Judgement means to discern. From a 3D perspective this would mean determining the positive or negative value of something. An example would be a car accident. Most people would judge a car accident as a negative experience, but from a higher perspective, we would judge it as both. In other words, we would see that yes, in the short term it would be an inconvenience and painful. Yet, in the long term, it would be considered of great value if the incarnated soul were able to find the value and lesson for which the car accident manifested. From the higher perspective, judgement means to determine the spiritual value of a certain person, thing or situation. This means determining the value from the perspective of how it can promote spiritual growth, which is why we came to earth in the first place. In the higher perspective we see all things from both the light and dark sides, and we see that there is value in both.

The only time that judgement is considered negative or "bad" is when we fail to take the issue, person, or thing to the higher perspective to determine its value from a spiritual or soul level... Remember that everything and everyone has a light and dark side - a positive and negative. If we only focus on the negative or dark, we miss the purpose of that person or thing in our lives. Judgement, in this case, creates separation and fosters the better than/lesser than mentality. It is what we have been taught to do to keep someone or something from harming us. For example, my parents used to tell me that marijuana was bad, in fact, very bad. They did this because they felt that smoking it would cause me to eventually begin using harder drugs. Yet, there is a value in marijuana, just like everything else. Yes, I could go on to harder drugs if I was using it to medicate emotional pain that my inner child felt unsafe feeling, but on the other hand, I could also use it to expand my consciousness and achieve greater insights and connection to beings in the higher realms. So we see that judging this plant as strictly negative eliminated the opportunity to take advantage of its positive qualities. This is exactly what happens to us when we don't look for the value in everything that is a part of our existence. This is the essence of soul growth, the secret to clearing emotional blocks, to self-love and ascension. My parents were not consciously trying to harm me by training me to judge marijuana negatively, in fact, they believed that they were doing what any loving parent would do to try and protect their child from the harsher realities of life. My parents, like the majority of us, were, and still are to some degree, part of the earth systems...

In closing, when we say discern, we mean to judge from the higher perspective. When you do, you will be able to glean the gold from every situation, person and thing. And the gold is the spiritual lesson that you came to this earth to learn. So go ahead and judge, it, too, has a value. (Jelaila Starr) - www.nibiruancouncil.com

The important thing is not to stop questioning. (Albert Einstein)

It's from our "why’s" that we grow wise. Quest-on for your answers. Learn to discern. This is how to empower (inner-power) and enlighten (inner-lighten) yourself. (Dean Fraser)

As you connect with your own source light, with you own higher self within your heart center you will find the tools, the way to test whether something is of the light or the darkness. I ask you to use that discernment and that ability at this time most powerfully for it will lead and guide you on your spiritual path. It will assist you back into the light, back into your true home, your true identity where you will know and see all and transcend illusion and the darkness forever. (The Dolphin and Whale Kingdoms through Karen Danrich "Mila") - www.ascendpress.org

The graduation of Earth and its people to 5D is imminent, and in order to take part in that graduation we must become self-empowered, self-responsible. Establishing our own truth through discernment and research is one of the primary things that will determine whether we graduate. It is a hallmark of spiritual maturity. It is how we set ourselves free... In these days of confusion and chaos, hearing a different perspective can sometimes bring the clarity that makes it easier to cope. As always, use discernment when viewing this and any other information that comes your way. Accept only the messages that feel right in your heart. (Jelaila Starr) - www.nibiruancouncil.com

…You must take the information offered and validate it in your own heart center, thereby attuning more and more with your own divine intuition. You may not have all the knowledge, and it is not necessary for that is the role of these messengers of the higher realms - to give you a wide variety of viewpoints, a panorama of information gleaned from the Universal Mind or from their own memory banks of ancient experience so that you can choose what resonates most closely to your lineage, your heritage and your destiny. But you must find your own spiritual truth via your conscious awareness, mental discernment and intuitive attunement with your Higher Self. (Archangel Michael through Ronna Herman) - www.RonnaStar.com

Go towards those disciplines you are drawn to; don’t feel you must pursue something that doesn’t appeal to you just because others say it is the “right” way to grow. Each of you is unique. Trust you Higher Self to lead you to those processes that are most appropriate for you (Orin through Sanaya Roman from the book - Spiritual Growth: Being Your Higher Self)

To know what you prefer - instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer - is to have kept your soul alive. (Robert Louis Stevenson)

...an entity cannot simply be content with any given system of spiritual teaching, and following that system without ever questioning it, even if that system of thought is one in which service to others is defined as being an essential cornerstone of the belief. We state quite clearly that true service to others is that which comes about through internal deliberation and analysis. (Ra through David Wilcock) - www.ascension2000.com (Source: Sedona Journal of Emergence - May 2004) - www.sedonajournal.com

Dear Ones, I again say that you should only accept from messages what you feel resonates with your existing understanding. However, always be ready to go a step further in your understanding and ready to let go of some of your cherished beliefs. No one likes to be brought down to Earth by learning that they have been following a false trail. The challenges to people’s beliefs are never more focused than what they are now, as it is a time of great revelations. There are many areas over millennia of spiritual teachings, that have needed to be re-addressed and presented more clearly, and in some instances, more truthfully.

