Most Spiritual Experiences are Impermanent – Part 2

Most Spiritual Experiences are Impermanent – Part 2

By Steve Beckow

Posted on March 24, 2025

Ascension is a permanent state of universal love and bliss.

 

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(Concluded from Part 1, yesterday.)

I said earlier that I’d continue our discussion of why so many spiritual experiences are impermanent.

Let me start by referring back to my heart opening.

That experience on March 13, 2015, began with a tremendous explosion as if debris that had been blocking my heart door or hridayam had been expelled.

It took that level of explosion to win me temporary access to my heart. It opened on March 13 and more or less narrowed if not closed by mid-January 2016.

I assume that Ascension, which I’ve confirmed with the Mother is equivalent to what Hindus call sahaja nirvikalpa samadhi, (1) is an even bigger explosion – or it can be, implosion, as the Mother notes.

Divine Mother: Now increasingly, as you have heard of here and there, you are knowing and being given examples of those who are experiencing what we would call instantaneous transmission in so far as their heart opening is like an implosion/explosion.

And if you speak to these individuals, there’s nothing gradual about it. It is the immediate knowing not only of love, not only of individual essence, but of [divine?] essence. (2)

I speculate that the explosion/implosion of a fourth-chakra heart opening is not powerful enough to open the heart door (or hridayam) permanently. But it is a preview nonetheless.

Michael comments on the impermanence of a fourth-chakra experience:

Archangel Michael: You are in a time of individual and collective Ascension that has never occurred upon your planet or elsewhere. So many of the historic and accurate understandings with regard to heart openings have shifted, can we say, expanded.

You have had a heart opening. Think of it this way, as a heart opening that is not 1000% and it is like a rubber stopper that opens, closes, opens, closes. So it is partially open.

So, it is a permanent heart opening because you are most certainly not only in the truth and the love of your own being, but in THE love of the Mother, far more than you have ever been. That is permanent and irreversible. But it is not 1000%. (3)

Michael says these experiences are not strong enough to carry us to Ascension but each of them carries us up a notch:

Archangel Michael: You have experienced, progressively, periods of unity, of transformative love, of ecstasy, of bliss that you feel (and I emphasize, feel) come and go.

But every time, you have had this experience it has edged you up a level. So that now you say to me, “Michael, I feel like I have a new baseline. I have a new foundation of happiness.”

But you also have a new foundation of knowingness, of understanding, of wisdom, of humility, of tolerance, of kindness. This has all been bringing you to an expanded sense of self and an expanded sense of not only how we operate but how the collective operates. (4)

But we come to the primary question: Why so many spiritual experiences without reaching the permanence of Ascension. And Michael gives us the answer:

 Archangel Michael: What you have seen is that you have been given bite-sized pieces of energy, of energy bumps, of input of what you can digest and handle and truly bring to fruition. If you are in the process of expansion, you don’t go from Grade 3 to a PhD in a week. (5)

I’ve discussed elsewhere the process of moderating our experiences as lightworkers so we don’t leave the work and return home. (6)

Michael asks us, would it not be enough to tantalize us to consider that the higher realm we’re going to is one of universal love and bliss? Let me close with his tantalizing vision of what awaits us:

Steve: The new realm of existence is characterized by universal love and bliss?

Archangel Michael: Yes.

Steve: Alright, so that is what we should be looking for?

AAM: Yes, and it is what is knocking on your door and [what] you are letting in. You have been doing this so it is transcending into a more permanent state of that realm of existence. … I think this would entice you adequately, would it not?

Steve: Oh, that state would be the answer to all my dreams, all my requests, I’m sure, Lord!

AAM: It would be the answer to many dreams and you will help many to see it, to discover it, to shift into that realm.

It is not about the separation of humankind when [one is] stuck in the old and the other in a new realm. It is simply opening the floodgates. (7)

That’s what we’re doing with all our temporary spiritual experiences: Opening the floodgates to receive and transform, one day, permanently; ascending gradually one bite-sized package at a time.

