08-03-2011, 08:58 AM
(08-03-2011, 06:09 AM)Kiko Wrote: On the topic of Ascension, I wonder if our main reason for wanting to 'ascend' is based in deep seated and natural anxiety about our own death? Many books I have read about ascending temporarily or permanently, or trying to change the body's DNA, create a new 'light body' and so on, sound very much as though they are trying to provide a recipe for avoiding death. The 'rapture' some speak of seems the same; be good and you will not have to die.
There is something there, I think. Death ties us all together. What is it? Nobody knows, and that is the source of eschatology. When we ask the question, we are working with the "Darkness of the Matrix of the Spirit". Into this darkness we seek and we come up with "illuminations" that give us "aha!". It doesn't necessarily need to stem from anxiety about death, but rather how deep we choose to seek in the darkness and what we perceive as acceptable "light" that we find there.
"we are the light of the world" ;-)
In other words, we bring the "aha" light into the darkness with us. (shake shake the flashlight. slam it into the palm of my hand. aha! now it's working. oh, look!"