While some of the terminology is different from that of Yoga, the message of the nature of transcendental experience is clear. I believe the author has done us all a great service by sharing this knowledge and by giving us clear examples of the consciousness of everyday life while describing our brief, in the beginning, experiences of higher states of consciousness.
"Do your practice and all will come" and you will be doing your part in the evolution of a higher global consciousness
In the Light of Yoga:
John.
What is Ascension
By Jelaila Starr
Written March 23, 2001
By  now you have probably realized that we were not given a blueprint for  ascension.  In a perfect world we would have a blueprint or model  showing us what to do.  We would know what to expect and what not to  expect and therefore would move through the process with more grace and  ease that we do now.  But as we all realize, we don’t live in a perfect  world so we blindly stumble along figuring it out as we go. 
Much of our energy is spent learning that we have many  misconceptions of what the ascension process is and isn’t.  These  misconceptions create a lot of the pain that we experience along the  way.  For example, there is a misconception that we can ascend without  having to experience our fears.  Oh how wonderful it would be if that  was really true. *sigh*
This article was written to help dispel some of these misconceptions  that cause us to stumble and also to provide something of a blueprint  for the process.  This blueprint, of course, is based on my own  experiences as well as those of the beautiful souls who I am honored to  know and who walk the path along side me.  So let’s begin with the  basics. 
What is ascension?
On an individual level, ascension is the  process of changing one’s consciousness from one reality, based on one  set of beliefs, to another. On a group or planetary level, ascension is  the collective expansion of a state of consciousness (set of beliefs) to  the point where that consciousness creates a new reality—a new state of  being or dimension (*The Hundredth Monkey Syndrome).  Example: We are  collectively creating a 5th dimensional consciousness through our  individual ascension processes. Okay, I realize I have thrown a new  thought in here, that being that a dimension is a state of  consciousness. Perhaps we’d better stop and look at that before we go on  because we really need to understand consciousness, dimensions and such  before we can truly grasp the process of ascension.
What is consciousness? 
Consciousness is a set of beliefs on  which we base our lives and through which we make the choices and  decisions that make up our present reality. 
What is a dimension? 
A  dimension is a state of consciousness.  Now how can that be?  Well,  when you look at what we know about dimensions, what we find is that  each is about a unique set of beliefs.  For example, 3D is about the  belief that, this is the only life that we have and if you can’t touch  it, taste it, see it, feel it or hear it, it doesn’t exist. Is that  pretty close?  5D, which I will fully address in an upcoming article, is  about Christ or Unity consciousness where we realize that we are all  connected—we understand and live in oneness (there is a misconception of  what unity consciousness looks like and I will address it in the  article, The 5th Dimension—what will it be like?). Our current 3D  consciousness was not established until enough people began to believe  the same way.  And I suspect the current 5D consciousness was not  established until enough of the people existing there, figured out how  to live in unity.  So we see that when enough people live a set of  beliefs they create a dimension.
Going further, a state of consciousness/dimension vibrates as a  certain frequency just as all physical matter has a distinguishing  vibration or frequency.  In our universe, as I understand it, the closer  we get to the integration point of Light and Dark, the faster we  vibrate (compassion being the integration point with the fastest  vibratory rate).   So, if a whole group of people acquire a particular  set of beliefs, in this case, the understanding of how to live at the  integration point between Light and Dark, then they all begin to vibrate  at that particular rate.  This vibratory rate is also known as a  frequency.  Continuing on, this group vibration creates a new  consciousness, a new reality, and a new dimension by the individuals in  the group expressing themselves emotionally, creatively, etc.  Whew!  I  hope this all makes sense to you.  Sometimes I find trying to explain  multidimensional concepts a bit challenging because there are so many  levels to them.  I can see them in my mind but getting them down on  paper is another matter. *smile*
Now that we have a basic understanding of consciousness, dimensions and frequency, let’s get back to ascension.
How do we ascend? 
Simply  stated, we ascend by clearing our emotional blocks, integrating the  fears that are the basis of those blocks, and transmuting the anger,  hatred, guilt, blame and shame in those blocks into compassion.  In each  of our emotional blocks there is judgment of the dark emotions (those  already stated above).  As we learn to accept, value and use those  emotions in a balanced manner, we balance the Dark side of ourselves. 
