What's the Significance and Effectiveness of Personal Cleansing? | Steve Beckow

By Steve Beckow, August 31, 2020

Example of Realization: Archimedes. Not that kind of cleansing though and don’t run down the street naked

All this personal cleansing that I’m doing – and we’re doing – what’s its significance and how effective is it?

The significance of personal cleansing is that it removes the various obstacles to realization (enlightenment).

I’ve talked about the obstacles as vasanas (or core issues), habitual behavior patterns, and … I now see … the inner critic or Constant Comment.

There may be more obstacles that I’m not aware of. But, combined, they are what anger us, skew our behavior, result in violence, and increase our density. All of this is endarkenment. We need to turn around and go another way.

When the obstacles have lifted or departed, we’re restored to a condition of natural purity and innocence. I experienced that natural innocence at Xenia Resort in 2018. It was way below the vasanas, which appeared to me, as I descended in an imaginary elevator, to be far above us, almost at “skin level,” as I went deeper and deeper into the heart.

Restoring us to our natural Self is what spiritual practice is aimed to do. That process will go on long, long after we’ve ascended to a Fifth- or Seventh-Dimensional vibration. It’ll never stop until we stop, in final mergence.

How effective it is can be seen by the recent departure of Constant Comment. My life before and after its departure is hard to compare. I denied myself so much pleasure and comfort, so many opportunities, so many new places to explore.

I denied myself relaxation, vacations, love, bliss. I denied myself all the more enjoyable things in life.

Now all those bonds are gone and I’m simply left with myself and my wishes. Nobody denies me the best life has to offer any more. The world opens up before me and there’s no longer anyone inside to deny me my turn with it.

I guess “liberating” is the word for it and I consider that a testament to its effectiveness.

Even swinging out to the extremes seems related to Constant Comment in a way that I can’t yet explain. Did that somehow please the ego? Why? Because it produces drama and trauma, things that perpetuate the ego?

I no longer feel inclined to swing out to the extremes.

I haven’t been guiding myself to the center. I seem to have drifted there outside of consciousness. I gravitated to it the way particles settle out of water: I sank to it.

My sensory desires aren’t great. Bliss is just below the surface and peaks out from time to time.

I feel secure and safe and open to whatever comes. I don’t mean that I’ll suddenly become a tremendously-social person. I can’t see that happening, especially given the work expected of me.

But within the arena I choose to play in, I feel a new confidence and lack of fear.

So this is how the Company of Heaven transforms us from being lacking in self-worth, self-confidence, and self-respect to being free of those conditions.

Source: Golden Age of Gaia