Showing posts with label realization. Show all posts
Showing posts with label realization. Show all posts

Monday, February 24, 2025

Truthful Seeing

Truthful Seeing

By Judith Kusel

Posted on February 24, 2025



We are moving rapidly now, as density dissolves, into the realization, that what we were always taught to be real, is actually illusion, and what we were taught to deny within ourselves, our higher faculties of seeing beyond the veils of illusion, was indeed meant to be the true seeing.

Truthful seeing.

As a child I could see the fairies, gnomes, angels, etc and soon found that adults did not quite know how to handle it all, and my mother soon told me, it was my overactive imagination.

I realize now, in retrospect, that my psychic abilities were there all along, but I soon learned not to share what I was seeing, and schooling exasperated this.

For many years I did not use these faculties, until my life started caving in, and my third eye opened again, and quite suddenly. It came as a shock, as I had come from a strict Christian background, where such things were not talked about.

It happened on a Boer War Battlefield, where once my own great grandfathers, fought on the Boer side against the British, as their farms were in that area.

I was now archivist on the same battlefield and was now seeing on a daily basis, the British soldiers who had died there. They used to click their heels and called me: “Madam!” and I did not know what to do with them and wished they would go away.

I refused to even acknowledge them, as I thought I was going bonkers. However my staff members soon realized what was going on and often asked where I was seeing them.

End result, my curator called me in and said that, on the day of the commemoration of the battle, a BBC film crew would be present, with a company of one of the British regiments just shipped out from the Iraq war, and I would need to give a running commentary of what I was seeing.

Climbing up the very steep hill, where most were killed, with a microphone strapped on me, this in the evening, at sunset, started the greatest nightmare of my life.

I was accompanied not only by the film crew, but by two South African veterans of the Angola war, two members of the visiting British regiment, a man and woman soldier, both officers, plus Stephen a photographer and his wife, who was psychic and she saw the horses.

I was seeing everything in technicolor and clarity and the slaughter half way up that hill, where the British artillery was killing their own by mistake.


At last on the top, we all sat in silence, waiting for midnight, when we could hear the clop-clop of the Boer horses as they came to collect their injured and dead. Stephen took a photograph were you could see the ghosts of the British soldiers moving through us, sitting there.

That downhill climb was a nightmare in itself!

We all sat down in silence on the verandah of the Smith cottage, the real soldiers and me.

Said, the British officer to me, trying to comfort me: “I know what you are seeing. Its your 6th sense. When we go into battle we cannot see the enemy anymore, but you know where they are because of your 6th sense

I could not get over this and with the help of Stephen brought a psychic friend, who is now my editor, who confirmed everything I was seeing. “They are drawn to you because of your light. They are stuck here, and need your help to release them so that their souls can be freed.”

“What??? How many are there? How am I supposed to do that?

“Oh sixty or so!”

I nearly fell off my chair!

Well, it so happened, the curator went overseas and I had the whole upper floor to myself. One by one they came. I asked them their name, rank etc so that I could look them up on the army records, and know I was not imagining things.

What kept them stuck was mostly unfinished business, sweethearts and family at home and not being prepared for trauma and death and horrors of war.

There are no winners in war. Wars leave only trauma and pain, and it seeps into the landscape as well.

One by one they were freed.


One morning in spring, after the first rain when the new grass and the flowers brought new birthed, I parked my car, and as I got out, a shaft of sunlight highlighted the field in front of me: There they all were, saluting me as a final thank you and goodbye. They were free.

This changed my whole life and was the start of a totally new life and new beginnings.

It made me trust my inner seeing and knowing more than any outside illusions.

And this will be now what so many will find, when their full faculties as souls are reawakening and they can finally see.

Truthful seeing and knowing, seeing through the illusion and be freed.

We are finally able now to step past all divisions, all wars, through forgiveness and the Power of Love into unity and oneness.

There is far more which unites us than could ever divide us.

For in truth we are all One.

