Question: How do we know when our seeing is correct? I mean, if we are seeing things subjectively, then how do we know if what we see in others is correct? For example, sometimes we may see things in others, and it does not involve any emotional reactions. And this makes it difficult. And I wonder if I am seeing with discernment, or with the outer mind through interpretation? I am guessing it is both and I am aware of many of my false selves, which I have hopefully overcome from the course of self-mastery. Sometimes I get this sense with people that they are putting on this image of a false self. But maybe it is me? It is obvious when someone is having an emotional reaction to discern. Is this something we should practice, using the discernment tools, and ask? I know it has been said that our Christ self is always with us. But maybe we should be more direct in asking in the small things? I am not trying to create a drama about things when I ask. But I just want to know if my seeing is influenced by the outer self or not? As a side note, I realized my seeing in life has not always been correct. However, many times for certain people, I have experienced a lot of gaslighting, which has created certain selves and have experienced a lot of doubt. I have come to see some of these selves and let them go.
Answer from the Ascended Master Jesus through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2022 Webinar – Democracy and Christhood.
Well, if you want a concentrated answer—and this is of course, a complex question—but if you want a concentrated answer, you can say that the more neutral you are, the more neutral is your state of mind, where you are not trying to judge other people, you do not have any intention, you are not pointing the finger at others, you are not criticizing them, you are not trying to elevate yourself above them, but you are in a neutral state of mind, then your observations will generally be valid, accurate. I will not say, correct, because what is correct in looking at other people?
You can have valuable insights when you are in a neutral state of mind. But saying this, even if you are in a neutral state of mind, you are still looking at everything from a subjective perspective. You will have a subjective perspective until you ascend because you are still centered in a physical body that has a specific form and exists in a specific location. You are seeing through these four lower bodies and as long as there are contents in those four lower bodies, then it is not completely objective. When you have grown up in a certain location, a certain culture, you will have a certain coloring based on this.
It is not that there is anything wrong with it, it is not that it necessarily makes your visions invalid or incorrect, but it does make them subjective. That is why we have said: “Accept that you will have a subjective localized perspective as long as you are in the four lower bodies”. What you can do is overcome the subjectivity of the ego, the outer selves, and heal your psychology from these selves. This is how you will get more and more impressions.
Now, if you look at the question and how you have formulated this, you will see that you still have a lot of doubt. Now, in a sense, it is better to have doubt than to be in a state of mind where you are absolutely sure that your subjective evaluations are absolute and universal, because these people cannot easily grow. It is better to be in doubt, but you still need to recognize that your doubt comes from certain selves, and you need to use the tools we have given to try to uncover these selves, work on them. And you also need to look at the linear mind, understand what the linear mind does, how it analyzes everything, sets up a standard.
You need to look at the teachings we have given, that the fallen beings have created all of these standards, and we cannot avoid thinking we have to live up to them. These are some of the tools you can use to still the doubts, still the turmoil, the analytical mind, and thereby get more and more neutral impressions from within or rather from above.
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