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Regretting the past and the primal self

Question: How do I overcome an overwhelming problem that my emotional mind creates even when the rational mind intellectually aware that it is unwise to agonize over such a matter? For instance, I am aware that regretting over a past relationship is not at all helpful and the love is constantly flowing energy but I cant help feeling angry that my love ended. 

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

My beloved, I do not want to sound repetitive but the obvious answer is, use the tools. In all cases where you feel that there is an overwhelming emotion you are dealing with, the immediate problem is that there are some dark forces who are magnifying or controlling your emotions and using them to get you out of a state of peace. This can be alleviated by making the calls for protection to Archangel Michael, for Astrea to cut you free and the violet flame to transmute whatever misqualified energies you have in your emotional body.

In the longer term it is a matter of resolving something in your psychology. Really this goes all the way to the cosmic birth trauma because all of you when you went through that birth trauma and created the primal self you had a certain sense of regret over, not only what happened in your birth trauma but over having come to this planet in the first place. Whenever you see that you have difficulty letting go and you are agonizing over why did I do this, why did this happen and you feel angry about something that happened in the past, it actually goes all the way back to this regretting coming to the planet or regretting how you reacted to the fallen beings.

Also, the original inhabitants of the Earth can have that regret, not of why they came to the planet but why they reacted the way they did to the fallen beings when they were first exposed to them. It really will not be fully resolved until you get to that and when you resolve the primal self and the other selves and when you see why you came to this planet and you resolve that and learn what you needed to learn and free yourself from that matrix that brought you here then you can make peace with being here and make peace with being alive and make peace with being a co-creator who doesn’t have to always be perfect.

You are experimenting with life and you are simply observing the outcome and saying do I want to continue with that or do I want something else? And then you change your consciousness so you send a different message into the cosmic mirror and so on.

The tools are there. I would also say the “My Lives” book is actually designed to help people get over this mechanism of regretting the past because when you recognize that you have been in embodiment for a very long time and you have had many different lifetimes and you have been exposed to many different things and you have had many lifetimes where you have done worse things than you have done in this lifetime or experienced worst things than you have experienced in this lifetime, it helps you distance yourself a little bit and see that what you have experienced in this lifetime really isn’t so crucial. It isn’t epically important.

You can step aside from it and say well, given all the things I have experienced in my many embodiments, is this really so important? Was it really so terrible?  Do I really need to agonize over this or can I detach myself from it, depersonalize it a little bit and say Ahhh!, it wasn’t that big of a deal? I’m going to move on.

Quite frankly when you resolve that primal self you will feel that these regrets just fade away. Some of them may require a little bit of work because you might have created another self to respond to that particular situation, so you may need to look at that reactionary pattern and come to identify that separate self and then consciously make the decision to let it die. When you feel that release you will be free of it. This will be much easier to accomplish once you have dealt with the primal self.

 

Copyright © 2018 Kim Michaels

Life on a natural planet

Question: This person has a number of questions regarding life on a natural planet:  the economy, the government, are fallen beings allowed on a natural planet and is there a Golden Age equivalency with being on a natural planet?

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

The most easy answer to give here is that fallen beings obviously are not allowed on natural planets. It is only when the inhabitants of a planet have taken the planet below a certain level that fallen beings can incarnate on the planet.

Is there a Golden Age on natural planets? Well you can say there is a permanent Golden Age because it is in a higher state than Earth and there is constant growth. The concept of a Golden Age is somewhat of a relative term in the sense that it is in contrast to a not-so-golden age. You go back to how you use history – the Stone Age, the Iron Age, the Bronze Age, this and that – and you can see a certain symbolism there, in the sense that stone represents a certain level of consciousness. Iron represents a certain level of consciousness and on a natural planet you don’t have that contrast. You don’t have as low a state as you have seen on Earth and therefore you don’t actually use the terminology of a Golden Age.

How is the economy, how is the government on a natural planet? Well that depends on which natural planet you are talking about. There is an incredible variety among natural planets, an incredible diversity. There is so much room for creativity that it is really a matter of what the inhabitants of a specific planet have done with the economy, with government.

It is not so my beloved, that when you step up to a natural planet you have a certain standard and all planets are alike, they are very, very diverse. In fact we could say that the unnatural planets have much less diversity because they are all influenced by the duality consciousness and it has built in limitations. There is diversity as to which dualistic polarities have been created on a planet but there is really no diversity as to the fact that there is duality that runs an unnatural planet.

At this point I do not wish to go further into describing life on a natural planet. This may happen in some future book that will also be fictional or claim to be fictional but I also do not want to lock your minds on thinking that a natural planet has to be a certain way because it could limit you in the sense that those of you who have come from natural planets, those of you who are avatars, have not all come from the same planet. So if you could actually really clarify what you remember from your natural planet, you will find that it is not the same that somebody else remembers. We do not want this to be a source of conflict where you think that there is only one way for a natural planet to be.

 

Copyright © 2018 Kim Michaels

Money is meant to be a medium of exchange

Question: The masters have said that in a Golden Age economy, money must be tied to something of value. To me this means linking money to gold, however, is there a higher potential of linking it to the value of people’s labour. If so, what does that look like in practice? How do we link money to the value of labour?

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

I know very well that in previous dispensations it has been believed that the way to get the American economy on track was to return to the gold standard. But as I have expressed before, given the present level of the economy, it simply isn’t practically possible to put America on a gold standard, for the simple reason that there isn’t enough gold to represent the value of the current level of economy. There isn’t enough gold that has been mined and if you did put America on the gold standard, the value of gold would have to increase tremendously. And that would give a very unfair advantage to those who currently own gold. And I can assure you that most of the gold is owned and controlled by the power elite.

What I envision in the Golden Age is of course, a series of stages for the development of money and it’s true that one way is to link it to people’s labour but you don’t really have to link it to anything particular. There will come a point where you are simply looking at the overall state of productivity in the country, where you are simply saying, “What is actually being produced?” And it is not so, my beloved, that you need to have a fixed relationship between a tangible good and the amount of money because money is actually meant as a medium of exchange. How much money needs to be in circulation in order for people to be able to exchange the goods and services that are there?

I know this sounds awfully complicated at the present level but as we move closer to the Golden Age, not only will awareness be raised but there will also be technology in the form of computer technology that will make it possible to much more easily calculate exactly how much is being produced and therefore how much money needs to be there.

Now, it isn’t so that there needs to be a fixed amount of money. That will not change. This is a highly changeable factor. The amount of money in circulation will be constantly fluctuating but this becomes much more complicated than the current economic system is able to deal with but as we move into the Golden Age there will be a gradual shift where this becomes manageable. And it therefore becomes possible to create these economic models where you can calculate how much money needs to be there and even if it is off a little bit, it doesn’t matter so much because the system can, to some degree, regulate itself. So tying it to people’s labour, yes it is a possibility but there are other things you exchange in society than your labour. So how do you quantify that? How do you quantify creativity, for example? Again, we need to be more looking at what is it that people exchange and how can they then have a medium so that they can exchange things rather than going back into the barter economy where you have a direct exchange of goods and services.

I know I am not giving you much of an answer but that is because we are not yet at the level where I can release this technology and knowledge. It will take a gradual process to get us there. And, quite frankly, it will take some people who have a very great knowledge and experience with the economy to receive these ideas and implement them. And that is where, of course, as this messenger fully acknowledges, there is a limitation to what we can give through a person who does not have that expertise as there is a limitation to what we can give at a certain time.

 

Copyright © 2018 Kim Michaels

The law of attraction and magical thinking

Question: Is there a contradiction between the law of attraction and what Nada says in her book, The Mystical Initiations of Peace?

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

The popular law of attraction is popular because it appeals to certain aspects of human nature, as opposed to spiritual nature. It is one of these things where teachers make promises that for most people do not come true. There are always examples of people who have been able to manifest what they wanted but it was not necessarily because they used that particular outer teaching or philosophy but because they already had a momentum from past lives.

So if you are willing to look at this honestly, you will see that many of the people who have used these, whether it’s the law of attraction or many of the other schemes that are out there, have not really gotten the results that they wanted to get. And what I desire to express in my book is, of course, not for that level of consciousness where these teachings appeal to people. My book is for those who have taken these initiations of the first five rays and have therefore raised themselves up to the level of consciousness at which I teach. And at that level of consciousness you need to look at these elements of magical thinking because they set you up for disappointment. So many people have tried this and have become disappointed.

And, in a sense what we are teaching in the Path to Self Mastery course, is of course, self mastery. It is in a way the mastery of mind over matter but you have to realize that the mastery of mind over matter cannot be achieved through the separate self, unless you go into black magic, where you can achieve some control over matter but this is, of course, not what we are teaching our students because it does not help you raise your consciousness. It only helps you lower the consciousness.

So there is a certain state of consciousness where the law of attraction and other philosophies like that appeal to people because they are identified with the separate self and they would like to believe that they can take the desires of the separate self and use this particular technique to manifest what they desire through the separate self. In a sense you can say that the universe is a cosmic mirror and as we have also explained in our books, you can to some degree, use the lower consciousness to manipulate matter to give you what you want in the short term.

But if you are an ascended master student, you are not really interested or at least when you get beyond a certain level of consciousness – the levels I deal with in my book – you’re not interested in a short-term benefit. You are interested in your long-term growth.

And at that point you need to dissolve that last remnants of magical thinking. It’s the outer self, the separate self that has magical thinking because it thinks that there is a way to get what you want without letting go of the outer self. The path that we are teaching is that there is a way to get what you want but it is by letting go of the outer self.

And it is perfectly correct if people say, “But that means I won’t get what I want at my present level of consciousness.” You won’t get what you want through the outer self, of course, but we have never really said or promised you that you would get what you want through the outer self by following the path to the ascension, have we?

 

Copyright © 2018 Kim Michaels

Making the calls, free will and four levels of the material universe

Question: I tried diligently for 25+ years – hours per day, through prayers and decrees – to effect outcomes in the material world to no discernible effect. Despite wishing and longing for a higher reality beyond this physical universe, the immortal life of transcendent oneness with beings of light who love me, I conclude that if prayer has no appreciable effect then there is no transcendent reality and I have to find meaning in finite existence with no divine support. Sincerely, if you divine beings exist what mindset, changes and actions do you recommend for me?

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

It isn’t really a correct assessment that there was no effect of your efforts. It is true that there was no discernible effect but how do you discern? You discern through the filter of your consciousness. So naturally when you are in embodiment you don’t see everything that is going on. But there are two things you need to be aware of – and all of you need to be aware of when you make the calls – and the first one is of course free will.

