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The current situation of Korea (2018)

Question: This is a question from the Korean team, first of all we want to express many thanks to Kim and the students who have given invocations for Korea for the past several months. Of course thank you to the Ascended Masters. Lately there’s been some good progress between North and South Korea and a good relationship starting between the North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and the United States Mr. Trump. How do you see the current situation in progress and as ascended master students what should we keep in mind to hold the spiritual balance for the whole of Korea?

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

Well, my beloved we also wish to express our thanks to the many students both inside and outside of Korea who have given these calls. As we have said before, you can provide that trigger that makes a situation that could go in different directions, go in the most positive direction.

Yet we are only cautiously optimistic because there are of course questions about the current situation and the main question here is how sincere Kim Jong Un is about bringing changes in North Korea.

Another big question is how sincere Donald Trump is or whether he is out to promote himself as a world leader or whether he is really open to producing a result that is right for the Korean people.

A third question of course is how China will react to the situation and whether they will be willing to lose influence in order to give the two Koreas more freedom to work things out. So the basic question to keep in mind as ascended master students and to make calls for, is that Korea does not become a substitute battleground in the competition between the super powers including Russia and to some degree Japan even though it may not be considered a super power.

So the ideal scenario to make calls on is that the future of Korea is decided by the Koreans, not only by the governments but also by the people. Now in a certain sense of course, the future of Korea will be decided by the collective consciousness of both North and South.

But nevertheless we would like to see that not only the leaders but the people are the ones who are responsible for what happens, with as little interference as possible from outside powers.

English will be the common language in the Golden Age

Question: How should we treat national languages and what is the future of languages in general?

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

In the Golden Age, as we move further and further into the Golden Age, English will become more and more widespread. It is my vision for the Golden Age that for the first several centuries of the future, the national languages will be largely preserved but that all people in all countries will start learning their national language and English.

In this way the people in all countries have to learn only two languages and they should start this from a very early age, so that they are proficient or fluent in both languages. In this way if all people around the world learn English then all people from around the world can communicate with each other and this is my vision for the Golden Age.

Now as we move centuries ahead there will be more and more nations that will give up their national languages. Some of the nations that exist today will in fact be dissolved and you will see the emergence of larger regions where national boundaries become insignificant.

Therefore also national languages gradually fade away and everybody embraces the common language of English. Of course, English will also develop over time, so 500 years from now they will not be speaking the exact same form of English as they do today.

A balanced approach to using spiritual tools

Question: This is a question about a spiritual tool. Has something changed this year. After giving the rosaries the physical body reacts differently. It tends to sleep and it is hard to stay in a sitting position. Also sometimes it is impossible to work, is this the new higher frequency energy or something else.

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

It is not that there is a general universal change for all people but for some people you can go through certain cycles where it does become more difficult to give invocations or decrees. You for various reasons can feel like going to sleep. You can also go through certain periods where there is so much light coming into your four lower bodies or you are going through such intense work with your psychology that it is difficult to focus on practical matters.

If you find that this comes to the point where you cannot function in your daily life, then take a break, do not give as many rosaries and invocations or take a break from them for a time where you don’t give any. We are not seeking to give you tools to have you force some kind of change and you can see if you research the internet that there are people who have either forced a Kundalini rising or have had it happen spontaneously who can be quite disturbed by this. It is possible that there can be people who have so much light coming into their four lower bodies, that their bodies can’t handle it.

It can mean that you can go to sleep, it can also mean that you can go through various changes that can make it difficult to function in your daily life. But this is an individual cycle you are going through and so we advise you to take a break instead of seeking to force something. It is not that giving the rosaries and invocations are causing the condition but it is that it can reinforce something that is going on in your four lower bodies and that is why it can be necessary to take a break from it.

So, Mother Mary wants to add that what is unique to this year is that the planet is going through the initiations of the sixth ray of peace and so it can be a matter of how that affects individuals. Therefore they might contemplate the whole concept of peace and of course use Nada’s book if it’s available to them.

The distinction between the terms – Mother Light and Matter Light

Question: A question for the ascended masters about the term matter light, the term Matter light was introduced by the Presence of Infinite Light in 2004. This term denotes a basic light with the rudimentary stage of consciousness (roughly the unconscious) from which everything is created in the material universe. Having only a rudimentary consciousness this light manifests any form imposed upon it. Experimenting with this light we receive reflection from the cosmic mirror, learn from it, become more harmonious and consequently we spiritualise matter. There will come a time when all matter will be transformed because the unconscious basic matter light will awaken become self aware and spiritualised and the earth will ascend. Such a self aware and spiritualised light is called Mother Light. In the ascended sphere there is no matter light there is only Mother Light. The unconscious basic matter light became the conscious Mother Light which no longer accepts any form imposed upon it. These are two different states of light and cannot be equated. Is this true? If Mother Light and Matter Light are two names for the same thing then why has the Presence of Infinite Light introduced the term matter light and why do the ascended masters use both terms in their dictations. The question arose because most Russian language translators including those from Russian official publisher translate the term matter light as mother light, so the term matter light does not exist in Russian translations. Is this right?

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

It is acceptable to us that you translate it into Russian as Mother Light when the term is not familiar. It is correct that at the introduction a certain distinction was made but it is also correct that we have later used the two terms interchangeably and it is partly because we want people to understand that the matter light exists in the Mother aspect of God.

So we have given the teaching that there is the Father aspect which is the expansive and the Mother Light which is the contractive. So sometimes we want people to recognize that the Mother Light or the Matter Light that forms all forms is part of the Mother aspect of God. So again we are at a point where you could keep looking at the words and the terminology or you can seek a more intuitive experience of this.

Going into duality and positive lessons in the collective causal body

Question: Does ascension through the School of Hard Knocks ultimately resolve in something more for the growth of the whole than just the path of inner direction?

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

Well, if you with ascension mean that somebody actually ascends and becomes an ascended master then I would have to go against what I said earlier and focus on the words themselves. Strictly speaking you cannot ascend through the School of Hard Knocks. You can rise in consciousness through the School of Hard Knocks but you cannot reach the 144th level through the School of Hard Knocks.

Typically when you go beyond the 48th level, you start – at least going beyond always learning from the School of Hard Knocks. But in a sense we can say that whatever people do with their free will, however low they go in consciousness, it has an effect in terms of giving beings experiences in their causal bodies. You can say that by going into duality you explore a certain aspect of free will that you of course cannot explore if you are not in duality. So in that sense you could say again, that any experience people have will add to the whole in the sense that there is in the individual mind but also in the collective mind that awareness of what doesn’t work, what the consequences are.

