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A new money system and the end of debt-based money

Question: Are we heading towards a crash of the markets and then building up something new, or are we more dealing with a gradual change towards a new economy? Can you elaborate on that a little more?

Answer from Ascended Master Saint Germain through Kim Michaels.

Well, it is both. We are working on a gradual change towards a new economy, and there is a gradual upward movement. As is always the case, and as Mother Mary said about the pendulum swinging back and forth, it is still necessary that people see extremes before they can free themselves from the old consciousness. So there will be ups and downs in the market.

There is no question about it. Will there be a crash as severe as 2008 or 1929? Again, this is very difficult to predict because it depends on how people respond. What I have said before is that you have an economy today that is entirely driven by perception. If people go into a panic and think that the market is going to crash, and it is about pulling your money out as soon as you can and taking whatever losses you have to take in order to have something left, then the crash could be precipitated within 24 hours.

I will say, as we have said before, that there was the potential for a third world war, and every day that passed without the war manifesting in the physical, the less likely it would be that it would happen. It is the same way with the economy right now. For every day that passes, there is less of a risk. I will say that the months of September and October or the first half of October [2015], especially this year, do carry a certain risk of some very big swings in the markets around the world, especially in the United States and Europe. There will also, of course, be a severe challenge to Europe and the Euro not only because of the Greek debt crisis but because of the planetary debt crisis.

In terms of a new money system, yes, there will be a new money system that will gradually be brought forth. What will, first of all, happen is that there will be a challenge to the debt-based money system. It will come simply because of the fact that not only Greece but many other countries will have reached a level of national debt where the interest payments have become too big to sustain the economy and the living standard in the country. There are two solutions to this. One is to create an entirely new money system that is not based on debt. Since those in control of the economy are not likely to accept this potential, then the more likely scenario is that they will have to find a way to simply neutralize and nullify debt.

It will be necessary to say that certain countries have gotten into such steep national debt that, for the sake of maintaining the present monetary system, it is necessary to simply nullify the debt as if it never happened. There may be different transitions that they will attempt to come up with where they will say that the countries do no longer have the debt but they should still pay the interest, or that the debt is nullified but the countries still owe the interest and now will have to start paying interest on the interest.

They will come up with all kinds of schemes in order to keep having that flow of money from the interest on money that they created out of nothing and therefore do not deserve to receive interest from. They did nothing of value to deserve the return, and that is how the fallen beings steal people’s labor. Because it is, of course, people’s labor and ingenuity that adds value to the economy and therefore creates the increase that makes the economy grow. Interest payments on debt created out of nothing are just sucking the lifeblood out of that upward spiral of the economy.

How new ideas about the economy are released

Question: Can you elaborate on how you release new ideas about the economy and how we can help the process?

Answer from Ascended Master Saint Germain through Kim Michaels.

When you make the calls, we can anchor light and ideas, but there must be people in embodiment who can receive those ideas and carry them out in the physical. This requires that they have a certain level of knowledge and understanding of how the economy works. There is no single person who can receive all of the ideas that we wish to bring forth.

There will be different people who will bring forth pieces of the puzzle. And the question is: When will they be willing and ready to bring this forth and publish it? The bigger question is: Will enough people be willing to heed these ideas, take them and put them together into a coherent whole, and then actually apply them to a country’s economy?

There are people who are already doing this, people I am already working with at inner levels, even though they are not consciously aware of my existence. This will be accelerated with the calls people make, but I do not wish to give too much concrete information. I do not wish to give a specific prediction about dates because it is a delicate process. It needs to be brought through the three higher levels before it can be brought into the physical.

This is where you come in as the spiritual people. You can make the invocations and the decrees – if you have an interest in the economy – that these ideas will be filtered down, that people will be protected and cut free so that their minds can receive them. You can also call, of course, for the judgment and the binding of the dark forces that oppose these ideas and that are, right now, busy trying to figure out how they can counteract these ideas by putting out false ideas, which will seemingly nullify or at least divide people or take away their attention.

This is a delicate process. It will not happen overnight because the economy is such a complex issue in the modern world. It is complex for a reason, partly because the fallen beings have made it very complicated in order to hide their control, but also because the force that breaks down these fixed structures has actually caused the economy to be more diversified, made more complex, in order to make it impossible for even the fallen beings to have full control over it.

They cannot fathom in their minds how the economy actually works. There is, in fact, no human being in embodiment right now who can fathom in the outer mind how the economy works, and this is one of the problems we have. This is what we will counteract by releasing these energies or these matrices through different people who can grasp at least parts of it.

Zecharia Sitchin and the limitations of DNA

Question: In another ascended master organization they focused a lot of attention on the work of Zecharia Sitchin, and I thought that was for a reason.

Answer from Ascended Master Saint Germain through Kim Michaels:

Yes, it was for a reason. But it was, as I said with the atomic accelerator chair, a matter of what people were ready for. Again, you will notice that we did not give long dictations expounding on this. It was the messenger who gave lectures because she thought it was a valid concept. She was not fully aware of what I have just told you because again she was a messenger at a certain level for a certain dispensation, a certain group of people. As a messenger you are not always physically aware of exactly what you are doing. Neither is this messenger fully aware, and that is the way it always is. For her this was a concept that had some appeal, not that she necessarily thought it was an absolute truth.

If you see again what I said earlier, we gave a concept clothed in a specific expression. It is not that Sitchin was completely wrong. It is just that he was not able to receive the higher abstract ideas from the ascended realm. He was able to receive some impulses, but in his mind he could not abstract from the physical. The idea, the concept that came down, was in his mind clothed with what he could visualize, which was a physical civilization that had physically come here, altered the physical DNA, and therefore created a slave race.

Now, there is a parallel to this, in the sense that the fallen beings in the three higher octaves have created a slave race on earth, but this is not created through physical DNA. This is again an old-fashioned, limited understanding of DNA. As Jesus has said before about the concept of the twelfth planet or Planet X, it is not a physical change. DNA only encodes information about how the cells produce protein. Your personality is not encoded in your DNA. Therefore, whether you are a slave or a free being is not encoded in your DNA.

Of course, you can always say that you can conceive of the astral or the emotional body, the mental body, and the identity body as parallel to the physical body. You can say that there is certain information coding that can be compared to DNA. But I caution you very strongly not to think that conditions in the three higher bodies are similar to the physical body. It is absolutely necessary for spiritual people, and especially ascended master students in this age, to stop reasoning backwards. You need to get away from this idea that the physical octave is cause and therefore the way things are in the physical can show you how things are in the three higher octaves, or even in the spiritual realm. This is the old idea that people project onto God that he is an angry and judgmental God because this is how they see their own state of consciousness.

You need to recognize that the physical octave is the lowest. Although the things in the physical are clearly somewhat parallel to what exists in the higher octaves, you need to realize that the higher octaves are beyond the physical. They are much more fluid, much more sophisticated, and so you cannot reason backwards and think that there has to be something in the emotional realm, for example, that is functioning the same way as physical DNA.

The fallen beings can influence your emotional body, they clearly can. They can create implants in your emotional body, and again the word implant is not really a good word, but it is the word we have. They can insert something in your emotional body that can affect you.

What people conceive of with physical DNA is that this is a physical change that you do not have the power to go beyond, and this is, of course, not correct. You do have the power to transcend any of the limitations in the three higher bodies through the power of the mind. You also have potential to transcend the limitations in the physical body through the power of the mind. You cannot as an individual override the collective, and therefore there is a limit to how fast the planet can be raised at the physical level.

Why there are no extra-terrestrials on earth

Question: Are there no physical extraterrestrials on earth?

Answer from Ascended Master Saint Germain through Kim Michaels:

Yes, as Maitreya has already stated in his book, there are no physical extraterrestrials that have ever come to earth or ever will. You will notice from science that the universe is very, very large. Why do you think that is? Why do you think the universe is so vast that it is physically impossible to travel between inhabited planets because of the absolute speed limit of the speed of light?

The human imagination and that of fallen angels know no boundaries and recognize no boundaries. You have those who have created the concept that certain spaceships can travel faster than the speed of light, five times the speed of light, and suddenly maybe it is possible to travel from other inhabited planets. The reality of the matter is that there are two levels of the physical universe. I am not saying they are distinct, separate levels, but there are certain pockets in the physical universe.

There are many, many planets that are at a much higher level than earth. These planets do have some degree of interplanetary communication and travel and cooperation. This has been achieved because they have raised their consciousness to the point where the speed of light is not an absolute speed limit.

On a planet like earth, where so many people are still at such a low consciousness (basically any planet where you see war or large-scale conflict), the speed of light is an absolute speed limit. These planets are allowed to exist, but they are required to be in isolation. The higher planets are not allowed to physically contact earth. Neither are those who might have an even lower manifestation than earth but a more technologically advanced civilization. So the earth is allowed to evolve in isolation physically.

There is, of course, as Maitreya also states in his book, another process whereby beings who used to be embodied on other planets can embody on earth. They might embody physically or in the emotional, mental, or identity realms. There is also, as Maitreya explains, a certain thinning of the veil, or a spill-over effect, between the physical octave and some of the levels of the astral plane, where people can see – they think it is physically – these manifestations. It is actually that their senses, their brains, their outer minds, are so attuned to the astral plane that they are seeing what appears to be technological devices.