Thursday, August 22, 2024

Their Present Leg of the One Same Journey

Their Present Leg of the One Same Journey

By Steve Beckow

Posted on August 21, 2024



If the purpose of life for all of us is enlightenment – the knowledge of who we truly are, resulting in mergence….

If the purpose of creating life for God was that God should meet God in a moment of our enlightenment… (1)

then, if we were to envision our situation, would it not make sense to represent it as a toroidal field, with God at the center?

All of us are birthed from God, as I saw in my vision, (2) and go out into the world of matter (mater, Mother) to learn our true identity.

An ineluctable, sub-tidal thirst, known as a “longing for liberation,” (3) keeps us yearning to return to the One – and on the move. And we find that, as we learn, the hunger to re-unite with God ever grows.

After many lifetimes, if we were 3D humans, we see the utter futility of pursuing sensory pleasures and possessions if what we want is love and bliss. We resolve to seek the bliss of God, to return to God. And we’re aided in this by our guides and celestials at every step we make in that return.

Everything about life is designed to keep us moving onward toward the final re-union. (4) The universal laws, our partnership with our guides and the celestials, our soul contract – everything works to bring us the opportunities we need to unfold our knowledge of ourself, which we discover is God.

***

On this one same journey from God to God, some have left the station before us and are farther ahead; some have left it after us and are farther behind. But all are destined to follow the same basic arc, from God to God.

Sri Ramakrishna used a metaphor to convey the point:

“All will surely realize God. All will be liberated. It may be that some get their meal in the morning, some at noon, and some in the evening; but none will go without food. All, without any exception, will certainly know the real Self.” (5)

Where you were yesterday, I’ll be tomorrow. But today, I’m not there yet.

Where is the place for racial superiority in all this? Where is the place for religious hostility? Where is the place for anything but helping this person before us on their present leg of the one same journey?

***

We often project our ideas of how things should be onto things as they actually are. In this case, we project onto the other person the notion that they should be, say, farther along than they are.

Not so. They’re right where they should be, watched over by their guides, influenced in their choices, etc. They are learning the lessons they chose to learn this lifetime. “Do not disturb.”

The only one we have cosmic responsibility for is ourselves. Our karma is ours alone. I can’t eTransfer it to you or accept eTransfers from you. Only Jacob Marley drags Jacob Marley’s chain around. (6)

Kathleen’s guide Catri’anna once said that the only mistake we humans make is in judging. That’s the action that alters us from being connected to the other person to being disconnected. Given that we make ourselves right for our own appraisals and actions, after judging another, all else is downhill.

My request is that we not judge people who we think are somehow “ignorant” or “asleep,” etc. We were there yesterday – or at least I was … errr…. or was it this morning?

There’s a saying from Oscar Wilde I like: Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

Every sinner is a saint in the making and every saint was a sinner at one time. We’re all of us evolving, from God to God, as in the toroidal field. My request is that we show good fellowship along the way.

Footnotes

(1) As the Mother confirms here:

Divine Mother: You are one that, because of your adherence to Truth, likes to go to the Source. That is alright. That is the way it has been designed. [My emphasis]

Steve:  … What is the way it has been designed, Mother? …

I mean, 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. (“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/.)

(2) See “Chapter 13. Epilogue” in The Purpose of Life is Enlightenment at https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Purpose-of-Life-is-Enlightenment.pdf

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

(4) It turns out not to be final, as the Mother makes plain here:

Divine Mother: Now, in this [one same] journey — for some of you it is millennia, for some of you it is eons; it matters not — there is a drive and an understanding, an intellectual and spiritual understanding that your drive is to make the U-turn and to come back Home, to return Home to the Heart of One where you are so welcome until such time as you choose to emanate again. (“Divine Mother: My Desire is that Every Being on the Planet Falls in Love,” October 3, 2014, at http://goldenageofgaia.com/2014/10/03/divine-mother-my-desire-is-that-every-being-on-the-planet-falls-in-love/.) [My emphasis.]

