What Does It Mean to Love Yourself?

What Does It Mean to Love Yourself?

By Steve Beckow

Posted on March 14, 2025

Part 1

Rendering of the heart portal or hridayam

Intro to Repost 2

This is my third time posting this article because the subject is so germane, so important.

How many people know how to love themselves? A hand over there. One over there.

And yet it’s one of the most important subjects I can think of. But let me write an accompanying article – a part 2, for tomorrow – and go into the subject in more detail.

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Intro to Repost 1

I was about to write the article that follows, when I saw that I’d already written it. And written it in almost the same way I was going to write it again.

Great minds think alike. Take both of mine. Please.

I’m posting it again because I consider the most urgent problem we as individuals and lightworkers face today, amidst all the chaos, is now and will always be to love ourselves.

As lightworkers, in my view, we’re here to love as we do our specific assignments. I know for myself that I’m in no condition to love others until I feel filled enough with love myself – I’m talking about real love; not what passed for it in the Third Dimension.

Sending love when I’m not “feeling it” would be like a water main that isn’t working properly and is giving only a trickle. So it’s a prerequisite, in my books, for lightworkers to know at least one way of loving ourselves, whether doing the exercise has ignited the fire yet or not.

Thus, actually knowing how to love ourselves – something I never knew or would have guessed until shown (1) – is for me of the highest priority.

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What Does It Mean to Love Yourself?

December 12, 2022

https://goldenageofgaia.com/2022/12/12/what-is-it-to-love-yourself/

 

Digger asks:

“Do you love yourself?

“What is it to love yourself?” (2)

And I’m at the back of the class, waving my hand in the air. “Ask me, teach. Ask me.”

May I? Thanks, Digger.

For me, it means something very particular.

Before I knew what love was (prior to a heart opening on March 13, 2015), if you’d have said to me, love yourself, I’d have been stumped.

I’d wonder if loving myself required doing anything. I’d approach it very logically, like preparing for summer camp. I’d make a list of things I need to do to love myself.

Change my diet. Exercise. Get more sleep.

Does loving myself require effort, push, shove, and so on? Does it require commitment? On and on I’d go, eliminating one thing after another.

Looking back, I now see that everything I was doing was only having the effect of tiring me out until I gave them all up. By then, I’d forgotten why I was doing them. (Does this process sound familiar?)

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On March 13, 2015, my heart burst open, and I actually found myself immersed in a tsunami of love, to use Linda Dillon’s term. (3) OMG. THIS is what all the saints are praising.  THIS is what they’re giving up everything for.

Fast forward to the present: Even if my heart door is open much less now compared to 2015, I can still experience the love flowing up from my heart when I breathe it up.

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Stop the camera.

Love flows.  (4) And the most convenient place for us to tap into its copious flow is through the door of the heart (the hridayam). On the other side, which is higher-dimensional, love flows in a river and that river itself flows to the sea – the Ocean of Love (7th Dimensional), which I’ve also been gifted to experience. (5)

OK, roll the camera again.

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I can take that love from my heart and swish it around my body and my field of awareness. Doing that has me feel tremendously revived.

I don’t want to exaggerate. I’m not somehow “saved” or “redeemed” (i.e., ascended);  (6) just perceptibly restored and uplifted.

I maintain that this very process is what’s being invited when the sages say “love yourself.” Draw the love up from your own heart with your inbreath and wash yourself with it on your outbreath. I believe Mary Magdalene is offering a version of this here:

“Do you realize that this tool of Love can be wielded with utter power and abandon [Steve: on yourself], knowing that with every swipe of it, you become more whole, more entrenched in your divine nature — more whole within all your aspects, and more capable of absorbing and integrating all parts and aspects of you, multidimensionally, as well as with all aspects of Christ Consciousness/God Consciousness?” (7)

Whoa, boy! Sign me up!

But we have to actually do what she recommends.

Of course your “divine nature” is pure and innocent already.

“More whole” for me means that purity and innocence is more revealed, more uncovered, more freed from our overburden – our vasanas or core issues. (8)

Baptize yourself with this love: This is the real River Jordan.

Imagine doing this with yourself. At first you may get nothing, but each time you do it you’re priming the pump.

Thanks for asking the question, Digger.

Footnotes

(1) On the heart opening, see:

• “Submerged in Love,” March 14, 2015, in An Ascension Ethnography at https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/An-Ascension-Ethnography-5.pdf, and after.
• “Activating the Wellspring – Part 1/2,” March 14, 2015, at https://goldenageofgaia.com/2015/03/14/activating-the-wellspring-part-1-2/.

