Thank you to Wendy in New Zealand, and Tom (I think) in America for their supportive emails. They were like gas in my tank.
I said to Wendy that one can create a product and give it away for free, charge nothing for a blog, found the blog in transparency (as much as is safe and advisable in a world that currently ridicules non-conformity and perceived threats) and still get accused of scamming people.
I can laugh now.
What you shared about your own relationship with the blog really touched me. The only real feedback I have is if I were occasionally to look at the numbers of views each article gets. I think I do that once every 3-4 years.
So your sentiments were very much appreciated.
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I wanted to say a few words about my own intention to begin reformulating and re-creating journalism, commentary, and other forms of social media and communication in a way that works for everyone – as Werner Erhard has said, an “us-and-them” approach instead of an “us-against-them” approach.
You can see that even our alt.right blogs are at least passionate, often judgmental, and very patriotic. Journalism can get lost in so many commitments and such deep but unseen biases.
I began my historical career studying discrimination in the context of racism. (1) I ended my career, interestingly enough, deciding the merits of refugee claims. I’m delighted to now have the opportunity to help build a new chapter in that history that lets go of biases like racism and religion.
Meanwhile, in my very first reading with him, Michael asked me to take a lead in calling for world peace:
Archangel Michael: Your job is to participate and to lead in a worldwide peaceful revolution, for peace the time is now. …
And we do not mean an absence of war. We mean the presence of peace as you have been describing it. (2)
I confirmed that my role was in writing and he agreed. (3) I’ve described the actual experience of peace as a divine state elsewhere. (4)
I have no aspirations to appear on talk shows or give interviews. That’s not me. Besides I have no memory even if it were me. I can forget what I was saying in mid-sentence. You don’t see that in writing.
Rather, what I wanted to say is that if Michael wants me to work “very much on a very global level,” (5) then I need to discover how to write globally; that is, so that anyone anywhere can understand me.
That required me to find out, for myself, what is basic to a global approach in communication. What is the basic, the fundamental universal, equivalent to a cultural universal (the symbol), a biological universal (the cell), and a physical universal (it used to be an atom; don’t know what it is now).
For me, what is basic are the divine qualities or consciousness states, prominent among them love.
Matthew Ward called them the key to Ascension:
Matthew Ward: Your ‘travel ticket’ is the absorption of light that comes automatically with living in godly ways. (6)
“Living in godly ways” is living in or living up to the divine states (love, bliss, peace, compassion, etc.).
The truth of this statement becomes immediately apparent when one is in the experience of a divine quality. Following my 4th-chakra heart opening, I was completely astonished by the love I found myself immersed in.
It solved all my problems in one second by giving me what I came to realize was everything I wanted. That’s how satisfying that love is.
After the experience subsided, my heart remained open enough that I can breathe higher-dimensional love up from it and experience it. I then send it out to the world (because love must flow). (7) That experience of transformative love revives me.
I actually don’t know how I’d do this work if I did not have access to it.
So I’m forging ahead to redesign communications based on the universality and desirability of the divine states.
Thank you, Wendy and Tom, for reviving me. And thank you, Michael, for another example of living by the divine states, if even this time seen in the mirror. (8)
Footnotes
(1) See :
- S.M. Beckow, “From the Watchtowers of Patriotism; English-Canadian Novelists on Canadian Society,” Journal of Canadian Studies, Aug. 1974.
- “Keeping British Columbia White”: Anti-Orientalism in the West, 1858-1949. National Museum of Man/National Film Board, 1974.
(2) Archangel Michael in a personal reading with Steve Beckow through Linda Dillon, Feb. 18, 2011. (Hereafter AAM.) This was my first reading with Michael.
(3) Steve: So it looks like my leadership is in writing.
AAM: Correct…. And in pointing the way. (AAM, Aug. 2, 2019.)
(4) See “The Peace that Passeth Understanding,” July 18, 2017, at http://goldenageofgaia.com/2017/07/18/the-peace-that-passeth-understanding/.
(5) AAM: You have known that the time would come when we would ask you to work very much on a very global level. And this is the beginning of that undertaking. You have already built a very firm foundation for this to occur and for this we thank and bless you. (AAM, Nov. 30, 2011.)
(6) Matthew’s Message, Dec. 21, 2008, at https://www.matthewbooks.com.
(7) Sri Ramakrishna: Love is one of the patterns of the Mother. Love will always flow. It will never stand still. The Mother is energy, movement. In her universal aspect, she never stands still. Were she do so, the world would return to its Origin. Love is her energy and the flow of love is her movement. It supports the world; comprises it; and dissolves it in the end. The Divine Mother [is] the Primal Energy. (Paramahansa Ramakrishna in Swami Nikhilananda, trans., The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna. New York: Ramakrishna-Vivekananda Center, 1978; c1942, 116.)
Archangel Michael: Love is a fluid energy. It has need to flow and so, when it does not flow, it becomes … well, as you put it, it can become dry and brittle. It has need to be given and received above, below, within, without and in every which way. (AAM, April 30, 2019.)
(8) The mirror effect has us project our own faults and sins onto others. I d0n’t scam others so the allegation that I’m scamming must reflect something to do with the accuser, rather than myself; i.e., it’s a projection. Our commonsense acknowledgment of this is the rejoinder, “It takes one to know one.”