David Wilcock
04-05-2002, 02:36 PM
Group,
Here's the raw text of what I just posted online, to make it easier for
anyone to cut and paste something that might be useful for discussion. (Not
that I would want to dissolve the other discussions that are occurring at
this time, and are of equal merit!)
- David
Ascension Is a Process, Not Just a Conclusion
- A Most Remarkable Synchronicity Event -
By David and Michael Wilcock
4 / 5 / 02
PART ONE: DAVID?S INTRODUCTION
As this story has matured to the point of going to press, world situations
have gotten so extreme that it would seem negligent not to mention them
immediately. The sheer psychological pressure of the events that are now
unfolding on the world stage is quite intense; there is no solid way to pin
down any grounded viewpoint over what is heading our way and how soon. Even
those who most dearly cling to our cherished institutions are being forced
to confront harsh realities of corruption and mismanagement at the highest
of levels. Both church and state have been rocked by unimaginably vast
scandals, and the situation in Israel is literally unfolding on an hourly
basis, perfectly symbolic of the combined problems of religious and
government failures. Indeed, it is a quite unique moment in world history as
we prepare to post this captivating article, an account of a full, visual,
waking extraterrestrial contact experienced by my brother, which appears to
have been directly triggered by a prayer that I made without his conscious
awareness.
Most of our readers are aware that the exact nature of these times we now
experience were written into many different prophecies from cultures all
over the world. Not all of them gave an exact date as to when we should
expect these changes, but they unilaterally state that when such changes
arrive, we can know that a wondrous Golden Age for humanity is very soon
upon us. And thus, the more at peace we can be with the changes, the better
we can trust that all the events in our personal and global lives are
transpiring according to a Divine plan. This is the promise that helps us to
steer a path through the amazing upheavals that we are now witnessing and
have the faith and confidence that we will not be shaken by them.
My own contribution to this planetary awakening has been primarily through
the creation of written materials that lay out the scientific and spiritual
framework for the ancient prophecies of a Global Shift ? and I know that the
majority of my readers are very interested to know where I am in that
timeline. The first and second books of my scientific trilogy (Shift of the
Ages and Convergence III) are already online and will only undergo minor
changes and additions for their final versions, which will emerge in a
published form soon enough. The third book, Divine Cosmos, is well on its
way towards being finished, and it has become quite the powerhouse in its
ability to tie together everything I have discovered into one clear, concise
and unified model. It has been taking me longer than I had hoped or expected
to complete these projects, yet it does appear that the speed at which I am
able to finish them is indeed part of the overall plan; there must be enough
time for the different pieces to come together and be reasonably integrated.
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to say the least.
Time is also important in the process of spiritual growth; we must have the
time to have experiences that drive us to explore, enhance and unfold our
deeper natures. There really is no quick shortcut to enlightenment; it is a
continual process of coming to know and understand ourselves by examining
our past experiences and then seeing how they affect our thoughts and
behaviors in the now. We do this with the hopes of changing our entrenched
patterns and becoming finer vessels for that light/love energy of the One
Creator that is within each of us. As I look back over my life I realize
that part of what catapulted me into my awareness at such a young age was
the degree of intense experiences that I underwent, which were then
analyzed, accepted and understood over time, leading to a greater
self-integration. Without the processing and distilling of these experiences
for the love and wisdom that can be gleaned from them, we are doomed to
repeat them again and again and again.
I often indulged myself by saying that these experiences involved suffering,
but more and more, as I evolve with the nature of suffering I realize that
it too is an illusion, based on our own desire to label our experiences as
?good? or ?bad.? One recent example was that this past weekend, I took a
trip with Hideo Izumoto to Washington, DC to see the Cherry Blossom Festival
of Peace and then on to a location in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia.
I knew that I would be doing the driving when I agreed to the trip; I did
not realize that it would ultimately entail more than ten and a half hours
of road time in a single day. By the time we were closing in on our final
destination, my physical body was experiencing extreme pain.
Had I known that the trip would involve this much driving, I would never
have agreed to do it. Yet, once we arrived at our destination, I proceeded
to have a conversation with the person living there that catapulted me into
whole new vistas of awareness on many fronts. This conversation also
produced wonderful fruit that could be immediately applied to the quantum
physics chapter that I had been working on in Divine Cosmos just the day
before. The timing couldn?t possibly have been better, and I was clearly
meant to have received the information, yet I am still recovering from a
sickness that I picked up from the bodily stress that the trip created. That
sickness is what led me to take the ?easier? route of finishing this article
rather than delving back into the demanding world of science ? and now, here
we are.
So, the point for sharing all of this now is to help enunciate a view that
has become more and more clear to me as time goes on. The experiences that
we are most apt to label as ?suffering? are also most likely to have the
greatest effect on our spiritual progress. This is the process of
initiation, where we learn to accept and understand our distortions while
also making a consistent effort to enhance ourselves and work through our
experiences.
I have often been asked how and why I would come to have such abilities at a
young age, and my basic answer is that I was willing.
?Willing to what?? people ask me.
My answer is that I was willing to make whatever changes and sacrifices I
saw as being necessary in order to fulfill the Divine will that was
expressing itself through me. Those changes were often very difficult,
including giving up all sorts of addictive behaviors that had become
comfortable escape mechanisms.
We all know that it is extremely easy to rationalize away addictive
behaviors and decide that no further action needs to be taken. Yet, once I
really confronted what I was trying to escape from, I would realize again
and again that I was simply suffering from the drama of my apparent
separation from God, and that this feeling of abandonment was utterly and
totally an illusion. With the knowledge of the physics now in place, it
seems almost irresponsible to forget that we exist in a giant holographic
illusion created by the distorted light/love energy pulsations of the
Oneness. Every living being on every one of the untold billions of inhabited
planets in the entire Universe is ultimately still a reflection of our One
True Self.
The awareness is there ? and yet, life is definitely not easy. Sometimes it
seems that all we ever do is move through process after process, lesson
after lesson, experience after experience, burning off layer after layer of
our resistance to Divine Will, and the challenge is for us to continue to be
diligent and persistent in analyzing, accepting and understanding what we
are going through. Sooner or later, the sweetest elixir can be formed from
the distilled core of our experiences, and its precious drops ready to be
shared with others. This is a hard-earned victory over materialist
attitudes, philosophies and behaviors, and thus spiritual growth processes
are anything but escape mechanisms; they are indeed ?the hardest things we
will ever do.? It?s a lot easier to remain addicted than it is to find out
what caused the addiction and to then allow the enslavement of that behavior
to fall away.
So, the amount of growth that we experience is directly proportional to how
much of ourselves we are willing to invest in the process; hence my frequent
quote, ?You get out of your life what you are willing to put into it.? And
again, there?s that word ?willing.? Ultimately, as we keep working these
processes with greater and greater diligence and persistence, sudden peaks
emerge in our spiritual progress and a major shift is attained. Those
moments are transformative and breathtaking, and I have been blessed with
many such events throughout the course of my life as I continue to apply
myself to the process of Divine initiation. The severe psychological
stresses that our current events can produce have given us an increasingly
potent batch of raw materials upon which to catalyze our understandings and
experience such transformational shifts.
