Our Body and our Consciousness | Steve Beckow

By Steve Beckow, January 9, 2022

(Golden Age of Gaia)

Back in 2013, the Arcturian Group said: “Your state of consciousness is interpreting for you the divine ideas embodied within the One.” (1)

Have we an example of anyone in a different dimension of consciousness interpreting us differently than we do, to see someone “interpreting … the divine ideas”??

Yes, we do. We don’t have to go to the Pleiades for that either. Our own terrestrial sages can give us an idea.

Sri Ramakrishna was an avatar, a descent of the Divine Mother into form. (2) Quite frequently he would go into samadhi (or trance state) and thence into higher states of consciousness. And how did people look to him at that point? Certainly differently.

Let me offer his perspective.

I see you all as so many sheaths and the heads are moving. (3)

I see the body as a frame made of bamboo strips and covered with a cloth. The frame moves. And it moves because someone dwells inside it. (4)

Do you know what I see? I see that God alone has become everything. (5) Men and animals are only frameworks covered with skin, and it is He who is moving through their heads and limbs. I see that it is God Himself who has become the block, the executioner, and the victim for the sacrifice. … There sits Latu resting his head on the palm of his hand. To me it is the Lord who is seated in that posture. (6)

It seems to me that men and other living beings are made of leather, and that it is God Himself who, dwelling inside these leather cases, moves the hands, the feet, the heads. I had a similar vision once before, when I saw houses, gardens, roads, men, cattle — all made of One Substance; it was as if they were all made of wax. (7)

To be clear, Sri Ramakrishna is in a trance state. He’s not seeing a higher-dimensional version of his devotees; for instance, their Higher Selves. He’s seeing their Third-Dimensional form through his Third-Dimensional eyes but from a higher-consciousness state, while being in his own body.

I’ve been physically on another dimension once (not simply elevated to a divine state), that I’m aware of. I awoke from a lucid dream on 1977 to find myself on the astral plane.

I had to return to my body because I wept at something I observed over there. When my spirit body re-entered my physical body, I became aware that I was not that physical body. What is this? I said and realized it was my physical body.

But isolated experiences like this that happened long ago are not enough to somehow claim knowledge or expertise from. I can only be impressionistic and point in some promising directions.

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Another example of being seen differently from a higher perspective?

Yes, Jesus gave a blind man an experience of higher dimensionality and his vision then had an eerie resemblance to Sri Ramakrishna’s:

[Jesus] took the blind man by the hand, and led him out of the town; and when he had spit on his eyes, and put his hands upon him, he asked him if he saw ought.

And he looked up, and said, I see men as trees, walking.

After that [Jesus] put his hands again upon his eyes, and made him look up: and he was restored, and saw every man clearly. (8)Men as trees walking. Fascinating. Perhaps the chakra system? Travel to another dimension and look back and the view is very different.

Only to me on this dimension is this body real. Moreover, the body has utility for me only as long as I remain on this dimension. Once departed, as in my OOBE, I gave no thought to the fate of this Third-Dimensional body, any more than I did to a shirt I’ve taken off.

Nonetheless, I don’t see things the way Sri Ramakrishna does. I don’t see only Oneness. I don’t know and feel and see the God within all, but Sri Ramakrishna did.

To return to the Arcturian Group, they tell us that a day will come when we will see that way and that day is our Ascension:

“There comes a time in everyone’s (teacher and student), evolutionary journey when he shifts into a realization of oneness. This may come in an instant after lifetimes of spiritual seeking, or it may be a slow and gradual process. This is ascension, the attainment of that state of consciousness that realizes everything Real is perfect and held in place by Divine law and that ONE is ever manifesting ITSELF.” (9)

I have to say that I’m enjoying the journey, am not worried by the terrific chaos mounting in society, and look upon the end as pre-ordained and wonderful.

Footnotes

(1) The Arcturian Group, Feb. 10, 2013, at http://www.onenessofall.com/.

(2) On the subejct of avatars, see “What is an Avatar?” October 12, 2015, at https://goldenageofgaia.com/2015/10/12/what-is-an-avatar/ and “The Avatars: Appropriate Models for Humanity,” July 20, 2017, at https://goldenageofgaia.com/2017/07/20/the-avatars-appropriate-models-for-humanity/

(3) Paramahansa Ramakrishna in Swami Nikhilananda, trans., The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna. New York: Ramakrishna-Vivekananda Center, 1978; c1942, 969. (Hereafter GSR.)

(4) Ibid., 969.

(5) A level of knowledge known by Sri Ramakrishna as vijnana and by Sri Ramana Maharshi as sahaja nirvikalpa samadhi. This is what we call Ascension. Sri Ramakrishna was an avatar and had access to virtually any state of consciousness.

(6) Paramahansa Ramakrishna in GSR, 70-1.

(7) Ibid., 70-1.

(8) Mark 8:23-5.

(9) The Arcturian Group, Feb. 10, 2013, ibid.