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Question about the use of microwave ovens

Question: This question is about the use of microwave ovens. Some believe that the use of microwave ovens is harmful to health because the structure of cooked or heated food in it is broken down. Is this really the case and was this technology released by Saint Germain? 

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given at a conference in Korea in 2019.

Well, the technology behind microwave ovens (the microwaves) was released by Saint Germain because it’s part of the ongoing growth in awareness of many different forms of energy waves. But I will say it this way, I would not recommend that ascended masters students use microwave ovens on a regular basis.

It is not necessarily that this is so harmful, that it will deteriorate your health in the short term. But it is also that the heat from a microwave oven has an internal effect on the food that does actually diminish not only its nutritional value, but also the more subtle energies of the food. You have in the eastern philosophy, the concept of chi or the concept of prana, which is considered a subtle energy beyond the physical that is also part of the food. And you, of course have yogic exercises for breathing prana in and taking-in prana.

There are many subtle energies in the food that are beyond what people today see as physical nutrition. I know that there are studies that have been done at the physical level by materialistic scientists that say that there is no harmful effect of microwaving food, but there is a more subtle effect, in the sense that it deprives the food of these more subtle energies. So even if there is not a physical effect of doing this, there is a more subtle effect that you should be aware of as a spiritual person.

There is however, a more psychological aspect of this. If you look at the use of microwave ovens throughout the world, you will see that, it is mostly used by people who feel that they are very, very busy, and who therefore don’t have time to cook in a regular way. So what do they do?  They are in a hurry to get a meal. What kind of meal is easy to do in the microwave? Well, a pre-made meal that was made on some factory and packaged in a sealed package, which you then throw into the microwave, heat up, and eat.

It’s clear that this kind of food does not have the same quality, the same nutritional value, as food you cook yourself, and that you take more time to cook. So, it’s clear that from a spiritual perspective, it is better to eat traditionally cooked food than to eat food that is cooked or reheated in a microwave oven.

Again, I’m not saying you should never do it, you don’t need to be fanatical about it. But I do not recommend using it on a regular basis. Certainly, not as your main tool for cooking food.

 

Copyright © 2019 Kim Michaels

Children’s night terrors and nightmares

Question: This question is about night terrors. My two year old granddaughter gets night terrors and experiences sudden fear and anxiety during sleep, and then she wakes up. She wakes up early in her sleep cycle with screams, with her eyes wide open and staring, looking fearful. She usually breathes rapidly and remains unresponsive when I attempt to wake her up though her eyes are still open. And she does not seem to recognize people around her. This last for 10 to 20 minutes. Is there anything that I can do to help her with this issue? Are these symptoms derived from the memories of her past lives? And I would like to know the causes and how I may help her. 

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given at a conference in Korea in 2019.

You can use the spiritual tools we have given to call for protection of your child. You can call for Astrea to cut the child free from any ties to the astral plane. In many cases, this is caused by severe trauma in past lives, that the soul carries with it into this lifetime. And it means that the soul of the child is open to the astral plane, because it has received these severe traumas and wounds in past lives that have created holes in the child’s aura.

Now, on a more long-term basis, the solution is of course to help the child heal the psychology and overcome the trauma. But in many cases, you will also see that this goes away after some years. And it usually isn’t easy to help a child heal such psychological trauma during childhood, but only becomes possible when the child becomes an adult, and becomes more aware of this. But you can certainly, as the child grows older, attempt to talk to the child about it.

You can for that matter, start now and ask the child if it remembers anything, and then perhaps then seek to give the child guidance based on this. But the most important step you can take is to make the calls for this. It may not necessarily alleviate the problem completely, depending on the severity of the child’s trauma. Because as I said, there are some traumas that can only be healed consciously by the child seeing something in it’s psychology. But it is at least something you can do and that in many cases will help.

 

Copyright © 2019 Kim Michaels

The air pollution in Korea

Question: This question is about air pollution by particulate matter. In Korea, the air quality has deteriorated recently due to particulate matter, which is threatening people’s health and causing inconvenience in our daily lives. Its main cause is known to be harmful chemical, particularly from any factories, thermal power plants, and waste incinerators in China. However, Korea has not been able to make any official complaints to China or to take effective measures against the problem, even though the Korean government has recently conducted an artificial rainfall experiment, in order to lower the concentration of particulate matter. Would you comment on how we can solve the air pollution, by particulate matter problem and reduce the suffering of people in Korea? 

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given at a conference in Korea in 2019.

Well, in the short term, you can only take the measures of trying to protect yourself on an individual basis. When we look at the more long term, there is, of course, always a spiritual solution or making calls for this. But in reality, you cannot make calls for the air pollution itself, you need to make calls for the change in the political situation. It’s clear that there needs to be a shift in the Chinese attitude. But it cannot be brought about by Korea alone, it will have to be other nations that are bordering China, and who are also suffering from this pollution. To some degree, it was also a matter of the pollution in China itself becoming so severe that the Chinese people demand changes.

But the reality here is simply that this is an example of how China as a nation is still at a lower level of consciousness, where it is not willing to take responsibility for its actions and how they affect both its own people, and people in neighboring nations. And this is because they are so focused on themselves. And they think that because they are such a large and important nation, and because they have to have such a goal of economic growth, and this and that, (and of course, the communist ideology, that they still drag with them), they do not need to be considerate of other people or even their own people.

So you can make calls for this, you can make calls for the binding of the demons behind this as spiritual people. But you can also make calls for a rising international awareness of the problem so that other nations will join forces with Korea, and there will be a joint effort to actually launch an official complaint over this problem and a demand that China does something to stop the pollution where it originates. This will take some time. But it is important actually that these efforts take place. But because it is part of the process of creating a shift in China, where they become a more aware and more responsible member of the international community.

 

Copyright © 2019 Kim Michaels

Purifying karma in the identity realm

Question: This question is about purifying karma in the spiritual realm. When we balance our karma to a certain degree during this lifetime, we can be qualified for the ascension. And then we balance the remaining karma in the upper spiritual realm. However, I heard that it is quite difficult to balance karma in the spiritual realm. How do we purify karma in the spiritual realm? Would you explain why it is more difficult to balance karma in the upper realm than to do so while we are in embodiment? 

Answer from Kim Michaels. This answer was given at a conference in Korea in 2019.

I’ll answer that question because the masters have talked about it before. But I need to correct the question as its stated, because you’re not purifying karma in the spiritual realm or the upper spiritual realm, you’re doing it in the identity realm. So what the masters have explained is that there was a dispensation given that people could ascend with 51% of their karma balanced. And that’s because the first 51% is karma we have with other people, and that we need to balance in the physical realm. And of course, it’s easier to do that here because we can interact with people.

And so we are more challenged to balance that karma. And so it would be very difficult to balance that karma from the spiritual realm. The 49% is karma, we in ourselves in the sense that it’s basically what the masters called the separate selves. And this is an internal matter, that we can resolve with our psychology.

And therefore, that’s why we can balance that from the identity realm before we ascend to the spiritual. But I don’t necessarily know that it’s correct to say that it’s more difficult. The advantage of being in physical embodiment is that we are challenged more here than we are in the identity realm.

In other words, the masters in the identity realm, they can teach us about our karma. They can try to show us our karma. But here in the physical octave, we are more challenged by interacting with other people and being forced into reacting to them and to outer conditions. So from that perspective, you could say it’s easier to balance it here, because we are challenged more, and it’s probably more difficult for us to ignore the issue. Even though many people do ignore it anyway.

 

Copyright © 2019 Kim Michaels

The renewal of the Buddhist religion

Question: The ascended masters have already commented much on the overall problems of Christianity. I seek the ascended masters’ advice on the overall problems of the world Buddhist society and the Korean Buddhist society. What direction do they need in order to move forward? 

Answer from the Ascended Master Gautama Buddha through Kim Michaels. This answer was given at a conference in Korea in 2019.

As Mother Mary just expressed, the knowledge of the messenger, the cultural background of the messenger can be a limitation because this messenger is not familiar with the Korean Buddhist Society or with Buddhism, in general, at least not the more organized aspects of it. He has a good grasp of the Buddha’s teachings, but not so much the organization.

But it’s clear that Buddhism has remained a more pure religion than for example, Christianity. There is not as much of an overlay that has been created in the Buddhist religion, as there is in Christianity. This is partly because the teachings I gave were not as easy to distort. It is also partly because the Asian mindset is not as linear as the Western mindset. And therefore, the Asian mind is more open to the teachings on non-duality and seeing the polarities than the western mind generally is.

And so if you look at the average person who has grown up in an Asian Buddhist culture, then there isn’t necessarily much that could change there. It is not that my attitude is that Buddhism has gone completely off track, as Christianity clearly has. So the Buddhist societies in Asia, including Korea are still giving teachings that can be valuable for the average person.

