The Nature And Anatomy Of Judgement The first thing to know on this subject we will call: Principle Number 1: It states:
NEGATIVE JUDGMENT TENDS TO SEPARATE ONE OUT FROM THE PERSON, GROUP, SUBJECT OR THING THAT IS BEING JUDGED. POSITIVE JUDGMENT TENDS TO CONNECT ONE TO THE THING THAT IS BEING JUDGED. Given the choice, most people would prefer to like, love and enjoy people and things rather than dislike, hate and suffer from the presence of certain people, subjects and things. For these people, the anatomy and nature of judgment is a vital subject. It is, of course, possible to judge anyone or anything against anything. In fact, it is common to hear people say things like, "He or she is supposed to do this. He or she is not supposed to do that. That's good and that's bad." Well, regardless of whether the judgment is true or not, it still produces a particular effect. PRINCIPLE NUMBER TWO: A NEGATIVE JUDGMENT IS AN IDEA OR ATTITUDE THAT LOWERS ONE'S AFFINITY, CARING AND LOVE FOR THE PERSON, GROUP, SUBJECT OR THING BEING JUDGED. A POSITIVE JUDGMENT IS AN IDEA OR AN ATTITUDE THAT INCREASES ONE'S AFFINITY, CARING AND LOVE FOR THE PERSON, GROUP, SUBJECT OR THING BEING JUDGED. It is, of course, important to know whether these statements are true or not. Thus, many of the exercises in this series are designed to bring you to a certainty regarding the validity of these statements. To begin, let us first take a look at the subject of affinity or love. For the purposes of this first step, let us define love as a great amount of affinity for someone or something, and let us define affinity as follows. DEFINITION NUMBER ONE:
- AFFINITY IS A DEGREE OF LIKING. What ice-cream do you like the most? Let's say it's chocolate chip. Well, if you like it, you want it close to you...really close. In fact, you want it to be in contact with your taste buds. If you dislike it, you want it far away from your taste buds. If you like it, if you judge it to be good and positive and wonderful, you want to connect with it. If you judge it to be bad and negative and horrible, you want it separate from you. This is one of the simplest examples of the principle. Negative judgment separates us out. Positive judgment connects us to. Thus, if you want to connect more closely to someone or something, all you need to do is to judge that person or thing positively. If you want to separate out from someone or something, just create and assign a negative meaning to that person or thing. This also leads us to another definition of the words affinity and love. DEFINITION NUMBER TWO:
- AFFINITY IS AN IDEA OF HOW MUCH SPACE OR DISTANCE ONE WANTS BETWEEN ONESELF AND A PARTICULAR PERSON, GROUP, SUBJECT OR THING. If you like or you love someone, you want them really close. If they are judged to be "the right sex" you will probably want to hug, kiss and do other such things with them. In fact, the sexual act can be seen as an effort to get as close as possible. Theoretically, the closest one could get would be to occupy the same space. In the sex act one seeks to do this to whatever degree possible. When we dislike someone we tend to want them far away. Hence the impulse to tell them to, "Go to H___," which is a long way off! When we judge a person's ideas or attitudes to be bad or wrong, we tend to want those ideas "out of our space" and out of our mind. When we like someone's ideas or attitudes or, to say it more accurately, when we judge them to be good or right, we want them in our space. We want to hear more about them. We want to connect to them and we want them close. Thus, again, we can see the reality of the principle that says negative judgment separates us out and lowers our degree of love and affinity, and positive judgment connects us and increases our degree of love and affinity. For many, many years we were invited to judge the Russian people as bad. Many took this invitation to judge and thus we lived in a "cold war" that kept us separate from their culture and way of life. In fact, we wanted them and their way of life destroyed, which is about as separate as one can get. Then a new leader by the name of Gorbachev came along. He said things we liked. He said things we agreed with. He did things we judged to be good and positive, and thus the "cold war" ended and we found ourselves closer to the Russian people than we ever had been. To have war it is necessary to negatively judge those one intends to war with. This is true of a nation, a particular group, a particular person or a particular subject. To separate out from a loved one, to get the separation we call divorce, in any and all its forms, it is first necessary to negatively judge the person. In fact, the first negative judgment results in the first actual separation from the person. It results in the first consideration that we wish to be separate. Thus, by definition, it results in the first lowering of affinity and love for that person. As the negative judgments continue to occur and accumulate, one moves further and further away from the person until one seeks to make it official and broadly known by the procedure known as divorce. It can be quite accurately said that all conflict, all upsets, all problems, all difficulties and instances of DIS-EASE are proceeded by a number of negative judgments. Thus, it can be seen that this may well be one of the most vital subjects ever to emerge in the arena of human development and intercourse. When negative judgments occur, no intercourse of any kind is possible.
John Michael Rafanello
WonderTech's Chief Visioneer
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