Author: AMSlogin

TOPICS: Create a simple system to remind yourself to be grateful – if you are not grateful, you have a sense of lack – you send the message into the cosmic mirror that you want more lack – gratitude send message that you want to have enough – path is about overcoming illusion that matter has power over spirit – taking command over your emotions – emotions should be under command of thoughts, which are under command of identity –

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Question: Can you remind us of why it is important to feel gratitude?

Answer from ascended master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels:

Consider yourself so reminded, my beloved!

There is no other way than you, individually, making a conscious decision that you will remind yourself of the power of gratitude. In order to do this, you will have to decide what works for you individually in reminding yourself of this. Will you create some kind of device that helps you remember? Will you decide to say a simple affirmation about gratitude every day? Will you meditate on a passage from a dictation or the Gratitude Rosary? Or will you give that Gratitude Rosary on a regular basis?

It is, of course, important to remind yourself of the power of gratitude because, as you know, the universe is a mirror and the universe is designed to give you any experience you desire. So, if you are not grateful, it can only mean that you have a sense of lack, that you have a sense that you do not have enough—and therefore you have no reason to be grateful.

And thus, what is the subconscious message you are sending to the cosmic mirror? It is that “I want to experience lack, I want to experience that I do not have enough, so that I have a reason to feel ungrateful because I want to feel ungrateful. So give me an outer reason to feel ungrateful.” And the universe says: “Well my Beloved, if that is really what you want, then my contract states that I am obliged to give you what you say you want.”

And thus, of course, when you change your feelings, when you decide to take command over your feelings, your feeling world, and allow yourself to feel gratitude, well then, what is the message you are NOW sending into the mirror? It is the message that you feel you have enough. Or that at least you are grateful for whatever you have and thus you are actually sending the message that “I want to experience what it is like to be grateful and to have more and more.”

And thus the universe says: “Oh my Beloved, finally you are allowing me to live up to my highest potential of giving you the abundant life, so surely I will give you more than what you have. And as you feel even more grateful, for what you now have, I can give you even more—as I can indeed multiply the talents that you have multiplied, my Beloved.”

So you see, life is a matter of realizing that the universe is a mirror and that the spiritual path is about you overcoming the illusion that the matter world has power over you—the spiritual being.  For what is it that people are believing when they allow themselves to believe that they do not have enough in the material world?  Well, is it not that their material circumstances have power over their emotions, and thus they are saying: “Well I cannot feel grateful when I do not have this or that material condition fulfilled.”  Thereby saying that the matter world, the external world has power over the internal world of your psyche, your feeling body, your emotional body.

Yet the spiritual path is about overcoming this illusion, where you realize that your emotions should be under the conscious control of your mental body, which should be under the conscious control of your identity body, so that you realize who you are a spiritual being. And therefore, you allow that identity to command your mental body, to command your thoughts, so that you realize that you can feel anything you want to feel—regardless of the physical conditions you are facing.

And therefore, you have the power – if you have the will – to take command over your feeling world and feel grateful regardless of what you have or do not have in the material world—which is meant to be the servant of the spiritual world, the outpicturing of the spiritual world so that it can be as Above so below. And so that the abundant life can be manifest on earth and in your personal life, my Beloved.

 

Copyright © 2008 by Kim Michaels

TOPICS: Do not seek to force visualization – you cannot DO yourself back to oneness – you must surrender old sense of self – surrender is spontaneous – seek inner knowing – you do not lose by surrendering – surrender is not through the outer mind – division leads to frustration – look at yourself instead of condition – giving up your old self-image – look for what you have not seen – using an old teaching to reinforce your mental box – rejecting a new teaching to hold on to the ego – when you defend something, you have an attachment – surrender the concept of a path –

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Question: I find that whenever I try to visualize, all I get is blackness. Is there something that myself or other people with the same problem should do?

Answer from ascended master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels:

If you have difficulty visualizing, stop trying to visualize. Do not have the image, the mental image, that you are supposed to visualize anything in particular. Allow the visualization to come on its own—and if nothing comes, then be content with that. Be non-attached, simply focus on giving a rosary, or reading a book, internalizing a teaching and then let the visualization come spontaneously, if it comes at all. You see, the more you strain, the more you push it away.

And this gives me an opportunity to comment on a question some of you have had, about how you surrender. You have been so programmed by the false teachers and the consciousness of duality that you believe you have to DO something to earn your salvation. But, in reality the reason why you have separated yourself from oneness is that you started doing something with the dualistic mind, thereby doing yourself away from oneness.

So you cannot DO yourself back to oneness. I am not thereby saying that you do not need to do anything, because you do need to study teachings to seek to internalize them, to practice rosaries or other appropriate techniques to further your spiritual growth. Because, as we have said, there are certain mechanical aspects of spiritual growth, such as the transformation of energy. Nevertheless, the element that is the essence of spiritual growth is to overcome your old limiting beliefs and rise to a higher understanding and awareness.

And that transition cannot be forced, cannot be done with the dualistic mind, for when you seek to do things on the spiritual path with the consciousness of duality, then you are stepping onto the false path, the outer path of thinking that by doing these outer things, God has to let you into heaven.

So the real essence of the path is to let go of limitations, let go of unreality, and this is something that you cannot force with the outer mind. You cannot force it physically, you cannot force it emotionally, you cannot force it mentally. And the more you seek to force it with your outer conscious mind, with your feelings or with your thoughts, the more you will cause yourself to hold on to the things you are trying to surrender. Surrender can only happen spontaneously.

You can set the groundwork for surrender by studying a teaching and coming to a greater and greater understanding of why you need to give something up, so that you thereby set the stage for the spontaneous surrender to occur. But you cannot force it, and if you get into the mode of trying to force it, you will make it impossible for you to surrender. And I can assure you that I see many people on the spiritual path who have tried for decades, sometimes even for lifetimes, to surrender a particular aspect of their psychology, a particular dualistic illusion. Yet, because they keep trying to force it, it cannot happen.

My beloved, the image that I gave this messenger yesterday, is this. Consider that you are holding an object in your hand and someone tells you to drop it, to let it go. Well, you might sit there with your mind and decide, “Should I let it go, or should I hold on to it? Do I want to get rid of it, or do I want to keep it?” And so, your mind can go back and forth and the more you think about this – the more intense you are in your thoughts – the more you will subconsciously tighten your grip and hold on. Yet imagine now that suddenly your nervous system signaled to your brain that the object that you are holding is glowing hot. What would you do, my beloved—you would spontaneously and instantly open your hand and drop the object, would you not?

So you see, surrender can only happen spontaneously. There is no way to force it, and if you try to force it, you push it away from you. And so, what you can do is become aware of this, so that you can neutralize the mind’s tendency to hold on to things. You can also cultivate what in traditional religion has been called faith, but which is more because it is an inner knowing. And the inner knowing you can attain is that by using the tools and tuning into your Christhood, you will begin to realize that there is a part of your being that is beyond the ego and the human conditions, beyond your outer situation.

And thereby, you will begin to know that you cannot lose anything by giving something up in the material world, for you will not be plunged into a black hole of having no identity. Instead, you will find a higher identity in God. And this understanding and realization and internalization then brings you to the point, where you can willingly and gladly give everything to God, and allow your Christ Self to give back to you what is real. In other words, you can give up everything without focusing on a specific belief, or habit, or practice.

You can simply give yourself into the hands of God and do what Jesus did, when he said, “Father, if it be thy will, let this cup pass from me. Nevertheless, not my will but thine be done.” And when you trust that that higher will is the will of your own higher Being, the ultimate reality of your being, you will not fear letting go, you will not fear losing something. And thus, it will be easier for you to outsmart the ego and its attempts to create an attachment, whereby you somehow fear or resist that state of surrender that is your ultimate freedom from the ego.

Take note of what I am saying in my example. Once you actually experience that an object is hot, you have no doubt about letting it go and the surrender is spontaneous. This is obviously a sensory experience, yet you can have a similar experience beyond the senses, namely what people call an intuitive or “Aha” experience. Once you have this experience and see why a certain condition is preventing you from getting where you want to go, the surrender will be spontaneous.

What confuses many spiritual seekers is that they are still approaching the path with the outer mind, with the mind that is vulnerable to duality. So they read a spiritual teaching, and the teaching says to stop doing something, be it eating meat or engaging in anger. So they get the idea that they need to let go of – surrender – this condition, yet the idea is still in the outer mind.

And so they are trying to give up – to surrender – the idea with one part of the outer mind, but another part of the outer mind – often below the level of conscious awareness – is holding on to the condition. So they have a division in their beings and are being pulled in opposite directions. They now see that they are not giving up the condition, and this creates a frustration in the outer mind so they try even harder. But this only increases the tension, so the other part of the mind will hold on to the condition even more tightly. The tension can be maintained for a long time or it can build to such a crescendo that the person experiences a crisis and finally lets go.

The better way is to take your focus away from the outer condition and follow Jesus’ admonition to look first for the beam – the division – in your own eye—meaning, obviously, your own psyche. You see, my beloved, the subtle temptation of the outer path, the false path, is that you can gain entry into heaven by doing – or by giving up – things in this world. And this is what causes people to focus attention on something – anything – outside themselves.

For example, some people get very focused on pointing out the faults of others or world conditions—which causes them to go on a crusade instead of taking up their cross and following Jesus. Others get very focused on overcoming certain conditions in themselves, but they still do this in an outer way. You see, you can give up all of the outer behavior and all of the imperfect emotions or thoughts specified by a spiritual teaching and yet you still have not actually discovered the beam in your own eye.

The beam in your own eye is your self-image, the image of yourself as a mortal, human, separate being. This image is unique for each one, even though there are certain similarities. Yet each person has a unique reason for holding on to his or her image of the separate self. That is why each person must come to a unique inner experience of seeing the separate self and seeing – experiencing in an Aha experience – how the separate self is unreal and is preventing your real self – the Conscious You – from attaining oneness with your higher being.

You can then experience the pure awareness that the Conscious You is, and this makes it obvious that you are more than the outer personality trait, meaning you will not die by surrendering it. Once you have that total – undivided – experience, you will spontaneously let go of the separate self, but as long as you are focused on giving up only part of the separate self, well then all other parts of that self will resist your surrender. Do you see that as long as you are focusing on ANY outer condition, surrender will be very difficult?