Steve Beckow: Now, Mother, you have just referred to you bringing them back. You’ve just referred to mergence have you not, or union?  And you’re saying that after they return in union, they go back out into the world. Is that correct?

Divine Mother: Yes. If they so choose, yes. Now, is it in the timeline that human beings tend to think of? No. But eventually there is re-emergence. (“The Divine Mother: Each and Every One of You Carries Divine Might, Part 1/2,” June 17, 2013, at http://goldenageofgaia.com/2013/06/the-divine-mother-each-and-every-one-of-you-carries-divine-might-part-12.) [My emphasis.]

(5) Paramahansa Ramakrishna in Swami Nikhilananda, trans., The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna. New York: Ramakrishna-Vivekananda Center, 1978; c1942, 818.

(6) In Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, the ghost of Jacob Marley appears, dragging a chain laden with bells and weights, which represents his sins. He came to warn his business partner, Ebenezer Scrooge, to repent his ways because Scrooge’s chain was also at that point very long.



Monday, August 12, 2024

The Path of Self-Awareness

The Path of Self-Awareness

By Steve Beckow

Posted on August 11, 2024


 

There’s so much we … OK, OK, I … don’t understand.

For instance, take awareness. Awareness transforms. It does so, first of all, in ways I don’t understand or even suspect. Put those aside for the moment with a simple acknowledgment.

Second of all, it transforms by allowing the unpleasant sensation or emotion to play out, unmolested, after which, it, having no independent energy source, disappears.

We look at that and call it “transformation.” It is in when one is distinguishing between “change” and “transformation.”

“Change” just moves the pieces around the board. It takes place at a superficial level of consciousness – unconscious awareness. Nothing in the end may really change. It just gets postponed.

“Transformation” sees the condition disappear – either at once as when the truth sets us free or over time. Anger, fear, jealousy – experience it through to completion and we’ve lessened its chances of reappearing.

We’re definitely now on the road to upset disappearance rather than upset creation. If we’re into loving kindness instead of orneriness, this is a basic and welcome shift.

And awareness of what? Of the only thing in creation we are responsible for and the very thing we’re charged with knowing: Our self, in its many guises and at whatever level it appears.

I so like what Jesus said about us and wanting others to change. It’s material to what we’re charged with being aware of:

“It is characteristic of lightworkers that they let themselves be carried away by this [spiritual] anger and that they go beyond their limits in this regard. They lose themselves in their desire to change and improve the world. This can be a passion to change things on the political or social level or it may emerge as a desire to help people on a personal level, as a profession or in your private life.

“The desire to help and change things often contains a form of spiritual anger although this may not be noticeable. After all you seem to simply ‘want the best’ for someone else or for society. But surely there is anger inside you when you feel inclined to force somebody – no matter how subtly – to change their behavior or their emotions. Often you do not notice that the time is not yet ripe for it.

“Each time when you feel an intense indignation or an enormous passion to change things or when you have feelings of powerlessness and anger towards things as they are, you are in the pitfall of spiritual anger. You want too much at once. You are heedless of reality as it is for you and are seized by an emotion, the emotion of anger. I ask you to be aware of this and to let it go, for this kind of inspiration that is charged with anger takes you away from your center. It will not offer you the true inspiration, the peace and quiet in your emotional body that help you embody your light on Earth.

“You achieve the state of truly embodying your light on Earth by being entirely centered in your own being, in a pure and calm state of mind. In this state you can feel that you are in the world but not of it. Being of the world means that you attach value to everything you observe with your senses: violence, war, illness, destruction. If you regard these with your physical senses only you can easily get angry. Therefore we ask you to take a step backwards and to feel inwardly what spiritual dynamics are taking place in the things that upset you.” (1)

Darnation! I wish I’d written that.

Beautifully and completely put. How clearly he sees the human condition.

As for the awareness path itself, which I’ve looked at elsewhere, (2) I’d say that self-awareness is the alternative to “changing” people.

