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Saturday, February 1, 2025

Your Universal Self

Your Universal Self

By Ansaluia, Goddess of Light

Channel: Shelly Dressel

Posted on February 1, 2025




I greet you, beloved family. I reach out from my heart to yours. I reach out to wrap you in love and light at this time of ascension.

This is a time where it may feel as if you are riding in a boat upon turbulent seas. It may feel as if those wave upon wave upon wave keep coming up underneath your boat and lifting you up and then you fall down in the trough.

This is something that can happen at any point in your life because the energy is always changing. But the energies are particularly strong at this time. The energies continue to build and build and build ever since the solstice in December, and there’s going to be a peak with the equinox in March. That does not mean that you will constantly be in these very intense energies. But it does mean that you will be riding those waves of up and down and up and down.  I invite you to consider as you are riding upon the waves, to just consider it in a very literal means. Things are pushing you up and then you’re falling down and then up and down. And what I mean by that is it could represent something that you may be healing or clearing within yourself. But it could also just mean that the waves are pushing up and then they’re going down.

It could be something that is more of a global experience instead of something that is specifically to do with you. So here at this time as we gather together in this experience, I invite you to focus on your breathing, taking every breath in, feeling it swirl within you and then breathing out.

Take a moment to look at your life and ask yourself the question, have I been feeling these waves? Have my energies been moving up and down? Or perhaps my thoughts, I go down and I get caught up on something and then I come up and I let them go. At this now moment, as you feel all of what this may be for you, just take in a deep breath to hold it within you and then breathe out.

I invite you to create that ball of light within your heart center.  You can feel that energy. For so many of you, it’s just instantly there. If it is something new to you, then just feel as if you are creating a ball of energy right around your heart center. This is from the energy center that’s in and around your heart and it becomes its own energy separate from your physical heart.

Send a stream of that energy down through your energy bodies, your solar plexus, your sacral, your root center and then you send it all the way down into the earth. As this is anchoring within the earth, you might feel as if it’s spreading out in different ways so that you have a great deal of that earth energy that’s here and available to you.

It then comes back up, coming back up through that cord of energy that you sent down. It comes back up into your heart center, swirling around. You send it through your throat, your third eye, your head center, your crystalline, and then you send it up to your higher self.

As you take a moment to glance around at your higher self, do you see some of those projects that you’ve been working on? Do you see some of what you’ve been seeking to manifest? Pay attention to what is here and if you need to clear it out, you can clear it out. You follow that thread of energy or that thread of light as it takes you even further up until you arrive within the soul plane. As you do so, you connect to your own divinity, you connect to your soul essence. And as you do so, things expand even further.

 

The last time that we got together, we talked about the heart of your soul. As you are here in the soul plane, where perhaps you have other aspects of you, but this is where a great deal of your soul resides. Connect through that heart. Connect with your soul in a way that it completely supports you as the energies continue to expand.

I, the Goddess, walk in and amongst each one of you. I reach out so that I can merge with you. As my energies embrace your own, you become one and I amplify you as your divinity and this moves us into the All That Is.

Take a look around. Perhaps there is some of that energy still here from the last time that we got together.  Perhaps you already have clear intentions of what you would like to work upon, and it’s here within this space. Before you get into anything that is your own, I invite you as if you are looking with new eyes or as if you are coming here for the first time, look at the universal light that is shining within this space.

Each one of you has a part of yourself that is out within the universe. This part of you may be aligned with the planet. It may be on one of the motherships. Most likely, it is coming to your awareness right now. Because this aspect of you from the universe is here to amplify anything that may be happening within you. For many of you, it is as if you see someone walking towards you within this space.

 

For others of you, it’s something you just simply feel within your essence. As you connect, open your consciousness and ask to know if there is a name for this individual. I noticed that some of you heard your own name reflected back to you. I heard others of you were given a different name. As you interact with this aspect, because this is you, possibly from a future life, possibly from a past life. But it is you coming as an aspect out of your soul, bringing with, him or her, the essence of the universal light frequency.

 

You may take a moment and as if you manifest some chairs or a place to sit down and have a conversation, open up to ask, ‘is there a particular message this individual is bringing to you’? Perhaps you have a question that you would like to ask this individual. You may ask any question by just letting it come up into your thoughts. You may perhaps just tap into a feeling or an experience and you don’t need to put it into words.