Now, on the other hand, it must also be said that when you have a teacher who has reached a certain level of consciousness, that is beyond duality, it is very difficult for that teacher to give teachings about duality and non-duality, that can be grasped by people who are in duality. And this means that even if people do not have evil intentions, and if they are not influenced by the fallen beings, the dualistic mind will still put a certain overlay on the teaching.

And so from that perspective, it is inevitable that Buddhism has become a religion that has superimposed an interpretation that is dualistic, upon a non-dualistic teaching. And this has had the effect that you also see in Christianity, that many, many people see Buddhism as an outer path. It is a matter of following a certain teaching, following certain practices, certain rituals, and it becomes almost mechanical.

So many, many people have the same attitude that you see in the West in Christians that if they believe in the outer teachings, if they practice the outer religion, if they follow the rituals, then someday in the future, perhaps after this lifetime, there will be a shift, and they will be enlightened. But this of course, is not what I originally taught, I taught an inner path that requires you to shift your state of consciousness. Is the average person in most countries in Asia ready for that inner path? Well, no, but many certainly are.

And so the shift that could potentially happen was that the Buddhist societies would come to this recognition that there is the difference between the outer path and the inner path and that in the modern age more and more people are ready for that inner path. And therefore, they could make an effort to put more emphasis on the inner path to help more people. There is in some Buddhist societies an awareness of the inner path but there is a sense that the average person is not ready for it and therefore, it is not taught to the public but only taught in certain monasteries, where it is deemed that the monks and the nuns who have dedicated themselves to the path are ready for it.

And this is, in many cases, not a correct interpretation. As I said, the average person may not be ready but many people certainly are. And many, many more people are ready than the ones who are meant to go into a monastery because as we have said in the modern age, spirituality is not actually in a monastery, it is living in everyday life and taking an active part in society, at least for most people.

And so naturally, I would like to see that the Buddhist societies would recognize that if there is any meaning to the Buddha and attaining enlightenment, that would mean I still exist as an enlightened being, as an Ascended Master and I am fully willing to and capable of giving direct instructions today to those who are willing to receive it. And indeed, it would be possible to have people who have grown up in the Buddhist tradition, who are very familiar with it, who could become messengers for me, not necessarily speaking dictations as you hear it now, although this could also happen, but in the sense that they would receive direct guidance from me, and therefore be able to take Buddhism to a new level.

Now, you will see that the teaching we are giving today is based on the idea of progressive revelation, because the situation is quite simple. Having a teacher in embodiment, who reaches a certain level of consciousness, is not necessarily a straightforward, easy matter that can happen anytime.

So you will see that there have been teachers after my appearance in the flesh, that have had a higher state of consciousness and they have been able to give forth certain teachings that could be considered progressive revelation. Nagarjuna is one example but there are certainly others. And so, in a sense you could say that what would be valuable was if the Buddhist societies would realize that society has changed so much since I appeared in the physical octave that there is a need for a refinement of the message and expansion of the message, there is a need for some progressiveness, even progressive revelation.

The simple dynamic is that when a teaching is given that has the potential to help people transcend their consciousness, if people take that teaching and apply it, then there will be a raising of the collective consciousness. It is simply impossible to give a teaching at a particular level in time, that will be equally valuable for all time to come. Because if the teaching given by me 2500 years ago was successful it would raise the collective conscience and that means more could be given.

What could be given by me 2500 years ago was not an absolute truth that can stand for all time, it was a product of the level of the collective consciousness in the area it was given at the time it was given. So it is never possible, even for an enlightened teacher, to bring forth an absolute teaching. An enlightened teacher is not bringing forth the teaching that he needs, he is bringing forth the teaching that the people need and he is therefore aware of what their level of consciousness is, and what can be brought forth at the time, he’s aware that they cannot grasp a higher teaching, even though he could give it.

And so this would be a valuable shift, where Buddhists and Buddhist leaders could realize that there is indeed a need for the renewal of the Buddhist religion. There’s also a need to move beyond this outer path, this more mechanical rote performance of rituals. Like you see in an extreme example of the Buddhist prayer wheel, where people think that by turning a mechanical wheel, they are somehow promoting their spiritual growth and burning their karma. This is not what I taught 2500 years ago, as far as I remember, and I remember quite well.

 

Copyright © 2019 Kim Michaels

How to experience presence of ascended masters without filters

Question: This question is about the conscious you. I know that the conscious you does not have emotions and it experiences filtered emotions through the emotional body. Do we also experience such emotions as joy in the spiritual realm, or complete peace in oneness with the ascended masters through filters? Or does it work in a different way?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given at a conference in Korea in 2019.

There’s a difference in the sense that in your normal state of consciousness, the conscious you has its attention directed outwards, towards the world and therefore, the selves that are related to the world and how you deal with situations in the world are activated and therefore you see the world through those filters.

Now, in your normal waking awareness, it is quite common that even ascended master students will read our teachings, especially when they are more intellectually inclined through the filters of their separate selves. We have talked about how there has been a certain attitude or certain dysfunction that happened in previous dispensations and this is because people looked at our teachings through their separate selves. Then they projected the needs or the ideas, the beliefs of those separate selves upon our teaching, only seeing what seemed to validate the beliefs of the separate self, instead of actually seeing the teaching as it is.

However, we have also said that the conscious you is capable of stepping outside of your four lower bodies. So when you have what we call a mystical experience, where the conscious you is able to step outside of the four lower bodies, then it is possible that you can experience the ascended realm or the presence of ascended masters and it’s not happening through your normal filters.

However, what can often happen, and what most often happens to people is that when they then come back into their normal state of awareness, they look back at their experience, and now they start to interpret the experience through their filters. You will see, for example, that there are Christian fundamentalists, who have had a genuine experience of stepping outside of their four lower bodies and experiencing some higher presence. But then when they come back into their normal state of consciousness, they interpret this to mean that their experience validated their Christian beliefs.

But a mystical experience is beyond normal beliefs. That’s why it is a mystical experience, or why it is called a mystical experience. So it does not validate particular beliefs. Now, you could say that, when a messenger takes a dictation, he steps outside of his normal state of consciousness, and he is in a neutral state of mind. So he is not projecting anything on us and what we should say what we shouldn’t say. But as he has talked about before, he realizes that there is a certain very deep, often subconscious influence where the way he uses language will affect the dictation coming through him, as it will do with any messenger.

There can also be a certain overlay where the messenger has certain beliefs that are held very strongly, or that he or she is not willing to question and therefore we cannot give a message that would contradict what the messenger believes. This has been an issue with several previous messengers, who had, for example, a very strong cultural bias from the United States. And there were certain teachings we couldn’t give, that we have, for example, given through this messenger, who is more neutral about the United States.

But it’s clear that if we had a messenger, for example, who had grown up in another culture, then that messenger would use words differently, would have different concepts and therefore, in some sense, we could potentially give more teachings through that messenger but then again, depending on the culture, that could also be a limitation.

And so what you need to do again is realize that the more you resolve your psychology, these separate selves, the easier it will be for the conscious you to step outside of your normal state of awareness. And the more you formulate this conscious intention to experience our presence as it is, and not have it validate certain beliefs or desires, the more likely you are to be able to step outside and have a genuine experience.

 

Copyright © 2019 Kim Michaels

Question about new technology

Question: This question is about releasing high technology through Saint Germain. Saint Germain says that he is ready to release high technology through scientists who can tune in to him and get new ideas. But it requires that the collective consciousness does not contain strong negation and rejection of possibilities. Can Saint Germain express some ideas that can be addressed to many people who are unfamiliar with the teachings of the ascended masters, but that they are ready to accept the truth about the nature of some possible scientific discoveries? In other words, can he explain in plain language, the natural possibility of certain advanced technologies?

Answer from the Ascended Master Saint Germain through Kim Michaels. This answer was given at a conference in Korea in 2019.

I have already given some teachings on this in various dictations I’ve given on the Golden Age. I will also give more in the future, but it requires a more in-depth explanation than I can give in a short answer. What I will say is that, as an example of how this can be, you need to recognize here that in order for certain new technology to be expressed, or to be released, there has to be a willingness to receive it. And this requires both the change in the collective consciousness but it also requires that there are certain scientists who are willing to question what most scientists are currently not questioning, including materialism.

In order for a new science or new technology to be released, there has to be people who are willing to think beyond what is currently known. You will see, as I just said that Newtonian science is based on a certain view of the world. And Einstein was able to go beyond that view and see a higher way. The Einsteinian view didn’t negate or eradicate Newtonian science, invalidate Newtonian science, it gave a deeper understanding. Then there were other scientists who were willing to go even further and they could conceive of quantum physics, which Einstein could not fully accept even to the end of his life. So it requires a shift because in order to receive this new technology, you need to be able to grasp it, to conceptualize it and that means you have to be willing to think outside the box of what is currently known.

