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A new language for a new generation

Question: In bridging the gap between different outdated paradigms I feel called to bring in a new language for a new generation, not being defined by religion, science or spirituality. What do I need to know about myself in order to do this?

Kim: A new language like English, French, German?

Additional explanation: Like a mindset or paradigm.

Kim: So more in terms of concepts?

Questioner: Yeah

Kim: Ok

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

Well the question of what you need to know about yourself is basically, use the teachings to overcome the primal self and the other separate selves that would stand in the way of you fulfilling this mission. Obviously doing something like this can only come from your I AM Presence and from whatever ascended masters that you are personally working with.

So it’s a matter of removing the blockages you have that might color you and that might even make you have the attempt to do this with an attitude of non-peace as I talked about and therefore this is the most important for you to make your mind as clear as possible so you become an open door.

You of course also need to understand the culture for which you are trying to bring forth this new language. What do young people need? How they think and what their view of life is. So that’s the omega aspect of it, you need to have a connection to this which is why as we have said before, this messenger cannot do everything because he cannot know everything that’s happening out there, he cannot be connected to every group of people, every cultural background and that’s why there is a great potential for all of you too also find a way to be part of bringing in the Golden Age.

But of course, as we have given you these tools, our main concern is that you become as open doors as possible so you do not have all of these outer selves that stand in the way and that color your efforts.

Find the spiritual teaching that resonates with your being

Question: I’m asking for a friend who feels no joy in the teachings, and when giving decrees and invocations she feels drained of energy and left with a feeling of aloneness. Why?

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

We cannot give a teaching that works for all people and so if you feel that it drains you of energy – that it is not for you, then you shouldn’t force yourself to follow this teaching but simply look for another spiritual teaching that resonates more with your being, your present level of consciousness, your background.

There is no – and there never has been from our side – sense that this is the highest or the only teaching or that you should force yourself to follow this teaching. We certainly do not want anyone to feel that if they cannot follow this teaching there is something wrong with them. It’s simply a matter of finding another spiritual teaching that works for you. We have of course given other teachings. We have inspired other spiritual teachers to bring forth various things so there should be something you can find that will work for you.

Allowing the children to have the experiences they need for their growth

Question: My son is in college and his biggest dream is to make it big on Wall Street. From a spiritual perspective that’s not a very high calling. So I try to balance my desire as his parent for him to fulfill his dreams and try to combine that with Mother Mary’s concept of holding the immaculate concept – the highest potential for my son’s spiritual development. So I’ve got a little bit of a conflict on wanting him to achieve his conscious dream knowing that that might not be the highest potential for him in this embodiment. So how do I resolve that conflict?

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

This is of course what most parents face with their children, that the children have a certain conscious dream at a certain phase in their lives and as a parent you can see that it isn’t necessarily the highest possible but nevertheless you can hold the immaculate concept. You can express to your children how you see life, how you see their potential career but you need to let them pursue their dream because when it is a strong desire then you need to let them at least move towards acting on it. If it’s just a weaker desire then it may fade away, as you know children often change what they want to be when they grow up and many boys have wanted to be astronauts but later realized that there was something else they actually wanted more.

So in the end as a parent you need to say that if the children have a strong sense that this is what they want then you need to let them do it because the children need that experience for their growth. So the best thing that you can do is as I said, talk to your children about your views but if they still feel that this is what they have to do then support them, at least to some degree and let them run that course. Now there are of course in an area like this and in many other careers, it is possible that as they grow a little older and get to their teenage years they will have certain experiences or insights that show them what kind of an environment they are actually moving into and this might be enough to help them decide that this is not actually what they really want and go into another avenue.

But it is important as a parent and especially as a spiritual parent that you don’t use your spiritual beliefs to impose or I should say your spiritual experiences and knowledge and awareness, to impose a restriction on your children. Because they are not necessarily at your level of consciousness, they are not necessarily having the same vision of life that you do and they need to be allowed to have the kind of experiences they need to have. Sometimes it is of course difficult for a parent to watch when the children are having these hard knocks but that is where you then need to keep in mind “free will” and allow the children to have the experiences they need for their growth.

Prophecies about something happening at a specific date

Question: This is about channels talking about an event that’s supposed to happen in November and represent a significant shift. The specific dates such as 11.11. where are these messages coming from?

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

These specific messages are coming from the mental realm, not from the ascended masters. Just as a general guideline, how many times have we given – at least to this messenger, prophecies about something happening at a specific date? How many times have we talked about some major shift that is going to happen at a specific date and everything is going to change. We are talking about incremental changes as the consciousness is raised gradually.

So whenever you see this, you can see that this is an attempt to make use of this (again) the hope that something good is going to happen. The hope that one day there will be this final breakthrough, the Earth will shift into the fifth dimension. Christ will come back in the sky and all of these millienialistic ideas and thoughts that are out there. It is simply because people hope for some breakthrough.

There are forces in the emotional and mental realms and even in the identity realm that are using this hope to milk people of their energy. You can see the 2012 phenomenon, how people got worked into an almost hysterical state of thinking that something major was going to happen in 2012.

This in itself gave energy to these forces that milked them of this energy. Then when it didn’t happen you saw the downslide, just as you have a sugar high and a sugar low, you saw the 2012 low that followed and this also allowed the forces in the emotional realm to milk people of their energies. So you can see how we are calling you to a more balanced approach, where there is a steady growth, a gradual growth. We are not trying to take you through this high and low and high and low. So you know that when this is happening, these are lower forces that are seeking to steal people’s energy.

Did the ascended masters sponsor the United Nations?

Question: Did the ascended masters sponsor the United Nations organization? If they did, are they still sponsoring it?

Answer from the Ascended Master Saint Germain through Kim Michaels. This answer was given at a conference in Albuquerque (USA) in 2018.

Well, it all depends on what you mean with the word sponsorship. This is not something we have talked much about because it is difficult to quantify what it means to sponsor. It has been said that I sponsor America but I have also said it’s not a blank check.

