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THE SSOA EPISODE
During the period 2003-2008 I was quite into the Ascension Paradigm as presented by the Spiritual School of Ascension. I have experimented heavily with their thought-forms and their reality perspective in order to experience for myself the value of it. 

During those years I slowly started to grow more critical towards their perspective. In 2009 ('Removing the New Organ Ascension Thoughtforms') I finally made the decision to no longer accept their reality-perspective regarding biological ascension - which is a key-element in their paradigm - as a valid part of my 'working hypothesis' towards reality.

The fact that Oa is suffering from health problems and Mila (I am from the Mila-era and prefer to use that name instead of Lilliya) is writing about problems with her sight are signs for me that there is indeed something lacking in their perspective. Of course there are still many, many elements that still remain valuable and inspiring. 

ANASTASIA
The last couple of months I have started to read the material of the Siberian Anastasia written down by Vladimir Megré (see for instance the article on the Possible Return of Egregor-energy). This young woman lives in the Siberian Taiga, on a particular field, without a house, mostly without other people (except her son). She is so in alignment with nature and Earth that she is capable of accessing information just by tuning into it. 

The information she receives can be read in her 'Ringing Cedars'-series (now consisting of nine books) and they have proven to be inspiring for me, although in a different way than Mila's material. Apparently I seem to have something with women as far as inspiration is concerned! The combination of their perspectives together with my own contribution could make an interesting mix for further understanding and research into the ways of the universe (smile).

MOVING AWAY AND MOVING TOWARDS

Before I go on I would like to state that I am presenting my way that I deal with both the SSOA and Anastasia material (amongst others). I do not all of a sudden represent the Anastasia perspective. I might also interpret their paradigm in a way that is different than hers.

Anastasia has spoken about creation. See for instance the article on the Fall in Consciousness due to Becoming Too Detailed. She said that the people on Earth are special in the sense that they were created in such a way that they would hold the ability to balance the two main forces in nature. I use the terms that I have across in reading a book of Benjamin Adamah (Dutch) which are useful in getting a better understanding of these two forces.
These two forces are described by Adamah as Epistrophe and Proodos. Proodos stands for the power that wants to create, explore and move away from the source (or creator), whereas Epistrophe stands for the power that wants to unite, remember and move back towards the source or creator. In SSoA-terms you could talk about the desire to explore and the desire to ascend. The Proodos-element (moving away)  - within this mode of thinking - is the force behind creation; without it the Tao/God would not have had the desire to create anything. It's like the breathing out of creation.

The Epistrophe-force is the healing force that wants to return back to where it came from. It is the force behind the concept of ascension: it is the desire to remember who we are, thereby increasing our over-all awareness. 
  
As you can guess, the Proodos-force has gone a bit out of hand in our reality and we need all the Epistrophe (moving-towards) force that we can muster.


LESS TRANSFORMATION
One of the breakthroughs for me was the realization that we as human beings would indeed be functioning optimally if we were to balance both these forces within ourselves.

The continued focus on transformation of the 'dark' within the ascension paradigm might have the negative side-effect that you are trying to transform something that might not need to be transformed at all.

Perhaps we are not meant to transform all our darknesses and ascend out of them. Perhaps that leads to so much struggle because certain tendencies that we judge as dark might simply be a part of the game.

If we truly are special beings that are capable of balancing these huge forces of moving away (proodos) and moving towards (epistrophe) then that is what we should train and develop. If we sometimes get 'bad' ideas about having (perhaps even strange) sex with someone while we are in a relationship, or if we feel powerful over other people or any other thought that is not high vibrational or spiritually uplifting, we might do better to not feel guilty, but to accept that this simply part of our being on this planet.

Imagine that we play out the same dynamics as in the universe at large: then it is really quite an achievement to be able to recognize both forces, accept them both and consciously decide for yourself which thoughts you would prefer to fuel and which not, knowing that both forces will continue to exist within you. We might be living out the universal proodos/epistrophe-game every single day of our lives, as if we are deemed able to balance these forces.

WHAT ABOUT GROWTH? 
But if ascending would not so much imply the transformation of lower-vibratory thoughtform, but more the acceptance of them, how could we ever grow in awareness? How could we continue to raise our vibration? Now that is a nice question to ponder about, isn't it? Please share your thoughts through email or by posting a comment below.
 
Illustrations taken from resp. Ascendpress, The Ringing Cedars and MyArtSpace