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The reality of the 5th dimension

Question: Some New Age teachings mention about the 5th dimension or a city under the ground, but I never see this kind of teaching from the ascended masters. I want to know if this is a true or not?

Answer by Ascended Master Jesus through Kim Michaels, given at a conference in Holland 2016.

We do not teach about the 5th dimension because it is simply a fabrication of beings in the mental realm. It is not so that the earth will at some point shift into the 5th dimension. It is simply not a reality. It is a dream created by the fallen beings in order to divert your attention into some unrealistic game.

Now again, as we have said, you all need to go through different experiences in order to make progress on the path. We do not condemn anyone for going into a particular teaching. There was a reason why you needed it, and it may be that you needed to increase your discernment. The fact that you have studied the teaching and you have moved on to an ascended master teaching shows that you have increased your discernment.

As Maitreya explains in his book, there are certain places in the earth where there can be almost an overlap between the physical and the emotional or even the mental realm. There are no places where there is a hidden city under the ground, it simply does not exist. But there are places where it can be easier for some people to attune to the emotional realm or even the mental realm and so they can experience it as there is this city under the ground. It is not physically under the ground my beloved, it is in a different vibratory spectrum. I do not say a different dimension because I do not want to confuse this with this idea of the 5th dimension, which simply is not realistic.

The earth has four dimensions, the three spatial dimensions and time. What is a fifth dimension, why would it be needed? It is a matter of raising consciousness, but you will still have the material universe defined by the spatial dimensions and by time, at least for a long time into the future. There will, of course, come a time where time will shift because the consciousness has shifted and you are no longer seeing time as a linear phenomenon but as another dimension that can be navigated in multiple directions.

Were Christed beings born at the same time?

Question: Before I came to this conference I was reading the book “The Masters and the Spiritual Path” she just mentioned ten thousand christed beings who were already born in all the world. Were they born at the same time each year mentioned in the book or were they born throughout all the ages.

Answer by Ascended Master Jesus through Kim Michaels, given at a conference in Holland 2016.

The ten thousand Christed beings were not born in the same year. Taking embodiment on earth is a complicated process. It is especially complicated to find the best possible embodiment for a person with a high level of Christhood and the potential to manifest Christhood.

Therefore, there is no practical way that you can ensure that they were all born in the same year. There would also be no specific advantage to having them all born in the same year. It would be better that they come to adult age at different times and therefore can extend their service over a longer period of time.

Why refugees are drowning

Question: Why are so many refugees drowning in the sea? Is it karma? What is the reason?

Answer by Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels, given at a conference in Holland 2016.

The fallen beings always seek to create unrest and chaos. They have attempted to create a situation where people flee in a state of panic. This means that it allows other people in the fallen consciousness to take advantage of the ones who want to get out. They create these boats that are unsafe, that are loaded to a point that is unsafe, and in their desperation people do not object to this.

It is just an example of how, whenever the fallen beings manage to create chaos, there are always these consequences where some people become the victims and suffer in a chaotic situation where no-one has control and where no-one exercises the proper caution. Naturally, you should refuse to get on an unsafe vessel and you should have (ideally) refused to get yourself in a state of mind where you are so desperate that you will get on an unsafe vessel. Surely, drowning cannot be an improvement of your life conditions.

This is what you should be seeking rather than an escape. But you see that this is part of the plot of the fallen beings. They want to get people into a desperate state where they just want to get away from something bad instead of envisioning how things could be improved where they are. This is what we have already talked about. It is a psychological mechanism that the fallen beings are very good at using to get people into this state of agitation where they do not exercise common sense. Or what should be common sense.

The refugee crisis is an opportunity

Question: I would like to ask about the refugee crisis. Do the ascended masters have any ideas or messages about maybe the causes or what we can do.

Answer by Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels, given at a conference in Holland 2016.

There are of course several causes for this what you call “the refugee crisis.” We actually do not see it as a refugee crisis, we see it as an opportunity. It is an opportunity for the refugees who come from a primarily Muslim/Arabic culture to see and experience firsthand, how conditions are in the West.

One of the great problems or challenges that we face as ascended masters is “how to close the gap” between the development in consciousness of the more modern, developed world and the Muslim world. It has been said that the Muslim world is still in a somewhat medieval mindset and there is some truth to this. How do you bring the Muslim countries up to a greater level of awareness when they are so stuck in their traditions and so afraid of anything new. You can only do it by having them, at least some among them, experience a different culture.

Now, you may look at some refugees and see that they tend to isolate themselves. They do not want to integrate, they do not want to adapt, they do not want to adopt Western ways. I can assure you, by living in a Western country, even for a time, most people will change at some level. They will see that life can be different than what they experienced while they were growing up in the Middle East or Africa.

It is, of course, also an opportunity for the nations of Europe or other parts of the world. We have said before that we have given a certain sponsorship to certain nations that have allowed them to develop at a faster pace. What we want from those nations is that when they come to a point of having reached a certain development, they stop being focused on themselves and their own growth and they look at how they can use their progress to help others.

The European nations have not done this to a sufficient degree, and that is what has created the opening whereby so many people can come in and thereby force the Europeans to essentially make the choice: Will we wait to be overrun by refugees in our own countries, or will we use our capabilities to help people in their own countries so they do not need to flee? Will we be proactive or reactive.

Another factor that has some bearing on the current refugee crisis is, of course, that the fallen beings are deliberately trying to destabilise the world whenever they can. They are using anything they can to create unrest in certain African and Arabic countries. You see it in Syria where they are even using the Russian nation to increase the instability. This is to some degree a deliberate act on the part of the Russian leadership for getting back at Europe for what they see as Europe’s opposition or lack of acceptance of Russia. Partly because of Ukraine but also for many other issues. This is a very old resentment that you find in Russia towards those who have made greater progress than the Russians themselves. This is personified in Putin but certainly not exclusive to him.

There are several factors here, but the bottom line is this. What Europe needs to do is to realize that Europe has reached a level of growth where it is absolutely necessary that they stop focusing on what I have called the petty problems. They start focusing on how they can use their progress to help other people both within the European community, such as those East of the Iron Curtain, but also outside of the European community. As spiritual people you can make the calls for this new awareness, but I would say that the dictations that we will give at this conference and the invocations based on them will also address this issue, although maybe not directly, certainly indirectly. (These dictations and invocations are found in the book: Manifesting Saint Germain’s Golden Age.)

Why mental illness is on the rise

Question: I have a question for mental illness in the modern world. We live in a world where there is an aftermath of depression and psychological disorders and its an invisible illness or that affects a huge amount of people and it seems to be happening to more and more people at a younger and younger age in these times. And modern medicine seems to really do very little to help people with problems and with these conditions. And I’m just wondering what sort of hope is there for people suffering from depression and mental illness and in these times other than a lifetime of basically silent suffering.

Answer by Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels, given at a conference in Holland 2016.

The key words there is that it is an invisible illness. But you see, my beloved, mental illness is only invisible because science wants to look at everything from a materialistic perspective. From my perspective, as the representative of the Divine Mother, mental illness is very visible and I can easily see when there are patterns in the emotional, mental or identity body that sets people up for a mental illness.

Science would be able to see this as well if they were willing to look beyond the materialistic paradigm and therefore discover the technology that is already there for how they could see the higher bodies. You can make them visible on a computer screen, learn to diagnose and see when there is a problem in the emotional body that needs to be addressed. Of course, science would also have to go away from the mechanistic paradigm where you think that you have to discover a mechanical cause of the visible effect and then change that mechanical cause through some kind of chemical remedy that has a mechanical, physical effect.

What sense does it make, my beloved, that you talk about mental illness, but you can only see the solution as a physical, chemical component? This makes no sense whatsoever. Neither does it make any sense to have a form of psychology that is based on denying anything beyond the material world and therefore seeking to treat an illness in the subconscious mind based on working exclusively with the conscious mind and trying to make the subconscious visible, which in many cases is not possible until you have cleared the energy in the emotional or mental bodies.

What is condemning more and more people to a mental illness, is that science is stubbornly holding on to a materialistic paradigm. The increase in mental illness, the increase in more and more young people, is a direct result of the fact that the materialistic paradigm has some time ago outlived it’s usefulness. You understand that when you go back to the superstition of the Middle Ages, the scientific mindset was indeed progress to help people get beyond a certain level in which they had become stuck, especially here in Europe. This did not mean that the scientific mindset had to be developed into the materialistic paradigm, which is as repressive to progress as the Catholic paradigms of the Middle Ages.

Yet even this can be tolerated for a time because it still brought some progress, so therefore we, when a new idea or trend emerges in society, say: “Okay, we will allow people to explore this experience for a time.” We will actually hold back some of the consequences they are creating by this approach. That is why you have seen tremendous technological progress, but there also comes a point where we say: “Now, humankind has had enough time to dwell in this particular experience of wanting to force everything into a materialistic viewpoint that has a mechanical solution. It is time that they realised that this has certain limitations and it is time they begin to look at the next step. And if they will not do this, then we can no longer hold back the consequences.”

Then, the consequences will begin to manifest partly as what you see as the increased number and severity of mental illnesses. And you will see that this especially happens in the more developed part of the world because this is where you have beings who have embodied who have reached the level of consciousness where their primary challenge is no longer the physical, material world and their physical, material sustenance and survival. Instead, their challenge is now to start working on their psychology because they now have the free time that allows them to work on their psychology.

Because they have not been given an understanding of this through their upbringing, they are not voluntarily working on their psychology. And that means you will now see the manifestation of a mental illness that forces them to do something about their psychology. Of course, they were not voluntarily working on their psychology because of the materialistic paradigm and now the materialistic paradigm is preventing them from resolving their mental illness.

I understand fully that this causes an incredible amount of suffering. I would gladly help people alleviate that suffering, but I cannot do so if they are not willing to look beyond the materialistic paradigm and take responsibility for themselves, recognize they are spiritual beings. There is, of course, hope of resolving any psychological issue, that is what we have given teachings about, we have given tools for this.

We are not saying in any way that the teachings and tools we have given and the techniques that we have given through this messenger are the only way to deal with this. There are many other things that are modalities that have already been brought forth, but there are many more waiting to be brought forth when more and more people begin to look beyond the materialistic paradigm. If all goes as I envision, it will be a matter of two to three decades and then mental illness will be a rare occurrence. But it will be rare, of course, because most people will be brought up, from an early age, to see that life is a process of working on their psychology. As long as they are working on it, there will be no need to manifest the crisis that you today label as a mental illness.

In reality, this is not a mental illness. Much of what you today see as a mental illness is because you have this distorted view of illnesses. You think that there is certain state of normality and when something happens that doesn’t fit the norm, then it is an illness that should be fought. But in reality, many physical illnesses, and certainly the majority of mental illnesses, are a sign that it is time for you to change your consciousness. Because you are not doing this, you are getting a more and more severe reminder that it is time to step up to a higher level.

It is actually something that many people have created themselves so that if they forgot about their spiritual progress when they came into embodiment, they wanted some mechanism that could remind them of the need to pursue this path. What you see is that many young people have come in partly because they want to make progress themselves, partly because they want to help create a change in society where society gives up the materialistic paradigm. One of the ways this can happen is that mental illness reaches such an epidemic proportion that it finally becomes clear that society cannot deal with this problem through the materialistic paradigm. And it is absolutely necessary to look for a different solution.

