Dr. Jeffrey Gladden moved away from organized religion but feels more spiritually connected than ever. He describes a shift from judging others to discernment: recognizing truth without condemnation. As people progress toward enlightenment, he says, judgment falls away.
There's a lot of judgment out there, right? There are a lot of people judging other people. And one of the things that I've come to realize in my own spiritual journey, and I'm no longer really attached to a particular religion despite my background, but I've never been more spiritual or more spiritually connected, right? In a place where you are sort of spiritually moving towards being fully expressed, reaching a point of quote unquote, whatever that means, enlightenment or perspective, you kind of get to a point where you stop judging. You have discernment, but you're not judging.
