Michaels – Ascended Master Answers

Are avatars more sensitive than other people?

Question to Kim: I guess I am a sensitive person, and all my life earth inhabitants have told me you are too sensitive. And I notice that people here are pretty sensitive and perceptive and can pick up things too. I was just wondering if avatars in general are more sensitive and perceptive than original earth inhabitants, and if that is a sign of a higher level of consciousness.

Answer from Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2026 Lithuania Conference.

Kim: Yes, I think avatars are generally much more sensitive because we are more willing to look at ourselves, and that makes us more sensitive. In other words, you do not want to harm other people. You do not want to hurt their feelings. Therefore, you are more sensitive to other people. You are more aware of whether you did hurt their feelings or not, whereas somebody in a lower state of consciousness, they do not care. I think that is true. And in a sense, the higher you go in consciousness, in one way you become more sensitive because you get better at reading energies, but in another way, you get less sensitive because you do not have so many selves that are reacting.

You can read energy, but it does not mean you have to react to it. Even if you hurt somebody’s feelings, you do not have to react to it in many situations because you realize it is their psychology. It is not really you that hurt their feelings, it is their own psychology. And you can just stay neutral and maybe try to help them, but you do not have to empathize with them or feel what they are feeling, for example. You become sensitive to energy, but maybe also because you can read energy, you can read whether their reaction comes from a separate self, and therefore, you do not feel you need to really accommodate that because you cannot really satisfy it anyway.

Three days before burial

Question to Kim: I have one question. It is half mine and half my friend’s. Why do you think, it is necessary to have three days before burying the dead body? And for the same question, it is, like, do you think, have you thought about this, how you want to be buried?

Answer from Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2026 Lithuania Conference.

Kim: Well, in the Summit Lighthouse they had sort of a recommendation that the body should lie on ice for three days. Is that what you are talking about?

Not about ice, but in a lot of traditions it is that you need to have the body three days on the ground and then bury it. To keep it three days before, maybe burn it, or is it necessary to have three days before?

I would say no. I mean, I do not know why they say it is necessary.

I think it was because it was, like, maybe because a few hundred years ago they were not really sure that the body is dead.

That could be practical, because they actually had people who were buried alive. And they had, like, a little tube that went down and they could pull a string with a bell if they were alive. But that was in a different time where medical science was not as advanced as it is. Now they can determine if you are dead more accurately than before. I do not think it is necessary. I just think it is sort of a relic from the past. What the masters always recommend is that you cremate because it is easier for the soul to leave the body behind when the body is disintegrated.

Well, there are many traditions where they say that three days is the time for the soul to live, at least until your burial, so that you can see everybody who wants to say bye-bye and stuff. And there are 40 days where the etheric energy, like vital energy, needs to go. But you can cremate in the meantime or not. But the three days is really relating to the departure of the soul in the shamanic traditions, at least. Three days without touching the body, like leaving the body. It depends on the point of view. I am giving you the shamanic tradition.

There could be something to that, depending on the level of consciousness of the person. The more attached they are to the body, the more that it might be reasonable to have these three days. But there will still be some people that have such an attachment to the body they cannot let go. But I think if you are more spiritually mature, you will be able to let go of the body much more easily.

But then you can go into all kinds of considerations, because now you can say: “What if a person died suddenly in an accident and was young and was not prepared for it?” Then they might be more attached to it, whereas if it is an older person that is sort of at peace with: “Yeah, I am going to die soon and I am at peace with it”, that is different. It is one of those things I do not think you can give a hard and fast rule. I would personally not want to wait three days. Why? I mean, just get it over with.

Unbearable inner tension and pain

Question to Kim: I wanted to follow up on the question about the cosmic birth trauma and the tension that he experienced. Or at least ask a question that is tangentially related. I have noticed that I have been quite tense lately, there is a lot of pain coming up to the surface. And I can see that there are certain illusions behind them. Like, I can mentally realize it is not true that I am not good enough. But still, there is so much pain associated with this belief. In many practical situations, I make a “mistake”, or have the impression that someone thinks I make a mistake. And it just hurts so much. And I was wondering, have you gone through periods maybe where you for extended periods of time just were aching on the inside? Like there was almost no end to it.

Answer from Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2026 Lithuania Conference.

Kim: Yes, I can totally relate. I mean, I had an issue very strongly in my childhood that I would, in certain situations, other situations it did not bother me at all. But there were certain situations where I felt like I had done something stupid, said something stupid, or other people thought I was stupid. Then I would feel very, very embarrassed. Sometimes to the point where I could feel like a physical pain in my heart. And sometimes I would have almost like this Tourette’s syndrome. Or I would say stuff like: “I cannot stand this, or I am tired of this”, or something like that. I would even sometimes say it out loud. Fortunately, mostly when I was alone. I learned to live with it and suppress it. Most of the time I did not feel it. But I still, for the first many, many years of my life, I was always evaluating myself, especially in a group setting. But it was often in a group setting. Let us say I was speaking in front of a group, and I cracked a joke and nobody laughed. I would feel embarrassed. I struggled with that for a long time.

And it was really not until after we got the teachings about the separate selves and the avatars that I started resolving it. Because that helped me see that it was a separate self that was part of my birth trauma, where I felt, after I came to earth and I had this image of the prince on a white horse, and I fell off the horse and fell into the mud, and my image of myself was shattered, and I felt so embarrassed because of that. It was really only when I came to see that it was just a self. I mean, it really did not mean anything.

I guess that first was a phase where you mentally realized that you were looking at an illusion, but it did not click yet because there was still a lot of internal energy associated with it.

Yes, you start by mentally understanding this, you understand the pattern. It is kind of like you have the concepts of a separate self, and it is just an illusion, and you might even see the illusion to some degree, but you have not shifted out of it.

I had done psychological work before. When I did therapy back in the early 90s, I was also working on this, and I had gotten to a point where it was better. I could deal with it better, but it was still there. When I got the teachings about the self, I realized it has to go. It just has to go. But for a long time, it was too painful to deal with it, because obviously I experienced the pain when I put my attention on it.

I honestly cannot even remember how it happened, because it happened very gradually. It probably took several years of dealing with this, and part of the time I would have more intense pain, because the pain came up when I put my attention on it. I, of course, made calls on it for transmuting the energy and this, but there just came a point where it was like something in me let go, something in me broke, and it just was not there anymore. It was just gone. And it is not like I can give you a magical formula, because it will be individual for everyone.

Well, first there was a phase where I realized that I thought everybody else thought I was stupid, and what I did was embarrassing. But I realized that most people probably did not think that it was just me. I was reacting to how I thought these people were seeing me, but they probably were not seeing me that way at all. And also, there was a phase where I realized that this self caused me to think that the entire world was spending most of their time looking at Kim Michaels and wondering: “Is he going to do something embarrassing, because then we can laugh at him.” And I realized that I was not looking at other people to see if they did something embarrassing, because I was too wrapped up in myself, and that was probably the case for everybody else too. Nobody was really seeing me. It was only me that was seeing me. And it just came to a point where I thought, that is kind of stupid, is it not? And that helped me sort of look at it in a little humorous way, because when you can laugh at it, you cannot identify with something and laugh at it at the same time. It just cannot be done.

Can you tell us a joke to see if it is a good one? It was a joke, you were embarrassed to see nobody laugh. Can you tell us a joke, and we will see if we laugh?

But I have just told several jokes. I am just saying that you understand that the pain can be difficult to deal with, but you have to find a way to look beyond the pain, to look for belief. Because you only feel the pain because there is some belief where you are judging yourself, what you should or should not be doing. Can you describe the pain a little bit maybe? What is it that causes the pain?

Well, it is mostly in situations where I feel like I made a mistake. And I did something wrong.

What is the feeling? I mean, if you were to put words on it, like I said, I feel embarrassed. I feel stupid.

Embarrassment is not the word for it, I know. But it is like this aching pain. I just want to get out of here, basically. Or maybe it is the… Where is it? In the body. I guess my core, basically.

You cannot put a word on it or a feeling on it?

No, not necessarily. It just hurts.

Can you somehow put a word on what happens if you make a mistake? What is it that is so bad about you making a mistake?

Well, in the end, it all comes down to me feeling that I am no good. I mean, I did something in the outer that is wrong. And then that probably means that I am no good. Because if I had been good, I would have done the right thing. Or I would have realized what I should have done.

Okay, now you have clarified it a little bit: “I am no good.”

But that is more like a mental understanding of it, I guess, although there is a downward pull.

The pain is because you feel “no good”. Then what you could do is you could try and look at that from different angles. Because if you think about it, you are actually looking at yourself that you should either be perfect or you are no good. There is really nothing in between. I mean, it is sort of a perfectionist issue. And it is a little bit like I said with me coming to earth — the prince on the white horse. Once you have fallen off the horse, you can never get back on it.

I always say you should get right back on the horse. But in your own mind you can never get up because you think you should not have fallen. You should not have made a mistake. And that could be something you carry with you from a natural planet where you never made a mistake. Because everything is just an experiment. You never felt that way on a natural planet. Now you come to earth, and you think: “Oh, you should be able to never make a mistake on earth.” And it is a completely insane expectation. That is not a mistake. That is good because it shows you again that you have this view of yourself that you should be completely perfect. That, I think, relates to why you decided to come to earth. I do not see how exactly, but you could think about that.

I can’t be perfect here, but there is also no need to be perfect.

On a natural planet?

Here. You cannot be perfect here. But there is no need either.

But you still feel there is a need or you would not condemn yourself.

Right. To fill up the gap, I thought that was the summary for me at this point. I can take away from this.

You see what the masters have been saying here. It is just an experience. In other words, in your mind you created this little drama for yourself, where you are either perfect or you are no good, there is nothing in between. And you could ask yourself: “Why did I want to have that experience? What am I getting out of having that experience? And have I had enough of it? Do I want to continue to have it?” Because, you see, this is the magic of the selves again. The self is projecting. But you have to look at yourself this way. There is no other way to look at yourself. Right? And that is why you feel the pain, because it is real: “You did make a mistake, stupid!”. And the self cannot see it any other way. But it is just a drama you have created to have that experience. In other words, what helped me—actually I did this. I went through this where I said: “OK, so I created this self to give me the experience of what it is like to feel embarrassed”.

In other words, it was not the fallen beings who put this upon me by giving me a birth trauma. I created the self. Then I can uncreate it, right? If I have had enough of the experience. But I understand what you are saying, because when I started realizing that I feel embarrassed, I was embarrassed because I felt embarrassed. But you can also come to really see that it is just the serpent swallowing its tail. And you are never going to get out of it. You are never going to get out of it as long as you are inside the self. You can only step away from it and see that it is just unreal, because it is just an experience. There is no natural law that forces you to feel no good. It is just an experience that is only created in your mind.