You will notice that a few hundred years ago nobody was seeing UFOs, but they were seeing other creatures, what you often call mythological creatures, demons, werewolves or whatever. This was again because they were attuned to the astral plane. They were not aware that their consciousness was attuned to this, and therefore they were absolutely convinced that their experiences were real. They thought these creatures were physical, that there were dragons on the earth back then.

The reason people see UFOs today is not because UFOs have started appearing. It is because the technological advancement of civilization has made it possible for people to imagine technological devices coming from other planets, which they could not even imagine 200 or 500 years ago.

Do you see my point? There is no objective reality here. It is a subjective “reality.” So again, as ascended master students, you need to raise yourselves beyond this. You need to not get caught up in this whole drama that people are outplaying, that extraterrestrials will come and destroy the earth or enslave humankind, or that they have already done so, or that they will come and save humankind.

Prophecies about physical changes, Planet X

Question: I have a question about planetary changes. There is a lot to do with Planet X on the Internet in connection with the Book of Revelation and other prophecies. How should we as ascended master students deal with these prophecies?

Answer from Ascended Master Saint Germain through Kim Michaels:

As you deal with the atomic accelerator chair. Again, the idea is that there is some physical thing, whether it is a planet that is coming from some orbit, whether it is a spaceship coming from a distant planet physically. You see that this is a relic from the time when people were much more tied to the physical octave and did not have the ability to abstract from it. There are people still holding on to this consciousness, as you see many Christians holding on to the concept that Jesus will physically, visibly appear in the sky in an undeniable manifestation, or that the entire world will be physically resurrected. It is not physical. There is no physical change here that you as ascended master students need to pay attention to.

There are some people who need this – there are some people who can grow from it – but the way you really grow from this is to transcend that focus, that attachment to the physical manifestation. It is the same as so many spiritual students, even ascended master students, who want to see a physical, visible proof: “Why don’t the ascended masters just materialize themselves so that the whole world will be forced to recognize that they exist?” Well, because we respect the law of free will, and we have no desire to destroy God’s plan for saving the universe through free will instead of through force.

This whole idea that there is some physical thing that is going to come and transform the earth in a way that essentially is a violation of free will is just not a true idea. It is not coming from the ascended masters, and you who acknowledge us should just ignore it.

You do not need to go into a battle with those people who have a need to believe it, but you can certainly state how you see it and let them react any way they want. Do not engage in any kind of battle because you do not gain anything from it. They just become more anchored in their state of consciousness. There are truly many times when you need to look at even people close to you and just say: “Well, if they will not listen, they must be allowed to outlive that state of consciousness until they have had enough of it.”

Seeing the violet flame

Question: Thirty seconds after I close my eyes I see a pulsing violet color. Why is this?

Answer from Ascended Master Saint Germain through Kim Michaels:

Because you are tuning in to the vibration, and therefore you can often see it even as a physical sensation. Many people have – during meditation, for example, or other spiritual exercises – seen various colors of light. Many, many people who are spiritual today have seen the violet light because it is the closest to the physical in vibration. Many people are able to tune in to it, and many people who have a true desire to transcend their old state can tune in to this energy.

Therefore, they can even see it or sense it in other ways, and by sensing it, by seeing it, by absorbing it, it does help you raise your vibration in some way, even if you are not directly invoking the Violet Flame through a decree. Of course, a decree is a more powerful way to invoke the Violet Flame than meditation or other forms of exercises that are not oral, where you do not speak the word. The spoken word is the most powerful way to invoke spiritual light.

The atomic accelerator chair and progressive revelation

Question: I have a question about the atomic acceleration chair. Can Master Saint Germain explain more about how it works and whether it is possible for small groups to work with this chair?

Answer from Ascended Master Saint Germain through Kim Michaels:

You need to log in to the idea that progressive revelation is progressive. Therefore, as Mother Mary explained with the wisdom of the Divine Mother, we are always giving people concepts that they can relate to with a given state of consciousness. Then it is the hope that, instead of taking them literally and turning them into a closed box, people will raise themselves up so that they no longer need the concept.

The concept of the atomic accelerator chair was given in the 1930s when very few people on the planet were able to even conceive of the process of the ascension as it really unfolds. They were only able to conceive of it in a more bodily, physical form, and many of them were not able to abstract from the physical body. Many were tied in to the Christian ideas that at the end of time Jesus will appear, and all of the physical bodies of all of the people who have died throughout history will be physically resurrected and then exist in some heaven world with the physical bodies they had. There were many people in the 1930s who could not free their minds from this idea that the ascension had to be a physical process.

In the I AM Movement I was seeing the need to give people a concept they could relate to, and therefore I presented the concept of the ascension in a much more physical way. I even gave the concept that it is possible to ascend physically, and in a sense it is possible to ascend physically, in the fact that you can dematerialize the physical body as the lifestream is ascending. This does not mean actually that the physical body ascends and now you wear a physical body in the ascended realm that resembles the physical body you had on earth. This is not a correct understanding of it, but it was based on the limited ability to abstract that people had at the time.

In the ensuing decades many more people have expanded their ability to abstract from these concrete physical images. What I am saying here is that the concept of the atomic accelerator chair was also a concept given to people at a certain level of consciousness. Of course, there are still people at that level of consciousness in embodiment so the concept as such is not obsolete, but it is indeed obsolete for those of you who are able to abstract from this more physical, material view of it.

There is no need to accelerate the physical atoms. The physical atoms of the body, even when you ascend, are not accelerated to the level of the ascended realm. The physical body, the physical atoms of the material world as you see it today, will eventually be – we might say – accelerated when the entire sphere ascends, but this is still not a physical ascension. It is actually that the atoms transcend the matrix that makes them atoms. They are accelerated into a higher state, an entirely higher thought matrix—not a higher physical state in a linear way, but an entirely different thought matrix.

You will see that the teachings of the I AM Movement were given at a time when people had this need. They also had this great belief in technology and the ability of technology to bring forth these wonderful devices that would solve all problems and almost work like magic. There was a need to, so to speak, feed that because that was where people’s awareness was. That is why I gave certain teachings about these different devices that existed in the retreats of the masters, including the atomic accelerator chair.

You have to understand that – even in ascended master teachings and also in many other spiritual and religious teachings – we are always attempting to give a particular idea, but in order to give that idea we must clothe it in an outer form that people can grasp with their current level of consciousness. The wise student makes the distinction between the idea and the particular outer form, the concept and a particular form.

While I have given this concept of the atomic accelerator chair and described it in some detail, it was to stir people’s imagination so that they would look beyond it, beyond the form, and realize that it is actually possible to accelerate your four lower bodies to an entirely new matrix. You are, however, not so much accelerating the bodies as you are accelerating the energy and the consciousness. The acceleration is not a linear acceleration where you take an actual physical atom and accelerate it to a higher level of vibration. It is, as I said, that you actually free the energy from the matrix of the atom. You free your consciousness from the matrix of your thoughts and feelings.

It is the concept embodied, or demonstrated, by Jesus on the cross. He had to die physically for him to be reborn spiritually. It is the old matrix that has to die. It cannot be accelerated in a linear way. It is not that the matrix is just at a lower degree of perfection and can be raised to higher degrees of perfection, and then it can ascend. It is that the matrix has to be allowed to die so that the Conscious You can free itself from identification with the matrix.

As you can hear between the lines here, those of you who are open to our newer teachings should just ignore the idea of the atomic accelerator chair. You have transcended the need for having that concept. It is not constructive to attempt to create a physical chair because if there were a mechanical/technological/physical way to make people ascend, then surely the fallen ones would long ago have created it and used it on themselves to force their way into the ascended realm. There, they could start creating havoc as you see on earth, and this simply cannot be done.

The electronic belt and emotions

Question: What is the carrier of our emotions, the carrier of our thoughts, the carrier of energy? Is this what is known as the electronic belt?

Answer from Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels:

Well, the electronic belt is a concept that we gave in order to give the visible impression that there is a part of your aura, the lower part of your aura, that contains the fear-based energies. It is truly not as much of a belt as the entire lower half of your auric sheet that is this electronic belt, as we called it. The carrier of emotion is this specific type of energy that vibrates in the spectrum that makes up the emotional body on earth. It is, of course, the same with the mental and identity bodies.

You can play with words here and use words differently, because it is not really so that there is a mental energy that is the carrier of thought, in the sense that you have the energy and then the thought is projected onto it. It is more so that, as the thought is projected, the energy that carries it further is sort of pulled out of its ground state and given a direction. Then it is this energy that descends into the emotional where it can then again be reinforced with a new energy generated at the emotional level. And this is then sent into the physical, affecting your conscious mind.

How to interact at a spiritual conference

Question: Another question about the flow of energy – the masters said there was some plan to release an amount of energy for this conference. Yesterday, it was said that the energies are released through our chakras, through the chakras of all of us, and I personally don’t much feel the flow of that energy through me. And I know there are some people who feel the flow of that energy so much, almost bursting with energy. Does it mean that I am not a good conductor for the energy?