You can have an Aha experience that shows you that a particular condition is harmful, and thus you surrender it. Thus, for some, the path is a continual process of surrendering small things until they finally can see the big thing. Yet for those who have trouble surrendering, I suggest taking your focus off the outer conditions and seeking to look squarely for the separate self that is seeking to hide itself by keeping you focused on the outer conditions. As Albert Einstein said, “If you keep doing the same thing and expect different results, you are insane.” Thus, if you have trouble attaining a particular goal on the path, do something different, meaning look for what you have not so far seen.

This is why progressive revelation is so essential. People will quickly become familiar with a particular teaching and their egos will use it to create a mental box. People then think that as long as they stay in that box, they are guaranteed to be saved. So once that happens, we have to attempt to give a different teaching that challenges people’s mental boxes and their sense of comfortability. Some respond and grow, while other cling to the box, often by attacking the new teaching by using clever arguments based on the old teaching. The argument is always the same: Because the new teaching says something that isn’t in the old teaching, it cannot be true, for God would never say that. Yet do you see, my beloved, that the new teaching MUST say something beyond the old teaching if it is to have any possibility of shaking you out of your mental box?

My beloved, attachment to anything, even a spiritual teaching, is the enemy of growth, for growth comes only through surrendering ALL attachments to anything on earth. Thus, if you find yourself defending your present beliefs, you have stepped off the true path, for you are no longer looking for the Living Teacher in disguise. Thus, whenever you are defending something, consider that you have of a division in the psyche. For if you were in oneness, you would have no need to defend anything. In total surrender there can be no division, so if there is division, there is something you have not surrendered. And the reason you have not surrendered is that there is something you have not seen, and that something is the separate self itself—not the condition that takes your attention into outer things.

My beloved, we always talk about a path. Yet as Jesus has said before, even the concept of a path can be misused by the ego. For it implies that you can go on forever. Yet there are stages on the path, and there does indeed come a point where you are ready to see and surrender the separate self. And if you keep thinking that you have to keep taking steps on the path, then you will never actually come to that Aha experience that empowers you to see – and then spontaneously surrender – the separate self.

In fact, if you could see and surrender that separate self right now, you could become a Christed being instantly. So the question is how many steps you have to take before you come to that realization, and that will in large part depend on your understanding of surrender and your willingness to focus on the separate self rather than the many separate diversions it has created in order to hide itself from you.

 

Copyright © 2007 by Kim Michaels

TOPICS: Self-observation – on the middle way or going into extremes – at higher levels of the path, the tests become more subtle – when you do not resist looking at anything – cannot go beyond certain point without helping others – when focusing without becomes a trap – always seek to transcend –

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Question: As Mother Mary was saying, and as Buddha has said in the past, that the path to our Christhood is one of working on self-change and working on changing ourselves, transforming ourselves, can you please discuss on the fine balance the self-centered path and the way of becoming the Christ, and focusing on yourself because you want to become more of your God potential and focusing on yourself in the way that sometimes it can easily morph into a sort of negative self-centeredness.

Answer from ascended master Jesus through Kim Michaels:

An excellent question, which demonstrates the impossibility of giving a spiritual teaching that cannot be misinterpreted by the dualistic state of consciousness. And that is why, again and again, we stress the middle way, we stress balance, we stress going beyond duality.

Truly, the key to resolving this is to realize that the path is a state of constant self-observation, where you are constantly observing yourself and watching whether you are staying on the middle way or whether you have gone into one of the dualistic extremes.

And certainly, this is not something that you can give a hard and fast rule and say, “This is what you should always be looking for.” For one of the things you must understand as mature spiritual seekers is that the path is subtle—and that the further you go along the path, the more subtle it becomes.

When you look at someone who is a mass murderer, you can easily see that that person is not on the spiritual path and is doing something clearly unspiritual. But as you go beyond that level of the blatant outer abuse, it becomes more difficult to discern the delicate difference between going into one of the dualistic extremes. And so, this is where, as you mature, you realize that you need to go beyond what I have called black-and-white thinking and gray thinking. You need to be constantly alert to whether you are being pulled into one extreme or another.

And this requires constant alertness, constant self-observation. But I must tell you that there can come a point, where you become non-attached to protecting your ego, protecting whatever sense you have individually that gives you a sense of being in control or feeling that you are on the right track. You can come to a point, where you are willing to look at anything in your own psychology, and you do not resist seeing the truth. Because you know, as we have said many times, that the Conscious You is more than the outer personality, than the dualistic self. And so, once you see something as dualistic, you can let it go and you will be freer than you were before.

It is indeed true that there is a stage on the spiritual path where you need to focus first of all on yourself, discovering that beam in your own eye, removing that so that you can attain some sense of inner peace and clarity. For until you have truly helped yourself, how can you possibly help others? Yet, once you have attained some sense of peace, then you face the delicate question that you come to a point on the path where you cannot progress further until you help other people or help the planet as a whole.

Even this can become a blind alley that can be used by the ego. And we have indeed seen some of our more mature disciples and students who have fallen into the trap of now focusing on saving the world, or helping other people, or spreading the teachings, or working in a certain spiritual organization, to the point where they have said, “I no longer need to look at my own psychology. For surely, I have gone beyond that need. I have realized what I need to realize on the spiritual path.”

And so, again, there is no one way to always do the right thing. There is no outer rule that can be given. The way to do the right thing is to realize that as long as you are in physical embodiment, you need to reach for a higher understanding of yourself and the spiritual path, you need to be willing to self-transcend.

So in a sense the short answer is: No matter what state of consciousness you are in right now, always look for the next level. Always seek to transcend. Observe yourself, and then follow the inner direction when you suddenly encounter an outer situation where you get the inner prompting that here is something you need to look at, here is something to let go of.

This, my beloved, is what all true messengers are doing constantly. And I can assure you that if you have an idolatrous sense that messengers are beyond being tested, or that they are above needing to learn something and overcome something in their own consciousness, then you have not fully understood what they are about. For true messengers are constantly willing to observe themselves. And when they see something, they go after it and they let go of it. And this is the same that you must adopt—that willingness to always look for whatever comes up. Sometimes it may your own consciousness, sometimes it may be something you have taken on from the mass consciousness.

But as long as you are in physical embodiment, you need to self-transcend. For it is only those who continue to self-transcend, who will eventually reach that level of self-transcendence, where they permanently transcend the material realm.

 

Copyright © 2007 by Kim Michaels

TOPICS: Suffering is not necessary if you let go – attachments cause suffering – why it is difficult to see what you cannot see – surrender expectations – the ego builds unrealistic expectations – suffering caused by rebelling against conditions in this world – suffering will not buy forgiveness of sin – finding the joyous path –

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Question: When the masters say that suffering is not necessary, but they also say that we shouldn’t expect it to be easy—isn’t there a contradiction there?

Answer from ascended master Jesus through Kim Michaels:

There can only be contradictions in the duality consciousness. And the duality consciousness can interpret any statement to be contradictory to another statement. That is what the linear mind will do and has always done.

Suffering is not necessary because suffering comes from attachment. What makes it difficult to walk the path is your attachments. So in a sense you could – if you were willing to let go of your attachments – walk the path without any suffering whatsoever.

When we say the path is not easy and that you should not expect it to be easy, it is because we are practical realists who realize – from our own experience – that it is almost impossible to let go of everything at once. And therefore, we all had to follow a gradual path. We all had to walk step by step and give up certain limitations one at a time, so as to preserve some sense of continuity.

Yet, the difficulties on the path come from your inability – or in some case unwillingness – to see what you need to see in order to let go of a particular illusion. And we know – again from our own experience – that it is difficult to see what you cannot see. This is no different for many of you than it was for myself when I was in embodiment. When you are in embodiment, you are inside your current mental box. And it is always difficult to look at your own situation from outside that box. That, incidentally, is why you need guidance from spiritual teachers, from other people and from spiritual teachings.

Yet you can literally come to a state of surrender, where even though there are difficult phases of your path, they do not cause you suffering. In other words, the physical octave, the material realm, is dense. It is not easy to walk the spiritual path in the density of the collective consciousness. Yet, when you reach a certain state of surrender, the difficulties you encounter will not cause you suffering. And the reason is that you have done what Mother Mary spoke about yesterday—you have surrendered your expectations, you have surrendered your conditions.

There are many people who find the spiritual path and they realize that in order to walk the path they have to make what they see as sacrifices. Because they have to give up some of their old lifestyle, some of the activities in which the world indulges, such as alcohol, drugs, material pursuits and many other things that take you away from the spiritual path.

And so people get enthusiastic and they are willing to give up some of these activities. But they still feel that they have made a sacrifice in doing so. And so their egos trick them into building the subtle expectation that when they have sacrificed for the path or sacrificed for God, then after that point everything should be easy. And God should simply pave the way for them so that they do not encounter any more challenges or difficulties.

This, of course, is the ego trying to trick people into building an unrealistic expectation that is guaranteed to cause disappointment, so that they become discouraged and stop walking the path. Or even get angry, as some people do, feeling that they were given empty promises by a particular organization or teacher. And therefore, their egos trick them into abandoning the path.

When you give up your conditions, you have no expectations of what the path should be like. And therefore, how can anything that occurs to you cause you suffering. For you see, suffering is caused by a psychological condition that causes you to emotionally and mentally rebel against what you are experiencing in the physical world.

You will see that many people who have encountered great physical difficulties have come to a state of surrender and peace, where they have accepted the condition and accepted that they can – no matter how difficult the outer conditions are – make the best of it and still have a joyful life. Look at some of the people who have physical handicaps, such as sitting in a wheelchair. Many of the people who experience this become depressed, but there are a few who rise above it and become joyful and are at peace with the situation, making the best of it.

So you see that suffering is not caused by the outer condition but by the inner psychological condition of rebelling against the outer physical condition. And that is why, as we have attempted to explain over these last days – both Patrick and Mary and Saint Germain – that when you are on the spiritual path, you would do well to give up your outer conditions and expectations of what the path should be like. For you should know, as spiritual people, that the physical realm is dense, that the collective consciousness is dense. And thus, you should not expect it to be easy and trouble-free to walk the path.

