We are all part of the evolution of the universe, 
"Long ago, you decided to participate in a vast game of exploring separation from Spirit 
on behalf of the Source -- The Creator! Since the "fall,"you have experienced every aspect 
of separation -- cruelty, violence, persecution, war, famine, and so on. But now the game 
is over and it's time to return to the Source -- it's mandatory!
Every one of us will ascend. But first we must break old patterns, sever from the consensus 
reality, and align with Spirit. The goal is full awareness of our unity with the Source by 
increasing the frequency of our energy bodies until we emerge as self-realized Masters, 
fully conscious on the higher dimensions." 
 
- From 'An Ascension Handbook' from Serapis (Thoth)
 
 
on our way to higher realms of enlightenment.
Ascension is the "buzz" word of the new age and represents an 
unprecedented change in the human experience. There are many Ascension scenarios. 
Few of them agree in details, time line or events. Some view what happens in the future 
in a passive way, with little or nothing to do but wait to be picked up by benevolent 
aliens and taken off to a happier place. Most see astounding and dramatic changes taking 
place that will cause our consciousness to change so dramatically that we will have 
Godlike mental and spiritual powers, and our very bodies will be transmuted into "light". 
The result will be that humans will be turned into multi-dimensional beings, capable of 
moving, at will, between 3rd and 5th dimensional reality. Extraterrestrials, other 
dimensional beings, Angels, Spiritual Hierarchies, etc. become the catalyst that ushers 
in the great changes of the new age. Regardless of the scenario, the major transitions 
seem to fall between 2000 and 2013. It is the validation of one of these scenarios that 
Center of Attention is looking for. This is where our 
efforts are centered and our actions are geared to move us away from creating one of the 
other two realities.
 
Ascension for the most part is a phenomenon that has basic agreement amongst the many ideas 
on how it shall come to pass. For the most part, Ascension involves our bodies transforming 
themselves into other-than-3rd-dimensional vehicles made of "light". Light in this sense has 
many contradictory definitions. It can be our typical understanding of photons propagating 
thru 3rd dimensional reality, or a more esoteric definition where "light" is loosely used to 
express a correlation to light as we know it, but being more than that, it is a metaphor for 
energy we have no name for. We could call it inter-dimensional light. There is at least one 
end game scenario that believes Ascension really means being taken up into vehicles, apparently
operated by beings working with the spiritual hierarchy and conforming to "the divine plan" as 
dictated by the first creative source, or God. They envision a time in the next decade where 
either space-ships or some other form of vehicle will swoop down and pick up humans before we 
destroy ourselves and the planet. This is very closely associated with the Apocalyptic notion, 
without the dramas and catastrophes. I don't believe this scenario, but I bring it up because 
so many people mistake all other scenarios, that include extraterrestrials, as being the same. 
None of the other Ascension scenarios that include E.T.s as a part, give me the impression that 
they are going to save us from ourselves and release us from the obligation to resolve our 
conflicts. Yet, those that criticize the Ascension movement always use the notion of E.T.s 
coming to save us, as just a psychological affliction we have in order to avoid facing our
responsibilities. Nothing could be further from the truth and I want to make that clear. 
Helping us is one thing, supplying us with useful resources or rescuing us from dangerous 
situations is not the same as just taking over the situation and taking care of us. That's 
not what I want to happen, and few believe that is the way it should be. Help, yes. Take it 
out of our hands, no!
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Ashtar Command
According to the Eric Klein channellings, the Ashtar Command is 
a task force operating in the fifth dimension for a super-physical group of beings known as the 
Great White Brotherhood. Many members of the Great White Brotherhood have been incarnate on 
Earth as leaders, teachers and healers and are known amongst their peers by different names to 
those given on Earth. The Ashtar Command is currently employed to ascend the Earth, along with 
its people and other life-forms, by one known as Sananda. He is supreme commander of this 
particular ascension operation. Sananda lived on the Earth 2,000 years ago, when he was known 
as Jesus the Christ. The Command itself is 
headed by another being of comparable stature called Ashtar. He is a specialist on the ascension 
process and is working alongside Sananda as coordinator and technical adviser in the awesome 
process of ascending a planet and its population. 
Merkabah Members of the Ashtar Command will employ organic fifth dimensional 
bodies in the ascension process. These are described in the Keys of Enoch as Merkabah. 
The Merkabah can take a multiplicity of forms. Sometimes they appear as a halo - an aura or 
envelope of light -associated with a master. 144,000
 
