When the new Toltec warrior understands that the universe is one living whole, perfect in its wholeness and in all of its parts, he also understands that any ideas about imperfection are not the truth. All of the “shoulds” that have been programmed into the mind's mitote from the outside are not the truth. Any notion that anyone, anything, or any event could be different from what it is in any given moment is not the truth. In fact, the entire dream in the mind's mitote is not the truth — it is based on lies, compounded by more lies, and held together by lies about the lies.

The biggest lie about all the lies in the human mind is that they are the truth! They are not the truth, because they deny the essential perfection of the universal whole and its parts. Your judge sits high up on his bench in your inner world, looking at a book filled with lies, and judges you against them. He has collected the lies for many years, from many sources, and believes they all are “right.” The inner judge compares the actions, needs, fears, desires, and feelings of the child within to the standards in his book of lies. The judge finds the child guilty, and punishes him over and over.

All the Characters Believe the Lies

Every one of the strategies and their masks that you learned about in previous chapters is dreamed by a child part of the inner world. Each of those strategies is based on a lie that says the individual human should be different from what he is. The strategies are born of fear, and remain rigid and unchanged until the judge has been removed from his bench by the warrior.

The complexity of the inner world makes unraveling the lies and creating a new dream an interesting challenge for the new warrior. At times, the possibility of success may seem remote or nonexistent, but the Toltec teacher will always encourage his students to persevere. He reminds them that it is always the most difficult in the beginning, when the old habits and fears of rejection are still a powerful force in the mind. The teacher remembers his own battles with the parasite, and offers his experience, wisdom, and love to support whoever is ready to rumble.

The Warrior Versus the Judge

The Toltec warrior focuses on two aspects of the battle to free the victim child from the tyranny of the judge: He must protect the child from the judgments, and he must teach the child that the judge is always lying. In the past, when the judge looked down from his bench and his book of lies and told the child that his desires, actions, or feelings were wrong, the child would cringe and try to get it right for the judge (or would rebel, procrastinate, and so on).

As the warrior's presence in the inner world grows stronger, he hears the judgments and says, “No, judge, that is a lie, and you are a liar! There is nothing bad or wrong with what the child does, wants, or feels, and I will not let you talk to him like that!” Don't you wish you'd had someone like that around when you were a child, to protect you from criticism and rejection? It is not too late.

The god of fire burns away the lies.

At the same time he is stopping the judgments, the warrior also turns to the child within and reminds him of his divine perfection. While the judge is carrying on about what is wrong with the victim child, the warrior is telling the child he is perfect exactly the way he is, and exactly the way he is not. He offers his love and acceptance to the child as the healing antidote to the fear and rejection of the judge.