Judging narrows your mind and perception

Wednesday, Oct 28, 2026 695 words 3 mins 5 secs
An A Course in Miracles Blog  © 2026 Paul West

Another word for judgement might be "narrowing". You narrow your mind down from wholeness by separating something out, sectioning it off from the rest. But to do this requires you to split your mind. Your mind in wholeness sees only wholeness, and cannot see separation. In order to judge a separate thing you have to first separate out, which isn't a passive act. It requires YOU to separate off your mind from itself.

This narrowing down therefore narrows your sense of identity, which now becomes "ego" and lost, and the result is that you are now "targeting" something exclusive, something separate, something limited. Instead of letting it be what it is in wholeness, without imposing upon it or judging it or evaluating what it is, or even asserting what it is, this ego position is arrogant and attempts to TELL the thing what it is. You are now deciding what it is to you, and therefore making up a MEANING for it.

You are deciding what you would have it be, as though a thing comes along and you sit there pointing a finger and telling it what it is, even if this has nothing to do with what it is. This finger-pointing is always condemning because it is narrow and unwhole, and this "narrowing" has a feeling of attack and limiting and confining - like an accusation, like hate. This judgement is always wrong because it cannot see the whole truth, the whole picture, or know anything completely.

It is out of touch with reality and limited due to the narrowing and splitting of mind. Not only does it then result in a FALSE CONCLUSION, which is fundamentally founded on ego lies and war and conflict, it also then distorts perception. You then SEE what you want to see, with the meaning you want it to have, judged to be what you think of it, rather than truly seeing what is actually real. This becomes a private seeing, an insane seeing, twisted and distorted and self-deceiving, like believing your own hallucination.

The result is false perception, which is warring and fearful and full of attempts to separate off. The more you focus on separation the more judgemental you become, resulting in perception becoming more fragmented, dark and insane. Narrowing your mind from wholeness to limitation darkens your mind and puts you into a state of self-imposed imprisonment. The very imprisonment that you think belongs to the thing you judge, is the very imprisonment that imprisons you. You get what you ask for, and you see what you believe is there.

To find the "real" world, a perception of the world without this narrowing, requires you to align with Christ Vision via the Holy Spirit who only sees from a perspective of wholeness.

"Wholeness is the perceptual content of miracles."

"Judgment was made to be a weapon used against the truth. It separates what it is being used against, and sets it off as if it were a thing apart. And then it makes of it what you would have it be. It judges what it cannot understand, because it cannot see totality and therefore judges falsely."

"Perception follows judgment. Having judged, you therefore see what you would look upon. For vision merely serves to offer you what you would have. It is impossible to overlook what you would see, and fail to see what you have chosen to behold."

How can His Son AWAKEN from the dream? It is a dream of judgment. So must he judge NOT, and he WILL waken. For the dream will seem to last while he is PART of it. Judge not, for he who judges WILL have need of idols, which will hold the judgment off from resting on himself. Nor CAN he know the Self he has condemned. Judge not, because you make yourself a PART of evil dreams, where idols are your "true" identity, and your salvation from the judgment laid, in terror and in guilt, upon yourself. All figures in the dream are idols, made to save you FROM the dream. Yet they are PART of what they have been made to save you FROM.



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