We did originally sponsor the creation of the United Nations because it is, after all, an organization that gives the different nations of the world a forum where they can talk about various issues. This has potential for creating dialogue, for creating understanding. It is a potential for helping people discover what we have called the basic humanity or the essential humanity but this doesn’t mean that we gave a blank check to the United Nations.

It doesn’t mean that we are in agreement with or approve everything that the United Nations has done or is doing. The way we look at it is that free will must always be allowed to outplay itself, so when we create something – or assist in the creation of something, give an idea – it isn’t that we have a particular outcome in mind. We see it, as we have said about America, as a process, an experiment, a chance to see how people respond and what they do with it.

It’s clear that the United Nations has not really been a very effective organization. It has become sort of a discussion club for old men [audience laughter] and in many ways it hasn’t had the impact that it potentially could have had. It’s also clear that the fallen beings try to take anything and manipulate it and use it for their own ends and this has to some degree happened with the United Nations.

So we do not sponsor it as much as we did in the beginning but we are still hoping that it can do some good. Of course, those of you who have looked into the United Nations will know that it has a huge bureaucracy but some of you might also be aware that – as I talked about with Washington or Wall Street – there is a public facade and then there is the inside environment that is very, very different from the public facade.

If you feel inclined, you can certainly make calls for the United Nations, including calls for the judgment of those who are manipulating it behind the scenes and using it for an agenda that does not serve to further the Golden Age but given the impact that the United Nations has on the world, it is not really a high priority. I would certainly rather have you make calls for America if you feel tied to America or if you are an American.

The thing about the United Nations is that it is one of these organizations that is built on a certain promise, a certain dream of uniting people. There are many spiritual people, including many avatars, who of course have that dream. As avatars, most of you decided to come to earth because you had the dream of improving, of bringing people together, of avoiding conflict. The unfortunate effect of the United Nations and other such organizations can be that when it makes a promise and doesn’t fulfill it, it serves to discourage people. Then they become hopeless and feel that nothing can be done.

We hope of course, that such people will find the ascended master teachings and realize that something can be done but it isn’t through these outer organizations. It’s by doing the spiritual work that sets the foundation for physical changes.

Being an angel

Question: I know a person whom numerous people have called an angel but the person is surprised by people doing that. Is it possible to be from the angelic realm and others notice it? The person doesn’t recall being in the angelic realm.

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

In a case like this, I would say that the person himself or herself most likely has a better intuitive sense of this than the other people who are calling that person an angel. Many spiritual people have a somewhat naive, somewhat distorted and somewhat outdated view of what it means to be an angel. They think that an angel has certain characteristics and when they see them in a person they reason that the person must be from the angelic realm but if the person doesn’t sense this then it is most likely that it is the person’s intuition that is correct.

Healing psychology and time

Question: Since time doesn’t really exist, if we are healing ourselves and the collective consciousness on earth, are we also healing our lineage – people in our family background or our family tree – of some unresolved emotional conflicts that may have been handed down to us and are affecting us now?

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

It is necessary to look at how you use words here, in the sense that when you are healing your psychology you are not actually going backwards in time. You can make calls for the transformation of energy and you can, of course, make calls for the transformation of energy that was misqualified by your ancestors and may still be in, for example, the emotional realm. In that sense you can go backwards in time and dissolve the energy.

When you are healing your own psychology, you’re not healing it backwards in time. You’re healing it now but since you are—many of you, at least—tied to this family lineage, by you raising your consciousness and healing your psychology you make it easier for the other people to heal their psychology but this doesn’t happen in the past, it happens from this moment forward.

This is of course, all subject to their free will, whether they are willing to heal their psychology. As you well know, healing psychology means that you come to see something and you let go of it and many people are not willing to see and many people are not willing to let go. Therefore they cannot be healed even if you are making it easier for them and even if you are pulling them upwards. They might resist and reject change but you are, of course, giving them a better opportunity by healing yourself.

Communicating with deceased relatives or ancestors

Question: What is the Masters’ view of communicating with deceased relatives or ancestors?

Answer from the Ascended Master Master More through Kim Michaels. This answer was given at a conference in Albuquerque (USA) in 2018.

If you go back to the 1800s, there was a phenomenon of spiritism or spiritualistic mediums, where many, many people engaged in these séances, sitting around the table in a dim-lit room and calling for the deceased ancestors of the people in the room to come forth and speak or give some kind of sign.

This movement was, to some degree sponsored or at least initiated by the ascended masters. It is another example of how we have said that we have to work with people at the level of the collective consciousness. We have to give people something that they are open to, that they can grasp and then hoping that it can help them raise their consciousness so that now they can leave this behind and find something higher.

We are naturally not sponsoring this today – we are not encouraging our students to engage in this activity. Today the phenomenon has sort of taken on a life of its own where there are some people who are seeking to make use of it to enrich themselves or even ensnare people or tie people to them and in many cases, this simply no longer works. It isn’t the spirits or their departed souls of people’s loved ones that are coming through in these séances. It is actually impostors from the emotional realm, in many cases, who are seeking to get people to release emotional energy that they can then absorb.

You will see that, as Mother Mary said about the channeling phenomenon, that the phenomenon in the 1800s of so many people seeking to communicate with beings in a realm beyond the material did have an effect on raising the collective consciousness and it set the stage for at least some people being able to accept that there were ascended masters in a higher realm, that could also communicate through a medium or messenger.

Warbook and shift in the collective consciousness

Question: A few years ago, the book, “Help the Ascended Masters Stop War” came out. Has there been a shift in the collective consciousness since that release?

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

Yes, most definitely so, although it is of course subtle because it has primarily taken place in the identity realm. There are not yet enough people who have taken the book, given the invocations, that it has been filtered down through the mental, emotional, into the physical but this is something that of course can happen as people continue to use it, as more and more people begin to use it.

There has already been shifts and although it hasn’t of course stopped war, it is again a matter of, the first thing we look for, is really to awaken the people who are in positions to do something about an issue but who have not yet been awakened or not yet been empowered to actually go out and do something.