We are quite aware that in previous dispensations we have not given as deep teachings on free will and psychology as we have given today. So it is understandable that there were students from those dispensations who feel that they were told to give all of these decrees for so many hours hoping that this would have an effect, wanting to make a difference in the world and then not seeing the effect and becoming discouraged and disappointed. We fully understand this. What we are giving you today is a deeper understanding of free will where you realize that there are certain things where you can make the calls but the call cannot have an automatic or mechanical effect because these issues depend on the free will choices of many, many people who need to shift their consciousness. We have given the teachings that everything really is a process, that the Earth really is a process for raising the consciousness of the people.

But the other thing you need to be aware of is that we have taught even in previous dispensations about the four levels of the material universe:  the etheric or identity realm, the mental, the emotional and the physical. So when you are decreeing for something you’re sending an energy impulse that actually goes to us in the ascended realm. Now we are not necessarily multiplying your decrees based on your state of consciousness. We are of course doing it based on the greater awareness we have in the ascended realm.

So when we release something, we release it from the ascended level and it first goes into the etheric or identity realm then into the mental then into the emotional. So it can take time for the energy impulse to cycle through. So you need to be somewhat patient. You need to allow for free will. You need to realize that there are some decrees or calls that will not be answered exactly the way you see it therefore you may have in your mind – and you may in fact also call for this in your invocations or decrees – that a specific physical change should happen but it may not happen exactly that way because as I said “the complicated equation of free will”.

But given that you have been a member of a previous dispensation where the students for many years had Saint Germain services where every Saturday for four hours they would give decrees including a set of decrees called the Communist decrees, I would propose to you why you do not consider it a tangible result that the Soviet Union collapsed? Was this not essentially what you were decreeing for? And so how is that not a tangible result of your efforts?

You see my beloved, the reaction that you have is a product of your state of consciousness and this is not said to blame you in anyway because the reaction is in a way understandable. Many, many people –not only ascended master students but also Christians, who have prayed for something have had the same reaction. Why aren’t prayers answered exactly as we prayed for them? But you have to recognize here that your reaction shows something about what is in your psychology and it is that psychology that affects everything you do in life. So the question really is do you want to stay in that psychology where you seemingly, according to your own expression, are not entirely at peace with your life or do you want to be free from it?

Because if you want to be free from it you need to be willing to stop projecting out that there is something wrong out there and start looking at yourself, not to find fault, not to see what was wrong but simply to see what is it that is limiting me. And we have now in this dispensation given very, very detailed, very, very profound teachings on how to resolve psychology. And I can only propose that you make use of what is available and if this does not resonate with you then go out there in the field and find some kind of therapy that resonates with you and that can help you.

You are only alone, if you think you are alone and that is again a product of some mechanism in your psychology that actually makes you afraid to be close to the ascended masters. For whatever reason and people have multiple reasons for this but there are people who go into this reaction where they are making an effort but they do not see that they are actually making that effort from a state of consciousness where they are not really aligned with us. And they don’t see that they’re actually in an ascended master teaching doing what they are told to do but subconsciously they’re pushing us away.

They want to keep us at a distance; they don’t want to get too close. And there are people who have felt after some time that we are getting too close and because they’re not willing to surrender into that closeness and experience that closeness then they have to pull back but they have to justify this, so in their outer minds they find fault with the teaching, with the organization, with the messenger and they use this as an excuse for giving up on the path, focusing on a worldly life, so that they do not have to experience closeness with us. I am not blaming people who have this reaction, simply stating in a straight forward manner that this happens.

And so the question is, if you don’t want closeness with us, we of course respect your free will. But if you want it then we are willing to give it and willing to work with you to simply overcome this mechanism in your psychology so you can be free. But you will be free at a higher level than you were when you gave all those decrees and looked at the path a certain way, looked at the world a certain way. We will help you shift out of that and attain the freedom and the peace of mind, that is what you really long for as it is expressed between the lines of your question.

 

Copyright © 2018 Kim Michaels

The working poor and the power elite

Question: Can the masters comment on the growing class of the economically precarious workforce? These are the ones who don’t have regular jobs but work from contract to contract without benefits, the so-called gig economy.  How does this influence Saint Germain’s Golden Age?

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

Well my beloved, the reality is that this is an expression or demonstration of the manipulation of the economy by the power elite. There’s no way to say this diplomatically. The power elite, what do they want? They want to create a modern version of the feudal system where those who did the physical work could be treated as property. They had no rights; the landlords, the feudal lords, didn’t have to accommodate them in any way; they could simply treat them as animals, that if they had outlived their usefulness, could be killed off. This is how the fallen beings look at human beings on earth. They want to treat people as property; this is their basic attitude to human beings.

This needs to be exposed in order for civilization to move forward. Basically it’s an expression of the fact that even though there was a period when workers were organized and there were labor unions, these have in many countries started losing some of their influence. In America you will see that labor unions were never that big a factor, certainly not as big as they have been in many European nations. Many of the European nations have actually reached a point where labor unions are no longer as necessary because there isn’t the same antagonistic relationship between workers and employers but in America you have not reached that point.

In other European nations, particularly the UK, you have that situation where many people work without having secure employment, without having any benefits. They are called the working poor because they don’t make enough money to actually sustain a living, especially not in the cities, where real estate prices have been artificially inflated. So some people who even have a job can’t afford to buy a house in a city. You have that, of course, in America as well, where the American dream is out of reach for a growing number of people.

This situation is obviously not something that has any place in the Golden Age whatsoever. It is one of these things where sometimes things have to be acted out in an extreme manner before people wake up. We have had now for decades a situation where the actual material living standard of the middle class has been eroded, which is something many Americans thought would never happen. The American economy is growing; there is more wealth today than there was thirty years ago. So why isn’t the middle class richer and why isn’t the middle class bigger, so that there are fewer and fewer poor people? Well the only explanation of course, is that there is a small elite that has accumulated the majority of that wealth. Who creates the wealth? The workers create the wealth but the elite harvest the benefits of people’s labor and that situation is, of course, completely antagonistic to the Golden Age.

It is something that has come about because the people have not yet educated themselves to the existence of this elite. They have been lulled asleep by the illusion that they live in a free country and therefore they have not objected. So it needs to come to more of an extreme so that people can see this and finally speak out and say enough is enough. When will that happen? Well your guess is as good as mine. I am optimistic that within the foreseeable future people will wake up and recognize that the problem really is the elite and that this needs to be tackled before America can move to the next level.

 

Copyright © 2018 Kim Michaels

About the two-party system in U.S.

Question: What are the masters’ comments on Bernie Sanders and the Democratic Socialist Party and Ron Paul and the Libertarian Party? Are they steps in the right direction?

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

This is where you have to be discerning students. You have to use your Christ discernment to hear what I am actually saying. I am not saying that I am sponsoring or supporting Ron Paul or Bernie Sanders or the Libertarian Party or the Socialist Party.

What I am saying is they are a step in the right direction, in the sense that they are helping to break up the two-party system. It is absolutely necessary for the progress of America to break up the two-party system. It is absolutely necessary to break the deadlock that the Republicans and the Democrats have on the government of this country because they have proven now, over decades, that they cannot cooperate, cannot focus on what is best for America, can only focus on opposing each other.

This has gone on so long that I would say a majority of Americans have had enough of it but that majority has not yet spoken out and made it clear that they have had enough. That is why it continues. There are of course, many Americans who are not really aware, haven’t consciously said in their minds: I have had enough of this infight between the Republicans and Democrats but they feel dissatisfaction with politics.

A majority of Americans are clearly dissatisfied with politics as usual but where does politics as usual come from? It comes from the Republicans and the Democrats who are both so locked in opposing and defeating each other that they cannot cooperate.

My beloved, step back and ask yourself why it is that America has a two-party system. Why is it that neither of the parties can really gain a decisive majority in the Presidency and the House of Representatives and the Senate? Why is that? Why is it you see many other democracies that have a multi-party system where there is not one party that can get a majority but they have to form a coalition? Well it’s partly because the two-party system in America has long outlived its usefulness, if it ever had one to begin with, which is another discussion.

The only way forward for democracy is to do what I have said, step up and begin to see the essential humanity in each other and cooperate, instead of opposing from this dualistic perspective. The Democrats can’t get anything through on their own; the Republicans can’t get anything through on their own but if they could cooperate across party lines, you would find that there is in the House of Representatives and the Senate, a moderate, balanced majority that could actually get things done, that could really look at what is best for America.

It wouldn’t matter whether they are Republicans or Democrats because those who are moderates, who are balanced, would have a majority and would agree on what is best for America. You see my beloved, there is a moderate, balanced majority but it can’t vote as one bloc because each party has to vote the party line. That situation has to be broken up for America to go forward, to get out of the gridlock and let Americans feel that they have a say, that the government actually represents them.

There are various ways to do this – as I will comment on in one of my dictations – but anyone who helps to break up the two-party system, present an alternative to the system, is actually helping forward progress. Even if all of their points and policies are not realistic or would not lead to the Golden Age, they still help in the immediate situation. That is why – as we have said many times – in the unbalanced situation you have, some people can seemingly be unbalanced or antagonistic but those people are necessary to break up the status quo and get things moving. As long as things are standing still, there can be no progress.

 

Copyright © 2018 Kim Michaels

The issue of African Americans and freedom of speech

Question: Why did Colin Kaepernick’s kneeling at the National Football League games stir up the nation and become a dividing issue? [Colin Kaepernick was an NFL football player, an African American, and during the national anthem he knelt on one knee instead of standing, in protest of how African Americans are treated in America. It caused a great deal of dissention, not only in the NFL but also in the United States at large.]

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

Well it caused the big stir because there are so many people who are in black-and-white thinking. They reacted strongly to this because they have a very black-and-white view of what it means to be an American, what it means to be a patriot. They believe you have to respect certain institutions in America and behave a certain way. We are not, from the ascended perspective, really evaluating this action other than to say it was obviously valuable in stirring something up. We’re not saying we inspired him to do this but the fact that he did it obviously showed how unbalanced some people are in black-and-white thinking.

You can say as a clear fact that if you are a nation dedicated to freedom of speech, you have to give people freedom to say anything they want. Some have said about burning the American flag that while they do not agree with burning the American flag, they are allowing this because they’re dedicated to freedom of speech. That attitude is necessary in a country that is based on freedom of speech. The moment you start restricting freedom of speech, you are on a slide and very, very soon, before you know it, the fallen beings have manipulated the situation to where there are some very severe restrictions on what people can say and not say.

You understand my beloved, that in a country where the government is physically restricting people’s freedom of speech—by restricting the press, by limiting their internet access, whatever you see going on in the world today in countries like Russia and China and the Middle Eastern nations—there you have a physical restriction of speech and the fallen beings love this. In a free democracy they cannot do this through physical measures but it doesn’t mean they give up. They try to restrict freedom of speech by restricting what people are willing to say, what they feel they can say, by creating these restrictions in the mind where they, for a variety of reasons, feel they can’t say something.

