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This article is the continuation of <a href="http://reallifespirituality.com/2012-ascension/">Why 2012 Ascension Does Not Matter To Most People</a>.  On the personal side, it’s also part 2 of <a href="http://reallifespirituality.com/spiritual-development-paradox/">Spiritual Development Paradox</a>. I wish I could get the whole story channeled all in one chunk, but that seems to be too much for me. So here is what I gather at this time. . .</p>
<h3><strong>Ascension as the shift to the dimension of love and unity</strong></h3>
<p>We currently live in the three dimensional world and with the restriction of time. It’s also the world made with the illusion of separation and consequent <a href="http://reallifespirituality.com/dualism/">dualism</a>.</p>
<p>Pretty soon, we will experience the shift to the higher dimension of love and unity. (The true <a href="http://reallifespirituality.com/new-world-order/">unity</a>, of course)  It’s actually starting to happen already.</p>
<p>What I didn’t know clearly before was EVERYONE will experience this shift. Everyone’s perception and response will be different, but it will happen to everyone. (Some, however, may choose to close themselves up shortly because this is so scary and inconvenient for them, as I will describe in a minute.)</p>
<p>What will the world look like with this shift?  I still have a hard time visualizing the world with no time and space restrictions, so let me approach this from a different angle. . .</p>
<h3><strong>A glimpse of the New World</strong></h3>
<p>In this “New World”, we will sense others’ thoughts and feelings as if they were our own. So there will be absolutely zero room for lying.</p>
<p>It will be extremely hard to do anything violent or abusive. Currently we are numb to others’ feelings (at least to some extent), but what happens if you, for example, say hurtful things and immediately feel the other person’s sadness as if it were yours?</p>
<p>And what happens if you say something <a href="http://reallifespirituality.com/psychological-manipulation-techniques/">manipulative</a> and immediately you know the other person can see your intention clearly?  You’d be very uncomfortable, right?</p>
<p>For some people, this is a welcome shift. We are finally going to live in the world of true unity and love. We will still have individuality, but we also share so much.</p>
<p>For some, however, this is a nightmare. They would either have to change their way of living or go into some kind of psycho shock.</p>
<h3><strong>Re: spiritual development paradox</strong></h3>
<p>Something interesting may happen to those who think they are holier, or more advanced in spiritual development. For one, they will see others can do this telepathic communication just as well as them. Secondly, others can see their arrogance.</p>
<p>I hope they won’t get crushed like the self-centered people.</p>
<p>This is the challenge of this shift happening to everyone. So, if spiritual development means anything, it ought to be about realizing the innate divinity in us all.  No one is special &#8212; or, everyone is special.</p>
<p>For me personally, I don’t care anymore where I am in the spiritual growth spectrum. I don’t have lifelong career of practicing yoga or other disciplines and I haven’t read all the spiritual books.  On the other hand, I can do certain things not many can do, like reading the Akashic Records and clearing the blocks there, so as long as there are people who want my service, I’ll do it. If this means I am just a messenger with no credit to call my own, that’s fine. I’m honored to be a messenger.</p>
<h3><strong>What if</strong></h3>
<p>We live in subjective reality. The same event can bring out different responses from different people.</p>
<p>The shift of sharing thoughts and feelings is just one example of what may happen in the upcoming Ascension to the dimension of love.</p>
<p>Here are some more scenarios to consider. I am not saying all these things will happen soon (although I think there is a good possibility). But why don’t you spend some time imagining your response if:</p>
<ul>
<li>Aliens visit us and offer the travel to their space.</li>
<p>Will you find it interesting? Or do you find all unknown beings to be scary and dangerous?<br />
(Whew, I said it!  This is something my spirit guides told me back in March when I wrote the aforementioned article on Ascension, but I couldn’t bring myself to mention back then.)</p>
<li>You get to see auras (the energy of life).</li>
<p>Again, will you find it interesting?  Or will you suspect something is wrong with your eyes, believing such skill belongs to someone with years of discipline or special talent?</p>
<li>You can talk with animals and plants.</li>
<li>Not only animals and plants, you find “things” like sunlight or soil or even your kitchen table have emotions.</li>
<li>You can fly or astral travel.</li>
<li>You can heal any ailments and rejuvenate. You don’t even have to <a href="http://reallifespirituality.com/death-afterlife-and-immortality/">die</a>.</li>
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<p>All these are about living truly in unity and love.</p>
<h3><strong>Enlightenment</strong></h3>
<p>By the way, this Ascension is not about waking up from the <a href="http://reallifespirituality.com/soul-and-higher-self/">Life Simulation Game</a>. That is about Enlightenment. Ascension is a great shift that would help us understand there is more to life than we know, but it’s not equal to Enlightenment.</p>
<p>So here is a good news &#8212; The Shift to the new, higher dimension can happen to us all. And this same news could be a bad news to some. You don’t need “preparation” per se, but the way you think, feel, and live will matter.</p>
<p>Do you have questions about Ascension?  I will see if I can check them out with my spirit guides.
