How to Let Go of Judgment

“In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus said, ‘Judge not.’ (Matthew 7:1) One of the questions that often comes up is, How do I go from a judgmental mind into a pristine, clear, pure expression of light? How do I go from an addictive, judgmental mind into this pristine, pure state of mind that is the Christ? How do you go from darkness to light? The Holy Spirit is the bridge. The Holy Spirit will seem to take the form of a voice; not in eternity because there’s no voices in eternity. That’s the committee; when the ego meets in your mind, and you hear the committee meeting, and you go, Ohhh! It never agrees. The committee has got a lot of opinions going on in there, Well, be practical. Think of this and this, and on the pro side… but on the con side… The committee is never agreeing. But there are no committees in Heaven.

How do you go from judgment into a pristine state of spirit? You go there through the Holy Spirit. It’s like saying, I’m lost, but Holy Spirit, you are with me in my mind, and now you will take the form of giving me your judgments so that I can reach above to a state of pure non-judgment.

So what are the Holy Spirit’s judgments, if the judgments are the bridge from an addicted judging mind to Holy Spirit judgments to non-judgment? The Holy Spirit’s judgments are your guidance: Go here, go there, call so and so, write this down. That’s the specific guidance; the Holy Spirit taking specific form to reach the complicated ego mind to transcend judgment entirely.

So instead of just thinking that you should be still, you should be quiet, you should have a quiet mind; when you follow the Workbook Lessons, it is clearing the debris away so you can follow the guidance of the Holy Spirit. The only purpose of A Course in Miracles is to put you in touch with your internal teacher. That’s why in the Course it says, ‘This course is a beginning, not an end.’ W-Ep.1:1 So you don’t have to think, I’m going to be working with this course all my life. You can be thinking, I’m just going to work with this course until I’m in touch with my internal teacher, then I’ll go on with my next level of lessons. You are not tied to a book. You are actually going to use a book to become highly intuitive, to be highly in touch with your higher Self, and that’s when it gets quite enjoyable. Because a lot of the parables that Frances and I share are parables to inspire and bless, that are very practical, that still seem to do with dealing with the symbols of the world. If you are given a teaching function or a travel function, like we’ve been given, there are lots of experiences with people, organizations, venues, airlines, railways, and buses, and all kinds of things, that then can become inspiring parables that let you know that you can live a life of ease and flow even relating to the world, seemingly the world. But the more that you follow the guidance, the less you feel like you are in the world, more like you are dreaming it, like you are watching it, which is wonderful.

A lot of us have had experiences of a lucid dream, and isn’t a lucid dream a lot of fun? You may have a dragon or a monster in front of you, and you are just so happy because you know you are dreaming the monster, and you are not at the mercy of the monster. It’s very empowering. That’s the result of guidance. That’s the result of practicing the guidance.”