With Increasing Grace and Satisfaction

With Increasing Grace and Satisfaction

by Steve Beckow

Posted on February 20, 2024

What is the purpose of life? Why be born?

My desire is to breathe life into the human growth movement, which died, God bless her, in the jobless recovery to the recession of 1982.

After that, thanks to automation, it was: “Stop finding yourself, pal. It’s time to get back to work — if you still have a job, that is.”  (1)

That about summarized the agenda of everyone made obsolete by automation.

Where the deep state ended the growth movement in the 1982 recession, the entire current of events today will end their millennia-old rule.

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In my opinion, we become increasingly socially mature through taking on the precepts and principles of the growth movement, interacting with them, and seeing if they fit. That’s not something the deep state wants to see happen. It means the end for them.

Following psychologist John Enright, the three abstractions I use to enter into this subject are personal awareness, personal responsibility, and personal communication. I add “personal” to each to remind us that we’re talking about us here, ourselves, always. We’re not minding our neighbor’s enlightenment.

Personal awareness concerns what we see, hear, feel, etc., and the sense we make of it.

Personal responsibility concerns the part we play in what we do with what we’re aware of.

Personal communication concerns how we express ourselves and our desires; it concerns how we take purposeful action with others to achieve hopefully-win/win solutions to anything we do together to satisfy those desires.

So it concerns us orienting and moving in the world for the satisfaction of our needs and desires – and those of others. It has has to do with being responsible for the role we play in life. All of this is achieved by and through communication.

I’m not saying that that exhausts human-growth subjects. It doesn’t. But it gets us into three of the most central topics in this domain of literature.

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The domain we’ll be operating in, as far as a literature goes, is the cultural. Let me begin then by defining culture.

Culture consists of an organization of ideas, reflected in act and artifact but consisting of neither, by means of which we understand our world and take purposeful action. (2)

Culture must be transmissible. It has to be capable of being communicated. The purpose of both act and artifact, shorn of ideas, is culturally non-transmissible. A Stradivarius might be used as a flower pot 300 years from now if that generation “had no idea of” what it is or does.

So the coin of the realm here, the lingua franca or common language will be ideas. It will be language itself.

The original growth movement occurred in in-person workshops and groups. This growth movement will happen, of necessity, I predict, on the Internet. This is the domain that unites us. “We are the people of the Internet,” as the video says.

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And the cost, I hope, will be kept low. Let’s not reproduce the greed of the Third Dimension, deja vu all over again.

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Coming back to our three fields of specialization, in self-awareness, we take our perceptions and conceptions and form an idea of ourselves and others.

Seeing ourselves as needing to act, we define for ourselves what role we want to play; that is, what we want our responsibility to be.

To then accomplish our ends, alone or with others, we’re obliged to communicate. Often how well we satisfy our needs and desires and those of others depends on how well we communicate.

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And, finally, for this turn of the carousel, why do we do all this? Why be bothered?

To answer that, we have to go right back to the beginning of things.

What is the purpose of life?

As I was shown in a vision back in 1987, the purpose of life is enlightenment. (3) The purpose of life is for us to know who we  truly are. Why is that?

Because when one of us realizes their true identity, God meets God. And for this meeting beyond description was all of life created.

Self-Knowledge, Self-Realization, then, is the purpose of life. Know the self and you’ll end up knowing all.  On and on the guidance goes on this subject from terrestrial and extraterrestrial sources.

That guidance and this study will, I hope, take us both inward – and from there outward – with increasing grace and satisfaction.

Footnotes

(1) David Olive, “The New Hard Line,” Report on Business Magazine, Oct. 1991, 15.

Gone were the permanent job, the benefits plan, pensions, severance packages, trade unions.

The coup de grace was shipping many of the remaining jobs overseas. That was an earthquake for the middle and working classes.  The erosion of America by the deep state has been happening over a long period of time.

(2) “Culture  – whether we look at it through time or in the present – may be seen as an organization of ideas, manifest in act and artifact (though consisting of neither), by means of which humans experience their world and take purposeful action.” (Edited from the original.  Stephen M. Beckow, “Culture, History, and Artifact,” Canadian Museums Association Gazette, Fall 1975, 13.)

