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Sunday, March 2, 2025

Confidence Expands with Self-Knowledge

Confidence Expands with Self-Knowledge

By Steve Beckow

Posted on March 2, 2025




I was lying in bed, writing an article in my head on confidence.

That’s a subject I’ve studied for most of my life because the one thing I lost for fifty years of it was my self-confidence.

I lost it after my Dad shouted at me from a few inches in front of my face when I was 7 and my personality shattered. It took fifty years to put Humpty together again.

Although I never saw it until recently, the shock of being shouted at from such a close distance caused a distinct drop in my own self-knowledge. From that moment on, I had not the slightest clue of who I was, in any respect.

And a drop in self-knowledge and self-awareness resulted in a drop in self-confidence.

***

I was saying to myself as I lay in bed that confidence expands as self-knowledge expands. And then I noticed that that statement had two meanings: (A) confidence expands because one has tried a procedure enough times with success that one feels assured of future outcomes, but also that (B) new capabilities that we didn’t know we had unfold as our self-knowledge unfolds.

Leadership capabilities might be one example. An essentially-new ability to speak our truth or express our feelings might be another. Greatly-increased willingness to risk, a third.

This gives rise to a situation like that facing Indiana Jones when he had to walk across the canyon whose next bridgestone will only appear when he commits to his next step: We don’t know what to expect, and the future looks grim.

Then a moment of self-knowledge reveals hidden potentialities, things which were either not there before or which we didn’t see before. It’s as if the awareness triggered or released them. Some of them are game-changers. (1)

I readily point to the fourth-chakra heart opening I experienced on March 13, 2015 as an example of a game-changing event in awareness, triggering capabilities.

In my case, stepping through the interdimensional portal that the heart door (or hridayam) is unveiled the intimate knowledge of what higher-dimensional love is. I can think of no knowledge that I’d consider more rewarding or important. There may be, but I don’t know it.

***

Not only confidence comes with self-knowledge, but also peace, contentment, satisfaction, as I’m experiencing at this moment.

I’ve never asked why that is, and, having mentioned it now, I don’t know why. I’d say that all of this is the way life has been designed to help us complete our one same journey back to God. (2)

Confidence without arrogance, without bluster or bragging. The confidence of a person who’s at home in their setting, at home in their body, at home in their life.

Footnotes

(1) An example of that might be overcoming my unwillingness to be what Michael called “the clarion call.” His advice? “Let it go.”  The whole exchange on the subject is interesting:

Archangel Michael: When you present [truth] in that way, you are saying, “From my position, my experience, my understanding, my study, my core, this is what I perceive and what works for me and what I know to be true in my situation.”

When you speak in that way, what you are doing, and I encourage you to do so, as a human being, you are sharing the experience and the expression of your divinity and that is absolutely a necessary part and parcel of Nova Earth.

If everybody keeps quiet about what they know, you aren’t going anywhere. And you have no difficulty in doing this as a scribe, as a writer.

But there is this reticence when you allow, think of it, you are making a public announcement. You understand from Arcturus and elsewhere, the power of sound and what is truly included and encompassed in sound, which is energy and light and love and truth. So you are reticent to be the clarion call.

Steve: Yes, that’s true.

AAM: Let it go. (Archangel Michael in a personal reading with Steve Beckow through Linda Dillon, Jan. 20, 2016.)

(2) On that one same journey, see “Chapter 13. Epilogue” in The Purpose of Life is Enlightenment at https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Purpose-of-Life-is-Enlightenment-5.pdf

Steve Beckow
 

Monday, August 12, 2024

The Path of Self-Awareness

The Path of Self-Awareness

By Steve Beckow

Posted on August 11, 2024


 

There’s so much we … OK, OK, I … don’t understand.

For instance, take awareness. Awareness transforms. It does so, first of all, in ways I don’t understand or even suspect. Put those aside for the moment with a simple acknowledgment.

Second of all, it transforms by allowing the unpleasant sensation or emotion to play out, unmolested, after which, it, having no independent energy source, disappears.

We look at that and call it “transformation.” It is in when one is distinguishing between “change” and “transformation.”

