Second Thoughts About Ascension
There is a huge movement(?) in the larger spiritual community toward human ascension into the 5th Dimension. There seems to be a giant push to raise human consciousness to a higher harmonic plane of existence. If you look around on social media you will inevitably see an article or video or someone talking about the Awakening process, higher-selves, and ascension into 5D.
According to ascension teachings, the earth and all beings living on the earth are in the process of shifting into a new reality - a higher dimension - in which a consciousness of love, compassion, peace and spiritual wisdom prevails.
Some say this shift has been going on for decades and will probably be complete within a few more; others give no date. But everyone pretty much agrees it will be complete sometime in the near future. Individuals will be each moving into the Fifth Dimension at their own rate when their frequency is high enough to match the vibration of the higher dimension.
Most ascension teachings state that the on-going shift into the Fifth Dimension has been “planned” for eons, and that it will continue to unfold in more and more obvious ways, picking up speed, as time goes on.
From my observation, people seem to hunger for it. People seem so ready to discard our current existence and transmute to a higher level of sentience. And why wouldn't we? If the promises of the 5th Dimension are true, we are in for a treat that we can't even imagine.
Let's talk about that for a moment, shall we?
What is 5D?
A good place to start would be with a brief description of what the 5th Dimension is. According to this article on in5d.com, 5D Consciousness is:"When a person reaches 5th dimension consciousness, they may experience existing in a permanent state of peace, bliss, love, and joy. No effort is required on their part to remain in this state. This takes place naturally and automatically. All dissonant energy is automatically filtered out...
Furthermore, no negative thoughts stream into the mind of a person who has reached 5th dimension consciousness. In fact, all negative thoughts are automatically filtered out of their mind."
Keeping this in mind for a moment (because we will come back to it), lets understand that dimensions are not places or locations; they’re levels of consciousness that energetically vibrate at a certain rate. There are numerous dimensions - as numerous as light frequencies; the fourth and fifth are simply higher frequency than the this 3rd dimension we've been living in.
Understand also that the Third Dimension is not the physical things around you that you can see or touch: the table, the tree, the earth. These are form. All things in form are still present in the Fourth Dimension (and to some degree in the 5th); they’re simply more light-filled, not as dense.
Each dimension vibrates at a higher rate than the one below. In each higher dimension, there exists a clearer, wider perspective of reality, a greater level of knowing. We experience more freedom, greater power, and more opportunity to create reality.
Okay, if we work from these common ascension teachings, we can see the lure - the tempting appeal - that 5D has to offer. I mean, who wouldn't want to live a life free of pain and dissonance and full of joy and bliss? The world today seems to be full of sickness, hate, corruption, and the darkest of evils... anyone would want to ascend away from this mess.
Am I right?
Not So Fast...
In order to reach this dimension of harmonic bliss, it is also stated that one must rid themselves of old baggage, guilt, fear, despair, and all of the emotional burdens that weigh us down. If we are to bathe in the eternal, never-ending light, we must be clean and clear. In order for a higher dimension to be available to us, we need to vibrate in resonance with it.Shifting from one level of consciousness to the next higher one is definitely tempting. Being bathed in the light would certainly seem to be a "safe" and secure place where no harm can come to us... where joy and contentment come easily.
With those promises, we can say "Screw the third dimension"... right?
The 3rd dimension is a dimension of duality, where the 5th is a dimension of unity. We currently inhabit bodies that are anchored in the 3rd dimension. of this there can be no argument.
Herein lies the problem
Our perception of the 5th dimension is seen from a 3D perspective. It's so very true. Because our bodies are still used for crude communication such as language and writing, our 5d consciousness has an unavoidable task of using our 3d body to convey the harmony and love and light... This communication unavoidably creates a perception that is based in 3D duality. Any intuitive messages, channeled beings, energy readings, or anything else is all perceived and processed on this 3rd dimensional plane. This is why 2 people can hear the same message from a channel, yet interpret different meanings.