Answer from Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. NOTE: This answer was given at a conference in Holland in 2015.

While I, of course, understand your question, I also need to encourage you not to analyze and evaluate yourself this way. It is very individual what you experience or do not experience. There are many people who have had their third eye opened or have had other kind of sensitivities without necessarily having a high degree of spiritual maturity or mastery. So these outer abilities are not necessarily a clear sign of any kind of attainment, and that means the absence of them is not a sign of a lack of mastery.

It may simply be that your focus is somewhere else. It may be that some people are more focused on the physical octave and changes in the physical octave, and they are therefore not as sensitive to the energies. You can, of course, develop this sensitivity, but I do not necessarily want you to focus too much attention and effort on this. It is, in fact, better, as some people have realized, to see these kinds of things as gifts. If you receive them, fine, but if you strive to attain them, then many people have tried to take heaven by force.

There are, in fact, many people who have certain clairvoyant abilities but who have forced them (either in this or past lifetimes) because they desired to set themselves above others or feel that they were important, or other human ambitions like this. So my answer really is: Do not worry about this. If you sense it, then that is good. If you do not, do not be concerned about it, because by making the calls and being centered in the heart, you are having the effect.

I also want to comment on the concept that we had a certain plan before this conference for how much energy could be released and that you could go beyond it. We always have what we might call a low potential or a high potential, but, of course, the low potential is then much higher than the activities of most human beings. When you do come together at a conference, even the lowest potential is a very high release of light compared to people in the world. So do not underestimate that.

It is, of course, a delicate equation when you have 30, 40, 50, or more people who come together from many different physical locations and do not know each other at the conscious level. In some cases they have karma with each other from past lives. When you do come together at a conference, even though you may not be consciously aware of it, your four lower bodies start interacting with each other, and your karmic patterns may pull you into certain reactions with other people.

We have in previous ascended master organizations often seen how people could come together at a conference who had never met each other before physically in this lifetime, and all of a sudden they could be in a heated discussion over something. It was an inconsequential discussion, but both sides were completely convinced that it was absolutely necessary to prove their point to the other side. This is an example of a karmic attachment between these people. There was something they didn’t work out in a past life, and they have a desire to work it out. Now that they are together, they become anxious to absolutely work it out, but they think the only way is to convince the other side.

The way to work it out is, of course, to look at yourself and say: “Why do I have this attachment to convincing these other people, which I normally don’t feel?” Then you surrender it, you let it go. You make the calls for the transmutation of the karma or the energy, and you forgive. If you have this reaction with other people, it is because there is something you need to forgive—you need to forgive them, you need to forgive yourself.

We cannot, of course, know how people will respond when they are brought together. We can predict how people’s auras are going to stir up each other, but we cannot predict whether people will choose the higher road of letting it go or whether they will choose to go in and reinforce these patterns. What we have fortunately seen in the last several conferences, that we have given with this messenger present, has been that the majority of the people have chosen to transcend their patterns and come into a greater harmony. In other words, the harmony of the group, the harmony of yourself, the goal of serving the ascended masters, was more important than proving yourself right. That is what makes it possible for you to manifest the highest potential for a conference where we can release much more light than we imagined or planned. At this particular conference you have achieved a very high level of that harmony, synchronicity, oneness, that we look for.

As we have said before, when you get together in a group and give decrees together, there is a multiplication of these decrees. The multiplication factor can vary, and it varies depending on the level of that oneness and harmony that you can achieve as a group. The higher that level of harmony, the more light can be released through your chakras. You have at this conference truly achieved a very high degree of this. I do not say this to cause pride, but I say it to cause the realistic assessment in you that you have been willing to set aside all of these lesser things.

Really, it is not a matter of denying that there are issues to deal with, but it is a matter of not allowing an issue to become a downward energetic spiral. You understand that we are not encouraging you to try to create this harmony artificially, by simply ignoring or denying any issue you have with other people. We are not saying that if two people come together at a conference – or a group of people come together – and you feel there is a tension, then you should say: “Oh, now we have to keep the harmony and ignore this issue.” What we are saying is that there is a middle way, where you do not ignore the issue but where you are talking about it in a way that keeps your energies high, that keeps them flowing upwards so that they do not start creating this downward energetic spiral.

You will notice in all of your relationships how you have some people with whom you have created this downward energetic spiral. You can use our decrees and invocations to free yourself from the energetic pull, and then you can teach yourself to always keep your interactions with other people above that level so that you do not create these energetic spirals. In fact, you have a right to say, when other people come and want to drag you into such a spiral (you do not need to say it out loud, but you can say it in your mind) that you don’t want to be pulled into this. Then, you do whatever is necessary and appropriate to avoid it.

There are many times when, if you ignore an issue or gloss it over, it will still create an energetic spiral so it is good to attempt to resolve it. If the other person is not willing to raise his or her energy so you can resolve it in a constructive manner without creating the downward spiral, then it can be valid for you to just withdraw and say: “I am not going to reinforce it.”

Truly, what we look for in a conference is that you, so to speak, create an environment that is as close to the ascended realm as possible, and in the ascended realm, of course, we are in a state of harmony. We are not in a state of sameness, but we are in a state of harmony that is far beyond what most people have ever experienced on earth and could even imagine. By coming together and maintaining this high level of harmony and union, you gain a glimpse of how we interact with each other in the ascended realm. We, of course, do not play any of these games. We don’t have these energetic spirals. We are always uplifting each other. This is possible to achieve once you have reached a certain level of working through your own personal issues.

After all, whenever you have a conflict with other people, the reason you are in that state of conflict is that you have unresolved psychological issues that pulled you into it. It may very well be that the other person also has unresolved issues. But if you had not had unresolved issues, the other person would have had to find somebody else to pull into his or her spiral, and you would have been passed by. If you want to be free, if you want to transcend, you need to be willing to look at yourself. Because all of you who are here have been willing to already do that in yourselves before you came, you have then been able to achieve this higher degree of harmony.

It always gives us intense joy when we see a group of people, or even two people, on earth who can achieve this and who can maintain it over time. We fully understand how difficult it is to maintain something like this over time, and it is especially difficult in your daily lives. We understand that all of you, when you go from a conference where you have experienced this higher consciousness, will be confronted with a test. Most likely it will come from the people closest to you, who don’t realize what they are doing and are not doing it out of evil intention, but they will subject you to the test of whether you can keep that harmony.

It is good to be aware of this, but it is also good to apply what I have given you here, namely that if you do fall below, then you don’t condemn yourself and analyze. You pick yourself up and move on. You think back to what you experienced at the conference. You go back into that frame of mind, even if you have been pulled out of it. That is the value of experiencing this higher harmony, that it becomes your frame of reference so when you realize that something has pulled you below it, you can make that decision to raise yourself back up.

The original inhabitants decide the fate of the earth

Question: I have a question about our authority on earth. I remember there was a lesson about inhabitants of the earth, the lifestreams that were born for the first time here and lifestreams that came from other systems, and that the original inhabitants have the right to make decisions about raising up the earth.

Answer from Ascended Master Jesus through Kim Michaels:

It is correct that any planet will go up or down based on choices made by those lifestreams for whom the planet was created as a platform for learning. This is sometimes not the original ones because there may have been life waves that have ascended from a planet and then new life waves have come in. However, I am talking about those who were created take embodiment on a given planet as their first planet. What has happened on many planets is that these original inhabitants have taken the planet into a downward spiral.

Then, other lifestreams are allowed to embody there, and it can be lower lifestreams like the fallen beings, or it can be those who are more evolved, and there is always a balance between the two. Their role is to either stir up chaos by taking things to the extreme, as is the case of the fallen beings, or to inspire and demonstrate by example that you do not have to be bound by the mindset that created the downward spiral.

As we have said, that mindset need not be what you would conceive of as negative or primitive. There are, in fact, previous civilizations on many planets that have been much more sophisticated and harmonious than what you see on earth. They have just come to that point of standstill where the planet was no longer a platform for lifestreams ascending because they were standing still at a certain level.

You, who are the spiritual lifestreams that have come to earth, you cannot override the free will of the – let us call them – original inhabitants. You understand that on earth there were what we have called root races that embodied, and some of them ascended. Those who initiated the downward spiral are the ones who must decide to break out of it.

They are also the ones who to some degree determine what fallen beings can embody on earth. They do this in a more general sense. The lower their consciousness is, or the more resistant they are to change, the more we will tend to have to keep the fallen ones on the planet in order to create that disturbance that provokes people into rethinking their beliefs.

You need to understand that there is a correlation between the fallen beings who are allowed to embody on a planet and the more mature spiritual beings who are allowed to embody. There is always a balance between the two so that the fallen beings cannot take the planet too far into the downward spiral.

You understand what I am saying. The original inhabitants who created the downward spiral are the ones who must decide whether the planet goes up or down. You, the spiritual people, cannot decide to override their free will but neither can the fallen beings. They attempt to do so, but they cannot do it on a planetary level.

Even though a planet may be in a downward spiral that eventually could become or lead to the destruction of the planet, the fallen beings cannot actually bring about the destruction of the planet without the free-will choices of the original inhabitants. They may seduce them, they may force them, they may do all manner of things, but they themselves do not have the authority to decide to destroy the planet, just as you do not have the authority to take it up higher.

