Question: Beloved ascended masters, you have taught that much of the UFO phenomenon arises from the astral plane and that focusing on it can create distraction or dependency. You have also said that highly spiritually evolved civilizations could theoretically travel between systems without interfering in humanity’s development. Some teachings describe advanced civilizations whose technology operates through consciousness and space-time curvature rather than conventional propulsion, suggesting that what appears physically impossible within linear 3D physics may not be impossible within a higher integration of mind and matter. If humanity reaches a level of spiritual sovereignty and vibrational maturity, no longer seeking rescue but engaging in conscious co-creation, could open contact with an advanced physical civilization become lawful cooperation rather than interference? Can the threshold at which contact is appropriate evolve as collective consciousness evolves? And how can sincere students discern between astral fascination and genuine vibrational readiness for broader cosmic interaction?
Answer from the Ascended Master Saint Germain through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2026 Lithuania Conference.
Well, what we have said is not necessarily that there are civilizations just in the astral plane. We have said there are also various groups of people, even civilizations in the mental and lower identity realms. What you see here is you have people throughout history, many, many people, who have been able to tune into something beyond the physical realm, beyond their physical senses. Some have, because of their low state of consciousness, tuned into the lower levels of the astral plane, which is like a hellish realm. Dante’s Nine Circles of Hell, was actually him tuning in to certain vibrational frequencies in the astral plane. Many other people have done the same. You see some near-death experiences who tune into this and have a negative near-death experience, whereas many tune into something higher. There are people who are tuned into this. Some have tuned into the mental realm, some to the lower identity realm.
What you can say is that there are many, many books out there, for example, that have teachings about advanced civilizations in other realms. They are not necessarily saying they are on other planets. Sometimes they do not clarify what they mean, but you could say that in the mental realm of earth there are certain civilizations that people have tuned into. People can have this experience. And if people find this fascinating, well, it is up to their free will to decide what they want to do with it. But you see, what happens is that over time there is a shift in how people conceptualize what they experience. You go back 500 years. Nobody talked about UFOs, spaceships, flying saucers, because back then the collective consciousness was at a different level and there was not the physical technology. They talked about sometimes various creatures, mythological creatures.
Again, you can go back to the Greek mythology and other myths around world and say, have people seen these creatures? Yes, they have. Do they exist, for example, in the astral or the mental realm? Yes, they did back then and some of them still do. It is not that people have not seen something that is there, but then you see that as technology began to be developed, suddenly you saw, for example, comic books, science fiction books that talked about space travel, travel from other realms. And after Einstein’s theory of relativity, you saw there was this realization that no physical object can travel faster than light speed, so they started coming up with warp speed, or jump beyond light speed, or this or that to overcome this physical limitation because they realized as astronomy developed, that there does not seem to be any planet with intelligent advanced life forms close to earth. Therefore, it became clear that it would take them a very, very long time to reach earth. All I am trying to say here is that you have to realize that it is one thing to have an experience beyond the physical senses. It is another to conceptualize this experience in your mind.
If people believe in fairies, gnomes, and unicorns that is how they tend to conceptualize their experience of something, what we might call extrasensory perception. If they have a technological civilization and they think in terms of flying airplanes, flying saucers, this and that, they tend to conceptualize their experience that way. Again, what we have said before is there are planets in the universe that are more advanced technologically than earth but they are not necessarily much more advanced in consciousness. You see these movies where these spaceships come to earth and they want to take earth’s resources. This is not an advanced civilization in consciousness. The law of free will mandates that such civilizations would not be allowed to discover earth because it would interfere with the growth, the unfoldment of free will on earth.
Here could be civilizations that had both the technological development and the development of consciousness that they would not interfere with earth. They would not come here and destroy and take all the resources. But you see, such civilizations would tend to look at earth and say, ”What could we possibly want from this planet? We have transcended the level of consciousness thousands of years ago. What could we gain from interacting with humans?” Then you could say, they could potentially say, “How could we help humans?” But again, such civilizations would have respect for the law of free will. How would they have developed the level of consciousness and technology they have? Only by working with the ascended masters.
