By Steve Beckow, April 26, 2022
(Golden Age of Gaia)
Beyond the Beyond – Part 1/2
I just realized that the reason I kept pressing Archangel Michael to tell me what lies beyond the twelve material domains … and then what lay beyond that, beyond the beyond … is that I’m trying to recreate – or even visualize, grasp – in real life 3D terms what I was shown in my wordless 1987 vision. (1)
In my vision, the small golden star of the Self, Christ, Atman left the domain of the Mother (mater, matter), raced back to the large Golden Sun (Father, Parabrahman, Godhead), and plunged into it, never to reappear.
Then I find out from the Divine Mother and others that, no, we don’t disappear. We re-emerge burnished brilliant. (2)
So my vision is surely incomplete. But it’s interesting to watch myself try to hitch a ride with anyone who knows what lies beyond the beyond. What is the road back to the Father?
Immediately I see that someone may know the way Home, my ears prick up. How do I complete the vision-map from here to There?
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My (and our) view of the journey Home has evolved over the decades.
In the 1970s, the turiya, the fourth state, or Brahmajnana was “the beyond”; it was “full” and “complete” enlightenment. It saw the kundalini complete its circuit in the crown chakra. What more could there be to life?
Anyone there who still had vasanas or core issues was excused as showing “crazy wisdom.” Not. Brahmajnana is not when the vasanas are eliminated. Among other things.
Later the turiyatita, the overcomer of the fourth state or Brahmajnana, which we’d call an ascended one, (3) was considered to have gone ‘beyond the beyond.” And so on through the twelve dimensions, ascending always.
Still later, we brought the trans-dimensional Transcendental into view, past the twelve dimensions, and that was “beyond to the third power.”
Now we see mention of a new level of Reality from Sri Ramakrishna. Is that “beyond to the fourth power?”
The introduction of this new (to me) level of Reality is relevant to those angelics who want to know where they’re from. Not least because where we came from is where we’re going to.
Sri Ramakrishna’s biographer, Swami Nikhilananda, says:
“[As he rose in consciousness] Ramakrishna saw seven venerable sages absorbed in meditation. These, he thought, must have surpassed even the gods and goddesses in wisdom and holiness, and, as he was admiring their unique spirituality, he saw a portion of the undifferentiated Absolute become congealed, as it were, and take the form of a Divine Child.” (4) [My emphasis.]
Say what? “A portion of the undifferentiated Absolute.” Beyond even the Transcendental? Put a bookmark here. This is new.
Since Sri Ramakrishna was that Divine Child, we’re actually seeing him descend from this “Absolute” to the Transcendental. Is this not how an “avatar” is born?
In a second discussion, Sri Ramakrishna watches two groups of his disciples in Duality and the Transcendental, from his vantage point in the “indivisible Satchidananda,” which I interpret to be this same Absolute from which he’s come.
“I have had many amazing visions. I had a vision of the Indivisible Satchidananda. Inside It I saw two groups with a fence between them. On one side were Kedar, Chuni, and other devotees who believe in the Personal God. On the other side was a luminous space like a heap of red brick-dust. Inside it was seated Narendra immersed in samādhi. Seeing him absorbed in meditation, I called aloud, ‘Oh, Narendra!’ He opened his eyes a little. … Kedār, a believer in the Personal God, peeped in and ran away with a shudder.” (5)
We already know that Narendra hales from the Transcendental. The Seven Sages were said to be located there – individuated, I might add.
Ramakrishna described himself appearing on the Transcendental level from the Absolute.
So here we have devotees, seen from the Absolute, in both the Transcendental (Narendra) and Duality, the dimensional world (Kedar, Chuni … us). Hmmm….
Fast forward to the present day and here’s Archangel Michael, seeming to refer to this same Absolute “level” of Reality that Ramakrishna was viewing from, when he says:
Archangel Michael: Now we also know that deep space contains many other galaxies so keep going and keep going and keep going. Now, when you have gone through all of that, think of it as being contained in a bubble; go outside the bubble; that’s where we are.
Steve: Aah. So, transcendental space.
AAM: Yes. But, also at times the space – now we are going to really confuse you – the space in-between the spaces.
We occupy often the space between the spaces. We come from Source.
Steve: Right. Wow!
