Ascension is a Series of Heart Openings | Steve Beckow

The heart is a portal to the higher dimensions

By Steve Beckow, August 23, 2023

(Golden Age of Gaia)

Often we think of Ascension as one event, whereas the Company of Heaven encourages us to think of it as a series, as Michael explains here:

Archangel Michael: Often we have said to thee, in reference to what many have termed “the Event” [Ring of Fire] that [Ascension] would be a series of events and these events, whether they have been acknowledged or recognized doesn’t matter, have been occurring over the past several years. (1)

The ultimate event in this series is a full and permanent heart opening, which our terrestrial sage, Ramana Maharshi, describes here:

“[The] Heart is the seat of Jnanam [enlightening wisdom] as well as of the granthi [the knot of ignorance]. It is represented in the physical body by a hole smaller than the smallest pin-point, which is always shut [the closed hridayam or heart aperture].

“When the mind drops down in Kevalya Nirvikalpa [samadhi or Brahmajnana, 7th chakra enlightnement], it opens but shuts again after it. When Sahaja [Nirvikalpa Samadhi] is attained, it opens for good. (2)

It opens for good and it turns out to be a portal into the higher dimensions. When and how high we go after our heart door opens depends on several factors, the most important of which is the judgment of what the Divine Mother calls our board of directors. She discusses them in footnote 3.

I asked the Mother to confirm that Sahaja was Ascension, which she did:

Steve: Mother, I’m trying to understand what level of enlightenment Ascension corresponds to and I think it’s beyond the normal seventh-chakra enlightenment. I think it is what is called — and I’ll make this clear to readers — Sahaja [Nirvikalpa] Samadhi. Am I correct?

Divine Mother: Yes, it is beyond what you think of [as being] with your seven chakras. … We have emerged from the Third-Dimensional realm, which is that reference point for the [seven] chakra system, into the new. So yes, you are correct, in this question and in this statement.

S: It’s wonderful to have that confirmed. Thank you very much, Mother.

DM: It is wonderful for us as well, you know! 
(4)

I never thought of that.

Meanwhile, what we experience, predominantly, is simply more and more and more love arising, which will sweep away the experience of separative consciousness, as the Divine Mother confirms in this next passage:


Steve: [I had a vision] and it seemed to show me that the way to unitive consciousness was that love would arise and sweep away separative consciousness. Unitive consciousness was always already there. It was just overburdened with separative consciousness. Am I correct in that?


Divine Mother: Yes, you are. That is the way. Love will sweep you and the planet [away], and in many ways, dear heart, that is Ascension. Because what it also does is implode greater consciousness. You do not live in the old realm.

Is there more? Yes. But, yes, that is the way that you move forward. It is the way that you experience.


And it does sweep you away. That is what I mean by the surrender and the bliss. And make no mistake about it, you do leave your body. And you inhabit your body [at the same time].


You explode and you feel all the energies of the universe. And then, because you are becoming attuned to that feeling, that ecstasy, it steps down, and then you anchor it within your expanded field.


But each time you do the connection, it expands you more and more and more, and your capacity to love, to create, to do, to be, to connect, more and more and more, until there is no memory, no experience, of separation. It was an illusion. It is a false grid. And it has been the shackles. But it is not real. So, yes. (5)

The only thing I knew about heart openings before I had one was that they happened at the Fourth Chakra. Suddenly the vista opens up, causing Michael to explain to me:


AAM: You are in a time of individual and collective Ascension that has never occurred upon your planet or elsewhere. So many of the historic and accurate understandings with regard to heart openings have shifted, can we say, expanded. (6)

And:

AAM: Classical [enlightenment] theory has served you well. Now you are on a new course. (7)

If new, then uncharted.

Ultimately, we face a trackless land.

Without a foothold you must seek Him out –
no face nor form, alone – (8)

Interimly, we, as an Ascension team, need to do our best to explain to the newly-awakened what is happening.

Footnotes

(1) Archangel Michael in a personal reading with Steve Beckow through Linda Dillon, May 27, 2016. (Hereafter AAM.)

(2) He adds:

“
In kevala nirvikalpa samadhi [seventh chakra] one is not free from vasanas [core issues] and does not, therefore, attain mukti [liberation from the Third/Fourth Dimension]. Only after the samskaras [subtle mental impressions] have been destroyed [in Sahaja] can one attain salvation. … Even though one practices kevala nirvikalpa samadhi for years together, if one has not rooted out the vasanas [core issues], he will not attain salvation.” (Sri Ramana Maharshi in Ramananda Swarnagiri, Crumbs from His Table. http://www.ramana-maharshi.org. Downloaded 10 September 2005, n.p.)

“Sahaja is also Nirvikalpa [trance state with no movement in the mind]. You are probably meaning Kevala [sic] Nirvikalpa [seventh chakra], which is temporary, while the Samadhi lasts. The Sahaja Nirvikalpa is permanent and in it lies liberation from rebirths. (Ramana Maharshi in S.S. Cohen, Guru Ramana. Memories and Notes. 6th edition. Tiruvannamalai: Sri Ramanasramam, 1993, 88.

(3) Steve: Now, implicit in what you are saying, Mother, is something that hasn’t been really talked about very much and that’s the archangels or somebody else is managing our enlightenment experiences, timing, intensity… Am I correct in that?

Divine Mother: It is a Board of Directors rather than being, “managed by.” That concept, the way that you have phrased it, dear heart, implies that you are being “managed.” And that is not correct. [Steve: It ‘d be a violation of free will.]

Now also know, and it is delightful to speak about this … the timing, the pacing (and when I say “pace,” I mean the sequential unfoldment) of an Enlightenment process is such that of course you have a guardian and usually an archangel that is working with you so that it is humanly and can we say, soul or esoterically – via your universal self – managed.

So very often, the construct was that things were done for you or certain things were placed in front of you. Now I am not saying that there aren’t great many things that are put in front of you and done for you continually.

But you are far more involved and engaged in your Enlightenment process in terms of literal, actual, physical, mental, emotional engagement than you have been previously.

This is a good point for a discussion and that is why we have talked this day of this chaos and this bouncing ball of untruth that is constantly in the air of human relationships right now.

But what is happening is that sometimes in terms of your, shall we call it “schedule?” that you are online for a certain upgrade or opening or level of becoming and the human being despite all the nudging and approaching and support tacitly or actually says, “I’m not ready” or “I’m not interested.” (Divine Mother in a personal reading with Steve Beckow through Linda Dillon, Oct. 26, 2018.)

(4) “The Divine Mother: Come to Me as I Come to You – Part 1/2,” Oct. 17, 2012, at http://goldenageofgaia.com/2012/10/17/the-divine-mother-come-to-me-as-i-come-to-you-part-12/.

(5) “The Divine Mother: You Are Experiencing Love in Ways that You Have Not Known Before,” at https://goldenageofgaia.com/2013/11/the-divine-mother-you-are-experiencing-love-in-ways-that-you-have-not-known-before/.

(6) AAM, Aug. 3, 2015.

(7) AAM, Feb. 20, 2018.

(8) “St. John of the Cross: For All the Beauty There May Be (Repost),” July 15, 2021, at https://goldenageofgaia.com/2021/07/15/st-john-of-the-cross-for-all-the-beauty-there-may-be-repost/