This ties in with what we have said that “we do not judge what you do on earth the way you judge yourselves or each other” because we look at it again as you are outplaying aspects of free will and thereby gaining the experience, a direct experience of what works and what doesn’t work that does become part of – not only your own causal body but what we might call the collective causal body of a certain group of life streams, what they have experienced and what they now have of positive lessons in their causal bodies and in the collective causal body as a result of this.

It is so – that when some people go through a certain experience on a planet like Earth, their causal bodies transform this into a positive experience and that means that other life streams can draw upon this so they don’t have to go through the same experience. That is also part of why you can see that a planet can ascend or rise up to higher levels of consciousness. The collective consciousness can be raised because as a critical mass of people find out that they do not want any more of war then it can shift the collective so that even those who have not experienced so much war can realize that they do not want war either and that can bring a shift.

The Conscious You and the second death

Question: In the teachings about the second death it is said that the Conscious You in the case of the second death is completely absorbed by the I Am Presence as if it never existed. In the book ‘My Lives with Lucifer, Satan, Hitler and Jesus’ it is said that Lucifer’s Conscious You has been dissolved in the sacred fire. How are these concepts similar or different? In general, how can the Conscious You be destroyed?

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

It is largely a matter of how words are used and there is no basic incompatibility with it. The simple fact is that you can describe it in either way- is the Conscious You dissolved or is it absorbed by the I Am Presence. For some, especially fallen beings that have a very long history, the Conscious You can be so entrenched or imprisoned by outer selves that it actually needs to go into the sacred fire to have those selves destroyed by the fire, consumed by the fire and then it is free to be absorbed back into the Presence.

So you might say that the book has a slightly inaccurate wording. Then again, it is a matter of how specific you want to be about the use of words. I would say in general that there comes a point on the path where you are no longer so focused on these kinds of questions, where you are using the linear mind to look at the words and look very carefully at how is this said there, how is that said there, is it incompatible or not incompatible; you are more focused on looking beyond the words and therefore you see or you experience something beyond the words.

It is the same as if you take the four gospels of the New Testament and find incompatibilities there. You could focus on them or you could as some people have done, focus on the deeper meaning and therefore receive some experience from within. You could also look at previous Ascended Master teachings and at the level of words you can find incompatibilities between this teaching and that teaching or even inconsistencies within a specific teaching. The question is really “where are you focusing your awareness” are you trying to use the analytical linear mind to walk the spiritual path or does there come a point where you see the limitations of that mind and you are willing to go beyond and have an intuitive experience rather than the intellectual understanding.

The illusions we take on to descend to the 48th level of consciousness

Question: For the first embodiment on Earth, we took on illusions to descend to the 48th level of consciousness. Where and how did we take on these illusions and what are these illusions, how do they differ for different life streams?

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

You took on the illusions as you created the four lower bodies, so some of the illusions are specific to the identity realm, some to the mental, some to the emotional and some finally to the physical. Some of them are described in the Course on the Path to Self Mastery where the Chohans take you up through the levels of consciousness from the 48th to the 96th. The 96th I will not describe here because obviously there are many illusions and some of them will be described in future teachings.

Some of them have already been described and some of them you simply need to discover them for yourself. The illusions are general in the sense that there is a general illusion for each level of consciousness. But of course in the mind of an individual they can take on a certain colouring, a certain shade that is unique to the individual.

A Russian-speaking messenger in the future?

Question: Is there any perspective to have a Russian speaking messenger in the near future?

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

Yes, my beloved but it all depends on individual growth and it is a complex equation to become a messenger. It is not something that necessarily can be done within the very near future but perhaps on a more long term basis.

Buddhism and progressive revelation

Question: About a thousand years ago, one of the highest teachings of Tibetan Buddhism, Kali Chakra Tantra was expounded by a Master. However, for various reasons the original text of the teaching was lost. Can we hope that in the near future the Beloved Master will set forth a more complete teaching that would be close and accessible to the followers of Tibetan Buddhism in particular and Buddhism in general?

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

Unfortunately my Beloved my ability to reform Tibetan Buddhism is about as limited as Jesus’ ability to reform Christianity. The same goes for the other mainstream branches of Buddhism who are not really open to the concept that I could today be an ascended master and be one among many ascended masters. We will of course continue to give new teachings. I have already through this messenger and through previous dispensations given teachings that are more advanced than anything that could be given a thousand years ago.

You see in almost every religious movement this tendency to look back to the past and glorify the past as if what could be given in the past was somehow a higher or purer teaching than what can be given in the present. But given the reality of progressive revelation you recognize that as the collective consciousness moves forward, more advance teachings can be given now than could be given a thousand or two thousand or twenty-five hundred years ago. As an ascended master student there is no reason to look to the past and glorify the past teachings.

Nothing has gone wrong with the Creator’s plan

Question: When there was a fall and something went wrong from the way it was intended by the Creator, why has the Creator not revised his laws? Why didn’t he remove the fallen consciousness? Why didn’t he return everything back to purity? Why didn’t he start from scratch? Why does the Creator create more and more dense realms where there are fewer and fewer opportunities for free creativity? There is more suffering and pain and it becomes harder and harder to get out of there. Is this experience gained in such dense realms really so valuable and important for the growth of the whole such that all these people’s suffering is justified? Is it justified to not be able to cope with such tests to the point of extinguishing a threefold flame and it being erased? Is it possible to look at some example, how other worlds could exist, having another way of self-transcendence and growth without fallen consciousness and darkness?

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

Nothing has gone wrong with the Creator’s plan, for the Creator did not have a plan. The Creator gave free will to the extensions of itself and whatever they have decided to do with that free will is part of the process of them exploring what can be done with free will. Therefore gradually having experienced what they need to experience in order to raise their consciousness, raise their will towards higher levels.

I can only advise that people who have these kind of questions make an effort to study the teachings we have been giving, especially the book about ‘My Lives’ but also the teachings we have given about the previous spheres, because I can only say that these questions actually spring from the fallen consciousness. They are the kind of questions that the fallen beings want you to have concerning free will based on the suffering that you encounter on a planet like earth.