And the state of being we’ll be in then will be a permanent one of universal love and bliss.

Footnotes

(1) Steve Beckow: I’m trying to understand what level of enlightenment Ascension corresponds to and I think it’s beyond the normal seventh-chakra enlightenment. I think it is what is called — and I’ll make this clear to readers — sahaja samadhi. Am I correct?

Divine Mother: Yes, it is beyond what you think of [as being] with your seven chakras. … We have emerged from the Third-Dimensional realm, which is that reference point for the [seven] chakra system, into the new. So yes, you are correct, in this question and in this statement.  (“The Divine Mother: Come to Me as I Come to You – Part 1/2,” Oct. 17, 2012, at http://goldenageofgaia.com/2012/10/17/the-divine-mother-come-to-me-as-i-come-to-you-part-12/.)

(2) “The Divine Mother: It’s All a Journey of Love, April 30, 2019,” at https://goldenageofgaia.com/2019/06/01/the-divine-mother-it-is-all-a-journey-of-love/.

Steve: Mother, you use the word “exploding.” … The heart opening that I had in March 2015, was explosive. And so…

DM: It is explosive. It is implosive.
 (“The Mother Promises a Massive Heart Opening – Part 2/2,” at http://goldenageofgaia.com/?p=289519.)

Archangel Gabrielle also refers to it:

“You have heard me, child, talk time and time and time again about the implosion/explosion [of Ascension], and that is happening at a catalytic rate constantly, right now. (Archangel Gabrielle: Cooperation Comes Before Love,” April 2, 2017, at http://goldenageofgaia.com/2017/04/02/archangel-gabrielle-cooperation-comes-before-love/.)

And here is Sanat Kumara, our Universal Logos:

“Stillpoint is the place of nothingness and it is also the place where union and fission take place, what Einstein calls that implosion/explosion takes place.” (Linda Dillon in Heavenly Blessings with Sanat Kumara, April 26, 2012.)

I believe the implosion is the collapse of our personality structures that the heart opening challenges. One example: The belief that we get love mostly from others rather than mostly from our own heart.

(3) AAM, Aug. 3, 2015.

(4) “Archangel Michael on Snaps, Expansion, and Ascension,” June 6, 2017, at https://goldenageofgaia.com/2017/06/06/archangel-michael-on-snaps-expansion-and-ascension/.

(5) “AAM on Truncated Experiences,” March 21, 2017, at http://goldenageofgaia.com/2017/03/21/aam-on-truncated-experiences/.

(6) See:

• “AAM on Truncated Experiences,” March 21, 2017, at http://goldenageofgaia.com/2017/03/21/aam-on-truncated-experiences/.
• “Enlightenment: A Managed Experience?” August 24, 2022, at https://goldenageofgaia.com/2022/08/24/337513/
• “The Divine Mother on the Role the Company of Heaven Plays in Our Enlightenment,” May 3, 2021, at https://goldenageofgaia.com/2021/05/03/the-divine-mother-on-the-role-the-company-of-heaven-plays-in-our-enlightenment/

(7) Archangel Michael in a personal reading with Steve Beckow through Linda Dillon, April 13, 2016.

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A Second Discussion of Truncated Spiritual Experiences

A Second Discussion of Truncated Spiritual Experiences

Posted by Steve Beckow

Posted on September 14, 2024

Amanda channels the Council of Light

I’ve shared with you, as we’ve gone along, how I’ve had puzzling experiences.

One, that should have been seventh-chakra enlightenment (Brahmajnana or God Realization) might as well have been a movie because it lacked the bliss that would have elevated and expanded it into a realization.

Whooosh! A brilliant river of gold passed over my eyes as I lay there and disappeared in the crown chakra. And I was unmoved. No bliss! Who turned off the tap?

I later had a discussion of the experience with Michael, which is very interesting unto itself but long. I’ve located it to Footnote 1.

