The Study of the Heart | Steve Beckow

The Light that we are exists in the seat of the soul, the very deepest part of the heart

By Steve Beckow, October 8, 2021

(Golden Age of Gaia)

The Study of the Heart – Part 1/2

In my view, we live at three levels: intellectual, experiential, and realizational.

As long as we remain, socially, at the intellectual level, we concern ourselves with right/wrong, good/bad, pleasurable/painful and other dualities. We don’t give much importance to feelings.

Right/wrong and the rest at best give us the rewards of pride, self-satisfaction, conceit, arrogance, status consciousness and all the tendencies, laid down in childhood, that I discover in myself when I look. I don’t think I’m alone.

They’re rather like eating dry oatmeal compared with eating cooked oatmeal with milk, blueberries, and cashews – and maple syrup – at the experiential level.

The poor, neglected feeling or experiential level is like a highway to the higher dimensions.

Michael once said to me that one of the reasons he gave me a heart opening in 2015 was because I was practising drawing love up from my heart and sending it out to the world.

I was drawing love up and so he gave me some love to draw up. He explained:

Archangel Michael: So what you do when you bring the love up and out, when you begin to send, to share, it is as if you have in fact activated what we call the wellspring. The visual you may think of is the volcano.

It is not that you empty out. It is that you discover that that wellspring is SO full and overflowing that it is a steady stream. That steady stream does not ever, ever (think of what I say!) … it never has to cease! (1)

He’s right. It never ceases. It never fails. This inner tsunami of love is always going; we’re just not attuned to it.

Michael is discussing this event three hours after I had it on March 13, 2015. And I definitely experienced it as he describes it – a wellspring of love that never ceased flowing, an inner tsunami of love that ended in an Ocean of Love.

I was operating on the experiential level already and so I guess he decided to boost me up to the realizational level.

Keeping in mind that it’s the archangels and the Mother who decide matters around our enlightenment, he just acknowledged that, because I took action in accord with my intention – to experience love – he multiplied its effectiveness; he amplified it and my kundalini reached the fourth chakra.

Please take note of these matters. Up till now we’ve tended to become ascetics or meditated for a decade, etc. to achieve enlightenment.

What we don’t understand is that our enlightenment is shaped and influenced by the archangels and the Mother. We need to work with them as their co-creative partners and leave the rest to them.

The place they communicate how to do that is in their channeled messages.

(To be concluded tomorrow.)

Footnotes

(1) Archangel Michael in a personal reading with Steve Beckow through Linda Dillon, March 13, 2015.



By Steve Beckow, October 9, 2021

(Golden Age of Gaia)

The Study of the Heart – Part 2/2

(Concluded from part 1, yesterday.)

So I was operating outside the intellectual level – in the experiential. Sri Aurobindo addresses the situation:

“Man, because he is a mental being, is prone to give the highest importance to the thinking mind and its reason and will and to its way of approach…. The heart with its emotions and incalculable movements is to the eye of [the human] intellect an obscure, uncertain and often a perilous and misleading power which needs to be kept in control by the reason and the mental will and intelligence.

“And yet there is in the heart or behind it a profounder mystic light which, if not what we call intuition — for that, though not of the mind, yet descends through the mind — has yet a direct touch upon Truth and is nearer to the Divine than the human intellect in its pride of knowledge.” (2)

I agree completely.

Notice the way this tendency to make the heart submit to the mind maps over patriarchy. Women are often associated with the heart and the feelings (“the weaker sex”), and men with strength and the mind. Men are said to control women. In the same way, the mind is asked to control the heart.

I agree that the heart is nearer to the divine. The hridayam or heart aperture is like a door. On the other side of it exists everything except this Third Dimension. It’s a doorway to the dimensions.

Moreover, what we want from life is available in the heart. Love, bliss, ecstacy, peace, depth, joy, etc. The heart is a cornucopia.

The heart is superior to the intellect in knowing and realizing the Truth.

Sri Aurobindo goes further:

“According to the ancient teaching the seat of the immanent Divine, the hidden Purusha, is in the mystic heart, — the secret heart-cave, hridaye guhayam, as the Upanishads put it, — and, according to the experience of many Yogins, it is from its depths that there comes the voice or breath of the inner oracle. (3)

Yes, indeed. The immanent Divine is none other than the Self. And the Self, if it can be said to reside anywhere, resides in the depths of the heart, the seat of the soul. I haven’t heard the Mother’s voice or breath, the inner oracle. That’s out in front of me and so I can’t comment.

But yes, “the seat of the immanent Divine, the hidden Purusha, is in the mystic heart.” Absolutely. I’ve seen it there.

But speaking about it as “the heart” is so unsatisfactory.

We transport ourselves somehow through the hridayam or heart door and we’re in another world. Do we call the heart “another world”? And yet it is.

Maybe back as far as 1990 I had an experience of suddenly rising up until I was on a promontory looking out over the whole universe. I saw the universe inside the heart.

The hridayam or heart door leads out of the Truman Show.

Just the love alone, as I’m experiencing this moment through writing about it, is worth the price of admission.

I imagine to the galactics our knowledge of the heart must appear less than rudimentary. We just lump everything under the words “the heart” and don’t inquire into what the heart might be, how it operates, where it leads to.

The only knowledge we have comes from enlightened sages, who can’t stop talking about love and the heart.

I wouldn’t be surprised to find that the study of the heart could keep a person occupied for a lifetime. I may find out.

Footnotes

(1) Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga. Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 1983, 140-1.

(2) Loc. cit.