The Ashtar Command have predicted that those who ascend in the first wave will be given the 
opportunity to return to the Earth in the ascended state, to awaken the rest of humanity to 
the ascension opportunity. The Keys of Enoch support this prediction by speaking of the sudden 
appearance of 144,000 Ascended Masters on the Earth, who will transform the world and push back 
the clouds of darkness and despair. The appearance of 144,000 masters is also predicted in the 
Native American prophecies. In April 1983, the Medicine Teacher, Harley Swiftdeer declared that, 
"144,000 Sun Dance enlightened teachers will totally awaken in their dream mindbodies. They will 
begin to meet in their own feathered serpent or winged serpent wheels(Merkabah) and become a 
major force of light to help the rest of humanity to dance their dream awake." This would also 
provide an explanation for the 144,000, spoken of in the Book of Revelation.Chapter 7, of 
Revelations, refers to an uncountable number from everynation clad in what John perceived to be 
white robes. This could have been his perception of the light bodies adorning the multitude, who 
follow in the wake of the 144,000, to rise in the second and third waves of ascension. John also 
said that these were the ones who had been cleansed by the time of great distress, a seven year 
period of great tribulation. This would correspond to the natural disasters that have been 
predicted as necessary in order for the Earth to cleanse herself of industrial civilisation and 
pollution prior to her own ascension. Preparing for ascension Ascension is the 
goal of all the self-transformation processing that humans beings undertake in physical life on 
Earth. It corresponds to the final resurrection from death which is an integral part of the 
belief structure of a number of World religions. Ascension would appear to be available to 
anyone who acknowledges and respects the Creator - who can be known only as love and life - 
and surrenders to this, which is their own innate reality.The suggested way to prepare for 
ascension is the practice 'inner quiet' for which the stilling of the mind by focussing on the 
breath, is strongly recommended. Sananda has outlined that either ascension, or physical 
evacuation, will occur for all innocents, children, and adults, of the right disposition, who 
will allow it to happen to them. He stressed that people do not have to be religious in order 
to ascend, but rather they need to be trusting, loving and fearless. The Klein tapes explain 
that when ascension occurs, it will be without warning. There will be the sudden appearance of 
an opening of light, which could occur in a sleeping or awakened state. In order to ascend, the 
individual has to simply step into the light.The preparation for ascension could occur through 
any spiritual, religious or self-transformational practices or just by living a good life. The 
channelled information emphasises that it is less important what a person believes than how they 
live and practice true values. They also make it clear that no religious group has a monopoly on 
truth. This is certainly the basis of a more rational and scientific approach to spiritual 
matters', which are blighted by religious intolerance and sectarianism. If ascension is viewed 
as an evolutionary step it would seem obvious that personal qualities rather than religious 
persuasions would establish the necessary criteria for this quantum leap. For this reason, all 
people are potential candidates for ascension but only those who have prepared themselves can 
take the leap.For thousands of years religions have promised a spiritual life after death to 
those who subscribe to their exclusive ideologies. Science, as a reaction to religion, has 
denied all things spiritual and any form of survival after death. Science needs to be rescued 
from scepticism as religion needs to be rescued from sectarianism. Ascension is based more on 
science than religion. It is a bio-physical process which offers a means to live without the 
threat of death or the need to become enslaved to religion in order to enjoy universal freedom. 
We all need a way of truth and knowledge which will rescue us from bondage to the physical plane 
of existence and the endless round of birth and death, suffering, ageing and disease. Ignoring 
fundamentalism in both science and religion, Science of the Vortex has endavoured to bring 
together the best elements of boththese traditions and point the way to life without death in 
the Universe to which we already belong.
 
