5GATEWAYS of Ascension: Your Routemap Out of The Simulation
It's becoming increasing clear for all with the eyes to see, that humanity is embroiled within a gross simulation of reality, projected through the senses to keep people nose-to-the-grindstone. Plenty of alternatives now testify to the fact. But how best to emerge from it? It is of course an inner journey, which is why there's so much intentional surface distraction. But what do we watch for in the inner landscape? How best to know you're on the actual pathway through the laters? Knowing this, is essential to escaping the Simulation.
Understanding the Simulation
It's not that the naturalness of the planet is some kind of reality simulation - it's what's projected through the senses that is. Human DNA has been purposefully configured, since the very inception of Homo sapiens, to receive influence and direction - artificial goals and agenda to keep people locked in repetitive and predictable lifestyles.
Why should you have to work all hours just to make ends meet?
An Interdimensional Intervention has taken dominion of the planet, bent on controlling resources and genetics to fulfill its own selfish agenda. That's becoming increasingly obvious to a growing swathe of awakening people.
Review this short video detailing
the nature of the Simulation
The question is: how best to get rid of it?
Disassociation from the Matrix
It's a question that's prominent in the minds of countless commentators, researchers, and activists around the planet right now. The Openhand view is to remove the very roots that hold it in place. WE are those roots!
It's humanity that inadvertently locks in the Simulation by the repetitive behaviours that bolster the powers-that-be. But when you apparently have to work in their system, a catch-22 is created: if you leave it, how to sustain yourself?
It has to be a progressive inner emergence. Because the truth about the quantum field is that it shapes around what we are being. As we change who we are, then we change how we act. Most importantly, we start to channel the higher light of a New Paradigm here and now, through our lives.
Since the Simulation and the old Karmic construct upon which it is anchored are energetic, then a shift in consciousness can uproot the Intervention and dispatch it from the planet once and for all. That is going to happen in the Shift anyway - the Grand Galactic Convergence will ensure it happens.
The question is, how can you be sure to go with this progressive emergence?
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5GATEWAYS: A profound routemap for human evolution;
Even as the Simulation goes into hyperdrive of accelerating control, it's only doing so because it's losing control!
It's a game of smoke and mirrors. The fear of not having enough, or what will happen to you if you don't toe the party line, is enough to keep people small in the shell - by their own limitation. But if you challenge this conditioning with each step, then you start to unfold through the inner journey, whereupon, you start to channel the higher light, which transforms your reality.

It's about ascending the inner mountain of revelation. Each inner exploration peels off another layer of density - your more aligned consciousness then shapes into your outer landscape. Progressively, life takes on new directions of possibility. All the while, you're ascending consciousness. You're breaking the Simulation tethering. You actually start to live the new 5D Paradigm here and now.
There are many ways up the โspiritual mountainโ; for each, there will be a unique path. Yet those who have climbed before, often speak of five key expansions, five key 'altitudes', through which all tend to pass. It is a common journey into higher dimensions of consciousness that has been established by spiritual masters through the ages.
Inner transitions to a higher level of consciousness
Our reality is arrayed in dimensional realms of existence, based on densities (what some call dimensions), with which we have an etheric relationship. The spiritual journey involves the educational incarnation into these densities, in order to master life, thereby the release of attachment of the soul in these various experiences. The soul integrates and grows in the process
In so doing, you experience expansions of consciousness, that progressively take you into a new energetic paradigm - a new Dimensional Realm; one that is present, here and now, all around us.
The sense is as if you are being tested in each level of consciousness, until you embrace, enfold, and integrate the 'lessons' you came here to evolve through. As you process and integrate those lessons, you release yourself from the attachment to that particular density - the emotional, for example - upon which, your internal configuration of consciousness shifts quite dramatically.
This is then mirrored into your outer world by a 'ceremony' to mark the occasion. It could be the ending of a relationship, leaving a job, moving to a more uplifting environment, having a life-changing illness or accident. Such events can be the marker, indicating the internal shift from one state to the other - that you've passed through a Gateway.
Many spiritual sensitives now report that the Earth's 5D Crystalline Grid has come fully active - backed by benevolent Star Being Nations. Whilst every soul and every journey is unique, we are hearing from people all around the world that they, too, have been experiencing life-changing transitions into this new energetic construct. As souls ascend the 'spiritual mountain', we may all take a different path, but it is becoming ever more obvious that we pass through key transitional 'altitudes' on route to the summit, each with its consistent challenges and opportunities.
Like, for example, processing your emotional attachments, which tends to happen in the Second Gateway, dealing with inner child identities in the third, or past life karma as you unfold through the Fourth Gateway - that of Enlightenment.
PS It's important to note: this Shift is not linear in this way, and although you only complete each Gateway in turn, you'll likely be working on several together. The 5 Gateways should therefore more be viewed as a spiral staircase.
The five key expansions
So what are the 5Gateways, these five key expansions? 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 intentional choices we make in a 3D sense. So if we become dissatisfied in some way, we may change our partner, our job, or our location for example. But what is mostly not realised, is that every aspect of our lives is shaped by our inner configuration of consciousness. You may change the circumstances, but if you have not shifted internally, then you will simply recreate - manifest - the same old patterns, with the tendency to trip over them again in the future, unless you deal with the pattern itself.