So this is always the first step, and this can take time. It can take time before these people decide to speak out or take action and so we always look at it in a more long-term perspective. Naturally there are situations where we can see faster results, as we have mentioned seeing this in Korea. There are of course, many other situations like this but the “War” book has definitely had an impact on shifting the collective consciousness or I should say, the way people have used the book has had an impact.

The role of the Buddha and the Christ

Question: Gautama Buddha had thousands of followers, whereas Jesus only had hundreds. Was the collective consciousness in India much higher than that in Israel or were there other reasons that affected the number of respective followers?

Answer from the Ascended Master Gautama Buddha through Kim Michaels. This answer was given at a conference in Albuquerque (USA) in 2018.

Well, it is correct that the consciousness in Israel is much lower or was much lower than it was in India. Israel or the Middle East is certainly one of the darkest areas, if not the darkest area on earth and that is why Jesus descended there but we also have to look at the simple fact that Jesus’ public mission lasted three years, whereas mine lasted longer.

I can assure you that Jesus and I are not really playing the numbers game, pointing the finger, saying, “I had more followers than you did”. It is also a matter of looking at it from a different perspective because you can say that, the role of the Buddha is to withdraw from society, create an ashram and let people come to him and then you present a teaching for those who are ready for that teaching. When I appeared, there were many people that were ready for some higher teaching, so they were willing to come apart.

The role of the Christ is not to set himself apart in an ashram but to go out into the highways and byways of life and so to speak, provoke people, get into their face even if they are not yet ready for it. So, it is easier for the Buddha to attract followers than for the Christ because the Christ also has the role of challenging the power elite and even though I did this also by my mere presence, I didn’t go out there and directly challenge them as Jesus did.

The Christ had a different mission and part of his mission was to bring the judgment and that was so important that it took precedence over attracting followers. But of course, Jesus also had many, many people, who met him, who listened to him during his ministry. You can say he only had a certain amount of disciples but he certainly had many people who heard him speak and were moved by it.

Debt, pursuing career and a divine plan

Question: I am currently in graduate school and have felt led to pursue the field of psychology but doubt has been creeping in because of the monetary debt involved, yet I know debt is a system of the dark forces. Any thoughts on how I might make a decision?

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

You need to use our tools to increase your intuition and get directions from within as to whether pursuing a career on psychology is part of your divine plan. If you feel that it is, then you cannot let the debts prevent you from pursuing that career. It is correct that in an ideal situation, you shouldn’t have to go so deeply into debt in order to get an education. It is correct that it is a manipulated situation. Nevertheless, if this is part of your divine plan and you feel that it is, then pursue it and just find a way to pay off the debt once you get a job so that you can put it behind you.

Channelling and Christ discernment

Question: Do you have any comments on channelling; is anybody capable of learning to channel and can a person channel Ascended Masters?

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

We can take several different approaches to dealing with this issue. We can say that for the consciousness, the collective consciousness to be raised it is necessary that more and more people come to realise that there is a realm beyond the material world. That there are beings in this realm that are in various ways more evolved, more sophisticated than people in embodiment and that it is possible for these beings to speak through certain people in embodiment and give messages that can help those in embodiment in various ways.

So you can say that this is a necessary part of the growth process and therefore the entire channelling phenomenon is helping advance that process. However as we have said before, real growth happens when you expand your Christ discernment and this means you become able to sense the vibration of the beings who are channeling. You can therefore learn to read the vibration of a channeled message, sense whether it comes from the emotional realm, from the mental realm, from the lower identity realm or from the Ascended realm. And that is when you can begin to ask yourself, where do you want your messages from, how do you want to tune in, which beings do you want to attune your mind to? So this is one approach, I’m saying that, it is helpful that people, so to speak, soften the old attitude that there is a wall between earth and the spiritual realm and only the authorities, for example the Catholic Church, can penetrate that wall and get any messages from above.

We are in an age where it needs to be seen that we of the Ascended Masters cannot be monopolized by the power elite. We cannot be monopolized by any institution or for that matter any single messenger but that we can speak through multiple messengers. However you can also take the approach that the entire channeling phenomenon is leading a lot of people, in the New Age movement, a lot of people who are open minded into blind alleys. Because many people get pulled into following a particular channeler, a particular message that doesn’t come from a higher source. That means that people then, instead of continuing to grow or growing to their highest potential they often get diverted into a feel good state where they think that this is all they have to do and they don’t need to look for anything higher.

You can also take another approach of saying that not everything that is channelled comes from a benevolent source. The statement that so many New Age people have “it’s all good”, this of course is not correct, it is based on a limited understanding. Not everything that is channeled is good, in a sense that, it is not given with a good intent. And so many of the channelers out there, take messages from beings that came to be for example: Archangel Michael or St. Germain but these beings exist in a mental realm or even sometimes in the emotional realm and they are using the name of Archangel Michael or St. Germain or Sananda or whatever you have but they are not the Ascended Master Archangel Michael or St. Germain.

This is what we call imposters because they are imposing themselves as a being they are not, they are falsely representing a Master; they are misrepresenting themselves. That is why we are talking about a false hierarchy, of these kind of beings that are emulating the actual true spiritual hierarchy of the Ascended Masters and therefore attempting to get people to believe that they really are the Ascended Masters and give messages from their level of consciousness, that in some cases are not deliberately manipulative because these beings believe in what they are saying but because they are not from the highest level of consciousness, they take people into a blind alley or they might contain inaccuracies.

There are also some of these false hierarchy imposters who are deliberately trying to mislead people. And therefore we can say that this is not really a benign phenomenon and you may say that the channeling phenomenon as a whole is helping raise the consciousness but these false hierarchy imposters are not helping to raise the consciousness of the people who follow their messages.

