Question: How is it that I, as a Conscious You or lifestream, know and experience the Presence and awareness of ascended masters, conscious beings in the higher realm, even without the teachings, but others do not sense these beings, or perhaps not know that is what they sense? Is it what is out-pictured in theirs and mine four lower bodies? Is it because I come into this lifetime with knowledge from previous embodiments? How did Jesus and Mother Mary and Saint Germain come to know of these beings in the ascended realm and not just as this amorphous omnipresent thing or singular Presence out there?Why do we know what we know about the ascended masters?
Answer from the Ascended Master Jesus Christ through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2026 American Webinar.
Well, you do not know ascended masters, you experience ascended masters. There is always the old question, which came first, the chicken and the egg? Which came first, knowledge of ascended masters or experience of ascended masters? And this can vary. There are people who have not had the concept in their outer minds of ascended masters, but who have gradually raised their consciousness, often over several lifetimes, to where they begin to experience that there is something beyond their own outer minds, there is something beyond the material realm, there is some kind of Presence of being. They may not name it, they just experience it. There are many people in the world today who are at this level where they experience something beyond the material realm, some Presence, some being, but they do not have the concept of ascended masters. There are other people who have come across an outer teaching that talks about ascended masters, but who have not had the inner experience.
It is, of course, possible in today’s age where we give public teachings that can be found on the internet or in books, that you can come across this knowledge of ascended masters without having had the experience yet. If you keep working with the teachings and the tools we have given you will eventually have the experience but there can, of course, as you describe, also be those who have attained a connection to the ascended masters in past lifetimes. And therefore, in this lifetime you have that inner knowing which is beyond intellectual outer knowing, that is based on just an intuitive experience of our beings and the experience is so real that it is not a matter of debate, it is not a matter of belief, it is not a matter of doubting, you just know this is reality. This is because in past lifetimes you have established, first of all, the willingness to look beyond your own state of mind instead of always looking for validation, but also that direct connection with us. It is not really for most ascended master students, it is not really that you came to know about ascended masters in this lifetime. It is that you actually became conscious of what you knew and experienced from past lifetimes.
This is not the case for all people, of course, but certainly for most. And why is this? Well, it is because, as we have talked about many times, that you have the immersion experience on earth, in the reality simulator of earth, but after some time you have had enough of immersion and you go into the awakening phase and you go through various stages, and part of the awakening process is to connect to us in the spiritual realm. And you will see that there are many spiritual people on earth who have not attained that connection yet and therefore, even though they can be spiritual and have some insights and understanding, they will often deny that there is anything in the spiritual realm, such as you, for example, have people who are into non-dual teachings, who will say that there is only maya and the undifferentiated Brahman. There is nothing in between. And this is because they are still colored, overshadowed by their own minds and have not really made a genuine connection to something outside their own minds, which in a general sense is the Christ consciousness, but of course as you begin to gain more experiences of the Christ consciousness, you will realize that the Christ consciousness is expressed through individual beings, namely us.
Again, you do not have to call us ascended masters, there are people who have a genuine connection to us, who just do not have that terminology of ascended masters, or even attach names to us. But you who are open to us as we present ourselves now in this age, you are just simply remembering what you already came to know or you are taking the experience that you had from past lives and you are just accepting the outer teachings and the names we are giving, because the inner experience you carry with you validates those teachings, and it is not a problem to call us the names we are officially using. There is no contradiction between the names we are using and your experience.
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