As I Explore the Path of Loving Kindness…

As I Explore the Path of Loving Kindness…

By Steve Beckow

Posted on July 14, 2024

Credit: Stephen Levine and (c) Eric

Again the mysteries of the assassination attempt unfold. The Secret Service ignoring warnings of the shooter’s presence, them ordering the white-hat sniper not to shoot the deep-state shooter, trajectories, timing, etc. Questions arise on every side.

While all this is going on, here I am exploring the path of loving kindness.

I’ve followed the path of orneriness most of my life. On this new path, I’m challenged again and again and again. And it’s meeting those challenges that I’d like to talk about.

I’m challenged on two fronts: The first is by what I’ve called vasanas, after Ramana Maharshi, (1) which Linda Dillon calls “core issues,” equivalent in meaning.

These comprise the mental/emotional complex of memories and energies that gets triggered whenever we feel we’re getting into the same threatening situation again.

They’re what are triggered when we blow our tops, go nuclear, go insane with anger, etc.

One of the important effects of raising awareness of our vasanas is to get that what we’re angry about and who we’re angry at has little to do with the person in front of us and more to do with our parents or siblings, teachers or other influential figures, when we were young.

We can process or invoke the universal laws for divine aid in removing our vasanas. (2) It used to take years; I now believe it can be done much quicker.

The second challenge on the path of loving-kindness is the automatic behavior patterns that I fall into as a result of the conclusions and decisions I reached, which then became the foundation of the vasana.

If we didn’t reach a conclusion (no one loves me, I don’t rate, you can’t trust anyone), I wouldn’t reach a decision (I won’t love anyone, I don’t need people, I won’t trust anyone). There’d be no problem. Go on to the next article.

If I didn’t reach a decision, there in all likelihood would not be a lingering vasana.

I won’t love anyone becomes coldness and rigidity. I don’t need anyone becomes automatic depression. I don’t trust anyone becomes automatic suspiciousness. And we go from mood to mood depending on what has gotten triggered … now.

Just to remind us where all this is going: It’s going round and round and round, as the graphic illustrates:

The simple answer to the rampage we go on and to the vasana itself is to simply stop. Listen to the vasana but don’t act on it.

Don’t participate in your upset; observe it. Let go of any thought that prompts you to leave the observer position and become the participant.

Anything that feels resentful, hateful, angry can be assumed to come from the vasana. Any automatic pattern can be assumed to come from this or another vasana. Just let it go as you would a piece of luggage.

Anything that feels loving, kind, compassionate can be assumed to have come from your heart. Enjoy it. Nurture it. Fan its embers.

As Stephen Levine says, at first we cultivate it; later it cultivates us.

That’s my agenda for the next while: Just observe the barriers to loving-kindness as they arise and nurture the incipient divine states/feelings. (3) The white hats have things in hand, even an assassination attempt, apparently. My worry is strictly optional.

However, I can contribute, at this time, by raising my own vibration, with the aim of taking the whole world out of the reach of darkness and evil.

At the same time, I honor the courage and sacrifice of those who go into harm’s way to rescue our oppressed and exploited. Nothing I do should be interpreted as wanting to take the attention and resources away from them.

Footnotes

(1) See “Vasanas (Latent Tendencies)” at https://goldengaiadb.com/index.php?title=V#Vasanas_.28Latent_Tendencies.29 and following.

I follow Sri Ramana’s practise in using the term “vasana” because I’d like to link up western trauma teachings with eastern vasana teachings.

(2) On processing a vasana, see “How to Handle Unwanted Feelings: The Upset Clearing Process” in Vasanas: Preparing For Ascension by Clearing Old Issues at https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Vasanas-Preparing-for-Ascension-R16.pdf

(3) A divine state may be experienced as a wisp of feeling that skoots across the desktop of our mind. But the fundamental experiential difference between a feeling and a divine state is that the former is experienced as happening within our field of awareness whereas the latter is experienced as something we’re immersed in.  Our hearts hurt, but we’re immersed in love, bliss, ecstasy, joy, etc.

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“Nothing Ever Changes”

“Nothing Ever Changes”

By Steve Beckow

Posted on March 20, 2024

 

I’d like to return to the subject of exiting the cycle of conflict for a moment to introduce the notion of a nuclear issue.

