Dr. Michael Bernard Beckwith

So I began a vision group in my living room. We met every Thursday night to become the vibration of a community that we wanted to build. We didn't start linearly with business plans or any of that. We wanted to be internally the frequency of unconditional love and peace, and then let the rest happen rather than, you know, let's go do a business plan. So I led this vision group, and on November 30, 1986, I had my first public service, and it's been going on ever since. Now, 189

But if they place themselves in a position and sincerely ask, what is it that's mine to do, like I was in my living room when I said, what do you want me to do, what's trying to emerge in my life, what gift am I to share, the universe, through law, answers any question that you ask. Most people are asking disempowering questions. But if you really ask, what is it that's mine to do, what gift am I to give, what's trying to emerge in my life, and you listen sincerely and make yourself available to activate the spiritual faculty of hearing the inaudible, you'll catch a vision. Your intuition will become activated. Your gut will be activated. You'll start to get breadcrumbs along the way. You'll get little insights. You get dreams. This is how you are to live your purpose. How you're to do it, not how you don't compare yourself to someone else, and that gets you in trouble because the world is full of shining lights on celebrity. But there are people doing powerful work on the planet, and we don't even know them. Their vibration is so high, and they're knitting or whatever their gift is.

For me, I knew as a young child about this presence. I had different experiences as a kid, but I always sought to normalize myself to be with my peers. That happened as a young child. At 11 years old, I had an experience where I could see that I wasn't who my mother, my grandmother, and my uncle thought I was. I had this very big awareness, and then I shrunk myself when I came into their presence so that I could be the son, the grandson, and the nephew. I had other experiences, but I always normalized myself until I was at the university going to school. For the first five years of my speaking, I would never share any of the mystical things that I was part of. I always said something like, I knew of a spiritual teacher and this happened to him, because I didn't want them to focus on me that way. It wasn't until maybe 10 or 15 years in that I started to share personally my own dive into the mystical realm and the things that I've experienced.

It was a long period of time that I was studying. I was going to meditation. I was doing everything spiritual to synthesize what had happened and to get a sense of what had happened. I went to Big Bear for a private meditation retreat by myself, just to be up there meditating. One day I'm outside meditating and a scroll comes down in front of me and it says, Michael Beckwith to speak at this spiritual center in Tacoma, Washington. Then it rolled up and disappeared. I thought that was kind of cute, so I wrote about it in my journal and continued to meditate.

I had a vision. I saw a spiritual center, Agape. I was walking down the street. I was really small in the dream, and the building had people coming out, all the demographics, everybody was in there. They were singing and praying, and a voice said, this is what we want you to do. I said, but in the dream, I'm really small. How am I going to do that? They said, you say yes and we'll do the rest. So I began a vision group in my living room. We met every Thursday night to become the vibration of a community that we wanted to build. We didn't start linearly with business plans or any of that. We wanted to be internally the frequency of unconditional love and peace, and then let the rest happen rather than, you know, let's go do a business plan. Let's do all that nonsense first. It's like, no, that's second. You have to be the person first. So I led this vision group, and on November 30, 1986, I had my first public service, and it's been going on ever since. Now, 189 countries tune in, and I travel around the world and go where I'm called to do what I'm called to do.

At the behest of my mother and a friend of the family named Lisa, I went. It was the Guidance Church of Religious Science in Los Angeles. The founder was Dr. Daniel Morgan. I was about 23 or 24 at this time. I walked in and he was speaking. He said, Heaven and hell aren't necessarily places, they're states of consciousness. I said, he's right. I sat down and said, wow, they really are speaking truth in metaphysical churches because this is all the stuff I'm learning on the other side, and it's giving me language for my experience. That was a Sunday. He was teaching a class on Monday nights. The next day I showed up in his class and he asked me my name. I said, Michael Beckwith. He said, well, Mr. Beckwith, this is a 15 week class. You've walked in on the seventh week. I advise you to leave, and when we start the class over, you may come from the beginning. I said, with all due respect, Dr. Dan, I'm going to stay. I get licensed as a spiritual therapist. I'm doing workshops and seminars, and ultimately I go to the university, I go to the school of ministry.

When one is living their purpose, there's a tremendous amount of flow and power. We all generate fields. We're vibrational beings. We're not flesh and blood. We have a body, but we are vibrational beings. When one is in their purpose, the amplitude of their vibration is increased. Their energy alone, they don't have to say anything necessarily, they could just smile, they could just be in the room. Their energy affects countless beings. That's intrinsic to all of us. Once we discover who we are and activate and integrate with it, purpose raises your field and changes the world. We're all unique expressions of this infinite living one. I'm a spiritual optimist. An optimist is not a person who doesn't believe there are challenges and issues, but an optimist is a person who knows there's an answer to it. There's a solution built into the universe. The universe is infinite. There's no problem in the mind of the infinite. There are only patterns, ideas, and templates of more good than we can imagine.

