Anatomically speaking, blame consists of a statement conveying a negative judgment of another person, delivered to that person or to others about that person, to achieve an end.
From that generic statement, blame branches off in all directions.
Blame has another general characteristic: It’s always a projection. And what is projected is what already exists inside the blamer or the blamer couldn’t see it in the first place.
I don’t know what sherry tastes like. I have no familiarity with it so I have no opinion on it. But I do know what sake tastes like. I’m familiar with it and I have an opinion on it.
By the same token, I couldn’t blame someone for something I haven’t had experience of myself – either being guilty of it myself or falsely accused of it. Some traumautic occurrence must have happened around the issue in question, for me to have a charge on it.
Sanat Kumara said in 2012:
“Whatever you see and perceive, experience and know externally to you is also in existence – no, not always in the same form obviously, but it is in existence. Those seeds of energy are within you. It is how you come to know and perceive what is external to you.” (1)
Introjection turns out to have a useful side. (2) To introject our blame can be used to try it on, test it out, and see if it fits.
We then have the opportunity to see whatever it is that already exists inside us, the seeing of which allows us to think we see it outside as well.
We’re not used to thinking about blame as being self-revealing, even though there’s some folk wisdom on the subject.
For instance, the notion that the hand that points the finger has three fingers pointing back at itself turns out to be literally true. Our blame tells others more about ourselves than it may about the other person.
When I tried my blame on the other day, the characterizations fit me perfectly as a very young child. (3)
Jesus said the truth would set us free. (4) When we see the truth of the blame, the unwanted condition (fear, hate, dismay, etc.) should lift.
Some vasanas can go so deep that a person has to take one pass after another after another and, still, more comes up related to it.
An illustration: I was tied to the crib to keep me from scratching my arms when I had excema as an infant. Nowadays, “I don’t like to be tied down.”
I go deeper and deeper into this vasana and still more is left. I may have to do hypnosis to go deeply enough to totally release it.
Actually I believe Katheen is hard at work in this area and may have some breakthroughs to report. She’s gone deeply into many of her vasanas.
I haven’t gotten the full benefit of the process Kathleen is introducing me to. Seeing that blame is really about me is just the first step.
A good second step, for example, would be to imagine all the people in my life who I’ve misjudged by seeing them through my filters. Let that one in.
All of this work so that, when we serve in our missions, we won’t fail because we have a vasana go off. No, nothing to do with Ascension. I’m leaving that to the folks in the rafters.
This is about not failing at building Nova Earth, because we’ve wrestled our vasanas to the ground.
Footnotes
(1) “Sanat Kumara explains 3 Universal Laws that we may not know about,” April 28, 2012, at https://counciloflove.com/2012/04/sanat-kumara-explains-3-universal-laws-that-we-may-not-know-about/.
(2) Usually we put introjection down because it implies self-blame, power over, subjection, etc.
(3) Yes, yes, arrested development. Stunted emotional growth. The whole bushel.
(4) I’ve heard the matter put another way but it’s pretty hard to “get.” Put the truth in the same space in which the truth already exists and the unwanted condition will disappear. So far we’ve been putting the lie of blame in that space and the unwanted condition has persisted. Now, when we put truth into the space, it resonates with the truth already there and we take the hot buttons off that we’ve ringed the issue with. We relax.