Now, this is what we have talked about: Progress can happen by a breakdown where you face a crisis that forces you to look for change. Or it can happen voluntarily by more and more people waking up and beginning to do something about the condition. You yourselves are in many cases examples of how you have had psychological issues, but you have been courageous enough to use the spiritual path, to use a spiritual teaching, to deal with them. You can serve as examples and as teachers for others and you can even serve in a more direct capacity as therapists who help others deal with these issues. You can even, some of you, serve to make society aware of the need to shift away from the materialistic paradigm and find an entirely new approach.

No simple way to clear emotions

Question: I have come into touch with many people and teachings that say that it is possible that you can use a technique or a worded sentence to make your emotions go away or clear your mental body from different (either the word obstructions or obsessions) for an example there is a technique called Access consciousness which they say you can use a clearing statement to clear your conscience. So I would like you to comment.

Answer by Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels, given at a conference in Holland 2016.

If it was that simple, my beloved, you would all be ascended by now. All of our teachings are aimed at helping you understand that you have four lower bodies and that everything that limits you in those four lower bodies is a result of choices you made. You made those choices for a reason, which at the time seemed valid to you. It was, as the saying so often goes: “It seemed like a good idea at the time.”

The only way to truly clear your emotions is to discover the decision you made that created an emotional pattern and then consciously undo that decision by seeing that it was an illusion, or that it wasn’t the highest possible decision. Then, coming to the realization that you no longer want to be bound by this, you want to manifest a higher level of emotions, a higher emotional reaction. If there was a magic wand that could be used, we would have given it to you because we also want to see progress on the planet. But there is no such magic wand.

There are also many teachings out there that talk about the value of positive affirmation. In a sense, you could say our decrees and our invocations are a form of positive affirmation. But, they only work to a point, as we have explained to you, because nothing works against your free will. They work to the point where they can help you clear away the energy that pulls you into a certain thought pattern, or emotional pattern, but at the bottom of it all is the decision you made.

The decision involves how you see yourself, how you see the world and how you see your own ability or disability to interact with the world. That is what you need to uncover, that is what you need to question. And that is what you need to replace with a higher vision and a higher decision, otherwise you will not be free of a pattern.

In many cases, repeating such simplistic affirmations can actually complicate the problem because you have one program or one spirit in the subconscious mind, that causes you to have emotions and now you are creating another programme to suppress the first one. So you are actually increasing the amount of tension in your subconscious mind. You are creating a state of conflict between two spirits that will take up more of your energy instead of resolving the original issue, so that you are free and you have freed up your energy.

How free is free will on planet earth?

Question: I have a question for Master MORE: How free is free will on planet earth.

Answer by Ascended Master MORE through Kim Michaels, given at a conference in Holland 2016.

Free will is always free in the sense that you have an individual free will. The only thing that could limit your individual free will is the choices you make. Now, I have just explained that when most of you came to this earth and embodied for the first time, you were exposed to a deliberate plot from the fallen beings to cause you go into a reactionary pattern. I have just explained that it was virtually inevitable that you would react to this because the situation was so extreme. Nevertheless, your free will is always free in the sense that you can always undo a previous choice.

It is clear that you are on a very difficult planet. There are many, many things on this planet that are aimed at forcing your will, forcing you to react a certain way. It is not constructive, and it is another plot of the fallen beings, to make you feel like you should never have reacted to anything on earth. It is not constructive to think this way because if you are already in the Buddhic state of Consciousness, you are not taking embodiment on earth. You are not going to take embodiment here.

You actually take embodiment here partly because you want to make the progress that you can make by being on a difficult planet and gradually learning not to react. This is not the only way to make progress, but it is one of the ways to make progress. Those of you who have chosen to come here, have chosen to come here partly because you wanted to attain the particular progress that you attain by encountering the fallen beings and learning not to react to them at all.

This is not the only way. There are many lifestreams who have ascended without ever encountering the fallen beings or the fallen consciousness, but there are also lifestreams who have chosen to do this and it is perfectly legitimate. What I am saying is: You cannot embody in a situation like this without having your free will be forced because you do not have the awareness to avoid reacting. You can gain that awareness and as you gain that awareness you can avoid reacting. You can dissolve the reactionary patterns in your subconscious mind.

Now, we can take this discussion to another level by asking ourselves: “How free is the free will for humanity as a whole or for a particular group of people?” Here, of course, we run into what we have traditionally called “karma.” Karma is created by making a choice, which then creates an energy impulse that goes into the four levels of the universe. When it returns to you in the physical, it will limit the options you have at the physical level. For example, you may experience an accident or disease and you do not have the free will to say: “I do not want to experience this” when the karma is becoming physical. You do have the free will to work on dissolving it before it becomes physical and this is what we have given you the tools to do, to a large extent.

We are talking about the raising of awareness on a collective level. We are talking about bringing in the Golden Age by raising awareness. What would happen if we imagined (let us go to the ultimate) and imagine that all human beings on earth would awaken right this second to the potential to create a better condition on earth. Let us say they all awakened this instant to the potential to remove poverty and bring the abundant life to all people as a physical manifestation. If they had the same vision and if they were absolutely convinced that this was possible, my beloved, I am not joking, the physical conditions on the planet would change instantly – instantly – if all people were in complete agreement. This, of course, is very unlikely to happen because people are at such a broad range of consciousness that it is for all practical purposes impossible that they would all awaken at the same time and have the same vision.

I am giving you the absolute reality that nothing in the physical world is set in stone. The more likely scenario is that if a majority of the people woke up to the potential to remove poverty, then it would take a certain amount of time before their vision and the impulse they are sending out based on that vision, would cycle through the four levels and manifest as a physical reality. How great of a time depends on how many people, the strength of their conviction, the strength of their minds. There is no condition on earth that cannot be changed if enough people use their free will to decide that they will no longer accept it and that they want to see a new condition, the higher condition.

Again, for practical purposes the awakening is much more likely to happen gradually as it has been happening for a long time. That is why the concepts that suddenly the earth is going to shift into the 5th dimension or there is going to be some second coming of Christ and suddenly everything is going to change, they are not realistic.

Free will is completely free. On an individual level you have the free will to change your reaction to anything on earth, to change your perception of anything on earth. When you raise your life experience, you will pull on everyone else and therefore you will change the totality because you are in physical embodiment. You may not see a direct physical measurable result of this, but you will change the totality by changing your consciousness. That is why we said that Jesus, by changing his consciousness (as he had to do, to allow himself to be crucified), that act was so powerful that it shifted the entire collective consciousness and actually set the entire planet on a different course than it would have been on, if he had not reached that level of clarity and decision.

Dealing with your cosmic birth trauma

Question: I am curious about discovering our first birth trauma and as one of the masters mentioned earlier, some times its something that agitates you in the world and for me it would appear that the dynamic in Israel the way they – the treatment of the Palestinians seems to get my attention more than most other issues. When the masters spoke about getting back into that trauma and seeing it, but between being here and getting back into that birth trauma to finding the courage to face it. What process would I ideally go to because I would like to deal with that birth trauma.

Answer by Ascended Master MORE through Kim Michaels, given at a conference in Holland 2016.

It is a delicate process because the birth trauma happened a long time ago for most of you. It also has been buried at the bottom of your subconscious mind because the pain was so intense that you have had to cover it over by layers upon layers.

There is sort of a strange mechanism that happens when you are exposed to this total pain of the birth trauma. It is like you say to yourself: “I never want to experience that total pain again.” This suddenly means that any pain that is less than that total pain becomes bearable compared to the total pain. You are saying: “I would rather experience that pain than the original pain.”

This means that there can be other traumas that are lesser that are covering the birth trauma. The real process for doing this is, of course, to follow the spiritual path and use the tools and the teachings we have given. Now, you have some invocations that are specifically designed to do this. The Song of Life Healing Matrix is also efficient.

As I said, the fallen beings are very good at tuning in to your being and seeing what is the worst-case scenario that you could envision on earth. What is it that would give you the greatest sense of injustice, for example, that this should not be happening, that nobody should be exposed to this.

If you do have a certain world situation that you find that you react very strongly to, then you need to realize that your original birth trauma, of course, was not created by the situation, for example between the Israelis and the Palestinians, which is a modern-day situation. It could have been created by a similar situation in the distant past. It could be, for example, that you saw a group of people being violently suppressed by others.

You then need to discover what exactly is the psychological component that disturbs you about this. Then, find the most general aspect of this. You need to look away from the specifics because if you focus on the specifics (and think that you have to go and solve the outer situation that is taking place right now), you will not discover your birth trauma.

Your birth trauma happened so long ago in a different situation. You need to look beyond the specifics and discover the universal mechanism in your psychology that caused you to react. This was the worst trauma you could experience, witnessing a situation like this and feeling powerless to do anything about it.

Many times, your trauma happens because you came to earth with the best of intentions of creating positive change on earth. When you experienced many of the things that are going on on this planet, you are very easily drawn into focusing on a negative and thinking that the way to create positive change is to remove the negative, possibly by fighting the people who are creating the negative.

In many cases, what happens in the beginning is that you are not thinking about fighting anyone. You are thinking about protecting the ones that you see are being subjected to an injustice. The fallen beings are then very good at putting you in a situation where they have created what you see as the maximum injustice. Then, you feel powerless to do anything about it. You almost can come to feel that it is your fault that this happened, that you could have stopped it or that you should have stopped it.

This is what gives you that maximum pain: Something happened and you could do nothing about it. That is when you need to really work on recognizing free will, recognizing what kind of a planet you are on. Also, recognizing that what gave you the birth trauma was your reaction, but you were reacting to a situation that was deliberately created by the fallen beings in order to abort your purpose for coming to earth.

Therefore, you need to determine not to let them do this, not to let them get away with this anymore. You are willing to look at the birth trauma and see that you could have reacted differently. I am not saying you could have reacted differently when it happened; you could not and that is why you reacted the way you did. Today, with the experience you have with this planet, with the growth in consciousness you have gone through, you can react differently.

That is why you can allow yourself to re- experience the situation and now consciously choose a different reaction that does not give you trauma because you see that this is just another aspect, among many others, of the outplaying of free will. This is happening all over this planet, all of the time. You cannot solve all of the problems on this planet, and if you try to, you will go mad. That is what you need to recognize.

We have all ascended because we came to the point where we realized we could not solve every problem on this planet. In fact, we did not have to solve any of the problems that were the result of the outplaying of free will. Therefore, we recognized that all we could do was raise our own consciousness and serve as an example. Then, we came to the point where we realized that now it was time to step up to the higher level of service that we can give from the ascended realm. Not saying that you cannot give service by being in embodiment.

You ascend by coming to the point where you realize you no longer want to serve by being in embodiment. You want to serve the way you can from the ascended realm. That is when you can ascend, but you cannot, of course, ascend before you have resolved that birth trauma. This actually means that you have to be able to look at this situation, or a similar situation going on in the world today, and you do not have any reaction to it.

You are saying: “I did not create it, I could not have stopped it, I am not here to solve it.” You see that it is an outplaying of free will, and that even the people who may seem as victims are still outplaying their free will, otherwise it could not happen to them. When you see this, you can decide that you no longer want to be bound by this. You are free of it only when you no longer have a desire to solve that problem.

