New Book out today!
Our new book "Gateways of Light" provides a powerful 'route map' through the 5 key expansions of consciousness on the road to Enlightenment and ultimately our Ascension into the new consciousness paradigm - the 5th Dimensional Realm. From direct first hand experience, it is packed with personal sharings, experiential tools and advice on how to catalyse and facilitate our personal unfolding...

Reconnection with our divine birthright
We are truly blessed to be here in this amazing time of human and planetary transition. The Soul of the Earth has moved to a higher vibrational reality based on unconditional love, joy and respect for all life and we're being invited to join her. Many books are beginning to talk about this; "Gateways of Light" describes the journey of unfolding both from a spiritual perspective but also with grounded scientific understanding that debunks and demystifies. "Quantum science is helping us strip away the boundaries of limited thinking. Ascension is real and possible for all of us; the new paradigm exists here and now" - this is the central message of "Gateways of Light".

In the book, we postulate that our society has been purposefully configured by an "Opposing Consciousness" to disconnect us from our divine birthright - union with "God consciousness". For many thousands of years it has been at work within the field closing down our chakras and de-energising our natural bodily vehicles of expression in order to addict us to the external "drama" - the "Matrix" of mass human subconsciousness in which we live.

Well now we have come to a major turning point in our history. We are being helped by a Higher Benevolent Consciousness to steer a pathway through the density of our current predicament, to strip away the limitation and internal constriction that binds us and to pass through the 5 internal expansions leading to the full blown experience of multi-dimensional experience; "Can we possibly imagine the extent of our inherent beauty? Are we open enough to grasp the magnitude and magnificence of this planetary and human rebirth? Our reconnection is a profound transition back to the majesty of who we really are.

From direct first hand experience Chris describes this transition and shares his own personal journey "it feels to me that I was purposely taken through the 5 key expansions in quite a dramatic way so that I may share the experiences with others. I've observed in our work here at Openhand how invaluable it can be for people to have a 'bench mark' as to where they are on their journey because it helps make sense of how and why we are being influenced in the way we are and how we might move forwards." He continues; "using this Gateways approach, time and again I have witnessed people making breath-taking transitions by being able to identify the nature of their limitations and thereby stripping them away. I'm often reduced to tears by the transformations we observe."

Another wonderful feature about the book and the advice contained within, is that it provides an approach that can work with ALL spiritual practices, disciplines and religions (provided they are allied to open-hearted, self exploration of the truth!). It is not designed to replace other practices and approaches but to embrace and magnify their effect "the approach is purposefully designed to meet people on their own ground and to help grow their own inner light in the way that best serves THEM".

In the future, the book will be available with the main retailers but you can buy it now in advance either as a paperback or electronic download from our online distributors by clicking on this link...http://www.lulu.com/content/1829671
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We do hope you enjoy it!

Much love

The Openhand Team

I'm really interested in this. I keep hearing about these five key expansions of consciousness (or transitions). Could you please tell me more about what that means?

Thank you for your time.
Melody

Hi Melody - thanks for your question.

The Five Gateways are transitions through internal layers of consciousness. We've observed through our work countless times how people's lives and the issues they're facing seem to relate directly to this framework. They are as follows...

