Showing posts with label Creative Expression. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Creative Expression. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 6, 2023

Like a Bubble Rising in the Ocean of the World

Like a Bubble Rising in the Ocean of the World

By Steve Beckow

Posted on December 5, 2023


Hmmm……


I seem driven to paint. And write. I swish some gold glitter glue onto a bottle I’m working on and immediately the ideas start to press themselves upon me and I have to write.

I pitch bottles as fast as I paint them because there’s no more room in my apartment. If I create one, I have to let one go. (Or store it.)

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It’s the creative process itself that’s important. That’s what I’m exploring and for that I need to be … creating.

Keep in mind that all this is happening after June 12, 2023, on which date I realized or remembered or recognized what it was Archangel Michael was asking of me as one of his spiritual, co-creative partners on the planet at this time. (1)

You’re watching the – public – unfoldment of a co-creative partnership between an archangel and his servant. To actually diarize it and then post that is a good part of my mission, at least right now.

No, that doesn’t mean “what a good boy am I.” (2) It brings with it a tremendous responsibility which I’m very much aware of. But ready to take on.

Following Michael’s advice, with any “elevation” in profile, I’m taking the elevator to the basement. (3)

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One of the things I’m learning from all this – on a spiritual level, not on a physical level – is that everything can be fixed.

When I’m working with water-soluble paints, everything, except getting it on my clothes, can be fixed.

I just slopped some gold, water-soluble glitter glue on a band of blue paint. I didn’t mean to do that.

No worries. What I can’t just wipe off with my finger, I can repaint when it dries.  In fact I like the look of only partially wiping the gold off the deep blue… Hmmm….

There’s nothing that can’t be fixed by simply adding more paint in the world of painting.

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[What follows, I consider to be channeled. Whoever it is just joined in. This is the first time I’ve caught this flow of energy while it was building:]

Similarly, in the spiritual world or spiritual life, there’s nothing “damaged” spiritually that can’t be fixed.

If that were not the case, the basis of the law of karma would be removed. Karma is always about “fixing” what we haven’t rightly understood, is that not so?

All of us are embarked on a return journey to the One who birthed us – the Alpha and, it turns out, the Omega, am I correct?

Some of us are at a place of scrapping and complaining. Karma instructs us on the costs of that freewill choice. One cost: we need to stay at that level – repeat those classes – instead of graduating and going on to college.

Some of us have graduated from college and are looking for our first job.

Since ours becomes exclusively a spiritual world as we advance, we need no pay. We need nothing more than what we already have. What’s next?

To serve. We must share love for it to flow and, since we need nothing ourselves, we’re available to serve.

By now, in any of the higher dimensions, life is a process of giving and receiving, sharing and enjoying. Since we can create anything we may need, it becomes about sharing love and its many flavors, the divine qualities.

As it turns out, the one experiencing real love already has for itself what it always wanted anyways. There’s nothing now to do but to make contact, if one wishes to, by sharing love.

Service now becomes another way of experiencing the all-satisfying love as it flows through us from our hearts to theirs.

[End of channeling. Thank you, Guiding Light.]

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[This is me again:]

Until then, as long as our needs last, in my view, life will always be about “I want.”

My “I” never disappears. It just comes into clearer and clearer focus.

And “want” will never disappear until we are One with Mother/Father God. The longing for liberation ensures that one want remains: To re-unite with God. (4)

What then matters, on our journey from God to God, is which “I” and “want” we serve: Are we feeding the good or the bad wolf? (5)

It’s those two (“I” and “want”) that change by the action of karma, the teaching tool of the Mother, in whose realm (matter, mater, Mother) we’re passing through, like a bubble rising in the ocean of the world, on our way to re-uniting with God.

Footnotes

(1) See:

(2) Little Jack Horner
Sat in the corner,
Eating his Christmas pie;
He put in his thumb,
And pulled out a plum,
And said, “What a good boy am I!”

(3) Steve: I worry that sudden wealth will (with me too by the way; I’m going to have to battle this one myself as well) magnify those vasanas or core issues [of greed, power, etc.].

