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.
