Five Gateways Overview

Submitted by Chris Bourne on 9 May, 2011 - 10:42

A profound route map for human evolution
Five Gateways is a deeply insightful route map to spiritual evolution. It defines the five key expansions of consciousness on route to Enlightenment and Ascension. Many people across our planet are now awakening and evolving spiritually. However, with there being so many approaches and such widely varying terminologies, it is easy for people to get confused and lost within a particular approach. Although the Five Gateways of evolution can be seen in the lives of many spiritual masters throughout the ages, it is only really now that this universal truth is finding its way into the human collective consciousness.

Five Gateways is...

  • a profound route-map followed by spiritual masters throughout the ages
  • has the power to awaken souls and catalyse our spiritual journey
  • can release us from unnecessary cycles of fear and suffering
  • can lift us into a more harmonious vibrational reality

Background
It is clear to awakening people everywhere that humanity has reached a cross-roads in our evolution. Accelerated climate change, dwindling natural resources and financial instability point to the simple fact that our way of living within society is unsustainable and must change quite radically. A new approach must bring us back into alignment with our natural eco-systems, the underlying consciousness of our planet and the universe as a whole. As the old fear based reality begins to fracture and fragment, a higher energetic paradigm is beginning to unveil itself founded on unconditional love, joy and mutual respect for all life. It exists here and now all around us. The question is how do we join it?

Here at Openhand we have been connecting and working with many thousands of awakening people around the world from widely diverse cultural and spiritual backgrounds. Although each soul is unique, it has become clearly consistent to us, that the evolutionary journey encompasses these five key expansions of consciousness through which we all tend to pass. As we ascend the ‘spiritual mountain’, we may each walk our own path, but as we transition key ‘altitudes’, it seems we are all influenced by the changing consciousness in very similar ways.

It may be for example that we begin to confront emotional attachments in relationships or the need to heal inner child identities. Perhaps we are beginning to go through Kundalini Activation, past life Karma or are now having Enlightenment and full blown multi-dimensional experiences? By applying the Five Gateways route-map, all of these internal shifts of consciousness can be brought much clearer into perspective. It can help people ‘diagnose’ exactly what they are experiencing and why their lives are shaping in a particular way. The framework provides tools to remove energetic blockages and catalyse the next shift in consciousness.

Above all, Five Gateways is a powerful prescription for evolutionary success. It details how we can each break the illusionary shackles that bind us to society’s out-dated way of living. In accessing new levels of expanded consciousness, we find ourselves becoming increasingly authentic. This destined way of being infuses through our personality into every aspect of our lives from our relationships to our careers. In this way, we become a Positive Force for Change both in our immediate environment and the wider world as the ripples of uplifting energy spread ever further outwards. Here at Openhand, we passionately believe that understanding and integrating the Five Gateways route-map into our lives can provide the solution to many, if not all, of humanities current problems and corresponding opportunities.

The five key expansions
Many consider that mankind is now ascending into the Fifth Dimensional Realm. So you might well expect that we have to transition five key 'barriers' and indeed that appears to be the case. Whilst every soul and every journey is unique, we are hearing from people everywhere that they too are undergoing these life changing transitions. As we ascend the 'spiritual mountain' we may all take a different path, but it is becoming ever more obvious we pass through key transitional 'altitudes' on route to the summit, each with its consistent challenges and opportunities.

Like for example processing our emotional attachments which tends to happen in the Second Gateway, dealing with inner child identities in the third or past life karma as we unfold through the Fourth Gateway - that of Enlightenment. So what are the Five Gateways? Here is a pictorial summary...


(Many thanks to David Rotter for a wonderful diagram!)

A 'Diagnosis' for your journey
The classic view in society is that we shape our reality by the choices we make in a third dimensional sense. So if we become dissatisfied in some way, we may change our partner, our job our home or the car for example. But what is mostly not realised, is that every aspect of our lives is shaped by our inner configuration of consciousness. We may change the circumstances, but if we have not shifted internally, then we will simply recreate - manifest - the same old patterns which we are sure to trip over again in the future unless we deal with the pattern itself.

This is what many are referring to as "The Law of Attraction". But in my view (and others) even this is being much misunderstood. By The Law of Attraction we draw to ourselves exactly the right situations and circumstances to create mirroring experiences - a window to the soul. If we then try to intentionally create a more cosy outer world by manipulating the inner one, we may temporarily create a more materially abundant reality yes, but it is still an illusion that risks diverting us from our destiny - the continued evolution into a higher paradigm.

    "Desire is a judgement of the moment,
    saying 'I judge that outcome is better than this one'.
    It is caused by fear and ignorance,
    not trusting what the universe is unfolding.
    It is like applying the hand brake to a moving car,
    it leads to fate rather than destiny.
    Desire requires effort...
    enlightenment requires lack of all effort."
    Openhand

So our inner configuration of consciousness influences and affects every single thought, emotion and feeling we have. By looking into the mirror of our choices - the external world of effects - we may compare the experiences against the route map and determine exactly why our lives are shaping as they are. We get to understand the causality.

So for example, we may be experiencing difficulty in relationships or we might be struggling to find a fulfilling relationship. Perhaps then we are dealing with our emotional attachments within Gateway 2? Perhaps we must learn to let go of the need for a particular partner, for our partner to be a certain way, or to have a partner at all! So understanding the Gateways and how they integrate within our lives can be of profound benefit. That is why people have likened it to a route-map through the darkness.

Changing our world from within
Some might consider that focusing so intently on one's own evolution when there are so many problems in the world is somehow selfish. But to me this would be quite a limited viewpoint. We exist in a co-creative consensus reality where every aspect of how we live and interact is influenced by what we are being within.

Whether we fully realise it or not, there is a universal organising energy at work in the world acting through every circumstance and event. When we fully tune into the synchronicity, we get to read the bigger picture and appreciate that we are being guided forwards and 'upwards' into higher harmonies of existence. The only way we can fully tune into that bigger picture is by tuning within.

So a new reality - a Renewed Earth - is unfolding all around us which humanity is being invited to join. But the only way to access it is inside. And as we walk our unique pathway of the Five Gateways, we unfold the soul and infuse it into every aspect of our lives. The light shines ever brighter through us which then ripples into our outer world changing it for the good of all.

To my mind, this is why the conscious uprising in Tunisia and Egypt was so successful for example. Because it happened as a shift of consciousness within a new generation of people. They were doing just what other leaders such as Gandhi had advocated a few generations before - "Being the Change". To me, he was so right: the only real and lasting change we can make to the world is a change in consciousness. That is why people are getting so excited about Five Gateways. Finally, after centuries of outer struggle, there is a well marked inner landscape to change not just our lives, but those of evolving souls everywhere.

Chris

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