What to do?

Archangel Michael: Let us … begin by saying that this is one of the reasons why we have been speaking so much about being the steward, the leader, the wayshower, the participant observer.

As you assume profile – whether it is because of money or notoriety or political power or financial power, it matters not – it gives you a sense of being elevated. We would encourage you to take the elevator to the basement. (Archangel Michael in a personal reading with Steve Beckow through Linda Dillon, July 22, 2016.)

(4) See The Longing for Liberation at https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Longing-for-Liberation-3.pdf

(5) “One [wolf inside of us] is evil. It is anger, envy, jealousy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego.

The other is good. It is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion and faith.

Which wolf wins? … The one you feed.”  (The Tale of Two Wolves at https://www.nanticokeindians.org/page/tale-of-two-wolves.)

Steve Beckow 

 

Thursday, September 7, 2023

Productive and Unproductive Communication

Productive and Unproductive Communication

By Steve Beckow

Posted on September 6, 2023



No or Unproductive Communication

When we won’t communicate at all or communicate with blame and shame or other unproductive strategies, the other person tends to clam up. Then the issues and withholds (undelivered communications) start to build up.

If nothing changes or gets better ever, the person may just one day up and leave.

Someone told me the other day of a man who left for soccer practice one day and then suddenly needed to return to get his cellphone. There he saw his wife’s brother moving all her stuff out. This was the first the husband knew about it.

It’s my belief that people who go round and round this unfortunate loop, comforting themselves that them getting back together is the main thing, one day just eventually quit, like the player’s wife. Or find that their partner has just quit, like the player.

Going round and round is wearing and dull. One day we stop caring. Past that, we just want out.

Good/Bad, Right/Wrong

I’d like to focus on one type of unproductive discussion we have which I call good/bad, right/wrong.

One reason why I don’t advise discussing matters from the intellectual level is because they so often devolve into good/bad, right/wrong. And that can become like quicksand, into which we sink … and disappear.

We argue incessantly about factors that aren’t even what motivate us into action.

In right/wrong, you say A and I say B. And we both defend our positions.

But if we switched places, dollars to donuts I’d be saying A and you’d be saying B. All seems to depend on our point of view, our vantage point, where we sit, and not on the truth of the matter.

Again, in our zero sum thinking, if we’re right, someone else has to be wrong. That leaves a lot of bruises and other residue, often festering and contributing in turn to another turn of the carousel.

Discussion seldom gets above good/bad, right/wrong and thus proves fruitless and stultifying. It leads nowhere and simply exhausts everyone. We need to up-level it to the experiential level and focus on how we feel.

Communicating How We Feel

Communicating how we feel is the information the other needs to know regarding whether to act or not. (1) “I’m concerned.” No action. “I’m helpless. Please! Somebody!” Concerted action! Our feelings are the factor that motivate us to action.

Communicating how we feel has other advantages. First, it’s verifiable by me. Only I feel what I feel. And only I know how I feel. It isn’t something that can be messed with. I’m the expert on the subject.

But many people, if I asked them how they’re feeling, might not know what to answer. How would I know what I’m feeling? Where would I look? I don’t know how I feel.

Our ability to maneuver in this territory may be limited at the moment, but I’m certain our emotional IQ will rise dramatically in the weeks and months ahead.

Feedback

Sincerely trying on feedback is also needed. Without our partner being able to deliver feedback, again, the situation might never change.

The ordinary tendency is to rebuff feedback, deny it, contest it, and in other ways resist it. That ultimately leads to lethargy in us and resistance in our partner.

What is lethargy? I’m asleep and I’m asleep to the fact that I’m asleep. In Hinduism, this condition is called the guna or cosmic force of thamas.

If you really observe thamas or lethargy, you’ll see it’s like a blanket that smothers everything but the most basic of actions and interactions.

How do we “receive” feedback? Try it on. Test it out. See if it fits. If it does, own it.

Tomorrow we look at true reconciliation.

Footnotes

(1) On the value of listening, see:

Steve Beckow