In a general sense, the original inhabitants decide the level of consciousness of the fallen beings that can embody. When it comes to specific fallen beings or specific groups of fallen beings, you who are the spiritual people are the ones who decide, and you decide in a very simple way. The law is that if a fallen being had a certain level of attainment before that being fell, then there has to be a spiritual being who reaches that same level of attainment before the fallen being can be taken.

By raising your consciousness, you make it possible for us to remove specific fallen beings, even though you cannot this way remove all. You can certainly remove the darkest or the most powerful or the most deceptive lifestreams by raising your own consciousness. You can also contribute to this process even before you reach that level of attainment by making the calls, and this is your authority as the spiritual people who have come to earth from the outside. You cannot, in the overall sense, take a planet up or down, but you can in the more specific sense contribute to lessening the weight of the fallen beings that are pulling down the original inhabitants.

Do we judge dark beings?

Question: Jesus is saying that enough is enough, and we do a lot of judgment calls related to enough is enough. So we make the calls to remove the dark beings. Do we have to judge them, or do they have the choice to go into the light or stay in the darkness?

Answer by Kim Michaels

I’ll just answer that because that was covered in a dictation. It is that they receive a choice. Previously some people have seen it as being their end, and there is force, but they are always given a choice if they will respond to the light or not.

If they don’t respond, it’s not really a punishment. It’s actually that if they don’t see that the earth is moving up and they don’t want to go up with it, this really isn’t the environment where they can grow. They can only make more karma for themselves.

It’s actually a mercy that they are removed to another environment where they still have more of an opportunity to grow than they have here. At the same time, they’re not holding back the rest of the planet.

Popes held artificially alive by Catholics

Question: I would like to follow up on that a public figure in embodiment can be sustained by the free will of the people beyond their lifespan. I’m thinking about the Popes and how when they’re elected, they’re already really old men. I’m just wondering if the mass will of the Catholic people is sustaining Popes well beyond their lifespans too. Is that the same kind of mechanism?

Answer by Ascended Master Jesus, July 18, 2015 through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during a conference in Los Angeles.

Yes, this is very much the case, not only for individual Popes, but for the entire Catholic church, which has been sustained by the consciousness of the people giving their light to maintain this structure and thereby the demons behind it. It is not a church, as I have said before, that I can sponsor and that I want to have my light. That is why I have withdrawn my light from it.

This is, of course, not only the case with the Catholic church or other churches. It is the case with many organizations, even some that are considered benevolent by many people, as, of course, the Catholic church is considered a benevolent organization by many people.

It is important to make the calls for the exposure of this structure, and for the awakening of the people to how they are supporting dark forces by giving their light with the best of intentions. This is something you can make calls on but that we will also address in greater depth in the future.

Cause of drought

Question: What is the consciousness behind the drought, and what kind of vision can we hold and calls can we make?

Kim: I will just answer that because the masters have given teachings that drought is related to greed, and we actually talked about that on the radio show one day. So you can make calls on that. There are even some teachings on the Ascended Master Light website about the five Dhyani Buddhas and how they relate to different natural disasters. So you could use that. You also have the East-West Invocation, for example, and other calls like that.

Question: What about the East Coast being more of a focus for drought because of Wall Street?

Kim: That’s true, but on the other hand, you do have, in California, going back to the Gold Rush, a certain level of consciousness of wanting the quick buck and feeling that it’s never enough. The whole state is so expensive to live in that there are obviously some very powerful people who are squeezing every dime out of people by just increasing living expenses. You can’t avoid spending on electricity or driving or whatever. So that’s probably also something to make calls on—the power elite and the manipulation behind that.

Hyperinflation in the U.S.

Question: Is there any coming hyperinflation in the United States in the near future?

Answer by Ascended Master Saint Germain, July 18, 2015 through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during a conference in Los Angeles.

That depends on what you mean by the near future. Actually, the probability of hyperinflation is not the greatest concern about the economy because the fallen beings have created such a system of control that they are likely to find ways to avoid this.

The greater danger is a collapse of the stock market, as we have talked about recently, which is a potential for this fall. This could, of course, affect other markets as well because, as we have said before, the entire economy is based on perception. It is based on the gambling mindset, but hyperinflation is not the greatest concern about the economy in the next several years.

Conflict between Russia, China and the United States

Question: Please comment on the seriousness of the conflict with Russia and China versus the United States – for example, world conflict, currency wars, power, and world domination.

Answer by Ascended Master Saint Germain, July 18, 2015 through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during a conference in Los Angeles.

There is no conflict between the United States, Russia, and China. There is a conflict between certain demons and fallen beings that are competing with each other for world domination and using these three nations in their power game, essentially, their control game.

It is important to recognize this because there is no inherent conflict between the peoples of the three countries. Surely, you have a situation where, for a long time, there was the conflict, the Cold War, between the Soviet Union and the United States. Then you have had an interval of time where the United States has been very dominant, and then you have a situation now where China is coming up, becoming more of an economic and political power.

It is clear that there needs to be, and there will be, a shift in the power in the world. The United States will, in the coming decades, lose influence. Russia will not gain much terrain, but China and India will attain more dominance, both economical and political. They will do this for one simple reason: More people are embodied there than in the United States or Russia.

As we have said before, it is our goal to bring 10 billion people into physical embodiment. We are some ways away from that goal, and you can look at the countries that have, for various reasons, lowered the birth rate so that there are not as many opportunities for souls to embody in those countries. It is clear that, by this one act of limiting the size of the population, a country will limit its own influence on the world stage.

I know well that you can say that China, with the one-child policy, has also limited the number of souls, but nevertheless there are still more than a billion souls embodying in that country. And more in India and in the entire southeast Asian area. So you will see a shift. It is simply inevitable, for it is not likely that the Western nations will increase the birth rate within the next decade.

What I’m saying here is that there are certain, we might call them, logistical factors on the planetary scale that will favor China and India and other southeast Asian countries. There is not much that the West can do about this, and certainly it would not be constructive to go into a military conflict over this. There is not much that Russia can do either. Russia will not gain greater influence in the decades ahead. They will lose influence. This is again very simply a matter of the number of people.

Remembering past lifetimes

Question: Is it important to remember past lives?

Answer by Ascended Master Mother Mary, July 18, 2015 through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during a conference in Los Angeles.

It is for many people not necessary to remember who you were in a past life and what you did. It is more important to tune in to the feelings and the beliefs and resolve them without necessarily remembering the specifics. You see, the ability to forget is actually an important mechanism on a planet as dense and as violent as earth. For the vast majority of people, including spiritual people, it would be very disturbing to be able to remember your past lives because you would also remember how many times you have been hurt, killed or tortured. Drawing the veil of memory between embodiments does make it easier for most people to start afresh, to start with a childlike mind. And this is important for all.

It is important not to be overeager to remember past lives. It is also important not to reject knowledge if you need it. But there are many people who become so frantic about wanting to remember past lives that they attempt to take heaven by force, and this, in many cases, will not give you an accurate remembrance of past lives. There are many, many people who have gotten the impression that they were a certain person in a past life, and it was not accurate. This can be simply because they were tricked by demons or false teachers in the higher realms – the emotional or mental – or it can be because they tuned in to the need to overcome a certain psychological pattern that was outpictured by a certain person from the past.

You know very well that you can go into mental institutions and find more than one person who believes they were Napoleon, for example. But this is because Napoleon was, in a certain sense, an archetype that outpictured a certain psychological pattern that applies to many people.

Now, for some people it can be necessary to actually believe that they were that person in order to start looking at the pattern. Some believe they were that person and get stuck in a pattern, never doing anything about it. But for you who are spiritual people, it is important you do not get fixated on trying to remember past lives or, if you do get a remembrance from past lives, not necessarily believing that you actually were that person.

It is important for you to look at the psychology of the person, the archetypal pattern, and then see how this applies to you and how you can transcend it. You do not necessarily need the belief that you were that person, so therefore be willing to be non-attached.

Some of you have, of course, in past lives been public persons. It may be important for you to know this. But I still suggest that, by looking at the psychological pattern and working on attaining non-attachment and resolving the pattern, then you will be in a better state of mind for getting an accurate impression of whether you were that person and whether it is important for you to know this.

How to improve memory

Question: How do we improve our memory?

Answer by Ascended Master Mother Mary, July 18, 2015 through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during a conference in Los Angeles.

Memory is a complex topic because it is not only physical. You have memory in the emotional, mental, and identity bodies as well. At the physical level, of course, the physical brain has certain limitations. It is not really that the brain is unable to store a large amount of information. As scientists have found out, the brain can store much more information than most people are able to remember or memorize.

You can do various exercises to increase memory. You can do various things with diet to increase brain function. There are various healing methods that can help as well, various energy adjustments.

Really, the key to improving memory is to be willing to remember what is in the three higher bodies. This is, for many people, somewhat of a limitation because they are not willing to remember, to see the patterns.

However, for many spiritual people, it is also important to realize that you do not need to remember everything. There are many physical types of knowledge, factual knowledge, that you do not necessarily need to store in your memory so that it can be recalled.