(2)  “Digger: Know Thyself,” December 11, 2022, at https://goldenageofgaia.com/?p=340835.

(3) Linda Dillon.

(4)  Cf. Archangel Michael: Love is the energy of the universe. It is the energy of the Mother. And it moves constantly, continually, eternally, infinitely. So, to have an experience of love, it [must move] through you. (“Archangel Michael: Go with the Ebb and the Flow of Love,” channeled by Linda Dillon, April 3, 2014, at https://goldenageofgaia.com/2014/04/05/archangel-michael-go-with-the-ebb-and-the-flow-of-love/.)

(5) See “Love is the Way, the Truth, and the Life,” May 6, 2014, at https://goldenageofgaia.com/2014/05/06/love-is-the-way-the-truth-and-the-life/
. This experience and others like it must have been toned down or otherwise I’m not sure how I’d still have elected to be here.

(6) 2025: I’ve changed my mind more recently. Of course that was an Ascension experience: I ended up in the Seventh Dimension; by definition, how could the experience be otherwise than ascended?

(7) “Mary Magdalene via Fran Zepeda: You Are Pure Divine Love,” November 14, 2015, at http://goldenageofgaia.com/2015/11/14/mary-magdalene-via-fran-zepeda-pure-divine-love/.

(8) See Vasanas: Preparing For Ascension by Clearing Old Issues at https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Vasanas-Preparing-for-Ascension-R13.pdf.

What can be Said of an Enduring but Essential Mystery?

What can be Said of an Enduring but Essential Mystery?

By Steve Beckow

Posted on August 27, 2024

Sometime, somewhere, Archangel Michael said to me: “If you only spend your life sending out love, you’d have fulfilled your soul contract.”

But do you think I can find it? Someone asked me for it and, though I couldn’t locate it, I found so many other instances of it – or near relatives – that my questioner and I agreed they should be posted.

The Arcturian Group taught a near-related lesson:

“The highest form of spirituality is to simply know, rest in, and be the Light, which is consciousness of Oneness.” (1)

If it’s the highest form of spirituality, I can’t fail to fulfil my contract by simply doing it; that is, simply loving.

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Make no mistake about it: I’m not talking about what passes for love on our dimension – turning your head in another’s direction and saying “I love you,” while going over our shopping list in our minds.

I’m talking about drawing a higher form of palpable love up from your heart (not your heart chakra), where it dwells, and feeling it as it moves through you and out to the world. Ooooooooo-wheee! You ain’t never felt anything like this!

Michael describes the situation here:

Archangel Michael: Many human beings thus far … don’t have a reference point and the human psyche, again thus far, has difficulty comprehending things when there is not a reference point.

Steve: Well, yes, of course, that does make sense. But even if there is a reference point … I’ve had many peak experiences in which I, for a short period of time, experienced that love.

But I’d never been able to walk around in it [prior to my heart opening on March 13, 2015] and be with it for hours and see how it comes and goes, the way it keeps anger and jealousy and resentment away. I’d never luxuriated in it and observed it. That’s what’s missing for people.

AAM: Yes, and that is what is coming. That is the focus of this rebirth. When the Mother talks about, when we talk about the rebirth of love upon this planet, that is what we are talking about. (2)

Oh, man, do we have paradise awaiting us!

I don’t think it matters whether he was talking about a planetary heart opening, which is a fourth-chakra trigger of a higher-dimensional experience of love once inside the heart, (3) or Ascension, which is a permanent heart opening. Both are our doors in to a love, as Mike Quinsey says, “that you cannot imagine.” (4)

Everyone who discusses it agrees:

Federation of Light: A LOVE OF A MUCH HIGHER FREQUENCY THAT YOU CANNOT FULLY YET APPRECIATE.” (5)

Divine Mother: [Ascension] is a complete redefinition of what it means to be human. It is the complete surrender and [abolition], elimination of the old third dimension, because love does not exist in that environment, not the love that I speak of this night. (6)

Archangel Michael: This is your new addiction.

S: Addicted to love?

AAM: Yes. (7)

To coattail on the Mother, this is the love I also speak of tonight.  This is where we’re all headed.

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How will you know you’re experiencing this love? You couldn’t miss it, but let’s pretend you need some markers.

Your experience of life has immediately altered. Your worries, hopes, and fears have vanished, replaced by a feeling that, to describe it, would take a quiverful of superlatives, none of them reaching the target.