In a full-blown cycle of conflict, we may reach the conclusion that “nothing ever changes.”

When we conclude that, the issue that doesn’t change may go nuclear.

A “nuclear issue” is an issue that won’t go away and that gets met with an inadequate response, again and again and again, until the triggered person explodes.

Any issue can become nuclear if important enough and disregarded often enough.

I discovered in my life, for instance, that I had nuclear issues around silence and drunkenness. If I’m interrupted often enough, I reach a point where I can’t write. And after a while of being unable to create a quiet space for myself to write, I can get annoyed, irritated, angry and then go nuclear.

We only get so many passes, going nuclear, before the relationship reaches disdain and falls apart.

The second trigger is a person drunk and rattling on. It reminds me of my Mother on sleeping pills.

She finally died with ten sleeping pills in her stomach. The house burned down from a lit cigarette. Drunk people remind me of that.

Those are two of my relationship sticking points.

The longer we go repeating ourselves day after day on an issue, the higher the tension rises, until we choose to explode in the face of a triggering event.

The longer we go repeating ourselves day after day on an issue, the higher the tension rises, until we choose to explode in the face of a triggering event.

Our opposite number usually scratches their head in disbelief. What was so triggering about that comment? But it’s a build-up rather than a one-off comment. We seldom acknowledge or “get” this.

What causes it to explode is that “nothing ever changes” in – I’m willing to believe – a vast number of relationships.

One big reason for this situation is our failure to master listening skills, which I’ve discussed elsewhere. (1)

The divorce rate, the last time I looked, was very high and I assert that this high rate reflects the inability or unwillingness to leave this abusive cycle.

I also think we’ll find this cycle operating throughout international “diplomacy.” It’s a learned and programmed response to any objectionable or threatening situation, I believe.

As I’ve said previously, people applaud the two estranged people getting back together again whereas they should, rather, be encouraging them to create productive communication and eliminate the nuclear issues.

Whether or not the couple, as a couple, focus in on the cycle, the individual must eliminate it from their own life.   The tensions, anger, and disappointment of living in that cycle are not worth being called a “life.”

We don’t teach relationship, parenting, communication, etc., in school. Surely these are the most necessary of skills to have.

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Footnotes

(1) On that subject, see:

• Are You Listening? at https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Are-You-Listening-R5.pdf
• A Manual for Listeners at https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/A-Manual-for-Listeners-R3.pdf
  The Value of Listening at https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/The-Value-of-Listening-3.pdf

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Your Cycle is Yours; Mine is Mine; and Mine is Closed for Business

Your Cycle is Yours; Mine is Mine; and Mine is Closed for Business

By Steve Beckow

Posted on September 29, 2023

 

I continue to work with the cycle of conflict because I’ll soon be a CEO and won’t have time to work on it then.

I’m working in wide brushstrokes too because I don’t think it could possibly be too much longer before the emergency broadcasts. I don’t feel I have time for detailed research at the moment.

The white hats, I believe, can’t allow the whole shooting match to collapse. We have to blow the whistle sometime before the economic infrastructure disappears below the waves.

But then again, as Michael said, we probably don’t appreciate the depths of the depravity we face. (1)

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I know our danger in the world appears to be mounting. Earthquake weapons in the South Pole. Warnings of weather events all over the globe. Whoever it was who described these times as ending in a near-death experience knew something.

However the galactic forces, bolstered by the celestials, among whom all of us incarnated angels number ourselves, (2) will prevail. Mira reassured us of this recently:

“This will not go on forever. We know that it feels endless and sometimes it can be exasperating. Remember the old story is going away opening the gateway for the whole New Earth in the 5th dimension and higher.

“What you see now is changing from moment to moment and day by day. You are no longer in the third dimension. The old way of life has disappeared. Let it go! It was not serving you or the rest of life on the planet. It was only serving those who are serving themselves.

“They will no longer be able to withstand this high frequency of love in the quantum energy of the Earth.” (3)

There is a divine plan (4) and there is an Alliance plan. (5) The former will see that the latter will prevail.