On the outside, as we learn to value and appreciate those who  express those dark emotions in their roles as our teachers (i.e., those  who play dark roles because they have spiritual contracts with us to do  so), we balance the Light and Dark in our reality. Once again, another  multidimensional concept condensed into a sentence or two.  Read The  Formula of Compassion and Dancing with the Dark booklets for more  information on integrating the Light and the Dark.
As we clear our blocks we shift our consciousness.  We become less  judgmental, thus more compassionate.  So our consciousness shifts first  and our physical body follows suit.  Thirdly, our external reality  begins to reflect back the new consciousness that we are expressing.  Thus, the physical reality slowly shifts also.  So every day, as we  allow our guides to bring our lessons forward so that we can clear them,  we are ascending. Each time we clear a block and experience the joy of  gratitude and appreciation and compassion, we are ascending. Let’s recap  this one.  Ascension occurs when you:
    Are willing to clear your blocks.
    Clear a block, integrate a fear by experiencing it and achieve compassion, thus creating a shift in your consciousness.
What are the mechanics of ascension?
Ascension  is a process that has spiritual, emotional, mental and physical  components.  This process is multi-layered and interconnected, meaning  that an action taken on one level affects the other levels (think of it  as a domino effect).  The mechanics of the ascension process go  something like this:
    1.  You ask for your fears to be made known to you. 
    2.  A fear manifests in your life packaged as a lesson that has come forward. 
    3.  You move through the fear, being willing to experience it as completely as necessary in order to integrate it. 
    4.  You integrate the fear, thus learning the lesson.  In this part  you feel the fear feelings associated with this fear/lesson.   They can  be feelings such as guilt, shame, hatred, anger, resentment, etc.  (Yes,  we do fear feeling these emotions because we have been taught that they  are bad and if we experience them, we are bad.) 
    5.  You experience release as the fear is integrated and the lesson  is learned.  In this release you experience emotions such as joy, bliss,  gratitude (for the person who played the Dark role) and compassion (for  the pain the Dark role person had to experience in order to play their  part). As you feel the compassion, there is a tingling sensation in your  body and in many cases an orgasmic explosion of energy in your high  heart chakra (this is the anger, shame, etc., being transmuted into  compassion) as you release the people involved in your lesson from  blame. 
    6.  The compassion you feel transmutes a bit more of your DNA from  carbon-based to crystal or silica-based, thus allowing more light into  your body.  At the same time, any implants (also known as behavior  patterns) associated with that fear/lesson are changed (balanced).  If  you have been working on this fear in all its various aspects for a  while, those newly changed implants then release their bit of your  dormant 10 strands of your DNA so that they can be realigned.
The more we move through these steps, (read the Formula of  Compassion for more details on this integration/transmutation process)  the more we recode our DNA, this shifting our consciousness closer and  closer to the integration point between Light and Dark. Compassion is  the unconditional and equal acceptance of all things (Light and Dark)  regardless of who or what they are.  Now let’s look at some of the  misconceptions about ascension.
Misconceptions of Ascension 
There are many misconceptions about  ascension going around these days.  Most of this seems to come from a  lack of basic information and trying to formulate our concept of  ascension on what we have been taught in the past.  Once we are given  the higher perspective regarding some of these concepts we can see where  just having another level of knowledge makes it all make sense.  Let’s  look a few of the more prevalent ones.
We can ascend without experiencing pain or fear.
As I said  earlier, I wish this was true but as we have seen from the information  above, we must have something that we can use to achieve compassion.  We  must have some form of fuel.  We don’t transmute love or joy into  compassion, do we?  Both love and joy are higher frequency emotions,  like compassion, aren’t they?  It is my understanding that we use the  energy of the lower frequency emotions of anger, shame, guilt,  resentment, etc. to transmute into compassion.  So, if this is true,  then we must be able to access these emotions to be able to transmute  them, right?  And in order to access them we must feel them in some way  because that is what is meant by accessing, is that not true?  And isn’t  experiencing them the same as feeling them? 