Or, like a blanket that’s too small, the words wouldn’t cover all of it at the same time. Something is always left out of our descriptions.  Something always eludes us about love. There seems always more and deeper of it to experience and more to be said. And a terrific urge to say it!

But what? What can be said of an enduring but essential mystery?

Footnotes

(1) “The Arcturian Group through Marilyn Raffaele, July 4, 2021,” at https://goldenageofgaia.com/2021/07/04/the-arcturian-group-through-marilyn-raffaele-july-4-2021/.

(2) Archangel Michael in a personal reading with Steve Beckow through Linda Dillon, Sept. 23, 2016. No need to sell me! (Hereafter AAM.)

On the heart opening, see:

• “Submerged in Love,” March 14, 2015, in An Ascension Ethnography at https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/An-Ascension-Ethnography-5.pdf, and after.
• “Activating the Wellspring – Part 1/2,” March 14, 2015, at https://goldenageofgaia.com/2015/03/14/activating-the-wellspring-part-1-2/.

(3) See:

• The Ring of Fire: A Planetary Heart Opening for Gaia at https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Ring-of-Fire-Planetary-Heart-Opening-6.pdf
• Planetary Heart Opening Compilation at https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Planetary-Heart-Opening-Compilation-8.pdf

(4) “Eternal life comes through the Supreme Creator and is accompanied by the most exotic form of love that you cannot imagine. Love is the energy of all energies.” (Mike Quinsey’s Higher Self Message, Oct. 4, 2019.)

Divine Mother: The love energy … is what Ascension is. (“Universal Mother Mary’s Ascension Splash!,”channeled by Linda Dillon, May 31, 2017 at https://counciloflove.com/2017/05/universal-mother-marys-ascension-splash/.)

(5) The Federation of Light through Blossom Goodchild, Sept. 27, 2020.

(6) “The Divine Mother Explains Ascension,” October 5, 2017, at https://goldenageofgaia.com/2017/10/05/the-divine-mother-explains-ascension/.

(7) AAM, Aug. 22, 2014.

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I Just Need to Love

I Just Need to Love

By Steve Beckow

Posted on July 3, 2024

Happy Independence Day, America!

There’s no better contribution that I can make than to share my record of shaking free from a few unworkable behavior patterns, if you’d allow me.  It seems fitting on Independence Day.

What makes this time different for me than times past is that in the past I’d always be hearing about someone else’s crisis. Yes, from time to time that would be interrupted by a triple bypass or prostate cancer, but none of that was any big deal (the recovery might be).

I even emerged from what I consider to be a heart attack better than I’d been before. (1)

Most of what was happening was far away. I was always, seemingly, in the eye of the storm.

Now, one crisis after another, has hit in rapid succession. They were almost like hammer blows, given how the one before it already rattled my nerves. I was in the thick of it. (The crises were still happening a day after this article was written.)

Let me start with the bandit ATM, a few crises in. Imagine feeding an ATM $1,000 and getting back a receipt saying thank you for your $340? Machines are not supposed to be robbers and thieves. There went my faith in machines!

And the bus-pass machine later the same day denying me service? What is this? Was I in the Warsaw Ghetto or something that a machine is saying no service for you? Of course I’m by this time nearly horizontal from all the other things going wrong, many of which I’m not reviewing here.

And a day after writing this article, I heard that a good friend had just had an operation to treat three ulcers and could die. And another good friend delivered a baby in one hospital room in a rural town while her brother-in-law passed away after a heart attack in the room across the way.  This has been a bizarre week x 10.

In my view, I’m in boot camp. The Company of Heaven is raising one scenario after another that raises one vasana (or core issue) after another.

I say it’s all being done on purpose.

I got at a realizational level and not just an intellectual or experiential level (2) that I’m in transition from being a writer only to a writer and a humanitarian philanthropist/CEO.   And I still have many vasanas (core issues), which translate into many vulnerabilities.

Many holes in the dike. Much bleeding off of energy to maintain my old holding patterns. And condemning myself to trying to move others by control, carrot and stick, etc.

In my old hermit role, all was manageable because I was walled off from “disturbances.” But this will be a complete change of scene and modus operandi and I’d best be ready for it.

Clean up my eating habits. T-shirt and jeans? Remember how to be in civilized company and “pass.”

Change my vote on a lot of matters. (3)

 

Then relief comes in a moment when I remember….

… and experience and know what will change all this….

Love.

I breathe love up from my heart and voila! All my worries vanish.

