Michaels – Ascended Master Answers

Is there a link between the fall in the Garden and birth trauma?

Question: Is there a link between a fall in the garden and a birth trauma?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2026 New Year Webinar.

As we have said before, the Garden of Eden is a metaphor. Really eating the forbidden fruit is a symbol for going into the duality consciousness, becoming as a god, knowing good and evil, because in duality you are defining what is good and evil.

It is not necessarily the same, because the fall in the garden is a symbol for going into the duality consciousness.

For the original earth inhabitants, this happened at a much earlier stage. Avatars had not gone into duality when they came to earth, although they could still have some dualistic view of what coming to earth meant. You came here, you were exposed to the birth trauma, and then you went into duality. For avatars, the birth trauma came as a result of coming to earth, and then going into duality came after that shock. But for many earth inhabitants, they had already gone into duality before they were exposed to the fallen beings.

Subtle superiority from a natural planet?

Question: As an avatar I came to this planet to learn that free will is absolute and people have the right to submerge in duality as long as they choose. A sense that I had at that time in my natural planet both a subtle value judgment brought by the duality consciousness because I judged human behavior as wrong and correspondingly, a subtle sense of superiority which was therefore, born there before coming to earth. May it be that the seeds of the gross judgmental attitude and superiority-inferiority complex developed after the birth trauma were thus present before coming to earth?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2026 New Year Webinar.

Yes. What you describe is a very common scenario for many avatars. We have even talked about this in dictations. How the attitude you have before coming to earth is what sets the stage for the birth trauma because you come with a certain expectation and that expectation is always challenged or shattered when you encounter the fallen beings and therefore, the primal self is really your way to deal with the shattering of the expectation you had. We talked about it earlier in this conference about you having the view that you should be able to always be cool, calm and in control and that you should not be traumatized by coming to earth. But this is an unrealistic expectation and there can be many variations over this theme. All of us have had it. The messenger recognizes this in himself as well. It could be a certain sense of superiority: “I will not do what human beings are doing. I will not get my hands dirty.”

Yes, this is as we have talked about before, that after you work on the birth trauma, you need to go beyond this and look at what came before. What did you bring with you when you came from a natural planet that sets the stage for your reaction to earth? And then you need to resolve it, let it go.

Fire at the Crans-Montana Resort

Question: Many young people were killed and injured in the recent Swiss resort fire. How do I understand a lot of young people who suddenly die after having fun?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2026 New Year Webinar.

Well, there is not much to understand other than karma. Karma can work itself out in many different ways. One of them is a sudden unexpected death, even at a young age. I am not saying this is easy to understand. As I said, you cannot really understand this with the rational, linear mind, but what you can say is that part of the equation in a case like this and many other nightclub fires that have happened in the world in recent years is that many young people have gotten themselves into a state of mind where they believe that when you are having fun, when you are relaxing, when you are partying, anything goes.

But you see on an unnatural planet like earth, is that attitude really constructive or is it dangerous? You can see that there is a certain correlation between the consciousness of the people who designed and built and owned the nightclub and the people who were there.

“Ah, anything goes. Nothing is going to happen. We are just having fun. What do we care about fire codes and escape routes and this and that? It is all just good fun. It is all good, right?” But it is not all good on a planet like earth. And unfortunately. some people need to learn that through the School of Hard Knocks that can become very hard and therefore, seem very harsh, even unjust. But there is always a correlation between the people’s consciousness and a physical event. As we have said before, karma is really your unresolved psychology.

Difficulty visualizing during the birth trauma meditation

Question: I have difficulty visualizing during healing trauma therapy. I should be able to love and dissolve the character tormenting the protagonist on the theatrical stage, but I cannot quite imagine it. How can I do that? Should I cultivate a heart that loves my enemy?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2026 New Year Webinar.

Some people are more visual. Some people are more auditory. If you are not a visual person, do not try to force yourself to visualize during the exercise. You can still receive an impression or even words that help you tune in to the self you are dealing with, and that is what matters. If you do not see it visually, you can still resolve it through words or even subtle impressions beyond words, and what matters is what resolution works for you. There is no need to force, to try and force a visual impression. You go through the process neutrally. Let whatever happens happen.

How to deal with long, ongoing lawsuit

Question: For over three years of litigation I have been in material and mental suffering, frustration and anger from the energy drain preventing my spiritual journey and balance between material and spiritual life. However, since it is not just for my own benefit or issue, I constantly question if stopping the dispute by giving up is right, yet realistically I cannot abandon the ongoing lawsuit. I feel the already entangled dispute strengthens the karmic spiral, yet I repeatedly debate whether turning the other cheek as Jesus taught is correct or if that is truly understanding his will. Thinking of numerous injustices and lawsuits where rightful claims are denied as connected accelerations revealing truth, my primal self’s fear seems reinforced. Currently my entire past life feels complexly collapsed, identity shaken.

Of course, I acknowledge it fits a larger lifelong pattern and I am trying to observe the subconscious self. Peaceful resolution failed. The stated lawsuit requires proving one direction to win desired results, so inwardly I question if this is attachment, rationalization or justification. Even the process, objectively and statistically not a difficult case, yields unusual judgment forcing appeals, rejections and Supreme Court struggles leaving me curious about the reasons. Wherever inner conflict arises I want to connect to my I AM Presence, but now even intuition falls into a pattern of doubt. Acknowledging lessons from all this, I want to hear how to achieve balance and what teaching this process holds for me.

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2026 New Year Webinar.

What you are describing here is a classical reaction that comes from separate selves. It is also what the Buddha called an attachment or rather several attachments. You have an attachment to the outcome. It is not a matter of whether you should give up or not give up, but what you need to do is truly consider: “I am going to give up.” And then observe your reaction to this. This will help you expose the several subconscious selves that are involved in this. And if you use our teachings and tools to deal with these subconscious selves, you can make progress. You need to look for why it is you feel that you have to do this for other people’s sake and what that says about you and your unwillingness to simply decide for yourself what you want to do or do not want to do.

If you will use our teachings to look at your attachments, look at your reaction, look at your obsessive-compulsive feeling that you cannot let this go and let those selves die, you will not only attain inner peace, but you will also attain a clarity of vision that you cannot have right now because the selves are obscuring you from seeing what is the optimal way to deal with the situation.

I am not telling you to abandon the lawsuit or not abandon the lawsuit. I am telling you to remove the blocks in your psychology that prevent you from seeing the issue clearly and then making a decision: what you want to do.

About the strong romantic karmic pull

Question: It was said in a previous dictation that people have at times left families and marriages that were part of their Divine plan because the pull of the karmic tie to another person they met was too strong. They were not supposed to leave their family. I have met people with whom I have had a not so traumatic past life with, had a platonic but strong reaction to. Sometimes there is an OCD element, but it was never romantic. Other times I have had very traumatic previous lifetimes with people and had a tremendous pull that was romantic, which is embarrassing and distressful because it was not in my Divine plan to be with them in that way. Why can’t the karmic pull, be just OCD and not romantic? Feeling embarrassed about the second part makes me not want to look at the reason why we meet in the first, why we meet in the first place. Why cannot they all be platonic? I know they can be because I experienced many as so.

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2026 New Year Webinar.

Well what you are experiencing is that you had a difficult relationship with a person in the past and there was a romantic attraction or romantic relationship in the past and that is why you have a romantic attraction in this life. There are other people where you just have karma, but it did not involve a romantic relationship, so therefore, it is platonic.

But you are right that they can all be platonic. This just requires you to make a firm decision that a romantic relationship is out of the question. I am not asking you to make that decision with the outer mind, I am asking you to tune into your Divine plan and see what is in your Divine plan and if you intuitively feel that you are not meant to have any more romantic relationships beyond what you have, then you make that decision and therefore, even though you may feel a pull, it does not become overpowering.

You could also look at why are you embarrassed by having a romantic attraction because if this prevents you from looking at what you need to learn from the relationship, then it is not constructive. In fact, it is never constructive to be embarrassed about anything because the fallen beings will use it against you. Realize that there are some separate selves involved here and realize that also the OCD is coming from separate selves. You can use this to work on these separate selves to bring them out of the subconscious mind, look at them and let them die, whereby you can come to a point where you can meet a person that you have a karmic relationship with but there is no romantic or other strong attraction. You are just neutrally looking at it, asking yourself what you need to learn, looking at your psychology, working through those separate selves and then moving on.