So the reality here is, that there are some beings who say or some people who say, oh, everyone can channel, everyone can learn to channel. First of all it isn’t true because not everyone can learn to channel but second of all, many people can learn to channel but they can not learn to channel the Ascended Masters. In fact I would have to say, you cannot learn to channel Ascended Masters. Even we cannot create a course that after four weeks you have learned to channel the Ascended Masters. Those who have set up these kind of courses and they are for example also courses, where if you pay a considerable amount of money and participate in a course for some weeks, you will supposedly have attained Christhood.

Those who are creating these kind courses and are claiming that this is legitimate or sponsored by us, I can only say they are not sponsored by the Ascended Masters and it may have some effect of teaching people to channel but what are they channeling. Those of you who are here, you are here because you can read the vibration of our messages and therefore you know it comes from an Ascended Source. Those who are pulled into the channeling phenomenon, they have not yet developed that ability. Therefore you cannot go out and argue with these people because they don’t sense what you sense and for them what you are saying is just an argument that they can argue for or against or believe or not believe and if they want to have a feel good message then there is not much you can do about it. Let them have that message, until they have had the experience they need to have from it and begin to long for something higher and begin to be willing to exercise their discernment.

The fact of the matter is that there are many people in the New Age movement who do not want to develop discernment because they just want a form of feel good spirituality. They are not ready to take responsibility for themselves as there are many people in the Christian Churches who are not willing to take responsibility for themselves and therefore they continue to follow the false pastors of Christianity.

The industrialized rich countries have to spread the wealth

Question: How porous should our borders be, open or not?

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

Well, I cannot give you an exact figure, an exact measure because it is something that will change over time. It’s clear that given the state of the world, you cannot uncritically open the borders of the United States because they are so many people living in much poorer countries, that they would flood the United States and if too many people came in at the same time, yes it would create an imbalance and it would be an economic burden for America.

What I am talking about is letting people in at a balanced pace so that the economy can deal with it and so that they have time to actually settle and make a contribution to the economy. But in order to in the long term, to improve the situation, it is again as I have said before about the industrialized nations, primarily in Europe, where they also have an influx of immigrants.

It is necessary for the rich countries to come to a point where they realise they have to spread the wealth, they have to work with other countries and help them raise their standard of living faster than these countries did it themselves because it is an unsustainable situation that you have a few countries that have a very high material standard of living and if you have other countries where people are starving to death or dying from malnutrition.

Instead of letting all of these people from Africa and Central America come in, it is better to go out and help improve the situation so these people do not have to leave their home countries.

Immigrants are not the cause of America’s problems

Question: Please comment on the separation of children and parents at the United States border.

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

Well my beloved, as Saint Germain just said, on a dense matter planet there are sometimes situations where the ideal outcome cannot be manifest or where some very unfortunate consequences that nobody had thought about or that few people had thought about, occur. Naturally, taking children away from their parents and putting them in cages is an inhumane act that should never ever be able to occur in a so-called free democratic nation. On the other hand, what you’re dealing with here is that some of these refugees come from such an extreme and unbalanced situation in their own countries that unfortunately some of these parents would rather see their children remain in the United States than having to take them back to their home countries.

It is, of course, a situation that should not have occurred because the United States authorities should have let the parents in with the children. I am not saying they should have either let the parents in with the children or deported all of them. I’m saying they should have let the parents and the children in and given them an opportunity to either create a life here or to go back with better circumstances. This is of course, a big issue that we might talk more about at another time but it is necessary that there is a big change in the way America looks at immigrants. It is necessary that American immigration policy is debated neutrally. It is necessary that the mindset that has been created where immigrants are blamed for many of America’s problems is seen for what it is, namely a manipulation by the power elite by the fallen beings because naturally, immigrants are not the cause of America’s problems. It was immigrants who built America.

So who decided that there was a point where now we didn’t want any more immigrants to come in and build America further? Naturally, it was the power elite. You see that there are still vast areas in America that are uninhabited. You see that there are still many opportunities for creating new businesses and inventions. You see that Americans have, to some degree, lost some of their creativity or are not willing to work in certain types of jobs or maybe not as creative in creating businesses as some of the immigrants would be. It is clear that, in many cases or at least up to a certain degree, an influx of immigrants would actually be a boost to the American economy, rather than taking jobs away from Americans as the slogan goes. They would create new jobs and some of those jobs would be taken by Americans but this is a much larger issue that we will not go into depth with here.

Creation of the United States and karma

Question: What was the specific karma for the United States for taking over lands that the Native Americans once inhabited?

Answer from the Ascended Master Saint Germain through Kim Michaels. This answer was given at a conference in Albuquerque (USA) in 2018.

We have, quite a number of years ago, given some teachings on Native Americans and why it was necessary that their land was “taken away from them.” The reality is that, on a dense matter planet like earth, you cannot always have an ideal situation. So for a variety of reasons it was important to create the United States. This could not have been done by the Native Americans because of their state of consciousness, because of their level of technological development, which was also an expression of the state of consciousness because of the state of warfare between the tribes.

So it was necessary to let the white settlers come here but as we have said before, it would have been possible that the Native Americans could have stepped up and started working with the white settlers and finding a more harmonious way for the Native Americans to step up to a different form of life than the hunter gatherer culture.

Now again, as we said, this is partly a manipulation by the fallen beings that set white settlers against the Native Americans and the other way around. In terms of the specific karma and certainly karma was incurred, but on the other hand, karma was also incurred on the part of the Native Americans. It is not so my beloved that the Native Americans were pure and innocent victims and that it was only America or the white people that incurred karma for the situation.

Talking about problems to other people and karma

Question: If you have a challenging relationship with a family member but talking about it with them is often not productive, am I creating karma by discussing this relationship with a friend, sometimes venting about it and sometimes asking for their insights?

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

Well, my beloved, it depends somewhat on the state of mind from which you are talking. If you are in a greatly agitated, disturbed state of mind, if you have a lot of anger and a lot of fear then yes, you will create karma by talking to a friend about it. But you will also create karma, in a sense, by having the anger in your four lower bodies, so it is better then, to look at yourself and look at why your reaction is extreme or unbalanced and seek to resolve the psychology behind it.

