"I also think that the point you bring up about having not experienced certain things is a valid one. If I understand your meaning, the following crude example comes to mind: people saying that homeless people should just get jobs. The person who says such a thing has obviously not experienced homelessness, nor do they have the capacity (or compassion) to imagine it. The tipping point as I see it would be compassion, in lieu of having actually had the experience themselves and therefore having real empathy. Beyond that, as a person evolves away from self-centeredness (seeing the world only through the self and what the self is consciously aware of), attachment to the human drama, and toward disassociation of the human experience, judgments of other-selves falls away (that is not to say one ceases to discern). This has been my ongoing experience anyway. Though this process is not one that goes from black to white. One doesn't usually change overnight. It is usually more gradual, and the lightning-struck tower comes to mind, in which is illustrated the nature of change through the process of illumination:"
I was listening to the audio of the Q'uo early Hatonn stuff, and they talked about this issue a few times.
I don't think I can find the specific transcript however.
https://www.llresearch.org/transcripts/i..._0300.aspx
It was somewhere around 1972. or 4
Essentially it boils down to: You cannot give to others what you do not have, and you cannot teach that which you do not understand or know.
I was listening to the audio of the Q'uo early Hatonn stuff, and they talked about this issue a few times.
I don't think I can find the specific transcript however.
https://www.llresearch.org/transcripts/i..._0300.aspx
It was somewhere around 1972. or 4
Essentially it boils down to: You cannot give to others what you do not have, and you cannot teach that which you do not understand or know.