Your world will always be colored by your perceptions. Right, wrong or indifferent…there it is. Do not be dismayed by this, my beautiful child, because it is why you came to your Earth –plane.
However, with time the colors will become more transparent. The blacks and whites will fade, the hot reds and envy greens will not matter as much, and the deep blues will never be quite as deep as they were in the beginning.
And held in those muted, pastel colors is peace. Remember, you are always as you should be…your amazing self.
Credit: Novakid Channel. We teach like/don’t like to kids at the earliest ages.
The chief feature of duality is the creation of a mental spectrum upon which is ranged things we like and don’t like, things which are good and bad, right and wrong, beautiful and ugly, etc.
Life becomes about avoiding the latter and enjoying as much of the former as possible before dropping dead.
But seriously, if we want real change in a world on fire, we need to address probably the worst pitfall of living in a dualistic, 3/4D world.
That is the mental habit of making some people bad and wrong and others good and right. Given our self-serving bias, we end up being good and right, along with our friends, and whomever we don’t like ends up being bad and wrong. (1)
This mental habit is only a characteristic of 3/4D. It doesn’t exist on the higher planes, pre-empted by the ubiquitous love that lives there. (2)
The alternative is to stop doing it and substitute factual, common-sense observation and analysis instead. “Just the facts, ma’am,” a style of communication our star family calls Perro. (3)
But looking at the mental habit for a moment, in my understanding, almost every person’s way is right in their own eyes. Haven’t we seen this again and again? “They deserved it. They got what was coming to them. I taught them a lesson.” Etc. No matter how awful and reprehensible the action is to us, to the actor it’s justifiable.
Even Hitler wrote his last will and blamed his defeat on his people. They weren’t courageous enough or willing to suffer enough. No, it had nothing to do with him.
It’s a knee-jerk reaction to defend ourselves, instead of saying, “Hmmm… I may have played a role in that. Let me have a look.” (4)
Ascension will handle the matter. Infused with the love that lives on the higher realms, everything connected with right/wrong, good/bad will instantly evaporate and disappear from memory as well.
I remember asking Archangel Michael if forgiveness would disappear on the higher planes because we wouldn’t be doing anything offensive or even thinking of it. There’d be nothing to forgive. He agreed.
If we experienced that love on this plane of existence, all “problems” would instantly disappear. But, until the kundalini reaches the fourth chakra and releases this love, we stumble around in the darkness of our minds.
In higher planes, there are only “situations,” which we’d regard as opportunities to help, so as to experience the love flowing through us to another. (Love must flow.) (5)
Even if we’re not in the experience of that love, we invite it to us by declining to follow the mind into appraisals of good/bad and right/wrong. There are ways and means that work and ways and means that don’t. Never mind “might makes right,” what does common sense and a loving heart say?
What catastrophe will the cabal try next and attribute to climate change?
Always keep in mind that our star family will not permit a nuclear or a world war. No nuclear weapons can be exploded in space (and almost all nukes are delivered through space). (6) All the nuclear threats you hear are purely theatrical.
(2) I’ve been given numerous sometimes toned-down experiences of the love, bliss, and ecstasy that exist on the higher dimensions. Michael explains:
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. (“AAM on Truncated Experiences,” March 21, 2017, at http://goldenageofgaia.com/2017/03/21/aam-on-truncated-experiences/.)
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. (“Archangel Michael on Snaps, Expansion, and Ascension,” June 6, 2017, at https://goldenageofgaia.com/2017/06/06/archangel-michael-on-snaps-expansion-and-ascension/.)
(3) See “Do You Speak Perro?”
(4) In a three-month encounter group I attended in 1975-76, I recall that the first time someone gave us feedback that seemed to criticize us, we were greatly offended. By the end, we acknowledged whatever was true with great delight at knowing more about ourselves.
(5) Archangel Michael: Love is the energy of the universe. It is the energy of the Mother. And it moves constantly, continually, eternally, infinitely. So, to have an experience of love, it [must move] through you. (Archangel Michael in a personal reading with Steve Beckow through Linda Dillon, Dec. 5, 2018.) (Hereafter AAM.)
AAM: Love is a fluid energy. It has need to flow and so when it does not flow it becomes… Well, as you put it, it be can become dry and brittle. It has need to be given and received above, below, within, without and in every which way. (AAM, April 30, 2019.)
