Dear Neale…I have been reading a lot about the "Ascension" process lately and I am a bit confused. First of all, I don't believe that you've written anything about this process in any of your books. Does this mean that it really isn't going to happen to us humans? The thing that bothers me most about what I've read is that it is often mentioned how we are going to ascend to the 5th dimension and it talks a lot about the "higher realms." Yet, it also says that we are moving out of the time and space continuum and duality. How could this be if we're moving to a "higher" realm? I'd sure appreciate it if you could address this process. I'm sure that it will help others beside me. Thank you, and many blessings for the wonderful work you are doing.
Michael
Dear Michael...The place that exists outside of the space/time
continuum is what we would call, in human language, a "higher realm."
There is a difficulty with communication through words. Words are the
least reliable form of communication. Thoughts are the next least
reliable, because most people's thoughts are based on their past
experience, not on what is happening right here, right now. Feelings
are the language of the soul. If you want to know your truth about
something, look to how you are feeling about it.
The so-called "higher realm" that exists outside of the space/time
continuum can only be fully described by exploring your feelings about
it -- and this is a singular experience. It cannot be done in plural.
It is like joy. Try to describe "joy" to someone. It is almost
impossible. How big is it? How wide is it? How long or short is it? How
warm or cold is it? Sometimes joy feels warm all over. Sometimes it
feels like cold tingles up and down your body. So how "warm" is joy?
How cold is it? What size is it, what temperature?
You see, one cannot describe it in human physical terms. You have to feel it. And the feeling cannot be described. It is, quite literally, "indescribable joy." All this talk of you ascending to a higher realm is nothing more than a collection of words to clumsily describe a raising, or ascending, of consciousness. It is consciousness raising. It is when you move in consciousness to a new place, a place outside the physical limitations and experiences of your bodily reality.
This can be done at any time, and many masters have done it without
moving their bodies at all. Most people think that "ascension" means
that the body literally lifts off the earth and "ascends into heaven."
That is one way you can do it, but it is far from the only way -- and
it is the most difficult way, because it requires that you drag your
physical body along with you.
Your body is yours, it is not You. The "you" that ascends is not your
body, unless you choose to take your physical body with you -- but why
would you do that? You have no need for your body at all. It is merely
a tool through which you can create and achieve a greater and grander
experience of Who You Really Are. Once you have achieved that
experience, your body becomes unnecessary, pointless. Like any tool
with which you are finished, you can put it down. You are not this
tool. You have a body, but you are not the body that you have.
True masters are those who can leave their body at will. The part of
them that is Who They Really Are simply exits the body, leaving it
lying there, or sitting there, doing its own thing, taking care of
itself through the ongoing operation of the perfect mechanism that is
its biological system. The heart beats, the lungs expand and contract,
blood circulates...the mechanism functions perfectly, working like a
clock, or like a well-tuned automobile. You do not have to be in your
car for it to keep running. You can step outside of your car and just
let the motor run. The car does not need you to run. It runs by itself.
But it does need you to steer it, to tell it where to go.
Your body is a vehicle, moving you through the world at the level of
gross physicality in order to provide you with experiences that are
only available to you at that level. These experiences create a context
within which your mind can begin to hold the larger reality of your
True Identity. Once you experience your True Identity, your body
becomes virtually useless in terms of your own journey. You can get out
of the car. You're there. You're arrived. Then you will begin to use
your body as a vehicle through which you may carry others to a direct
experience of who they really are. Suddenly your body has a use again!
And it is the greatest use of all. It is the purpose for which it was
invented.
In other words, once you achieve a certain level of awareness, you will
use your life here on this earth to lead others to that place of
awareness -- to carry others back home, back to a full knowing of their
True Identity. You will wake other people up.
Soon, you will seek to do this for the Whole Humanity. Nothing else
will matter. Nothing else will seem the least bit important, least of
all the concerns of your own body, or its once-selfish, now-forgotten
needs or satisfy-me-now indulgences. You will experience yourself
needing nothing. You will find yourself yearning for nothing. Certainly
nothing that only the physical realm can provide you.
At this point you will be "in this world, but not of it." And, while
you will continue to remain with your body, and to enjoy it, you will
enjoy it and use it in an entirely different way. You will use it to
bring others pleasure. To bring others joy. To bring others peace and
love and safety and security and wisdom and clarity and awareness and
the experience of Oneness. You will use it to bring others Home.
Imagine having sex like this. Just imagine it.
I bring this up because sexual expression is one of the great joys of
being physical. But you have not known true joy, I promise you, until
you have had a sexual experience in which you use your body as I have
described above. Then you will take what you have experienced and
thread it through the fabric of your entire life. Sex will no longer be
an experience limited to intercourse. It will become Synergistic Energy
eXchange -- true SEX -- which is the exchange of the essence of Who We
Are with each other in a way that brings all of us back to ourselves
and to the knowing of our Oneness with all others and with all of Life.
During your stay here on earth you will "ascend into heaven" many
times, your consciousness leaving your body frequently, during
meditation, during dreams, even, eventually, in a fully waking state,
as I have described here. Your daily life will contain many moments in
which you move in and out of a state of higher consciousness, from
which you will perform many wonders. I am in such a state right now as
I perform the wonder of giving you this answer. This reply to you could
not have emerged from me had I not "ascended" to the level of
consciousness wherein this answer resides.
Do you understand?
When you expand your awareness of your True Identify you will exit your
small self, your localized self, and move in consciousness to your
Universal Self at will. Often will you do this. You will exit and
return, leave and come back, ascend and descend, sometimes for extended
periods, sometimes for the instant moment, moving between realms
effortlessly. And when you do this, my wonderful friend, the kinds of
questions you've asked me here will disappear.
Now you may say, that sounds wonderful! How can I get there? How can I
get to that place of awareness? And the answer is astonishingly simple.
Take someone else there.
When you understand this, that will be all that your life will be about.
I send you love and hugs....neale.
