Joanna Cherry shares her personal experiences of ascension and how her books Living Mastery and Self Initiations help people realize their divinity.
Suite101: Your book is a powerful account of the awakening of your ascension process. Can you share how you came to write it from your personal experience?
Joanna: Well, I had been teaching for about 16 years until spirit sent me to India. The day I arrived, my whole life fell away because spirit showed me teaching workshops five years longer and that I would get bored. I had put myself into this box of being a spiritual teacher and I was shocked to discover I had not been following my own teachings, which was always to stay in tune with my divine guidance.
So I said to God, take everything away from me. And I just gave everything up in my life at that time. Finally, after I felt I had let go of it all, a few days passed and I just kind of found myself saying, ‘How am I going to make a living?’
Then, spirit showed me some of the master pictures that I collected and was guided to spread them out to a wider audience in the world. So I came back to do that and simultaneously, these books, Living Mastery followed by Self Initiations poured out of me. They just flowed out and were based on my teachings that spirit personally gave me to share with other people. The teachings helped move me into mastery with thoughts of immortality and rejuvenation. And I just wrote everything down and that’s how the books came to be.
Suite101: What did it feel like when you experienced ascension?
Joanna: The idea of ascension is that you become so immersed in God that you lift your body into a higher frequency, a resonance that allows you to disappear from the physical world and into the spirit world. When I read that it just caught a fire in me and I realized that I had ascended in a past life a thousand years ago, that’s why it felt absolutely real to me.
During my meditation, I saw a light in my third eye and spirit showed me how to expand it far beyond anything I had ever experienced. It was like opening the seven Chakras (energy vortexes of the body) into infinity. And when I did that, the light just began to take over and gradually got brighter. I asked spirit, ‘How do I quicken my frequency?’ Spirit replied, ‘You just say it and it happens.’
I opened all of my chakras as much as I could and spun myself clockwise similar to the Five Tibetan Rites as found in Ancient Secret of the Fountain of Youth by Peter Kelder. So I increased my light faster, faster, and faster until it became like a whirlwind and I just went totally into light. I didn’t have a body, couldn’t feel anything, I was just light. And when I came back, spirit confirmed that I had ascended.
Suite101: What happened after that?
Joanna: Spirit suggested I go into Mt. Shasta and take my body with me into an ascended master retreat which is a place were masters who have quickened their frequency go to do work. After several meditative efforts, I felt I became ready and said, ‘I am here at the Ascended Retreat in Mt. Shasta.’ Then I felt this amazing thing happen where it felt like my body was splitting in two and it was the weirdest sensation I ever experienced in my life. My body didn’t go, but my mind was there.
I was greeted and shown around. The masters were brainstorming ways to do good work for the world, like feed hungry people. The next few days I keep seeing myself learning in the retreat. My spirit said that a part of me, my ethereal body split because it needed to get away from the physical body.
Suite101: What have others experienced after reading and applying your insights?
Joanna: I’ve heard back from a lot people and even more with Self Initiations since it’s more of a guidebook to practice with rather than Living Mastery, which is an account of my experiences. I’ve heard very dramatic responses like, you’ve changed my life or small things like I found these processes helpful. It really depends on the person who reads it. Some will read it and think it’s crazy and think nothing of it. Perhaps they’re not ready for it.
Suite101: You have a clearly defined goal for the future of humanity, can you elaborate?
Joanna: There are lots of us who work to assist humanity. The goal is to help individuals reach their own divinity. To let go of any sense of victimhood or weakness and remember that we are divine beings of great love, peace, joy, and power. There’s really nothing we cannot do. We’ve seen the world increase in technical power and it’s out of balance, which is scary because it can blow up the planet.
We want to have a balance with the masculine and feminine energy. The masculine is more of a power-oriented energy and the feminine is the receptive love energy. The two can be combined so there is this perfect balance that is waiting to happen within each individual. And when this happens it can spread out to others on the planet where we can have a hundredth monkey syndrome happen to balance humanity and also the animal & plant kingdom. Then finally, we can move into a world of peace.
Joanna Cherry, M.A., M.Ed., M.M.S., founded Ascension Mastery International, dedicated to sharing the truth that we are divine, unlimited, and freeShe has taught ascension workshops worldwide since 1983. For more info, please visit: http://ascensionmastery.com/
