Through our work in helping people with their spiritual unfoldings, we observe that there are 5 key expansions of consciousness - through internal gateways - leading to our ultimate ascension. This is very much inline with many spiritual teachings and practices.
They are as follows:
Gateway 1 ‘Awakening’ - we awaken for the first time to the presence of the soul and its quiet inner voice
Gateway 2 ‘Baptism’ - the personality surrenders to the governance of the soul
Gateway 3 ‘Transfiguration’ - the soul infuses completely within the personality and the seer is partially liberated
Gateway 4 ‘Crucifixion & Enlightenment’ - the Seer is fully liberated from within our being
Gateway 5 ‘Resurrection & Ascension’ - all remaining conditioned behaviours are dissolved to allow full unbridled radiance of the seer expressed through the soul
Once we have been resurrected, which means to have fully cleansed the bodymind to be the prefect, undistorted means of expression for the soul, then the pathway is open for us to continually raise our vibration until at the time we leave the body, there is no longer any need for us to return to this lower plane of consciousness.
- Chris Bourne, Open Hand Foundation
www.openhandweb.org