I used to believe, and do, the following statement without realising how it’s a very conditioned way of thinking, and how it’s actually hurting me, and others. I recently heard this being said too, and decided to share what is true ascension.
The statement: “We must rise above the suffering, so we can raise the vibration of humanity.”
I’m using these words, because today we see suffering on our phone screens on a daily basis.
The genocide in Gaza, in Congo, in Syria, wars and bombs and people being slaughtered. All of this being broadcasted by the very people going through the suffering. Parents, families, children… People like you and I.
Let me explain the problem with saying and believing “we must rise above the suffering”, without going the other way too…
It’s a conditioned / colonised way of thinking very ingrained within us, to separate us from reality (ie. rise above), and remove ourselves from the human thread (each other).
The other very deep ingrained conditioning here (that sits deep within the subconscious, so it’s sometimes hard to grasp this, or see this, within yourself), of ‘being higher’, ‘better’, ‘above’ others.
The colonised (or conditioned) mind is believing we are separate from each other, the earth, and our natural innate gifts and wisdom (also ancestral wisdom), and that some are better than others.
I say this with a deep knowing of personal experience, because this used to be me!
To ‘rise above’ is not how ascension works…
What is true ascension?
True ascension moves downwards and inwards, into the dark, the suffering, the shadows, from which it is then being reborn into higher wisdom and enlightenment.
It all begins in the darkness,
not within the light.
The soft womb, the mineral depths of the earth, the beauty of egg, the alchemy of cocoon
& the quiet of winter.
Animals, plants, trees & people need silence, alone time & darkness to form, shape & know their very essence.
Tasting & feeling their own becoming, before unfurling into the light. – Brigit Anna McNeill
This process continue to happen all your life, and that’s why the suffering in the world today is a litmus test for all of us.
It’s a time to decide where you are in the creation of a new free world.
We can’t rise above, if we don’t descend into the suffering first.
We have to go to where it is pointing us within ourselves, and see where and how we are conditioned / colonised and separated from humanity, each other, the earth, our true innate gifts, our ancestral wisdom, and our medicine for the world.
From this deep shadow alchemy we ascend into higher wisdom, and this is the only pathway towards enlightenment.
It’s spiritual bypassing if you ignore what’s going on in the world now and ‘just rise above it’.
And spiritual bypassing is another conditioning we are very ingrained with today, sometimes so subconsciously that we truly don’t realise we are doing it.
A sure way around this is to immerse yourself in your humanness, to open your heart and mind to what’s truly going on, to allow it to awaken you, even break your heart.
This process of truly seeing your own deep conditioning when faced with the horrors of the real world opens up a doorway into being a healer and visionary of the new paradigm – those rooted in their deep wisdom, connected to themselves, each other, their lineage, the earth and her medicine, and the Divine.
What is this time we’re in wanting to show you about yourself? Be brutally honest!
My work centres around awakening to our true innate gifts as we journey with the alchemy of shadow work, Gene Keys, the medicine of the Rose, and meditation. You can learn more below.