Intuition and (not) eating meat 

Question: I feel that I do not resonate with eating meat and chicken anymore, or even eggs, but I am comfortable with eating fish. I just worry about not having enough iron levels if I stop eating meat and chicken completely. Is it possible to go higher in consciousness while still eating meat and chicken in small amounts for practical purposes? Or is it best to take practical measures to not include it in the diet at all and just include fish?


Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2024 New Year webinar

Well, we have given other answers on the fact that you do not need to be a vegetarian in order to reach higher levels of consciousness. It is just a matter of your body type. What you need to do here is to increase your intuition of what you sense is right for you.

But that means that in order to do this you must be neutral. You cannot have this ideological overlay that many spiritual people have that it is not spiritual to eat meat, because this prevents you from getting accurate intuition. But neither can you be too intellectual about it either and worry about whether you get this or that mineral in other ways. You can, of course, take certain supplements to get minerals. I am not going to be able to give any answer that applies to all people here. You need to, with diet, seek to increase your intuition and feel what resonates with you.

If it does not feel energetically that you want to eat certain kinds of meat, then stop for a while, but remain neutral about your intuition. You do not have to decide with the outer mind that you have to stop for the rest of your life. You experiment, you stop, but you use your intuition to see what you feel after some time. You can also use your intuition to feel whether you need certain minerals or vitamins and therefore, you need to eat certain foods, whether it is meat or other foods in order to get them. In other words, avoid using the outer mind to decide: “I have to do this because it is not spiritual to eat meat or, once I have stopped, I have to stop forever.”

 

Copyright © 2024 Kim Michaels

What therapy is best for OCD

Question: I have an unusual form of OCD developed in childhood and/or past life. For example, if I buy something at a store and I do not like the energy or the person seems like a threat to me, I will not want them touching my goods, and I’ll either return them or not buy them. Same for having people in my home or if they touch me or my clothes etc. It makes everyday life difficult. Do the masters have any suggestions on what type of therapy would be the most beneficial for this?


Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels.  This answer was given during the 2024 New Year webinar

Well, any kind of obsessive-compulsive disorder, of course, originates with a separate self, a subconscious self that you have. But when it is obsessive compulsive, it is also driven by lower forces, especially in the emotional and mental realm who are simply using this to make you unbalanced so you cannot function optimally. You need to look at this as an attack on you from lower forces.

I am not saying you cannot use certain forms of therapy, and here I would recommend something like EMDR, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, or a form of hypnotherapy that does not put you in a trance, but takes you back to when you created this separate self. But you can also use our tools for resolving the separate selves and our decrees and invocations, especially to Archangel Michael and Astrea, to seal you and cut you free from ties to the astral plane.

 

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Who rules the Russian Federation?

Question: Who rules the Russian Federation? Putin, as he has been from the beginning, a lifestream that is a fallen being, or is it the collective Putin or a group of doubles? Who did we mean by calling the judgment of Christ on Vladimir Putin in the invocations? Is that Putin himself real or a substitute, as it has often happened in the history of the planet? There is Jesus’ answer where he said, “but certainly Putin happened”. What does that mean? A being or phenomenon or group of beings controlled by who, meaning on the physical plane in Russia?


Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels.  This answer was given during the 2024 New Year webinar

As already commented on in another question, there is a physical person called Vladimir Putin, but of course behind him it is a power apparatus of other people in embodiment, but first of all these forces in the emotional, mental and identity realms. Who rules Russia? Well, ultimately the fallen being in the lower identity realm that we have called the dark master. He is the de facto ruler of Russia. Putin as a physical being is not this powerful leader that he is often portrayed to be and that he thinks he is. He is really a puppet on a string, but it is not so much physical people who are pulling the strings, but more these fallen beings in especially the identity realm and the mental realm.

 

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Is it normal to lose interest in sex in a relationship?

Question: I have noticed that in love relationships there tends to be a loss of energy and vitality over time in both partners and eventually there is a drop in sexual desire in the relationship. Why is it that this desire was there in the beginning but after some time, around three years for example, it appears as if one of the partners, often the woman, does not have much interest in sexual activities. Is it a sign that a relationship is not growing or that the psychology was not resolved, or is it more a normal transition in a relationship? Because I feel that I have some sexual desires to explore in this life and I do not want to switch relationships every 3 years to rekindle the spark. What can you do to keep that sexual desire alive?


Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels.  This answer was given during the 2024 New Year webinar

Well, there are of course different forms of relationships depending on the level of awareness of the people. But it is a very common theme in all relationships that the sexual desire is driven by a subconscious desire to blend your energies, blend your energy field, with the other person. This is, in many cases, based on that each person has a certain imbalance in their own energy field between male and female energies. By having sexual activity, you absorb some of the energy from the other person and it balances your own energy field. It is actually natural that after some time you would have blended your energy fields to a certain degree where you both have absorbed enough energy from the other that you are more balanced. And then it is natural that the sexual desire diminishes, at least somewhat.

It is, of course, also a common theme in relationships that the woman loses sexual desire faster than the man and often, in general, except for the beginning phases of the relationship, has a lower sexual desire than men. And there is no real easy way out of this other than attempting to communicate and reach some kind of consensus where you agree to satisfy each other’s sexual desires in a way that both of you can live with. Many couples, of course, fail to discuss this. They are not able to talk about it in a neutral way.

What you can do if you are the person who has the greater sexual desire is that you can, first of all, examine your sexual desire. You can see whether it is driven by lower forces. As we have said before, many men are addicted to sex because they are influenced, their auras are invaded by forces in the emotional realm that are seeking to inflate the sexual desire in order to steal people’s energy. And this is, of course, what you see that if people are driven by these lower forces to have sex, then they are drained of energy. And this causes a loss of energy and, over time, a loss of vitality as well.

What you can do is you can use our decrees and tools to cut yourself off from any ties to the astral plane and, of course, abstain from anything that artificially inflates your sexual desires such as pornography. And therefore, you can balance your own sexual desire by balancing the flow of energy through your base chakra – that instead of the energies in the base chakra going out into the sexual organs, they go up through the other chakras.

If you will make an effort to do this, you can balance your own sexual desire, and this will make it easier to reach some kind of consensus with your partner so you can both find a level of sexual activity that you both can live with. But this requires, of course, some communication. And in many cases if the man has an artificially inflated sexual desire, he will feel entitled to have sex, he will feel annoyed and irritated when his female partner does not respond. This will then cause a reaction in her where she feels forced and pushed and this creates a downward spiral. You want to avoid this, and if there is one, break it, and therefore get to a point where you can have a neutral conversation about this and see what kind of consensus you can reach.

 

Copyright © 2024 Kim Michaels

Why am I so attached to a narcissist? 

Question: I am in a close relationship with a narcissist. It took me a long time to see through the schemes of that person. Now I can see what that person is doing and how her mind works. But I have a tendency to slip back and treat that person as a normal, reasonable human being. I can see I have a self that does not want to accept reality, and it projects an image on that person. I used to project an image on reality in general and on some other people in my life. Thanks to the teachings I gradually let it go, and I am now able to see more clearly and face the reality of life on earth without creating another dualistic image and self to deal with it. But for some reason it is much more difficult with that person to let go of the image of that person. I think that there is still something in me that I do not want to change. I need that person to be what I want her to be. But I do not see what it is. I know it is crucial for me to cut all ties with that person. Mother Mary, could you give some perspective on it?


Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels.  This answer was given during the 2024 New Year webinar

Well, you can of course use the tools we have given to come to see the subconscious self. Because obviously what you have here is a subconscious self that was created in past lives relating to your primal self.