There can be in karmic relationships this very strong attraction to overcome the separate selves that cause you to feel that you are tied to that person and this can be misinterpreted by the conscious mind as a strong attraction or strong romantic attraction. Many spiritual people have, when they joined the spiritual movement, met a person where they had such a strong karmic attraction. Some have, as we have said, left their families, engaged in these relationships and it has not been what was in their Divine plan. But then again there are other people who need to have more than one relationship during a lifetime as it is part of their Divine plan.

You need to tune into this intuitively but you can only really do this when you are neutral.That means looking at your reaction to these relationships, realize the reaction comes from a separate self and using our tools to overcome it.

The future of Africa during the 12-year cycle

Question: What is the plan of the ascended masters concerning African continent countries and the instabilities here? I am embodied in Uganda, East Africa. I am now married in Nigeria and living in Abuja.

Trump has waged war against Nigeria and other African countries vowing to put an end to terrorism in defense of Christianity, claiming that the Boko Haram terrorists are killing only Christians, of which Trump says that it is unacceptable. Already there have been differences between Christians and Muslims. Will Trump succeed in this? Is there going to be a war in Nigeria between Christians and Muslims? I sense that these projections are coming from an imbalanced state of mind, even though I definitely do not support any kind of terrorism or killings, and I also know that wars do not solve any problems. Meanwhile, West Africa seems to be dividing. Countries like Burkina Faso, Niger and Mali are pulling out from ECOWAS and forming their own alliance of Sahel states. Is this okay for West Africa? What do the Masters think about the upcoming presidential elections in Uganda that is happening on the 15th of January 2026? I sense that Robert Kyagulanyi, aka Bobi Wine, the opponent to President Museventi, is an original embodied fallen being, and that he uses his music and political rallies to steal light from people, and that if he wins, he will take Uganda to a total backward spiral.

I sense that Museventi is a bit neutral to still be the president rather than Bobi Wine. I stand to be corrected on this. What is the fate of these countries and Africa at large, especially in this 12-year cycle? Is Saint Germain’s golden age real democracy possible for Africa? Will the economic crisis change in this year in Africa? I sense that religions and traditions, cultures, ideology, black magic, etc. are holding a siege on the African continent. And what can an ascended master student like me do to help out? Is it even safe for me to stay in Nigeria at the moment with all of these threats from Trump?

Answer from the Ascended Master Saint Germain through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2026 New Year Webinar.

Well, the reality here is that this messenger has a limited understanding and awareness and experience with the African continent. Therefore, I am not really able to give through him a detailed view of Africa. He could, of course, study this, but it just is not the priority for his work right now. What I have said before is that there is a need for many people in Africa who can become a kind of messenger and receive ideas directly from me and unascended masters.

If you look at your question here, you have many valid observations that are beyond what is in the messenger’s outer mind. I can confirm your observations and your intuition about the presidential candidates and other things. It is clear that Donald Trump is acting in an unbalanced way in just about everything he does. He has a limited understanding of what is happening in Africa. He’s acting by having a hidden motive, a hidden agenda, and taking some surface issue, like the killing of Christians, whether it is here or there in Africa, and then using that as an excuse for acting with a show of force.

It is also clear that there are many divisions on the African continent. This actually starts with the whole tribal consciousness, where the colonial powers from Europe during the 1800s created these artificial boundaries between and called them nations. But in many cases, they were created with disregard for traditional tribal boundaries. What has happened is that Africa has not made the transition from a tribal consciousness to a national consciousness.

You would see the same in Afghanistan and in a large part of Pakistan, other nations as well around the world. The biggest challenge for Africa is to transition from a tribal awareness to a broader awareness. Now this could have been national awareness, and it has been in some African nations. But many of these nations are so artificial that the divisions between tribal areas will prevent the emergence of a national consciousness. There really is a need for redrawing of boundaries in Africa. But how would that come about, except through the usual conflicts that you have seen between nation states, for example, in Europe.

Unfortunately, there is a likelihood of much more conflict on the African continent. You need to evaluate whether it is safe for you to stay where you are. You need to tune into this individually. But in general, I can say that the 12 year cycle will be a very turbulent time in a large part of Africa. What there really is a need for is for individuals to come forward who have some Christ vision and can therefore, see beyond these divisions and can pull people together around a larger vision than either tribal or ethnic or religious or national divisions.

You could consider yourself among these people and see, tune in to your Divine plan and see what that means for you. I am not asking you to risk your life. I am just asking you to tune in to your Divine plan and consider why you chose to embody in Africa.

You see, we have often talked about our students tuning in to us directly, only using the messenger and the teachings given through the messenger as a stepping stone for establishing your personal inner contact with us. Focus on developing that and see what is in your Divine plan about the contribution you can make to progress on the African continent. Be careful to manage your expectations and do not expect that you can manifest the golden age in Africa within a short time span. It will take time, more time than on most other continents.

A new form of storytelling

Question: I create children’s stories and illustrations, and sometimes I find it easier to express an idea or metaphor with an animal or a toy that is imbued with human consciousness. I do, however, see why this can be problematic and how it has been perverted to confuse people. My question is, do we try to create a new form, even if it is more challenging, or can we use the current form, even if it is not the highest form, to bring in new ideas? The Collective already accepts images of animals and objects with human consciousness, and there are many beautiful stories with this form. But I do not want to add to the problem. Is it better to do the work and pave a new road to bring in a higher form, or does it matter at this point, since it is so widely accepted? Which is more important, the form or the wisdom behind the form?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2026 New Year Webinar.

It is not wrong in a disastrous way to use animal forms to tell a story. As you say, it is commonly accepted, and it is also accepted and understood by many people, that animals are not humans in animal bodies.

However, as we move further into the golden age, this form of storytelling will be replaced by higher forms, and you could be one of the people who is able to tune into us and receive inspiration for these higher forms.

Make some effort, or rather, make a non-effort to become neutral, tune into us, use the teachings and tools we have given, and receive some higher form. It does not mean you have to stop using the animal form, but at least consider and tune into us and see what you receive.

Elderly people overburdening the healthcare system

Question: With a growing proportion of elderly people in the population, seniors who live long lives while suffering from poor health may place a burden on younger generations. Is there a way to remain active and healthy until death?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2026 New Year Webinar.

Yes, of course there is. There are various physical measures you can take, and it is not difficult to find out what they are based on current knowledge. But the primary thing you can do to remain healthy is to work on your psychology, seek to overcome the subconscious selves, transform the energy in your three higher bodies that are burdening the physical body. The more you resolve psychology, the more you purify your energy field, the better physical health you will have.

But of course, the problem of an aging population is what is faced by most of the affluent countries in the world and this is a problem, again, that democratic governments need to address. There are various ways this needs to be done, including, as I just said in another answer, increasing employment for young people so they pay more taxes and so forth. But the primary thing I want to mention here is that the aging population is bringing increased focus on the problem of the modern world’s approach to medicine, to health and healing. Allopathic medicine has run up against its limitations, where you can say that in some cases it can keep people alive, but not healthy.

You can say from an overall perspective that the older people who are burdening the health care system are simply helping to force these societies to re-evaluate the materialistic approach to health and healing so that they can go beyond this purely physical profit driven approach to health and healing and adopt a more holistic approach. Many nations are so trapped in a materialistic mindset that they will not voluntarily make that shift, but they will be forced by the increased health care cost because, as always, money talks. Sad that this should be necessary in democratic nations, but at the current level of consciousness, it is.

You can, of course, make the calls in this coming year for the masters of the Second Ray to help people involved with health care systems realize the situation and acknowledge the need to look for alternatives to a purely materialistic approach to health and healing.

Youth employment

Question: While this is a global issue, the challenge of employment for young people is particularly serious in Korea as well. As a parent, I often advise my children to consider stable careers, such as civil service or public sector jobs, even though I know this may not be the ideal or definitive answer. In order to help young people choose a future in which they can find both stability and happiness, how should parents thoughtfully guide and support their children as they make these important decisions?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2026 New Year Webinar.

