Question: Was Van Gogh directly inspired by the ascended masters to show us that the whole world of form is a swirling interplay of light waves? Is this way of painting the way the masters stated we should train our senses to perceive the matter light?
Answer from the Ascended Master Saint Germain through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2022 Webinar for America – The Resurrection of Democracy.
Well, we can certainly say that Van Gogh was inspired by the ascended masters. The question is how direct it was because his mind was somewhat unbalanced. But it is very correct that his paintings can give an inspiration in terms of how you can train yourself to view the matter light as being made up of energy that is constantly moving. It is not necessarily moving the way you see in the paintings, that was what Van Gogh was able to grasp. But he did certainly sense that the world was made up of energy, even though he could not really put words on this. Instead, he put pictures on it.
You need to recognize that many, many people throughout the world who have had a higher vision than is normal have also been somewhat psychologically imbalanced. This is a common theme that you can see throughout history, where those who are open to a different view of reality, are often too open. And therefore, they are overwhelmed by impressions. It can in some cases, be from the astral plane, as you see some of the very dark paintings from the Middle Ages, or the very dark stories that have been written. But it can also be the higher emotional realm, the mental realm, even the identity realm, in a few cases, even the spiritual realm. Many of these people have had a genuine vision, a sense of connection to something beyond the material, and certainly beyond the mass consciousness of their time. But they have not been able to live a balanced life.
This is something you need to ponder as ascended master students, that while it is good to strive to have some kind of vision, it is also necessary to have some kind of balance in your lives. The only reason this messenger has survived for nearly 20 years in his position, is that he has been almost from childhood, aware of the need to have a certain balance. And although some will say his life has not been balanced compared to a normal standard, he has been at least balanced enough in his psychology to continue doing the work he is doing. And that is what you all need to strive for. You need to avoid going into these extremes. You need to avoid having obsessive-compulsive needs, that : “Something needs to happen, something significant needs to happen in my life, and it needs to happen now”. And therefore, you become unbalanced—you seek to take heaven by force, as many people have done.
Balance is really the key to sustainability, the sustainability of your effort. And that means that you can continue to be an open door, to have a greater vision for a longer period of time than instead of this crash and burn syndrome that we have seen in many of these avant-garde progressive people. We do not want to see this for our students. Therefore, we have given you a much more balanced path, more balanced tools and techniques, whereby you can resolve the psychology that makes you unbalanced, because, of course, why was Van Gogh unbalanced? It was because he had all of these separate selves created from past lives going back to when he first ascended to earth as an avatar and received his initial birth trauma. But he did not really know how to heal from this. Therefore, his imbalance kept getting worse and worse for several lifetimes, until it culminated in what you saw in this lifetime.
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