By Gonny 
A gentle invitation to come home, not to escape.
Many people still think that ascension means floating away from this world. As if the goal were to disappear, become light, leave the Earth behind, and reach something “higher.”
But what if it’s actually the other way around?
The truth is, many souls are still not fully anchored in their physical bodies. They experience spirituality by, consciously or unconsciously, detaching from the body. And yes — many spiritual traditions and workshops still promote that idea: “go higher,” “leave the earthly behind,” “transcend the physical.”
But true ascension begins with descent. It asks us to come home to the body so that the higher frequencies of your Soul can be activated — right down into your cells. If you keep floating, that activation simply can’t happen. The body then remains a kind of storage room filled with density, blockages, pain, and empty spaces.
It’s only when the soul truly comes in that fulfillment begins. Then you become filled with yourSelf — with a capital S. And it feels like a warm homecoming. The frequency of your own soul is profoundly pleasant, soft, and loving in the physical body. A very different experience than the pain or heaviness you may have known before.
And it doesn’t stop there. The embodiment of your Soul — your Higher Self — is the next step. It brings deep bliss, quiet joy, and a felt sense of love… yes, even in your pinky toe.
Some go even further: multidimensional aspects of the Self begin to integrate into the body. Or the body itself starts to rise in vibration as it takes on crystalline consciousness, also known as Christ Consciousness. This may be the highest step a physical human can make — and then, full ascension can begin.
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What ascension is not:
• Denying or escaping the body
• Detaching from the body in the name of “spirituality”
• Talking about holiness without embodying it
• Reading books and watching videos about ascension without real inner change
• Channeling higher realms while ignoring your own felt presence
• Seeking out-of-body experiences (OBEs) to avoid the here and now
• Collecting spiritual workshops like stamps for the ego
We can keep ourselves busy for a long time with the idea that we’ve already arrived. But true ascension is both simple and radically honest: your Soul must truly want to live in your body. And space must be made for the higher frequencies. Your DNA needs to open; your cells must be allowed to vibrate with joy. And that… can only happen when you allow it. Fully. In every fiber of your being. Yes — even your knees, your belly, and your toes.
Have you not yet felt that homecoming in your body? Do you not yet sense your Higher Self rejoicing through your cells? Then you are still on your way — and that’s perfectly okay. But don’t let it stay a theory. You can talk about ascension until the stars fall from the sky, but if you haven’t truly descended and done your inner work there, your words will remain like balloons with no air.
Ascension is not rising out of the body.
It is embracing the body from within.
It is transforming the stage of separation
into the home of your Soul.
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Reflections in the Light of A Course in Miracles
The Course offers a unique perspective on what it means to awaken. Ascension, in the Course’s terms, is not a physical event, but a correction in the mind. And that correction brings us back to one central memory:
“I am still as God created me.”
As one of its most well-known lessons puts it:
“I am not a body. I am free. For I am still as God created me.”
(Lesson 199 and many others)
This doesn’t mean we should ignore or reject the body. On the contrary — it means the body is no longer a goal in itself, but a means for communication. The body becomes an instrument for forgiveness, connection, and love — as long as we no longer identify with it.
As the Course so beautifully puts it:
“The body is the means by which God’s Son returns to sanity.”
This aligns seamlessly with the earlier part of this article: when we allow the Soul to fully enter the body, we make the body available for miracles — for the shift in perception. This is not a dualistic either/or, but a loving both/and:
I am not the body, but I can use the body to remember Love.
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“You are Light, or darkness. You cannot be both.”
(T-6.V.1)
This sentence invites us to choose: do we continue believing we are separate bodies, or do we remember that we are Light? The integration of higher frequencies, as described earlier, reflects that very choice. Not as a magical event, but as a clear inner decision:
I want to see the truth.
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And then there’s the Happy Dream — a gentle transition
The happy dream is the transitional state in which the body is still seen, but no longer judged. We now follow the Holy Spirit instead of the ego. We begin to experience what it’s like to be led by the Higher Self, while still appearing to be in this world.
“There is a way of living in the world that is not here, although it seems to be.”
(Lesson 155.1)
It’s within this happy dream that true “embodiment” happens — not as the end goal, but as a kind and spacious bridge toward full awakening.
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So… what does ascension really mean?
From the perspective of A Course in Miracles, ascension is not rising in form — but waking from the illusion of form. And yet, we are invited to embrace the body as the very place where that remembrance is expressed.
Ascension means:
– Coming home to your Self
– Practicing forgiveness until only love remains
– Using the body to extend love
– Shifting your identification from form to essence
Or, as the Course so poetically reminds us:
“The body is a beautiful lesson in communion, until communion is.”
With love and light,
G.