You might appreciate that it is impossible to give a general answer to such a question because it very much depends on the abilities and the psychology and the desires of the child. Some children have a psychology where they want stability and security in their lives. Then they should seek towards civil service jobs or public sector jobs that are generally more stable. Other children have a desire for self-expression, a desire to grow, a desire to make money, and they should naturally seek into the private sector. Even though it is more risk based, there is also more opportunity, as not as much of a ceiling on their potential income.

Truly, it is an individual matter but what you can do when this is a concern for you is make the calls that your government will do what a democratic government should do and the same applies to most nations where youth employment is becoming a growing problem. It is that they should provide better employment opportunities for young people. This is what a democratic government has leverage to do by stimulating the economy in various ways. You cannot expect the companies to do it because they are still trapped in the mindset that the best way to increase profits is to cut cost. In the more long run, you can certainly make calls and hold a vision that there is a shift, and this process will be accelerated by AI, but there is a shift where people are not seen as a liability for businesses or as an expense for businesses, but people and their welfare is seen as the very purpose for a business. This requires a shift where businesses are not owned primarily by the elite who are seeking to funnel wealth up to their hands by maximizing profits. Instead, they are owned by people, by the employees who are seeking to provide a service to life and give all of the people who are working for the business a better life, improving the life of the many versus improving the life of the few. This is the wave of the future.

What do the ascended masters do to relax?

Question: What do ascended masters do in the ascended realm for rest and relaxation?

Answer from the Ascended Master Saint Germain through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2026 New Year Webinar.

We seek to help you. That is our rest and relaxation. What I am saying is, we have no need for rest and relaxation because what we do, we do not consider it work. We do not consider it a duty. We do not consider it stressing. We do not consider it a burden. It is our joy to help you, to perform whatever functions we perform. We never get tired of it. We never get bored with it. There is no division in our minds between work and rest. It is our work that is our rest, and our enjoyment and our relaxation.

Housing prices in Korea

Question: I have a question about housing prices in Korea and the difficulty of finding a home. Housing prices in Korea are extremely high. I currently have 400 million won available, which is tied up in a Jeonse lump sum deposit lease. If I wait for two or three years, will it be possible for me to find a home where I can live peacefully until the day I die, a place where my grandchildren can come and play comfortably?

Answer from the Ascended Master Saint Germain through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2026 New Year Webinar.

We are not giving individual investment decisions here. What I will say is that in all of the developed countries, the affluent countries, house prices are becoming way too high and have been way too high for a long time. This is a deliberate manipulation by the fallen beings, one of the primary ways where they funnel wealth upward from the middle and lower classes towards the elite who are in charge of the financial institutions that give loans.

Ask yourself this simple question: if you are making money giving loans for people to buy houses, if a house costs $100,000, you make a certain amount of money giving that loan, but if the same house costs $500,000, you obviously make much more money because the interest payment will be much higher. What interest could you have in lowering property prices, keeping them at a certain level? What is your tool for increasing property prices, making credit more readily available? Sure, some will default on the loans, but with the much bigger interest payments that comes in, you can afford this and still make more money. Everyone loses except the people who already have too much.

This is a question, an issue that all of the democratic nations need to address and it needs to be addressed from the government level, where the government acknowledges that its role as a democratic government is to prevent the population from being exploited by a small elite. Therefore, they need to take appropriate steps to change this.

My vision is that as we move further into the golden age, property prices will in most nations go down. But also, of course, incomes will go up. There will be a better balance between people’s income and what they pay for a place to live, whether it is rent or own. It can be seen clearly by economists that if people pay over a certain percentage of their income for housing, the entire economy of society stagnates, because they do not have money left over to spend on other things, and therefore, drive economic growth. This is a problem that can only be resolved at the government level and most democratic governments have been asleep at the wheel and have allowed this to happen. It should not have been allowed, but here we are and therefore, governments need to wake up. If this is of concern to you, make the calls for these governments to awaken.

The future of the International Criminal Court

Question: Dear Master Saint Germain, please share your vision about the perspective of how the democratic organizations which serve justice need to change themselves to optimize themselves so they can endure the current and the eventual future pressure from the fallen beings and fulfill their role. One of the examples is the pressure upon the International Criminal Court from Trump, who imposes sanctions on the court guided by the ego-interest of who should be investigated and persecuted and who should not, and definitely not guided by striving to protect the society from the criminal mindset.

Following the inspiration to think about the role of the justice, I assume that actually the personal and the planetary growth is possible due to the existence of God’s law of justice, the principle that one reaps what he or she sows. If the justice on earth is compromised, then how could the growth happen, except passively hoping on karma? Maybe the Alpha-Omega balance suggests that there is the law of karma, but also there should be the collective free will from making the earth’s institutes of justice work properly. Please, tell me if I am wrong. I guess, for example, that if the ICC, International Criminal Court, will properly finish its job in terms of investigating such fallen beings such as Putin and Netanyahu and then officially proclaim them as criminals based on real evidence, this could help to shift the collective consciousness, even if the court would not be able to deliver the criminals to the trial physically because now, for example, it seems that most Russian people believe Putin is like a smart and wise hero, and if the war will stop without consequences in terms of justice, they will continue to believe in the illusion of Putin’s heroism and wisdom even more and this could be a new level of risk to the safety of the democratic societies. I see that security is not the final goal, it is a tool in the name of peaceful growth. But anyway, justice that leads to better security can deliver an opportunity for harmonious growth towards God-freedom, as for example, you, the ascended beings, who protect us, who are in embodiment, from the dark forces, so we can safely follow the path of being more.

Dear Saint Germain, what we, who are ready to serve God-freedom, can do in terms of improving justice and security in society from the perspective of the ascended masters? Is there some technological potential for helping manifest the necessary changes, for example, in cybersecurity?

Answer from the Ascended Master Saint Germain through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2026 New Year Webinar.

In the long run, the International Criminal Court will become strengthened, will become more important, and will gain greater power. But of course, there is always the question of enforcement. What you see here is that the International Criminal Court has value because it is international. It transcends any nation. That is why it can render a judgment upon the leader of a nation or even a nation for criminal activity, crimes against humanity, violation of human rights, and so on. The primary value that it has right now is to simply render this judgment and put it out there in a public forum so everyone can see it because this does have an effect.

Now, of course, the Criminal Court does not have any physical power to enforce its judgments. This is what will happen in the future. But still, there is value in just labeling something as a criminal activity, as a crime against humanity. Of course, the weakness of such a system is that it is holding people accountable. When you have a leader, even a leader elected in a democratic nation, who has an ambition of doing something that he knows will violate the human rights of other people, then he does not want to be held accountable personally by the Criminal Court and therefore, he will seek to use whatever power he has to weaken the Criminal Court by using another person as the leverage.

Trump, by using Netanyahu as an excuse for sanctioning the judges of the Criminal Court, is really setting the stage for a point in time where he will be brought before the Criminal Court and therefore, he hopes he can avoid a judgment. This is the weakness. The Criminal Court requires a certain adherence to democratic principles and human rights, to justice, so to speak. And of course, those who have it will not respect it. But there is still value in a Criminal Court functioning.

What can you do? Well, if this is an issue that is dear to your heart, you can make the calls for it, especially make the calls to Portia for greater justice. But really, you cannot expect short-term results on something like this, because you still have a situation on earth where so many nations do not respect principles, the rule-based world order, as it has recently become common to name it. That will change as we move further into the golden age. But you should not expect that this will happen in a few years, it will take longer.

You can, of course, make the calls and hold the vision that the United States, as quickly as possible, will return to an adherence to its own constitution, which is based on the rule of law, human rights, and principles. That will be an improvement of the world situation. But still, it will take longer before it truly manifests its highest potential.

You can say, of course, that there is a certain dilemma here in the sense that the Criminal Court is needed only because there are leaders of countries that are not based on democracy and human rights. That is why the Criminal Court also does not have the power to enforce it, because how could the international society enforce a judgment against Putin without militarily invading Russia and taking over Russia and physically arresting him, which is not a scenario that anybody really wants to engage in right now. You see that when the Criminal Court gains the power to enforce its judgments, it really will not be needed very often anymore. But still, as I said, there is a psychological value in having such institutions and having them render these judgments.

It would be a major blow to Israel’s prestige and international standing if Netanyahu was labeled as guilty of crimes against humanity. The same, of course, with Putin, and the same with Trump. How could you have a judgment against you from the International Criminal Court and expect to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize?

