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2012 and the Ascension of Mankind (New Age)
According to many New Age practitioners, the Ascension of Mankind (also called the Second Coming of the Christ (1)) will happen in 2012. One tenet in the New Age belief system is that humanity is evolving to an endpoint of union with God. At this time, the Christ energy will come and renew the people, who have prepared for the Ascension. These people then will vibrate at higher levels until they achieve “beingness” at least five dimensions. Then everyone will merge with the Godhead. Those who do not ascend will perish, since the Earth will also be transformed by the Christ energy as well.
Some Basic New Age Beliefs
One tenet of the New Age belief system is that the Ascended Masters (beings who have merged with the Godhead) will help those who have not. They do this by channeling messages through various people. The Ascended Master chooses a person or persons to deliver their teachings. This person may be used for a number of years. Also, one person may channel several beings at the same time.
Another tenet is that spiritual experiences need not be verified by education or research. Reliance on gut feelings is how the certainty and truth of a channeling is determined. For example, Barbara Hand Clow in her book, “The Mayan Code” writes: “(Carl Johan) Calleman’s Thirteen Heavens of the Mammalian Underworld actually do describe how the evolutionary force expresses itself in nature.” “My consideration of Calleman’s hypothesis of biological evolution and the Mayan Calendar is the central theme of this book; since I am convinced he has discovered the real meaning of the Calendar.” (2) (Calleman believes that the Mayan Calendar demonstrates the exact divine time plan to the Ascension.)
Veracity of Channelings
Many religions have methods to test promptings from the Spirit or Spirits. One problem that they address is who are these beings. Are they aliens, demons, angels, or something else? Also how is mental illness defined? How are hearing voices not to be considered a form of insanity? Does the message run counter to accepted religious practices?
For New Age believers, testing each channeled message is incumbent on the channeler. Barbara Marciniak, who channels Pleiadians, writes, “I might add that I insist on a strong integrity level with the concepts I release to the general public; they are first tested in my own life and that of my students.”(3) Virgil Armstrong (4), who channels the extraterrestrial Guardian Forces, writes, “Even when I first heard of the Photon Belt, I was inclined, through ignorance, to give it little credence. In fact, my first reaction, ‘the Wu-Wus’ (New Age believers) are at it again. They have invented a new wrinkle to make more money.” This was almost a colossal mistake on my part, but Spirit had its way and notified me that it was real.”(5)
In these examples, the final arbitrator is the channeler and the certainty of their feelings. The channelings are true unless proven otherwise. Moreover, the question what the entity is seems not to be addressed, but is taken on face value on who they say they are. In fact, Marciniak states that she does not who the Pleiadians she channels are.
The Ascension Process
How do people attain this union with the Godhead? Their Lightbodies (souls), after being cleansed, will expand to fill the five dimensions (or more). Since everyone has been reincarnated so many times, the physical body of the present is temporary. It will cease to be.
In her book, “The Last Ghost Dance”, Brooke Medicine Eagle(6) writes, “This process is one of bringing Spirit into our denser bodies and then becoming less and less dense as we fill ourselves with Light. I believe we have all the latent encoding we need for becoming a Lightbody. As the pillar of celestial fire fills us, it is triggering transformation possibilities that already live within us.” (7)
The following list is of common symptoms that occur in preparation for the coming Ascension. How this happens, according to New Age beliefs, is that various entities will download DNA codes in to people’s bodies. But, everyone (not just those preparing for the Ascension) has experienced some of these sometime in their lives. Some symptoms are indicative of mental illnesses, others of physical ones, and still others of aging. However, many New Age believers claim that these are the signs that our bodies being readied for the Ascension
Some symptoms of Ascension include:
- Feeling stress.
- A feeling of disorientation.
- Unusual aches and pains.
- Waking at night between 2 and 4 a.m.
- Memory loss.
- Heightened sensitivities to your surroundings.
- Dizziness, loss of balance, back and neck pain, ringing in the ears, “gritty” eyes, and blurred vision.
- Heart palpitations with difficulty in breathing.
- Headaches.
- Crying about anything.
- Not remembering the meaning of anything.
- You don’t feel like doing anything.
- A loss of desire for food.