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Question: What are the spiritual consequences of Vladimir Putin’s presidency both for his lifestream and for Russia? And what message should Russians take out of his administration?

Answer from the Ascended Master Lanello through Kim Michaels. This answer was given at a conference in Novosibirsk, Russia in 2017.

My beloved, you can best understand this in connection with my previous comments about the time of the czar and the general initiation faced by the Russian people, relating to their unwillingness to make decisions. I would like to take the opportunity to ask you to consider a question that surprising few people in Russia have actually considered and that is, “How could the Soviet Union possibly collapse?”

It is safe to say that the vast majority of the people who lived in the Soviet Union at the time were extremely surprised when the entire Soviet Union collapsed. And unfortunately, too few of the people today living in Russia have really considered this question, including journalists, historians and scientists. There has been much more progress made in some of the nations that were part of the former Soviet Union or who were under the Warsaw Pact, where they have been much more willing to analyze what actually happened. But it could be a great benefit to Russia to do more analysis of this in as neutral and objective manner as possible.

Now if you look at the situation, you will see that it is generally recognized that Gorbachev was the one who started the process that led to the dissolution of the Soviet Union. It is clear of course, that Gorbachev had no intention whatsoever, of dissolving the Soviet Union. However, he did see that changes were needed. I am in no way saying that Gorbachev was attuned to the ascended masters. But he was attuned to the fact that due to the raising of the collective consciousness, there was a need to make changes because the Soviet Union could not continue the way it was, partly because too many people in Russia were dissatisfied with their material situation.

Gorbachev, of course, also knew that the Soviet Union was facing extreme financial difficulties and basically could not sustain itself the way it was for a very long time into the future. So he hoped that it would be possible to reform the system and therefore, gradually transition into a different kind of Soviet Union that could survive for a long time to come, perhaps indefinitely.

Those of you who study the topic will see that there was a very complicated personal situation between Gorbachev and Yeltsin and you will see that it was actually Yeltsin who decided to take power and decided to declare the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

If you look at Boris Yeltsin you will, of course, see a very complex psychology. You will see that he was, in many ways, a typical product of the Soviet Union, first of all with his drinking problem. But you will see that here was a person who saw a political situation develop. He saw that there was a need for someone who would take decisive leadership and who would make a bold decision and he did make a bold decision. You may see, and I will not dispute it, that much of this was due to his personal arrogance that he felt it would be significant and make him a significant person that the dared to publicly declare the end of the Soviet Union. Nevertheless, it was one of these decisive decisions made by one man that altered the course of history.

Now, needless to say, this surprised most people and there were many, many people who were not just surprised, but who were resentful and who wanted to actually have stayed in the Soviet Union and do what Gorbachev talked about – create the necessary reforms so that it could be sustained. There were also those who did not want to create reforms, but who blindly thought that it could continue indefinitely. And so you saw of course, that after the Soviet Union was dissolved, many of these people sat back not knowing what to do, but still feeling that resentment and that opposition.

So if you look at what actually happened when the Soviet Union was dissolved, it was that the Russian people were given a historic opportunity. And you may say that they were given an opportunity they were not ready for and that is correct. But why were they not ready for it? Well, because they had not been willing to use the time during the Soviet Union to raise their consciousness to decide what kind of country we want to live in.

There are still people in embodiment in Russia who felt that the best of times were under Stalin. And one can look at this and say that these people must not have understood what happened under Stalin. They were not personally killed or sent to a labor camp. But how could they fail to understand what was going on? How could they fail to educate themselves later, even when later leaders distanced themselves from Stalin and recognized that the Soviet Union could not survive if the Stalinist regime had continued? They recognized that that kind of oppression of the people could not go on indefinitely.

And so it is a question to consider for experts and for the Russian people of why there are people in Russia who are so, one might say, loyal to the past. Why are there still so many people who feel that everything was better under Communism, where they as I said, had a known misery but they prefer this to an unknown opportunity? And so they even look at Russia today, and although there has been clearly much progress made in terms of most people’s standard of living; there are still those who say that things were still better under Communism because they didn’t have the uncertainty that you have today.

