Swallowed Up by One Great Fish

Swallowed Up by One Great Fish

By Steve Beckow

Posted on July 22, 2024

Spring 2007 EI. Casting the question. That’s me at the far right, last row.

In any kind of movement, its members bring all their experiences to it. I learned my basic lessons in the growth movement, yes, but I also brought my unique mix of experience and insights to it from other disciplines as well.

Some workshops I did contributed useful tools. Others became a path in themselves. Examples of workshops that contributed useful tools are bodywork, bioenergetics, and rebirthing. (1)

Examples of workshops that became a path for me are awareness workshops and enlightenment intensives (EIs).

There can sometimes be a struggle between the teacher, who may (understandably) want undivided attention on the subject being taught, at least for the moment, and the student who may want to see what happens when they bring already-learned techniques to the new material.

An example of the kinds of difficulties that can be encountered occurred for me in EIs that I took under a particular master.

He wanted me to follow the technique of burning a hole in our blanket of lethargy with our awareness to reveal the Light.

I’m not saying this technique was somehow not “good.” But I’d had many spiritual experiences by that time (2) and I didn’t want to use EIs to have one more.

I wanted to make some real mileage in terms of growth – cleansing, purification. I wanted to use EIs to process and complete my vasanas (or core issues) and I did use them for that.

Instead of a few more spiritual experiences, I felt myself emerge from being a pressure cooker of rejected experiences (vasanas) to being somewhat normal again.  (3)

Five years later I “met” Archangel Michael through Linda Dillon.  He said at one point that he’d been waiting for me to have had enough of the various disciplines to be ready for our work together.

I laugh when I look back on all the preliminaries to that work. My life up till then may as well have been boot camp. It was one challenge after another.

I’ve now chosen my disciplines – my tools – for their various utilities. My first love is the awareness path but that’s something I do alone – and all the time. My second love is karma yoga – the service of Michael and the Mother. That takes me out into the world.

Once I met Michael, the shopping around for a path ended. Sri Ramakrishna used to say that he wanted to be bait on a hook to be swallowed up by some great fish. I have been swallowed up by one great fish.

And I couldn’t be happier.

Footnotes

(1) Bodywork is a form of deep massage designed to press on muscles storing tension. The release of that tension increases awareness but it also usually results in insights.

Bioenergetics involves working with the body to move the energy past blocks in the hips, chest, throat, etc., so that the energy circuit of the body is clear and the kundalini can move.

(2) I’d counted 23 by, I think, around 1986.

(3) I’m always surprised when I emerge from some enormous growth process having wept and shouted and done everything else and how do I feel? Normal.

Do you know what that says? It says to me that I’ve been outside the average standard normal experience prior to that.  Nowadays I’d define “normal” as centered, balanced, grounded. I don’t mean it in a normative sense. It says I’m wide of that mark.

I also hold that the true center, balance point, or heart is a portal to the higher dimensions. So the center has enormous unconsdered value.

Steve Beckow

• goldenageofgaia.com/

A Healing Journey

A Healing Journey

By Steve Beckow

Posted on April 24, 2024

Med beds: The next level in miracles

I know a lot of our readers are interested in healing – either for themselves or for others.

Med beds are the wave of the future but we still have to get from here to there.

For their benefit, let me trace my healing from the pain of a slipped disc and arthritis in the knees to no pain, and from a lack of mobility to recovered mobility again.

In spiritual circles, there exists the notion of shaktipat: It means the bestowal of grace upon a follower. Usually what happens is that a person meets a guru or sees their picture for the first time and they have a sudden experience of higher-dimensional love or bliss. You can see it as a teacher’s calling card.

When I first encountered a picture of the guru/avatar whom I followed for 25 years (and who eventually turned out to be a pedophile) … long sigh … I meditated on him.

Long story short I ended up experiencing a bolt of energy hitting my third eye. I went outside my bedroom to tell my girlfriend what just happened. She said it must have been something because my hair was standing on end. I looked in the mirror and it was.

In the same way that a new student or disciple might experience tremendous results just out of the starting gate, so, I assert, when we take up a new treatment, there can be in the beginning tremendous yards gained and then fewer after that.

I received my greatest gains from scalar energy in the first couple of visits. I was pain free and then over time the pain returned. And the treatment center was so far away by bus that the thought of going there interested me less and less.