And you’ve heard me discuss another, similar incident with the Divine Mother and her saying, Ooooh yes, otherwise, you’d leave your soul contract behind, go off to the mountains, and say, “I do not need to do this. I will just simply sit in the bliss of love and good luck, everybody!’” (2)

Or Michael saying outright that many of us would return home and that would be that. (3) No, our experiences as lightworkers can and probably will have boundaries set on them so we don’t burst the body and leave. Excuse me. Have a heart attack.

Spiritual teachers have always measured or metered out enlightenment experiences so that the devotee does not drop dead from the energy. But we’re not students. We’re not looking for a guru or serving our personal enlightenment.

We’re not bhakti yogis, lovers of God, lightbearers, this lifetime. Well, wait a minute.  Who is not a lover of God?

It’s just that we’ve agreed to put that aside as a preoccupation and serve.  Hindus call that karma yoga, the yoga of service, another route to God.

We don’t have to concern ourselves with anything but service this lifetime, which translates into serving the will of the Mother/Father One, however that shows up in our heart-infused consciousness. (4)

We can be God-intoxicated but it doesn’t work well with serving others. We’ll tip the tray.

Apparently, this generation is from the angelic kingdom but also may reside in the dimensional world. (5) So, for instance, I say I’m from Arcturus. I don’t say I’m from the angelic kingdom.

But I’m getting off track. This is all fascinating! I’m learning too!

I was texting Amanda Lamond this morning and she shared with me an excerpt from one of her channelings of the Council of Light.  Well, whaddya know? It was on the truncation of enlightenment or spiritual experiences.

I’d like to share that with you and get it on the public record.

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The Council of Light through Amanda Lamond, Jan. 2023.

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You are aware at some levels of consciousness already that this is a “healing” or “upgrading phase” you are in now, learning to hold the higher vibrations that you feel in waves through your body!

Yes, we share your delight as you discover rapture, awe, wonder, bliss and expansion into the higher dimensions. Of course it feels like coming home! It is. But you are well aware you need to be there and, thus, as you already know, the experiences are somewhat truncated so that you can anchor them.

Don’t think this is a “punishment” or “restriction” or “limitation” like we are only letting you eat a tiny crumb of the cake! No, dear one, it is simply that you would not be able to function in your current life were we to allow the fullest ascension process to take place now.

Although you may yearn for increased time in the higher dimensions, you are not yet ready, energetically, for extended sojourns. So think of it as the greatest loving way we have of letting you enter paradise in a way that won’t have you be conked out, disassociated, and unable to function!

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Thank you, Amanda!  That’s very helpful in filling in gaps in the discussion. I think it an important one becausde other lightworkers may also be experiencing spiritual episodes which seem strangely lacking in some way….!

I also feel increased confidence seeing a second discussion. I’m not crazy. Someone else had the same experience!

Footnotes

(1) Steve: [Emptiness of mind] was followed next by what appeared to be the kundalini completing its circuit at the seventh chakra. Is that in fact what happened?

Archangel Michael: Yes. Now it is part of the reset button. Think of it in this way. If you are installing, say, a new program, or you had an old program that kept stalling out three quarters of the way full and you were frustrated as all get out with it. And you are asking for the fullness of the program to come online so you turn off your computer and you restart it.

That is what you did.

Steve: Interesting! Ordinarily you would experience Brahmajnana [God Realization] at that point but I felt that it had been muted, toned down.

AAM: When you use the term “dramatic enlightenment experiences” [as I did earlier],  you are talking about Nirvana. You are talking about the unity of all with One.

It is not to say that you will not experience that, but you cannot (well, you can if you wish; it is a choice to) simply remain in that state of unity, of One, or be fully conscious, [and be] in service, in action….

So, it is a toning down, if anything. It really is the middle ground. …

You know that enlightenment is right there in front of you. It is yours to access. But if you are in service, you will not choose to live there. …

You can think of it as keeping two feet firmly on the ground.  (Archangel Michael in a personal reading with Steve Beckow through Linda Dillon, Feb. 14, 2012.) (Hereafter AAM.)

(2) Here is that discussion:

Steve: The experience at Xenia, Mother, was that truncated?