Can we embody in other octaves or worlds?

Question: Are we able to re-embody in any of the three octaves other than the physical? If so, what factors come into play? In the other octaves what is the physical equivalent of ageing of the body, i.e., getting sick, dying, etc.?

Answer by Ascended Master Mother Mary, July 18, 2015 through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during a conference in Los Angeles.

When we talk about embodying, we are talking specifically about the physical octave because the material universe and planet earth are a schoolroom that primarily teaches through embodiment in the physical. You are, of course, always embodied in the three other octaves because you have three higher bodies. But they are not physical bodies.

There are beings, lifestreams that are associated with earth, who right now are not in physical embodiment because there are not enough physical bodies for them to be in embodiment. There are, of course, also lifestreams associated with earth who are right now in physical embodiment on another planet because many lifestreams have more than one planet upon which they embody. So you do not technically embody in one of the higher octaves, but you go there between physical embodiments.

The bodies you have – the three higher bodies – do not age in the same way as the physical body, but it is, of course, possible for you to go into a spiral, especially in the emotional body, that becomes more and more intense until it becomes very unpleasant to be there. The same in the mental where it is not so much intensity but a certain mindset of believing that you have the superior knowledge, and therefore you become stuck.

What determines where you go between embodiments – where your soul goes between embodiments – is the level of consciousness you have before you leave the physical body. Many people who are a bit below the 48th level of consciousness will go into the emotional octave, specifically the astral plane, in between embodiments because their consciousness is so low that they cannot go anywhere else. They simply have no control over their emotions. There are some people who have gained more emotional control, where the emotional body is somewhat under the control of the mental body, and they can then go into the mental realm. There are those who have the level of control where the identity body is in control of the mental and emotional, and they can then go into the identity octave. There is, of course, also the level of Devachan, which we have called the level of wish fulfillment, that somewhat spans all three octaves. There, people can outlive certain desires that they were not able to outlive while in physical embodiment.

The important point, really, is to realize that, in the natural flow of things, your physical body should be under the control of your emotional body. Your emotional body should be under the control of your mental body, and your mental body should be under the control of your identity body. Your identity body should be under the control of your I AM Presence. In that case, lifestreams will either go into some of the higher realms of the identity body, or the identity realm, or they will go directly into embodiment again. The higher your consciousness, the more likely it is that you will take embodiment again within a very short period of time, without needing much healing or processing or experiencing the Devachan level.

Raising your consciousness is, indeed very important. You have the concept in both the Egyptian and Tibetan traditions of preparing for your physical death and being able to raise your consciousness at the time of death. It is not a completely invalid concept, although it has been taken to an unbalanced extreme by both traditions. You cannot live your entire life being focused on preparing for your death and make maximum spiritual progress.

You need to be like the little child who just lives life in the moment, at least a part of the time. But if you know that you are going through an illness that might be fatal, and you sense that your time is short, there is validity in making an extraordinary effort to raise your consciousness. Even a relatively short period of making such an effort can raise you to a higher level, so that you go to a better place after the death of the body. This, of course, applies also to making calls for loved ones, although again the limitation is their free will.

How to pray for loved ones

Question: When praying for intercession for someone else, to what extent can the masters help that person? How does a person’s free will come into play when they are unaware that demonic forces are being exerted upon them? In other words, how are our loved ones cut free from disincarnates, entities, and demons when we pray for their healing?

Answer by Ascended Master Astrea, July 18, 2015 through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during a conference in Los Angeles.

Free will is the ultimate guide to anything that happens on earth. You cannot make a call that will work against the free will of your loved ones. Now, you need to be very careful when making calls that you do not project onto your loved ones something that violates their free will. It is not, of course, that we of the ascended masters will do something that violates the free will of the people you pray for, but it is possible that you can, by having an intent of making them change their lives, project energy upon them that will burden them and make karma for yourself.

It is, of course, perfectly true that, when a person is possessed by entities or demons, that person no longer has free will, cannot make free-will choices. What you can do is make the calls to me or to other masters to bind and cut free the person – to bind the entities and the demons and cut free the person – and that will give the person an interval of time in which to exercise free will.

However, you need to be aware that in many cases when people are in certain difficult situations, for example an addiction, they are not willing to make their own choices, so even though they are cut free for a brief moment, they will not use the opportunity to make better choices. They will just attract another entity or demon. This is what Jesus demonstrated when he drove out the demons from a man and said that you can drive out one, but it just attracts seven more, worse than the first one. Because nature – and, by the way, also the astral plane – abhors a vacuum.

What can you do with loved ones? Well, you can make the calls, and you should make the calls. But then you need to be absolutely respectful of their free will. I know this can be difficult with people you care about, but this is a necessary ingredient on the path of overcoming the control games of anti-love. It can be, as was said by Archangel Michael, LINK extremely complex what people have to go through in order to awaken to a higher level of consciousness. You may look at a person and say: “Well, what they’re going through, what they’re suffering now, could not possibly be beneficial to their spiritual growth.” And you would, in many cases, be right that going into an addiction is not beneficial to their spiritual growth at the moment.

It may, on the other hand, be that the person needs to experience that situation, in order, as was said by Mother Mary, to know what people who are in that state go through and then to demonstrate how to transcend it and thereafter be able to help others. It may also be that your loved one gets trapped in the addiction and cannot break free of it in this lifetime because he or she is not willing to make the decisions and take responsibility for growing.

I fully understand that it can be very difficult to look at this. But this is again where, when you step up to a higher form of love and a total acceptance of the outplaying of free will, you can look at this and say: “I have done whatever I can for this person,” which involves giving calls and decrees, but also in other ways trying to assist the person. But when you feel you have done what you can, you may need to surrender, to let go.

You may even need to decide that you do not want that person in your life anymore because it is not constructive to your own path. But you want to be careful about making that decision. You want to examine yourself and examine if you have an attachment to changing the person, or if you have a wound that the other person’s behavior is triggering so that you want to change the other person to avoid dealing with your own wound. In that case, you need to step up and be willing to look at your own psychology, for even though it may alleviate the tension to walk away from the other person, this will not help you grow.

So again, delicate issues. There are no black-and-white answers or solutions, but there is, as Mother Mary so graciously said, the opportunity to ask for Divine direction, for help, for guidance, to use your intuition, to tune in. And there is the opportunity always to ask yourself: “Am I responding from a state of love rather than fear or a wound?”

Ramtha and the White Book

Question: What does Master MORE think about the spirit or the being that is named Ramtha and his White Book?

Answer by Ascended Master MORE, July 18, 2015 through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during a conference in Los Angeles.

Master MORE: He is not a member of the ascended masters. Need I say more? [Laughter.]

What music should we avoid?

Question: How can we determine what music to avoid? Is it a matter of just avoiding music that makes us sad or that agitates us, or do we need to be aware of specific harmonies, rhythms, styles, or delivery of music – for example, electronic music or extremely loud music as in movie theaters? Are there any working parameters?

Answer by Ascended Master Mother Mary, July 18, 2015 through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during a conference in Los Angeles.

The simplest way, my beloved, to evaluate music is to train your ability to feel in your heart, as we have said before, whether something raises or lowers your energy. It is possible to determine this by tuning in to your heart chakra. This does not only apply to music, but basically when you increase the sensitivity enough to anything you encounter in the physical octave. You can go into a restaurant, and if you are attuned to your heart chakra, you can look over the menu and feel which items on the menu raise or lower your vibration. If none raise your vibration, then you could walk out and find another restaurant. The same thing with music.

Many people have adopted an attitude that they are supposed to listen to music, but where does this come from, other than from the industry that wants to sell you more music? You have no obligation to listen to music. You certainly have no obligation to always be listening to music. Why are you afraid of silence? Silence may just be the backdrop you need to hear your higher self or your ascended teachers. Now, if music and certain types of music inspire you and raise your energy, expand your consciousness, then by all means listen to it. But you can easily feel what music that is, and it can vary from person to person. It varies with the level of consciousness.

I know that in the past we have said that certain types of music are to be avoided. Those teachings are, to a large degree, still valid, and valid for many people. Nevertheless, there are exceptions to everything, so in this day and age we do not wish to come out with firm, set teachings of what to avoid, of what to listen to. There are, of course, certain types of music that most people should avoid: anything that takes your energy down, that has a syncopated beat, that beats the energies down into the base chakra and therefore stirs up the base chakra and can give rise to sexual fantasies or inordinate sexual desires.

But there are also certain types of what many spiritual people call positive or uplifting music that will not necessarily take your energies down, but they do not contribute to an upward spiral either. They can very well take your attention away from listening with the heart. The important point is: Feel what the music does to your energy in terms of raising or lowering it, but also determine to have some times where you listen to the silence.

Is the Book of Revelation valid?

Question: The next question is for Master Jesus. It refers to the Book of Revelation. For the past 20 centuries, the Book of Revelation was a source of fear that the church used with speculative interpretations. When will we learn from you, Master Jesus, the exact meaning of this book and its application in our lives? Is the explanation of Edgar Cayce about the Book of Revelation correct?

Answer by Ascended Master Jesus, July 18, 2015 through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during a conference in Los Angeles.

