“Damn the Torpedoes” Won’t Work Any More

“Damn the Torpedoes” Won’t Work Any More

By Steve Beckow

Posted on April 19, 2024

Crystal-balling

The whole other thing that resulted from this incident of my own making three days  ago (1) was that I had another flash or gestalt (seeing the whole thing in a moment of illumination), which I’d like to discuss.

I’d like you to regard this as the kind of flash that has us change our vote, because the flash goes deep enough into our consciousness.

This can also be called a realization; a realization is bliss lifting us up and having us see things from that higher-dimensional perspective. Problems become situations because we have much, much more patience at this higher vibratory level and can see more variables and options.

What I realized is, hey, Steve, you’re going to be CEO of a very large enterprise.

Let me share with you in a footnote some of the things Michael has said about it so you can get a sense of what I live with from day to day as I contemplate this future as a CEO. (2)

I carry this knowledge with little idea of how I’ll do it, anticipating that Heaven will help. (3) The only thing I know is that I’m ready and I have a good sense of how Michael will help.

Given that many intel gurus are saying the Reval could happen at any time, I could find myself a new CEO at any time.

Moreover, I was speaking from the standpoint of being entitled as a customer. I was acting from entitlement. I’m the customer and I’m entitled to be served with despatch and respect. It’s my attitude that needs an overhaul.

I have to get that, as a CEO, I won’t get anywhere if I act from entitlement. Feel elevated after the Reval? Take the elevator to the basement, Michael says. (4)

I’m already in love with the divine qualities and the one in play here is humility. This valuable lesson is showing me the benefits of choosing humility rather than entitlement.

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So I’m saying to myself,  my planned-for future position requires me to make changes. The way I’ve been all my life will no longer cut it. I have to become, first of all, a lot more conscious than I am.

(Notice me actually making changes in the way I be, changes that, if successful, will go far to removing me from the cycle of conflict I create around me.  Change has to come from a deep level or it won’t stick. The sting of this encounter was enough to have me reach that level, act, and make changes.)

I can’t be offending the people around me or not caring what they think. Resisting need not be offensive; neither should rescuing nor protecting be. The very best among us, like Gandhi, were not offensive as they resisted or protected.

I continue talking to myself: I can’t afford to have an enterprise that serves the Divine Mother sink because I haven’t handled my vasanas (or core issues). And chief among them is “Full speed ahead and damn the torpedoes!” That won’t work any more, if it ever did. It is definitely old programming, a subject I’d like to look at later.

It may have been Mike Quinsey who warned us last week that our old programs won’t work any more. This was a brilliant demonstration of that.

I, who never kowtowed to anyone – gross exaggeration – am going to have to treat people respectfully, even kindly. I now need to call those qualities out of myself, something I’ve never been willing to do, for whatever reason.

Of course I can. It’s a matter of commitment. I don’t like the way I felt after this encounter and not liking it is enough, given other circumstances in my life, to have me change my vote and make other needed changes in support of it.

My working hypothesis is that it’s commitment to a change of behavior, to calling ourselves forth to alter our way of being that will allow us to escape the cycle of conflict.

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Footnotes

(1) See “The Way In is the Way Out,” April 17, 2024, at https://goldenageofgaia.com/2024/04/17/the-way-in-is-the-way-out/

(2) Archangel Michael: This is you becoming the steward of an organization and of an undertaking of massive, massive global impact/import. (Archangel Michael in a personal reading with Steve Beckow through Linda Dillon, Feb. 17, 2017.)

AAM: As we have told you, in the future [your reach] will be global. (Ibid., Oct. 11, 2013.)

AAM: You have known that the time would come when we would ask you to work very much on a very global level. (Ibid., Nov. 30, 2011.)

AAM: You have reached a point in your heart, in your being, in your life, in your consciousness where you are realizing … the magnitude of our partnership. (Ibid., Aug. 17, 2018.)

(3) Steve: My big concern is that I’ll be head of a large organization and have no memory.

AAM: And you think that we would leave you helpless?

Steve: No, I hope not.

AAM: No, dear heart, that is not the plan.

Steve: Oh good! Even knowing there is a plan is comforting.

AAM: There is not only a plan, Sweet One. There is a strategy afoot to implement the plan. (Ibid., June 17, 2020.)

(4) As you assume profile – whether it is because of money or notoriety or political power or financial power, it matters not – it gives you a sense of being elevated. We would encourage you to take the elevator to the basement. (Ibid., July 22, 2016.)

