Creating a Common Vocabulary
Part 1
by Steve Beckow
Posted on January 28, 2024
In creating a cross-cultural, interdimensional spirituality, we may find that we don’t have a unified, integrated vocabulary with which to speak, across all cultural and religious boundaries, of the same phenomena in consciousness.
We’re going to have to build one. And a large part of that work will be connecting the dots among the prevailing terrestrial and off-planet bodies of knowledge.
I’d like to connect three dots here. What I call “emergence,” I assert, is the same as what Werner Erhard called “transformation,” “going above the line between unconscious and conscious awareness,” and “presencing the Self.”
It’s also the same as what Archangel Michael and the Mother call “ignitions,” “stair steps,” and, using my word, “snaps.”
This two-part article is too small a vehicle for me to do more than point at the correspondences and start the discussion. In a future article I’ll compare them in more detail.
Emergence
I defined emergence in 2013 as:
“Emergence is to stand forth as one’s truth, to free our expression from all dogma and equivocation, all fear and anxiety, all suppression and intimidation….
“Emergence may not look pretty. It may be a noisy birth or a quiet birth. But the more we emerge, the more we break the knots that bind us, find our native voice, free our natural expression, and stand forth in the way we were first created.
“‘Show me your original face’ could be translated as ‘emerge.’ Stop suppressing yourself. Stop hiding.” (1)
Emergence or standing forth happens in an instant. It happens because we find within ourselves what it takes (whom it takes?) to leave behind the victim, the abused child, the helpless one and stand forth as the peerless beings we are.
It happens because we take a stand on ourselves, call ourselves forth, etc.
Transformation
The sudden breakthrough in consciousness that Werner Erhard calls “transformation” is the same sudden breakthrough in consciousness I’m pointing to. We suddenly emerge from whatever it is that’s holding us back, usually as a result of a flash of insight, recognition, or realization – major or minor.
The est Network describes it here:
“What happens in the training is a transformation – an essential shift in the context in which the facts, circumstances, and positions of one’s life are held.
“While it may take forever to alter the facts or content of one’s life, it actually only takes an instant to transform the context in which those facts are held – and to realize fully that the ability to transform is actually available to us at any moment.” (2)
What occurs as a result is that we, in Werner’s words, “go above the line” separating unconscious from conscious awareness. Let’s hear the notion applied to communication, by Communications Workshop leader Jed Naylor:
“Above the line [is] conscious awareness, experienced experience.
“Below the line [is] unconscious awareness, unexperienced experience.” (3)
“Above the line one is experiencing the other person’s experience [when listening]. Below the line one is showing sympathy.” (4)
“Above the line there is the harmonious, intentional recreation of the other’s experience. Below the line is the exchange of agreed-upon symbols.” (5)
The result of the momentary transformation or emergence is that we stand forth now, for as long as the experience lasts, as more of the Self than we did (the process goes on almost forever).
Elsewhere, I made a list of several ways of presencing or calling forth the Self, mostly from Werner:
Ways to Presence the Self
The Short Form
1. Love
To Emerge, Unfold
To Return to Wholeness, Integrity
Transformations or emergences can be minor or major, everyday or earth-shaking. Short of Ascension, their impact will usually be temporary, although there are some lingering effects, as we’ll hear Michael say, tomorrow.
What’s the impact of this? We can now connect two bodies of literature, both claiming to speak about the process that leads to raising our consciousness, level by level:
Emergence = Transformation
(Concluded in Part 2, below.)
Download Let’s Go! Let’s Grow. Vol. 3. Communication here: https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Lets-Go-Lets-Grow-V3-Communication-R6-1.pdf
Footnotes
(1) “What is Emergence?” January 19, 2013, at https://goldenageofgaia.com/2013/01/19/what-is-emergence/
(2) Questions people ask about the est Training. San Francisco: est, 1977, n.p.
(3) est Communications Workshop Leader Jed Naylor, Oct. 1980.
(4) Loc. cit.
(5) Loc. cit.
(6) “Why Transformative Awareness?” November 12, 2022, at https://goldenageofgaia.com/?p=339941.