Divine Mother: Slightly, yes.

Steve: I had the thought [it was]. … The Light I saw should have been brighter than a thousand suns. The fact that it wasn’t suggests to me that the experience was truncated.  …

DM: It was not is brilliant as possible, let us put it that way.

Steve: Alright… And again, the reason is to keep me in sync with my readers?

DM: To keep you in sync with your readers. But let me be very clear…. If you had seen the light as it actually is – yes, a million, billion suns – you would have simply departed. …

We don’t mean die but you would have departed the life that you have designed – yes, with us – for yourself, for the service you are providing – you would have departed and simply said, ‘I do not need to do this. I will just simply sit in the bliss of love and good luck, everybody!’” (Divine Mother in a personal reading with Steve Beckow through Linda Dillon, Oct. 26, 2018.)

(3) As he says here:

Archangel Michael: You have received several upgrades in terms of what you would think of as your levels of enlightenment. So it is not that those adjustments have been absent. But let us also say that right now if you were to complete your full ascension, many of you would not bother to stay and finish the creation of Nova Earth.

Steve: So you really have to meter it out to us, so to speak, so as not to send us flying off into some other pursuit?

AAM: That is correct.

Steve: But we will have enough to do the job, enough smarts, enough heart…

AAM: Think of it as growing every day. Then you are given more responsibility, more allowance, and more cooperation. You begin to fully see us and engage with us. Many of the Masters return. So that you’re given all that you need to expand like a flower blossoming. (AAM, March 10, 2017.)

(4) Since the Father, in a material sense, is silent and still, the Mother, it turns out, is all we “have access to”  while we’re in this physical domain.

(5) On the assertion that everyone born into this generation is from the angelic kingdom, see An Explosion in the Meaning of Humanness at https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/An-Explosion-in-the-Meaning-of-Humanness-13.pdf

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To Know God is not an Easy Matter, Until One Becomes a Knower of One’s Self

by Steve Beckow

Posted on February 13, 2024

Ibn Arabi: “To know God is not an easy matter, until one becomes a knower of one’s self.” (1)

Al-Ghazzali: “He who knows himself knows God.”  (2)

The illusory, apparently-individuated entity known as the “Self” is like a Babushka doll.

Whatever its original form might have been, that’s the largest of the dolls. And we in Fourth Dimensionality are the smallest.

But, I believe, they’re nested inside of each other in a non-physical way which I couldn’t possibly describe or understand.

We’re out here in the cold and rain and the door into the locked warmth of the interior of the Babushka Doll has this sign over it: “The Heart.”

We want back in to the light and warmth. Who’s got the key to this door?

Well, of course, the Divine Mother does. And, along with her, our archangel does, and our Higher Self, all agents of the Mother’s Will. (3)

We look back and we see that we approached the door by Awareness Avenue. Others are beginning to congregate now, also wet and cold, some coming from Service Avenue; others from down Wisdom Street. All wanting in at the door.

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Let me spin the metaphor a little longer.

I can only talk about Awareness Avenue.

We cannot become a knower of God until we become a knower of the self.  It could not possibly be that God is everything and not us. Since everything is God, if we know ourselves as deeply as is possible, we should eventually know God. God is the residuum, the default, behind all appearances.

Moreover, we now know that things are provided for us along the way, to make things easier or speed our journey. Channeled messages, spiritual experiences, mentors, books falling off shelves, suggestions whispered in our ears. (4)

We’re not being asked to do something exotic – climb a mountain or cross a river. We’re asked to know, most deeply, the very thing we carry around with us night and day and use for everything – our very own self.

Example: Since our feelings don’t last, they cannot be what we’re looking for (God).  But our divine states don’t flee as quickly. They bear looking into as a stairstep to God.

And, yes, at some point we have to stop looking. It’s only brush-clearing. If we keep on past its point of usefulness, we busy the very thing we’re looking for: The “I” that’s looking is the “I” we’re looking for!

Crazy-making!