Indeed, certain amazing stories form the true jewels of my repertoire in
talking about my relationship with beings of higher intelligence, showing
where the greatest peaks occurred in amongst my continual processing of the
intense experiences of life. These stories are often repeated for their
impact and value, since they were very real events that happened in my life
and were sudden steps in my process of awakening ? they were the brightest
lights amongst the ongoing efforts that I was making to clear out the muck
in my lower centers of consciousness, which are much less dramatic and
attractive to talk about. Probably the top three events, prior to now, would
be as follows:
1. Floating out of my body at age five, feeling that I was being taken
somewhere and observed by beings of higher intelligence, and knowing deeply
that it was not a dream.
2. Performing an automatic-writing session with my friend Jude to ask the
question of ?Am I an ET soul?? wherein my hand literally took on a mind of
its own, scrawling out a series of letters that ended up having multiple
layers of significance. Most importantly, it gave a Bible quote that was
arguably the most precisely relevant passage in the entire book for what I
had just gone through, having just lost a job. The exact start and end
points of the passage, Ecc 2:22-3:13, framed the whole picture so
beautifully that there was absolutely no doubt as to what had occurred.
3. About two months later, praying again for an answer regarding whether my
soul was of ET origin, and having the prayer answered the next morning in my
housemate Eric?s dream, where a robed, bearded man came down on a platform,
spoke of Earth Changes and Ascension and then recognized and interacted with
me, finally announcing to Eric, ?It is very important that you know that he
is one of us.? Eric did not know I had prayed the night before.
The key here is that most of these events were in the past, before I ever
started the work of doing deep-trance psychic readings and having direct
telepathic contact with such forces. Since that time, I have had hundreds
and hundreds of future prophecies come true, incredible dreams with Ascended
abilities quite regularly, shocking experiences with synchronicity,
controllable out of body experiences, small-scale ?threshold? telekinesis
events around me on a relatively consistent basis and a precise ability to
see into others? thoughts, especially on spiritual and emotional issues.
Recently I held my right hand about eight inches away from a person?s injury
site on their body, with intent to try to do healing, and they said that
they felt as much heat from it as they would from a small ?space heater?
machine. So, as time progresses further and such experiences become more and
more common, you naturally get to a point where you are no longer so shocked
and impressed by them, and they eventually become ?business as usual.?
However, even for as far as I have gone, there are still certain mystical
experiences that I have secretly longed for, related to the direct, visual
sighting of energies and / or objects that are unambiguous manifestations of
extraterrestrial intelligence. Let?s say that it stems from the eternal
skeptic within me that has a desire for ?proof,? as if I didn?t already have
enough.
So, while staying away from home with some friends in a remote area, one of
those wishes was answered, as I had what appeared to be a UFO sighting; the
first in my adult life. Each day I had walked to the same spot to meditate
in the forest, which looked out over a glorious rolling hay field. This
particular day, I spotted a wingless metallic object that was very tiny; it
was too tiny to make out exactly what it was, though the overall shape was
that of a disc. Being in a deep meditative trance at the time, I simply
observed it as it went behind a cloud. I could tell how fast the object was
going and in what direction, and when the cloud eventually moved away I
thought I had a fair idea of where the object would need to have been, if it
was an airplane. To my surprise, there was no object to be seen anywhere in
the sky; it appeared to have completely vanished. So there it was!
?Oh well,? I said. ?I guess that was the big UFO sighting that I?ve been
waiting so long for.?
I was curiously dispassionate about the whole thing, as it was just an
affirmation of what had become completely obvious; I really did not need any
?proof? at this point. I thought about it a moment longer, as I had just
crossed the biggest item on my ?Wanted Miracle? list off, and then had
another thought regarding what immediately came up as the second biggest
item on my list:
?Yes ? now all I need is to have a ball of light visit me in my room in the
middle of the night. Then I can clear out all of these basic wishes that
emerged from my desire to be One with God.?
I had read about such luminous apparitions for a long time ? they played a
major role in the lives of both Jane Roberts, the channel for the Seth
entity, and Carla Rueckert, the channel for the Ra entity. Ra said that
these luminous spheres of light are actually the forms of high-level
sixth-density beings becoming visible for us in the third density plane. I
have always felt that such an experience would be intensely personal,
intensely spiritual and utterly transformational. However, in another sense
you could say that once something like that had happened, it would just be
another item to add to the ?weird list? when I describe my experiences to
the general public. While I am in between sleeping and waking I have often
had experiences of apparitions in the room of various sorts, even of my body
being touched. Temporarily, I still exist in the higher states of
consciousness as my eyes open, and I have experienced various manifestations
in this state, including telekinesis. Still, to just be relaxing in the
dark, fully awake, and be visited by such an entity would be quite
something ? and hence it occupied a high place on my wish list. Little did I
know that the wish would be granted ? and in a most remarkable way.
The next day after my UFO sighting, I ?just happened? to call my father at
the same time that my brother had called him, and the standard ?Guess who?s
on the other end of the phone? line came through, as once again I had hit
that critical window with psychic precision ? the third or fourth time in
the last six months ? and I only call my father about once a week. He
clicked over and it was Michael, as I already knew; ?It?s your brother.?
Things seemed quite ordinary and I finally said, ?Dad, you DO realize that
this is about the fourth time that I?ve called you at the exact same time
that you were talking to Michael.?
?Yep, you?re right about that, David. I hadn?t really thought about it, but
I?ll definitely have to count that one,? Dad responded, his skepticism
melting a little more with each documented ?hit.?
Bracing for my father?s inevitable dosages of skeptical sarcasm, I then went
into my story about the UFO sighting, but nothing could have prepared me for
what Michael was about to tell me. The very night before I had this
experience, my first adult UFO sighting, Michael had indeed experienced my
own wish ? a conscious ball of light visited him in his room in the middle
of the night! Somehow, it appeared that Ra, the group from which my own
Higher Self originates, had heard my wish in the field that day, and had
traveled backward in time to visit my brother about 16 hours earlier. This
was similar to the time when I did a dream-reading for a client and they had
a luminous apparition of Ra come into their room that same night and say,
?Remember the giant cathedral,? which they wrote down in a notebook, only to
find out the next day that my dream for them had involved being trapped in a
giant cathedral.
It then started to dawn on me that it made a lot more sense for my
not-so-secret wish to be granted to another person close to me, as this
would mean a lot more than if it had simply happened to me personally, since
we now have an independent witness! While on the phone with our father,
Michael started describing his experience before I told him about my own
prayer to see a ball of light in my room. (We purposefully avoided going
into detail about it until a later conversation that was just between the
two of us, as it could easily have gotten too intense for Dad to handle
otherwise.) Michael has never written anything for the website before,
totally shunning any opportunities to be spotlighted in any way, nor have I
gone into any great detail about him in my own writings online. I had to
really work on him to get him to write about this experience at all, but he
finally did, and now we can all enjoy the experience through his eyes.