Congratulate yourself that you succeeded in your experience.

Yes, but see, that is where you have to ask yourself: “Why did I create that experience and why am I continuing to have it?” And then you have to realize what the master is saying. The self is projecting there is some kind of problem you have to solve, something you have to do to compensate.

You have to do something so you can overcome this sense of being no good, because now you have done something good. But that can never happen. You can only just walk away from the whole thing. But I understand that you have to work with it until you come to that point where the Conscious You has basically stepped outside of you, you are looking at it and you are seeing: “Oh yeah, it is just the self. And the sense that I am no good only seems real only when I am inside the self. But when I am outside, I see that it is just a movie projected on the screen. And that is what I saw. I saw that I only felt embarrassed when I was inside. And when I was outside, there was no reality whatsoever to the feeling, it did not matter.

I just realized, it is kind of a control game as well. Because if I say that I made the mistake, I am in control of the situation. I made the mistake, yeah, okay, so maybe that is not nice. But at least it was in my hands somehow.

That then relates to what the masters have said. You come to earth, you have the birth trauma. You are exposed to this. Where the fallen beings manipulate you into a situation where you think you made a mistake. And they project that you made a mistake. And then you decide: “I never want to experience that again.” But what is it you do not want to experience? That something outside yourself put you down and said you were no good. Therefore, if you are ahead of them and you say: “I am no good, you will not be surprised when they do it.” That means ever since then you are trying to anticipate when it is the next time somebody is going to put you down for not being perfect. And if you put yourself down first, the pain is not as sharp. And you can never get out of this pattern because as the masters have also said, you could never again be as shocked as you were the first time. Because it had never happened before. That is why it was shocking. Now that you have been on earth for so many lifetimes and seen what is going on on this planet, you cannot really be surprised about what is happening here.

Maybe a little bit experienced, but you are not perfect, but good enough.

But see, in his mind there is no good enough. It is either perfect or no good. Good enough is not on the scale.

I think I just have a similar situation about my life and maybe to cross this pain here and now, you just, like Kim said, today you step back, step out. You are just not trying to be serious here, not trying to solve right now. And when it comes again, again, “Ah, OK, you come again.” And you step back, you breathe, and then you realize, “Oh, it is in working, you go on with your work in psychology, and if you need some help outside from you, first questions about, you just take step by step, small step at a time, and it is easy, a little bit. It is not, like, a huge difference, but just a little bit it shifted: “Oh, it is not so painful. I think it is impossible to make, like, everything perfect in one leap. Only one small step in one time, one day, and then time after time you feel like: “Oh, OK, you are more, and you are lighter, you are more free about this and that, and it does not put you down as much, because it is, like, big one, but it is, like, complex, I would say.

It is one thing, one time, and then you realize, oh, it is more. You can deal with more, like, directly and not so painful, not so hard to, again, like, come back to this topic you are, like, OK.

Not enough bodies on earth anymore

Question to Kim: If we are on an earth-like planet and disaster strikes and almost everybody dies, so there are not enough bodies on earth anymore to reincarnate in, where does everybody go?

Answer from Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2026 Lithuania Conference.

Kim: Well, they can go to other unnatural planets. Depending on their level of consciousness, sometimes they can go back to a natural planet. They can also go into the emotional, mental, and identity realm for some time. And there is part of the, I think it is the identity realm, they call it Deva Chan, which is like the realm of wish fulfillment. If you have a strong wish on earth that you have not fulfilled, you can experience it. You want a big palace, for example. You can experience that. But just think about the mortgage, and the cleaning, and mowing the lawn. Then you can experience it there because this realm is more fluid, so it is easier to manifest a palace there, but it still gives you the experience. I mean, the story in Yogananda’s book where his master manifests a palace for him because he had this unfulfilled desire that he needed to get out of the way before he could start being a guru himself. But I do not see it as he manifested it physically. It was in a higher realm, and he had the experience of it. It is true that you look at history, there have been periods where there were not that many people on earth.

I do not know what they say. A few hundred thousand, maybe, compared to eight billion. Obviously, they had to be somewhere. I think they just keep growing elsewhere, but where they go depends on their level of consciousness. Some people will go into, for example, the astral plane, where they can spend a very long time without really growing much. When there is a chance to come into embodiment again, they always come back with the same level of consciousness they had before. And that is why you can have, let’s say, that the masters have talked about. There have been past ages where there were civilizations that were even technologically more advanced than ours. And then somehow those self-destructed or they were destroyed in a war or whatever. And there can be a group of people who were part of the destruction of that, like say Atlantis sinking of the continent. And because their consciousness was so low, they are manipulated by fallen beings into creating this downward spiral.

And then they go into the astral plane, and they sit there for 10,000, 20,000 years. And they come back into embodiment, and their consciousness is not that much higher. Because they were just sort of, they are not really in limbo, but they were not really growing either. Then they can repeat the same pattern that they had at the end. And sometimes they can have a memory. Like even quite a number of years ago, the masters gave a dictation that said that many Russians were on Atlantis. And they were part of the whole process of sinking the continent. And they still have a certain group memory, but they are so afraid to make a mistake that they do not dare to make decisions. That is why they want a strong leader to tell them what to do.

And there are probably people like that everywhere, but they were specifically talking about Russia at the time. I would say wherever you see this tendency that there is a group of people who want to submit to a strong leader, it probably is a similar pattern where they feel they have made a mistake in their past life and they are afraid to do it again. And they think if they just let this advanced leader tell them what to do, they cannot make a mistake.

Avatars travel agency?

Question to Kim: If beings on a natural planet want to become an avatar and come to an earth-like planet, is there some sort of, like, brochure or something that they can see what the experience is like? Is there anything like that out there at all?

Answer from Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2026 Lithuania Conference.

Kim: It is like these travel agents, you know. Wide beaches, beautiful water, warm water. It is always warm.

No, I do not know if there is something like that. I mean, there obviously must be some way that people on a natural planet find out that there are unnatural planets. And I would think that they find that out when they have grown to some of the higher levels that you can reach on a natural planet, and they are beginning to ask themselves what is next. And then their spiritual teacher will say: “Well, here is your options. You could ascend, you could go to another natural planet, or you could go to earth.”

So there is possibly something like that there.

Kim: Yes, there must be something like that. And I would think it would be the spiritual teachers they have, whether they are in embodiment or ascended masters, that would make them aware of this. But it is probably the individual. It is probably not that everybody is told about unnatural planets. Sure, they just get their questions answered. Either they are curious or there are certain lessons they have, like the masters have said, for example, that you can grow on a natural planet, but you have not really locked in to free will and why it is so important. And that means you can then benefit from going to an unnatural planet where you see free will outplay itself in a way you have never seen on a natural planet. I think that is at least a common reason. But I think you can also come to a point where even on a natural planet, you have to experiment with duality. But obviously you do not see it outplayed on a natural planet the way it is on earth. I think you can come to a point where you say: “I actually really want to experience what duality is about, because I really want to understand why it is so important to overcome it.” Because the masters have said that when you ascend, you are giving up the desire to exercise your free will as a separate being.

I think there are simply students that, or people, whatever you call them, beings on a natural planet, that are just saying: “OK, but before I ascend, I want the full experience of what duality is and what you can do with duality, and what it feels like from the inside.” And there is nothing wrong with it. It is not that I am trying to say there is anything wrong with it. You are just saying you want that experience. And then there are others who say: Yeah, I do not think I need that, because I have grasped enough of the concept.” But I also think that there are some that become aware there are unnatural planets, and then they say: “Well, I want to help. I want to do something positive.” At least that is what we have in our outer minds, why we come to earth. I sense that for many people that are spiritual, that we want to make a positive difference. For myself, for example, I had that Prince on the White Horse syndrome. I can come in. I could do anything I wanted on a natural planet. Why should I not be able to do that on a non-natural planet? I can solve any problem. That was my conscious motivation. But the deeper motivation was really that I had not quite grasped why free will has to be allowed to outplay itself in such an extreme way as you see on earth.

And I have had some questions on my YouTube channel where people who are not ascended master students, as far as I can tell, were asking about this. Why is God allowing free will to outplay itself? Would it not be better if we did not have free will so this could not happen? And it is a natural question. You can say: “OK, I want to really resolve that question before I can really give up and decide to be a separate self.”

Discussion on separate selves

Question to Kim: You have said about the separate selves that they are not stupid, they are there for a reason, seeking some sort of psychological safety, in relation to planet Earth. I know that this has helped me to switch from seeing separate selves as being in opposition to me, to this motivation for safety. Could you give more insight into this.

Answer from Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2026 Lithuania Conference.

Kim: Well, the first thing that comes to me is that you have to realize there are separate selves at different levels. As the masters have said, consciousness starts at the 144th level, it creates a self there, and then it keeps creating selves until it reaches the 48th level. And those selves are not dualistic selves, but they are selves that are meant to give you the experience that you are a human being in a world that seems completely real.

At the 48th level, you see yourself as a human being, you have some intuitive sense that there is something beyond your own mind that you are connected to, yet do not yet have a clear vision of your I AM Presence. Those are selves that are just meant to give you the experience of being in embodiment on earth. And that is how you integrate with the physical body, basically, first with your identity body, then your mental, then your emotional, and finally the physical.

And then, of course, you can go into duality, and now you are creating separate selves. The separate selves are created in reaction, and they are all created as a reaction to something shocking that happens to you. That is why they can sometimes be, for example, very defensive. And they are seeking security because, as the masters have said, you go to the 47th level and you create what we talked about earlier, the ego, where you see yourself as a separate being. And the Conscious You has a sense of loss, that you have lost something, you do not know what.

The ego is sort of created to compensate, or cover over, that sense of loss, deflect your attention from it so you don’t start seeking for something beyond the ego. And all these selves you create out of duality, they are, in a sense, created because you experience something on earth that makes you feel insecure, threatened. And it is not that you are not, because there are many things going on, on earth. They are created to deal with that situation. You can say the dualistic selves are, in a sense, against you in the way that they want to survive. They do not want you to rise above them. They do not want you to rise above the level of consciousness where you created them. They are pulling on you. And they are trying to project into your mind that you should ignore these ideas from the Christ mind that can help you dissolve the self, see the illusion of the self. And the ego as well, because it wants to keep you in separation, because when you go beyond separation, that aspect of the ego dies.