“Change” just moves the pieces around the board. It takes place at a superficial level of consciousness – unconscious awareness. Nothing in the end may really change. It just gets postponed.

“Transformation” sees the condition disappear – either at once as when the truth sets us free or over time. Anger, fear, jealousy – experience it through to completion and we’ve lessened its chances of reappearing.

We’re definitely now on the road to upset disappearance rather than upset creation. If we’re into loving kindness instead of orneriness, this is a basic and welcome shift.

And awareness of what? Of the only thing in creation we are responsible for and the very thing we’re charged with knowing: Our self, in its many guises and at whatever level it appears.

I so like what Jesus said about us and wanting others to change. It’s material to what we’re charged with being aware of:

“It is characteristic of lightworkers that they let themselves be carried away by this [spiritual] anger and that they go beyond their limits in this regard. They lose themselves in their desire to change and improve the world. This can be a passion to change things on the political or social level or it may emerge as a desire to help people on a personal level, as a profession or in your private life.

“The desire to help and change things often contains a form of spiritual anger although this may not be noticeable. After all you seem to simply ‘want the best’ for someone else or for society. But surely there is anger inside you when you feel inclined to force somebody – no matter how subtly – to change their behavior or their emotions. Often you do not notice that the time is not yet ripe for it.

“Each time when you feel an intense indignation or an enormous passion to change things or when you have feelings of powerlessness and anger towards things as they are, you are in the pitfall of spiritual anger. You want too much at once. You are heedless of reality as it is for you and are seized by an emotion, the emotion of anger. I ask you to be aware of this and to let it go, for this kind of inspiration that is charged with anger takes you away from your center. It will not offer you the true inspiration, the peace and quiet in your emotional body that help you embody your light on Earth.

“You achieve the state of truly embodying your light on Earth by being entirely centered in your own being, in a pure and calm state of mind. In this state you can feel that you are in the world but not of it. Being of the world means that you attach value to everything you observe with your senses: violence, war, illness, destruction. If you regard these with your physical senses only you can easily get angry. Therefore we ask you to take a step backwards and to feel inwardly what spiritual dynamics are taking place in the things that upset you.” (1)

Darnation! I wish I’d written that.

Beautifully and completely put. How clearly he sees the human condition.

As for the awareness path itself, which I’ve looked at elsewhere, (2) I’d say that self-awareness is the alternative to “changing” people.

Its only requirement is to remain aware of oneself. In my view, its principles are to love, which draws us towards God; to use our awareness of the self, in any guise and on any level, as our vehicle; and to look to the truth to progressively reveal our Destination to us and set us free.

Easy? Not necessarily, in a world of distractions. Absorbing and beneficial? Truly.

Footnotes

(1) Pamela Kribbe, “Jeshua: The Gatekeepers,” Aug. 9, 2024, at https://goldenageofgaia.com/2024/08/09/jeshua-the-gatekeepers/.

(2) See:


Steve Beckow

Saturday, August 10, 2024

Karma and Free Will are Not Contradictory – 1

Karma and Free Will are Not Contradictory – Part 1 /2

By Steve Beckow

Posted on August 10, 2024


The wheel of karma

I often hear folks debating free will vs determinism, as if, if the one exists, the other cannot.

Do we have free will? Or are the events of our lives pre-determined by “karma”?

Both.

Any seeming contradiction disappears when we make a distinction between action and reaction. Let me back up a moment, to explain. Let me start with free will first.

Among life forms on Earth, only humans have free will and conscience, as Matthew Ward tells us:

“Only humankind … is endowed with conscience and Creator’s gift of free will. Although each living being and each inanimate thing serves a purpose in the evolutionary process of all, it is the human population that sets the pace.” (1)

Only people can choose to act in a godly manner or not, he explains:

“Whereas all other life forms on Earth operate within their respective innate guidelines that work in harmony with Nature, people can choose to act in godly ways or not, to heed conscience or not; and their collective choices determine the civilization’s evolvement status.