Its only requirement is to remain aware of oneself. In my view, its principles are to love, which draws us towards God; to use our awareness of the self, in any guise and on any level, as our vehicle; and to look to the truth to progressively reveal our Destination to us and set us free.

Easy? Not necessarily, in a world of distractions. Absorbing and beneficial? Truly.

Footnotes

(1) Pamela Kribbe, “Jeshua: The Gatekeepers,” Aug. 9, 2024, at https://goldenageofgaia.com/2024/08/09/jeshua-the-gatekeepers/.

(2) See:


Steve Beckow

Saturday, August 10, 2024

Karma and Free Will are Not Contradictory – 1

Karma and Free Will are Not Contradictory – Part 1 /2

By Steve Beckow

Posted on August 10, 2024


The wheel of karma

I often hear folks debating free will vs determinism, as if, if the one exists, the other cannot.

Do we have free will? Or are the events of our lives pre-determined by “karma”?

Both.

Any seeming contradiction disappears when we make a distinction between action and reaction. Let me back up a moment, to explain. Let me start with free will first.

Among life forms on Earth, only humans have free will and conscience, as Matthew Ward tells us:

“Only humankind … is endowed with conscience and Creator’s gift of free will. Although each living being and each inanimate thing serves a purpose in the evolutionary process of all, it is the human population that sets the pace.” (1)

Only people can choose to act in a godly manner or not, he explains:

“Whereas all other life forms on Earth operate within their respective innate guidelines that work in harmony with Nature, people can choose to act in godly ways or not, to heed conscience or not; and their collective choices determine the civilization’s evolvement status.

“As humankind evolves via the light in spiritual and conscious awareness, so do all the other forms on the planet, and the collective vibratory emissions advance the entire world.

“And, as a world advances, life becomes increasingly simpler and joyous! It is only in third density’s lower vibrations that a civilization creates all the complexities born of negativity.” (2)

But if everything about our lives is determined, then what does it matter that we have this thing called “free will”?

The answer lies in knowing the purpose of life and how “free will” and “karma” fit into it.

***

I now have to back up quite a few “moments.” All the way to the purpose God had in creating life. I base my interpretation of it on a vision I had on Feb. 13, 1987. (3)

Reuniting with Mother/Father One through Self-Realization was shown to me to be the purpose of life. As John Ruusbroec reminds us:

“[For] the rational creature to attain the sublime beauty of God and to possess it in [a] supernatural way … is [the] reason that God created heaven and earth and all that is in them. (4)

That “supernatural way” would be what we’re calling ultimate enlightenment, re-absorption, mergence, union, etc.

Sri Ramakrishna agrees that “the vision of God is the only goal of human life.” (5) Rumi spun a story to illustrate our situation:

“There is one thing in this world which must never be forgotten. If you were to forget everything else, but did not forget that, then there would be no cause for worry; whereas if you performed and remembered and did not forget every single thing, but forgot that one thing, then you would have done nothing whatsoever.

“It is just as if a king had sent you to the country to carry out a specified task. You go and perform a hundred other tasks; but if you have not performed that particular task on account of which you had gone to the country, it is as if you have performed nothing at all. So man has come into this world for a particular task, and that is his purpose; if he does not perform it, then he will have done nothing.” (6)

Archangel Michael reminds us what specifically we’re to aim for:

AAM: Your ultimate enlightenment is the reabsorption into the Mother.  (7)

Mother God and Father God are One. They are not two; they are not “different.”  Reabsorption into the Mother is the gateway to reunion with Mother/Father One, mergence in the Heart of One, etc. The Mother tells us:

Divine Mother: Knowledge of me is more precious than anything because I am your connection [to the Father].  (8)

She is the face of God; he has no face. (9) She is the only “God” we’ll ever talk to, perhaps while we’re incarnated, perhaps forever – I don’t know.

***

OK so far. But how does our ultimate enlightenment serve God?