The fact of the matter is that if you can’t talk about a certain problem, you can’t resolve it. Obviously my beloved, there has not in this nation been a free, open discourse about the plight of African Americans. They have not had freedom of speech in the sense that there has not been a public environment where they felt they could freely speak. They have not felt that anybody was willing to listen to them. There has in fact, not been a willingness in America to open the debate, the issue of African Americans and the whole history of slavery and how to move beyond it. This is hanging as a great burden over America; it is one of the things that prevents America from moving forward.

It is a bigger issue that isn’t just centered on African Americans, but on how different groups in America deal with each other. So I will let Saint Germain comment further on that. It’s obvious that this person was not being disrespectful towards the flag or the national anthem but he felt up against the wall with no other way to speak out so he decided to do this. It obviously was effective because it, so to speak, got everybody out of their seats. The problem is that getting people out of their seats doesn’t necessarily help. They just immediately go into that black-and-white reaction.

Really, for things to move forward it takes the more balanced people to become aware of the problem with the black-and-white reaction and demand a different form of public discourse. This would mean that African Americans would be more free to speak out and would feel that they would be heard instead of rejected beforehand.

 

Copyright © 2018 Kim Michaels

Interactions with the family members as an opportunity to gauge own progress

Question: Saint Germain spoke about our public discourse over politics. In my family we can’t discuss politics because some of our views differ so much between members. Can the masters give me an example of how we could come together? Issues that come to mind are healthcare and gun control.

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, Saint Germain has already given you some very important pointers and tools on how to do this on a general level. What I will focus on here is the situation of families. When you talk about a family that can’t discuss politics, the issue is not politics; the issue is karma that you have with your family members, probably going back several generations. You might say that politics is just the excuse for arguing and you’re arguing because you don’t like each other [laughter]. You resent the fact that you’ve been dumped together in this family unit and that you’ve been brought up in a situation where you feel you can’t just walk away from it because you have to be loyal to the family. You have to find a way; you have to at least be together with your family at these certain events during the year that have been labeled family events in your culture.

Instead of being honest with yourself and recognizing, I don’t like these people and I’m not gonna spend next Christmas with them and I’m not gonna go home for Thanksgiving – instead of doing this, you force yourself to go there. You might try to keep sort of a harmonious discourse by not speaking out, by not being yourself and then inevitably someone brings up the topic and then everybody explodes and now it’s just a free-for-all. How many times have you seen this? How many times have we seen this from the ascended octave?

What can you do about it? Well if you are an ascended master student, you can simply work on yourself, overcome your own psychology, the primal self, so that you don’t react to your family members. You can literally decide to do this. It helps you when you have resolved the things in yourself so that you don’t have this compulsion. This messenger has described what he did at an early age with his father when he simply saw that if the relationship continued on its current track there would come a point where they couldn’t speak to each other. So he said to himself, Do I want to be in that situation where I don’t have contact with my father? He decided: No, I don’t so then how can I find a way to have interaction with my father without arguing? Was it likely that his father would change? No, it wasn’t. So if the relationship was going to change, who would have to change? Well, he had to. He started by simply accepting his father for who he was, not trying to change him but not feeling obligated to let his father change him.

You can decide to do this with your family members – to not try to change them, to accept them for who they are. Then you can listen to them without feeling that you have to refute what they’re saying because you’re not threatened by it. You’re realizing that your family members’ political views are an expression of their state of consciousness and it’s not your job to change their state of consciousness. You just listen to them and you don’t oppose them. You don’t feed the antagonistic situation. When they try to provoke you, you don’t respond that way.

This in itself might be enough to change the discourse, the dynamic, in the family if just one person refuses to feed the beast, so to speak. You can of course, also make the calls for your family members but there’s always free will involved. Most likely your family members are not on the spiritual path, are not willing to work on their psychology. They don’t think they’re the ones who have to change; they think you are the one who has to change. You’re the problem; they’re not the problem. That’s karma. That’s a karmic situation.

The fact of the matter is that many of you spiritual people have volunteered to be in a family with people who are basically not self-aware. They are always projecting out that the problem is somewhere else. It is not them. They are never willing to look at themselves. You have volunteered to do this for two reasons. One is to give them an opportunity to see that there’s a different way to react but in order to give them that opportunity you, of course, have to not react. And how do you not react? Well, ultimately by resolving your own psychology. Why have you volunteered to embody in a family with people like this? It’s partly because they demonstrate very clearly what happens to people who are not working on themselves.

You have also done it in order to overcome what often puts you in a difficult situation with other people, namely, the belief that you have to change them, help them. That is what this messenger has also described, that he had the attitude before he came to earth for the first time that he had to alleviate the suffering on earth, help other people. Essentially it meant he had to change them, instead of allowing them to outplay their free will and just giving them an example that there was another way to live. He felt he had to go in and change their minds.

All of you who have it in your divine plan to make your ascension in this lifetime have to transcend the state of consciousness that you have to change other people. As long as you think you have to do that, you cannot leave the earth behind because you can’t leave those people behind.

As I said about telling your personal story, you can look at the interaction with your family members; look at next Thanksgiving, as an opportunity to gauge your own progress. Have you resolved your reactionary patterns or do you still find yourself reacting? If you do then use our tools to go down, discover that self and resolve that self. You keep doing this until you come to a point where you are no longer reacting to your family members. You are then free to make the choice and say to yourself, do I really want to spend my time and my attention with these people? But you are not choosing to leave them behind in order to run away from them or rather from your own reaction because you have resolved the reactionary self.

You might find that you will choose to still interact with them and just be at peace with the people they are, their level of awareness. So you talk about the things that they are interested in, you talk about the things that they can deal with, you listen to them, you allow them to rant about this or that without reacting to it and you can still find some enjoyment in interacting with them. You may also decide that you no longer want to interact with these people. You want to find some people who are at your level of consciousness, have your view of life and that’s perfectly in order as well. You see your family as an opportunity for your own growth and then you deal with yourself and your own psychology until there is no longer a reaction then you know you have resolved what you wanted to resolve by being born into that family.

 

Copyright © 2018 Kim Michaels

The Me Too Movement

Question: Can the masters please comment on the Me Too Movement and the most recent woman’s movement in America? Is this something that is consequential to further liberating women or is it another division tactic?

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

Well, the Me Too Movement is certainly a necessary step in the raising of the collective awareness. Let’s take as an example – the movie industry: Anybody who has been involved with the movie industry over the last several decades has known that certain directors, certain actors, certain of the money people, have abused their positions of power to take sexual advantage of women, even of men but mostly women.

This is something that has been a so-called public secret for a long time in the movie industry among the insiders and it was absolutely necessary that it became a real public not secret and that there was the raising of awareness of this.

It was absolutely necessary that these women would speak out. It was absolutely necessary for their individual healing process. But it was also part of their divine plan that they had vowed to go in, take this on and be exposed to this in order to raise awareness about it. So clearly it is the right step and it is actually way beyond the time when this ideally could have happened.

Because one must really look at some of these directors that have for several decades gotten away with this, who have bought their way out, bought the silence from those they have abused and say, “How could this go on for so long? How could they get away with it? Why wasn’t there somebody who looked at the emperor and said, ‘He’s got nothing on’?” So it’s necessary not only in the movie industry—certainly in the political field, certainly in the religious field, as you see the exposure of more and more of these sexual abuses by the Catholic church.

Now can any movement be used for division? Yes, of course. Anything can be taken too far. Anything can become unbalanced but that’s also part of the process, my beloveds. What have we attempted to give you during this conference? There’s no final result here that we are working toward. The result is the raising of awareness. So how do you raise awareness? Not by suppressing anything. Not by not doing things. How do you learn? By experimenting. By doing something, seeing the result then refining your approach based on the results. If you hadn’t done it, if you hadn’t dared to step forward and experiment, how would you learn?

So again, yes, of course, you can go back and look at the early days of the women’s movement and see that some women were very—or at least became at some point—very militant feminists and you can see that this was unbalanced. But again, it was a necessary stage because what you often see, as we have said before, is that when something new happens, the first people who create the movement are often quite unbalanced. This is necessary because you have some people—take the people in the movie industry—that are very, very unbalanced in terms of abusing women but also wanting to keep this secret.

So you have some very unbalanced people who have created a situation and often it takes people who are unbalanced to the opposite extreme to break the deadlock and get things moving. Then gradually you can have, ideally, more balanced people who step in so that it doesn’t become divisive, so that there isn’t this dualistic battle but you actually help raise the collective consciousness and you find a more balanced way to look at this.

You’re in a situation right now where these people have abused women for a very long time and it’s necessary to get them exposed to the media, take them to court and clearly they will resist this. They will attempt to destroy the women who are speaking forward, destroy them psychologically, destroy their credibility and the women will probably, at least some of them, go into a very dualistic battle of proving that they were right.

So you will have this dualistic battle going on and it will be divisive for a time but in the long run it is necessary to focus awareness on this and to get to a point where the public will basically say, “We cannot allow this to go on. We cannot have a movie industry that is based on a systematic abuse of women. We cannot have a Catholic church that has a systemic problem of allowing priests to abuse children. We cannot allow businessmen or politicians to systematically abuse their secretaries and other things like that.”

When you focus attention on this and process it, then gradually the collective consciousness will shift to the point where people will begin to realize they cannot get away with this.

In the beginning the abusers will simply say, “Well I have to stop this because I’m going to be exposed and I don’t want to ruin my career.” This is of course, not the highest response but there will come a point where this abuse simply fades away. There will come a new generation that, from the very beginning, has considered it impossible or simply not something they would do – to abuse people that way. That is how consciousness shifts and how a society moves forward.

 

Copyright © 2018 Kim Michaels

The vision for health care in the Golden Age

Question: What is the vision for health care in the Golden Age?

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

Well, the vision in the Golden Age is that we see, exactly as Mother Mary said, that the physical body is an expression of the three higher bodies and therefore we work with all four bodies in order to provide healing. In the Golden Age, health care will not be a matter of healing illness but of preventing it from becoming physical. Physical tools will be developed that will allow the display of images of people’s emotional, mental and identity bodies on a computer screen but there will also in the Golden Age be more and more people who can read people’s auras and therefore see the energetic patterns in the three higher bodies that will manifest as disease in the physical unless they’re dealt with at the energetic level. So energy medicine will, of course, be the main form of medicine in the Golden Age, although surgery will still be needed in some cases.

