Lead from Where you are | Steve Beckow

By Steve Beckow, January 29, 2025

(Golden Age of Gaia)

I think I need to alter an impression I may have created that leadership must involve tangible, visible action, that it’s reserved for extroverts, sociable people,  etc., etc.

Not at all. Let me go over my own case, together with Archangel Michael’s reactions to what I wanted to do.

In one of the earliest conversations I had with Michael, he surprised me by saying:

Archangel Michael: You have known that the time would come when we would ask you to work very much on a very global level. And this is the beginning of that undertaking. You have already built a very firm foundation for this to occur and for this we thank and bless you.
 (1)

Uhhhh, could you repeat that please?  No, I wasn’t consciously aware of work on a global level.

I do know I feel strangely comfortable with the thought though.  It’s a feeling so deep that I can barely touch it. I do feel comfortable operating at that level somewhere inside, below barriers and constraints.   I wouldn’t be surprised if a spiritual experience unlocks that part of me for me, exactly when I need it.

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But the point that I want to make here is that I’m not fated to build a spaceship or explore the Antarctic. Or run for public office. Or any other “tangible” action.

Until the next phase of my mission kicks in (humanitarian philanthropy), I’m fated (thank heavens!) to write. Sitting here in front of a screen, pounding on keys for hours at a time.  To the world, inactive. To most people, not a life. To me, immensely satisfying.

And it turns out that’s exactly what Michael – and the Mother- want.

Eight years after his “global” comment, I said to Michael:

Steve: It looks like my leadership is in writing.

Archangel Michael: Correct…. And in pointing the way.

Steve: I have been trying to do that.

AAM: You have been doing an excellent job. (2)

From lazy no-good good for nothing to doing an excellent job. I am not a worthless tramp after all. I feel redeemed. (3)

And the Mother:

Divine Mother: You have chosen long long ago with Me, with Annastara [my twin flame], with ME KI AL, to be a communicator and an agent of change.

You have said to me, “Mother, what if they forget? I will remind them. I will communicate with them through words, through my passion, through my heart, through my knowing. I will communicate the love to them.”

This is your task and it is a task of change as this planet, in this great chaos, in flux, chooses, yes, by this wonderful instrument of free will, … and as you choose to simply be the love. (4)

So a task of change but a task of writing, journaling love. A sedentary activity produces tangible results. I’m not doing anything visible and still I’m leading. Have I altered the initial impression?

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So not all leadership is “active.”

Moreover, I’m not an extrovert. I’m an introvert. I asked Michael to excuse me from partying. He was happy to do so. That conversation may be welcome by all introverts (you don’t have to party!) so let me cite it in some detail:

Archangel Michael: A world leader is a gatherer, a statesman/stateswoman, someone who brings integrity and truth to the forefront. These are the qualities that you already have.

Steve: But I’m not very social. …

AAM: No, the gathering is in a much bigger sense. Think of the people that we have gathered to the platform, the people that come seeking truth, seeking succour, seeking normal. That is what I mean by gathering.

I am not talking, dear heart, that you need [to attend] cocktail parties.

Steve: Yes, thank you! I would like to skip that.

AAM: It is not in the nature of your being. Yes, genuine friendships, support, laughter and cameraderie, absolutely. But to put on a false front? No. That is simply not the meaning of leadership. That is very often the meaning of m**********n. (5)

I hope that shows up as reassurance for introvert leaders.

They want a monk doing what I’ll be doing; they don’t want a Wall Street “expert,” he once said.

Steve: You must know that I have the proclivities of a monk. I’m not attracted to making money or earning money. I have a hard time getting going in that whole area.

AAM: Because it is not what you are here to do.

Steve: I don’t feel it is.

AAM: No, it is not. Understand that. (6)

AAM: Dear friend, you are truly a monk at heart. (7)

AAM: We know that your desires do not tend towards the physical. And of course that is one of the reasons why you are perfect for flow-through [pipeline]. You are not looking for planes and châteaux as we have talked about before. (8)

So even monks can be leaders! And even financial leaders. The moral: Don’t limit yourself.

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Everyone has a field in which they could be leading. I could have been a happy museum historian, joyfully reflecting society back  through its artifacts.

I did not have to write a blog. But I’m ecstatic that I did.

And I focus my leadership on writing. Awareness writing. Citizen journalism. The theory of listening. The purpose of life. The nature of transformative love.

Alone. Quiet. Early morning. Cuppa coffee. And writing.

I hope I corrected the impression that all leaders are social, active, out there.

Lead from where you are. Lead in the direction you’re going. Steve, over and out.

Footnotes

(1) Archangel Michael in a personal reading with Steve Beckow through Linda Dillon, Nov. 30, 2011. (Hereafter, AAM.)

(2) AAM, Aug. 2, 2019.

(3) My Dad used to call me a lazy no-good good for nothing when I didn’t do something he asked. It took an archangel’s compliment to heal that wound.

(4) Divine Mother in a personal reading with Steve Beckow through Linda Dillon, April 30, 2019.

(5) AAM, Aug. 2, 2019.

(6) AAM, Aug. 17, 2018.

(7) AAM, March 3, 2011.

(8) AAM, Aug. 2, 2017. A flowthrough or pipeline is a “hand-off.”  They receive unusual sources of wealth (sequestered I********i wealth, for the most part) and follow instructions as to where the money is meant to go. Michael once asked me to not be surprised if I bumped into St. Germaine on the street:

Steve: How am I to be contacted by people who want to use me as a pipeline?

AAM: This will be by a variety of means. It will be by anonymous donations or checks or deposits or a mysterious interlude with strangers. And if one of those strangers should look like St. Germaine, do not be surprised!

Steve: I would love to meet him! Wonderful!

AAM: So there will be many, many ways in which this pipeline will flow. We do not define it because it has need to be wide open for people to be able to access it. What needs to be known is your willingness, publicly, to be the pipeline.

Because many, even in human reality, will wish for a way to do good work but not be engaged. (AAM, June 6, 2018.)