Now, just as a concrete example, here, you have the whole concept of free energy. This can be explained actually in terms of what is currently known by quantum physics. You have observations made by quantum physicists in bubble chambers, that you can have a state where there are no particles, suddenly one particle appears, divides itself into several particles, they collide again and then disappear.

There have been some scientists who have been willing to speculate that, beyond what can be observed even at the subatomic level, there must be some kind of energy field, some call it a quantum field, some call it a ground state, whatever they call it, but it has basically been proven by quantum physics, that there is some state beyond the physical material realm. And in that state there is energy. And that energy can then enter the material realm and become physical matter.

If you take this and put it together with a big bang, you can see that, is it actually logical that all of the matter and all of the energy that is now in these, this huge universe was compressed into something called a singularity? Whatever that may be. Is this really logical? Obviously, all of the matchup could not fit in there. But could the energy actually fit into a single point? Is it not just as logical to say that there was an event where energy from a different realm entered the material frequency spectrum.

And this means that all of the matter that you see in the world today is actually created from energy. This was proven by Einstein. And that energy must have come from somewhere, and what has now been proven for those who are willing to see it by quantum physics, is that that energy came from another realm. It entered the material world, the physical realm from another realm. Well, is that not free energy? Is it not there by proven that the entire world is created by free energy?

So does that not mean it is also possible that technology could be created, that would be able to, so to speak, channel the energy from a different realm into the material realm, where it could then be used to perform physical work or at least create electricity that could power machines that perform physical work. This is perfectly in line with what has already been discovered.

See, what you have right now is, you have a state of technology, which is a reflection of the collective consciousness and the collective consciousness does not really fully accept the existence of another realm. That is why as we have said humankind has become a closed circle, a closed system subject to the second law of thermodynamics.

That is why the technology you have today, the energy sources you have today, you think that the only way to provide energy is to either burn some kind of fuel, or split the atom, and free the energy that is already in the material realm. But this is simply a certain mindset that is based on an incomplete understanding of how the world works.

As I said, quantum physics has already proven that the world is created by energy from another realm, and therefore, there is naturally much more energy in that realm and it is a matter of raising our view of the world, our understanding of the world, raising the collective consciousness until we can grasp what that other realm is like, and therefore be able to receive the technology that can make use of the energy that is there.

It may be not so constructive to talk about free energy, but it is free in a sense that there is no cause cost, there is nothing that needs to be burned or consumed in the material realm in order to harness this energy and therefore, we might call it a different name and many different names could be suggested. But the important point is to realize that science has already proven that it is possible and there is constantly energy entering the material realm from another realm.

As we have said before, if you could actually measure the total energy output from your own sun and calculate the energy created by the nuclear processes in the sun, you would see that there is a gap, there is a discrepancy. And the only way to explain this is that in the core of the sun is actually a portal whereby energy from an another realm enters the sun. And it is actually this energy that fuels the nuclear processes that create the physical energy that is the sunlight radiated by your sun. And there are many such portals and it is possible to create such portals on Earth, whereby energy from another realm can enter the physical spectrum.

 

Copyright © 2019 Kim Michaels

Science is currently being held in blind alley by materialism

Question: This question is about the development of new science. Since Einstein published the theory of relativity in 1905, an entirely new science called quantum mechanics developed. In 2015, more than 100 years later US scientists detected the gravitational wave from the Big Bang. And this April 2019, a theoretical black hole was actually photographed indirectly. Thus, they say Einstein’s theory of relativity is now fully scientifically proved. In 2016, a Japanese biologist won the Nobel biomedical prize because he discovered that human body cells were not always necessarily destroyed by death. But in some cases, they were able to dismantle themselves and be reborn as new cells by a mysterious process called autophagy. How complete are the scientific proofs of those theories? And how quickly can they contribute to the growth of human consciousness and the development of new technology for the future?

Answer from the Ascended Master Saint Germain through Kim Michaels. This answer was given at a conference in Korea in 2019.

Well, my beloved, there was also a time a little over a century ago, where scientists looked at Newtonian science and believed it was fully scientifically proven and validated. And that all that remained to be discovered was moving a few decimal places, but that all the major discoveries that could be made had already been made. And then, of course comes Einstein and says: “not so fast boys, there’s a lot more to be discovered.” And we can say the same thing today, there is still a lot more to be discovered. There is, to use the words of Hamlet,: “There is more between science and earth than is dreamt of in your philosophy”.

My beloved, Einstein’s theory is an important step forward. Quantum physics is an important step forward. But science is currently in a blind alley. And it is being held in that blind alley by materialism. By so many people who are involved with science, not necessarily scientists, but so many people who have a political agenda are promoting a materialistic view of life. As we have talked about before and as this messenger has written about, quantum physics has basically proven that at the deepest level of what you call physical matter, there is a level of consciousness. There is an interaction between the consciousness of the scientist making an observation and a subatomic, what they call, a particle. But which of course isn’t a particle, as has been proven by quantum physics.

So, scientists are now in a blind alley, because they are striving for a theory of everything. But they are thinking that this complete theory will be entirely materialistic. In other words, they can explain everything based on material phenomena. And this is what simply cannot be done. It is an impossibility. It is a complete blind alley and it has held science back from making the discoveries that could long ago have provided important breakthroughs that would have brought science and humanity forward. And so, there will not be a theory of everything until that theory encompasses consciousness. This can be proven by simple logic. What is it that enables scientists to do science? What is it that enables them to search for a theory of everything? Well, it is that they are conscious. So, is it not logical that a theory of everything must include consciousness or it cannot be a theory of everything?

And so, there are many, many important breakthroughs that are waiting to happen, that we are willing to release to scientists who are open to them. But there are also many breakthroughs that have already been made, many discoveries that have already been made, but because they did not fit into the materialistic paradigm, they have been either ignored or even more actively suppressed. And so, if you feel that this is an important topic for you, you can certainly make the calls on this. You can create your own invocation or you can use the decrees and the existing invocations to make calls for basically the judgment of Christ upon the materialists and the demons and the entities and the fallen beings behind materialism for the shattering of the entire matrix of materialism that is truly a creation of the fallen beings.

 

Copyright © 2019 Kim Michaels

How to improve your discernment

Question: This question is about inner guidance. Many people listen to their inner voices in the forms of intuition, inspiration, or direction from within. I wonder if these inner voices are really from my Christ Self or my I AM Presence or the ascended masters. I believe sometimes the voices are perhaps from entities or other spiritual beings who try to control us. I may wrongly assume that voices of the latter cases are coming from the Christ Self or the I AM Presence. What is the standard we need to know in order not to be deceived by these harmful beings, and could you tell us what we should do to improve our discernment?

Answer from the Ascended Master  Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given at a conference in Korea in 2019.

It is very important if you want to have good inner direction that you give invocations and decrees for your spiritual protection, for being cut free from lower forces, and therefore, you have a shield around you that makes it more difficult for lower forces to project into your force field. However, as we have said before, decrees cannot work against your intent, so you may call for Archangel Michael’s protection, but if you have a tie to some lower force, then the protection cannot work against that, because you have,—at some point that you are not necessarily consciously aware of—chosen to create that opening. And so, what you need to be aware of, in order to improve your discernment, is whether what you get from within tells you what you want to hear or tells you what you need to hear.

You will see that there are many, many people who are asking for inner guidance, or who are praying for help, or praying for some kind of guidance from above, but they are not truly open to an answer. They have, in their minds, a certain filter or certain intent for what they would like the answer to be. So basically, you could say that the more open you are, the more neutral you are, the more accurate will be your inner guidance, and the more you improve the possibility that you get guidance from your I AM Presence, your Christ Self, or your ascended teachers.

Now what we say, as a general rule, also is that we of the ascended masters have total respect for free will. We do not, as a general rule, tell you what to do. We give you a frame of reference for making better choices. You understand that if you look at this historically, you will see that previous ascended master dispensations have had different views of this.

And this ties in with the fact that there was a lower collective consciousness at the time, and that certain dispensations were given primarily for people in the Piscean age and were not yet directed so much for people in the Aquarian age, and the Aquarian mindset. So, these people tended to look at life and the path in terms of: there were certain outer steps you needed to take, certain outer initiations you needed to pass, and there was a certain outer result you needed to achieve.

And therefore, many people had this sort of mechanical view that there was a certain path that was laid out for them and they had to follow it, and therefore, they were asking for guidance to help them follow that path in an almost mechanical way. In other words, this ties in with what was said yesterday about the people who didn’t want to take responsibility for themselves.

