Planet Earth is shifting from a third dimensional- to a fourth- and fifth-dimensional vibrational frequency. As we enter the Age of Aquarius, the Age of Light, we experience a new awakened consciousness. We discover that we are not merely human beings having a spiritual experience, but spiritual beings having a human experience. This experience with its many limitations often bring about fear. As we wake up, we let go of old dogma and perceptions of how we experience reality and we realize that love is the answer. By simply being on the planet we are raising the vibrations which will lift the planet and take us to a higher, more enlightened way of being.
Comment on Ascension by Center of Attention's Jason Dunlap

Ascension is the "buzz" word of the new age and represents an unprecedented change in the human experience. There are many Ascension scenarios. Few of them agree in details, time line or events. Some view what happens in the future in a passive way, with little or nothing to do but wait to be picked up by benevolent aliens and taken off to a happier place. Most see astounding and dramatic changes taking place that will cause our consciousness to change so dramatically that we will have Godlike mental and spiritual powers, and our very bodies will be transmuted into "light". The result will be that humans will be turned into multi-dimensional beings, capable of moving, at will, between 3rd and 5th dimensional reality. Extraterrestrials, other dimensional beings, Angels, Spiritual Hierarchies, etc. become the catalyst that ushers in the great changes of the new age. Regardless of the scenario, the major transitions seem to fall between 2000 and 2013. It is the validation of one of these scenarios that Center of Attention is looking for. This is where our efforts are centered and our actions are geared to move us away from creating one of the other two realities.
Ascension for the most part is a phenomenon that has basic agreement amongst the many ideas on how it shall come to pass. For the most part, Ascension involves our bodies transforming themselves into other-than-3rd-dimensional vehicles made of "light". Light in this sense has many contradictory definitions. It can be our typical understanding of photons propagating thru 3rd dimensional reality, or a more esoteric definition where "light" is loosely used to express a correlation to light as we know it, but being more than that, it is a metaphor for energy we have no name for. We could call it inter-dimensional light. There is at least one end game scenario that believes Ascension really means being taken up into vehicles, apparently operated by beings working with the spiritual hierarchy and conforming to "the divine plan" as dictated by the first creative source, or God. They envision a time in the next decade where either space-ships or some other form of vehicle will swoop down and pick up humans before we destroy ourselves and the planet. This is very closely associated with the Apocalyptic notion, without the dramas and catastrophes. I don't believe this scenario, but I bring it up because so many people mistake all other scenarios, that include extraterrestrials, as being the same. None of the other Ascension scenarios that include E.T.s as a part, give me the impression that they are going to save us from ourselves and release us from the obligation to resolve our conflicts. Yet, those that criticize the Ascension movement always use the notion of E.T.s coming to save us, as just a psychological affliction we have in order to avoid facing our responsibilities. Nothing could be further from the truth and I want to make that clear. Helping us is one thing, supplying us with useful resources or rescuing us from dangerous situations is not the same as just taking over the situation and taking care of us. That's not what I want to happen, and few believe that is the way it should be. Help, yes. Take it out of our hands, no!

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Although channelled information has to be treated with considerable discretion, the messages coming through the Ashtar Command channellings are especially relevant as they include predictions of physical ascension, consistent with the predictions made by Science of the Vortex. Perhaps the most significant channelling in this respect occurred in the spring 1990, through an American by name of Eric Klein, in Santa Cruz, California. Eric had started conscious channelling for the Ashtar Command in 1986 and from 1988 onwards, he began public channellings and held regular weekly, evening gatherings at his home. Then, in January, 1990, he was asked to channel a course on ascension, over a six week period, commencing in February. Eric recorded the course, and his resonant voice - backed by traffic noise, squeaking doors and telephone bells - was captured on five, C90 cassettes.I first heard the five ascension tapes in November 1991. I was inQueensland at the beginning of a lecture tour in Australia. From my Vortex physics I had deduced the possibility of physical ascension, as an alternative to the death process, in the early '70s and I explained how physical ascension was possible from the vortex, when I spoke from the Michael Faraday rostrum of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, on January 15th., 1975. I first published the vortex alternative to death, in my allegory, The Tower of Truth (1977) and used this idea to account for the ascension of Christ and other individuals, in Science of the Gods (1990). The Eric Klein ascension tapes made me aware of the possibility that ascension and physical immortality could occur for us all, in this time, and not just for a few masters as in the past. The prediction of ascension was not confined to my vortex physics and the Ashtar Command channellings. A similar message was coming from other, completely independent sources. On the 2nd and 3rd of January 1973, James Hurtak, PhD., had been taken out of physical space and time, by means of the ascension process and was given the Keys of Enoch. The prediction of ascension was central to this scriptural science and the fact that Hurtak was not linked with the Ashtar Command offered corroboration for the ascension message. My work was also supported by the Keys, as Key 201 gave my name as the source of the new astrophysics. Robert Coon, from Glastonbury also offered independent verification for the ascension message. He had been promulgating the idea of planetary ascension and physical immortality for many years and like Hurtak, he had no connection with channellings and the Ashtar Command. Another totally independent source of ascension predictions was a dynamic lady by the name of Sananda (JW Pardon me but Sananda has always been reported to be a male). She pointed to the 11th of January, 1992 as a trigger date. She toured the world, calling on people to participate in her 11:11 celebrations on that day. This was important, she said, in order to open an interdimensional portal for ascension. Thousands of people responded and formed a network from Egypt to the South Island of New Zealand and from England to Australia and America, to dance the symbolic 'wheels within wheels' and celebrate the beginning of a twenty year period during which ascension could occur for the Earth and her inhabitants.

