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It was exactly 3 years ago that I first came into contact with an article from the Spiritual School of Ascension and it quickly dissolved all interest in other perspectives. The SSoA provided a huge amount of valuable and practical information that I could apply in my everyday life. The biological aspects were mind-boggling at first, but I started to incorporate the possibility to change biologically due to this ascension process.
After three years, however, I have come to the point that I believe that there are some cracks to be found in the paradigm, just like in any paradigm. This doesn't mean that the complete perspective is worthless, it only means that some elements don't resonate with me any longer. As you can read in Repetitions and Archetypal Blindness I have come to the point that I get a bit bored and slightly annoyed at the articles as they are written from February 2006 onwards. This was an early sign that some change was about to take place. There was something missing.
During my SSOA-years I removed the older part of my website (see Obsolete Articles) that contained a wild bunch of channeled articles from all kinds of people. I decided they were too 'electrical' to be combined with the magnetism of the SSoA-articles. I even pendulumed that I was losing chi because of a few books that hold a Pleiadean (electrical) signature. I was about to throw these books away a couple of times (see Removing Books, Defusing Electrical Data and Rethinking Marciniak's Pleiadeans). I hardly read any books during these years, for I sensed that they were simply too distracting or perhaps even too distorted or inferior when compared to the perspective of the SSoA. There was far enough to be read on the SSoA-pages and there was a lot of work to be done to get and keep my own ascension process on track.
Like I said, a few cracks appeared in the SSOA-paradigm which led to a an ever increasing doubt on certain elements of the perspective. Together with Ken and Monique we started to work out a few of these elements, of which the statement that 'fractured magnetics = electrical' was a key concept (see Principles of Magnetism and Electricity), but also many other concepts were no longer carved in stone (see My Body Speaks and On DNA and Distortion for a few examples).
When you deviate more and more from a certain perspective, changes are that you bump into other perspectives which resonate with some of these 'deviating' points of view. I guess this is almost inevitable. It was Monique who first got into contact with a certain perspective that was built on the perspective of Robert A. Monroe. Even though I didn't feel like opening up to another perspective, I couldn't ignore the fact that Robert Monroe was my big example for at least ten years in my life. Could it be that his perspective would turn out to still be valuable, even after the ascension concept had set in?
It took me a few weeks to open up to his perspective again, but I think it adds valuable information to the whole. If you are not familiar with Robert Monroe you can either read his trilogy (I recommend starting off with his second book: Far Journeys (1985)), or you can just keep on reading the explorations and turtles on this site, for I intend to use concepts of his perspective to gain a better understanding of the interaction between the physical world and the astral world, together with worlds beyond that.
Besides Monroe's perspective some other perspectives can surface, when it seems appropriate. I do intend to be very selective in the perspectives I want to adopt and use for these explorations into these realms in order to understand more of our current genetic-, astral- and levels of consciousness dance. If you feel uncomfortable with any explorations beyond the SSoA I guess it is time for us to say goodbye and perhaps we'll meet again some time in the future.
Gibbon,
May 2006