I believe that the One created life forms to experience itself. I had the opportunity to ask the Divine Mother if I was correct in that assumption and she confirmed it:

Divine Mother: You are one that, because of your adherence to Truth, likes to go to the Source. That is alright. That is the way it has been designed. [My emphasis]

Steve:  … What is the way it has been designed, Mother? …

I mean, 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. (10)

Again, OK so far.

But think about it for a moment.  Being only One can be a problem if you want to get to know yourself.

(Concluded tomorrow in Part 2/2/)

Footnotes

(1) Matthew’s Message, Aug. 3, 2014, at https://www.matthewbooks.com/

(2) Loc. cit.

(3) On that vision, see “Chapter 13. Epilogue” in The Purpose of Life is Enlightenment at https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Purpose-of-Life-is-Enlightenment.pdf

(4) John Ruusbroec in James A. Wiseman, John Ruusbroec. The Spiritual Espousals and Other Works. New York, etc.: Paulist Press, 1985, 72.

(5) Paramahansa Ramakrishna in Swami Nikhilananda, trans., The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna. New York: Ramakrishna-Vivekananda Center, 1978; c1942, 331. (Hereafter GSR.)

(6) Rumi in A.J. Arberry, trans., Discourses of Rumi. New York; Samuel Weiser, 1977; c1961, 26.

(7) “Archangel Michael on the Process of Lightworker Expansion and Learning,” September 3, 2022, at https://goldenageofgaia.com/2022/09/03/archangel-michael-on-the-process-of-lightworker-expansion-and-learning/; from Archangel Michael in a personal reading with Steve Beckow through Linda Dillon, March 10, 2017.) (Hereafter, AAM.)

(8) “Transcript of the Divine Mother on An Hour with an Angel, May 7, 2012,” at http://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/.

(9) The Mother includes the material or physical; the Father is not physically-perceptible.

On the avoidance of capitals:

Archangel Michael: “We do not want anything capitalized.” (AAM, Aug. 12, 2016.)

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

Steve Beckow

Thursday, May 30, 2024

What Do We Mean by “Experience”?

What Do We Mean by “Experience”?

By Steve Beckow

Posted on May 30, 2024


Ideas


Experience


To say “to experience,” as I’m intending the word, does not (necessarily) mean “getting out in nature” or “eating new foods.”

It can. But by the same token, we can be out in nature “experiencing” and still be relating to the world from the intellectual level only.

I’m referring to there being three levels to our knowledge of Reality: the intellectual, the experiential, and the realizational. When I use the word “experience,” I’m referring to live lived from the experiential level.

For us, in the growth movement, playing the awareness game meant always being aware of how we were feeling, in addition to what we were thinking, seeing, touching, etc. The emphasis was on feeling.

Many sages could be found who advise us to feel our way to God. Sri Ramakrishna suggested bhakti or love/devotion as the best path to God in the Kali Yuga or Dark Age, as it was (1) Bhakti is a strong path in Hinduism. Love attracts us to the Truth, which we then realize.

The mind, on the one hand, can lie and deceive in the service of the ego-self.  Sociologists and philosophers call  it “the self-serving bias.”

Feelings, on the other hand, don’t speak in words; they don’t  lie. A feeling is a feeling. It has no text attached to it. It is what it is.

In my opinion, it’s how we interpret our feelings and what we do with them that gets us into trouble. If, as Jesus advised, we simply observe and experience them through to coimpletion,in my experience, no trouble results at all. (2)

***

Mind you, having said that, feelings are not the biggest prize – far from it. Just to illustrate the difference in impact, you’re lying on the beach and a child runs by with a bucket of water, splashing you a bit. You’re annoyed.

A half hour later, people are shouting that a big wave is coming in and everyone better run for safety. You gather your belongings and head for higher ground.

Let the splash of water be a feeling of love. It’s localized and of minor inconvenience. Let the tsunami of love when the heart opens be like the approaching wall of water in the face of which everyone is affected and runs for cover.