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
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I’ve been writing about Ascension since I observed my own <a href="http://reallifespirituality.com/new-souls-light-ascension-2012/">Ascension soul shift</a> in January 2009.  Ascension soul shift, new souls arriving to replace the old, is a major change is our spiritual existence that can be read in the <a href="http://www.akashicrecordreading.com/">Akashic Records</a>. So far, however, I haven’t been clear exactly how this relates to 2012 or if 2012 is truly a significant year.  <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/hotair2112/124586118/">(Photo credit)</a></p>
<p>Recently, I’m receiving more detailed info. . .</p>
<h3><strong>Why every psychic has different opinions about 2012 Ascension</strong></h3>
<p>Because our experience (more accurately, our perception of the experience) depends on our spiritual awareness and willingness. Our free will is always respected by God, so if you don’t want Ascension, you won’t have it.  You don’t have to worry if you accidentally may ascend against your will. If you don’t want to see the great shift of ages, you won’t, and that will be your experience, your version of <a href="http://reallifespirituality.com/the-true-nature-of-reality/">reality</a>.</p>
<p>And those who is not spiritually ready to experience Ascension will not experience it. I must say this is the case with the majority of the world population.  Many people don’t see themselves as spiritual beings.  Many are afraid to even acknowledge there are invisible aspects to life beyond the physical world that meets the eye.  If a person’s spiritual growth level is that primitive, they simply won’t notice anything now or in 2012.  So again, no worries to them. Life will be just the same for them in 2012 and beyond.</p>
<p>But what about the people who is spiritually developed enough and open and willing to experience Ascension?</p>
<h3><strong>How to Ascend</strong></h3>
<p>In my previous post <a href="http://reallifespirituality.com/how-to-ascend/">How to Ascend</a>, I explained Ascension soul shift is just the beginning of the new experiences, not the end or the goal. I also suggested to increase your vibration by aligning more to <a href="http://reallifespirituality.com/new-world/">Divine Love, Light, Truth, Abundance, and Power</a>. (The link takes you to the summary post of this series.)  These are all good points I still stand for, but here, I want to emphasize the most important point.</p>
<p>If you look forward to Ascension in 2012, while you loathe your present life and the world, you miss the whole point. The trick is to live and love right here and now, as if we are to go on forever beyond any time point in the future.</p>
<p>Many people make one of the two big mistakes:</p>
<ol>
<li>Life is long. Be prepared. People in this camp live on deferred life plan. They postpone real life and work like crazy now. They even postpone love.</li>
<li>Now is all we’ve got. Do whatever you want to do because tomorrow we may die. People on this camp live in transient pleasure. They fail to see the true pleasure of life because they are so hurried to grab instant gratification.</li>
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<p>Ironically, both camps fail to experience life fully. Neither is what I am suggesting, of course.</p>
<p><em>What I am talking about is to live today fully in a way that you can keep doing all the way into your old age but at the same time, you’d have no regrets if you see angels in your night’s dream and are told this was your last day.</em></p>
<p>Forget 2012 Ascension. Live now.</p>
<p>This is how you may experience the most wonderful thing.</p>
<h3><strong>What spiritual growth means</strong></h3>
<p>What is it really to grow spiritually?  Is any spiritual or religious practices superior than others?</p>
<p>To grow spiritually is to have full awareness of love, to love oneself, the life, this Earth, deeply and completely.  The five Divine energies are really one: Love.  Light is another aspect of love.  Love is Light and Light is Love. And when All is the loving light, there is nothing that is not Truth. And this light is all there truly is, it’s Abundant. When you are filled with this Light of Love, you have the true Power.</p>
<p>All the spiritual and religious practices, including <a href="http://reallifespirituality.com/how-to-meditate/">meditation</a> and <a href="http://reallifespirituality.com/how-to-pray/">prayers</a>, are helpful only in assisting you to realize this Love. They are not the requirement of Ascension or spiritual growth.</p>
<h3><strong>What happens to those who misses the &#8220;opening&#8221; of 2012?</strong></h3>
<p>Most likely, nothing. When they grow to Love, they would understand what would have happened in 2012.</p>
<p>So we don’t need to hand out cautionary notes warning something terrible would happen to them in 2012 if they don’t repent and prepare. Nay. Rather, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UCBfDbFR7s">love them as they are</a> right now.</p>
<h3><strong>Conclusion</strong></h3>
<p>Are you living love?  Are you living in a way that you can go on and at the same time you can leave any time?   Take some time to reflect on this, not for the sake of Ascension but to live well today &#8212; and you may get to know what 2012 Ascension is all about.</p>
<p>This is all I can say at this time because, for those of you who is heading toward Ascension, more will be revealed directly.  Stop relying on psychics to understand 2012 Ascension and start paying attention to your direct communication with God and your personal spirit guides.</p>
<p>The title of this post is surely written in a tongue in a cheek manner. Whether you are spiritually developed or not, live as if 2012 doesn’t matter.</p>