I invite you to take a moment and as if you’re either sitting side by side or standing up, just reach out your hand to place it over their heart and let them place their hand over your heart. As you are touching them, you convey to them through touch, some of the information from your vibration and your frequency. You are also conveying knowledge that you have within you.

As they then reflect that energy back to you, they are creating a place where you can feel unconditional love or perhaps you might feel limitless knowledge. No matter what message they are giving to you, be open to receive. Now, as I look at each one of you, I see both of you are filled with very expanded crystalline energies.

As you connect to the crystalline light or the crystalline energy bodies, it moves through you. It connects with your thoughts and your beliefs. As you are telepathically communicating with your universal self, this is an opportunity to transition any limiting thoughts or beliefs. Whatever that may be, let it come up within you and clear out.

As you align with your universal self, chances are your belief system is expanding in a very dramatic way. Look at your life through universal eyes.  As you look at your life from this very expanded perspective, notice alternatives that are available to you that you may not have been aware. Consider the emotions that you have within you. Is there a particular emotion that might be holding you back? Or just let your universal self shine forth to you the myriad of your emotions.

I am picking up from many of you that you actually have emotions that are entrained within you that you are unaware of. This might be emotions of anger, fear, perhaps less than, perhaps sadness, frustration, and then you are interpreting those in a different way. As your universal self is conveying to you this hugely expanded awareness, feel what that is to you.

Sometimes when you understand the reason why you feel a particular way, it allows you to grow or perhaps let it go. When you are fixated on something within your life, you cannot see any other alternatives come up in this moment or bring it up in this moment. ~Whew~ Let it go.

Your life has the potential to be very different than what you are aware. Now, maybe you don’t want it to be different. Maybe you want it exactly as it is. and this is always acceptable.

As energies continue to flow, as there is more and more of an influx of energy that is either coming in from the universe, through solar flares, through your own personal growth, life changes or the perspective of life changes. Look around. Your universal self is showing you opportunities that are either immediately within your life or that may be coming up for you. If as you’re looking, you see only one potential, then clear it out. Because everybody has multiple potentials or multiple choices available to you.

As you continue to sit with the vibration of your universal self, ask to see you from that perspective. When the two of you first connected to one another, there were only bits and pieces that were shared. But now that you have created a deeper alignment, allow your universal self to show you how they perceive you.

I notice from many of you that your universal self sees you as different than you see yourself. In the majority of cases, your universal self sees you as someone that is filled with light, filled with the energies of transition to a much greater degree than you might see that for yourself. I also notice that where some of you that have really struggled in this lifetime, and you feel the weight of the struggle, your universal self looks at that and says, Wow, that took strength, that took determination, that took awareness to overcome or move through.

So look through the eyes of your universal self. And perhaps become aware that you are actually even more than you think you are. You can feel this energy, you can feel the love as it surrounds you.  If there is something within you that doesn’t quite believe it or doesn’t quite agree, then simply take off any restrictions, take off any bindings, and simply absorb that beautiful expanded perception.

As I said that, and I continue to look at you, I can see that there’s this merging that takes place so that you have an even easier access to this aspect of you. And so going forward, you can always call upon it, or receive this vibration or receive this intention to help remind you that you are more than what you think you are.

Take a deep breath in and breathe out.

We feel that universal aspect returning out into the universe or back into a higher aspect of your soul. If you remain here in the All That Is, look around and consider anything that may have been going through your mind or anything that was an experience for you that is here for you to retain.

There is such joy. There is such love. It is always here for you. Become accustomed to receiving love, to receiving joy, to receiving opportunities.  There is always more than you ever dreamed of and it’s yours. It is here for you.

I invite you to gather together as a group.  As you do so, look at each other and pay attention to that universal light that each one of you has within you. Some integrated more than others, but it is there present within you. You see coming up within the group, the hologram of the earth, as it comes up within the group, you infuse not only your own perception of all of this, but you infuse your universal aspect into this hologram.

It becomes filled with light from each one of you. It becomes filled with light from the universe and it all works together, shifting the vibration that this hologram is reflecting. There is an aspect that goes out into the universe.  The remainder of that hologram goes back down into the earth plane. As it moves into the earth, there is so much less of a barrier. It’s as if it just smoothly moves down into the center of the earth, anchoring within, and then it reverses and comes back up.

