By Steve Beckow, January 29, 2022
(Golden Age of Gaia)
Exploration for Christopher Columbus meant clambering aboard a ship, stocking it with supplies, and sailing west until you hit land; hopefully, China. Exploration for me is all about feeling.
For Columbus it was external; for me it’s internal.
And internal exploration for me is not like out-of-body travel to another realm, complete with road signs and a guided tour; rather, it means states of consciousness. I’ll try to illustrate an exploration of this kind here.
I’m a mapmaker, like Columbus. But the map I’m making is of the heavens; more particularly, of the divine states and what I come to know while in them.
“New Maps of Heaven” – the object hasn’t changed over the years. (1)
I say “the divine states and what I come to know while in them” because without the upliftment, without the boost that the divine states, especially bliss, provide, in my experience, realization does not happen. With bliss added, knowledge seems to enter our minds easily.
A case in point is a (toned-down) seventh-chakra experience of Brahmajnana I had in 2012. I watched the golden river of the kundalini complete its circuit. (2) But the experience lacked bliss and so was no different than a movie. Nothing could show me more intimately and concretely the role of bliss in realization than that experience.
For many Brahmajnana is the apex of their lives – and yet here I am experiencing it and it lacks any experiential content. Maddening. Bliss proved itself essential by its absence.
Finally, by contrast, the vision I had in 1987 was saturated with bliss. (3) And, for whatever reason, being uplifted by the bliss, I “automatically” knew the vision’s various personae. There was God the Father. There was God the Child. And over there was God the Mother. I just knew – where if bliss had been absent I’d be staring at all of it uncomprehendingly.
In my opinion, bliss is essential for realization. Put another way, what turns exploration into realization is bliss.
What we just discussed is an example of an exploration in consciousness. This very thing is what I love to do more than anything else. When I have the quiet time to explore in this way, the ideas just flow.
Footnotes
(1) See New Maps of Heaven at https://goldengaiadb.com/index.php?title=New_Maps_of_Heaven
(2) Michael explains that Brahmajnana may not be appropriate for a lightworker in service:
Steve: [Emptiness of mind] was followed next by what appeared to be the kundalini completing its circuit at the seventh chakra. Is that in fact what happened?
Archangel Michael: Yes. … That is what you did.
Steve: Hmm, interesting! Ordinarily you would experience Brahmajnana at that point but I felt that it had been muted, toned down.
AAM: When you use the term “dramatic enlightenment experiences” [as I did earlier], you are talking about Nirvana. You are talking about the unity of all with One.
It is not to say that you will not experience that, but you cannot (well, you can if you wish; it is a choice to) simply remain in that state of unity, of One, or be fully conscious, in service, in action….
So, it is a toning down, if anything. It really is the middle ground. …
You know that enlightenment is right there in front of you. It is yours to access. But if you are in service, you will not choose to live there. …
You can think of it as keeping two feet firmly on the ground. (Archangel Michael in a personal reading with Steve Beckow through Linda Dillon, Feb. 14, 2012.)
(3) For an account of that vision, see “The Purpose of Life is Enlightenment – Ch. 13 – Epilogue,” August 13, 2011, at https://goldenageofgaia.com/2011/08/13/the-purpose-of-life-is-enlightenment-ch-13-epilogue/