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In the meantime, my best contribution is to eliminate conflict within me.

I’m taking further the notion that it only takes one to break the cycle of conflict. What I’m doing we used to call “pushing my edge.”

I just had a disagreement with a friend, which became explosive, and now we’re in the separation and ice-breaking part. And I’m observing.

What I saw was that, it’s really irrelevant what happens with the other person. What’s relevant is what I do with any and all of it.

Fortunately my friend and I are “into” reconciliation and moving on so it was over by the next morning.

I heard my guidance say, “not you or anyone is allowed on my cycle of conflict. I’ve closed it down, except for emergency use. And I’m not climbing aboard yours.”

OMG.  I would not have been able to see any of this if I were still running my cycle. I’d be into generating justifications, denials, excuses, etc. I’d be into image management: I’d always have to look right and good.

My motives would be unexamined but their tendency would be towards domination.

And I would not be able to see any of it because I was invested in it. It’d be like water to the fish.

Wow, I feel tuckered out just writing this. As I write, I’m going through what I’m describing. Or vice versa.

I don’t have to do anything with the other person’s input. I just have to see to my own.  Their cycle is their cycle, even though it’s hard to see that in everyday interaction, and my cycle is my own. (6)

I’m both declaring my independence of other people’s cycles and hanging my own back up in the closet where it belongs.

Later

I passed through my first successful transition from a circumstance where by all standards I had the right to be really mad and I let it go. This is a total first for me. My commitment to exit conflict held my first test.

Footnote

(1)  Archangel Michael: Many of you – and you, beloved, included – look at situations and you say, ‘Well, how can it get much worse?’ That is because you, and many, come from a place of love and purity of intent.

But you also know that everything that has need to be eliminated, everything that has need to be relinquished, everything that needs to be healed in this cesspool that we call ‘chaos’ has need to come to the surface.

Otherwise – and this has happened many, many times in human history – what happens is there is a belief, there is a healing, an accommodation, a remedy, and then the human collective tends to think, ‘Okay, now it is cleaned up. Now it is healed. Now it is done.’ But the core – the core issues [i.e., the vasanas] – of the collective, and of course of the individuals, have not been addressed, and therefore it simply settles in and it festers. (“Archangel Michael on Why All This Conflict is Occurring,” September 28, 2023, at https://goldenageofgaia.com/?p=348361.)

As with the individual cycle of conflict, nothing changes. So we keep going round and round. This era, things will change.

(2) On our angelic status, see An Explosion in the Meaning of Humanness at https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/An-Explosion-in-the-Meaning-of-Humanness-12.pdf

(3) “A Message from Mira the Pleiadian through Valerie Donner, July 6, 2023,” at https://goldenageofgaia.com/2023/07/06/a-message-from-mira-the-pleiadian-through-valerie-donner-july-6-2023/.

(4) Divine Mother: [I am speaking about] those in … positions where control and abuse of power have been rampant. That will not be the platform [from] which integration of the various galaxies [into the new region of space] takes place. That is not the Plan.

I know very clearly, sweet one, as do you, if it is not [in] my Plan, then it will not occur.  ( The Divine Mother in “Enter the Delegations – Part 2/3,” May 5, 2019, at http://goldenageofgaia.com/2019/05/05/enter-the-delegations-part-2-3/.)

See Grandeur Beyond Grandeur:
 Toward a Cross-Cultural Spirituality Vol. 2: What is the Divine Plan?

More on the divine, celestial, and galactic plan is found here:

• The End of Darkness on Earth: the Dawning of the Light
• The Hidden War: Stopping the Illuminati

(5) On the Alliance Plan, see:

• “Program Guide to Tonight’s Performance from Juan O. Savin,” October 29, 2022, at https://goldenageofgaia.com/2022/10/29/program-guide-to-tonights-performance-from-juan-o-savin/
• “Ezra Cohen-Watnick: Spelling It Out 1 Time,” October 28, 2022, at https://goldenageofgaia.com/2022/10/28/ezra-cohen-watnick-spelling-it-out-1-time-2/

(6) I had this flash of recognition that my therapist brother Paul knew this and did not climb aboard other people’s carousel of tears or cycle of conflict.

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