But you see, my beloved, one person’s uncertainty is another person’s opportunity. And it is those who are not willing to make decisions and learn from them that want certainty, rather than opportunity. They cling to certainty, do not want uncertainty. And it would be valuable for the Russian people to consider why they have this. And we have, of course given you some of the explanation. But even if they are not willing to recognize our teachings, much progress could actually be made if the Russian people were willing to consider these questions.

The reason it is important to consider it is of course, that what you see today, the Putin presidency, the Putin leadership era, as we might say, is an expression of this. There were not enough people. There were not a critical mass of people, who saw it as an opportunity when the Soviet Union ended. They did not embrace the greater freedom and the greater opportunity. They were still longing back for some kind of security and they felt that this could only be achieved through a strong leadership.

And so, naturally, they attracted Putin, who again had some attunement to the consciousness of the people and who also saw a certain opportunity that because of the development in Russia, the somewhat political stalemate that had developed, there was an opportunity for a strong, decisive leader to step in and take command. And so he did.

Now, one of the real questions to consider about the Putin presidency is why he is still president. And the reason you need to consider this is you need to recognize that during the Soviet Era the Russian people did not have what you call normal democratic freedoms. There may have been talk about democracy and people voting and this and that, but they did not have true democracy. They did not have the true rights that are normally recognized in a democratic constitution and so when modern Russia emerged from the Soviet Era, you did create a constitution and that constitution is quite modern and it is quite well written and well thought out.

It is very clear that this original Russian constitution intended to do what most democratic nations do; namely limit the time that a president or other leader can be in office. The vast majority of democratic nations have such term limits. And of course, the original Russian constitution made it very clear that a president could only be elected for two terms. And so, the real question to consider is how is it possible that Putin could engineer a change in the constitution so he could continue to be president and no one objected to this, or at least not a critical mass of people objected to this.

And if you would consider these questions, my beloved, then you could gain a deeper understanding of the need for the Russian people to be willing to take a stand for themselves and their democratic rights. Or you could turn it around and say that the Russian people need to decide, “Do they want to live in a democracy or in some form of more totalitarian government?”

And of course, we are the ascended masters, we respect free will. If a majority of the people want to live in a different kind of government than a democratic government, we respect their right to make this choice. But have they truly made that choice? Have they made a free choice or has it been more of an avoidance decision, where they did not want to stand up for themselves? And so they silently accepted what was put upon them.

This was one of the biggest tests that the Russian people have faced since the collapse of the Soviet Union and it is one of the biggest test they have faced for a very long time. And so again an opportunity was there, an opportunity was not taken.

And now the question is, “How can Russia move on?”

Now, contrary to what some people might think, we are the ascended masters. We respect the right of a people to learn their own way. As Saint Germain commented on in Holland, we are not sitting here, for example, with a clear vision of which president the American people should elect. If they want this president or another president, it is their choice. We look at it as an opportunity and we look at how can we then move the nation on.

But in terms of Russia, well, when the Russian people did not object to the change of constitution it became very difficult for us to work more directly with Russia as a nation because we cannot work with Vladimir Putin. This is not to say that he is not a very intelligent person who has some attunement to the historical developments and even to the consciousness of the people, but we cannot work with him from the ascended level in any meaningful capacity; and there are currently really no prominent leaders in Russia that we can work with as we would like to be able to.

And so that is why there is at the present really no opposition to Putin other than Navalny who is not really a balanced politician but is more representing the opposite dualistic polarity to Putin’s presidency. So quite frankly, from an ascended master perspective, the political situation in Russia is somewhat in a stalemate and will remain so until there is a decisive change in the Russian peoples’ awareness or decision about what kind of country they want to live in.

It is not that we are looking for an overthrow of Putin. It is not that we are particularly supporting any opposition and we are quite frankly, most concerned about a violent revolutionary change. It is clear that we never advocate violence and even if there is an oppressive regime, we are not advocating a violent revolution. We never have, we never will because violence is not justified.

