The spirit is like a babushka doll; it has a different body on every level

I said some years ago that I needed to make some distinctions to help underpin a rebirth of personal development.

Here I’d like to distinguish between two classic avenues of unfoldment of our human potential: human growth and spirituality.

The first is body-centered as well as intellectual and manifested most clearly, in the West, in the human growth or human potential movement of the 1960-70s.

It sought to raise our sights from the merely intellectual or the intellctual alone to (the intellectual plus) the emotional/experiential. Remember my ladder of the dimensions of knowledge: intellectual, experiential, and realizational.

From the experiential, we were deemed to be well-positioned for realization. We were standing at the bus stop, so to speak. The rest was deemed to be up to God.

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. (1)

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. (2)

Cold Mountain Institute, whose three-month resident fellowship I attended in 1975-76, specialized in deepening our experiential knowledge by showing us how to release bodily and intellectual blocks.

They said they didn’t work with sick people getting well – per se. They weren’t (all) doctors and nutritionists. They worked with well people getting better.

They didn’t emphasize spiritual inquiry or practices as such. They might in passing and they might include a meditation or a “psychic” workshop in their residential retreats. But what they contributed to the pool of human knowledge by and large was the art of grounding us in our bodies and releasing our muscular and intellectual blocks.

The next stage after the experiential is the realizational.

The spiritual or realizational picks up where human growth leaves off.  It focuses on that which is in and operates the body – the unseen spirit.

It takes those “better” people, who still hunger for even more, and introduces them to the “even more.”

Courses might be offered in spiritual centers or a live-in option may be available at an ashram.

An ashram would specialize in deepening our consciousness state, through instruction in such spiritual pursuits as meditation or yoga.

“The spirit” turns out to be a Babushka doll: each dimension – and beyond – has a “body.”  Having gotten to know our own physical bodies in the human-growth work, we now get to know our other “bodies.” (3)

When it’s time, the spiritual calling happens in many ways. When I meditated on an Indian guru, whom I was later to visit, I experienced shaktipat, which I’m told translates as the bestowal of grace upon a follower.  His face came speeding out of the distance and hit my third eye.

I left the bedroom, dazed, and went into the kitchen and said to my then girlfriend, “Wow, you should see what just happened to me.” And she replied, “I can see. Go look in the mirror.” And, when I looked, my hair was standing on end.

It can start with a book falling off the shelf, a stray mention of a website, a sudden opening or vision. When your guides, archangel, and the Mother want to wake you up, they will. Well, they already have because you’re here and this is both a growth and a spiritual site. And we don’t advertise. We let Michael and the Mother bring whom they will.

And what about spiritual teachings on enlightenment? Ssocial media has changed the spiritual landscape. We don’t have to travel to India or Japan any more.  And they don’t have to travel to us.  And, besides, with the Ring of Fire or Wave of Love, everyone’s heart will be opened – for a while. What life will be like then I can hardly imagine. Imagine the whole world in deep, deep love.

I’m deeply grateful to my guides who arranged to have me do intensive human-growth work first and then introduced me to the spiritual.  I’d been reading spiritual books before this time but these days saw my first intentional actions, which were taken in growth.

I hope to see a return of the human growth movement after G/NESARA. Without it, spiritual work can sometimes, in the beginning phases at least, feel superficial.

If I skipped working with my body, I’d feel a lack of depth. I’d remain at the surface. But all that’s another article! And I’ve taxed your patience long enough!

Footnotes

(1) Bernadette Roberts, “The Path to No-Self” in Stephan Bodian, ed. Timeless Visions, Healing Voices. Freedom, CA: Crossing Press, 1991, 131.

(2) Sri Ramana Maharshi, Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi, Question 197. Downloaded from https://www.ramana-maharshi.org/books.htm, 31 August 2005.

(3) You could say we have no body above the Tenth or in the Transcendental. That’s also a way of seeing things that works. It ends up in the same place.