Many avatars who came to earth were exposed to a particular fallen being in their first, or one of their first embodiments, as described in the book about My Lives. Based on interaction with that fallen being you created either the primal self or at least some of these subsequent selves. And they are not necessarily attached to a specific person but to a person who represents what you created in that self. If you will look more deeply at this, you can ask yourself the question: “What advantage do I get out of remaining attached to this person? What advantage do I get from this self that will not let me let go of this person?” And with “advantage”, I specifically mean what does it do for you in terms of upholding a particular self-image that you have?

As we have explained, avatars who came to earth, they had a certain self-image of what you were going to do here on earth. Then this image was brought into doubt when you received the birth trauma. But many of us have spent a very long time trying to recreate or validate that image so it seemed like we were right after all. And this is what gives us, in general, these very strong attachments to people or situations or certain outcomes.

Attempt to attack the problem or look at the problem from this angle: “What self-image do I have that this person and my relationship to this person is actually, in some sense, validating or at least playing into?” And if you can uncover what your self-image is and see that it is a limiting self-image and let it go, then you will also be able to let go of your attachment to that person.

 

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Trump, NATO, and the war in Ukraine 

Question: Trump is running for President of America again, and his campaign narrative is to cut off aid to Ukraine, pull America out of NATO and leave all of Europe and other democracies without financial and military aid. This will have dire consequences for millions of people. How far are such plans destined to come true? Will Ukraine’s struggle against the aggressor be lost?


Answer from the Ascended Master Saint Germain through Kim Michaels.  This answer was given during the 2024 New Year webinar

It is not going to come true, regardless of whether Trump is elected President or not. There is a common misunderstanding in the United States, and also outside of the United States, that the President of the United States is like a dictator who has godlike powers. But the American Constitution is deliberately set up to limit the powers of the President. And therefore, even though Trump may talk about withdrawing from NATO and cutting off aid to Ukraine, he could not do this alone. This is demonstrated by the fact that President Biden wanted to send an aid package to Ukraine before Christmas but could not do it without the approval of Congress and the Senate. It is simply an over-inflated view of the powers of the President held by many people and certainly held by Trump himself.

The American legislature recently passed a law that makes it impossible for the President to single-handedly withdraw the United States from NATO. And the fact of the matter is that the United States receives a multitude of benefits for being in NATO and being the sort of guarantor of NATO. And they are not willing to lose those benefits because it would be in many, many ways a big step back for the United States. It simply is not true that the United States is in NATO out of a selfless desire to help Europe. The United States is in NATO because it gives advantages to the United States. And it would simply be foolhardy to withdraw the United States from NATO. And this will become clear if Trump was elected President and tried to fulfill this rhetoric. It would become clear to all of the people around him, and eventually that he would become aware that he is standing alone with this and could not carry it through. It is just an example of a politician who has moved so far away from contact with reality that he will say anything that feels good at the moment, that he thinks gives him an advantage at the moment, that he thinks gives him an attention at the moment, and he has no real realistic consideration of what would be the consequences of some of these things that he is proclaiming.

This is demonstrated by the fact that he is still talking about a lost election even though the vast majority of the people who know about the election have given up this idea that the election was stolen from him.

 

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What constitutes a critical mass of people?

Question: Ascended masters often use the term a critical mass of people. A critical mass is how much of the total number?


Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels.  This answer was given during the 2024 New Year webinar

We specifically use the non-specific expression “a critical mass” because it is not an exact amount. In every situation there is a critical mass of people who can drive a change. But it is not the same percentage of the population in every situation. It depends very much on the specific issue we are talking about, and that is why we use a non-specific expression.

 

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Is (was) Oleksiy Arestovich attuned to the masters?

Question: Oleksiy Arestovych, a Ukrainian politician and blogger, was very popular in Ukrainian society some time ago. He was an advisor to the president’s office then and held daily YouTube broadcasts highlighting the course of the war and supporting the morale of Ukrainians. He seemed to have played a significant role in this. There was a sense that he had attunement with the ascended masters. But then he left Ukraine and changed his position dramatically. Now he talks about the great war weariness of Ukrainian society, the unwillingness of many Ukrainians to fight and the need for reconciliation with Russia. Could the ascended masters comment on his stand, and does he have an attunement with the masters?


Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels.  This answer was given during the 2024 New Year webinar

He did have some attunement when he was seeking to boost morale. But he lost it as can happen to people for a variety of reasons. He does not have it right now. It is not unrealistic to say that many Ukrainians are tired of the war and have hoped for faster results, faster resolution.

But of course, broadcasting this is not really helping the situation because when you talk about reconciliation with Russia, what reconciliation can there be with Russia except total surrender and total submission which will mean the eradication of Ukraine as a nation and the killing or sending into concentration camps of millions of Ukrainians. It is simply not realistic to talk about reconciliation with Russia. You need to simply do everything you can to keep the morale of the Ukrainian people up until there will be a significant shift in the equation. And there will be some shifts during 2024. You need to be optimistic and willing to resist the Russian aggression.

 

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Is Putin dead? 

Question: Some sources in Russia claim to have insider information that Vladimir Putin died back in October 2023, but that the ruling elite managed to unite and form some sort of coalition to hide this fact from the Russian people for a while to prepare a successor that suits them and to try to lighten the transfer of power to him, and that now the Russian president is being played by his double. Even though it sounds phantasmagorical, there is a feeling that it may be true. Could the ascended masters comment on this?


Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels.  This answer was given during the 2024 New Year webinar

You need to recognize that even a person who supposedly has as much power as Putin is just sort of a front figure. Behind him is a power apparatus made up of a number of people in physical embodiment, but of course the dark forces also in the emotional realm, mental and lower identity realms. What has happened is that there was, during the fall of 2023, a certain shift where a part of this entire power apparatus reached the end of its line, so to speak, which allowed the ascended masters to step in and remove some of these beings, especially in the emotional, mental and identity realms.

There are some people who have intuitively sensed that there was a shift. It is just that they have been too focused on Putin himself as the front figure. And this is of course by design because the Russian power elite have set up Putin as the front figure. It is natural that people project this unto him. But it is not actually the case that he died and he is played by a double. But it is the case that there was a shift which eventually will work its way into the physical so that it will, and it is actually already starting to have certain ramifications for what will happen in the Russian power elite. And you will see some of this unfold in 2024. But this is not to say that I will make some detailed prediction about exactly how it will unfold. But there has been a shift so that the entire power apparatus behind Putin has started a downward spiral of losing power.

 

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The end of the war in Ukraine

Question: What is the probability that a war in Ukraine will drag on for 2024? Not wanting to get under mobilization, my husband stays home. Because of his sedentary lifestyle, he suffers health problems. Recently, there have been many cases of men being drafted, regardless of their desire to fight, and literally dragged to the military recruitment center by force. Is there any chance that the occupied part of the Zaporizhzhya region will remain under Russia even after the end of the war?


Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels.  This answer was given during the 2024 New Year webinar

Well, it was certainly our hope that the war would find some kind of resolution sooner than now. But given that this has not happened for a variety of reasons, then it is safest to assume that it will drag on throughout 2024.

It is also a possibility that the occupied regions will remain under Russian occupation throughout this coming year. There are various scenarios that could end the war, and one of these scenarios is that some of these Donetsk regions will join Russia in order to create some kind of peace. I do not want to give particular prophecies because the situation is too fluid. But in your particular situation, it is safest to assume that the war will drag on for the next year.

 

Copyright © 2024 Kim Michaels

Individual illusions at each level of consciousness

Question: Can I determine the base illusion of each level I am on? Is there a way to identify that?


Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels.  This answer was given during the 2024 New Year webinar

Well, you can use the tools we have given, including the Course of Self-Mastery, where you go up through the seven rays. And then that might give you an intuitive insight of what it is for you individually. There are, of course, certain general trends, but it is not so that each person who is at the 48th level must come to the exact same vision of the exact same illusion, because it is formulated differently in your individual minds. You can certainly come to identify that.

There is not really a base illusion on each level. There is an illusion that keeps you at that level. You may have other separate selves that are not associated with a particular level but that you still have not resolved. For example, when you start the spiritual path at the 48th level, you may still have quite a number of selves that you created while you were below the 48th level, and therefore, they are based on separation and duality. And it may take you some time. It is not that you resolve all of these selves before you can start the path. You may bring those with you and gradually resolve them as you move higher.

 

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The relationship between the I AM Presence, the Christ self and the Conscious You

Question: Please tell us more about the relationship between our I AM Presence, Higher self, Christ self and us. In the given teachings the I AM Presence is called either our Father or they say that it has not ascended yet or is our Higher self. By what criteria does the I AM Presence provide us with energy, knowledge, etc.? How does the I AM Presence communicate with us even if we do not hear it? What exactly does the Christ self do? Why is it necessary to give up the Christ self in favor of other people?


Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2024 New Year webinar.

Well, we have already given extensive teachings on this and especially at the Korean conference where we gave teachings on the I AM Presence and how the I AM Presence communicates. What we can say is that, to give a brief summary, that at the lower levels of the path, your Conscious self is so focused on the outer personality, the outer selves, that you cannot make a direct connection to your I AM Presence. That is where the intermediate self, which we have called the Christ self, comes into the picture. And the Christ self is created by the ascended master that works most closely with your lifestream. It is an intermediate self that helps you connect to the Christ self. But you will also see if you look back that our talk about the Christ self was given at a time when we had not given the teachings about the Conscious You. When you come to the point where the Conscious You starts becoming more aware of itself, becoming more aware that it is not the outer selves, then the Conscious You no longer needs the Christ self because it can connect directly with the I AM Presence without anything in between.

Then you naturally give that up, and the ascended master who extended that Christ self can then help another person who is beginning to walk the spiritual path. You must realize that people who are not walking the spiritual path, in a sense do not really have a Christ self, because they cannot even make use of that. There is always the Christ consciousness that they can connect to so that they have the opportunity even at the lowest level of consciousness to see the illusion there. But it does not mean that an ascended master has sponsored, as we might say, that lifestream by extending a part of itself as the Christ self. That only happens when people reach a higher level of consciousness and start the spiritual path in earnest. In terms of how the I AM Presence communicates with you, at the lower levels of the path, you might receive worded communications from your I AM Presence. It could be a warning, for example, not to do this or not to do that. But as you again become more aware of yourself as the Conscious You, as neutral awareness, as not being the outer personality, the I AM Presence stops doing this because it does not want you to see it as an external self.

At the lower levels of the path, you can only conceive of your I AM Presence that way. That is why, for example, in previous dispensations, they had a chart of the I AM Presence where you had you as the lower figure and the I AM Presence was high above you. In the I Am Movement, they did not have a Christ self, in the Summit Lighthouse they did have a Christ self. But as you become more aware of yourself as the Conscious You, you need to actually let go of the chart because you do not want the image in your mind that there is this gap, this distance between you and the I AM Presence. You want to begin to experience that the I AM Presence is here with you, is all around you. It is in a higher vibrational realm but it is still all around you. And therefore, the I AM Presence does not want to reinforce the sense of separation by being the booming voice that talks to you from without. It gives you, either this small still voice within, or it gives you just a frame of reference, a certain energy that helps you evaluate what is the higher energy, what is coming from the outer selves.

And this also means that the I AM Presence can change how it releases energy to you. At the lower levels, it might release energy to help you in a difficult situation but at the higher levels, it will not release an energy that makes you feel like some exterior force is doing something for you. It will be that the I AM Presence expresses itself through you as you are open to it. And this requires a switch of the mind where you now realize that you actually, you can only experience the I AM Presence. At the lower levels, you have a mental image of what the I AM Presence is. At the higher levels, you realize, you experience the I AM Presence as it is expressing itself through you.

 

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Phobias and negative intrusive thoughts

Question: Please tell me how I can work through the negative attitudes that are automatic and a drag from childhood. I also have many health phobias and negative intrusive thoughts. I often feel that I fight with them and drive them away and that causes more fear and anger at myself. I go to a psychologist but the effect is temporary.


Answer given by the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given at the 2024 New Year webinar.

Well, the answer really is that you use our teachings and tools about the separate selves and about the need to use decrees and invocations to resolve the energy stored in your physical, emotional, mental and identity bodies. It is a process of resolving the energy, coming to see the self, one self, coming to see the illusion it is based on and resolving that. Then you move on to another self. It is not something that can be done in a short period of time, but it can be done.

All of these phobias, intrusive or forceful thoughts are just what makes you vulnerable to them are the separate selves. Some of these are projections coming from lower forces, but what gives them an opening into your mind are the separate selves that makes you believe in this. Using force to suppress them is not the ultimate approach. It is, as you can see, just a temporary approach. It does not actually work. Why? Because it does not resolve anything. It does not resolve the separate selves.

Now, you need to recognize that as a spiritual person, you are a target of the fallen beings and lower forces. They are constantly projecting thoughts and emotional energies at you and they have been doing this your whole life. They have been doing this in previous lifetimes and they will do this for the rest of your life. Even if you reached the 144th level of consciousness on earth, there are still projections at you from these lower forces. The difference is that if you do not have a self that believes in these projections or reacts to these projections, then you will not even notice them. They will just pass right through you. As Jesus said: “The prince of this world cometh and hath nothing in me.” That is the only way to get rid of these in the long run. Resolve the selves and then, when you have resolved some of the selves, you come to a point where you can recognize: “Oh, it is just a projection.”

This messenger was resting last night after yesterday and suddenly he felt some thoughts coming into his mind and he immediately realized: “Oh, these are just projections,” and he just ignored them and let them pass through. Because naturally the dark forces are not happy with him being a messenger and taking the dictations he took yesterday and leading the invocations and decrees, so they were attempting to project some thought that could disturb him. And it is the same with all of you. The higher you go on the path, the more of a target you become in a certain sense, but the less vulnerable you become to the attacks. You just let it pass through you.

 

Copyright © 2024 Kim Michaels

Are emotions the physical body’s reaction to thoughts?

Question: Some spiritual teachers, Eckhart Tolle and others, define emotions as the physical body’s reaction to thoughts. And we know that the processes in the emotional body precede what happens in the physical body. Could the ascended masters please comment on this issue.


 Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. The answer was given at the 2024 New Year webinar.

Well, we have given many teachings on this where we have said that you have the four lower bodies, the physical, emotional, mental and identity. And that the natural flow of energy is that the energy first enters the identity body, takes on certain forms and matrices there, then goes into the mental, then into the emotional and then the physical. And we have said that the patterns that are imposed in the identity body set the parameters for what the mental mind can do. And likewise, the patterns that are imposed on the identity and mental bodies set the parameters for the emotions.