The Book of Revelation was not a pure revelation. There was much interference from the collective consciousness of the time and from the consciousness of the person who received it. It is, therefore, affected from the very beginning by the fear-based state of consciousness that has been around on this planet since the fallen beings embodied here.

There are certain elements of the book that are clearly fear-based and spring from that fear-based consciousness. The Book of Revelation was not brought forth as a dictation like you are hearing now. Back then, the lower level of the collective consciousness made it impossible for us to give dictations like this, so clearly Christians, and especially Christian fundamentalists, have over-interpreted the value and the purity of the Book of Revelation. This does not mean it is completely invalid. The four Gospels were not pure either, and they are not invalid. They can be used in various ways.

I will not say that the interpretation given through Edgar Cayce was right. I would say it was one valid interpretation of the Book of Revelation. There is no ultimate interpretation of anything because as times shift, and as the consciousness is raised, it is possible to interpret certain scriptures in ever-new ways. Obviously, since Edgar Cayce brought forth his valid interpretation, the collective consciousness has shifted quite a lot, so there are other ways to interpret the book.

However, I personally do not intend to release anything on this through this messenger because I do not consider it important enough for the work I want to accomplish at this time. I would rather bring forth a completely new teaching for this age than go back and interpret from the past. I know one can say that, since this book has been influential in the Christian movement, it would be valid to address it. I do not disagree, but I choose to say I will focus on bringing forth new teachings because, by me commenting through a messenger on the Book of Revelation, I would still not reach the people who pay attention to the Book of Revelation. Therefore, I would rather reach those people who are more open to new teachings.

Multi-national corporations exploiting Africa

Question: When you speak about Russian influence, I could say the same thing about Africa, where the colonies of the West have been for years now and have almost the same effect. I could see – when I look at the French territories, or when I look at the British ones, or when I look at the Portuguese and all these countries that took Africa under them – I see covering up the real needs of the people, but extracting what was necessary for the economy to grow. So sometimes I’m not sure if I can say that it’s only the Russians that did it because they were Communists. How do you differentiate that?

Answer by Ascended Master Saint Germain, July 18, 2015 through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during a conference in Los Angeles.

The dynamic that happened in the Soviet Union was, I should say, in many ways similar to the colonization of Africa or other parts of the world by Western powers—exploiting a country that has less organization or less ability to defend itself.

Today, however, it is not so much the nations that are doing the exploitation as multinational corporations. This is, of course, an issue that will need to be addressed before the Golden Age can manifest. It is clear that many multinational corporations have become more powerful than many nations and yet they have no allegiance to the people.

At least in a nation the leaders usually have some respect for their own people. So clearly calls need to be made on multinational corporations, which we have to some degree addressed but will address to a larger degree in the future. Again it is not the time for us to give a deeper discourse on the situation in Africa, which has been explained not so long ago by Mother Mary, so I will refer to her words as a further teaching at this point.

Peace in Ukraine and changes in Russia

Question: What will it take to end the situation in Ukraine? What can we do in a broader sense to help bring peace on earth, besides Mother Mary’s 500 Vigil?

Answer by Ascended Master Saint Germain, July 18, 2015 through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during a conference in Los Angeles.

For the Ukraine conflict to end, it will take two things. One is that the Ukrainian people shift their level of consciousness upwards where they become willing to take responsibility for their own nation and bring about the changes that obviously need to happen. Any nation that was in any way under the yoke of the Soviet Union, whether being part of the Soviet Union or the Warsaw Pact, has some very serious work to do to overcome the consciousness that we recently talked about in Estonia.

If a nation is not willing to do that work, then it will be stuck in a kind of no-man’s land. Now, you look at Ukraine, and you see a large nation with good natural resources in terms of agriculture and some other natural resources and industry. It absolutely makes no sense that a nation of that size should not be able to have a functioning economy and feed and sustain its own people in a state of relative abundance. So the Ukrainian people need to be willing to look at this and make the changes that need to happen.

There is hardly a nation that was under the Communist yoke that does not need to transcend the state of consciousness where people dare not take initiative and do not want to make an effort. There was a consciousness in the Soviet Union that it did not matter how hard you worked, or whether you made an effort, because it wouldn’t get you anywhere anyway. This was true in Soviet times, but it is no longer true in a more free economy where you absolutely need to make an effort, and many people need to make an effort, to raise the economy of a country to a higher level. This is the only way that the nations in the West have been raised to a higher level: because people were willing to make that effort, and they were also willing to share.

Of course, in Ukraine, and also in many other former Soviet countries, you have the problem of corruption, which in a sense became institutionalized during Soviet times because the only way to, so to speak, beat the system was to have some kind of business deals under the table. So this is what needs to happen on the side of the Ukrainian people.

Now, of course, the other thing is that there needs to be a shift in Russia because Russia is clearly the aggressor here. To be quite frank with you, the shift that needs to happen in Russia is that Vladimir Putin goes out of embodiment. This has a 90% probability of happening before 2018, when he is up for re-election. But it is by no means a sure thing because Putin is actually being held alive in embodiment by the Russian people.

You see, my beloved, any person who comes into embodiment has a, what we might call, natural lifespan for that embodiment. This is based on the person’s karma and level of consciousness at the time of they are born. Now, people can do something to shorten or extend that natural life span. If they are directly abusive of others or abuse power – like, for example, Adolf Hitler – they will shorten their lifespans. They can, of course, also do good deeds and transcend their consciousness and thereby extend their lives.

A person can come to the point where his or her natural lifespan has run out. But if they are in a public position, they can steal so much energy from the people under them that it keeps them alive beyond that cut-off point. This is literally the situation in Russia, and it is what keeps Vladimir Putin in embodiment at this point, for his time was up a year and a half ago.

This is a difficult condition for you to do anything about because, even though you can make calls and judgment calls on this, you cannot override the free will of the Russian people by making the calls. You can make a call, like you have done in these invocations, for the binding of the demons and the fallen beings out of embodiment who are supporting Putin. But you cannot make a call that will override the free will of the Russian people, who look up to him as a strong leader that can restore the greatness of Russia, which is something they have a need to see. Of course, it is not a real need, and they would be much freer by giving up the desire to have the greatness of Russia. But as long as they cannot do that, you cannot make calls that will override it.

You need to recognize also that Putin himself is not really concerned about Ukraine. It is not so much that he has a specific goal, not even to conquer the Eastern part of Ukraine or all of Ukraine, or to create a buffer between himself and NATO. Putin does not feel threatened by NATO. He knows very well that NATO is not going to attack Russia. He knows very well from the reactions he has seen from Western leaders since he intervened in Ukraine that they would rather have him be passive, and as long as he is passive, they are not going to do anything against him militarily. But he needs the Ukrainian conflict in order to maintain and even expand his image for the Russian people.

He needs to reinforce this image because there is, of course, a raising of the consciousness of the people in Russia, which has been brought about by the many students in Russia who acknowledge ascended master teachings and have been doing decrees and invocations for a long time—not only what we have given through this messenger, but also previous dispensations and other messengers. So I want to acknowledge the efforts of so many devout ascended master students in Russia, who have brought the country to a point where it is very close to a breakthrough in the collective consciousness where the strong leader syndrome can be given up by a critical mass of the Russian people, which will then bring forth a new era in Russia.

Dealing with people who are always right

Question: If you’re in a relationship with a person with a certain behavior – for example, they think they are always right – does this mean you have this behavior in you? Either it’s hidden or you’re doing it another way, in another form, but can’t see it? Or it’s your projection? Is there any circumstance where you don’t have an aspect of that behavior, and you are giving them an opportunity? If yes, how do you know, and how do they learn?

Answer by Kim Michaels, July 17, 2015 at a conference in Los Angeles.

Kim: I think it can be both. Sometimes we do attract people to us who have a certain tendency that we also have, but they are more extreme with it than we are. Or maybe we have just denied it, or we don’t see it in ourselves, are not willing to see it in ourselves. So I think that can be the case.

But you know how there are always two spirits that are polar opposites? So sometimes we actually have the polar opposite of that pattern. If somebody is always right, it may well be that we doubt that we are right, we doubt ourselves, and that’s why we attracted a person like that.

I also think there are a lot of times when we attract people to us that have a certain abusive behavior, and it’s not because we have the abusive behavior or the polar opposite. Maybe we have the polar opposite, but we submit to the abusive behavior. The purpose of attracting these people is actually not that we see something in our psychology and resolve it, but that we come to the point where we say: “I don’t want this in my life anymore. I have had enough of this. I don’t want this kind of person in my life.”

It’s important, of course, if we have the polar opposite – where we are submissive, or if we see ourselves as victims, or we feel obligated to take abuse – we need to resolve that. But there can come a point where you have actually resolved your psychology, but you just have not consciously made the decision: “This is enough.” I think it’s really important to make that decision because, until we do, we aren’t really free of it, and we tend to then attract another person who is even more extreme until we finally say: “This is enough.”

Again, there are stages, so there is a stage where you need to look at yourself and need to resolve your psychology. But we can also get into a mode where we think that, whenever we are in a difficult situation, we always have to look at ourselves and our psychology. “Because it has got to be something in me.”

