If You Spot It, You Got It

Beloved: When teachings say, “What you see in the world is a reflection of yourself,” when I see someone as stupid does it mean that I am stupid?

Dylan: Thank you for asking. What you are beginning to touch on here is projection and the distinction between form verses content.

To use the perception you stated of seeing someone as stupid, it doesn’t mean that you are stupid, as the Self you are in Christ is far beyond the judgement of stupid. What it does mean is that the box of what behaviours and actions are stupid, along with the box of what behaviours and actions aren’t stupid is in your mind. This box then gets projected out onto perception and is perceived as if someone is stupid or not stupid for doing certain behaviours.

In Matthew 7:4 Jesus says,

“How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye?“

Jesus is calling us to look at our own state of mind before looking at and judging anyone in the world. If we spot something in another it is because we have it in our own minds. It is not really that anyone is really doing anything stupid because, at the end of the day, who said an action was stupid or not? You can begin to see that it is all past learning. It is all based on the world’s mutually agreed upon definitions, rather than the Holy Spirit’s Perspective which is alive. In simple terms, one often calls it conditioning. It is all learnt and remembered. Prior to learning what was deemed stupid or not, did the mind have any clue about what was stupid or what wasn’t? It didn’t, and all you need to do is to look upon the face of a baby. You see a beaming, happy for no earthly reason smile on that baby’s face. That is the natural expression prior to conditioning.

You can even use the teaching, “Unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God,” John 3:3. Why was he always saying, “Unless you be reborn” and, “Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind”? He is pointing to renewing your mind because there is a lot of trash in the mind. There appears to be a lot of worldly conditioning which is all based on the voice of the devil, who speaks against God which reflects a stale experience of the world.

The level of mind is the foundation for effectual emotions and perceptions. The mind is where the conditioning seems to be. Rather than behaviour modification, you are going for a renewal of mind. It is an inward experience rather than trying to change or control the world to experience that inwards renewal.

The level of mind is the level of valuing the voice of the devil and its unloving thoughts. This voice that speaks against God, which you think is your voice, acts like a filter or a darkened glass. Now, what happens if you are in a room of a house and you look out of glass that is green? Don’t see you seem to perceive a green world? The true questions is: if you are looking through glass that is green is the world outside really green, too?

Beloved: No, of course not.

Dylan: Right, exactly. Just because you may be looking through green glass does not make the world green. The same can be said for the misperception of “stupid people.” If you are looking through a darkened glass in your mind, from which the colour is judgement, are those you are seeming to look upon actually stupid?

Beloved: Through using that analogy, no. It is just the coloured glass.

Dylan: Yeah, the colouring of learnt boxes of what is stupid or not stupid is in the mind. The seeming judgement is in the mind. It is not really in the world. The cause and effect is instantaneous, the instant an unloving thought arises is when it is instantaneously misperceived in perception, if the level of mind has been forgotten. The world is just a reflection of your state of mind. As the Holy Spirit reminds you, “If you spot it you got it.”

It is much easier to seem to project the judgement out onto a seeming other than it is to say, “Oops, my fault everyone, I take responsibility for the unloving thoughts and beliefs in my own mind.” By “taking responsibility” I’m not talking about bashing yourself and calling yourself stupid type of responsibility, as that is still the voice of the devil, I’m talking about reeling what is seen in the world back to the level of mind, to acknowledge that you can choose again to perceive with the Holy Spirit. That you have the ability to overlook the voice of the devil and it’s unloving thoughts and can instead perceive the innocence of everyone that the devil is accusing. The devil is the accuser of the brethren.

No one has ever done anything worthy of your personal judgement. Yet, everyone has done everything worthy of forgiveness. It was all just a misperception, it was all just seen through a darkened glass. “You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye,” as Jesus pointed to. When you cleanse the darkened glass the glass is clear and pristine.

Yet, to cleanse the darkened glass you must apply the teachings, rather than intellectualise the tools given. It is often a lot easier to say, “I’m a follower of Christ” than it is to apply the practical application of forgiveness and His teachings to recognise the Spirit.

Personal judgement, which is like seeing the world through a key hole, cannot truly judge anything correctly. Be glad, then, that you can turn to the Holy Spirit Who provides Perfect Judgement. The Holy Spirit sees truly because It is an Extension of Clarity, and, therefore, is Perfect Sight. The Holy Spirit does not mistake anything that is of the enemy as one’s true Reality, as all aspects of what is false is false!

Keep the prayer of your heart on Him, and He will guide you through all things. He is with you, always, and will lead you to what you really want: a complete surrender of the voice of the devil and its self of sin and spiritual death, to accept the Self that you are in Him and His Fruits of Life.

In the experience of the Self in Christ, you experience that you have never judged. For any judgement apart from Him had no effects or were fruitless. What is there to judge between in what is One, Whole or United? Love now sees everything as Love or a call for Love, where Love is now the only answer. It Sees and Extends only Itself.