“As humankind evolves via the light in spiritual and conscious awareness, so do all the other forms on the planet, and the collective vibratory emissions advance the entire world.

“And, as a world advances, life becomes increasingly simpler and joyous! It is only in third density’s lower vibrations that a civilization creates all the complexities born of negativity.” (2)

But if everything about our lives is determined, then what does it matter that we have this thing called “free will”?

The answer lies in knowing the purpose of life and how “free will” and “karma” fit into it.

***

I now have to back up quite a few “moments.” All the way to the purpose God had in creating life. I base my interpretation of it on a vision I had on Feb. 13, 1987. (3)

Reuniting with Mother/Father One through Self-Realization was shown to me to be the purpose of life. As John Ruusbroec reminds us:

“[For] the rational creature to attain the sublime beauty of God and to possess it in [a] supernatural way … is [the] reason that God created heaven and earth and all that is in them. (4)

That “supernatural way” would be what we’re calling ultimate enlightenment, re-absorption, mergence, union, etc.

Sri Ramakrishna agrees that “the vision of God is the only goal of human life.” (5) Rumi spun a story to illustrate our situation:

“There is one thing in this world which must never be forgotten. If you were to forget everything else, but did not forget that, then there would be no cause for worry; whereas if you performed and remembered and did not forget every single thing, but forgot that one thing, then you would have done nothing whatsoever.

“It is just as if a king had sent you to the country to carry out a specified task. You go and perform a hundred other tasks; but if you have not performed that particular task on account of which you had gone to the country, it is as if you have performed nothing at all. So man has come into this world for a particular task, and that is his purpose; if he does not perform it, then he will have done nothing.” (6)

Archangel Michael reminds us what specifically we’re to aim for:

AAM: Your ultimate enlightenment is the reabsorption into the Mother.  (7)

Mother God and Father God are One. They are not two; they are not “different.”  Reabsorption into the Mother is the gateway to reunion with Mother/Father One, mergence in the Heart of One, etc. The Mother tells us:

Divine Mother: Knowledge of me is more precious than anything because I am your connection [to the Father].  (8)

She is the face of God; he has no face. (9) She is the only “God” we’ll ever talk to, perhaps while we’re incarnated, perhaps forever – I don’t know.

***

OK so far. But how does our ultimate enlightenment serve God?

I believe that the One created life forms to experience itself. I had the opportunity to ask the Divine Mother if I was correct in that assumption and she confirmed it:

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. (10)

Again, OK so far.

But think about it for a moment.  Being only One can be a problem if you want to get to know yourself.

(Concluded tomorrow in Part 2/2/)

Footnotes

(1) Matthew’s Message, Aug. 3, 2014, at https://www.matthewbooks.com/

(2) Loc. cit.

(3) On that vision, 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

(4) John Ruusbroec in James A. Wiseman, John Ruusbroec. The Spiritual Espousals and Other Works. New York, etc.: Paulist Press, 1985, 72.

(5) Paramahansa Ramakrishna in Swami Nikhilananda, trans., The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna. New York: Ramakrishna-Vivekananda Center, 1978; c1942, 331. (Hereafter GSR.)

(6) Rumi in A.J. Arberry, trans., Discourses of Rumi. New York; Samuel Weiser, 1977; c1961, 26.

(7) “Archangel Michael on the Process of Lightworker Expansion and Learning,” September 3, 2022, at https://goldenageofgaia.com/2022/09/03/archangel-michael-on-the-process-of-lightworker-expansion-and-learning/; from Archangel Michael in a personal reading with Steve Beckow through Linda Dillon, March 10, 2017.) (Hereafter, AAM.)

(8) “Transcript of the Divine Mother on An Hour with an Angel, May 7, 2012,” at http://goldenageofgaia.com/the-2012-scenario/what-role-are-the-angels-playing/transcript-of-the-divine-mother-on-an-hour-with-an-angel-may-7-2012/.

(9) The Mother includes the material or physical; the Father is not physically-perceptible.

On the avoidance of capitals:

Archangel Michael: “We do not want anything capitalized.” (AAM, Aug. 12, 2016.)