There is a clear intention that as this hologram is doing so, it is working with the collective consciousness, infusing the collective consciousness with universal light, with universal potential, with universal perspective.

Each one of you will then begin to ground yourself back within your physical body. You bring back everything that you did in the All That Is.  You flow through your soul in the soul plane. You come down through your higher self. You anchor within your physical body.

As you do so, look around. Look at how your own body has expanded to accommodate the universal light. Look at what your own life looks like to you now from the perspective of the universal light.  There is an easy flow that moves in and out.

Your soul is massive. It contains aspects of you that have lived many, many, many, many lifetimes, both here on the earth plane, sometimes out in the universe, sometimes even out in the omniverse or the multiverse.

When you consider that different lifetimes give you different perspectives, then let that be where you are right now. That you are opening up to see your life or your experience from that perspective of a universal self, that you’re bringing in that universal light to shine within you and help you in your everyday reality. I would say in 99.9% of what I saw in all of you this evening when looking at you from your universal self, you all are way more than what you think you are.

You have more opportunities than you think you do. And this is a potential that you might not have even thought about.  So be open and aware that you will receive feedback, and perceptions in the days and weeks to come, so that you may experience whatever that will be.

Beloved, know that I am ever with you.

Ansaluia

Shelly Dressel

This is Shelly Dressel channeling the Goddess of Creation; the feminine aspect of source essence, for the free teleconference offered on the first and third Sundays of each month. All rights are reserved. You are welcome to share this information; we just ask that you keep it intact. For further channels and information on both the Goddess and Shelly please see our website: www.goddesslight.net


Tuesday, December 31, 2024

Now You Know the Answer

Now You Know the Answer

Part 1

By Steve Beckow

Posted on December 31, 2024



“The eyes of the multiverse are upon us.”

I wrote those words the other day and it occurred to me that we have more and more new readers as more and more people notice … something is happening. … Something!

But what?

It occurred to me that a common-sense description of what it is that’s happening right now, at a higher-than-street level, might be useful. I’ll footnote the references for further reading. (1) I apologize for its length.

This planet, when it was in the Third Dimension of consciousness, followed a temporal pattern of ages or yugas.  I said I’d keep it commonsensical (with references) so let me say we’ve recently left the Iron Age, Dark Age, or Kali Yuga and entered the Golden Age, Age of Aquarius or Sat Yuga. (2)

And we did so on Dec. 21, 2012.  On that day we left Third Dimensionality and began our gradual journey through the Fourth. (3)

It doesn’t mean that we’re in a Golden Age, bing bang, that’s it. Go walk on water.

It’s a gradual process.

What’s a gradual process? Our expansion in consciousness which “changes the channel” from Third to Fifth Dimensionality … or higher … as a result of a process both gradual and sudden that we call “Ascension.” It’s for the most part a gradual process. And then there are also sudden “snaps” or “ignitions.” (4) But I’ll leave that aspect of the story for another time.

Who’s we? We Lightholders and lightworkers. I’m a lightworker. This lifetime. Specifically, a writer.

What is Ascension? Jesus ascended. Buddha ascended. But they were avatars. Having descended from God, they ascended to God.

Ascension for all of us means an expansion of vibration to a more refined level or dimension, with enhanced capabilities and knowledge. It also means liberation from death and rebirth. It means the power of manifestation, space travel, on and on.

But what makes it all possible and is the predominant experience of all higher dimensions is the love that flows freely and endlessly there. On that I have written volumes. (5) And never tire of the subject.

Jesus and the Buddha ascended individually but only after shedding the physical body.

Moreover they passed through the dimensional world on their way back to the Mother/Father God who sent them. They would have passed through several dimensional worlds that had been closed to them until now (while incarnated), as they sped back to the One.

That’s the way it was. Are you with me up till here?

(Continued in Part 2, below.)

Footnotes

(1) A good place to start would be the Downloads Page: https://goldenageofgaia.com/2021/07/06/downloads-page/

(2) A good starting place for a study of the yugas would be Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri, The Holy Science. Los Angeles: Self-Realization Fellowship, 1984, available online at https://www.starcenter.com/holy-science.pdf.

(3) Matthew Ward: “Earth enters fourth density at the end of your year 2012.” (Matthew’s Message, Aug. 11, 2011, at https://matthewbooks.com.)