On the other hand, I do not want to give you the impression that you cannot or should not talk about issues in your life with your friends. Because many times, it is not only helpful for you to resolve certain things, it also helps you to just feel better by relieving some of the pressure and of course you should feel free to talk.

I’m only pointing out that if you go into a very strong reaction of anger or blame then it is better to work on the psychology behind it. But otherwise, just feel free to talk to your friends about the issues in your life and quite frankly, if you’re not severely unbalanced, don’t worry about making karma by talking to people because that many times restricts you so that you start suppressing things instead of bringing them to the surface where you can see and deal with them.

There are many, many examples of what Gautama Buddha talked about, religious spiritual people who have been obsessed with following the rules. You can even see spiritual students even ascended masters students, who have been so obsessed with, for example, as was said in the previous dispensation, not ever engaging in CCJ, criticism condemnation and judgment, that they thought they should never talk about any issue or any problem they had.

This, of course, causes people to go into a state of suppressing their problems and it only builds pressure and prolongs the time before you can resolve them. So again, when you don’t have a malicious intent, when you are not severely unbalanced, don’t be too concerned about these things. Don’t seek to go into this constant judgement of yourself: “Am I doing the right thing? Should I be doing this? Should I be doing that?” Just let things flow. Talk about the things with your friends that you need to talk about and don’t condemn yourself for it.

What will happen with dark forces in the Golden Age

Question: If this planet was in ascension, where will the dark forces go?

Answer from the Ascended Master Saint Germain through Kim Michaels. This answer was given at a conference in Albuquerque (USA) in 2018.

That is not really my problem, my beloved. As we move into the Golden Age and raise the collective consciousness, naturally there will come a point where the fallen beings cannot continue to embody on earth. They will go elsewhere but there are other Masters who will take care of that.

I am fully occupied seeking to raise this planet and I do not worry myself about what is not my responsibility. Rest assured that there will be places where they can go and that somehow, they will be given opportunities to raise their consciousness and get on a positive path.

Question your concept of angels

Question: I have come to the realisation that there is a diversity among avatars. Some are from natural planets. Some were not embodied but served another purpose in the higher realms. So are there beings in embodiment on earth that descended from angelic realms that have no recollection of being embodied on earth.

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

In the way we use terminology in the My Lives book, an avatar is a being from a natural planet that is in the physical octave in this un-ascended sphere. Therefore there are no avatars that came from the angelic realm. I know that you can broaden the concept of an avatar to say that this is a being who came from a higher planet or a higher place than earth and took embodiment here. I know very well that there are many, many spiritual people who have a sense, even some a strong intuitive sense, that they are from the angelic realm and took embodiment on earth. The fact of the matter is that at this point I do not want to challenge these people’s perception.

The reason for this is that we have further teachings that we will give at some point in the future about the concept of angels. What I will say at this point is that the concept of angels is a very tricky concept because of the way the word has been used by many different religions, even by many New Age teachings, even by ascended master teachings for that matter. There are certain words that are used in so many different ways by so many different people that it is difficult to use them because it is difficult to say what exactly is being meant by it.

The word “soul” is one example of this where in the early teachings given through this messenger we talked about the soul. Now we hardly ever mention the word soul because we talk about the Conscious You and the four lower bodies. So we have given a more nuanced teaching. What I want to do for now is give the concept that it could be helpful for those of you who are very interested in angels or think you are from the angelic realm to question your concept of angels.

To look at where it came from and to consider that the traditional view where you have earth (going back far enough) was seen as the center of the universe. There was a dome above the flat earth and right on the other side of that dome was the celestial realm where you found God and angels. You have then various concepts of what angels are like or what angels do and this and that.

So consider broadening that concept based on the teachings we have now given about the different spheres, about this un-ascended sphere having billions of planets with life that is more highly evolved than it is on earth. Consider whether there might be only an artificial dividing line between angels and avatars. Consider whether the traditional view of angels is actually correct or that there might be a more nuanced understanding.

I know that I am challenging you but that is because I know that there are some people who have become attached to seeing themselves as angels or attached to the idea that angels have taken and are taking embodiment on earth. I know it will take time for them to adjust and that is why I am not making a more precise unambiguous statement.

The spiritual causes of insomnia

Question: What are the spiritual causes of insomnia and are there any actions that can be taken to resolve or manage it?

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

The first step to take towards resolving insomnia is to start giving intense calls to Archangel Michael and Astrea. You can use decrees, you can use invocations, and you call for your protection and the protection of your four lower bodies, the three higher bodies – the identity, mental and emotional minds. Call for Astrea to cut you free from any ties to the astral plane, to any dark forces, demons, entities and so on. Oftentimes insomnia is caused by these dark forces projecting energies or thoughts and feelings into your mind that then engages your mind so that you cannot go to sleep.

In the more long run it is of course a matter of resolving the psychology that makes you feel like there is something you have to resolve, something you have to do, something you have to think about. This simply ties in with the teachings on the primal self, the separate selves and that is where you can use the teachings in the book on Healing Your Spiritual Traumas.

Dementia of children

Question: Can the masters comment on the cause of young babies and people who are at a very young age contracting the disease of dementia? Mother Mary previously talked about dementia being a disease of not making choices to move forward. What then are the mechanics for these young people to resolve their psychologies and move on?

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

When young people contract such a disease it is always because of unresolved psychology from past lives. In other words they do not have to live for several decades before their unwillingness to engage with the world clouds their minds.

It is very difficult to help people who have gone into dementia resolve the psychology behind it, as you all know, if you have ever met someone in that state because you cannot reach them and you cannot reason with them in a normal manner.

You can make the calls for such people but ultimately they will of course have to make choices. In many cases this will not happen until they are out of embodiment again and therefore receive help before they come into their next lifetime. An example of one of these situations in the physical octave where because of the density of the planet and the collective consciousness there is no easy solution here, there is no magic wand that you can wave and the problem goes away.

Gold is becoming less and less important in the modern economy

Question: In the US gold has not been audited since 1954 in Fort Knox, are we to assume it is gone? Why are China and Russia buying so much gold?