(10) “Divine Mother: Know God but Through Joy,” November 4, 2018, at https://goldenageofgaia.com/2018/11/04/divine-mother-know-god-but-through-joy/.

Steve Beckow

Wednesday, June 19, 2024

For the Love of (the) God (that We Are)

For the Love of (the) God (that We Are)

By Steve Beckow

 Posted on June 19, 2024


 

Time out for something completely different.  And then we’ll return to our discussion of leadership.

I regard society – and myself – as being in the cosmic wash cycle right now.

Every bit of dirt seems to be pushing up to be released. It’s their graduation too, I hear my mind say.

We moulded the infinitely-malleable love, of which everything is made, into the shape and qualities of a nightmare (or not!) and then smothered our memory of our actions with quite-ordinary lethargy (Sanskrit, thamas) (see 1) to create forgetfulness.

This is perfectly normal. We can’t carry in our conscious awareness everything we see and do. A computer can’t have every program and file open at the same time. It has only so much memory in RAM (random access memory), as opposed to ROM (read-only memory), which has much more memory, offline, so to speak.

We need our everyday awareness of 3/4D – our situational awareness, focus of attention, or RAM – to be uncluttered so shunting things out of it to memory or ROM is quite normal and common. “What’s next?” we ask ourselves, when ready.

Going in the other direction, if our memory works these days – we have to think and bring back from it the details of a past thing or event.

We have to furnish the memory with the coordinates of the original thought or action: Search under “coincidences.” Look under “old friends.” Find images associated with the way I feel right now.

Working away at this process day after day and responding to it, we fashion a mental/emotional world in which we live – forget about the physical world – which is for us either a nightmare or heaven-on-Earth or somewhere in between, depending on our overall attitude.

Our overall attitude is in turn fashioned from our history of impactful events (the day we left my Father, the day my Mother died, etc.).  These become core issues or, in Vedantic or non-dualistic terms, vasanas.

Changing my vote – long ago now, it seems – from a negative outlook to a positive one (2) seems to fit with the overall Plan of life: The Mother sending us from Father God to Father God via her world of matter (mater, Mother) so that Father/Mother God can have an experience of Themselves. In a moment of our enlightenment/enjoyment, God meets God. This – everything seen and unseen – has been created solely for that meeting. (3)

One can well laugh like a buddha when one sees that. Life is not about trauma and drama. Life is about sharing love. Well, isn’t that what happens when God meets God?  Where is the need for struggle to fulfill the purpose of life?

Life goes in the direction of increasing love, peace, joy, compassion, etc. No, not everyday life on this Fourth Dimension, but spiritual life – life over ages, over many lifetimes. It goes in the direction of increasing love, peace, etc.  (4) That’s the purpose of having higher and higher dimensions, isn’t it? To keep us moving forward, from God to God?

Dimensions of expansion. Of releasing more and more encumbrances, more and more barriers to the love of (the) God (that we are).

Until we know without a doubt the truth of the statement that we are God. What’s not to like?

Footnotes

(1) The Mother works her magic through three cosmic forces or gunas: the creative (the guna of rajas, represented by Brahma), the preservative (sattwa, Vishnu), and transformative (thamas, Shiva). In our case, thamas or lethargy blankets us and removes a thing or event from active memory, situational awareness, or the focus of our attention.

(2) See:

(3) See:

(4) See “Spiritual Evolution: The Divine Plan for Life (Reposted),” Dec. 4, 2014, at http://goldenageofgaia.com/2014/12/04/spiritual-evolution-the-divine-plan-for-life-reposted/

Steve Beckow


Wednesday, April 24, 2024

I Am the Seed of Life

I Am the Seed of Life

Message from Archangel Michael

Channel: Jahn J Kassl

Translated by EraOfLife on April 24, 2024




You are the I AM

To claim the power of the human spirit and the power of your divine soul, to know who you are and live accordingly, to develop respect for yourself through self-knowledge, and to perceive God as the Gardener of your heart – you are the I AM – and that’s why is what this message is about.

I am ARCHANGEL MICHAEL

I am now among you!

