Sometimes it just drives me crazy how convoluted politically correct beliefs are about the Ascension process. Consider these few examples. It is politically correct to assume that Gaia’s Ascension is in the bag. That it has already happened in the upper astral levels and only needs to act itself out in physical 3D. It is convenient to ignore the fact that negative events such as World War III and a polar shift have also existed in the higher levels and it was assumed they were inevitable.
I guess what I’m trying to say is that it doesn’t really matter what is scheduled to happen within the higher planes of the astral because they can be modified, altered or destroyed by what happens at the lower astral planes! Those of us within physical bodies actively worked within the lower astral levels to prevent global disasters and warfare. We have been highly successful in altering what was scheduled and believed to be inevitable. The point of power lies within the lower astral planes as it must at the beginning of any great cycle. But people refuse to believe this simple fact!
They continue to believe that they can create a future world within the higher levels, the mental levels or even the heart levels and it will manifest in physical 3D. The truth is that anything created at the spiritual level, at the mental level, or even at the heart level is quite vulnerable and may quite well be modified, altered, or destroyed by interference at the lowest astral plane. It doesn’t matter if it’s the good guys or the bad guys! They all believe their higher-level creations can succeed and physically manifest. They are all living in their heads and have no earth connection.
I would like to provide a counter viewpoint that clarifies this misconception. The future of Gaia and the New World lies with those lifeforms that can manipulate the lower astral levels with full consciousness. Most humans do not function consciously at the lowest levels! The simple truth is that all life forms including animals, reptiles, birds, and plants now have an equal say in Gaia’s future! The only requirement to be a creator is the ability to function consciously at the lowest levels and this will continue for the next 2000 years. Humanity no longer has an advantage over other lifeforms!
Don’t get me wrong, humans that have integrated the lower levels and the higher levels will be able to create with guidance from the higher levels and follow their creations down through all of the lower levels. This is a very empowered thing to do and represents the true magic that is now blossoming fourth upon Gaia in all locations. This ability to magically create has been earned by those older souls that have now graduated from the old cycle. These old souls have integrated their own shadow aspects and purified their lower natures from all self-destructive and toxic energies.
The ability to consciously work with sexual orgasm energy and rupture the lowest astral level is the strongest and most powerful creative magic that is now possible in this newly created world! These abilities are the new way of reality creation! I don’t care if this is politically incorrect! It needs to be said! Any other forms of astral creation will be circumvented and not as effective.
It’s time to realize that brains and heart don’t count unless they are integrated and anchored at the lowest levels, especially at the beginning of the great cycle! All integrated lifeforms, no matter what their level of ascension, or level of personal awareness, will outperform those lifeforms or beings that have not been able to integrate and assimilate their own shadow nature and self-destructive impulses.
This is why I believe that Tantric practices must be clearly understood and adapted to modern understanding so that people know how to creatively work at the lower levels of astral planes and how to develop their souls. The integration of the lower levels with the highest levels is the greatest work that can be done at this time.
One final thought about the elasticity of the astral planes. The astral planes resist change and will only form new patterns when they are forced to. For most people, the patterns that exist within the astral planes are not in their benefit or to their advantage. These patterns will not change until they are forced to change! Old eon dynamics resist any attempt at alteration. New patterns must be creatively and forcefully put into place before anything new can happen at the physical level. This requires massive amounts of personally generated energy! The powers that were have tried very hard to ensure that individuals are complacent and as passive as possible. Self initiative and self empowerment have not been encouraged. This has to change!
Anarchistbanjo's World 
People who speak of ascension do so as though they know what it is, as if gazing across a bridge puts them on the other side of it.
But even as I say this, I know a part of us knows it, we are just so estranged y our perceptions and accompanying limiting beliefs.
The ancients have always thus said it’s already here, we simply become aware of it.
But we are focused in time for a reason, so to know this realized state already there, it becomes an act of awareness, no? Away from what physical perception tell us about time exists the quintessence.
We speak of ascension like it’s a destination, just like enlightenment. But at each summit in realization, there is always a higher one. Mapped out by travelers of inner space, these are chopped, sliced and diced, neatly divided, but the self most able to face it knows it is a never ending spiral, a spiraling circle without end. Shakti and Shiva as earth-born gods and goddesses, but there are still more expansive states where those who created the bedrock of our reality here exist. Beyond them exist still deeper souls who birthed the Creators of this world, and on and on. And it does go on and on, their realities reflecting those states of soul and self as they spiral ever outward.
What then do we really know?