Michael Beckwith

with this presence.

At the time, I didn't call it God because I had come from a church and the word God meant a man in the sky that was dictating rules and sending people to hell and heaven and all that stuff.

So I knew that wasn't real.

So the word that I used was love beauty.

Because the love that I was immersed in was beyond anything I'd ever experienced humanly.

And the beauty was beyond anything I could describe.

So my definition of the presence of God was love beauty.

And later on, it became love beauty intelligence.

And then later on, well, after that, I started using the word God again.

But it has a different meaning.

I call it the presence that's never in absence, always here.

Life, capital L, life and God are synonymous.

So anyway, that began my trek to discover what had happened.

And then there's been a constant over the years, an emergence of the real Michael from the revelation that I had over 40 years ago.

And it continues.

It's not like one and done.

It's a continued unfolding.

And so I've been immersed in light.

I've been taught by beings on the other side, teachers from the other side.

All of this was a part of my schooling and my education.