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If something is not divine, or God, it will disappear when the truth of it is known. An upset will disappear when the truth of it is known. A headache or other pain may lift when its true message is known. (Maybe not. I’m not a doctor.)

The opposite is also true: I for instance am fond of using the phrase “a pain in the butt.” I now have a slipped lower disc which is causing … you got it … a pain in the butt. No accidents.

Or if you prefer the path of love to address an upset, love it and it will release its grip and gradually pass away: This too shall pass. Resist it and it will hold onto you forever: What we resist persists. (5)

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Using the truth as our machete, we clear away the brush of our misconceptions, revealing the Truth that is and was already there. Well, that’s my preferred route, as a writer.

At Xenia, gazing upon the Self, I felt my own native purity and innocence (I can feel it now).  We labor under the memory of countless lifetimes of errors and mistakes, which burden us like Morley’s chain. (6)

But free of that burden through, as Kathleen points out, the forgiveness of everything, we are as pure and innocent as her granddaughter Amelia.

Just here. Without a care in the world. Just love and curiosity.

Can you imagine that that’s you? Because, deep down, it is.

Raising the ways of the self to awareness causes them to lift, if they’re held in place by anything other than love – such as jealousy, strategizing, fear, etc. Underneath them, we’re all just like Amelia.

Only love persists eternally. And that same love, in ways that are beyond my understanding, turns out to be the essence of who we are, now liberated from the endless desiring of the ephemeral self.

Footnotes

(1) Muhyideen Ibn Arabi, Kernel of the Kernel. trans. Ismail Hakki Bursevi. Sherborne: Beshara, n.d., 3.

(2) Al-Ghazzali, The Alchemy of Happiness. trans. Claud Field. Lahore: ASHRAF, 1971; c1964, 19.

(3) See Our Enlightenment Partnership at https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Our-Enlightenment-Partnership-4.pdf

(4) See Our Enlightenment Partnership at https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Our-Enlightenment-Partnership-5.pdf

(5) Werner Erhard.

(6) Morley was Scrooge’s deceased business partner, now dragging around the chain of his misdeeds and heartlessness while on Earth.

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It’s all Working, Just Slowly

It’s all Working, Just Slowly

Part 1/2

By Steve Beckow

Posted on June 9, 2023

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You might ask, why is Ascension gradual?

And the answer really is like the frog in the pot of slowly-boiling water. If the frog knew what was going on, it might jump out of the pot.

In our case, if we went too far too fast or experienced too much, we could die. We’ll hear the Company of Heaven, below, expressing this apprehension.

Also, most people don’t know anything about Ascension. If the process were too swift, they might panic, thinking the changes mean they have a mental, emotional, or physical illness. It has to be gradual, imperceptible.

And finally if we went too far too soon, lightworkers might leave their posts and go on to the next adventure.

Prior to 2012, only those who were ready would have ascended. When we asked to allow more time so that many more people could ascend, we were then including people who were not prepared. And so the ascent now must be more gradual.

Finally, if we lightworkers all ascended too soon, many of us might leave. We’ll hear the Company of Heaven here saying they don’t want that.

To give instances of too large an experience or of going too far too fast, I need to widen the scope of our investigation. It needs to include other spiritual experiences which also threaten our well-being or life.

My own spiritual experiences are often toned down. Here is the Mother explaining why she toned down my experience of the Self at Xenia Retreat Center:

Divine Mother: If you had seen the light as it actually is – yes, a million, billion suns – you would have simply departed. …

We don’t mean die but you would have departed the life that you have designed – yes, with us – for yourself, for the service you are providing – you would have departed and simply said, ‘I do not need to do this. I will just simply sit in the bliss of love and good luck, everybody!’” (1)

I’m quite sure she’s right – and I’d have a very good excuse, reason, and justification.

So the Company of Heaven doesn’t want us all to leave the party. They therefore have to meter out enlightenment to us to keep us here, as Michael confirmed:

Steve: You really have to meter it out to us, so to speak, so as not to send us flying off into some other pursuit?