As I transition from ogre to loving kindness, I’m watching myself, to spot any impediments.
And I just saw myself spark at such a very minor, everyday matter that I feel embarrassed to mention it. OK, OK. It was implied that I was not right in saying what time I got home.
Right away I rolled out the heavy guns and looked around me to see who was the transgressor, who had implied I was wrong?
As I waited to identify the threat, I began reviewing my favorite justifications, excuses, and denials just in case they were needed.
So simple a matter, huh? The stuff of wars.
One accusation of being wrong is equal to another. I’d start World War III over a false accusation of getting the time wrong as easily as I would over Pearl Harbor.
Vasanas (core issues) are insane. The way the mind works can be insane. I’m glad I changed my vote. I no longer have to occupy that ornery territory.
So this is what I’m doing: I’m either getting the experience of loving kindness or getting the barrier. If the barrier, I’m processing it. (1)
Keep in mind that loving kindness is already there. It’s simply buried under our personal load of resentments, complaints, judgments, etc.
As I saw at Xenia on Sept. 17, 2018, my purity and innocence are native to me. They exist at a place that can be thought of as way under or way deeper than the vasanas (core issues), something I saw in meditation on that day. (2)
I’m not seeking something outside myself. Like everything else good, I suspect I’ll find it in my heart.
Thus, for me, the work is to experience through to completion – or eliminate – the obstacles, the vasanas and the independently-existing automatic behavior patterns that the vasanas give rise to.
Underneath I’m sure I’ll find that the true Me is already wholly loving and kind.
I just read an account of the last three hundred years or so which so warped “history” that I finally blew my stack. If I’ve done any professional study, it’d be as an historian.
This post is long for which I apologize. I feel the need to have my say.
I was reading alleged accounts of various “peoples” as being at the heart of the world’s troubles. Each account seemed to serve somebody’s purpose.
The various religions and races became good or bad depending on whether they served the writer’s or reader’s group desires and intentions. All the articles on the subject took for granted a great degree of cohesion through time.
One purpose was to explain how we got into this mess. Everyone picks someone other than their own team to blame. “Nations” – really, more like elites – (1) that were at the top of the pyramid are scrambling to patch up the crumbling narrative.
Not us! Not us!
Yes, us! (2) Always us. For so many reasons, as I hope to make clear.
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We tend to identify and put our arms around the good guys. They’re the guys we like. They dress like us, speak our language. Just like us. … One thing is consistent: We’re always the good guys, right?
And we push away and isolate the bad guys. They’re the guys we don’t like. Maybe we don’t like their food or how they hold themselves or the sound of their language. They’re fundamentally just … well, not like us. Again,what’s consistent is we’re never the bad guys.
Who knows what guides our choices or their choices overall? Our choices or their choices are all individual. We’re all individuals, which stereotyping, meming, labelling, etc., downplays or ignores.
Having decided on the characters and plot, we then shape or control the narrative to have our group win, be acknowledged, be applauded, etc.
This, at the level of the history of the world, has been our standard fare throughout human history, as far as I’m aware; witness ancient stelae (or monumental pillars) dutifully lauding this or that leader. Is there such a thing as an unbiased account?
And, if there were, what would constitute a history of the world? Who would get to choose what goes in and what stays out?
We already have a history of the world: It’s called the Akashic Records. (Google. No, maybe don’t Google.) The Akashic Records don’t lie and they serve as the basis of the universal justice system which no one who’s causing the wars and the mayhem today will be able to avoid. (3)
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I’m so tired of divisiveness and squabbling.
But at the same time, I also refuse to be divided and conquered or bamboozled over anything – climate change (human CO2 contribution is miniscule), pandemics (laboratory manufactured), Ukraine (money-laundering, child-trafficking), Hamas/Israel (elite genocide to clear way for Ben Gurion Canal).
Thank heavens for people of all persuasions who share a desire to live in love, peace, and the other divine qualities. This community usually calls themselves lightworkers and loveholders. Some prefer one divine quality; some, another. But all are servants of the Mother and all are acknowledged.
All qualities are simply flavors of love and end up at the same place: Home, what the Bible calls Salvation and Redemption. What the Buddha called Nirvana and Buddhahood. What Hindus call Sahaja and Vijnana.