Copyright © 2017 Kim Michaels

Question: What countries or organisations can be considered as the spiritual progenitors of the modern Russia? How did the ascended masters work with Russia throughout history?

Answer from the Ascended Master Lanello through Kim Michaels. This answer was given at a conference in Novosibirsk, Russia in 2017.

Well, the spiritual progenitor of modern Russia is of course ancient Russia in the sense that Russia has not in recent centuries been conquered or overrun by other civilisations but has had an opportunity to develop fairly within its own state of consciousness so to speak. You may point to some incursions in the past but even what happened during the 2nd world war or what you call the great patriotic war was not truly what you have seen in other nations.

So primarily this goes back to ancient times of the original Russians deciding not to make decisions and so this pattern has simply continued and this is one reason why these people have embodied in a country that is so relatively isolated, also so spread out over such a huge area that for many centuries it did not have quite such a strong national consciousness as some smaller nations. Even today we might argue that Russia does not have a strong national consciousness the same as you see in some smaller nations where people are closer together and therefore have more of a sense of a common culture.

How have the ascended masters attempted? Well we have of course attempted to help the original Russian people come to the point of making decisions. I described this in my previous answers somewhat. How we were able to work with Peter the Great to some extent. There have been some other leaders that have had some attunement with us but there has been a history of many times where we have not in long periods been able to work with the Russian people at all or with the Russian nation.

In recent history you will see how naturally during the communist era there was very little openness for any of the communist leaders to attune to the ascended masters. Most of them were not even able or willing to do so, but even if some of them were able to attune to us and receive certain ideas there was very little opportunity for these ideas to be heard let alone implemented and acted upon. And so, there have been periods in Russian history where we have simply had to step back and let the Russian people learn from the school of hard knocks. And so this is also an effect of when people do not want to make their own decisions then there is a limit to what we can do for them.

We are not the kind of dictators that come in and tell people what to do and so we always seek to help people make better decisions and that is why whether it’s a nation or whether it is you as an individual student if you are not willing to make decisions at all but you are standing there waiting to have the perfect decision before you dare to do anything then we cannot really work with you because we are not going to tell you what to do.

You will have to make decisions and then we guide you on how to turn that first decision into a better decision and an even better decision and so on. But you have to be willing to start the chain of making decisions and if you are standing there not willing to move then we must withdraw and wait until you become open to our guidance.

Copyright © 2017 Kim Michaels

Question: What was the role of the last Russian emperor Nicholas the 2nd in the history? I am asking because now there are a lot of consequences to that situation. Where is the lifestream of Nicholas the 2nd now? What was the role of Rasputin in the history in his close relationship to the royal family? 

Answer from the Ascended Master Lanello through Kim Michaels. This answer was given at a conference in Novosibirsk, Russia in 2017.

My beloved, you cannot understand this situation without understanding it in the context of the teachings we have given you before of this conference, at the last conference here, and in our teachings here. The essence of the situation for the Russian people is that due to what we explained happened in the distant past, the Russian people are reluctant to make decisions for themselves. These are primarily the decisions that Archangel Michael talked about:

-What kind of people are we
-What kind of nation do we want to live in
-What kind of nation do we deserve to live in, and
-Are we willing to take responsibility for ourselves?

Now we are not saying that this applies to all the people who currently live in Russia. This applies to those we might consider the core group karmicly of the Russian nation. Those people who are reincarnated again and again and again in this area that you now call Russia. And so, there are many lifestreams in what you call modern Russia that are not necessarily part of this karmic group. Some have come from other groups around, some have elected to be born here in this time in order to bring Russia forward, and bring Russia into the golden age.

Now, when you understand this you understand that one of the pivotal moments so to speak, or periods in the formation of what in now call modern Russia, was Peter the Great. Peter the Great founded Saint Petersburg and attempted to take Russia into the family of European nations. His vision was that Russia should be fully as modern, fully as developed, fully as culturally sophisticated as any nation in Europe. This was his goal.

