Post-Mortem Journey (14) — The First Goal of Ascension
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Ascension
Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925) once spoke about the evolution of human consciousness on a grand scale.

a very important figure in human history
That evolution of consciousness is what we call ascension, but simply put, it can be described as becoming a consciousness that transcends time and space, integrating the self, and deepening the sense of oneness with a greater self.
However, in the current spiritual movement, there are several conflicting theories and claims regarding where to place this goal or from what perspective to speak about it, leading to a state of confusion. I would like to clarify that, but first, why am I suddenly talking about this?
A major milestone in ascension began several decades ago and is now entering its final phase
Because of this, the concepts of the afterlife and even "death" itself are changing
This is the reason.
Earth consciousness, or in other words, the Earth's frequency, is rising steadily, and it seems we are now approaching a point where we will cross a certain boundary. Specifically, we are transitioning from the third density to the fourth density, as described in the Law of One. To help you understand the concept of density, I will repost the diagram I included in Post-Mortem Journey (11).

say that the Earth also has consciousness
With this change, the humans living on it will also be unable to survive unless they reach the fourth density. By the way, some people may not yet fully understand the "multiverse," which is a condition of the fourth density. This is a collective term for parallel worlds, the future and the past, the afterlife, the worlds of aliens, and various other different worlds.
Keeping up with these changes and raising one's own frequency to match the Earth as it becomes a very livable world—around the top of the middle astral plane where the time stream exists—can be called the first goal of ascension.
If one can reach this point, everyone who passes away on that Earth will go to the higher astral plane. In other words, there will be no need to reincarnate anymore.It seems that the ascension spoken of in spiritual circles often only considers this far. Of course, there are many who believe this is still not the final goal.
The next goal is to reach the very top of the upper astral plane, to be able to travel between there and Earth, and furthermore, to become a being that can freely go to various parallel worlds and so on.The ascension spoken of in Theosophy seems to have this as its goal. On the other hand, Steiner and various others state that ascension continues even beyond that.
Can you imagine it? I will start by describing in detail only the first and second goals, that is, the growth of consciousness up to the level of near-graduation from the astral plane.
The world of ascension
There have always been people with extraordinary abilities, but from now on, such people will increase.
In fact, there are people around me who are beyond common sense. It seems that more people are beginning to interact with beings called guardian spirits, guides, and higher selves. It also appears that more people are wandering into other worlds.
Speaking of other worlds, stories of people having abnormal experiences in Shimokitazawa have been standing out recently. Among them, the story of a person named "Ririka" is interesting, and I had been paying attention to it for several months, but when I searched for it again to introduce it this time, it seems to have become quite famous.
Her experience can be summarized in bullet points like this.
One late night in May 2018, I went to a familiar yakiniku restaurant alone
The inside of the yakiniku restaurant was different from usual, and it felt like it had been renovated in a retro style
There, she was approached by some salarymen who offered to treat her to a meal.
They claimed that the high-end club "Kinkonka," which had moved to Roppongi in 1978, was something that had just opened recently.
One of them asked her to come to his birthday party at the club next month.
At that birthday, he said, "I was born in the early Showa era, and I'm turning 47." he said.
Thinking it was strange, she asked them to give her their LINE contact info, but none of them knew what LINE was.
Having gone out without her smartphone, she wrote her LINE ID in the notebook of the man who was trying to hand her a note with the date of the birthday party.
Five years later, in December 2023, she received a message on LINE from a stranger.
The message said, "I found this ID in the notebook of my grandfather who passed away in 2020," so I decided to get in touch.
The person told her that while it was true her grandfather lived in Shimokitazawa, he had been hospitalized due to illness around 2018, so there was no way he could have gone to a yakiniku restaurant.
Ririka's story already has a fair amount of evidence, and she is close to obtaining irrefutable physical proof. It is a story whose outcome I am curious about.
As part of the flow of ascension, more people will have experiences like the one above, but on the other hand, many people are starting to experience small, strange occurrences..
The Mandela Effect
The Mandela Effect is a phenomenon where a large number of people who have no social or geographical connection share memories that differ from the facts, yet no source for that information exists.
The one that personally shocked me the most was the location of Australia. The Australia and New Zealand I remember were in the red positions shown in this diagram.