Every religion knows it: We call it Ascension. (4)
It’s ascension to a higher vibration of consciousness where such a love exists that all chaos and mayhem disappear from the “within” of our minds. And thus they disappear from the “without” of our world as well.
All the chaos is here because the love energies are rising on the planet and forcing our incompletions up. As individuals and as a society.
We won’t have our favorite punching bag to blame the ills of the world on where we’re going. Love – tangible, wonderful love – will wipe away from our minds any thoughts of fear or harm or worry. (Yes, I’ve experienced it.) (5)
But before that permanent planetary heart opening we call Ascension, (6) we live now in a world that couldn’t be more divided and has been divided by a very definite group. They know who they are. I call them the elites. Just another name, as imprecise as any others, but at least one that I believe is accurate.
I leave it to the white hats, (7) backed by our star family’s federations (8) (who won’t allow nuclear weapons to be used or for a world war to occur), (9) to stop all serious human-rights abuses on the planet now.
That’s not what I’m addressing. It isn’t in my soul mission.
I’m addressing ideas and behavior – I call that “human culture.” (10)
But let me end the discussion here and continue tomorrow.
(Continued in Part 2.)
Footnotes
(1) All our use of group names need to be re-examined. What is an “American”? A “Catholic”? “A European”? A “capitalist”? A “communist”? A “leftist”? A “rightist”? These are all blunt instruments, even though I know we have to use words at this stage of things.
I’d like not to have to use any word to denote groups because any word would be too clumsy. But, if I have to use a word for what we usually call the cabal, the deep state, the Illuminati, I’d choose “elites.”
(2) By the Universal Law of Within and Without: The chaos, ignorance, and mayhem without is a result of the chaos, ignorance, and mayhem within.
(5) See various accounts of the love and bliss in the higher dimensions in An Ascension Ethnography at https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/An-Ascension-Ethnography-12.pdf . This book is intended to be a searchable database for spiritual experiences. Search on “heart opening,” “bliss,” “ecstasy,” “mastery,” “abundance,” etc., to take you to discussions of some higher-dimensional states and divine qualities.
Ascension is also a heart opening but a full and permanent one. It’s ascent into the Fifth or higher dimension. “Ascent ” is a vibrational matter and reflects spiritual physics: Having enough light within us to tolerate more refined conditions.
(7) For obvious reasons, the White Hats, apart from their flag-bearers, don’t want to be identified. Two articles are helpful for general background: “Program Guide to Tonight’s Performance from Juan O. Savin,” Ezra Cohen-Watnick: Spelling It Out 1 Time,”
The End of Darkness on Earth: the Dawning of the Light, ibid.
(10) “Culture, whether considered as a continuum or a class of phenomena, may be seen as an organization of ideas, manifest in act and artifact (though consisting of neither), by means of which we experience our world and take purposeful action.” (Slightly edited.) (S.M. Beckow, “Culture, History, and Artifact,” National Museums Association, Gazette, Fall 1975.)
I’m a satisfied single … ok, a happy hermit … so I don’t have the opportunity to pursue the exit points from the cycle of conflict with anyone in the context of relationship.
I have to make changes in myself, which is probably all we need to do anyways!
So my first contribution to ending the cycle of conflict in myself is going to be:
To examine what it means to “get mad.”
There’s a trigger point on one side of which I’m not mad and on the other side of which, I am. Why is it not an easy thing for me to just rule out crossing the line?
I know why. My Dad yelled at me from inches away from my face when I was seven and I shattered …. It took fifty years to put Humpty together again. During those years, I did notice that I fused back together again when I got mad. So I came to value “getting mad.” I was myself again.
It was only the other person who didn’t like it.
So that’s where my below-consciousness embracing of “getting mad” comes from.
Now that I see that, I can let it go. On the other side of it, I feel fine embracing boundaries.
My second contribution is:
To examine what it means to take personal responsibility for my life.
Whenever I blame another person or accept blame from another person, I’m reproducing my Father’s thoughtless pattern. My Father was reproducing my Grandfather’s. I knew my Grandpa.
I need to take responsibility for the pattern and end it in me.
To take complete responsibility for my life – if not for what happens to me necessarily, but definitely for my response – that’s a goal worth aiming for. And that too, I think, would interrupt the cycle of conflict.
It’s as if we all have virtual-reality headmasks on and yet we star in each other’s holodrama. The game decides what our partners do but we decide our responses. All along it remains our virtual-reality game.