Then, when you ascend, you have a whole other range of options for sending light energy to the planet and working with people in embodiment. Then you can do something, not about the specific problem but about the consciousness behind it so that you can raise the collective consciousness so that those manifestations can no longer happen.

I can tell you that many of you – most of you – have been in embodiment on earth for a very, very long time. You may look at the world today and see some very horrendous conditions. Those of you who have been in embodiment for one or two million years on this planet, I can assure you that in past ages (that are long forgotten by official history), you have seen conditions that were far worse than what you are seeing today.

This means that what gave you that original birth trauma was far worse than what you are seeing on the planet today. The planet has made progress, and that means you can then come to the point of realizing that you do not have to solve the very problem that gave you that birth trauma. Therefore, you do not have to solve every similar problem in the world today. You do not have to solve every problem that causes you to react. In fact, you never solve a problem by reacting. You can only do something about a problem when you no longer react to it.

It is perfectly natural, it is almost unavoidable, that when you come into embodiment and experience the conditions on this earth, you will react in the beginning. All of us did this when we came into embodiment, Jesus included. There is no one who has ever embodied here who did not react to the conditions because they were so horrendous. The process of ascending is that you come to a point where you do not allow anything on earth to define you or cause you to react.

What do the masters think about physical exercises?

Question: I’m busy with the physical movements and stuff and I am developing this theory that on the physical level there will come balanced exercises. It also helps developing your other levels on the balancing aspect and with strength, for example. If you will use physical strength exercises, you have more courage to do different tasks and if you like flexibility exercises, you are more flexible on life. What are the masters thoughts about this theory? Is it even a good theory or just a false topic?

Answer by Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels, given at a conference in Holland 2016.

There is, of course, validity in working with the physical body and there are many things you can do to improve life by working with the physical body. It is clear that the physical body is the most visible and obvious aspect of your four lower bodies when you are in physical embodiment. If you have a pain in your physical body, then it does not help you to sit there and worry about your identity body. You need to find out what the cause is.

If it is because you have a nail in your shoe, then you need to pull the nail out, instead of thinking you have to make some change in the three higher bodies. You also have to be careful and realize that in order to be truly balanced, you have to work with all four bodies. You can, of course, affect your emotional body, mental body and identity body by working with the physical. But it is in a way going backwards compared to if you worked on the three higher bodies directly.

If you are working on the physical body, it will have the greatest impact on the emotional body. If you do some strength exercises or balancing exercises with the physical body, it will have the greatest impact on the emotional. It will have a lesser impact on the mental and in most cases a very small impact on the identity body. That is why you will get the best results from combining physical activities and exercises with exercises that more directly work at the three higher bodies. In other words, it is not saying there is anything wrong with your approach, but that it has some limitations you need to be aware of.

A physical exercise can help to improve the emotional body— up to a point. There comes a point where, if you really want to get over the emotional problem, you have to work with the emotional body. The same with the mental body and the identity body. The best results will be by working more directly with the three higher bodies, than trying to do it all through the physical.

You can use the teachings and invoke light, but also use psychological exercises You often need to look at the psychological issue directly, instead of trying to think you can do some exercise and that is going to automatically resolve it.

Spontaneous calls

Question: When I watch TV and see something about the atrocities, I call to Shiva to immediately remove them. Is that enough?

This answer was given by Kim Michaels at a conference in Holland.

Kim: Well, it’s a good thing to do, for sure.

Question: Do we have to say an invocation?

Kim: No, I think it’s very important to make those kinds of spontaneous calls in the situation, but the invocations are also valuable. I sort of have a habit: If I’m taking a walk and I hear an ambulance, I immediately make a call for the person who needs the ambulance to receive healing and protection. And the same thing when you see something on TV, you can make a call.

The power of deciding “It’s enough”

Question: I have a question. Yesterday in the Great Divine Director’s dictation he mentioned that Jesus had finally said, “That’s enough.” and then he was able to act. So do we have to appeal to Jesus to commit to the idea of that’s enough? Because Jesus said “Enough is enough” in a particular situation, then the Great Divine Director was able to remove it on his request. So now do we have to appeal to Jesus to have enough of something before it can be cleared out?

This answer was given by Kim Michaels at a conference in Holland.

Kim: If you have had enough?

Question: No, if Jesus has had enough.

Kim: No. I think we have to decide individually when we have had enough of something on earth.

Comment: Jesus had made the comment that enough was enough.

Kim: Yes. But he also said that it was because Jesus had been in embodiment on earth. That’s why he had the right to decide this was enough on earth with these fallen beings and their opportunities.

Question: So he was talking about the fallen beings at that time of embodiment and not at that particular moment when we were doing the decrees?

Kim: It was just that Jesus had given them an opportunity during the Piscean Age, even to lead the Christian churches. But he had now decided, because cycles had turned, that this was enough, that they should no longer be given an opportunity, and that’s why they could be taken.

We are also in embodiment, and I think we have a right to look at the earth and say: “This particular issue here, I’ve had enough of that. It’s simply enough, and I’m demanding that these forces will be given that judgment: Will you choose the light or choose to hold onto the darkness?” And if the darkness, then Archangel Michael must come in and take them.” I mean, we have a right to command that. I think that’s what he was trying to say: We can do what Jesus did. We don’t need to be ascended.

Comment: I understood that differently. I understood it was because Jesus gave the Great Divine Director the authority to step in. That’s what I understood.

Comment: That’s how I understood it.

Comment: I like how you explained it because that’s how I understood it. I thought that Jesus had had enough, and that was it.

Kim: I think you’re both right in a sense. It’s just that there are different things we’re focusing on.

Comment: I thought that Jesus thought it was enough, and that’s why the Great Divine Director came.

Comment: It’s like we are giving the masters the authority to act because of our calls.

Kim: I think both are right. Maybe what I was saying was going beyond what he was actually saying, but I just sense that he wants us to see that we also have that right to say: “Enough is enough.” It’s a planetary thing.

Comment: We have the authority but not the power.

Kim: Yes. So we really have to say: “No, I will not tolerate that on this planet.”

Comment: Then we need the crucible of the numbers to be able to have that effect.

Kim: I still think it’s effective when one person does it. It just won’t maybe remove all of the fallen beings, but it will remove some. And then it will gradually start growing.

Comment: It seemed like Jesus saying this was enough was also part of a certain number of currently embodied people saying they’d had enough, that he wasn’t just arbitrarily picking this particular moment.

Kim: Yes, because enough people had started to wake up. It wasn’t just his decision. So that’s probably where it ties in: The more we wake up, the more we can remove.

Comment: We have to remember that it’s a schoolroom, and until certain lessons are clear for us, the dark forces are also teachers of us.

Kim: Yes, and probably we won’t be able to say “enough is enough” until we’ve transcended the consciousness, because otherwise we’ll still be justifying it.

Comment: We do have the power.

Kim: Yes, we have the authority to tell them to remove something.

Comment: In many cases we can feel and say we deserve better.

Kim: Yes, and that’s what I was saying earlier with loving yourself. You have to come to the point of decision where you say: “No, this is enough. I will not accept more of this.” Think how adaptable we are as human beings. Just think how incredibly adaptable we are, and we can get so used to something that we don’t even see that it shouldn’t be there. So we have to come to where we say: “No, no, this evil just isn’t right. It’s just not acceptable to me.” And before we do that, we are in fact accepting it. Silence means consent.

Being balanced on the path

Comment: You do naturally develop sensitivity over the years. You can get feedback from people’s faces or their energy or their response – some kind of natural mechanism. You can start to become more receptive to how they’re being, instead of becoming too cautious.

This answer was given by Kim Michaels at a conference in Holland.

Kim: That’s what I was going to say, that I found that in myself. I’ve obviously gone through that, becoming more sensitive. Especially when I was younger, I thought I should save the world, preferably this afternoon. [Laughter] But I’ve also then swung too far, and you almost become overly sensitive to people’s reactions, where you don’t dare to be yourself. That’s what I have started in the last years. I’ve just started saying: “Well, you know what? Set people free so they can react any way they want. But set yourself free to be who you are regardless.”

Comment: That statement “I will be who I will be.”

Kim: Yeah, yeah. It’s essentially God saying: “Whatever has happened in the past that’s going to hold me back in the future, I’ll just transcend it. You’re not going to hold me.”

Comment: El Morya when he ascended also had that exuberance. And when he ascended, he said: “Well, what’s my job?” and they said: “Well, save the earth.” He said: “Yeah, and what am I going to do after that?” [Laughter] Then he realized there was a lot more work than he expected.

Kim: It was like I was saying after the Great Divine Director’s dictation, I really felt how that light is so powerful it can consume anything on earth. But we obviously know it’s not going to be allowed to consume everything on earth. So you have to find that balance. I remember, especially when I first found the ascended masters’ teachings, I just felt so uplifted and optimistic about this that it was really, really hard to have that optimism and then have to deal with everyday daily life.

Comment: But you still find it different. I mean, when you’re aroused about something, then, of course, you have to bring it down to normal proportions to communicate, and I understand that part. But when you feel the love vibrating in you, to utilize the Wisdom of the Mother, to direct that in normal proportions, I find that difficult. One thing is an emotion, and the other thing is who you are, a state of being.

Kim: Yes, I think it is for all of us a balance to find. And again I don’t have a solution to it, but I can see that sometimes there’s a part of me which expects that, if I keep talking long enough, the perfect answer will come out. [Laughter] But I try sometimes to be attuned to the other person and what do they need.

So I’m saying it’s really not about me, and this is what I’ve been doing for years with my service as a messenger. Often when I’ve done a conference, for example, I’ve been flying for two days to get there, and I’m a little bit tired, there are a lot of people that want my attention, and this and that. Then all of a sudden, after all of that, I have to stand there and take a dictation. It can sometimes be really difficult to have the horizontal and then have the vertical. The way I’ve gone beyond it in the past is to say: “Oh, this is not about me. This is about me serving the masters and helping other people.” So that has kind of helped me balance it so that I’m tuned in to what people need.

But in the last couple of years I’ve also started realizing that I have to be true to myself and dare to express myself. So that’s a very dynamic balance there. It’s like again there is no absolute solution to it, because I feel that, yes, I should be attuned to other people, but there should be situations where I can dare to be myself and express what I need to express. It can’t always be that I’m so concerned about others that I’m not letting myself flow. But I still have some fear of letting myself flow, because I don’t know how people will be able to handle it. And that’s funny because since I haven’t dared to let myself flow, I don’t know what’s going to happen. So I’m fearing something I don’t know.

Comment: We’ll let you know.

Kim: That’s what I’m afraid of! [Laughter]

Reacting and analyzing

Comment: What you call the Wisdom of the Mother reminds me of what I experience in my life. Whatever happens, it’s never too much. It always finds a way. If I’m too much, the other will send me away. So I learn to trust that, okay, it’s part of the process.

Comment: You find out over the years that you become more sensitive to the feedback if you get in somebody’s face.

Comment: When I did something and it didn’t work out the way I hoped it would be, I’ve always found later on, okay, this is my path. This is where I am right now. So I trust the mechanism that steers me.