Steve Beckow
Creating a Common Vocabulary
Part 2
(Concluded from Part 1, above)
Ignitions
Let me introduce a third correspondence now, with what Archangel Michael calls “ignitions” or what I called “snaps.”
Here he calls these sudden discontinuities in consciousness “ignitions”:
Archangel Michael: You are simply growing into your expansion. That is really the substance of it. You are on a very fast track of expansion and that is why you are also experiencing the flare-ups, the ignitions. But as you do so with each ignition you will also feel a greater sense of substance of who you really are. It is true [also] of the collective. (3)
I asked him about what I called “snaps”:
Steve: I get that [Ascension] is gradual and then there’s a sudden snap or many snaps; for instance, Brahmajnana [7th-chakra enlightenment] could be considered a snap. But before the way I saw it was that we simply would move forward in a gradual way and then we’d experience Sahaja Samadhi and then it’s over. …
Archangel Michael: Think of it in this way. You have experienced progressively, periods of unity [?D], of transformative love [7D], of ecstasy [12D], of bliss [8D] that you feel (and I emphasize feel) comes and goes.
But every time, you have had this experience it has edged you up a level. So that now you say to me, “Michael, I feel like I have a new baseline. I have a new foundation of happiness.”
But you also have a new foundation of knowingness, of understanding, of wisdom, of humility, of tolerance, of kindness. This has all been bringing you to an expanded sense of self. (1)
He continues, using my metaphor of a “snap.”
Archangel Michael: Think of how every time you especially enter the transformative love, that is a snap. It is not the full dramatic snap but it is a snap. Each time you are progressing up what you can think of as a level.
Think of [entering] your love as flying back and forth through the [Ascension] portal. Now sometimes you’re aware and sometimes you’re asleep and sometimes you’re off with me. That is what you are doing and that is what humanity is doing. (2)
Feeling lifted up a level is the lingering impact of an ignition or snap. Enhanced confidence and strength accompanies it.
But again, these two are what I mean by emergence as well. The impact of these snaps is that we emerge further from whatever is keeping our magnificence obscured.
Connecting the Three Dots
We can now expand our connections
Emergence = Transformation = Ignitions
Emergence, transformation, or ignition is one portal into the higher dimensions. Other portals are the present moment, the heart, and the chakras. I’m sure there are many others as well.
Classical enlightenment theory deals only with the seven chakras. But the Mother tells us, all matters related to Ascension, all matters related to where we’re going are beyond the seven-chakra system:
Divine Mother: Yes, it is beyond what you think of [as being] with your seven chakras. … We have emerged from the Third-Dimensional realm, which is that reference point for the [seven] chakra system, into the new. (4)
We’re starting where terrestrial sages left off.
Download Let’s Go! Let’s Grow. Vol. 3. Communication here: https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Lets-Go-Lets-Grow-V3-Communication-R6-1.pdf
Footnotes
(1) “Archangel Michael on Snaps, Expansion, and Ascension,” June 6, 2017, at https://goldenageofgaia.com/2017/06/06/archangel-michael-on-snaps-expansion-and-ascension/.
Note:
Steve: The space that I call transformative love, what dimension is it?
Archangel Michael: It is the seventh dimension.
Steve: Then what dimension is bliss?
AAM: It is between eight and nine.
Steve: And ecstasy?
AAM: Twelfth.
Steve: And what about exaltation?
AAM: Then you have moved beyond [the twelve dimensions]. (Archangel Michael in a personal reading with Steve Beckow through Linda Dillon, Jan. 20, 2016.) (Hereafter AAM.)
(2) “Archangel Michael on Snaps, Expansion, and Ascension,” June 6, 2017, at https://goldenageofgaia.com/2017/06/06/archangel-michael-on-snaps-expansion-and-ascension/
(3) AAM, May 6, 2013.
(4) “The Divine Mother: Come to Me as I Come to You – Part 1/2,” Oct. 17, 2012, at http://goldenageofgaia.com/2012/10/17/the-divine-mother-come-to-me-as-i-come-to-you-part-12/.
