PLANETARY ASCENSION: THE NEW JUDGMENT DAY

In recent years I have been encountering the idea quite regularly that this reality is going to split into two, and take those of a higher vibration off to wherever those with a higher vibration go to, and leave behind the lower vibration and its troubles. It gets called 'Planetary Ascension'. I encounter it amongst Shamanic people - which is why I am commenting - and it is often channelled, which is intended to add veracity to the claim.

I think it needs to be treated as a story, as does just about everything, including science, rather than literal fact. Spirit speaks in stories. I also think that channelled information needs an extra dose of discernment in how we treat it. Yes, it can have a lot of power, and you can feel it when it does, and it needs to be taken seriously when that power is there; but its mouthpiece is a limited human being, and some of the stuff people come out with is just bollocks, and sometimes they are otherwise gifted and experienced people that others look up to coming out with the bollocks. So we need to feel our way into this stuff. As I say, feel the power when it is there, but put big inverted commas around the words, even if the person doing the channelling isn't.

I also think there is an element of groupthink around it. Planetary Ascension gets presented as a fact which one is supposed to be sensitive enough to perceive, and one can feel like a party-pooper for questioning it, not that I usually let that stop me.

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And then there is the mythology around it. I cannot see the difference between the idea of Planetary Ascension and Judgment Day, when all the good guys finally go to heaven and the bad guys are cast into hell. Humanity's myths are perennial, they keep returning in new forms - think of Evolution and the medieval Great Chain of Being, one is an inversion of the other. In promoting Planetary Ascension, one is unconsciously revisiting that crude myth of the Last Judgment. I think PA merits some psychological exploration in this sort of way.

PA is a myth that is fired by hubris and escapism, but presenting itself as redemptive. The hubris is that we 'spiritual' people are an elect, a different species to the point that we deserve a whole different world. And it is escapist: the world, as usual, is going through a troubled time, and when those troubles reach what seems to be a crisis, people start coming out with redemptive myths and prophecies. PA is a prophecy, and most prophecies do not come true, if you examine the evidence.

And most importantly, our purpose here is to be part of humanity and its tribulations, to be deeply engaged with whatever it is that is happening. Because whatever is happening is also part of who we are, and we need to sense the mysterious workings of Spirit within that too. And that engagement may not be obvious, we may be a hermit who prays, but are nonetheless engaged for that, maybe even more so. We are one people, we are not composed of the damned and the elect. The whole point of Shamanism as a corrective to institutional Christianity is that sacredness exists everywhere, rather than in some higher dimension to which the privileged few have access.

I like to try to be nuanced and to see both sides of a matter. But when it comes to Planetary Ascension, I find it hard to do so. It is a bad story in so many ways, it is a denial of so much of what Shamanism is about. In my opinion. And I've done my best to be polite about it 🤣