Question: Why is it that some of us do not have much in the way of outer abilities in this lifetime, making it much harder for us to deal with the outer world and making our way through life, holding down jobs, etc.? Is it something to do with the dismantling process when we are closer to making our ascension or is there some other reason that we do not know about?
Answer from the ascended master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2022 Webinar – Democracy and Christhood.
Well, this is a complex question because there are individual factors. There are many spiritual people who over several lifetimes have built this attitude that we have talked about before, where they see the matter realm, the physical world, as an enemy of their spiritual growth. This has caused many people to create a subconscious resistance, meaning they have created many selves in the three other bodies that cause them to resist doing anything in the physical. And they think this is actually a sign of spiritual growth.
They have this subconscious resistance, sabotaging themselves, because they do not really want to have that job. They do not think they should need to have a job. They think they should be able to be spiritual and live off of being spiritual people or live in a monastery, as they might have done in past lifetimes. This is not a positive momentum, this is not a positive thing. And it is something you should strive to overcome, if you sense that this is the case for you.
Now, there is, of course, another consideration in the sense that there are people who have had a certain momentum in past lives of going into, for example, business, making a career, making lots of money and they have now decided that they want to become more spiritual, so they do not want to put be pulled into this momentum. And therefore, again, they have created this subconscious resistance that prevents them from being pulled into this career spiral or moneymaking spiral that they have been into in past lives. You see that, in either case, it is because there is a certain subconscious resistance. And it is not the highest spiritual approach in either case, although it can be necessary as an interim state for some people to overcome as certain momentum from the past.
But the ideal, the more ideal, is that you are able to participate in physical activities and do well there without being pulled into them, without being pulled into a career race, for example, or money-making race, but you are still able to hold a job, make enough money that you can live a reasonable lifestyle and still have time left over to focus on spiritual activities. It is not a goal that ascended master students should be poor and not have a decent lifestyle and not be able to buy a book or go to a conference or this or that.
If you are a person who is close to making your ascension, who has a goal of manifesting Christhood, higher levels of Christhood, then you naturally will be good at certain things in the physical. You will not have the resistance to it, you will just look at it and say, “Well, I have to do certain things to live, so let me do them as well as possible.”
And that is how you manifest your spiritual goals. If Jesus had been a passive person who could not do anything, how would he have done what he did 2000 years ago? It took a certain momentum. You could say, “What practical skills did he have?” But he did have certain skills of speaking, interacting with people and so forth. You can look at this messenger, who has not led a materialistic lifestyle, but has been able to hold a job in periods where that was necessary, has been able to do well in various jobs, teach himself various skills. And if he had not had the ability to do physical things, how could he accomplish the work he has accomplished, learning new skills of publishing books, publishing websites and so forth?
It is a natural aspect of the higher levels of the path that you are not attached to physical outcomes. You are not pursuing a worldly career, but you are able to do practical things and you are able to learn things, you are able to acquire skills, and this then is part of your spiritual activity, part of your divine plan.
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