One of the Tools to Get from here to Love is Listening | Steve Beckow

By Steve Beckow, December 19, 2020

(Golden Age of Gaia)

I was just listening to a friend who was never listened to as a child. I had that same difficulty so I could relate.

One of the major ways a child experiences a parent’s love is by hearing words of love in loving intonations. The parent who doesn’t listen to a child probably … well, I really don’t know.

But what a funny way of speaking: “Listening to a friend.” So unused to thinking about listening am I that to talk about it that way sounds strange. I was listening to a friend. But I was.

It’s strange, I think, because our society doesn’t seem to stress the need for listening. Or emphasize its value.

In my view, listening is what the world needs most. Everyone is speaking and no one is listening.

We interrupt this program for a radio station YNOT News Bulletin.

An anti-listening viruses has spread throughout the Internet. Known as Meme-20, the virus is alleged to havebeen manufactured as a bioweapon in a secret Greenland labof a “foreign power” and is rapidly spreading.

Trolls were seen secreting it onto the Internet. Its original introduction to the Net has been traced to a non-descript pizza parlor in Vermont.

People are showing symptoms, chief among which is a refusal to listen. Encouraging people to wear masks, social distancing and lockdowns only seem to increase the chances of catching it and not listening.

Other symptoms are shortness of temper, projection of feelings, hatred of others, all leading to spiritual atrophy and death due to Meme-20. This is worse than the Black Plague. What will become of the world?

(Pause) Our news reporter has left the station.

We now return you to your normally-programmed programming.

Listening is missing. I know. I know. I know. It sounds so simple. It can’t be true. Well, love is also missing in our world, yes? Looting, murdering, drive-by shootings, cartels…. No love there. And love is also so simple.

If we all loved, I wouldn’t be discussing this subject. But we don’t and one of the tools to get us from here to love is listening. In fact, in the situation the world is in, I’d consider it THE major tool – or I wouldn’t be writing this.

I’ve written a great deal in past years on listening. I even have a manual tucked away in a drawer somewhere. Teaching listening skills to companies could very well have become an alternative career for me.

Just enter “listening” in the GAoG search box and much will come up.

My entire approach to vasanas is based on listening to oneself. We listen to Michael, Sanat Kumara, Ashtar, the White Winged Collective of Nine. We can also give ourselves a good listening.

What are we listening for? The truth.

Why are we listening for the truth? Because the truth will set us free.

Free from what? Illusion.

Into what? Into our original Oneness with God, with all that that means.

Sounds like a path. Yes, awareness in my opinion is.

Listening (to self or another) is an exercise in awareness and, I believe, awareness is a pathway to God.