It is certainly correct that the emotions are the consequence to a large degree of what goes on in the mental and identity realm. However, it also needs to be recognized that, in a current situation on earth, there is a lot of turmoil in the emotional body, the collective emotional body. There is what we have called the astral plane in the lower realms of the emotional body of the planet. And there are beings there who have found ways to insert what we might call hooks or great openings in people’s emotional body. There are certainly many people where you can say that it is not so that everything that happens in the emotional body of these people is a direct result of what happens in the mental and identity bodies. Because these people’s emotional bodies have become open to these influences and they are often pulled into a reaction where their minds are taken over by these lower forces. This is what often causes people to commit violent crimes, terrorist attacks, other kinds of atrocities. You can, of course, say that, well, what made the person open to his emotional body being invaded by these lower forces was, of course, some patterns in the mental and identity body.

But still the emotional body has almost for some people a life of its own where it is not controlled by the mental and identity. This is the natural flow. And defining emotions as the physical body’s reaction to thoughts, it is really not what we teach. As I said, we teach that there is a flow from the identity, mental, emotional and physical. There is, of course, also a return flow. When you take a physical action and you experience this at the physical level, there is, of course, a return current that goes up through the emotional, mental and identity bodies and you have to deal with that. But the way you deal with that is based on the patterns established in these three higher bodies. You cannot correctly say that emotions are caused by the physical body’s reaction to thoughts because the physical body is not really reacting to thought. The physical body is primarily reacting to physical conditions in the world, what happens to you from outside your body or even physical conditions inside the body.

And you could say that the physical body does not interact directly with the emotional, mental and identity bodies. It is the emotional, mental and identity bodies that interact with the physical body and it is also really those that react to physical situations. It is not really your physical body that reacts in a mental way to outer situations. It reacts in a physical way. And, as we have explained, you can have that lower aspect of the brain, the reptile brain, as Saint Germain mentioned in his dictation, that has programs that react to certain situations. But it is just reacting without having any feelings or thoughts about it. It is not thinking how to react. It just reacts. The reaction at the emotional, mental level happens in the higher bodies. Many emotions are, of course, triggered by what happens at the physical level, but not exclusively so.

 

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Helping criminals resolve their psychology

Question: Unfortunately, we are still far from the moment when society will develop a well worked method of healing the psyche of criminals. No one can guarantee that when they are released from prison, they will not harm other people again. Is it the state’s task to protect its citizens? In terms of the law of free will, is it fair to allow those who have severely harmed their victims to return to a place where they can repeat those atrocities? And doesn’t society take some responsibility for such repeated crimes since they could have been prevented if the perpetrator had not been given that opportunity? Are there any options for solving this problem?


Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given at the 2024 New Year webinar.

Well, it is certainly true that society bears some responsibility if it releases a criminal who then goes out and does more crimes. It is also very true that society has the responsibility to the fact that the criminal justice system is currently focused on punishment rather than helping criminals heal the psychology that caused them to be criminals.

There is no easy solution to this in the short term other than realizing that you need to move beyond the current justice system that is focused on punishment. And one way to do this is, of course, to say what is the ultimate purpose of having a justice system that arrests criminals and puts them in jail for offenses they have done? But it is ultimately to protect the citizens who are law-abiding citizens. Having a certain crime such as stealing from other people be associated with a prison sentence of so and so many years is not an optimum approach. Obviously, being in prison often will not reform the criminal so it will go out again and do the same thing again. This is not fulfilling the responsibility towards those citizens who are not criminals. What can be done?

Well, you have two options here. Either you extend the prison sentences or you create some kind of process for helping criminals do two things. One is to increase their skills so that they can actually come out of prison and have a better opportunity for making an honest living rather than having to steal. And number two, resolve their psychology so they are not trapped in this self-centered state of mind where they think it is legitimate to steal from other people. Of course, the same thing can to some degree be applied to more severe crimes. And, of course, as you say, this is not currently realistic in many countries but it is certainly the way society needs to move. But, of course, in the golden age there will be much more focus on preventing people from becoming criminals. By, as I have described, helping them from an early age learn how to deal with their psychology so they can function well in society and make a living without having to go into crime.

Or they can overcome the psychology so they do not respond with violence or murder when they feel they are in a difficult situation. In the long run, it is really a matter of preventing more than punishing crime. And this, of course, can only be done by working with the psychology of people because what is it that turns a criminal into a criminal? It is unresolved psychology. There are many theories out there and some say that some people are genetically predisposed to commit crime. Some people have a brain disorder that makes them disposed to commit crime. All of this is not the ultimate understanding. The ultimate cause of crime is unresolved psychology from past lives and unless you can find a way as a society to help people with this, you cannot prevent crime. But in the golden age societies will begin to do this, and therefore, you will see the crime rates drop dramatically. Of course, in the golden age, there will also, at least in an interim period, have a system where if somebody does commit a crime, they will not be put in a prison that is punishment but in various facilities that help them resolve the psychology. And only if they show no unwillingness to this, will they be put in more of a prison situation. Because society will realize that if people are not willing to resolve their psychology, you cannot let them out into society again.

 

Copyright © 2024 Kim Michaels

Being an open door vs. selfishness 

Question: Does the one who is a conductor of high energy have the right to use this energy to materialize anything for itself or can this energy be used only for the benefit of oneness?


Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. The answer was given during the 2024 New Year webinar.

Well, the entire point of the spiritual path is that you become more and more an open door for your I AM Presence, for the ascended masters, and therefore, higher energies can stream through you. And you can say that the way the question is asked, you would say that people who are in doubt about what is for themselves and what is for a greater good are not yet fully the open door. You really, in order to become the open door, you become neutral, and therefore, you realize that you transcend the selfishness that you see in the world.

And therefore, you would not use these energies for a selfish purpose but that does not mean you cannot do anything for yourself because it is a part of your life plan, your divine plan, it is a part of your service to life. For example, in order to function well, most people need a place to live and you need to have a certain income. There is nothing wrong with manifesting this when it supports your divine plan. Now if you did it for selfish purposes that would, of course, not be constructive, but then you are not really the open door for your I AM Presence and the ascended masters. There is an entire culture in the world of people who want to manifest something for themselves. There is an entire culture, for example, around this law of attraction where people are trying to use various means to manifest, for example, a big house or a car or income or fame or fortune or the right job or the right partner or any kinds of other things. And this is done from the perspective of a separate self that wants to gain something for itself.

And it is not that some people cannot have some success in manifesting what they want because, as Jesus said, there are some that attempt to take heaven by force. There are fallen beings who are good at manifesting things but they are not actually using higher energy in the sense of energy that comes from the spiritual realm. They are using energy that comes from the four levels of the material universe that they are stealing from other people. It is possible to manifest things this way but this is not using higher energy, it is done clearly for selfish purposes. This entire culture around the law of attraction is really driven by some people and even some beings who are channeling these teachings that are very self-centered and self-focused. And many, many people, even many spiritual people have been pulled into this entire culture of thinking that the ultimate goal of life is to manifest all the material things you want. Of course, you can say such people are not on the spiritual path whatever they think about themselves.

They are not on the real spiritual path where you surrender your attachment to material things and it is more important for you to reach a higher state of consciousness than to have certain material things. But, as I said, there is always a balance to be found because in order to be a spiritual person and fulfill your divine plan you need certain physical conditions. And it is legitimate to use the energy from the spiritual realm to manifest the conditions that are part of your service to life and part of what you need to do to grow in this lifetime. It is important to realize that it is not just a matter of abandoning or forsaking material things. If you are in your last embodiment, for example, there may be some material thing that you desire to experience in order to get to the point where you have had enough of that experience and can move on. If you take the book by Yogananda, he describes how, at a certain point, his guru took him in his mind into a state where the guru gave to him a palace. Yogananda walked around in the palace for some time and the guru explained that it was because he had a subconscious desire to have a palace and he needed to experience having the palace even if it was not physical in order to get beyond the desire and move on with his divine plan.

