Michael Beckwith
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964 appearances
4 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 14 Jan
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It doesn't mean you become all highfalutin and you're so spiritual you're not earthly good. It just means you're becoming more yourself. You're more comfortable with yourself. You're more at ease with yourself because it's the real you.
Heather, thank you so much for the invitation. I'm just sitting here in joy just being with you. Life is good.
Well, you know, a good part of my backstory is, I'm going to keep it really brief. I could extend this, but I won't. While I was attending USC, I was a psychobiology major there on a trek to go to med school, actually. And I was having a series of inner experiences that I labeled at the time pathological, because I was seeing visions, I was hearing voices, I was leaving my body and traveling.
Now, at the time, I didn't have any spiritual practice, so I didn't know about astral travel and soul traveling and... all of that. But it was happening to me spontaneously and to the point where I sometimes would leave and go see my mom. And I would come back to my body and call her and say, listen, do you have on a blue dress? She would say, yes. Are you cooking some chicken right now? Yes.
So I knew what was going on was real, but I had no context for it. So the first thing I did at that time, I stopped smoking weed. I stopped smoking cannabis sativas because I thought that was contributing to this, whatever was going on within me. But the experience is intensified to the point where I had a lucid dream every single night. And in this dream, these three men were chasing me.
And every night they got a little bit closer to the point where one night I could see the outline of their face. I looked to my right and there was a small tent with thousands of people trying to fit into the small tent. I knew every single being in line. So I said to myself, they can't hurt me. I have all of my friends with me.
And then one by one, everyone standing in line turned their back on me. Two of the men held me down, and the other plunged a knife into my heart, a serrated knife. The pain was excruciating, physically and emotionally, and I died. And when I woke up, I could see differently. I mean, even now, if I start talking about it, it becomes very spiritually emotional for me.
I could see 360 degrees, the presence of God, the love, the beauty was everywhere. The love that poured into my being was so profound. And I was just a part of everything. I would breathe in and out. The universe would just kind of move like that. I was one. And so when I came out of that, everything around me was glowing with luminosity. The lint on the rug was alive. Everything was alive.
And I could never get back in that box again. Everything changed for me. And I began to go on a research to find out what had happened to me. And that's when I bumped into all of the mystical teachings of Gautama the Buddha, Jesus the Christ, Zoroaster, Walter Russell, Emanuel Swedenborg.
There was a lot of beings that had similar experiences that gave me an awareness that I wasn't crazy, that I actually was having some kind of an awakening. That was the beginning of me going deep into meditation. Now, this is years ago. I had no conscious desire to be like a public person. to teach or anything like that. I was just so in love 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. That number of years later, I eventually started Agape International Spiritual Center in November of 1986. So we're in our 38th year right now. And that came with a lot of resistance. I didn't want to do that. At the time, I was a spiritual counselor. I saw six to eight people every single day. I did my own private seminars.
I was a director of training of a prayer ministry. I liked my life. But there was an inner compulsion to start a community. And I was told that the work I was doing at that time, I was only doing my work halfway and that I'd made a promise before I came here to do this. And that if I didn't do it, They would have no more reason for me to be on the planet. This is the ancestors talking to me.
And so my life shrunk, forced me into some deep introspection. I had a vision about agape, and I started a vision group and began our vision group in late 2000. 1985, beginning of 1986. We met every Thursday for months to become the vibrational frequency of the vision of Agape. That's the story in brief. There's a lot of stuff in between there. So most of what I do is basically...
direct from source, you know, and then I could pick up a book and I can say, oh, that's true. You know, it validates. Or I can say, that's not really true. It's almost true, you know. So that's Michael. I like the guy, you know. He always has great intentions. And I've watched him grow and unfold to become more of himself over the years, you know.
Yes, yes, there are a number of us. One of my great friends, Dr. Sue Mortar, who you may want to meet one day, had a similar cosmic awakening like that in meditation and changed her life. And when we met each other, it was like we met each other and we knew, you know, because she's been there. You know, she's had that very expanded cosmic awareness.
Then I met other people who have had near-death experiences and come back. And when we meet, like my friend Anita Morgiani and, you know, people like that, you can tell that they've seen something else, not just something they've read about that they've actually had an experience of. And I think, you know, people don't have to have that kind of experience.
Basically, if you have a little bit of a spiritual practice and good intentions, an intention to wake up, and then you practice meditation on a regular basis, you will incrementally dissolve the blockages from seeing reality. Most people don't see reality. They only see their thoughts about reality, and they experience their thoughts about reality.
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