Holding yourself to unrealistic standards and expectations

Question: I have been listening to your recent YouTube video on CPTSD (Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder). I have been listening to your video in advance of the upcoming webinar, and it stirred a lot for me that I’d like to bring to the masters.

I have become increasingly aware of how sensitive my nervous system is. When I look honestly, my four lower bodies identify strongly with many CPTSD symptoms, especially being overwhelmed, hyperactivity, and difficulty regulating when I am triggered. I am also a single parent to a young, very bright, strong-willed, high-energy, and often very challenging little boy. He is not to blame for my reactions, but the level of stimulation, boundary-pushing defiance, and constant engagement can be one of my biggest triggers, specifically manifesting in me as a hyper-controlled fight-flight responses. At times I feel overwhelmed by sensory input and pressure, and I notice myself reacting in ways that echo patterns from my childhood. I was raised in an environment where the adults around me could not regulate their nervous systems. I experienced physical, emotional, psychological, and sexual abuse across different relationships and stages of life. I have done a great deal of healing, and I know I made real progress, but also see how deeply some of these patterns were conditioned into me.

What makes this especially hard is the pressure I put on myself because of the standards I hold, the teachings I value, and the way I have been perceived as capable or intelligent. There is a lot of shame around the reality that I am still wounded. The truth is I am injured and live a pretty independent life without a lot of support, and trying to parent, heal, and hold myself to a high spiritual standard with good intentions at the same time can feel overwhelming. My life is improving, but it often feels harder than it used to. I carry a lot emotionally and physically, and there is often significant physical pain along with the emotional weight. I am trying very hard, and sometimes life feels like too much.

My question is this, what specific course or practices would you recommend for directly resolving CPTSD-level nervous system dysregulation, particularly in the context of parenting, while working consciously with Mother Mary and the ascended masters, and perhaps shedding some light about relationship dynamics like these?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2026 New Year Webinar

What you describe here is a typical response for many avatars and it really goes all the way back to the attitude you had before coming to earth. We have given many teachings about this, including the teachings on the birth trauma, but after the teachings about the birth trauma, we have also occasionally given teachings about how you looked at coming to earth. We have talked about how you need to resolve this.

What we can say here is this: the main problem you are facing right now, which is the case for many avatars, is that you are holding yourself to a high standard and you feel you are not living up to it, because you feel you should not be wounded. Now, this feeling may be realistic enough on a natural planet, but it is not realistic on an unnatural planet like earth. No one, myself included, can take embodiment on earth without being wounded. No one has ever done so. You need to realize that even though you have created separate selves after you came to earth, you had what we can call a separate self before you came, where you had the attitude that you should be able to take embodiment on earth without getting your hands dirty, so to speak, without being wounded, without reacting.

But this is not a realistic expectation, and therefore, you need to look at this, use even my teachings from the book Healing Your Spiritual Traumas to go back, not to the original birth trauma, but even before that. You can still use the same steps and uncover this unrealistic expectation and let it die, let it go. If you can make this switch and accept that you are an avatar, you are bright, you are smart, you are capable… but so is any other avatar. All avatars were highly evolved on their natural planets. That is why they are all susceptible to this, quite frankly, serpentine lie, we might say, that you should have been able to come to earth and not react, not be wounded. This is what puts you in a catch-22, where you are putting too much stress on yourself. You are literally putting yourself in a situation that will overwhelm anybody. But it is not the outer situations, including your son, that is doing this, it is the inner pressure you are putting on yourself because of this unrealistic expectation.

You need to recognize here, as we have said before, we who are today ascended and who embodied on earth, we were wounded, we were hammered down by the fallen beings, we experienced PTSD, but we overcame it. We overcame it by first looking at this unrealistic expectation that we should have been able to come to earth without being traumatized. Look at the planet you are on. How could you embody here without being traumatized? See that this is a separate self. I am not saying you came to earth with that separate self. You came to earth with a certain expectation and when your expectation was not met, you created a separate self that is blaming you. In some cases this happened as a result of the birth trauma, because the birth trauma was your “hitting the concrete experience,” where you realized that you could not live up to your expectation that you would be able to remain cool, calm and collected on earth and not react here. Now you may have an idea like this messenger, for example, of the Buddha sitting under the bow tree facing the demons of Mara and not reacting because he had no attachments, but you did not come here with Buddhahood. Buddhahood, non-attachment to the things on earth, is what you develop over many lifetimes on earth by encountering all of the terrible situations that occur on earth. You encounter something and then you can become non-attached, but you cannot be non-attached beforehand. What you need to do here is work on this separate self that is holding you to an impossible standard. When you let that self die, you will gain a completely different perspective on every other aspect of your life. It will be much easier for you to deal with everything else. It will be much easier for you to overcome other separate selves. You can basically say the separate self I am talking about, where you think you should have been able to not react here on earth, can prevent you from looking at other separate selves that were born from reacting. You are wanting to deny these separate selves in a desperate attempt to maintain the image that you can still be in control, you can still be cool, calm and collected here on earth.

You need to accept: no, you cannot be in control here on earth. You cannot avoid being wounded. Nobody ever has. And when you accept this, you can forgive yourself for having been wounded. That means you can now, instead of resisting looking at the separate selves that you created, you can now neutrally look at them and overcome them. But as long as you have this separate self that blocks you from acknowledging that you have an unrealistic expectation of yourself, it is very difficult to heal the other selves.

Doing decrees and invocations for the dying people

Question: Last autumn, my father passed away after battling a serious illness. He spent his last months in the ICU intubated and on a ventilator. Every time I visited him, it was heartbreaking and I thought he must be in so much pain. During that time, I gave many degrees and invocations praying for his healing, and that he would be free from pain. Our family is still going through the difficult grieving process, especially because it happened so suddenly that we could not say a proper goodbye. I know he is now free from the physical body and the burden of his illness, but I still regret not being able to help him enough and I miss him dearly. It is a long story but here are my questions.

Do decrees or invocations for a specific person actually help them? What is the best way to do this? Also, does performing decrees or invocations for sick people around me or pets (our family dog also passed away after being sick around the same time) affect our karma in any way?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2026 New Year Webinar.

Yes, doing decrees and invocations for people who are ill or who are in the process of transitioning out of the physical body can indeed be helpful to them. These decrees are of course subject to their free will, but it gives them an opportunity to make a higher choice. Therefore, if they make that choice, it is certainly beneficial for them. When I say “they,” I mean that even if the body is unconscious, the Conscious You is still conscious. The Conscious You is fully conscious, reacting to the situation of the body being sick or dying and therefore, your decrees can help the Conscious You make a better decision in the situation.

What you especially want to decree for is that the Conscious You, the person, is cut free from any ties to lower forces. You want to decree for the transmutation by the violet flame of any fear-based energy in their emotional, mental, and identity bodies, even for that matter in the physical, and you want to call to the ascended masters, whomever is closest to you, to help the person make the most learning out of the process.

In terms of making decrees for a family pet, it is not something I recommend. It has no effect on the pet. You must realize that your pets, even though they can have some individualized awareness, they do not have anywhere near a human awareness.

Question: I read your explanation that missing the deceased is an emotion stemming from possessiveness, and I understand it fully. However, despite understanding, I just miss him and want to see him so much. How should I handle these emotions?

You recognize that this comes from a separate self, and then you use our teachings and tools to overcome the separate self. When you miss a person who has left the physical body, you can, by missing the person, create an energetic tie between you and the person. If the person is pained because you are missing him, then it can be more difficult for him to move on. You need to simply be a little bit cruel with yourself and say: No matter how much I miss my father, will it bring him back into physical embodiment? The answer is obviously no. Therefore, what is the best you can do for your father and for yourself? Accept the situation and allow both of you to move on. That you do by dissolving the separate self that causes you to have an energetic tie to your father and causes him to be tied to you.

Higher perspective on soul division

Question: My question relates to an answer about the life review where Jesus explained that very damaged souls may be taken after death to special places for healing and possible assistance to retrieve lost soul parts. And that this can be a very lengthy process. I have also read other answers on this website dealing with trauma to the lifestream. I would be grateful if Jesus would comment on the following. A past life regression therapist refers in her writings to a very rare but real situation that she has seen in her client sessions. It is that in circumstances of healing in the afterlife, after significant trauma on earth, it is possible that some parts of the soul may heal much more quickly than other parts. And if so, that a decision may be taken that the soul should be divided into two parts to enable the more healed part to return to embodiment, while the other parts remain for further rest and healing. It has been made clear in the sessions that the two parts will need to eventually reunite on earth, so when both are back in the reincarnation cycle, they must plan lifetimes to meet until this is achieved. And that this may take a number of embodiments as the consciousness levels of the two parts may not be compatible due to one having had many more lives on earth than the other. If the more damaged part was out of embodiment for a long time, if the earth reunion is successful, the parts return to one being in the afterlife and resume incarnating if necessary. If this process of division can occur, could you indicate what would be possible for the healthier part, if the more damaged part, when it returns to embodiment, returns not fully healed, but with a certain vulnerability, or perhaps is spiritually attacked via an abusive childhood, and as a result becomes further damaged, falling into a negative spiral and shunning assistance, so that reunion is not feasible due to incompatibility with the healthier part? Is the healthier part fully functional without the other? And if not, can it be reconstituted in some way, if the damaged part continues to fall in consciousness and reunion becomes impossible or at least unlikely? Or would it simply have to continue reincarnating indefinitely, hoping reunion may become possible eventually?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2026 New Year Webinar.

The observation made by this past life regression therapist is simply not realistic. It is a human interpretation imposed in order to explain the reaction to severe trauma. It is not a realistic scenario. We do not divide a soul so that one part re-embodies and another part remains inactive for a time and eventually have to re-embody and the two meet. If you want a deeper understanding, we can say that a soul exposed to very severe trauma can create a separate self that is so focused on the trauma and the pain and avoiding future pain, that it becomes stuck. It could become stuck in the astral plane, for example. But then the main part of the soul re-embodies again. The Conscious You will re-embody. It will still have a structure in the identity, mental and emotional realm. But it has that separate self that is left, for example, in the astral plane. And that, of course, creates an inroad for astral forces. It creates a pull on the Conscious You and the identity, mental, emotional bodies.

Really, it is a useful teaching to talk about soul division and soul parts. It has helped various people heal. I am not denouncing it completely, but I am denouncing this particular interpretation that the soul splits into two. What can happen is, as I said, that a separate self gets stuck somewhere and that the rest of the lifestream continues to embody. But if you want to take your understanding of this soul part and soul division theory to a higher level, you need to simply look at the teachings we have given about the separate selves, because soul parts is really just separate selves. It is not really a matter of reintegrating the separate self that has become stuck. It is a matter of coming to see it as a separate self, dissolving the energy, seeing the illusion and letting the self die.

You can also use the teaching about the separate selves to gain a higher perspective on the concept of an inner child or inner children that you need to, according to some teachings, love and reintegrate. But it is really a matter of coming to see that an inner child is really a separate self, created at a certain time, often due to trauma. And it is not that you need to reject it and push it away from you. You need to accept that it is part of your being. But the goal is not to reintegrate the inner child. The goal is to let it die, because it was a separate self created at a certain age. And you are now moved beyond that age. Perhaps it was even created in past lifetimes. It is a matter of letting it go.

You see, the teaching about soul parts and soul division, again, I am not saying it is invalid, but it is based on the view of the soul that we just talked about, was given in even previous ascended master dispensations, but also many other spiritual teachings. That the soul is what incarnates from the spiritual realm. But as we explain now, with the teachings about the Conscious You, what really incarnates is the Conscious You. It is pure awareness, neutral awareness, cannot be changed by anything on earth. What you learn from your sojourn on earth is stored in your causal body. And therefore, as Jesus said 2000 years ago, only the person who descended from heaven can ascend back to heaven. The outer personality, the contents of your identity, mental, emotional bodies cannot ascend to heaven, because they were created in reaction to earth, and ascending means transcending earth. Therefore, all of this that you have created, in response to being on earth, needs to be dissolved and let die before the Conscious You can return to the same state of pure awareness with which it descended, and then, you can ascend.

The ascended master’s perspective on Thailand

Question: What is the ascended master’s perspective on Thailand?

Answer from the Ascended Master Kuan Yin through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2026 New Year Webinar.

We naturally have a perspective on Thailand, but the messenger is not very familiar with the country in his outer mind. What we basically can say is that our perspective is that Thailand needs to be more aligned with its Buddhist heritage, and therefore, stop fighting with its neighbors. You will be able to see the irony that here are two countries that claim to be Buddhists, but they are fighting over a Buddhist temple. This cannot be alignment with the Buddha’s intentions and teachings.

But other than that, we of course want to see Thailand become a fully democratic country that is based on democratic principles and therefore, gives economic opportunity to all people. If you look at the affluent countries in the world, how did they become affluent? How did they go from being poor centuries or decades ago to being affluent today? By giving equal opportunity to people instead of having an elitist economy and an elitist society.

Do we generally attract people with a similar level of consciousness?

Question: During embodiments, do lifestreams have interactions with other lifestreams with a similar level of consciousness? In previous Q&A, the ascended masters have explained that after physical death, where a lifestream goes depends on its level of consciousness at death, where it can receive healing, guidance and teaching from ascended masters. But what happens, if anything, with other lifestreams?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2026 New Year Webinar.

You can basically say that the contents of your four lower bodies, especially the emotional, mental, identity bodies, act like a magnet that is magnetizing yourself to situations and people based on the contents of your three higher bodies. If you have a certain tendency that you like to argue with people, you will magnetize yourself to other people who like to argue with people. But you can also look at this from the perspective of your Divine Plan. When you make your Divine Plan, you look at what do I need to overcome in my psychology in order to grow as much as I can in this coming lifetime. Therefore, you put yourself in situations where you can meet the kind of people who can help you move forward in your psychology. Now, when I say help you, I do not necessarily mean that they are being all nice to you and seeking to help you. In some cases, they help you by challenging you, by not doing what you want them to do, by annoying you, by pushing your buttons and so forth. Because this is what you need in order to force yourself while you are in a dense physical body to look at your psychology.

Another aspect of your Divine plan is that you want to bring some kind of service or gift to earth. And again, then you will tend to put yourself in a situation, be born into a situation where you have the greatest opportunity to give that gift. But also as you grow, especially as you resolve psychology, you will attract other people or rather you will attract yourself to other people in situations. It is an interactive process. I am not trying to tell you that who you meet in embodiment is all mapped out in your Divine plan. It is mapped out as a potential. But if you do not resolve psychology, there are certain situations and people you will not encounter. You will instead keep encountering the kind of people who can help you overcome that particular psychology that you have not resolved. If you are arguing with people and you do not overcome it, you will continue arguing with people perhaps for the rest of your life. Whereas if you overcame that tendency, you would attract a different kind of people into your life.

Expressing ascend master ideas in the healthcare field

Question: I am a new ascended master student, and I am immeasurably grateful to the masters for giving me a worldview and a spiritual identity that deeply resonates with me. Despite believing that I have little to offer, I was inspired to consider speaking out in society after hearing Saint Germain’s dictations at the New Year’s 2025 webinar and at Reconnecting to Your Divine Plan 2018 conference. But I need guidance on how to do so. How can an ascended master student who is trained as a health researcher act as a conduit for the masters to help awaken people from their inaction to protect universal healthcare in Canada? In Canada, I believe that the political inaction by most well-resourced Canadians largely stems from a desire to be seen as good, undisruptive citizens and a lack of awareness of a viable alternative approach. Exacerbating this apathetic tendency are threats that may destabilize our economy, which are leading some people to support conservative politicians who are defunding our public healthcare system and supporting privatization models like those in the United States. However, there are also many people who are questioning the interests of politicians largely due to the uncovering of lies of past and current political parties when mass graves of indigenous children were found, stemming from the attempted genocide of indigenous peoples across Canada. Furthering the public’s disenchantment of the government was the news that health officials misrepresented the limited safety data for the COVID mRNA vaccines. I feel that the topic of healthcare offers a backdoor approach to raise the consciousness of Canadians by encouraging discussion about the determinants of health and illness in relation to the ascended master’s worldview, along with core teachings that humans are psychological beings who need to connect to their higher spiritual selves to receive true love and build self-esteem. Such a dialogue could be a galvanizing force to unify our diverse communities and imagine new ways of thinking about health, illness and healthcare relative to the strengths and limitations of Western, Eastern and indigenous healing modalities. Please help me see how one could leverage both the openness to dialogue of many Canadians and the widespread belief that we are a nation that cares about all people. This engagement may help some overcome their discomfort to hold political leaders accountable to not only protect public healthcare, but evolve the system to become holistic and responsive to individual and family needs.

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2026 New Year Webinar.

First of all, you need to recognize here that when we are talking about using the ascended master’s worldview, you cannot expect that people in general will accept that this comes from something called ascended masters. We have said this before, we have given teachings and answered questions about this before. Look at our teachings, take certain universal ideas, express them in universal terms. Do not refer to ascended masters. We are not seeking to take credit. The messenger needs no credit.

You take certain ideas that are appropriate to your field, whether it is healthcare or something else, and you use those universal ideas to get people to question the current approach, to show them that there might be other things to consider. But you cannot do it with the attitude that you are a missionary for the ascended masters, and that your goal is to get people to accept ascended master teachings. Then, you will meet nothing but opposition and rejection. You need to be very universal, very discerning. It is really not a matter of getting people to accept an ascended master worldview. It is a matter of looking at where they are at in consciousness. What are the few ideas that they might be able to accept, but which would take them to a higher level of awareness? Look at their present situation, look at what brings them a step higher. Do not have an end goal in mind here, or you will be disappointed. As we have seen, many students over the decades become disappointed.

Holding the immaculate concept for an adult child

Question: I am a Korean mother with two sons, ages 19 and 18. My oldest son experienced early emotional neglect and later started medication for the early stages of schizophrenia. He is now attending a university far from home. I am worried about whether he can manage dorm life and future military service. Is this related to his karma or life path? What can I do as a mother to help him live a happy life?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2026 New Year Webinar.

At this late stage, where he has moved away from home, as in moving into adulthood, and there is not much you can do. You could have done something earlier in life. But if that was not possible due to your situation, then you need to look at it with no regrets and move on.

What you can do is, with whatever interactions you have with your son, give him unconditional acceptance for who he is. Accept him for who he is. Do not try to change him. Do not try to tell him what to do or live his life. Just accept him. Always be positive, whatever he is going through. Do not tell him. Do not seek to force him, just be supportive and accept him unconditionally for who he is.

This relates to a concept I have talked about before of holding the immaculate concept. But to really hold the immaculate concept, you have to be neutral and not have a particular image of how you want your son to live his life. Even the idea that you want him to live a happy life can be limiting. You really need to step up and want him to have the most possible growth that he can have, but not have a clear vision of what that means for him. Whether he is happy or not, it is a matter of his karma, his psychology from past lives, and what he does with his opportunities in this life. That is not your choice to make.

Therefore, I say, support him, accept him, encourage him. Do not force or tell him what to do, or seek to manipulate him in any emotional way, such as shame or guilt, or a sense of being obligated towards you as his mother. Set him free, set yourself free, but still accept him and support him.

Socrates, the Socratic method, and human abilities

Question: I ask about Socrates questioning method and the differences in human abilities. I believe Socrates posed questions that deconstruct certainty and make choice unavoidable. Humans vary greatly in their abilities, intelligence, creativity, concentration, diligence, flexibility, and so on. Is this difference in ability, whether genius, average intelligence, borderline intelligence, or intellectual disability, due to karma and free will? I would appreciate your response using a Socratic approach. And did Socrates ascend after drinking the hemlock? Could you describe his ascension process?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2026 New Year Webinar.

Socrates did not ascend after that embodiment, but has ascended later. His ascension process is not that special compared to other being’s ascension process.

In terms of the Socratic method of human intelligence, well, it is an expression of the Christ mind, where you ask people questions to get them to think. We have said here, the goal of the Christ is to raise awareness. Sometimes this can best be done by asking people questions. In other cases, it is best done by making statements. This is something that the Christ tunes into in each individual case.

What determines a person’s ability or their level of intelligence or their level of consciousness, their level of awareness, is really a product of what they have done since they first came into being. In terms of the original earth inhabitants—what have they done embodying here on earth? In terms of avatars—what have you done on a natural planet, and what have you done since you came to earth?

It is something, as we said—you start with a point-like sense of self, and by experimenting with your co-creative abilities, by multiplying the talents and learning from it, you raise your awareness. Of course, for human beings on earth, on a dense planet, it has some impact, how you are stimulated in this lifetime or even previous lifetimes to develop certain abilities. That is why there are people in embodiment on earth who have not grown very much for a very long period of time, because they have not been willing to take responsibility and pursue their potential. There are others who have grown over many lifetimes. They have increased their awareness, their abilities.

In terms of the Socratic method, consider: Why are you asking this question? Why is it important to you to understand why people have different abilities?

What the masters mean by “people” and “world”

Question: When people or humans are mentioned in the description or decree, do they refer only to the lifestream existing on planet earth, or to all lifestreams existing in the material universe? And when it says the world is like a giant toy, does the world refer to the material universe?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2026 New Year Webinar.

When we talk about people or humans, we are talking about beings in embodiment, most of the time on earth, but also on some occasions in the unascended sphere. Otherwise, we generally talk about lifestreams, but we also talk about, sometimes use the word “lifestreams” to refer to people in embodiment. The “world” is generally the material world with its four levels, physical, emotional, mental, identity. But it can also sometimes be used to refer to the world of form with the seven spheres. Although we often use different words there, such as cosmos or universe.

What the masters mean by “soul” and “geometrical forms”

Question: The “life” Jesus spoke of is continuous self-transcendence. This is the life the Living Christ bestows upon those who are incarnated. I participate in the body and life of the Living Christ, and I renounce all desire to confine my spirit within the mental box defined on earth. I choose life. There is no longer separation in our souls. I love the ideal geometric forms of my I AM Presence. As exemplified above, the words “life” and “soul” appear in the descriptions and decrees of the ascended masters, but they seem to have slightly different meanings in each instance. Could you please explain what they are primarily used for? Also, as exemplified, the term “geometrical forms” occasionally appears. While I understand geometric phenomena in the physical world, I have no idea what geometrical phenomena in the spiritual world mean. Could you explain?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2026 New Year Webinar.

If you look at our teachings given through this messenger alone, but also given in past dispensations, you will see that there is not necessarily a linear consistency in how we use specific words. “Soul”, “life”, “Living Christ”, “Christ”. We use them in slightly different ways depending on the context. On one hand, this can be confusing, but it is really mainly confusing if you use the linear mind to compare. But what we have explained is that we give a certain teaching for a certain group of people who are in a certain state of consciousness to help them grow.

In the beginning, for example, with this messenger, we used the word “soul”. Later, we have almost stopped using that word. We used it to give people something to connect to that they were familiar with, even though “soul” is a difficult word because so many different spiritual teachings talk about it in different ways. As we have explained, “soul” really means the four lower bodies, or rather the three higher bodies, emotional, mental and identity. That is the “soul vehicle”. But in previous ascended master organizations, the word “soul” was used as the totality of the incarnating lifestream. We portrayed it that the soul was created in the spiritual realm and descended into the physical body.

Now we portray that your I AM Presence is in the spiritual realm. It sends an extension of yourself, the Conscious You, and the Conscious You over time builds the contents of the identity, mental, and emotional bodies. And this is the soul that reincarnates, that you take with you from incarnation to incarnation.

This is a higher teaching that is more nuanced, where in previous dispensations, we used the word “soul” more the way it has been used in traditional religions, especially Christianity. The “Living Christ” can be used in a general term about ascended masters. We are the Living Christ, but we are also ascended. A more specific use related to earth is a person in embodiment who has attained a certain level of Christhood and therefore, becomes the Living Christ like Jesus was, but certainly other people have attained that level also. You can look at many different words where there is a certain evolution over time. But really, what you are doing is you are looking at the level of words, and you are seeking to understand it at the level of words with the linear mind. And as we have said many times, especially over these later years, we really want our students to go beyond the level of the words and experience our Presence directly. Then these inconsistencies will be resolved by your direct experience.