Comment: We can’t be responsible for how other people are going to react.

This answer was given by Kim Michaels at a conference in Holland.

Kim: Yes, and I’m realizing also that I have a tendency to go into analyzing. And like somebody was saying, you are reacting to the way you think people will be reacting, and you don’t know how they’re going to be reacting. So it becomes this artificial construct in your mind, and that’s not the Wisdom of the Mother. You’re not flowing then. So I understand what you’re saying – you’ve found some kind of balance where you don’t condemn yourself for making a mistake.

I think that’s what Mother Mary was saying too. What is it that old bumper sticker says: “S-H-I-T happens.” We just have to recognize that in this realm things are going to happen so we just move on. I know I’ve talked about quantum physics before. They used to believe that the universe was completely predictable. If you knew all the conditions in a situation, you could predict the outcome of an experiment. Then they discovered in quantum physics that you can only predict a probability, but until the experiment happens, you can’t know exactly what’s going to happen.

I think it’s the same thing with our lives. We can have the best of intentions, but we can’t know how other people are going to react or how a situation is going to turn out. So we have to do what you were saying, be willing to just flow on and trust that it’s okay if we sometimes swing a little too far to that side.

Daring to express love

Comment: Yesterday when we encountered the experience with the Great Divine Director, and what he put so beautifully forward is that his kind of love is not only unconditional but not compromising. He is what he is. That was so profound. And this morning I combined it with Mary, who says love yourself. And I noticed that I thought I loved myself, but nevertheless I was compromising myself always to adjust my way of expressing love to others to my perception of how others should expect me to love them. And then I got scared because I encountered my own spirit, who said if you change yourself to your real you and love who you really are, then people get scared of you and they run away and you will lose your relationship. And you will lose the whole bunch. So I had to go through that spirit to transcend that part of me too. Then I got close to myself, and it was a new level of loving yourself. That’s how I experienced it.

This answer was given by Kim Michaels at a conference in Holland.

Kim: I also remember many times having this thought: “Oh, if I really express who I am, it’ll be too much for people. They will reject it.” And I think that goes back to the birth trauma that Master MORE was talking about, how we came here to bring the light and the fallen beings rejected it. So we’re afraid that everybody is going to do that, and we may even think that we should hide it because it’s not good enough, or it’s not appropriate to express it on this earth, or whatever.

Comment: The fact is, I have experienced it personally on both sides of the middle. When you’re in a state where you have problems with yourself, you’re battling with yourself, and someone expresses unbelievable love to you, it’s too much. You start crying because it’s an empty space and no limits. And the other way around – when I express love to people, sometimes it’s just too much, they can’t cope with that. And I feel a little bit almost ashamed to be there.

Kim: Yes, embarrassed is what I feel. I know exactly what you mean, yes. I’ve gone through the same thing, and I’ve thought about this a lot. I know I even had a thought that nobody can handle me if I really express my light, because it’s too intense. My energy is too intense for people to handle. But I think the solution is that wisdom of the Mother, because there is a balance to be found. It’s like when you are suppressing yourself, when you are limiting yourself, you can’t let the light from your Presence stream through. So you need to free yourself from that.

But when you get to that point, it doesn’t mean it always has to be expressed at full force. That’s what she was saying, that the wisdom of the Mother recognizes conditions as they are. So you meet a certain person and your tendency is to just blast them with love. And the wisdom of the Mother comes in and tunes in to what that person can handle. Because it’s not a matter of making that person jump from where they are now to the top of the staircase. It’s a matter of making them take the next step. So what do they need to take that next step? To me that’s the wisdom of the Mother.

Comment: And that’s the wisdom I don’t resonate with yet enough. It’s like I switch this on and off.

Kim: Haven’t we all, when we found the spiritual path, become so enthusiastic we want everybody to see what we’re seeing? And so we turn people away, because they’re just so scared by all this energy we’re putting out. Or they see that we have changed and they don’t want to change. They don’t want to hear what we’re saying. So I think it’s that balance there.

Comment: There’s a person I know who came home one night to a situation where his wife was exactly like that, way over the top, and he didn’t act that way. He acted the other way. He said, “What is it? What have you found? Show me this.” And he found the path as well through her. She found the path, was exuberant to the nth degree. He came home wondering why his wife was so bubbly and said, “Show me,” and she said, “This is it.”

Accepting yourself as you are

Question: Accepting yourself seems to be one thing – is loving yourself a step further?

This answer was given by Kim Michaels at a conference in Holland.

Kim: I don’t know, maybe they are two sides of the same coin in a way. But yes, I think it is. I think it is. Because I think there is more opposition on the planet to loving yourself. I would say that it’s been a while since I came to the realization that I didn’t accept myself, and then I worked with that. But even after I’d done that, I wasn’t loving myself like that shift that just happened the other day.

Question: So that’s the first step?

Kim: For me at least it was, yes. I think what happened to me, when I was going through not accepting myself, was that I came to that point of accepting that I’m in the process of growing, and that’s okay. In other words, I don’t have to be perfect. But it was also in a period where I was really working with unconditional love, because I had experienced it. But it took me a while to actually accept that I was worthy of unconditional love. In my mind I thought that, in order to receive unconditional love, I had to live up to some conditions. It was not until it clicked in me how completely ridiculous that was that I could accept myself. But that was still not the same as loving myself, because I was still seeing I was receiving that love from God.

Comment: I think it is kind of dangerous if I say I’m worthy. I think that is my ego talking, that I am worthy of unconditional love.

Kim: Yes, and for many years my main reason for not wanting to accept myself or love myself – or acknowledge that I was a good person, or that I had some attainment and some knowledge and mastery on the path – was that I didn’t want to go into pride. Because I was very aware of pride, and it is a trap on the path, and it’s very easy to fall into it. You can fall into it right up until the moment you ascend, you know. You can be prideful of something. So it’s valid to have that in your mind.

But on the other hand, I also came to realize that if you are so aware of trying to avoid pride, that also becomes a trap because you are running away from it. If you’re not daring to acknowledge yourself and accept yourself because you’re afraid of being prideful, then you are also holding yourself down, putting yourself down. So it’s like in order to avoid being prideful, you have to put yourself down. Because that’s what I was doing: I was putting myself down and not daring to acknowledge that I am a good person, that I am an acceptable person.

I’ve always had this in my life, that it’s like I’m becoming aware of a certain issue and then there’s a certain statement that just helps me. So at one point I received the statement: “There’s nothing wrong with me,” and I repeated that. It became my mantra. I meditated on it for a long time before I had really integrated that and could accept it. That was still not quite the same as accepting myself for who I am. But it was a necessary step that I wasn’t flawed, that there’s nothing wrong with me as a being. Then comes accepting the positive that you are, and then comes loving that.

You know, what is loving? It’s magnifying. You magnify what you love so if you’re loving yourself, you are magnifying the divine individuality that God gave you. If you’re not doing that, you’re putting down the divine individuality that God gave you.

Comment: It’s a very thin line.

Kim: Yes, it is, like everything in the physical octave. This latest dictation of Mother Mary almost blew me away when I received those concepts. You know, you have these idols of the spiritual masters – like the Buddha under the Bo tree, totally non-attached and totally at peace – I’ve always thought that’s kind of like a static state. What I realized was that Mother Mary was saying, “No it’s not because as long as we are in an unascended sphere – and I think even in the ascended sphere, because it’s just a higher vibration – there’s always going to be the swing of the pendulum.”

That concept I’d never even thought about before, and I thought that is really, really profound. Because in a sense it’s like, in order to get away from the disharmony and the conflict, I’ve been trying to create standstill. But then I’m not being a co-creator. I’m not expressing the gift that God gave me, so that’s not what I meant to do. Instead I would be like the Buddha, who sits there and nothing happens. There’s no output and no input. When I’m the co-creator, I’m the upward spiral, and that’s the whole new concept I haven’t integrated yet.

Loving yourself as you are right now

Question: In the dictation of Mother Mary (Friday) she said something like you have to love yourself, and this is your inner self, right?

Yes, she said that early on, but then she also later said that you do have to love the outer self after a certain point.

Question: That part I understand, but when I look to my inner self, how I experience my inner self is love, so how can I love myself when myself is love?

This answer was given by Kim Michaels at a conference in Holland.

Kim: Yes, but I think the way it’s meant is that so few people in the world love themselves. What she was saying was that first she was making the distinction that we’ve been brought up, especially as spiritual people, to think that we have the outer self, the human self, and it’s difficult for us to conceive of loving that at a certain stage of the path. Then we need to come to that stage where we can love ourselves.

I understand what you are saying. Of course, your I AM Presence is love, but it’s not really your I AM Presence you need to love. It’s more, I guess, the level of the Conscious You where you need to love yourself. So she was saying: “I love you as the totality of the being you are right now.” My sense is that’s what she wants us to realize, that we can love ourselves, even though we’re not perfect and still have a human self. She was saying a key part of that is as long as you’re in embodiment, she doesn’t want you to think that you have to be perfect or you have to have ascended before you can love yourself. She’d like us to love ourselves as we are right now, even though we still may have a human self or the outer personality.

I know for myself, for many years on the spiritual path I just had this idea of how I was supposed to be if I was a good spiritual person, a good ascended master student. I felt like I couldn’t love myself if I didn’t live up to that. So if I lost my temper or got a little short or got irritated, then I would come down on myself because of that. It was almost like there was for years this sense that I had to be perfect before I could love myself. It took me a long time to process that and get through it and see that. But it was really not until I heard her dictation, or received her dictation, that it sort of clicked in me what I’d been going through in that process.

Because you really have to dare to love yourself. She was giving a teaching, but I sense personally that in loving yourself there’s a process to go through. You have to clear out these energies that pull you into not loving yourself. You have to see the illusions for what they are. I have started realizing more and more there comes a point where you have to make a decision to love yourself. It’s like a conscious will.

I can see now, when I look back at my own path, that I had a far too passive approach to life in general. I was talking to somebody yesterday, and we realized we were both people pleasers. We like to please others so you get into this reactionary mode of: “What do other people need? What do they want? And then I’ll do that for them.” But you also get that on the path. It’s like now for many years I would think: “What do the masters want me to do? And then I’ll do that.” I was saying to somebody else that I was contemplating the will of God and what God wants me to do, and the answer I received was: “What if God wants you to make your own decisions?” It was a shock to me because in a sense I was scared of making my own decisions.

I have also contemplated what is the most scary concept on earth. Think about this: What is the most scary concept on earth? It’s actually freedom because as long as there is something you have to react to, something that’s forcing you, there are certain decisions you don’t have to make. But if you’re standing there and you’re completely free, there’s nothing that’s pulling you, and it’s all you who has to decide: “Who am I? Who do I want to be? How do I want to express myself?”

I used to have this thought on the path that if I did all the decrees and studied the teachings, then one day something magical would happen, and I would just be enlightened or free or whatever. Now I’m becoming much more conscious of the fact that there are these stages on the path. You are supposed to do these outer things – they help you move forward – but there comes a point where you are not going to move forward until you are willing to make the decision.