You can also say, as you are descending towards the 48th level, you are based on your individuality and your I AM Presence and based on reacting to earth. You can create certain selves because you want to have a certain experience. Let us just take a neutral self. You want to experience nature on earth. You like nature. You want to be a farmer or a fisherman that is in contact with nature. This just allows you to have a certain experience you can have on earth. It is not dualistic. There is nothing dualistic about being a farmer. It is just an experience you can have. Or you can be a craftsman or an artist or good with the physical body or whatever it may be. But you are not fighting other people. Those selves are much more neutral because they are just created to give you an experience. But still, the self has some survival instinct that only as long as you want the experience through the self can it survive. And it wants to be useful.

In a sense, it will pull you towards still having that experience. And the self can never say: “I have had enough of this experience”. It is only the Conscious You that can come to that point and say: “Oh, I have been a farmer for 157 lifetimes, that is enough.”

The neutral selves and the selves created in duality, how do you differentiate? Well, I guess you cannot differentiate because some of them are strong reactions and you can tell that.

Kim: No, you can differentiate once you kind of lock into what duality is all about. Because you can say a neutral self is just having an experience. There is no evaluation. Is it good or bad? Is it right or wrong? And you are not projecting that other people are wrong, for example. But the dualistic selves are always based on this dualistic polarity, right or wrong, good or bad. And they are always projecting out. Because, you see, when you go into separation, you are essentially seeing yourself as a victim of circumstances beyond your control.

You are always reacting against something. And that is why if other people do not do what you want, you see them there against you and you blame them. Or you try to force them. With the dualistic self there is always an element of force, always an element of fear—there is always resistance. It is like you can say, yeah, you can be a farmer when you are below the 48th level of consciousness, but you are probably fighting with your neighbor because you think he is stealing your land. There is always that element of conflict in the dualistic selves. And you are always blaming, it is your neighbor’s fault, he is the one doing it. Like Putin: ‘NATO is threatening Russia. Therefore, we need to attack Ukraine’, which is not in NATO.

Another way to say it would be, you are putting on a pair of yellow glasses, and they are coloring what is coming to you, how you experience the sky, looks green. But through the dualistic selves, it is like you are projecting upon the universe and upon other people what they should be like.

It is more than just coloring your experience. You are actually trying to, in a sense, export your experience—project it on others in a forceful, aggressive manner. Because the ego ultimately feels that the only way to be really secure is that everybody agrees with you or submits to you.

And that is the psychological safety piece that you had mentioned?

Kim: Yes, the desire for safety. The ego is on this quest to produce safety that compensates for your loss of connection. But it can only seek to achieve it through the things of this world. That is why you have a person like Stalin, who had obviously deep, deep insecurity. He felt threatened by everybody, even the people who were closest to him and who were totally loyal to him. He was afraid they would threaten him. Every once in a while, just to keep them on their toes, he would execute a couple of them. You see what I am saying? It is total projection out upon others because he wanted everybody to submit to him. But even those who had submitted to him, that was not enough. He still did not feel secure. You can never feel secure through the ego. It is an existential insecurity. You can never overcome it. Only when you let the ego die and you rise above it. Ultimately, only by really coming to the 96th level, you connect more to your I AM Presence. And you realize that the only thing that is going to fulfill you is oneness with your I AM Presence.

I am thinking about, like, I go to work, I have certain selves that come up in reaction at work. One of them is a desire to please or be nice to others so that, for example, I do not get fired. Let us say I do something. I have a reaction from someone who is offended, and my instant, I guess, separate self comes up, and it is like, I have done something wrong. Or it starts to label it as something is wrong, and then I go split into the two selves, which try to appease, or try to justify why I did what I did and that they should not be offended. That to me is an example of a dualistic play because it is essentially, I would go into a sense of forcing the other person to be okay with me because that is the only way I can survive in that workplace because I do not want to upset anybody. That might mean I get fired or I get low marks on whatever.

Kim: But that is a good example of it because, again, you are trying to create a sense of being secure in your workplace, and you have a self that the belief behind the self is that you will only be secure if you do not offend anybody and everybody likes you. You are not being forceful, like Stalin, who was ready to kill people that do not submit to you, but you are thinking that you have to change yourself in order to accommodate them. It is sort of the classical instance, where the masters are saying, you are trying to change your state of mind by changing others, by making them like you. But you are also willing to change yourself so that you do not offend them. But you are really, in a sense, you are projecting on them that they should like you.

Yeah, which is against their free will, in a way, and my own.

Kim: Yes, but it also keeps you in that state of mind where you are so sensitive to other people and where you feel threatened. You need to really look at why do you feel threatened? Why am I afraid of losing my job? What would happen if I lost my job? And then you have to come to where you see those selves there and just see the belief behind them and resolve that. You have the process in some of the books and some of my videos.

Yeah, that is another helpful angle about why am I so concerned about losing my job. The illusion that I did see was that I want to make other people feel comfortable because it is safety for me. That is a safety mechanism, and that was an illusion.

Kim: But this can go back to, for example, your parents, where if your mother got upset, for example, it was unpleasant for you, or she might even do something to you. You wanted your mother to always like you. Many children go into that. They fear that their parents will get upset, so they want to keep their parents not necessarily happy, but at least not angry at you.

And this is an authority figure, right? Like at work. I am kind of placing that.

Kim: Yes, and it can even be that. It can go back to past lives where you were near an authority figure, and you did not live up to their demands, and all of a sudden, your head was rolling down the scaffold. Rude awakening, I can tell you.

Can the Conscious You not exist?

Question: With regard to what Kuan Yin was talking about, how does the second death fit in? Can you really be non-existing? Can you really not exist?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2026 Lithuania Conference.

Can you not exist? Well, now we are into some deep philosophical questions. What is the “you” that cannot exist? Surely the separate self can die and not exist, but it is not just a separate self that dies in the second death, it is the Conscious You. The question is: Can the Conscious You not exist? In other words, can the Conscious You experience that it has died and no longer exists? No, because in the second death the Conscious You merges back into the I Am Presence and there is nothing left of the Conscious You and how it saw itself through the many, many separate selves that it had created as it approached that second death.

This is one of these enigmas that are also found in Eastern teachings where they talk about the state of non-self. You overcome your sense of self, but you can never experience non-existence, for if there is non-existence there is no you, there is no ‘experiencer’.

You can say, yes, you cannot exist, but you will not know it so what is the point? The I Am Presence can know it, but even so, you see, the I Am Presence sends the Conscious You into embodiment, but it does not see the Conscious You as separated from itself. And that means that after the second death when the Conscious You is withdrawn or merges back, the I Am Presence just goes back into the same state of awareness without having the Conscious You in embodiment.

Difficult to put words on, but it is not that the I Am Presence is up there thinking: “Oh, the Conscious You does not exist.” The I Am Presence just immediately moves to a new sense of self without the Conscious You, as if it never existed. The experiences in the causal body are there, but not the Conscious You that went through the second death.

Who sets the equation of free will on earth?

Question: In the My Live’s book, it seems as if Lucifer and Satan could do anything. There was almost no limit to the amount of people they could torture and kill with their free will. Finally only after eons of causing destruction, chaos and mayhem, they crossed the line by killing a high consciousness person, they were forced to do a life review of sorts, given a choice of trying again, and ultimately went through the second death. Why is the bar so, low? It seems random and arbitrary. Why isn’t that even just a tiny bit higher? Is it really necessary to go that low? Who picks where the line is at? The amount of suffering people endure seems excessive. I think I would have found my way back even if the bar was a little higher.

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2026 Lithuania Conference.

Well as I just explained, the karmic equation on earth is so complex that the human mind, the linear analytical mind, cannot fathom it. It is in essence like you consider that you can personally search the internet for certain information but artificial intelligence can search much more information and come up with more answers. Not the best metaphor perhaps, but still, there is a limit to what the human mind can fathom here.

There are very complex equations, but we can say, Why is the bar so low? Because the collective consciousness is where it is at. You will see that the book talks about previous ages, actually beyond recorded history, and in those ages the collective consciousness was even lower. And that means that when the consciousness is low, the karma for violating people is lower. This may be difficult to grasp, but look at it this way. We have said, for example, that some people go into duality because they want to experience how it is to be a warrior who defeats an opponent. Let’s say you now have two people who have this desire. They meet in a duel. They fight with their weapons. One kills the other. Did he make karma for doing so? Sure, but was it as much karma as if he had killed a person who was not fighting back? No. In a sense, these two warriors agreed to fight each other. As you see, people who go into a boxing ring and hit each other in the face until one of them passes out, both receiving brain damage in the process.

You see, when the majority of people on earth were quite far below the 48th level of consciousness, and very few people were above it, the karma for violating the free will, so to speak, of these people was not as severe. That is why they could go on longer. But when some people began to raise their consciousness towards the 96th level or above, as Jesus demonstrated, the karma was more severe, and now they were taken out of embodiment.

This is not a full explanation, but at least some hint of that equation. You see also in the book that Jesus did not start out with a Christ consciousness, but had to gradually work his way up to where he could serve in that role. “It seems random and arbitrary”. No, it is very, very exact relating to people’s state of consciousness. Of course, if you look at it from inside your outer mind, it will seem arbitrary because you do not understand it. But there is a very scientific method behind it.

“Why is not it just a tiny bit higher?” Well, because the consciousness is not higher. Is it really necessary to go that low? Apparently, it was necessary for the people on earth to go that low. And free will can only allow the school of hard knocks to outplay itself so the knocks become harder and harder. Essentially, people are deciding by their resistance how hard the knocks have to become before they have had enough. We have said it so many times, in the school of hard knocks, you are having experiences until you cannot stand it anymore. And you admit: “I have to change. I have to change, not those other people.”

Who picks where the line is at? As I said, human beings, somewhat influenced by the fallen beings, of course, but still the amount of suffering people endure seems excessive. I agree. I totally agree. But nevertheless, I respect free will. It is difficult to fathom why people want to endure this kind of suffering. And people will, of course, say they do not want to endure it. But as we have tried to explain, in reality, at a subconscious level, they are saying: “I want to have these kinds of experiences.” Because, as we have said, if you are going into duality, you must experience both polarities, the high and the low.

“I think I would have found my way back if the bar was a little higher.” Actually, no. Because, as we have said, the Christ is at every level of consciousness. It does not matter where the collective consciousness is at. You always have to transcend the current level. You could say, you look at the collective consciousness as it was half a million years ago, much lower than today, and you are saying: “Was it harder to raise your consciousness back then?” In a sense it was, but you still had to see beyond the current level of consciousness.

And that will be the same even in the golden age. Even when war and torture is gone from the planet, you still have to see beyond your current illusion. And suffering does not necessarily make it harder. In a sense, you could say that suffering can give you the impetus to look beyond, whereas what we have explained was that when the earth was in the state where you had this uniform society, people were not suffering as they are today. There was not warfare, but it was in a sense more difficult for them to transcend the worldview precisely because they felt comfortable.

