(Concluded from Part 1.)
Mine
How do I describe mine?
Calm. Everything else comes and goes, but the calmness remains. That is the predominant experience I have when all other experiences subside.
It doesn’t mean I’m calm under all circumstances. I don’t think I am. It means that, after all is said and done and laid to rest, I return to, and hunger for – calmness.
And this is just since I dropped my character armor in the Factory Reset. (1) I now return to a state of calmness whatever else I do. Laugh, cry, get frustrated, feel generous, I return, now, to a baseline of calmness. That is my present ground of being.
Movie Representations
There are endless shorts on Youtube about “heroes” whose ground of being, underneath everything else, was courage. If it were a battleground scene in a 1940s movie, and there was a nurse in it, she’d probably be represented as compassionate, which would be her ground of being, the state of consciousness that is enduring and which she returns to.
In the movie, when one character removes their mask and shows who they are sincerely, what they’re revealing is what I mean by “ground of being.” And this is the high point of the movie.
Logic Behind It
Yes, mine is calmness. And I even see the logic behind it. I need to be calm to receive inspiration from Michael, the Mother, and the Lord Arcturus, whom I serve. I need to be open to whatever arises while I’m breathing love up from my heart, where it lives.
I’ve probably been asked to do what I do because I value calmness, which would seem to be a prerequisite for receiving inspiration.
Calmness has side values as well, such as that love can arise in a calm individual.
Love Won’t Compete
Love won’t compete. The secret meaning of “I thy Lord am a jealous God,” is that love will not compete with worldly desires. You can choose one or the other, but not both. Love will flee. Said Krishna:
“I am all that a man may desire
Without transgressing
The law of his nature.” (2)
The whole purpose of physical life, he said, is to learn to discriminate between the Real and the unreal. (3) Why? Because, as you know, the purpose of life is…?
To know who we truly are because, when one of us realizes that, God meets God. And for that meeting was all of this created.
In my world, the way I have it rigged up is that God is realized in stillness and silence. “Be still and know that I am God.” (4) And you are God. And we are God. Do we need to know that … or just to accept it?
Footnotes
(1) Factory Reset; or, Dropping Our Character Armor at https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Factory-Reset-or-Dropping-Our-Character-Armor-R6.pdf
(2) Sri Krishna in Swami Prabhavananda and Christopher Isherwood, trans., Bhagavad-Gita. The Song of God. New York and Scarborough: New American Library, 1972; c1944, 41.
(3) Ibid, 71.
(4) Be still, and know that I am God. (Psalm 46:10.)