When you consider that the vast, vast, majority of planets in this sphere are not fallen, are not high density planets, are not unnatural planets but are natural planets with an upward spiral then you see that this question only enters the minds of people on a dense planet like earth and they are quite frankly unrealistic questions. You need to apply the teachings we have been giving to raise yourself above the consciousness. The fact of the matter is that the questions that spring from the fallen consciousness have no answer. Not even an Ascended Master can answer this question in a way that people can grasp when they are in that consciousness.

We could also say that these questions spring from a specific self and as long as that self colours your consciousness there is no answer I could give you that would satisfy you. People in this state of consciousness if we attempt to give them an answer which we of course have experimented with doing they will immediately come up with seven other questions. This can go on almost indefinitely.

That is why again, apply the teaching, come to identify how the questions spring from a separate self and then let that self die if you want to be free. It is not so much a matter my beloved, of having a question answered. This is a common misunderstanding among spiritual people especially those who are trapped in the intellectual mind.

They always think that when they ask a question there should be an answer to their question but it is not a matter of answering a question. It is a matter of resolving a question and coming to a state of consciousness where you no longer have the question because you had transcended the former state of consciousness and the question is now obsolete. There are many, many questions that cannot be answered in a linear manner but it is not our responsibility to answer all people’s questions. It is your responsibility to raise your consciousness where you can connect in a more direct way to the teacher.

Why ascended masters do not teach meditation in a traditional form

Question: Why don’t ascended masters talk more about meditation and meditation techniques? It seems they do not teach meditation at the present moment but isn’t meditation the main instrument for achieving Oneness with God. Or are we naturally entering into Oneness with God by healing our psychology, raising our consciousness, freeing ourselves from the ego, etc? Could the concepts of visualization or entry by using the attunement process also be considered as meditation?

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

The question implies a specific view of meditation but meditation in its broadest sense could also be described as what has become a catch word in parts of the world, as mindfulness. How do you most successfully give an invocation? By being mindful during the process – anything can be a form of meditation. Meditation doesn’t necessarily mean that you sit there quietly and focus on some kind of mantra or other technique. This is the way it has traditionally been seen in Buddhic and Hindu traditions but it is too narrow a perspective.

We do not teach meditation in this form because for many people in the modern world it is far better to be active and therefore give something in the form of decrees and invocations. The outgoing process is more effective for people in the modern age because of the more hectic lifestyle. However it should be said of course that meditation is not the primary tool for attaining union with God and never has been. The primary tool is an increased awareness which only comes from some kind of resolution of psychology – however people could achieve that in the old days. Today of course you have greater opportunities than ever for resolving your psychology both with the general teachings and knowledge about psychology but also with the teachings we have given on the primal self and other separate selves.

Union with God is not automatically achieved by resolving all the selves but when you do resolve the selves, especially when you depersonalize your path as Master More spoke about then the Conscious You is set free to recognize itself as a formless being. It is only as a formless being that you can attain union with God. There is a very common and very old misconception among spiritual people that it is somehow possible to take the identity you have now as you start the path and perfect it so that that identity can attain union with God. This simply is not possible, never has been possible, never will be possible.

The only true way to union with God which is truly the union with your I AM Presence, is to systematically and gradually dissolve all of the selves you have created in your four lower bodies so that the Conscious You is not pulled into identifying with any of these selves but can find its rightful position in the nexus of the figure eight between your I AM Presence and your four lower bodies.

Therefore, you are the open door, nothing less, nothing more and that is the state of union with God. It isn’t automatic because the Conscious You needs to make a choice, needs to make a decision to put itself in that position but it cannot do so until the selves are dissolved.

A master – student relationship dynamic

Question: What vision do the ascended masters have about the Guru-Chela relationship? Is this a special relationship with one ascended master with whom a special sacred bond is formed that cannot be broken, a kind of vow taken by both sides? Or is it just a close relationship with any ascended master or several ascended masters who teach a person in the moment? Does each life-stream have a personal Guru that is assigned to him from the moment of birth and leads him throughout his entire existence before the ascension or even after the ascension? For example, I entered into the Guru-Chela relationship with one master but I feel a greater alignment and affinity with another one. With which one of them should I seek to enter unity?

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

You first of all seek to enter unity with your I AM Presence. The ascended master is a vehicle for helping you attain that unity but it is first of all the Presence that you seek unity with. It is not so that one person has one particular ascended master that will guide you throughout your entire sojourn on earth or even for one lifetime. We look at the growth of the individual student and the needs of that student and different masters with different qualities will work with the student as they need it.

Even if you feel you have made a vow to an ascended master and you feel a greater affinity with another master, you focus on that master at least for a time. We have even in previous dispensations given the teaching that a person can believe he is the chela of a particular master but is actually for a time being guided by another master without realizing it. Because of the dynamic of free will, there is no vow that could never be broken.

A master does not as such, make a vow to a particular student but simply offers the help to a student, as the student is ready or willing to receive it. You have even the saying that when the student is ready, the teacher appears. At any given moment, you are ready for a particular kind of teacher when you come up higher or when you face different initiations on your path, different aspects of your psychology you are working on, another master might step in because that is what you need.

The idea that you can make a vow to a particular master is valid if that helps you focus more on the path but there comes a point where you become more mature on the path, where you realize that this is not a matter of an outer vow made with the outer mind. It is your commitment to growth and you are continually seeking maximum growth, so you are willing to work with whatever master can help you best at the stage you are at.

Russia – Ukraine relations

Question: Why does Russia for all its known history, especially recently the majority of Russian people, hate Ukraine so much and demonstrate an open hybrid aggression? Hybrid aggression war is conducted not only and not so much by guns and tanks as by the forces of political propaganda, terror, disinformation and economic pressure. Is it connected with karma or are there other reasons?

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

It is first of all connected or comes from the fact that too many among the Russian people are still trapped in the dualistic state of consciousness. This is also why they cannot let go of the past or cannot let go of the need to be a great and powerful nation. When you are in the dualistic state of consciousness you have to have some kind of opponent or enemy. You have to imagine that you are fighting some kind of battle against someone.

You could say that obviously there is a history between Russia and Ukraine. Therefore, you could say there are also some karmic connections there but the real issue here is the dualistic state of consciousness. However, it also needs to be said that many among the Ukrainian people have also not freed themselves from the dualistic state of consciousness. That is why the nation is right now divided between the eastern part where there is, after all, more Russian sympathy and the western part that wants to have Ukraine become part of Western Europe.

