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07.01.25

Human Growth and Spirituality

By Steve Beckow

Posted on January 7, 2025
 
 

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.)

Steve Beckow

My notes: 
  • God the Source is unconditional love, not a zealous god of [some] dogmatic religions.
  • All articles are the responsibility of the respective authors.
  • My personal opinion: Nobody is more Anti-Semite then the Zionists.


Reminder discernment is recommended
from the heart, not from the mind
 
The Truth Within Us, Will Set Us Free. We Are ONE.
No Need of Dogmatic Religions, Political Parties, and Dogmatic Science, linked to a Dark Cabal that Divides to Reign.
Any investigation of a Genuine TRUTH will confirm IT. 
TRUTH need no protection.
 
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30.10.24

Emerging from Emerging

 

By Steve Beckow

Posted on October 29, 2024
Part 1/2
 

 

In the course of writing this article about emergence, I myself emerged.
Emergence is an ongoing process and one I regard as best adapted to lightworkers’ needs.

 

The books I wrote on emergence (1) came largely out of the work I did in the growth movement. (2)

The mainstream media did character assassinations back in the late Seventies as much as they do now. We just weren’t aware of the full picture, as we are becoming aware now.

They typified Werner Erhard and the est Training in the same way the MSM attacks people of heart and President Trump. Werner was one of the Twentieth Century’s human-growth geniuses, in my view.

If someone comes up with a great way to emerge from our woes, the MSM will annihilate it.  This is not a new plan.

We may not like the turmoil we’re  going through, but I think it speeds up growth.

It presents so many important choices. On a normal day, when peace reigns, we’ll have ordinary choices, but not choices that affect the heart of our character.

After Helene and Milton, while there was a tussle going on between the monk and the warrior, the warrior unto himself is becoming firmly set.

[I have not fully emerged yet, but the process has started.]

I know this may offend some folks. They’re not on this site to hear about war. (3)

Neither am I, by the way, but it’s here. Mass murder by hurricanes was not in my thoughts.

That I may disappoint you I just have to deal with because the fuller form that I’m emerging into is more me than what I now see as the suppressed other side of myself.

[I am slowly emerging.]

In fact, if you’ll allow me the privilege of introspection when the world is under seige, looking back, I see the whole of my life until this point as being about emerging from the suppression of my character in early childhood.

Not like that was special to me; the whole neighborhood followed the same drill-sergeant child-rearing patterns. It was the universal way of parenting in that post-war generation.

But I’m feeling a strength and solidity in my belly and chest that is both foreign and familiar to me. Foreign because I usually suppress myself before reaching this place. Familiar because the effect of emergence is that I feel more me than I did.

(Concluded in Part 2, below.)

Footnotes

(1)  See:

What these books were about is what’s happening for me right now”: Emergence. It doesn’t only happen once. It’s a progressive process – more and more and more. The whole of the growth movement could be said to have been about emergence.

(2) The three main elements of which were (A) a three-month residential encounter group at Cold Mountain Institute, (B) the est Training and its affiliated programs, and (C) enlightenment intensives.

(3) In my lifetime, I’ve always served in the role of protector. In Toronto, in 1970, I was stabbed in the back protecting an old man who was being robbed.

This kamikaze behavior can again be seen as resulting from an early vasana (core issue) born of domestic violence.  Having promised to protect my Mother in the future some day (I was seven) when she was struck by my Dad, I was now protecting as a consistent response.

You might say it’s my dharma (felt duty) to be a protector.  As testimony to that, this blog was born as a cabal-fighting blog.  Having just come out from presiding over a hearing room on discrimination and persecution (the refugee determination process), I could not stand what the cabal was doing.

On that, see “How It All Began!” July 2, 2024, at https://goldenageofgaia.com/2024/07/02/how-it-all-began/

Now of course, as Suzi says, we prefer peace.  At least I do, unless and until we’re hit by two manmade, weather-warfare hurricanes.  Then I stand up and take notice. We need both.

Emerging from Emerging

Part 2/2

 

Good on ya, mate!

(Concluded from Part 1, above.)

I feel more solid, more certain.

[I’m well into the process by now.]

I laugh when I think of a comment that Michael made:

Archangel Michael: Yes. Dear heart, you are a cement, marble, granite pillar. (1)

OK, I get it. “Marble” and “granite” don’t relate to how I deal with others as much as they relate to how I am with myself.

Yesterday I could not have said this; today I can: When I am in my warrior persona, I am in charge of myself.  In this persona, I feel, inside, like granite or marble.

[I have now emerged.]

It has nothing to do with how I relate or don’t relate to others. It’s how I am with myself. A good example of this would be J.D. Vance. You can tell he has emerged just by listening to his voice. He’s a wonderfully self-possessed person.

RFK – another. Tulsi Gabbard, Kari Lake. We are blessed with this type of person right now – no surprise.

This is what people mean when they say “he (or she) was forged in the crucible of war.” They mean that he emerged to the point where there was no inner dissent, no inner turmoil.

A house united is the only kind of house that will stand. Especially in the crucible of … listen, I have to say it. When you send two hurricanes to kill people and devastate the countryside, to me that is … war.

That doesn’t mean that the warrior displaces the monk. That could not happen because the monk is deeper, ultimately multidimensional.

It’s like TV channels. If you turn to one, you get its program. Turn to another, you get a different program. Getting one program does not mean the displacement or revision of the other.

Our personas are different; we create and employ them for different reasons and ends. They learn different lessons and may behave differently.

I’m led to believe that any one being has a multitude of aspects, past lives, and personas….

…. but that’s enough for one go!!!!

Emerging from emerging, I’ve never felt more stable and committed. The fog has lifted.

Footnotes

(1) Archangel Michael in a personal reading with Steve Beckow through Linda Dillon, July 11, 2014.
 
Steve Beckow

 

 

My notes: 
  • God the Source is unconditional love, not a zealous god of [some] dogmatic religions.
  • All articles are the responsibility of the respective authors.


Reminder discernment is recommended
from the heart, not from the mind
 
The Truth Within Us, Will Set Us Free. We Are ONE.
No Need of Dogmatic Religions, Political Parties, and Dogmatic Science, linked to a Dark Cabal that Divides to Reign.
Any investigation of a Genuine TRUTH will confirm IT. 
TRUTH need no protection.
 
Question: Why the (fanatics) Zionists are so afraid of any Holocaust investigations?
 

  
 
Visitor MapesoterismoFree counters!
 

 

 
 

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