Question: I have a logical mind, and I very often notice inconsistencies and a lack of reasoning in other people’s words, which leads me to feel contempt and disregard them. I find myself particularly repulsed by the hypocrisy of populist politicians since they provoke a strong sense of contempt within me. I read from the messenger’s personal account that breaking free from the two-armed scale of the mind, (Kim’s comment: “two-armed”, I guess, means “dualistic” or “divided”) poses a formidable challenge for him, even after solving many of his separate selves. I acknowledge the necessity of overcoming the tendency of judging and feeling contempt towards others before reaching the ascension. How will I be able to transcend this judgmental attitude and be neutral, embracing others as they are? Any insights will be much appreciated.
Answer from the Ascended Master Jesus through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2024 Easter webinar.
Well, when I was in embodiment, I also had a very logical, rational, clear-thinking mind. And it can, as the popular saying goes, be both a blessing and a curse. It is a blessing because it helps you see inconsistencies and hypocrisies. That is why you saw me so often challenge the scribes and Pharisees, who were, so to speak, the populists of my day. Many of the spiritual people who are on the spiritual path have this rational, logical mind that is always looking for inconsistencies. That is why you have seen the inconsistencies and hypocrisy of traditional religions and opened your mind to a higher spiritual teaching.
Now, some of you find it difficult to turn off this linear mind, as we have often called it. You apply it to the teachings, and from a certain perspective, you see inconsistencies even in the teachings. I am not saying you should turn off the mind, but the way to go beyond this is to realize that there is a level of the mind, the mental mind, that is very linear, meaning that it always compares something to something else. This comparative mind is a valuable tool, but it has a limitation, because how do you compare? You must have something to compare to, and that something must be something that the linear mind can grasp, and the linear mind cannot grasp the Christ consciousness.
That is what I attempted to explain in my first dictation for this conference and as Maitreya attempted to explain. The conceptual mind cannot grasp the Christ consciousness because it will try to conceptualize the Christ.
The linear mind, in a sense, is neutral, it is simply comparing. But when everything you have in your subconscious database springs from the linear mind or possibly even springs from some thought system, such as scientific materialism or philosophical logic or even a particular religion, then if what you are comparing to is limited, your conclusion will always be limited. You will not go beyond a certain level, and that is why only the Christ mind can take you beyond this.
The linear mind can become a trap, you can go around and around and around. You can, as Maitreya explained, build a more and more sophisticated sense of self because you are so good at seeing the inconsistencies of others. But it does not raise your consciousness in terms of more and more oneness with the Christ. It is one thing to understand this.
The other thing is to look at this fact that I said, “judge not lest ye be judged”, judge not after appearances. When you have a linear mind that judges other people, how can you judge other people? Because you have already judged yourself. That linear mind, that is constantly seeing inconsistencies in other people, is also looking at yourself. The worst thing that could happen to you when you are trapped in this is that you would see inconsistencies in yourself because then you have to judge yourself as harshly as you are judging others. This judgment after appearances, this value judgment, good and bad, right and wrong, this comes from a separate self.
The way to be free of it is to realize that this comes from a separate self and use the teachings and tools we have given to really come to see it, separate yourself from it, and just decide to let it go, because you see that it will never take you beyond a certain level of the path.
We have seen many, many sincere students who found an ascended master teaching, who were very sincerely applying the teaching, giving hours and hours of degrees, studying the teachings, and they grew for a time. Then they came to a point where their growth stagnated because now they were using that judgmental mind to judge other people and focus on other people, but of course subconsciously they were also judging themselves. You are not going to make it into heaven by using the linear mind, no matter how sophisticated it becomes. I know it is very tempting to think that Christ’s truth must be the ultimate logic but take our dictations from myself and Maitreya and see how we are continually saying that there is nothing ultimate in the Christ mind, everything points on to other levels.
You may have a teaching that is valid at a certain level, but there is another teaching that is at a higher level and now there seems to be an inconsistency or contradiction. But if you keep reaching for the Christ mind, you eventually go beyond that level where you even think in terms of contradictions and inconsistencies, and you are just always reaching for that experience of the Christ mind. You cannot think your way into it, because you are starting from the basis of the conceptual mind which is separated from Christ. You cannot use the logic of the separate mind to think your way into oneness with Christ. You can only shift and experience oneness with Christ.
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