AAM: Yes, it is bigger than you think. (6)
It was bigger than I thought. I didn’t bookmark his comment in 2014. I just wasn’t open enough at that time to let in what to an awakened spiritual cartographer is a stupifying statement. A new continent. A new world.
It’s taken eight years for his words to gestate and be born.
(Concluded in Part 2, tomorrow.)
Footnotes
(1) For the substance of the vision, see “The Purpose of Life is Enlightenment – Ch. 13 – Epilogue,” August 13, 2011, at https://goldenageofgaia.com/2011/08/13/the-purpose-of-life-is-enlightenment-ch-13-epilogue/
(2) Divine Mother: Each of you is infinite and eternal. Will the day come, in terms of what you think of as time, when you will simply re-emerge [from Union]? Yes. But even that is an instant. (“The Divine Mother on the Divine Plan” from 2012, reported Nov. 11, 2015, at http://goldenageofgaia.com/2015/11/11/the-divine-mother-on-the-divine-plan/.)
Archangel Michael: And when you go home, … you can reunite in the heart of One. Do not think that you go off on another tangent or another journey simply because you feel like it or because you are earning your way back [on] that linear path. You go back out into the universe as a brilliant spark of pure light!
So you come, you return, you gain not only understanding, wisdom, knowledge – what you can think of as spiritual regeneration – and then, in concert with many, including your guides and guardian angels and, many times, whoever you are going to be working with – for example, myself or Archangel Raphael – you emerge again.” (Archangel Michael, An Hour with an Angel, March 26, 2012, at http://the2012scenario.com/2012/03/archangels-michael-and-gabriel-on-the-angelic-realm-hour-with-an-angel-transcript-march-26-2012/.)
Classical enlightenment theory does not teach that we re-emerge once we merge with the One.
(3) Seventh-chakra enlightenment is known by various names: Turiya (the Fourth State), Brahmajnana, God-Realization, the first experience of “the transcendental.” But it is still in the 3rd/4th Dimension.
To ascend to the higher dimensions, one must overcome the Turiya, becoming a turiyatita. Other names for this overcoming are Sahaja Nirvikalpa Samadhi (our natural state), vijnana (perfected wisdom), Ascension, Salvation, Redemption, buddhahood, moksha, mukti, liberation from birth and death, etc.
(4) Swami Nikhilananda, trans. Vivekananda: The Yogas and Other Works. New York: Ramakrishna-Vivekananda Center, 1953, 14.
(5) Paramahansa Ramakrishna in Nikhilananda, Swami, trans. The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna. New York: Ramakrishna-Vivekananda Center, 1978; c1942, 810.
(6) “Archangel Michael on the Angelic Kingdom,” June 13, 2014, at http://goldenageofgaia.com/2014/06/13/archangel-michael-on-the-angelic-kingdom/.
By Steve Beckow, April 27, 2022
(Golden Age of Gaia)
Beyond the Beyond – Part 2/2
What lies beyond the purple? Hildegard of Bingen’s vision.
This discussion has been gathered together into one volume. Download a copy of An Explosion in the Meaning of Humanness here: https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/An-Explosion-in-the-Meaning-of-Humanness-4.pdf
(Concluded from Part 1, yesterday.)
As my research progressed, I came across the Divine Mother referring to the Absolute as the “Heart of One” and “Home.”
Divine Mother: Now, in this journey — for some of you it is millennia, for some of you it is eons; it matters not — there is a drive and an understanding, an intellectual and spiritual understanding that your drive is to make the U-turn and to come back Home, to return Home to the Heart of One where you are so welcome. (1)
She adds “…until such time as you choose to emanate again,” upsetting current theories that we merge with the One and are finished with individuation. (2)
So now I’m convinced, until I see compelling evidence to the contrary, that a level exists beyond the Transcendental.
The Divine Mother calls it “Home” and “the Heart of One”; Archangel Michael calls it “Source” and “the space between the spaces”; Sri Ramakrishna calls it the “Absolute” and “the indivisible Satchidananda.” These are sources I trust.
This has many takeaways for me.
The first is personal. If that next level really is Source, the Absolute, or Home, (2) then I’ve completed my mission to map out the way back to God by the successive levels. The Dimensions —> The Transcendental —> The Absolute.
I’ve fulfilled the promise of the vision at the intellectual level. Ordinarily I’d set about experiencing and realizing these three levels – I don’t know how far I’d get!!! – if I were not a lightworker.
