“Introduction” to On the Experience of Peace
by Steve Beckow
Posted on March 10, 2024
This is a compilation of writings on the divine state of peace. I missed International Women’s Day by two days! In honor of women waging peace.
Introduction
When I first experienced peace as a divine quality, I was beyond surprised.
My experience of it was that it was absolutely solid and stable, like granite.
I expected it to be light and fluffy like clouds, upon which I’d be playing my harp.
Not at all like that.
(Later, I realized that I’d been identifying with my body and seeing peace through that lens. When I was able to go beyond that identification, peace showed up light and gentle.)
I immediately flashed on Mahatma Gandhi meeting with the British Viceroy and saying that he hoped their difference in perspective would not come between them as men.
How could a person dressed in modest village garb presume so much of a gentleman of such stature in British society?
For the short time that I was permitted to remain in the experience, I could immediately see how that was possible. (1)
There was no appetite in Gandhi and hence no attachments, no strategies, no agenda, no pretence, etc.
I think it fair to say that his mission was to assist the British to leave India as peacefully as possible. I’d say he was wildly successful.
I was going to cite St. Francis as another example, but Mahatma Gandhi was the reincarnation of St. Francis! (2)
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I’m referring to events that happened now almost a decade ago. I’ll leave it to the articles written at the time to describe the experiences.
Like all divine states, peace has no flavor, no discernible qualities. We know it by its impact on us. And its impact is to flush all traces of the ego from our field of awareness and to leave us in utter stillness of mind.
The onset of peace is like a divine reset. For as long as the experience lasts, we’re enabled to see what exists when the mind’s programming is not running the show.
Not surprising, what exists then are the divine qualities.
Classical theory has us working hard to experience those qualities and then collapsing energyless, at which point the Divine closes the distance:
Sri Ramana Maharshi: ”Your efforts can extend only thus far. Then the Beyond will take care of itself. You are helpless there. No effort can reach it.” (3)
Bernadette Roberts: “At a certain point, when we have done all we can [to bring about an abiding union with the divine], the divine steps in and takes over.” (4)
In the years ahead, we’re going to find, I predict, that such things as when we experience the divine states and how much enlightenment we receive are worked out in concert with what I call our “Board of Directors,” in light of what becomes our soul contract or life plan. (5)
As embarrassing as it is to go over this, I’ll name my own, which will be very similar to yours given that we’re all angelics born on Earth at this time: (6) mine is the Divine Mother (on all “boards”), Archangel Michael, my Universal Self, my twin flame Annastara, and my guides Windthrow, Phoenix, and White Cloud. (7)
Since we’re all lightworkers, we’ve all agreed to serve the Mother’s Plan. Part of that Plan is the Ascension of this universe, starting with Earth. Michael said:
Steve: The next assignment is in the Seventh Dimension?
Archangel Michael: You will have a choice of planetary systems. This is just the warm-up for [that] Ascension. It is to bring a further rising of vibrations to those throughout the Universe. (8)
Some warm-up!! Some universe!
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If I were in the divine state of peace at this moment, my inner framework would be like Teflon. No moan or groan would stick to it. And none of the ordinary calculations about how to act would apply because I’d have utterly stopped calculating. My mind would, in an ordinary sense, not be operating.
We’d experience no difficulty then, no resistance, no second guessing to being who we are.
For anyone who knows me, the little boy who at seven was shouted at at such close proximity that his mind shattered into a thousand pieces, who lost his confidence and his initiative – let it be known that Humpty’s together again and he’s fine, just the way he is.
Being able to be here just the way I am and just the way I’m not has been unreachable for me until peace made it possible.
For me peace has brought a monstrous big completion.
Speaking ends and peace prevails. Again.
Download On the Experience of Peace at https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/On-the-Experience-of-Peace-2.pdf
Footnotes
(1) On the experience of peace, itself, see “First Glimpse of the Natural Self,” February 21, 2017, at https://goldenageofgaia.com/2017/02/21/first-glimpse-natural-self/.
(2) Steve: Were you Mohandas Gandhi?
St. Francis: Yes, I was. … You know that you are ferreting out my secrets, do you not? But yes, I am glad to share it with you. (“St. Francis Reveals at Least One of His Later Lives: As Mohandas Gandhi,” Sept. 25, 2012, at https://goldenageofgaia.com/ascension-as-of-2012/the-masters-return/st-francis-reveals-at-least-one-of-his-later-lives-as-mohandas-gandhi/)
(3) Ramana Maharshi in Munagala Venkatramiah, Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi. Downloaded from https://www.ramana-maharshi.org/books.htm, 31 August 2005, Question 197.
(4) Bernadette Roberts, “The Path to No-Self” in Stephan Bodian, ed. Timeless Visions, Healing Voices. Freedom, CA: Crossing Press, 1991.
(5) See Our Enlightenment Partnership at https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Our-Enlightenment-Partnership-5.pdf
(6) 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
(7) See What is a Soul Contract? at https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/What-is-a-Soul-Contract.pdf
(8) Archangel Michael in a personal reading with Steve Beckow through Linda Dillon, Sept. 13, 2011.
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