You see that the dualistic state or the divided state in Ukraine becomes the open door for the dualistic consciousness of Russia to influence Ukraine. It isn’t just a one-way street in the sense that if there wasn’t the vulnerability in Ukraine then the Russian aggression wouldn’t really get a foothold.

The topic about a war being fought mainly though political propaganda, I would like to comment on because the greatest opposition to progress right now in Russia is actually the fact that the free press has been largely replaced by a centralized control press that is a vehicle for propaganda. What has happened is that the Russian people, instead of being enslaved by more physical means as was the case during the Soviet Union, are now to a greater degree entrapped by misinformation, disinformation and propaganda.

This is again the responsibility of the Russian people to educate themselves and to use the access to the internet that they have for example – to demand a more free press but they have not taken up that responsibility. As we have said, there is a growing awareness in the Russian people that this needs to change. Therefore again we look for a gradual evolutionary change to bring about a state where the Russian people will more and more look for alternative news beyond the government sponsored news.

The reason why wars are more and more fought this way is that the collective consciousness of the planet has moved forward. It is more difficult especially for some of the older more evolved nations that have a longer history to precipitate a physical war therefore war needs to be fought with information. Of course if you look at the world at large, you will see that there was a period where the internet was an openness for new information but it didn’t take very long before there were various forces around the world including forces in the so-called free world that started using the internet as a way to spread false information.

There is no potential for the reform of the Russian Orthodox Church

Question: Is there any possibility of reforming the Russian Orthodox Church or is it an obsolete religious organization without a future?

Answer from the Ascended MasterJesus through Kim Michaels. This answer was given at a conference in Kazakhstan in 2018

There is certainly no possibility that I could reform the Russian Orthodox Church. There is as little possibility of that happening, as me being able to reform the Catholic Church or any of the other mainstream Christian churches. To say that a religious organization is obsolete is a more complex question because the religious organization is kept alive by the people who follow that organization, giving their light to the organization because of the equation of free will they must be allowed to do this.

So why are they doing it? Because they need a certain kind of experience. Again, we face this question – or this equation that we cannot reach these people from the ascended level so we must allow them to outplay their consciousness. Based on this, I would not say that the organization is obsolete because the people still need it but from a spiritual perspective, yes it is indeed obsolete.

What is needed in Russia is people open to a different form of government not dominated by one person.

Question: Is it possible in Russia, in the near future that the emergence of an opposition to the current power be under the leadership of the Ascended Masters?

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

No, my beloved, that is not possible. It is not even possible in the distant future. Not that it never will be possible but you understand that we are not actually in any country looking to create a form of government that is under the direct leadership of the Ascended Masters. Now this may seem difficult to accept for some Ascended Master students who have envisioned that in the golden age we will be directly leading the nations.

My Beloved, if we were directly telling the governments of the nations what to do, how would the people grow from that experience? What have we told you about Christhood? You have to be led from within, not from some outside force. So you see that there can of course be governments who have some inspiration and some connection to the Ascended Masters but we are certainly not looking to have governments be like puppets where we are pulling the strings.

What I also want to say about Russia is that we are not looking for an opposition to the current government. As I said, this would only propel the country from one extreme to another and create violence and upheaval. You understand that the development of a country, especially as large and complex as Russia is a complex affair that can change very, very, quickly. You give a certain prophecy in 2015 based on how the situation looked at that time. Then within a year it changes and all of a sudden you would not have given the same prophecy based on the current changes.

It is difficult to predict how a population will react and when they will begin to cling to something, (part of the old) and be afraid to change. What we are looking for is a gradual change in the Russian collective consciousness so that a critical mass of Russian people become open to a different form of government that is not so centralized and especially not dominated by one person.

Putin and his lifespan

Question: In 2015 Saint Germain said that Vladimir Putin was being held in embodiment by the Russian people and there was a 90% chance that he would come out of incarnation before 2018. It did not happen. At the conference in Novosibirsk the Ascended Masters said they paradoxically would like to see that the era of Putin governing would continue because Putin could not stop the growth of the consciousness of the Russian people. What has changed since then? Is Putin still kept in embodiment by the Russian people or how can he now receive energy from God? On the other hand, on the internet there is a conspiracy theory that the real Putin died long ago and whom we see now is his body double. They say that there are five or six of his doubles. Theorists claim dramatic changes in Putin’s appearance and apparent inconsistencies in his ability to speak German and that a divorce from his wife are all proof the Russian President is not the real one. How are things really?

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

My Beloved, not all prophecies come true and in this case it was the 10% that became the reality. You need to understand here that when we give a certain prophecy we are looking at a very complicated matrix of potentials. There was a potential in the identity and mental realms that this could indeed bring a change that would take Putin out of embodiment. As it so happened the Russian people clung to their sense of security and this meant that there were blockages in the emotional realm that prevented the descent of what was actually the greater potential. In terms of the conspiracy theories this is not something to really worry about and we will not comment on it because it is too unrealistic.

However, in terms of the question of how can Putin receive energy from God. The question would be “why do you think Putin has been receiving energy from God?’ We have given the teaching before, that there can come a point where a being has been cut off from receiving energy from its I AM presence and it can only continue to stay in embodiment by receiving energy from other people in embodiment. That is what I indeed meant when I said that the Russian people were keeping Putin alive.

The reason we have said that we would prefer that the Putin era of government would continue is that there was at the time and still really isn’t a viable alternative in terms of a successor who could create some kind of positive development in Russia. This in large part has to do with the fact that the Russian people have not come up higher to a high enough point where they could recognize a more enlightened leader.

Yet we do foresee that there is an upward movement in the consciousness among many Russian people and that this will bring positive change to Russia but it is more of a long term perspective. That is why as we see in many other countries around the world, we would prefer a more gradual development rather than some kind of violent revolutionary change that in too many cases brings a country from one extreme to another and therefore creates such instability that it actually halts the long term progression of the country.

A sex education in Russia and in the CIS countries

Question: Is it necessary to introduce a sex education program in Russia and the CIS countries’ schools, similar to the one introduced in the Western countries? If so how can it be done taking into account the peculiarities of the national consciousness?

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

If I answer the question as it is asked, I would say it is not necessary for all CIS countries because again the CIS is not really a union at a higher level. Certainly it is not necessary to do this as it was done in the West because you need to consider the national consciousness of each nation. They must find a way to do it in their own way.