Moreover I was only going once a month. I’m not sure that was enough to give the technology a fair chance. And there was cost.

My next exploration was chiropractic. But we never got very far before my medical insurance stopped paying and I couldn’t afford to continue.

Fast forward to Feb. 24-5, 2024, when I believe I had a minor heart attack while still asleep. For the next two days, I went through short instances of the usual signs and symptoms of a heart attack, but they all subsided and did not return. (1)

As an aside, I’m very grateful for having been shown what a heart attack was like without being asked to bear too many severe, continuing consequences. I need to know about these things for an assignment that lies in the future.

But back to the divine method of healing. My chiropractor was very wary of just going in  and bone-crunching a 77-year-old. Archangel Michael had no such qualms and so my next phase of healing occurred during the “heart attack.”

At one point, my right knee suddenly began to slam in one direction and then slam in the other. The movement was so unlike anything else that happened that day that I was dumbstruck by it.

But when it was all over, the pain in my knee was gone. And within a week, there was no more pain from a slipped disc. And now I’ve had almost two pain-free months.

Uhhh, well, I can overdo it and pain may return. Particularly late in the day. So I’m not entirely home-free yet. But vast improvement. No need for a cane any more. I can walk freely again.

I did not need Jesus standing over me in the flesh, healing me, to know I had just experienced a healing – and what we’d call, with our limited knowledge, a “miracle.”

If there were a moral to this story, it’d be: Don’t overlook divine assistance, provided you ask for it; even better, invoke a universal law.

But all that will be impacted by the arrival of med beds. And then made moot by Ascension.

In this and other situations, I’ve been given a very good, “hands-on”  introduction to how it is for senior citizens. I know this knowledge will be valuable later on and I’m most grateful for it.

Footnotes

(1) I suspect that soul contract has a lot to do with our healing.  If it fits with our soul contract to be healed, I believe, we are; if it doesn’t, we bear the conditions a while longer.

Steve Beckow

• goldenageofgaia.com/

 

 

Not My Time

Not My Time

By Steve Beckow

Posted on April 19, 2024

I have to apologize but I’m still processing the medical incident of Feb. 24-5, 2024. (1)

And marvelling at it!

It had all the earmarks of a heart attack that may have occurred in my sleep with none of the outcomes. It even resulted in a healing.

It was as if someone strapped me in a movie seat and said, “OK, now, we’re going to show you a movie and give you realistic sensations throughout your body. But it’s all a show.”

Lights, cameras, action!

Immediately after getting up from bed in the morning, I found that my words slurred and then it stopped. Thank you for that one.

Next in line was fainting, which saw my body freeze on the way down and never come close to the ground. And then my situation awareness returned and I recovered and carried on.

I see that as divine intervention. It was here that I began to suspect I’d had some kind of medical event while I was asleep.

For the next two days I went through tingling on my left side, bodily shakes, my right hand shaking, a growth in my stomach arising and then disappearing, and finally my knee violently shaking back and forth.

The last one was different from the rest because it actually resulted in me losing 90% of the pain I had from a persisting knee condition and 100% from a hip condition. So they slipped that treatment in with the movie, I think. I believe they use medical events and similar occasions to accomplish several purposes at once.

I also consider it to have been a choicepoint. You want to go? OK, now is a safe time and place to make your exit. We can stop the carousel here.

But I’m what’s called a “pillar” – a lightworker who’s agreed to stay till the end. (2) So it isn’t in my soul contract to go now. Thus I think that Michael and the Mother allowed the symptoms to play on me for a while; they didn’t deprive me of the experience. And then they ended it.

I imagine if, at soul level, I wanted to leave, they would have allowed that. Michael implied as much when we discussed early ascension:

Steve: Should I be orienting toward ascending early or not? I have this sense that I’m supposed to be here.

Archangel Michael: You’re supposed to be here.

S: So it’s not my lot to go early? I’m going to stay at this post?

AAM: If you sit with me and you ask of me to come right away, then of course, I will work with you. Such is my love for you. That has not been our plan.

S: No … well, I understand that I’m supposed to be doing what I’m doing. I don’t want to be going against the plan.

AAM: Then stay put, dear heart. (3)

These are priceless experiences and strengthen my faith in my invisible partners.

***

That having been said, I was still quite shaken up by the experience but the miraculous nature of it, which implies their involvement, in my mind, far outweighs any medical considerations I may have had.