I can assure you that Michael is a real person different from myself, as he
has his own website, www.michaelwilcock.com, his own two-piece musical group
known as the Kiss-Ups and a wealth of highly advanced and stunning artwork
in his portfolio in many different forms of media. And I know that he is
telling the truth. There is no way in the world that I could have gotten him
to put his name on something like this if he didn?t believe it was the real
thing; he has often been doubtful about the nature of my work and only
recently has become willing to let me use his picture for a comparison shot
between him and Dr. Wesley Harrington Ketchum, Cayce?s original business
partner. Thus, his experience was just as physically real as the metallic
object that I saw in the sky the very next day, and as I said, even if he
wanted to make up a story, he started telling me about this experience
before I ever told him about my own prayer for such an event to occur. So
all possibilities of deception have been ruled out for my own discernment,
and I publish this with a clear conscience that it is entirely truthful.
What makes this event even more remarkable is that Michael did not just have
a sighting of a ball of light; he received a crucial message at the end of
his experience as well, even though he is not a ?channeler? or deep-trance
psychic in any way. This message was obviously intended to instill a major
?policy shift? in how I / we think and write about Ascension; it encourages
us to see it as a step-by-step process that we undergo each day and not
simply the mega-conclusion in our near future that represents the ?finish
line,? if you will. I came to realize that many of the mystical experiences
that have occurred in my life, such as those I have often written and talked
about above, are all Ascension experiences ? and that now many others will
be experiencing them as well. In that sense I am glad to be a front-runner
for this process of transformation.
Other channels had spoken about this Ascension process, but I was never
truly clear about what it meant or how it was supposed to be interpreted
until now. Perhaps it was a distortion of my own to be so heavily invested
in a future event instead of the all-encompassing majesty of the present
moment, should we but reach forward and grasp it in the Now. As the world
events continue to change more and more rapidly, we have a greater and
greater opportunity to experience ?Ascension? in our own lives. The final
moment of quantum transformation is definitely not ?canceled? or subsumed by
the greater paradigm of ?incremental ascension,? but rather we can stop
pining away for a future event and instead become more aware of the
majestic, awesome experiences that can come our way if we keep working
diligently on our paths in the here and now. And with that, let?s proceed,
with Michael?s writing given in 12-point Arial font for context, followed by
more of my own comments:
PART TWO: MICHAEL?S EXPERIENCE WITH THE BALL OF LIGHT
Many nights, after the day's hectic events all I want to do is plunk my head
down on the pillow and escape to the oblivion of dreams and the engulfing
fluff of my down comforter. But other nights I carve out the time for
personal spiritual practice. Over time I've developed a nighttime ritual. It
usually starts with slow meditative stretches and yoga techniques and segues
into sitting meditation and prayer. I pray to a higher power that I choose
to call God, Goddess, Great Spirit, Universe, basically whatever feels
right. I've studied Buddhist literature, practiced a type of Buddhist
meditation and regularly visit the Shambala center up the road from me, but
do not consider myself Buddhist. I've gone to many different Christian
churches, respect the teachings of Christ and believe in his existence, but
do not consider myself Christian. I've watched TV, done drugs, drank
alcohol, and smoked cigarettes in the past but I choose no longer to engage
in these things and haven't for a number of years. I suppose I'm an
unclassifiable spiritual person who strives to bring light to the world
through the vehicle of my existence. I work toward loving myself and
everyone else in this world, which from time to time and circumstance to
circumstance can be difficult. On top of all of that, my brother has become
a world-renowned psychic and scientific/spiritual writer. You're reading
this because he asked me to share a recent experience with you.
I live a relatively simple life. I like to walk in the woods, play music,
make art and hang out with friends. Of course it's not always that simple; I
have to make money. So I paint houses and work on promoting my band and my
freelance illustration career. I've certainly been blessed. I am with a
woman that I adore and have a beautiful relationship with. I have a neat
little apartment in the woods with low rent and a nice landlord. I live
simply and keep my expenses down. I don?t know where this world is headed or
what the greater picture is. It seems that we are in a time of exponentially
quickening change. I continue to stay with positive energies and try to
uplift myself and those around me.
Recently, I made the decision to invite the presence of unknown energies,
positive forces and magic into my life. I feel a hunger to commune with
higher energy forces and allow the universe to unveil itself to me. I want
to be a part of spontaneous magical happenings, I want to see the world
change and become more loving. As many of us have come to realize, there is
so much here that is greater than our immediate physical reality. I want to
know higher energies completely and truly be one with the energy that moves
through all things. In the past when my brother has told me about his
concept of ascension, my response has been, "Bring it on, I can't wait!" But
there also resides the pessimist inside that says, "Our world is going down
the toilet and I don't think anything like this is possible." I?m finding,
though, that the more time goes on, the more magical things are starting to
happen. I find other people are talking about the same concepts of great
shifts and transformation.
So with that short bit of information about me, I?ll tell you the story that
David has asked me to share: It was a night that I had taken the time out to
do my evening spiritual practice, my girlfriend Jacinta had turned in early
and I stayed up to stretch and meditate. Jacinta fell asleep quickly and the
only lights I had on were the white Christmas tree lights strung up under my
loft. I had done all the stretches that I typically do and was particularly
relaxed, taking nice deep breaths and really feeling centered and at peace.
I took the half lotus pose on a stack of two big pillows and settled into
silent meditation with my palms resting on my knees. My eyes were open
slightly and focused about six feet ahead of me on the ground. I was
concentrating only on my out breaths and trying to realize if I started to
think too much or go into tangents. Everything became very clear and I
reached the point in meditation that I don?t always achieve, where
everything becomes blissful. My gaze was focused toward the lit portion of
the room under my loft bed, but at this point my head gradually tipped back
and instead of trying to stop it, I just let it ease back and looked up into
the darkness on the ceiling. By this point I had been meditating for over 10
minutes and stretching slowly and quietly before that for at least a half
hour.
I was looking up and I started to think that my eyes were playing tricks on
me. I became aware of a very subtle glowing light on the ceiling, but the
only lights on were the white Christmas lights under the loft ? and this
seemed to look almost as though it were projected on the ceiling. It was
very faint and soft at first, and barely perceivable. It had a subtle
wavering movement to it, like a wave radiating slightly out from the middle.
I was sure that this was just a visual trick my eyes were playing, and that
the light would soon dissipate, but I kept looking at it, just trying to
understand it. There was a GLOWING LIGHT hovering above me!!! I was
completely straight ? I haven?t even touched a drug or drink in five years.
I felt the need to try to perk up and break the blissful silence of my
meditation to take a closer look, but a feeling deep inside me said, ?No,
just continue looking and don?t make any abrupt movements.? So I followed
this impulse and remained still, just silently observing this now growing
presence.
It was glowing luminosity, generally light blue in color and the more I
watched it, the more it?s size and movement increased. It expanded out to be
about six or seven feet wide and looked somewhat like it had been projected
upon the ceiling, yet it gave the illusion of some depth moving upward as
though it were an opening up into the sky. It was brimming over with energy
and life and gave me a feeling of incredible grace to watch it. There was no
logical explanation for how this was happening; the longer I watched the
light, the more enchanted I became. This was real life before my eyes ? this
was not a dream. I had invited magical energy into my life and this was
magic; this was a loving, amazing energy that I was somehow blessed enough
to be able to see.