Steve Beckow

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But I AM Entitled

But I AM Entitled

By Steve Beckow

Posted on December 7, 2023

But I AM entitled!

I’m staring at this huge vein of entitlement that I have. White, male, college-educated, lives in a supposedly democratic country, on and on. I’m entitled.

You may say, well, just wake up. But it goes far deeper than the conscious mind.

I described these earlier as automatic behavior patterns that are habitual. They’re the precipitate of our core issues, or vasanas, the residue. (1)

It takes considerable concentration and commitment to catch ourselves acting one out. And even more to raise it to awareness, acknowledge it, and then stop acting on it.

One element of entitlement is complaining. I caught myself acting entitled at the drug store a few hours ago, when I shared that I’d purchased 40 batteries from Costco, whose best-before date was March 2025, and not one of the forty worked.

It wasn’t what I said. It was the sense of entitlement I felt below what I said. Following those instincts, one ends up a snob. Uhhhh…. I’d better check that one out!

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The ultimate mystery here is that our society gets across the message, in movies and television, that no one likes a snob. And yet people choose to be snobbish.  And not just lords and ladies. Celebrities, financiers, academics, even doctors.

The only explanation for that that I can find, when I consult my own memory bank, is that snobbishness feels good.  Feeling important, feeling needed, feeling able all feel good. And we seek the pleasurable, feel-good feelings.

One of the themes of Eddie Murphy’s Coming to America was a young African prince, who had everything, and yet continually rose above temptation and saw beyond the ephemeral feel-good moment. Most of us have as many temptations we yield to as some people have bottles of liquor. We’re entitled. We don’t rise above temptation. We cater to it.

I haven’t risen above temptation, I say snacking on a bowl of chocolate ice cream. I’m not detached. I give in to the temptation to consider myself entitled to respect, good service, a reliable product, whatever.

And I attempt to force my will on the other person … and predictably everything goes off the rails. And I look stupid. And I eat crow.

But I do it again and again. Just a bit better at it. Until I don’t.

Arrogance, self-righteousness, privilege all feel good. Hermann Goering, before his execution, said, “Oh well. I had twelve good years.” Can you imagine? He felt good by  and while murdering millions. That’s how deeply some people want to feel good, to enjoy themselves on a purely physical level (possessions, experiences, adventures), no matter how many people they harm. Unrestrained pleasure-seeking.

Our desire to feel good, to enjoy ourselves, to feel pleasure, if we don’t weigh it against our reasons for being here, sends us off on one “scenic detour” after another.  And then we … OK, I … wonder why I’m ineffectual.

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Entitlement is constrictive, constraining, densifying. It’s insulting to the person we’re being entitled with. It invites short-term resistance and long-term karma. It has no relationship to love, which is on a different plane of consciousness. (2)

I really have to get so sick of it and myself for going that route that I stop the minute I catch a whiff of it.

Or laugh about it. Or love it and apologize to it for giving it such a miserable assignment. Or ask the Mother to repurpose the energy. I could do a hundred things.

Of them all, the one that moves me to action is realizing that very soon I’ll be a CEO and it’ll be harder with all that wealth to do the work needed to end this behavior pattern.

My sense of entitlement could mushroom.  And what used to hold me back will in large measure be absent. Things then will very much depend on which wolf I feed.

Do it now. Don’t play with your future and that of a lot of others. Do the work while it’s still manageable….

Footnotes

(1) See Vasanas: Preparing For Ascension by Clearing Old Issues at https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Vasanas-Preparing-for-Ascension-R8.pages.pdf

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

Archangel Michael: It is the seventh dimension.  (Archangel Michael in a personal reading with Steve Beckow through Linda Dillon, Jan. 20, 2016.)

Steve Beckow 

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Old Money Changing the World & How I Can’t Post This on Facebook In Canada Now

Old Money Changing the World & How I Can’t Post This on Facebook In Canada Now

By Kathleen Mary Willis

Posted on August 11, 2023

The original, of which this is an excerpt, is long but worthwhile. Facebook’s refusal to post this article is discussed below.

What Should You Do With an Oil Fortune?

By Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, August 7th, 2023

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/08/14/what-should-you-do-with-an-oil-fortune

The Hunt family owns one of the largest private oil companies in the country. Leah Hunt-Hendrix funds social movements that want to end the use of fossil fuels.

Let’s say you were born into a legacy that is, you have come to believe, ruining the world.

What can you do?