It's my feeling that everyone has the same purpose, but they have different ways of expressing it. I've come to believe that our purpose is to reflect and to reveal the infinite, the presence that's never an absence, in a way that only we can. So we have this purpose to do that, and how we do it is our mission, the intentions that we set, and within those intentions our particular goals. Our uniqueness is our superpower. This presence never repeats itself because it's infinite. It never does a do-over. We're all whole intrinsically, so we have to discover that. And then once we discover it, it has to be activated, and once it's activated, it compels us into right action, which begins to be our mission on the planet. A person can be in business and really bring high morals, ethics, and sacred service into entrepreneurship and business to help change the world. A person can be a teacher, a comedian, they can do choreography, they can be a filmmaker, but the purpose stays the same. How they reveal that purpose is unique and varied, just as people are.

I'm sitting in my living room, and I didn't have bills to pay. I remember saying out loud, what do you want me to do? And the phone rang. There was a woman on the phone. She told me that we went to high school together. She said she was having some difficulties in her life and that God took her to her high school annual. She opened it up, and I'm in the high school annual. My phone number was underneath the picture. She said your phone number was underneath the picture. God told me to call you. When I said, what do you want me to do, the phone rang, and that started a number of people coming to see me. If you place yourself in a position and sincerely ask, what is it that's mine to do, what's trying to emerge in my life, what gift am I to share, the universe, through law, answers any question that you ask. Most people are asking disempowering questions. But if you really ask, what is it that's mine to do, what gift am I to give, what's trying to emerge in my life, and you listen sincerely and make yourself available to activate the spiritual faculty of hearing the inaudible, you'll catch a vision. Your intuition will become activated. Your gut will be activated. You'll start to get breadcrumbs along the way.

I had a vision. I saw a spiritual center, Agape, and I saw it on more than one occasion. One time I was in a Mexican city taking some time off. Another time I had it in a dream. I was walking down the street. I was really small in the dream, and the building had people coming out, all the demographics, everybody was in there. They were singing and praying, and a voice said, this is what we want you to do. I said, but in the dream, I'm really small. How am I going to do that? They said, you say yes and we'll do the rest. I went to Big Bear for a private meditation retreat by myself, just to be up there meditating. One day I'm outside meditating and a scroll comes down in front of me and it says, Michael Beckwith to speak at this spiritual center in Tacoma, Washington. Then it rolled up and disappeared. So I began a vision group in my living room. We met every Thursday night to become the vibration of a community that we wanted to build. We didn't start linearly with business plans or any of that. We wanted to be internally the frequency of unconditional love and peace, and then let the rest happen.

I didn't have any mentors, so in the beginning my mentors were people on the other side of the veil, dead people. My teachers were dead. Walter Russell, Ernest Holmes, and other people. I would actually leave my body and go to these classes and sit there and learn, then come back to the body. At this church, they had a celebration anniversary and they had the bust of the founder of religious science outside. I said, oh, I know him. They said, this man died in the 60s, what do you mean? I said, no, I work with him at night. He teaches me at night. They said, what are you talking about? I said, when I leave my body, this is one of my teachers. He told me I was going to take this teaching further than most people have ever taken it before. One night I was out of the body, sitting there, and he comes up and says, tonight the lesson is going to be taught by Michael Beckwith. So I walk up to the front. There are all these people out there, and I say it can be broken down into eight simple words, it is done unto you as you believe. I became very conscious that I was up there teaching in a class outside of my body.

I had a series of inner experiences that at the time I thought were pathological. I was in the psychobiology department, so hearing voices, seeing visions, leaving my body, this was not something that I trained myself to do. I really thought I was going crazy. To make a long story short, it culminated in a death. I left my body numerous times. I was killed by three men. Two men held me down and one plunged a knife into my heart. The pain was very excruciating, emotionally and physically. I died. When I woke up, I could see that I was surrounded by this field of love beyond anything I could describe and such beauty. This life, this beauty, was even in the lint in the rug. Everything was alive, glowing with this presence. At that point, I couldn't get back into the normalization that I'd been doing as a young child. I woke up and I could see 360 degrees, 365 degrees. I could see everywhere. I went on a research to discover what had happened to me, and that's when I bumped into the mystical teachings of Gautama the Buddha, Jesus the Christ, Walter Russell, Zoroaster, and many teachers that led me into an awareness of what was happening to me. I realized I wasn't crazy.