Misconceptions of Ascension
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In the past one went to the sages, read the scriptures, and followed a regime of meditation, prayer and simple life. Sometimes, these created misconceptions of ascension from a lack of basic information and trying to formulate our concept of ascension on what we were taught in the past. A new perspective regarding some of these concepts where just having another level of knowledge makes it so much easier.
We also need to move away from judgment, from the old habit of thinking that says things are either good or bad. Whenever we move into judgment, we are moving from the present into the past. We cannot have judgment of anything or anyone as either good or bad without this mental or emotional movement out of present time. Judgment is a form of attachment derived from our past experiences, and we need to move away from attachment of all kinds. We cannot be centered when we are in judgment.
Even if judgment were a valid process, we would never have enough information to do it. It is futile to judge someone based on this lifetime, yet we cannot possibly see the whole picture. How do we know what that person is supposed to be learning this lifetime? In our divine understanding, there can simply be no judgment.
Can we ascend without experiencing pain or fear? Love and joy are both higher frequency emotions. Compassion is also a higher emotion. From love and joy one cannot transmute to compassion. Lower emotions such as anger, shame, resentment and guilt create great pain and fear. It is only in experiencing these emotions that one ultimately transmutes them into forgiveness, compassion for self and others and finally into true freedom and joy. We must conquer our anger, and we must learn to be careful of our thoughts. As long as we have not conquered our anger or our unthinking words, we are not ascending. It will take longer to leave if we are not within our Divine Knowing, or if we take actions that do not proceed from love.
Lower
frequency emotions create emotional and, sometimes, physical pain, even
illness. Anger creates emotional pain, guilt or shame. Suppose, there
is no event or person that creates for you these lower emotions. There
would be no trigger to have these transmutable emotions to ascend. Pain
is a catalyst for change. We don't change until we realize that we need
pain to indicate that it is time to change. Feeling the pain of those
emotions, is a most valuable tool because without it there is no catalyst
to move us in order to grow spiritually.