However I will say that sex education has an important function beyond the practical – of teaching children about sexual hygiene and it is that it has been in the Western countries a way to break the taboo around sex that has been introduced so many centuries ago by religion and has been kept there artificially for much longer than was healthy.

It is important that nations implement some form of sex education. Naturally it needs to be done according to that nation’s consciousness and their own determination of how to do this. We are not looking for a standard way for nations to do many things. Therefore it is not that we are sitting here and evaluating that it must be done a certain way because we allow each nation to outplay their national identity. By the way they outplay it, it can help them see that national identity and move forward.

The celebration of the end of World War II

Question: In Russia and in some other CIS countries, on May 9th Victory Day, the Immortal Regiment March which is a procession is held which marks the Soviet Union’s defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II. In this procession people hold portraits of dead family members who fought and died in the war or after the war. It is an action to keep the memory of individual veterans alive and it is getting very popular. Year by year the number of people participating in this procession is growing. What is the nature of this phenomenon?

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

It is largely an expression of the fact that the Russian nation has not been willing to move on and leave the past behind. It is an attempt to cling on to some form of greatness that people feel they have lost. They feel that with the dissolution of the Soviet Union they lost the sense of self-importance that they had during the Soviet Union. They cling to what they consider to be their greatest achievement, the defeat of Nazi Germany.

In the great patriotic war which the rest of the world calls the second world war and which the rest of the world realizes that certainly Russia played a role in defeating Nazi Germany but they alone did not defeat Nazi Germany and could not have done so. It is from a spiritual perspective not a healthy phenomenon but an expression of the fact that people have not been willing to move on.

If you would look for a Western parallel, consider how you would feel if Germany created a similar celebration of when the Nazis invaded and defeated Poland or France or some of the other nations.

There is no real potential for the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)

Question: These are a series of questions about CIS countries. Do CIS countries as a political and economic confederation, have prospects for development or is it a fictitious Commonwealth that will eventually cease to exist?

Kim: Can you briefly describe the CIS?

CIS is Commonwealth of Independent States. When the Soviet Union dissolved they made the structure as a kind of an intermediate structure for going further but going further together.

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

It is largely an unreal structure that has little potential to create real unity and the main reason for this is that the Soviet Union was never a union, it was created through force. The word union is a typical example of how the fallen beings use words to portray something that has no reality to it.

It is much more likely given the vast distances between some of these countries, that there needs to be other alliances based on geographical proximity so you could have several groupings of countries that decide to work together.

Kazakhstan and China’s expansion

Question: Should Kazakhstan and/or the other Central Asian countries worry about the expansion of China to Kazakhstan and to these countries?

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

China is at present an unpredictable country because of the mass consciousness – the collective consciousness of the Chinese people being at a point where they find it difficult to decide which way they really want to go. You see the latest developments with the President taking on more powers than any President since Mao Tse Tung. This is a troubling sign in the sense that it makes the situation less predictable. There is a reason for all neighbouring countries to be mindful of what is happening in China. I am not necessarily saying you should worry about this.

In Kazakhstan you have more of a traditional alliance with Russia that would discourage China from expanding into Kazakhstan. It is something to make the calls on if you feel moved to do so from within. Certainly it is not so that we are foreseeing any imminent danger of a Chinese invasion because this would actually be too detrimental to China’s long term strategy of expanding their influence in the world through economic factors.

I am simply pointing out that the more a country has a centralized leadership structure where decisions are made by one person it becomes more difficult to predict what that person is going to choose to do if a crisis situation occurs where the person suddenly feels that his position or the long term strategy of the country is threatened.

The collective consciousness of Kazakhstan

Question: Is there any change in the collective consciousness of Kazakhstan since the last conference?

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

Yes, my Beloved there is a positive, uplifting and encouraging change. We ascribe this to various factors but as we have described to you before even a small group of people can have a decisive influence in these situations where it is a close call whether it will go this way or that way. I wish to honour the people who have given our calls and invocations, who have worked on raising their own consciousness because you have triggered more of an upward momentum than otherwise would have happened. We are hopeful that this nation will continue to grow gradually towards a brighter future.

Contact with the ascended masters between embodiments

Question: We all here have a certain amount of contact with the ascended masters. What about when people pass over and go beyond the veil? A friend of mind just crossed over and he had contact with the ascended masters. My mother had a very strong contact with Mother Mary but not consciously. So I am curious, if you are behind the veil [out of embodiment], is the contact with the masters easier, is it easier to visit ascended master universities.

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

It is easier to contact us when you are out of the physical body if you have a high enough level of consciousness that you have some attunement with us. Those who are in a lower state of consciousness of course often are pulled into the astral plane during embodiments and from there it’s very difficult to contact the ascended masters, those who have a higher level of consciousness who have developed some attunement with us whether conscious or not. When they are out of the body it is easier for them to go into the identity realm and then visit our retreats and interact with us in other ways.

It’s clear that while you are in a physical body you are looking at the world also through the physical mind and it adds an extra layer and that makes it of course more challenging to have conscious contact with us.

The reward for service is the joy of serving

Question: If you achieve a certain level of your divine plan, is there self satisfaction at the conclusion of this lifetime and what reward if any is there?

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

I have an old saying that the reward for service is more service. As we have even said today, the reward for service is actually the joy of serving, the joy of feeling the flow from above flowing through your lower being. There is no greater joy on earth than feeling the flow of your I AM Presence coming through you.

Naturally you could say that there could be what you could conceive of as a reward from the ascended masters in the sense that as you gain more and more clarity and attunement with your divine plan, more and more willing to work with it, we of course may be able to work with you. And depending on what your divine plan is, give you certain ideas and concepts that you could bring into the physical and use in various ways.

You could call this a kind of reward. Otherwise the ultimate reward of course is your ascension where you by fulfilling your divine plan, may qualify for your ascension and I can assure you that when you go through that process of the ascension, no other reward you could ever conceive of on earth feels necessary. It is a joy beyond anything you have ever experienced on earth and certainly all consideration of any reward beyond that becomes obsolete.

Can human beings physically control the weather?

Question: The masters say that it is people’s consciousness that actually creates erratic weather patterns or just creates the weather in general. We hear that humans can control the weather by cloud seeding/ chemtrails for farming, so my question is: Is it true or is it true that humans can control the weather to a certain extent through physical means? If so, how much control do humans have when it comes to natural disasters such as earthquakes, hurricanes, and tornados?

