With Increasing Grace and Satisfaction | Steve Beckow

By Steve Beckow, February 20, 2024

(Golden Age of Gaia)

What is the purpose of life? Why be born?

My desire is to breathe life into the human growth movement, which d**d, God bless her, in the jobless recovery to the recession of 1982.

After that, thanks to automation, it was: “Stop finding yourself, pal. It’s time to get back to work — if you still have a job, that is.”  (1)

That about summarized the agenda of everyone made obsolete by automation.

Where the d********e ended the growth movement in the 1982 recession, the entire current of events today will end their millennia-old rule.

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In my opinion, we become increasingly socially mature through taking on the precepts and principles of the growth movement, interacting with them, and seeing if they fit. That’s not something the d********e wants to see happen. It means the end for them.

Following psychologist John Enright, the three abstractions I use to enter into this subject are personal awareness, personal responsibility, and personal communication. I add “personal” to each to remind us that we’re talking about us here, ourselves, always. We’re not minding our neighbor’s enlightenment.

Personal awareness concerns what we see, hear, feel, etc., and the sense we make of it.

Personal responsibility concerns the part we play in what we do with what we’re aware of.

Personal communication concerns how we express ourselves and our desires; it concerns how we take purposeful action with others to achieve hopefully-win/win solutions to anything we do together to satisfy those desires.

So it concerns us orienting and moving in the world for the satisfaction of our needs and desires – and those of others. It has has to do with being responsible for the role we play in life. All of this is achieved by and through communication.

I’m not saying that that exhausts human-growth subjects. It doesn’t. But it gets us into three of the most central topics in this domain of literature.

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The domain we’ll be operating in, as far as a literature goes, is the cultural. Let me begin then by defining culture.

Culture consists of an organization of ideas, reflected in act and artifact but consisting of neither, by means of which we understand our world and take purposeful action. (2)

Culture must be transmissible. It has to be capable of being communicated. The purpose of both act and artifact, shorn of ideas, is culturally non-transmissible. A Stradivarius might be used as a flower pot 300 years from now if that generation “had no idea of” what it is or does.

So the coin of the realm here, the lingua franca or common language will be ideas. It will be language itself.

The original growth movement occurred in in-person workshops and groups. This growth movement will happen, of necessity, I predict, on the Internet. This is the domain that unites us. “We are the people of the Internet,” as the video says.

(Video: https://goldenageofgaia.com/2024/02/20/with-increasing-grace-and-satisfaction/)

(This video no longer exists on the Internet!)

And the cost, I hope, will be kept low. Let’s not reproduce the greed of the Third Dimension, deja vu all over again.

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Coming back to our three fields of specialization, in self-awareness, we take our perceptions and conceptions and form an idea of ourselves and others.

Seeing ourselves as needing to act, we define for ourselves what role we want to play; that is, what we want our responsibility to be.

To then accomplish our ends, alone or with others, we’re obliged to communicate. Often how well we satisfy our needs and desires and those of others depends on how well we communicate.

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And, finally, for this turn of the carousel, why do we do all this? Why be bothered?

To answer that, we have to go right back to the beginning of things.

What is the purpose of life?

As I was shown in a vision back in 1987, the purpose of life is enlightenment. (3) The purpose of life is for us to know who we  truly are. Why is that?

Because when one of us realizes their true identity, God meets God. And for this meeting beyond description was all of life created.

Self-Knowledge, Self-Realization, then, is the purpose of life. Know the self and you’ll end up knowing all.  On and on the guidance goes on this subject from terrestrial and extraterrestrial sources.

That guidance and this study will, I hope, take us both inward – and from there outward – with increasing grace and satisfaction.

Footnotes

(1) David Olive, “The New Hard Line,” Report on Business Magazine, Oct. 1991, 15.

Gone were the permanent job, the benefits plan, pensions, severance packages, trade unions.

The coup de grace was shipping many of the remaining jobs overseas. That was an earthquake for the middle and working classes.  The erosion of America by the d********e has been happening over a long period of time.

(2) “Culture  – whether we look at it through time or in the present – may be seen as an organization of ideas, manifest in act and artifact (though consisting of neither), by means of which humans experience their world and take purposeful action.” (Edited from the original.  Stephen M. Beckow, “Culture, History, and Artifact,” Canadian Museums Association Gazette, Fall 1975, 13.)

(3) See “Ch. 13 – Epilogue” in The Purpose of Life is Enlightenment at http://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Purpose-of-Life-is-Enlightenment.pdf