The energy field pulsed in wavelike motions, just hovering and glowing. It
was an absolutely beautiful sight. The more I sat, the more I was just
filled with a feeling of love and light and peace. It was expansive yet
precise, and the middle was a very light whitish blue and it had blended
outward into a darker sky blue. It just pulsed and moved gently, a
completely calming presence. My mind began to wander for a moment and I
wondered how long this would go on for. Up to this point, I had thought that
if this type of thing ever did happen, it would only stand revealed for a
split moment of time, just enough to be recognized and then disappear. But
this was totally going against that idea. This loving light hovered,
revealed long enough for me to almost get used to it being there! I truly
grasped that its presence was real and I was amazed that it was here with
me. After about 5 to 10 minutes the light started to change color. The edges
that had been blended out to dark blue slowly shifted to the same light blue
color in the middle. Then the whole field, now all one tone, shifted lighter
and lighter, slowly and gradually until it was almost white. I had the
feeling that the experience was almost finished, and part of my heart grew
heavy in the fear of becoming disconnected from this light entity.
So, I decided that before this experience was over I would try to share some
of this energy with my partner who was sleeping up in the loft, in the hopes
that she could benefit from this visitation. As the thought was formulating
in my head, the light was already beginning to expand out toward the area of
the ceiling above where she was sleeping. It now had formed a kidney shape
encompassing the original area of illumination and a bulge moving out over
my partner, Jacinta. The color at this point shifted through pure white and
into orange. It reached out to cover the area over Jacinta completely and
then shifted to an orange with a very light brownish tint. It stayed in this
state for about a minute or less and then began to fade away. It took about
15 seconds for it to fade from full luminosity to total dispersion, and when
it had finished I no longer felt a feeling of longing for it to still be
there. Everything felt divinely choreographed and in tune. The feeling of
honor and gratefulness I had for being blessed with this experience was
unparalleled.
I stayed in meditation pose, somewhat reeling from the experience and just
trying to let it all soak in. This had been a truly monumental occurrence,
and I didn't want to just dispel it and briskly move on; I wanted to honor
it and feel the power of it. As I sat, a voice or idea came into my head and
it used some of the language that David uses. It was a soft and intuitive
voice that seemed almost like my own, coming from a place of great wisdom.
It said that this had been an important experience in my "ascension" and
that this was going to be a gentle process that would happen in stages.
[DW: When Michael first told me this story, he boiled some of the message
down to this quote: ?The Ascension that your brother writes about is not
going to happen all at once. It is a gentle process, creating feelings just
like those you have now experienced, and it will occur in incremental
stages. This is your first major step in this process.?]
Up to this point I had felt as though a spontaneous shift into nirvana would
be great, but I wasn?t going to hold my breath waiting around for it. This
message was intent on telling me that the concept of ascension is real, but
that it will manifest itself very differently than what I was envisioning.
The message said that ascension is an incremental process that happens in
stages. Seeing this energy for myself eradicated many of my doubts about
unexplainable spiritual dimensions and energies, and solidified the
foundation for the belief in a power greater than myself.
Up until this point, this type of divine energy had only seemed to exist in
my imagination and in subtle synchronicities and psychic occurrences ? not
an orb of light HOVERING OVER ME!!! It became clear that this message was a
very personal one; this was the first step in my ascension. It seems that
ascension is something completely unique to each individual. The discovery
of divinity and the movement toward that energy is a completely
individualized experience. This was a part of what I was told. These
ascension experiences will be very moving and pertinent to the one who is
experiencing them and will probably vary greatly from person to person. The
idea of an ascension in stages was a totally new concept for me. I had
always pictured David's ascension model as something that would happen in
one fell swoop, a "spontaneous evolution" as he says ? but this new
understanding showed me that the experiences could be individualized, and
occur over a period of time.
I have no idea where we are heading, but I can only dream of great things
and lives filled with purpose and connection to one and other. I hope to see
our world move toward a place where people can totally be themselves and be
cradled in love by the community around them. I look forward to a place
where we will all have confidence that there is a universal energy moving
through us that connects us and gives our lives meaning. I also look forward
to shifting away from ownership and materialism and moving toward community
and compassion for our delicate environment.
I am certainly much less prone to doubt that these things are possible. I
feel as though I must keep faith, because I?ve been shone this energy that
is so much greater than what I am typically able to perceive. I hunger for
this energy. I hunger for the connection to it. I feel that the ascension
toward higher consciousness and toward universal love is happening, but we
must seek to find it and we must stay very open minded. Closing out other
people and beliefs and judging them can be so hurtful. There is probably no
possible way that any of us will be able to forecast what we are moving
into. I've never felt that I could ever truly see the outcome of something
before it happened and it seems we have only begun to scratch the surface on
what we are moving into. Maybe the ascension transpires completely within
our spirits and maybe the whole world is going to change. I do know that I
was visited by magic and love and that good things are to come in spite of
all the chaos we see now in the world. I have faith and trust that humanity
will evolve.
PART THREE: CONCLUSION
As the older brother who was always expected to provide an example, I am
proud of Michael?s writing efforts and of his willingness to share this
experience with the world. He has already experienced a second ?ascension?
experience of a different sort, and I have asked that he share this in a
separate future article if he so desires.
One aspect of this story that he didn?t really cover in the article was that
Jacinta had been experiencing some difficulty in getting to sleep, and after
that night with the light surrounding her, she was sleeping perfectly. That
is just another added layer of validation to the whole picture of what
transpired that night in the second week of February.
Right now as I write this, I know that Michael?s birthday is coming up on
April 7, and that I don?t have the financial resources at present to send
him anything as a gift in the mail. Yet, if I somehow donated my own energy
in any way to bringing him this experience, or even if it was simply the
intent of my prayer that engaged universal energy in moving out to him
completely on its own, I am very grateful to have given him this birth-day
gift. It is truly the birth of the awakening Christ self within each of us,
our own personal connection to the Divine, and that makes the timing of this
article all the more suitable.
If we think about the distressing events unfolding on the world stage in
lieu of this experience, we begin to understand more fully the power of
prayer. Certain Edgar Cayce readings implied that only a small number of
people who were dedicated in prayer could dramatically decrease the severity
of problems such as famines, Earth Changes and wars. So, the question
becomes, if my own prayer was somehow able to step outside of time and space
and create such a magnificent event for my beloved brother, then what can
each of us do for our beloved Mother, the Earth? As we continue to shift our
wishes more and more towards what we can do for others, then we will
experience more and more positive experience within our own lives, as we
really come to know that all is One. Each of us can gain a greater
appreciation for the power that we possess when we forgive ourselves, accept
ourselves and direct our will to positive creative action, such as through
world-service prayer and meditation. It is a glorious future that lies ahead
of us, and we have a direct stake in how soon it will come, and how the
transition will occur. And along the way, we just might have some incredible
surprises appear before our very eyes.