But there is of course the equation that as the consciousness is raised, more people will walk the path and demonstrate the path, and therefore there are more examples that it becomes in that way easier to find the path—becomes easier to find the spiritual path, but it does not really become easier to transcend a certain illusion. You still have to shift your mind and see through it.

Miracles and divine intervention

Question: Is it possible that ascended masters or angels occasionally step in and help in the physical world while still honoring our free will? As a child, I sometimes read stories about people being rescued in ways that would not really be explained, and it made me wonder whether these moments are orchestrated. What factors would influence something like that? In other words, do miracles happen and what is the criteria?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2026 Lithuania Conference.

Well, you can take the question and go back and say, did Jesus actually walk on water? Did he heal the sick? Did he raise the dead? Did he calm the storm? And as we have said before, that in previous ages, where the collective consciousness was denser, many people needed to see actual events that defied their view of the world, that challenged their view of the world, their view of what could or could not happen. That is why Jesus was allowed to actually manifest such phenomena. And even though the description in the scriptures cannot be taken completely literally, Jesus did do things that could not be explained by what you today call the laws of nature.

And these things are still happening today, but they are not as frequent as they were. But you have many stories of people who were in an accident or in a difficult situation, and something happened that could not be explained by a normal world view, and they survived, they were rescued, they were healed, this and that.

These things do happen. What are the criteria that influence this? Well, that is a very, very complex topic because it involves many different things. First of all, the people’s state of consciousness. It does not have to be high. In fact, it rarely is high for those who experience these kinds of things. And this may seem contradictory, but it is again because the lower people’s consciousness, the more they need to see these kinds of things.

You could say that, in connection with my answer given about apparitions of Mother Mary, you could say that there is always a certain descent of spiritual light through the identity, mental, emotional level. And in certain cases, that light descends to the physical, produces an effect that is beyond the physical laws of nature, as you call them. But you will recall St. Germain’s talk about alchemy, that these physical laws are not set in stone. This manifests as a certain phenomenon. And now the question is how the people who experience it actually conceptualize it. And they do this based on whatever their worldview is. The purpose of allowing this to happen is that there are still people who are in such a low state of consciousness that they need to believe that miracles can happen. You can also say that, in a more general way, it is so that people will still question whether the laws of nature are as set in stone as materialists claim. But why does it happen to one person and not another in a similar situation? Well, now we are going into the very complex equation of people’s individual karma. And that is a topic that is too far beyond what I want to go into here. Because you really do not need to know all the intricacies of how the Karmic Board manages this exceptionally complex karmic equation that you have on an unnatural planet.

The simple answer really is that with the human mind, the human level of consciousness, the linear mind, you will never be able to understand this. What people are looking for when they ask these questions is often some rational explanation. And with rational we mean something that is universal that would apply to everybody. Give me a criteria—meaning anybody who fulfills that criteria should experience a miracle. But that is not the way it works. It is so individual, so complex, that you cannot give a rational, linear explanation for why that person was rescued, whereas the other 500 people on the ship that sank all drowned.

Creation of the Eighth Sphere

Question: Once this 7th sphere ascends, is an 8th sphere going to be created? Will beings like Jesus and Mary and people like us, once we have ascended, create it? Will it have to be more dense yet or do we have the free will to make it less dense?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2026 Lithuania Conference.

Well, I am tempted to say, let’s take one thing at a time. You are on earth which is a fair way away from ascending, so let’s first get the 7th sphere ascended and then we will worry about the rest. But of course, it is possible to answer these questions.

Yes, there will be an 8th sphere and it will be denser than the current one because that is part of the design of the Creator. Now, it will be created partly by those of us who have ascended now and some of you that will ascend later.

We do not have the free will to make it less dense, but we have the free will to design structures in there according to our vision and experience so that as we can see it, we make it easier for the beings who will embody there to ascend even though the sphere is dense. This is sort of the progression where you see, for example, that beings who ascended in the 1st sphere have no experience of how it is to ascend from a sphere as dense as the 7th and therefore, they would actually not be that skilled at designing the 8th sphere. But we who have ascended from the most dense sphere so far, we have the skills to design the 8th, the structures in the 8th, in such a way that our experiences will make it easier for the new lifestreams to ascend, to avoid being trapped in identification with matter or trapped in duality.

We certainly have a high degree of creative freedom, but we work, of course, within the overall design of the Creator.

Now you have to be careful here because when you say: “Can we make the sphere less dense”, it implies that you think that the suffering you see on earth is a product of the density of the current sphere. And while that is to some degree true, you have to realize that the fact that the spheres become more dense is actually an opportunity to transcend yourself from a more difficult starting point than beings in, for example, the 1st sphere. That is part of why Jesus said: “The last shall become the first and the first shall become the last”, because there is a greater opportunity to raise awareness in a denser sphere than there is in a higher sphere.

Joint continuous search for truth

Question: Is the joint continuous search for truth genuine? And is the alignment of my life with it consistent with Saint Germain’s vision of the golden age? I have lived a considerable part of my life in this shared way of searching, which is based on people turning to the true, the undivided, asking questions of each other, freeing themselves from the grip and influence of the ego, and thus growing, freeing themselves from self-attachment and illusions. In doing so, I have experienced breakthroughs that were quantum leaps for me. On the other hand, I am sobered or rather enlightened as far as the overall result is concerned. It is up to each individual to take their own steps or not, whatever they choose. We have tried unnoticed to do better than others, which was probably a fallacy a dead-end. Many participants in the TOKO course experience an unexpected quantum leap, contact with their own higher self. This has a more or less pronounced influence on the rest of their lives. I ask for comment from the ascended masters.

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2026 Lithuania Conference.

Well, in general, anything that raises your awareness of yourself and your own reactions can be beneficial. But the question is, how deep does it go just to ask questions? There comes a point where you have to realize that not all psychological issues can be resolved by asking questions because you can only ask questions about something you are aware of already. And there can be things hiding in your subconscious mind that you cannot consciously formulate a question about. For example, the birth trauma, the primal self. Unless you have an awareness of this, it is very difficult to ask deep enough questions.

The approach can be useful for many people, but it cannot necessarily resolve all issues. There are various modalities out there that are valid, they are useful, they can give people breakthrough experiences. And I am not saying you should not participate in such things if you feel attracted to it. I am not recommending it universally either. But you still have to consider, can you go deeper? And if you are aware of the ascended master teachings, then I suggest you start using our teachings to see how you can go deeper.

In terms of a lifelong quest for truth, is it genuine? Is it in alignment or consistent with St. Germain’s vision for the golden age? Well, it is valid enough to search for truth if you are willing to continually refine your vision of what truth is. Because you always start the spiritual path, you always start your life at a certain level of consciousness. And at that level of consciousness you can formulate a certain question of what truth is. You can then embark on a quest to search for that truth. But you see, when you rise to higher levels of consciousness, you can see a higher view of truth. If you insist on holding fast to your original view of truth, you will limit your growth.

We have said before that it is not the goal of the Christ Consciousness or the ascended masters to bring some absolute truth to earth. Because it cannot be done with words on an unnatural planet. It cannot really be done with words anyway. But when you reach the levels of Christhood, you give up the quest for an external truth and you seek for an inner experience that cannot be formulated in words and that you know is not the ultimate experience because you know there are higher levels of consciousness, there are higher levels of Christhood.

It is, of course, you could say all spiritual seekers are on a quest for truth. But you see many spiritual seekers who slow down their growth because at a lower level of consciousness they formulate a certain image of truth and now they seek validation of that truth. But what you see at a lower level cannot be ultimately validated. What you see as truth at the 48th level will not be validated by the Christ mind because then you would stay at the 48th level.

Helping others without generating karma

Question: The ascended masters say that we cannot interfere with another person’s free will. If we do interfere, we will generate karma. If we see someone needs help, can we ask the ascended masters to help them without generating karma?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2026 Lithuania Conference.

You have to be careful here that you do not think that trying to help other people automatically means you are interfering with their free will. Of course, if you are trying to force people, if you have a vision that you want to help them, but you are forcing them to be helped a certain way, then you can make karma. But there can be many times where you are seeking to help other people from a neutral state of awareness, where you are not pushing them into some change that you see, but that they do not see, and then you are not making karma. And you can essentially say that in general, you will not make karma by offering people help and giving them the option to reject or accept it.

In terms of whether you can avoid making karma by calling to the ascended masters to help people, yes, of course, you will not make karma for asking us to help them, because we also will only help them within the context of free will. We are not going to manifest some physical manifestation and force them to go to a psychologist. We are going to seek to give them some impulses from within.

Now, in many cases, it will not work, because they cannot tune into us. They cannot receive those impulses. But in terms of you making karma, it is, of course, safe. You also do not make karma for making calls, decrees and invocations for people, as long as you are not charging your calls and decrees with some kind of intent. You could say, in general, do not seek to force people or form an image of how people ‘should’ be helped. Instead, make calls to us that they will be cut free from lower energies, ties to dark forces, so they can make a better choice. And then you leave it up to their free will what they will choose.

How can I help my ill horse?

Question: If the life that I experience is really just an out-picturing of the contents of my consciousness, then I am thinking that I co-created the animals in my life, that they are reflecting to some degree what is in my consciousness. Therefore, if they are of ill health, perhaps if I work through specific separate selves, their health to some degree will improve. For example, I have a horse with a chronic illness, Cushing’s. Many horses develop it as they age. The vast majority do very well with dietary changes and a certain medicine. My horse is an exception. For all horses with Cushing’s, it gets worse between the summer solstice and the winter solstice. For my horse it was almost impossible to control it. He was on so much medication he had horrible side effects. It was a daily question if I needed to put him down. Is it possible that he may do better if I can identify which separate selves are associated with my horse’s Cushing’s being almost impossible to control and his subsequent suffering? Can it work like that?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2026 Lithuania Conference.

You begin your question by asking: “Is what I experience just an out-picturing of the contents of my consciousness?” The answer is, of course, yes, but you have to be careful here. Your horse’s illness is not a direct result of your subconscious selves or the horse’s subconscious selves, because horses, of course, do not have subconscious selves. But your relationship to your animals is meant to show you something about the way you look at earth and your role here on earth. We have explained how many avatars came to earth with a certain vision of wanting to do something good. And what happens is, of course, we receive the birth trauma, we realize we cannot fulfill our vision and our hopes, and then we can go into seeking to compensate. We want to find something that we can improve, some aspect of life on earth that we can save or heal. And there is a certain percentage of avatars who, because of disappointments in past lives, reason that people are too difficult to work with, they are impossible to work with, and they give up. “I do not want to work with people. I do not want to try and save people.” But you still want to save something, so you now turn your attention to animals.

