If you begin with yourself, you will end with the divine. (Rajneesh)
In the early 1960s, we were engaged in what was called “consciousness-raising.” We didn’t attack other people’s beliefs. We engaged in dialogue on what were better ways of communication, less harmful world views (“make love not war”), ways of handling our anger and resentment, ways of widening people’s horizons, etc.
The outgrowth of these emphases in Western spirituality was the emergence – or the popularization, I guess I should say – of the path of awareness. And it’s this path that I’d like to discuss here because it’s so freeing and because it’s right on target with the purpose of life – which is enlightenment, to know who we truly are.
There’s only one agreement on the awareness path – to remain aware of one’s self, at any level of which we’re aware.
What I call transformative love, what Patricia Diane Cota-Robles calls transfigurative love is, according to Michael, seventh dimensional. Bliss is “between eight and nine.” (1) When we’re in those states, everything works and we only do what works.
We’re completely satisfied. Our lives become about sharing love and bliss with others because we understand that love must flow; love must circulate. (2)
Awareness leads to truth and truth sets us free from resentment, anger, or whatever negativity we have going on with us at the time.
I’ll give an example from my own life. Because I remain aware of myself, at one point I came across a feeling that I’d have whenever I did something I was proud of. I would immediately feel … what was it? What can I call it? Incompetent.
I felt myself to be incompetent. When I isolated the feeling, I tracked it back through my childhood to an incident that happened with my Dad when I was first learning to mow the lawn with a gas-powered lawnmower.
I had cleaned all the grass from the bottom of the lawnmower, wiped up all this dirty black gunk from wherever I found it, emptied out more of it from inside the lawnmower, and turned it back over to Dad with a proud smile on my face.
Dad pulled the ripcord and mowed for less than five minutes before the lawnmower burst into flames! What did I do? I let out all the oil, the lubricant, and the machine caught fire.
Well, he let me have it. And I felt incompetent. And ever since then I have not let myself feel too proud over any accomplishment. After all, it must be luck because I’m incompetent.
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The Hindus call this a vasana, a latent tendency, an upset waiting to happen, a trigger. Linda Dillon calls it a “core issue,” which is a great synonym.
I regard vasanas as the chief obstacle to achieving the purpose of life, which is to know who we actually are. (3)
Vasanas keep our vibration low. They cloud our judgment. And being incarnated, as Krishna told us, is designed to achieve one objective: to develop our discernment.
Discernment? Between what and what? Between the Real and the unreal, the true and the false, between the world of matter (mater, Mother) and the Mother/Father One. (4)
Bayazid of Bistun captured that moment: “O Thou I!” (5) The moment when we are – all of us – not just children of God, but God Itself, having donned a mask and participating in a dance of life until we wake up.
You watched me for years slowly emerge from a vasana of father hatred. I was dissociated for fifty years because my Dad shouted at me at age 7 just inches from my face. I was forty before I realized what was “wrong” with me. (6) That’s a pretty standard type of vasana.
If I were in a prison cell, I’d practice self-awareness and breathwork (drawing love up from my heart and sending it out to the world). There’d be no need for books or whatever their quantum equivalent might be. (Just kidding.)
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The awareness path removes the obstacle to enlightenment by shining the light of awareness on it, experiencing it through to completion, and leaving the matter behind.
What was it Jesus said in his article that may as well be a … errr … Bible on the subject?
Jesus: You have to realize that consciousness is something very powerful. It is much more than a passive registering of an emotion – consciousness is an intense creative force. …
Consciousness is not something static; things do not remain as they are. You will notice that if you do not nourish the energy of the emotion or of your judgment about it, they will gradually dissipate. …
Awareness transforms – it is the major instrument for change, yet at the same time, it wants to change nothing. Awareness says, “Yes – yes” to what is! It is receptive and accepting of all that is there, and this changes everything, because it sets you free. (7)
Much more than a passive registering of an emotion. Awareness transforms. I’ve seen this to be the case often since my Cold Mountain introduction to the path of awareness in 1965-66. (8)
Bhagwan Rajneesh summarized the philosophy of the path:
Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh: If you begin with yourself, you will end with the divine, because that is your other part, the other pole.
