The term ascension usually finds its usage in religious connotations. What does this term mean to me? Simply put ~ it means a change in mind! That significant shift in consciousness when the life force we believed in (the mind of man) is left behind (ego bound) and the Mind of God Is remembered as all there Is. The redemption of Christ Consciousness whereby the memory of Heaven is once again present, which had been dissociated when the experience of time seemed to begin, and seems to continue.

      It requires nothing to accomplish this ascension except the willingness to accept God's gift to His Son ~ Unconditional Love as it Is for ever in eternity; awaiting the awakening of Christ's sleep of forgetfulness. A waking from the dream and resumption of rightful thought in our true identity as Spirit.

      Ascension from the dualistic illusion of mankind and the physical world to our true reality as Spirit requires trading perception for knowledge. Special love will be replaced by love; dualism replaced with the unity of oneness; and the continuing remembrance of the Source of all Life ~ God, will be the one thought in the one Mind.

      In A Course in Miracles ascension is accomplished through Atonement. This is the Holy Spirit's plan of correction to undue the ego and heal the belief in separation. Essentially it is the unlearning of our belief in the physical world as our reality.

1 ¹ It is impossible not to believe what you see, but it is equally impossible to see what you do not believe. ² Perceptions are built up on the basis of experience, and experience leads to beliefs. ³ It is not until beliefs are fixed that perceptions stabilize. ⁴ In effect, then, what you believe you do see. ⁵ That is what I meant when I said, "Blessed are ye who have not seen and still believe," for those who believe in the resurrection will see it. ⁶ The resurrection is the complete triumph of Christ over the ego, not by attack but by transcendence. ⁷ For Christ does rise above the ego and all its works, and ascends to the Father and His Kingdom.

2 ¹ Would you join in the resurrection or the crucifixion? ² Would you condemn your brothers or free them? ³ Would you transcend your prison and ascend to the Father? ⁴ These questions are all the same, and are answered together. ⁵ There has been much confusion about what perception means, because the word is used both for awareness and for the interpretation of awareness. ⁶ Yet you cannot be aware without interpretation, for what you perceive is your interpretation.

(T-11.VI. Heading-2:6) ACIM