You could be paralyzed with guilt.

You could run away from your legacy, turn inward, cultivate your garden.

If you have a lot of money, you could give it away a bit at a time—enough to assuage your conscience, and your annual tax burden, but not enough to hamper your life style—and only to causes (libraries, museums, one or both political parties) that would not make anyone close to you too uncomfortable.

Or you could just give it all away—to a blind trust, to the first person you pass on the sidewalk—which would be admirable: a grand gesture of renunciation in exchange for moral purity.

But, if you believe that the world is being ruined by structural causes, you will have done little to challenge those structures.

When Leah Hunt-Hendrix was an undergraduate at Duke, in the early two-thousands, she wasn’t sure what to do with her privilege.

She had grown up in an apartment on Fifth Avenue, and spent most summers in Dallas with her wealthy churchgoing grandmother. …

After graduating, Hunt-Hendrix entered an interdisciplinary doctorate program at Princeton called Religion, Ethics, and Politics. (“In my mind, those are three ways of saying the same thing,” she said.) Two of her main advisers were Cornel West—one of the best-known public intellectuals in the country, always ready to support a labor strike or a socialist candidate—and Jeffrey Stout, who was about to publish “Blessed Are the Organized: Grassroots Democracy in America.” (The book posited that the U.S. seemed to function “as a plutocracy,” and that the way out was to help organizers build power “from the bottom up.”)

She took a leave from grad school in 2009 and spent a year teaching English in a small Egyptian city, then another year studying Arabic in Damascus. In Tunisia, she later wrote, she met organizers who “talked about the role of oil companies”—the major public ones, in this case—executing land grabs and “violence against activists who were part of the resistance to fossil fuel extraction.” On a trip to the West Bank, she heard residents’ stories of abject suffering and, moved by compassion and guilt, asked what she could do to help. But many people told her: We don’t want your help, we want your solidarity.

When she came back to Princeton, she proposed a dissertation on the intellectual history of solidarity. (“Vast, interdisciplinary topic,” West told me. “We knew she’d pull it off, but she exceeded our expectations.”) She could spend her life giving money to those in need, she concluded, but charity would only change things at the margins; to help uproot structural inequality, she would have to invest in social movements.

Hunt-Hendrix is now forty and splits her time between New York and Washington, D.C., where she has become a nexus of the New New Left, in frequent contact with street organizers and also several members of Congress.

A few times, I saw someone recognize Hunt-Hendrix in passing—Representative Ro Khanna, leaving a progressive centimillionaire’s holiday party in Greenwich Village; a Teamsters organizer at a rally of UPS workers in Canarsie—and ask her, “What is it you do again?” Each time, she struggled to give a concise answer.

Basically, she is a philanthropist, though she is reluctant to use the word, given her skepticism toward much of what passes for philanthropy. She donates money to leftist social movements, and she leverages her connections to persuade other rich people to do the same. She gave early funding to Black Lives Matter activists, and to the long-shot primary campaigns of members of the Squad. Since 2017, through her organization Way to Win, she has helped raise hundreds of millions of dollars for left-populist politicians—not quite Bloomberg or Koch money, but significantly more than is usually associated with the far left.

“She has better politics than anyone else who’s that rich, and she’s better at fund-raising than anyone else with her politics,” Max Berger, who worked on Elizabeth Warren’s Presidential campaign in 2020, told me. “Whatever you want to call my faction—the Bernie wing, the Warren wing, democratic-socialist, social democrat—we would have way less power if Leah didn’t exist.” If the faction had enough power to enact its full agenda, many of the richest people in the country would likely lose money and influence; a centerpiece of the agenda is the Green New Deal, which, if implemented in maximalist form, could help put fossil-fuel companies, including Hunt Oil, out of business. “Leah was clearly preoccupied with how a person of extreme privilege can live responsibly in the world,” Stout told me. “That seemed to be, for her, an existential question.”

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By 2020, according to Forbes, the Hunts had slipped from the richest American family to the eighteenth-richest, worth more than fifteen billion dollars. …

Helen rebelled against expectations when she was a young adult, in the late sixties, by moving to New York; she later grew close to Abigail Disney and Gloria Steinem, and funnelled much of her share of the family fortune into the second-wave feminist movement. …

“Everyone in this family, in one way or another, wants to change the world,” Helen said. …

Hunt-Hendrix, Lehman, and a half-dozen other participants, most of them wealthy, started to meet up informally, over home-cooked meals at Leah’s apartment. Some referred to themselves as “one-per-centers for the ninety-nine per cent,” or, semi-ironically, as “class traitors.”