The need for this physical intervention by doctors will gradually become less and less as we move into the Golden Age. There will come a point where it is not the most important part of medicine but is something that is used in certain emergency situations. Even in the Golden Age there will still be people who have karma, there will still be accidents so that people will break their bones and need to have surgery, there might still in rare cases be people who develop appendicitis or other forms of illness that require surgery.

What I can definitely say in the Golden Age is, that the present state of using chemicals to mask symptoms of a disease instead of healing the underlying cause will completely fade away at some point. The drug companies will just simply collapse and go out of existence unless they are able to transition themselves into providing a different form of service. Most of them probably will not be able to do this and therefore you will see the emergence of other companies that are dedicated to providing holistic health care and preventing disease instead of curing it, so to speak, which really is just masking the symptoms.

You will also see in the Golden Age that there will be a growing awareness – and this will take some time before most people get this – but there will be a growing awareness that your physical health and of course your mental health, very much is tied into not only your material lifestyle but even your psychological lifestyle, your approach to life.

In other words, people will not be in the situation where they live an unhealthy lifestyle and when their body breaks down they go to the doctor and say, “Cure me or get rid of the symptoms.” Doctors will not be sitting there waiting for their patients to be carried into their offices. They will be outgoing. Health care professionals will be outgoing. People will, as we move further into the Golden Age, be taught from an early age how to have good mental and physical health, how to adopt a lifestyle that promotes good health.

In the beginning, in the transition period, there will be a need for society to enact certain laws that make it much more difficult for people to live an unhealthy lifestyle. There will come a point when you go further into the Golden Age, where this will fade away. People will naturally choose a healthy lifestyle because the collective consciousness has been raised to that level but there will be an interim period where you see what you already see to some degree now, where some nations put an extra tax on cigarettes or alcohol, for example, in order to lower the incentive and make it more expensive for people to use these substances.

This will go much further, even to the point of educating people about food. You can also say that as the drug companies fade away in the Golden Age, so will the fast-food companies and the companies that create these artificial foods where the focus is on providing a kind of food that people want to eat because it tastes good but also is very convenient to eat and has a long shelf life so that the stores and the manufacturing companies can make the maximum profit on it. In other words there is no consideration for how healthy the food is and this will fade away in the Golden Age. These companies will simply go out of business and be replaced by what you already see starting to emerge, some companies that provide healthy foods. There will be so many changes in this area in the Golden Age that fifty years from now, you will scarcely recognize the food industry or the medical industry that you have today.

 

Copyright © 2018 Kim Michaels

A holistic approach to healing must incorporate dealing with the psyche

Question: How can a spiritually aware health care professional help people achieve holistic healing and support them in taking responsibility for their own healing?

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

Well it very much depends on what kind of health care professional you are and how restricted is the environment in which you are working. What opportunities do you have to talk to people? What allowances, what freedom, do you have to recommend other forms of healing or therapy? If you have a situation where, for example, you are an individual counselor and people come to you on an individual basis then obviously you have great freedom to share with them what we have talked about: the universal aspects, the path to higher levels of awareness, the way to heal your spiritual traumas.

Basically holistic health means that you understand that the physical body is not an isolated unit, that it very much is tied into the psyche and that the psyche and the body form a unit- that is the true meaning of holistic healing.

So you realize that all physical symptoms have a parallel in the psyche and therefore true healing must incorporate the psyche. We’re not saying that people shouldn’t take physical measures that are necessary to save their lives and keep them in embodiment but we are saying that a holistic approach to healing must, of course, incorporate dealing with the psyche, helping people heal their traumas and overcome reactionary patterns.

So if you have the possibility to recommend this to people then you should use it. If you can’t then be at peace with helping people within the context of where you are working. Or if you don’t feel you can do that then go to another field where you have the opportunity to help people.

 

Copyright © 2018 Kim Michaels

The social anxiety and interactions with other people

Question: This is a rather broad one. Can the masters comment on the topic of social anxiety and other aspects of mental health?

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

Well let me comment on the dynamic of people interacting with each other. Naturally all of your interactions with other people are determined by your own psychology, by whatever patterns you have: reactionary patterns, your separate selves, your birth trauma, other traumas. Most of the traumas that you have received in past lives came as a result of your interaction with other people. Not all, because there are natural disasters and this and that but most of the traumas are the result of your interactions with other people.

So when you realize the reality of reincarnation, you could look at a person who has difficulty dealing with other people and you can see that that person has experienced so many traumas in past lives that the person has developed a general fear of being hurt by other people. The only way out of this is that the person begins to look at and heal these traumas and that is of course something you cannot do for others. Again, you can make the calls for protection, for them to be cut free and it can help them on a short-term basis.

If you realize that you yourself have difficulty interacting with other people then again use the tools to work on your psychology, get all the way down to the primal self and then you will feel that this simply falls away from you. Because when you are at peace with being who you are, you can also be at peace with interacting with other people. That’s the ultimate goal on the personal level.

What you can do to help others is make the calls for them and then teach them about the path, not about, again, specific ascended master beliefs but the possibility that they could raise themselves above this condition, that they could heal these traumas. Most people have never been taught about the possibility of changing their psychology, becoming aware of a reactionary pattern and freeing themselves from it. So for those who are ready and willing to take responsibility for themselves, this can be very, very helpful when they meet somebody who has walked this path and who can share their progress with them.

 

Copyright © 2018 Kim Michaels

How to help children with mental problems

Question:  What can we do regarding children with depression, children who are suicidal and the issues in America with school shootings? 

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

Well obviously my previous answer on changing education so children are taught how to deal with their psyches is part of the answer to this. But what you can do on a more personal, immediate basis is of course, to make the calls for these children. Mental illness is very much related to demon possession or influence from dark forces on people’s psychology. So you can make the calls for them to be protected, to be cut free. When it isn’t people you know, you can make the calls for all children to be protected.

Naturally, what makes them vulnerable to this influence from dark forces is that they have some unresolved psychology, they have some trauma, they have some beliefs; they have some separate selves. So until they resolve that, obviously they aren’t going to be completely free from it but you can still help them by making the calls. If it is, for example, your own children, you can make the calls for them throughout their childhood until they get old enough where they can start working on their psychology. You can of course help them by talking about this, by sharing how you are working on your psychology so that they see this.

You are demonstrating the path to them but on a broader level you can make the calls. You can even make the calls for the binding of the demons and the entities behind these school shootings. Naturally this is not something that happens in the mind of an individual person; there are dark forces deliberately creating this phenomena. The topic of school shootings is a little more complex because it ties in with the entire debate around guns in America and the attitude Americans have to guns but I do not wish to go into that here as it is something we may comment on later.

 

Copyright © 2018 Kim Michaels

 

The vision for education in America

Question: What is the vision for education in America in general and in particular in the inner cities and public schools?

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, this is a very complex question that cannot be answered in the time we have here. It is a question that requires the input of many, many people and naturally we are working with people who are experts in the educational field to bring forth these new ideas and to take these initiatives.

The one thing I will focus on here is what we have already talked about, namely that there is a way to raise your consciousness and master your own psychology. You teach your children reading, writing, and arithmetic. You teach them about computers. You teach them about practical things in life. But western civilization, not only America, currently does not teach children about the one thing that affects everything they do in their lives – namely, their psyches. This is the one thing that could have a major, major impact on children’s well-being and their ability to grow up to become productive individuals.

I realize of course, that there are some very severe hurdles that would have to be overcome before this happened. Naturally there is a power elite that does not want this to happen. For them education is not a matter of freeing people; it is a matter of conditioning them so that they accept their roles in society and do not challenge the status quo or the elite.

Nevertheless, it would be possible to have a popular movement that demanded a better education for children that made them better able to deal with life and this means they would have to have a basic understanding of how psychology works.

You all know that unless you have some spiritual understanding, it’s difficult to get a sense of purpose in life and without a sense of purpose, well, what does it really do for you to know certain things about psychology? Unless you have the sense that you have the potential to go somewhere and that your life matters, what would keep you out of the party lifestyle or drugs or alcohol or materialism or this or that?

It would be very difficult to introduce any kind of spiritual ideas in the public school system of America, partly because of the separation of church and state. This would have to be a very universal form of psychology but it could be developed and based on the idea of what it takes for a human being to function well. One of the things it takes is that you have a sense of purpose, a sense that your life matters, that it makes a difference what you do, whether you take drugs or whether you don’t take drugs – it makes a difference.

There can be a universal way to simply observe human psychology and say people function better if they have a sense of purpose. What is the most universal sense of purpose we can give people? It is that they can raise their awareness, master their psychology, overcome some of the problems they might have seen in their own family and therefore have more productive and more peaceful lives, so that would be the one thing that really could make a difference in the educational system.

It ties in with what we have said before – that many other western nations have reached a certain state of material affluence where the next challenge is psycho-spiritual affluence or psycho-spiritual well-being. This can be driven by a purely practical observation that mental illness is becoming more and more of a burden to society and of course, to individual people as well.

Therefore we need to do something to help people deal with depression, deal with substance abuse, deal with the sense of hopelessness and despair, simply for the sake of making people have better lives and letting society not have to spend resources on dealing with people’s psychological states. It can be presented in a way that is neutral or universal but it will still require a grassroots effort from parents, who simply demand that their children are given a better education than they received themselves, especially on this topic of the human psyche. This could indeed happen; it could happen for many different reasons. You have the concept of bullying, the topic of school shootings, so many things that could be used as the lever in order to promote this change and demand that there be a change.

 

Copyright © 2018 Kim Michaels

There is a need for a forum where people could freely talk

Question: It seems college campuses would be an ideal format for public discourse to take place but currentlythe zeitgeist in the universities is that they only tolerate a very narrow range of beliefs. What can we do to help or to change this?

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

In any environment where you restrict free debate, there will be some people who refuse to take part in the debate because they don’t feel they can say what they want to say. This means that the more debate is restricted, the more it creates a need for some people to have a forum where they can be free to express themselves and share anything they want. So it would be a possibility not only on college campuses but actually everywhere, to create a certain environment where the purpose is to talk about topics that normally are not talked about.

For example, you could imagine a certain organization or group that was dedicated to creating a forum where people could freely talk about religious and spiritual beliefs without having anyone trying to convert them, without having anyone judging them, without having any sense that there’s only one right belief and that all others are wrong. If you could create a safe environment where people could freely debate spiritual and religious issues, you would find that there would be some people who could be greatly helped by this.

You know yourselves that you may have grown up in a particular religion or you may have grown up in an atheist household and there was nobody you could talk to about your spiritual questions and beliefs. So would it not have been a great relief and opportunity for you if there was such a safe environment?

Obviously this requires somebody who can take the initiative and who can also be a mediator of such a session, preventing it from going into some kind of argument or even preventing some people from promoting a particular religious organization or belief system. This ties in with what Saint Germain said – that we are not actually asking you to go out and promote particular aspects of ascended master teachings or even ascended master teachings in general.

