past childhood conditioning, beyond gravity, beyond the idea of “I” itself… until there was nothing left to hold onto.

No self. No capital-T Truth. Just… this.

🎧 The Truth That Unmade Me is for anyone who’s ever stared into the void and felt the void staring back — and maybe smiled. If you’ve questioned everything you’ve been taught, or stripped away your beliefs until you found nothing at the center, this one’s for you.

Do you think there’s any such thing as absolute truth? Or is everything we “know” just a story?

"Not flashy, not profound. Just this moment, just this sound."

Ever wonder how much of what you "know" is just what you were taught to believe? This song came out of a deep conversation about truth, reality, and the stories we tell ourselves. From the moment we're born, we're shaped by our culture, our language, our upbringing - but what happens when you start questioning everything you think you know?

🎵 The Journey: We all live in different worlds, even watching the same movie Maybe truth isn't some flashy revelation, but something ordinary and immediate What if the constant "me, me, me" story in our heads is what's blocking us from seeing what's actually here? Sometimes the most honest answer is "I don't know"

"I don’t want answers, I want the ache. Truth ain’t given — it’s what you make."

“We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us...” — Marcel Proust

Religion is a vivid example of this. So many people follow the gospel, obey the rules, discipline themselves with scripture — yet in reality, they’re hypocrites. Morality without lived experience is just performance.

It’s useful to have guidance, sure — especially for kids. But if we don’t also teach them to think, to question, to walk their own wilderness… we just create obedient parrots. Not wise humans.

I’ve absorbed so much self-help knowledge over the years. Books, videos, podcasts — all of it. And yet, most of it just sits there. I can talk about growth, but living it? That's harder. Sometimes even talking about it feels fake.

I’ve heard that 5-MeO-DMT can cause awakening. But how can I be wise enough to use it, if I haven’t even earned my wisdom yet? Even mentioning it feels like trying on someone else’s enlightenment.

This song is about that gap — the space between knowing and being. Between quoting truth… and living it.

“I had it all… but I felt nothing.”

Inspired by Ecclesiastes 2:4–10, this track follows the voice of someone who had it all — success, beauty, pleasure — but found it meaningless.

It’s a song about the paradox of gain without fulfillment.