Answer from the Ascended Master Saint Germain through Kim Michaels. This answer was given at a conference in Albuquerque (USA) in 2018.

It is not all gone, although some of it is gone. The reality is that gold is becoming less and less important in the modern economy. China and Russia are buying gold because they are still thinking that this can be a protection against some kind of downturn in the economy. They are hoping and there are forces especially in China but also in Russia who are working towards another financial collapse. They are hoping that they can “so to speak” defeat the west by having this massive financial collapse and then they can protect themselves or they can come out on top by having this accumulation of gold. I am not saying that this is a realistic assessment on their parts but that is how they are thinking.

It is of course possible as I have said before that there can be a collapse. If people will not learn the lessons from 2008 then they will have to receive an even harder knock in the future so they can come to learn the lessons and get back to a sustainable economy. Nevertheless I do not – I am not thereby saying that the thinking of China and Russia is correct or is entirely rational or that what they are hoping for will come to pass.

Question: I know that Saint Germain said that gold wouldn’t work as a monetary system in today’s age. He also said the elite own most of the gold. Do these two statements apply to silver as well?

Answer from the Ascended Master Saint Germain through Kim Michaels. This answer was given at a conference in Albuquerque (USA) in 2018.

Not entirely, although to some degree because silver has more industrial uses than gold and therefore it is not accumulated to the same degree. Also because it has less value it is not accumulated to the same degree by the elite.

Future of the work

Question: Some technocrats have said that in 20 years 50% of the jobs will be gone as a result of automation and artificial intelligence, is that true?

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

Well my beloved, there were also people who said that 30 or 40 years ago. In a sense they have been correct because certain of these very menial, repetitive, very dangerous or unhealthy jobs have been replaced by machines. Certainly this trend will continue to the point where humans beings will be doing less and less of those kinds of mechanical repetitive dangerous or unhealthy jobs.

This does not mean that there will not be other jobs created instead. As you can clearly see that some of the jobs that have disappeared, other jobs have been created instead. As society evolves, entirely new industries can spring up. For example go back 30 or 40 years and nobody could really foresee the computer industry and the tremendous amounts of jobs that have been created by that. I can assure you that as we go into the Golden Age, entirely new technologies will come up and many more jobs will be created. There will also of course, in a Golden Age be an entirely different approach to creating wealth so that many people in society will not have a job but will be set free to pursue spiritual growth.

A paradigm shift in science

Question: There is an ongoing discussion in science circles that says that an unbalanced state of microorganisms in our gut is what causes many chronic diseases. Is it possible to prove with current scientific methods and tools that it’s really our state of consciousness that influence the microorganisms in our gut?

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

No obviously it isn’t possible to prove this with current scientific methods and philosophy because it is so tied to materialism. Science has made the unfortunate choice many years ago to ignore consciousness. You will see from the history of science that the Catholic church was attempting to suppress all of the early scientists and any discovery that challenged the doctrines of the church.

That is why you see so many materialists who are continually referring to how Galileo was suppressed and imprisoned and how other scientists were suppressed by the Catholic church. They are using this as a justification for what happened to materialism where they reasoned that religion was a suppressive force. They wanted to distance science from religion – not necessarily a bad idea – but they also reasoned that since there are different religions and no way to prove that one is right and the others are wrong, all religious belief is subjective and a form of superstition.

So they decided that the most important goal for science was to distance it from all subjectivity, to exclude all subjectivity. They then reasoned – and here is the real problem – that the human mind can only be subjective. Therefore they said the subjective mind is of no interest to science because there’s no way to study it, so we refuse to study it and we only focus on studying what we can measure, something that is tangible and that we can therefore measure with experiments that can be repeated by other people regardless of their beliefs and therefore we can say we have excluded subjectivity and attainedobjectivity.

This is of course the whole basis for materialism and so what has happened since then is that science has not made a reasonable effort to study consciousness, to study the mind by using the scientific method and scientific instruments. Now there are of course some scientists who have begun to do this and we of course look to these to bring forth the next breakthrough in science where science will begin to study consciousness and therefore will be able to show a connection between consciousness and the physical body.

Some scientists have already done this, I am well aware of this but this has not yet been accepted by the mainstream and there will come a point where mainstream science can no longer deny this, can no longer ignore it but this is not something that will be brought about only by the research in consciousness. It requires more of a paradigm shift in science that essentially will simply cause science to move beyond materialism. It will cause a critical mass of scientists to openly acknowledge that the emperor has nothing on because materialism has now become as restrictive for scientific experimentation as the Catholic church was 500 years ago. When that realization spreads to a critical mass of scientists then you will see a paradigm shift.

Passing an initiation is not an automatic result of doing the outer practice

Question: What do you have to say to an ascended master student who doesn’t give the invocations of a chapter for 33 days because maybe she needs some newness and moves faster but then she feels a bit lost because she has not passed any initiations? However, she works on her psychology diligently and feels she has made progress on it but feels she is disorganized with books. Does the person pass the initiation?

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

The guidelines we give you about giving an invocation for nine days or 33 days are just guidelines. You need to be sensitive to your individual needs and you cannot reason that just because you haven’t followed the rules, you haven’t passed the initiation because we have never promised you that if you give an invocation for 33 days you will have passed the initiation.

Passing an initiation is not an automatic result of doing the outer practice because there has to be a shift in consciousness. The invocations are designed to help you attain that shift but in the end, a decision has to be made and it has to be a somewhat aware decision where you see something you didn’t see before and then you shift. So there is no guarantee that this will happen and this is one of the reasons why there are some people that get results from using invocations and other people don’t.

But if you are in doubt about whether you have passed an initiation then it actually shows that you haven’t passed it because you haven’t shifted in consciousness. If you had shifted you would experience that you have changed and therefore you wouldn’t even have the question of whether you have passed that initiation. You would just be moving on looking for the next thing to deal with in your psychology. Again you cannot then reason that “Oh, well I didn’t do it for 33 days so now I need to go back and do it for 33 days and then I will have passed the initiation.”