And the same thing with you. You can have a certain desire for material things that you need to experience for time so you can move on. And in that case, it is legitimate to use the energy to materialize this but you will notice that if you really are a spiritual person, you will not be attached to having this. You will appreciate the experience but you will not be attached to it, and therefore, you can come to that point where you feel that now it is time to let it go. I have had enough of it. It is time to move on. If you cannot move on or if you cannot consider moving on, then that shows an attachment. Then you need to look for that separate self that has the attachment and let the self go and when you let the self go, well then, you no longer need the physical thing.

 

Copyright © 2024 Kim Michaels

How do I know if my divine plan includes having a child?

Question: How does anyone realize that their divine plan includes the need to have a child? Is it essential for all women to become biological mothers, or is it possible to adopt a child if there is such an impulse and there is a fear of pregnancy and childbirth? Can fears about childbirth be from past lives if there were some disharmonious situations related to it?


Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2024 New Year webinar.

Well, the only way to really become aware that your divine plan includes having a child is intuitively. You come to a point where you just know it, you just sense it from within, that this is the natural step for you. It is not a decision you make with the outer mind. Now, for many women, you have grown up in a society where you have been programmed, brainwashed from a small child that you should be a mother, you should have children. It is just what you do when you are a woman. In order to really have good intuition about what is in your divine plan, you need to become aware of this and step away from it and let go of these selves that have been created and that you have taken on from your culture.

You can be neutral. “Is it in my divine plan or is it not?” Certainly, it is not in all women’s divine plan, especially in this age, as we have said before. You take the book about women, liberating women, and you will see that we talk about it there, that not every woman has it in their divine plan to have children because they want to accomplish something in society. Then, concerning the question of whether you can have a fear of childbirth, and therefore, should adopt, well, certainly you can adopt instead of having children. But you could also take the approach that: “If I have a fear of childbirth, it comes from a separate self and I can resolve that separate self.” Naturally, many, many women have experienced, in past lives, difficulties with childbirth. Just look at even today, how there are many areas of the world where you do not have the kind of safety system and medical help that you have in the more developed countries, where it can be very dangerous and very difficult to have children. Many women experience dying during childbirth or giving birth to a stillborn child in past lives, and therefore, they come into this lifetime with that fear.

But again, what you need to do there is look at this, transmute the energy, resolve the separate self so you can again be neutral and see is it in your divine plan to have a child or not, because the last thing you want to do is to have a fear from a past life to prevent you from fulfilling your divine plan in this life.

 

Copyright © 2024 Kim Michaels

Signs of higher levels of consciousness

Question: Some teachings say that the higher we rise on the path, the higher the intensity of our life on the physical plane should be. That is, the external activity becomes higher and higher. It seems to me to be an unbalanced approach. What do the ascended masters think about this?


Answer from the Ascended Master Jesus through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2024 New Year webinar

Well, again, there is no standard from what it means to be the Living Christ or to be in a higher state of consciousness. But it is certainly a limitation to say that your life becomes more intense and your outer activity becomes more intense the higher you rise on the path. Just look at the Buddha. You may say, in a certain way, that his life became more intense because he taught. But you may also know that the Buddha actually withdrew from teaching three months of the year to rest or meditate and go within. And the other thing you can say is that: “What does it mean that your outer activity becomes more and more intense?” There is a limit to what a human being can do. You only have so much energy, you only have 24 hours a day, you have to sleep part of the time, you have to take care of your physical body.

The whole idea that rising to higher levels of consciousness means that you run faster and faster is just not practically realistic. What you see in the Buddha is that even though he engaged in teaching, he was actually more and more at peace in his own mind. It would be more constructive to say that regardless of what outer activity you engage in, your inner life, your state of mind becomes more and more peaceful, more and more neutral we can say. There is more equanimity in your mind. Because, as we have said, as you rise higher on the spiritual path, you rise above the dualistic consciousness. You are not pulled into the extremes. Therefore, you become more and more centered. You transcend the whole unbalanced extreme scale. And therefore, you are at peace within.

And what you unfortunately see in the world is that there is this, as you say, idea out there, not only in spiritual teachings, but also in the business world, for example, that certain people are more active, are more intense, are more driven, have a clear goal, and want things to happen, and they pull other people into helping them make it happen. And this is a sign of some superior state. But this is often driven by the fallen beings. Because the fallen beings are the ones who are obsessive compulsive about seeking to create this outer self that reaches some state of perfection that they think can force God to let it into heaven. But as we have said many, many times, this can never work.

You may have a certain person who claims to be a spiritual person and who is being very, very intense, and who is seeking to make this seem like a sign of spiritual advancement. But, is it? Or is it actually a sign that the person has some unresolved self, subconscious self, that is driving the person to think that it can work its way into heaven, force its way into heaven? What have we said so many times? You cannot force your way into heaven. It is by stopping to use force that you find yourself in heaven. This is a delicate issue, because you cannot apply a black and white evaluation of it.

There are those who were around me when I was in embodiment, and it would say I was very intense, very driven. And that is partly because I knew I had only three years. It is also partly because I had to work through the opposition to my mission, and in order to even survive psychologically, I had to be very focused, and therefore, became quite intense. I would not allow anyone to pull me away from my mission. But this was only for three years because I had a short mission. And part of this intensity was, quite frankly, unresolved subconscious selves that I did not fully let go of until I was hanging on the cross and gave up the ghost. Whereas the Buddha had a longer mission, stayed in embodiment longer, and let go of all the selves so that he could teach from a state of peace. Now, there is another evaluation to be made here, and that is that when you become an open door for the Christ mind, the One mind, just your mere presence can stir up in many people their unresolved substance because they sense that you are at peace but they are not. And when they are around other people that are not at peace, they do not notice this in themselves.

But when they are around somebody who is at peace, then they notice their unpeace in themselves and this can feel agitating to them and because these people have unresolved psychology, they always project out. They are saying: “Oh, this person, this spiritual teacher is very intense, because I always feel agitated around him or her.” But is the teacher intense, or is it just their experience? Because they experience the contrast between the teacher’s peace of mind and their own lack of peace.

You see that it is not such a simple question to answer. But what I will say is this, as you rise to higher levels of consciousness, you transcend duality, you transcend the pairs, your mind is not pulled into extremes, you become more and more neutral. Therefore, you become more and more at peace. In your own mind, you are at peace and you also overcome any need to push or force other people to comply with your vision or your goal. And therefore, you can be yourself and allow people to be whatever they are at the moment. You can be and let be.

 

Copyright © 2024 Kim Michaels

How to manifest Christhood in a totalitarian state

Question: How can one manifest their Christhood in a totalitarian state where there are no rights and freedoms for self-expression? At any moment such a person can be forced into a mental hospital or be imprisoned. In such a case, what about those who have put in their divine plan to become the living Christ in embodiment?


Answer from the Ascended Master Jesus through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2024 New Year webinar

There is no standard for what it means to be the living Christ. It is something that you decide by becoming an open door for the I AM Presence. It is not a matter of you with the outer mind saying: “What should I do? Is there any point in expressing my Christhood if I end up in a mental hospital or prison?” It is the matter of you using our teachings and tools to work towards having that greater sense of oneness with the I AM Presence until you become an open door for allowing the I AM Presence to express itself through you. And then whatever the consequences of that is, you accept that and live with it. You see, if you say with the outer mind: “I should not end up in a mental hospital or prison”, then you are limiting your Christhood. However, if you think that the only way to be the living Christ in a totalitarian state is to end up in a mental hospital or prison, that is also limiting your Christhood. You cannot know with the outer mind. What you need to do is to strive for work towards oneness with the I AM Presence and a greater intuitive sense of your divine plan.