(4) For the curious, see Gateway to Higher Dimensionality. Vol. 3: Ascension Sudden and Gradual at https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Gateway-to-Higher-Dimensionality-V3-R5.pdf

(5) Articles on love are everywhere; many were gathered together into one volume; many have not been incorporated: See Love Like We Never Imagined It to Be at https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Love-Like-We-Never-Imagined-It-to-Be-R15.pdf

After being hit with numerous malware attacks, the Golden Age of Gaia now only links to its own sites.

Monday, June 10, 2024

Who Was That Masked Man?

Who Was That Masked Man?

By Steve Beckow

Posted on June 10, 2024

Closest i can come to my Universal Self

I keep going back and forth, debating whether I should share this.

On the one hand, I feel blocked until I do. And on the other hand, I get signals that it’s wanted. So as part of an Ascension ethnography….

I have to preserve confidentiality so let’s just say that, after a long time of being patient (I say, self-servingly), I put my foot down the other day. When interrupted once too often, I said, in a Moses-like voice, “Let me SPEAK.

Wooo-wheeee! So far so good. Maybe hurt feelings but message received.

But then it took an unexpected turn. As if in response to the unasked question. (who are you to speak to me like that?), for perhaps 1-2 seconds, a very much deeper “me” looked out through my eyes in a silent, fixed, and stable glare. That’s who I am. (And who you are too.) And then it vanished.

Never mind hurt feelings and message received. There was a shift in relationship brought about by whatever it was that just happened.

Years … OK, decades … ago, I would have said I just “arrived” in my life. That’d be a growth-movement view of the matter. We knew nothing of a Universal Self.

But, no, something much more expanded than myself just took the microphone for an instant, delivered its message, and then disappeared.

I was so happy to see what arose out of it that I never again mentioned the incident. I didn’t want to spoil this one. I probably will never mention it just in case.

It showed me the impact of committed speaking, its power magnified by not being overly attached to anything. I’ll have to revise my writings on the cycle of conflict to include committed speaking as another way out of the cycle.

***

All the questions it raises!

Who was that masked man? Who just looked out through my eyes for a brief instant?

I’ve experienced myself being inside my body and looking out through my own eyes as if they were windows. (1) But never have I experienced someone else arise, while I’m there, and take the periscope, so to speak.

Yes, an unknown energy joined me once inside my body and we merged. (2) And I also merged with my Universal Self once. (3) But, again, no one has taken the microphone till now.

In this present circumstance, the energy stayed so briefly that I didn’t have time to enjoy it. But its “influence” was that of a natural nobility. Its energy resonated with that of my Universal Self.

What does it mean? Is it just another one-off experience? Or are our angelic capabilities beginning to show through? (4) Is the Universal Self drawing closer and even peeking in, from time to time?

I certainly hope so! I was totally enraptured with the way I felt at the moment of its manifestation.

Footnotes

(1)  See “Mapping a Possible Soul Merge” in An Ascension Ethnography at https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/An-Ascension-Ethnography-8.pdf .

(2) “‘Is This What You’re Looking for?’ – Part 1/2, August 21, 2017, at https://goldenageofgaia.com/2017/08/21/289210/.

(3) Loc. cit.

(4) Archangel Michael: The awareness, when you choose to acknowledge it, and the, shall we call it, the angelic abilities, are present in the human race, in the individual human form at this time. (Archangel Michael in a personal reading witth Steve Beckow through Linda Dillon, Sept. 16, 2020.)

Steve Beckow


Tuesday, February 13, 2024

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.

***

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!

***

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)

***

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.

Steve Beckow

 

Sunday, December 10, 2023

Calling Ourselves Forth

Calling Ourselves Forth

By Steve Beckow

Posted on December 10, 2023




I’ve spoken a few times on the process of emergence that I believe all lightworkers – and perhaps everyone on the planet – is going through. (1)

I’ve never really examined it from the standpoint of being called forth and calling myself forth.

Let me bank on a familiarity with the process of emergence and start from where that leaves off.

When I looked at my process some time ago, I saw a pattern that led me to ask Michael if he was “calling me forth.” This was after a strong disagreement I had with a colleague. I didn’t feel guilty and I was wondering if I “should.”

AAM commented:

Archangel Michael: It is time for that assumption of leadership responsibility to be front and center. So the avoidance due to prior injuries – terrible injury, particularly to one that has been in a leadership or cutting-edge position not only upon Gaia but elsewhere – that was deep devastation.