Ashtar Command

According to the Eric Klein channellings, the Ashtar Command is a task force operating in the fifth dimension for a super-physical group of beings known as the Great White Brotherhood. Many members of the Great White Brotherhood have been incarnate on Earth as leaders, teachers and healers and are known amongst their peers by different names to those given on Earth. The Ashtar Command is currently employed to ascend the Earth, along with its people and other life-forms, by one known as Sananda. He is supreme commander of this particular ascension operation. Sananda lived on the Earth 2,000 years ago, when he was known as Jesus the Christ. The Command itself is headed by another being of comparable stature called Ashtar. He is a specialist on the ascension process and is working alongside Sananda as coordinator and technical adviser in the awesome process of ascending a planet and its population.
According to all the ascension predictions, we are coming to the end of a cycle. The Earth is destined to ascend but because we are destroying her, there cannot be any further delay in this next step of the planet's evolution. We have the choice to ascend with the Earth or remain behind in the physical Universe and continue in the cycle of birth and death on other planets. If we wish to ascend, we will be given three opportunities, described as the three waves of ascension. These, and the subsequent 'cleansing of the planet' - prior to her ascension and recreation - will occur before the end of the year 2012. The first wave of ascension, anticipated to number in thousands, could occur in 1997. Other sources expect the first wave to coincide with the entry of the Solar system into a region of space described by some sources as a photon belt and in the Keys of Enoch as an electro-magnetic null zone. This phenomenon is predicted todisrupt the sun's radiation and the flow of electricity, causing first the appearance of a brilliant light and then several days of complete darkness. The second wave, anticipated to number in millions, should occur arelatively short time after the first wave and coincide with the initial phases of the predicted geophysical changes - triggered by astronomical anomalies. The third wave, expected at the turn of the Century by some and 2003 by others, will represent the final opportunity for people to awaken to the opportunity of ascension. This third wave will be accompanied by a physical evacuation of plants and animals, innocents and children and adults who are not ready to ascend but wish to leave the planet prior to the final cleansing which is essential to her own evolution.In the ascension tapes, Sananda presents himself as a human being who took the step of ascension at the end of his life on Earth. In so doing he paved the way for mass human ascension at this time. He said that his special task is to help us make the quantum leap into the fifth dimension and beyond. He assures us, from his own experience, that those who ascend will neither die or grow old, suffer disease or any of the other limitations that are so much a part of physical life on Earth. He has emphasised that ascension - normally a rare opportunity - is now available to every human being on the planet, regardless of colour, class or creed. It is a freegift available to anyone with a loving heart, free of fear and anger, who is willing to give it priority in their lives. Along with a sincere desire to ascend there needs to be a willingness to love oneself and others unconditionally, with an attitude of detachment from things of this world. There should also be an appreciation and respect for the Creator, - regardless of what the Creator is perceived to be.