(3) See “Ch. 13 – Epilogue” in The Purpose of Life is Enlightenment at http://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Purpose-of-Life-is-Enlightenment.pdf

Steve Beckow

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Connecting the Dots on Consciousness States

Connecting the Dots on Consciousness States

by Steve Beckow

Posted on February 7, 2024

Nothing but sattwa: Amelia, Kathleen’s grand-daughter

Please consider this an essay in cross-cultural spirituality. I link up western and eastern perspectives on consciousness states.

My hypothesis is that what I’m calling, after Eric Berne with changes, (1) the Adult consciousness state is the same state of consciousness that Hindus call sattwa or purity. Feel free to skip this article if it doesn’t interest you.

As pleasant as it is, my Adult is still a consciousness state. It’s a state that’s more divine than either the critical Parent or the wounded Child. But it’s still a state.

The situation appears similar to that with sattwa guna. The gunas are the cosmic forces, three of the Mother’s instruments in creating, preserving, and transforming. (2) Sattwa guna is preservative.

Sattwa is purity, and as much of all the divine qualities as a 3/4D human can hold without bursting its bonds of flesh.

Amelia perfectly illustrates it.

An avatar will be born sattwic. They are pure enough to hold that energy. When we see a sattwic individual, we might be drawn short.

Yes, Amelia. Drawn short.

I saw one in a Vancouver drugstore back around 2014.  I was sure he was a galactic, he was such a natural gentleman. I told Kathleen about him at the time.

I was drawn short and just watched him, gawking you could say. Very sattwic. Like a noble knight. Like the vision of my Universal Self I once had. (3)

But sattwa is still within the Third/Fourth Dimension.  We want to go beyond that.

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I hypothesize that sattwa and the Adult consciousness state are one and the same. One cannot be in sattwa and not be in the Adult consciousness state; what the individual thinks and does in the Adult consciousness state is sattwic.  Both share balance, purity, love.

The two of them, supposing they were different in some way, may turn out to be the price of admission to the higher realms. Ye must be as a child, sattwic or pure, to enter the kingdom of heaven. But not as a wounded Child. Around that ye must be as an Adult.

Certainly this state and this character will prove to be extremely-important instruments for going beyond. But not the final destination.

In fact by the time First Contact comes along, we’ll have to have realized that our star family finds the conditions within which we live to be often difficult to manage. Gosh, I said that diplomatically.

They have to clean themselves thoroughly before they rejoin their starship colleagues. Nuff said on that.

But if we add to “that,” the noxious fumes of anger, jealousy, hatred – the baser feelings – we drive them away.

So not only are our bodies adapting to the demands of a higher vibration, but we ourselves are cleansing our minds of our hatreds, resentments, malintentions, etc. Both are necessary.

It’s said that some people stall and get stuck in sattwa.  They settle for satisfaction and comfort. Others have a mission, say, in business and can be described as partly sattwic (or pure) and partly rajasic (or busy, active). They’re often described as sattwo-rajasic.

Finally, there is no right or wrong about all this. It’s like Westworld. Some people are in another realm of Westworld than we are. Others are just entering. We’re all at different places in the same Westworld.

We’re all of us at different places but on the same one journey – from God to God.

Footnotes

(1) In Games People Play: The Psychology of Human Relationships. London: Penguin, 1964. Berne called the three – Parent, Adult, and Child – “ego states.” “Ego” means “I” in Latin. I consider “consciousness state” to be somewhat more commonly accepted in today’s discussions.

(2) It may be that the gunas work through AUM. Akar is creative; Ukar is preservative; and Makar is transformative.

I cite the correspondences I’ve been able to make so far and have confirmed:

Steve: I’ve read part of this quote to the Divine Mother. She’s verified it but I’ve added things to it. So I’d like to read it to you again and ask if it is correct:

Creation, preservation, and transformation = rajas, sattwa, and thamas [the gunas] = Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva [the Trimurthy] = Akar, Ukar and Makar [AUM] = inbreath, pause, and outbreath.

Archangel Michael: That is quite the expression, Sweet One, and, in that tradition and in that understanding, the answer is correct.

Steve: It is not discussed in other traditions.