Now, I am very busy healing the wounds of war and who do you think I am starting with?

My inner cadre, and, dear heart, that includes you. I need you as you need me.

Steve: You are calling me forth, right?

AAM: That is exactly what is happening. That is why this line in the sand is being created [an incident in which I felt I needed to assert my authority].

It is not about the old realm of control or greed, or anything like that. It is, in order for the plan to be unfolding, in order for the practical building blocks (which is what you’re asking for – money) to be in place, there has need to be a very strong re-assumption of leadership. …

You are getting there. Simply bring [leadership] back up, dear heart, and let it flow. It is dormant. You haven’t been attending to it as vigilantly as you might because you have been worried and in fear around finances. Be re-assured and go forth. 
(2)

What is the “me” he’s calling forth? Well, as you know, I had an experience of that “me” on June 12, 2023. (3) I used to call that “me” the “Commander” and “Big Steve.” Psychologist Eric Berne (Games People Play) called it an “Adult” ego state. (4)

Werner Erhard used to speak about “presencing” the Self. For me, that covers the same territory as what I term “calling myself forth.”

I can tell you how I pick up a glass. Ride a bike. Drive a car. But I can’t tell you how I or anyone else presences the Self. It’s something we don’t usually do unless needing to lift a car off our child.

The philosophy that has programmed out of us that we have a Self to presence is called empirical materialism, the belief that only what we can see, hear, and touch (i.e., sense) is real. Most people get how to presence the self or call ourselves forth, I think, as a realization or a revelation or guidance – an “Aha!” moment.

Calling myself forth, presencing myself we often called “arriving.”  It’s something I’ll have to practice and process again. It’ll be required in any of our dealings with our star family, I imagine, and in any of our leadership initiatives.

Footnotes

(1) See Lightworkers: Creating a World that Works for Everyone.  Volume 3/3: Emergence and Service at https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Lightworkers-3-6.pdf

(2) Archangel Michael in a personal reading with Steve Beckow through Linda Dillon, April 3, 2015.

(3) See “Co-Creative Partners with the Company of Heaven,” June 12, 2023, at https://goldenageofgaia.com/2023/06/12/co-creative-partners-with-the-company-of-heaven/.

(4)  Mike Quinsey may be referring to it when he speaks of his “Higher Self.”  (I don’t know.)   Use of the term “Higher Self” usually refers to the Oversoul, which is a Seventh-Dimensional version of ourselves.

I experienced my Oversoul at a 2011 meditation retreat and discussed it with Michael at my next reading:

Steve Beckow: I had an experience at a meditation workshop in which I felt regal. It was a partial experience. Can you tell me what that part of me was that I accessed.

Archangel Michael: … Your Highest Self, your Oversoul, is very regal.

SB: So that was an experience of the Oversoul.

AAM: Yes. (Archangel Michael in a personal reading with Steve Beckow through Linda Dillon, Sept. 13, 2011.)

Search on “Oversoul” in An Ascension Ethnography at https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/An-Ascension-Ethnography-12.pdf

Based on that experience, I don’t consider my “Commander” to be my Oversoul. He’s the same dimension as me, but … Adult, as Eric Berne says. (See also “Me and My Higher Self,” 

Steve Beckow
 

Thursday, November 9, 2023

Other Voices on Where the Self “Lives”

Other Voices on Where the Self “Lives”

By Steve Beckow

Posted on November 9, 2023


The Self lives in the deepest reaches of the heart, the Seat of the Soul. Credit: Ute Possega Rudel


Three days till 11/11.

When, at Xenia Retreat Center in Sept. 2018, I ventured in meditation into the very bottom of my heart, the depths of my heart, called the Seat of the Soul, I there found the Light of the Self.  (1)

But, after the experience, I was filled with doubts. The soul doesn’t “live” in the heart; it fills the whole of creation.  Who else can be found to support that statement? And then I promptly forgot about the matter.

But today I came across a section in From Darkness Unto Light, which features a large group of enlightened masters saying exactly that: That the Self, the soul, the spirit lives in and is to be sought and found in the heart. (2)

I feel buoyed up having found such a range of evidence in support of what sounded to me like a statement in need of corroboration. Here is that evidence:


Within the city of Brahman, which is the body, there is the heart, (1) and within the heart there is a little house. This house has the shape of a lotus, and within it dwells that which is to be sought after, inquired about, and realized. (Swami Prabhavananda and Frederick Manchester, trans., The Upanishads. Breath of the Eternal. New York and Scarborough: New American Library, 1957; c194, 74.) (Hereafter, UPAN.)