Happy Birthday, Michael.
- David
Here's the raw text of what I just posted online, to make it easier for
anyone to cut and paste something that might be useful for discussion. (Not
that I would want to dissolve the other discussions that are occurring at
this time, and are of equal merit!)
- David
Ascension Is a Process, Not Just a Conclusion
- A Most Remarkable Synchronicity Event -
By David and Michael Wilcock
4 / 5 / 02
PART ONE: DAVID?S INTRODUCTION
As this story has matured to the point of going to press, world situations
have gotten so extreme that it would seem negligent not to mention them
immediately. The sheer psychological pressure of the events that are now
unfolding on the world stage is quite intense; there is no solid way to pin
down any grounded viewpoint over what is heading our way and how soon. Even
those who most dearly cling to our cherished institutions are being forced
to confront harsh realities of corruption and mismanagement at the highest
of levels. Both church and state have been rocked by unimaginably vast
scandals, and the situation in Israel is literally unfolding on an hourly
basis, perfectly symbolic of the combined problems of religious and
government failures. Indeed, it is a quite unique moment in world history as
we prepare to post this captivating article, an account of a full, visual,
waking extraterrestrial contact experienced by my brother, which appears to
have been directly triggered by a prayer that I made without his conscious
awareness.
Most of our readers are aware that the exact nature of these times we now
experience were written into many different prophecies from cultures all
over the world. Not all of them gave an exact date as to when we should
expect these changes, but they unilaterally state that when such changes
arrive, we can know that a wondrous Golden Age for humanity is very soon
upon us. And thus, the more at peace we can be with the changes, the better
we can trust that all the events in our personal and global lives are
transpiring according to a Divine plan. This is the promise that helps us to
steer a path through the amazing upheavals that we are now witnessing and
have the faith and confidence that we will not be shaken by them.
My own contribution to this planetary awakening has been primarily through
the creation of written materials that lay out the scientific and spiritual
framework for the ancient prophecies of a Global Shift ? and I know that the
majority of my readers are very interested to know where I am in that
timeline. The first and second books of my scientific trilogy (Shift of the
Ages and Convergence III) are already online and will only undergo minor
changes and additions for their final versions, which will emerge in a
published form soon enough. The third book, Divine Cosmos, is well on its
way towards being finished, and it has become quite the powerhouse in its
ability to tie together everything I have discovered into one clear, concise
and unified model. It has been taking me longer than I had hoped or expected
to complete these projects, yet it does appear that the speed at which I am
able to finish them is indeed part of the overall plan; there must be enough
time for the different pieces to come together and be reasonably integrated.
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to say the least.
Time is also important in the process of spiritual growth; we must have the
time to have experiences that drive us to explore, enhance and unfold our
deeper natures. There really is no quick shortcut to enlightenment; it is a
continual process of coming to know and understand ourselves by examining
our past experiences and then seeing how they affect our thoughts and
behaviors in the now. We do this with the hopes of changing our entrenched
patterns and becoming finer vessels for that light/love energy of the One
Creator that is within each of us. As I look back over my life I realize
that part of what catapulted me into my awareness at such a young age was
the degree of intense experiences that I underwent, which were then
analyzed, accepted and understood over time, leading to a greater
self-integration. Without the processing and distilling of these experiences
for the love and wisdom that can be gleaned from them, we are doomed to
repeat them again and again and again.
I often indulged myself by saying that these experiences involved suffering,
but more and more, as I evolve with the nature of suffering I realize that
it too is an illusion, based on our own desire to label our experiences as
?good? or ?bad.? One recent example was that this past weekend, I took a
trip with Hideo Izumoto to Washington, DC to see the Cherry Blossom Festival
of Peace and then on to a location in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia.
I knew that I would be doing the driving when I agreed to the trip; I did
not realize that it would ultimately entail more than ten and a half hours
of road time in a single day. By the time we were closing in on our final
destination, my physical body was experiencing extreme pain.
Had I known that the trip would involve this much driving, I would never
have agreed to do it. Yet, once we arrived at our destination, I proceeded
to have a conversation with the person living there that catapulted me into
whole new vistas of awareness on many fronts. This conversation also
produced wonderful fruit that could be immediately applied to the quantum
physics chapter that I had been working on in Divine Cosmos just the day
before. The timing couldn?t possibly have been better, and I was clearly
meant to have received the information, yet I am still recovering from a
sickness that I picked up from the bodily stress that the trip created. That
sickness is what led me to take the ?easier? route of finishing this article
rather than delving back into the demanding world of science ? and now, here
we are.
So, the point for sharing all of this now is to help enunciate a view that
has become more and more clear to me as time goes on. The experiences that
we are most apt to label as ?suffering? are also most likely to have the
greatest effect on our spiritual progress. This is the process of
initiation, where we learn to accept and understand our distortions while
also making a consistent effort to enhance ourselves and work through our
experiences.
I have often been asked how and why I would come to have such abilities at a
young age, and my basic answer is that I was willing.
?Willing to what?? people ask me.
My answer is that I was willing to make whatever changes and sacrifices I
saw as being necessary in order to fulfill the Divine will that was
expressing itself through me. Those changes were often very difficult,
including giving up all sorts of addictive behaviors that had become
comfortable escape mechanisms.
We all know that it is extremely easy to rationalize away addictive
behaviors and decide that no further action needs to be taken. Yet, once I
really confronted what I was trying to escape from, I would realize again
and again that I was simply suffering from the drama of my apparent
separation from God, and that this feeling of abandonment was utterly and
totally an illusion. With the knowledge of the physics now in place, it
seems almost irresponsible to forget that we exist in a giant holographic
illusion created by the distorted light/love energy pulsations of the
Oneness. Every living being on every one of the untold billions of inhabited
planets in the entire Universe is ultimately still a reflection of our One
True Self.
The awareness is there ? and yet, life is definitely not easy. Sometimes it
seems that all we ever do is move through process after process, lesson
after lesson, experience after experience, burning off layer after layer of
our resistance to Divine Will, and the challenge is for us to continue to be
diligent and persistent in analyzing, accepting and understanding what we
are going through. Sooner or later, the sweetest elixir can be formed from
the distilled core of our experiences, and its precious drops ready to be
shared with others. This is a hard-earned victory over materialist
attitudes, philosophies and behaviors, and thus spiritual growth processes
are anything but escape mechanisms; they are indeed ?the hardest things we
will ever do.? It?s a lot easier to remain addicted than it is to find out
what caused the addiction and to then allow the enslavement of that behavior
to fall away.
So, the amount of growth that we experience is directly proportional to how
much of ourselves we are willing to invest in the process; hence my frequent
quote, ?You get out of your life what you are willing to put into it.? And
again, there?s that word ?willing.? Ultimately, as we keep working these
processes with greater and greater diligence and persistence, sudden peaks
emerge in our spiritual progress and a major shift is attained. Those
moments are transformative and breathtaking, and I have been blessed with
many such events throughout the course of my life as I continue to apply
myself to the process of Divine initiation. The severe psychological
stresses that our current events can produce have given us an increasingly
potent batch of raw materials upon which to catalyze our understandings and
experience such transformational shifts.
