Independence is a must!

I get to see that I’ve been taking something Michael said to me far too superficially.

This dawning awareness or realization is coming simultaneous with me claiming more of my personal authority, which I’ve been calling my “Adult” state, but which we usually call our Universal Self. (1)

I merged with my Universal Self quite some time ago so the connection is established. (2) I see us as a Slinky, with him in the higher realms.

I believe Michael was referring to this very situation when he said:

Archangel Michael: A very large quotient, shall we say, of you is living … in the higher-dimensional realm. Then there is a part of you that is in fact in the, shall we say, the morass of the chaos in the lower (for lack of a better term) dimensional realm because that is where the work is. (3)

I always regarded that statement as cryptic. If that’s so, why am I such a bumbler? And why don’t I have more compassion, etc.?

But I’m now beginning to see more exactly what he may have been saying.

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Specifically, what Michael said that I’ve been taking superficially is my need for independence. I think he stressed that more over time because I was ready to hear it more over time. I was emerging.

He first stressed the need to have “an independent voice” soon after we began our readings together:

Archangel Michael: There is need for an independent voice, a voice that not only delivers the message of your star brothers and sisters, but takes into account the climate and the evolution, the spiritual, mental and emotional evolution of the beings upon the planet and Gaia herself, and in that acts as a translator for the highest good of all. …

I will help you, obviously. (4)

Well, thank you for that reassurance, Lord! Sounds like I’ll need it!

On another occasion he stated:

AAM: Remember, dear heart, what we have said: you build the foundation for communication with the humans and with your star brothers and sisters; you build the ethical platform. (5)

Ok, that was helpful at getting at the need for independence.

I could give you a page of quotes in which he stresses the theme – financially, editorially, administratively, etc. Let me give just a few so you get the flavor:

AAM: You are standalone. We are a stand-alone and it is important that this truly be adhered to. (6)

AAM: Dear heart, do not allow yourself to become the spokesbeing of any view or group – your independence is critical at this juncture (as it was during the times of Galatia) – do not waver. (7)

AAM: The blog site has need to retain its independence as an independent entity that has been in place and strongly formed and anchored prior to any establishment of the [Michaelangelo] foundation and the various, can we say, fingers or elements of that foundation.

 It needs editorial independence. It needs policy independence. It needs direction independence and financial independence.

The blog site has need — and there is reason for this that will become apparent later — it has need to be an independent platform. (8)

I get it at an intellectual level. How and when am I going to get it at a deeper, experiential level? And realize it? (9)

Moreover he’s pruned the tree of my relationships so that no conflicts might arise for me when my humanitarian work begins post-Reval:

AAM: We don’t want you to feel or to be beholden – financially, emotionally or spiritually – to anybody. …

We are setting up ways in which this, can we almost say, removes you from those heartstrings so that there is wisdom and balance and an understanding of the higher good [in your decision-making]. (10)

It’s all about balance. It’s all about remaining in the middle. The middle is a portal to the higher dimensions. When we remain in the middle that portal opens. (11)

I know that now. I didn’t ten years ago.

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Finally I got it. All of this is in aid of, and would be utterly useless without, me experiencing – and, better still, realizing – my always-already-existing inner independence.

I give that independence away, as we all do, to people who play a role in my life.

Without becoming a dictator, which would be to move to the extreme in another direction, I’m to stop allowing myself to be swayed in my decisions by unhealthy, in the worst case co-dependent, interactions.

My overall independence is affected by external circumstances. If this were WWII, my outer independence might be curtailed in important ways. I might cede it to the state for the duration of the war as a matter of patriotic loyalty. But always we retain the inner power of choosing.

If the state is corrupt, as most of ours are, we can choose not to obey it. And it’d be for the highest good of all that we do so.

I think Michael is referring to this much deeper level and meaning of independence. The kind of thing we’re referring to when we talk about things like co-dependency or slavishness. That which is co-dependent or slavish must now re-establish its sense of independence.

Being independent of outside influences is one part of it; being independent of “inside” influences is even more important; that includes friends and relatives more than colleagues and associates.

What I see in my own case is that, once we see what it is we’re really talking about, once we see what “independence” may mean at deeper levels, we simply drop the acts and routines we run that stand in the way of experiencing that independence. We just stop.

That’s all it takes because we’re naturally independent. We’re also naturally pure and innocent. Just look at Amelia:

A little child shall lead them.

Our acts and numbers – our pretense and image management – are no longer useful. We’ve outgrown them. We no longer need them where we’re going. And I now see that.

This is another example of realization transforming the way we live life almost effortlessly, in the sense that, after realization, we just drop what has not been working so far. The way of awareness may take vigilance and effort, but in all else it’s easy.

Footnotes

(1) See “Who’s Behind the Curtain?” and “Big Steve Writing” in Let’s Go! Let’s Grow! The Renaissance of Human Growth Vol. 1. Awareness at https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Lets-Go-Lets-Grow-V1-Awareness-R10.pdf

(2) See “’Is This What You’re Looking for?’ – Part 1/2,” in An Ascension Ethnography. Part 1 at https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/An-Ascension-Ethnography-Part-1.pdf

(3) Archangel Michael in a personal reading with Steve Beckow through Linda Dillon, Jan. 18, 2020. (Hereafter AAM.)

(4) Ibid., April 26, 2011.

(5) Ibid., April 10, 2012.

(6)Ibid., Nov. 26, 2019.

(7) Ibid., July 7, 2011.

(8) Ibid., Feb. 7, 2013.

(9) “Truth begins as intellectual knowledge, but can never manifest into expression until realized. (The Arcturian Group. Channelled by Marilyn Raffaele, January 10, 2016, at http://goldenageofgaia.com/2016/01/11/the-arcturian-group-via-marilyn-raffaele-january-10-2016/.

On the levels of knowledge, see: