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Starpeople: Laura Magdalene Eisenhower, with looking outside of self & looking within

The other day I was daydreaming (when I was supposed to be meditating  – what do you do?) about the time when I was six years old and my good parents took me to church one Sunday, with my brothers & sisters.

For some magical reason, the sermon that Sunday was about the first bit of the Gospel according to St. Matthew’s seventh chapter, about “Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.”

Of course, I thought it was clear: My grade one bully-friends at school needed to stop being mean to me, calling me stuff & telling me how lame I was. And it kinda grew from there.

After a few years & then decades, I came to feel it wasn’t about them, but about me & what I do. That little phrasing took anchor, and I love the ways it echoes, day after day, as I try it on in different sizes, with different results & different takes on it, that set up the next day’s run at sorting it out.

Then I ran into Lao Tzu, who said, If you keep your mind from judging, and aren’t led by the senses, your heart will find peace.”

And then, there’s Edgar Cayce, whose guides suggested: “Speak gently, speak kindly to those who falter. Ye know not their own temptation, nor the littleness of their understanding. Judge not as to this or that activity of another; rather pray that the light may shine even in their lives as it has in thine.

“These are the manners in which the sons and daughters of men may know His way. In this mundane sphere there comes to all that period when doubts and fears arise, even to doubting thine own self. These may easily be cast aside by knowing that He is in His holy temple and all is well.”

Lately, I’ve been getting to know  (via YouTube & her websites & Facebook posts) a modern mystic named Laura Magdalene Eisenhower, whose celebration of the sacred feminine & the dance of spirit are key parts of her writing (as well as her observations on the way. starpeople are interacting with this planet.)

I’m honoured to re-post one of her essays here, expanding the discussion about this business of us judging others & ourselves. See what you think (and thanks, Laura Magdelene!):

It isn’t fair to gossip or bash people publicly or behind their back because we have our own unique relationship to individuals that we come across. It can contaminate the way people see each other, before they have a chance to even know for themselves.

The way people relate, and what they experience together, is not going to be the same for everyone — there may be past life karma that is unresolved, hidden memories that repel or attract, and any range of unconscious elements involved that influence how an interaction or dynamic plays out. There are things we activate in others and things that they activate in us,  as well as things we don’t fully understand.

We are all different mixes of energies connecting in different ways.

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