And that’s what I was saying with loving yourself. You can listen to Mother Mary’s dictation, and you can give the invocations, but there comes a point where you have to decide: “I am loving myself.” I actually felt that – I think it was the night before last, or maybe it was the night of the dictation – when I went to bed. I was just lying there, and all of a sudden I felt there was something that changed in me, and I made that decision: “Yes, I am loving myself. I am worthy to love myself.” I think we all need to come to that. But not just with loving ourselves, with many other things on the path.

The masters taking on form

Question: The ascended masters can easily take on a form if it’s necessary, that’s what I think. But it makes us lazy, and they want to get rid of that, so we don’t get that form anymore. Just when it is needed, really needed, they can take on a form.

This answer was given by Kim Michaels at a conference in Holland.

Yes, and they can take on different forms. When you see so many people around the world who have had visions of Jesus, for example, they are not all alike. So the linear mind wants to say: “Well, if Jesus really is up there and he has a certain form, then he should always look the same to everybody who sees him. Otherwise it isn’t genuine. Your vision isn’t real because it didn’t look like mine.” And then we get into all this fighting stuff, and it’s just so unnecessary.

I talked about it earlier, about perception filters, and what quantum physics says is that, whenever we look at something, our consciousness is co-creating what we’re seeing. So I believe that if Jesus appears to a person who has a certain image of him or a certain cultural background, he will take on the form that they are familiar with, that they can relate to, that they can accept.

The challenge we have is – and this is what the masters are trying to say now – don’t then come and say this is the only way they can appear, or that this is their totality. Recognize that this is partly your own creation, what you are seeing. It’s not that the vision isn’t valid or real. It’s just that we can’t expect the masters to always look like that.

Comment: Jesus did even say in one of his books that he came in the form of his book that was released. He said he took on the form of the book. So he’s not limited in any way.

Kim: No, they can take on any form.

About Saint Germain

Question: How do you see Saint Germain?

This answer was given by Kim Michaels at a conference in Holland.

I don’t see him. I just sense the Presence. It’s interesting how the masters are so different. It’s just incredible. I sometimes wonder when people read a dictation if they really sense the differences, and I even wonder sometimes if when they hear the dictation they sense it. I feel it so clearly when I take a dictation, receive a dictation.

It is really hard to put words on it, but Saint Germain has this very high vibration, very intense vibration, but it’s not oppressive. It’s not an intense, oppressive vibration. But it’s intense in a way that you almost can’t be still. You almost can’t be in your body. I couldn’t imagine sitting down and taking a dictation from Saint Germain.

I can sit down with a dictation from the Buddha or Padmasambhava or some of these other masters. But with Saint Germain, I want to stand on my toes, jump, levitate out of the body. So it’s like a pull, a lifting movement. But I also feel such a love from him, and it’s such a tremendous love, but it’s so liberating. It’s like there’s no obligation, no pull in it. It’s just so liberating. I don’t know if anybody else wants to share how you experienced it?

Comment: We want to imagine the ascended masters somehow. The closest we can easily do is a kind of human picture. I had a program, and then I understood there is something not right, and then I understood that it was actually a huge cosmic being, like a magnetic field bigger than earth. So for me it was better to imagine them as a kind of energy field or magnetic field or force that is huge, and then when you connect with that being, which is a field, emphasizing a certain point where you are, and through that point you get a connection. And you do not understand it, actually the vastness of that personal sphere. So it is not a person. It is a field that gets closer in my mind. I saw the program in my head in this way.

Comment: In the beginning you were saying burn the picture. That is easy for me. Now I see them as a flame, like the Violet Flame. Then he said to imagine him with a stone. This is how I pictured it, so I got stuck.

Kim: I can see that, but I can also see that in my mind I just switch from one to the other, probably because for many years I have seen Saint Germain as a human figure. In the Summit Lighthouse they had this picture of him standing in full figure with his arms around Jesus. And there’s a funny story about that picture. When I was very new to the Summit Lighthouse, I attended a conference in Denmark, and it lasted three days. They had this room they had rented, and they had all the books laid out on tables and tapes and everything. So whenever there was a break, I walked around and looked at them for three days.

As I was saying earlier, I really had a problem with Jesus, and I really had a problem connecting Jesus and Saint Germain, the Piscean and Aquarian dispensations. So I needed something to unite the two. I had been walking around in this room for three days, and they had this little picture of them with their arms around each other. It had been hanging on a pillar for three days, and I hadn’t seen it.

Then on the last day I was standing there talking to somebody. Apparently the picture was hung with tape or something, because as we were standing there talking, all of a sudden there was this thump, and this picture had fallen from the pillar down onto the table. Then I looked at it and said, “Oh, wow.” So that was what it took for me to finally know this, and it was like somebody said: “Will you know this now? This is what you need.” I thought it was funny. I don’t know how I could have overlooked it in three days.

Comment: Some people don’t know, but most people do: Saint Germain was also incarnated as Joseph, the father of Jesus, and the husband of Mother Mary.

Kim: Just to finish off – I am so used to seeing Saint Germain that way, and I don’t think that he’s confined to these forms, but I also see that he plays different roles. And whenever he’s performing a certain task, he takes on a more humanlike appearance in order to perform that task. This doesn’t mean I think he’s that way or that’s his totality. I agree with what you were saying – that he’s a field. There is an infinite field.

In fact, in some of the old pictures of the masters they were just shown like a radiance of light. There would be two eyes, but there would not be any human features other than that. We had the eyes to sort of connect to. The ascended masters face a delicate balance. There’s not anything wrong with the pictures they had before because the people needed a human appearance in order to connect. It’s just that what they’re saying now is that they don’t want us to get stuck in it. They want us to follow them and go higher and realize they are more than that.

Comment: They did appear for that guy [Charles Sindelar] to paint them in those pictures.

Kim: Yes, that was what they judged the people needed at the time. It is just that now we need to go higher.

Are you thinking your thoughts?

If you regret making mistakes, that is a sin in itself, because from a linear point of view the choices you make are the choices you make based on the consciousness you have. So a reflection of the consciousness you have at that stage is just fine. It’s energy.

This answer was given by Kim Michaels at a conference in Holland.

Kim: One way to look at mistakes could also be that in your higher mind you actually wanted this negative consequence to happen, because you wanted to learn something from it. Your conscious mind just wasn’t aware of that, and so you need to say with your conscious mind: “Okay, so what was it? What do I want to learn from this?”

As I find with myself a lot of times, you just get so focused on everyday life or whatever you are doing that you’re just running at full speed without really stepping back and thinking: “Why am I doing what I’m doing?” When something unexpected or unpleasant happens, it’s actually a good opportunity to step back and say: “Okay, why did my higher mind want me to have that experience? What am I supposed to wake up from here?”

Comment: You see your life as a mirror. Everything is a mirror for you at that point.

Comment: I used the consequence that I had to judge myself. “Okay, what’s the consequence?” So I know I have learned my lesson, instead of knowing within that I have learned my lesson and just letting the consequence dissipate. I kept the consequence re-happening because I kept going right back into the consciousness that created it in the first place. I didn’t learn my lesson because it was still there.

Kim: Yes, the mind can create these infinite loops, and it’s just like I said: This is the game that keeps repeating because you haven’t had enough of it. You haven’t tired of it. I realized this several years ago because I was in a stressful situation. What I always do in stressful situations is that my analytical mind will go over the situation again and again and again and replay it. Sometimes I will do what I wanted to have done: Pretend I was doing the right thing instead of doing what I actually did. Go over it again and again and again. At one point I was sitting there, and I knew I was in a negative spiral. I knew I was just repeating this over and over again, but I couldn’t pull myself out of it.

Then it was like all of a sudden something happened. I don’t even know what it was, but I stepped outside the mind and realized that the analytical mind is just like a computer. There is a part of my mind that will just keep creating these thoughts, creating these problems, indefinitely because it’s just like a computer game.

If you have a computer game that is programmed to display green and red circles, it will just keep doing that forever. It’s all it can do. I realized there is a part of my mind that is simply programmed to create problems, and then there is another part of my mind that is programmed to solve them. Those two parts of my mind can occupy my attention for the rest of this lifetime and for the next hundred lifetimes if I want them to.

I simply had to say: “You know, I’m not that mind. I’m neither the one that creates the problems nor the one that thinks I have to solve them. I am neither of those minds, and I don’t want them to take up all of my attention. I don’t want to play the game anymore.”

It doesn’t always work, I have to say, but it helped me enormously to distance myself, because I’d never had the thought before. We tend to think: “I’m thinking my thoughts. Therefore they must be real.” Or we even tend to think: “I am thinking my thoughts.” And what I realized was: “No, I am not thinking. My mind is thinking, and I’m identifying with it. But how long do I want to do it?” I also realized from that situation that the part of my mind that creates problems was absolutely convinced it was something outside myself that was creating these problems. And because they were there, it was my responsibility to solve them.

I realized that the part of the mind that creates problems does so in a way that they have no solution, they can never be solved. The only “solution,” so to speak, is that I see that and say: “Oh, this is not me.”

It’s the same as if you thought you were your car and you couldn’t get out of it, and you have to come to the point where you realize: “Oh, I can hit the brake. I can open the door. I can just get out. I can walk away from this car.” It’s the same thing with that thinking, analytical mind. You can actually realize it is not you. I’m not saying I’ve done that yet. But it helped me enormously to have that thought – that I don’t have to think that everything is real that my mind can come up with. It’s just like a movie projected onto the screen. It’s no more real than what I see in the movie theater.

Making decisions and dealing with consequences

Question: The masters say we’re not in the River of Life if we’re not making decisions, that we don’t make decisions because we fear making mistakes. But at the same time, mistakes we make do have consequences, and we can’t go back to the point before we made the mistakes. That is understandable, but how do you not fear making mistakes? Just go through whatever it is, at least making a decision whether it’s a mistake or not?

This answer was given by Kim Michaels at a conference in Holland.

Kim: The short answer is you read my latest book, Warrior of Peace, because it talks about that in great depth, more than I can go into here. I think part of the idea is to realize that, of course, there are consequences that we would rather avoid, and they are unpleasant for us. But you have to come to a point where you realize that the physical conditions cannot define you. They don’t define who you are because you are a spiritual being. When you realize that, it’s like there is really no condition so terrible that it can prevent you from being who you are and moving forward on your path. That makes it easier to deal with.

I know there are obviously some consequences that are very harsh, harder to live with than others. Still, we are spiritual beings. The main challenge we face in the material world is to not let the material world define us, define how we see ourselves. I think if you keep that in mind, it becomes a little easier to look at these consequences. It’s really when you are identified with a certain sense of self, which really would not like that thing to have happened, then it’s really hard, and you can’t be non-attached. You can’t separate yourself from the consequences.

It’s almost like you think that you have been destroyed or put down, or you’ve made a mistake that you can never recover from because it’s so bad. That is, of course, exactly what your ego and the dark forces want you to believe, that you have now made a mistake and you can never be redeemed. When you start seeing that’s not reality, then I think it becomes a lot easier to deal with those consequences.

Comment: But in the world that we live in, you can’t escape the consequences.

Kim: No, but you never have been able to in the physical. I understand that, and it is very harsh. I mean, it IS very harsh. You can make what seems to be a fairly innocent choice, and all of a sudden you are facing a severe consequence that can never be undone. I think the challenge basically is to say: “Yes, but it still doesn’t define who I am. I can still be who I am and acknowledge who I am, regardless of these outer conditions.”