We’re not asking you to create an organization that sets itself apart but if you could create a forum where people can talk about these things freely and talk about a way to raise their consciousness so they get a different perspective on religion then that could be a great service. Of course, you can have other topics. You could have a forum where people could talk about, as you have in some cases, women’s issues or gender issues or generational issues or this or that.

There has always been a tendency that a certain organization, a certain set of ideas, has been promoted through these different efforts. So there could be a great service in creating a forum – and you could, of course, do this on the internet as well, although I realize it is difficult to keep out those who are negative – but to create an environment where people can feel they’re free, they’re not judged. Essentially it’s the same environment as you have at this conference where you are free to share with each other.

Now I’m simply putting this idea out there; I’m not saying that all of you specifically should do this. If you feel compelled from within then of course you can act upon it but I do envision more and more of an organized effort, where someone would see the value of creating this safe environment in which people are free to express themselves. This could become more of a nationwide organization even a worldwide organization that was not trying to promote a particular idea but was simply trying to give people a forum where they could freely talk.

 

Copyright © 2018 Kim Michaels

Sharing your story is a way to gauge and measure your own progress

Question: How can I share my story without regressing psychologically or becoming re-identified with my past?

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, in a sense you could say that if you use the teachings and tools to go in and resolve the birth trauma, the primal self and some of the more important selves that follow that then you won’t regress into the past. If you’re not quite at the point where you’re ready to do this or you haven’t completed the process, you can actually look upon sharing your story as a way to gauge and measure your own progress.

If you do share your story and find that you are going back into certain patterns from the past then that gives you an opportunity to take the tools we have and work on those patterns. Some of you will find that as long as you are not sharing your story, you are simply hiding the unresolved elements of your psychology. They are just lying there and they are still affecting you but you’re not consciously aware of it. By sharing your story and having something come up, you get an opportunity to see what isn’t resolved and then work on it.

Now there may be some of you for whom sharing your story is so traumatic that it would cause you major problems. You could go back into a reaction that is beyond just seeing something that disturbs you and in that case you obviously shouldn’t force yourself to share your story. You should work on healing more of the trauma until you are able to share it. I can assure you that sharing your story is a very important part of the healing process. You will find that there are many therapy groups, in many different settings where people come together in as safe an environment as they can create and they have the opportunity to share their stories. There are always some people who are very reluctant to do so but you will see that when they finally do it, it’s a great relief for them. It’s a great release.

When you have the tools that we have, unless you have severe psychological conditions, it’s a great opportunity to see what is unresolved, to work on it, to then share your story again and see if there’s anything else. You keep doing this until you come to a point where you are totally at peace in sharing your story; you are totally free to share your story. That’s when you know you have healed. That’s when you know you have left it behind. You are no longer sharing your story in order to heal yourself. Now you are sharing your story in order to inspire others and at the moment you get to the point where you are totally at peace with yourself and just focused on helping others, that’s when you have healed.

 

Copyright © 2018 Kim Michaels

The technique of Vipassana meditation

Question: Twenty-six hundred years ago Gautama Buddha invented the technique of Vipassana meditation. Any comment regarding it in the modern western world?

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

My beloved, I didn’t so much invent it as receive it from a higher realm, from the ascended masters. We didn’t have the concept of ascended masters back then and the ascended masters did not feel that it was time to give that concept. So naturally the Buddhists think that I came up with this, that I invented it.

In terms of its relevance in the modern western world, well, for some people it may be relevant because they are, from past lives, used to being in the Buddhist tradition. But we have evaluated that in the modern western world it was more constructive for people to have an outgoing technique – the invocations, the decrees. It kind of corresponds with the western mindset which is more focused on results, more focused on doing things.

Therefore many westerners are not as internally focused, not as predisposed to do meditation, not as patient sitting for long times, are examples and they need to feel that they are doing something actively. Again, on an individual level if people feel this is relevant for them, they can certainly use it but in terms of having a major impact on the western world, I do not evaluate that this is a possibility today. There are other tools that we give today that are more relevant for the western world.

Naturally you need to be aware, as you all are, of the need for progressive revelation, so in general, something that was given 2,600 years ago should not be interpreted to have eternal validity on a planet that changes as quickly as earth. This isn’t to say that there aren’t certain universal ideas that are relevant in any age. In a sense you could say that the ideas we are expressing today as ascended masters are the same that have been expressed in many previous ages but they are always expressed in a different context that makes them more relevant, more applicable, for the people in a certain age.

 

Copyright © 2018 Kim Michaels

Allow yourself to feel which invocation appeals to you

Question:  How do I choose from all the invocations and rosaries without being overwhelmed and going into extremes, still keeping my force field protected? Does the need change as you grow on the path?

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, we are well aware that we have presented you with so many teachings, so many invocations and decrees, that it can be very difficult to choose. We’re also well aware that most of you have grown up in an environment where there was no awareness of a spiritual path and you have longed for that path all of your lives. Then suddenly you find that there is a spiritual path, and now you have a certain sense of Oh if only I had discovered this earlier.

You have a certain inner sense that you are behind and in some cases some of you might be behind in terms of your divine plan. But it could also simply be that you feel the contrast between not having the path and having the path and now you see the potential for growth and you want to grow as quickly as possible. Many of you have experienced that when you first locked into the path and what it is about, you became very, very eager to make progress as quickly as possible. As a result you became almost obsessive-compulsive in studying the teachings and giving the decrees and invocations.

The reality is that many of you have needed to go through a period like that because the challenge you face when you are on a planet like earth is that the mass consciousness is such a strong pull on everybody. So when you find a spiritual path, you basically have two options. You will see some people that look at the spiritual path or spiritual teaching as a form of entertainment – it’s exciting it’s interesting – it’s what you could call granola bar spirituality. For these people going to a conference or reading a book is like feeling a little tired, so they take a granola bar and eat it. They get a boost of energy but it’s not really changing their lives that they ate that granola bar.

But for many of you, for most of you who are here, you have taken a totally different approach. You have really locked into this as the most important element of your life, making spiritual growth. At that level your biggest challenge in the beginning is to pull yourself above the mass consciousness.

Depending on where you grew up, depending on your psychology from past lives, for some of you this can require quite an effort until you have really pulled yourself away and created an upward momentum, so that the mass consciousness or the dark forces cannot pull you down again. In other words, some people are not at that point but most of you have avoided this yo-yo spirituality, we might call it, where you make an effort to rise up and then are pulled back and then make an effort again. Many of you have determined you don’t want that; you want to make the effort to put yourself on an upward path and not slide down.

Now if you have made an effort to go up and then been pulled back down, you don’t need to feel bad about this; you just determine to again pull yourself up. What I’m saying is that many of you became so eager to use the tools precisely because you wanted to pull yourself up to a self-sustaining momentum on the path, so we generally allow people to react to the path according to their individual states of consciousness.

There can come a point on your path where you begin to realize that you no longer need to give quite as many rosaries and decrees. Then you should allow yourself to relax and step back a little. There can also, of course, come a point where you begin to work on the birth traumas and all the other separate selves you have created after the primal self and that is when you can look back and realize that the reason you were so obsessive-compulsive about giving invocations in the beginning was that you had a certain separate self that was compelling you to do this. You can then resolve that self and come to a point where you have a more balanced approach.

What I’m saying is that when you are new to the path, you’re not ready to deal with those deeper selves. Therefore you just have to go through the process and even if you are giving invocations from that obsessive-compulsive self, it’s still benefiting you. It’s still raising your consciousness, and it’s still transmuting energies and therefore lessening the pull that the dark forces and the collective consciousness have on you.

So how do you select? Well, if you are at the point where you are asking this question, you are ready to start stepping out of the obsessive-compulsive phase (if you were in it) and start having a more balanced approach. Simply follow your intuition; allow yourself to feel which invocation appeals to you. Look at the different ones. You might read the beginning of an invocation or you might decide to give them all one time – give one a day and go through them all or at least start giving them all from the beginning. Then you find one that appeals to you more and you give that one more often.

Again, some of you have felt the need for a more concentrated effort but there can also be a reaction where you feel that compulsion to do more but your practical situation doesn’t allow you to do it. That’s where many people go into a phase where they’re kind of pulled in two directions and that state; of course, I would like to see all of you avoid. Simply recognize that you have a certain outer situation – for example, you have children that you need to take care of – and therefore you do what you can. You are at peace with doing what you can because whatever you can do is better than doing nothing.

There are people who feel that because they can’t do everything they want, they just stop and don’t do anything and that’s not a balanced response either. Basically I would say that you need to go with what you feel is right for you. If you feel you need to be very eager and concentrated in giving decrees and rosaries, then do it, but keep in the back of your mind that it might not be forever and that there might come a point where you find a more balanced approach.

On the other hand, if you have an outer situation that prevents you from spending too much time giving invocations and decrees then be at peace with that, embrace that. Do the best you can and you will still find that there will be growth over time. Of course, you can use some of the books we have given, that talk about psychology and you can see whether you have a certain aspect of your psychology that you need to work on. Then you look at the invocations and find one that addresses that, or at least is close to addressing that. Most of you will be able to find at least one or maybe more invocations that will address your issues.

Now another issue we can talk about in this context is giving rosaries and invocations for the world. Some of you have been in a previous dispensation where they gave many, many decrees for world conditions, but here’s where you also need to be a little sensitive to your own situation. In previous times the collective consciousness was heavier. There was a greater need for as many people as possible to give all of these decrees in order to lighten the collective consciousness. The effect of this was that some people got so focused on saving the world that they forgot to save themselves. In other words, giving these decrees in order to change the world became an excuse for not looking at their own psychology and you who are open to these teachings are at the level where you recognize that the most important thing is to work on your own psychology.

This doesn’t mean that it isn’t important to make invocations for the world but not to the point where it becomes an excuse for not working on your own psychology. That is what you have the potential to be aware of. They couldn’t do this twenty or thirty years ago, so there’s no blame here; it’s simply a recognition of the different phases of the world and the different phases that people were in. The decrees that were given in several previous dispensations had a tremendous impact on the world and there is no question that these people gave a valuable service to the world.

I’m just saying that in today’s age, especially at your level of consciousness, it is more important to work on your own psychology. If you have to prioritize, you spend more time on that then if you feel compelled to give invocations for the world, do that as you have time. Again, you don’t need to be obsessive-compulsive about giving decrees for the world. I would say that if you feel that compulsion then it is most likely because it has become sort of an excuse for not looking at your own psychology.

 

Copyright © 2018 Kim Michaels

How to attain the state of inner peace

Question: After giving an invocation or decree, I feel at peace and can feel the spiritual energy. As I go on with my day however, this feeling often begins to leak away. If I am unable to give another decree, is there a practical way to extend this feeling of peace?

