Rippling down through the ages
We tend to think about consciousness by reducing it, which is itself unknowable, to something we do know.
Consciousness is like the sea and we are rendered as fish swimming in it.
Consciousness is like the air and we are birds flying through it.
Consciousness is like the screen and we are images projected onto it.
I’ve experienced myself as a point of consciousness in an Ocean of Love. That’s as close as I came to knowing what consciousness is. (1)
That Ocean was everything but me. “I” was aware of “it.” But I did not “know” it.
It was the object of my awareness. And so long as I was seeing objects, I was not Home free yet. Let me keep going until there is only the Subject. (2)
Perhaps then I’ll know what consciousness is, if there remains a “me” and any memory of a desire for anything.
But what a marvellous sight, to see love everywhere, on some unknown dimension, some unnamed level.
Nonetheless, the truth of the matter is that, despite that experience, I still have no greater idea what consciousness is, nor do any other spiritual experiences I’ve had help me in this regard.
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What is collective consciousness-raising? Through education and social activism, we raise the individual consciousness on various subjects like gender equality, child trafficking, the need for peace, etc.
We need to do much more of that on an ever-widening circle to introduce into the collective consciousness a strong push towards world peace and an end to New World Order domination.
When do we begin to consciously seed the collective consciousness with streamers of peace, love, and truth? Harmony, joy, and gratitude? That’s what’s wanted and needed.
Our sources do tell us that doing this makes a difference; Mike Quinsey, for instance.
“The more of you that send out thoughts of world peace the more you are speeding up its arrival and it cannot be ignored. You would be surprised at how much influence your thoughts can have on the population. Your only difficulty is getting sufficient people to project harmonious thoughts that have the power to bring about change.” (4)
But we don’t seem to value things like mass meditations.
Matthew Ward told us some time ago that our global transformation could be effected in an instant if the concept that it could do so was already in the collective consciousness.
“Your world could be transformed into the Golden Age in the twinkling of an eye IF that belief and vision were in the collective consciousness, but it is not and so all the changes will be a process.” (5)
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Ivo of Vega says that we don’t recognize the power of the collective consciousness:
“The truth of the matter is, my love, that Earth is undergoing a process of raising the collective consciousness. So many on the planet do not even understand what that is, are not interested in it, and would scoff at it because this is a typical reaction of someone who feels they are being made to look foolish.
“They chest beat whenever they hear something that is true that they do not believe in themselves, in order to falsify the truth bringer. This is an extremely childish, and I might add reptilian, reaction to the truth.” (6)
We first have to establish and have accepted the notion of a collective consciousness itself and then begin to impact it with mass meditations, films, videos, etc. We may have to do that in the face of the ridicule Ivo points to.
We’ll find out what works and what doesn’t to raise social awareness and increase the love we have for each other in our society, love that will bring peace in its train.
We do know that it only takes a change of vote by a very small margin of the population to shift a trend or point of view. The trend we want to shift is from war to peace, from hatred and division to love and unity.
Focusing on collective consciousness-raising today, in my view, is the gap to fill. I think that filling that gap is what will produce the transformation of our society. I think it’s implicit in Mother saying, “this drawing together of people is how Nova Earth will be built and Ascension occur.” (7) I hope we use the social media of the future to create coalitions of love and peace, to draw together in a statement that we want to see the end of war on Earth.
Speak to our audience, yes. But also speak to the future too. Because we’re creating it right now. What we’re doing will ripple down through the ages.
Footnotes
(1) See “Point of Awareness in an Ocean of Love – Part 1″ in An Ascension Ethnography at https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/An-Ascension-Ethnography-4.pd
(2) If you wish to pursue this topic, see Franklin Merrell-Wolff, The Philosophy of Consciousness without an Object. New York: Julian Press, 1973.
For interest’s sake: Merrell-Wolff was, according to Michael, ascended before he began to write. Along with Ramakrishna, Ramana Maharshi, and Yogananda, Franklin Merrell-Wolff is one of my favorites.
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Steve: A question about Franklin Merrell-Wolff. What level of enlightenment or dimension did he achieve?
Archangel Michael: He primarily operates in the 7th [Christ Consciousness] to the 11th [Mastery].
Steve: Okay. Because he speaks about the transcendental and I don’t know if he’s pointing to Brahmajnana [7th-Chakra enlightenment, jnana], which is the first taste of the transcendental, or beyond the 12th dimension [to the Transcendental Realm]?
AAM: No, he did not travel beyond [the 11th].
Steve: So, when I read him, and it’s such a rich book [in this case, Pathways through to Space], I don’t know how to map the experiences that he talks about. The high indifference, what dimension was that?
AAM: When you think of high indifference, it is not a matter of not caring but it it is a matter of the clarity of perspective and the clarity of perspective is a trait of mastery so that is the 11th dimension.
Steve: Isn’t that interesting. When did he break away from the third dimension? Which of his experiences was that?
AAM: Actually, he broke away from the restriction, shall we say it that way, of the third dimension long before he ever started to truly practice or write.
Steve: So, he was always doing it as an ascended being?
AAM: That is correct. (Archangel Michael in a personal reading with Steve Beckow through Linda Dillon, Jan. 18, 2020.) [Hereafter AAM.]
In the body! If that doesn’t blow apart the belief that most people leave the body after simple Brahmajnana (3D, 7th-chakra enlightenment), I don’t know what will. Our spiritual beliefs are falling by the wayside.
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Merrell-Wolff implies that he has ascended (Liberation):
Franklin Merrell-Wolff: I cannot too strongly emphasize the fact that Liberation [what we call Ascension] is no more the end of life than is a college commencement the end of the young man or woman who graduates. It is simply the end of one stage and the beginning of another. The really worthwhile Life begins after Liberation.
When this new Freedom is attained, a Man may return Home, as it were, and spend a long period enjoying the warmth and comfort of that Home. On the other hand, He may return and continue with his chosen profession on a larger field [as Merrell-Wolff did].
Some, who have been highly exhausted by their labors at college, may need a long rest, but obviously Those who are strong should occupy Themselves with the Activities of Real Life. (Franklin Merrell-Wolff, Pathways Through to Space. A Personal Record of Transformation in Consciousness. New York: Julian Press, 1973, 89.)
(3) Steve: Can you help me make sense of returning to my interdimensionality while not becoming a guru figure.
Archangel Michael: It is very simple: Visit; don’t stay. (AAM, May 6, 2013.)
(4) “Mike Quinsey’s Higher Self Message, April 29, 2022,”
(5) Matthew’s Message, Oct. 22, 2008, at https://www.matthewbooks.com.
(6) “Ivo of Vega: The Hard Truth on the Truth,” via Sharon Stewart, April 30, 2022, at https://goldenageofgaia.com/2022/04/30/ivo-of-vega-the-hard-truth-on-the-truth/.
(7) “Divine Mother and Archangel Michael: How the New Society and Ascension will be Achieved,” November 17, 2013, at https://goldenageofgaia.com/2013/11/17/how-the-new-society-and-ascension-will-be-achieved/.