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.

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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?

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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.

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Karma and Free Will are Not Contradictory – 2

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

By Steve Beckow

Posted on August 11, 2024

Credit: GIFSec.com

(Concluded from Part 1 /2, yesterday.)

As I was saying, being only One can be a problem if you want to get to know yourself.

If you’re all that is, where is your reflection? How do you capture your image? How do you encounter yourself? Who is there to give you feedback?

Goldenlight’s Father or “Source Creator” expresses the dilemma:

“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!” (1)

Surprise! Surprise! So this was God’s purpose in creating life forms! To experience itself.

Every time one of us realizes who we are, it turns out that God meets God. And for that purpose, for that meeting was all of life created.

Here are the Heavenly Hosts, telling us:

[Life] is all just experience to satisfy the Creator’s desire to experience Itself through Its creations. (2)

We find that what we’re looking for has been here all the time, causing many a buddha to laugh upon realization. Sri Ramakrishna had Shiva (in this context, God)  laugh in joy, upon experiencing himself:

“When Siva realizes his own Self, He dances about in joy exclaiming, ‘What am I! What am I!’” (3)

Karma brings to us situations that reflect where we’re at. They’re opportunities to “polish the statue,” as Plotinus called purification. (4) Our purification from the dross and overburden of many lifetimes reveals the God that we always were.

Karma educates us on how to reach God … err … ourselves. And, in our free will, we try again.

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Realizing who we are is the one mission all of us are asked to complete in life. It doesn’t matter how long it takes. And we do get help. (Well, for instance, the Law of Karma.)

Karma helps by continually feeding back to us how it feels to be treated the way we treated someone else. It shows us what results for us when we behave the way we do.

Karma is the input. Our free will produces the output, the reaction, our response, which in future becomes the new input. What goes around truly does come around – for our education and spiritual maturation and eventual reunion with the One.

So karma and free will are not contradictory. It’s just that the one concerns the input in our lives – the situations and people that we meet – and the other concerns the output – our words and deeds in response.

Footnotes

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

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

(3) Paramahansa Ramakrishna in Swami Nikhilananda, trans., The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna. New York: Ramakrishna-Vivekananda Center, 1978; c1942, 393.

(4) Plotinus’s full passage is so inspiring, Let me post it in whole:

“What is this vision [of the One] like? How is it attained? How will one see this immense beauty that dwells, as it were, in inner sanctuaries and comes not forward to be seen by the profane?

“Let him who can arise, withdraw into himself, forego all that is known by the eyes, turn aside forever from the bodily beauty that was once his joy. He must not hanker after the graceful shapes that appear in bodies, but know them for copies, for traceries, for shadows, and hasten away towards that which they bespeak. …

“Withdraw into yourself and look. … Do as does the sculptor of a statue that is to be beautified: he cuts away here, he smooths it there, he makes this line lighter, this other one purer, until he disengages beautiful lineaments in the marble. Do you this, too. Cut away all that is excessive. straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labor to make all one radiance of beauty. Never cease “working at the statue” until there shines out upon you from it the divine sheen of virtue….

“Have you become like this? Do you see yourself, abiding within yourself, in pure solitude? Does nothing now remain to shatter that interior unity, nor anything cling to your authentic self?

“Are you entirely that sole true light which is not contained by space, not confined to any circumscribed form, not diffused as something without term, but ever immeasurable as something greater than all measure and something more than all quantity? Do you see yourself in this state? Then you have become vision itself. Be of good heart. Remaining here you have ascended aloft. You need a guide no longer. Strain and see.” (Plotinus in Elmer O’Brien, ed., The Essential Plotinus. Representative Treatises from the Enneads. Toronto: New American Library, 1964, 40-3.)

Steve Beckow

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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)

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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!

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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/.)

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