Indeed, certain amazing stories form the true jewels of my repertoire in
talking about my relationship with beings of higher intelligence, showing
where the greatest peaks occurred in amongst my continual processing of the
intense experiences of life. These stories are often repeated for their
impact and value, since they were very real events that happened in my life
and were sudden steps in my process of awakening ? they were the brightest
lights amongst the ongoing efforts that I was making to clear out the muck
in my lower centers of consciousness, which are much less dramatic and
attractive to talk about. Probably the top three events, prior to now, would
be as follows:
1. Floating out of my body at age five, feeling that I was being taken
somewhere and observed by beings of higher intelligence, and knowing deeply
that it was not a dream.
2. Performing an automatic-writing session with my friend Jude to ask the
question of ?Am I an ET soul?? wherein my hand literally took on a mind of
its own, scrawling out a series of letters that ended up having multiple
layers of significance. Most importantly, it gave a Bible quote that was
arguably the most precisely relevant passage in the entire book for what I
had just gone through, having just lost a job. The exact start and end
points of the passage, Ecc 2:22-3:13, framed the whole picture so
beautifully that there was absolutely no doubt as to what had occurred.
3. About two months later, praying again for an answer regarding whether my
soul was of ET origin, and having the prayer answered the next morning in my
housemate Eric?s dream, where a robed, bearded man came down on a platform,
spoke of Earth Changes and Ascension and then recognized and interacted with
me, finally announcing to Eric, ?It is very important that you know that he
is one of us.? Eric did not know I had prayed the night before.
The key here is that most of these events were in the past, before I ever
started the work of doing deep-trance psychic readings and having direct
telepathic contact with such forces. Since that time, I have had hundreds
and hundreds of future prophecies come true, incredible dreams with Ascended
abilities quite regularly, shocking experiences with synchronicity,
controllable out of body experiences, small-scale ?threshold? telekinesis
events around me on a relatively consistent basis and a precise ability to
see into others? thoughts, especially on spiritual and emotional issues.
Recently I held my right hand about eight inches away from a person?s injury
site on their body, with intent to try to do healing, and they said that
they felt as much heat from it as they would from a small ?space heater?
machine. So, as time progresses further and such experiences become more and
more common, you naturally get to a point where you are no longer so shocked
and impressed by them, and they eventually become ?business as usual.?
However, even for as far as I have gone, there are still certain mystical
experiences that I have secretly longed for, related to the direct, visual
sighting of energies and / or objects that are unambiguous manifestations of
extraterrestrial intelligence. Let?s say that it stems from the eternal
skeptic within me that has a desire for ?proof,? as if I didn?t already have
enough.
So, while staying away from home with some friends in a remote area, one of
those wishes was answered, as I had what appeared to be a UFO sighting; the
first in my adult life. Each day I had walked to the same spot to meditate
in the forest, which looked out over a glorious rolling hay field. This
particular day, I spotted a wingless metallic object that was very tiny; it
was too tiny to make out exactly what it was, though the overall shape was
that of a disc. Being in a deep meditative trance at the time, I simply
observed it as it went behind a cloud. I could tell how fast the object was
going and in what direction, and when the cloud eventually moved away I
thought I had a fair idea of where the object would need to have been, if it
was an airplane. To my surprise, there was no object to be seen anywhere in
the sky; it appeared to have completely vanished. So there it was!
?Oh well,? I said. ?I guess that was the big UFO sighting that I?ve been
waiting so long for.?
I was curiously dispassionate about the whole thing, as it was just an
affirmation of what had become completely obvious; I really did not need any
?proof? at this point. I thought about it a moment longer, as I had just
crossed the biggest item on my ?Wanted Miracle? list off, and then had
another thought regarding what immediately came up as the second biggest
item on my list:
?Yes ? now all I need is to have a ball of light visit me in my room in the
middle of the night. Then I can clear out all of these basic wishes that
emerged from my desire to be One with God.?
I had read about such luminous apparitions for a long time ? they played a
major role in the lives of both Jane Roberts, the channel for the Seth
entity, and Carla Rueckert, the channel for the Ra entity. Ra said that
these luminous spheres of light are actually the forms of high-level
sixth-density beings becoming visible for us in the third density plane. I
have always felt that such an experience would be intensely personal,
intensely spiritual and utterly transformational. However, in another sense
you could say that once something like that had happened, it would just be
another item to add to the ?weird list? when I describe my experiences to
the general public. While I am in between sleeping and waking I have often
had experiences of apparitions in the room of various sorts, even of my body
being touched. Temporarily, I still exist in the higher states of
consciousness as my eyes open, and I have experienced various manifestations
in this state, including telekinesis. Still, to just be relaxing in the
dark, fully awake, and be visited by such an entity would be quite
something ? and hence it occupied a high place on my wish list. Little did I
know that the wish would be granted ? and in a most remarkable way.
The next day after my UFO sighting, I ?just happened? to call my father at
the same time that my brother had called him, and the standard ?Guess who?s
on the other end of the phone? line came through, as once again I had hit
that critical window with psychic precision ? the third or fourth time in
the last six months ? and I only call my father about once a week. He
clicked over and it was Michael, as I already knew; ?It?s your brother.?
Things seemed quite ordinary and I finally said, ?Dad, you DO realize that
this is about the fourth time that I?ve called you at the exact same time
that you were talking to Michael.?
?Yep, you?re right about that, David. I hadn?t really thought about it, but
I?ll definitely have to count that one,? Dad responded, his skepticism
melting a little more with each documented ?hit.?
Bracing for my father?s inevitable dosages of skeptical sarcasm, I then went
into my story about the UFO sighting, but nothing could have prepared me for
what Michael was about to tell me. The very night before I had this
experience, my first adult UFO sighting, Michael had indeed experienced my
own wish ? a conscious ball of light visited him in his room in the middle
of the night! Somehow, it appeared that Ra, the group from which my own
Higher Self originates, had heard my wish in the field that day, and had
traveled backward in time to visit my brother about 16 hours earlier. This
was similar to the time when I did a dream-reading for a client and they had
a luminous apparition of Ra come into their room that same night and say,
?Remember the giant cathedral,? which they wrote down in a notebook, only to
find out the next day that my dream for them had involved being trapped in a
giant cathedral.
It then started to dawn on me that it made a lot more sense for my
not-so-secret wish to be granted to another person close to me, as this
would mean a lot more than if it had simply happened to me personally, since
we now have an independent witness! While on the phone with our father,
Michael started describing his experience before I told him about my own
prayer to see a ball of light in my room. (We purposefully avoided going
into detail about it until a later conversation that was just between the
two of us, as it could easily have gotten too intense for Dad to handle
otherwise.) Michael has never written anything for the website before,
totally shunning any opportunities to be spotlighted in any way, nor have I
gone into any great detail about him in my own writings online. I had to
really work on him to get him to write about this experience at all, but he
finally did, and now we can all enjoy the experience through his eyes.