Loved people,

sometimes your strength fails you, sometimes you don’t know what to do, sometimes you feel separated from God and you can’t find a way out of the labyrinth of time. Sometimes, despite all the experience and knowledge, it is difficult to maintain one’s center and reach the kingdom of peace within. Sometimes meditation techniques seem as ineffective as prayers or a well-established spiritual practice.

Time leaves traces

Sometimes it is dark when you long for the light, it is sad when you want to be in joy, and it is – justified or unfounded – hopeless.

This time leaves its mark on your soul and it is imprinted on your heart. This time demands everything from you and you often reach your limits. But this time promises you change and the new man – bright and sublime, sprouting as the seed of the Creator.

How close or far is this reality for you? How long do you have to wait and where do you get the strength and energy for these tests? When will you reach the gates of knowledge and return to the luminous being? What can serve you, strengthen you and support you when everyday life comes upon you?

I am with you now to replenish your spiritual batteries, I am with you to strengthen your soul, I am with you to remember.

The most powerful tool for transformation

I am with you now to bring you the most powerful tool of transformation and the most powerful instrument of self-empowerment.

If you feel weakened, if you are off track, if fears trigger you, if you seem to be getting off track, if you are agitated by everyday life, if you think you have lost your center – then remember who and what you are, then remember your I AM:

● I AM means activating your divinity and entering the space of your soul.

● I AM means connecting with the divine and connecting with the heart.

● I AM means guiding your thinking instead of letting your thinking lead you.

● I AM means directing your feelings instead of being directed by the feelings. 

● I AM means determining your actions YOURSELF instead of letting someone else determine your actions. 

You are the Creator’s seed, now sprouting after eons in time. You were at the beginning of time and you are at the end of time on earth. You are pure divine consciousness, now recognizing, now re-remembering, now re-finding. You complete yourself as a human being and are reborn into this existence.

The scope of a human life

You are often too unaware of the significance of your arrival on earth. You often pay too little attention to the meaning of your life. You often get lost in everyday life and forget who you really are and what power you have.

Your days are often full of activities and you often don’t know how to get out of this cycle.

Gradually, sluggish energy fields settle over your aura and cloud your view of your own being and the reality around you.

I am with you today to remind you of the practical application, the simplest and most effective tool of self-empowerment:

That I am!

You can and should ALWAYS use this tool, in the middle of everyday life, where you are, where you have to be, where life demands you.

The I AM ENERGY instantly returns all scattered energies to the natural divine order. Chaos is resolved, protection is built and the flow of life is restored.

The “I AM ENERGY” is activated by saying it once and established by saying it repeatedly.

Activate your I AM!

The exercise is simple:

I AM JOY,

I AM PEACE,

I AM LOVE,

I’M LIGHT,

I AM LIFE,

I AM TRUTH,

I AM THE WAY,

I AM PROTECTED,

I AM IN THE CARE OF GOD,

I AM THAT I AM.

Add to your I AM what your I AM needs at the moment.

The pronounced I AM instantly turns the energy, instantly orders chaotic energy fields or instantly creates protection.

Whatever a situation requires, add it to the I AM and it happens.

If you want to strengthen yourself or remain exempt from unwanted phenomena of time, then activate your I AM.

JJK: I AM PROTECTED! This is my protection mantra, which I refer to several times a day, especially when I’m in crowds, when I get in the car or, for example, when I walk under scaffolding. Old walls are usually full of old energies that are released with the movement of rubble. These are just three examples of how I build energetic protection in everyday life. Is this recommended for everyone?

ARCH MICHAEL: As long as different energy fields are effective, as long as discharges are part of the transformation process and as long as the ascension has not been completed, appropriate protection must be built up. The I AM is the tool. Yes!

JJK: Can you also do that for a fellow human being – for your children, for example?

ARCHANGEL MICHAEL: For young people up to the age of 14, parents or fellow human beings can take over this activation. If this is done to the best of our knowledge and with pure intentions, then everything is done. There is no wrong because this luminous energy cannot be misused. It works as it is appropriate and desired by the soul.