Now, this goal was not realized, partly because the Russian people, those I call the core group of the Russian people were not ready to make the change. They were not willing to step up and become more self-governing, independent, self-determining, and therefore they were not able to follow the same movement of the development of democracy that you saw in many of the countries of the Western Europe. And so again, this applies not only to these Russian people but it does apply.

And so, this is why you saw that instead we went into this period where there were the tsars, and Nicholas the second had the potential to be the last of these kind of leaders that were leading from above. He had the potential to bring Russia into the modern age. But again this failed, and when I say failed I simply mean that it did not come to manifest the highest potential.

And it was for various reasons that I will attempt to explain here. Partly, there was, that Nicholas the 2nd was one of the original Russian people. He had played a leadership role in the distant past, he was reluctant to play that leadership role, he was reluctant to make decisions himself, and therefore he embodied that consciousness of the Russian people.

Another factor was that the Russian people still have not come up where they were willing to make their own decisions and so, there was this, we will not call it a direct opposition because it was not a force that was working against the change, but it was simply a force that resisted the change in a passive way. It was like, you might say, as if you are walking in deep mud, the mud is not actively and aggressively working against you, it is simply doing what mud does and so, this was part of the equation.

But another part of the equation was that there were certain dark forces, fallen beings, all the way from the identity realm through the mental and emotional, who were seeking to set up a pattern of what would later become communist Russia or the Soviet Union. And they were actively and aggressively working against Nicholas the 2nd and his ability to transform Russia and their primary influence was Rasputin, who you must understand was a fallen being in embodiment, and not a highly developed spiritual master.

He had certain abilities to manifest certain phenomena, but this does not mean that he had any level of Christ consciousness. On the contrary he was an open door for these fallen beings in a higher realm. And why did he come to influence the royal family, precisely because of the reluctance to make decisions.

And so, you see that the royal family, Nicholas and his wife sought the guidance of Rasputin hoping that they could get some infallible guidance so they could be sure they made the right decision before they made the decision and this is what caused them to fail to attune to the changing times. Now you see my beloved, when you have a group of people that are unwilling to make decisions on their own, they will often attract a leader who is suppressing them through force. This is what has caused the evolution of the state that you saw in Russia in the time of the tsars and even earlier and you have seen this in many other groups around the world, such as for example Germany, before the Second World War.

So you have a people who attract either a leader or some kind of condition that causes them to feel suppressed, where they would not acknowledge that it was their own state of consciousness that has attracted this leader.

And so, instead of looking at themselves and transcending that consciousness they build resentment against the leader, or perhaps against someone else like for example the German people built resentment against the Jews. There is somebody else who is to blame when you are not willing to take responsibility for yourself and so my beloved, when you have a situation like this, there is always pressure that builds in a nation. And when pressure builds, the fallen beings are experts at attempting to bring it to one of these flash points or boiling points where it spills over into violence, and this is of course was what happened with the Bolshevik revolution.

Now, on one hand I am telling you here that the original Russian people had not changed that much. They were still not willing to make decisions, so they were working against any attempt to change Russia. But then, why was there a need to change that eventually caused the Bolshevik revolution?

Well it is because, when the collective consciousness of a planet is raised, as the earth consciousness has been raised now for a long time, there is an upward pull, and that pull actually goes in and magnifies the pressure built into a nation by the people feeling suppressed. And so, there was a building pressure in Russia under Nicholas the 2nd. He failed to tune into it and recognize that drastic changes were needed in the way he was ruling the nation, or there would be a violent uprising. He failed to tune into this, partly because of the guidance of Rasputin, partly because he did not want to make decisions and become a more decisive leader who could take Russia in a new direction.

So, he had the opportunity to make certain reforms and give more freedoms but he did not take that opportunity. That is why the fallen beings were able to exploit the situation and through Lenin, who was another fallen being in embodiment, set up the Bolshevik revolution and all the violence that followed.

And so, do not underestimate in this context the fact that Rasputin, by being so close to the royal family and therefore in the very core of the government of Russia at the time, set up certain dark matrixes, certain curses we might say that were put upon the leadership of Russia and the Russian nation, which also helped propel the nation into the Bolshevik revolution, where a violent takeover became the end result.