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

The teachings we are giving through this dispensation is that consciousness comes before the physical manifestation, this applies to all phenomena on earth. I have given many teachings in previous years that natural disasters are a product of the collective consciousness, so are many weather patterns.

The reality here is this: The erratic weather patterns that you see and have seen are a manifestation of the collective consciousness. Human beings, of course, are in such a low state of consciousness that they are not taking responsibility for their state of consciousness therefore they do not acknowledge that it is their consciousness that has produced these phenomena. They don’t like the phenomena, they suffer from them; they have a desire to control the environment, especially the fallen beings. Even many human beings have been misled into thinking this – that we should be able to control the physical environment. So they seek for physical, material means, that can change the weather.

Of course you have the phenomenon known as the mad scientist and you see this in both the United States and Russia, especially in the Soviet Union and in other countries where they are seeking to weaponise everything. Even weaponise the weather, be able to produce earthquakes by nuclear weapons or whatever, so naturally there has been research conducted in these areas. To some degree people are able to control the weather. Obviously if you detonated a nuclear bomb on a fault line, you may be able to produce an earthquake and so forth and so on.

It’s not that there isn’t technology there that can be used to physically control the weather. The question that needs to be asked here is: Why are you seeking for physical means to change a phenomenon that was produced by the mind in the first place? Wouldn’t it be easier to just change your mind, instead of seeking for some very complex, difficult to achieve, physical technology? Well, the reason for this is of course the influence of the fallen beings who are not willing to change their mind. Therefore when they are not willing to change their mind, they know they cannot use the mind to change these phenomena and therefore they are seeking and they have been seeking for millions of years even in past spheres, for physical means to control the physical octave.

Certainly, yes, within a limited range, you can gain some control with technology. When you know the reality that all physical phenomena have their real cause in the three higher levels then you also see the limitations of physical technology. You see it no more clearly than in the medical field. Of course the weather is another example where whatever technology has been developed has had very limited success in controlling the weather.

I know there are a lot of conspiracy theories out there but the fact of the matter is that you will never actually be able to create physical technology that will achieve ultimate control over the earth. The reason for this is that the collective consciousness in the identity, mental and emotional realms will always come in and override the effect of technology. It will always be more powerful; it can be no other way. Physical technology simply isn’t powerful enough to override the effect – the huge effect – of the collective consciousness in the three higher realms.

One conclusion to this is of course that humankind is at a level where at least some people are beginning to realize the limitations of technology, the dangers of mindless mechanical technology, the dangers of a mechanical approach to life on earth, of a materialistic approach.

So there is a growing openness that we need to seek an alternative, at least to the current technology, the force-based technology. Another conclusion for spiritual people is, again be careful how much attention you put on this and all these theories and this and that and all the doomsday prophecies out there. It really isn’t so that the physical realm has more power than the three higher realms. It never will be so.

This could be applied to the unanswered question about the solar cores, that a physical phenomenon will not be able to extinguish the sun because the sun is a portal for energy from the ascended realm. So it will certainly shine for as long as is needed here on earth for people to complete the spiritual growth that they are meant to have on this planet. There is no danger, certainly not in your lifetimes of extinguishing the sun or anything like this because again, the three higher octaves will always be more powerful than the physical octave.

The shift in the collective consciousness during the Piscean Age

Question: How much has the collective consciousness changed from 2,000 years ago during the Piscean Age and the beginning of the Age of Aquarius? What is the scale of consciousness change today?

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

How much has the collective consciousness changed during the Piscean Age? Well, not as much as I would like to have seen. This is of course due to what I have said many times before, that the Christian Church, the Catholic Church perverted the true teachings of Christ so that instead of becoming an example, I became the exception and so forth and so on.

It is all a matter of how do you quantify the levels of consciousness of an entire planet? What I would say is that if you look at the ideal change that could have happened during the Age of Pisces then the shift that has actually happened is below 50 percent of that ideal change however you wish to quantify it. I do not want to set a number on it but it is below 50 percent of the highest potential for the Piscean Age.

You can see that there is quite some catching-up to do before you reach that level and the planet and most of the people on it can actually begin to move into the Aquarian Age. The reason for this is of course that there are many, many individuals and groups of people who have not shifted their consciousness as they ideally could have done during Pisces. Therefore they cannot tune in to the Aquarian Age consciousness and ideas that St. Germain is bringing forth, they are still stuck at a lower level.

So the question is, how quickly can these catch up? For many of them it will be a long, long task before they will be able to do this. That is why, what we look at is that there needs to be a critical mass of people that can make the shift so that we can still begin more directly to release the ideas of the Aquarian Age and people can be able to grasp them. This shift of getting the critical mass rather than everybody to learn the lessons from Pisces, this could happen within a decade or two, if enough people apply themselves. Whether that will happen is difficult to predict but it is more likely to take longer than shorter.

Shakespeare, Shakespearean plays and their effect on the collective consciousness

Question: Did Saint Germain as Francis Bacon write the plays of Shakespeare?

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

Umm (10 second pause). The pause you hear is because the messenger has trouble grasping exactly what I am seeking to bring out here because it is a teaching that is somewhat beyond words.

So, the short answer is no, Francis Bacon did not write the plays of Shakespeare while I was in embodiment as Francis Bacon. However, while I was in embodiment as Francis Bacon, I was a very prolific author and I talked to many, many people. I was actually able to influence certain people in embodiment and give them some of the ideas that they then processed in their own minds, some of them using their own attunement, to eventually write these plays. So the reality is that the Shakespearean plays were not written by one person, they were written by a group of people.

The name Shakespeare even though there was a physical person who has become seen as the author, there was more than one person. The name Shakespeare is actually a reference to the Greek temple in Athens that was dedicated to Athena. There was a large statue of Pallas Athena holding a spear which had a jewelled tip. At a certain time in the morning, the suns’ rays would shine through a hole in the wall and hit the jewelled tip of the spear and the light refractions would make it seem as if the spear was shaking. This was turned into the name Shakespeare to indicate that when the gods shake the spear there will be an effect in the physical realm.

These plays were obviously meant to create an effect. They have had very far-flung, vast, profound effects on the collective consciousness. Not so much when they were written but especially later as they have been studied and played over and over again. The very fact that they still endure shows that they have some universal value, some universal ideas and concepts that are still appealing to human beings today. This by the way, shows you the value of bringing out a story that can contain genuine teachings but are not necessarily factually correct in every detail, as we have said there was no Prince of Hamlet in Denmark.