AAM: No, it is not. (Archangel Michael in a personal reading with Steve Beckow through Linda Dillon, April 2, 2020.)

(3) See “‘Is This What You’re Looking for?’ – Part 1/2,” August 21, 2017, at https://goldenageofgaia.com/2017/08/21/289210/

Steve Beckow

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On the Astral Planes, What Does a Museum Earth Display Show?

On the Astral Planes, What Does a Museum Earth Display Show?

By Steve Beckow

Posted on December 21, 2023

I was discussing evolution and how museum displays on the astral planes revealed much greater information than anything we have on Earth, going into the past or zooming in on the present. (1)

I wanted to cite the testimony of G. Vale Owen’s mother on a museum display of the Earth she was shown in the Higher Summerlands of the astral plane (probably twelfth subdimension of the Fourth Dimension in our “New Map of Heaven”).

Rev. G. Vale Owen was very well known in the mid-20th Century, especially in British spiritualist circles, for his series Life Beyond the Veil. Consequently his mother’s testimony would have been accepted as very credible.

Clearly it was well received by Air Chief Marshal Lord Dowding, hero of the Battle of Britain, a well-known spiritualist in his day.

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The mother of G. Vale Owens quoted in Air Chief Marshal Lord Dowding, Many Mansions. London, etc.: Rider and Co., n.d. , 57-9.

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We were told that a small demonstration would be made for our benefit in order that we might get some idea of the use to which these [musuem] things were put.

At length a blue mist began to fill the central space. Then a ray of light swept round the hall and rested on the globe which represented the earth. As it hovered about it the sphere appeared to absorb the ray and became luminous, and, after a time, the ray being withdrawn, we saw the earth globe was shining as if from within. Then another ray was sent on to it of a deeper and different kind and the globe slowly left the pedestal, or pivot, or whatever it rested on and began to float out from the wall.

As it approached the centre of the space it entered the blue mist and immediately on contact began to enlarge until it became a great sphere glowing with its own light and floating in the blue space. It was exceedingly beautiful.

Slowly, very slowly, it revolved on its own axis, evidently in the same way the earth does and we were able to see the oceans and continents. These were flat patterns, like those on the terrestrial globes used on earth. But as it revolved they began to assume a different aspect.

The mountains and hills began to stand out and the waters to sway and ripple: and presently we saw minute models of the cities, and even details of the buildings. And still more detailed grew the model of the earth till we could see the people themselves, first the crowds and then the individuals.

This will be hard for you to understand, that on a globe of some perhaps eighty to a hundred feet in diameter we are able to see individual men and animals. But that is part of the science of this institution – the enabling of these details being seen individually.

Still more distinct grew these wonderful scenes, and, as the globe revolved, we saw men hurrying about the cities and working in the fields. We saw the wide spaces of prairie and desert and forest and the animals roaming in them. And as the globe slowly circled we saw the oceans and the seas, some placid and the others tossing and roaring, and here and there a ship. And all the life of earth passed before our eyes….

Soon the scenes began to change on the revolving sphere and we were taken back thousands of years of the life of the earth and the generations of men and animals and plant life which had been from the present to the ages when men were just emerging from the forest to settle in colonies on the plains. … When we had satisfied our eyes for a while, the globe gradually became smaller and smaller and floated back to the niche in the wall and then the light faded out from it and it looked like an alabaster carving, just as we had seen it at first, set there as an ornament. …

The animals about the walls were also used for a like purpose. One would be vivified by these powerful rays and / brought into the centre of the hall. When so treated it could walk of itself like a live animal, which it was temporarily and in a certain restricted way. When it had ascended a platform in the centre space, then it was treated with the enlarging rays – as I may call them, not knowing their scientific name – and then with others which rendered it transparent and all the internal organisms of the animal became plainly visible to the students assembled.

Then it was possible to bring over the living model a change so that it began to evolve backwards- or should I say ‘involve’? – towards its simpler and primal state as a mammal, and so on. The whole structural history of the animal was shown in that life-like process. …

Also it was possible for any student to take charge and continue the development according to his own idea and this not of the animals alone, but of the heavenly bodies and also of nations and peoples, which are dealt with in another hall, however, specially adapted to that study.

Steve Beckow 

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