# Ascension > Ascension is a continual change in frequency and state of being that has degrees rather than being a single destination event or special status. - Canonical: https://sassani.app/topic/ascension # Ascension *A broad hillside path remains connected to homes, tools, and a shared waterside terrace* Ascension, in Bashar's teaching, is not a destination, a single event, or a special status. It is the description of a change in frequency — a continually changing state of being. Because it is a frequency change, it has degrees, it is ongoing, and it differs for each person according to the vibration they maintain. The linked transcripts are consistent on this core definition even though they approach it from several angles. > — Ascension As A Change In Frequency And State (qa-1), [Source](https://sassani.app/source-transmissions/ascension-as-a-change-in-frequency-and-state) ## Ascension as a description, not a permission slip The most direct definition in the corpus comes from a questioner who wondered whether ascension was itself a permission slip. Bashar corrected the framing: ascension is "a continually changing state of being," and not so much a permission slip as "simply a description of a changing frequency." Permission slips — the tools a person uses to allow a shift — shape how the change is experienced; they are not the change itself. > — Ascension As A Change In Frequency And State (qa-1), [Source](https://sassani.app/source-transmissions/ascension-as-a-change-in-frequency-and-state) This matters because it locates ascension in the same family as Bashar's broader vocabulary of frequency and state. It is not a separate metaphysical category; it is what happens when the underlying vibration moves, by whatever means. > — Ascension As A Change In Frequency And State (qa-1), [Source](https://sassani.app/source-transmissions/ascension-as-a-change-in-frequency-and-state) ## A matter of degree, not kind Asked what ascended masters are and what ascension is, Bashar gave the same definition in a different image. An ascended master is a being who allows more of the totality of a reality's collective consciousness into their expression, so that their vibration raises. They may remain in that reality, dispensing information, or they may ascend to the point of leaving it — even leaving physical reality altogether. The key line: "Ascension is just a matter of degree of frequency, in the same way that you could say that steam is the ascended master of ice." > — Ascended Masters Archangels Christ Consciousness (qa-2), [Source](https://sassani.app/source-transmissions/ascended-masters-archangels-christ-consciousness) The steam-and-ice image is the clearest summary of the teaching's logic: the substance does not change, only its state. Ascension is not the arrival of a different kind of being; it is the same being at a different degree of vibrational excitation. > — Ascended Masters Archangels Christ Consciousness (qa-2), [Source](https://sassani.app/source-transmissions/ascended-masters-archangels-christ-consciousness) ## The Keys of Ascension as a vibrational tool The Keys of Ascension session presents a specific practice nested inside this definition. The Keys are described as "the underlying and connective tool to raise your vibration so that you can use all the other tools much more strongly." The pattern is: raise yourself to the point of the sphere, use the manifestation tool, trust it is doing what it needs to do, and release it by collapsing back to the point of pure information. > — Keys To Ascension (qa-1), [Source](https://sassani.app/source-transmissions/keys-to-ascension) So the Keys are a preparation-and-release practice for manifestation tools generally. They are not ascension itself; they are a method for entering the raised state from which other tools are more effective. This is consistent with the permission-slip distinction: the Keys are the slip, the frequency change is the thing. > — Keys To Ascension (qa-1), [Source](https://sassani.app/source-transmissions/keys-to-ascension) ## Differentiated by the vibration each person maintains Because ascension is a frequency change, it affects different people at different rates. Bashar says the ascension energies are affecting everyone "to some degree, yes. Everyone will fall into the proper slot of the vibration representative of what they are giving off." Individuals may resist and determine what reality they remain in, while others go on to other realities. > — Keys To Ascension (qa-2), [Source](https://sassani.app/source-transmissions/keys-to-ascension) The same point returns in answer to a question about whether ascension will be a sudden planetary event. Bashar frames it as an ongoing process that some people express "in the blink of an eye" and others take a while to do, "but you're all doing it automatically, and you're all doing it immediately every second." He then refuses to give a single definitive outcome, because "there are an infinite number of parallel Earth realities" — which Earth a person experiences, including within the concept of ascension, depends on which one they are a vibrational match to. > — Dialogues With The Future (qa-11), [Source](https://sassani.app/source-transmissions/dialogues-with-the-future) This is ascension inside Bashar's parallel-reality model: not one planetary event that everyone shares, but a frequency-coordinate shift that each person samples according to the vibration they maintain. > — Dialogues With The Future (qa-11), [Source](https://sassani.app/source-transmissions/dialogues-with-the-future) ## Practical implications Treat ascension as a description of a frequency change rather than a goal to attain or an event to wait for. Bashar frames it as already ongoing, automatically, every second; the practical variable is the direction of the frequency change, not its existence. > — Ascension As A Change In Frequency And State (qa-1), [Source](https://sassani.app/source-transmissions/ascension-as-a-change-in-frequency-and-state) Use permission slips (including the Keys of Ascension practice) as tools that shape how the change is experienced, not as the change itself. Raise the state, use the tool, trust it, release it. > — Keys To Ascension (qa-1), [Source](https://sassani.app/source-transmissions/keys-to-ascension) Expect ascension to be differentiated rather than uniform. Bashar says everyone falls into the slot representative of the vibration they give off, so the work is at the level of the vibration you maintain, not at the level of waiting for a shared event. > — Keys To Ascension (qa-2), [Source](https://sassani.app/source-transmissions/keys-to-ascension) The steam-and-ice image is offered as a frame for understanding raised states: the substance is unchanged, only the degree of excitation differs. It is not a medical, biological, or ontological claim about the body. > — Ascended Masters Archangels Christ Consciousness (qa-2), [Source](https://sassani.app/source-transmissions/ascended-masters-archangels-christ-consciousness) ## Representative passages Ascension, in a sense, is a continually changing state of being. That's not so much a permission slip in and of itself as it is simply a description of a changing frequency.— Bashar, Ascension is just a matter of degree of frequency, in the same way that you could say that steam is the ascended master of ice.— Bashar, They are the underlying and connective tool to raise your vibration so that you can use all the other tools much more strongly. Raise yourself to the point of the sphere, use the tool, trust it is doing what it needs to do, and let it go by collapsing back to the point of pure information.— Bashar, What you're calling ascension is an ongoing process. Some people will express it in the blink of an eye. Some people will take a little while, but you're all doing it automatically, and you're all doing it immediately every second.— Bashar, ## Related - [Vibration](https://sassani.app/topic/vibration) - [Manifestation](https://sassani.app/topic/manifestation) - [Chakras](https://sassani.app/topic/chakras) - [Parallel Realities](https://sassani.app/topic/parallel-realities) Markdown twin of https://sassani.app/topic/ascension. The HTML page is the source of truth.