When I was in the Ocean of Love (seventh-dimensional), I was aware of myself as a point of awareness. This point of awareness that I was was differentiated from the Ocean of Love – which “I” was “in.”

That individuated point of awareness I still consider and refer to as a “body.”  On the Ocean of Love, search on that term in An Ascension Ethnography – Part 1 at https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/An-Ascension-Ethnography-V1-R2.pdf  Michael has verified that the tsunami of love I was in after the fourth-chakra heart opening on March 13, 1987 opened into the seventh dimension. I assume that the Ocean of Love that I ended up in at the end of that particular experience was at least seventh-dimensional. (There were no road signs.) Michael says;

Steve: The space that I call transformative love, what dimension is it?

Archangel Michael: It is the seventh dimension.

Steve: Then what dimension is bliss?

AAM: It is between eight and nine.

Steve: And ecstasy?

AAM: Twelfth.

Steve: And what about exaltation?

AAM: Then you have moved beyond. (Archangel Michael in a personal reading with Steve Beckow through Linda Dillon, Jan. 20, 2016.)

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Connecting the dots vis-a-vis our society and its institutions is fun, but not my main mission. It doesn’t feel like it is. I’ll do it as long as the cabal makes war on us. I’m in the army now, you might say, on loan to the dot-connecting department.

But my main mission remains to remind people in my writing about the centrality of love in … everything. The Mother explains:

Divine Mother: You have said to me, “Mother, what if they forget? I will remind them. I will communicate with them through words, through my passion, through my heart, through my knowing. I will communicate the love to them.”

This is your task and it is a task of change as this planet, in this great chaos, in flux, chooses, yes, by this wonderful instrument of free will, as they choose and as you choose to simply be the love. (1)

The Mother says her essence is love. Love is the sum of all enlightenment teachings and enlightenment experiences.

And of course, real love – transformative love – is the love we’ll be experiencing when the Mother’s gift of Christ Consciousness, which we call Ascension, brings that unimaginable love into our daily lives. (2)

We have our favorites. We have our self-serving bias. We have our idiosyncratic view of what’s happening in the world. And with this pre-existing filter, we set about connecting the dots from our perspective and hoping we can keep our filter, if not in check, at least in awareness.

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We may also notice the cabal’s timing with events they create, like hurricanes and wildfires.

To notice that, imagine the dots are cards in the cabal’s hand. When we get too close to discovering what’s happening with the weather, the mass media will plaster something to do with Jeffery Epstein or Puff Diddy (or the hundreds of people who used their services) on the front pages.

When people lose interest in that or it’s time to steer the hurricane of public opinion somewhere else, the cabal plays their next card – say, a mass shooting. Or a new virus. Or an assassination.

I have this picture of people at the top mandating a new direction to the mass media – and away we the public go with them. Unless we turn off the TV as I did in 2008, at SaLuSa’s invitation.

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Now I have to change direction to make a point.

I’m less and less aware of what our society is doing. Why is that? Ever since March 13, 2015, when my heart opened and a river of love that Michael later identified as seventh dimensional (3) swept me away to an Ocean of Love, I’ve had less and less interest in what the world has to offer.

I choose instead to access the love that always already flows in my heart. Compared to it, worldly pleasures don’t hold a candle.

I don’t feel it as much as during that experience but enough to keep a smile on my face every time I summon it up from my heart with my in-breath.

Consequently there isn’t a lot I want. I don’t hunger to visit Egypt or Paris. RMountains are mountains and rivers are rivers for me. I only want love.

So really, and here I may not be alone, mine is an online world because I have no desire to “see the world,” etc.

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An online world is mostly lived at the intellectual level of life so there’s a brisk trade in ideas. (4)

Online, we live in a world of ideas, most of them diualistic: right/wrong, good/bad, beautiful/ugly, etc. A world of duality.A world that is split from the get-go, rather than united.

So here, reporting for duty and connecting the dots. But I’d rather be writing about love.