It is as I said – something that requires you to see something and then make a decision and then you have shifted. So when you feel you haven’t passed an initiation, don’t be too hard on yourself about this. Don’t become frantic and say, “Oh now I really have to focus on this” and instead of giving it once a day for 33 days I’m going to give it three times a day. This isn’t necessarily going to help you. There are sometimes were you actually need to say, “Okay, then I put that initiation on the shelf for now. I move on to something else.” And then you may find that as time moves along then suddenly you will have an insight and then you will shift in consciousness.

It isn’t possible to force a shift in consciousness if you’re not ready for it. You see my beloved, a shift in consciousness does happen at the physical level but before you can shift in the physical, in many cases you need to first have some resolution in the identity, mental and emotional realms. So when you give an invocation you start invoking energy that resolves the energies or transmutes the energies in those higher bodies and then that might in fact take some time before you’re ready to have the conscious shift. So it may take longer than 33 days and that’s why again, don’t become frantic about this, don’t seek to force it but just give it a little bit of time and move on with something else. Take your mind off it so you’re not stressing about it and let things unfold.

Putin and the Russian nation

Question: In a previous dictation it was stated that Putin had a 90 percent chance of being out of embodiment by 2018. Since the 10 percent odds manifested, does that mean the Russian population is not yet ready for democracy?

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

Well, we have also given a later teaching that the Russian people who are artificially keeping Putin in embodiment because of their attachment to him and their attachment to having a strong leader.

So that is really what is going on here that, yes, they are not ready for democracy; they are not ready to take responsibility for their nation. That is why they are holding on to this leader who basically says to them: “You don’t have to take responsibility because I will do that for you.” And this is, of course, a tendency that goes far back in the Russian nation and is one of the major things they need to overcome in order to move forward.

Of course, you have the situation that just happened where Putin decided to raise the pension age and therefore take away the retirement benefits that many of his most staunch supporters were looking forward to. So the question is whether this will change the equation enough that he will actually go out of embodiment, as he should have done years ago according to his natural life span and his karma and other equations.

So it is simply a matter of when that shift happens and it is entirely possible that he will stay in embodiment for some time because even though he has disappointed them they may still not be willing to take responsibility for themselves. There are some people who feel that even though he has disappointed them on this issue, it is still better to have him running the nation than to have a more democratic free form of government that requires them to take more responsibility.

Speaking in tongues

Question: I was wondering if you could speak to the nature of speaking in tongues as described in the bible and as it is described now as light language. It was something I was exposed to as a youth and re-emerged as something I felt led to now. As it is something I haven’t seen in the teachings, I wanted to get your stance on it.

Answer from the Ascended Master Jesus through Kim Michaels. This answer was given at a conference in Albuquerque (USA) in 2018.

The modern version of speaking in tongues practiced by certain Christian churches is not in alignment with what is described in the Scriptures and what actually happened to the disciples at the Pentecost event. We actually describe in the My Lives book this event from a different perspective where we say that the Spirit overpowered the early disciples and apostles to not speak in various physical languages or even in angelic tongues but to be able to speak directly to the heart of the audience. To reach their hearts, to be able to express a teaching that was exactly what people needed at their present level of consciousness that could take them up higher.

This has been perverted by certain later churches who have had a desire, as many Christians have a desire, to create some kind of visible, tangible phenomenon that people can see and they cannot deny that there is something unusual going on. This is this desire to convert other people even the desire for the second coming where I am to supposedly appear in the sky in some undeniable manifestation that would force all people to convert to Christianity – a complete violation of free will and the need for plausible deniability at the present stage of the Earth‘s evolution.

These people had an inordinate desire for some kind of visible manifestation. You actually see the same among some modern channelers who want to have some kind of phenomenon that can be physically felt or seen so that people are pulled into an emotional reaction to this. In the vast majority of cases these people are not in contact with beings in the ascended realm or in the angelic realm but they are dealing with imposters in the mental and emotional realm.

Peter and the Peter consciousness

Question: This is apparently directed at Jesus, asking him about the role and life and consciousness of Peter. He did deny you three times but he also dedicated the rest of his life to following you to the best of his ability.

Answer from the Ascended Master Jesus through Kim Michaels. This answer was given at a conference in Albuquerque (USA) in 2018.

Actually, Peter dedicated the rest of his life to following his own mental image of Christ. He never gave it up, he was never willing to give it up and you can see this by the fact that even when he was facing the crucifixion he insisted on being crucified upside down to demonstrate that he was not worthy to be crucified the same way that I was crucified. This shows you that even on his death bed, so to speak, death cross, he had not changed that consciousness. He had not let go of the Peter consciousness – that I denounced when I said ”Get thee behind me Satan“ – of wanting the Living Christ, who was here to set him free from his mental images, to conform to those mental images.

That is why there is a symbolism in the Catholic Church claiming that Peter was the first Pope and that they gained their authority from their direct lineage going back to Peter. This only demonstrates that the Catholic Church, from its inception to the present day, is entirely blinded by, based on, the Peter consciousness that actually denies Christ and wants the Living Christ not to set them free but to conform to their mental image. Did I ever declare that Peter was the first Pope? Did I ever declare that there was something called the Catholic Church? So who came up with this idea? I think not the mind of Christ, my beloved.

George Washington’s vision about the Union

Question: Can Saint Germain comment on George Washington’s vision of an angel with a prophecy in 1777, “While the stars remain, and the heavens send down dew upon the earth, so long shall the Union last.”

Answer from the Ascended Master Saint Germain through Kim Michaels. This answer was given at a conference in Albuquerque (USA) in 2018.

Well, again, everything is given for people at a certain level of consciousness. There was a need at the time to give not only George Washington but the people who were fighting with him – and the other Founding Fathers and the other people who were instrumental in creating America – this sense that what they were doing had importance, that it would last beyond their lifetimes and therefore it was something that was worth the sacrifice in order to manifest it.