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

The practical way is not an immediate way. I cannot give you a teaching that will help you instantly shift because the reality is that as you are giving an invocation, you are invoking the light. You are also raising yourself beyond your normal state of awareness, your normal reactionary patterns. That is why you feel at peace. But then, of course, as you go through your day, depending on what you encounter during that day, you go back into some of these reactionary patterns. You might switch back into how you look at life in general; in other words, you’re beginning to react based -for example – on your primal self and that’s what dissipates the energies and takes away your peace. So there isn’t really a way to switch instantly back to the peaceful state until you have started resolving that primal self and made peace with being on earth.

At the moment you make peace with being on earth then you can actually carry that state of peace with you. Some of you will find that once you make peace, you don’t need to give an invocation to attain that state of peace. You just have it. That doesn’t mean you can’t give invocations but you don’t give them for that reason.

So it is really a matter of looking at: What is my basic reaction, like Jesus said, “my modus operandi”? How do I relate to life on earth? What is it that takes my peace? What is it that disturbs me? Then use the tools in the Healing Your Spiritual Traumas book to get to the bottom of this. Even if you are one of the original earth inhabitants, when the fallen beings came to earth you created a self in reaction to them and that is what takes away your peace. It is, of course, difficult to be at peace on a planet where there are fallen beings but once you overcome that reactionary pattern, you can actually feel at peace.

 

Copyright © 2018 Kim Michaels

The concept of ego, internal spirits and separate selves

Question: Early on we were given the teachings on the ego, later came the teachings on the internal spirits, separate selves and the primal self. My question is: Where does the concept of the ego fit in with those newer teachings or has it now become a less useful or less essential concept? 

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

The teachings are given at different levels so that people who are at different levels of awareness can find something that relates to their present state and the stages they’re going through. So in a sense the ego teachings were given first because they are the broader, more universal teaching. The concept of the ego is quite well known in spiritual literature and alternative psychology, so we gave the teachings on the ego to get you started on the process of looking at yourself.

Then we decided at a certain time to take this to a higher level, not replacing the ego teachings but giving a more specific teaching that the ego is not just some diffuse thing. Often what you see in the literature is that people talk about the effects of the ego but not so much about what the ego is. We decided to give the concept of the internal spirits to show that the ego takes on a life of its own and that it isn’t a unified thing; it consists of all these internal spirits.

In a sense the concept of the internal spirits is also somewhat broad because it applies to many people on earth. The latest thing we have given is the concept of the birth trauma and the separate selves. This is given specifically for avatars but it also applies to the original inhabitants even though they didn’t receive a birth trauma when they first came here, they have received trauma from encountering the fallen beings.

It’s simply that we have attempted to give different levels for people at different levels of awareness. You have to be at a higher level of awareness to be able to really grasp and apply the teachings on the birth trauma and the separate selves.

Essentially you have to be at a certain level of awareness to even be able to accept the My Lives book, which is designed to specifically set the stage for the healing process that helps you overcome the primal self and all of the other selves you created as a reaction to coming to earth or as a reaction to being here. We could, in a sense, say that all of the teachings are still relevant because they’re designed for people at different levels of awareness but the concept of the ego is still relevant in the sense that your primal self and all other separate selves are part of the ego.

You could say, “Is there an ego? Is there a single entity that we can say is the ego?” and you can quite frankly describe that in different ways. You could say that, yes, there is some self that was the first self you created, called the primal self or something else and that’s the essence of the ego.

Or you could say that, no, there isn’t a unified self because they are all separate selves and internal spirits. Some of them are working against each other and therefore you can’t just find one switch and switch it off and be free from ego. You have to work with the different elements of the ego in order to overcome it.

You could even say that when you come as an avatar to earth and you have the desire to change things on earth that is sort of the origin of the ego for an avatar. You’re coming here to change other people and you haven’t fully internalized free will and what it is all about.

That is why, as this messenger has described to you, he realized at a certain point that he was not on earth to change other people; he was on earth to free himself from the desire to change other people. You could say that an avatar brings the seeds, the origin of your ego, with you when you come here whereas the earth inhabitants have developed the ego on this planet. In many cases they had ego before the fallen beings came but the ego then took on a different quality after it encountered the fallen beings.

That’s why you could actually go back historically and say that naturally there was ego on the planet before the fallen beings came but after the fallen beings came, the ego took on a different quality. The fallen beings were the ones who used the duality consciousness, the epic mindset and that has influenced the ego of basically all people on earth.

 

Copyright © 2018 Kim Michaels

How to deal with mistakes that affect other people

Question: This is a personal experience but maybe other people can relate to it. I went through something where I made a mistake and it involved another life stream. After I had done that, I realized that I felt that something was off. I decided to never do it again, I left it behind. After ‘My Lives with Lucifer, Satan, Hitler and Jesus’ came out, I realized what I had truly done and I had a moment where I was like wow, I realized I had done something wrong and I didn’t want it so I was kind of proud of the moment that I was able to recognize that something was off and I was able to adjust my behavior in a sense. However I know that does absolve your karma once you learn your lesson, like it’s done with and you don’t have the issue with that but how does it affect the other life stream or the other person that was with me in that sense and that I had an interaction with? I don’t want them to experience any negativity in a sense or for that to come back on them, especially if they are younger.

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 a situation you all face and have faced many, many times while you have been on this Earth and it is quite frankly one of the situations that is one of the most powerful weapons of the fallen beings to get you involved with these karmic entanglements or reactionary patterns, that are very difficult to get out of.

You are in a very difficult environment on this planet, you are in a very difficult culture, so you do something that affects other people and then you go into a reactionary pattern based on this. Either denying it or seeking to compensate for it or feeling bad about it or this or that, so here is my recommendation. There may be situations where you can do something physical to compensate for how your actions or decisions affected other people. I would, attune to your heart, attempt to go into this neutral state of mind and get some inner direction whether this applies to you and what physical action you might take and then you might take that physical action if you feel it from within.

Do not decide this with your outer mind based on some kind of guilt that you have. Then of course you can do the spiritual work, you can make calls for the karma to be dissolved, you can make calls for the other person to be set free from the effects in the identity, mental and emotional realm and you can work on your own psychology to look at: what was the self that caused you to do this and resolve it and let it die.

At this point you have done everything that you can do for the other person. At this point you then need to use the teachings we have given on free will and recognize that you are on a planet that has a lower state of consciousness. You are not on a natural planet. It is inevitable that all people make mistakes for a variety of reasons. You don’t even need to go into analyzing this but you simply need to accept you made a mistake. You have used your free will to acknowledge your mistake, to seek to raise yourself above the consciousness, to seek to compensate for the effects.

This is the point where you need to recognize that the other person also has free will and you need to allow them their free will to react to the situation however they want to react. If they’re angry with you, then allow them to make that choice but now you need to do what is the most difficult for most spiritual people and that is to also respect your own free will. Because when you acknowledge that you have done everything you can do on the physical level, you have done what you can do on the spiritual level, you also need to acknowledge: if the other person is angry at you or is blaming you, you do not need to react to this. You do not need to react to this. You do not need to feel bad about it, you do not need to feel guilty, you do not need to feel that you need to keep trying to compensate until the other person is no longer angry. You need to recognize that you are on an unnatural planet and on an unnatural planet nothing is ideal.

Therefore you cannot expect things to be ideal and therefore you need to recognize that you have a right to be on this planet, you have a right to be in your present state of consciousness, you have a right to make decisions and take actions based on your present state of consciousness because you can’t do anything else.

There will be situations where this causes you to do something that affects another person but that person has a right to be affected by other people, as you have a right to be affected by other people. In other words, that person does not have the right to say: “You should never have done this. You should not have been in that state of consciousness. You should not have been on this planet.” You have a right to be here in your present state of consciousness and you have a right to do things that affect other people – when you make an honest mistake and are not doing this with a malicious intent. The other person is also in a certain state of consciousness. They have a right to be in that consciousness and you need to recognize that their reaction to you is a result of their state of consciousness. You don’t need to interfere with this but on the other hand you don’t need to let it interfere with your path – when you have done what you could to raise yourself.

This is very, very difficult for many spiritual people and that is why I say it is an efficient weapon of the fallen beings to keep you in these entanglements. The most devastating effect of this is when you have been in a physical proximity to falling beings and you have done something that they felt was wrong and they can be very aggressive and very persistent and blaming you and many of you have in past lives and even some of you in this life – interacted with falling beings.

They have been very negative towards you and you have decided: “O, I need to make it all good again.” In other words you are deciding: “I need to change the fallen beings, so they are no longer in a negative state of mind.” My beloved, that is a recipe for disaster because few things are more difficult in this universe than to change the mind of a falling being so that they will look at you positively and forgive you and move on. So you need to recognize this, whether the other person is a falling being or not, you do not even need to evaluate this but you need to be clear that if the other person will not let the past be the past, will not let go, will not move on, that does not mean that you don’t have a right to move on because you do have a right to move on.

You have a right to feel from within; you have done what you could do for that person and you are just leaving that person behind and moving on with your life. You’re not running away from anything because you have dealt with the psychology, you have done what you could do but then you have a right to move on. This goes for any person in your life, my beloved: – parents, children, family members, anyone, absolutely anyone. You respect their free will but you also respect your own free will. They are right to react to you anyway they want but you’re right to be unaffected by their reaction because you have your own psychology to deal with. You do not have to deal with other people’s psychology because that is not your responsibility.

 

Copyright © 2018 Kim Michaels

Mothers taking drugs and divine plan of the children

Question: I work as a nurse and in recent years there’s been a lot more moms taking drugs which affects their babies and I’ve often worried. You know, different types of drugs from opiates to methamphetamines and I wonder how that affects the children and their own divine plan.

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

This is obviously one of the, if you can use that word as an ascended master, saddest aspects of life on Earth, that babies in the womb are affected by these drugs or other toxins and therefore their whole life plan can in some cases be aborted even before they are out of the womb. Is there a way to deal with this?

Well it is again only a matter of raising the consciousness so that these mothers will have some sense of purpose to their lives and some awareness that their lives are not just about themselves. These people will need to have some way to deal with the psychological aspects of their situations so that they can overcome the intense suffering that makes them want this escape that they seek from numbing themselves.

Of course this is a very complex issue because it relates very much to so many other aspects of American society, where there is more and more of a division between the elite and there is more and more the emergence of this permanent underclass, the so-called working poor and therefore many young men and women have a sense of hopelessness that what can they actually do in their life. They can’t even realistically pursue the American dream and so they very easily get pulled into this drug addiction as just a way to overcome the frustration they feel because they do not see any opportunity in their lives.