Merkabah

Members of the Ashtar Command will employ organic fifth dimensional bodies in the ascension process. These are described in the Keys of Enoch as Merkabah. The Merkabah can take a multiplicity of forms. Sometimes they appear as a halo - an aura or envelope of light -associated with a master.
Sometimes they occur as a column or pyramid of light. Often they aredescribed as the spiritual body or the light body. The Merkabah is the body employed by a being in the fifth quantum reality in the same way that a physical body is employed by a being in the physical Universe, but at the same time, it coordinates the overself with the human body. It is the embodiment of the higher self of each human being, in the fifth dimension or fifth quantum reality. The Merkabah is also an interdimensional craft that gives the ascended being unlimited freedom throughout the Universe.
For this reason, in the Keys of Enoch, it is called the 'vehicle ofvehicles'. The Merkabah vehicle is especially important for travel between the various dimensions of light because it can project itself from one life system or galaxy to the life system or galaxy of another universe by travelling in and out of physical space and time. It can do this because it has the ability to go faster than the speed of our common light.
A Merkabah vehicle was the chariot of fire which carried away Elijah. A Merkabah vehicle was seen by Isaiah and witnessed by Ezekiel as 'wheels within wheels'. It was a Merkabah, hidden by a lenticular cloud, that carried Jesus Christ to heaven on his Ascension and it is a fleet of Merkabah vehicles that will lift humanity out of physical space and time in the three waves of ascension. The 'ships' of the Ashtar Command are not space-ships as we would imagine them to be. Terms such as 'ship' and 'command' are metaphors chosen for 20th Century communications just as 'chariots of fire' and 'winged angels' were used in bygone ages. Much as your physical body would appear as an enormous biosatellite to a microbe so, as a fifth dimensional body, a Merkabah would appear to you as a biosatellite extending for miles in every direction and just as our bodies provide conducive environments for microorganisms, so the Merkabah can contain an internal atmospheres modified to suit its occupants, along with entire ecosystems and oceans, lakes and mountains and simulated night and day. They incorporate a sophisticated, living technology, far in advance of anything that even modern man can comprehend and they are not harsh or metallic but are organic, lush and verdant. The Merkabah manifest in the physical Universe, in order to evacuate and accommodate individuals and plant and animal species during the collapse of a planetary ecosystem. Millions of Merkabah vehicles are poised to descend and materialise in physical space and time, to evacuate the Earth at the time of the third wave of ascension. Physical evacuation will be offered to those wishing to avoid destruction, as the Earth enters the final phase of her transition into the ascended state. Before this physical evacuation, those who are prepared to ascend will be beamed into the Merkabah by a teleportation process, described in the Keys of Enoch as transvirulence and in Science of the --ds as transubstantiation. Each individual will vanish out of physical space and time as they step into the opening of light at the end of a teleportation beam. On entering the beam they will be teleported into the 'heavenly' fifth dimension. Occurring in any one of three waves, the second aspect of the ascension will be the transmutation of the physical body into a fifth imensional, ascended body. It is this fifth dimensional, light or diamond body that is ever youthful and subject to neither death nor disease - and each person, who achieves this state, will also come into possession of a Merkabah vehicle, to accommodate them in the fifth dimension.

144,000

The Ashtar Command have predicted that those who ascend in the first wave will be given the opportunity to return to the Earth in the ascended state, to awaken the rest of humanity to the ascension opportunity. The Keys of Enoch support this prediction by speaking of the sudden appearance of 144,000 Ascended Masters on the Earth, who will transform the world and push back the clouds of darkness and despair. The appearance of 144,000 masters is also predicted in the Native American prophecies. In April 1983, the Medicine Teacher, Harley Swiftdeer declared that, "144,000 Sun Dance enlightened teachers will totally awaken in their dream mindbodies. They will begin to meet in their own feathered serpent or winged serpent wheels(Merkabah) and become a major force of light to help the rest of humanity to dance their dream awake." This would also provide an explanation for the 144,000, spoken of in the Book of Revelation.Chapter 7, of Revelations, refers to an uncountable number from everynation clad in what John perceived to be white robes. This could have been his perception of the light bodies adorning the multitude, who follow in the wake of the 144,000, to rise in the second and third waves of ascension. John also said that these were the ones who had been cleansed by the time of great distress, a seven year period of great tribulation. This would correspond to the natural disasters that have been predicted as necessary in order for the Earth to cleanse herself of industrial civilisation and pollution prior to her own ascension.

Preparing for ascension

Ascension is the goal of all the self-transformation processing that humans beings undertake in physical life on Earth. It corresponds to the final resurrection from death which is an integral part of the belief structure of a number of World religions. Ascension would appear to be available to anyone who acknowledges and respects the Creator - who can be known only as love and life - and surrenders to this, which is their own innate reality.The suggested way to prepare for ascension is the practice 'inner quiet' for which the stilling of the mind by focussing on the breath, is strongly recommended. Sananda has outlined that either ascension, or physical evacuation, will occur for all innocents, children, and adults, of the right disposition, who will allow it to happen to them. He stressed that people do not have to be religious in order to ascend, but rather they need to be trusting, loving and fearless. The Klein tapes explain that when ascension occurs, it will be without warning. There will be the sudden appearance of an opening of light, which could occur in a sleeping or awakened state. In order to ascend, the individual has to simply step into the light.The preparation for ascension could occur through any spiritual, religious or self-transformational practices or just by living a good life. The channelled information emphasises that it is less important what a person believes than how they live and practice true values. They also make it clear that no religious group has a monopoly on truth. This is certainly the basis of a more rational and scientific approach to spiritual matters', which are blighted by religious intolerance and sectarianism. If ascension is viewed as an evolutionary step it would seem obvious that personal qualities rather than religious persuasions would establish the necessary criteria for this quantum leap. For this reason, all people are potential candidates for ascension but only those who have prepared themselves can take the leap.For thousands of years religions have promised a spiritual life after death to those who subscribe to their exclusive ideologies. Science, as a reaction to religion, has denied all things spiritual and any form of survival after death. Science needs to be rescued from scepticism as religion needs to be rescued from sectarianism. Ascension is based more on science than religion. It is a bio-physical process which offers a means to live without the threat of death or the need to become enslaved to religion in order to enjoy universal freedom. We all need a way of truth and knowledge which will rescue us from bondage to the physical plane of existence and the endless round of birth and death, suffering, ageing and disease. Ignoring fundamentalism in both science and religion, Science of the Vortex has endavoured to bring together the best elements of boththese traditions and point the way to life without death in the Universe to which we already belong.

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