In order to really extract the lessons from the Shakespearean plays, you have to of course shift out of the linear mind because if you are in the linear mindset that many people are in today then you could of course say, “Well, there was no Prince of Hamlet, so Shakespeare was not a genuine writer or messenger for any higher truth. End of story – we are rejecting it.”

What you also have to recognize is that when the Shakespearean plays were written, people were not as anchored in the linear analytical mind as most people are today. They had a different state of consciousness. That’s why back then they didn’t take the Shakespearean plays the same way that many people do today.

It doesn’t mean that the plays don’t have value today but in order to really extract the lessons, you have to approach them with your intuitive mind, not with the analytical mind. This of course is the case you could say with any spiritual, esoteric teaching. As we have now told you during this conference very clearly, it is not the analytical mind; it is not by knowing and understanding that you grow spiritually. It is by experiencing.

The Shakespearean plays are not so much meant to give people an outer teaching or an outer understanding as they are meant to give people an experience that can shift their consciousness.

We might say that when you take Jesus’ previous answer about how long it can take a lifestream to evolve. It is actually that many of the lifestreams that are in embodiment on earth, that were what we have called the original inhabitants of the earth, have taken longer than two million years to evolve on this planet and they have not made much progress, some of them for a million years or more. If they were to get to the point where they could ascend, they would require so many experiences that there isn’t enough lifetimes for them.

The Shakespearean plays are an example of describing certain situations in a story form, that if people actually take them intuitively they can actually have an experience that makes it unnecessary for them to have a physical embodiment. In other words they can almost skip an embodiment by having the experience through the play.

Of course the same is true with the book My Lives. Some people will actually be able to skip many embodiments by reading that book and truly having the experience that they can have from it. This is part of the purpose especially of the story form. The Odyssey, The Iliad, many of these other classic stories you have are actually given to help people have an inner experience so they don’t need to go into a particular embodiment in order to have that same experience because it takes so much time for each embodiment.

It takes a very long time for a lifestream to evolve

Question: I have a question about the book “My Lives.” When we increase our awareness, we rise in consciousness, for example we go from the 48th to 96th level, etc. But while I was reading this book it seems to me that even if you are at a very high level of consciousness, for example, 142nd or 143rd level, it seems that some people take about 2,000 or 10,000 years to ascend. Does that mean that people can fall below their level of consciousness and start to rise up again? How does progress on the path work? Is it linear where we can only go upwards or is it up and down and takes 2 million years time to reach that point?

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

In order to simplify things for you we often start out giving a new teaching about a new topic in a relatively simple linear way in order to not make it overly complicated or to discourage you. One of the main purposes of this book is of course to challenge many people’s illusions and to give many ideas and concepts that are deliberately provocative.

One of the things we wanted to put out there was the perspective that it actually takes a very long time for a lifestream to evolve. This is something that will be offensive to many ascended master students who have gotten the impression based on our teachings that you can actually ascend in this lifetime. We have never said that all human beings on earth can ascend in this lifetime even if they have accepted and applied an ascended master teaching. You cannot make the leap from a lower level of consciousness to the 144th level in one lifetime.

However, it is possible of course to ascend in this lifetime for those who in past lives have reached a certain level of consciousness. It is still important for you to have this perspective, that those of you who are ready to ascend are relatively old lifestream’s. You have incarnated many, many times not necessarily on earth but certainly on other planets, whether they were natural or unnatural. This is important for you to know. You need to recognize here (as we have said now several times in this class) that spiritual growth is not a theoretical intellectual linear thing. It is not a matter of understanding something – it is a matter of experiencing something because only then does it become anchored in your being.

It is perfectly true that up until you actually ascend, you could choose to go down again. It would be difficult at the higher levels to actually go into the fallen consciousness but anytime that you are above the 48th level it is difficult to go into the fallen consciousness. The exception to that is when you are at the 96th level and must decide whether you are going to continue to seek to elevate yourself or whether you are going to seek to elevate the whole instead of setting yourself above other people.

That is one of those crucial points where you can actually go into the fallen consciousness. I am not saying you are falling because you can’t do that until your sphere ascends but you can go into the fallen consciousness. There are actually rare instances where people have gone directly from the 96th level to one of the lower levels of consciousness in one big fall, you might say. It is possible that you can come to a certain level of consciousness and then you can decide, there is actually an aspect of earth that I haven’t experienced and I want to experience this.

This means that you can take quite some time to be at a certain level of consciousness or you can even go some levels below in order to have that experience.

You can look at the earth today and you can say, for over a hundred years now we have publicly given teachings through various messengers. We have for quite some time given the concept of ascended masters and the ascension. When you look at how many people have actually responded to this, it is a very small percentage of the total population, why is that? There are ascended master students throughout the decades who have had a dream that one day all people would recognise ascended master teachings. That of course isn’t our dream. Naturally we do see the potential that there can come a point where many people know the concept of ascended masters because it has as the previous messengers said become a household word. That isn’t quite still the same as that they are ready to actually implement ascended master teachings and make their ascension at the end of this lifetime.

In order to be ready to make your ascension you have to actually have experienced everything that you want to experience on earth. You have to realise that even if you rise to say the 120th level of consciousness, you may still at that level of consciousness come to the awareness, that for a variety of reasons including the resolution of something in your psychology, you want to experience a certain situation on earth. Then you can decide to come into embodiment again in a certain environment where you can have that experience. The other people in that environment may be at a much lower level than the 120th level.

This can cause you to (so to speak) temporarily lower your consciousness in a certain way in order to be able to interact with these people and have the experience you want to have. This doesn’t mean of course if you go down to the 85th level for example – that now you have to climb all the way back up. It becomes much easier for you to get back up once you have had that experience. As with all teachings we give you, we are trying to give you a teaching that is – we judge that you can deal with, that you can handle at the present level.

When you look at a planet like earth, it is such a diverse, such a complex planet, that there are so many individual scenarios, that you can’t really give a teaching that applies to all. It is again a matter of what does an individual life stream need to have of experiences before it feels it has had enough of something. This can take a very long time. You also need to incorporate in this scenario that, we are not saying (and the book isn’t actually saying either) that a person is in embodiment continually on earth for 2 million years.

Most of us especially when you reach higher levels of consciousness can have quite a long time in earth time where we are not in embodiment. In some cases we embody on other planets, in some cases we take a time out in the etheric realm. That is why it is not a guarantee that a life stream has been in embodiment but could have taken a break even for several thousand years.