I don’t even see the event as medical so much as a demonstration of a spiritual truth: If it’s not your time, nothing will have you leave; if it is your time, nothing can keep you from going. (4)

I hope this incident demonstrates that for you. It certainly did for me. It was not my time.

Footnotes

(1) See:

• “After the Download Comes the Ride,” February 27, 2024, at https://goldenageofgaia.com/2024/02/27/after-the-download-comes-the-ride/.
• “No One Else Needs to be Awe-struck, But I Am,” March 4, 2024, at https://goldenageofgaia.com/2024/03/04/no-one-else-needs-to-be-awe-struck-but-i-am/

(2)  Archangel Michael: I remind you that you are a pillar, that you [are] not [to] venture too far ahead of where people are, both individually in terms of your smaller circle but also in terms of the collective.  (AAM, Jan. 18, 2020.)

AAM: If you venture, as you would often like, too far ahead of the crowd, then who are you speaking to? (AAM, Aug. 21, 2015.)

(3) AAM, Sept. 13, 2011.)

(4) Michael said after he saved me from electrocuting myself in 1970:

Steve: I should’ve been electrocuted! Did you have a hand in that? Tell me what you did or what happened?

Archangel Michael: Well, it was not a major undertaking, Sweet One, to simply prevent the flow of electricity. So, yes, it was not your time. You were, shall we say, young and foolish. …

Steve: I don’t know how I just reconciled it so easily at the time.

AAM: Because there were no consequences! Because the consequences would have been quite dire.

Steve: Well, what would they have been? Dying, right?

AAM: Correct. (Archangel Michael in a personal reading with Steve Beckow through Linda Dillon, Feb. 14, 2019.)

Here is an instance of Ramakrishna’s non-dual guru Totapuri, tired of life, thinking he can choose the time of his exit. He walks into the Ganges but no matter how far out he walks, the water does not come above his shins.

“Suddenly, in one dazzling moment, [Totapuri] sees on all sides the presence of the Divine Mother. She is in everything; She is everything. She is in the water; She is on land. She is the body; She is the mind. She is pain; She is comfort. She is knowledge; She is ignorance. She is life; She is death. She is everything that one sees, hears, or imagines. She turns ‘yea’ into ‘nay’; and ‘nay’ into ‘yay.’ Without Her grace no embodied being can go beyond Her realm. Man has no free will. He is not even free to die. Yet, again, beyond the body and mind She resides in her Transcendental, Absolute aspect. She is the Brahman [God the Father, the Void] that Totapuri has been worshipping all his life.” (Swami Nikhilananda, trans., in The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna. New York: Ramakrishna-Vivekananda Center, 1978; c1942, 31.)

Finally a story from Rumi, based on memory. A wealthy businessman was relaxing in his host’s garden twenty miles from his home in Teheran. Suddenly he saw the Spirit of Death walk across the garden 100 yards in front of him.

In a panic he bade a hasty goodbye to his host and raced home to Teheran.  Sitting in his own garden in the evening feeling safe, he was horrified to see the Spirit of Death approaching him. He said, I saw you in the garden outside town this morning and raced home to get away from you. And the Spirit of Death replied, yes, I saw you too and was surprised for I was planning to meet you here in Teheran, about this time.

Steve Beckow

• goldenageofgaia.com/

 

 

Health Event has had Some Consequences

Health Event has had Some Consequences

By Steve Beckow

Posted on April 7, 2024

OK, just kidding!

Let me add here before starting out that the good side is that my hip pain has almost entirely vanished and the arthritis in my knee is again way better.

---

As an awareness writer and an Ascension ethnographer, I need to write about what’s actually here, right in front of me – the good, the bad, and the ugly.

Moreover I’ve agreed with Archangel Michael to live in the moment, which precludes hiding and denying. (1)

If I were to hide, I’d lapse into talking over top of my feelings, my depth would disappear, and my usefulness would quickly diminish.

The coup de grace would be that, if I start to block things rather than share them, (A) not only will my awareness decrease, but (B) my awareness that my awareness has decreased will also decrease. I won’t be aware of what has happened.

So let me state plainly that the health event – which I believe was a minor heart attack that happened in my sleep (2) – has had some consequences. My energy level has decreased. My ability to concentrate is not quite as great.

My long-term memory and my writing are unaffected. But my short-term memory (what did I have for breakfast?) is a little worse than it was, causing concern to folks around me.

