The Middle Path of Spiritual Discernment:

These two paragraphs were taken from Joel's lecture "0012A The Thunder of Silence"

"If you were to see a so-called evil appearance, sinful appearance, sick appearance, dying or dead appearance, you would be tempted immediately to know some truth or to think some thought that would change the picture, that would heal, correct, improve, or reform it. Whereas if you saw normal human good, normal human health, harmony, wholeness, prosperity, you would just accept the picture at its face value. Now watch this. When you come into a state of life wherein you can look at the harmonious human appearance and recognize it as hypnotism and appearance or suggestion."

"And when you can look at the inharmonious or discordant human picture and recognize it as the product of the same hypnotism or suggestion, then you have come to a point in consciousness in which you will not try to improve, heal, or correct the erroneous picture, nor indulge in satisfaction over the harmonious picture. The reason is that you will know through your spiritual sense that regardless of the picture or its appearance or the nature of its appearance, right there, spiritual reality and harmony is. Eternal and immortal being is. And so you will make no mental effort at correcting, healing, or improving."