And so, there are people who are following the spiritual path and even in ascended master teachings who do not want to take responsibility for making their own decisions. So, they want to have some kind of inner guidance that can give them clear directions on what to do and these directions are infallible. In other words, they can’t make a mistake, if they follow these directions, so they think. And this, of course, is not the way we work as ascended masters.

We realize very well that our goal is not to produce a specific outer result, or have you do things on the outer, in the physical. Our primary goal is to help you raise your consciousness. How do you raise your consciousness? By making decisions, experiencing the consequences, adjusting your mindset based on those decisions. That is how you grow.

So, if we were to tell you what to do, how would that help you grow? So, we may give you certain directions, but most of the time what we would prefer to do is to give you a frame of reference.

This messenger realized that even as a child, he had a sense that there was a divine spiritual presence that was always there with him, but it didn’t tell him what to do. It just provided a frame of reference because he had the vibration of this spiritual being and he could compare that vibration to the vibration of anything he encountered in the material world, to see what was a higher vibration, what was a lower vibration.

So, this is how we prefer to work with people. There may be certain instances where people are not open to this and we may give them some direction that they can hear, but if we continue to do this over time, then we see over and over again that people become co-dependent on the inner direction. They do not want to make decisions. They want to get the direction.

And so you can also see that if you look at previous ascended master dispensations, how you have this certain unhealthy culture that can creep in where people will be able to justify anything they do by saying:, “oh my I AM Presence told me to do this.” Or, “El Morya told me to do this.” And this, of course, is where again, if people have this strong desire to have validation for what they think they should do, what they have decided with the outer mind they should do, well then they will seek to get that validation and they might tune in to some imposter of the masters in the mental realm, or even in the emotional realm. And they will feel that they have now gotten direction from an ascended master that validates their human desires.

You also saw an unhealthy aspect where there were people who asked, for example, a previous messenger to tell them whom to marry. “Should I marry this person?” And so now you have two people who have been told by the messenger that they can marry. Perhaps they have even been told that they are twin flames. And now they think that since they have been given direction from the masters of whom to marry, it should be happily ever after. And so, they think that their relationship should be easy and idyllic, and then when they realize that their relationship is just like any other relationship, it requires work, it requires adaptation, it requires you are willing to work on yourself, then they become disappointed. Sometimes they become angry, and sometimes they blame the messenger or they blame the masters.

You also saw that there could be a tendency for some people who had a desire to influence other people. This could be because of unresolved psychology that put these people on a power trip. And so, you can see people that would come and say, : “I have a message to you from El Morya.” Or,: “El Morya told me to tell you this.” And what does this do? Well, if the person accepts that their friend actually had a message to them from El Morya, well they become codependent on their friend.

And so, you can see many of these unhealthy tendencies. And that’s why, as I said, we, as a general rule, do not tell people what to do. We do not give people messages through other people. We do not, in this dispensation, tell people what to do through the messenger either.

And so, the most important thing you can consider for improving your discernment is your intent. And in that respect, it is very important for you to take the teachings we have given now on the birth trauma, and the primal self and all of the other selves that you developed as a result of this birth trauma. Because these selves all have an intention. And it might be an intention to protect you, to compensate for something, to get validation for something, or whatever it may be. And when you are strongly colored by such a self, you cannot get accurate inner direction because the self will filter out the inner direction, or it will distort it.

So that what comes through that filter will seem to validate the way the self looks at the world, based on its programming. So if you have a self, for example, that wants to compensate for the fact that you were put down by the fallen ones by making you feel special, then, in most cases, you won’t be able to tune into the ascended masters, but you might get direction from a lower realm that will validate that you are somehow special, or that you have a special mission, or that you are better than others, or that you have to tell other people what to do. It can take many individual forms.

So, the most important thing you can do here is to resolve these selves so that you do not have any filter, any intention, that you are putting on your inner direction. That way, you will get more accurate inner direction. You also need to recognize, as we have actually talked about before, and as this messenger has described, that it is inevitable that when we give you the concept of ascended masters, you will see us as beings who are outside yourself. And it is inevitable because you are in a lower state of consciousness. You are in the dense realm of the physical. And if we have any value to you, it’s because we are not in the physical. We can therefore give you a frame of reference from a higher realm. So, it’s inevitable that you see yourself as, you are here in the physical, we are “up there” in the ascended realm.

And, in a sense, we have given you the same concept that your I AM Presence is not in physical embodiment, your I AM Presence is “up there..” But you need to recognize here that your I AM Presence is you. It is a higher part of your own being. So, you will hear ascended masters students who will say,: “Ooh I heard my I AM Presence, and it told me to do this…” In other words, they think that there is some external being that gave them a message from outside themselves.

But you understand that if your I AM Presence did this, it would reinforce your sense of separation from your I AM Presence. And when you ascend, the Conscious You merges back into the I AM Presence. So,  you overcome separation from your I AM Presence. And as you grow in consciousness, you also overcome the sense of separation to a higher and higher degree. That is how you become an open door for the Presence.

So, your I AM Presence is not speaking to you as an external being. If you see it as an external being, it will not be your I AM Presence that is speaking to you. It will be some lower entity. Because if the I AM Presence did speak to you that way, it would reinforce the separation, and the last thing the I AM Presence wants to do is to reinforce your sense of separation from it, because that will block your spiritual growth.

You have seen some ascended master students who have come to a point where they believed that anything they heard from inside themselves was from their I AM Presence. But they saw the I AM Presence as being this external being “up there”, and they thought they were getting direction from their I AM Presence but they were not. They were getting it from some being, usually in the mental realm, that is impostering their I AM Presence.

So, it’s very important to look at your intent, to look at whether you have a separate self that has a particular desire, such as a desire for validation, or desire to feel special or whatever it may be. Because this will block your inner direction and it will block your discernment. Once you start resolving these selves, and especially when you resolve that primal self, you will get a much more accurate inner direction.

But it will no longer seem like direction, because you just get a sense of vibration, and by sensing the difference in the vibration from your I AM Presence or an ascended master, compared to the vibration of the situation you are facing in the physical, you know what to do. You have that frame of reference so you can make a more aware decision. It’s not that you are following the direction. It’s not that you are doing what you are being told. You are making a decision, but because you have that frame of reference in vibration, you can make a more aware decision.

 

Copyright © 2019 Kim Michaels

The spiritual practices of the disabled people

Question: This question is about the spiritual practices of the disabled. We have people around us who are congenitally blind and speech impaired. How can they visualize the violet flame? And how can they give decrees and invocations? I would like to know if these decrees given by sign language are equally effective.

Answer from the Ascended Master  Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given at a conference in Korea in 2019.

It is naturally very difficult for people with such handicaps to do many, many things, my beloved. We cannot give spiritual tools that work equally well for all people, especially if they have handicaps such as speech impairment or sight impairment.

And therefore, you should not necessarily think that such people should do the same kind of spiritual practices as people who do not have these problems.  So, it is more constructive to find spiritual practices that these people can perform, such as meditation or whatever else is appropriate, depending on their handicap.

 

Copyright © 2019 Kim Michaels

Do the three higher octaves resemble the earth?

Question: Could you tell us more about what the emotional, mental and identity octaves are like? Do these three octaves resemble the earth? What would a typical experience there be like when a soul leaves embodiment? Are people at a much higher level of awareness than when they were in embodiment on earth? Do they interact with spiritual beings or ascended masters while they wait until their next embodiment? 

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given at a conference in Korea in 2019.

I know, my beloved, that there are many ideas and theories and images that have been put out there, that there are parallel realms where you have structures that are similar to what you see on earth. But you need to recognize that people have always had this tendency, after they fell into duality, to look at what they see around them and then project that it is like that in other realms. This is why you see so often, as you can see clearly in the Old Testament, that people have taken human qualities and projected them onto God, and therefore created an angry and vengeful god.

There are, naturally, iIn the emotional realm, there is a lower realm that we have called the astral realm which is also what some people have seen as visions of hell, so in this realm there are structures that are much, much lower and very distorted compared to what you see on earth. And there are beings who have become stuck there and they simply cannot move out of there, because they are so trapped in these matrices. But you should not still believe that this is like what you see on earth.

There are certainly many differences and, generally speaking, we are not encouraging you, while you are in the physical embodiment, to spend too much time or attention worrying about what it is like in the other realms. It is more important that you focus on life here on earth and that you focus on tuning in to the ascended realm and your I AM Presence, rather than the emotional realm, the mental realm or even the identity realm. Naturally, we of the ascended masters have retreats at the higher identity realm that you can attempt to tune in to. But it is not constructive for most people to tune in to the other three realms. Instead, focus on reaching the lower identity realm and the spiritual realm.