And I am not saying this is necessarily wrong. We are generally not using the words right and wrong. But what I am saying is, this is not why you came to earth. You did not come to earth to save horses. You came to earth to help people. You can say that your horse’s illness is an out-picturing of something unresolved, some subconscious self, but it is not the illness that matters. It is that it seems incurable. It seems like you cannot help the horse. And the message really is: “When will you return to your original purpose of helping people? When will you see that working with animals is a diversion from your original purpose? And that you will only really be fulfilled when you focus on helping people rather than animals.”

Now I know that many people will say: Well, does that mean that nobody should be a veterinarian, that you should not try to help animals? But that is not what I am saying. There are many people who are in a lower level of consciousness than you are, and it can be part of their Divine plan to work with animals for a variety of reasons. But when you are an avatar, when you have reached a certain level of consciousness, where you are open to asking an ascended master a question, you are at a level of consciousness where you need to reconnect with your original vision for coming to earth. And this does not mean that you necessarily have to fulfill that mission, but you have to look deeply into the psychology, go back to the primal self and the birth trauma, and come to the point where you see why your vision for coming to earth was unrealistic, and you give it up. You resolve in your psychology that you do not want to do this impossible task anymore. Then you can do a possible task of actually helping people by being the Living Christ in embodiment, as we have explained at this conference.

You see what I am saying. You can be fixated on trying to solve a specific problem, but it is not solving a specific problem that is the important thing. It is the deeper lesson of stopping trying to do the impossible and returning to what is possible.

How to approach the UFO phenomenon

Question: Beloved ascended masters, you have explained that many UFO sightings and related phenomena may arise through astral crossover or collective consciousness and that fascination with them can create energetic distraction. Yet on one occasion, without seeking such experiences, I felt a spontaneous impulse to photograph the sky and capture two structures luminous objects. How should a spiritually grounded student interpret an unsolicited experience of this kind? How can one discern whether it reflects projection, astral manifestation or a lawful perception of a broader reality while maintaining full self-responsibility and avoiding dependency or expectation?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2026 Lithuania Conference.

Well, you can only interpret such experiences through what we call Christ discernment which is really an ability to read energy. If you are in doubt about how to interpret the experience, you do not have the sufficient level of Christ discernment. And therefore, there is really nothing I can say that would resolve this for you. You need to look at yourself, look at your psychology and try to see what it is that blocks your discernment. A place to start would be, why are you so fascinated by this phenomenon? Why is it so important to you? You could essentially say: “Why does it matter to me whether UFOs are real or not? Why is this important?” And then gradually try to see what it is you think you would get out of it if UFOs were proven to be real. And what do you think you would lose if UFOs were proven not to be real? You see in the way you ask the question that this is an important question for you. But why is it important? Do you have what the Buddha called an attachment to a specific answer to the question?Do you want UFOs to be real and why?

This is the only way you will develop a higher Christ discernment. Because at your current level, if I say UFOs are not real, you will not believe me anyway. It must come from within, whether they are real or not. The question is, do you want to continue believing what you believe now, or do you want to achieve that higher discernment? Then I have given you the hints that we have given many teachings on how to overcome separate selves, so that you gradually rise to that discernment where you can read energy.

Is Mother Teresa back on earth?

Question: Can the ascended masters comment regarding the ascendance of Mother Teresa? In one answer Master Jesus said she will not need to return to incarnation. But she will need to undergo some healing to free herself from the consequences of the consciousness she has assumed. While there is an answer from Mother Mary from the 2017 conference in the Netherlands that her soul did not ascend but actually descended into incarnation once more. This incarnation that Mother Mary told us is it in the material realm or another realm where healing is provided as Jesus said?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2026 Lithuania Conference.

In general, to avoid confusion when we talk about incarnation we always talk about the physical realm. If you read the two answers carefully you will see that the one from Jesus was given quite a long time ago shortly after Mother Teresa’s body passed away. And what he was saying was that she did not have to return to incarnation. Which means she did not have karma that could only be resolved by incarnating again. Meaning karma with other people. Her selfless service to others had balanced that karma she had from past lives. We have explained that when you have balanced a certain percentage of your karma that you have with other people you can resolve the rest of your karma from the higher realms. Because this is primarily karma you have with yourself. And the karma you have with yourself is your unresolved psychology. And in many cases, you do not have to reincarnate to resolve it. Jesus at the time approximated or anticipated that within a decade or so Mother Teresa could resolve that karma.

But this is of course subject to free will. As it turned out she was not willing to look deeply enough at her relationship with God and her involvement with the Catholic Church. And basically, also her relationship to Christ, her conception of Christ. And therefore, she along with her teachers decided that there would be a better opportunity that she could resolve this psychology by incarnating again. This was not something she had to do but something she chose to do in order to resolve that psychology that she could not resolve from the higher realms. This in a sense applies to most people, at least most spiritual people. You see in between embodiments that there is some psychology you have not resolved. You see you have ignored it for several lifetimes. And therefore, you choose to come into your next lifetime where you put yourself in a situation where it becomes very difficult to ignore that psychology. And that is what Mother Teresa has done. She has put herself in a situation where it will be very, very difficult for her to ignore the need to resolve her view of the Catholic Church, her view of Jesus and Christ and her view of God. What the specifics are, I will not reveal. But she has chosen a very difficult situation for herself which shows her dedication to growth.

Making choices and free will

Question: Beloved ascended masters, you teach that earth operates under the law of free will and that souls chose to incarnate here for accelerated growth even if they did not fully grasp the depth of duality and manipulation present. My question concerns the integrity of free will under asymmetry of awareness. Some beings understand psychological and energetic manipulation while others do not. If consent is shaped by fear, misinformation or systemic pressure, is that consent metaphysically complete? If a soul consents to incarnation without fully realizing the extent of systemic manipulation of engineered coercion that may later arise, is that original consent metaphysically complete or does incomplete awareness qualify the nature of that choice? And if those who understand the mechanics of manipulation structure choices to appear voluntary, can karmic law be bypassed through such technical loopholes? Or does a higher corrective mechanism ensure that free will cannot ultimately be exploited? How is divine justice preserved in a universe where knowledge and power are unevenly distributed? Why would primary source permit a system in which souls can be drawn into extreme suffering through traps they did not fully comprehend at the point of incarnation?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2026 Lithuania Conference.

You have to be careful that you do not become too linear when you consider these very subtle questions. What people throughout the ages have had a tendency to do is they look at conditions as they are right now and then they want to project from there how it was in the past. You might say for example that today many people have no awareness of for example dark forces who are manipulating them into making karma and many people are not even aware of karma so how can they make a free choice? But you see this is not where it started.

The earth as we have explained started as a natural planet. There were no fallen beings, there was no manipulation of free will, there was no deception. But what happened was that there were groups of lifestreams that descended to earth. They worked with their spiritual teachers as they do on all natural planets. At the time the earth was a natural planet of course and many of those people ascended. Then there was another group that descended. Most of those also ascended and then there came a point where the inhabitants that were left on earth decided to go into duality and the illusion of separation.

And this was not manipulated. Nobody manipulated them into doing this. It was something they decided to do to experiment with the duality consciousness. Now the spiritual teachers that were there on earth at the time attempted to help them experiment with duality without getting stuck in it and many did this. But others got trapped in duality and therefore, created what we have explained previously—that downward spiral that could have led to the planet’s destruction.

What you need to understand is that once the majority of the beings on a planet have gone into duality we cannot help them directly. They cannot contact us. They lose their sense of connection. We can give outer teachings but we cannot work with them directly. And that means they now go into what we call the School of Hard Knocks where they need to now make choices and experience the physical consequences. And you have to be careful that you do not reason that when people go into duality they no longer have free will. You could reason that before people go into duality they have free will and then when they go into duality they are blinded so therefore, they do not have a free will because they do not have a clear vision.

But you see even before they went into duality they did not have a completely free will in the sense that they had complete awareness of what they were choosing and what the consequences would be. Because you can only make choices based on your level of consciousness and what you see at that level.

If you want to look at free will as if it should be completely free then that means you would have to have complete awareness of the situation where you are making the choices. And essentially to put it a little bit on edge only the Creator has complete awareness of what happens in the world of form and the Allness and so forth. Therefore, you could say that even the ascended masters at the highest level do not have the awareness of the Creator and therefore, their will is not as free as the Creator. And of course, in an unascended sphere people have a lesser awareness of their whole and therefore, their will is not as free.

But you see free will does not mean completely free will because what is the purpose of free will? It has never been the purpose of giving free will or the law of free will that should be completely free in the sense that you can choose anything you want. The purpose of existence is that you start with a point-like sense of self and based on what you see you make choices. You can see certain options and you choose one of those options. Then you experience the outcome and then based on that you raise your awareness. When you raise your awareness you see more choices, more options. Therefore, your will is a little more free because you have more options to choose from. You also, as you raise your awareness become more aware of the consequences of your choices. But you see this is how you grow. You grow from a limited sense of self to a greater consciousness by making choices with your present level of awareness and experiencing the consequences.

Even before a being goes into duality its will is only as free as its level of awareness. While when beings go into duality and separation their will is of course less free because now, they only see the dualistic polarities. They only see the dualistic polarities. They have lost the connection. When you have a connection to something outside your own mind you also have the possibility to reason: “What if there are some options I cannot see with my current level of consciousness?” Then you can appeal to whatever you are connected to however you see it and ask for clarification. When you go into separation you cannot do that. That means you can only choose what you can see and you can only learn by experiencing the consequences. Before anyone goes into duality, they have some awareness of what duality is. It has been explained to them by their spiritual teachers that duality can become a trap because it can become a self-validating system—state of mind. In a sense people know what they are going into even if they do not fully realize what it is. They have at least some awareness and they choose to do it. They choose to react in such a way. They essentially choose to say “I want to experience what it is like to be immersed in duality.” But in order to have that experience of being immersed you have to forget that there is an alternative to duality. Otherwise, you are not fully immersed in duality. But what is the characteristic of duality?

There are always two opposite polarities. There are always two sides of the coin. But you can have people for example, beings, who decide that they want to experience duality because they want to experience the contrast. Let’s say someone desires to experience what it is like to be a warrior and the person envisions that he is this powerful skilled warrior who always wins in a duel with another warrior. His primary motivation for wanting to have this experience is that he wants to experience what it is to be the victorious warrior. That is what he has in his conscious mind. That is why he decides to go into duality where he can experience this. But what he has been told but what he has not really fathomed is that when you go into duality you cannot just experience being the victorious warrior because you need to have and you are essentially saying you want to have the full experience of duality which means you have to experience both being the victorious warrior and the defeated warrior.

