
Frederic asks whether there are tools other than the mind, suggesting awareness.
The Wonders reply that to the mind awareness is a tool, but what the mind takes for awareness is judged awareness and therefore not true awareness; as long as there is judgment, awareness can be called a tool of the soul essence, but without judgment awareness is the soul essence.
Frederic notes that even saying there is a soul essence is a judgment, which they confirm and encourage him to keep pursuing.
When he describes the difficulty of awareness reflecting on awareness, they clarify that he is really reflecting on judgments, thoughts and constructs created by his mind, and that this reflection helps him get through the maze of the mind toward a pathway beyond it, which requires reflection and awareness but above all willingness, so that the mind is no longer the dominating, defining factor of choice in the moment.
That is the beginning of realizing one's spirituality.
They add that 'energy' is only a word they use for a non-physical state of being to help humanity past its present illusions, and is itself an illusion he can go past, arriving at a point of undefinability where the question is not how to define it but how he chooses to acknowledge its presence — as energy, soul, All That Is, or anything he chooses — while recognizing the judgment inherent in that acknowledgement and looking for an opening into a deeper one.
Asked whether judgment is a tool, they say it is a tool of the mind and also of the soul, since without judgment the soul would not be a soul but the All That Is: every degree of separation is a judgment, and judgment is allowed by the All That Is to create opportunity for exploration.
Judgment itself is not negative; its constant application by the human mind is what he is looking to quiet.