I remember what Michael said:

AAM: Love is the energy of the universe. It is the energy of the Mother. And it moves constantly, continually, eternally, infinitely. So, to have an experience of love, it [must move] through you.  (4) [My emphasis.]

 I’m having an experience of love right now as it moves through me and out to the world, on my inbreath and outbreath.

This is how I’m going to do it.  Remind me when I forget.

If ever there were a demonstration for me that “love is the answer,” it’s right now, showing how drawing love up from my heart and experiencing it as it passes through me calms me in the midst of crisis.

(I’m talking about a higher form of love than we normally experience, but will experience more and more of as time passes.)

Back to the transition.  Given that I lack all knowledge of business matters and yet Michael and Sanat Kumara still want me to be right where I am, (6) I’ll act on what I actually do know … and mostly that is “love,” the nature of love, the mechanics of love….

People understand love. It’s a universal. They respond to it.

I don’t need to strategize, just as the blog has never needed to advertise.  I just need to love.

Footnotes

(1) My slipped disc was healed and about 90% of the pain in my left knee from arthritis is gone as a result of that “heart attack” experience. Just enough is left, I surmise, to slow me down, which I believe to be its purpose.

(2) On the levels of knowledge, see:

• “No Issues Behind Door No. 3,” June 26, 2024, at https://goldenageofgaia.com/2024/06/26/no-issues-behind-door-no-3/
• “Who’s Behind the Curtain?” February 13, 2023, at https://goldenageofgaia.com/2023/02/13/whos-behind-the-curtain/
• “Realization is Simply Seeing from a Higher Level of Consciousness,” February 25, 2022, at https://goldenageofgaia.com/2022/02/25/realization-is-simply-seeing-from-a-higher-level-of-consciousness/.

(3) On changing my vote, see:

• “A Radical Change of Vote,” December 23, 2019, at https://goldenageofgaia.com/2019/12/23/a-radical-change-of-vote/.
• “Changed My Mind,” September 6, 2021, at https://goldenageofgaia.com/2021/09/06/changed-my-mind/
• “Changing My Vote on Change,” January 25, 2023, at https://goldenageofgaia.com/2023/01/25/changing-my-vote-on-change/
• “A Week of Disasters? Not Really,” July 3, 2024, at https://goldenageofgaia.com/2024/07/03/a-week-of-disasters-not-really/

(4) Archangel Michael in a personal reading with Steve Beckow through Linda Dillon, Dec. 5, 2018. (Henceforth, AAM.)

(5)  Steve: You must know that … I have the proclivities of a monk. I’m not attracted to making money or earning money. I have a hard time getting going in that whole area.

AAM: Because it is not what you are here to do.

Steve: I don’t feel it is.

AAM: No, it is not. Understand that.

Steve: Okay, for the rest I am just trusting. I’m just leaving it up to you and that’s what I should do, right?

AAM: That is all you can do. And it is so, and I truly mean that you have reached a point in your heart, in your being, in your life, in your consciousness where you are realizing … first of all you are realizing the magnitude of our partnership but you’re also realizing that worry and fear and angst do not create and they do not birth.

Yes, there are times, fight or flight, where it may spur you into action but in and of itself, fear and worry will not do anything. (AAM, Aug. 17, 2018.)

Steve Beckow

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You’re a Part of the Blog; We Hope We’re a Part of You

You’re a Part of the Blog; We Hope We’re a Part of You

By Steve Beckow

Posted on June 29, 2024

You try being a cat on a hot tin roof!

Two more days until the rent is due and we have not made our minimum target yet.

No room for lethargy here! I’m a cat on a hot tin roof!

I’m really not stressed. Just having fun with it. I have full faith in the Mother’s plan for us.

Would you allow me to unwind for a moment and share on the subject of giving? I’m seeing a lot more of its hidden side after having agreed to be on the receiving end. I’d like to summarize some of what I’ve learned.

The first thing I wanted to share is that I have my own charities that I give to and I derive the benefit of being part of them through my donation.

One I’ll let you know of because I’m really proud of it. You know this person.

That gift is to Cathy Buckle in Zimbabwe. Cathy has been writing her newsletter since a long time ago – I believe 23 years.

She helps her neighbors out to the best of her ability in poverty-stricken Zimbabwe.  I’ve said to her that hearing what she does for her neighbors is what triggered me to want to be one of her donors.

I’m a part of what she’s doing in Zimbabwe and I find that really inspiring. Some day I’ll go there and repay Zimbabwe for all it’s about to do for me (the Reval and Zims, I mean).