In terms of geometric shapes, certainly you have geometric shapes in the physical world. But what have we explained? Everything in the physical world is an expression of what is in the emotional, mental and identity realms. There are geometric shapes in the emotional realm, the mental realm, the identity realm, even in the spiritual. Geometric shapes is just that you have a pattern, a recognizable pattern, that is often repeated at various scales and levels. This is all we really mean with this. There is a certain recognizable pattern, an energetic pattern at the physical level, but it is really an expression of a pattern at the emotional level, which is an expression of a pattern at the mental, and so on.

How to work safely with discarnates

Question: I lately felt the call to help the earth to do energetic clearing of places, be it personal venues, or natural spaces. Therefore, I received training to work as a geobiologist, which includes working with electromagnetic fields and telluric currents, as well as clearing dark memories and entities, and helping lost discarnates. Although I suppose Astrea and Saint Germain would assist with a clearing of low energies through decrees, and Archangel Michael provide protection, I wonder if Mother Mary or any other particular master would be available and interested with helping me with discarnates, for example, to help them move toward the light and in dealing with the spirits of nature and earth parameters. Who can I refer to as an authority beyond the spirit of the place? Do you have any recommendation for how to conduct this mission appropriately? For example, does the use of tools like the pendulum or dowsing rods to amplify my very subtle sensations seem correct to you?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2026 New Year Webinar.

You need to, first of all, look at which master are you close to personally, and work with that master. Then you need to look at where are you in the world, are there specific masters who are somewhat working with that area, like Kuan Yin in the East, me in the Christian part of the world, and so forth.

In terms of whether you use divination tools, we do not, as a general rule, recommend this, because it is not that much more objective than your intuition in the beginning. But what you can do is over time develop your intuition, which people who use any kind of divination tool tend to not do, because they come to rely on the tool, and therefore, never go beyond a certain level.

You need to simply be very careful when you engage with something like this, and work on your Christ discernment, because you can easily take on energies or be pulled into engaging with discarnates beyond what is constructive for them and for yourself. You need to be very careful about your ambition for doing this work. Are you seeking to build a certain self-image? Then you can more easily be deceived. Or are you as neutral as at all possible? The more neutral you can be, the more effective you can be, and the less the risk that you will be pulled into a reaction by either the discarnates or by dark forces.

This kind of work requires a high degree of Christ discernment. Study our teachings, even the teachings we have given at this conference about Christ discernment, and work on that. I am not saying you need to be perfect before you start any kind of work like this. Be willing to experiment but also be willing to evaluate the result of your experiments.

North and South Korea relations in 2026

Question: Dear masters, since the Hanoi-U.S.-North Korea summit in 2019, relations between North and South Korea have remained in a prolonged period of tension. There have been mutual accusations, provocative actions, and missed opportunities for dialogue. Although a new government took office in South Korea in June 2025 and has expressed a willingness to reopen dialogue, there has been little visible progress so far. How do you foresee relations between North and South Korea unfolding in 2026? What can individuals and the collective do to help bring peace and the golden age to the Korean Peninsula?

Answer from the Ascended Master Saint-Germain through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2026 New Year Webinar.

Well, basically, it is only meaningful to answer this question for people in South Korea who are the only ones open to ascended master teachings, as people in North Korea would be persecuted by the regime for even considering our teachings. What you can do is basically continue to do what you have been doing, giving decrees and invocations for this specific issue. You can also work on the psychology, both on an individual level and collectively, based on what we have said before in our dictations, where it is clear that if there is to be a change in the relationship, South Korea must drive that change.

You can hold the vision and make the calls that your government will attempt a new way to deal with North Korea. However, how do I foresee it evolving in 2026? Well, in 2025, you will see that Kim Jong-un has continued what he has been doing for a long time, sort of flexing his muscles, making accusations, building missiles, and so forth. He is still trapped in the unbalanced use of power. In this year of wisdom, the ones who might switch would be the South Korean people and the government, where they would look at what have we done so far in our relations with North Korea? Is there something we have not tried, something we have not done that might be different? But you also need to be realistic and realize that there is a limit to what you can do in South Korea, because for Kim Jong-un, avoiding change is a matter of survival. If there was to be a real change in the relationship between North and South Korea, Kim Jong-un and the dynasty he comes from could not survive. It is based on confrontation. You need to recognize that the only way for the situation to really change is that this dynasty comes to an end and that a new form of leadership emerges in North Korea.

That is always a possibility, but it would take that a critical mass of people tuned into the Second Ray of wisdom and were willing to see, to neutrally evaluate, what are we doing? What are the consequences? Where will it go if we continue down this path of confrontation? If a critical mass would begin to question the regime, it could tip the scale so that Kim Jong-un could not stay in embodiment and the regime could fall. Not saying it will necessarily happen in 2026, but this is the most likely way that a change could happen on the Korean Peninsula, because as long as you have a dictator whose survival, or at least his perception of his survival, depends on upholding the division and the confrontation between North and South, what could the South do to change this, other than completely submit and offer Kim Jong-un to be the dictator of both North and South Korea, which is certainly not what the population of the South wants. It is not for that matter what Kim Jong-un would want, because he would know that even if this happened, the equation would change and his survival would be threatened.

You see, the situation is such that South Korea has limited options until things change in the North. But as we have explained, we are going into a 12-year cycle here, where dictators and dictatorships will be increasingly challenged, and it will be more and more difficult for them to hold on to power. It will be more and more difficult for them to exercise power in an unbalanced manner. You can make the calls that the Second Ray of Wisdom will awaken a critical mass of the North Korean people and even North Korean leaders to the consequences of North Korea’s current course and the ultimate disaster that will result from continuing on this course.

Combining teachings about chakras

Question: Could you please advise whether it is meaningful to work with the chakras by combining the generally accepted model used in other spiritual teachings, chakra names, colors, and interpretations with the teachings of the ascended masters, or if one is a student of the ascended masters, is it preferable to rely exclusively on the information given by them? When offering guidance or recommendations to others, is it appropriate to combine both approaches, or is it better to adhere solely to the teachings of the ascended masters?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2026 New Year Webinar.

If you have experience and a basic understanding of both other teachings and how they talk about the chakras and ascended master teachings, you can very well combine the two. We are not in any way saying that you should be exclusive. The way we are describing the chakras is not the only way they can be described. We are doing what we are doing because we want to relate the chakras to the seven rays. But other spiritual teachings, mostly the Eastern teachings, are not doing this, partly because many of them do not have the same concept of the chakras. It is not that ours is the only truth and all the others are wrong. They are just different modalities.

The question really is, what helps people get more of a feeling for their chakras? And you will see, for example, often that the base chakra is depicted as red, but that is because it is perverted, often by sexual desire. And in the pure state, it expresses the white of the Fourth Ray. It is valuable to know that, but it is also valuable to recognize how most people’s chakras are and how many clairvoyants see the chakras.

You can very well combine the two, but it of course takes a certain understanding and experience with both these other systems and ascended master teachings.

You need to find a way where you look at our teachings, you look at a specific other teaching and you try to combine the two in such a way that people do not see a conflict between them, because obviously that would not be constructive. You need to find a way for the specific system you are working with to explain that system in relation to the ascended master’s talk about chakras. And if you can do this successfully, then by all means, use both approaches or several approaches. But the guiding line really here is, what helps people? What is your goal? What are you seeking to achieve? How is it you want to help people? What you can do is you can take the seven main chakras, relate them to the seven spiritual rays and to a particular ascended master, such as the Chohan, and recommend that people experiment with the decrees and invocations to that Chohan and see if that helps them clear up a certain chakra. But again, it is whatever is appropriate, given the other systems and your goal for helping people.

Health issues related to the throat chakra

Question: What health issues related to the throat chakra are most commonly associated with a person who is on the spiritual path? Are such conditions typically connected with unexpressed thoughts, blocks in self-expression, self-suppression, or unexpressed emotions, including negative ones?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2026 New Year Webinar.

Well, basically any disease that involves the throat, your ability to speak, even to some degree your ability to breathe, can be connected to the throat chakra. Many of them are related to something not expressed, but they can also be related to something expressed, in other words, a misuse of the throat chakra, the power of the voice. For example, expressing words in anger, criticizing, putting down other people, what you will call verbal abuse of other people, can very much manifest as diseases of the throat. It is not just what is not expressed, it could also be what is expressed, but should not have been expressed if the psychology had been healed.