And, by the way, others around me report the same memory loss.  AND Michael has explained mine to me. (3)

On the short-term memory, I have to surrender to being here now because I have no other choice.

It’s just that the prospect of being only in the present, as he’d like me to be, forgetting about Third Dimensionality, scares me.  My fear is that I could end up in a psych ward for only being in the “now.” Promise you’ll come and get me!

All that aside, how it looks to me at present is that I’m in a normal recovery phase and that may take a short while. But I need to keep working just the same.

So I may switch over to researched material for a while, rather than current-events commentary (which requires me to keep up with a baseline of events, which is rapidly probably getting beyond anyone’s reach).

I may have to narrow down my range of focus, again to prevent stressing out trying to keep up (which I’m sure was the cause of the first health event).

Med beds are the answer. And the Divine Mother is the answer above and beyond medical technology.

Michael and the Mother have demonstrated that they want me to stay by stopping every heart-attack symptom I had. As long as they want me to stay, I’ll stay.

But, right now, switching for a while to researched backgrounders and reining back from “covering the whole of the waterfront” will give me the room and space I need to recover.

Thank you for your understanding.

Footnotes

(1) Archangel Michael: This is an agreement that we have. … You have agreed and you are living very much in the moment.

One of the difficulties of humans is that they have a proclivity to either live in the past (and it can be recent past or ancient past) or to project themselves and live in the future.

It is a very curious malaise that most of the human race – yes, most of the human race – chooses not to live in the moment. So you are living in the moment. And you say, “Yes Lord I’m very willing to live in the moment but I would like to be able to access memories, recent events so I don’t feel like a fool.”

We hear you. (Archangel Michael in a personal reading with Steve Beckow thjrough Linda Dillon, Aug. 5, 2020.)

(2) See:

• “After the Download Comes the Ride,” February 27, 2024, at https://goldenageofgaia.com/2024/02/27/after-the-download-comes-the-ride/.
• “No One Else Needs to be Awe-struck, But I Am,” March 4, 2024, at https://goldenageofgaia.com/2024/03/04/no-one-else-needs-to-be-awe-struck-but-i-am/

(3) Michael discusses memory loss here (and in other places):

Steve: Sometimes my memory goes completely blank and I can’t remember a word or can’t remember what I was saying and it’s pretty embarrassing. That’s for sure.

AAM: So make sure, Sweet One, that you are [anchoring] adequately because you are travelling inter-dimensionally. That is where those lapses tend to occur is when you are shifting dimensions. And so make sure that you are deeply anchored into your Mother Gaia. (Archangel Michael in a personal reading with Steve Beckow through Linda Dillon, May 13, 2020.) (Hereafter, AAM.)

Steve: Do I have Alzheimer’s?

Archangel Michael: No.

Steve: So there’s no percentage in me going to the North Vancouver Company and going through their tests… Because I don’t, right?

AAM: No, you don’t. Now, let us be clear about this. Is there some interdimensional, is there a great deal of interdimensional and what people would think of as mental or memory slippage? The answer is yes, and you have known this for some time. [Since at least 2012.]

Do you have calcium or other deposits in your brain? Yes, you do. Most people do. And so … it would be a false [trail]. So [going for tests] is not a path that we are recommending that you travel upon.

What we would recommend is that you begin to work with your DNA markers to simply reset, not only your memory markers (which we have already been restoring), but also to begin to clear and claim your higher-vibrational body, which is already underway as well. (AAM, Sept. 7, 2020.)

Steve Beckow

• goldenageofgaia.com/

 

 

It Took 78 Years to See Something That Obvious

It Took 78 Years to See Something That Obvious

by Steve Beckow

Posted on March 11, 2024

75 more years? Really?

As you know, I follow the awareness path. And the object of awareness is the “Self” and all its disguises. Whatever shows up as “I” in my inner conversation is a self worth observing.

Why? What’s the benefit? Well, I’ll tell you one huge benefit that showed up today.

I was doing errands and asking myself why I felt so awful.  And then I caught myself thinking one itsy-bitsy not-very-positive thought. And I felt awful.

Now usually I go after the content of the thought. But today I didn’t. Today I got the causal connection.

Today I got at an experiential (and minor) realizational level that any fleeting negative thought that I get a hold of and cling to will have me end up feeling awaful.

Getting it at last is mostly because of the rising lovelight energies, I believe. The rest is due to the work I’ve been doing, which I share with you daily.