This is all my game.
Finally, I took a look to see if I’d ever discussed the subject of the cycle of conflict before and here we are in 2021 looking at my family’s:
My family went through a cycle of conflict – mounting disagreement, then a fight, then separation, then making up, then mounting disagreement…. It went on endlessly.
My Dad really believed he was – and had to be – “the man of the house.” He could be arrogant, self-important.
When that happened my Mother invariably responded with disappointment and depression and, surprised at not getting the deference he expected, they fought.
They followed a predictable script and what’s happening for me is that, if one side of their two-handed script gets triggered, the other side comes up with it.
I saw the problem arise after I had a grumpy, irritable thought. I became depressed almost right after it. And I finally … finally recognized what was happening as something I knew well.
I’m recalling how my Dad, when he got in one of his moods, would wreck everything that stood in his path. I now know about the difficulties of his own childhood and can appreciate why he was that way. But it was no fun growing up with it.
I now see myself playing my Dad’s and Mom’s hands, sequentially. I have both inside my mind.
Previously I would have looked for layers in a single vasana – depression is one layer, say; arrogance a second. But this was clearly the family’s circular emotional process having been etched in stone in memory, rather than my own singular reaction pattern or vasana.
“The family’s circular emotional process” is the cycle of conflict.
At the end of it all, bless Mom and Dad. They did the best they could with a pretty bad hand.
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Thank you for coming along! The subject is just starting for me and represents one of my offerings towards bringing peace to Earth.
I used to metaphorically act like a car. I’d fill my tank every morning and motor about socializing, coming home elated or deflated – but drained.
Then I’d go through a process of pumping myself up in the morning again and off I’d go.
Until I discovered that what had me feel deflated and drained was not my expenditure of energy. The problem was my filter needed changing. Well, filter(s), really.
Metaphorically speaking.
Or at least that’s what I thought starting out.
And so I labored mightily for decades looking for better filters and postponing any interior refit until I had a good replacement in hand. Cold Mountain. Est Training. Enlightenment Intensives.
And then I discovered a shortcut. Just drop the filter: It wasn’t needed. (1)
Oh my gawd. That was so easy.
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In 2018, I had an experience of my own innocence and purity and so I feel qualified to tell you: You’re already pure and innocent. (2)
You don’t need to work to get there, any more than taking off our overcoat is work.
We just need to drop the tremendous mental and emotional load we’re pulling, uphill. (3) It was never needed and it isn’t needed now.
Far from it. It’s keeping us from our native experience of innocence and purity.
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Well, when I got that, it was very liberating. It meant that I didn’t have to postpone dropping my identified filter until I had a replacement. No replacement wanted or needed. Just drop the filter.
Now things began to pick up speed.
All of a sudden I found myself hearing from the ego a lot less: Unforeseen consequence. I found out how to cast off from the ego: Just drop it. Just stop. Just be quiet. Voluntarily. No force involved. No more than dropping a piece of luggage.
That was simple. After a lifetime of struggle, thinking I had to have a good idea to replace a bad one, I saw now that no idea was preferable.
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Well, then a heart opening blew the lid off all of it. (4) Until then, all of it is happening mostly at the intellectual level, as this event demonstrates. I never knew what love was till now.
A walk through higher dimensionality and a return to planet Earth, so to speak, and here we are. (5)
Past the heart opening, we’re in occasional realizational territory, receding back into the experiential. But intellectual feels much less inviting now than it ever did.
Right/wrong? No use for it. Gets in the way. Just drop it. Don’t replace it with anything.
No juice in thoughts any more. And … no love. I mean, real love. The kind of love we’re heading towards.
Just stay aboard the train. It’ll be brought to you.
Meanwhile I’m over here, dropping filters and enjoying life more each day. Cheaper than filling my tank every morning, too. My car runs on love. (6)
Footnotes
(1) I had a physical experience of this too. In 1969, I drove my new TR-4 across Canada on my way to Carleton University to do my master’s. But my car kept overheating. No one knew what the problem was until I came to this little rural gas station. Oh, he knew what the problem was, he said, and he removed this little tube from my carburetor and threw it away. It was doing this-a and that-a and wasn’t needed.
My car ran perfectly for the rest of its life after that.
(3) I’ll bet that’s why Jesus said his yoke was easy.
(4) When will I take the shortcut here as well and simply drop all filters?