And then, you will know from within. Now, there may be many of you who have chosen to embody in a totalitarian state, not because you wanted to rebel against or speak out against the state with the inevitable consequence of that, but because you wanted to be the living Christ in embodiment in another way where you are not necessarily speaking out. At least not in a public forum, but you can maybe do it in private, or you can simply achieve a higher degree of Christhood whereby you become the open door for radiating light into the collective consciousness. There is more than one way to be the living Christ. It is not necessarily that you go into the temple and overturn the tables of the money changers and allow yourself to be crucified. But you see my point, you cannot decide this with the outer mind. You cannot decide that this should not happen or this should happen. Being the living Christ is being the open door for the I AM Presence and allowing whatever comes to come. But you are not deciding with the outer mind, you are letting it flow.

As we expressed in Kazakhstan, you become one with the River of Life and you allow the River of Life to flow through you, however the river, the Holy Spirit wants to flow in your particular situation. It is not a guarantee that being the living Christ at a totalitarian state ends up with you being imprisoned or put in a mental hospital or killed. This is not the only way to be the living Christ. Naturally, the living Christ is not about achieving a certain outer result. It is about working in the long term towards raising the collective consciousness which will bring change. Taking some kind of ultimate stand and being killed, it will in many situations not be the ultimate way to be the Christ. It is better to stay in embodiment for a long time, be an open door for the light radiated into collective consciousness so that the nation changes over a longer period of time. But again, there is no standard, so you need to tune in. And, of course, you also need to make that decision at the level of the Conscious You, that you are willing to be an open door for the I AM Presence, whatever the consequences may be.

 

Copyright © 2024 Kim Michaels

How to recognize the voice of my higher self

Question: What is the distinctive feature between the voice of my I AM Presence and the voice of Jesus? By what criteria can I perceive this difference? How do I realize that it is not my imagination at all? I have a very strong mentality, and it is almost like because of this, I do not trust my intuition, as I question everything about my feelings, foreboding and a lot of self-doubt.


Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2024 New Year webinar

Well, when you are very focused in the mental mind, it is almost meaningless to talk about the difference between the voice of your I AM Presence and the voice of Jesus. Because the first thing you need to do is deal with this focus on the mental mind. This is, of course, a very common problem in the modern age, because society has become so reliant on what we call the analytical, linear, rational, logical mind instead of helping people develop a balance between the rational mind and the intuitive mind, between intuition and reasoning.

The fact that you are open to spiritual teaching shows that you have intuition. You have to use our tools for resolving the subconscious selves. Because it is not simply that the rational mind makes you doubt. As we have explained, the intellectual rational mind can argue for or against any issue. This is what gives you the basis for doubt, that you can say: “Well, is it really the voice of my I Am Presence? Is it my intuition? Or is it some other source that it is coming from?” But it is not the rational mind itself that creates the doubt, it is the separate self.

And the fallen beings are very clever at targeting spiritual people and exposing them to situations where they create a subconscious self that makes you doubt yourself. Because you feel you have made such a terrible mistake, and you should not have done this. And now you do not really know how you can avoid this in the future. And some people become so paralyzed that they refuse making decisions. And some people go in another direction and reach for some kind of source that can tell them what is the infallible thing to do in every situation.

But this is just a self, or rather separate self, two selves, at least, that are created in a specific situation. And you need to discover those selves, look at them, see the illusion they were based on, and dissolve them. And one very common reaction, and I am not trying to say that everybody has the exact same belief, but one very common belief in this context is that you have created a self that says: “I cannot make the right decisions by myself. I am not capable of making the right decisions.” This blocks you from daring to make decisions, daring to experiment. But if you look at this self, you will see that there is a deeper self that has the belief that there are right decisions and wrong decisions.

And this is, as we have said, the fallen beings created the standard and said everything should be compared to the standard. Everything, every decision should be evaluated based on was it right in an ultimate sense, was it wrong in an ultimate sense. And these are the selves you need to look at and dismiss them and say: “This is unreal, this is just an illusion. I am a co-creator. I have been given free will because I learned by experimenting.” And it is not a matter of saying choices were right or wrong. It is a matter of realizing that any choice can help you learn, can help you grow, can help you expand your sense of self. This is what you need to, first of all, work with. Why are you so focused on the mental mind and what is it, what separate selves do you have related to making your own decisions? And instead of evaluating the consequences based on right and wrong, saying: ”How can I learn from this? How can I grow from this? How can I turn it into a positive experience?” Now, in terms of the difference between the voice of Jesus and your I AM Presence, well, Jesus is an ascended master who is outside of you.

And we have said this in the Korean conference where we talked about connecting to your spiritual teachers and your higher self. An ascended master will always be perceived as being outside of yourself. This is a voice that comes from the outside. Your I AM Presence, however, is not outside yourself. It is actually who you are. You are an extension of it. The voice of your I AM Presence comes from inside yourself and it often does not even come as a grueling voice from heaven. It comes from this still small voice within that often is not really words but a sensation, a frame of reference. Again, you can look at the dictations from the Korean conference that are in the new book and there is more teachings on this.

 

Copyright © 2024 Kim Michaels

More student choice at school

Question: Nowadays, children and teenagers are forced to go to school, but they are required to pass specific exams. The younger generation faces compulsion from the state machine, and often from their parents, who demand academic progress from their children. All this can harm their character, causing school bullying and other problems as well. I know that the ascended masters have said that children should be taught psychology and something directly related to practical life. However, should we not start by allowing children at any age to choose subjects and educational settings voluntarily or exclude them from the program if they so choose?


Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2024 New Year webinar

Well, what you run into is that many nations have a specific agenda for the educational system. And if you look back at communism and even look at Russia today, you see clearly that the state wants to, should we say, brainwash children to accept certain ideas. And it is not that this is not found in the West as well, or other nations. There are many times where a state has a certain agenda. And a part of that agenda is, of course, to bring up children that can be useful to the business world and that can fit into society and will abide by the norms and standards of society.

This is one aspect. And in order to give people, children more freedom in the educational system, well, you would have to overcome that aspect. But you do, of course, see in some nations that there are more alternatives than state-sponsored education. It is clear that beyond this desire for the state to educate children a certain way, there is also a practical reality. If you are creating a state educational system, a nationwide educational system, well, there is the practical reality of how diversified it can be. The more diversification, the more resources you need. The more choices you give children, the more resources you need to devote to this. Therefore, you can say that as a practical reality, you could have, at least in an interim period, a state educational system that is somewhat standardized. And then you could have private schools that are an alternative for those parents who want their children to have more choices. But, of course, in the golden age, educational systems will be more diversified and children will have more free choices.

Now, what you run into here is that: “Can a five-year-old child really choose how it wants to be educated? Can it choose what it wants to study? Does it have enough experience and awareness to do this?” You have to give children a foundation. Therefore, you could say that you could create a basis education, the minimum education of what children needed to learn. And this could be, you know, reading, writing, some basic math, some basic awareness of society, but it should also and will, in the golden age, include psychology, so that children learn to work on their psychology. And you could then have an educational system that uses this education in psychology to identify children with specific psychological issues, often coming from past lives, as we have talked about many times. And then you would say that you could help all children find a program for resolving psychology that they could follow. And when they had reached a certain level of resolution of psychology, then you could present them with a wider array of choices for their further education.