This is what many are referring to as The Law of Attraction.
In the Openhand view, this philosophy is being much misunderstood. By the Law of Attraction, you draw to yourself exactly the right situations and circumstances to create mirroring experiences - a window to the soul. If you then try to intentionally manifest a more cosy outer world by manipulating the inner one to your desires (those only of the ego), you may temporarily create a more materially abundant reality, yes, but it is still an illusion that risks diverting you from your divine destiny - Ascension into the higher 5D paradigm.
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, you may be experiencing difficulty in relationships, or you might be struggling to find a fulfilling relationship. Perhaps then you are dealing with your emotional attachments within Gateway 2? Perhaps you 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 (at least for a period).
Hence, understanding these Gateways, and how they integrate within your life, can be of profound benefit. That is why people have likened it to a routemap through the darkness.
Changing your world from within
Some might consider that focusing so intently on one's own evolutionary Ascension 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 you fully realise it or not, there is a universal organising energy at work in the world, acting through every circumstance and event. When you fully tune into the synchronicity, you get to read the bigger picture and appreciate that we are being guided forwards and 'upwards' into higher dimensions of existence.
The only way we can fully tune into that bigger picture is by tuning within. So a new reality - a Renewed Earth in the 5th Density - is unfolding all around us, which humanity is being invited to join. But the only way to access it is inside. And as you walk your unique pathway of the Five Gateways, you unfold the soul and infuse it into every aspect of your life. The light shines ever brighter through you, which then ripples into your outer world, changing it for the good of all.
That's the journey that's described and depicted in Openhand's 5GATEWAYS book, of which, a new remastered version is due out at the beginning of February. It's packed with tools, tips and advice for the inner spiritual journey 'up the mountain of Ascension'.
Discover More About the 5GATEWAYS Book
5GATEWAYS Documentary: Ascension into the 5th Dimension
To conclude, here is the acclaimed 5GATEWAYS documentary, which was first released back in 2011, that has now helped thousands of people around the world. It provides an overview of each Gateway and how to transition through. Sit back and enjoy...
Are You Ascending?
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13/01/2026 Shift Insight
It's now almost 15 years since the original 5GATEWAYS work was released. It's now being remastered to ensure it still fits within the context of modern living within the complexity of the Shift that's unfolding.
The remastering is almost complete and set to be released with the latest edition of the book in early February. Here's what one of the proofreaders, Nikki, said about it...
"Itโs literally one spine-tingling truth bomb after another!"
Thanks, Nikki! The new book will be 'exploding' here pretty soon. In the meantime, do check through the overview article of the 5GATEWAYS above.
Feel free to inquire here with me if you have any key questions about the 5GATEWAYS.
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Here was the very first interview that went towards making the 5GATEWAYS film. Taken outside the marvellous Magdalen Chapel in Glastonbury. It's pretty strange looking back to those times. It feels like another reality!
Escape the Simulation: Two 5GATEWAYS online events coming up ๐
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Ready to depart the Simulation?
We have two groundbreaking 5GATEWAYS events coming up in the next two months...
23rd-27th Feb: Gateways to the Golden Age, 5-Days, ZOOM
(Remastered accredited 5GATEWAYS spiritual routemap)
There are many ways up the spiritual mountain in our evolutionary shift, but how can you be sure you're ascending through the correct stages? And most importantly, how can you live the higher 5D consciousness here and now for maximum life upliftment? This is the remastered accredited 5GATEWAYS work that's helped many thousands of travellers all around the world.
9th-13th Mar: Gateways to the Golden Age, 5-Days, ZOOM
(Remastered accredited 5GATEWAYS spiritual routemap)
There are many ways up the spiritual mountain in our evolutionary shift, but how can you be sure you're ascending through the correct stages? And most importantly, how can you live the higher 5D consciousness here and now for maximum life upliftment? This is the remastered accredited 5GATEWAYS work that's helped many thousands of travellers all around the world.
Seems like aeons ago that we made 5GATEWAYS
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All this week we're focussing in on Our Journey of Ascension here at Openhand, with our most popular material over the years.
Of course it all kicked off with the 5GATEWAYS routemap, the five expansions of consciousness on the Journey of Ascension. It seems now like aeons ago, yet daily people express how much they got from the philsophy and the movie - and especially the 5GATEWAYS book, which goes much deeper.
The two versions of the 5GATEWAYS film have had around 500k views, and although small in internet standards, I still get complete strangers walking up to me saying, "you're the guy who was in that movie 5GATEWAYS!" The last time it happened was by a waiter on, of all places, the Island of La Palma. It's a small world!
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Such a powerful guidance tool.
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The sense is as if you are being tested in each level of consciousness, until you embrace, enfold, and integrate the 'lessons' you came here to evolve through. As you process and integrate those lessons, you release yourself from the attachment to that particular density - the emotional, for example - upon which, your internal configuration of consciousness shifts quite dramatically.
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