You might have a person who says: “I wish I had dark hair. Why isn’t it black? I would be a much better person if I had black hair.” Most of us would look at that and say: “But your hair color doesn’t really matter. It doesn’t define who you are. You can live with it.”

We need to come to the point where we look at any aspect of the material world the same way: It’s just a condition. I know it’s not easy, but basically what the Zen Buddhists are saying – and the masters are saying it too – is that you need to transcend the consciousness that this is right and wrong, this is bad, this is good. Everything is just a condition, and it’s not a matter of: “Is this going to destroy you or prevent you from going forward on the path?” You just move forward.

It’s just like a rock that falls in the stream. The water doesn’t sit there and say: “Oh, no, I’ll never reach the ocean.” It just flows around it, and that’s what we have to do. We have to flow around the condition and say: “It can’t define me. It can’t stop me on my path.”

Comment: It seems sometimes that, whatever decision I make, the result is not nice consequences. So then you start thinking: “Oh, is that why I have this?”

Kim: Of course. It’s easy for me to stand here and say this. I’m not saying that I can always do it.

Comment: One of the things that I have done in the past, and probably still do, is allow the decision to be made externally. In other words, I don’t have to make the decision because another situation has forced the decision on me. Then I disappoint myself because I didn’t make a decision. So I avoid making decisions, decisions are made for me, and therefore I lack the ability to have made the decision. I regret that. I understand that if I make a choice and it gets worse for me than what it was, I’d like to go back to what it was and probably can’t. But unless I make the decision, I’m not in control of making the decision.

Kim: Right. We would all like real life to be like it is on the computer. It has an Undo button, and we could just go back a couple of steps.

Comment: I think it was three years ago that I was in a bad situation and Kim said to me: “You know the point is about making decisions. Situations happen in your life, but you must make the decision.” At that point things changed because I started to make decisions, and the consequences were not so bad.

Kim: That is also, again, because you were divided in yourself. You weren’t clear. So you were standing there, couldn’t move out of that situation you were in.

Comment: Actually the right thing you should do is the decision. You go forward. You go forward because you made the choice.

Comment: Don’t become a victim of the decision. Learn from it and move on.

Comment: And to not make a decision is a decision in itself. If you don’t make a decision, that’s a decision also.

Kim: If you don’t make a decision and something happens, then you get down on yourself for not having made the decision. Then you just need to make the decision not to get down on yourself.

Comment: Exactly, you hit the point exactly. So if I make the decision, I’m in control. If I don’t make the decision consciously, then something else is in control, and all they’re doing is pressing the left button and that goes up a bit, and then the right button.

Kim: And it’s not even just a matter of being in control. I think it’s just a matter of not being divided. Because if you’re letting some outer situation make decisions for you, it’s because you’re divided. You are probably afraid of making the decision because you’re concerned about the consequences.

Comment: I suspect that the fallen ones – and I’ll use that term – would love to have you in that situation where you are divided and can’t make a decision, so that they can use you just like a seesaw.

Kim: Let’s just say that life is like a computer game. You may not have played computer games yourself, but you’ve probably seen kids sitting there playing these computer games. You’re sometimes wondering how long they can keep playing these games. Don’t they get tired of it? The fact is, there usually comes a point where now they have figured out how the game works. Every computer game has certain parameters, and once you figure out what they are, you can beat the game every time. Once they figure that out, they get tired of it, and then maybe they move on to another game.

This is how life is. The physical octave presents us with outer circumstances, and most of the people in the world are at that point where they really don’t want to make decisions for themselves. They don’t want to take charge of their lives. They actually want life to throw things at them so they can say: “Well, I am a victim. It’s not my fault. I just have to react to what’s happening. I don’t have any control over this.” They’re playing a game, and they haven’t gotten tired of it yet, and that’s why they can keep playing it indefinitely.

I think we are all playing that game with the outer consequences and the outer circumstances until we get to the point where we say: “I don’t want to play it anymore. I figured out how this works, and I see that life can keep doing this for the next hundred embodiments, but I have had enough. I want to get up there and play a different kind of game.”

Comment: From a linear point of view neurology shows that we aren’t making decisions at all. Our brains are making them a few seconds before. So it’s all a matter of consciousness. The consciousness level we have determines the decisions we make, so being fed up with the game is, in fact, choosing another level of consciousness. Then we have a new game of domino stones rolling over by every decision you make, which your brain has made a few seconds before.

Comment: When you say the brain, you mean the higher consciousness.

Comment: No, no, just the physical brain. Neurology has shown that your physical brain makes a decision a few seconds before you think you make a decision.

Comment: Can that be?

Kim: I understand what you are saying, but I would have to say, given my understanding of the ascended master teachings, that is because science doesn’t understand the wholeness of the mind, the four levels of the mind. For most people the conscious mind is the lowest, but it really shouldn’t be.

I think what is happening is that there is a decision that’s filtering down from the identity, mental, and emotional levels, and it reaches the brain before it reaches the conscious mind. But it doesn’t have to be that way. I think actually when we become conscious, we can be conscious of the higher levels before even the brain reacts.

Comment: I fully agree with you.

Kim: It’s just that neurology hasn’t caught up.

Comment: I said from a linear point of view.

Kim: Yeah, yeah, I understand.

Comment: Professor Doctor Hawkins – not to be confused with the man in the wheelchair – a psychiatrist, showed that, when you arrive at a certain level of consciousness, the brain shows a vortex that goes outside the brain that is as fast as light speed. So at that point you have most perfectly gotten a connection with your higher self, and then the decisions you are making are the same decisions.

Comment: As Kim said, it takes time to filter through. When you said linear and then you mention the rest of it, that’s very important always to listen to the whole, to put it together rather than chop it off.

Comment: Makes sense. I got that a few seconds ago, and I am just putting it out there now.

Being too harsh on yourself

Question: If you’re too harsh on yourself, self-judgment, judge too much, do you have to release self-judgment in order to go forward?

This answer was given by Kim Michaels at a conference in Holland.

I think we’re all too hard on ourselves because we’re brought up to be. Look at the image of God we’ve all grown up with, namely that God is the angry judge in the sky and, if you make a mistake, you’re going to be sent to hell forever. You’re going to be punished by eternal suffering.

A lot of people have been brought up with that image. Even if we haven’t, there is a certain collective consciousness that makes us judge ourselves very harshly when we make mistakes. When I was new on the spiritual path and even when I had found the ascended master teachings, it was sort of an extension of this. The masters were like the angry God in the sky. They weren’t angry, but they were still judgmental. You had to be perfect. You had to do the outer things just right, and there was a lot of focus in one organization I was in on doing all the outer things: wearing the right kind of clothes, not driving a red car, all of these outer things.

I have come to realize that the real challenge on the spiritual path is to accept that you are an extension of God. How do you accept that? You accept that by realizing that God loves you unconditionally. What the world tells us is that there may be a God and he may love you if you live up to certain conditions. That’s a very vicious, very aggressive energy in the world that wants you to believe this. This, of course, ties in with the theme of the conference of anti-love, because they absolutely want you to believe you have to live up to some kind of condition.

That’s why I think we judge ourselves – because we think if we are not perfect or if we don’t live up to these conditions, God is not going to love us, or whatever it is we imagine. I think the greatest challenge on the spiritual path is to actually accept unconditional love. I experienced it one time, as I’ve written about. I had an experience where I experienced God’s presence, and it still took me probably three years to process and integrate that experience. Finally one day it was like it clicked in me because the thought came to me: If God’s love is unconditional, what condition do I need to fulfill in order to be worthy of it? The answer is obvious – there can’t be any conditions you have to fulfill in order to receive unconditional love.

There is one condition: You have to receive it. You have to accept it. And so you have to look at yourself: “What is the belief I have that prevents me from accepting what God is offering me freely at any moment?” I think, until we see that consciously and see the lie, see the fallacy of it, we’re not free of it. We’re still chasing this pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, and the rainbow just keeps moving ahead of us. We’re never going to reach it until we realize that it’s futile to even try.

About opposition to growth

Question: I also have situations where I’ve decided to do something, and just for whatever reason something starts holding me back. Then I get to that point where I decide: “I’m doing it. I don’t care. Regardless, if I have to be taken on a stretcher, I’m still going.” When I get to that point, it’s like everything that’s holding me back just disappears.

This answer was given by Kim Michaels at a conference in Holland.

That’s a good point. I’ve met many people over the years – and I’ve also done it myself sometimes – where it’s almost like you sense there are so many things standing in the way, and then you start thinking: “Maybe I shouldn’t be doing it.” Then there are other times where you can go into this mode: “Oh, it’s just opposition. I should plow right through it.”

What I have found is a better way is to look at myself and see: “Is there a division in myself concerning this? Am I not clear? Do I have one part of me that wants to do it and one part of me that doesn’t want to do it?” As long as I sense there is any kind of division, then usually – whether it’s body signs or whether it’s outer opposition – it’s a manifestation of the fact that I’m not clear. Then, as you said, once you make up your mind so you’re not divided anymore, you just get to that point where you all of a sudden feel clear: “Oh, yeah, this is what I want to do.” And then it’s like all the outer things just fade away.

Comment: So is there a gentler way to bring myself into a place of union without just one overriding the other?

Kim: I think you have to look at what the division is, and usually, I think, whenever there’s a division, it’s not your higher self that’s fighting with your ego. It’s two aspects of your ego fighting with each other, and you’re neither of them. You have to come to the point where you see: “Oh, this is ego, and that is ego, and I don’t want to be part of this anymore.” Then you can transcend that.

I remember in a previous movement I was part of there was a lot of talk about opposition. The idea was that there are dark forces that oppose our progress on the spiritual path, and we just have to be determined and give as many Archangel Michael decrees as possible, and then we’ll work through it. I’m not saying you shouldn’t give decrees, and I’m not saying there isn’t opposition, but there are many situations where the reason you are vulnerable to the opposition is because you’re divided in yourself.

Instead of focusing on the outer opposition and trying to beat that, it is gentler to look at yourself and say: “Why am I divided? What do I really feel? What am I really thinking about this?” Then, if you honestly go through that process, you can come to the point where something just lets go in you, and then you’re not divided anymore. Then it’s almost like the outer things just click into place.

Comment: You do get opposition sometimes through your computer – for example, trying to get something printed out or something like that. At least I recently tried to print out stuff, and there just seemed to be nonstop glitches and gremlins that were working against me.

Kim: Yeah, and then you just need to take a hammer and pound on that computer until you beat it into submission. It doesn’t always work that way. Sometimes there can, of course, be a physical problem with something like that. It’s like I heard someone say that a spiritual student had a flat tire, and so he sat in his car for three hours and gave decrees instead of doing the sensible thing of calling the rescue company to come and change the tire.

We have to do what we have to do and, of course, there can be a physical problem. But sometimes it can also be – and I’ve experienced that myself – that if you’re in this frustrated, rushed state of mind, I actually think you’re putting out an energy that can affect something as complex as a computer. If you’re divided in yourself because you’re frustrated, then sometimes it can help to look at that and get over it, and then all of a sudden it goes away.

How do I know if a situation is a test?