So this vision was given for that level of consciousness in an imagery and with words that they could grasp and understand. Does it really have any relevance today? Not particularly because you now have higher teachings.

The effect of Gautama’s Flame in the Rotunda in Washington, D.C.

Question: What effect does the presence of Gautama’s Flame have in the Rotunda [in Washington, D.C.]? Is anyone able to tune into it despite the heavy cloud of hypnotism?

Answer from the Ascended Master Gautama Buddha through Kim Michaels. This answer was given at a conference in Albuquerque (USA) in 2018.

My presence there is an opportunity for all who walk through that room but of course not all are open to experiencing it. Again with free will I am content giving people an opportunity without having a guarantee that they will make use of it. I can assure you that there are people that are able to somewhat tune in. There are people who have gained a certain frame of reference, gained a certain measure of peace.

Of course for this to be even more effective it requires that some people would magnify it, some people would call it forth, some people would call it through the four levels of the material world and this is indeed what we look to happen as a result of this conference and the dictations being turned into invocations and put in a book form that people can use.

We can certainly envision that at some point in time a group of people, would decide to congregate in Washington, D.C. and use the dictations we have given before in front of the important monuments and buildings – which will also be turned into invocations – and give these invocations, so to speak, on location. This will, of course, multiply the effect not only of my presence but of the presence of Saint Germain and Master More and other ascended masters so that you will begin to see more of an effect of this and more and more people will be able to tune in to it.

It is again – to refer to the previous question about why the calls weren’t answered – it is always a very, very delicate equation because free will on Earth is so complex. You know that Jesus has said that we are like used car salesmen who use the bait-and-switch. What that really means is that if you go back to previous dispensations, we evaluated that most people who could be open to our teachings were at a certain level of consciousness and therefore we could give a certain teaching that made the path seem doable, manageable.

So it is not that we lied to people but we gave people a partial understanding because if they had the full understanding, it would seem too complex, too overwhelming for them and they would become discouraged. So as Mother Mary expressed, the decrees given in previous dispensations had a very profound effect on this planet but it just wasn’t the effect envisioned by many of the students.

Now what would be very, very helpful was if ascended master students could overcome a certain mechanism that especially was there in previous dispensations. What many students feel when they encounter our teachings is that suddenly a new world has opened up to them. They find what they have been longing to find all of their lives, they feel they’re finally home, they feel this teaching is so advanced compared to what they had found before and therefore many go into this sense that the teaching given in a specific dispensation must be the highest spiritual teaching on the planet. This is something the ego likes to hear because what does that mean?

Well, since you can recognize the highest spiritual teaching on the planet, you must be one of the highest spiritual students on the planet or so the ego reasons. This is not ergo but ego. So it would be very helpful if people could overcome this but you understand, of course, why they couldn’t overcome that in previous dispensations. It was because they were at a level of awareness where we couldn’t give them a higher teaching but they still had the need to feel that they were the most advanced spiritual students.

Those of you who are open to this dispensation can use our teachings to move beyond that stage where you don’t need to have that artificial outer status and you can resolve the trauma. That means that you can accept who you are, be who you are and then as this messenger has described, all these artificial evaluations of “Am I a high spiritual student, an advanced spiritual student, or not?” – They just fade away and become irrelevant to you. Really even this dispensation is, of course, not the highest spiritual teaching on the planet because that concept is utterly meaningless. It is comparing based on a standard of high and low but how can you put spiritual teachings on such a linear scale? Because you take a person who is at a certain level of consciousness—let’s say the twelfth level of consciousness—that person cannot grasp an ascended master teaching. So what is the highest spiritual teaching for that person?

Well, it is the teaching that will help him or her rise to the thirteenth level of consciousness and then the highest teaching becomes the one that will take that person to the fourteenth level and so on. So it really is meaningless to talk about this and it is an aspect of ego that wants to create this linear scale.

This particular teaching we are giving here is not meant for everybody because it cannot reach everybody but it is meant for a specific group of people at a specific level of consciousness and at this particular level, yes, it is the highest teaching on the planet. It’s the highest teaching you can grasp and it’s also the highest teaching in the sense that it will help you rise higher. But as this messenger is well aware, he does not want anybody to build this sense of loyalty towards him that they will not consider any other teaching. If you come to a point where you feel the need to look at another teaching, by all means go look at it, follow it, find another guru or teacher if that’s what you feel you need. What you need to be loyal to is your growth, not any outer teaching or organization or guru, or messenger or what have you.

Multiple relationships and spiritual growth

Question: Is there a purpose of having multiple love relationships outside of marriage for balancing karma? If there isn’t peace among all parties, can it still be a purpose for learning and growth for those involved?

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

It is almost impossible to be married or be in a committed relationship with one person and then have other love relationships or sexual relationships aside from that and at the same time maintain some kind of peace and harmony. I have given another answer previously about the fact that what happens to you on the spiritual path is that you often meet people that you have been together with in past lifetimes. You may have karma with these people and you have a desire to resolve that karma and this at a certain level of awareness makes people feel a sexual or an emotional attraction to those people but it is really your desire to resolve the karma that fools you into thinking you have to have a physical relationship with that person.

We have given you tools for, if you have a situation where you are in a committed relationship, you are married, you feel an attraction to another person, we have given you the tools to make the calls, give the decrees and invocations for dissolving karmic attraction and when you lessen that energy you can come to a point where you realize that you don’t actually need to have a physical relationship to that person.

So I can only recommend that you make a decision: “If I’m married, if I’m committed to that marriage then I’m not going to have any other sexual or physical relationships outside of that relationship. I’m going to seek to resolve that karmic attraction and resolve the psychology without having that physical relationship.”

If you can do this, that will actually help you grow much faster than if you involve yourself with these very, very complex situations that can happen as a result of the scenario you describe. I can tell you that most people who have engaged in multiple relationships at the same time have ended up making more karma than they were balancing and therefore not really advancing their spiritual growth but involving themselves in more and more complex situations that become more and more difficult to extricate themselves from.