The concept of ascension has been around since ancient times.
https://www.williamhenry.net/2022/05/heavens-closed-no-more-ascension
https://www.williamhenry.net/whblog
Ideas about there being other dimensions or planes of existence and reality, also go back quite a ways.
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=The+Story+of+Mankind