Yet, you certainly should not either go into the opposite extreme of thinking that in order to be spiritual, you have to suffer—and walk up a mountain barefoot because somehow that pays for your sins because God is pleased the more you suffer. So the more you suffer the more sins he will forgive.

Again, there is the Middle Way. And when you find the Middle Way, you can overcome all difficulties and maintain the joy. And when you decide to meet all difficulties with joy and you are willing to transcend, then the difficulties are not so difficult. They are simply events in the physical realm. And you move beyond them because you have a clear vision of your goal.

You know where you want to go and it is not a matter of thinking that you can only go there if there are no obstacles. You know there will be obstacles and that it is simply a matter of overcoming them, moving beyond them, rising above them, walking right through them—so that you find the joyous path that is independent of the outer conditions because your joy is full.

 

Copyright © 2007 by Kim Michaels

TOPICS: Ask your self who you are as long as you are in embodiment – don’t think you know everything and no longer need to self-transcend – the answer you can receive right now is a reflection of your state of consciousness – remain humble – some gurus have based  their identity on ego’s interpretation of a genuine but limited answer – cannot be fully enlightened while in embodiment –

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Question: We have many earthly goals and somewhere on the website you said that in order to attain Christ consciousness we must be willing to let our goals die. I have met a man who in the centeredness of his heart was asking himself, “Who am I?” and after some time he discovered his true identity in God. Should we before any earthly things do something like this, asking ourselves “Who am I”?

Answer from ascended master Jesus through Kim Michaels:

It is indeed a good idea to ask yourself who you are. Only you need to continue to do so while you are in physical embodiment. For who are you really?

Well, you are who you think you are and as long as you are in the duality consciousness, you have something you can transcend and become more. So even though it is good to ask yourself, “Who am I?” and even though you can receive an answer of who you are in God, do not fall into the trap of thinking you have received a final answer and now you no longer need to ask.

This is what has happened, indeed, to many people, who have had some spiritual attainment, who have received some vision or direction. Yet, they have then used it to think that now they knew everything they needed to know or they had climbed as high as they needed to climb. And thus, without any evil intentions, they have essentially become false teachers, deluding themselves and misleading others into thinking that they have attained some final state of enlightenment or attainment.

Thus, it is good to ask, but it is also good to continue to ask, for I must tell you that the answer you can receive right now is a reflection of your current state of consciousness, in the sense that the answer you can receive is limited by the openness of your mind and heart—the openness to receive the answer. And so as you receive an answer that is suitable for your current state of consciousness, if you fully internalize that answer, you can raise your consciousness. And then you are ready to receive an even higher answer.

That is why I will impress upon you that it is good to ask, “Who am I?” but you need to continue to ask it—and be realistic and realize that you cannot receive the full answer as long as you are in physical embodiment. This is the folly of some who have climbed the spiritual path to a certain level, who have done many outer things and now they think they know all—and they know who they are and so they have not anymore the humbleness of heart to continue to ask the question with the open mind of a little child, being willing to receive whatever answer comes to them.

They have then allowed their egos to take a previous answer – that was a valid answer for the level of consciousness they had when they received it – but which their egos have now turned into a closed mental box—that in some cases they have used to set themselves up compared to others or gather followers who now revere them as some kind of guru who has attained some final state.

My beloved, it is possible to attain some state of enlightenment while you are in embodiment. But do not be fooled into thinking that there has ever been a person who has walked the earth in a physical body while having attained the highest possible state of consciousness.

This is what I have commented on before—that there is no one who is God incarnate on earth in the fullest sense of that word. And therefore no one has the full absolute authority over anyone else.

 

Copyright © 2007 by Kim Michaels

TOPICS: Learn from near-death experiences – risk versus reward – drug culture inspired by dark forces – drugs suspend your free will – your energy field is unprotected when you are “high” – draining your vital energies – false visions from dark forces – the contrast between peak experiences and daily awareness – how addiction starts – shattering your sense of identity – cannot fight force with force – a true guru will NEVER recommend drugs – outer will and inner will – brain chemistry can simulate spiritual experiences – drugs can destroy the circuitry of the brain – the ego lie that you can control drug use – God or mammon –

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Question: Dear Jesus, You have many times in your discourses warned against the use of drugs and I agree many drugs are harmful. But what of hallucinogens such as psylocybin and LSD? There are many creative people such as Alex Grey, Alan Watts, Aldous Huxley, Ram Dass, etc. etc who have found these substances useful, and indeed the esoteric tradition of Mahayana Buddhism allows for the use of ‘substances’ in certain cases.

For an individual mired in the Kali Yuga, they can provide essential insights needed to assist the seeker on his/her way to Christ consciousness, I believe.
In my own case, I truly believe that had it not been for these substances, I would still have no awareness of either the spiritual world nor would I have an awareness of states existing beyond ego-consciousness. I speak as a long time meditator, student of religion, and chanter of mantras and affirmations.
In other words, I would certainly not be at this stage writing to you or entertaining ideas such as those posted on your site if it had not been for certain experiences I had negotiated on those substances. I would have no idea what you’re talking about and I would probably be out getting drunk and having indiscriminate sex and avoiding the issue of my spiritual growth entirely. I understand now that the doorway to Christhood actually is also the doorway to bliss. And the doorway to bliss opens the heart and endows one with unconditional compassion.
I believe this is a powerful incentive to those who want to progress beyond the limited ego. In short, why are ALL drugs bad? Is it because they cut out the middle man of the chela/guru relationship? Surely some drug experiences, like all confronting experiences, can dissolve the ego boundaries and hasten the seeker on towards christhood.
Please point out the huge fallacies in what I am saying, as my christ discernment has deserted me on this issue.

Answer from ascended master Jesus through Kim Michaels:

First of all, let me thank you for asking a question that is important to many spiritual seekers—given that so many people in today’s world have taken drugs in some form. Let me also compliment you for demonstrating that you are willing to attain a higher understanding than what you believe based on your experiences to this point. This is the attitude of a true spiritual seeker. So let me give you some thoughts to ponder.

Thought 1
There is a large, and ever-growing, number of people who have had a near-death experience. For many of them, the experience was life-changing. While out of the body, these lifestreams experienced a level of reality that many of them had not known or had denied all their lives. They received profound insights and visions that transformed their lives. Obviously, for many people, having a near-death experience was beneficial to their spiritual growth. The only problem is that they had to die to have the experience.

Do you think I would recommend the creation of clinics where people were put to death in such a way that there was a high chance of resuscitating them? If you think so, watch the movie “Flatliners” and you will see why I don’t recommend this.

Thought 2
My point for this somewhat melodramatic opening thought is to show you that although I want all people to experience maximum spiritual growth, I want them to have this growth in a way that is completely safe. So you have to evaluate the risk versus the potential reward. If you have cancer, chemotherapy might be – given the current, rather primitive, level of medical science – your only chance of survival. Chemotherapy is an attempt to kill the cancer—if it doesn’t kill your body first. In other words, it is a very high-risk procedure, and if there was a safer alternative, no sane person would use it.

It is true that certain drugs can help people have experiences beyond their normal level of awareness. In some cases this can open a person to the existence of something beyond the material world, and this awareness can have a lasting effect. However, this recognition can be obtained in many ways that are far safer than using drugs. My point being that you have to evaluate the risks before you can asses the real value. The problem is that in today’s world there is little teaching about the spiritual risks associated with taking drugs. Therefore, most people have been misled into taking drugs without knowing what can happen. To me this is such an obvious violation of free will that spiritual seekers should be able to see that the entire drug culture could only have been inspired by dark forces seeking to steal people’s spiritual light.

What are some of the risks? Let us consider the reason most people don’t have spiritual experiences. As I explain throughout this website, the basis for having a spiritual experience is that you turn the dial of consciousness and tune in to a level of reality beyond the material universe. What prevents many people from turning the dial is that they identify so strongly with the material universe/physical body/outer personality that they cannot let go of their normal sense of awareness and identity. One might think this is in opposition to people’s spiritual growth, but that is not necessarily the case.

Everything in this world revolves around people’s free will. Your conscious mind is meant to be a guardian that protects your lifestream. One aspect of this protection is that you can decide that there are certain energies, ideas or forces that you do not want to allow into the energy field of your lifestream. Yet when you take drugs, you suspend your ability to make conscious choices, and thus your conscious mind – overpowered by the hallucinations produced by the drugs – can no longer make free choices.

In reality, free will is a gift that comes with responsibility—as does every other true gift. One might say that you choose to take drugs, so you are simply exercising your free will. However, the consequence of your choice is that you give away your ability to make choices. And according to the Law of Free Will, giving away the power to choose makes you vulnerable to the forces that roam this world, seeking whom they may devour. If you doubt that such forces exist, consider why most drug users eventually have a “bad trip.”

The ugly fact is that while you are under the influence of drugs, your energy field is no longer protected by your conscious will. So unless you have a high degree of spiritual protection, you are likely to be invaded by dark forces that steal your light. They can do this because while you are under the influence of drugs, you cannot consciously hold back your light and are much more likely to give it away. When you have a genuine spiritual experience, you will feel filled with light. This light might flush out unresolved wounds or even dark forces from your subconscious mind. While you are processing or letting go of this darkness, your body and mind can become tired, as when you are battling an illness.

Yet a genuine spiritual experience will not drain you of your basic life energy, your life force. Therefore, such experiences put you in an upward spiral. Taking drugs on an ongoing basis will drain your vital energy, and this puts you in a downward spiral. That is why you see so many of the “creative” people who use drugs looking older than their actual age. That is also why people gradually slip deeper and deeper into addiction—their resistance is eventually lowered beyond the point of no return.

You mention that some people have received spiritual insights as a result of using drugs, but how reliable were those insights? I can assure you that many people have, by taking drugs, invited dark forces into their energy fields. Such dark forces do not want to give you spiritual truth, because they don’t want to set you free, they want to control you for their own selfish ends. Yet they will often give people some spiritual insights in order to keep them coming back for more. Mixed in with the truth are subtle lies, and unfortunately many sincere spiritual seekers have, while under the influence of drugs, come to accept certain erroneous ideas that prevent them from rising above a certain level of the path. You see, the dark forces and your ego don’t mind that you rise to a certain level and feel like you are a very spiritual person—as long as you keep feeding them energy and never rise high enough to escape their control.