AAM: That is correct.  (2)

He talked about the need to move slowly:

Steve: Now, when an experience is truncated [toned down] how am I to look upon it? That you wish me to write about it as far as I have experienced it? That we’re illustrating things in bite-size chunks so as not to overload people? That you don’t want us to be fully ascended because we will stop serving the Mother in this particular regard if we do?

Archangel Michael: What you have seen is that you have been given bite-sized pieces of energy, of energy bumps, of input of what you can digest and handle and truly bring to fruition. If you are in the process of expansion, you don’t go from Grade 3 to a PhD in a week. (3)

Going from Grade 3 to a Ph.D. in a week would be too far too fast.  Our Ascension needs to be more gradual than that.

Let me widen the discussion and introduce a different scenario, but one which further illustrates that we can receive too much and suffer a consequence. Here’s Michael saying that, if he appeared before me in his full majesty, I would die:

Archangel Michael: For my full presence to suddenly [appear] would probably cause you to drop dead.

Steve: Ha ha ha! Well, then I’d really get my interdimensionality back, wouldn’t I?

AAM: [laughs] Yes, you would. But that is not our plan. (4)

Or again:

Archangel Michael: I do not give you the fullness of my energy because it would blow all of your channels but I step it down enough so that you know it is me, you feel the energy, and you are feeling it increasingly higher, higher, bigger, bigger.  (5)

That’s not the only instance in which he could do something that would have me leave the body.  If Michael were to utter my spiritual name, I would wake up and leave.

As we saw above, he doesn’t want that. I turned to the Lord Arcturus to confirm my suspicion:

Steve: If I were to ask Archangel Michael my name … and he were to say it, that probably would be enough of an energetic blast for me that I would leave this body.

Lord Arcturus: Correct. (6)

Oooooh-kay! That would end my soul contract. And they don’t want that.

Therefore they avoid it by truncating or toning down our lightworker enlightenment experiences.

Have I an example of them doing that? Yes.  Here, they actually tone down an experience of Brahmajnana, God-Realization or seventh-chakra enlightenment.

It was truncated or partial in that there was no bliss. But bliss is what brings on realization, which is simply seeing from the higher level that bliss takes us to.

Without bliss we may as well be watching a (spectacular) movie.

Michael and I discussed the matter. Hear it as being said to you since we’re all angels and we’re all lightworkers:

Steve: [Emptiness of mind] was followed next by what appeared to be the kundalini completing its circuit at the seventh chakra. Is that in fact what happened?

Archangel Michael: Yes. …

Steve: Hmm, interesting! Ordinarily you would experience Brahmajnana [God-Realization, seventh-chakra enlightenment] at that point but I felt that it had been muted, toned down.

AAM: When you use the term “dramatic enlightenment experiences” [as I did earlier],  you are talking about Nirvana. You are talking about the unity of all with One.

It is not to say that you will not experience that, but you cannot (well, you can if you wish; it is a choice to) simply remain in that state of unity, of One, or be fully conscious, in service, in action….

So, it is a toning down, if anything. It really is the middle ground. …

You know that enlightenment is right there in front of you. It is yours to access. But if you are in service, you will not choose to live there. …

You can think of it as keeping two feet firmly on the ground. (7)

(Concluded in Part 2, below.)

Footnotes

(1) Divine Mother in a personal reading with Steve Beckow through Linda Dillon, Oct. 26, 2018.

(2) AAM, March 10, 2017.

(3) “AAM on Truncated Experiences,” March 21, 2017, at http://goldenageofgaia.com/2017/03/21/aam-on-truncated-experiences/.

See Our Enlightenment Partnership at https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Our-Enlightenment-Partnership-2.pdf

(4) “Archangel Michael on 21/12/12 and Other Ascension-Related Matters – Part 2/2,” Dec. 26, 2012, at http://the2012scenario.com/2012/12/archangel-michael-on-211212-and-other-ascension-related-matters-part-22/#more-158314.