But begin from this bank; do not begin from the other, where you are not. You cannot begin from there. Begin from where you are.
The deeper you go, the less you will be. The more you know yourself, the less you will be a self, and once you have come to a total understanding about yourself, you will be annihilated. You will go into nonexistence. You will be a total negativity. You will be not.
And in that not, in that total negation, you will know the grace that is always falling, that is always raining down from eternity. You will know the love that is always around you. It has always been there, but you have not paid any attention to it. Be annihilated, and you will become aware of it. (9)
This generation is being helped along the path to what Rajneesh describes simply under the influence of the rising lovelight energies. Unto Ascension. (10)
Yes, annihilate the ego with ever-increasing awareness and you’ll find yourself in a dimension of love and bliss.
Awareness is the tool; awareness is the process; and awareness (11) is the reward.
Footnotes
(1) Steve: The space that I call transformative love, what dimension is it?
Archangel Michael: It is the seventh dimension.
Steve: Then what dimension is bliss?
AAM: It is between eight and nine.
Steve: And ecstasy?
AAM: Twelfth. (Archangel Michael in a personal reading with Steve Beckow through Linda Dillon, Jan. 20, 2016.)
(2) Archangel Michael: Love is the energy of the universe. It is the energy of the Mother. And it moves constantly, continually, eternally, infinitely. So, to have an experience of love, it [must move] through you. ( Archangel Michael in a personal reading with Steve Beckow through Linda Dillon, Dec. 5, 2018.)
Archangel Michael: Love is a fluid energy. It has need to flow and so, when it does not flow, it becomes … well, as you put it, it can become dry and brittle. It has need to be given and received above, below, within, without and in every which way. (Archangel Michael in a personal reading with Steve Beckow through Linda Dillon, April 30, 2019.)
(3) See The Purpose of Life is Enlightenment at https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Purpose-of-Life-is-Enlightenment-6.pdf, particularly ch. 13.
(4) Thinking about sense-objects
Will attach you to sense-objects;
Grow attached, and you become addicted;
Thwart your addiction, it turns to anger;
Be angry, and you confuse the mind;
Confuse your mind, you forget the lesson of experience;
Forget experience, you lose discrimination;
Lose discrimination, and you miss life’s only purpose.
(Sri Krishna in Swami Prabhavananda and Christopher Isherwood, trans., Bhagavad-Gita. The Song of God. New York and Scarborough: New American Library, 1972; c1944, 42.) (Hereafter, BG.)
(5) Bayazid of Bistun in Aldous Huxley, The Perennial Philosophy. New York, etc.: Harper and Row, 1970; c1944, 12.
(6) In 1986, I was on the Expo grounds in Vancouver when my then-girlfried said to me, “Do you know that you have the profile of an abused child” and two sides of me came up at the same time and said, “YES!” And it was as if they looked at each other for the first time and said “Who are you?” I exploded and remained explosive for around two weeks. I now knew the source of my lack of self-confidence and accommodating streak. I was dissociated. It was another eighteen years before I “fused” back together.
(7) “Jeshua via Pamela Kribbe: The Third Way,” at http://goldenageofgaia.com/2014/01/jeshua-the-third-way/.
(8) A three-month, residential growth experience, composed of week-long workshops and nightly and weekend encounter groups. We emerged like trembling jellyfish.
(9) Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, I am the Gate. The Meaning of Initiation and Discipleship. New York, etc.: Harper Colophon, 1977; c1975, 83.
(10) On Ascension, see Gateway to Higher Dimensionality Vol. 1: Introduction to Ascension at https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Gateway-to-Higher-Dimensionality-V1-R10-Introduction-to-Ascension.pdf
(11) I.e., enlightenment.
Sri Krishna: The reward of all action is to found in enlightenment. (Sri Krishna in BG, 54.)
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