"This path, though, is designed to embrace both worlds: at least the path I am on. I think, though, that we’re each called to be able to balance between the spiritual and material realms. Wasn’t this the way of Jesus? This is as much a part of the ascension process as anything else."

YES! Jesus the Christ: "Be in the world but not of it"; be a bridge between the physical realm and that of the spiritual. Very hard to find the balance.

Re: ascension--my Guides told me that they do not like the term "ascension" as that implies going "up to Heaven", a nonexistant realm where we leave our bodies, when we are actually in a process of "decension" as we are grounding our spiritual awareness onto the earth plane of existence, creating "Heaven on Earth", not leaving the Earth plane. We are spirit housed in physical bodies, Gods-in-the-Flesh, and our bodies are "Temples of the Soul": http://curezone.com/blogs/m.asp?f=356&i=2

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