Question: How do you know if something is a test or just a sign that you have to stop? Sometimes something does not work out. Then I think, do I have to stick with it? Because maybe it is a test and I have to try again and again. Or maybe it is a sign I have to stop.

This answer was given by Kim Michaels at a conference in Holland.

Kim: I totally understand that. I would say it’s always a test, but the trick is to find out what the test is. Sometimes the test is that you have to decide: “I have had enough of this. I won’t do it anymore.”

I was talking to somebody the other day about it, and I feel like there are a lot of situations on the path where you do have to work through it because there is something you have to learn from the situation. So if you don’t learn it the first time you are presented with that test, you often get another one, maybe in a slightly different outer situation, but it is the same test. It’s very important that you don’t just push it aside. It’s important that you try to say: “What am I supposed to learn here?” You are open to having your higher self or the masters show you what the lesson is.

It’s very delicate. You can’t really give a standard answer to a question like that because it will be very individual. You basically have to stick to it long enough, I would say, that you come to the point where you are non-attached to whether it continues or it stops. That’s when you can have a good indication that you have learned what you needed to learn from it.

Sometimes what we have to learn from it is to say: “Stop. I don’t want to do this anymore! I don’t want to be in this situation anymore. I don’t want to meet this kind of people.”

It is so easy on the spiritual path to get into this frame of mind where you realize that at the beginning stages of the path, you don’t have enough intuition. You don’t have enough attunement. You are not clear enough. There are too many things clouding your mind, or you are too scattered. So you need guidance, and you get into this mode of wanting guidance. Then you start getting guidance from your higher self, from the masters, from other people or even an outer guru. That’s a phase you go through, and it’s important to go through that phase because you don’t have the inner attunement.

There also comes a point where it can become a hindrance for you that you are always looking for guidance somewhere; even from your higher self it can be a hindrance. I have had situations in my life where I was so used to asking for guidance, and I was asking for guidance and trying to attune, and nothing was happening. I finally realized that it was because there are some situations where you are not going to get guidance. You have to make a decision.

You simply have to decide for yourself: “I have had enough of this test, this kind of test.” Meaning this particular kind of person or this kind of situation. “It’s enough. I don’t want it anymore.” Sometimes you may have learned what you need to learn from the situation, but you haven’t come to that point where you have decided that it is enough. Until you do that, you can keep getting the same test over and over again almost indefinitely because we are sometimes so afraid of making a decision. Sometimes that quest for guidance and having the masters tell us what to do stands in the way of us acting, making a decision. It’s part of the path: You make a decision.

What we are so used to is having this whole consciousness of the black-and-white thinking: “You are a sinner. You can go to hell if you do the wrong thing.” Even if we haven’t been affected by that in an official church, it’s still in the collective consciousness. We have this fear of making mistakes. We are always thinking, “If I make the wrong choice, it’s a big mistake, and it’s going to have this terrible consequence.”

There are many, many situations in life where it isn’t so that there is only one right thing to do, and all the others are wrong. Or there is one right thing to do and one wrong thing to do. There are many situations where all of the options we have are perfectly fine because we learn something from them. You just have to make a decision, face the consequences, and learn from the consequences. Even if you had done something else in that original situation, you would still have learned the same thing.

I know how it is. You are facing a choice so you make a decision, and then something happens that’s unpleasant, and then you say: “Oh, I must have made the wrong decision!” In many cases you didn’t. You were just meant to learn a lesson. Even if you had done something else, and you say: “Oh, I wish I had done that other thing instead,” you would still be presented with the same test. Sometimes you just have to make that decision and be happy about it, instead of always second-guessing. I think that is often the test: to come to the point where you are non-attached.

For myself, I usually use that as a guide. If I can feel that I have an attachment, that I am somehow emotionally involved, that I want a certain outcome, then I feel like I haven’t gotten to that point of: “I’ve learned my lesson, and I achieved that non-attachment.” If I face a decision (should I do this, or should I do that?), then at the point where it doesn’t matter to me whether I do it or not, that’s when I know I am non-attached. Then I just make a decision: “What do I want to do?”

The way I have started looking at it is: “What is an expression of who I am? How do I see myself?” I used to think much more in terms of: “When I am a spiritual person, there are certain things I should do and certain things I shouldn’t do.” But now it’s more a matter of: “Well, who am I?” “How do I want to express myself?” and “What is an expression of my true nature?” When I become clear on that, it is easy to make that decision.

Is an ascended master God-free?

I sometimes meet the word that an ascended master is God-free. How do I understand this?

This answer was given by Kim Michaels at a conference in Holland.

There is an ascended master called Godfre. He was incarnated as Godfre Ray King, who was the leader of the I AM Movement.

Yes, but this is not what I mean. I mean God-free in consciousness.

Kim: It means that you have gone beyond this identification with the material, and you have transcended the ego, and so you are free in God. The way I see it is that you are free to acknowledge that you are a part of God, that you are an extension of God’s Being.

This, of course, is what we are brought up to deny here. We are “here” and God is “up there” somewhere. Either that or there’s no God. Even most religions will say that God is up there and we are definitely separated. We need a religion because we can’t contact God directly.

Of course, the reality is that we can because where did we all come from? There is really only One Mind, which has expressed itself as all of us. To me that’s what it means to be God-free, when you have let go of all these illusions and you acknowledge, “I AM a son or daughter of God.” You dare to accept that.

You can, of course, do that when you are in embodiment, but my understanding is that you can’t really fully let go of the separate self as long as you are in a physical body. Because the moment you let go, you can’t hold on to the body. So you need a little bit of that separateness.

How to know that the ascended masters are real

Question: If I was to see the masters in physical embodiment, so to speak, that would give me the reassurance that they are real, but it would also hinder the reality that we are not physical. And it might actually make me think that we’re it, we are already there, when we are not. So I have to go beyond the outer senses. That would probably reinforce the fact that, hey, we can stay here, and I don’t think that would be beneficial. But it would be reassuring if you could actually see them. Even for myself I don’t see the masters. I have always wondered as to how other individuals might see them, and at this conference I’m determined to keep my eyes open, so to speak.

This answer was given by Kim Michaels at a conference in Holland.

Yes, I understand what you mean. When you become an ascended master student, you are going against the mass consciousness, which denies that there is such a thing as ascended masters or a spiritual realm. Or they might not deny that it’s there, but then they say, as for example the Catholic Church says: “Ordinary people can’t experience it. Only the priests and those who are special can see this directly, so you just need to believe what we tell you.” And that’s what we’ve been brought up with.

You are really going against the mass consciousness, and so, of course, it would be nice to have some kind of confirmation. I feel I have had lots of confirmation that the masters are real. It just hasn’t been at the level of the physical senses. I think most of you probably also have had an inner confirmation that is beyond the senses, but that you still know is real. I feel that this is an important part of the stage we are at on earth.

I think there probably will come a time in the future when the masters will manifest physically or will be visible physically. But that will happen when most people no longer need it because the consciousness will have been raised. The challenge right now is that we who are the spiritual people need to demonstrate that we are willing to go beyond the physical proof, the physical senses, and still accept that something is real.

I am reminded of something that’s parallel to this. In Denmark there was a book published this spring, and the title of it is: “I Met Jesus.” This was a Danish lady who was a journalist, and she grew up in a sort of Marxist family that denied any spirituality. She had never gone to church and never been interested in anything spiritual. On a work trip in Spain she went into an old church, and all of a sudden she had a vision of Jesus standing next to her. It was a vision. He wasn’t physically there, but it was so real. It was like she saw him, like a window opened and she was seeing him standing in Israel dressed the way they were back then. He spoke to her in Aramaic. She realized later that it was Aramaic, and she couldn’t understand the words, but she still understood what he was trying to communicate with her.

Despite the fact that she was brought up to deny anything spiritual, she couldn’t deny this vision. For the first couple of years she didn’t tell anybody about it. As a journalist she went around and interviewed all of these experts in brain chemistry or how the brain works. I personally feel, although she doesn’t say this in her book, that she was just looking for somebody who would tell her: “Oh, it was just a complete hallucination. Forget all about it.” But nobody did, to her surprise.

They all kept saying that there are lots of things about the brain and the mind that we don’t understand. Some would even say that there has got to be more to the mind than what we can physically explain in the brain. It was like they all guided her along to this point where she finally said: “Okay, well, I have to write about this experience.” So she wrote this book that was published by a well-known publishing house and became a best-seller.

I thought that this was very interesting, because it’s the same dynamic. She had an inner experience, but it was so real to her that she couldn’t deny it. She actually dared to stand out in front of all of the skeptics. She expected that she would be attacked, but to her surprise she wasn’t. I think it was because she was so genuine about it. She wasn’t trying to preach to anybody. She wasn’t saying anything about what this means. She was just saying: “I had this experience, and I can’t deny it. And this is how it affected me and how I felt about it.” She described the whole process she went through.

I think that this, in a sense, is what we are all going through. We are here to demonstrate to other people. We are not here to necessarily attract people to the ascended masters’ teachings or to a particular group or philosophy or teacher or anything like that. But we are here to witness to the fact that there is something beyond the physical, and it’s still real and has value for us.

Free energy

Question: Can you tell us something about free energy?

Answer from Ascended Master Saint Germain through Kim Michaels:

Free energy is a concept partly inspired by us, partly by the fallen beings. You have heard the saying that there are no free lunches, that you have to pay the piper, and in a sense there is some truth to this. There is no free energy in the sense that there is energy that can come into the physical octave from a higher octave, but it has to come from somewhere.

Traditional science says that there is only a fixed amount of energy in the universe, and energy cannot be created and destroyed. As we have already said, science knows that the universe is expanding at an accelerated rate, and this can only be explained if there is new energy coming into the material realm in order to drive that expansion.

It is true that energy cannot be created or destroyed at the current level of consciousness, whereas, as was said earlier, LINK the speed of light is an absolute speed limit to that level of consciousness. It is not possible for you to create free energy through a mechanical, technological device. Again, as I said with the atomic accelerator chair, we gave the concepts of this technological device and there are many people in the world who dream of creating a technological device that can produce free energy in a completely mechanical way.

There will, in the future, be technological devices that will take the world’s energy production and the available energy to a higher level. I already have plans for this. They are in the etheric. They are beginning to be brought into the mental. They are still being blocked quite heavily in the emotional octave by various people not accepting the concept or by the fallen beings who are trying to create the turmoil that makes it impossible for people to bring it through the emotional into the physical.

There are people I am working with who are far along in terms of working with these concepts and creating certain devices. You have to understand that this is not a mechanical process because we will not allow the fallen beings to take free energy by force and turn it into unfree energy that they can monopolize and use to enslave people even more than the physical forms of energy you have right now.

Free energy should, of course, set people free, not enslave them. We need to walk this delicate balance: How can we raise the consciousness to a certain level? How can we remove a sufficient number of fallen beings that we can release this higher form of energy technology without having it being used to control or put down the people?

It is still some ways off before the world’s energy production will be taken to a higher level, but it will be achieved. I have given teachings on it earlier. I have given invocations where you can call this forth, and there might be other invocations that will come in the future for calling this into the physical. It is a delicate topic, for, as I said, free energy must remain free, and it must free the people.

About homeschooling

Question: Can you give us some understanding on home-schooling and traditional education systems. Is there any new information?