Most of them, including Hunt-Hendrix, were members of Resource Generation, which was a group for young progressives who had money but felt ambivalent about it. Lehman used family money to buy a dairy farm in upstate New York and turn it into a retreat center for organizers. Farhad Ebrahimi, whose father is a software billionaire, had a sixty-five-million-dollar bank account that he controlled outright; he committed to donating all of it to leftist activists, within the next decade. Most of Hunt-Hendrix’s family money, by contrast, came at the discretion of her parents.

Read more of Leah Hunt-Hendrix’s activist career at https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/08/14/what-should-you-do-with-an-oil-fortune

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Kathleen: I tried to post this article on my Facebook. In Canada now we can’t share the news (with a news link) on certain social media platforms due to new legislation put forth by our Liberal government.

So, I created a post like above, just without the link. . .

Scrolling down my Facebook a lot of my posts have been removed.

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Staying Calm and Focused in a Busy World

Staying Calm and Focused in a Busy World

By Steve Beckow

Posted on July 7, 2023

Hah! There’s a world out there!

For me, this will be the biggest challenge in the weeks and months ahead: How to stay calm, untriggered, not angry and get my work done in a world that will progressively be closing in on me. CEO, pipeline, person with friends….

For an awareness writer and a virtual hermit, what may come down the pike looks like the opposite of heaven. It’s more like Val-hell-a.

And yet I’ll have to make a transition at some point and my life will become around seeing people and having meetings.

(Panic.) I have no role models! OK, yes, I do. Even here, I’ve been given some good experience.

I had a boss who was an everyday buddha. My brother was the same.  I had a home room teacher who was inspiring and filled with enthusiasm. A history professor who was fair and compassionate.

OK, in my memory bank, I have some folks to emulate. I’ve kept myself cooped up all these years. And it’s been productive, but, as the Reval looms, I know I need to add another gear to my gear shift. It’s called “being sociable” or, at its worst, “getting along.”

It’s early morning. This is prime writing time for me and a friend wants to get together for coffee and “some exciting news.” This is the first of countless opportunities for me to switch gears and “be sociable.”

Before long, as if to help me with my transition, I have a total of three friends all wanting to get together in what is for me prime writing time.

What do I choose? To stay with my writing discipline or take care of my friends. I see this as an opportunity to do both.

I give one friend an hour of patient and interested listening and combine the other two, whom I meet outside for breakfast.

All goes well and I am buried in writing as well, as you can see. Heaven obligingly gave me that gentle introduction to a total life makeover.

***

How can I help build a world that works for everyone when I’ll be walking into a situation which, ordinarily, for me would be the definition of unworkable?

“Leave me alone. I’m writing!” I’d be nattering to myself. What do I want to be in meetings for? I’m not a meeting person. At the most I prefer one-on-one. What do I care for a walk on the beach? Where’s my laptop? Etc., etc.

And then I’d be in love and bliss writing.

This is a major makeover of my life and what’s involved is just starting to make itself felt. It’s being brought about by my expanding realization of what’s expected of me after the Reval (plus 90-day vacation).

And it won’t be the last “phase” of things. After this comes interfacing between our star family and … you the readers.  Explaining what they’re here to do, how they want to work with us, what life is like for them, and so on.

I’m more than ready, as I’m sure you are too.

Life in the army is mostly waiting.  And so is ours. The army uses it to prepare. And so will I.

 

Steve Beckow

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Post-Reval Role Challenging

Post-Reval Role Challenging

By Steve Beckow

Posted on March 22, 2023

Soon enough our role as humanitarian philanthropists will be upon us. My thoughts have been going in that direction a lot lately, as I mentioned earlier.

Since I’ll be the CEO of at least four different organizations, (1) my focus is on performing that task well.  How big will they be? Michael has said:  “This is you becoming the steward of an organization and of an undertaking of massive, massive global impact/import.” (2)

That’s a challenging assignment and just getting my head around it has proven interesting.

One of the promises I’ve made myself is that in any problematic situation as a CEO, I’ll first exhaust what I can realistically do to handle things before asking others to assist me.

Not unrealistically. Not like the pilot who was so preoccupied with changing a signal bulb in his plane that he stalled and crashed it.

And not like someone who likes to do things himself and turns down help.  I will need vast amounts of help.

In the consideration of things that may come up, I’m struck by one tendency I think we have.

