Ascension News
Feeling the Shift
These days, some of the big news in spiritual communities center around this on-going event, nicknamed, The Ascension. Symptoms range from hating your whole, freaking waste of a life (undertones of snarky, teenage angst there) to sleep disruption, dysthymia, and a general, inexplicable home sickness. We can chalk it up to a collective expanse of deeper awareness shifting the consciousness of the entire planet into a higher vibrational frequency. More love, more light, more access to beyond the veil. Sounds totally fantastic, right? Or maddening.
To shift into a higher vibrational frequency requires a severe stripping of soul gunk. Envision your body covered with horrid, nasty residue left by trauma, heartbreak, disappointment, shame, addiction and whatever other demons we have tangled with. Emotional energy, while not highly visible to our human eyes, integrates with the energy of our being, and if not transmuted into a healthy, adaptive, ethereal substance, it becomes a deposit of filth upon our filters. This plugs up our conscious and subconscious mind, fracturing light, truth, and love elements, and perverting them into fragments of paranoia, anxiety, hopelessness and isolation. The current shift is forcing all of the Earth plane (and the higher plane we are manifested from) to deal with these tortured fragments of mis-communicated and unhealed self so that they may be healed and released, while the splitting of the human psyche can be repaired and made whole, returning it to a higher, more pleasant and aligned state of reality, where one’s ultimate potential can be realized.
Shifting, therefore, requires a release of certain illusions we’ve carried throughout life. If it were easy, we’d look at something no longer serving us, have a nice cup of coffee to see it off and move on, basking in our newfound revelations of self identity. But this is humanity, nothing is easy – in fact, the harder the better if we are truly looking to do some serious spiritual growth. Certain experiences produce deep, emotionally driven metamorphoses, but these experiences are brought to us riddled with various elements of suffering and darkness. Free will gives us the choice – are we going to give in to negativity and go darkside, or break through and embrace the seemingly impossible light?
Grief as a Master Teacher
One of humanity’s most profound and transformative emotions is grief. Processing grief, and adapting to its never ending cycles, has the ability to unveil opportunities for deepening human awareness and merging it with an expansion of personal, spiritual growth. Terri Daniels does an excellent job of exploring this process in her book, Turning the Corner on Grief Street, which is reviewed in this issue of Sehnsucht. Grief is often, unconsciously, internalized as an ultimate form of rejection, and it plagues us with unanswerable questions, while demanding impossible solutions. It insists we learn to live with and accept insurmountable, emotional pain, and a sense of splintered, dejected being as part of our human identity, for the rest of our lives.
This process is, again, epitomizing an ultimate form of rejection of the human self; the pain body (Eckhart Tolle) is attaching to something in the mind that states you are not good enough, worthy enough, loved enough, talented enough and so on, earning this painful, identity gutting experience as an awesome consolation prize for showing up on planet Earth.
That beloved person who passed too soon was stolen from you, the satisfying job was lost because of underhanded, corporate politics, the loving relationship ended because that person no longer desired you… the perceived message from the Universe – YOU SUCK. And no matter what you do, how hard you work, how much you love, pain will always seems to be the end because somewhere, stuck in your mind, looping over and over again, is one, horrifically simple message – you don’t deserve love.
You really don’t buy that crazy, canned bs, do you?
Grief’s lessons tend be riveting and world changing, a chaotic river always leading to the unknown. You can drown in its waters or brave the current, releasing your known identity in favor of spiritual knowledge and truths… You are not this body. You are not the thoughts in your head. You are not the opinion of others, good or bad. You are not your talents, failures or successes. You are not your credit score, your neighbor’s car, your family’s approval or disapproval. You are beyond your own thoughts.
All people get hurt, all of us grieve. Many of us have lived in ignorance of our true natures and selves, happy to do so until something devastating comes along and strips away the arbitrary identities, names, and mechanics we’ve given to all we know. That’s the set up – humanity is about forgetting our divinity and our connection to each other, the Earth and to our spirit home. And then connecting to our truth through what seems to be some bloody and sadomasochistic processes.
Through the grief cycle there is an honest, sometimes violent rejection of that forgetting as we tear apart what isn’t true about ourselves and our nature and claw for the light. We demand and beg for revelation. In this darkness, what it means to be human is realized to its fullest potential; our brightest light manifests awareness of things we don’t know how to believe.
The struggle for truth is alive, within us, and what is left in this war-ish wake is a ragged being, conflicted with anger and feelings of abandonment and betrayal, now filtering and processing specks of truth and fantastic memories of life beyond this life…the entirety of humanity is put into question. Everything is upside down, nothing is what it seems. And here, a question finds its way, ever unraveling this mystery.
Who am I?
Keep shifting.
Jamie DiMarco is a psychotherapist, tarot reader and writer. She has experienced spiritual phenomena her whole life, and has gone off the grid on many backwoods, spiritual adventures all over the country and Canada, learning spiritual practices, ancient wisdom and teachings from a variety of mentors, ranging from Cree medicine men, established psychics in the field, to spiritual outcasts and modern day philosophers.