That way, you would give people a solid foundation to start on, you would help them resolve psychology, so that they could make better choices of what they actually want to do. In many cases, the children who do not function well in an educational system, it is because they have such severe psychological issues that they cannot really function with other people. For these children, it is not really a matter of giving them more choices. It is a matter of saying: “What is the psychological issue that this child needs to resolve?”, so that it can make better choices about its future, instead of rebelling against the educational system as a means to avoid dealing with a psychological issue, or just because the child is so wrapped up in the psychological issue that it cannot do anything else. You see what I am saying? There is a balance between saying: “Oh, here are some children that do not want to be taught the traditional way. And we should give them as much freedom as possible.” versus saying: “Is it possible that this child has some psychological issues, and it would be better to resolve those before it is allowed to choose how it wants to be educated?”

There is a balance to be found, and in the golden age, as you move further and further into the golden age, they will be more and more focused on the psychology of the child. Because there will be the realization that the primary function of the educational system is not to fill the child’s mind with knowledge, but actually to help the child resolve its psychology and put it on a constructive track for the rest of its life.

 

Copyright © 2024 Kim Michaels

How do we resolve this overwhelming number of separate selves? 

Question: Over many lifetimes we have created an enormous number of separate selves. If overcoming each of them requires consciously discovering and abandoning limiting beliefs, it would take an insanely long time. Could the masters please give more insight on this issue?


Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2024 New Year webinar

Well, you can say that if you look at a specific person, that person may have a fairly large number of separate selves. But actually if you are talking about spiritual people who are open to the spiritual path, you have already overcome some of your separate selves in past lifetimes so you would not be open to the spiritual path. And you certainly would not be open to looking at your own psychology in a more conscious deliberate way.

Many spiritual people do not have an unlimited number of selves. But the other thing you can say is that there are, of course, any number of selves you can create as a reaction to specific situations on earth. However, there is not an unlimited number of different kinds of selves you can create. When you start looking, and this is something we may give further teachings on at some point, when you start looking at separate selves, you realize that many separate selves were created in a specific situation, but they are based on the same overall belief, the same overall reaction. You can see, as we have said before, that for an avatar who came to earth or even for an original inhabitant to encounter the fallen beings, you received a birth trauma, you created the primal self. But from the primal self, you created other selves that relate to your specific reaction when you received a birth trauma. And in a sense, you could say that all of your separate selves spring from that birth trauma. But you can also go up and say that there are certain general reactions that people have.

There was a situation where, for example, you created a self based on reacting with anger. You can have many other situations where you reacted with anger, and there may be various selves that are created based on this reaction with anger. But if you can come down and resolve that original self, then either these later selves will be dissolved along with it, especially if you dissolve the energy, or you can very quickly dissolve the subsequent selves once you have dissolved the main self. It is not actually as difficult or as time consuming as you might think. Certainly, you know, it does not take as long to dissolve the selves as it took to create the selves. And that is why it is not an unrealistic goal that you can achieve the dissolution of a majority of your selves in this lifetime, especially if you have started the process in previous lifetimes. You can kind of look at the selves as these trees you see, where you can trace different animal species back to the coming from the same branch that came from another branch, and it all boils down to the primal self in the beginning.

You will see that there are these points where a branch divides, and there is a stem of the branch, and then there are individual branches that come off the stem. Once you find one of these branches, the bigger branches, and dissolve that self, it becomes much easier to deal with the ones that were follow-up selves from the original one. It certainly is not hopeless at all, and it is not overwhelming, and it is not an undoable task. Of course, for most people, it takes longer than you would like, because there is a tendency in the modern world that you want instant gratification, you want instant results. This is not a quick fix, this is not something that can be done in a very short period of time, but it certainly can be done. And of course, the more selves you dissolved in past lifetimes, the shorter of a time it takes in this lifetime. But the main idea I want you to get here is that it is not an overwhelming or hopeless task. It is a doable and achievable task.

 

Copyright © 2024 Kim Michaels

Love relationships as part of the divine plan

Question: While working with the third-ray book, I realized that love relationships are a great tool for spiritual growth and identifying problems in personal psychology. But I have not had such relationships in this lifetime, even though I am no longer young. It seems to me that I have not included them in my divine plan. Can I change my divine plan during the embodiment and include this kind of relationship or will I have to wait for the next incarnation?


Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2024 New Year webinar

Well, naturally, you can change your divine plan. You have free will and you have a right to go in a different direction. But you also need to be aware that just because you have not, up until a certain age, had love relationships does not mean it is not part of your divine plan. Is it a matter of you coming to realize that you want to change your divine plan or is it a matter of this is the time when you become aware that love relationships are part of your divine plan? Of course, you can change your divine plan, but it is also a matter of tuning into your divine plan and maybe it has not been time for you to engage in a love relationship. However, love relationships are, of course, not the only relationships. Even if you have not had a love relationship, you surely had other relationships. And all relationships can, of course, be a great tool for spiritual growth because they bring out reactions in you and your opportunity is to see: “Why am I reacting this way to other people in general or to a specific person? What is it in me that causes the reaction?”

And this is, of course, the hallmark of a spiritual student is that instead of saying: “You did this to me, you made me feel this way”, you are saying: “What is it in me that is causing the reaction and do I want to continue having that reaction or do I want to transcend the reaction and be free of it?”

 

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Overcoming illusions using other spiritual traditions 

Question: To dissolve the separate self, we need to discover the belief on which it is based and find the right wording. As Mother Mary said, how do other spiritual traditions that do not have teachings about the separate selves handle this task? For example, how does this happen in meditation?


Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2024 New Year webinar

Well, naturally, the only way you can ascend from earth is to discover your separate selves and resolve them. People have ascended long before we have given this teaching. What we have done with our teachings on this is to make it easier for people. Because now they know what they are looking for and they can look for it consciously. What has happened, of course, before this teaching was given was that people have done it without being so conscious of what they were doing. But, of course, you can go back to previous times before recorded history and there have been many teachings that used the same ideas and the same tools that we have given you now.

This can happen in many ways. In meditation, many people at least who are aware of this will pay some attention to what thoughts come up in meditation. And if you have a spiritual teaching that relates to somehow transcending something in your own psychology, then you can look at what comes up, come to see it, whether you call it a self or not does not matter. You come to see some kind of belief, some kind of illusion.

This can happen, of course, in many other ways. It can happen in ordinary life situations. It can happen as a result of therapy. Many times people in therapy can come to see a limiting belief and give it up. It can happen as a result of studying spiritual teachings. What we have attempted to do is to give you a more systematic conscious procedure for doing this. But it really is just a matter of coming to see a belief, seeing that it limits you, seeing that it is based on a certain illusion. Many of you have done this throughout your lives. This messenger has done it since childhood without being aware of what he was doing, without having a conscious procedure to follow. It has just happened.

And if you look back in past lifetimes, most of the people who are spiritual today, they have been doing introspection, monitoring themselves, monitoring their state of mind, monitoring their beliefs. All mystical teachings basically are based on the central concept that you have to overcome illusions. You have to go beyond Maya. You find this in the East, Zen Buddhism, other forms of Buddhism, some forms of Hindu mysticism, Sufi mysticism, Western mysticism, Christian mysticism. You have this idea of monitoring yourself, your thoughts, your beliefs, your feelings, and resolving some illusion in your mind, freeing yourself from the illusion. It is not in any way so that this is the only way to do it, but it is one way that is a natural consequence of the previous teachings we have given about psychology.

 

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Kim’s God flame 

Question: In the past, Kim was asked the manifestation of which ray he is, and the answer was loving truth. How come two rays instead of one?