I can assure you that Michael is a real person different from myself, as he
has his own website, www.michaelwilcock.com, his own two-piece musical group
known as the Kiss-Ups and a wealth of highly advanced and stunning artwork
in his portfolio in many different forms of media. And I know that he is
telling the truth. There is no way in the world that I could have gotten him
to put his name on something like this if he didn?t believe it was the real
thing; he has often been doubtful about the nature of my work and only
recently has become willing to let me use his picture for a comparison shot
between him and Dr. Wesley Harrington Ketchum, Cayce?s original business
partner. Thus, his experience was just as physically real as the metallic
object that I saw in the sky the very next day, and as I said, even if he
wanted to make up a story, he started telling me about this experience
before I ever told him about my own prayer for such an event to occur. So
all possibilities of deception have been ruled out for my own discernment,
and I publish this with a clear conscience that it is entirely truthful.
What makes this event even more remarkable is that Michael did not just have
a sighting of a ball of light; he received a crucial message at the end of
his experience as well, even though he is not a ?channeler? or deep-trance
psychic in any way. This message was obviously intended to instill a major
?policy shift? in how I / we think and write about Ascension; it encourages
us to see it as a step-by-step process that we undergo each day and not
simply the mega-conclusion in our near future that represents the ?finish
line,? if you will. I came to realize that many of the mystical experiences
that have occurred in my life, such as those I have often written and talked
about above, are all Ascension experiences ? and that now many others will
be experiencing them as well. In that sense I am glad to be a front-runner
for this process of transformation.
Other channels had spoken about this Ascension process, but I was never
truly clear about what it meant or how it was supposed to be interpreted
until now. Perhaps it was a distortion of my own to be so heavily invested
in a future event instead of the all-encompassing majesty of the present
moment, should we but reach forward and grasp it in the Now. As the world
events continue to change more and more rapidly, we have a greater and
greater opportunity to experience ?Ascension? in our own lives. The final
moment of quantum transformation is definitely not ?canceled? or subsumed by
the greater paradigm of ?incremental ascension,? but rather we can stop
pining away for a future event and instead become more aware of the
majestic, awesome experiences that can come our way if we keep working
diligently on our paths in the here and now. And with that, let?s proceed,
with Michael?s writing given in 12-point Arial font for context, followed by
more of my own comments:
PART TWO: MICHAEL?S EXPERIENCE WITH THE BALL OF LIGHT
Many nights, after the day's hectic events all I want to do is plunk my head
down on the pillow and escape to the oblivion of dreams and the engulfing
fluff of my down comforter. But other nights I carve out the time for
personal spiritual practice. Over time I've developed a nighttime ritual. It
usually starts with slow meditative stretches and yoga techniques and segues
into sitting meditation and prayer. I pray to a higher power that I choose
to call God, Goddess, Great Spirit, Universe, basically whatever feels
right. I've studied Buddhist literature, practiced a type of Buddhist
meditation and regularly visit the Shambala center up the road from me, but
do not consider myself Buddhist. I've gone to many different Christian
churches, respect the teachings of Christ and believe in his existence, but
do not consider myself Christian. I've watched TV, done drugs, drank
alcohol, and smoked cigarettes in the past but I choose no longer to engage
in these things and haven't for a number of years. I suppose I'm an
unclassifiable spiritual person who strives to bring light to the world
through the vehicle of my existence. I work toward loving myself and
everyone else in this world, which from time to time and circumstance to
circumstance can be difficult. On top of all of that, my brother has become
a world-renowned psychic and scientific/spiritual writer. You're reading
this because he asked me to share a recent experience with you.
I live a relatively simple life. I like to walk in the woods, play music,
make art and hang out with friends. Of course it's not always that simple; I
have to make money. So I paint houses and work on promoting my band and my
freelance illustration career. I've certainly been blessed. I am with a
woman that I adore and have a beautiful relationship with. I have a neat
little apartment in the woods with low rent and a nice landlord. I live
simply and keep my expenses down. I don?t know where this world is headed or
what the greater picture is. It seems that we are in a time of exponentially
quickening change. I continue to stay with positive energies and try to
uplift myself and those around me.
Recently, I made the decision to invite the presence of unknown energies,
positive forces and magic into my life. I feel a hunger to commune with
higher energy forces and allow the universe to unveil itself to me. I want
to be a part of spontaneous magical happenings, I want to see the world
change and become more loving. As many of us have come to realize, there is
so much here that is greater than our immediate physical reality. I want to
know higher energies completely and truly be one with the energy that moves
through all things. In the past when my brother has told me about his
concept of ascension, my response has been, "Bring it on, I can't wait!" But
there also resides the pessimist inside that says, "Our world is going down
the toilet and I don't think anything like this is possible." I?m finding,
though, that the more time goes on, the more magical things are starting to
happen. I find other people are talking about the same concepts of great
shifts and transformation.
So with that short bit of information about me, I?ll tell you the story that
David has asked me to share: It was a night that I had taken the time out to
do my evening spiritual practice, my girlfriend Jacinta had turned in early
and I stayed up to stretch and meditate. Jacinta fell asleep quickly and the
only lights I had on were the white Christmas tree lights strung up under my
loft. I had done all the stretches that I typically do and was particularly
relaxed, taking nice deep breaths and really feeling centered and at peace.
I took the half lotus pose on a stack of two big pillows and settled into
silent meditation with my palms resting on my knees. My eyes were open
slightly and focused about six feet ahead of me on the ground. I was
concentrating only on my out breaths and trying to realize if I started to
think too much or go into tangents. Everything became very clear and I
reached the point in meditation that I don?t always achieve, where
everything becomes blissful. My gaze was focused toward the lit portion of
the room under my loft bed, but at this point my head gradually tipped back
and instead of trying to stop it, I just let it ease back and looked up into
the darkness on the ceiling. By this point I had been meditating for over 10
minutes and stretching slowly and quietly before that for at least a half
hour.
I was looking up and I started to think that my eyes were playing tricks on
me. I became aware of a very subtle glowing light on the ceiling, but the
only lights on were the white Christmas lights under the loft ? and this
seemed to look almost as though it were projected on the ceiling. It was
very faint and soft at first, and barely perceivable. It had a subtle
wavering movement to it, like a wave radiating slightly out from the middle.
I was sure that this was just a visual trick my eyes were playing, and that
the light would soon dissipate, but I kept looking at it, just trying to
understand it. There was a GLOWING LIGHT hovering above me!!! I was
completely straight ? I haven?t even touched a drug or drink in five years.
I felt the need to try to perk up and break the blissful silence of my
meditation to take a closer look, but a feeling deep inside me said, ?No,
just continue looking and don?t make any abrupt movements.? So I followed
this impulse and remained still, just silently observing this now growing
presence.
It was glowing luminosity, generally light blue in color and the more I
watched it, the more it?s size and movement increased. It expanded out to be
about six or seven feet wide and looked somewhat like it had been projected
upon the ceiling, yet it gave the illusion of some depth moving upward as
though it were an opening up into the sky. It was brimming over with energy
and life and gave me a feeling of incredible grace to watch it. There was no
logical explanation for how this was happening; the longer I watched the
light, the more enchanted I became. This was real life before my eyes ? this
was not a dream. I had invited magical energy into my life and this was
magic; this was a loving, amazing energy that I was somehow blessed enough
to be able to see.