But it is, if you are not one of these people who are abusing your throat chakra, it is certainly valid to look at the possibility of, are you afraid to express yourself? Are you afraid to speak out, or are you trapped in a pattern where you do not want to speak out. You put your feelings into the subconscious mind, but they build, and then once they become too intense, you speak out in anger.

You might look for such patterns, but you will also need to look at, are you afraid to express yourself? Many people in embodiment on earth have in past lifetimes learned that it can be dangerous to express themselves. You could be condemned by society, you could be burned at the stake by a religion, you could be thrown in jail by a repressive regime, or you could be condemned and put down by other people. Yes, certainly it is necessary to consider this, but this does not mean I am saying you just need to start expressing yourself. You need to again work on the subconscious selves, so that you come to a point where you can now express yourself in a neutral way, without the emotional charge that comes from these pent-up emotions. It is not that simple that you just need to speak out and yell at people, or go out into the forest and yell at the trees.

You need to look at the psychology of why you feel you have to suppress yourself, why are you afraid of expressing yourself, and then resolve those subconscious selves so you come to a point where now you can express yourself neutrally. You can, as we have talked about before, for example, tell other people how what they are doing or saying affects you, not with the blame and anger that you should not be doing this, but just tell them neutrally how this affects you, how you feel about it.

How to tell if you are in a karmic relationship

Question: How can one discern whether a relationship with one’s husband is primarily a learning relationship or a karmic one? Is it correct to assume that karmic relationships are necessarily complicated and more often associated with pain, or can they also be joyful and harmonious?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2026 New Year Webinar.

Well, in a sense, you could say that all relationships are learning relationships. Because if you have karma, part of what you need to learn is how to deal with people with whom you have karma in such a way that you do not perpetuate the karmic cycle, but free yourself from the karmic cycle so that you may either be separated from the person in this lifetime, or at least not have to re-embody in a close relationship with that person in your next lifetime.

From that perspective, you could say, as we have explained before, that karma is also a form of teacher, and that if you transcend the consciousness that caused you to make the karma, you do not any longer have to experience the physical consequences. You could say that if you learn how to not perpetuate the karma with a certain person, you may not have to be in that relationship any longer. And you can then choose to end the relationship, or you can choose to continue the relationship, but without the karma, it will be more harmonious.

The way to ascertain, the way to discern whether you are in a karmic relationship is to look at the patterns, the psychological patterns in your relationship, in the way you look at your partner, in the way you look at the relationship. What are the patterns in your mind? Your partner may very well have patterns as well, but that is not your primary concern here. Your primary concern is to overcome your own patterns, because that is what will free you from the karma. You need to use our teachings about the subconscious selves, use our teachings to expose this and look at the dynamic you see in the relationship.

Karmic relationships often have a more difficult dynamic, where you feel like you are trapped in a certain pattern, you cannot free yourself. You cannot avoid reacting to your partner. There is a compulsive aspect of the relationship, where you feel like something should not be happening, your partner should not be doing this, but in reality, it is you feel that: “I should not be reacting to my partner”, and the only way to free yourself from this is to look at your reactionary patterns, your subconscious selves, and use our teachings and tools to free you from it.

Some people have been in a karmic relationship, ended that relationship, moved on to another relationship, only to find that the same pattern repeats, because they have not fully overcome it in their own psychology. Therefore, you are to attract yourself to another partner, and it may even be more intense the second time, because you really want to overcome this pattern in this lifetime, and therefore, you continue to put yourself in certain situations until you learn it, until you overcome those subconscious selves. And that often means you can now attract a partner that is not a karmic relationship, and that can be more constructive and harmonious.

The fall of the human root races

Question: Could the masters please shed more light on the question of the fall of the human root races? In particular, it is not entirely clear how the 5th and 6th root races fell. It is known that the 4th root race fell in Eden. Is it correct to assume that the next two root races also fell there, or did their fall occur later during embodiment on earth? If the latter is true, does this mean that the 5th and 6th root races were able to withstand the serpent’s temptation in Eden and therefore, came to earth better prepared for the challenging conditions here? If, however, they also fell in Eden, then why were they allowed to incarnate at all, given that the experience of the 4th root race already suggested that such an experiment had a high risk of failure? Because with the 7th root race the ascended masters chose to postpone this step, the Lords of Karma decided to delay its embodiment, stating that they did not wish to subject it to the corruption that befell the previous three races.

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2026 New Year Webinar.

Well, I wanted the messenger to read the full question, because when you look at this question and look at the teachings we are giving today, through this messenger, you will see that the question is based on older teachings that we have chosen to transcend. The teachings about the root races started with Madame Blavatsky and the Theosophical Society, but they were emphasized by later dispensations. We have chosen not to comment very much on this and not to give teachings about this in this dispensation, because we have in this dispensation given a much broader, more holistic vision.

You take Maitreya’s book and many later teachings on the progression of the different spheres. This is a teaching that goes way beyond what was given in these previous dispensations. And as we have said before, when a teaching is expressed in words, two things will happen. First of all, words can be interpreted, so different people will interpret it differently. Second of all, when a teaching is expressed in words, it becomes static.

And this means, from our perspective, that there can come a point where a particular teaching, a particular idea, has reached the limits of its usefulness. It was expressed previously and it had some validity, it helped some people understand certain things, but perhaps the teaching was not expressed in its pure form, because the vessel receiving that teaching was not in a pure state of consciousness, as was the case with Blavatsky. Therefore, when there comes a point in our ongoing progressive revelation where we decide this teaching has outlived its usefulness, we will give a higher teaching that goes way beyond the previous teaching. In other words, you look at the Theosophical Society, Blavatsky’s teachings, that gave a certain worldview, and based on this, root races could explain certain things. But now we have given a much broader worldview about the different spheres, and that means that you have a much better foundation for understanding life than you had previously. And that is why, from our perspective, the idea of root races is not something we want to incorporate in this new worldview, because it had become too static.

That is why we have gone beyond it, explaining certain things that you can compare certain ideas to root races, but not literally. In other words, what I am saying here is, I am not going to give you a direct linear translation from the teachings of the root races to the teachings we are giving today, because it simply is not constructive, and it would create more confusion than it would clear up. My advice here is, if you are open to the teachings we are giving through this messenger, then study those teachings, Maitreya’s book and forward. Study all we have said about the different spheres, and then let that be your guidance to a higher worldview. You do not need to say that the previous teaching was wrong, you just need to say: “There is a higher teaching available, I am going to embrace that.” The linear mind, as we said before, will never be able to resolve such differences. There will always be questions and more questions. I am not answering your question directly, but I am telling you why I am not answering your question directly.

How to deal with fear of financial insecurity

Question: At the moment, I am not working in my previous profession, and I am in a phase of searching for a new work format. Could you please offer guidance on how to stop worrying about my financial situation while being in this transitional phase? I feel that I may be blocking my own flow and inspiration through the desire to achieve results as quickly as possible and to have certainty that the direction I choose will indeed bring financial income.

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2026 New Year Webinar.

Well, the only thing you can do here in a situation like this is to look at your psychology. Why are you worried? What is your worry exactly? Use our tools for discovering what is the subconscious self that makes you worried, that makes you fearful, and then follow that subconscious self until you see the belief and overcome the belief.

It is true, of course, that if you are in a state of fear, it will block you from seeing what is the next step for you, what is the best possible profession to go into. But the other thing you need to give up here is this desire for certainty. You cannot be certain about anything on earth unless you choose some kind of profession that is proven to give income. You have to be willing to be uncertain if you are seeking to go into an entirely new field where it is not automatic that you can get a job and get a certain income.

Again, this is a matter of looking at your ego. What is your ego’s beliefs about money, about financial stability? What is the desire you have for creativity, for finding a new profession? Why were you dissatisfied with the old one? Look at all of these things and discover the subconscious selves that are lurking in the subconscious mind. Bring those selves out, see the illusion they are based on, and come to see that your ego will always have a need for security and will always project at you that you should do what is guaranteed to bring an income. You either decide to submit to this and do it and live this way for the rest of your life, or you look at the psychology so you can overcome that and therefore, go into a more creative phase.