(1) Not the Heart Chakra, but the heart behind the hridayam or heart aperture.

The ancient, effulgent being, in-dwelling Spirit, (1) [is] deep-hidden in the lotus of the heart. (UPAN, 17.)

(1) The Self, the soul.

Smaller than the smallest, greater than the greatest, this Self forever dwells within the hearts of all. (UPAN, 18.)

Both the individual self and the Universal Self have entered the cave of the heart, the abode of the Most High. (UPAN, 19.)

He who … sees [the Atman] inhabiting the lotus of the heart, living among physical elements, sees Brahman indeed. For this First-Born is the immortal Self. (UPAN, 21.)

The Supreme Person, … the Innermost Self, dwells forever in the heart of all beings. (UPAN, 24.)

The Self exists in man, within the lotus of the heart, and is the master of his life and of his body. (UPAN, 46.)

Within the lotus of the heart (1) he dwells, where, like the spokes of a wheel in its hub, the nerves meet. Meditate on him as OM. Easily mayest thou cross the ocean of darkness. (UPAN, 46.)

(1) Not the heart chakra, which is shaped like a lotus, but the Hridayam, or heart aperture, which closes like a closed lotus.

I am the Lord in the midst of the earth. (1) (Exodus 8:22.)

(1) “In the midst of the earth” = I.e., in the center of the body; that is, in the Heart.

The devoted … know Him always There in the heart, Where action is not. (Sri Krishna in Swami Prabhavananda and Christopher Isherwood, trans., Bhagavad-Gita. The Song of God. New York and Scarborough: New American Library, 1972; c1944, 59.) (Hereafter BG.)

There in the ignorant heart … I dwell. (Sri Krishna in BG, 87.)

The fire (1) shall ever be burning upon the altar; (2) it shall never go out. (Leviticus 6:13.)

(1) The Father or Self. (2) The Heart.

The Lord is in his holy temple: (1) let all the earth keep silence before him. (2) (Habakkuk 2:20.)

(1) The body; more specifically, the Heart.
(2) Silently meditate on Him.

Oh, Lord, dweller within; You are the light in the heart’s lotus. (Shankara in Swami Prabhavananda and Christopher lsherwood, Shankara’s Crest-Jewel of Discrimination. Hollywood: Vedanta Press, 1975; c1947, i.) (Hereafter CJD.)

Here, within this body, in the pure mind, in the secret chamber of intelligence, in the infinite universe within the heart, the Atman (1) shines in its captivating splendour, like a noonday sun. (Shankara in CJD, 53.)

(1) The Self.

The Atman, which is pure consciousness, is the light that shines in the shrine of the heart, the center of all vital force. (Shankara in CJD, 63.)

The Atman is … the real I, hidden in the shrine of the heart. (Shankara in CJD, 69.)

The first step to self-knowledge is to know that thou art composed of an outward shape, called the body, and an inward entity called the heart, or soul. (1) By “heart” I do not mean the piece of flesh situated in the left of our bodies, but that which uses all the other faculties as its instruments and servants. In truth it does not belong to the visible world, but to the invisible, and has come into this world as a traveller visits a foreign country for the sake of merchandise, and will presently return to its native land. It is the knowledge of this entity and its attributes which is the key to the knowledge of God. (Al-Ghazzali, The Alchemy of Happiness. trans. Claud Field. Lahore: ASHRAF, 1971; c1964, 21.)

(1) Al-Ghazzali here equates the hridayam or heart with the Self.

There is something nearer to us than Scriptures, to wit, the Lord in the heart to which all Scriptures come. (William Penn in Aldous Huxley, The Perennial Philosophy. New York, etc.: Harper and Row, 1970; c1944, 14.)

God, the true Philosopher’s Stone,
Who answers every prayer,
Lies hidden deep within your heart,
The richest gem of all.
(Paramahansa Ramakrishna in Swami Nikhilananda, trans., The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna. New York: Ramakrishna-Vivekananda Center, 1978; c1942, 235.) (Hereafter, GSR.)

