Restoring tooth enamel: observing without judgment and layers of belief

Frederick explains that his questions arise from working on restoring his tooth enamel.

He understands how a belief can stop him from acting, but senses that with the body it goes further — that perception influences the outcome even when all the right actions are taken.

The Wonders agree, noting the body has its own consciousness and belief structure, and ask what the greater consciousness encompassing body and mind believes.

To perceive it he must observe, and to observe he must suspend judgment — a difficulty which is itself only another perception and belief structure, and the easiest one to set aside first.

Having suspended the belief that judgment is necessary in order to observe, the next layer is judging whether the observation is valid, which can be suspended in turn.

Then he can observe whether the body has an inherent capacity to replace itself.

That capacity genuinely exists and is not created by the observation, nor is it limited by other people, but for most people it is filtered through perception.

They compare this to going down the rabbit hole in Alice in Wonderland, where nothing is as it was and everything becomes possible; what moves something from possibility to actuality is choice, specifically the choice to suspend perception, and it is far more effective when made by the total self rather than the ego.

His mind is a powerful tool, like a drill bit capable of going hundreds of thousands of feet deep that he uses only for the first ten.