To evaluate the risk of using drugs, you need to carefully consider the danger of addiction. The problem here is that when you force an experience beyond ordinary consciousness, you might not be ready to integrate that experience into your daily awareness. You will not be able to handle the immense contrast between the “peak” experience and your normal daily awareness. This can happen also when people have spontaneous spiritual experiences or near-death experiences. However, when people have an experience as a result of taking drugs, the situation is different, because people produced that experience by their own will and by mechanical means, so they can repeat it any time.

This sets up an immense temptation to take another dose of drugs, and it can quickly develop into an attempt to run away from your daily state of consciousness. This leads to an emotional addiction that can quickly – depending on the drug used – develop into a chemical addiction. In other words, the emotions become addicted before the body does.

The problem here is that when you repeat the experience, you are not likely to integrate any insights you might have into your daily awareness. So you are not actually growing spiritually, because the true definition of spiritual growth is not the peak experiences you have (however they come about). In reality, having peak experiences is not nearly as important as many spiritual seekers make it out to be. The real driving force of spiritual growth is the intuitive insights that help you integrate spiritual ideas into your everyday awareness.

The true measure of growth is that you truly raise your “normal” state of consciousness instead of just being spiritual while having peak experiences. It is the goal of the ascended masters to raise the consciousness of humankind. To do that, we don’t need millions of people sitting in caves in the Himalayas, experiencing constant bliss. We need millions of people who participate in life with some degree of Christ consciousness, so they can bring Christed solutions to everyday problems.

Thought 3
One might think that any experience beyond the ordinary, materialistic awareness would be beneficial to spiritual growth. Unfortunately, that is not the case. If a lifestream is not ready for the experience, the lifestream can be so shocked that its sense of identity can be shattered. For many lifestreams, their sense of identity is very fragile. They need a solid, meaning materialistic, foundation for their sense of identity or they will be thrown into an identity crises. A forced spiritual experience – whether it is forced through drugs or other means (such as unbalanced use of spiritual exercises) – can have profoundly negative effects that can take years or lifetimes to heal. That is why I continually state that the spiritual path is a gradual process and that you need to approach it in a balanced manner.

My point is that forcing a spiritual experience will not necessarily lead to spiritual growth. It will often have the opposite effect, and the deciding factor is the lifestream’s level of spiritual maturity—or lack of it. As a general rule, I would say that if a lifestream is not ready, forcing an experience will delay the lifestream’s progress. And when the lifestream is ready, the spiritual experience will occur without forcing it. That is why I said:

And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force. (Matthew 11:12)

That statement is still valid, and one of the ways in which people seek to take a spiritual experience before they are ready for it is by taking drugs. One might say that I am contradicting myself by saying that everything revolves around free will but that you should not willingly force a spiritual experience. Yet this seems contradictory only when you are trapped in a dualistic way of thinking, which makes you susceptible to the belief that the ends can justify the means. When you think this way, you reason something like this:

• The goal is a higher state of consciousness and this is a very important goal.
• To attain this state of awareness, I need spiritual experiences.
• I haven’t had any so far. I have tried spiritual techniques but they didn’t work. By taking a drug, I am guaranteed to have such experiences.
• Therefore, taking a drug is a perfectly logical way to enhance my spiritual growth.

One could write a long philosophical discourse on the problems with this line of reasoning, but let us stay on target. The real problem here is that you are trying to use the dualistic state of consciousness to overcome dualism, and that simply cannot be done. You cannot fight force with force because doing so only drives you even deeper into duality. It is a spiritual catch-22.

The essence of the spiritual path is that you are trapped in duality and separation. The goal is to overcome duality and separation, yet the reasoning above springs from duality. One might say you are attempting to attain a worthy goal but using means that cannot get you to that goal. One might also say you do not fully understand the goal and the appropriate means to get there. Instead, what you really need to do in order to have genuine spiritual experiences is to surrender the elements of your current mental box. It is through surrender, not force, that you make real progress.

Thought 4
You ask whether taking drugs is an attempt to “cut out the middle man of the chela/guru relationship,” and the answer is that it depends on what kind of guru you are talking about. A true guru, one who is working under the lineage of the ascended masters, will NEVER recommend drugs for any student. It simply isn’t done by us, period! The reason is partly that the risks are too great, but the real reason is that drugs do circumvent the guru-chela relationship. Why would you need a guru when you can just take a pill?

In connection with the previous thought, here is the central dilemma in human existence and on the spiritual path. Everything is subject to your free will, yet most people are not exercising their free will. They are letting their egos make most choices for them, as explained by the Presence of God’s Will. So to truly walk the spiritual path, you must use your conscious will to decide that you will go beyond the outer will of the ego and connect to the inner will of your I AM Presence.

This process can be difficult and confusing, especially for the beginning student. That is why we offer the guru-chela, or master-disciple, relationship. The basic principle here is that the student surrenders his outer, ego-based, will to the master. This gives the student a temporary reprieve from the confusion of having to battle his outer will or discerning between the ego’s will and the higher will. The master is making decisions for the student, the master is more spiritually mature than the student and is outside the student’s mental box. Therefore, the master can gradually guide the student to a greater discernment between the lower will and the true will. The master knows how to guide each individual student, and this might entail not allowing a student to have a spiritual experience until the student is ready for it. For an excellent description of this process, read Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda.

Again, based on the previous thought, it should be possible to see that when you take a drug, it is the outer will that decides to do so. So you are making the essential error of thinking that you can use the outer will, the will of the ego, to escape the ego. This simply cannot be done. The only way is to transcend the ego, and to do that you must make contact with something higher. However, that something is not really a spiritual experience. The real escape is to contact your Christ self and gradually merge with that self so you have a permanent transformation of consciousness.

My point is that having a powerful spiritual experience will not necessarily and automatically enhance your spiritual growth. If you are not ready to integrate the experience, it can be a distraction or even a hindrance. When you work with an outer guru (physical or ascended) or the inner guru of your Christ self, you are essentially admitting that your ego will never know when you are ready for a spiritual experience. Thus, you are setting aside the will of the ego and submitting to a higher will, trusting that when you are ready, you will have the experiences you need. Instead of taking heaven by force, you are following my call:

In your patience possess ye your souls. (Luke 21:19)

The ego always thinks it knows best, even better than a spiritual teacher or God. But if you follow the ego, the ego becomes your guru, and how can it take you beyond the duality from which it was born?

Thought 5
You know from medical science that when a person has open brain surgery, it is possible to physically or electrically stimulate specific centers of the brain and produce certain experiences in the patient’s mind, including spiritual experiences. This fact has been used by some scientists as “proof” that all religion and spirituality is the product of brain chemistry. This is a flawed reasoning. In reality, the brain is the interface between the lifestream and the body. When your lifestream is in the body, it experiences everything through the brain, including a spiritual experience. As I said, when you have a spiritual experience, you turn the dial of consciousness and tune in to the spiritual realm. This can be done through the brain because the brain has centers that facilitate such an experience.

Because the brain has the physical machinery for a spiritual experience, it is possible to stimulate the brain into producing what seems like a genuine experience. This can be done through physical, electrical, magnetic and chemical stimuli. The problem is that this is not a genuine spiritual experience. It is an experience produced by the brain, and while it may seem very authentic, it is not the real thing. It is like the difference between watching a movie of a beautiful beach and actually being physically present on that beach. My point being that the majority of drug-induced “spiritual” experiences are not genuine.

In all fairness, it must be stated that a few people have actually had out-of-body experiences as a result of taking drugs. In that case, it is possible that a lifestream can travel to the spiritual realm and have a genuine experience while the brain is under the influence of drugs. In rare cases, the lifestream might actually have some memory of the genuine experience. The problem here is that there is a great risk that a lifestream can go to lower realms instead of the spiritual realm—and this risk is much higher for people who are willing to take heaven by force. If a lifestream has the spiritual maturity to go to the spiritual realm, that lifestream could easily learn to have genuine spiritual experiences without drugs. It would mainly take a correct understanding of the need to surrender the outer will of the ego and connect to the higher will. Obviously, spiritual techniques and studies can be a great help.

My point is that if a lifestream is mature enough to have genuine spiritual experiences from drugs without being trapped in the risks, that lifestream really doesn’t need the drugs. Unfortunately, there are examples of many such lifestreams who got caught up in the drug culture and ended up in addiction instead of having the spiritual breakthrough for which they were almost ready.

Thought 6
The fact that the brain’s machinery can handle the intense energies of a spiritual experience brings up the most severe risk concerning drug use. The circuitry in the brain that allows for a spiritual experience is very complex, and thus rather delicate. You know very well that if you take an appliance that is designed for 110 Volt and plug it into a 220 Volt outlet, you will destroy the circuitry. Likewise, hallucinogenic drugs can damage the circuitry that allows the brain to facilitate a spiritual experience.

That is why most of the people who take drugs will need progressively larger doses in order to get the same experience. The explanation is that the circuitry gradually becomes damaged, so it takes more “power” to get the “lights” to go on. This, of course, becomes a vicious circle that often ends up in chemical addiction. Many people have damaged their brains to such an extent that they can no longer have a genuine spiritual experience. Yet they can still force the brain to produce the look-a-like. Such people often think they are very spiritual, but “its all in the brain.”

Thought 7
What do you do if you have taken drugs? That depends on whether you are still taking them. If you are still using drugs, even on an irregular basis, I strongly urge you to STOP IMMEDIATELY. You might have heard the saying that when the student is ready, the teacher appears. If you are open to the teachings on this website, you are at a level where drugs will do absolutely nothing for your spiritual growth. Even if you thought you needed drugs in the past, you no longer need them.

Be aware that the ego thinks it knows everything, so it will tell you that you are one of the people who can take drugs and keep it under control—you can do what other people can’t do. This is the main reason why some “creative” people have used drugs for a lifetime, and it shows you they are controlled by the pride of their egos—which truly is not very creative.

