Guest writer for Wake Up World
Humanity is the midst of a great
ascension event and in fact, a massive trans-dimensional shift is
underway across all of creation. This shift is being experienced on
Earth as heightened levels of consciousness, expanded perceptual
abilities, and quickened manifestation.
And this shift is but one small aspect of the overall Ascension process
that the entire Universe is undergoing on a constant basis.
The universal ascension process is the fundamental evolutionary dynamic operating within the multidimensional structure of universal consciousness (and self), and along with the laws and mechanics of reality creation represent the three foundational elements defining the deeper nature of reality — they are the ground of existence.
The universal ascension process has been
discussed throughout the ages, and often misunderstood or
over-simplified. Ascension is not about going to some higher “place”, it
is about attaining higher levels of consciousness and reintegrating
with your higher levels of self, and ultimately fully reintegrating with
your highest self, none other than Source consciousness itself.
In this article, I offer my
understanding of the universal ascension process gleaned from my studies
and insights over the past several years. As always, my articles
are simply my perspective that I share in the spirit of discovery and
empowerment, take what resonates and leave the rest behind.
The Universal Ascension Process
“It is toward that state of bonded union with the expanded levels of self that you strive in these times.” — Rasha, Oneness
Ascension is the core dynamic of the
Universe. It can only be understood by realizing that the Universe IS
consciousness, and learning how that consciousness is structured. Let’s
do a quick review.
All is Energy, All is Mind
Everything visible and invisible to our
physical senses, including matter, are simply patterns of energy. The
Universe is a field of energy, and here’s the kicker — this field of
energy is conscious! How and why this is so is a still bit of a mystery,
but none the less consciousness is the fundamental stuff of the Universe and everything else is just derivative.
Our consciousness is not a product of
our physical brains, as contemporary science would have us believe, it
is a thread of Universal consciousness. There is only one consciousness
in the universe and it is the “source” of each of ours.
The Nature of Reality
The reality we perceive and experience
isn’t the objective thing that our physical senses and analytic mind
have concluded, it’s more akin to a very lucid coherent dream. We exist
inside of a mind-scape — a great conceptual space created by the
thoughts of the cosmic mind. We are focal points of awareness of that
cosmic mind, each perceiving and experiencing a small slice of this
great conceptual space from its own unique vantage point. The reality
that we perceive is just the tip of the iceberg. There are multiple realms of existence and planes of reality within this great conceptual space — there’s so much more than we’ve ever imagined and it’s amazing!
The Nature of Self
The self that many believe is all of
them, the self that identifies with the physical body and physical mind,
is a mere transient fragment of your true self. Your true self is your consciousness, and it is a thread of universal consciousness. And this consciousness that is you is organized into multiple layers, with each higher layer being a composite of all the parts in the lower layer — you are multidimensional being, and every level of your self is striving towards reunion with its source — this is the process of ascension.
The most immediate higher layer of your consciousness is your Soul.
Your Soul is an individuated aspect of universal consciousness with its
own focal point of awareness, and local memory that accumulates and
stores all of your experiences, and the understandings derived from
them, within its energy field.
Your Soul created and connected to your
physical body because physical existence is unlike anything in the
non-physical realms and provides highly formative experiences that
contribute greatly to its spiritual evolution and ascension.
The Multi-level Structure of Universal Consciousness
Your soul is part of the multi-layered composite structure of universal consciousness. As explained in depth in my article The Multidimensional Self,
source consciousness created many selves within its one self by the
process of division. It subdivided its consciousness into multiple
points of awareness each with its own local memory thereby creating
individuated sub-threads of its consciousness — in essence sub-selves.
The primary mechanism of the subdivision
process is frequency reduction. By reducing the frequency of portions
of its energy Source created distinct areas within its consciousness.
Frequency differentiation is one of the reasons why sub-selves appear
distinct and separate from their parent self and is a key element in
understanding the universal ascension process.
The ability of consciousness to
subdivide itself is a general capability and each thread of
consciousness, each sub-self, no matter what its level can, in turn,
subdivide itself becoming the parent-self to many sub/child-selves. This
process of subdivision has been repeated many times creating a deep
parent/child lineage — a massive branching tree of sub-selves all within
the One Self. The parent of a group of sub-selves can be thought of as
their higher-self and could also be thought of as a composite self —
because all the sub-selves of a parent self are really just aspects or
parts of the parent self, and ultimately the parent self is the sum of
all the experiences and understandings of all of its sub-selves.
Keep
in mind that a sub-self is simply a pattern of sentient energy at a
lower frequency than its parent. The energy pattern of the sub-self is
superimposed on the energy pattern of its parent self. In other words within a
sub-selves energy pattern are the higher frequency energy patterns of
their parent. So literally all the higher levels of consciousness, of
self, that you a part of are within you, and you are within them because
it is all simply patterns of energy superimposed on each other at
different frequencies.
The multi-level divisional structure of
consciousness represents a massively parallel evolutionary strategy for
the expansion of source consciousness. Source is the sum of all the
experiences and understandings of a massive tree of sub-selves.
Ultimately every self, every being, is a part of the One Self that is
Source consciousness, and it is expanding its understanding of itself
and the nature of its existence through all of our experiences.
The Journey of Souls — Spiritual Evolution and Ascension
The fundamental impetus that drives all
selves, all beings, at any level in the tree of consciousness is the
desire to evolve spiritually and attain reunion with their source. A
beings state of consciousness; how it views itself in relation to
others, and its principles, ideals, and values is correlated to the
frequency of its energy. The experiences that a being has drives the
evolution of it consciousness and as it evolves it ascends to higher
levels of consciousness and frequency.