This would require very deep and profound changes. What you can do when you are confronted with this in your daily work is: you can make the calls, if you feel so inclined, for the mothers to be cut free by Astrea from the drug entities. You can make the calls for the healing of the babies so that they can hopefully overcome these affects and have a more positive life. Again, as you probably know, all of you who work in these professions, there comes a point where you have to have a certain personal detachment to the suffering you see, otherwise you cannot deal with this. You are overwhelmed by dealing with so much suffering on a daily basis.

 

Copyright © 2018 Kim Michaels

How to deal with the internal spirits and the separate selves

Question: We have to allow our internal spirits to die. How do they exit, how do they die and is there a vacuum created before we create another spirit?

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

An internal spirit is based on a decision that you made. That is what started the life of the spirit, so to speak. So once you see that decision and undo it, replacing it with a higher decision, the spirit dies – it’s gone. The essence of the spirit is gone. Now, of course, the spirit can have accumulated a certain amount of energy that was misqualified through the spirit and that needs to be dissolved. But in most cases you actually need to dissolve that energy before you can actually see the spirit. So normally you give the invocations and decrees and that dissolves the energy, then you can see the spirit and once you undo the decision, it’s simply dissolved as if it never existed.

Now at a lower level we have given you teachings about internal spirits and now we have given the higher teaching of the separate selves and there is a subtle difference here in the sense that the internal spirits do not quite have the same complexity and the same level of consciousness, you might say. Even though they are not self-aware, there is a certain consciousness imbued in them as the separate selves; the separate selves are more complex. So there can sometimes be an internal spirit that you let go of and there is a vacuum created. You create another spirit to compensate for it. Because the spirits are more created as a compensatory mechanism, as a reaction to conditions on earth, whereas the selves are also created in a reaction but they are more complex. So if you truly resolve a self, you don’t need to create another self because you have resolved that decision.

Now you may have other selves that were created after that self and those you will have to deal with. So many of you when you went through the initial birth trauma, you created the primal self which is one self. You can actually resolve that primal self but after you had created the primal self, you created other selves that are, in a way, offsprings of the primal self and if you have not resolved them then you need to then work on those selves and resolve them. But it’s not like you need to create a new self to fill a vacuum. But you need to look at whatever other selves are there and resolve them.

Question: When we deal with a separate self, I’ll just make it personal and I’ll assume it applies to everybody: When I deal with the separate self and I observe myself, I see a reaction in myself, I look at the belief or the sense of identity behind that reaction and I say, “I see you. I’m letting you go.” At times it seems like it’s not being eliminated. It’s like I’m spraying it with weed killer. I can see that it’s weakened a bit but it’s still there, so I still see the reaction in myself in another similar situation before. So is it just a matter of patience and keeping after it or is there something else that could be done to accelerate the process?

Answer from Kim Michaels. This answer was given at a conference in Albuquerque (USA) in 2018.

I’ll actually answer that myself because I’ve experienced exactly what you’re talking about and I assume many of you have. What I’ve realized for many, many years is that when I come to see something in my psychology, I have a certain understanding of it but that doesn’t mean that it’s been resolved yet because that involves all of the four lower bodies. So I might see something in my conscious mind but there might be an emotional component that needs to be resolved; it might be at a mental or an identity level.

So what I experienced when I started working on the whole primal self is, I got some intellectual understanding of it. I was working on it, I was making calls on it, I was calling to Jesus to help me see it more clearly and I could see that I still had the reaction, like you were saying. This went on for probably at least a couple of months and then one morning I was halfway awake in this state, you know, and suddenly, just without me having done anything, I could just feel like something broke. Something just let go.

It was related to what I had understood about the primal self and it just let go, it just broke, it just dissolved. I felt so relaxed afterwards. It was like really at the identity level I was relaxed, at the mental level I didn’t have any thoughts, I didn’t have any feelings but my body was so soft that I could barely move. I could barely get out of bed and this lasted for almost three days. I could move around but I felt like I was so loose and so relaxed and that’s why I knew that it was a major breakthrough; it wasn’t just intellectual understanding.

Question? So it’s just a matter of persistence?

Kim: Yeah, that’s what I feel because from the moment you see it consciously it still takes some time before it’s resolved at these other levels. It’s not like nothing happened in those two months. I had various insights that gave me different details of it. I did this thing you’re saying—every time I had an insight, I would say, “Ah, I see you’re not me and I’m letting you die,” and this and that. It’s one thing to say it with the outer mind but you have to come to a certain point of resolution before you can really let go of it. You can’t just repeat something mechanically because it has to be internalized.

 

Copyright © 2018 Kim Michaels

American Manifest Destiny and Saint Germain’s vision for America

Question: In their three higher bodies, have a critical mass of Americans moved past the beliefs behind Manifest Destiny especially the beliefs that any non-Christians are not human, are inherently inferior and have no rights? 

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

I know you all want me to say yes my beloved but I cannot. The proof of this is to look at what brought the person in the White House who is now there. He essentially gave the people a modern version of this idea that America has a right to be a great country and has a right to impose its vision of the world upon the world and upon this country.

There are many, many Americans who are still trapped in the belief that America is the greatest country on Earth and as I attempted to explain yesterday, this is not based on a reality check and it causes many, many things in the American psyche, especially you can see it in American foreign policy. You can see how George Bush and the people behind him used this very belief to justify the invasion of Iraq. It was the Manifest Destiny of America to spread freedom and democracy around the globe.

The reality is that there is a large portion of Americans who have moved beyond this but not yet a critical mass. This is certainly something you can make calls on, those of you who are aware of this issue because it is very important to bring forth that critical mass. Of course this is also something that is happening as we are talking about raising the collective consciousness and manifesting a more social awareness and more a sense of oneness because obviously your very idea of Manifest Destiny is not based on the oneness between you and other people.

It is based on a very clear division that because these people are not Christians, they’re not Muslims, they’re not this, and they are not that, you have a right to kill them in order to spread whatever idea you espouse. However the idea of a Manifest Destiny very much ties in with the belief in destiny in general. We have many, many people, not only Christians but certainly many Christians, have a certain belief in there’s a certain destiny that is predetermined and that God has a certain vision for Earth, a certain goal for how Earth should be manifest.

You see this very much in some people’s personal lives where they think that everything is predetermined and that whatever happens to them must be God’s will because otherwise it wouldn’t have happened. You see also in history how people have used this to justify all kinds of aggressive behavior by saying that or believing that God has a goal for what should happen on Earth and unfortunately even though God is supposedly all mighty, He can’t make it happen on Earth without us helping him by killing other people.

This of course is a perversion of St. Germain’s vision and very much something that prevents people from being in alignment with the mind of St. Germain.

So make the calls for this but also look at yourselves and look at how as you grew up in America, you have in subtle ways been programmed with this belief and it is almost impossible to grow up in America without taking some of this upon you and if you look honestly at previous dispensations, you will see that they were founded in America, they were based in America and they very much had an American view, world view and quite frankly you could assume if you read the teachings from those dispensations, that the Ascended Masters had the same worldview as the American nation and many Ascended Master students have in fact assumed that that was the case, have never reflected on this.

You recognize, I trust, that we are in charge of raising all people on this planet and we do not think that the only way to accomplish this is to have America conquer the world with force. So what I’m saying is this: make an effort to look at yourself and see if you have been indoctrinated with this belief. If you have somehow taken it on from parents or the media or government and then look at it and recognize that the Ascended Masters want to raise up all people on Earth.

We are not making a sharp distinction between Americans and non Americans and we are not making a sharp distinction between those we’re willing to help and those we are not willing to help. That is why we are not presenting these teachings as being the exclusive truth or the only truth or the absolute truth because the reality is that we are not only seeking to raise the planet through these teachings and this messenger, we are working with many, many people at many different levels of consciousness in many different capacities, basically anyone who is open to improving their personal lives or improving life on this planet.

We are seeking to work with them to the best of their ability to tune in and that of course applies to each and every one of you.

 

Copyright © 2018 Kim Michaels

How to deal with the fact that everybody has free will

Question: When a person finds something in their personal psyche, what helps them look at it in the collective consciousness in a balanced manner especially if they are afraid of letting free will play out? 

Kim: I don’t understand the question. Can the person who wrote it elaborate on it?

Question: If you know you have a fear and you know what you are afraid of, such as allowing free will to play out and you see it within yourself what the mechanism is. When I go to look at it in the mass consciousness – it’s like either the fear just takes me or what’s a balanced manner of being able to transition what I’m looking at in myself towards to being able to look at it in the mass consciousness.  

Kim: I still don’t understand – but you are afraid of letting free will play out – in yourself?

Question: Oh no, it’s the free will of other people that then affects me and I don’t want to be affected. 

Kim: By them – so really the question centres around “how do you deal with the fact that everybody has free will and that they could do something that affects you.” 

Question: Yes. So I know I can’t force other people and if I am raising my consciousness past a fear that I know I have and a mechanism I know I have. When I transition to raising the all and looking at it on a broader prospect, how do I keep myself from trying to force the all too just get with it.

Kim: In order to protect yourself is what you are saying because as you see it right now the only way to protect yourself is to try to prevent them from doing something that harms you. I think that clarifies the question more. 

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

There are my beloved many ways to deal with this issue. It is of course one of the central issues that we have brought out in the book My Lives. You have an avatar that comes to earth with the best of intentions and despite the fact that you have not done anything to anybody on earth, you are still attacked, put down and hurt. This is of course because free will is such. We have talked about the cosmic mirror, what you project into the cosmic mirror the mirror will be reflected back – often through other people.

So if you are projecting a dualistic state of consciousness into the mirror, you will attract to you people who are in a dualistic state of consciousness and they will oppose you. This is not a teaching that applies to an avatar coming into their first embodiment because you are not in a dualistic state of consciousness and you have not projected anything into the cosmic mirror that affects other people.

The fact of the matter is that on a planet like earth where there are fallen beings, they can use their free will to attack you even though you have done nothing whatsoever to deserve it. We all realize that this is one of the most difficult aspects of taking embodiment on earth, for all people really but especially for avatars because you know that this is not the way it is on a natural planet. However, given all the teachings that we have given you, it is possible to look at this and say: “What is the earth, what is the earth for me?” And the earth is a school in attaining Buddhahood.

How do you attain Buddhahood? We have said that non-attachment is the key to Buddhahood but how do you be non-attached to other people attacking you and hurting you? That requires you to go through that long process of looking at your birth trauma, resolving that birth trauma and then when you have done that, you can actually come to a state as Mother Mary just mentioned, where you have re-established the natural energy flow from the identity to the mental to the emotional to the physical.