I’ve become so sensitive to what I think, feel, and do that having a negative thought is like an anchor dragging me down to the depths.

John-Roger said he could not afford the luxury of a negative thought and now I get it.

Not like I want to be a fast-talking dude with a five-mile smile. I’ll settle for a beacon of love and consider that I’ve fulfilled my soul contract!!!!!

***

Is it not the most obvious thing in the world to say: “Think a harmful thought and you’ll feel bad”?

I feel dumber than dumb seeing how obvious that relationship is and how I never saw it or acknowledged it till now.

I can’t stop the passage of a thought across the screen of my mind. But I can’t afford the luxury of holding onto a negative thought, getting behind a negative feeling, or carrying out a negative act.

It took me 78 years to see something that obvious….

Steve Beckow

• goldenageofgaia.com/

 

 

Surrendering into the Flow

Surrendering into the Flow

By Steve Beckow

Posted on December 2, 2023

I need to take a day off and just relax, recharge my batteries, reflect.

The most relaxing thing I do these days is paint bottles in glittering gold and entrancing purples. (1)

It’s so experiential, so non-intellectual, to brush on paint, smooth it about, mind the edges.

It’s also bringing back memories of a child in kindergarten, becoming entranced with finger painting. Swishing it on and squiggling it around.

It wasn’t until I was swishing paint on a large bottle in current time that I felt again that same sensation.

Remember Richard Dreyfus in Close Encounters? Molding the mashed potatoes to look like Devil’s Tower?

This means something.

Fingerpainting and this painting I’m doing now are like that: This means something.

Painting is teaching me relaxation, enjoyment, but, most of all, flow. In my experience, flow is a paradigm of the higher realms.

This was the same flow I later discovered in the 2015 heart opening. (1) My heart having explosively opened, I was immediately immersed in a tsunami of love. Ever since then, though not to the same degree, love will flow if I raise it with my inbreath.

The love I encountered must flow, as Michael affirms here: “Love is a fluid energy. It has need to flow.” (2)

It seems to me that discovering flow and beginning to flow with it is and was the purpose of activities like painting in kindergarten and painting now.

***

But why bottles? It goes back to my first job after my second Ph.D. program in History. It’s a funny story. I’ll try not to be too self-serving.

I won a one-year contract replacing a historian on sabbatical in the History Division of the National Museum of Man (now the Canadian Museum of Civilization).

I wondered why we collected artifacts that were three hundred years old and not new artifacts from today.  I asked if I could start a demonstration project collecting contemporary artifacts to build a picture of Canadian society in 1973-4. I was given permission as long as it didn’t cost anything.

I and those who worked on the project with me tried to capture our social values as they were represented in consumer products in that year.  The project drew national media attention.

Any artifact to go into the collection had to say something about the world we lived in. For example: A picture of a family on a box of soap might show a man in a white shirt and tie, taller than a woman,who was  shown in an apron, and a boy or girl in toned-down adult wear. That was how this advertiser wanted us to see his 1973 customers – “average, normal, happy” … and conformist.

I had a network of collectors, across the country, opening their cans, boxes, and cartons from the bottom (so that they were undamaged and appeared new) and sending what they found to me. It was a hoot!

As a result of this, the museum now has an artifactual record of that year that I think will remain unsurpassed. Of course I’m biased.

By the end of my year’s contract, it was the largest collection of artifacts in the museum. The director of museums was wild about it. But my division chief, down the line, was not amused, and so my contract was not renewed.

Damn. I should have laid low. That was a great job!

Afterwards, for the first time in my life, I learned that one can go up an employment ladder easily enough, but one cannot go down as easily. The National Museum of Man was Canada’s premier historical museum.

After unsuccessful contacts among the museum community, my hunch grew that historians at provincial and municipal museums did not want someone from the National Museum in their midst and on their boards. (3) (This might be a projection.)

***

Nevertheless, during that year, I travelled up and down the Ottawa Valley, which is beautiful in autumn.  I had a budget for old artifacts; just not for new. It was a heavenly job. I’m laughing at the moment remembering some of my finds. Particularly the carton of Whipper Billy Watson soda pop from the 1930s.

As I look at the shelves of bottles painted in flat and glossy, glitter glue and sparkling stars, all the colors and shapes and combinations take me back and mesmerize me.