You cannot have one without the other because then the experience of duality is not complete. But many people when they go into duality and are defeated and have the unpleasant experience, they decide I do not want to have that. Now they go into this state of mind where they want to deny that in duality you have to have both. They go into denying that they must be defeated in order to be victorious. You cannot be victorious without defeat because there must be the contrast. But they deny this and they try to avoid it. If they could tune into the ascended masters, we could tell them that this is impossible. But they cannot so therefore, now they become susceptible to the false teachers, the fallen beings who tell them: “Oh yes it is possible to only have the good and not have the bad. And if you just follow us, our religion, our ideology, this and that, you can have the ideal society.” You can of course step back and say: “Well how did the fallen beings come to earth?” We have explained this extensively in order to stop that downward spiral that the beings had created.

And in a sense, you could say that the uniform society that was there before the fallen beings came was also based on a denial where they were trying to create a society where there was nothing negative, no negative consequences, no conflicts, but it was forced. The point is that even when people go into duality, whatever they encounter there is still within the law of free will. Because the only way they can get out of duality in some cases is to see duality outplayed to such an extreme that they cannot stand it anymore. And that is simply what the fallen beings do. They serve as a substitute teacher because they will do things in duality that the ascended masters of course would not do. And thereby the contrast between the good and the bad in duality becomes bigger.

Now I realize this takes some contemplation. It is not an easy thing. We have said before that most avatars, part of the reason why you came to earth, (we came to earth), is to fully resolve the enigma of free will. But you see there is always a choice that leads to a consequence.

And the difference between being connected to the ascended masters and not being connected is that when you are connected you can learn about the consequences before you make a choice. Because we can show you. That is our role as teachers. When you go into separation you can only learn about the consequences by making the choice. But this is still within the law of free will. Of course, your will is not free in duality. But it is still free in the sense that you always see more than one option. And you have the freedom to choose between those two options.

Clearing energies with water

Question: There is a certain saying in various energetic approaches that emerging in water or just taking a shower not only cleans some types of lower energies but also takes away some beneficial energies such as protection or healer’s energies that have been conveyed to a person. Does this principle apply to energy coming from the spiritual realm such as the violet flame or Archangel Michael’s protection or the master’s energy received during invocations?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2026 Lithuania Conference.

In general, it does not apply to the energies coming from us and it is of course correct that water can wash away certain lower energies but it is not a given, it is not an automatic thing. You cannot certainly replace decrees and invocations with cold showers. There are many of these ideas that are found that have some basis in reality but many people tend to take them too literally. They want them to be universally valid and apply to every situation.

There can be many cases where let’s say you are at work and you are having a stressful work day perhaps dealing with people who are upset and you come home and you feel burdened by energy so you take a shower and you feel better afterwards. But in most cases the shower will not have cleared away all of the energies you might have taken on during the day and there are different levels of energies.

We can say that there are some energies that are mostly at the physical level, some at the emotional, mental,and identity level. And there are also some energies that are directed at you that you take in because you have a subconscious self and those energies you cannot wash away by water. You need to of course eventually dissolve the self but you need to give the decrees or invocations to transform those energies.

It would certainly not be the optimal approach to think that you can just immerse yourself in water and it will clear these kinds of energies. As I said you can temporarily feel better but it does not mean you have completely cleared the energies. And there will be some energies that you are not clearing away by the water but you also do not notice them consciously until they have accumulated to a certain level where they now begin to affect you more.

In other words most people do not have the discernment to read energy they take on and therefore, they do not notice it, they do not realize it. They do not so to speak feel bad the same day they take it on. It takes longer and the energies have to accumulate more before they start feeling it. And sometimes they actually experience effects of the energy but they do not realize what it is. That is why our decrees and invocations are of course designed to help you do a more long-term deeper cleansing of energies. And we gave some very constructive useful teachings at the conference on Deep Healing that we gave in Estonia. You can certainly use those teachings to clear your four lower bodies.

Mother Mary’s Apparition in Šiluva

Question: There is a story that in 1608, while shepherds were grazing their flock, Mother Mary unexpectedly appeared on a large stone in the fields of Šiluva in Lithuania. The apparition in Šiluva is recognized as official and is considered one of the most important events that still influences the place today, as well as the history of Catholicism in Lithuania. A church was built there. The stone is there. And for so many Catholics, this place is very important even today. Mother Mary, you have provided answers in the past about apparitions. But as this place is in Lithuania, can you comment on whether it has value in changing people’s consciousness as an officially approved apparition? Or was it again the story that people created?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2026 Lithuania Conference.

Well, I just said in another answer that we of the ascended masters are allowing energies and ideas to descend from the spiritual into the identity, mental, and emotional level. But we are also, as part of this process, allowing a certain light to descend. And if you look throughout the world, you will see that there are many, many places where there are people who have had an experience of, we might say, well, again—what is the language you would use to describe such an experience? Is it miraculous? Is it an apparition? Is it an extrasensory experience? But what we can say is that there are people who are in a state of mind where they are sensitive, open, neutral. And then they can have an experience of something from beyond the material world. Now comes the question, was what these shepherds experienced an apparition created by me? Or was it that they experienced a general universal light, but their minds conceptualized it as an apparition by Mother Mary? In other words, what I am saying is there was a genuine phenomenon that they experienced, but then people’s minds need to have some way to relate to the experience, to conceptualize the experience, to explain the experience. And that is why they, in most cases when this happens, their subconscious minds are projecting images, concepts, upon the light that they are familiar with that have meaning to them. And that is why you will see, for example, that there are people from different cultural or religious backgrounds who have different experiences.

But they can all have a genuine experience of something beyond the material. It is just that their minds project a certain form on the experience. What we can say, in essence, is that these experiences are meant to show people that there is something beyond the outer mind, the concepts, the beliefs, the doctrines, the rituals, the images that they have. In a sense you could say that the many apparitions of Mother Mary from around the world, most of them are genuine. But my intent for the apparition is to show people that I am more than their image of me. If it happens to Catholics—Lourdes, Portugal, others—it is to show them that I am more than the mental box that the Catholic church has created for me. The question now becomes, do people grasp this or do they want to impose an image upon me? And as I have said before, the Catholic church has a very fixed image of Mother Mary. And what you see in this case here in Lithuania, in Fatima, in Lourdes, in many other places, is that when there is an apparition that gains a certain awareness from the people in the area, and if they are Catholics and it seems to validate their Catholic view of Mother Mary, then at some point the church will come in, recognize it as an official apparition, and what happens in that process is that the Catholic church attempts to take ownership of the apparition.

But my purpose for the apparition was to demonstrate that I am more than the image of the Catholic church. But now the church comes in and says: “Oh no. That was not what the apparition meant. The apparition validates our image of Mother Mary. It validates that she is only as we see her.” They build a church around the rock and that is a statement of ownership like it is in Lourdes.

Why did I appear to shepherds in the field and not to some Catholic priest or bishop in a nearby church? Simple question. But it shows you that I could not appear to the priest or the bishop because they had a very fixed image. And if I did not, if the apparition did not conform to the priest’s image, he would have said, what? “Oh, this is of the devil. This is not the real Mother Mary, because she could not be more than the Catholic church’s image of her.” They would have rejected it, perhaps even done an exorcism. That is why I try to appear to people who are not part of the church hierarchy. This has happened in Lourdes as well.

A young girl tending the swine near the river where nobody wanted to be. But then it becomes an apparition. It attracts people. Some people think a miracle happened. And now you see in Lourdes where there is the grotto where I supposedly appeared. And then above the cliff is this huge Catholic church, a statement of ownership. Like we have said before in Israel, basically any place where Jesus did anything, there is a Catholic church claiming ownership of the Jesus story. They own the Jesus story —is what they attempt to achieve. The same thing with this apparition here in Lithuania. Now the question is, does it help people today? Well, that depends again. If they can tune in to my being, to my heart, it can help people. But if they are attached to the outer form, then it does not help people. Basically, what we can say is that the church’s attempt to take ownership undermines the original purpose of the apparition. But still, there can be people that have a devotion to me who can go to a certain place and it allows them to tune in.

But then I would also say that if people have a devotion to me, they have the potential to tune in to me anywhere. And it would be better if they could realize that and seek to establish that inner connection wherever they are instead of thinking that it can only happen in certain places. Again, you could ask yourself a simple question. If Mother Mary could appear in a field on a rock, could she not appear anywhere? Why should I think that because Mother Mary appeared on that rock a long time ago, I have to go to that place in order to connect to Mother Mary? Could I not instead reason: “But what if I open my heart to Mother Mary where I am? Could she not appear where I am?” And of course, I am the Divine Mother. I am everywhere.

What is an appearance? Is it that I objectively materialize something in the physical octave? In other words, did the shepherds physically see me or did they have an altered state of consciousness so they tuned into me in the higher identity realm or in some cases even the spiritual realm?

It is a matter of attunement and attunement you can achieve anywhere. And Jesus gave you the key to this when he said: “The Kingdom of God is within you.” It does not come by observation of an outer religion, Catholic or otherwise. It only comes through attunement within.

How valid are the teachings of Jacques Lacan?

Question: How valid are the teachings of French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan? Lacan promoted the ideas of Freud and it has been said that Freud is a fallen being. But what about Lacan? Lacan said that the unconscious mind is structured like a language and psychosis is sometimes caused by the foreclosure of a principal signifier, thereby unraveling the entire network of signifiers in the unconscious mind.

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2026 Lithuania Conference.

It is almost impossible to answer a question like, How valid are the teachings? Because you can look at the teachings of Freud and you can say there is some validity to them, but it does not necessarily mean they are the highest way to look at it. Some of Lacan’s ideas can be useful. Now, if you look at what we have actually been saying over many years now, is that human beings are at many different levels of consciousness and they need teachings for different levels of consciousness. We are giving teachings from the ascended level for certain levels of consciousness, but not for all. There are many teachings that are needed that can help people at a certain level rise to a higher level. But this is not guaranteed in the teaching. You cannot give an outer teaching, which you have all said, even our ascended master teaching. It is not a mechanical process. There is no guarantee that somebody who reads the teachings will reach a higher level of awareness. It is a matter of how it is applied.

What you can say is that Freud, in a sense, was just attempting to explain how the subconscious mind works. Lacan and others have continued working with that, based on the model of Freud. And it is not that they are invalid. They can be useful for some people. But of course, they only go to a certain level. And the problem with Freud was that he was focused on abnormal psychology. Whereas, of course, there is a whole other level which is now pursued by some who talk about positive psychology, for example. Where they say, instead of looking at the abnormalities, why do not we look at the potential? Again, you can see that in the psychological profession, there is a movement from focusing on the abnormalities to focusing on the potential. And how high does human potential go? This can then lead people to discover a spiritual teaching that talks about that there is more to the mind than the physical brain. What I would encourage everybody to do is to seek out psychological teachers or writers who are talking about the higher potential, positive approach to psychology, and going beyond the brain, that there is more to the mind than the brain.