I want to share that you’re a part of my work in the same way. Without you, I wouldn’t be able to write. You make it possible.

Secondly, I’ve come to see that there’s a dynamic behind giving.

As you know, love must flow. The action of giving draws love up from our hearts. We get to experience that love as it flows through us to the person we’re giving to.

Thirdly, I’ve seen that giving sends us in a definite direction. You can’t really give and dislike the other person, hate them, resent them, etc. To give – notice that we smile when we give – is, I believe, a universal gesture which is like an open door, the granting of access.

It communicates not only acceptance but also caring. It sends us in that direction. We can use giving to open a shut door or to enhance our relationship.

Donating is a way that’s available to everyone, to build relationship and community.

Fourthly, another confession: I’m happy with my decision long ago never to lend.

I grew weary of losing friends when I asked them to pay me back and I often didn’t get the money back anyways….

So why don’t I just donate?  If I donate, people end up loving me rather than hating me and I feel love the minute I give. I tell people I got my reward the minute I gave them the money. Giving is love in action.

Wow. I’ve wanted to share that for years and haven’t known how to say it. Thank you for permitting me. See what I’m learning from the way the Mother designed our process?

We want to be valuable to you. Please enhance our relationship by taking care of our minimal needs so that we can do our work for you.  Head on over to the Hope Chest, for our sake, and make a one-time or monthly donation.

And just know that we’re extending ourselves to our utmost to offer you what you need and want as we all go through the blender of Ascension, the tunnel of love, and come out the other side perfect!

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Click the yellow “Donate” button to make a monthly recurring donation in the amount of your choosing.

For a one-time donation, follow the down arrow to the big box and follow the prompts.

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Footnotes

(1) Divine Mother in a personal reading with Steve Beckow through Linda Dillon, June 7, 2015.

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Love Must Flow: The Complete Case

Love Must Flow: The Complete Case

By Steve Beckow

Posted on March 22, 2024

One of the features of life in the higher realms is that we’re immersed in a constant flow of love.

It’s like being caressed and ordinarily that would heighten the experience if I could imagine it being heightened.

The fact that it flows means we get to experience it flowing through us.  To have the experience of love, one brilliant strategy is to share it.

I love the way the universe is designed!

But don’t take my word for it. Let’s listen to the sages on the subject.

Here’s Sri Ramakrishna, mid-nineteenth-century avatar (and my paramguru):

“Love is one of the patterns of the Mother. Love will always flow. It will never stand still. The Mother is energy, movement. In her universal aspect, she never stands still. Were she do so, the world would return to its Origin. Love is her energy and the flow of love is her movement. It supports the world; comprises it; and dissolves it in the end.

“The Divine Mother [is] the Primal Energy.” (1)

Wow. That says it all. Remember that the Mother has told us, “my essence is love.”  (2)  She’s not more specific than that because “my essence … is far beyond what you can imagine.” (3)

So love will always flow. To have an experience of it, it needs to flow through us, Michael tells us:

Archangel Michael: Love is the energy of the universe. It is the energy of the Mother. And it moves constantly, continually, eternally, infinitely. So, to have an experience of love, it [must move] through you.  (4)

The 9D Arcturian Council makes a similar comment: To allow the higher energies like love to pass through us becomes not just an act of service to others; it’s also an act of service to ourselves:

“You [are] handling the higher-frequency energies that are coming in that you have agreed to anchor in for the rest of humanity.

“Now, this is not just an act of service, because you also get to enjoy the feeling of those energies ‘running through you.'” (5)

This fact that we experience our love in sharing it is why Jesus would remark:

“I came to know that to give someone love, even when they despise you, is a gift to your own heart.” (6)

It’s a gift to our own heart because, in giving that love even though they despise us, we get to experience that love as well as it passes through us.

Let me end with Michael’s thumbnail sketch of what awaits us:

AAM: When the heart becomes fully aware and awakened, what it does, think of it as a domino effect. Oh, there can be slight resistance but the awakened heart takes care of all the rest. … It dispels the ignorance, the fear, the denial. It dispels everything. …

When you are anchored or accessing, living in what you think of as a higher dimension, the, shall we say, the ease of knowing becomes easier. It does not feel like striving. It is simply an awareness that is fully present and, as you anchor in the love dimension [Seventh], as we will call it, then of course the access is fully present. (7)

The Seventh is also called the Dimension of Christ Consciousness. While Ascension itself is an endless process, when an end-point is discussed for this present Ascension, it’s often said to be the Seventh. (8)

So there we are: The complete case for why it’s advisable, profitable, and desirable to draw love up from our heart and send it out to the world.

