What is Ascension, you may be asking? Ascension is basically a change in the focus of consciousness. It is the natural, on-going evolutionary process of all creation. As eternal, spiritual beings, we were created through the God(dess) Source to expand through experience. When we choose to incarnate in the dense, physical, third dimension, we actually descend. We come to Earth again and again in order to experience, learn, and master this most difficult of dimensions with unconditional love. This choice greatly accelerates our spiritual evolution. The only problem is, we fall asleep in matter.....We get bogged down in materiality, thinking that it is our total reality. We forget that we come into incarnation in order to return to the spiritual realms with added wisdom and experience. This is ascension. This is our goal......This is our Return Home.
All life is ascending, the plants, the rocks, and the animals, each in its own time in its own individual way. The Earth, as a living being, is also ascending. It is happening according to the Divine Plan whether we know about it or not. Only the resistance to this process is painful.
This natural evolutionary process can be greatly assisted by consciously choosing to commit to our personal ascension. Our personal awareness and choice is so very important. Spirit will never force us to accept love, joy, and inner peace. Our free will choice is always honored. By ending our resistance, we can move rapidly forward without the pain and struggle so often associated with human life.
In past ages, ascension occurred after the death of the physical body. When souls decided to plunge totally into the dense realm of matter, they found they needed many human bodies to spiritualize physical form. When too many mistakes were made in one body and it was exhausted, the body was discarded. A period of rest was experienced without the body, and then a new body was formed to allow a fresh start. Memory of other incarnated mistakes was blotted out, not as a punishment, but as a gift of beginning again, without entanglements, to meet the challenge of spiritualizing the physical body. The soul, of course, retained the memories. As more and more of the soul are incorporated into the consciousness, "remembering" past experiences becomes easier.
The process of reincarnation has progressed far enough for the proportion of spirit to matter within the body to improve considerably. Now it is possible for people to ascend with the physical body, no longer needing to leave it behind. Visualize this evolutionary process as the movement of a long train from inertia to full speed ahead. At first, tremendous power was needed to move even an inch very slowly. Many great souls were required to come to Earth to begin moving the unknowing inertia of mass mind. History still remembers some of them, such as Lao-tzu, Zoroaster, Quetzalcoatl, Krishna, and Aknaton. Their combined efforts got the train moving, so to speak. Over time, the continual input of light into matter helped the evolutionary train to pick up more and more speed.
At this point in time, there is enough momentum built up for the train to be moving at tremendous speed. This momentum carries along the mass consciousness. Now it is much easier for incoming souls to move along quickly to spiritualize their physical bodies because the whole process is well advanced. Young people today can quickly awaken to their spiritual truth and begin to contribute to the forward progress of the mass consciousness rather than spending most of their lives dragging back heavily against it. They can help bring forth the ascension for the masses before physical death, before totally wearing out the physical body in resistance to evolution. Much more energy can be expended on the positive and much less wasted on the negative.
I. Physical Ascension
It is possible to ascend physically as Jesus and the other masters demonstrated. In this process, the physical cells are all expanded into a higher frequency. The physical body begins to glow from within and radiate light. Much as the blades of a fan seem to "disappear" as they rotate faster and faster, a body that is vibrating at higher frequencies seems to disappear from the third dimension. Its primary focus is on a higher dimension. It seems "magical" to those who remain focused on the denser third dimension, but it is a perfectly natural process.
In your personal physical ascension, you must begin where you are. If you have a worn-out,
Naturally, it takes less effort to begin conscious physical ascension with a healthy young body than with a worn out one. The important factor is to begin now to improve your physical health, whatever it is. It takes a change in thinking about the consequence of taking good care of the physical body. Many have not understood the importance of honoring the physical aspects of incarnation. They care for animals and plants. They work for improved environmental conditions. They are loving and serving in many positive projects, but they do not care for their own bodies.
It is obvious, when you think about it, that a poor physical body is as much a drain on the environment as other kinds of pollution and abuse. A sick person requires tremendous energy in the form of care, drugs, and money that a well person does not. You can run around saving the planet only if you have the good health to do so. It makes sense to care for and honor your body's needs as a priority in your spiritual work.
This does not require fanaticism. It does require some self-discipline. Gentle, loving attention to the physical body repays you with the energy and well being to improve conditions around you. The modern emphasis on exercise and diet is a very positive indication of the spiritual progress of the mass consciousness. You can do your part by maintaining a balanced lifestyle of exercise, healthy food and rest.
Meditation can also be a very helpful tool in improving the physical body. As transcendental meditation has demonstrated, calming the mind and body relieves stress and has many beneficial side effects. Focusing light or loving feelings within the body in meditation can heal many physical imbalances. Conscious release of tension or emotions in meditation can change lives. These techniques work. They are readily available to all. Only you can choose to act upon this information. It is your choice to live as Spirit, within a healthy, balanced physical system, or to ignore it and have to leave it behind in the ascension process. Honor your body as a focus of your soul's expression. The rewards of well being and fulfillment can be great.