The energy field pulsed in wavelike motions, just hovering and glowing. It
was an absolutely beautiful sight. The more I sat, the more I was just
filled with a feeling of love and light and peace. It was expansive yet
precise, and the middle was a very light whitish blue and it had blended
outward into a darker sky blue. It just pulsed and moved gently, a
completely calming presence. My mind began to wander for a moment and I
wondered how long this would go on for. Up to this point, I had thought that
if this type of thing ever did happen, it would only stand revealed for a
split moment of time, just enough to be recognized and then disappear. But
this was totally going against that idea. This loving light hovered,
revealed long enough for me to almost get used to it being there! I truly
grasped that its presence was real and I was amazed that it was here with
me. After about 5 to 10 minutes the light started to change color. The edges
that had been blended out to dark blue slowly shifted to the same light blue
color in the middle. Then the whole field, now all one tone, shifted lighter
and lighter, slowly and gradually until it was almost white. I had the
feeling that the experience was almost finished, and part of my heart grew
heavy in the fear of becoming disconnected from this light entity.
So, I decided that before this experience was over I would try to share some
of this energy with my partner who was sleeping up in the loft, in the hopes
that she could benefit from this visitation. As the thought was formulating
in my head, the light was already beginning to expand out toward the area of
the ceiling above where she was sleeping. It now had formed a kidney shape
encompassing the original area of illumination and a bulge moving out over
my partner, Jacinta. The color at this point shifted through pure white and
into orange. It reached out to cover the area over Jacinta completely and
then shifted to an orange with a very light brownish tint. It stayed in this
state for about a minute or less and then began to fade away. It took about
15 seconds for it to fade from full luminosity to total dispersion, and when
it had finished I no longer felt a feeling of longing for it to still be
there. Everything felt divinely choreographed and in tune. The feeling of
honor and gratefulness I had for being blessed with this experience was
unparalleled.
I stayed in meditation pose, somewhat reeling from the experience and just
trying to let it all soak in. This had been a truly monumental occurrence,
and I didn't want to just dispel it and briskly move on; I wanted to honor
it and feel the power of it. As I sat, a voice or idea came into my head and
it used some of the language that David uses. It was a soft and intuitive
voice that seemed almost like my own, coming from a place of great wisdom.
It said that this had been an important experience in my "ascension" and
that this was going to be a gentle process that would happen in stages.
[DW: When Michael first told me this story, he boiled some of the message
down to this quote: ?The Ascension that your brother writes about is not
going to happen all at once. It is a gentle process, creating feelings just
like those you have now experienced, and it will occur in incremental
stages. This is your first major step in this process.?]
Up to this point I had felt as though a spontaneous shift into nirvana would
be great, but I wasn?t going to hold my breath waiting around for it. This
message was intent on telling me that the concept of ascension is real, but
that it will manifest itself very differently than what I was envisioning.
The message said that ascension is an incremental process that happens in
stages. Seeing this energy for myself eradicated many of my doubts about
unexplainable spiritual dimensions and energies, and solidified the
foundation for the belief in a power greater than myself.
Up until this point, this type of divine energy had only seemed to exist in
my imagination and in subtle synchronicities and psychic occurrences ? not
an orb of light HOVERING OVER ME!!! It became clear that this message was a
very personal one; this was the first step in my ascension. It seems that
ascension is something completely unique to each individual. The discovery
of divinity and the movement toward that energy is a completely
individualized experience. This was a part of what I was told. These
ascension experiences will be very moving and pertinent to the one who is
experiencing them and will probably vary greatly from person to person. The
idea of an ascension in stages was a totally new concept for me. I had
always pictured David's ascension model as something that would happen in
one fell swoop, a "spontaneous evolution" as he says ? but this new
understanding showed me that the experiences could be individualized, and
occur over a period of time.
I have no idea where we are heading, but I can only dream of great things
and lives filled with purpose and connection to one and other. I hope to see
our world move toward a place where people can totally be themselves and be
cradled in love by the community around them. I look forward to a place
where we will all have confidence that there is a universal energy moving
through us that connects us and gives our lives meaning. I also look forward
to shifting away from ownership and materialism and moving toward community
and compassion for our delicate environment.
I am certainly much less prone to doubt that these things are possible. I
feel as though I must keep faith, because I?ve been shone this energy that
is so much greater than what I am typically able to perceive. I hunger for
this energy. I hunger for the connection to it. I feel that the ascension
toward higher consciousness and toward universal love is happening, but we
must seek to find it and we must stay very open minded. Closing out other
people and beliefs and judging them can be so hurtful. There is probably no
possible way that any of us will be able to forecast what we are moving
into. I've never felt that I could ever truly see the outcome of something
before it happened and it seems we have only begun to scratch the surface on
what we are moving into. Maybe the ascension transpires completely within
our spirits and maybe the whole world is going to change. I do know that I
was visited by magic and love and that good things are to come in spite of
all the chaos we see now in the world. I have faith and trust that humanity
will evolve.
PART THREE: CONCLUSION
As the older brother who was always expected to provide an example, I am
proud of Michael?s writing efforts and of his willingness to share this
experience with the world. He has already experienced a second ?ascension?
experience of a different sort, and I have asked that he share this in a
separate future article if he so desires.
One aspect of this story that he didn?t really cover in the article was that
Jacinta had been experiencing some difficulty in getting to sleep, and after
that night with the light surrounding her, she was sleeping perfectly. That
is just another added layer of validation to the whole picture of what
transpired that night in the second week of February.
Right now as I write this, I know that Michael?s birthday is coming up on
April 7, and that I don?t have the financial resources at present to send
him anything as a gift in the mail. Yet, if I somehow donated my own energy
in any way to bringing him this experience, or even if it was simply the
intent of my prayer that engaged universal energy in moving out to him
completely on its own, I am very grateful to have given him this birth-day
gift. It is truly the birth of the awakening Christ self within each of us,
our own personal connection to the Divine, and that makes the timing of this
article all the more suitable.
If we think about the distressing events unfolding on the world stage in
lieu of this experience, we begin to understand more fully the power of
prayer. Certain Edgar Cayce readings implied that only a small number of
people who were dedicated in prayer could dramatically decrease the severity
of problems such as famines, Earth Changes and wars. So, the question
becomes, if my own prayer was somehow able to step outside of time and space
and create such a magnificent event for my beloved brother, then what can
each of us do for our beloved Mother, the Earth? As we continue to shift our
wishes more and more towards what we can do for others, then we will
experience more and more positive experience within our own lives, as we
really come to know that all is One. Each of us can gain a greater
appreciation for the power that we possess when we forgive ourselves, accept
ourselves and direct our will to positive creative action, such as through
world-service prayer and meditation. It is a glorious future that lies ahead
of us, and we have a direct stake in how soon it will come, and how the
transition will occur. And along the way, we just might have some incredible
surprises appear before our very eyes.
Happy Birthday, Michael.
- David