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After the Reval, I’ll be under a Non-Disclosure Agreement for 90 days (plus 10 for good measure) and won’t be able to discuss, really, anything financial lest I cross a line unknowingly.

Good. We can discuss love, our star family, what needs doing in the world, the conditions of life after “death,” how consciousness works, etc., etc.

Just not finances, if you’d be so kind.

Footnotes

(1) Divine Mother in a personal reading with Steve Beckow, April 30, 2019.

(2) The Lord Arcturus equates our Ascension. with Christ Consciousness:

Lord Arcturus: Now, you have come to a planet in this and in other lifetimes to assist – yes, through communication, through clarity – with the progression of the planet through the elimination of the old third, which was really quite disastrous [to] the progression up through the fifth, through the six, to the seventh so that the planetary system will reside in a level of higher consciousness, Christed consciousness as you think of it. (Lord Arcturus in a personal reading with Steve Beckow through Linda Dillon, June 12, 2019.)

Christ consciousness is seventh-dimensional consciousness. I visited that dimension, but I don’t live there.

As a term, “the planetary system” is probably intended to include the afterlife worlds associated with Earth.

(3) 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.)

(4) But the Internet has also proven well-suited for the conveying of experience. Short and long videos allow everyone to express themselves and their feelings, without needing to be logical or reasonable or structured (think Tik-Tok).

The Internet even caters to people who live or want to live at the realizational level of life.  Well, you’re reading this blog, are you not? And this blog is based on an experience of the purpose of life. See  “Chapter 13” in The Purpose of Life is Enlightenment at https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Purpose-of-Life-is-Enlightenment-5.pdf

That purpose IS, again, enlightenment.  When we realize who we are, which is God, at that moment of enlightenment, God meets God. And for that meeting was all of this created.

That’s the target we’re all aiming for, our destination, our reason for being.

Steve Beckow

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In my opinion, most of us seem to live in the intellectual domain of life. We think of life in terms of dualities: good/bad, right/wrong, beautiful/ugly, etc.

Our discussion centers, in part, around what is, say, good and what bad and then what we like and dislike about the good and the bad.  Cotton is good for you; polyester is bad (I’m making this up). I like cotton and I don’t like polyester.

I like honey mustard; I don’t like mayonnaise. I like Nice on the Riviera; I don’t like Hawaii. I like purple; I don’t like black. On and on we go … and this is life for us. We are what we like.

The experiential realm is more about flowing with life and experience, going where it takes us and opening to the future, to what’s around the next bend.

It doesn’t necessarily result in a lot of words; communication is often by the expression and reception of feeling states, what I’ve in the past called “resonance.”

What makes an experientialist tick can be lost on an intellectual and vice versa.

We might see this as a ladder of increasingly-refined consciousness. The next rung on it is the realized state.

To call it that is to view it from a 3rd/4th-dimesional perspective. If we were to view it from a higher-dimensional perspective, we might call it the ascended state.

Then we might make distinctions between temporary visits to those higher dimensions, as in, say, heart openings or Self-Realization, and permanent ascension to the 5th dimension or higher, which is still a heart opening, but this time full and permanent.

Which perspective we choose only we can testify to. We’re all on the same one journey from God to God and there need be no judgment because one is in Place A and another in Place B.

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But I do have my druthers. I find life lived solely at the intellectual level to be similar to eating dry, uncooked oatmeal.  Life lived at the experiential level is like eating cooked oatmeal, with almond milk, cashews, raisins, and honey. Yum! Life lived at the realizational level, since it involves a love like we never imagined it to be, (1) is sublime. All thoughts of eating vanish.

Saying that, for me, is not an abstract statement. Right now I’m experiencing that love.

I wonder if I’d be accurate in saying that all realizations are simply deeper and deeper experiences of love. I’d be willing to make that as a testable hypothesis.

All realizations are simply deeper and deeper experiences of love. There. Now I need to try it on and test it out.

Footnotes

(1) 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

Steve Beckow

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