Because many of these older teachings—with older I am talking about Freud and those who were his contemporaries, have now become outdated in the sense that they are not at the forefront of psychology anymore. It does not mean that there are still some people who could not be helped by them. Yes, you can explain that the subconscious mind is a sort of a language structure. It is just one way to explain it. We have talked about how there are subconscious selves that have a certain illusion that is formulated in words. In a sense, the subconscious mind, the subconscious self, can have a certain language that is not always the same language you have in the waking mind, in the waking state. And it is not necessarily a rational language. It can also be an emotional language. There are many different modalities here. But what you have to realize is that many of these modalities are a mixture. You cannot say: “Oh, this person gave a valid teaching. That must mean that everything that he or she said is valid.”

That is not the case for most of these teachings. They are a mixture. You have to be very discerning and see, is there something there that helps you? Then you take advantage of it. But it does not mean you take everything. It is not a package deal that you have to accept everything that Freud said, for example.

Were Michael Newton, Michael A. Singer, Anthony Williams inspired by the ascended masters?

Question: Were and are authors Michael Newton, Michael A. Singer, and medical medium Anthony Williams inspired or supported by the ascended masters?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2026 Lithuania Conference.

It depends on what you mean with ‘inspired’ or ‘supported’. We have had several people, organizations, messengers that are sponsored by us, meaning we have trained them and we give them certain protection so that they can carry out their task. But we have also said before that we are allowing a certain flow of spiritual light and spiritual ideas to descend from our level through the identity, mental, and emotional levels. It is sort of what Jesus referred to as the rain that rains upon the just and the unjust. We are allowing this to descend, and anybody who is able to tune into some aspect of this is therefore, inspired by us, you could say. And of course, many, many people, we are talking multiple thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of people, have been able to receive something of that flow. The distinction you need to make here is that this does not mean that these are sponsored or directly supported by us because they do not have a conscious connection to us.

And it is not that everybody who receives an idea from us needs to acknowledge where the idea comes from. It is not that we are seeking to take credit. But the reality here is that, as I said, we are allowing ideas and light to flow, and whoever takes it, we are allowing this to happen. But now the question is, what does the person do with it? Do they use it to sincerely help other people, or do they use it, for example, to set themselves up as having some kind of position of being an advanced teacher, having authority, being looked up to, or so forth? Or do they even use it to attract students that they then take advantage of in various ways? If they do that, if they use it for self-centered purposes, there is nothing we can multiply. But if somebody takes what we allow to flow and they use it to help others, then we can multiply it and eventually they can work their way up to where they have a more direct, open inspiration. And they can, to some degree, be supported by us, even though not necessarily sponsored in a more formal way.

It does not mean that people have to be perfect, even if there was such a thing. But it does mean that in order to receive a more direct sponsorship, you have to have demonstrated that you have overcome some of that focus on self. Where you are willing to basically let us direct what is coming through and you are not wanting to use it for selfish purposes or control it or color it.

You have to come to that point where you say, with Jesus: “I can in my own self do nothing”. The I AM Presence and the ascended masters within me, they are directing the flow. Now, again, it is a delicate balance, as we have explained, because it does not mean that you become passive. You are still making decisions, but you are just not making self-centered decisions. I do not want to comment on specific people because beyond the three you mentioned, there are a thousand more. You need to use your own discernment and look at these teachers and look at how much they are focused on themselves? How are the people who are their followers or readers, how do they look at them?

Is there, for example, a cult of idolatry built around a certain person, which there is for many of these teachers you find in the spiritual or New Age field or even in other fields, that there is a certain idolatry that is built. And if a person allows that, they almost always become trapped in it themselves and they start believing it, they start drinking their own Kool-Aid and therefore, they now set themselves up as an authority figure and become more focused on maintaining or defending or expanding that image. Instead, as you rise in Christhood and go beyond the 96th level, you overcome that focus on self.

Women blaming men

Question: Could Mother Mary comment on the rather common reaction among women I know when after some time in a relationship many of them at some point formulate the accusation toward their partner, you are with me only because of sex. I can see a self in me that definitely fears a scenario like that. It is a very painful self that causes a terrible pain in my heart. Most of the time that self lies dormant, but when it gets triggered, it opens a portal for many aggressive projections that feel like hell has broken loose through accusations against men. How can women deal with the reality that so many men are addicted to sex and treat women as sexual objects without being pulled into that reactionary self that opens up these merciless projections which make it even more difficult to regain balance. Maybe Mother Mary could offer a higher perspective that would help us deal with that self without being pulled into this reactionary spiral.

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2026 Lithuania Conference.

Well, you have to understand here that both men and women are subjected to tremendous projections from the dark forces and the collective consciousness because these dark forces want to divide two people who are in a relationship and so they have certain projections they can use against men that men often respond to. They have certain projections they use against women that women are vulnerable to. And it is a matter of these projections from dark forces. It is also a matter of patterns in the collective consciousness, and these have been established over a long time. When you look at the traditional relationship between men and women that is, as we talked about earlier, based on traditional values which when you see there is a very long history in patriarchal cultures of men feeling like their wives or their partners are their property and that the woman should always give them sex whenever they want to.

This is a very old pattern. There is a huge beast projecting at both men and women because there are, of course, myriad examples where men have a stronger sex drive than women. They want to have sex, but it is more of a physical release they are seeking not an emotional connection. And that makes women feel ignored, used and this is all magnified by this very old pattern.

You see that there has been an actual abuse from men towards women for a very long time. But this has also created a collective beast that affects women and makes them feel more used than they necessarily are. They react to it stronger than they, strictly speaking, need to. But you have, of course, a complication here in the modern age where pornography is so readily available on this wonderful tool called the internet, which was meant to liberate people but instead, as everything else, is being used by the fallen beings to enslave people. And men are especially susceptible to this as we have said before. Most men are addicted to sex basically through pornography or stimulation with pictures and advertising and this and that.

Really, from a spiritual perspective, the only solution is that if you are in a relationship both men, the man and the woman, need to look at the subconscious selves that you have, so to speak, inherited from your parents from the collective consciousness. The attitude that men have towards women in your society, the attitude that women have towards men. Both have to be willing to look at these subconscious selves and also call for their protection against their projections. But then you have to also if you really want to resolve this, be willing to talk about it. Talk about your attitude to sex, talk about your feelings about this. Women are always looking for a more emotional connection that the physical act is not as important for women as it is for men. And most men do not grasp this. And right there is the cause of much conflict. Men need to step up and realize that women have a different experience of sex than men do. It has always been that way, it always will be that way because women are different than men psychologically and they are meant to be.

Now, as I said, the dark forces are, of course, magnifying all these differences. They are looking at how women react to sex, they are trying to magnify this so women feel more used, blame the man. There are two beasts here that are also part of this picture. One is, and it is not just about sex, it is about many things, that women have for a long time been the passive sex. And they have, in order to cope with this psychologically, created a collective beast that blames men for many different things. Because as you will see, people who are suppressed can gain some relief by blaming their oppressors. This is not just for women, but because women have been so suppressed by men, they have created this beast that blames men.

And then men have also created a beast where they want to be free and independent and able to do whatever they want to do. They have created a beast that is very sensitive to being blamed. You just look at the wording in the question that opens up these merciless projections. Well, are they merciless or is it just that the beast that affects men sees them as such?

You see here, this is a very old pattern between the sexes. It is not just a matter of sex, it is a matter of the interaction between men and women in a patriarchal culture that suppresses women. If you really want to get beyond this, you need to look beyond the sex and look at the relationship as a whole and work on these subconscious selves that you have personally taken on as part of the culture and be willing to free yourself from them. And then when you have made some progress towards that, you need to come to a point where you decide, okay, we need to talk openly about this. Not only about sex, but our experience of the relationship. And the more open you can be at talking about it, the more you can resolve it. Now here, of course, I already sense the reaction from the collective consciousness where men will say, oh, this is just too much trouble. If you are willing to look at that beast also, then you can overcome that and free yourself from it.

And of course, there is a collective reaction from the women that, oh, men are always ignoring us. They never want to listen to us. Again, women need to overcome this so you can have a more free communication.

Again, I am not here trying to blame anybody. I am just trying to outline that many, many couples have been caught up in this dynamic that is a very old dynamic. And the fallen ones are loving this. They are enjoying watching two people have conflicts over sex or whatever else it may be. And the effect of this is—as we have said before, the masculine expansive force and the feminine contracting force are actually complementary—but because of these projections from the fallen beings, because of the creation of the patriarchal culture, they oppose each other instead of complementing each other.

And it will take considerable work to get to a point where you can complement each other instead of falling into this pattern of competing or opposing.

You will see here also that there is a very subtle reaction in men because, as I said, it is indisputable that historically women have been the suppressed sex.

There is a reaction in men that they do not want to be blamed, that women are always blaming us. But you see, when you react like this, what are you doing? You are blaming women for blaming you. And where does it lead? Well, nowhere good. You have to say, if you are a man, if you see this as a problem, always start working on yourself first, then see where that leads you. Because what have we said so many times? The universe is a mirror. What you project out will be returned back to you. If you feel that women are blaming you while you do not realize that you are subconsciously blaming women for blaming you, you are actually saying to the cosmic sphere, you want more being blamed. That would be the place to start and then go from there. It will take work. But on the other hand, what are you? What have we said so many times? You are forerunners for a shift in consciousness. And for the forerunners, it is always harder to carve a trail through the jungle, whereas those who come after you find it much easier because you have already cleared the space.

But if you feel strongly about a topic like this, it is most likely because it is part of your Divine plan that you work on this in yourself and therefore, open up so that other men can follow you and work towards a more constructive relationship between men and women.

How to resolve and approach our identification in regard to oneness

Question: I have a challenging question about how to resolve and approach our identification in regard to oneness. In the recent past, I think the masters have portrayed themselves in an ever growing and loving way that to me seems like they are telling us that we are actually them. Perhaps not quite there yet, maybe a little deterred by our separate selves, but still a being that, once we have ridden ourselves from our separate selves, may connect with the more that you already are and we can become. But how does the reality of this oneness look like? When seen through the human perspective we perceive it as a law, a paradigm that no two personalities can exist at the same time.