It is this duality, and the negative stigma that has become attached to it, that has created this giant push for ascension. This push for ascension has become the last hope for many to escape their fears, pain, and suffering. For many people, this promise has become their main drive - indeed their main purpose in life. So much so, that they no longer try to find the simple joys the 3rd dimension has to offer.
The duality of the 3rd dimension is a dance between the light and the dark. This dance between the purest light and the deepest darkness creates shades... or shadows that 3D consciousness struggles to confront with it's rigid beliefs and a fairly inflexible set of rules and limitations. However it is these very shadows that give depth, texture, and beauty to life around us. The shadow play between light (or bright) and dark, are what gives beauty to a sunrise, or to a mountain view.
Look at the example below...
In the photos above you can see the face of a vibrant, beautiful young woman. You can see the fullness of her smile and the twinkle in her eye. The photo in the center is a beautiful, balanced display of the dance with shadow and light. It gives her texture, depth, and beauty. But if you look to the photo on either side - shrouded in darkness or bathed in white light, she loses her vibrant beauty... in fact she almost ceases to exist.
Remember that 5D is "When a person reaches 5th dimension consciousness, they may experience existing in a permanent state of peace, bliss, love, and joy. No effort is required on their part to remain in this state. This takes place naturally and automatically. All dissonant energy is automatically filtered out..."
In a dimension of pure love - without any discord to compare it with, any joy or contentment will lose it's luster. It will become mundane and therefore no longer joyous.
See the paradox? It is this conundrum that keeps us in the reincarnation cycle... This is why many see the promise of ascension as a false-light trap.
What is the true advantage in ascension?
It has been said by many spiritual leaders, authors, and other gurus, that our spirit chose to come to this place - this dimension - to learn certain lessons and to fulfill certain purposes on behalf of the One Consciousness, so as to bring a physical experience to it's (our) thoughts. If this is true, then our desire to ascend to the 5D is purely egoic and based on fear and resistance to the darker aspect of the 3rd dimension. It is the influence of our human meatbags that forces us to want to flee back to higher levels of sentience, believing we will be free of pain and filled with love.
It is that very desire to ascend that keeps one bound to the 3rd dimension. Until we learn to appreciate the light - and confront the dark - that we already experience, then we will not be ready for the shift. If we cannot find peace and happiness in the 3rd Dimension, we are not ready to elevate to the next.
That very desire is in conflict with the agreement made at the soul level before coming here. And that very desire keeps us from fully experiencing everything that the One Consciousness has chosen to experience.
The One Consciousness wants to know and understand "All"... and "All" - like it or not - includes the darker shades of life as well as the light. For our desire to ascend prematurely, to hurry up and get it done, is an egoic desire without consideration or compassion for the valuable experiences needed for this ascension.
The desire to ascend is, in certain aspects, selfish... and a direct defiance of the nature of the very consciousness we represent.
The Boatman's Philosophy
As I see it - from my own introspection, experience, study, and all the other blah blah stuff - the ascension to the next dimension will come when it comes. Either individually or collectively, we will sooner or later expand into higher levels of sentience. But in the mean time, I choose to experience the duality of this world in all it's glory and splendor, and all it's despair and suffering. For it is from all of these things that I will learn the lessons I must learn to ascend naturally.I choose to experience the beauty of the 3rd dimensional dance of shadow and light because I do not fear the darkness and I do not crave the light. I am one with both and therefore one with All.
Should I encounter darkness along my journey, I will not run and hide from it... nor will I dwell upon it. I will experience as much as is needed to gain the understanding I must have as I go forward toward natural ascension.
I choose to fulfill my soul contract and help relieve the suffering of others as I walk the path to my eventual ascension. And in so doing, perhaps I may acquire enough wisdom to break free of the reincarnation cycle and exist in whatever our true natural state may be.
I choose the wisest thing I can choose... patience.
- The Boatman
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