(Concluded from Part 1, above)
Ignitions
Let me introduce a third correspondence now, with what Archangel Michael calls “ignitions” or what I called “snaps.”
Here he calls these sudden discontinuities in consciousness “ignitions”:
Archangel Michael: You are simply growing into your expansion. That is really the substance of it. You are on a very fast track of expansion and that is why you are also experiencing the flare-ups, the ignitions. But as you do so with each ignition you will also feel a greater sense of substance of who you really are. It is true [also] of the collective. (3)
I asked him about what I called “snaps”:
Steve: I get that [Ascension] is gradual and then there’s a sudden snap or many snaps; for instance, Brahmajnana [7th-chakra enlightenment] could be considered a snap. But before the way I saw it was that we simply would move forward in a gradual way and then we’d experience Sahaja Samadhi and then it’s over. …
Archangel Michael: Think of it in this way. You have experienced progressively, periods of unity [?D], of transformative love [7D], of ecstasy [12D], of bliss [8D] that you feel (and I emphasize feel) comes and goes.
But every time, you have had this experience it has edged you up a level. So that now you say to me, “Michael, I feel like I have a new baseline. I have a new foundation of happiness.”
But you also have a new foundation of knowingness, of understanding, of wisdom, of humility, of tolerance, of kindness. This has all been bringing you to an expanded sense of self. (1)
He continues, using my metaphor of a “snap.”
Archangel Michael: Think of how every time you especially enter the transformative love, that is a snap. It is not the full dramatic snap but it is a snap. Each time you are progressing up what you can think of as a level.
Think of [entering] your love as flying back and forth through the [Ascension] portal. Now sometimes you’re aware and sometimes you’re asleep and sometimes you’re off with me. That is what you are doing and that is what humanity is doing. (2)
Feeling lifted up a level is the lingering impact of an ignition or snap. Enhanced confidence and strength accompanies it.
But again, these two are what I mean by emergence as well. The impact of these snaps is that we emerge further from whatever is keeping our magnificence obscured.
Connecting the Three Dots
We can now expand our connections
Emergence = Transformation = Ignitions
Emergence, transformation, or ignition is one portal into the higher dimensions. Other portals are the present moment, the heart, and the chakras. I’m sure there are many others as well.
Classical enlightenment theory deals only with the seven chakras. But the Mother tells us, all matters related to Ascension, all matters related to where we’re going are beyond the seven-chakra system:
Divine Mother: Yes, it is beyond what you think of [as being] with your seven chakras. … We have emerged from the Third-Dimensional realm, which is that reference point for the [seven] chakra system, into the new. (4)
We’re starting where terrestrial sages left off.
Download Let’s Go! Let’s Grow. Vol. 3. Communication here: https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Lets-Go-Lets-Grow-V3-Communication-R6-1.pdf
Footnotes
(1) “Archangel Michael on Snaps, Expansion, and Ascension,” June 6, 2017, at https://goldenageofgaia.com/2017/06/06/archangel-michael-on-snaps-expansion-and-ascension/.
Note:
Steve: The space that I call transformative love, what dimension is it?
Archangel Michael: It is the seventh dimension.
Steve: Then what dimension is bliss?
AAM: It is between eight and nine.
Steve: And ecstasy?
AAM: Twelfth.
Steve: And what about exaltation?
AAM: Then you have moved beyond [the twelve dimensions]. (Archangel Michael in a personal reading with Steve Beckow through Linda Dillon, Jan. 20, 2016.) (Hereafter AAM.)
(2) “Archangel Michael on Snaps, Expansion, and Ascension,” June 6, 2017, at https://goldenageofgaia.com/2017/06/06/archangel-michael-on-snaps-expansion-and-ascension/
(3) AAM, May 6, 2013.
(4) “The Divine Mother: Come to Me as I Come to You – Part 1/2,” Oct. 17, 2012, at http://goldenageofgaia.com/2012/10/17/the-divine-mother-come-to-me-as-i-come-to-you-part-12/.
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