The Ascension Papers
Book 1
Chapter 8. What is Truth?
“You are eternal and immortal.”
Z: 8, I have to say that this is one of the most beautiful things I have heard. It feels right and true for me and it makes me very happy to think that it might be so.
8: I really want you to understand that death is nothing more than a profound change of state. And change is life. Life is change. Resisting change is death. And so a rather curious dichotomy is set up. Those who fear death to the extent that this fear begins to consume them, try to resist death. They try to cease the flow of change. And ironically, all they do is cease the flow of life. They in fact bring death upon themselves even whilst they still live! This causes all kinds of inner-torment and brings about illnesses of the psyche and the spirit which will also manifest as illness of the body. Can you see the irony? Fearing death will cause disease that brings death closer!
So it is most beneficial for you to understand death correctly so that you no longer fear it.
The next step is to embrace life and embrace change and then, soon enough, you will be able to leave the experience of death behind altogether. And this is quite central to the notion of ascension. Ascended beings transcend the notion of death. They remain in life forever more.
Z: Okay. Thanks 8. I must say it’s already pretty mind blowing for me to hear that I am immortal on a soul-level, but the added fact that I have died before in this lifetime and each time chosen to return, well that’s a lot to take in. But through our discussion here I really am coming to see how death might not be this bleak, scary thing.
8: No, it really isn’t. Death is actually just a portal from your current reality to another reality. Nothing more. And it is not even a one-way door. And, on top of that, you are in control of how you use that door, even if you are not now aware of this.
Now we can move on to the next derived truth which we have just touched upon. It is this:
“Change is the only constant.”
Z: I’ve often heard that said. And it does seem true to me. I mean everything does eventually change. But could you first tell me how this is derived from the first absolute truth?
8: I implied this in our discussion about death, but let me reiterate. Do you understand that anything that is still, unmoving and unchanging is dead? Anything, if it does not change at all, if it ceases to move, then it has ceased to live. It is dead. And, as nothing ever dies, it follows that nothing ever ceases to move and to change.
Z: Nothing ever dies?
8: You have already forgotten the first part of the conversation. We’ve just been through that. Remember – the ONE is?
Z: Oh yes, sorry 8. I do remember. The ONE is, and cannot be divided, and that means all parts of the ONE must continue to exist. Nothing dies, nothing is destroyed. And now you are saying that “nothing dies” equals “everything changes”.
8: Yes
Z: But 8, lots of stuff doesn’t change. And lots of stuff is dead. 8: Such as?
Z: Oh come on, 8, surely you jest with me. Take a brick in the walls of a house. It’s pretty dead and it certainly doesn’t look to be doing much changing!
8: Wrong. The brick lives. Only in a way that you are not able to understand. It is a part of a living system that you haven’t the ability yet to perceive. Let me ask you, are the bones in your body alive?
Z: Err… yes. They are a living organ kind-of-thing, I think. They grow and change over time.
8: But you cannot talk to them. You cannot see them eating food. They have no central nervous system. They don’t seem to be intelligent. And yet you are happy to ascribe to them the term, “alive”. What if I tell you that, just as a bone or a blood cell is alive in its own right, so is the brick that you so disparage. And just as a bone or a blood cell is an essential part of a much larger living entity, so is that brick. The brick itself is in a constant state of flux, always changing. On a sub-atomic level there is constant change at a very high rate and on the macro level there is constant change at a somewhat slower rate. If you want to see such change, go and look at a house which, for a few centuries, has had no maintenance or upkeep. That whole house will slowly return to the Earth; the bricks crumbling and changing and becoming a part of the Earth. You see, it is the arrogance of humanity that you believe you can determine what is “life” and “not life” by arbitrary parameters that you can measure… and tellingly, by their similarity to your own state. How would you like it if I said that you are not really a life form because your life-span is too short to be meaningful? Such might be the view of a galaxy, should it hold the same arrogance as humans do. Well it’s time to release that arrogance. It’s time to understand that everything is life. Everything is, in one way or another, of consciousness. And then you can come to the understanding that nothing dies and everything changes. These two ideas are actually the same idea when you get right down to it. Change is life. Stasis is death. But nothing is actually ever truly static. Nowhere does anything ever cease all movement. Everywhere, beings and things are in a constant process of motion and change.
Change is an absolute constant. And it is the only absolute constant.
Z: All right 8. Let me work through this from the top: there is not a single thing that I could point to or name that is not a part of the ONE. 8: Right.
Z: And no part of the ONE is dead or static. All parts of the ONE are alive and changing.
8: Yes. They might not have the narrow attributes which your science calls “life”, but they are most certainly alive.
Z: But then, what is life? If it is not the “narrow attributes” science has given it, then what is it?
8: Growth. Change. Evolution. Becoming. Consciousness. These are some of the attributes of life. But what it actually is? That is a very large and very complex question. Look around you. Look at your planet. If you have seen every single thing that has ever happened on your planet since its creation until its end, then you will have a small part of the picture. Then go and do the same for every planet and every star in the universe. Slowly you will get a bigger and bigger part of the picture. When you have seen everything, everywhere in All That Is, then you will begin to hold within yourself the answer to the question, “What is life?”
Life is a mystery. It is beyond comprehension. It is beautiful and magnificent and unending. Life is.
Z: I don’t often get to see this more poetic side to your soul, 8.
8: You know, my dear young friend, the more you try to simplify things, the more you see their complexity. And when you are ready to give yourself over to infinite complexity, then suddenly there is pure simplicity. This is my experience. Life will break your heart with its unendurable beauty. And, with a broken heart, you will call for more and more and more life.
Life is a wonder.
And assuredly, your dour old friend 8 is very much in love with life. Z: My goodness, 8, that is a beautiful thing to say!
8: Thank you. Life itself is my inspiration and life itself is beautiful. But you see, because life is infinite and constantly changing, it is a logical certainty that it will remain beyond definition. And that is why, sadly, your attempts at using the scientific method to define what life is, will always fall short. You cannot know life with your mind. You can only know it with your heart. And that is why, when you ask me what life is, you hear me speaking of love and beauty and such matters of the heart.
Z: That makes perfect sense to me, 8, and I really enjoyed that description. 8: That is good. Then let us move onto the next derived truth, shall we?
Z: Great. What is it?
8: It is this:
“What you put out is what you get back.”
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