 

Copyright © 2019 Kim Michaels

The historical and modern art and the fallen beings

Question:This question is about looting artefacts. In the past fallen beings looted many artefacts especially being obsessed with paintings that were recognized as great masterpieces in human history. They looted the paintings and removed them to specific locations in other countries or claimed them privately. Is there any reason for the fallen beings to loot artefacts? And many of the paintings they looted aren’t historical paintings.  Are there any differences between the energy of historical paintings and the energy of non-historical paintings?  If so, do fallen beings get energy from those paintings?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given at a conference in Korea in 2019.

Well my beloved the fallen beings are primarily driven by this desire to be special, to have something that the population doesn’t have. This is what drives them to hoard not only artwork but also money, property, power and so forth. They don’t really get energy from the paintings themselves because very few artists are able to really receive the light from above that can be captured in a piece of artwork. Even if there is artwork that is sponsored by an ascended master, then we can turn off that light if it falls in the hands of fallen beings.

Now if you talk about the difference between historical paintings and modern paintings, well there is no general answer to this because it is individual based on the artist and the art. Much of the historical paintings that you find in the museums around the world or for that matter in private collections are not really of particular significance in today’s age. For example, you can see that some of the artwork produced during the Middle Ages in Europe that depict these very dark scenes of hell or other dark visions were outcomes of what was happening in that age. You will see that many modern paintings are also the expression of certain things that are going on in the modern state of consciousness.

There are of course even in today’s age artists who are able to receive more not only ideas but also light from the ascended realm. So that is an individual matter. I can assure you that from an ascended perspective, probably 90% of the artwork you find in the museums around the world could be taken out and not even shown to the people. Because the question really is: “Does a piece of art have the ability, have the sort of geometrical matrix at an energy level – that it can interact with the energy field of the viewer and produce an uplifting, inspiring experience?” There is much artwork that produces a depressing, downward experience because it takes people’s energies down. It would be better for people if that kind of artwork was not displayed publicly. So you can say that if the fallen beings bought that kind of artwork, well it really doesn’t harm the people.

 

Copyright © 2019 Kim Michaels

How and when to work on your primal self

Question: This question is about resolving primal self. Mother Mary mentions that when we get to resolve our primal self, the majority of our psychological problems will also fade away. I’m aware this is a relatively new teaching and more dictations regarding the primal self will follow. However, I still feel that I want a clear strategy on how to deal with this issue, besides Mother Mary’s invocation that is already provided. Do you agree that attempting to remove easily noticeable several selves first, and then gradually reaching the primal self is the best strategy? Or should we wait on this issue until we achieve some mastery of the seven rays, given the complex nature of it? Or do you have another suggestion? 

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given at a conference in Korea in 2019.

Well, we have given now a series of tools and a series of books that is a pretty complete package for dealing not only with the primal self, but also [with] other separate selves that were created after the primal self. It’s not entirely correct to say that if we resolve the primal self, all of your psychological problems go away, because you can also have many other separate selves that need to be dissolved gradually.

We agree, of course, that it is a relatively new teaching we have been giving. And that means that before this teaching was given, then naturally people were also working on their separate selves, and of course, in a sense, working on the primal self. It’s also clear, as we have said before, even in the teaching on internal spirits that sometimes there can be some smaller selves that are blocking your vision of the deeper selves and therefore, it can be valid to work on them first and clear them away first. So, again, it is somewhat individual.

Now let me put it in a succinct form: There are certainly ascended master students who are not at this point on their path ready to work on the primal self. If you do not feel that this resonates with you, if you feel you have difficulty with it, or if you feel your mind reasoning or arguing back and forth about it, then I do recommend that you start on the course of self-mastery, and work your way up through the seven rays. What the seven Chohans have given you with this course and of course, the Maha Chohan, with his book on the internal selves or internal spirits, is that certainly also a gradual approach to working on your separate selves [would be a good approach]. So there will be some for whom this would be the best approach, to work through that first.

There will, however, be some students who are ready because they have followed the path for some time, who are ready to first go to the primal self and resolve that. Once you resolve that it will be easier to resolve the separate selves that were created later. But if you feel that this isn’t the right approach for you, because it’s too difficult for you to get in touch with the primal self, then it is valid to work on whatever selves come up, whatever selves you can identify.

And for that purpose, you can use the My Lives book, because by just reading that book and using your intuition and asking for our guidance, you will get some sense of what your own issues are. Then you can use the other books that have followed: Healing Your Spiritual Traumas, the book on Fulfilling Your Divine Plan, Fulfilling Your Highest Spiritual Potential, and Making Peace With Being On Earth. And if you work your way through these five books, then you either will have dissolved the primal self or you will have dissolved enough of these outer selves that you can be ready to work on the primal self. This will be the case for the majority of students.

 

Copyright © 2019 Kim Michaels

How to deal with possession

Question: This question is about possession. There are incidents where even ascended master students become possessed by dark forces. Are ascended masters willing to give us invocations for protection and healing from possession? 

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given at a conference in Korea in 2019.

Well, we have already given you invocations and decrees that can certainly help you avoid this. You have the original, very long rosary to Archangel Michael. You have other invocations and you have to decrees to Archangel Michael and Astrea. We can of course give you some specifically for possession, but it isn’t really a widespread problem among ascended master students.

And what would actually be more important was that for those who do experience this, to of course use the outer tools, but also realize that possession is really, like Archangel Michael and Surya said, about the people who become ruled by a dictator.

The dictator is fulfilling some need that these people have, although it is often the subconscious need. So, when some kind of entity or demon enters your energy field and possesses you, it is because it has been invited in by a subconscious need you have. This need of course is not your need. It is not the Conscious You that has this need; it is a separate self that has this need. So you need to use the tools to uncover that separate self. But you also need to make a decision at some point where you give up this desire to be special or have special abilities that have invited the possessing entity in in the first place.

 

Copyright © 2019 Kim Michaels

The brain, the brain disease and spiritual growth

Question: This question is about the brain. If an ascended master student who follows a spiritual path faces a situation where his brain malfunctions or deteriorates due to dementia, amnesia or other reasons, then does his spiritual growth stop, delay or even regress during that lifetime? And what will be the meaning of the event in the spiritual aspect if it occurs in a student despite his eagerness to grow? And how can a student overcome such a condition and continue the process of spiritual growth? And would you comment on the function and role of the physical brain in terms of spiritual growth and the spiritual cause of its defect?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given at a conference in Korea in 2019.

We are facing a very, very complicated planet with a very, very complicated situation, not only in the collective consciousness but in terms of individual people–what they have in their psyche, what they carry with them from past lives. It is almost impossible to say anything general about such conditions. You have the example of a previous messenger of the ascended masters who ended up contracting Alzheimer’s and spent quite a number of years in a state of advanced dementia and not being able to remember even her closest relatives. And many, many ascended master students at the time were wondering how this could happen to a person who was a messenger.

There are cases where it is actually done because, as Guru Ma has explained herself, that it allowed her to still have a physical body that gave her an anchor point in the physical octave while she was working on herself, but also being able to release energy and light through the physical body, even though she was not conscious of this happening. So there can be cases like this.

There can also, as we have said before, be people who have severe mental handicaps and yet have Buddhic attainment, and so even though they cannot seemingly do anything with the physical body, the fact that they have a physical body means they can release light through that body and its chakras. But this isn’t to say that this is always the case if an ascended master student contracts Alzheimer’s or similar forms of diseases.

There can be karmic reasons; there can be such a complicated psychology from past lives that the student isn’t able to see these selves and let go of these selves; there can be an unwillingness to go deep enough into the psychology.

But there can also be certain situations where you simply have the genes you have because of your family background. You have certain genes that predispose your physical body to contract not only an illness like this, but any illness. We have, of course, examples of ascended master students or other spiritual students that have followed other paths, who died of various diseases, various physical diseases, because there are certain conditions that simply cannot be overridden. And you will see that even the Buddha came to a point where he died, his physical body died.

This is not something you need to be overly concerned about, in the sense that you make it worse for yourself by feeling you must have done something wrong and therefore adding sort of insult to injury, adding the psychological pain to the physical issue. We have seen ascended master students who contract any kind of physical illness and blame themselves for not having done something right or not having been eager enough on the path. This is rarely the reason. It can sometimes be the reason but it is rarely the reason.

What you can do, of course, when you become aware that you have a certain physical illness [is that] you can take this as an opportunity to truly work on your psychology, to try to resolve as much psychology as you can, to try to look deeper and deeper, using the tools we have given you, going to the birth trauma, looking at the separate selves that you have.

