Fear of Judgement

Part 2

by Ken Shaw

“We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.” — Longfellow

This quote arrived in my inbox this morning, and I feel it is a perfect opportunity to re-visit this subject. My first article on the topic, in retrospect, appears to center around what others think of us, which is where this “fear of judgment” originates, in my opinion.

However, no self-respecting meta-physicist would allow such a statement to be made without the obligatory acknowledgment that since we create our own reality, this “judgment” is actually a reflection of those we have placed upon ourselves. Whether you agree with this or not, it is a “truth” in my little corner of the world, because I prove it to myself daily.

The world, or as I’ve referred to it many times here, the ILLUSION that is life is no more than a facade, a stage, and simultaneously a giant mirror. It does reflect back to us exactly what we project… and expect. Though we’ve been taught from the earliest days of our lives to look “out” on the world, we should be teaching our children to look “in” instead.

Once it becomes fully accepted as common knowledge throughout entire world, from the President of these United States, to the janitor at the largest corporation on earth that we have all been taught to see the world from the standpoint of a spectator, rather than as a creator of the so-called Future. that future will begin to look much different than it does today, and of this I am more than certain.

Consider the “real” evidence that surrounds us constantly, please.

Jesus Christ spoke continuously of the “Kingdom of God,” and very few of his day seemed to “get it.” Very few of this day get it, either. Just how often did he say that the Kingdom of God is within? Therein lies the difference between the proverbial “wise man” and the “fool.”

Christ could have said “You must go back to the beginning of life (which is Birth) and revise the way you view yourself and the world “outside.” Think of yourself as the creator of your own future as you see the world unfold from within and the future will change before your very eyes.” But then they wouldn’t have gotten that either. In fact, with such a statement he would surely have been stoned to death long before they hung him on that tree.

“I am certain that God is not a Dead White Male in the Sky” as Deepak Chopra states of the inferred belief of most “religions.” However this perspective is taught in every Sunday School in America and the world as the foundational “truth” of Christianity. Furthermore, the belief that the Bible is the irrefutable word of the creator, another foundational truth of Christianity, has restricted and confined the imaginations of every believer for well over two-thousand years, to the interpretations of their “leaders” rather than their OWN SPIRITS.

The story of Job, in the old testament, is another example of how we judge ourselves based on our capabilities (or on what we think our future will be) and others judge us by our accomplishments (or our past). However, again, the lesson is so simple that it evades almost all of us. His “friends” chastised him and accused him of offending God and that he should be contrite, fall on his knees and beg God to forgive whatever his sin was, since he was apparently oblivious as to the nature of his offense.

Instead, he maintained that he’d been faithful to God all this time and that’s why he’d been blessed by him. Therefore he reasoned that this was temporary and most probably “a trial” that he must endure until he’d proven to God that his faith was genuine. In the end, however, he recognizes as he raises his voice to heaven that “WHAT I HAVE FEARED MOST HAS COME UPON ME.” Therein lies the lesson of Job… and his so-called sin.

Still, to elaborate on Longfellow’s statement further, the point is that we “judge” the future by what we think of ourselves and our circumstance in this “NOW” moment, which is influenced enormously by how we think others are judging us… by our past accomplishments. By doing so, we “condemn ourselves” to a life of pain and suffering brought on solely by innate DOUBT and confusion, and we can never experience the true freedom of life referred to by Christ, and all his disciples, apostles, and devotees as the Kingdom of God. “Forgive them. They know not what they do.”

Sooner or later world leaders must recognize and acknowledge openly that we’ve created the very things we’ve feared most… disaster, mayhem, collapse and failure! Are these things inevitable? Of course not!

Rather than looking at what lies ahead with caution and apprehension, overwrought with suspicion, dread, worry and yes, outright fear, we must individually and collectively come to the conclusion that it is our viewpoint that is the real problem. That perspective of fear and trepidation concerning the big question “What can possibly go wrong next?” can change if we individually and collectively recognize that the future is inside each and every one of us — individually and collectively — NOW, and turn off the mainstream’s thought patterns in our own minds. We could also turn off the damn TV which spews out its “doom & gloom” upon whomever will listen to it… and absorb it.

Ask yourself instead, “what wonderful new worlds can come of this current situation? I don’t know… but it is going to be VERY EXCITING!”

“Remember, even false beliefs will seem to be justified in terms of physical data, since your experience in the outside world is the materialization of those beliefs. So you must work with the raw material of your ideas, even while your sense data may tell you that a given belief is obviously a truth.” Seth, Session 615