The feeling, as good as it was, was contained within you. But you’ll find yourself immersed in the higher-dimensional consciousness state, the tsunami of love, and, later, the Ocean of Love.

They’ll have different impacts. The feeling of love warms our heart, so to speak. But the tsunami of love  sweeps all our cares and concerns away. We’ll feel more alive than we ever have before. A blessing of incomprehensible proportions will have hit us. We never knew this existed!

***

We think of realizations as being momentary. A flash in the dark. A sudden seeing of that which was missed and would never have been seen without the elevating influence of bliss.

But what if the realized state endures. No, doesn’t stay permanently; that would be Ascension. But stays for perhaps eight hours and then leaves to come back another day?

That was my lot through most of 2015 after March 13, before love gave way to bliss on Sept. 28.

We don’t have a word for a prolonged state of realization which then disappears. We don’t have distinctions or a language or even a name for a lot of what we’re doing, seeing, and realizing.

Our knowledge of who we are is in its collective infancy. Many of us haven’t gotten around to acknowledging that we’re a spirit having a human experience as well as a human having a spiritual experience.  We’re both.

So when I use the word “experience,” I’m not talking of licking an ice-cream cone or running a mountain trail.  I’m talking of us being aware of and using all our senses plus the creative imagination to derive information holistically about us and our environment – to fulfil the purpose of life. (3)

Doing this has more impact on our learning than simply talking about something and trading ideas. I’ve compared the merely intellectual to eating dry oatmeal; the experiential, to warm porridge with milk, blueberries, cashews, and maple syrup.

And realization is even better.

Footnotes

(1) “The path of knowledge is very difficult. One cannot obtain Knowledge unless one gets rid of the feeling that one is the body. In the Kaliyuga the life of man is centred on food. He cannot get rid of the feeling that he is the body and the ego. Therefore the path of devotion is prescribed for this cycle. ” (Paramahansa Ramakrishna in Swami Nikhilananda, trans., The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna. New York: Ramakrishna-Vivekananda Center, 1978; c194, 170.)

(2) “Jeshua via Pamela Kribbe: The Third Way,” at http://goldenageofgaia.com/2014/01/jeshua-the-third-way/.

(3) Which is to know who we truly are, because, when one of us realizes our true identity, God meets God. And it was for that meeting that all of us were created. The Divine Mother confirms it:

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

Steve Beckow

 

Monday, May 20, 2024

Techniques of Achieving Conscious Realization

Techniques of Achieving Conscious Realization

By Kenneth Schmitt

Posted on May 20, 2024 

credits: frasesdelavida.com


If ever there is a negative vibration in our presence, we have a resolution for this residing in our heart-consciousness. If we feel any anxiety or depression, we are holding negative energy in our psyche. It holds us in discordance with what we truly know and want to feel deep within. By paying attention to scenarios of energetic patterns that we passionately love and are grateful for, we can bring ourselves into alignment with our true innate knowing. When our vibrations are aligned with our heart-consciousness, we can be aware of many energetic patterns that have not existed for us, because we haven’t realized their reality in our species consciousness.

How does our realization work? It means making something real in our experience. It is an interaction of our perceptive ability with subatomic entities that arrange themselves according to our energetic signature, which is our vibratory expression. In our desire to have physical experiences, we have accepted life-paths and dimensions that we hold in our awareness. Many more are available to us, and we can have any of them by paying attention to their energetic vibrations. We don’t need the full complement of forms, sounds and the other empirical senses, but we must feel the qualities of perceived energies.

Whenever we open our awareness to the energy of our heart, we feel like supporting vitality and life-enhancement. We can fill ourselves with gratitude, compassion, love and joy. This opens our awareness to the dimension of these energetic patterns, enabling us to feel ourselves living in this environment and giving us the realization that creates experiences that resonate with our heart-consciousness. If we intentionally align ourselves with the spectrum of gratitude, love and joy, we can be aware of our heart-consciousness, and we can realize the reality of a life based on unconditional acceptance and love.

