As I was listening to Temple speak, I suddenly had a memory.
I remember many years before I established the Agape
International Spiritual Center, I was on a hiatus.
I was up at Big Bear on a kind of a private meditation
retreat, and I was sitting outside meditating, and suddenly a scroll
rolled out of the sky and it said, “Michael Beckwith to speak at this church.”
And then rolled up and disappeared.
And So, I wrote about it in my journal.
I thought it was cute, and I went on with
my meditation.
When I got home, the phone rang, and it was this gentleman on
the phone named Bill.
And he said, “We want you to come speak at our church.”
And I said, “I know, I saw the scroll!”
And he said, “What are you talking about?”
I said, “Well, never mind.”
And I said, “Are you aware that I'm not a minister?”
I wasn't a minister at the time.
He said, “Yes, we are.”
I said, “Are you aware I'm not a practitioner?”
I wasn't licensed as a practitioner yet.
He said, “Yes we are.”
I said, “Why are you asking me to speak?”
He said, “Well we met you at the Asilomar conference ground.
We loved your vibration, your frequency.
We loved what you were saying, and we don't have a
minister right now.
And we want you to come do the talk.”
So, I said, “Okay.”
So, when I hung up the phone, I got so nervous.
I wanted to call him back and tell him I'm
gonna have the flu that day.
I will not be able to do it.
I was nervous, and I was shaking.
I was guessing, “What am I doing?
I can't go out there.
What am I gonna talk about?
I don’t have any degrees.
I don't…God, what am I gonna say?”
I laid on the couch, and I was nervous, and I suddenly left my body and I was
soaring!
I could see Michael on the couch.
And I was soaring!
And I was full to overflowing with divine confidence.
The dynamic peace was flowing through me.
Intelligence was flowing through me.
In the next moment I was back, body
conscious again, I was nervous and I was upset.
“What am I gonna do?
I gotta go speak.
I don’t know how to do this.”
And then I was flying again!
And I look back, and I said, “That Michael,
he gets so nervous.
Doesn't he understand yet, that-“ And the moment I said the word
‘that,’ I was back in the body, and I was
nervous again.
Subsequently, I went up there.
It was Tacoma Church of Religous Science.
First church I ever spoke at.
And so, subsequently, I went up to Tacoma.
The energy flowed.
It was beautiful.
It was powerful.
People were crying.
All kinds of things were happening.
It was a beautiful moment.
That was in 1978! (an audience member spoke up) “What was
that?
Your birth year!
As Lola was born that year!”
Fast forward…1988.
Second year of Agape International.
Something's concerning me.
And so, I do what I do; I go into meditation, and then I split.
And I could see Michael meditating in his chair.
And I said, “He doesn't have anything to be
concerned about.
I'm with him.”
And then I merged back into Michael and the idea,
whatever was concerning me, the answer came.
The wisdom came.
That divine guidance came in, and the right action was taken.
Now, the difference between the two experiences, the guy on the couch, and the
guy in the chair, is that the guy in the chair was more integrated with the guy
looking.
He was more aware and integrated into the unbounded self.
And the guy in the couch was nervous.
It was that something was coming through him, but
later on in life there was a great integration that was taking place.
That continues to take place.
That's called transformation.
Transformation is when you become integrated with your highest
frequencies, the insights, the revelations that are occurring.
Many of the revelations and insights you've had
during these magnificent people speaking.
When there is an insight and you have self-discipline, self-discipline is
about holding the space around the insight until it becomes integrated,
embodied in you.
And then you're able to say vibrationally, “I am what thou art,
and thou art what I am.”
There's no split at all.
You are here at some level because you're being called to integrate into
your real self.
Not putting it to the side but to come to a greater
understanding of your Oneness with the power in the presence and the love of
God Almighty, God All Beauty, God All Joy, God All Intelligence and
allow yourself to be moved into right action!