As a lightworker, I forgo my own personal enlightenment to remain in sync with those I serve. (3) As you go up, so I go up. (4) And as a pillar, (5) I’m here to the end so you all will have gone ahead of me! So hurry up so I can go up too.
I may only get to map it out here and leave it to the loveholders and yogis – and early ascenders – to confirm.
Another takeaway is that, if we are angelics, then the Absolute, the space between the spaces is the level of reality that we reach back into. When we reflect on that, we can understand the many discussions of how masterful we all are and what we’re capable of.
If what I’ve said so far is true, it doesn’t mean we’re going to change in a phone booth into our Superman and Superwoman costumes. Not if we have lightworker contracts to serve the ascending, including Gaia.
But that leads to a third takeaway: Does it not instill confidence to know that, outside this assignment, you hale from regions so sublime that we could not possibly imagine them?
Speak of divine authority, can we not imagine the spiritual power vested in us if we were to gather as one voice, demanding a cessation to all war? Immediately? Because we say so?
When one tries on the context that we’re all angelics, it puts a whole new light on such things as mass meditations. It opens up one fantastic opportunity and possibility after another.
Footnotes
(1) “Divine Mother: My Desire is that Every Being on the Planet Falls in Love,” October 3, 2014, at http://goldenageofgaia.com/2014/10/03/divine-mother-my-desire-is-that-every-being-on-the-planet-falls-in-love/. I’m leaving the discussion of the Thirteenth Octave for now to Linda Dillon.
(2) Loc. cit.
Probably inspired by St. Paul’s version of mergence:
“And when all things [all worldly desires] shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son [the Self, the Christ, the individuated spark] also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all [i.e., reunited].” (St. Paul in 1 Corinthians 15:28.)
The impression left is that we cease to exist as individuals. I by the way agreed with that view.
(3) Archangel Michael: 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. (Archangel Michael in a personal reading with Steve Beckow through Linda Dillon, Feb. 14, 2012.)
(4) Archangel Michael: Because you are a communicator, it is important not only to share the truth of your being, of our being, but also to be able to clearly relate to people where they are. (Ibid., April 19, 2017.)
AAM: It is important that you speak and communicate in language that people understand, embrace and can get behind. (Ibid., Feb. 7, 2013.)
AAM: If you venture, as you would often like, too far ahead of the crowd, then who are you speaking to? (Ibid., Aug. 21, 2015.)
(2) The vast preponderant probability is that the truth value (shelf life) of this statement on the Absolute may be one year at best. But by then we’ll have ascertained the next stepping stone.
(3) “Divine Mother: My Desire is that Every Being on the Planet Falls in Love,” ibid.
(4) Steve: The experience [of the Self] at Xenia, Mother, was that truncated?
Divine Mother: Slightly, yes.
Steve: I had the thought [it was]. … The Light I saw should have been brighter than a thousand suns. The fact that it wasn’t suggests to me that the experience was truncated. …
DM: It was not is brilliant as possible, let us put it that way.
Steve: Alright… And again, the reason is to keep me in sync with my readers?
DM: To keep you in sync with your readers. But let me be very clear…. [if you had seen] the light as it actually is – yes, a million, billion suns – you would have simply departed. …
We don’t mean die but you would have departed the life that you have designed – yes, with us – for yourself, for the service you are providing – you would have departed and simply said, ‘I do not need to do this. I will just simply sit in the bliss of love and good luck, everybody!’” (Divine Mother in a personal reading with Steve Beckow through Linda Dillon, Oct. 26, 2018.)
(5) A pillar is a person whose lightworker service contract includes remaining here until the end, to assist the stragglers to climb aboard. A pillar can visit the higher realms, but not stay.
Archangel Michael: There is much to be said for Everyman, and that is part of the role you play. Yes, you are a pillar. You are an anchor. You’re [a monitor] but you’re also playing the role of Everyman – with curiosity, with exploration, with insight. So our desire is not to separate you from the collective. (Ibid., Nov. 11, 2015.)
AAM: I remind you that you are a pillar, that you [are] not [to] venture too far ahead of where people are, both individually in terms of your smaller circle but also in terms of the collective. …
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 the morass of the chaos and the lower-dimensional realm because that’s where the work is. (Archangel Michael in a personal reading with Steve Beckow through Linda Dillon, Jan. 18, 2020.)
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