• Gateway 1: "Awakening" - upon incarnation and through the early years of our lives, our personality is shaped and distorted by our upbringing. We build conditioned neural pathways in the brain which shape and colour our every choice in life. Our Soul Consciousness becomes fragmented and dissipates throughout the bodymind. The more we give into the distortions, the less we can feel the soul until we end up living the life of the false self. Then magically one particular day for some reason we give up chasing through the external world of effects and instead surrender into the inner world of causality. It is then that enough of our Soul Consciousness may reconnect in order that we can truly feel it again - perhaps as an amazing sense of joy, liberation, expansiveness or timelessness - this is the initial awakening.
• Gateway 2: "Realignment" - following the Awakening, at some point enough of the soul will reconnect such that we can hear its unmistakable but quiet inner voice guiding us forwards. Each moment presents a choice: either we give in to the conditioned behaviours of our old lives; or we express instead a higher truth - our inherrant gifts of beingness. During this transition we learn how to attune to our inner guidance mechanism. At some point we'll reach a turning point where we surrender our lives completely to the inner guidance of the soul - we follow those higher choices at whatever apparent personal cost to the personality. We have aligned ourselves with the Divine Will.
• Gateway 3: "Transfiguration" - the soul takes us on a journey to cleanse our lower bodily vehicles of expression - specifically the physical body, emotional body and our energy body. We are beginning to break apart the conditioned neural pathways until finally the inner child and inner teenager personalities filters are literally 'blown apart'. A kundalini awakening occurs where enough of our Soul Consciousness has reconnected in order to rise up the spine and join with "Unity Consciousness" flowing 'downwards' from the source (its really an internal shift). What follows is a dramatic shift of perception from identification with the personality to being non identified awareness - the Seer - expressed as the soul through the bodymind.
• Gateway 4: "Enlightenment" - at Transfiguration (Gateway 3) we have become non-identified awareness - the Seer. However the soul is not yet fully reconnected and fragments of it will still identify with the personality. Specifically fragments may get 'stuck' within the causal body due to past life trauma - our "karma". Consequently "shadow identities" form which mirror the authenticity of the soul. The shadow acts kind of like an echo of the soul and dims our authentic light. During this transition we are guided on a pathway to confront these shadow identities and dissolve them in the crucible of life. In so doing we are reaquainted with our past life karma which is recreated through the current circumstances of our lives that we may relive it and let go of attachment. These final 'fragments' of the soul are released and ‘reconnected’. The soul becomes fully integral within our being. We become fully enlightened.
• Gateway 5: "Resurrection" - in our initial closing down as we came into incarnation, our seven bodily vehicles of expression have been deactivated through the closing of the chakras. Now that the soul is fully reconnected, we are able to finally purify, reactivate and re-energise all seven bodily vehicles of expression - in other words the bodymind is Resurrected. In particular we fully activate the spirit light body (merkaba) such that we unfold into multi dimensional experience. Both this world and the new one (the 5th Dimensional Realm) to which we are ascending become a daily part of our experience. The bridge between the two worlds - the 4th Dimensional Realm - also comes clearly into view and specifically the presence of Opposing Consciousness which has been controlling and limiting our existence in the 3rd Dimensions. We learn how to deal with Opposing Consciousness and act as a bridge between the dimensions to assist in the evolutionary process of others.

Hope this clarifies things a bit!

Chris

Hi Chris,

In your book you talk about the importance of living in and connecting with the full beauty of the moment. It seems to be truly in the moment is a blessing, but striving to achieve that actually means moving further away from it! To find a way to achieve that (without trying to achieve) in our society seems difficult, society inisists that people make plans, have schedules, jobs, bills, timetables etc. Do you think that at present its possible to live within society and fully in the moment? I agree with what you say about following the soul/heart's path, but perhaps at this stage it still involves making some concessions in order to exist in 'the world'? What do you think? Can living in the moment also involve an awareness of what we call past and future? I like the idea of just going with what arises.

Mark

Hi Mark,

In answer to your question - Absolutely Yes!!!
It is most certainly possible to live entirely in the moment just from the pull of the soul even in a society as misfigured as ours. It does however require absolute trust arising from the realisation that the only thing that really makes sense is to come from the soul. It also requires one to have spent quite some time in stillness in order to feel the flows of energy - I include in this being in stillness whilst doing things.

When I was unfolding around Gateway 2, I asked exactly the question you are asking. I experienced being taken through a transition period where sometimes I followed the pull and other times I noticed myself getting stuck and reverting to conditioned behaviours. However quite early on I made a resolution - if everything in this world is but an illusion (and a distorted one at that), I would rather risk all and follow the pull even if that meant I sometimes got it wrong - and at whatever apparent personal cost. I made this choice and then never looked back. It feels like jumping off a cliff but instead of crashing into the rocks at the bottom, suddenly you learn how to fly!

From what I know of you, I sense you're approaching this point in the immediate future...