II. EMOTIONAL ASCENSION
There is much confusion about the role of emotion in ascension. We tend to perceive higher dimensional beings in an emotional vacuum while we can hardly keep afloat in a whirlwind of feelings too powerful to control. This concept causes deep separations in consciousness that make it difficult to work together as equals. Higher dimensional beings come to us knowing both are worthy of respect. We often go to Spirit feeling guilty and inadequate. These different sets of assumptions make it hard to communicate.
Our rejection of our own divinity is a tremendous barrier to overcome in the ascension process. For this reason, the emotional body requires a basic clearing and cleaning before we can get on with more positive activities. The emotional body has been the collector of all the miss-qualified energy from all our physical incarnations. This dense emotional body accumulates around our physical body like a heavy overcoat. Emotions like fear and anger vibrate at very low frequencies. They cannot be taken into higher vibrations where joy and love predominate. Hanging on to denser energies automatically holds you down in the denser vibrations and delays our evolution.
Perhaps an explanation of energy fields would help explain the emotional body's place in ascension.
Imagine that all energy is divided into octaves like a piano, with each dimension represented by an octave. The Source is the highest octave while the physical dimension is the lowest, the emotional dimension is the second lowest, and the mental dimension is next above that. These three lower octaves make up your personality while your spiritual dimensions compose all the higher octaves. You are the same relative note in each one. If they were all sounded together, like the totality of your being resonating or vibrating together, it would make a very rich, beautiful sound. Our bodies, emotions, thoughts and spirits are all composed of energy vibrating at different frequencies. Our physical senses keep us focused on the physical level so we are unaware of the others like a deaf person who can only hear some of the middle tones.
In meditation we can align the three lower energy bodies with our spirit bodies and consciously allow Spirit to flow freely throughout our beings. We can actually experience ourselves as primarily Spirit in nature rather than a body with feelings and thoughts with only occasional loving, inspirational currents flowing through.
The keys to freedom from lower frequency bondage are so simple, so obvious, and so well known that is often overlooked and forgotten. The keys are FORGIVENESS and RELEASING. Your emotional body can be completely transformed by forgiveness AND releasing. If you are interested in achieving constant unconditional love and peace, knowing yourself and all others to be divine, begin now to forgive yourself, others, and then release it all....let it go....Forgiveness and releasing are ongoing tools in the ascension process. Use it and consciously know your own divinity. Begin with 4th dimensional attitudes to share Universal truth and wisdom.
III. MENTAL ASCENSION
Changing your mind is perhaps the most important aspect of ascension. This requires some self-discipline, but it can be done. Meditation can be the means of changing your mind. In meditation it is possible to change the focus of your thoughts from the limited, fear-based perspective of your physical brain's memories and subconscious mind to the vast resources of Universal Mind. Once you experience the difference, you can tap into Universal Mind at will and begin to function with the calm creativity of higher dimensions.
Mass Mind
As you are born into a physical body and learn how to control it with your physical brain, you automatically become absorbed into Mass Mind. Mass Mind is the sum total of all the thoughts of physical brains on this planet. It is the accumulation of the ages into one vast cloud of thought. All incarnated beings contribute to this. The great avatars and the mentally retarded, the loving and the fearful, all think their thoughts and contribute to Mass Mind. All are energy. All thoughts accumulate in the mental field around the planet. Carl Jung called this the Collective Unconscious.
It is difficult for one person alone, no matter how powerful his mind, to change the vast
Universal Mind
Universal Mind includes all the thoughts of all the planets, stars and galaxies. It is a frequency that flows up and down through all dimensions. It is not bound by the 3rd dimensional problems of one tiny planet. If you attune to that frequency, you automatically experience unity with All That Is.
To understand the difference between Universal Mind and Mass Mind, imagine yourself looking at Earth from outer space. Mass Mind is like a dark cloud separating Earth from the rest of creation. From out in space, we can see that there is no separation. Earth is a beautiful gem floating among the stars, part of All That Is. All the great avatars who have incarnated on our planet taught that humans are not alone and helpless. Quetzalcoatl, Hiawatha, Lao-Tzu, Krishna, Buddha and Jesus all manifested Universal Mind directly. They expressed the unconditional love and unity of the Source through their human forms. They taught that man was Spirit, created in the image of God (dess) with all the necessary ingredients to connect consciously with Universal Mind.
abused, painful, unhealthy body, it is necessary to bring it into greater balance for ascension. The whole goal of incarnation is to bring Light into matter, to quicken it with Spirit. This is the challenge of physical life on Earth. Of course, you can easily leave the body behind. This is the old way, and it is still valid. However, we are working to transform the physical body into higher vibrations, not to leave it behind. If you accept this challenge, you begin to realize how important the physical body can be in the ascension process.
inertia of Mass Mind. It would be like one pure drop of water trying to clarify the whole ocean. On the other hand, Mass Mind is a great resource of wisdom and experience for survival in the physical environment. Myths and legends of all ages and races are expression of Mass Mind. This folk wisdom is a tremendous support in accepting the physical body's growing up, maturing and aging. Removing people from their ancient rituals and superstitions is not necessarily an improvement in their lives unless they are replaced with more Universal truths. Limited understanding is better than chaos. A return to the "old ways" so popular these days is a necessary balancing of the extremes of modern life. Unfortunately, a great many negative thoughts existed in primitive societies. Mass Mind's limited, fear-based thinking will not bring about the needed solutions to the problems of the modern world.