Not only does it greatly benefit the world – especially if we were doing it en masse – but it also benefits us marvellously when we experience the love as it flows through us.

Footnotes

(1)  Paramahansa Ramakrishna in Swami Nikhilananda, trans., The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna. New York: Ramakrishna-Vivekananda Center, 1978; c1942, 116.

(2) “Transcript of the Divine Mother: Density is Unloving Emotion; Love is Lightness of Being,” March 6, 2015, at http://goldenageofgaia.com/2015/03/06/transcript-of-the-divine-mother-density-is-unloving-emotion-love-is-lightness-of-being/.

(3) “Transcript of the Divine Mother on An Hour with an Angel, May 7, 2012,” at https://goldenageofgaia.com/the-2012-scenario/what-role-are-the-angels-playing/transcript-of-the-divine-mother-on-an-hour-with-an-angel-may-7-2012/.

(4) Archangel Michael in a personal reading with Steve Beckow through Linda Dillon, Dec. 5, 2018. A few months later he added:

Archangel Michael: Love is a fluid energy. It has need to flow and so, when it does not flow, it becomes… Well, as you put it, it can become dry and brittle. It has need to be given and received above, below, within, without and in every which way. (Archangel Michael in a personal reading with Steve Beckow through Linda Dillon, April 30, 2019.)

(5) “The 9D Arcturian Council Through Daniel Scranton: The 12/12 Energies & Preparing You for 2023,” December 12, 2022, at https://goldenageofgaia.com/?p=340877.)

(6) “Jesus Through John: Sorrow,” October 14, 2020, at https://goldenageofgaia.com/2020/10/14/jesus-through-john-3/.

(7) Archangel Michael in a personal reading with Steve Beckow through Linda Dillon, Sept. 16, 2020.

(8) It’s also often said to be the home of the Oversoul and of the heart:

Arcturians: Seventh [Dimension] is your Oversoul. (Arcturians in a personal reading with Steve Beckow through Suzanne Lie, March 17, 2013.)

Steve: Returning to the heart, it doesn’t exist on the physical, obviously. What dimension does the heart exist at or is it multidimensional?

Archangel Michael: It is multidimensional, but, if you want to find a home for it, it would be in the seventh. (Archangel Michael in a personal reading with Steve Beckow through Linda Dillon, Dec. 5, 2018.)

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This is What Everyone Wants

This is What Everyone Wants

by Steve Beckow

Posted on March 3, 2024

What we really want! Credit: depositphotos

A wag said recently, “I identify with three pronouns: ‘Told you so.'”

But there isn’t a person alive today who, in regards to a raft of topics, is not a newbie. Everyone was at one time in their lives.

I grew up in the immediate post-war generation – the Baby Boomers. Our parents were can-do warriors who’d just saved the world for democracy. Or so we thought.

We had crazies. Cross burnings, bikers, milennarian cults…. What? Oh, some bunch of loonies predicting … a rapture. That was about it in the immediate postwar years.

All those people who predicted a rapture, many years ago? They were right. All those who were considered fringe elements for believing in being carried off in the clouds? Who became marginalized in their quaint churches?

We may want to remember that we ostracized them. Just as today’s mainstream media is ostracizing “conspiracy theorists” … who were right. Just as they ridiculed the “Me Generation” of the human-growth movement … which was valuable. And later, gurus.

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Gosh, I guess this is where experience comes in valuable. I can tell you, from my experience, that the love we’re headed towards will have you forget all that has happened to you in … and here’s where experience limits me.

I can only say how it was for me. When I entered the portal of the heart, after the kundalini reached the fourth chakra, a blast of love greeted me that swept away all my concerns and worries, hopes and fears. (1) Immediately.

The shock is like leaving the air-conditioned airport lounge in Phoenix and being hit with a tsunami of hot air. You notice it.

At no point after that, for as long as I remained in this atmosphere of flowing love, did I have another thought about whatever it was I was formerly concerned about.

And if I did, my viewing of it – and this is much clearer with bliss – would have shifted from seeing it as a problem to seeing it as a situation. There would be no “problem” in it.

It’s clearer with bliss because bliss has us rest in place, so to speak, which accentuates our lack of concern. Love, on the contrary, turns us outwards.

We want to share it (love must flow) (2) and that brings us into contact with the outside world, out of which contact conflict can arise, conflict which wouldn’t arise in blissful solitude.