One moment I’m back in the museum looking at all the colorful artifacts. The next moment I’m back in kindergarten, being introduced to flow. Speak of everything I needed to learn I learned in kindergarten!

The bottles are just a vehicle to experience the flow of painting. More and more each day, as I paint and even when I don’t, I surrender into the flow.

Footnotes

(1)  Archangel Michael in a personal reading with Steve Beckow through Linda Dillon, April 30, 2019.

On both occasions – kindergarten and now – I came in touch through painting with an incipient need and desire to flow.

(2) In which love flowed like a tsunami. 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)  This happened a second time after leaving the Immigration and Refugee Board. The IRB was at the time Canada’s premier tribunal (in the tribunal community). In employment terms, there was nowhere to go but “down.” But people in smaller provincial and municipal tribunals didn’t want an IRB member on their boards.  Only a very small number of IRB members I knew found work again in the field.

 “Q”

Steve Beckow 

• goldenageofgaia.com/

 

The Disappearance of the Fear of Death

The Disappearance of the Fear of Death

By Steve Beckow

Posted on November 14, 2023

Credit: The-line-up.com

I keep searching for an account of my 1977 out-of-body experience and I realized finally that there isn’t one. So I’d like to correct that deficiency and write an account here.

I had been away in India in 1977, visiting a sage who would later become my guru for twenty-five years – before being shown to be a pedophile.

Somewhere along the line I contracted Hepatitis C and had to fly home.

I had to spend a month off work and one night during that time I had an out-of-body experience that changed my  life.

I awoke in the middle of a lucid dream, on the other side. Where exactly I did not know nor did I even know I was on “the other side” at first.

But then I saw two fellows being mean to a third man, whom I knew well. I remember his name to this day.  I was crying out, don’t hurt my friend! But no one could hear me. And so I was weeping.

Well, you can’t bawl your eyes out on the other side and remain where you are. You have to go back a more appropriate level and back a level when you’re outside your body means a return to your body.

I found myself flying backwards through space until I entered a kind of tube. I tapped it with my knuckle and said “what’s this?” It was my body.

My body felt like India rubber – like a lacrosse ball – compared to my spirit body, which felt like the down at the base of a feather.

Oh, my gosh, I said. I am not my body.

The minute I realized that, my fear of death instantly disappeared.

I compare it to living on a ground-floor apartment facing the lawn out back. I go out at night and hear something coming towards me through the thick grass. I’m afraid. It may be a raccoon that’s going to bite me, give me rabies, and then I’ll die! Then the animal comes out of the grass  and … it’s Kitty! My fear instantly vanishes!

In the same way, the fear of death instantly vanishes when we realize we’re not our bodies.

I remember standing in my body looking at the openings that were my eyes as if they were a foot or two in front of me. When I approached the eyes, the transition from vision inside to vision outside happened quickly. All of a sudden I was now seeing, hearing, smelling, etc., through the body’s faculties rather than as a spirit inside a body.

The experience showed me that the body is relatively non-conducting. I was wailing outside my body because someone was hurting my friend. But when my consciousness transferred to the outside of my body, what was a wail was now a whimper. My body was not letting my feelings through. THAT is density.

But most of all it showed me that I would survive the death of my body. Since that time I’ve learned that death itself is not painful. (1)

That’s all I remember from the experience, now 46 years ago. Since then I’ve had other experiences of the soul within the body.

On June 6, 2021, for instance, I had a second experience of standing inside my body. This time I was joined by a second unidentified energy that merged with me, causing a creative explosion in the months that followed. (2)

In an experience at Xenia Retreat Center on Sept. 18, 2018, I experienced my own native and natural innocence and purity while standing in the presence of the Self. (3)

But no more astral travelling … for the moment.

Footnotes

(1) See ” Death is Painless; Most People do not Suffer” at https://goldengaiadb.com/index.php?title=Coming_Home#Death_is_Painless.3B_Most_People_do_not_Suffer

(2) See “Mapping a Possible Soul Merge” in An Ascension Ethnography at https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/An-Ascension-Ethnography-8.pdf .

(3) See “Original Innocence,” loc. cit.

Steve Beckow 

• goldenageofgaia.com/

 

Peeling Back the Layers to Find the God Beneath

Peeling Back the Layers to Find the God Beneath

By Steve Beckow

Posted on September 21, 2023

1987: The little golden star had lost its brilliance in a cloud of matter, mater, Mother. (1)

Following my vision of the purpose of life, in 1987, one of the statements I felt justified to make was that life was a journey from God to God and that Mother/Father God created it that way so that it (2) could have an experience of itself.