As I said, you may have a completely physical genetic inheritance from your family background that you cannot override, and you knew this before you came into embodiment, but you decided that you wanted the opportunity anyway, even if it means dying at an early age. I’m not saying that you should blame yourself, but I’m saying that if you are aware that you have a certain illness, then use that as an opportunity to really work on your psychology because even if it doesn’t change the physical situation, it will certainly help your spiritual growth. You can never lose by doing that.

Now, in terms of the brain and its relationship to spiritual growth, well, the brain doesn’t produce spiritual growth. It simply doesn’t have the ability to do this. It can, of course, hinder your spiritual growth by physical conditions [such as] illnesses in the brain. It’s obvious that the more conscious you are, and the more clear you are, and the more clearly you’re able to think, then that’s an advantage.

If you have some kind of brain condition that prevents this, then it’s a clear disadvantage. But again, you need to then look at why you have this condition and, as I said, it could be genetic inheritance that can be difficult to do anything about. But it could also be as a result of certain unresolved psychology from past lives going back to your birth trauma, and in that case, you can possibly relieve the symptoms by working on it. And in either case, you can never go wrong, you can never lose, by working on your psychology.

The brain cannot in itself produce spiritual growth. I know there are students who will claim that they have taken drugs or are taking drugs to give them these supposedly spiritual experiences. But we have commented on this before; the drugs can only affect the brain and the brain can produce all kinds of experiences, but the experiences are not the same as spiritual growth because spiritual growth is when you shift your consciousness. In many cases you will actually see people who take these drugs and have these experiences and it makes them feel very special and this hinders their spiritual growth because it actually reinforces that separate self that gave them the need to feel special as a result of their birth trauma.

 

Copyright © 2019 Kim Michaels

Question about sleeping pills

Question: This question is about Propofol. Propofol is legally used for medical purposes and people use this medicine for its strong, sleep-inducing anaesthetic effects. However, some people are worried of an addiction to Propofol. How does Propofol affect our four lower bodies? 

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given at a conference in Korea in 2019.

As an ascended master student you will, as a general rule, want to avoid any kind of medicine that is aimed at not only making you go to sleep, but affecting the mind. I’m not saying that they are not cases of mental illness where it can be appropriate to take certain medication for a while. But as an ascended master student, you should be very careful about using this because you have tools we have given you: The protection of Archangel Michael; being cut free by Astrea; using the violet flame to consume what is already in your energy field, will often be able to help you avoid having to take these kind of medicines.

It’s clear that anything that puts your physical body to sleep, or puts the body in a more tranquil state also has a similar effect on your three higher bodies–it dulls them, it makes them less alert and less conscious and therefore it can lead to a form of addiction. It is much better to use the tools we have given you, not only just for protection and invoking energy, but also looking at what kind of symptoms you have.

Why are you, for example, unable to sleep? What is the self that is driving you to not be able to go to sleep? And then work on that. I realize that this doesn’t help people who aren’t ascended master students, but then again, we cannot give teachings for everyone.

 

Copyright © 2019 Kim Michaels

About reading minds of other people

Question: Let me explain a situation that I have now. I am suffering from an experience where some unknown people inspect my mind through some method and then release my thoughts to the public. This has been going on for years. Additionally, they have been asking me to talk to them while hiding their identities. I’ve been avoiding their requests, but do you think it would be better to have a conversation as they ask?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given at a conference in Korea in 2019.

Well, my beloved, we encourage questions that can have value for a broad range of people and we are reluctant to tell specific people what to do, but naturally in this situation nobody has a right to read your mind regardless of the methods they’re using. If they are reading your mind without your knowledge and without your consent, this is a clear violation of your free will and it is a clear violation of the law of free will and therefore you should call forth the Judgment of Christ upon these people. We can also say in general that posting something on the internet, for example, that you claim to be other peoples’ thoughts and intentions, while you remain anonymous is simply dishonest. It shows that these people have a very complicated, impure intent, about setting themselves up, making themselves seem special, but also doing so by harming other people.

This is appropriate to call forth the Judgment of Christ upon this. Generally speaking, I would say that there is little to be gained by interacting with people who first of all are violating your free will and second of all, are refusing to stand forth publicly and therefore be held responsible and accountable for what they are doing. What would you gain by attempting to have a dialogue? You would actually only encourage them to think that they have some kind of power over you.

 

Copyright © 2019 Kim Michaels

Your attitude towards earth will tell you if you are an avatar

Question: This question is about avatars and the original inhabitants of the earth. There are both avatars and original inhabitants on the earth among ascended master students. These lifestreams have the same purpose in terms of raising their own consciousness but their roles on earth are different from each other. Are there any ways students can tell if they are avatars or original inhabitants of the earth? 

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given at a conference in Korea in 2019.

Well, for practical purposes it isn’t so important to know because as the question also said, the basic mechanic of what you are dealing with on the spiritual path is very similar. There is a reason why we are giving these teachings specifically for avatars. There are many ascended master students and in fact a majority of ascended master students who are avatars, who needed to understand their attitude towards earth. This is really something you need to sense from within and you can do this by looking at your attitude to planet earth.

What do you feel about this planet? Have you have always felt that you don’t belong here? Have you always felt that there are so many things happening on earth that that you know shouldn’t be happening?  Then that’s a sign you are an avatar.

If you on the other hand feel you have a strong connection to earth, perhaps a strong connection to nature, and have a deep love and respect for this planet, then you are most likely one of the original inhabitants. You could, if you wanted to simplify this, you could say that – if you really love earth, you are one of the original inhabitants because most avatars don’t really love earth. They see it as a planet where they have been hurt greatly and a planet that has been very challenging and difficult for them because it has disappointed the expectations they had before they came here.

 

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How to deal with tactile hallucinations

Question: There’s a type of paranoia called tactile hallucination. This feels like insects crawling on the skin. In some cases, I feel there are real lower astral entities and not hallucinations. However, I feel as if most people invaded by such beings have no tactile feedback of their presence. Why do some people physically feel entities such as these infestations when they have them and others do not?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given at a conference in Korea in 2019.

Well, the reason why some people feel it and other people don’t is that they are more sensitive. Those who feel it are more sensitive than the others. Sensitivity can be a positive or not-so-positive aspect. In some cases people are sensitive in a positive way, which is what allows you to sense the presence of ascended masters or sense the light in our teachings. But there can also be a form of sensitivity that is really that you are too open to certain aspects.

There are many of these forms of hallucinations not just insects crawling under your skin, but also hearing voices and many others. What we can say is this, that there are many, many phenomena that take place in the astral plane, what we also call the emotional realm. There certainly can be certain phenomena there that are visibly very like insects, the insects you have in the physical realm. Many of the insects you have in the physical realm are just out-picturings of what is in the physical or what is in the astral realm.

They are people whose auras have been invaded by this and because of their sensitivity, they feel this as a physical sensation. There are not physical insects crawling under your physical skin. These exist in the vibrational spectrum of the emotional realm, the astral realm, but you can feel these as physical sensations. This is what you sometimes called phantom sensations where for example, a person that has had a leg amputated will insist that his leg is itching or that there is a certain pain from the leg, even though it isn’t physically there.

Based on this we can discuss, “Is it real or is it not real?” Well, it’s not real if by real you mean ‘physical’. You can have a physical feeling, but it doesn’t mean that the phenomenon triggering that feeling is physical and therefore, it’s not real in a physical sense. It is real in the sense that it is there on the astral plane, but then we can go on to discuss, “Is anything in the astral plane real in an ultimate sense?”  It isn’t in the sense that it has no enduring quality. It cannot exist by itself but only when people are feeding it their energy.

The important point about this is to use the tools we have given you for the protection of Archangel Michael, the cutting free of Astrea so you can be cut free from the astral plane and this can help you in the short run, but you also need to look at then – why you have this sensitivity? This is a delicate topic, because the average person in society does not have that sensitivity. They would not be able to sense if there are astral insects crawling under their skin or they would not be able to sense that if they drink alcohol and become intoxicated beyond a certain level their auras become open to demons or entities or discarnates. They would not be able to sense the vibration in, for example, a place where alcohol is consumed.

The other aspect of it is: How can you be a spiritual student if you don’t have some sensitivity that allows you to sense that there is a spiritual realm beyond the physical and there is a reality to it, there is reality to the ascended masters and to our teachings? The challenge then is to realize that there is a form of sensitivity that is neutral. You may be sensing certain things, but you are not over-interpreting them, you are not disturbed by them, and you can actually learn to shut off the sensitivity to the lower realm.

For example, when this messenger was a child, he could sense both light and dark energies and he could sense the dark energies in certain places. Today, he doesn’t even worry about this, he doesn’t feel disturbed by it. He senses it in a more neutral way, of course avoiding certain places, but also not having that certain fear-based sense that he has had as a child. Many of you have experienced something similar when you started using our decrees and invocations. But there can also be a form of sensitivity that is driven by a certain human ambition and we see this in some spiritual people who have an ambition to be special, to be unusual and to have, for example, psychic abilities.