Of course, if you have a strong reaction to people, there is something in you to resolve. But what I have become aware of too is that sometimes you just need to make that decision and say: “This is enough. I don’t want this anymore.” Then the funny thing is that sometimes you won’t be dealing with these people anymore. You might be dealing with other kinds of people that have other issues, but you can really feel like you have come to a certain level.

Question: How does that tie in with projection? How would you deal with someone’s particular trait? How do you know that it’s not your projection?

Kim: But if their behavior is directly abusive, if they are saying things or doing things that are abusive, that’s not your projection.

Question: It could be anything, though. It could be someone who needs to be right, or it could be anything. I’m just trying to determine how I know that it’s not my projection.

Kim: But that’s what I was saying: If somebody is taking some actions or saying some things to you, they are choosing to do that. That is because of a pattern in their psychology that you are not projecting. You are not imagining what they are saying.

But I know what you mean. There are more subtle things where we feel something, especially about a partner, where we try to guess what they feel or think or need without asking them and without really knowing. And I think that is where we then project sometimes. And we may also, of course, look at their behavior and interpret it a certain way. We interpret they are mad, for example, instead of just asking them: “What are you feeling? What’s bothering you? What’s happening?”

Question: So if you aren’t sure you’re right, if you just stay quiet, how does that person get the lesson so they can shift?

Kim: Well, that is where you can’t worry about other people getting their lessons. You can obviously speak out and say what you observe, what you feel, but especially with a person who feels they are always right, they are almost guaranteed to accuse you of being wrong when you challenge them. That’s just an ego pattern. I’m not saying I haven’t been there myself. The more insecure you are about something, the more you want to reject it when people tell you that you have to change.

I don’t think you can do anything about that if people aren’t ready to hear it. I know for myself that sometimes people try to tell me something, and I’m just not ready to hear it at that point. It doesn’t mean I’ll never be able or willing to hear it, but at this point I can’t deal with it. I’ve seen this in other people as well. It’s like there comes a certain time when now you are ready. You can’t do anything about that. All you can do is say: “Well, do I still want to have that person in my life?”

It is all a matter of balance again, I think, because there is always a tendency in the world that people don’t want to look at themselves. Then, when you get on the spiritual path and start to understand what the spiritual path is about, you, of course, become willing to look at yourself. But you can also take that to an unbalanced state where you are always looking for a problem. Sometimes you just have to make the decision: “I don’t want to deal with this level of consciousness anymore, and I don’t want to deal with people who are projecting this on me.”

How to speak about spiritual teachings

Question: It’s my understanding that the 10% of the most spiritually evolved people have to start speaking out, and I’m curious about how you get the courage to speak out. How did you handle this? You put yourself out there, and it is going to come back to you.

Answer by Kim Michaels, July 17, 2015 at a conference in Los Angeles.

The process I went through was that I first found the ascended master teachings in 1984, and for many years I was just following the teachings and applying the path. I was more or less invisible. I didn’t really stand out in any way because I wasn’t ready for that. Then I had that experience where I recognized that I had made progress. At the same time I had an experience that a lot of my motivation for walking the path was really sort of ego-based because I felt insecure and wanted validation. So I wanted validation from the ascended masters that I was a good student and had walked the path.

When I saw that, I realized I didn’t want to be in that state of consciousness anymore, so I just gave up that whole human motivation. That’s when I came to the point I described where I had this experience of surrender. I literally felt I let go of my human ambitions to do anything on earth. Before that I was sort of being eaten up by the fact that I was getting older and felt I had a mission, but I wasn’t doing it. I wasn’t doing anything that made any difference. So I gave up the idea that I had to do anything and make a difference, and I literally said to God: “You can take me home right now.” I felt that, if I had died at that moment, I would have been completely at peace with leaving the planet.

That’s when I felt the Presence of Jesus, who said: “Well, if you have nothing more you want to do, are you willing to do something for me?” And I said yes. That kind of depersonalized it for me because I wasn’t the one doing this for myself. Therefore, whatever attacks I got, I didn’t take them personally. I realized it was an attack against the light. It was just people rejecting what they didn’t want to accept because they didn’t want to change. So I didn’t feel it was very personal for me for many years. It was not until 2009, when I divorced my second wife and she started putting a lot of negative stuff about me on the Internet – most of it just completely made up – that’s when it got personal for me. Because this was so directly against me personally.

Then I had a process where I had to deal with that. I had to go through some stages, and one of the stages I went through was to acknowledge that I was attached to having a good reputation. Because I didn’t want people to reject the masters because of me. I just talked to somebody who said that he had told a friend about my teachings. She was in the I AM movement, and she had gone on the Internet and found my ex-wife’s stuff and therefore completely rejected me and the teachings because of that. So I had to look at that and say: “But if I am attached to my reputation, it’s an attachment. I have to get rid of it.”

In other words, I realized that, just as I hadn’t felt it was personal before, I had to get to the point where, even though this was very personal against me, I still didn’t take it personally. I think that’s the key: You depersonalize it. The masters were talking about it in dictations also, that people are going to project at you their unresolved psychology, and you just have to see that for what it is and say: “It’s really not me they’re attacking. It’s really not me they’re talking about. It’s their own stuff they’re projecting.” Then I think it’s not really even courage because you are not so hurt by what comes back. You are not attached to it.

You have to realize that, whatever you say, somebody is going to be against it, especially when you take a stand for something that’s higher truth. Somebody will dislike it. At one point I had the thought: Well, the fact that they are attacking me shows that I must be doing something right. Because somebody is threatened, or they wouldn’t want to destroy me. So somebody, some force, is threatened by this.

Beyond that, I have to say that this is just how to deal with the negativity. But what really has always driven me is the love for the masters and for their work. I’m not doing what I’m doing because I feel obligated, but I love the masters and I love their work. I also love spiritual people. I love to see them transcend themselves. If I can be instrumental in that, then I love doing that work. I love just the idea that these teachings are brought into the physical where anybody can find them on the Internet or in a bookstore. That gives me a certain feeling of joy. So that’s what motivates me and drives me.

I think you have to get to that point where you don’t feel obligated to speak out. Because if you do, you’re going to put yourself in tension, and other people are going to pick up on that. They are going to feel like Jehovah’s Witnesses are trying to convert them, and it’s not going to be good. So I would say that it is really a key to find something you love. It does not have to be an ascended master teaching necessarily because you don’t have to preach the teachings. But find some topic, some area of life, that you really love, and then bring new ideas into that.

I was saying to one person that, after I moved back to Denmark, I met some people I’d known when I lived there. They were into hunting and fishing. They have been doing the same thing for the 27 years that I was gone. They liked me and they knew me, and I liked them, and I realized that I wasn’t there to preach spirituality to them. I was just there to accept them for who they are and give them total acceptance, and that somehow transformed them. Because I could see that just by making some kind of joke, or hitting a guy on the shoulders, saying: “How are you?” and giving them a smile, they are lifted up by that. And if that’s what you can do to help somebody, then that’s enough. I used to have this idea that I had to preach the teachings and get everybody to accept ascended master teachings, but I don’t even feel that way anymore.

So what I’m trying to say is: You can put so many burdens on yourself about speaking out that it just becomes a nightmare for you to try and do it. And that’s why I think you have to look at what is your tension and then deal with that tension until you are non-attached. Then you can speak out of love and it just flows. I guarantee you that, when you do speak out of love, you won’t have as much rejection. Because, in a sense, you’re setting people free to accept it or not, and then you don’t have that reaction where they feel like you’re trying to sell them a used car. I think that’s a good place to be.

Do we have to have opinions about everything?

Question: I like doing these call-in shows, and the host turned the tables on me and said: “Well, what would you do about the Iran-American nuclear negotiations?” I’ve often said that call-in radio is a rushed judgment from a distance without a lot of facts. I couldn’t make much of a statement because I’m not at the negotiating table, seeing the give and take and the dynamics. Would it have been more intelligent for me to use my intuition and blurt out something about the Iran-American talks, even though I’m thousands of miles away, or is it the better part of valor to let what you might call an elite group work face to face and deal with these negotiations?

Kim: Well, what does you intuition tell you? [Laughter] I think honestly in a situation like – I don’t know how it unfolded – I feel like I can’t have an opinion because I don’t know enough about it, and I don’t really feel at this point that this is the most important issue for me to educate myself on.

There is this consciousness that has crept in – and it’s also in Denmark, but it’s worse in the U.S., I think – that we should be able to solve very complex problems in a 20-second sound bite. And it just can’t be done. I feel that there is this consciousness projected upon people that we should have an opinion about everything, that if you are put on the spot like that you should have an opinion. But I have come to the point where I realize that – well, first of all I’ve given up having opinions about anything.

That doesn’t mean I couldn’t say something about certain topics. But in order to do that, I really have to not only study the outer situation, but also process in my own mind: “What does my intuition really tell me about this?” That takes time and effort. There are a lot of topics – like they just had an election in Denmark, for example – where I don’t have an opinion because I just don’t feel I know enough about it. So that’s what I would say: “I don’t know enough to have an opinion here.” What’s wrong with that? Who says I have to be able to give an answer about any question that comes up?

Will we reach an ultimate level of the path?