I know there are people who are firmly convinced that they have not been harmed by taking drugs and that it has accelerated their spiritual growth. Let us assume this is true. If so, there can be only one reason, namely that you are an advanced lifestream and that you have great spiritual protection. If that is the case, you should realize that a truly advanced lifestream does not need drugs to have a spiritual experience, and it is time to throw away the crutch. If you can’t give up drugs, perhaps you are not really as advanced as you think.

You should also consider that spiritual protection is a grace that can be used up. If you have earned spiritual protection in past lives, you can get away with many things in this life. Yet if you continue to tempt God, your protection might run out and then I can assure you that drugs will suddenly have a very different effect on you—as you see in the lives of some “creative” people. Also, if you have protection, be very careful about getting other people to use drugs. If they don’t have the same protection, they will be affected differently and you will make karma by influencing them.

If you recognize truth on this website, it is time to come up higher by heeding Paul’s advice:

When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. (1Corinthians 13:11)

If you have already stopped taking drugs, congratulations! Simply focus on making spiritual progress and don’t blame yourself. However, be aware that you need to seriously consider the need to surrender the anti-will of the ego to the higher will of either an outer guru or the inner guru of your Christ self. I recommend the Rosary to God’s Will for this purpose, especially a 33-day vigil. I would also highly recommend that you use spiritual techniques, such as Mother Mary’s invocations and the decrees, to repair the brain’s machinery by invoking spiritual energy. You can also use various methods to cleanse the body from the chemical residue of the drugs, which can linger in the brain for a long time and block spiritual experiences.

In conclusion, let me say that while a few people have become more open to the spiritual side of life by using drugs, these lifestreams could have attained the same – and in many cases better – results by following a genuine spiritual teaching. Therefore, I strongly recommend that anyone who is open to this website avoids drugs or does whatever it takes to escape their downward pull. You cannot serve two masters!

Thought 8
As far as the many creative people who have taken drugs, there is a fundamental difference between being a creative person and being a genuine spiritual teacher. You simply have to decide whom you will follow, whom you will make your guru. If you select a guru or role-model, that guru can take you no higher than his own state of consciousness. Do you really want to go where these “creative” people are in consciousness, or would you rather go where I am in consciousness?

To help you make that choice, I recommend you study my discourse, Follow me, not Peter! and absorb its inner meaning. You cannot serve God and mammon, and “mammon” is a symbol for the consciousness of this world, the desire to glorify the ego, which is what causes people to attempt to take heaven by force.

 

Copyright © 2005 by Kim Michaels

TOPICS: Creators and organizers – creators don’t like structure – both can become unbalanced – swinging between extremes – transcending the extremes – the need for structure – take what is useful – no need to throw away all beliefs – from a fear-based to a love-based approach – no beliefs are final – revelation and ritual – practice spiritual tools to find balance – practical steps to find balance –

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Question: Dear Jesus, I have never had a structured outer path to follow. Instead I’ve picked up lots of ideas from this and that book, therapy, religion, whatever. I believe this has led to my having an unstructured and confusing belief system. I want to throw it all out. Where do I begin? I feel l need an outer path to follow before I can follow the inner path. What do you say to people in my situation?

People say I think too much. They’re probably right but I cannot seem to turn it off. Your thoughts?

Answer from ascended master Jesus through Kim Michaels:

There is not necessarily anything wrong with not having a structured outer path. Some people are organizers and have a greater need for structure and stability. Others are creators and have a need to express creativity without being restricted by outer rules and regulations. There are many people in embodiment today who belong to the group of creators, and that is why so many people reject an outer religion or belief system.

I obviously belonged to this group, as do the mystics of all ages. However, this does not mean that creators are more important or somehow better than organizers. Both are equally needed because they are expressions of the expanding force of the Father (creators) and the contracting force of the Mother, as explained by Mother Mary in her discourses.

Both of the two types of people can become unbalanced, and when they do, they tend to go into one of two extremes. The creators refuse to accept any kind of rules and become rebels. The organizers want everything to conform to outer rules and they become judges.

The main idea I seek to get across throughout my website is that the key to spiritual growth is to rise above the relative extremes that spring from the dualistic mind. So when an organizer becomes trapped in the dualistic mind, he goes into the extreme of believing that there is only true religion and that by following all the outer rules of that religion, you will automatically be saved. This is what happened to the scribes and the Pharisees that I encountered 2,000 years ago, and there are many people with that mindset today. They are attracted to the fundamentalist branches of any religion. Or they are attracted to the fundamentalist religion called scientific materialism.

When a creator becomes trapped in the dualistic mind, he tends to reject all kinds of rules or structure. This can lead to the belief that there is no value in any organization or belief system and that any belief is as good as any other belief. In other words, there really is no truth and falsity because it is just a matter of what we want to believe. This is what you see in some people in the New Age movement or people who have rejected all forms of organized religion or structured beliefs.

When a lifestream is extremely unbalanced, it will go into one of the two extremes and stay there for the rest of its life, never questioning its basic approach to religion. When a lifestream has become more mature, it tends to go into one extreme, but it is not at peace with that choice. Pressure keeps building until the lifestream can no longer stand it, and then it flips to the opposite extreme. Such people can swing back and forth between two extremes for a long time, possibly for many lifetimes.

The main message on this website is that there is an alternative to these unbalanced reactions. That alternative is the Christ consciousness which takes you above and beyond the dualistic extremes. This does not mean that you compromise between the two extremes. It means that you rise to a higher state of consciousness than the dualistic mind which created the extremes. Instead of thinking that one extreme is right and must win, you simply leave both extremes behind.

The key to following the middle way of the Christ consciousness is to strive for balance in all things. This does not mean that all people should follow the same type of path or approach spiritual growth in the same way. If you are an organizer, you will need to have a structured path and you will need to be a member of an outer organization. Yes this does not mean that you need to find the most extreme or fanatical organization possible. And you don’t need to become rigid in rejecting all other beliefs than the official doctrines of a particular organization. You can be a member of an organization and still keep your mind open to other teachings and ideas. For example, I have no problem with someone who has been a member of a particular church or religion for a lifetime studying the teachings on this website while still remaining a faithful member of his or her particular religion.

If you are a creator, you might find that many religious organizations are too confining for you. You can then find an organization that is more open or you can follow the spiritual path on your own. Yet this does not mean that you reject all formal belief systems. It means that you study such belief systems and take the ideas you find valuable and practice the rituals that appeal to you.

To return to your question, I can assure you that there are many people who come to a point in their lives where they feel like they are at a crossroads. Their lifestreams realize that the approach they have taken so far cannot get them any further, so they see the need to do something different. This is actually a sign of spiritual maturity.

I understand that this stage can often be a burden to people, and that is why you might feel like throwing all your existing beliefs out the window. However, I encourage you to take a more positive approach. Everything you have done up to this point in your life was done because somewhere in your being you felt that you needed to have that experience in order to learn something and move higher on your personal path. So nothing has been a waste because everything has been a learning opportunity.

Therefore, you don’t need to throw away all of your existing beliefs and you don’t need to say that your previous approach to religion was wrong. Instead, you simply realize that your existing beliefs and your current approach to religion cannot take you any further. You have reached a certain level, and in order to come up higher, you need to change your approach and open your mind to new ideas.

If you look at the world today, you see that there are two main approaches to religion or spirituality. One is the extremist approach, and as I explained above, there are two versions of it. You might think that a Christian fundamentalist and an New Age person who rejects all structured beliefs are taking opposite approaches to religion. In reality, they both take the approach of believing that their current paradigm is absolute, infallible and complete—and therefore it never needs to change.

My point being that many people approach spirituality from a state of fear. When you are trapped in fear, you have a need to adopt a certain belief system, a certain world view, that can help you cope with your fears. This is what causes people to adopt a world view that they believe is absolute, that they believe could never change and that they believe there is no reason to question or look beyond. In other words, these people think they have it all figured out, and because they have it all figured out, they are saved. And because they are saved, they are able to live with their fears, even though they have done nothing to process and overcome the cause of those fears.

As a lifestream matures, it will eventually come to a crossroad. One on the most significant turning points on the spiritual path is when a lifestream is ready to abandon the fear-based approach to spirituality and move into a love-based approach. We who are the spiritual teachers of humankind are constantly watching all lifestreams evolving on earth. We watch with great anticipation and excitement for the point when a lifestream reaches the crossroads where it realizes that fear no longer works and that it needs to find an approach to spirituality that is based on love. This is when we get excited, for this is when we know that the lifestream is ready to take a major leap forward and open itself to our guidance and direction.

When you are ready to find a love-based approach to spirituality, the best thing you can do is to move into the conscious awareness and decision that none of your beliefs are final, absolute or beyond questioning. In other words, I am not encouraging you to throw away all of your existing beliefs because your lifestream needs a foundation to stand on. What I am encouraging you to do is to decide that you are willing to question any of your existing beliefs and to reach for a higher understanding of any aspect of life. And if you find that a certain belief stands in the way of you acquiring that higher understanding, you are willing to abandon that belief. This is the hallmark of a true spiritual seeker.

Besides adopting this attitude, I would also strongly encourage you to realize that as you need two legs in order to walk, there are two things that will help you walk the spiritual path. I talk about this in much greater detail in the book Save Yourself, but the basic idea is that what drives your spiritual progress is the two Rs, namely revelation and ritual.

Revelation means that you study spiritual teachings with an open mind and a willingness to question any of your existing beliefs, thereby opening yourself to revelation from your Christ self and spiritual teachers. However, in order to experience a stable and constant growth, you need to establish some form of ritual.

Nature is not chaotic and unstructured. Nature has order and rhythm, as you see in the progression of the seasons and in every other aspects of the design of the material universe. So if you think that you can wander through life without any kind of constancy, structure or ritual, you will not make maximum spiritual progress. You will too easily be driven hither and yon by other people or by certain energies or dark forces.

To experience constant progress, you need to find a spiritual technique and practice it on a regular basis. It needs to be an efficient technique that can drive your spiritual progress. There are a number of such techniques out there, and you should feel free to pick one that appeals to you at your present level of consciousness. However, for those who have found this website and are open to the teachings on it, I strongly encourage you to consider the old saying, “When the student is ready, the teacher appears.” If you have found this website, it is because your lifestream is ready for the teachings we give. So why not make use of the rituals I present on the toolbox website?