This is what Jesus talked about when he said: “that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence and the violent take it by force” because they attempt to take certain special abilities by force and this can in some cases, force people to open their minds in an indiscriminate way. It’s difficult to be sensitive to light without being sensitive to darkness because you are really just sensitive to energy vibrations, rather than the kind of sensations you get through the physical senses. If you have forced this in a past life or have done it in this life, then this can cause that kind of sensation where not only your aura becomes open to an invasion of these beings or energies from the astral plane, but you also sense them much more.

In that case, invocations for protection and being cut free from Astrea will work for a certain time, but you need to really start looking at – what kind of a separate self do you have, that has given you this ambition to have this special ability or this sensation or this sensitivity?

There are certain spiritual people that we see and all spiritual movements, even ascended master movements where people have a certain ambition. In some cases it can be a seemingly benign ambition such as they want to be healers or they want to help people resolve their psychology. But, if it is based on this human ambition that comes from a separate self, then it can cause people to be so eager to get a special ability, that they shut down whatever discernment that they have.

They open themselves up to forces that might not be in the astral plane, but could also be in the mental or even the lower identity realm. This might give people a certain sensation of being special. For example, you have many channellers, who are not channeling ascended masters but are channelling beings in mostly the mental realm, sometimes from the lower identity realm. This is based on a human ambition where you want to be special and therefore you open yourself up to anything that can give you that feeling without really discerning “Is this of the light? Is this taking energy from me?”

As this messenger has said many times, if he felt that taking a dictation from us would require him to give energy to us then he would know he was not working with the ascended masters because obviously, I’m an ascended being and I don’t need energy from anyone on earth. That is why we do not need to be worshipped by people on earth.

 

Copyright © 2019 Kim Michaels

How do we learn in the etheric retreats

Question: This question is about learning in the etheric retreats. While we are sleeping we visit the etheric retreats of the ascended masters, learn the lessons necessary for us and purify our four lower bodies. When we wake up, most of us do not consciously remember these. Why can we not remember what happens in the retreats most of the time? Is this based on a plan that the Elohim designed or is it because we are in a lower level of consciousness?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given at a conference in Korea in 2019.

In previous ascended master dispensations there was a certain view that was given of what it means to attend the retreats of the masters in the etheric realm. It was based on the level of the collective consciousness at the time. There was often sort of an aura created – just as Surya talked about in his dictation, people had a tendency to take their present level of consciousness and project on the concept we give them. This means that you had at that time much more of a focus on the outer path. So the thought was that we of the ascended masters can do so much for people and that if you just keep doing the decrees and going to the retreats at night, then one day you will wake up and be ready to ascend. The deeper reality is of course that your progress on the spiritual path depends on the shifts you make in your consciousness.

What we do at the retreats is not so much give you this mystical knowledge, these magical formulas, or perform these miraculous healings on you. We help you to work on yourself. We help you to work on things at a subconscious level until you are ready for those things to break through at the conscious level. It really isn’t necessary for you to remember consciously what happens at the retreats, at least in most cases. In many cases you might be working on some deep issues in your psychology, some separate selves that were created a long time ago in different embodiments and you might be working on these for quite some time, in a particular retreat.  You don’t need to remember all of the work that happened at the retreat. It would just be a distraction from your daily life.

When you are ready to have the conscious breakthrough it will happen, but not as a result of remembering what happened in the retreat. It will result from some situation where you suddenly shift your consciousness. There was in previous times a certain competition between ascended master students of who had the most spectacular experiences. There was also a certain competition about who had heard from the masters and who had gotten directions and who had this vision or that dream or this astrology or that astrology. This is what we are calling you to rise beyond in this dispensation. You don’t really need it anymore as Surya again said: “Once you resolve these outer selves, all of this just falls away and it isn’t necessary anymore.”

So basically if you remember something from a retreat and that’s fine, but if you don’t remember something don’t worry about it, don’t try to force yourself. Again, it’s this mechanism that you take the level of consciousness you have when you find the teachings and you use it to formulate some kind of desire for what you would like to see happen on the path. But it’s a limited vision you have. So there can come a point where that desire now becomes not only a distraction but actually a hindrance to your progress. So it’s important to look at this and simply come to a point where you are not trying to force anything, you are not wanting anything. You are letting it happen if it happens, and if it doesn’t happen you are not concerned about it.

 

Copyright © 2019 Kim Michaels

The avoidance mechanism and the primal self

Question:This question is about the avoidance mechanism. Oftentimes my avoidance mechanism comes into effect when I am faced with a heavily daunting but very important task such as doing academic work. In that case my mind wants to escape from the work indefinitely, even realising the negative consequences of failure. Do you have any advice on overcoming the avoidance mechanism behaviour or for strengthening self-discipline?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given at a conference in Korea in 2019.

My beloved, let me pick up on the last word of self-discipline which has traditionally been a concept that has been used by religious and spiritual people throughout the ages and it has often been misused. In most cases this has been because people simply didn’t know better. In cases like this, it is not a matter of self-discipline because what does self-discipline do? It uses force to override an aspect of the mind. There are some people who can achieve results by this. But this is essentially what the Buddha attempted to do for those six years where he was living the ascetic lifestyle. So what you can do today in something like this, is you can use the teachings we have given you on the primal self and all of these other selves.

You can recognize that you have a particular self and it this self that is resisting you doing the academic work. So you need to use the tools and teachings we have given you, to come to discover what that self is for you individually. In other words, in many cases you have a self that was created in the distant past when you were hurt in a particular situation. For the self there is a risk that you could be hurt again in a certain activity. Therefore in order to avoid that risk, the self would rather have you run away from the situation. It doesn’t have to be just academic work, it can be any other aspect of life. You need to do the work to find out what was it in the past, what is the feeling you have about this, what is the risk you think you are taking? What is the worst thing that you fear could happen as a result of this?

You need to find out why you then have this self-sabotaging belief that causes you to – on the one hand feel compelled to do the work and on the other hand wanting to run away from it. There are often two selves – one that is compelling you to do something and the other one that is resisting it. You need to uncover both of these selves, find out what they are and come to that point where you have used our tools to where you have separated yourself from the self.

You see there is one separate self doing this or saying this, there is another separate self doing that but they are both just separate selves. What they are springing from is an illusion, the basic belief of the self is an illusion. When you come to that, you can use the formula we have given you of identifying that you are a self, you are not me, I am not you. You are simply a self and I don’t want you anymore in my life experience and I am letting you die.

 

Copyright © 2019 Kim Michaels

How to avoid being pulled into extremes

Question: I find myself being pulled at times higher and low where my thoughts and actions fluctuate between extremes of a very low to a high state of consciousness. This also leads me to not trust myself or my reactions. Can you provide insight and guidance on this topic?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given at a conference in Estonia in 2018.

The extremes are of course, a product of duality. This does not mean that you yourself are in a low state of consciousness and influenced by duality but it can often mean that you are vulnerable to dark forces who are in duality. They are using your vulnerability to take you from the highs to the lows because this then causes you to release energy that they can steal.

You need to be very diligent in making calls to be protected and cut free but again, you have some separate selves that make you vulnerable, so you need to use the tools and teachings to uncover these. There is no approach to this where you can snap your fingers and the problem is solved. This is something that has built over lifetimes and you cannot expect it to go away in a very short time but you can certainly expect it to go away in a reasonable timeframe by using the tools we have given.

You can also benefit from studying some of the dictations by the Buddha on the Middle Way or even studying Buddhist teachings on the Middle Way and practicing some Buddhist meditations. What you are striving for in the beginning is a balance where you don’t swing so much. You can also look at your diet and avoid, for example, sugar that takes you to a high and then a low, alcohol, drugs, any kind of thing that causes you to swing.

 

Copyright © 2018 Kim Michaels

The fallen beings in the identity realm

Question: How much does the dark master from the My Lives book have influence on life on Earth now?

Answer from the Ascended Master Jesus through Kim Michaels. This answer was given at a conference in Estonia in 2018.

My beloved, we have given this book that contains a lot of ideas and teachings, which for most people will be far beyond what they were aware of before. There are certainly dark masters in the lower etheric realm that are still influencing Earth but you don’t necessarily need to start making calls on this particular dark master, which is more a symbol for all the fallen beings in the identity realm. There is more than one dark master but to avoid making it too overwhelming, we have presented it in a more simplified form.

What you can of course make calls for, is the binding and the judgment of Christ upon these fallen beings in the identity realm. They are still influencing Earth and they will continue to do so for some time. If we at some point decide that it is necessary for many of you to make more specific calls on this then we will let you know and we will give you invocations for this specific purpose.