And you saw therefore, how the Bolshevik revolution could only have been brought about through violence. You also saw, if you are willing to look at this objectively, that communist Russia did not give more freedom to the ordinary Russians than it had under the tsar. On the contrary, especially during the Stalinist era, they had less freedoms, less rights under the law because they never knew when they could be killed, and for no apparent reason other than to strike terror into the hearts and minds of Russian people so that they would submit to Stalin unconditionally.

And so, clearly, the Bolshevik revolution did not bring the promised freedom and human rights to the Russian people and again therefore, you can see that this was not in alignment with the progression of the planet, the raising of the consciousness of the planet. It was clearly a downward step and it was deliberately engineered by the fallen beings because they saw the rest of the world or at least a part of it moving toward democracy and rights, and they wanted to create something that would counteract this. And so, the Russian people became sort of the pawns in this political or semi-spiritual, pseudo spiritual game of power plays that the fallen beings are playing.

And so, what can we say then, about Nicholas the 2nd, myself having been embodied in that family an having had the potential to take Russia in a new direction if I have been allowed to do so, but the fallen being stepped in, killed the entire family, and therefore effectively cut off this possibility. We can say that it was very painful to be part of that situation. It was quite frankly, sometimes the biggest pain you can have when you are in embodiment is by seeing the opportunities that were not taken, the potential that was not realized.

By seeing a situation where, as Mother Mary said, there is a tipping point that could go either in a downward spiral or in an upward spiral, you see how close it actually was, how close the situation was. It could so easily have tipped in an upward direction where the Bolshevik revolution would have been avoided. It would have taken very, very few decisions. In fact one can say, there was paint where Nicholas the 2nd faced a situation, and if he had taken the one decision he didn’t take, the entire downward spiral could have been avoided.

And it is painful, when you are in embodiment, you witness this, you see that one decision of one person could have tipped the situation in a different direction. It is of course not painful for me as an ascended master but I am allowing you to experience that it was painful for me at the time and it is painful for many others, including many of you to have experienced these situations, where the decision of one person can have such drastic consequences, perhaps for an entire civilization.

And it is of course very painful for the person and that is why Nicholas the 2nd could not ascend, not that he was particularly close to that anyway, but, why he had to take embodiment not in Russia but in a different situation where he attempts to heal the wounds.

And so, I do not wish to give you an epic understanding of the situation so you go into this mindset of becoming even more afraid of making your own decisions, because there are few of these situations in history that are quite as dramatic as what I am describing here and most of you have not been in these situations in your past lifetimes and you are not in this situation now.

And so, it is important for you that you dare to make decisions, that you dare to experiment and learn from the outcome. Even here, even though I am portraying it that there was one particular moment where Nicholas could have tipped the balance, he could have gone in an opposite direction, in an upward direction, there were of course more situations where he could have turned it  around. And even after he made that one decision that caused the beginning of the downward spiral, he could have made other decisions that could have reversed it. There is no decision that is irreversible until the physical events have manifested that cannot easily be changed.

And so, this is truly, I have been embodied in the Russian nation several times, also in lifetimes that are not known and I have a great love for Russian people. I have a great love for the original Russian people who are afraid to make their decisions, I have a great love for the Russian people who embody in Russia today, for the Russian nation.

I have a great desire to see it being transformed into a modern nation that is fully as sophisticated and developed as any other nation and certainly progress has been made and is being made because more and more of the people who now embody in Russia are tuning into the upward progression of the planetary collective consciousness.

But still, there are of course forces that are not working with this upward movement, there is resistance, there is still a large group of the original Russians who are still resisting because they are not actively resisting, but passively resisting by not willing to make decisions, by wanting to stay with what is known. They, as we have said before, prefer a known misery to an unknown opportunity. And there are of course certain dark forces working against the transcendence of Russia into the Golden Age consciousness.

Copyright © 2017 Kim Michaels