Going further, don’t lower frequency emotions create emotional and,  sometimes, physical pain?  For example, doesn’t anger create emotional  pain, or guilt or shame?  So to wrap this up, if we need transmutable  emotions for fuel to ascend, then we must access them. This means  feeling the pain of those emotions, and if we feel the pain of our  emotions, then I suppose that means that we don’t ascend without  experiencing pain.  Does that make sense?  And keep in mind that pain is  a catalyst for change.  We don’t change until we realize that we need  to…pain is the indicator that it is time for change.  From the higher  perspective, as I understand it, pain is a most valuable tool because  without it we have no catalyst to move us to do the work that is  necessary in order to grow spiritually. 
We can recode our DNA just through intent or by having someone else do it for us.
Well,  think about this. If you are doing emotional clearing and that changes  your DNA, isn’t that the same as DNA Recoding?  And, if you need fuel  (fears and lower frequency emotions) to transmute into compassion to  recode your DNA…and to experience that whole process of transmutation  for it to work then how can you do it merely by intent?  Also, how can  someone else do that for you?  How can they experience your fears,  integrate them and learn your lessons for you? I don’t see how they  can.  It would be the same as having someone else live your life for you  while you sit on the sidelines and observe.  But if they could, I would  certainly be the first in line!  I don’t want to experience any more  pain and discomfort than I have to.
Through the ascension process we will gain the ability to bi-locate, levitate and move objects with our minds.
It  was a real letdown for me when I found out that these abilities were  not part of Earth’s planetary ascension process and plan.  I so wanted  to learn how to do them and found that in the beginning they were one of  the reasons I kept going.  But on the other hand, we are not required  to attain them in order to ascend and that is a big relief!  Think of  how much time and energy it would take to be able to acquire these  abilities.  This is mystery school stuff that takes years to master.   So, no, these abilities are not part of the ascension process. The  abilities that are required are:
    1. The ability to achieve compassion by transmuting emotional blocks
    2. The ability to value the Dark in all ways
    3. The ability to live in harmony with all other species in the universe regardless of differences
Something that I learned not too long ago that you might be  interested to know is that there are two different ascension processes.   There is the Reptilian process and the Human Process. The Reptilian  process, taught through the ancient mystery schools enables you to  ascend through mental mastery and requires the student live apart from  the world in order to concentrate on his/her skills.  The Human process  enables you to ascend through the heart and requires the student to live  in the world to acquire the skills.  Okay, so I may have opened a can  of worms on this one…guess I’d better write an article to explain this  one too.
When we ascend we will be on a different planet.
Actually in  one sense it will be like being on a different planet, but in reality we  will be on a different plane of this one.  Just as radio stations exist  on different frequencies but you can still access them from the same  radio, 3D, 4D and 5D will be different dimensions/frequencies/states of  consciousness that can be accessed on the same planet, Earth.  At least  that is my understanding at this time.
When we ascend we will live to total unity and oneness…there will be no Dark or negativity…it will be all love and light.
Whoa!  Won’t people be surprised when they see that there is still Light and  Dark in 5D?  Once again, as I understand it, we will have a more united  society but not at the expense of individuality.  Having only  Light/Unity means, in it’s extreme, a hive mentality like bees or ants.  Do we really want that?  As I understand it, we want to live in the  knowing that we are all connected so that we can stop all the warring  and fighting that is caused by “we are separate” thinking. But we don’t  want to give up our individuality and free will to become part of a  unity consciousness where everyone thinks the same, do we? Well if that  is the case, count me out. I like having free will and free thinking.
As we ascend we will be able to physically see and hear our guides.
Perhaps  further down the road in the ascension process this will occur as 4D  and 5D become stronger but for now it is through the inner eye and the  inner ear that we see and hear our guides.  There are those who already  do see and hear with their 3D eyes and ears but that is not because of  DNA Recoding or ascension, I am told.  It is because they were born with  endocrine glands fully functioning as part of their earth mission.
As we ascend we should leave our 3D lives behind and move into the Light.
Well,  that’s also not part of the plan this time.  As I understand it, we are  to live in the world and be part of it but live in it with a  multidimensional consciousness.  This was a difficult one for me to  figure out.  At the beginning of my path, I wanted to separate from the  world, go live in a closed community of like-minded people, give up my  credit cards and bank accounts and live on love.  I soon found out, just  by doing part of that, that it didn’t work.  We are to stay grounded  and in the world because the world is the place from where our lessons  will come.  It is the place where we can access our fears and integrate  them, access our lower frequency emotions and transmute them within our  3D physical bodies. 