 

Copyright © 2018 Kim Michaels

Why haven’t we heard any of Yogananda’s dictations?

Question: Why didn’t we hear any of Yogananda’s dictations? I read he is already ascended. Was his path of life in total accordance with the masters’ teachings?

Answer from Kim Michaels. This answer was given at a conference in Estonia in 2018.

Well, they have given a previous answer where they said he is ascended but he is not working with the Earth, so that would be why he is not giving dictations.

 

Copyright © 2018 Kim Michaels

Connecting to the akashic records

Question: There are several courses that teach how to connect to akashic records in a few days. Is it true that everyone without preparation can connect to the akashic records and receive valid answers from that source?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given at a conference in Estonia in 2018.

No, my beloved, that isn’t true. There are really none of these quick-fix schemes out there that work and certainly not everyone can connect to the akashic records. In many cases people connect to the astral plane and to demons or entities there that are simply using this to steal people’s energies.

Connecting to the akashic records is not something that we encourage or will even teach on a systematic level. It is something that may happen in a more spontaneous way when you reach a certain level of consciousness. There are many people who can qualify for their ascension without ever connecting to the akashic records.

 

Copyright © 2018 Kim Michaels

Holes in the auric field

Question: I have holes in my auric field. I believe this may have occurred during this life and the past by taking heaven by force. I am using invocations and decrees from the masters but are there any specific practices and invocations I can follow to heal and/or repair these holes?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given at a conference in Estonia in 2018.

First of all, you need to be very careful here. Ask yourself whether you perhaps are using invocations and decrees with the momentum you feel you have from past lives of trying to take things by force. There is a certain number of ascended master students who have used our decrees in a forceful manner. This is of course not what we recommend. Certainly it will not help you overcome the problem to do more and more with that same state of mind.

Naturally you can invoke spiritual protection, Astreas to cut you free from any dark forces and the violet flame to consume any energies in your aura. This can help heal these holes in the aura but you also have to be aware that there was a separate self that caused you to attempt to take heaven by force; in fact, there is likely more than one. You need to use the teachings and the tools on the birth trauma and the separate selves to try to uncover what they are. We have given you quite a number of examples of what separate selves can be like.

When you consider that thousands of avatars have descended to Earth and thousands of original inhabitants have also received trauma, you can see that there are many individual reactions and so we cannot possibly list them all. In a case like this it is clear that, as a reaction to your birth trauma, you attempted to take heaven by force because you built a self that has some kind of belief of why it was necessary to do this and why it was justified.

Now, of course, it is more common that fallen beings attempt to take heaven by force. I am not saying this to give the person asking the question any fear of whether you are a fallen being; that is not the case. I am simply mentioning that the intent to take heaven by force naturally comes from the fallen beings and the fallen mindset. This is why it can also be appropriate in a case like this to make the call to cut yourself free from any ties you might have to fallen beings or black magicians who, in previous ages and even today to some degree, have had these so-called mystery schools where they have attempted to teach students how to supposedly take heaven by force. Naturally you can never take heaven by force but you can of course use force in the four realms of the material world.

 

Copyright © 2018 Kim Michaels

How to do birth trauma exercise

Question: I have done three birth trauma exercises using Mother Mary’s guided meditation. In one of these I saw violence against myself and I followed it up with the appropriate calls. However, over the subsequent hours for about a day, I experienced anxiety. In the second exercise I didn’t see anything clearly but my body felt a physical hit to the midsection. It was definitely a subconscious physical reaction. I thought I was okay until the next morning when I woke up with much greater anxiety than before. It was enough fear that I decided to take anti-anxiety medication. The third session resulted in another vision of violence but with less anxiety afterward and no medication. I recorded in writing all that I saw and felt in these sessions. I have done the calls and pondered what I saw for weeks. Now I am noticing that I am putting off having other sessions. I sense that I haven’t seen the whole birth trauma and I am afraid that the worst is yet to come. Still I would like to know if I am on the right path here. Is the fear part of the process or am I doing something wrong?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given at a conference in Estonia in 2018.

You are not doing something wrong but you can of course try to refine the process. First of all, if you have very strong symptoms like this, I would recommend that you give some decrees and invocations. I know you say you have done this but nevertheless continue doing this until you do another session so that you can resolve some of the energy. If people are relatively new to the path, haven’t been decreeing for as long or giving invocations for as long then they should be a little more careful.

If they have a strong symptom like this, then step back. Don’t do the exercise but do some more invocations to transform the energy.

You haven’t seen the birth trauma because, if you did, you would have a clearer sense that this is a separate self that was created as a result of it.

The way you describe your experience is that you have connected to certain dramatic events and a certain pain but you haven’t gotten to a point where you have seen this as a separate self. This can be partly because you haven’t resolved the energies but it can also be because you need to more carefully study the instructions and then focus on seeing the separate self that was created as a result of your birth trauma. It isn’t enough to connect to a situation; you need to actually come to see it as a separate self.

In situations like this I recommend that first you step back a little bit, give more invocations and decrees but then you do perform other sessions. Don’t do them one after the other but take some time in between and you can gradually work your way into having a clearer and clearer vision. Between the sessions give invocations and decrees to transform the energy. You will, as you also explained, experience a lesser and lesser intensity which also will make your vision clearer.

You also need to recognise that sometimes it isn’t necessary for you to see the birth trauma. What is necessary is to see the separate self and the belief that you formulated in order to deal with it because that is what is limiting you. You have to understand that we have to give a general tool. People can, of course, have individual reactions to it. Some people will come to see their birth trauma very clearly. Others will have a less clear vision of what actually happened but will still be able to uncover the self that was created as a result of it.

There is always a risk in anything we ascended masters do and by describing in the My Lives book this very traumatic incident in the protagonist’s first embodiment, we can of course, give the impression that this is the way it is for everybody and that it will be overwhelmingly painful. Of course, people have had individual experiences and so you need to be open to that. You also need to be open to the fact that some people may have a very clear visual impression whereas other people will not have the same visual or the same emotional reaction.

 

Copyright © 2018 Kim Michaels

How to find a more balanced approach to food

Question: How can I step out of the two spirits related to food and sugar, one restricting me very much and the other wanting me to indulge and overeat? Then the first one blames me. I want to find a balanced approach.

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given at a conference in Estonia in 2018.

You need to realize that even though there are certain collective entities about food – sugar, alcohol, tobacco or many other addictive substances – you are vulnerable to these because you have a separate self that has a certain belief about what you need, not just physically but also emotionally. You need a certain comfort, a certain feeling of being full and you get this through the food or the sugar or whatever it is.

So you need to use the teachings and tools we have given you to uncover those selves, come to see them as separate, come to see the belief behind them and just replace it with a higher belief and let the first belief die. Then you will be able to find a more balanced approach to what foods you eat. You will not have the tendency to overeat because you are not putting things into your physical body in order to create a certain feeling in your emotional body. You are using the powers of the mind to produce whatever feeling you want in the emotional body.

 

Copyright © 2018 Kim Michaels

In vitro and stem cell technology

Question: If a lifestream does not descend at the time of fertilization, then after in vitro fertilization is it ok to freeze embryos and to select those of better DNA quality before inserting them into the womb or using them for medical healing purposes, such as stem cells?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given at a conference in Estonia in 2018.

Yes, it is perfectly acceptable to use in vitro fertilization and it is also acceptable to use stem cells for medical research and in an attempt to develop certain cures. Obviously this is not a technology that will have a long lifespan because better ways of dealing with disease will become known as we move further into the Golden Age but as an interim step it is necessary to pursue what can be done at the physical.

It is even necessary in the sense that people who do not have a spiritual outlook need to be allowed to go into certain extremes about the physical body in order to create the foundation for an awareness that human beings are more than the physical body.

 

Copyright © 2018 Kim Michaels

Do animals reincarnate?

Question: Do animals reincarnate? Do human beings join their pets after death?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given at a conference in Estonia in 2018.

No, they don’t because as we have said before, animals have a group soul and therefore it is meaningless to say that an animal reincarnates. What you can say is that an animal that has been closely associated with humans can have an elemental that is more evolved. So there could be, in some cases, an elemental in, say a dog and after the dog dies, the elemental creates or manifests another dog’s body. A person could then get that dog and recognize some familiarity with the elemental but it doesn’t mean that the dog has reincarnated.

I know this may be a slightly technical distinction but you understand that a being created in a higher realm, such as an avatar or one of the original inhabitants of the Earth – in other words, most human beings – incarnates because the Conscious You or the soul descends into the body. An elemental does not incarnate unless it receives the threefold flame and incarnates in a human body. Until then you cannot actually say that the life of the elemental is an incarnation; it’s more of an evolution.

 

Copyright © 2018 Kim Michaels