Da Free John would have said there would be no contradiction in this love, no dilemma. He describes his experience of this love, which was much deeper than mine:

“Quite suddenly, in a moment, I experienced a total revolution of energy and awareness in myself. An absolute sense of understanding opened and arose at the extreme end of all this consciousness. And all of the energy of thought that moved down into that depth appeared to reverse its direction at some unfathomable point.

“The rising impulse caused me to stand, and I felt a surge of force draw up out of my depths and expand, filling my whole body and every level of my consciousness with wave on wave of the most beautiful and joyous energy [Steve: love]. I felt absolutely mad, but the madness was not of a desparate kind. There was no seeking and no dilemma within it, no question, no unfulfilled motive, not a single object or presence outside myself. (3)

Yes, complete satisfaction and hunger for more, at the same time. Archangel Michael also describes it:

Archangel Michael: When the heart becomes fully aware and awakened, what it does, think of it as a domino effect. Oh there can be slight resistance but the awakened heart takes care of all the rest. … It dispels the ignorance, the fear, the denial. It dispels everything. …

When you are anchored or accessing, living in what you think of as a higher dimension, the, shall we say, the ease of knowing becomes easier. It does not feel like striving. It is simply an awareness that is fully present and, as you anchor in the love dimension [Seventh], as we will call it, then of course the access is fully present. (4)

I did find myself in an Ocean of Love, which Michael identified as Seventh Dimensional. (5) It was as he describes it. (6) Y’know the lotus eaters?  I believe that image was an attempt to describe people who are in this love.

Now we can understand what the folks in the rafters are talking about when they say things like this from the Arcturian Council through Daniel Scranton:

“Handling the higher-frequency energies that are coming in and that you have agreed to anchor in for the rest of humanity … is not just an act of service, because you also get to enjoy the feeling of those energies running through you.” (7)

And Jesus:

“I came to know that to give someone love, even when they despise you, is a gift to your own heart.” (8)

Yes, because we get to experience the love too, as it passes up from our hearts and out to the world.

When I’m in that love, having breathed it up from my heart, I kinda walk around like a ballet dancer on occasion – or royalty! This is what royalty thought it was getting! This is what everyone wants.

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Footnotes

(1) See “Submerged in Love,” March 14, 2015, in An Ascension Ethnography at https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/An-Ascension-Ethnography-5.pdf, and after.

“Activating the Wellspring – Part 1/2,” March 14, 2015, at https://goldenageofgaia.com/2015/03/14/activating-the-wellspring-part-1-2/.

(2) Archangel Michael: Love is the energy of the universe. It is the energy of the Mother. And it moves constantly, continually, eternally, infinitely. So, to have an experience of love, it [must move] through you.  ( Archangel Michael in a personal reading with Steve Beckow through Linda Dillon, Dec. 5, 2018.)

Archangel Michael: Love is a fluid energy. It has need to flow and so, when it does not flow, it becomes … well, as you put it; it can become dry and brittle. It has need to be given and received above, below, within, without and in every which way. (Ibid., April 30, 2019.)

(3) Da Free John’s experience was very much deeper than mine. He continued:

“I couldn’t contain the energy…. I ran out of the building and through the streets. I thought, if I could only find someone to talk to, to communicate this thing. [Steve: felt need to share; love must flow] The energy in my body was overwhelming, and there was an ecstacy in every cell that was almost intolerable in its pressure, light, and force.” (Da Free John in The Knee of Listening. Original Edition. Clearlake, CA; Dawn Horse Press, 1984; c1973. , Original Edition, 13-4.)

“It would take many years to understand the revolution in my being. It marked the rise in me of fundamental and unqualified life, and it removed every shadow of dilemma and ignorance from the mind, on every level, and all its effects in the body. But I would have to pass through many years of trial before that understanding could become the stable constant and premise of my being.”  (Ibid., 13.)

If Da Free John “couldn’t contain the energy … that was almost intolerable in its pressure, light, and force,” can you imagine how it would be for a person of dark inclination to find themselves in a higher dimension? Torture.

(4) Ibid., Sept. 16, 2020.

(5) Steve: The space that I call transformative love, what dimension is it?

AAM: It is the Seventh Dimension.

Steve: Then what dimension is bliss?

AAM: It is between Eight and Nine.  (Ibid., Jan. 20, 2016.)

