Becoing an Ascended Master: An Eternal Student of Life

On the spiritual path, what is the true measure of mastery? You may have journeyed plenty, you may have touched deep presence and be able to open into multidimensionality. However, this doesn't necessarily equate to being a master of the Shift itself, that which is moving everything into the Universal Torus of Life. For this, we must understand and master the process of Ascension itself. What is involved them, in becoming a, so called, Ascended Master?

The Eternal Student

When you reach a certain point on the path, where you're truly tuned into the quantum field and its magnificent flow, then you'll come to realise three interconnected fundamental truths: 1) no two moments are ever the same; 2) each situation has unique challenges and opportunities; 3) the soul is invited to find the highest expression in each circumstance and situation.

What this means is that you can never guarantee mastery in any given moment. Because you're being invited to search for, and find, a new expression of self. The good thing is it will always be based on a previous version of you. The great risk of embracing the term "master" is to breed complacency, and the likelihood that you won't deliver of your best. So the key is to always keep innovating, and working to improve on previous iterations of self.

To me, true mastery then, is to realise yourself as the eternal student. When you sit with this it helps one's life and one's journey in profound ways. First, there can be more relaxation in life itself - there is no perfection to be attained. Most importantly it means that in any given situation, you can win. Because you'll find that as you orientate yourself toward the highest expression of you that you can be, it's going to feel marvelous because the Universe will click in around you and reflect that back to you in all that you do.

Why so?

Because there's nothing else that's real, which is truly going on. The Universe is working tirelessly to actualise itself in the next grandest version. And you are that.

This then, is an important aspect of the state of what we might call, an Ascended Master - you recognise, and embrace, the process of life as an eternal student - constantly growing and evolving with the Shift itself.

Never Perfect!

This in itself is highly advanced. But it retains the humility to accept that 1) you're never perfect; 2) you're still fallible in any given situation; 3) to keep striving for the next best version of you. To me, this is the true form of mastery, and is the measure of an Ascended Master.

I like to think I can follow signs, synchronicity and flows in the quantum field pretty well. I've gotten through some big challenges and major scrapes here in the Shift.  Yet still, I find myself in challenging circumstances where I don't always know which was is up - like getting stranded in places with no immediate way forwards. The true measure of mastery in these circumstances is to always recognise the process, the purpose and the learning opportunity. Then to open out through the moment - which always furnishes a pathway and a possibility.

In adapting this kind of approach, you always end up growing, learning and evolving. You've embraced life as a process itself.

What are the Qualities of the Eternal Student?

I would say that when you're able to master life as a process, and are always consciously working in that way, this is the 'benchline' for the status of "Ascended Master" - working consciously within the Shift itself.

So what other qualities are important to embody?

It's being prepared to stop, open, tune in and feel. 
It's having the courage to follow the soul and go with the flow. 
It's recognising that each moment will have a teaching in it: 
Where do you get tight? How might you open up through it? 
Now, what's the next highest version of you, the next harmony wanting to express?

Ascended Master: Escaping the Wheel of Karma

What does happen if you follow this path of the eternal student, is that at some point, you escape the cycle of death and rebirth - you escape the wheel of karma. At this point, your incarnations become conscious - you consciously choose the nature of them, and there's no forgetting who you are, particularly your connection to the Source, which is then always your orientation in life.

So yes, at this point, you could say Ascension has been mastered. Perhaps then, the term "Ascended Master" does have some value to it, although as previously expressed here, that doesn't mean the learning ceases - it continues on from there.

I see that many more people have the capacity to escape the cycle of unconscious rebirthing within the current Shift, particularly because it's going to get so intense, and hence the learning capacity enormous. There are, therefore, great possibilities to be attained from the challenges. Pray not for a easy times, but the courage and commitment to endure the hard ones. And then all will pay off bountiful dividends!

To conclude, and as inspiration, I felt to share this video here about my own connection and understanding of the Group of 9 Ascended Masters...

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