The journey of all our lives is simply from God to God
I was off the Net for a day with a medical procedure. Which gave me time to reflect. Would you’d allow me to ramble?
What I saw was that everything I’ve written since 1987 has been impacted in some way by the vision I had that year. I’ve described it in The Purpose of Life is Enlightenment (chapter 13). (1)
I’d been saying for years that this was not an experience of enlightenment, but a teaching on it. But then I changed my mind.
No, I couldn’t have experienced the degree of bliss I did then if it was not one or another classical stage of enlightenment.
Enlightenment does not come with a label. Nor is there a guide with us to say what this particular stage of enlightenment was. But I’ve had two experiences since then in which bliss was missing. (2) And I don’t consider those enlightenment for that reason.
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Since then I’ve either been looking at a piece of that vision – for instance, the “end-goal” or the Mother’s karmic school of experience – or else my unrelated studies already underway have been shaded or nuanced by that experience.
At times I’d study beingness because that vision said plainly “you – every ‘you’ – are God.” Let me find this “you.” (Ontology.)
At times it’s wondering about the goal – “the One,” from whom we all came and to whom we all return. (Teleology.)
At times it’s just wanting the overwhelming bliss that accompanied the seeing. (Bhakti.)
Whatever it is, it keeps me moving – consciously and by choice – in the direction of knowing, feeling, being that One.
Then, enters the soul contract….
(Concluded in Part 2.)
Footnotes
(1) “Chapter 13. Epilogue” in The Purpose of Life is Enlightenment at https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Purpose-of-Life-is-Enlightenment-5.pdf
This book would have been my doctoral dissertation in Sociology had the university at the time been open to the study of enlightenment.
(2) I’ll mention one: Brahmajnana or God Realization, seventh-chakra enliughtenment. The other was the sight of the Self, at Xenia.
What Michael said of that toned-down experience is interesting when related to any stage of enlightenment:
Steve: [Emptiness of mind] was followed next by what appeared to be the kundalini [the river of gold] completing its circuit at the seventh chakra. Is that in fact what happened?
Archangel Michael: Yes. …
Steve: Interesting! Ordinarily you’d experience Brahmajnana at that point but I felt that it had been muted, toned down.
AAM: When you use the term “dramatic enlightenment experiences” [as I did earlier], you are talking about Nirvana. You are talking about the unity of all with One.
It is not to say that you will not experience that, but you cannot (well, you can if you wish; it is a choice to) simply remain in that state of unity, of One, or be fully conscious, [and be] in service, in action….
So, it is a toning down, if anything. It really is the middle ground. …
You know that enlightenment is right there in front of you. It is yours to access. But if you are in service, you will not choose to live there. …
You can think of it as keeping two feet firmly on the ground. (Archangel Michael in a personal reading with Steve Beckow through Linda Dillon, Feb. 14, 2012.)