Question: Do you give up the idea of making progress on the path? When you say you gave up evaluating where you are in the levels of consciousness, do you still evaluate whether you feel like you are making progress, or do you transcend that also?

Answer by Kim Michaels, July 17, 2015 at a conference in Los Angeles.

Well, I think this is a matter of stages. There was a point – I think it was back in the late 1990s – where I had to look at myself because I was very, very concerned about not being prideful. I thought that, in order to avoid being prideful, I had to not acknowledge that I had made progress because it could make me prideful that I had made progress. But that’s kind of like a vacuum to be in, right? So I had to look at myself and say: “Okay, for 15 years I have been studying the teachings of the ascended masters. I’ve been giving decrees for many, many hours. I moved to another country. I’ve really applied myself to the path as I understood it. Do I believe the path works? Because if I don’t believe it works, I’m an idiot for continuing to do it. So do I believe that it works?” And I decided: “Yes, I believe it works.” Well then, I also had to accept that, if I have applied myself to the path for that many years, I must have made progress.

So it was kind of a process for me to see that it’s really not prideful to acknowledge that you have made progress, that you have gone to a higher level than you were at 10 or 15 years ago. Because I hadn’t just read a book and thought I’d shifted my consciousness. I’d worked for it for 15 years, worked hard. So it was important for me to acknowledge that: “Yes, I had made progress.” Because that sort of opened me up to saying: “Okay, but then I must also be closer to the point where I’m capable, I’m worthy, of doing something for the ascended masters.”

I think if I hadn’t made that shift, I wouldn’t have been able to do what I’m doing. I wouldn’t have been able to accept that I was worthy to do something for the masters. So I think it’s important for all of us to come to that point, and that is in a sense an evaluation. Since then I’ve gone through other phases, and it just started fading away more and more – I don’t even worry about what level of consciousness I’m at. On the other hand, I haven’t given up the idea of making progress. I think I’ll make progress as long as I’m in embodiment. Really, the only thing that matters is that I take the next step, whenever that comes up, which sometimes happens almost daily. I see something in my psychology: “Oh, I need to transcend that.” Or: “Why am I reacting to that?”

I went through a process just this spring. I grew up in Denmark, and my father was a hunter, and most of the men in my family were duck hunters. We would go out in boats and hunt ducks, and I used to write books and articles about this. So I decided that, since I was back in Denmark, I would take this hunter’s exam. It’s quite an involved process, and I did it partly because I felt that it would bring up the ghosts from the past that I might not have transcended. And there was just an awful lot of stuff that came up.

It consumed me for four months, dealing with this whole thing. Now that I’ve got the right to hunt, I don’t even know if I need to do it anymore. [Laughter] But I needed to go through that process. That was why I moved back to Denmark – because I felt that it was important for me to go back there after so many years and see what was there that I’d just left behind and hadn’t processed yet. That’s why I’m saying I think I’ve made peace with the fact that there will always be something to transcend and that I will be making progress. I just don’t measure it in that linear way anymore. I don’t concern myself about that.

No easy way to reach higher consciousness

Question: I’m finding in the spiritual community that a lot of my friends, whom I love dearly, are constantly talking about their level of consciousness – you know, “I’m on the enlightened path.” It’s almost as if every time they read something they go to another level of consciousness. And I’m saying: “Well teach me how to do that. I just saw you six months ago [laughter], and now you’ve read something and you’re on another level of consciousness.” It takes me months and months and sometimes years to do things.

Answer by Kim Michaels, July 17, 2015 at a conference in Los Angeles.

Kim: I think there are two extremes. We have the Via Dolorosa people, who say: “Well, we’re sinners. We’re such bad sinners we need Jesus to come and save us. And we need to punish ourselves while we’re on earth because the more we suffer, the more Jesus is going to be able to save us.” It doesn’t quite make sense.

Then you have the opposite extreme, the people who say: “Oh, it’s all good. It’s all wonderful.” Like you said, they read something, and then they just feel like they are transcended in consciousness. I think the truth is somewhere in between, which is why the Buddha came up with the Middle Way, where we do have to work for it.

I think a lot of people in the spiritual movement are looking for an easy way out. So they buy into these gurus that come and make promises like: “Oh, here is the ultimate way or the easy way out,” and it’s basically the same as it is in traditional religion.

Most New Age people think they are so different from Christian fundamentalists, for example, but they are not really so different. Because what traditional religion promises is that you can be saved without looking at the beam in your own eye, and that’s what some New Age gurus do—exactly the same.

You’re perfectly right, that is never going to work. That’s not the true path, and you don’t shift your consciousness that easily. It’s true that there can, of course, be times where suddenly you break through, and now you actually realize that you have changed your consciousness compared to, for example, ten years ago. Like you said, you don’t just read a book, and then all of a sudden you are enlightened because you read this book.

Question: For me it’s almost like I have to dance in my ugliness. [Laughter] If I can’t dance in my ugliness, I’m not going anywhere. The ugly part of me is the part I don’t want you to see, but when I’m by myself, I gotta dance in it, you know? It takes a lot of courage, Kim, to move into these different levels.

Kim: I think there is a consciousness in spiritual movements (that is very unproductive) where you think that either because you have been on the path for a while or because you have found this extreme guru now you are a special student, and you don’t need to look at yourself anymore. I have certainly been there myself.

Even when I started doing the work I’m doing now, the first years I was very conscious of this whole image out there of what a spiritual guru is supposed to be like. There was a part of me that was afraid of not living up to it and being judged or rejected. You can kind of get frantic by saying: “Okay, well, I’m a messenger for the ascended masters, and I know people judge a book by the cover, so if they reject me, they’ll reject the masters and their teachings, and I don’t want that to happen.” It’s only within the last couple of years I’ve started letting go of that.

I remember reading some books about teachings on the Internet on what it means to be enlightened. All these gurus out there claimed to be enlightened, and it hit me one day that, if you really are enlightened, you would never say it. Because being enlightened means you have transcended the consciousness where you put labels on anything. If you say: “I’m enlightened,” you just put a label on yourself. I started realizing that I had to stop judging myself and even worrying about where I am in my level of consciousness. I just need to keep walking the path, and I need to take that yoke off that I always have to evaluate myself.

Why would it take away from me that somebody else has some high level of attainment? That doesn’t take away from me. It doesn’t threaten me. I’m just doing what I’m doing. I don’t want to compete with anybody or judge anybody. Within the last year or so I’ve also stopped even evaluating what level of consciousness I’m at. I’ve accepted that I’m going to be working on my psychology until the day I ascend because there is so much to work on. Maybe some of it is collective that we take on or whatever, but that’s just the path.

The path is not that one day by magic I will reach some superior state. That’s what I used to think. Your linear mind wants to think that, if there is a path, there’s got to be an end. There’s got to be some ultimate breakthrough. Now I’ve realized that the ultimate breakthrough comes when I ascend. Then I’ll no longer be on earth, but as long as I am on earth, I just need to keep transcending and embrace that.

I’ve also come to the point where I’ve said: “But I also have to accept that, even though I’m not perfect and don’t have completely resolved psychology, I can still do the work I’m doing. I don’t have to be perfect.” That’s very liberating, just to say that, but it also means that I transcended that need to set myself apart from others. I don’t want people to relate to me like that, by putting me on a pedestal. I want us to be all equals. It’s just like Archangel Michael said – I thought it was so powerful – that each of our Presences is an expression of the Creator, and there is no comparison. That’s what we relate to.

What is the cause behind jihadist Islam?

Question: What caused the sudden uprise of the jihadists in Islam, and when will this jihad end?

Answer by Ascended Master Mother Mary, July 18, 2015 through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during a conference in Los Angeles.

This is simply the second law of thermodynamics in action. When you have a closed system, entropy – meaning disorder and chaos – will increase until the inherent tensions in the system become more obvious. This will give people an opportunity to transcend it, and if they do not transcend it, the system will break down from within or will go into a conflict with an external force and will thereby break down. It is simply again the Muslim people’s unwillingness to transcend the, quite frankly, medieval mindset that has been put upon them by the fundamentalist preachers of Islam. This has brought out a more extreme manifestation of the jihadist mindset where certain people are willing to go to almost any amount or any level of violence in order to simply strike fear into people.

You cannot analyze, as Western powers and experts like to do, the jihadist movement from an intellectual perspective. What they are doing does not make sense. There is no logical, rational strategy behind this. There is really no rationale because these people’s minds are completely taken over by demons in the astral plane. This is allowed to happen simply because the people in Muslim countries need to see a more and more extreme manifestation of the entire mindset, not only of jihad, but the entire attempt to create an Islamist state based on this kind of law that is a strict interpretation of Islam. This is not in any way constructive. Nor is it realistic in the modern world that you could ever create an Islamic state like this. Therefore it must come to a point where those who promote this have acted out their fanaticism to such an extreme degree that a critical mass of people – especially what we have called for before, the moderate Muslims – will not only see this but will begin to speak out about it.

So when will it end? When a critical mass of people in Islamic countries determine that they have had enough of this, and therefore they are willing to reform Islam and create states that are not based on Islam but on democratic principles that have a separation of church and state. I can tell you honestly that this will not get better in the next decade.