(5) The heart opening culminated in finding myself in an Ocean of Love. Upon questioning, I was told it was a Seventh-Dimensional experience. In Ascension Ethnography, search on “Ocean of Love.” (Apparently I’ve had two experiences, according to the write-ups.)
(6) When my tank needs filling, I draw love up from my heart, which fills me up.
I’d like to continue our conversation from yesterday. (2)
Why do so few hearts survive?
As we discussed yesterday, I think the problem is inherent in the structure of our communication in a Third-Dimensional world. I’d like to take another pass at the subject. I apologize for any repetition.
Most of us, particularly men, live, whether we’re aware of it or not, only at the intellectual level of reality.
At that level, we seem to congregate around polarized intellectual questions of good/bad, right/wrong, beautiful/ugly, etc.
As far as I can see, the ego, whose pre-occupation is our survival, operates at this level to create stories throughout our lives, drawn from events, as we discussed yesterday, that represent us self-servingly.
In other words, we emerge from our carefully-groomed stories looking and sounding good, right, beautiful and all other good things.
We emerge responsible for all good outcomes and not responsible for the bad. We’re responsible for victories, not defeats; gains, not losses; fortunate outcomes, not unfortunate; etc.
In all ways, we de best.
This self-servingness works to counterbalance the criticism we get from others and the resulting lack of self-worth which seems so common in our society. All of it goes on outside the experience of love.
We create alliances with people who will agree with us and “buy” our story … I almost said, our BS. And this is as good as life gets, as long as we stay at this level. No love (not the love I have in mind); (3) just self-righteousness.
Meanwhile, in my opinion, a lot of harm is caused because, for every one that’s right, someone gets to be wrong; for good, bad; etc. That leaves a lot of bruised feelings and animosity that, these days, few hearts survive.
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The next level up is the experiential. That recognizes that there is a whole world of experience that we may be shut off to, without knowing it.
But knowing it allows us to see in a much fuller way why the other person does what they do and what it is they need.
Ask this person how they feel and they’ll likely respond: Good or not so good. If you persist, they may get disturbed as people do when asked something they don’t know. … OK, as I do when asked something I don’t know.
As a society I’d say, respectfully, that we’re out of touch with our feelings. We’re not used to observing and being aware of them. We don’t know how to name what we feel.
We don’t appear to have a well-developed emotional language. Our emotional IQ is not what it could be. And perhaps will be.
I know it took me six weeks of a twelve-week resident encounter group in 1975/6 to discover that I was out of touch with my feelings.
Our feelings are what motivate us to act. “I was so angry, I protested.” “I was so touched, I wept.” “I was so much in love, I couldn’t help myself.”
We then consult our thoughts on what to do, unless our feelings are so strong that they dictate our immediate action. Then it looks like we acted “unthinkingly.”
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Why I write is that I want to encourage folks to widen their communication net to include the experiential/emotional.
When we do, we immediately find that we’re getting the information from our partner or others that we need to make an informed and friendly decision. And they no longer feel vilified or attacked.
If we’re the listener, in my view, we need to listen for is the speaker’s feelings. We then mirror them back to confirm our understanding: You sound (disappointed, discouraged, elated). Once their feeling is acknowledged, most people appear to move on to the next subject. Interestingly.
I think, if we were able to ask folks, we’d find that one chronically felt need in our societies is our desire to be heard. Really heard. Until the speaker has had a chance to get all the pieces out there on the table. (4)
I won’t go into the subject here more than to make this plea and develop it elsewhere. In my opinion, we need to add to our intellectual sharing an emotional dimension to more authentically present ourselves and be more deeply understood.
The alternative is to engage in intellectual discussions of right/wrong, leaving residue that festers and drives separation.
If we want to be loved and appreciated by our partners in communication rather than being hated and opposed, if we want our hearts to survive, we need to expand our range of communication and eliminate the focus on good/bad, right/wrong.
Footnotes
(1) Up Where We Belong. Joe Cocker and Jenner Warnes.
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(2) See “Talking on Two Levels: Two Solitudes?”
(3) Transformative love is apparently seventh-dimensional:
Steve: The space that I call transformative love, what dimension is it?
Archangel Michael: It is the Seventh Dimension. (Archangel Michael in a personal reading with Steve Beckow through Linda Dillon, Jan. 20, 2016.)
