So what exactly do I mean with "sorting instead of judging"?
To read up on part 1 check out yesterday's article, An Earthly Ego-Need Misunderstood
The discerning chef
Think of the cook in a kitchen who matches ingredients in order to aim for a specific meal. Instead of declining to use onions by default, he would be wise and knowledgable enough to know what dishes go with onions... and what dishes onions should be kept out of.
A chef will not use his energy to criticize and berate chocolate just because he is cooking a potato stew. He will not discriminate against the ingredients he is currently not using simply from the knowledge that eventually somehow somewhere, he might need them to cook something else.
And while I could have probably found a better analogy to get the point across, the idea is to become less of a judger and more of a sorter. To see that what we have been taught as "judgmental" with a pathologic, obsessive and also guilty attitude, could simply be reinterpreted as "sorting" where we simply delegate certain "qualities of things" towards certain energetic places and constellations.
"This belongs here, that belongs there".
Benefits of sorting
In this way you will be more detached to the actual information while finding out what goes with what and why. If you chose to refuse new information into your awareness you may later miss said ingredient for answering other questions. On the other hand, obsessing about any of your ingredients and making them your go-to might make you miss its significance in other contexts - neither chocolate nor onions are particularly desireable for most meals in general, but excellent for some meals in specific.
The sorter does not get hung up on the ramifications of a specific set of information because he can relate that information to other things he has already come across. Sorters want to find out why certain things are allegedly indiscussable and factor that quality in when it comes to finding merit in any topic or debate.
Sorting can greatly take the pressure off oneself because a judgmental individual will not easily let go of a situation or circumstance (even when he despises it) whereas the sorter just wants to know what other aspects match the situation and belong to it conceptually. And then leave it as it is without any moral obligation to change things out of some conditioned moral-highground response.
Sorting can keep you diplomatic with topics where most people have such a rigid position to defend that they will do so at the slightest inquiry or challenge to their view. Naturally, the sorter is both knowledgable enough to know what topics are taboo, and wise enough to speak about them when he can with whomever is ready to listen. And not before then.
The sorter has nothing to prove, he just does his best to designate narratives according to their origin, intention and informational merit to other narratives. Even and especially when he has no other information yet that is pertaining to the topic in question. He "bookmarks" radical and wild new topics somewhere in the back of his mind until the time comes that he finds new information to that angle, and then draws relations between topics. And redraws those relations again.
Not sure I quite get it yet.
Of course you do. Cowshit and dog poo do not belong on the dinner plate. Yet, seeing them as "bad" and judging them uncritically is equally unadvisable. Animal poo belongs on farming lands to make them fertile and to regenerate their nutrient potential for new plants to grow - for that it is amazing! For nutritional purposes it isn't. It really is all about context.
So, even your annoying neighbor who is always arguing has its place. It doesn't mean you have to take his invitation and argue, defend your position or get sucked into a negative spiral when he is having a bad day and wants to trashtalk something you did. It only means that his quality (the thing you like least) will be needed somewhere else and that to the right people his beingness might be exactly what they need in order to learn something.
If I may give another example: Corrupt politicians are needed. If you really wish for a world without them I'm not sure I could agree to that today. There is a reason most people in power are corrupt and the way I see it, until the last of the governed realizes they have been had we need those corrupt elites and power-hungry controllers, otherwise where would our lesson be? Who else would teach us those tough lessons?
You can't wake up from a bad dream if the bed is too cozy. And the most far-out human beings are always good for a lesson for their fellow men, whether intentional or unintentional.
So if we can ditch our obsessive behavioral pattern of rejecting poo outright instead of simply acknowledging where it best belongs and where it is definitely useful, we could get used to seeing everything as fitting within the great puzzle of life somewhere, and that we ourselves don't need to be the energetic match of the thing in question as long as we trust that it matches something somewhere.
Aware moments on psychedelic journeys have shown me that nothing is ever out of place, because everything that exists is the energetic match of its position in the grand scheme of things. And that includes all the things most human beings wish would vanish from this Earth today. We - or rather someone - needs them until they're no longer needed, and they cease to exist
An Earthly Ego-Need Misunderstood
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