Consisting of subatomic, quantum, localized energetic beings, our physical bodies align with our energetic signature, and our cells express the qualities that we believe are real. By resolving our limiting beliefs about ourselves, we can open our realization to a greater expression of life enhancement. By dropping all judgments and preconceptions about life, we can be aware of a greater expanse of consciousness. It is all within the consciousness of our own Being.

Our personal essence is the essence of everyone. We are all individualized fractals of infinite consciousness. By paying attention to how we deeply feel about everything in our awareness, we can intelligently choose which vibrations we prefer to align with. When we are clear, these are the vibrations of our heart and are filled with love and life-enhancement. By paying attention to the flowing nature of our energetic environment, we can realize an expanding reality being created in our awareness.

Kenneth Schmitt
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Wednesday, January 17, 2024

Let’s Go! Let’s Grow!

Let’s Go! Let’s Grow!

by Steve Beckow

Posted on January 17, 2024

Part 1 (Part 2 below)


Long and reflective.

A lot of interesting conversations going on backstage, stirred up by Matthew’s last message.  One piece of feedback that arose was that I’m being too intellectual in trying to understand spiritual states.

While we’re all recovering from the holidays, maybe it’s a good time to push back the chair and reflect. And here I’m about to be intellectual. This is the exploration that the comment raised. Just a reflection.

For me, as you know, there are three levels of knowledge: the intellectual, the experiential, and the realized.  (1)

Let me just dwell on one part of that division for a moment.

I have no control over realization. I freely wander into cognitive dissonance to court paradigmatic breakthrough. (2) I ask for realization. I meditate. But that state is bestowed by the Mother, her archangels, our guides, the masters, etc.

I can describe aspects of it. Realization brings release plus bliss. It’s the bliss that lifts us up to a place where simple knowledge there is seen as realization here.

But I have to be careful. My excursions into higher states do not make me a spiritual teacher. Nor do I want to be one. I’m a writer.

***

I still feel reflective. May I unwind?

When I enter a new field, I say to you that I’m establishing a beachhead of understanding about that field. (3) The beachhead is just a landing zone and may be totally abandoned later on.

If I were a non-dualist, I’d jump for joy that I know nothing and have an empty mind. I would just allow things to be rather than establish a beachhead of understanding, which would be seen as limiting me.

But I’m a dualist this lifetime. I serve the Divine Mother. For that I need understanding and the ability to communicate. Sitting in the cloud of unknowing is not appropriate for me in this go-round.

I need to communicate. To do that I need to stay within the universe of discourse of you, the reader I serve. That can mean reducing the ineffable into the language of the day.

I won’t for instance suddenly lapse into an erudite explanation of quantum physics, even if I knew anything about the subject, which I don’t. (I think this article is erudite enough for folks who are working and raising children.)

As a writer I deal in ideas and the ideas need to be comprehensible to my readers.

But the heart of the feedback was that I was being too intellectual. In spirituality it seems either to boil down to a matter of the heart or a matter of balance. Either way you end up in the same place: The tsunami of love that flows in the heart.

If I can develop that feedback, however, it means, to me, staying too much within the orbit of ideas; never escaping and going higher. It means too often reducing living, breathing entities to ideas, which is a task beyond delicate and perhaps impossible.

The emphasis is on the “too much.”  The emphasis is on leaving the center,  the balance point, the heart and wandering off into the extremes of passion, clouded judgment, and abandoned caution.

That’s fine if you’re a young person breaking free of your parents – whoopee!  But a lightworker committed to service? I think we agree to give up those.

If I want to pierce through the cloud of ideas to the experience of it, no matter what we’re looking at, I have to feel into it with the heart.

(Concluded in Part 2, below.)

Footnotes

(1) See:

NB:

“Truth begins as intellectual knowledge, but can never manifest into expression until realized.” (“The Arcturian Group via Marilyn Raffaele. January 10, 2016,” January 11, 2016, at https://goldenageofgaia.com/2016/01/11/the-arcturian-group-via-marilyn-raffaele-january-10-2016/.)

