By Steve Beckow, March 14, 2021
(Golden Age of Gaia)
There, in the seat of the soul, at the furthest reaches of the heart “is” the Self
If we’re looking for milestones in our personal growth, I just passed one not so long ago. I mentioned it in an article. (1) But I treated it rather matter-of-factly when it really wasn’t.
I acknowledge that I’ve passed from a place of defaulting to downness to defaulting to upliftment. I no longer default to down; I now default to up.
The way I put it was that I was no longer in the red, but in the black. The cup is no longer half empty, but half full.
The normal, Biblical lifespan of a man is threescore and ten. It took me longer than the normal lifespan of a man to reach this point.
When you really reflect on that, that it took me seventy four years to get to a point where I no longer defaulted to misery, does that not explain why our sacred arc from God to God is also a spiritual spiral?
It took me this long just to reach dry land, a point of neutrality, from which I have only begun to enjoy life (in my everyday consciousness, not in peak moments). I’ve been inching along and only now reached emotional dry land.
In light of that, can we not see (1) why human progress is so slow, lifetime after lifetime, and (2) why we return to the same place again and again, spiralling back to try, try again, hacking away at the coal face with our picks, inching along, cosmically speaking?
This is a milestone. I am now in positive territory. And you know me. What would I do?
That’s right. First, establish a beachhead of understanding.
My first testable hypothesis in what I declare to be new territory for me is that I can make this attitude or mood of upliftment grow and grow and grow – that it’s eminently elastic and fluid. I now set about to see whether that’s so.
Just to remind us, this is – and has always been – an ethnographic account of Ascension – a biography, narrative, or personal account.
Underpinning it are these beliefs: That life is a continual and continuous learning experience. That my life is a workshop. That, in it, I try things on, test them out, and see if they fit.
I’m peeling back the layers with the aim of reaching the Pearl of great price at the center. And out of this intention arises my second testable hypothesis: Far from being originally sinful, I (that Pearl of great price) assert that I’m originally innocent and pure.
Is this not systems-busting?
Footnotes
(1) “The Change I Want to See,” February 27, 2021, at https://goldenageofgaia.com/2021/02/27/the-change-i-want-to-see/