So the reality (so to speak) is more complex than even what we talk about in the book. You have to recognize that even though this book is as provocative as it is, it’s still only a fraction of what actually could be said. That is why there may indeed be other books forthcoming that will in a similar, well not in a similar but also in a story form, give other teachings.

Bermuda Triangle and a crossover effect

Question: My question is about the Bermuda Triangle. What happened with the planes or ships that disappeared? What happened with the people, where did they go?

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

Well, in many cases, my beloved, there is actually a physical explanation for why the ships or planes disappeared. It is often extreme weather conditions that can indeed block radio communication or radar or whatever. In that case, of course, the people die and make their transition and they go to wherever their station is, whether it is the astral plane, the mental or the identity realm.

I’m not denying that there are certain rare occurrences where there can be what Maitreya in his book calls a crossover effect between the physical realm and the astral plane. This is why there are some people that are convinced they are physically seeing UFOs or in past lives they were convinced they were physically seeing unicorns or monsters of various kinds—dragons, for example. There are rare instances where a ship or a plane or a person can actually go through a kind of shift where it goes directly into the astral plane and therefore so to speak disappears from the physical realm.

In that case, however for a person the physical body simply dies. It’s not like it exists and lives on in another dimension. The physical body dies and then the soul of the person goes to the astral plane and has some continued consciousness there, just as if it made the transition in a normal way. You understand that in order for a physical thing like a plane to make this shift into the astral it cannot remain as a physical thing, it cannot remain in the physical realm.

The same goes for a physical body. So in a sense it is what you might call dematerialized but the consciousness of the person can of course continue some existence.

Spiritual people and relationships

Question: I have experienced in my life and I know also other spiritually inclined people also experience that we don’t have many relationships in our lives if any at all. Could the masters comment about this? Personal love relationships or any relationships at all. (Kim for clarification asked if he meant no relationships at all).

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

As they say my beloved, old habits die hard. Many of those who are spiritual people today have of course been spiritual people for lifetimes. If you go back in time what do you often see the spiritual people did? Well, they withdrew from society and would either go into a cave in the Himalayas, some mystery school or some monastery. So you see actually many spiritual people who have spent lifetimes in seclusion or in very silent, quiet, controlled environments where they didn’t have to deal with the issues that come up when you live a more active life.

Many of you have chosen to come into embodiment in this lifetime but you are carrying with you this old tendency to – in a sense want to be in an environment where you feel comfortable. You feel you have things under control; you feel there are certain of the challenges in the world that you don’t need to deal with. You can carry this with you to the point where you become more introvert and you have a tendency to isolate yourselves. I am not saying that in all cases there is anything necessarily wrong with it or that you shouldn’t be doing it. For some people this can be the right thing to do at least for a period of time until you have come to some inner resolution.

You need to be very careful and use these tools and teachings to tune in to your divine plan and see if it is actually part of your own choosing that you should have more interactions with other people. Obviously the danger of isolating yourself is that your mind can become a closed system because you do not get feedback from outside yourself that can give you a certain frame of reference.

You need to recognize here that even a person who has a high level of Christ discernment and attunement with its I AM presence, can still benefit from interacting with other people. If for no other reason than – that part of expressing your Christhood is to help other people. How can you do this if you don’t have a feeling for where they are at in consciousness? In other words if part of your divine plan (as it is for most of you) is to demonstrate Christhood and bring forth ideas that can help other people shift out of their consciousness. How can you really do this if you are not in tune with where people are at in consciousness?

That’s why you need to be willing to look at: am I isolating myself in order to avoid something? In that case you have the tools to look at “what is it in my birth trauma that caused me to decide that since there were other people who hurt me, I don’t want to deal with other people” and then overcome that trauma. In other words I’m saying you need to come to a point where the reason you are not having many relationships is not a mechanism of avoidance, of running away from confrontation because you have overcome the wounds in your psychology that made you feel you needed to run away.

When you have done that, then you can see, is it part of my divine plan that I continue to live fairly isolated or is it part of my plan that I go out and have more interactions with other people. In other words I want you to come to a point where you know personally what that means for you and whether you should continue living a sort of solitary life or whether it is time for you to interact more with others.

Magicians, the need for visible phenomena and spiritual people

Question: Do some of the magicians who do tricks use the help of astral beings?

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

The short answer is yes there are some magicians who have such a human ambition of becoming famous that they see that the only way to become famous is to make some kind of trick that no other magician has done. Therefore some of them go into of course various forms of deceit and trying to find some trickery. Others seek to actually manifest some element of mind over matter so that they can do something that supposedly can’t be done through physical means. Some of them are so eager to do this that they are actually willing to “sell their souls to the devil” as the saying goes in order to manifest this phenomenon.

As a spiritual person we don’t really encourage you to put your attention much on magicians. Some of them have genuine intentions but most of them have a very human ambition and some of them are very much anchored in the fallen consciousness. They have in many cases a desire to break boundaries. In a sense you could say “well aren’t we saying that a Christed being breaks boundaries?” Well not really! because a Christed being isn’t seeking to break boundaries from a human ambition but is seeking to bring forth something from the spiritual realm that is not part of the human ambition.

Certainly there are few magicians who have been able to raise their consciousness and purify their intention. Still the question would be: “Why are they using magic instead of giving some more spiritual teaching?” Why are they seeking to manifest visible phenomena when in reality in this day and age, this isn’t what is most needed?

I’m not denying that there are people in the world who only respond when they see something physical. That is partly why you see some Christian healers that are able to heal or make people fall over in the spirit or whatever. This is not something we sponsor from the ascended level. This is a phenomenon that is, in some cases as we have said before, produced by people’s consciousness because they have a desire for some kind of phenomenon. You will actually see that there are some magicians who have the ability to use and extract energy from the consciousness of the audience and use this to produce a phenomena that at least surprises the audience in their state of mind.

Can it have a positive effect? I’m not denying that it can but in most cases it just actually brings people into as was said wanting more and more, it can almost become an addiction to these phenomena. As you even see some people have become addicted to Christian healers and travel to all these events and sit there and wait for some kind of phenomenon. Yes they can sometimes use astral forces, other than that there really isn’t much reason for you as a spiritual student to put your attention on it.

You need to come to a point on your path to Christhood where you realize that you are beyond needing these visible phenomena, these sensationalist phenomena because that just isn’t what helps you manifest your divine plan.