Physical death is one of the first gates.
There are others. While you may know of and in fact be able to occasionally grasp this "first gate" how about the others. Let me point them out, at least a few of them.
Be able to live without using knowledge of death / unity of self for as long as possible (use of godpower made life boring according to Ra, more or less).
Be able to make friends with opposite sides of the polarity spectrum and have these be friends with one another (Ah my goddess, Marller and Belldandy friendship)
Be able to introduce yourself to creatures that would normally be only and exclusively interested in devouring you and remaining undevoured (try to go into hell and slide down the back of Lucifer via divina comedia and come out without being stuck in the hell gravity well.)
Be able to exist in the void and create a vessel for travel in it without need of constant "soil" stop overs (create a flying machine that can remain flying "forever" (no bird or common animal can do this and thus you would be first on earth, or amongst first on earth.)
Be able to bring life to a planet in a way that the planet maintains life (be around when they terraform Mars, or, make your own ship, jump to a new system, and find a new mars there and make it your own, imagine a giant planet made of clay that you can just get your fingers into, doesnt matter if you die since its "your project" you'd just find your way back there again and again until its done).
Be able to love a mate that you know is just your shadow self / dark side as a separate self due to having polarized so farm from the normal non polarity that even normal non polarity doesnt feel like you and thus your mate feels even less like you (learn to love things which are not normal to you).
and so on.
"physical death" is kind of... not really the end all be all of ascension. Once you realize you can transcend it but you cant transcend "boredom" (5th density form) you'll have a massive amount of things you can do between "just being 3rd D biological" and "immediate unity with the godhood for eternity".
I have a fairly good feeling that some of my "selves" were in a bit of a rush to head back to the godhood and I lost sizable chunks of myself that I'd rather not have lost / rather get back, but its just more work to do in the 4th density.
"Oh I didnt know I could still love like this, its great isnt it." would be one 4th density finding of self by self. I ofcourse dislike losing love / ability to love / desire to love in duration of the knowledge process but it cant be helped.
I had a dream that vaquely touches on this. I was in a war, or some kind of situation where conflict was inevitable (zombies?) and I only had a small side-arm and I told them its all I need and the rest I spent on covering myself with blankets and all things soft. You know. Just incase.
Thats pretty much the situation here. We're wading into a deep river and we know it might be troublesome, but we'll get across, The real question is, how much do we get across with, with whom and how well did we prepare for it in advance so as not to lose everything in the river.
IF all we did before crossing the river is worry about not getting wet. We wont have much. If we watched anime of goddesses, played games where we are the galactic helpers / delivery boys / heroes and spend our day sitting still imagining various scenarios with the help of this thing called "pc/console" and hanging out with our friends, when we cross the river we'll have much to take with us. Beacause, the real question is this, what if when you die, your friends simply turn to the gods / goddessess / aliens you spent your life with, with the exception that they already know what you did for them, even if you dont know.
For us its just a game. But if for them, they know it is, in the end, a game and place their game in your hands and pray that your wisdom, living in this land of wisdom, will bring their love the density of reality they want, then you are indeed serving as "their energy battery".
Anyway. Harvest is what it is, life is what it is. Knowledge eventually kills but creativity always resurrects. Theres always something more to try or to do. That is, up until end 5th, where we usually turn towards a game of "see who can go the longest having created a perfect universe without anyone coming to bother them with anything and sleep a sleep of constantly increasing pleasure that you emit around you in your blissfull sleep state" Once you get into that game you can be gone for billions of years. So long in fact that slowly others start to accumulate around you and your light gets brighter and brighter.
You'll see where this is going I'm sure.
Dont worry so much friend Illusive Man
http://youtu.be/0ytxzD5uBBA Here, have a video sent by a friend.
What are actors except early 4th density learners in the art of projecting a single thought form for an extended period of time without faltering.
http://humoncomics.com/horrible-people Also here have a (most comics not safe for work but this particular one is) about how quilt works and how thought forms function.
I'm on a roll here:
http://www.dominic-deegan.com/comics/20130409.gif this would be for the most part, my seer version and what its doing and what others are perceiving it as doing. BL pay notice here.