Answer from Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels:

Again, we are working with many different people around the world to bring forth new ideas in the area of education. This messenger is not particularly educated in education and does not therefore have the concept to be a vessel for bringing forth these ideas. Some of you, many people around the world, are open to this.

In terms of home-schooling, it is somewhat an individual evaluation. There are some children who can function well in a home-school environment. There are some parents who can do well as teachers in a home-school environment. But there are many children who will not achieve maximum growth by being home-schooled because they need interaction with greater numbers of other children than their own siblings. There are also some parents who are not suited, and it is not in their Divine plan. They may have other focuses for their attention, and they may have other aspects of their Divine plan that they need to achieve so it is not optimal for them to be teachers at home. I cannot give you a general answer.

There is nothing, as such, wrong with home-schooling. On the other hand, you need to realize that in a home-schooling environment it is almost as if the parents have to learn everything as they go along. Why not make use of the fact that other people have been teachers and have gained experiences that you can use? There is a need to create some kind of – it is difficult to say – home-schooling system. The whole idea of home-schooling is, of course, that it is not as organized as more official education, but it is necessary to create something that people can use that is based on experience, experience with the child, so that every parent that does home-schooling does not have to reinvent the wheel, so to speak.

It is, of course, in a sense the easy way out to send your child to a public school or to a private school that is already organized. It is more demanding to home-school your child. You should not avoid home-schooling in order to run away from something or have it be convenient. On the other hand, you should not force yourself or your child into a home-schooling environment out of either some idea of how your child should be taught or some dissatisfaction with public schooling. It is important to abstract yourself from these preconceived ideas, so that you are not running towards an ideal that may not be based on experience and seeking to force your child into it. Or you are not running away from what you conceive as the dissatisfying conditions of the organized school system. It is really important to tune in to yourself, to tune in to the child. What is best for the child? What is in your Divine plan?

Are we in an emotional dark age?

Question: It has been said that we live in a most dark age at this time. Many people have problems dealing with their emotions, and it causes an awful lot of suffering in many people’s lives. Many of us have not been parented correctly through our emotions. Can the ascended masters comment on how they envision this will be in the future? Will there be changes for the better? How will these changes come about?

Answer from Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels:

In terms of how the changes will come about, my beloved, I have four words for you: IN-VO-CA-TIONS. [Laughter] Truly, the tools I have given you, at least many of them, are designed to help people transcend these old emotional patterns. We will, of course, continue to give such tools as the consciousness is raised and people are able to grasp them.

It is true that you could say that the planet is in an emotional dark age, but the reason is actually not that it is a dark age. The reason is that more and more people are being able to do what Saint Germain said – abstract from the physical – and they have started working on the three higher bodies. There are people who work on all of the three higher bodies, but since the emotional one is the next one up from the physical, there is right now a very large number of people, many of whom are not openly spiritual, who are beginning to work on their emotions.

They are in some ways being forced to do so by the turmoil created by the fallen beings. They are, of course, trying to create a situation where the people who are beginning to free themselves from the physical, the focus on the physical, will be stuck in the emotional. They will be so hurt, so scattered in their emotions that they cannot reach higher than the emotional body because they keep going around in closed circles in their emotions. This is why our invocations, our decrees, our other tools, even our dictations, are designed to help people get out of these closed circles, these closed cycles, these downward spirals in the emotional realm. Certainly, this will change in the future. It is already changing.

Although I understand the concept that we are in an emotional dark age, it is really not a dark age. It is actually a positive sign that more and more people are beginning to clear out the emotional bodies of themselves and of the planet. What may seem like a disturbance or chaos from one level is actually a sign of progress. You understand that before progress can happen, the old matrices must be broken down, stirred up, challenged or transcended, and that will create a certain amount of turmoil.

You have all experienced in your own lives how you lived, in many cases, at a certain level of comfort before you found the spiritual path and then, when you found the path, all of a sudden everything was in chaos in your lives. Your relationships broke up, you lost your job, you were ill, somebody stole your car, whatever happened. All of these events can happen because, in order for you to go higher, the old has to be broken up. You understand that the ego always tries to stay in control and maintain that sense of comfort. Sometimes even the chaos that can be very unpleasant is still, in a sense, a hidden blessing. It helps you free yourself from the idea of the ego that it should always be in control, that you should always be in control, or that life should always be comfortable. You have to come to a willingness to be uncomfortable in the short term, in order to gain some advantage in the long term before you can make it to a higher level of the path.

Of course, when you do make it to a higher level, as I have attempted to explain in my dictations here, you can attain a sense of peace. You can be non-attached to the outer turmoil. You can be non-attached to your own human self. You can love that human self. You can even come to love the outer conditions, whatever they are. That can gain you, at the higher levels of the path, a sense of inner peace. But before you get to that level, yes, it is very difficult. It is difficult whether you are a spiritual person or a non-spiritual person who is being forced to deal with his or her emotions. We have compassion for this, but there is no other way, given the current level of consciousness, than to allow this chaos to happen.

All animals will eventually disappear

Question: I have a question about nature. With the manifestation of the Golden Age and an increase of consciousness, will there also be changes in nature and in the animal world? For example, I always wondered why animals like snakes or scorpions exist.

Answer from Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels.

Yes, there will be dramatic changes in nature and dramatic changes in the animal world. Again, as Saint Germain said, we are somewhat mindful – this is the wisdom of the Mother – of where people are in consciousness, what they are able to accept, how much they are able to abstract from current conditions. You understand the delicate balance we are facing as ascended masters.

People have created current conditions through their consciousness, but because they are not aware of this, because they have descended into a very dense state of consciousness, they do not recognize that they have co-created many of the conditions that you currently see on earth in past lives or in past ages. Now they have come to see these conditions as being natural – being created by God or as a result of an evolutionary process. They think they are inevitable and that they do not have the power to change them. Many people have, of course, also developed an emotional attachment to the way things currently are on earth.

We have given teachings earlier that many animals were created through the duality consciousness. They were created after the Fall by the lower state of consciousness. Snakes, venomous animals, venomous insects are an expression of the lower aspects of the duality consciousness. Many of the animals you see on earth are actually, you might say, crossovers from the astral plane where the form exists. Gradually, over time, it has been lowered into a physical manifestation by humankind lowering their consciousness or even putting it on certain matrixes.

If you understand what was said earlier about this crossover effect between the astral plane and the physical, in terms of UFOs or dragons or unicorns, it is actually possible that people, large numbers of people, can attune their consciousness to the astral plane to such a degree that they pull a thoughtform from the astral realm into the physical level of vibration so that it manifests as a physical animal.

This is a teaching we have given earlier, but we have sort of left it hanging as to how many animals on earth were created this way. We have left some openness for people to believe that at least some of the animals have a higher reality and therefore will not be removed when the earth ascends. This has been, again, because we judged what people were ready for.

Now, of course, you are asking and you have achieved a higher level of understanding, so I can tell you the reality: 100% of the animals you currently see on earth will disappear when the earth is raised higher. There is absolutely no animal, no bird, no animal form, virtually no plants, that are in such a pure state that they will be able to maintain their present form as the earth is raised in vibration.

I am not here talking about the final ascension of this sphere you are in. I am simply talking about the gradual raising of the earth. There will come certain points where certain animals will become extinct because a critical number of human beings have transcended the consciousness that created that astral thoughtform and pulled it into the physical. Why did the dinosaurs become extinct? There may have been physical causes that science can point out that were, so to speak, instrumental in it, but the real reason was that a critical number of people had transcended the consciousness that precipitated these animals. So it will be with all the current animals. Many of the imbalances you see in nature will no longer exist. There will come a point where even matter itself will become less dense, will become more transparent.

I do not wish to burden you with this, but you need to be aware here that you cannot be attached to anything. You cannot be attached to any current form on earth when you really want to make maximum spiritual progress. You need to be willing to question all of the forms that you see.

You need to, as we have said in these dictations, not be so attached to a particular form that it blinds you to the higher form that is already there in the identity realm, in the higher identity realm, and is waiting for you to play your part in lowering it through the identity, into the mental, through the emotional, and into the physical. You understand that this is how the earth will be raised—by the most sensitive and the most spiritual people tuning in to the higher thoughtforms and then, through their attention, bringing them into the physical.

How to work with elemental beings

Question: How are we connected to nature spirits and elemental life? Can we cooperate or be connected to elemental life and nature spirits throughout Europe?

Answer from Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels.

This varies from person to person. Many people have a deeper sense of the nature spirits and are more attuned to nature. Others do not, and you do not need to worry about it if you do not have that sense. It is because you are focused on other things. It is actually so that most of the people who are attuned to nature were among what we have called the original inhabitants of the earth. If you are a lifestream that has descended from other planets because you had a higher spiritual maturity, you usually do not have a strong connection to the earth or to the elemental kingdom. I am not making any value judgments here, you understand. I am simply explaining.

Those of you who feel an affinity or concern for the elemental kingdom can certainly cooperate with them. You do this by making the calls, by attuning to them, depending on how you can attune. There are various other people who have a much greater connection to the elemental kingdom than this messenger, people who have brought forth various books, various techniques that could be valid for you to look into. You will follow your intuition whether this is something you should take up. What you can, of course, do is make the calls, the invocations, for elemental life to be set free.

Those who have more of the wisdom of the Mother developed can perhaps better tune in to the elemental kingdom. You will see that even today, and certainly in the past, many of those who were called shamans, witches, wise women or other practitioners would have this affinity with the elemental spirits, would be able to work with them. Unfortunately, some of them have gone into controlling the elementals instead of working with them. There are various ways you can, as a spiritual person, work with the elementals, cooperate with them.

When I say “cooperate” you need to understand something: You need to be very clear that you are a higher evolution than the elementals. You may say that you are in physical embodiment and the physical octave is the densest of the four realms. So since the identity octave is in a higher vibration, does it not stand to reason that the elementals there are higher than you? This is not the case. They are existing in a higher vibrational realm, but they are not individualized as you are, and therefore they are not a higher evolution. Of course, you can cooperate, but you need to be clear that you are in command. You are the higher evolution. The elementals are not telling you what to do. They may tell you how things work at their level, but they are not telling you what to do. For that you need to make your own decisions and tune in to the ascended masters.

The elementals are not teachers of human beings in embodiment. That is why you need to be careful of those who have channeled books that claim that the elementals are your teachers and that they have a higher understanding. Certainly, those who are the leaders of the elemental beings have a higher understanding than human beings. They can teach, but they will do it in the context of working with those of us who are identified as ascended masters.

You need to recognize here that the ascended masters are the lawful teachers for earth. We are at a higher level than you are. We are also at a higher level than the elemental beings, and so there is a cosmic hierarchy. There is that pyramid starting from the Creator, and you need to respect your position there and not lower yourself, because by doing this you do not serve the elementals.

There are some elementals that have been misled by fallen beings into thinking they are wiser than human beings because they look at all the chaos human beings have created at the physical level. But this is not actually the case. The elementals do not have the self-awareness that you have so, as they do not have quite the same ability to go low, they do not have the ability to go high either. They are not your teachers. You are not their teachers either. The leaders of the elemental bands are their teachers at that level. So cooperation, yes, but be aware of your position.