(2) See Paradigmatic Breakthrough: Essays in New-Age Philosophy at https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Paradigmatic-Breakthrough-4.pages.pdf and “Paradigmatic Breakthrough as a Type of Spiritual Realization,” October 11, 2020, at https://goldenageofgaia.com/?p=313922.

(3)  See:


OK, OK, some abandon is healthy!

(Concluded from Part 1, above.)

A word about awareness and “getting in touch with” something.

In a three-month residential encounter group I did in 1975-6, even critics who were habitually driven to point out blemishes “got in touch with” what was driving them  And it turned out they were just like everyone else except starved for listening and validation.

Getting in touch with a matter frees us from it. Feedback is what assists us with the process.

Awareness has that property, as Jesus tells us here:

Jesus: You have to realize that consciousness is something very powerful. It is much more than a passive registering of an emotion – consciousness is an intense creative force. …

Consciousness is not something static; things do not remain as they are. You will notice that if you do not nourish the energy of the emotion or of your judgment about it, they will gradually dissipate. …

Awareness transforms – it is the major instrument for change. (1)

We’re talking about simple, bare awareness. We’re not talking about having a good idea or analyzing the unanalyzable (love, for instance). And we’re certainly not talking about arguing over something, which, multiplied, leads us to where we are now, in a war of exchange, reduced to arguments, compressed into memes. Not many signs of intelligent life here, as the comedian said.

As a social movement, the path of awareness became “consciousness raising.” We need to re-acquire their tools we left behind some time ago (1982, to be exact). (2)

Raise something to simple, bare, non-judgmental awareness and allow it to be while observing it and you’ll see the issue leave more quickly than otherwise, because of our awareness.

Additionally, you, sitting there passively, paying attention to it but allowing it to do its own thing, is like raising your hand when greeting. It shows you have no (intellectual) weapon in it.

You’re not wrestling with the issue; if you were, it’d remain forever. What we resist persists, as Werner Erhard said. What we allow leaves under its own steam.

***

Well, that was a rewarding stock-taking for me. Yes, I am very intellectual.

I’m dealing with whole-system interpretations and analyses. What experiential knowledge would look like at this level of generality, I’m not sure I know. I find myself chuckling at the assignment.

As I look at my intellectuality, turning it like a diamond in my mind, I see it has a quality of maleness to it. Pushing through to the heart of the matter, wrapping my  arms around a subject, etc. Very male.

I think someone raised female might do a better job. (3)

Either way, let’s settle back, into the task. Put on the coffee.

Let’s go! Let’s grow!

Footnotes

(1) “Jeshua: The Third Way” at http://goldenageofgaia.com/2014/01/jeshua-the-third-way/.

(2) The recession of 1982 was the first instance I’m aware of of a “jobless recovery.” The forces promoting automation used the recession to shed now-obsolescent labor.

They instantly created a buyer’s market for labor, not only comprised of large numbers of people who had lost their jobs, but also large numbers of people who had lost their careers, professions, etc. Unions collapsed.

The attitude was uncaring, much like the mood of the vaccination discourse today.

“Stop finding yourself, pal,” one commentator chimed in; “It’s time to get back to work — if you still have a job, that is.” (David Olive, “The New Hard Line,” Report on Business Magazine, Oct. 1991, 15.)

Masking it as the depradations of a recession allowed it all to happen with no thought being given to the welfare and wellbeing of the people affected.

Now the QFS will automate the financiers and the circle will be complete: The automators will have been automated.

(3) Having written this and looked it over, I see the point. I am intellectual. Hopefully not so much that I create what Michael was worried about – I lose my reader.

Archangel Michael: If you venture, as you would often like, too far ahead of the crowd, then who are you speaking to? (Archangel Michael in. a personal reading with Steve Beckow through Linda Dillon, Aug. 21, 2015.)


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