Question: With regard to what Kuan Yin was talking about, how does the second death fit in? Can you really be non-existing? Can you really not exist?
Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2026 Lithuania Conference.
Can you not exist? Well, now we are into some deep philosophical questions. What is the “you” that cannot exist? Surely the separate self can die and not exist, but it is not just a separate self that dies in the second death, it is the Conscious You. The question is: Can the Conscious You not exist? In other words, can the Conscious You experience that it has died and no longer exists? No, because in the second death the Conscious You merges back into the I Am Presence and there is nothing left of the Conscious You and how it saw itself through the many, many separate selves that it had created as it approached that second death.
This is one of these enigmas that are also found in Eastern teachings where they talk about the state of non-self. You overcome your sense of self, but you can never experience non-existence, for if there is non-existence there is no you, there is no ‘experiencer’.
You can say, yes, you cannot exist, but you will not know it so what is the point? The I Am Presence can know it, but even so, you see, the I Am Presence sends the Conscious You into embodiment, but it does not see the Conscious You as separated from itself. And that means that after the second death when the Conscious You is withdrawn or merges back, the I Am Presence just goes back into the same state of awareness without having the Conscious You in embodiment.
Difficult to put words on, but it is not that the I Am Presence is up there thinking: “Oh, the Conscious You does not exist.” The I Am Presence just immediately moves to a new sense of self without the Conscious You, as if it never existed. The experiences in the causal body are there, but not the Conscious You that went through the second death.
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