When tapping into Universal Mind, you can leave the stagnation of fear-based Mass Mind behind and go directly to new imaginative ideas. In Universal mind, there is no judgment to categorize or separate. All individuals are honorable and worthy of respect. No energy is wasted on attack or defense. Clear, rational, creative ideas are instantly available. Loving, peaceful thoughts flow smoothly through the mind. Universal Mind offers a better way to solve problems than the old limited Mass Mind.
IV. SPIRITUAL ASCENSION
All ascension is a spiritual process. Each of the physical, emotional and mental bodies is spiritualized in turn as we become aware of ourselves in Spirit. The first step is to convince the individual mind that it is not alone and separate. If one is blind to his eternal soul, he must first be awakened to the existence of "something out there".
There are as many ways to enlightenment as there are individuals. Some are able to awaken easily and naturally to their spiritual essence. Their own guidance can help them find the right people, the right books, the right ideas, etc. Gradually, they overcome their own resistance and gain greater understanding.
Others require very dramatic wakeup calls before they remember who they really are. This is a job for the "Angelic Swat Team!” These are Seraphim, the highest order of angels, who are especially trained to awaken closed minds. At the invitation of the individual's soul, they arrange for him/her to "accidentally" be involved in severe diseases, car crashes, wars, etc. It takes great expertise to get the individual's attention upon Spirit without actually killing the body or the Spirit. This must be a last resort when all else fails. The Seraphim can step in to act swiftly in a crisis as well as plan long range campaigns for mass ascension. They play a very essential, though little known, part in the ascension process.
Once a person accepts the basic concept that Spirit exists, he begins the gradual awakening to the vast differentials of Spirit. The primitive mind sees Spirit in everything, animate and inanimate. Everything around him is alive and must not be offended. From this develops the idea that some spirits are more powerful than others, with hierarchies of gods struggling for power over other gods. Gods become jealous, demanding tyrants, who must be carefully appeased with sacrifices and rituals. God is thought to be in his heaven far above and separate from man on Earth.
The next step in the evolution of ideas about Spirit is the "savior" concept. The belief that God is still all powerful and separate from man, but does notice man enough to send a messenger, known as his son, to tell people how to evolve. This messiah does his best to teach people about God FROM his own experience. He speaks of God in personal terms, as "Father", "Mother", etc, so making Spirit more accessible. At this point, man begins to think that he might have an intercessor with God through this messenger. He tells him his troubles, confesses his "sins," gives money or something of value to the messenger, and sends him back to God to act on his behalf.
Eventually, the "savior" concept evolves into the idea that man can communicate directly with Spirit. He begins to regard himself as a part of God who can contribute to God's creation. This is the understanding of the "New Age". Like all the other steps in the spiritualization of the physical dimension, change comes gradually and is tremendously resisted. Some catch on quickly and joyfully explore the new ways. Some lag behind. There have always been the leaders, the followers, and the drop-outs. So it is now, with the changes of the mass consciousness into a new way of thinking. The new age is not the ultimate understanding in the evolution of consciousness. It is just another step along the way. Like all the other stages in evolution, the new ideas must be gradually integrated into mass consciousness if they are to make a permanent change.
So let us discuss some of the peaks and pitfalls of “new age” thinking. One of the most positive ideas is the restoration of the human being to a meaningful place in the cosmic whole. Many have become aware of a multi-dimensional cosmos with Spirit universally present. The pitfalls seem to come from the new consciousness of having a direct relationship with beings in other dimensions. When an individual first "discovers" through angels, space brothers, ascended masters, elementals, faeries, dolphins, crystals, etc., he tends to begin worshipping them, giving them all his power and still acts like an unworthy member of the spiritual cosmos. Much remains to be learned about self-love and trust.
Higher dimensional beings do have individuality, but they also have a much greater unity of purpose and function than individuals in the third dimension. Large groups work together on projects. Their talents and preferences naturally incline them to focus on certain aspects of great projects. One may be the spokesperson, but this person's individual personality is not the limit of the wisdom and power of the group's function, nor is the spokesperson limited to this one function. They all have conscious access to the vast resources of Universal Mind.
As we evolve spiritually and become aware of our place in the Universe, we, too, have access to Universal Mind. One of the primary conditions for using Universal Mind is responsibility and accountability for access to all this wisdom. The severely limited focus of the third dimension has kept us from understanding the horrendous consequences of misusing Universal Mind., which can destroy whole planets and affect the whole system. THE MORE KNOWLEDGE WE OBTAIN, THE MORE RESPONSIBILITY WE MUST ASSUME.
The mass consciousness must be lifted gradually into more cosmic understanding. None of the beings on Earth are isolated. Spirit is not only "out there", but within each and every individual. All must come to the realization that they are an integral part of the whole. The next step in spiritual evolution is the development of strong, committed individuals who honor their own contributions as well as accept responsibility as group members. Ascension Symptom Continue Here
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