bending in the middle, as shown in red.
One morning, I suddenly realized why this Mandela Effect regarding the location of Australia was happening and what it meant, and last summer, I wrote about it in a magazine titled "The Meaning of the Mandela Effect".
There are countless examples of the Mandela Effect, but as one solid example unique to Japan, let me introduce the phantom ending of "Spirited Away." That said, I have never seen this movie. However, I would like to introduce it with the hope that some readers might remember this phantom scene. The actual ending is as follows.
Chihiro successfully clears Yubaba's trial, and her parents return from pigs to humans. She exchanges farewells with Haku, passes through the tunnel, and returns to the real world. Chihiro does not look back, gets into the car with her family of three, and heads to their new home. The story ends with her father's words, "From now on, no matter what happens, it will be okay."
In contrast, in the phantom ending, the story continues a little longer.
In the car heading to their new home, the mother becomes anxious seeing the movers arrive. The moving company gets angry, saying, "It's a problem if you're late." Chihiro takes a walk around her new home and stops in front of a small river. Chihiro stares at the flow of the river, is startled, and feels as if it is Haku reincarnated. The story then quietly concludes.

For those who have seen this movie, which ending do you remember?
Well, in short, from now on, the mysterious will gradually become reality. However, there are quite a few people in the world who refuse to acknowledge this, aren't there? What will happen to them?
The Ascension Refusal Route
Those who do not want to ride the flow of ascension will simply die for the time being. And those who are at a level where they can go to the middle layer of Earth's astral plane will go there. After living in the middle layer until they are satisfied, those people will be born on Earth again and will gradually get used to ascension.
However, those who have not reached the mental level to go to the middle layer have nowhere to go. This is because the lower layer of the astral plane has almost disappeared. In that case, these people have no choice but to continue wandering as floating spirits.
The person who was shot to death as a drug dealer in the reincarnation village, introduced in Post-Mortem Journey (11), can be said to be someone who would have gone to the lower astral plane many times over if left as is. In this case, he eventually did not go to the astral plane and wandered as a floating spirit for about a year. When he was thirsty or hungry, he would possess a human and satisfy those desires by sensing what that human ate or drank.
Having spent his time looking sideways at the human world, he saw a pregnant woman one day. Then, a voice from somewhere said, 'Why don't you go to that person's house?' He followed those words, and when he realized it, he had become a female baby.
I believe that his (her) consciousness level definitely rose due to this extraordinary experience. Therefore, the next time he passes away, he might go to the middle layer of the astral plane and be able to ride the flow of ascension. I feel the possibility that this experience was orchestrated by other souls in his group soul.
The phenomenon of the reincarnation village might be a phenomenon occurring to try to pull souls who are trying to leave the Earth sphere into the middle astral plane route, even if only a little. In fact, for souls who refuse ascension, there is also a flow where they do not use the Earth's afterlife, but enter the life and death cycle of another humanoid planet.
The post-mortem journey of someone who refuses ascension will likely be one of the following.
A journey to return to the flow of ascension: Living alone as a floating spirit, watching living people, for as many years as it takes until one's consciousness level is high enough to go to the middle layer of the astral plane
A journey to fall out of the flow of ascension: If one can no longer bear being a floating spirit along the way, going to another humanoid physical world
How many such people are there on Earth right now? If human consciousness does not change easily, and if there are many people who refuse ascension for a long time, there is a possibility that a large number of deaths will occur. I do not know if the cause will be a major disaster or World War III. Since there is a parallel world where most of humanity has passed away, I will introduce that a little.
The Key to Advancing to the First Goal
In the example of Charlie Lionel Haynes, which I introduce towards the end of the 'Meaning of the Mandela Effect' magazine, 98% of the world's population passed away.
In Charlie's world line, a pole shift occurred around 2010.

actually being discussed as a possibility
After the pole shift that occurred because an unknown planet approached, as the influence of the planet disappeared, large-scale crustal movements occurred, and furthermore, the remaining people fought over resources, leaving humanity in a state of devastation. However, because the spirituality of the remaining people rose due to this experience, aliens such as the Pleiadians and Sirians, who could previously only be accessed through the subconscious, became able to make physical contact with humanity. Humanity called the aliens visitors and began to cooperate with them.
The aliens think of humanity by dividing them into STO and STS, and are watching to see which direction they will advance in, Charlie wrote.

STS stands for Service to Self
In fact, these STO and STS are the keys to the first goal of ascension. The Law of One material clearly indicates the conditions for reaching the fourth density, which is the first goal of ascension.
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Having made a choice of polarity
The soul must have clearly chosen its own direction (polarity).Positive (STO): The will and actions to serve others have reached a consciousness level of approximately 51% or more.
Negative (STS): Service to self (control/self-centeredness) has reached 95% or more.
If neither is reached, one continues the lessons of the third density once more.
In addition to the above, the maturity of learning and being faithful to the polarity one has chosen are also important. What I want you to note here is that the first goal of ascension has both positive and negative directions. With that in mind, I plan to write about what is likely to happen before the first goal, the second goal, and what lies beyond that, where one must be positive.