(5) “Archangel Michael on the Angelic Kingdom,” June 13, 2014, at http://goldenageofgaia.com/2014/06/13/archangel-michael-on-the-angelic-kingdom/ and

(6) The Lord Arcturus in a personal reading with Steve Beckow through Linda Dillon, June 12, 2019.

(7) Archangel Michael in a personal reading with Steve Beckow through Linda Dillon, Feb. 14, 2012. (Hereafter AAM.)

“We’re all angels.” – See An Explosion in the Meaning of Humanness at https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/An-Explosion-in-the-Meaning-of-Humanness-12.pdf

It’s all Working, Just Slowly – Part 2/2

Concluded from Part 1, above.)

We heard the Mother casually drop the comment, “the life that you have designed – yes, with us – for yourself….”

I designed my life? With “us.” Who is “us”? (1)

Based on what I’ve been able to piece together from other comments, that team for a lightworker angel (that’d be all of us) would ordinarily consist of the Mother, our archangel, our universal Self, our guardian angels, and any who attach to us as temporary spirit guides or mentors (who often overlight us). This design team sees ours as an enlightenment partnership. (2)

They’re steering our ship from that side; we are from this side. Michael calls himself my “wingman.” (3)

This enlightenment partnership is something that classical enlightenment sources didn’t go into very much, if they knew about it.

The Mother discusses the role of our guiding team here:

Steve: Implicit in what you are saying, Mother, is something that hasn’t been really talked about very much and that’s that the archangels or somebody else is managing our enlightenment experiences, timing, intensity… Am I correct in that?

Divine Mother: It is a Board of Directors rather than being, “managed by.” That concept, the way that you have phrased it, dear heart, implies that you are being “managed.” And that is not correct.

[Steve: Otherwise, it ‘d be a violation of free will.]

Now also know – and it is delightful to speak about this – the timing, the pacing – and when I say “pace,” I mean the sequential unfoldment – of an Enlightenment process is such that of course you have a guardian [angel] and usually an archangel that is working with you so that it is humanly and can we say, soul or esoterically – via your universal self – managed.

So very often, the construct was that things were done for you or certain things were placed in front of you. Now I am not saying that there aren’t a great many things that are put in front of you and done for you continually.

But you are far more involved and engaged in your Enlightenment process in terms of literal, actual, physical, mental, emotional engagement than you have been previously. (4)

Far more involved? So we were becoming enlightened even when we were not involved? Interesting….

So there’s a look behind the scenes at our enlightenment partnership with the Company of Heaven, as we move gradually up the ladder of consciousness. It shows from various angles why our enlightenment experiences as lightworkers and angels need to be toned down (if they do) or made to unfold gradually.

It’s all working, just slowly. It has to be that way for all of us to reach what the Buddha called “the other shore” – and not individually any more, but all together. (5)

Footnotes

(1) For a fuller answer, see What is a Soul Contract? at https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/What-is-a-Soul-Contract.pdf

(2) I say this having pieced together descriptions of my team from the Mother, the Lord Arcturus, and my twin flame Annastara. See Our Enlightenment Partnership, ibid.

(3) Archangel Michael:  Your role is as my right hand in human form [in the area of communication], as I am your right hand in archangelic form. We are a team. (Archangel Michael in a personal reading with Steve Beckow through Linda Dillon, July 8, 2015.)

AAM: We step forward in the fulfilment, you on Earth, on this beloved planet called Gaia, I as your wingman, quite literally. (AAM, March 10, 2017.)

(4) The Divine Mother in “What a Blessed Relief! – Part 1/2,” August 3, 2021, at ;
https://goldenageofgaia.com/2021/08/03/what-a-blessed-relief-part-1-2/ and in An Ascension Ethnography at https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/An-Ascension-Ethnography-8.pdf

(5) As we committed to in 2012. We could have gone then and a fraction of Earth’s population would have ascended, but we asked instead to be given more time to bring many more of the population along.

On this subject, see “Explanations of 21/12/12” at http://goldengaiadb.com/index.php?title=After_The_Midpoint#Explanations_of_21.2F12.2F12

Steve Beckow

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