When you attain that mastery then you know, you are still on an unnatural planet where people have free will, they are in a very low state of consciousness (many people have their minds taken over by fallen beings) you cannot actually prevent them from attacking you if they absolutely want to. What you have done is that you have raised yourself beyond any dualistic entanglements, karmic entanglements with people, so you know there is no karmic reason why they should do so. It is, quite frankly, very likely that when you get to that state you will not be attacked.

Even if it were to happen, you know that due to your long history on this planet, due to what you have experienced in past lives, due to you having resolved the birth trauma, you know that there is nothing here on earth that can permanently harm you, that can permanently change who you are and how you see yourself when you have that natural energy flow.

Therefore you do not need to fear what they might do. The reason you fear this is that you have not yet resolved the birth trauma but when you do, that fear will dissolve as the morning dew under the rising sun.

 

Copyright © 2018 Kim Michaels

People do have influence on the government and the power elite

Question: It has to do with the power elite running our government. They want to shift their personal perceptions that government cannot even be influenced by the people and Mother Mary said not to let the power elite run our government – why did the ascended masters think the people have any power especially regarding the power elite?

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

If the people didn’t have any power to influence the power elite, you would still be living in the type of societies you saw in the feudal societies of medieval Europe. You would not have a democracy (even if it isn’t a fully functional democracy) but you would not be having the kind of country you have.

Why/how do the people have influence on the government? You have – by raising the collective consciousness. It is simply a natural law or at least what you could call a spiritual karmic law, that when the consciousness of the people is raised beyond a certain level then the power elite that ruled them at a lower state of consciousness cannot remain, something must shift.

We know very well that as more and more people raise their individual consciousness, as there is a raising of the general awareness of what people know and understand then we will move towards a point where the current power elite cannot maintain its grip on power.

Now sometimes the power elite manages to transform itself and as has been said by Mother Mary “when the United States was created it didn’t take long before fallen beings in embodiment and fallen beings out of embodiment started gaining influence on the American government.” But still – the American government is a step up from the feudal societies of Europe. The American nation today is a step up and it is clearly better to live in the United States than to live in the Soviet Union or China or another dictatorship. Clearly progress has been made, if you look at the last two thousand years progress has been made – you cannot deny this. How has this been achieved? Well in large part because the people have raised the collective consciousness. Then every time that happens the power elite must give way.

Now of course, there is a potential that the people can become aware of this process, they can become aware of the existence of the power elite. Therefore instead of  unconsciously raising their consciousness (we might say they are raising their consciousness without being conscious of what they are doing)  they can become conscious of the process and they can consciously confront the power elite and demand a government that isn’t run by the power elite. When that happens, you can see a much quicker, much more dramatic shift than the very gradual shift that you see when people are not aware of the process. This is of course my vision for what could potentially happen in America and this is what I would comment on and what I want you to make calls on of course.

 

Copyright © 2018 Kim Michaels

The Native American issue and the fallen beings

Question: I have read that when the U.S. Government chose extermination of Native Americans, the majority of European settlers actually wanted to cohabitate with Native Americans. Is this true that the government is so separated from the desires of the people? How can I shift my personal perceptions that this government can’t even be influenced by the people? Mother Mary said not to let the power elite run our government, why do the ascended masters think the people have any power, especially regarding the power elite.

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

The reality is that even though Saint Germain sponsored America, the consciousness of the planet was at such a low level that it was not possible to create a nation that would keep the fallen beings from influencing America. You can see this influence at a very early stage. You can see how there have been various points in American history where the fallen beings have managed to get influence on the American Government and set the nation on an unfortunate track that took it out of alignment with the mind of St Germain.

The Civil War is one obvious example: which was really a power struggle between two groups of fallen beings for control of the nation. Was it the old wealth, the old established power elite in the North East that was going to run the country? Or was it the new wealth the aspiring power elite in the South that was going to run the country? The issue of slavery was really a diversionary problem that was used to set two groups of people in an irreconcilable conflict that led to the Civil War. It was simply economically based, which power elite should rule the nation. You all know which power elite won and which is still ruling the nation economically through the financial elite in New York.

The Native American issue truly was an expression of the fallen beings influencing the American Government but it must also be recognized that the Native American tribes (many of them) were under the influence of the fallen beings. This happened partly through their Shamans or their spiritual leaders who are attuned to forces in the astral or mental realm. This caused these tribes to resist cohabiting with the white settlers.

It’s clear that the extermination of Native Americans is completely unconstitutional, completely against the principles in the Constitution. Of course the issue you had, was that the American Indians were not willing to change. You see how there was a culture that had changed very little for centuries and where the only real changes that have happened – happened as a result of Europeans bringing horses to the North American continent and the Native Americans accepting horses and incorporating them into their lifestyle, there had been very little movement beyond that.

You also see, that there was a culture of the tribes warring with each other because the population had grown to a point where they could not sustain themselves with a hunter/gatherer lifestyle. There had been very limited willingness to adopt an agricultural lifestyle before the white settlers came. The white settlers were actually a major opportunity for the native Americans to take their culture to a higher level where they could actually sustain themselves. It could have been clear to them that the hunter/gatherer lifestyle had simply come to an end; it was not realistic to continue it. It wasn’t even realistic before the white settlers came but especially not after. There was an unwillingness on the part of certain Native American tribes and their leaders to have a reality check and use the appearance of white settlers as an opportunity to rise above the limitations of the hunter/gatherer lifestyle.

There was of course also an unwillingness on the part of some people among the white settlers especially the ones who had power in government. This was again to some degree driven by the power elite who did not want to give the native Americans the right to these tracks of land that might hold a mining potential for gold and silver. They wanted access to that land, they wanted to be able to rape the land of its resources in order to gain profit and this was one of the driving forces behind the really very aggressive policy towards the Native Americans.

It is true that many among the white settlers wanted to live in peace with the Native Americans and many among the Native Americans also wanted to live in peace but as it so often goes, the fallen beings on both sides managed to create conflict and you all know how that ended. I will say as I have expressed before, that the only way for the Native American people to move forward is to let go of the old.

Truly, if you look for example at Europe, you can go back a thousand years and see that there were some people that lived in a somewhat similar way as the Native American tribes did when the white settlers came. But you do not have a concept in (for example) Denmark – of native Danes because the country and the people have transitioned, so that they all see themselves as Danes. The Native Americans have had enough generations that they could also have transitioned – so that the (native) could fall away and they would stand today as Americans.

 

Copyright © 2018 Kim Michaels

Awakening is a very delicate concept to deal with

Question: What does it mean to be awakened to the light?

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

There are so many ways to express the process of awakening with words. What does it mean to awaken to the light? You could say it means that you are realizing that there is a higher world, a higher realm, that is made up of a higher form of energy, which you can call light – spiritual light, celestial light, divine light, cosmic light, whatever you want to call it – and you realize that there is a world beyond the material and that it has an impact on the material world and on your life.

But “awakening” is a very delicate concept to deal with. Throughout the ages many, many people have imposed their mental images on what this means. You will recognize, for example, that the Buddha did not say, “I have been awakened.” He said, “I am awake.” There’s a subtle difference here. If you say you are awake, as opposed to being asleep, for example, is there any finality to the statement “I am awake”? However, if you say, “I am awakened. I have been awakened,” many people interpret this to mean that some final stage has been reached. Many people have had genuine experiences of making a dramatic change to a higher level of consciousness and they have used some image in their consciousness to reason that this experience felt so real, was so dramatic, that this must mean they have reached some final state: “I am awakened, I’m enlightened, I have a changed cosmic consciousness.” It is fine to say, “I have been awakened,” as long as you realize that this is still a process. You are not at a final stage; you realize there’s more to know, more to understand.

You can also say that being awakened to the light means that you recognize there is a contrast between darkness and light. Not a dualistic contrast but a state of spiritual light that is beyond the dualistic extremes on Earth – the good and the evil, the truth and the falsity. You have to be careful to not reason that there is some final stage of awakening that can be reached on earth. As we have said, as ascended masters we are not standing still. We do not see ourselves as being in a state of perfection. We realize that the expansion of consciousness can go on all the way to the Creator level and we clearly realize we are very far from that level. Many people have the desire and it is an ego-based desire, to reach the final state but it is very wise to keep in mind that you will never reach the final state as long as you are on earth. You can say that the only final state you can reach on earth is to ascend but the ascension is not a final state in the sense that there’s no more growth.

 

Copyright © 2018 Kim Michaels

Why have some spiritual people chosen to embody in America?

Question: Mother Mary explained why some of us embodied in America. Could that be stated again with a little more detail about our intentions? Can we choose to be born on a different planet in accordance with our level of consciousness or do we have no choice until we have resolved all the karma that we have on earth? 

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

There was a time not so long ago when there were far fewer people in embodiment than there are today. Where were all those souls when there were not enough bodies for them to incarnate on earth? Well, somewhere of course, in one of the three higher realms. Some however, embodied on other planets. So it is possible for you to choose to be on a different planet but in many cases, of course, your consciousness needs to be raised so that it corresponds to the level of consciousness on that planet. If you go to another planet that has the same level of consciousness as on earth, what would you accomplish? Why not stay on earth?

So, yes, you do have, depending on your level of consciousness, a certain freedom of choice about where you want to embody. There are people who have raised themselves above a certain level of consciousness here on earth and they were not ready to ascend so they have chosen to go to another planet. There are people who have raised themselves above the duality that dominates earth and they choose to incarnate on a natural planet.

In terms of why you have chosen to embody in America, truly this is a very individual matter. For most of the spiritual people who have embodied in America, in past lives you had aligned your minds with the mind of Saint Germain. You saw that Saint Germain had a vision for creating America and you wanted to be part of making that vision a manifest reality. Many of you have embodied in America for several lifetimes and you have come into embodiment in America in this lifetime because you realized that this is a transition period. There is a potential to take America forward toward the Golden Age or there is a certain risk that America will be bypassed by the Golden Age, that it will manifest in other countries and America will essentially fall behind. So you wanted to be here and help with that.

How do you then do that? Well again, first of all you raise your consciousness. Work on yourself individually. Align your mind with the mind of Saint Germain so that you know and experience from within what you can do on the outer to help Saint Germain. Perhaps some of you have a background in a certain field and when you align yourself with the mind of Saint Germain you can get ideas on how to advance that field. Perhaps you go into a new field and start bringing out ideas in that field.

For most of you who are Americans and have grown up in this nation, yes, you did have a very specific purpose of wanting to help America transition into the Golden Age phase. You can say that America has in some ways started that transition but certainly it has not completed it in any way and there is much more that could be done. In fact, I would say that America has not gone over that “no return” point where the Golden Age is a given. It is in fact  possible that Saint Germain will have to use other countries to manifest his Golden Age ideas because they are more open to them.

 

Copyright © 2018 Kim Michaels