My recommendation would therefore be that you establish a ritual whereby you spend some time each morning invoking spiritual protection. I recommend that you give all or half of Archangel Michael’s Rosary every morning or give the decrees to Archangel Michael. Then in the evening spend some time using a ritual for the transformation of toxic energy. You can use the decrees to the Violet Flame, but for most people I would recommend Mother Mary’s rosaries and invocations. Also, use the decree to Astrea  to cut you free from all ties to dark forces.

I would also recommend that after having given a rosary in the evening, you seek to tune in to your Christ self. You can use the technique for inner attunement or the decree for communing with me.

I can assure you that anyone who would follow these recommendations would notice a positive difference. For some people it might take time before they experience a major breakthrough, for others the difference will be noticeable almost immediately.

I see many sincere spiritual seekers who have made great progress in terms of understanding spiritual truth, but because they have not adopted an efficient ritual and practiced it on a regular basis, they have not made maximum progress on their path. They have not fully internalized their understanding, and therefore they are not able to express it through their daily activities. So remember the two positive Rs, Revelation and Ritual. And avoid the two negative Rs, pRide and Rigidity.

 

Copyright © 2004 by Kim Michaels

TOPICS: Walking the path is like trying to assemble a jigsaw puzzle without knowing what the final result will look like – the basic qualities of a seeker – how to rise above frustration –

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Question: Dear Jesus, I have many questions about spiritual topics and I’m having a hard time grasping the reality of it. It seems that every answer I get to a question only generates a dozen more. I feel like I’m working on a complex jigsaw puzzle and every time I manage to fit one piece into the puzzle, a whole new load of pieces is dumped on the table. I try not to get frustrated, but sometimes I do walk away from the table for a breather. I always come back, though. If you could shed any more light on this subject, I would be very grateful.

Answer from ascended master Jesus through Kim Michaels:

I deeply appreciate it when a question demonstrates that the person has thought about the topic by using his or her intuition instead of the analytical mind. I fully understand your feeling that every time you think you have found one answer, that answer leads to more questions. However, what you are going through is only a temporary phase, and as you grow toward Christhood, it will come to an end.

When you start the spiritual path, it is like trying to assemble a jigsaw puzzle without having the box. In other words you don’t know what the assembled puzzle is supposed to look like, so how can you tell where a piece is supposed to fit? Yet as you continue to study spiritual teachings and seek intuitive insights, you will one day be able to see the picture on the jigsaw puzzle even though some of the pieces might still be missing.

I can tell you that you are demonstrating the exact qualities that are needed for spiritual seekers on the path:

• You are willing to consider a topic even though it is difficult and goes beyond your current knowledge and beliefs.
• You are willing to wrestle with the difficult questions and you refuse to let them go until you find a higher understanding.

Even the fact that you sometimes walk away from the table is part of the process. You cannot resolve some of these deep questions with the outer, analytical mind. So once you have stimulated creative tension, it is necessary to walk away and give your outer mind a rest, so that the answer can surface through intuitive insights. The entire process is the process of discovering and applying the key of knowledge. You might recall that I said the lawyers had taken away the key of knowledge:

Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered. (Luke 11:52)

The lawyers believed, as do many orthodox Christians today, that the truth can be found only in the outer scriptures, in the letter of the law. They were not willing to go beyond the outer scriptures and doctrines in order to achieve an intuitive understanding. They wanted only to consider what could be described in words and what could be interpreted literally.

Yet the simple fact is that words are linear, and the spiritual reality is spherical. Therefore, there is a limitation that makes it impossible to fully describe the spiritual reality with words. This becomes even more of a problem when people have descended into the dualistic state of consciousness that takes linear words and makes them relative on top of being linear. This makes it very difficult to explain spiritual truth by using words, because people will often interpret those words according to what they want to believe.

So the only way for spiritual seekers to know truth is to use words, such as an outer scripture or the words I give on this website, only as a stepping stone. The fallacy of so many orthodox religious people is that they believe the truth about God can be confined to a scripture composed of words. In reality, no scripture was ever released for the purpose of giving a complete and infallible description of the spiritual reality. It intended to give people a foundation that they could stand on as they reach beyond the outer words and open their minds to an intuitive experience that goes beyond words. So the words are only meant to be a tool that enables the mind to reach beyond the material universe and receive an insight that cannot be expressed in words.

This then is the key to overcoming your frustration. As you continue doing what you are doing, perhaps using some of the tools I give on our other website, LINK you will gradually become more attuned to your Christ self. Thereby, you will receive more profound insights about the spiritual reality. Many of those insights will be inner experience that are in many dimensions, almost like the difference between watching a photograph and experiencing the actual object in three dimensions. Some of these experiences simply cannot be expressed in words, yet they will still unlock your understanding of who you are.

 

Copyright © 2004 by Kim Michaels

TOPICS: How limiting beliefs generate misqualified energies that accumulate in your energy field – the foundation for growth is to transform the energies – gradual path of replacing dualistic beliefs – seek contact with your Christ self – practical tools for transforming energy and replacing dualistic beliefs –

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Question: If we create reality trough our beliefs, then how can we change our current beliefs and adapt new ones in practice?

Answer from ascended master Jesus through Kim Michaels:

As a foundation for my answer, let me insert a teaching from the book Save Yourself:

Jesus: I know there are many organizations that promote various spiritual techniques as a magic bullet that will solve all of your problems. Yet it simply isn’t possible to heal your psychological wounds exclusively through ritual. The reason is that everything is subject to your free will. What causes you to generate toxic energy is that you choose to engage in imperfect thoughts and emotions. This choice usually springs from the fact that you either have an incomplete understanding of life or that you have accepted certain erroneous beliefs. This acceptance of false beliefs likely happened in past lifetimes, so these beliefs might have become very ingrained in your psyche. Yet the acceptance of erroneous beliefs always begins with a choice. Therefore, it can be undone by making a better choice.

Let me attempt to give a visual illustration of this. I have said that what keeps a soul alive is a constant stream of energy flowing from the spiritual self. You might compare your consciousness to a river. If your thoughts and emotions are pure, the Water of Life can flow freely. You feel a great connection to your spiritual self and you have abundant energy. When you accept an incorrect idea or belief, it is like throwing a rock into the river. If you throw a rock into a stream, you impede the flow of the water. The water has to flow around the rock, and this creates a vortex behind the rock in which debris can accumulate. Once you make the decision to accept an erroneous idea, that belief will block the light from your spiritual self. The erroneous belief will misqualify the light, and the misqualified energy will begin to accumulate “downstream” from the erroneous belief. It is like silt accumulating behind the rock in a stream.

Now imagine that a soul has had many lifetimes in which it has accepted erroneous beliefs. Each belief is like throwing a rock into the river. Misqualified energy begins to accumulate behind the rock, and it starts filling up the river bed. This will impede the flow of the water and it might dam the stream. When the stream is completely clogged with rocks and silt, people lose all awareness of the spiritual side of life. They forget their spiritual origin and begin to believe that they are material, human beings. Because the conscious mind (and all levels of the soul) are downstream from the spiritual self, the blocks in the river prevent the conscious mind from seeing the I AM Presence.

How can you begin to improve the situation? You must start by removing the silt that has accumulated behind the rocks. The silt is misqualified energy. You invoke high-frequency spiritual energy and direct it into the misqualified energy, thereby raising the vibration of the misqualified energy. As you clear away the misqualified energy, you can begin to see the rock, meaning the erroneous belief, that started the process of accumulation. Once you uncover that erroneous belief, you have to undo the original decision that caused you to accept that belief. This must be a conscious process because you have to make a new decision to replace the original decision. [end quote]

As you can see, the practical way to replace your current beliefs is to engage in a twofold process. The foundation for your growth, and a factor that is often overlooked by spiritual seekers, is to transform the energies created by imperfect beliefs. These energies prevent you from seeing the underlying belief. Or they will result in an emotional attachment that makes you feel like you either cannot, will not or do not have to replace the limiting belief. By transforming these energies, you will make it much easier for yourself to uncover and replace the often subconscious beliefs that are holding you back on your spiritual path.

The other element is that you must uncover your deeper beliefs and replace them by consciously making better decisions. As you go through this process, you can gradually replace all limiting beliefs until your entire world view is based on Christ truth. This will not happen overnight, and for many people it will be a lifelong process. Yet there will be many rewards along the way in the form of a greater sense of spiritual freedom and peace of mind.

In order to uncover your limiting beliefs, it is extremely valuable to sharpen your intuitive faculties and expand your conscious contact with your Christ self. When you use your intuition while studying spiritual teachings, your Christ self can use an outer teaching to give you many insights that will help you replace limiting beliefs. However, you can achieve even better results by deliberately going into the subconscious mind through various forms of therapy aimed at uncovering your hidden beliefs.

As a very practical measure, use the many decrees and invocations we have released. The invocations are designed to transform imperfect energies and to help you resolve the dualistic beliefs that cause you to misqualify energy. By using all of the tools that are available to you in today’s world, you can quickly make progress toward a greater sense of freedom. I can assure you that even though this will require work, it is well worth the effort.

One might say that spiritual growth and salvation is all about replacing your dualistic beliefs. It is truly your dualistic beliefs, the beliefs that make up your human sense of identity, that keep you out of heaven. As I said, “The kingdom of God is within you,” meaning that the key to entering the kingdom of God is to attain a higher state of consciousness, namely Christ consciousness. The key to attaining Christ consciousness is to transcend all imperfect beliefs.

 

Copyright © 2004 by Kim Michaels

TOPICS: Taking yourself too seriously – laughing at your ego – humor turns away dark forces – higher and lower humor – heaven is full of joy – can laugh your way into heaven; cannot cry your way into heaven – humor is liberating – humor has a high vibration – joy and laughter – Jesus did not laugh often – become as joyful as little children – God is the most joyful being of all –

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Question: Dear Master Jesus, thank you for your insightful advise. It has really helped me make some important choices about my path. This has resulted in some “dark nights of the soul.” After reading The Christ Is Born in You and reading many questions and answers on this website I was wondering about humor. It seems that spiritual growth is serious, but can the growth incorporate humor too? The image that many Christians (including myself) have of you is a quiet, reserved person. Do you have also a playful side? They say that the best medicine is laughter. Any insight about incorporating laughter as we sometimes struggle to reach higher.