Psychotherapist John Enright once said that being wrong is like death to the ego. An overactive concern for being right is called a self-serving bias.

I find it almost irresistible to be self-serving. And very difficult to observe. It’s like a siren song that I fall asleep to again and again and wake up to find I’m being self-serving.

I think it would be unrealistic of me to expect others to see and acknowledge a mistake easily; the self-serving bias would mandate resistance of some sort.

Sooner or later, we’ll have to recognize self-servingness and choose personal responsibility instead.  When it comes, I will welcome it. But I don’t think it’d be wise of me to expect it.

Meanwhile I can fixate on what’s “right” and “good” or I can ask myself: What behavior will be welcome and successful in this interaction? (I’ve already told you the handicap I think I labor under as a hermit thrust into center stage.) (3)

Oliver Goldsmith wrote a play, performed in 1773, called She Stoops to Conquer.  Stooping to conquer is counter-intuitive, which is probably what made his play so interesting. I shall be stooping a lot, I think. I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s not the most-called-for response. The alternative – being right – simply feeds the ego.

Meanwhile, in our post-Reval companies, the employment contract is different from a family or a friendship contract. People we work with don’t have to be our friends.  If we listened in on lunchroom discussions, a lot of them might be having what I used to call howdidoo conversations – here’s what the boss did and here’s what I said, etc. Telling and retelling our story is how many of us handle our irritation.

We gossip. We strut and posture. We work on our story till we get it just right. Our lives become a collection of stories in which we always figure as the hero.

Somehow I need to face the fact that, if I need to stoop a hundred times to conquer, then that’s what I need to do. People do not have to respect me; it’s something I’ll need to earn and work to keep.

The Mother has said that dictatorship will no longer work. Her plan is love. (4)

Given that I have a temper and have in the past put people into inner conflict and suppression at times, the amount of discipline it’ll take to tame myself – especially given the release that wealth will bring – makes me dizzy to think about.

The Arcturians said:

Arcturians:  You will be called upon to master EVERY thought and feeling. …

Hence any thoughts or feelings that cause inner conflict of any form are best pulled into your conscious mind [i.e., observed] to be displayed as an experience. In fact, in 5D this will occur with your EVERY thought/emotion.

Hence our leaders are having to totally hone this mastery of energy NOW. (5)

That’s quite a tall order. But I no longer moan and groan. I now see how it’ll all get done: Complete the vasanas + Remain self-aware + Mastery of emotions + Send love out to the world + Invite the aid of the Company of Heaven.

So not just awareness, which was the goal of the growth movement, but mastery of our feeling states, which is the Company of Heaven’s goal for us. At least for everyone playing a major role after the Reval and definitely for anyone meeting with our star family. To them anger is a noxious fume.

To summarize, as someone preparing for post-Reval duties, I need to ask myself what I can do to address a problem before I turn to others. I need to demonstrate humility, thoughtfulness, and the other divine qualities because the way I am may be mirrored down through the company with more impact than my words.

Footnotes

(1) You may enjoy seeing the current state of the plan:

• Michaelangelo & Partners – Headquarters; pipeline for redistribution of sequestered wealth.
• Golden Age of Gaia – Vision and interpretation of building Nova Earth; welcoming of our star family; preparation for Ascension.
• Michaelangelo Fund – Four Point Plan; plans, programs, and projects for national populations.
• The Hub of Ancillary Services – Ancillary services to all member organizations.

Other services: Ascension University, Golden Gaia Library, Golden Age Museum, archive, research group, and publishing house.

(2) Archangel Michael in a personal reading with Steve Beckow through Linda Dillon, Feb. 17, 2017.

(3) See “The Truth is Beyond Comparison,” March 21, 2023, at https://goldenageofgaia.com/2023/03/21/the-truth-is-beyond-comparison/

(4) Divine Mother: Make no mistake, Sweet One, Love will win because that has been my Plan always. (Divine Mother in a personal reading with Steve Beckow through Linda Dillon, April 30, 2019.)

DM: So let me tell you and share with you, and I hope this gives you comfort — the outcome is assured. And it is the return to love. (“The Divine Mother: The Biggest Revelation Yet to Come,” January 28, 2018, at https://goldenageofgaia.com/2018/01/28/the-divine-mother-the-biggest-revelation-yet-to-come/.)

(5) Arcturians in a personal reading with Steve Beckow through Suzanne Lie, Nov. 8, 2013.

Steve Beckow

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