Your Soul is near the bottom of stack in
the multi-level structure of consciousness. The Soul exists at a
frequency level that is close enough to the physical frequency bands
that it allows it to connect to a physical body. Physical life offers
profound and highly formative experiences that provides your soul
incredible opportunities for rapid spiritual evolution.
Each soul evolves by the apparent linear
process of incarnating many times in a series of physical lives. But it
turns that our linear conception of this is wrong — all these lives;
past, present, and future are all happening simultaneously! Our
misconception of reincarnation as a sequential process is based on our misconception of the nature of time and our lack of understanding of the multidimensional nature of self.
The many lives that are attributed to
your Soul are actually the parallel lives of a related group of Souls —
all the souls that are children of your Souls parent self — a level of
self known as the Over-Soul. Your Over-Soul subdivided itself into many
Souls for the specific purpose of collecting a wealth of physical
experience from many parallel life journeys. The understandings reaped
from these journeys are enriching your Over-Soul and every higher level
of itself, and drawing it ever closer to complete attunement to its
highest self, the One Self — Source consciousness.
Higher Self, Wider Self, One Self
Your Over-Soul is your souls immediate
higher self but could also be considered your “wider self” because your
Over-Soul is the composite of you and all the other souls that it
birthed. And if you adopted the perspective your Over-Soul, you could
even consider the other souls birthed by it as your “other selves”. And
you could take this idea a step further — if you adopted the perspective
of your highest self, the One Self, then all sub-selves created within
the One Self, regardless of what level, could be considered your other
selves. In a very real sense, we are all one.
Sub-threads of the Soul — Probable Selves
A little known, and quite astounding,
additional example of the massively parallel strategy the every level of
consciousness and beingness is employing to maximize its spiritual
evolution is something that your Soul is doing completely unbeknownst to
you. Your Soul isn’t just experiencing one life path as defined by your
choices, it is experiencing every possible life path variation and doing it in parallel!
Your Soul is literally exploring every
probable way the your life could unfold. At every decision point, of any
significance, along your life path, your Soul creates two sub-threads
of its consciousness and uses them to follow both branches of
experience. At any given time your Soul has a substantial number of
sub-selves navigating many parallel life path variations and thereby
maximizing the growth potential for itself and all its higher levels of
self.
You are a multi-level multi-part being,
and through your simultaneous journeys in many realities, realms and
timelines you have reaped a wealth of experience and understandings that
are enriching every level of self.
Ascension and the Unification Process
The journey of Souls involves way more
than just souls — every level of beingness and self is involved. The
journey is the evolutionary process of reintegration with our source.
All beings are continually evolving until they reunify with the One Self
— and become one with their Source, with God.
Our source devised the process of
dividing and differentiating itself as a strategy to explore the nature
of itself and its existence. The experiences and understandings reaped
from its many sub-selves are expanding its understanding of itself at an
exponential rate.
The experiences that each of us has, and
the understanding that are gleaned from them, are not fully assimilated
into the next higher level of our self until we reintegrate
energetically with that next level. As a given level of self evolves its
level of consciousness it is also increasing its frequency, drawing it
ever closer to the frequency of its next higher level of self (parent
self). When its frequency ascends to match the frequency of its parent
self, then full reintegration is achieved and reunification with the
parent self is complete.
As each child self reintegrates with its
parent self all of the experiences and the understandings of the child
fully meld with the parent and when all of its children reintegrate this
bumps the parents level of consciousness and frequency up, moving it
ever closer to reintegration with its parent self. This process cascades
up until eventually all levels of self and all sub-selves have
reintegrated with their highest self, none other than source
consciousness — the One Self.
Cycles of Differentiation/Division and Unification
This is the universal ascension process and it has two phases; differentiation and unification.
During the differentiation phase, Source
divides itself into many sub-selves, using the multi-level
sub-divisional process, unfolding/unfurling itself into a great inverted
tree-like structure of beingness.
This sets the stage for the unification
phase initiating a massively parallel process of self-discovery and
reunification. The reunification process progresses from the bottom up.
The great inverted tree of beingness progressively retracts starting
from the lowest levels of beingness, from the leaves of the tree and our
incarnate physical selves and heading up towards the base of the tree
and the highest level of consciousness. As each level of self
reintegrates with its parent self it, in turn, drives its parent self
towards unification with its parent self. This process trickles up
through each successive level ultimately achieving the complete
reunification of All with the One, with our Source.
“To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.” — Henri Bergson
This is our journey to oneness. This is
the fundamental dynamic that our Source set in motion to expand itself.
This is the great process of differentiation and unification that the
One Self has repeated many times to expand its understanding of self and
existence.
Oneness is the state that that every
level of beingness is striving towards. And this yearning for
reunification comes directly from the One that exists deep within each
us.
All for one, and one for all!Recommended articles by Jeff Street:
- The Illusion of Time and Space
- 6 Keys to Successfully Making the Shift to the New Earth
- Moving Beyond ‘Awakening Shock Syndrome’
- The Multidimensional Self
- Nothing to Fear But Fear Itself – Shifting From Fear to Love
Jeff
Street awakened about 2 years ago, after having been an
atheist/agnostic scientist type with absolutely no spiritual beliefs for
most of his life. After many ‘magical’ new experiences, he is
now passionate about learning and sharing his insights about
spirituality and metaphysics on his blog www.divine-cosmos.net. You can also follow Jeff on Facebook: www.Facebook.com/DivineCosmoz.