Answer from ascended master Jesus through Kim Michaels:

I can assure you that there is much humor and joy here in heaven, and therefore there should be room for humor on the spiritual path on earth. In fact, let me say that if you cannot laugh at yourself, you are taking yourself too seriously. And if you cannot laugh at a particular topic, including your religion, you are taking that topic too seriously.

Humor is indeed a liberating force that can have a powerful impact on setting people free from the prison of the human ego and the dualistic mind. The human ego is very serious about preserving its image and its sense of being in control. When you identify with the ego, you cannot laugh at yourself. If you think someone is making fun of you, the ego feels threatened, and it attempts to squeeze all joy from your life. Therefore, one of the best ways to neutralize the ego is to use humor.

As Saint Thomas More once said, “The devil, the evil spirit, cannot endure to be mocked.” There is indeed no better way to turn away dark forces than by using humor. The dark forces are consumed by their egos, and therefore they take themselves very seriously—and they want all human beings to do the same. If you refuse to take them seriously, or even use humor to deflate their egos, they will find it difficult to find an inroad into your consciousness.

Obviously, as with everything else on this planet, there is a higher form of humor and a lower form of humor. I am sure everyone interested in spiritual growth can tell the difference, and it is truly a difference in vibration. Some forms of humor are gross or base, and they cause your energies to flow downward. Other forms of humor are light-hearted and cause your energies to move up. I am not encouraging anyone to engage in any lower form of humor, which is basically any form of humor that degrades other human beings. However, I strongly encourage people to use humor as part of the spiritual path because it truly can liberate you from becoming trapped in the illusion created by dark forces, namely that everything is so serious and should be taken so seriously that there is no room for any real joy in life.

Let me say that many Christians have developed the attitude that it is necessary to walk around with a sad face in order to make it to heaven. In reality, this is an illusion. God has no desire to force people to enter heaven. God wants people to enter of their own free-will choosing, and why would you choose to enter heaven if you see it as a place with no joy? God created human beings so they are naturally attracted to that which is light and joyful, and they are repulsed by that which is dark and dreary. God created you that way because heaven is full of light and joy, and God wants you to be attracted to heaven. So if your religion makes you take life too seriously, then you are not headed in the direction of heaven. If not, you might want to lighten up and take your spirituality and your religion less seriously. It is quite possible to laugh your way into heaven but it is not possible to cry your way into heaven.

We of the ascended masters often use humor to diffuse a tense situation. Although heaven is a place with great joy, those of us working with human beings often find ourselves in somewhat tense situations because it is difficult to determine exactly how to help our unascended brothers and sisters move forward on the spiritual path. Truly, there are so many problems and so much darkness in the earth that even an ascended master can become tense when dealing with these situations. We often used humor to lighten a meeting or discussion, because we know that when things get too tense, the tension itself will block the right solution.

Up here, we never make fun of people or each other in a malicious or degrading way. But we will make fun of each other in a good-natured way, and we will make fun of ourselves because we do not take ourselves too seriously. We will often use our past mistakes or shortcomings in a humorous way to prove a point. If you want an example of our form of humor, read The Jesus Koans. It contains some sayings that bring a smile to the face of an ascended being.

Let me say that humor and joy is truly a vibration. It is a vibration of great light, and it can lift your spirit more than anything else. Humor is not necessarily the same as laughter. Laughter is a physiological reaction, and although it can relax your muscles, it does not necessarily lift your spirit. Base humor does not lift your spirit.

It is quite possible to use humor and joy without making people laugh. Joy can be a quiet glow that suddenly makes everyone realize that behind all the serious appearances on earth there is a deeper sense of joy. That joy can be released through the heart center of every human being, but those who are truly joyful can become electrodes of this inner glow. They can lighten up a room simply by walking into it and without cracking any jokes that make people laugh. They can open the door for a flood tide of the energy of joy simply by looking at someone with a blink in the eye or by smiling.

As you grow on the spiritual path, heal your psychological wounds and open your mind and heart to spiritual light, you will naturally become an electrode of joy. You will be able to dispel the gloom of a situation by just being the flame of joy in action.

You say that many Christians have an impression of me as being quiet and reserved. I do not know where that impression came from, because if you read the scriptures, you will see that I was not quiet or reserved when I challenged the scribes and the Pharisees. I was, and I am, a very direct Master, and I can assure you that I was quite outspoken. In fact, many people were offended by my outspokenness and directness. It is, however, correct that I did not often smile or laugh during my embodiment in Galilee. I knew I had a serious mission to fulfill, and from the point of no return at the wedding in Cana, I was so focused on meeting the daily tests and challenges that I had little attention left over for being joyful.

In retrospect, I wish I had been more joyful but at the time my attention was focused on dealing with the heavy energies and the outer challenges I faced. Today, I would have been far less serious but then again it is easy to look back at the past and think you could have done better.

Nevertheless, I see no reason Christians today should take themselves, their religion or the spiritual side of life too seriously. Make an effort to bring joy into your spiritual life, because unless you become as joyful as little children, how can you enter the kingdom of joy? Make an effort to become an electrode of joy and dispel the cloud of gloom that currently hangs over this planet. So many people in today’s world take themselves and their causes so seriously that they believe joyfulness is a sin, a crime or an offense to God. I can assure you that God is never offended by true joy. On the contrary, God is the most joyful being you will ever meet. How can there be anything but joy in the presence of God?

You might ask why I do not use humor on this website. The main reason is that in heaven we have a universal form of humor, but on earth humor is so dependent upon different cultures. On a website that can be accessed by people from every culture, I do not want to offend anyone’s cultural sensitivity. And I do not want to offend the many people who do take their religion too seriously but who might still be helped by the teachings on this website.

 

Copyright © 2004 by Kim Michaels

TOPICS: You long for contact with your Christ self – a new identity – why life seems like a struggle – you can only change in the now – removing the blocks to being in the now –

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Question: I have a problem and want to know if there exists any special practical tool which can help me. 

I worry and I feel that I need a deeper realization of my
life. Once in a while I stumble, and I feel I must be more sensitive. I want to perceive more deeply in a way that allows me to somehow change the course of events, situations, relationships with people and so on.
As they say, each moment is valuable. How do I learn to appreciate each moment, each instant? I don’t want to wait until my old age to become more conscious, because life passes so quickly.

Answer from ascended master Jesus through Kim Michaels:

What your lifestream is truly longing for is to establish a clear and conscious contact with your I AM Presence. The best practical tool to help you achieve this is the technique for inner attunement that I have given on the toolbox website. I also recommend that people invoke spiritual protection by giving decrees to Archangel Michael.  I especially recommend that people perform the 33 day vigil recommended here.

If you will perform this vigil, you will become more sensitive to your Christ self and through that you will get directions for how you can actually change events and relationships. As you begin to tune in to your true individuality as a spiritual being and begin to express that individuality in your outer consciousness and actions, you will begin to see change. At first the changes will be subtle, but they will gradually become more obvious and more significant.

If you will study my teachings given throughout this website, you will see that the true purpose of the spiritual path is to change your sense of identity. You must let go of the limited sense of identity as a mortal, human being and gradually build a new sense of identity as a spiritual being who is here on earth to express your God-given individuality.

The key to appreciating the moment is to be attuned to your Christ self and I AM Presence. When you have that sense of inner attunement, you feel whole and through that wholeness you will naturally appreciate each moment as a unique opportunity to express your God-given individuality. As a practical tool, use the invocations for transcending past, present and future.

The reason so many people have lost the connection to their I AM Presence is that they have descended into a lower state of consciousness. This state of consciousness is based on the illusion that the lifestream is separated from its source, separated from God. As long as you remain in this state of separation, life will inevitably seem like a struggle and you will be unable to appreciate the moment. Instead, you will see life as a continuous stream of challenges and struggles, and you will always look forward to some magical moment in the future when your struggles cease. Yet that magical moment in the future will never come. The change in your life, the change in your consciousness, cannot come sometime in the future—it can only come in the now.

You cannot change your life, you cannot change your consciousness, in the future. You can only change things in the now because it is in the now that you must make choices. Therefore, you will not appreciate the now until you come to a point where you decide to accept your true identity as a spiritual being. When will you make that decision? When you decide that it is time to make that decision NOW.

It is important to understand that many people are not currently at a level of consciousness where they can make the decision to live in the now. They have too many blocks or wounds in their psychology that prevent them from making that decision. That is why the ascended masters have always offered a gradual path which leads you towards the point where you are able to finally accept your true identity and begin to live in the moment.

Depending on the psychology of each individual lifestream, this path might be long or it might be short. However, if you will diligently follow the path, as outlined on this website, you will eventually arrive at the point where you can make the decision to be who you are, to be in the now. Simply use the tools to gradually resolve the blocks in your psychology and at the same time spend some time contemplating the need to make the decision to be. If you will be diligent, you will arrive, and one day you will suddenly realize that you are fully awake and alive in the eternal now.

 

Copyright © 2003 by Kim Michaels

TOPICS: Original birth was birth of the I AM Presence – Conscious You choose to go into separation – caused it to feel abandoned and this affected creation of soul – this trauma can be healed by following path to Christhood – this path also key to expressing your unique individuality without clashing with other people – key to peace of mind –

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Question: Are we still traumatized by the original birth when God gave us free will and could we still feel abandoned from that? What was he thinking when he created us so uniquely…seems we clash because of it.

Answer from ascended master Jesus through Kim Michaels:

Your lifestream is not traumatized from your original spiritual birth, because that was the birth of your spiritual self or I AM Presence. That birth happened before your lifestream came into existence.

The Conscious You was created by your I AM Presence as a vehicle for experiencing and acting in the material universe. Your Conscious You was not traumatized when it was created, but the Conscious You does have a challenge that is inherent in its existence. It has to figure out how to maintain a sense of individuality while at the same time being a part of a larger whole, including the I AM Presence and the entire body of God. This is a challenge that the Conscious You usually takes a long time to resolve. This happens gradually as the Conscious You matures as a result of the experiences it has in the material world. This challenge is not fully resolved until the Conscious You attains personal Christhood, as described in my discourse on the levels of spiritual attainment.