If we separate from the world and spend our time hanging out in  other dimensions or the Astral plane, we will lose out on the  experiences that cause us to grow.  Remember, without the lessons coming  forward, we cannot spiritually grow.  We grow out of imbalance into  balance.  If we try to live in a perfect world, we become spiritually  stagnant, don’t we?  Think about it.  Well, enough of the  misconceptions, this article is already long enough.  Let’s move on.
How can I tell if I am ascending?
    You have mentally made  the decision to go through the ascension process.  This is different  than being on the spiritual path.  Ascension is a choice to move to the  5th dimension.  The spiritual path is a choice to open up to what is  beyond 3D and to access your spiritual side.
    Your fears are manifesting in your life as lessons
    Your  physical body begins to react to the ascension process through new aches  and pains.  This is your inner child being triggered by the fears  coming up to be integrated.  These fears are stored in your physical  body in different locations. Example: A fear of money is stored in your  lower back and you experience that fear as lower back pain.
    You begin to be consciously aware of the synchronicities and unusual  occurrences in your life versus being unaware of them.   (Synchronicities are your guides and your work bringing forth the events  on your Life Blueprint that you had chosen during your time in the  Interlife, the life between lives.)
What do we mean when we say that the 3rd, 4th, and 5th dimensions are merging?
This  is an interesting tidbit that I couldn’t resist sharing with you.  As  many of you know, there is a lot of talk about the dimensions merging,  and the physical/mental/emotional effects we are experiencing because of  it. I’d like to share what I think this means since so many have  emailed me about it.
As more and more of us move along the Spiritual and Ascension paths,  we achieve levels of understanding.  For example, we learn that we are  spiritual beings having a physical/human experience.  When enough people  figure that one out, they create a new consciousness.  As I understand  it, this particular belief being one of the more basic ones on the  Spiritual path is a 4D concept.  So, this group has anchored a 4D octave  into 3D because they live in a physical 3D world, hence they have  merged 3D and 4D.  The same thing occurs when enough people anchor a 5D  concept in 3D.  This is what is meant by the dimensions are merging.   Groups of people are creating new dimensions of consciousness while  living on a different dimension. Hope that makes sense.
Well that about sums up this ascension thing for this article.   There is a lot more that can be shared on ascension and I have covered  some of it in other articles I’ve written.  Feel free to check them out.  You will find them under “Ascension” in the Articles area of our site.
Please feel free to email me if you have any questions on the information in this article.  My email address is below.
In service,
Jelaila Starr
The Nibiruan Council
http://www.nibiruancouncil.com
For information of the physical symptoms of ascension read, Let’s  get Real about Ascension, I and II.  For information on earth’s  ascension status read, Are we Ascending?
* The Hundredth Monkey  refers to "collective consciousness" (a phenomenon to scientists) by an  author named Ken Keyes, Jr.  On an island, social scientists observed  monkeys eating sweet potatoes that the scientists covered in sand before  giving to the monkeys. The monkeys ate the potatoes but didn't like the  sand.  One of the females began washing her potato in water before  eating it.  Slowly the others followed her example and eventually this  behavior spread throughout the island, reaching the older generation  last. Suddenly other monkeys on the other islands started doing the same  thing!  Simply, Keyes explains about this collective consciousness:  “When a certain critical number achieves an awareness, this new  awareness may be communicated from mind to mind.”  For you movie buffs,  this phenomenon was also partially observed in the opening of the movie,  2001, a Space Odyssey.
Author Info:
Jelaila Starr, author of We are the Nibiruans, The  Mission Remembered, and The Keys of Compassion is an internationally  known  channel, teacher, and counselor. Through her lectures, workshops,  and articles, Jelaila's message of compassion has touched the hearts of  people around the world inspiring hope and understanding while  providing solutions to some of today’s most pressing challenges.  
As a psychic/intuitive/counselor, Jelaila works with individuals to  assist them with emotional clearing, healing relationships, and DNA  Recoding.  Jelaila's unique approach enables her clients to clearly  discover who they are, what they came to do, and how to achieve it.  To  contact Jelaila, email her at: 
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