The Purple Light: There is No Greater Gift than Listening

Friday, March 29, 2024

There is No Greater Gift than Listening - 2 How to Listening

There is No Greater Gift than Listening

Vol. 2. How to Listening

By Steve Beckow

Posted on March 29, 2024

I’m listening

I’m so excited about this book that I’m jumping about in my seat as I post this.

I’m writing a series of books on listening in the hope that this now-seemingly-neglected skill becomes a cherished practice again in our now-global society.

All my life, I’ve valued listening. My soul-contract design team must have wanted this because I chose to be born the runt of the litter, to whom listening from the male side did not come easily.

Listening from the female side came very easily. I was amply gifted by my Mother. Everything I learned about listening I learned from trying to understand what it was she did that made her so beloved by her circle of friends.

From my experience as a grad student in Sociology, listening to other people as part of my small-groups studies, I know what a gift listening is.

I’ve seen people get the source of an ancient or a nuclear issue in their relationship and weep. I listened to one person for eight hours. It was miraculous.

On the other hand, I’ve also seen people not let each other finish a sentence. And later they complain of having an empty life. Not surprisingly.

Listening is what’s seemingly lacking in our society. We promote bodily pleasures, but not the deep inner pleasure that comes from being heard.

An interesting side note was that, when I had a watershed spiritual experience, I had it because of something that arises from listening.

I’m referring to my vision of the purpose of life, which occurred on March 13, 1987. (1)

As I drove my car to work, I said to the universe, if people’s lives are a puzzle and, when it’s solved, the puzzle becomes a picture, could it be that life itself is a puzzle and, if so, what is the picture that life is?

Boom! The car went black and I was staring at an inner tableau or movie of the total journey of an individual soul from God to God.

The journey from God to God that all of us make

I emerged from that experience knowing that the purpose of life is enlightenment. (2)

For me, being given this experience was the highpoint of my then-active career as a promoter of listening. My work life took me in different directions and here we are.

But I’ve never lost the special place in my heart that those years of restorative listening brought, as well as the years with enlightenment intensives, which also revolved around listening.

A note on logistics. This book is a combination of posted articles and extracts from a manual on listening.

There may be some repetition that I haven’t caught. After the Reval, I’ll hire an editor to remove it. Right now, my priority is getting the message out. Very soon, with the advent of the emergency broadcasts, there may be a great number of us who need listening. And many of us who wonder how to do it.

I hope this book will supply that need.

I look forward to the years when our feeling of a lack of love is endlessly and forever filled to the brim with love. I predict a time and space will arrive for immensely-rewarding conversations, with speaking and listening equally balanced and equally supportive.

Download There is No Greater Gift than Listening – Vol. 2. How to Listen here: https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/There-is-No-Greater-Gift-Than-Listening-V2-How-to-Listen-R5.pdf

Footnotes

(1) For the rest of the experience, see “Ch. 13. Epilogue” in The Purpose of Life is Enlightenment at https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Purpose-of-Life-is-Enlightenment-3.pdf

(2) The purpose of life is that God should meet God in a moment of our enlightenment. And for that purpose was all of life, all the universes, all matter (mater, Mother) created.

Steve Beckow