As explained elsewhere,  the Conscious You creates a vehicle for expressing itself through a physical body. This 4-fold vehicle is what many people call the soul. Your soul can be traumatized from what some people call the original birth, but which was in reality the fall into a lower state of consciousness. This happened when the Conscious You stepped into the consciousness of separation and duality, whereafter it began to see itself as separated from the I AM Presence. This event did cause the Conscious You to feel abandoned by God, and this feeling then set certain basic parameters for the make-up of the separate self and the soul. However, the reality of the situation is that you were not abandoned by God. You turned away from God and the I AM Presence, and because God respects your free will, it could do nothing to interfere with your choice.

Once separated from God, it is possible that a lifestream can believe that it did not exist before this separation. Therefore, the lifestream might see the separation as its original birth. However, the separation from God was not the birth of the soul; it was the birth of the separate self or ego.

God created you uniquely but there is no competition and no sense of conflict between your I AM Presence and the I AM Presence of any other lifestream. The clash that occurs between many people is not a clash between their spiritual selves or even between their Conscious Yous. It is a clash between their human egos and the 4-fold vehicles or souls that are based on separation. To gain a deeper understanding of these concepts, read the second part of the book The Inner Path of Light. It explains in great detail the relationship between the soul and the human ego and how the soul can overcome the sense of abandonment and all sense of conflict by leaving behind the ego.

God created your lifestream as a unique facet in a beautiful diamond. Each facet is unique but it is also part of the diamond. Each facet enhances the whole, yet the whole is more than the sum of its parts. Therefore, the facet is complete only when it sees itself as being both unique and part of a larger whole. In other words, the differences between you and other lifestreams do not degrade or compete with your uniqueness. The fact that other lifestreams are different only enhances your uniqueness.

As long as a lifestream is connected to its I AM Presence, it can see itself as part of a larger whole without feeling threatened by differences. When the lifestream loses this connection, it no longer sees a connection between itself and other people, and that becomes the open door for the sense of competition and conflict.

God created your lifestream with unique characteristics because God wanted you to bring a gift to this universe that no other lifestream could possibly bring. You have the potential to be a co-creator with God here on earth and to bring a unique and uniquely precious gift to the forward movement of humankind.

I admit that once the lifestream has descended into a lower state of consciousness, individuality can pose a major challenge. Yet it is the sense of separation that creates the challenge, and by walking the spiritual path and attaining personal Christhood, a lifestream can reestablish its connection to the spiritual self. Thereby, you will begin to focus your attention on expressing your unique individuality and become less concerned about the actions and beliefs of other people. You will focus on being who you are, and you will let other people be who they are—or who they choose to be at the moment. You will be and let the. That is the key to peace of mind.

 

Copyright © 2003 by Kim Michaels

TOPICS: Transcending relative extremes – taking heaven by force – non-attachment to outer results –

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Question: Dear Jesus, I have often heard you speak about taking a balanced approach to life. As you described that Buddha chose the middle path between two extremes. I have even heard that many Buddhist monks make a journey on foot through some mountain terrain to reach enlightenment. If the are unable to finish the journey they then commit suicide. I find this to be extreme.

Answer from ascended master Jesus through Kim Michaels:

The reason the Buddha stressed the middle way was that he realized that the relative extremes are not the true path to spiritual progress. As I have explained throughout this website, the dualistic mind causes people to become polarized towards one of two relative extremes. Many people do indeed waste all of their energy and attention on endeavors that do not contribute to their spiritual growth but simply contribute to maintaining an unbalanced state of mind. Therefore, the Buddha wanted to set forth the example that by consciously striving to avoid these relative extremes, a lifestream can make much swifter progress toward a higher state of consciousness. So it is indeed extremely important for all evolving lifestreams to strive for balance in their spiritual endeavors.

You mention lifestreams that set out on the spiritual journey and commit suicide because they cannot complete the journey. These lifestreams are not advanced lifestreams. They are, in fact, immature lifestreams who are trying to take heaven by force. They subscribe to the belief that by doing certain outer actions, they will automatically attain spiritual progress. So by taking their actions to the extreme, they should experience extremely quick progress. This is indeed what you see in some extremist religious groups whose rituals have no balance whatsoever. Such lifestreams ascribe to the belief in an automatic salvation. This is a fallacy. This is taking heaven by force. This is the way that seems right unto a man, but the ends thereof are the ways of the death of the lifestream [Proverbs 16:25].

You see, the real key to spiritual progress is not outer rituals or outer accomplishments. The true road to spiritual progress is an inner path, and you will not attained a high level of spiritual consciousness until you become non-attached to outer results and practices. You must cultivate the non-attachment that the Buddha and I advocated.

Let me also say that once a lifestream has achieved a high degree of spiritual mastery, the lifestream does not necessarily have to remain balanced in all things. At that advanced level of consciousness, a lifestream can indeed engage in certain types of extreme behavior. Yet when the lifestream has reached Christ consciousness, such behavior will not cause a lifestream to lose its sense of harmony and balance. That is why you see some Masters who engage in behavior that would be too extreme for students at lower levels of the spiritual path.

 

Copyright © 2003 by Kim Michaels

TOPICS: Most people trapped in a prison of the mind – people in spiritual coma – defend your spiritual experiences – there are forces opposing your growth –

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Question: Thank you, thank you, thank you. . . for creating this website and for writing the books. I am in the process of reading The Christ is Born in You. I feel my life changing within because the truths that have been revealed to me from these 2 places. I have been a mainline Christian from 20+ years and within the last couple of years or so have dissatisfied with the church in general because I have felt such hypocrisies and inconsistencies with the teachings from the church and the church people’s attitudes toward each other. It all just didn’t add up to what I felt you, Jesus, tried to teach 2000 years ago. So therefore, I have been on a spiritual search for some time now. 

I now feel I have had a lot of my inner lifestream searching and questions answered by this website and reading the book. I fully see that I am a daughter of God (father/mother) and that I am a Christed one, that I have a Christ consciousness inside of me. However, I am a very young Christed one (spiritually); I am striving to develop my Christ consciousness ever so more deeply.
I just wanted to take some time to actually thank you, two. I know that I can thank Master Jesus in my inner self and I do and have, as I know He knows this, but I just wanted to do it openly and to also thank you, Kim, for being a willing vessel for the Master to use and speak through. Thank you very, very, very much.
The more I read the website and the book, the more I want to read; I can’t seem to get enough of it. Don’t want to put the book down. I have the other book, The Inner Path of Light and can’t wait to start that book either. I feel my spirit is truly being set free. I am 47 years old (young) and feel I am coming alive for the first time. Maybe I am actually being born again in a most true spiritual sense. Is this what it means to be born again, Master Jesus?

Answer from ascended master Jesus through Kim Michaels:

My beloved heart, I can assure you that nothing warms a Master’s heart more than seeing a person go through the transformation that you have just described. This is truly the reward that we who are in heaven are looking for in our work with those of our brothers and sisters who are still on the earth. I truly wish that every human being on earth would go through the same transformation of being spiritually reborn.

You see, when you ascend to heaven, you lose the sense of division and competition so common on earth. You accept your true identity as a spiritual being, and you only want too see all of your unascended brothers and sisters accept their true identity as sons and daughters of God.

Despite the fact that so many Christians are attached to the idolatrous image of me as the only Son of God, I have no desire to be seen as an exception. I only desire all human beings to accept themselves as the sons and daughters of God they truly are. The Christian idolatry of me springs from the relativity of the dualistic mind, which gives rise to a sense of competition and exclusivity. Christians want to make me the only Son of God so that they can feel better than the members of other religions. Yet as you accept your Christhood, this sense of competition fades away and you can begin to follow my admonishment to love your neighbor as yourself. You eventually begin to see that your neighbor is a child of the same God who is your spiritual father/mother.

The sad reality of the situation on planet earth is that the vast majority of human beings are trapped in a spiritual, mental and emotional prison. They are so boxed in by erroneous beliefs about God and about themselves that they have literally become spiritually blind. Many of them do not even realize that there is a God or that life has a spiritual side. Therefore, they cannot formulate intelligent questions about God or about the spiritual side of life, and they go through life almost as in a coma, a spiritual coma.

As a spiritual teacher I am always hoping that people will wake up from this coma and realize that they are not mortal human beings but immortal spiritual beings. This is truly what I work for and what I have been working towards for thousands of years.

So I congratulate you with your spiritual awakening, and I encourage you to hold on to this awakening no matter what happens. In fact, I would like to issue a warning here that you be very careful and defend your spiritual rebirth against the onslaught of the forces of this world. You might see from the scriptures that my 40 days in the wilderness brought me to a new level of spiritual awakening. Immediately upon returning from the wilderness, I was tempted by the devil, which can be seen as a symbol for the forces, even the state of consciousness, that dominate this world.

The collective consciousness of humankind will work against your spiritual awakening because there will be people around you who do not want you to get ahead of them and do not want you to demonstrate that it is possible to awaken from the coma.

So I strongly encourage you to keep studying the teachings, including the teachings I have given about spiritual defense. It is very important that a spiritual seeker defends his or her progress on the path by using the proper tools for spiritual defense. However, the essential key is that you are aware that there are forces, including forces in your own psychology, that will work against your spiritual progress. Use the tools we have given elsewhere.

When you are aware of such forces, you can follow the admonishment to be wise as serpents and harmless as doves, and that is half the victory. It is an inescapable fact that you cannot defend yourself against an attack that you do not see coming. But as soon as you recognize the threat, you can immediately defend yourself.

Please do not let this warning dampen your enthusiasm for your new-found freedom. Simply be alert and aware and hold on to the sense of joy and enthusiasm. Also be aware that the joy does not come from the fact that you have found this website or the books. These are simply outer teachings, outer tools. The real joy comes to the fact that you have now made conscious contact with your personal Christ self and with me through that Christ self.

This is the connection that you need to maintain and expand. It is the connection to the inner teacher that is the essential key to spiritual growth and spiritual freedom. Hold fast to that connection, and do not let any of the forces of this world take away that connection. Let no force of this world take the crown of the inner connection to your Christ self.

 

Copyright © 2003 by Kim Michaels