Door No. 1, the Intellectual
There are three doors we can go through to encounter Reality.
Door No. 1 is the intellectual door; Door No. 2, the emotional and in other ways experiential; and Door No. 3, the realizational.
Do I have any attachment to anything that might block my full intellectual grasp that I and everyone/everything else is God? None behind Door No. 1. At an intellectual level, I can get that we’re all God.
Door No. 2, the Emotional/Experiential
When I open the door of my emotions, Door No. 2, I open onto a scene of absolute chaos – all kinds of feelings clamoring to be heard. I see issues and resentments by the bushelful.
Lots and lots of obstacles at the emotional level. I call them vasanas; Linda Dillon calls them core issues. (1) I quickly close Door No. 2.
Short of Ascension or complete karmic forgiveness, a remainder of my vasanas, evidently, will travel with me. (2)
I will not escape the necessity of dealing with the emotional turmoil, short of baptism in the River Jordan; that is, immersion in the river and Ocean of Love that Ascension to a higher dimension brings.
I think Archangel Michael knew this and was describing the situation in a passage I’d like to quote at length. I may feel the need to interject a comment or two.
Steve Beckow: So will the tsunami of love erase our vasanas or not?
Archangel Michael: Think of it this way. You can cling to your vasanas, should you wish to, or your false belief systems, but it will make you move like sludge through the Ascension process. So this is your opportunity to cleanse. You can think of it as moving you to Vasana Lite.
[In other words, some vasanas will persist past this present cleansing.]
Now, what do I mean by this? There are times when people revert. If something in their life goes awry, people revert to whatever their issue or their belief system is. Their core issue, their vasana — “Love never works for me,” “I never get what I need,” “The world is a harsh place,” “Struggle is reality.” And none of this is true. So this will wash away.
Now, can you reclaim it? It will be sitting on the beach.
[“Sitting on the beach” because they’re not completely removed as long as we vibrate Third or Fourth Dimensionally. Only higher-dimensional love is powerful enough to burn these seeds of future action to a crisp, causing their permanent disappearance.]
Would you wish to reclaim it? No. Now that does not mean that you are home free, yet. We are talking about the tsunami.
[Not Ascension itself, but the Tsunami of Love, a prelude to it.]
There will still be some imprints, so there will be further raising of the vibration.
[Imprints or traces remain and we can revert to the patterns they offer us. A further raising of the vibration – in Ascension – will be needed.]
But many of you have already been doing this clearing.
So this is an extra, extra, extra clearing, but it is also imbedding in you, yes, even in the constant movement, it is imbedding in you, throughout that wave that moves through you – think of it as giving electrolytes to yourselves – it is imbedding in you the molecules, the atoms, the subatomic fibers of love that say to you, “This is what I want. And I don’t really want that old garbage, so I’m willing to let it go.” (3)
I know exactly what he means here.
Door No. 3, the Realizational
When we go beyond Door No. 3, the realizational door, we experience higher-dimensional love and anything else tastes insipid. We want more of it.
If we ascend, then we know what it feels like to be vasana-free. To be immersed in higher-dimensional love is to be free of all issues and upsets. (4)
We’re at last enabled to turn our back on earlier unworkable patterns of behavior that no longer tempt us and make the changes love requires.
One can’t be harming others and expect to experience higher-dimensional love. The heart’s door would be closed; no experience of love there.
In the last analysis, we have an enlightenment partnership with our guides,Higher Self, archangel, and the Mother. If we surrender all sense of timing to them, in my view, we’ll have taken the best preparatory step we can take.
Since the bliss gets deeper and more revivifying the higher we go, we can expect joy along the route and not just at the destination.
Footnotes
(1) Linda once described them as matters we’d rather die than reveal. That fits. Sages called vasanas the seeds of future action. I define them as mental/emotional clusters of traumatic memories that channel our future responses to challenges.
(2) Ramana Maharshi described one process that might take place to destroy the vasanas. He’s describing what we today would call “Ascension,” beyond the seven chakras. Our path to it is more gradual than sudden.
“As a heated iron-ball appears as a ball of fire, this (body) heated in the fire of Self-enquiry shines as the Self.
The old vasanas pertaining to the body, (mind and so on) are destroyed. Being free from body-consciousness one never has the sense of doership.
Since such a one has no sense of doership, his karma, it is said, is completely destroyed. As nothing but the Self exists, no doubts arise for him.
Once the knot is cut, one is never bound again. This is considered the state of power supreme and peace supreme. (Sri Ramana Maharshi in Vasistha Ganapathi, ed., Sri Ramana Gita. Tiruvannamalai: Sri Ramanashramam, 1977, 49-55.)
The fact that most spiritual teachers have only experienced Brahmajnana or seventh-chakra enlightenment and therefore have not destroyed all their vasanas explains what passed for “crazy wisdom” in the Sixties and Seventies. Among people who believed they had achieved moksha or liberation when they had not, they regarded themselves as cleanly-motivated when many were simply responding to their remaining vasanas.
The Mother explains that Sahaja is indeed Ascension:
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/.)
We have emerged, washed clean of our vasanas by higher-dimensional love.
(3) “Archangel Michael: Go with the Ebb and the Flow of Love,” channeled by Linda Dillon, April 3, 2014, at http://goldenageofgaia.com/2014/04/05/archangel-michael-go-with-the-ebb-and-the-flow-of-love/.
(4) Before Ascension, for the duration of the experience; after ascension, permanently.