The heart of the devotee is the abode of God. He dwells, no doubt, in all beings, but He especially manifests Himself in the heart of the devotee. A landlord may at one time or another visit all parts of his estate, but people say he is generally to be found in a particular drawing-room. The heart of the devotee is the drawing-room of God. (Paramahansa Ramakrishna in GSR, 133.)

Footnotes

(1) See “The Heart is ‘the Seat of the Soul’,” December 17, 2018, at http://goldenageofgaia.com/2018/12/17/the-heart-is-the-seat-of-the-soul/

(2) From Darkness Unto Light at https://goldengaiadb.com/index.php?title=From_Darkness_to_Light

Steve Beckow 
 

Friday, September 1, 2023

Maintaining the Connection: Therein Lies the Work

Maintaining the Connection:

Therein Lies the Work

By Steve Beckow

Posted on September 1, 2023


The best representation of my Higher Self as he appeared to me (1)

The degree of influence of the Higher (Seventh-Dimensional) Self, the Oversoul, on us seems to determine the degree to which we can be stalwart, valiant, determined.

The extent of courage of the Higher Self is such that we can “import it” or “borrow from it” – perhaps, “draw on it” may be a better metaphor.

I say this after a few days of observing myself following my experience of drawing my Higher Self to me. My Higher Self is blissful, relaxed, finished with all harmful thoughts, philosophical about all the fumbles and lapses I’ve made in this lifetime.

I’ve seen one person in documentaries that resembles him but he was a wartime personality and I don’t want to stir up old passions by mentioning him. I have him in mind when I want to draw on an example.  (I just remembered a second.)

His example seems to suggest that it’s possible for the Higher Self to shine through these dense bodies.

And certainly the emergencies of wartime would offer ample motivation to reach back into our heights or depths to find our courage. Witness Medal of Honor winners. (2)

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After Lahaina, the rumor is that we’re now officially at war with the deep-state faction of government and the military. Let this be the opportunity for so many of us to reach back and find our Higher Self.

Our doing that, I believe, signals our Board of Directors (3) that we’re ready to experience the closer influence of our Higher Self.

I saw my Higher Self in vision in 2017 (one of two experiences) and merged with it. I described that experience as being like water soaking into blotting paper. (4)

I don’t think it was by my efforts that that happened. In my opinion, my Board of Directors determined the time was right.  And then they metered out my contact and everything else about it so that I wouldn’t fly off to another planet.

That’s my hunch, based on past performance.

Now it’s a matter of identification. Just as with love and bliss or anything else, if I forget about my Higher Self and don’t keep polishing my armor, so to speak, my Higher Self will gradually disappear from my experience.

It’s up to me to identify with him and come from him if I want the connection, eventually, to be permanent.

Therein lies the work.

That is, if not for the fact that we’ll all ascend and thereafter have, if my understanding is correct, unimpeded access to our Higher Self.

Footnotes

(1) He appeared to me as a knight in shining armor, seated on a white horse, with a lance. Kathleen had a similar vision. I felt incredibly privileged to have been given such a sight.

For an account of the vision, see “Is This What You’re Looking for?” – Part 1/2″ in An Ascension Ethnography at https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/An-Ascension-Ethnography-12.pdf

(2)  A third example: Hacksaw Ridge, the story of a pacifist medic and Medal of Honor winner.

(3) My Board of Directors includes the Divine Mother, Archangel Michael, the Lord Arcturus, my Guides, and my Higher Self.

See Our Enlightenment Partnership at https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Our-Enlightenment-Partnership-3.pdf

(4) Here’s Michael discussing the variables that went into giving me a heart opening:

Archangel Michael: This [heart opening] occurs, not merely because you have asked for it, but because you (and this does apply to the collective) have done your, can we say, your homework, your due diligence….

When one is clinging to core issues, to fear, to lack, to limitation – you know the list – there is not that sense, not only of spaciousness, but of acceptance, allowance, readiness and even permission. Because as you know, we continually say that we will never override your free will.

So, if the will, either actively or subconsciously, is actually choosing to still engage in the issues or the drama, then although we are standing at readiness and still penetrating you, that open door is not there. ( Archangel Michael in a personal reading with Steve Beckow through Linda Dillon, March 13, 2015. Also “Activating the Wellspring – Part 1/2,” March 14, 2015, in An Ascension Ethnography at https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/An-Ascension-Ethnography-12.pdf, 87-93.)

Steve Beckow