What you have today, is a great effort to clear away the false teachings that permeate your ancient and even more modern history. You are coming out of a period, during which you were lead to believe the teachings of the dark who presented themselves to you as Gods. This colored many religions who believed that they were following the word of God. The deceit that was practiced lead to a complete divergence into all number and manner of Gods. Furthermore, the practice of human sacrifice was encouraged, along with war like attitudes and actions. This way, the dark exercised their control over the priests, who in turn imposed it upon their followers.

You have to remember that in times of old, the people were less educated than now, and that religion held a much greater place in their everyday life. They were also much more superstitious, and credited almost every happening to the mood of their God’s. They believed that they could become angry and revengeful, and what we would see as acts of nature, were the God’s expressing their feelings. Now, many of you have had incarnations in these periods of time, and deep down there is an expression of these times still lingering. Today, you weigh up the new information you can accept, and the old false understanding is put aside. Of course, you have also had experiences of lives where true spiritual understanding has come your way, and often through some personal experience that has etched itself in your memory. (St. Germain through Mike Quinsey)

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. (Aristotle)

It has taken me all my life to realize that it is not necessary to understand everything. (Rene Coty, 1882-1962 French Statesman President)

Learning to shrug is the beginning of wisdom. (Sarah Ban Breathnach) - www.simpleabundance.com

All truth passes through 3 stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. (Arthur Schopenhauer)

Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up. (G. K. Chesterton)

Your beliefs about reality represent to you the truth about reality, and that truth renders itself as the basis for all your decision making. The nature of your beliefs influence your choices. Taking this understanding forward, then it could be assumed that directing and manipulating mass belief systems to set the stage for choice could garner power. If you, the chooser, the decision maker, rely upon your beliefs to determine your reality, the beliefs themselves are the holders of power. This means that those who sway the beliefs and form the beliefs that become adopted by the mass of humanity are now in position to usurp your power - with your total agreement and the "belief" that you are exercising your individual freedom of choice. Quite a manipulative little scenario! And you, the choicer, do not even realize it is occurring, because you are not fully utilizing your powers of discernment.

Discernment is that quality of knowing that distinguishes veracity and resonance. It intuits clarity and form, utilizing the very essence of your God-self as the basis, the springboard of creation. Discernment is a tool you inherently understand if you simply recognize that you own it and begin to use it. It does not have to be learned, but it must be exercised to bring forth its fullest functioning. Those who would manipulate your mass belief would have you forget this inherent tool , this divine dowsing stick that magnetizes to truth. They would have you not only forget this tool of discernment, but disregard if from your experience. How would this occur? By turning over your power to mass belief systems. Consider that through mass belief, there is a momentum of experience. Without the use of your discernment, the nature of that momentum can be interpreted as truth, because so many others are also involved in the belief. Investigating your belief structures will illuminate for you this phenomenon. However, in this investigation probe deeply not just with beliefs about religion, government and the more obvious mass belief structures present in your experience. Probe deeply into the more subtle beliefs that you hold on the subsurface levels of thought, such as history as you know it, what relationships "should" look like to you, how you nourish yourselves with foods and beverages you ingest - literally every aspect of your reality.

Reality, as you know it, has manifested as a result of beliefs. And there is much of your reality that you wish to change... But from what point are you making your choices? You are making choices from your beliefs about reality. And if you do not examine your beliefs about reality and use your tools of discernment in that examination, then you are very likely to make choices via the path of manipulated mass belief. You would be following this inclination not out of some incapacity within you, but from the slumbering state of being you were lulled into, by those manipulating the mass beliefs to their benefit...

When you use your discernment, you are tapping into your inner strength, innate truth and the treasure of your divinity. These qualities hold a vibrational frequency of All That Is - the source of your very being. You are divine light. You have fallen asleep and lost your awareness of that knowing. But in your slumber the dream of your freedom of choice - your free will - began to rouse your consciousness and the truth of your potential is spurring you on to question reality. This questioning opens vistas of truth and sheds light upon the puppeteers who enslave your minds through mass belief systems designed to usurp your power. Take back your innate power by loving yourself fully. Take back your inherent power by loving the puppeteers from their positions of fear and bring them back into the light. (Nademus through Brenda Hill) - www.prism-path.com (Source: Sedona Journal of Emergence - August 2003) - www.sedonajournal.com

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought. (Albert von Szent-Gyorgy)

Philosophy begins when one learns to doubt - particularly to doubt one's cherished beliefs, one's dogmas and one's axioms. (Will Durant)

I became aware of my destiny: to belong to the critical minority as opposed to the unquestioning majority. (Sigmund Freud, 1856-1939)

Why is it that people are so easily manipulated in your societies? Because they have not learned to listen to their hearts. (Amma through Cathy Chapman) - www.OdysseyToWholeness.com (Source: Sedona Journal of Emergence - January 2004) - www.sedonajournal.com

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts. (Albert Einstein)