Answer from Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2024 New Year webinar.

Well, this was actually not a matter of the ray. It was a matter of another concept called the God flame. And this is some teachings we got quite a long time ago, and you can go back probably in the older dictations and see them. And the idea was that you have individually a certain God flame that your I AM Presence is out of, and the God flame has an alpha aspect and an omega aspect. That is why there are two qualities.

The alpha aspect is, well, I guess you could say the alpha aspect is truth, and the omega aspect is love. That is why Loving Truth— love, modifies the truth. But it can be any other combination of positive qualities. It is not something they have talked much about for a number of years now, but I think back in 2003— 2008, they were talking more about it. I think you can go on Ascended Master Light and you can find some dictations to talk about it.

 

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The entities attached to human beings 

Question: Whenever a man has demons or evil spirits attached to him when he dies, do they become separated as a result, or do they continue to be attached?


Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2024 New Year webinar.

In general, they stay attached to the person, to the lifestream, to the soul, after the death of the physical body. There can be some that are more attached to the physical body and therefore, must separate when the body disintegrates. When they have, so to speak, sucke all energy out of the body they will go elsewhere.

But those that are attached to the emotional, mental, or identity body, they will stay with the person, and they can, depending on how low the person’s level of consciousness is and the person’s willingness to work with us in between embodiments, they can stay attached to the person in between embodiments so that the person is born with them attached in their next embodiment. And this can repeat itself for many lifetimes.

 

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How did the United States avoid a recession in 2023?

Question: How did the United States avoid a recession in 2023, despite facing one of the fastest and largest interest rate hike cycles in history? Economists and investors seem to have lots of ideas about this, but I am curious if the ascended masters can provide a more holistic and complete explanation.


Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2024 New Year webinar.

Well, I can give you three reasons for this. One factor is that many Americans are optimistic people, and they had to hold back their optimism during the corona pandemic. But when the pandemic was over, they acted out on their optimism, they wanted to start something, they wanted to do something, they wanted to improve their life, and this was driving the economy.

Another aspect is that the Biden administration have done many, many things to stimulate the economy and keep the economy going. I do not want to go too much into specifics here, but the government has actually acted in a fairly wise and balanced way to keep the economy going.

And a third factor is simply my Mother Mary 500 vigil on the economy, which you have now been doing for so long that some of you are wondering how long this can go on. But the reason for this is that we had to use your work to bring the economy of the world forward to a point where it hopefully will not regress, but will keep growing. So do not underestimate the importance of the vigil. This, of course, is not something mainstream economists will ever recognize, but nevertheless, it is a big part of it. It applies, of course, not only to the United States, because the vigil has had a worldwide importance. There are, of course, some countries not touched by it, but nevertheless, many of the more developed democratic nations have been supported by the vigil.

 

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Dancing and spiritual growth 

Question: The ascended masters very often say that we cannot be attached to earthly pleasures, but I really like dancing, it makes me happy. I do not want to quit dancing, how can I combine dancing and my spiritual growth without attachment?


Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2024 New Year webinar.

Well, I know this will sound like a silly answer, but you have to not be attached to dancing, continue dancing without being attached to it. What is dance? It is movement, right? If you are holding onto the wall of the dance hall, how can you dance? Find a way in your mind to do the dancing, enjoy the dancing without being attached to it.

An attachment is an obsessive compulsive need to do something, which actually prevents you from doing it with a neutral or peaceful state of mind. It really prevents you from enjoying it from a higher level of enjoyment. You can also be attached to the spiritual path, and this prevents you from enjoying walking the spiritual path, as many ascended master students have demonstrated over the years, including this messenger when he was younger. Whatever you do on earth, if it is not harmful to other people, try to attain that state of non-attachment where you do not feel a compulsion to do it, you do not feel that you could not pause it for a time or even give it up for a time.

You could say that one way to approach this is to set your priorities. What is most important to you? Dancing or the spiritual path? If you decide that the spiritual path is most important, then you can ask yourself the question: Could I give up dancing? And if the answer is no, then you have an attachment to dancing. When you can say, completely neutrally: Yes I could give it up, then you do not have an attachment, and then you do not have to give it up.

The old ascetic view of the spiritual path is not what we are promoting in the Aquarian age. You do not have to give up all worldly activities in order to make progress on the spiritual path. But you do of course have to give up some worldly activities that are detrimental to your spiritual progress. It does not matter how much you enjoy smoking pot or drinking beer, it will not be compatible with your spiritual progress. But dancing is not one of those activities unless it is something that forces your energies into the base chakra and therefore, creates an imbalance in your base chakra.

 

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Congenital disorders 

Question: My brother-in-law and his wife had a baby a few weeks ago. The baby was unexpectedly born with a congenital heart condition, pulmonary stenosis, which required very serious open heart surgery. He is still alive today, but the situation remains critical. What are the most common spiritual reasons for babies to be born with conditions like this? Or alternatively could this just be another example of how the cookie crumbles on a planet like earth?


Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2024 New Year webinar.

In many cases this is simply because of inherited traits, genetic mutations, or specific physical conditions in the child. But there are certainly cases where it is more of a karmic condition and where it is an outpicturing of the consciousness of the individual. I am not making any remarks about this specific case. I am talking in general terms. There are people who have these serious heart conditions because in past lifetimes they have not developed the heart, the ability of the heart. I am here talking about the heart chakra, but this has a correspondence to the physical heart. It can of course also be what you might call a karmic condition in the sense that they display heartless behavior towards other people in the past life and therefore,  have this karma of having a weak heart.

I am not saying this is the case in all cases, as I said, sometimes it is just simply conditions, physical conditions that are difficult to predict. But there is of course, it is safe to assume at least that there is always some connection between the physical and the spiritual conditions. There is something to be learned from it.

 

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Social skills of the young generation

Question:While the recent generation is more personal, individual and liberal, I am concerned that there are many people in this generation who are not good at following the minimum social etiquette or rules, or who are too hostile to others, at least in Korea. Does this have to do with the fact that I have become more conservative as I get older or is it part of a phenomenon that has resulted from a decline in the birth rate in Korea? I think there is a big pain in groups such as companies and schools due to generational differences.


Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2024 New Year webinar.

Well, yes certainly there is upheaval in these groups. But we have said before in several questions and answers and dictations in Korea that there is a new generation that is meant to bring Korea out of some of these old established patterns that are holding the nation back.

That is why these young people come in to break up, for example the view of the family and marriage and companies and work. You have to recognize here that it is their role to break up the old patterns. When the old generation say they do not have social skills, what is the basis for saying this? It is that they are not following the old patterns. But how can you break up the pattern by conforming to it? Now this is not to say that there are not many young people who do not have a certain level of social skill and they could have better social skills, they could be more neutral in their interactions with the older generation. They do not have to be quite as challenging. But then again there are some younger people, it is their role to challenge these social norms and break them up. You could say yes, the younger generation could be more understanding, but the older generation could also be more open-minded and tolerant and willing to be challenged.

Why do you see the reaction from the older people? Because they are not willing to be challenged. Well, if they had been more willing to be challenged in the past, then you would not have had to have these young people that are so radical or unbalanced in their approach. These things that are being challenged now could have been challenged decades ago. There comes a point where in order for the nation to move forward, these old patterns have to be broken up. And the more the old generation hold on, the more radical the younger generation must be in order to break them up. I am not saying this excuses all behavior. Again young people could be more balanced, but then again so could the older people. It is what it is in the sense that people’s consciousness is the way it is, and it is just a phase you have to work through before the nation finds a new balance.

 

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