L (female): I'm somewhat new to the whole reality of Ascension. Could you give me any hints on exactly what that is and what happens when you ascend?

This is a complex question. All right. Our perception of Ascension is expansion of consciousness. Consciousness is all. What you are not conscious of is virtually useless to you in terms of the Ascension process. And you become conscious, say, of this workshop, or you become conscious of something through an article that you've read. Suddenly you've opened up to possibilities that broaden this circumference within which you used to be confined--this smaller circle, this smaller sphere of consciousness. Now you allow more into possibility and belief, and the sphere of your consciousness grows even larger. There's an even greater circumference area to which you now have access. Even more of such flexibility allows a greater consciousness of all that may be possible for you.

After you do this for awhile, you soon come into contact with Higher Beings, do you see? And you soon come into contact with your own potential as an exalted being, your own Oneness, your own Divinity. As long as you're in this compressed, smaller consciousness space, you can't have access to what we've just described. So there are certain steps and stages of opening your consciousness that are required before you can get to the stage where you suddenly FEEL the presence of such Great Ones.

Ascension, as it was used in the Bible, is usually specific to the story of Jesus, who ascended to heaven--who took his body to heaven. Where you all are on your Ascension path is this infinite in description as there are people. So there's not just one Ascension scenario. Not everybody's leaving on December 31, in the year 2011. You're all in various stages of Ascension because you're all in various stages of consciousness. And it is true that NEVER in your recorded history, and in unrecorded history, has there been such a great moment in such great numbers--millions of people who have come into Ascension of consciousness--who are allowing that movement out of 3-D immersion in consciousness. You're saying: "I am letting my consciousness now start to leave its absorption HERE. Yes. I'm still in the body, so I'd better stick around in it. But I am not spending so much of my focused consciousness here. I'm spending more of it in 5th-Dimensional consciousness, where love is the center."

That reminds us to tell you that what has happened, what people are perceiving as more and more encounters with "dark" entities, is that in the ascension of your consciousness, you're moving through 4th Dimension WHILE you're coming into 5th-Dimensional consciousness, and so the perception is: "They're jumping out of the woodwork."

What you do is just go faster to the higher octave of 4th Dimension, and don't hang out in the lower octave as your consciousness moves through there, because you're going to become clairvoyantly aware of some of these reptilian beings, and so forth. Instead of contracting in fear and therefore ANCHORING yourself to the lower part of 4th Dimension, you simply keep going and don't get stuck there. When you keep going, you come to that silvery lining that is the higher octave, the "dividing line," between 4th Dimension and 5th Dimension. That's possible IN THE BODY. Dr. Joshua David Stone lists what he has been told are particular Ascension hierarchies. Yes. You can be ascended up to 9th- through 12th-dimensional consciousness and still be in your body--and still share 3rd-Dimensional consciousness.

The "forecast" for Ascension, as we understand it, is that you will bring your bodies to Light. That is most difficult to explain. How can that be? We would suggest that this will happen as you focus more and more of your consciousness on where you're going rather than on where you are now. So every time you let your consciousness be pulled back to the dramas of your life "here," and get focused there . . . . you go in the opposite direction, if you will, from Ascension.