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According to all the ascension predictions, 
we are coming to the end of a cycle. The Earth is destined to ascend but because we are 
destroying her, there cannot be any further delay in this next step of the planet's evolution. 
We have the choice to ascend with the Earth or remain behind in the physical Universe and 
continue in the cycle of birth and death on other planets. If we wish to ascend, we will be 
given three opportunities, described as the three waves of ascension. These, and the subsequent 
'cleansing of the planet' - prior to her ascension and recreation - will occur before the end 
of the year 2012. The first wave of ascension, anticipated to number in thousands, could occur 
in 1997. Other sources expect the first wave to coincide with the entry of the Solar system 
into a region of space described by some sources as a photon belt 
and in the Keys of Enoch as an electro-magnetic null zone. This phenomenon is predicted 
todisrupt the sun's radiation and the flow of electricity, causing first the appearance of a 
brilliant light and then several days of complete darkness. The second wave, anticipated to 
number in millions, should occur arelatively short time after the first wave and coincide with 
the initial phases of the predicted geophysical changes - triggered by astronomical anomalies. 
The third wave, expected at the turn of the Century by some and 2003 by others, will represent 
the final opportunity for people to awaken to the opportunity of ascension. This third wave will 
be accompanied by a physical evacuation of plants and animals, innocents and children and adults 
who are not ready to ascend but wish to leave the planet prior to the final cleansing which is 
essential to her own evolution.In the ascension tapes, Sananda presents himself as a human being 
who took the step of ascension at the end of his life on Earth. In so doing he paved the way for 
mass human ascension at this time. He said that his special task is to help us make the quantum 
leap into the fifth dimension and beyond. He assures us, from his own experience, that those who 
ascend will neither die or grow old, suffer disease or any of the other limitations that are so 
much a part of physical life on Earth. He has emphasised that ascension - normally a rare 
opportunity - is now available to every human being on the planet, regardless of colour, class 
or creed. It is a freegift available to anyone with a loving heart, free of fear and anger, who 
is willing to give it priority in their lives. Along with a sincere desire to ascend there needs 
to be a willingness to love oneself and others unconditionally, with an attitude of detachment 
from things of this world.  There should also be an appreciation and respect for the Creator, - 
regardless of what the Creator is perceived to be.
Sometimes they occur as a column or pyramid of 
light. Often they aredescribed as the spiritual body or the light body. The Merkabah is the body 
employed by a being in the fifth quantum reality in the same way that a physical body is employed 
by a being in the physical Universe, but at the same time, it coordinates the overself with the 
human body. It is the embodiment of the higher self of each human being, in the fifth dimension 
or fifth quantum reality. The Merkabah is also an interdimensional craft that gives the ascended 
being unlimited freedom throughout the Universe.
For this reason, in the Keys of Enoch, it is 
called the 'vehicle ofvehicles'. The Merkabah vehicle is especially important for travel between 
the various dimensions of light because it can project itself from one life system or galaxy to 
the life system or galaxy of another universe by travelling in and out of physical space and time. 
It can do this because it has the ability to go faster than the speed of our common light.
A Merkabah vehicle was the chariot of fire which carried away Elijah. A Merkabah vehicle was 
seen by Isaiah and witnessed by Ezekiel 
as 'wheels within wheels'.  It was a Merkabah, hidden by a lenticular cloud, that carried 
Jesus Christ to heaven on his Ascension and it is a fleet of Merkabah vehicles that will lift 
humanity out of physical space and time in the three waves of ascension. The 'ships' of the 
Ashtar Command are not space-ships as we would imagine them to be. Terms such as 'ship' and 
'command' are metaphors chosen for 20th Century communications just as 'chariots of fire' and 
'winged angels' were used in bygone ages. Much as your physical body would appear as an 
enormous biosatellite to a microbe so, as a fifth dimensional body, a Merkabah would appear to 
you as a biosatellite extending for miles in every direction and just as our bodies provide 
conducive environments for microorganisms, so the Merkabah can contain an internal atmospheres 
modified to suit its occupants, along with entire ecosystems and oceans, lakes and mountains and 
simulated night and day. They incorporate a sophisticated, living technology, far in advance of 
anything that even modern man can comprehend and they are not harsh or metallic but are organic, 
lush and verdant. The Merkabah manifest in the physical Universe, in order to evacuate and 
accommodate individuals and plant and animal species during the collapse of a planetary 
ecosystem. Millions of Merkabah vehicles are poised to descend and materialise in physical space 
and time, to evacuate the Earth at the time of the third wave of ascension. Physical evacuation 
will be offered to those wishing to avoid destruction, as the Earth enters the final phase of 
her transition into the ascended state. Before this physical evacuation, those who are prepared 
to ascend will be beamed into the Merkabah by a teleportation process, described in the Keys of 
Enoch as transvirulence and in Science of the --ds as transubstantiation. Each individual will 
vanish out of physical space and time as they step into the opening of light at the end of a 
teleportation beam. On entering the beam they will be teleported into the 'heavenly' fifth 
dimension. Occurring in any one of three waves, the second aspect of the ascension will be the 
transmutation of the physical body into a fifth imensional, ascended body. It is this fifth 
dimensional, light or diamond body that is ever youthful and subject to neither death nor 
disease - and each person, who achieves this state, will also come into possession of a Merkabah 
vehicle, to accommodate them in the fifth dimension.
More on Ascension...
 Norwegian translation of the above text
 What is ascension by Sandy Stevenson
 The Nine Insights of The Celestine Prophesy
 Artikkel fra Alternativt Nettverk [Side1&2] [Side 3&4]
 Opstandelse ved Asger Lorentsen
 Ascension Science (various authors)
 Ascension Guidelines by Celeste and Jananda Korsholm
 What is ascension? by Sandy Stevenson.
 Ascension Articles (World Light Center Home Page)
 The Flower of Life: Planetary Transformation
 Teachings of the Ascended Masters (The Summit Lighthouse)
 On-Line Book - Ascension and the Journey Home
 Insight Metaphysical Bookstore - Ascension