(6) See:

• “Immersed in an Ocean of Love – Part 1/2” at http://goldenageofgaia.com/2015/05/17/immersed-ocean-love-part-12/
• “Point of Awareness in an Ocean of Love – Part 1/2,” November 20, 2020, at https://goldenageofgaia.com/2020/11/20/point-of-awareness-in-an-ocean-of-love/

(7) “The 9D Arcturian Council Through Daniel Scranton: The 12/12 Energies & Preparing You for 2023,” December 12, 2022, at https://goldenageofgaia.com/?p=340877.

(8) “Jesus Through John: Sorrow,” October 14, 2020, at https://goldenageofgaia.com/2020/10/14/jesus-through-john-3/.

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FROM LOVE WE CAME; TO LOVE WE RETURN

From Love We Came; to Love We Return

By Steve Beckow

Posted on August 28, 2023

I’m going to make the most radical statement I’ve ever made and I do so only to get your attention.

Here goes:

I estimate that 99.99% of people around the world are looking in … the wrong … hmmm…. OK, the least effective place for love.

99.99% of people are seeking love from someone else.

And they look, and they look, and they look. And they do not find. And they are disappointed. Eventually relationships break down (“You don’t love me!”) and the two part.

… And then we meet another! Hope springs eternal!

No, no, no. Stop. How much disappointment can you take? As Kathleen says, how’s it working for ya? Chances are you feel, well, a little starved for love?

99.99% of people do not know that the most effective place to look for love is in your very own heart. (1) After you strike the big one, – that is, your heart opens – you don’t have to look any more. You have a direct pipeline to the endless flow.

It won’t stay 100% open. Like all spiritual experiences short of Ascension, it’ll go and come and go, as Michael tells me:

Archangel Michael: You have had a heart opening. Think of it this way, as a heart opening, [it] is not 1000% and it is like a rubber stopper that opens, closes, opens, closes. So it is partially open.

So, it is a permanent heart opening because you are most certainly not only in the truth and the love of your own being, but in THE love of the Mother, far more than you have ever been. That is permanent and irreversible. But it is not 1000%. (2)

Enough for a journalist to savor for the rest of his life and tell you about it here.

After Ascension, our heart will remain 100% … errrr, 1,000% open forever. (And reportedly we’ll be interdimensional.) (3)

The heart is a portal to the higher dimensions, which are all only love. (4)

That heart is a wellspring of love, the doorway to bliss, a tsunami of love ending in an Ocean of Love. (5)

Breathe love up from your heart. Pause and enjoy it passing through you (because love must flow) and release it out into the world.

Breathe love in. Breathe love out. From love we came; to love we return.

This has been an unpaid, non-political message from your Maker, through yours truly, special delivery and pony express. (6)

Footnotes

(1) And remember to ask for a heart opening. Ask and ye shall receive. Knock and the door shall be opened. Were these idle words?

(2) Archangel Michael in a personal reading with Steve Beckow through Linda Dillon, Aug. 3, 2015. (Hereafter, AAM.)

(3) Archangel Micahel: [Ascension] has not been done in form [before], anchored in a physical reality, a physical reality that is absolutely interdimensional. That is the task at hand. (“Transcript: Archangel Michael – On Mastery and Leadership, April 16, 2015,” at http://goldenageofgaia.com/2015/04/25/transcript-archangel-michael-on-mastery-and-leadership-april-16-2015/.)

(4) Specifically, the heart’s door, the hridayam, remains closed until a heart opening. Ascension itself is a full and permanent heart opening. That opening sees us visit for a time higher states of consciousness.

It is only about love, as the Mother says:

Divine Mother: It is all journey of love. … And truly of anchoring and being nothing but the love, in intellect, in wisdom, in sharing, in adventure, in relationship. It can only be [so] when you continue to bring all adventures, all arguments, all explorations back to the love. (The Divine Mother in a personal reading with Steve Beckow through Linda Dillon, April 30, 2019.)

(5) See:Love Like We Never Imagined It to Be at https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Love-Like-We-Never-Imagined-It-to-Be-R13.pdf. For instance “Immersed in an Ocean of Love – Part 1/2” and “2/2.”

An Ascension Ethnography at https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/An-Ascension-Ethnography-11.pdf . Search on “ocean of love.”

(6) Archangel Michael: Oh, you haven’t heard anything yet! We will talk about the evolutionary ladders (as you tend to think of it) and the various choices that are available in terms of that….

Steve: Oh please! We’ve got it all wrong down here! Help! Help! Message in a bottle!

AAM: I will send it parcel post and express mail! (AAM, Jan. 20, 2016.)

Steve Beckow

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