Definition: Ascension

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Revision: 12 Mar 2025

Ascension

A process of evolving beyond layers of density, form, and substance.
A process of releasing confusion.
A process of releasing delusion.
A process of releasing identification.
A process of releasing limiting beliefs and concepts.
A process of transcending apparent separation.
A process of transcending apparently finite manifestation.
Ascension commonly refers to one’s embodiment becoming less dense and more transparent.
Ascension is typically experienced as a sense of increasing lightness and freedom, and as a sense of the body being more nimble and less dense.
Ascension follows from becoming profoundly awake.
Ascension follows from releasing clutter and density.
Ascension follows from releasing identification with limitation.
As all is one, when one ascends, all ascend.
The primary catalyst for ascension is relinquishing the belief in separation from Divinity/God/Source.
Ascension is accelerated by one-pointed focus on releasing all separative tendencies and on realizing sourceness.
Ascension is hindered by attachment to or desire for ascension.
Ascension is hindered by ideas of ascension looking or feeling a certain way.
There are levels of ascension, from becoming clearer and lighter, to transcending beliefs and experiences of separation, to transcending form, to fully remembering being THE SUPREME.
In apex awakeness, it is obvious that there can be no descent into unawakeness and that, equally, there can be no ascension from unawakeness.