We have a deep-rooted belief that if we let go of judgment, society will fall apart. But just what are we holding together?  Perhaps the fabric of society that our judgments hold together is the most toxic part of a society. What would happen if we loosened the grip of judgment in our lives? What might a society look like if over half the judgments we indulge in were scrapped away?

For starters, we’d be giving ourselves and each other a lot more freedom and a lot more space. We’d stop butting into everyone’s lives. We’d stop judging other people’s life styles, their affairs, their actions, their choices. We’d learn the difference between being interested in what others are doing, and judging what others are doing. We’d learn the difference between laws that are truly necessary in a society, and fear-based judgments disguised as laws, that in fact inhibit the evolution of a society and shackle parts of the human experience. Many of our fears masquerading as laws turn into a crime what we find discomforting–or else what we find profitable, such as the criminalization of  drugs.

The freedom and space we give to others to live their lives as they wish equates equally to the freedom and space we give to ourselves to live our lives as we choose. With less judgment and the peering eyes of those around us, we’d experience a human journey that contains more ease, more alignment with our evolutionary purpose, more authenticity, and we’d have greater energy available to focus and direct toward useful and satisfying life experiments.  We’d understand that the human journey is just that:  a journey, always in process and always an experiment, and for the most part, completely beyond human judgment.

Why is this so? Spirit guide Spotted Eagle points out that we are all ancient spiritual energies. This ancient energy that is you and I is individuated and differentiated. It has been personally “us” for a long time, and we each are unique according to the different dimensions we have chosen to experience with our spiritual energy. Since we know that energy is neither created nor destroyed, it is an understatement to say our journeys have been long. We have been journeying and experimenting and evolving our energy for billions of years and beyond. Our human lifetime is a small, quick flicker in the total scheme of who we are. We do not know what any soul or spiritual energy may be working on in this particular lifetime, so it is hubris for us to attempt to judge any human life. Instead of judging, it is more accurate to understand that everyone, without exception, is on a sacred  journey of evolution.

When we begin to understand that there is a much bigger picture at work, we can more easily extend to each human being who has chosen to experience this quite difficult earth plane, a large amount of respect and honor. We can give them a wide berth to journey as they are called, knowing that no matter what their circumstances, or how they appear, there is more going on than meets the human eye. When we look at others, we can know that they are incredibly powerful to choose and change and evolve their journey at every moment. (For an insightful blog on extending compassion to others instead of judgment or pity, visit channel Jennie Marlow’s blog on Compassion).

Judging is a peculiarly human thing to do–it does not exist in any other dimension. We will drop our judgments the minute we drop our physical body. But while we are here, we can learn from our judgments and keep them under supervision.  Judgment unsupervised entangles our spirit and leaves us living lives trapped by the conditioning of society. Examining our own judgments will give us clues as to what that conditioning is, how it works, and the assumptions upon which we and our society run. Which assumptions are we ready to change?  How do we wish to evolve ourselves and our society? When we drop our end of the judgment rope, we are learning to be responsible with our energy, and we free ourselves to move in creative and productive directions that truly enhance our lives and bring us joy.

At first I pondered if perhaps my guides weren’t advanced enough.  Perhaps they had not taken the “All-seeing, All-knowing” class.  Then I began to realize that not even the “Creator” has taken that class… nor are any of “them” even interested in it! One of the guides gave me a hint into this perplexing state of affairs:  it is only humans who are interested in becoming “all-knowing”, because it gives them the illusion of control and domination over the unknown and the uncertain future.

I have since learned that dancing with uncertainty is one of the lessons we come to the earth plane to learn…  and that  “All Knowing” is not even an option in a multiverse that is continually creating and evolving itself.  I will blog about this interesting subject later… in the meantime, you are welcome to visit Jennie Marlow’s blog on the subject of uncertainty.  Jennie is the conscious channel for the 3 guides I work with.

Another thing that began to dawn on me very slowly is that the guides were all different. I would note that a guide would give credit to another guide for this or that, and vice versa. I found that peculiar because for the longest time I just glumped them all together, as if they were one cosmic-spirit-energy blob. But now I know them as completely different and quite unique, individuated energies. I have even graduated to the point where I don’t visualize them – or need to visualize them –  in human form.

In fact, if my life guide (who, unlike some of the guides, has never had a human experience) tries to appear as a human, I just pooh-pooh him. “Stop trying,” I say.  I have finally gotten comfortable with the realization that the guides are energy, and that energy need not take a human form in order to be real, individuated, and have intelligence and humor. I have come to understand that I, too, am energy, and that this human body I carry around while on this earth dimension is a very temporary, though remarkable, vehicle.

I have also had to re-think and un-decide the beliefs that I had about God.  For example, at first I found it confusing to take whole-heartedly the wisdom that came from my guides.  Wouldn’t the God who I’ve been talking to since I was a child be angry, or hurt? Wasn’t it sacrilegious?  And who were the guides in relation to God? Shouldn’t I forget the guides and deal only with the head honcho?  It was clear to me I had fallen into the very human trap of attributing human emotions to God.  I was personifying God… and the whole spirit realm.

After working with these guides for 3 years now, my understanding of the Creative Energy that streams through all dimensions has expanded considerably. Though my spirituality has deepened, I don’t even use the word “God” anymore, because there is just no way I can get beyond seeing a human figure whenever I say or hear that word… it may be a super-duper, celestial being… but with human attributes, nonetheless.  I’m also OK with the fact that there are huge pieces of this puzzle that I can’t comprehend while in human form, and that there will always be some part that is the Mystery, no matter what dimension I frequent in my future, non-human journeys.

Along these lines of human vs. the spirit world, another thing that still continues to surprise me is that these spirit guides are not at all under the influence of the more undesirable aspects that are part of the human journey: like the human conditioning to feel and express shame, blame, guilt, outrage, pity and self-pity.  The guides simply do not engage in these emotional states.  And should I in my unconscious state try to fling some of this humanoid emotion at them, it isn’t even accurate to say it does not stick. I don’t even think it reaches them. Rather, it just seems to fall into some huge abyss that exists at the edge of the human dimension, and before vanishing, lights up briefly and mirrors back to me my own projected feeling, so that, if I want, I can learn from it.

These spirit guides also do not speak with forked tongues. They are very authentic. They say what they mean and say it with clarity. However, my forked human mind can take what they say and run with it.  That is because as a human I am so conditioned to second-guess what someone says: “What was he really trying to say? Does he really mean…? Was that his way of saying that…?”  etc. etc. etc.. It continues to come as a pleasant surprise that these guides speak authentically and with simple clarity.  Sometimes I wonder how they have the patience to deal with my run-away mind, until I remember that patience and impatience are also just a humanoid thing.

No, the spirit world is not at all what I thought it was.  But while there are no all-seeing-all-knowing super-star gods, a-la Santa Claus, it has nonetheless been incredibly refreshing and a real eye-opener to work with these spirit guides, who are now also models for me of how I can act as a more conscious human being. Their names? The guides use the names White Buffalo, Spotted Eagle, and Grandfather White Elk. For more information on them click here.

I will mention them frequently in my blogs, because their guidance and spiritual information has had and continues to have a profound impact on me and my own evolution.  And then there is my life guide (un-named) and my guide group… Sometimes I’ve wondered how a pragmatic person like myself could get involved with spirit guides. But after all, did I really think it logical that we would go through a mega-economic, global transformation and spiritual shift without any help from the spirit world??