There is a level of technological development and a level of consciousness that is a threshold. You cannot go beyond unless a civilization connects to the ascended realm. If such a civilization is working with us, they would not do it against our advice. And I am not saying that in the entire cosmos it has never happened, that there has been interplanetary cooperation. But what I am saying is that you have to ask yourself a simple question. If there is an advanced planet somewhere else that is working with the ascended masters, why would we want them to come to earth if earth has not made contact with the ascended masters? And when people begin to have more contact with us, why would we need an advanced civilization to come and give people the technology instead of people receiving these ideas from us and therefore, gradually developing? You see, part of this entire phenomenon, not only UFOs but advanced technology— there is a certain movement in the collective consciousness that dreams about some fantastic end result where technology has solved all of humankind’s problems. But you see, as we have explained numerous times now, I am not looking at my golden age and saying: “Here is the end goal and I want to achieve that as quickly as possible.” I am looking at a process because the goal is not to achieve a specific technological advancement on earth or a specific civilization. The goal is to raise consciousness and that can only happen gradually.
You see what I am saying. Let’s say you have a planet that is 5,000 years ahead of earth in technological development and now they come to earth and demonstrate their technology, give that technology to human beings. What would be the purpose? They develop that technology through a gradual process of raising consciousness and that is what also needs to happen on earth. Why would I want to catapult earth 5,000 years ahead in technological development when it could not possibly correspond to a development in consciousness because the earth cannot cover that distance in consciousness in one year. It needs to take time because as we have said before, the goal is to raise the individual consciousness, not to manifest a specific advanced civilization. I could care less if people still lived in caves if they had the Buddhic consciousness.
Technology is sort of a double-edged sword because as you can see on earth right now, we have released the technology to split the atom. Has humankind risen in consciousness where they can use that technology wisely? Well, in a sense there has not been a large-scale nuclear war but on the other hand, if they really had risen in consciousness, they would have gotten rid voluntarily of nuclear weapons. You see what I am saying. You take a three-year-old child and give him a machine gun and it will not be pretty. You take earthlings today and give them advanced technology, how could they possibly use it wisely? There would just be more advanced wars>
I do not have a problem as an ascended master with people looking into all kinds of things that are out there, all kinds of phenomena. But we have our old saying: “When the student is ready, the teacher appears”. When people are still focused on phenomena and UFOs and space travel or also physical phenomena, it is not that different from Christians who want miracles. They are still focused on phenomena, that means these people cannot tune into us. They can of course find an ascended master teaching because they are available in the physical realm but they cannot tune into us and therefore: “We must say: “Well, we cannot really work with them personally.”
We can only hope that through the outer teachings they will raise their consciousness and whatever they need to go through to get to that point. You see so many people that grow up without any spiritual understanding. They grow up in a traditional religion or materialism and suddenly they awaken to the, there is more to understand about life, than what they were brought up with and they get interested in all kinds of things. That is not a problem in itself but the thing is this fascination with phenomena can very easily become a distraction from their spiritual growth. Where many people have spent an enormous amount of attention, time and energy on researching all these phenomena that may satisfy curiosity, it may give you intellectual knowledge, but it does not raise consciousness.
What have we talked about so many times? 144 levels of consciousness. Let’s say a person is at the 50th level of consciousness in this life. The person is open to some kind of spirituality, but now he becomes fascinated by all these phenomena and it might spend 10-15 years studying all these kinds of things and it may only raise one or two levels in consciousness in that time.
Whereas if it had been more committed to a real spiritual path, a genuine spiritual teaching, and there are many besides the Ascended Master teachings, it might have risen 10 or 15 levels of consciousness in the same time. And it is the raising in the levels of consciousness that is our objective. That is what we are here to give to humankind. We are not here to satisfy people’s curiosity. We are here to help them transcend their level of consciousness.
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