JJK: When I feel weakened, I often say the following I AM INvocation:

I AM THE WAY, THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE. I repeat this until I feel strengthened and supported. This always works for me! This should be valuable for everyone, no one has to believe in it, just try it out – right?

ARCHANGEL MICHAEL: You are the seed of God! Every person is the seed of God and so this self-empowerment is helpful, strengthening and healing for every person. It’s easy:

I AM…and now you decide what you are and what you want to be. Activate your creative power! What you are is your I AM!

The I AM is the simplest and most efficient tool of transformation and protection in everyday life.

Reminding you of this is the mission with which I have come to you today, is my message that I bring to you and to all people on behalf of the Creator.

The I AM is GOD’s gift to man to remove the separation from GOD. The I AM strengthens you as a human being and nourishes your divine consciousness.

This symbiosis leads to a happy life, to a harmonious existence – connected to the source, integrated into current events – as a unique expression of creation, as the seed of the Creator.

Now please breathe in deeply through your nose three times and slowly exhale through your nose…

Now please take three deep breaths and speak while breathing in

I AM

and exhaling LOVE

I AM LOVE

I AM LOVE

I AM LOVE

Break …

In this way an inner transformation takes place within you. Your energy flow changes, you become harmonized, internally strengthened and attuned to the energy of love.

The human being’s natural vibration deserves the greatest attention in this time, which is overshadowed by a wide variety of energy fields. Protecting them from contamination through mindfulness is your primary task so that everyday life doesn’t mess them up. Perceiving the diverse and complex fields of interference without being influenced by them is the challenge that every day places on you. Regularly addressing the I AM strengthens you where strength is needed and protects you where protection is needed.

Your I AM is the key to the success of your everyday life.

So that part of the message is given.

Break …

Insight into the Great Awakening

In the second part, it is my responsibility to give you an insight into the great awakening of humanity.

You are the seed that is now sprouting, a seed that was planted by the Creator eons ago and that is now bearing fruit.

Why are you repeatedly told that the light has prevailed and that the luminous change is irreversible? Why is this announced to you when external events do not necessarily indicate this?

It is because this change follows an inherent divine dynamic. People are at the center of everything. Through the influx of spiritual energy, more and more people’s memories are activated, the memory of who they really are. The fact that the seeds sprout describes this process. It is a process that cannot be stopped by anything or anyone.

The number of people waking up grows every day. With each passing day, evil loses strength and good gains power. What is happening now is irreversible: the healing of all human entanglements with the old matrix and the dissolution of the contracts with the rulers of this matrix.

You ask yourself: How much longer or why does it take so long until something visibly changes?

I tell you: it is happening within you!

Once you have truly come into your inner self, you look at the world with different eyes. Because to understand that on the outside is to see on the inside.

The deeper you delve into your own secret, the more clearly you can see a dynamic in the phenomena of time.

As soon as your inside is visible to you, you can also perceive the outside without distortion. Anyone who has found the door to themselves will open the gates to life.

In this way you will be encouraged to continue your transformation work in everyday life. Are you tired, do you need a break? Grant it to yourself, then move on. Whatever burdens you inside, release it. Approach your glory and your true essence step by step.

The awakening of people is taking place at the speed appropriate to the change. In this way you can integrate insights and grow into the changes. It takes time and you have that time. The time is short when the opportunities to wake up are missed and when a person closes himself to the bright developments. In the end, this person will run out of time because it takes many small steps to grow out of this matrix.

I AM defines the future!

In the near future, more and more people will confront evil and self-confidently express their will, their I AM. Destructive forces are increasingly losing ground, luminous forces are taking over the scepter on earth.

Your commitment is producing positive results and your work is showing clear successes, because many of the restrictive measures that were planned have to be withdrawn. The power of your I AM impacts, shapes and defines the future.

Stay devoted to your path of light,
stay true to your path of love,
stay in the care of GOD and
under HIS protection and blessing!
I am sword, shield and protection.
I am strength, liberation and guidance.
I am strength, healing and light.
I am ARCHANGEL MICHAEL

Jahn J Kassl