"Come to the edge" he said,
"We can't, we are afraid" they said.
"Come to the edge"
"We can't, we will fall"
"Come to the edge"
and they came
and he pushed them
and they flew."
Guillaume Appollinaire

Happy flying!

Chris

After thinking about what you said I came to the realisation that actually we can, because a) society and the world that we see about us are an illusion (as you said) or at most only a very small part of the bigger picture, and b) we always have a choice, even if it sometimes seems that we don't! We can actually choose whether we pay a bill or go to work or whatever and we can't predict what those choices might bring about. As we can't predict the outcomes and the world's an illusion anyway, living in any way other than in the moment or following the soul's path, just seems silly! We can leave the consequences of our choices to Spirit and trust that we made the right ones, presumably by following the soul's pull. A recent example for me was after the unity gathering when I began to realise that my job wasn't reallly serving me anymore. I began to realise that I'd be leaving it soon, and was trying to work out how to go about it. I was a bit worried about getting another job or not or what I'd do, and how to tell my manager etc. Anyway I decided it felt right to leave but that I'd tell my manager after christmas as it was very busy. Then about 10 days before christmas I was offered another job! It was something I'd applied for months ago and pretty much forgotten about. They wanted to know almost immediately if I could start in the new year. Having made the decision to leave my job I was suddenly offered the means to go about it! I then had to make the choice as to whether to go for it or not, and decided to give it a try! So the next day in the midst of the christmas rush I told my manager and she was fine with it. So having commited to what I believed to be the right decision I was then given the opportunity to bring it about!

I still seem to struggle at times with putting this into practice and feeling the way - the pull of the soul as you call it. I definitely am more aware of it now than I have been in the past and suppose that it will become easier over time, and in the meantime just trust I'm headed in the right direction.

Cheers

Mark

I know it may seem really difficult to always follow the inner pull and to keep attuning to it no matter what is going on around us but it is possible. I remember when I awoke. I had a family, a large executive house with all the trimmings, my own company with 12 employees and a mountain of debt financing it all. My monthly private outgoings were in excess of £4000 per month!!! That's not to mention our business costs such as the monthly wage bill.

I knew this lifestyle was not me. It didn't serve who I now was and therefore neither did it serve anyone relating to my false identity. All the while I was being shown the new me. Clients kept turning up for web design contracts and I'd end up consulting them on their personal issues - somehow I always seemed to have the right key to help unlock their problems. It was clear what the Universe was asking me to do but how would I get from A to B? It seemed a complete impossibility to restructure my life in a way that would seem appropriate. How on earth would I be able to pay all the bills when my new existence would be quite low paid?

For a while a struggled with this conundrum until I noticed it was taking me back into the darkness of fear, worry and limitation. In the end, I just let go of trying to shape or control anything and decided just to be me - whatever the apparent personal cost. At that moment I suddenly found myself at the centre of a Tornado - it seemed everything in my life was being torn to shreds before my eyes. Relationships fell apart as people struggled to come to terms with the fact that I had changed. My business began to fall apart - friends and family questioned my sanity but all the while I could feel the inner light of the soul guiding me. It was the only thing that made any sense in a seemingly crazy world of deceit and hypocrasy.

Finally everything began to settle and quieten down and a new way of being dawned. I found that if I followed my Heart (if the small "I" surrendered to the soul), then somehow things always miraculously turned out right. I would get exactly what resources I needed to be me. I wouldn't get what I thought I wanted, or what I desired and hoped for, instead I got whatever was needed to express the beauty of my soul as fully as possible - it became undeniably clear to me that this is the one and only purpose of any incarnation.

So I settled into that and life has become completely harmonious. It is far from easy but then if it was, would it be worth it?

This is why we have established the course program that we have. They are purposefully configured to guide people through these transitions. It seems to me that you are ready for this. I do feel a strong compulsion to invite you to do the first three level courses - if you check the website you'll see we've got dates planned for the three levels during the next six months. I strongly believe they'll answer many of your questions. Might be worth giving it some consideration!

Best wishes

Chris