Looking for anyone longing for bliss….
By Steve Beckow, September 27, 2022
(Golden Age of Gaia)
Remember the scene in the Abyss, where the alien column of water, with a face on its front, snaked around the research station?
That’s how I feel at times. A head on a body and the head is snaking around the world.
Once I was sampling its wares but, ever since my heart opened on March 13, 2015, I’ve switched. (1) I’m now longing for internal states like love and bliss, not so much sushi any more.
And like the alien column of water, I’m snaking around looking for others also longing for these blissful internal states.
The internal states – the divine qualities that I committed to a few months back – have come to dominate my longing. I use the word “longing” on purpose. I’m not talking about a need or a desire. Those are more immediate than a longing.
For me a longing is a subsensible and subtidal thirst. It uplifts me but is “sweet sorrow” in that it’s more drawn out than a desire or a need.
I’ve discussed the parent of these longings many times – the longing for liberation or longing for God. I’ll mention it again in the footnotes. (2) This is distinctly that longing showing up in everyday life.
It’s accompanied by a falling away of worldly tastes. What previously interested me no longer does. I’m taken up, most days, with the desire to experience the divine states.
Much, much further down this path we’d be called divinely inebriated, as was Sri Ramakrishna. (3)
It’s very ironic to see that what we used to call a “high” in the Sixties is what I’d now call “bliss.” I now get it from my heart, but back then I’d never have thought to look for bliss there.
Michael encourages me:
“Allow yourself to find this balance – and of course we will help – of being in the bliss, infusing the bliss into the words, knowing and understanding the pain and suffering and disappointment of those who are still in the midst of [their cleansing]. But do not feel, sweet brother, that you have to join them. ” (4)
He described what I went through in my life to get to bliss to a T, in 2017:
AAM: Think of it this way. With the ability to truly feel, to a greater extent, what you have termed as bliss, as love and to carry that constantly, there comes a period of adjustment.
[It’s as] if you had a terrible fracture in your leg and you hobbled and were in pain for months on end and then the pain begins to ease and then the physiotherapy is over and then you are walking along because it is no longer December and it is July and you are filled with vim and vigor.
And you are rushing along, through the mountain paths, smelling the fresh air and seeing the summer sunshine. You feel entirely different.
The human heart, the esoteric heart, the spiritual heart, the seat of your soul in many ways was fractured [early in life]. In the truth of Ascension, this is what you are doing: Healing and opening to a greater capacity of love consciousness.
Now as you get used to that, your behaviors, what you choose to do in very small personal ways, human interaction ways, interactions with your beloveds and your family all change. The grumpies go away, dear heart!
[This has proven to be so true!]
And what you choose to do with your days, with your weeks, with your creative energies changes. It is actually so straightforward and it does not mean (although for some it will) that everybody quits working or gets a new job.
But how one goes about that job and that daily journey is so different that it feels like a different planet, a different existence, a different realm, a different world. (5)
Only my shyness has me not spend much more time breathing bliss up from my heart than I do. I don’t want to get too far out of step with my society at a time like this.
But I’m going to spend some time practicing breathing now. Visit; don’t stay. (6)
Later
I’ve given myself permission to experience bliss more often. While washing dishes, riding the bus, shopping for groceries….
I somehow don’t feel comfortable unless I’m pushing the envelope. If I don’t, a divine restlessness, as one sage called it, sets in.
To send bliss to this divine restlessness is to put water on a burning fire. I forget the restlessness instantly, just as a baby ceases crying when it gets its bottle. Bliss pacifies and satisfies me completely. It quenches my divine thirst.
Here I go. Out on the skinny branches again….
Footnotes
(1) See An Ascension Ethnography at https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/An-Ascension-Ethnography-5.pdf, pp. 59-3.
(2) [The] longing for liberation is the will to be free from the fetters forged by ignorance — beginning with the ego-sense and so on, down to the physical body itself — through the realization of one’s true nature. (Shankara in Swami Prabhavananda and Christopher lsherwood, Shankara’s Crest-Jewel of Discrimination. Hollywood: Vedanta Press, 1975; c1947, 36.)
All things long for [God]. The intelligent and rational long for it by way of the stirrings of being alive and in whatever fashion befits their condition. (Pseudo-Dionysius in Cohn Luibheid, trans., Pseudo-Dionysus, His Complete Works. New York and Mahwah: Paulist Press, 1989, 54.)
See “Ch. 7. The Longing for Liberation” in The Purpose of Life is Enlightenment at https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Purpose-of-Life-is-Enlightenment.pdf
(3) “In that state of God-intoxication I used to speak out my mind to all. I was no respecter of person. Even to men of position I was not afraid to speak the truth.” (Paramahansa Ramakrishna in Nikhilananda, Swami, trans. The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna. New York: Ramakrishna-Vivekananda Center, 1978; c1942, 118.) [Hereafter PR in GSR.]
“When one gets into such a state of mind, one doesn’t enjoy any conversation but that about God. I used to weep when I heard people talk about worldly matters.” (PR in GSR, 119.)
(4) Archangel Michael in a personal reading with Steve Beckow through Linda Dillon, March 23, 2016. [Hereafter AAM.]
(5) AAM, Dec. 20, 2017.
(6) 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.)
A sort of astral traveller and travel writer rather than a spiritual seeker and teacher.