<p><em><strong>Update</strong>: </em><a href="http://reallifespirituality.com/ascension-possibilities/"><em>Ascension Possibilities</em></a><em> (August 2010)</em>
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“Akemi, you write about creating the <a href="http://yes-to-me.com/2009/05/28/creating-your-life-and-the-new-world/">New World</a> of love, light, truth, abundance and power.  And you mention incredible possibility of living just as long as we want, or living as something you call ‘lightbody’.  They are all great, but I don’t think people are ready for this.  It’s going to take a long time before these things happen, like another 100 years or so.”</p>
<p>I just summarized some of the emails I’ve been getting.  What do you think?  How long do you think it will take for us to create the New World?  <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/joiseyshowaa/2038075453/">(Photo credit)</a></p>
<h3><strong>History tells how change happens</strong></h3>
<p>When we look into history, it is clear that NONE of the social changes happened when the general public was ready.  Changes are initiated by only a handful of individuals.  Even they don’t really know where things are going, but they get going anyway.  Eventually (sometimes faster than you think) it collects momentum.  By the time people notice, the change is happening already and there is no going back. Whoa.</p>
<p>Think of the French Revolution. Initially, people were just frustrated with high taxes and widespread poverty, and wanted to have some say in politics.  So the meeting of Estates-General (something like the congress, with representatives elected by voting) was held in May 1789.  Some of the representatives of this meeting, however, were brilliant &#8212; they were those handful of individuals who had a vision, at least a vision to get started.</p>
<p>Things developed quickly.  But even when the citizens took arms and assaulted the Bastille on July 14, most people weren’t thinking of de-crowning the king, not to mention killing him. They were thinking of modified, constitutional monarchy, not the end of monarchy.  The king got executed in January 1793.</p>
<p>Okay, that was a bloody crazy social change, with considerable backlash.  Then how about the information revolution that we went through?</p>
<p>When Bill Gates first said, “A computer on every desktop,” people sneered.  Computers in those days were huge and expensive.  But he, along with some other bright people, had a vision.</p>
<p>Do you remember when you first got your email address?  I was attending college in 1996 when they assigned email addresses to all students and faculty.  Many people didn’t know what to do with it.  I remember quite a few fellow students still wrote their term papers by hand and then typed them up with the computers in the library, instead of using typewriters.  To connect to the internet back then, people used phone modems.</p>
<p>By 1999, home computers and the internet got so big it caused ridiculous stock market surge &#8212; and crash.  Okay, the stock crash was sad, but the important thing here is that, by then, it was unthinkable to live without computers and internet.  Did the general public foresee it in as late as mid 1990s?  No.</p>
<h3><strong>How many people does it take to change the world?</strong></h3>
<p>So I know it doesn’t take so many people to start changing the world.  My question has been, exactly how many does it take?  10% of the population?  No, I guess much less.  5%?  1%?</p>
<p>Well, I came across the answer in Gregg Braden’s book <a href="http://yes-to-me.com/2009/11/17/review-the-spontaneous-healing-of-belief-by-gregg-braden/">The Spontaneous Healing Of Belief</a>. <strong>He maintains the minimum number required for the change is the square root of 1% of the population.</strong> (page 48)  And this is based on the power of belief, not necessarily the direct actions.</p>
<p>The world population is assumed to be 6.797 billion as of this writing.  So 8,245 or more people can change the world.</p>
<p>Are there 8,245 or more lightworkers out there?  I think so. We are set for a change.</p>
<p>It’s not going to take another 100 years.  I don’t honestly know if it can be done by 2012, but I am confident it will take a lot less time than some people naively think it would.</p>
<h3><strong>2012</strong></h3>
<p>While talking about 2012, check out the three part posts Evita Ochel published recently about a conference she attended.  It’s called <a href="http://blog.evolvingbeings.com/posts/425/choice-point-2012-boston-2009-conference-gregg-braden/">Choice Point 2012</a>, featuring Gregg Braden, Bruce Lipton, and Alberto Villoldo.</p>
<p>Just the fact this kind of conference is held says something, doesn’t it?  It probably attracted a large crowd.  The so-called New Age is not about a few lightheaded special people any more.  There are many of us &#8212; a lot more than 8,245, I bet.</p>
<h3><strong>The New World I envision</strong></h3>
<p>The link at the beginning of this post will take you to the summary post of my Creating the New World series, but let me share my vision of the New World again.</p>
<p>It is a world beyond <a href="http://yes-to-me.com/2009/11/15/dualism/">dualism</a>.  There will be nothing that is not Love and Light.  When all is Love and Light, all is Truth, and the world is naturally Abundant.  It is a world of peace and harmony, where we celebrate our diversity.  Each soul realizes their innate Power.</p>
<p>Each soul can live just as long as they want in good health because dis-ease is an abnormality.  Everyone is a miracle worker.  In other words, we will remember our extrasensory, so-called supernatural powers.</p>
<p>Will there be some kind of backlash or confusion before this New World materialize?  Maybe.  I’m envisioning even the end of monetary system, so some disorientation and adjustment will be necessary.  Overall, however, I think things will be good.
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