Every time one of us gets enlightened, God meets God. And for that meeting was all of this created.

That having been said, it follows that the purpose of our lives is to enlighten ourselves so as to give God the experience of God.

Do any of the sages – terrestrial, galactic, or celestial – agree with me so far?

In fact they do. Here is “Source Creator” channeled by Goldenlight:

“How would I get to experience Myself if it were not for you?”

“Before you there was just Me, before the Earth and all the planets and star systems and galaxies and universes there was just Me and only Me.

“I needed to create I needed to split apart and individuate so I could know Myself and see Myself and see all the wonders of creation. You are all ME!” (3)

And here is a group calling itself the Heavenly Hosts:

“[Life] is all just experience to satisfy the Creator’s desire to experience Itself through Its creations.” (4)

And finally the Divine Mother, the final authority in my universe, acknowledged my own version of the story:

Steve: The Source, the One wants to know itself. Is that correct?… And it can’t because it’s everything. So it’s taken the aspect of Yourself and designed a universe in order for us to learn our true identities. The moment of Enlightenment is when God meets God. Is that correct?

Divine Mother: That is correct…  Yes, it is designed this way. (5)

For me, there’s no one else to ask.

Bayazid of Bistun perfectly captured the moment of God meeting God:

“I went from God to God, until they cried from me in me, ‘O thou I!'” (6)

And Sri Ramakrishna humorously depicted God at that moment:

“When Siva realizes his own Self, He dances about in joy exclaiming,
 ‘What am I! What am I!’”  (7)

Hindu saints have called creation a leela, a divine play. Here is Sri Ramakrishna’s chief disciple, Swami Vivekananda:

“This universe is just the play of the Lord – that is all. It is all just for fun. “(8)

And Sri Ramakrishna himself:

“God has created the world in play, as it were. This is called Mahamaya, the Great Illusion.” (9)

It’s probably hard for us to accept such a statement when we’re down here experiencing DEW attacks, manmade hurricanes, financial markets threatened, etc. We have our hands full without thinking about a divine play.

Fair enough.  But if we’re searching for the truth of the purpose of life, which for us is to realize ourselves – and now we see why – then this is that truth.

All of us serve God’s pleasure in experiencing and knowing itself.  And the reward for us is ever-increasing delight as we peel back one layer after another to find the God beneath.

Footnotes

(1) See 
“The Purpose of Life is Enlightenment – 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

(2) Archangel Michael asks: “We do not want anything capitalized.” (Archangel Michael in a personal reading with Steve Beckow through Linda Dillon, Aug. 12, 2016.)

(3) “Council of Angels, Archangel Michael and Source Creator: Upgrading to a Multidimensional Operating System,” channeled by Goldenlight, October 4, 2013 at http://thegoldenlightchannel.com.

(4) Heavenly Hosts, “Let it Be,” 10 Nov. 2006, at https://www.ashtarcommand.net/profiles/blog/show?id=1985014%3ABlogPost%3A273050&xgs=1.

(5) “Divine Mother: Know God but Through Joy,” November 4, 2018 (Oct. 26, 2018.) at https://goldenageofgaia.com/2018/11/04/divine-mother-know-god-but-through-joy/.

(6) Bayazid of Bistun in Aldous Huxley, The Perennial Philosophy. New York, etc.: Harper and Row, 1970; c1944, 12.

(7) Sri Ramakrishna in Nikhilananda, Swami, trans., The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna. New York: Ramakrishna-Vivekananda Center, 1978; c194, 393. (Hereafter GSR.)

(8) Swami Vivekananda in Swami Chetanananda, God Lived with Them. St. Louis: Vedanta Society of St. Louis, 1997, 61.)

(9) Paramahansa Ramakrishna in GSR, 116.

“The creation is sometimes described as the lila, the sport of Brahman, who creates the universe out of sheer sportive pleasure from the very fulness of His nature.” (Swami Nikhilananda, Hinduism. lts Meaning for the Liberation of the Spirit. Madras: Sri Math, 1968, 41.)

After repeated malware attacks, the Golden Age of Gaia only links to its own sites now.

Steve Beckow

• goldenageofgaia.com/