You and me could never co-exist because if this happened the more potent being would eventually extinguish the smaller me. As a consequence, we fear our death and see this as an option that we should never try the human mind reasons. But recently my mind was drawn to an assumption of mine that the masters exist in a somewhat higher realm and thus it is possible that we co-exist in the same place. Possibly all spirits do co-exist above each other vertically in an overlapping manner in ever expanding concentric spheres meaning that a higher frequency being includes all the lower ones. And as the lower beings agree to express more of themselves through the higher being thus getting more or less in sync with them and naturally evolve. Perhaps even when people are not in sync with the Presence of the hierarchy of the masters they are receiving some quota of assisting life from the masters that is watching over their development by what has been referred to as the Buddhic space for them to try and air almost endlessly in duality.

What I am asking is are the masters the more advanced part of us that is helping its little brother up so it can walk on its own by fully integrating that we are also an expression of these higher beings. And that this process happens through the activation of the seven ways that we must rely on and allow working through us. I can sense the vibration of truth in this still I am asking you if this is an accurate description of what is waiting for us. Being aware that the description is just a description, nothing more or less that is expressed. Could you expand on this at the present moment because if this is true, I think many of us could actually dare to bring about a brighter future through us and perhaps better fulfill the purpose of this conference.

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2026 Lithuania Conference.

What you are saying is correct. It is a valid way to express it. It is not necessarily the only one. The only thing I would add here is that in the beginning of your question you seem to be confusing oneness with sameness.

Coming into oneness with an ascended master or with your I AM Presence does not mean that you disappear. We have said that when you ascend, the Conscious You becomes one with the I AM Presence. We could also say that the Conscious You shifts its perspective so that it sees life from the perspective of the Presence. In a sense, you can say the Conscious You can come into oneness identification with the I AM Presence. When you talk about coming into oneness with an ascended master it is, as you described, that you realize that your I AM Presence was created out of the beings of two ascended masters that are, metaphorically speaking, your spiritual parents. And by coming into oneness with the hierarchy of ascended masters that reaches all the way to the Creator, you do not disappear as an individual being. This might take a little bit of retooling of the mind if you have this view that oneness means sameness. It is recognizing, as you say, we so to speak co-exist in the same space. It is just that because of the law of free will most people have gone into what we call the illusion that they are separate beings and then they cut themselves off from the flow of energy and directions not only from the I AM Presence but also from the Ascended Masters.

Reconnecting at the 48th level means essentially that you start seeing that you are out of the hierarchy of the ascended masters. Maybe you do not see this quite at the 48th level but as you go higher you begin to see this. You begin to experience it and accept this. But as I said it does not mean you disappear as an individual being, but it means you now see yourself as a connected being whereas when you are in separation you think you are alone. You experience yourself as alone as cut off. “My God, my God why has thou forsaken me”, as Jesus cried out on the cross, even though he was not below the 48th level at the time. But still, that is how you feel when you are in separation.

What we are talking about coming into oneness is overcoming that illusion that you are separate beings, but you are out of that greater wholeness of the hierarchy of ascended masters. And you will see this because you see that we have always presented ourselves as individual ascended masters even though we also say we are all one in the ascended realm. But that means because we all realize that we came out of the same beings in a higher realm and therefore, we are not separated, we are connected. You might want to consider that the first thing you need to ponder is connectedness, establish a connection to the ascended masters and then a sense of oneness comes later when you sort of resolve the enigma of oneness does not mean sameness. But it is true, of course, that the more you see a connection between yourself and us, the more you can be an open door for the flow of energy and teachings.

This messenger right now is experiencing oneness with my being, but he has not disappeared. He has set aside his normal individuality to allow me to speak through him but once the flow stops then obviously, he will go back to being who he was before or perhaps raised a little bit by taking a dictation. But nevertheless, you see that you are not meant to ever disappear as an individual being. Your separate self will eventually disappear when you ascend or even before but nevertheless you, there will always be a you that sees life from your vantage point. Even when you reach the Creator consciousness, you will not disappear as an individual being.

How can we experience the emotional, mental and identity components of the material things?

Question: Here is an extract from the book My Lives with Lucifer, Satan, Hitler and Jesus, Chapter 34.”Our host now took us through an extensive program of having us meditate on certain objects, such as a rose. He first wanted us to go beyond the physical sensory impressions of the rose and experience the emotional component behind it. He explained that any object in the physical world is created by an identity component, a mental component and an emotional component. They are like three panes of glass upon which are painted colored pictures. The light shining through them from the spiritual realm is what forms the projection that our senses experience and that our minds label as a solid physical object.” My question is, how can we experience the emotional, mental and identity components of the material things?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2026 Lithuania Conference.

Because as we have explained, every physical object is created because some self-aware being, be it a human being, in embodiment, an ascended master, an Elohim, whatever it may be, envisioned a certain matrix, thought matrix in the identity realm, which was then lowered into the material, made more concrete, more elaborate and then lowered into the emotional where it was given a certain energy that then projected it onto the mass of light that makes up the physical object.

Your physical senses are calibrated to detect only the physical object, meaning the physical component, but contrary to what you all brought up to believe, the physical is not separated from the three higher realms. We can say that what exists in emotional, mental and identity are matrices in consciousness, matrices in the mind. What exists in the physical is really also just a matrix, but your physical senses and the mind experiences it as a solid object. But the Conscious You is, as we have said, able to step outside the physical body, the physical level and experience the emotional level, the mental or the identity level and you can then experience the matrix that is there. It is somewhat similar, not quite identical, but somewhat similar to the philosopher Plato who said that all physical objects are created out of ideal forms that exist in a higher realm and what he did not say is that your mind, your Conscious You, has the ability to experience what is in the higher realms because what is the Conscious You?

Well, it is consciousness. What exists in the emotional, mental and identity level is also in consciousness. For that matter, what exists in the physical is also just an appearance in consciousness, but you are just so tied to the physical senses that you believe that the physical world is made of solid objects, but you know that everything is made from molecules, atoms, subatomic particles and energy waves, so nothing is actually solid, it just appears that way to the senses and what the physical part of the mind does with sensory input. We could, in a sense, say that your eyes are not seeing a solid object, it is actually seeing light waves, energy waves that are hitting the retina, but your mind at the physical level turns it into an experience in the mind, partly in the brain, partly in the mind, of a solid object. That the purpose of the exercise described is to help people become aware that physical objects are not solid and unchangeable by the mind because when the mind can tune into the matrices in the three higher levels and change them, it can actually change the physical. That is, in a sense, our whole purpose for the conference we did a couple of years ago in Estonia about deep healing where we taught you extensively in these lessons that the physical body can be healed by changing the matrices in the emotional, mental and identity realms and we gave teachings and tools for how to do this.

Update on the decade of women

Could Mother Mary give us some updates on the progression of the decade of women? I can see an incredible shift in the growing number of women. More and more women are refusing to play traditional roles, however they were defined for their society, and are trying to work on their psychology using many different ways and modalities. Some become more spiritual, some just work on their psychology using conventional psychology. At the same time, we can see more and more men resisting that change. There is a visibly growing number of men, even in democratic countries, who openly express disappointment with women, or even anger toward women, who are not so sexually available anymore, who are very carefully considering decisions about having children, and who refuse to be the only house and family keepers.

Quite a lot of ordinary men, also young men, openly comment about taking away voting rights from women, or forbidding their right to work as a solution for the demographic crisis. I know that it is part of things coming into the open and becoming more extreme, so that people have an opportunity to see it, but could Mother Mary give us an update on those changes?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2026 Lithuania Conference.

Well your observations are correct, and as Saint Germain just mentioned in another answer, you have this movement in democracy, and we can say that as a democracy matures, it is natural that there will be some things that have to be brought up, brought out in the open, in a more extreme way, so that people can see it, and choose to let them go, to leave them behind. It is really sort of a shake the tree and see what falls out kind of process. The fact of the matter is, as we have said many times, that many of the modern democracies are in this process of transitioning from a welfare model to a well-being model, where it is not so important with the physical affluence, it is how do people feel about themselves and about life.

And that is, as we have said many times, a transition into focusing more on psychology than on the physical conditions. And what you see in general is that women are far more attuned to this than men. Many, many women are attuned to this process, even if they do not talk about it in spiritual terms, they are just realizing intuitively that we need to shift our focus away from the physical and towards the psychological.

And it is perfectly correct that many men not only are not attuned to this, but they resist it. And it is just one of those necessary upheavals that need to happen. As Saint Germain has already said: “Those who are seeking to turn society back to where women find their traditional roles, they are just on a collision course with history”. And they may create some upheaval in societies, but they are not going to get a majority in any society. As they say, the train has left the station. Women are not going to go back, they are not going to be forced back in traditional roles.

And the minority of men who have not realized this will go through some very hard times, and they may create some noise in society, and in some societies more than others, but it will be a short-lived phenomenon. It is also, especially in the West, especially in America, tied into the Christian movement, which is going through this last-ditch attempt to maintain what they saw as the control of society. It is like this wounded animal that is rolling around, roaring and screaming in its death throes. And that is how it is for this movement, not only in America, also in other countries, but especially in America where they have more influence on people than, for example, European countries.

It is simply that you can see, as we have said before, when the fallen beings came to earth, they saw men are more easy to fool into the epic mindset than women. Therefore, they chose to create these religions that established men as the superior sex, created the traditional roles, all created by the fallen beings.

But you see, what has also happened at the same time is that as society has started dealing with these traditional roles and giving more freedom to women, there is a certain group of men who are lagging behind, and they do not want to change, they do not want to grow. They just want to have a comfortable life based on traditional values, where basically the women did all the work and the men were sitting around studying the Torah or playing chess or drinking all day. Or maybe once in a while they went to war but it was women who were carrying society. And now women are saying: “Well, if we have been carrying society for this long, maybe it is time we got into leadership positions.” And it is just a natural, inevitable development. And what you are talking about in the question is democratic nations, but you can, of course, look at other nations that are not democratic, where you have the same dynamic happening. But there is, of course, more of an attempt to close it down, for example, in Islamic nations, Muslim nations, where women have to fight a lot harder to get more freedom and more rights.

But you see that it still is beginning to break through, even in those nations. You can see a certain irony that women are actually in some Muslim nations getting more freedom. And yet here are these fundamentalist Christians in America, who think they can turn back the clock. And if they got their way, you could have a situation where in 10, 20 years, women would be more free in Muslim nations than they are in America—if they had their way, which, as I said, they will not have. But the irony there is that they claim this would be better for society.

But the reality here is, you need to ask yourself a simple question. Why is it that the democratic nations are more materially affluent than Muslim nations or dictatorships like Russia and China? Why is there so much greater affluence in Europe than in Russia or Saudi Arabia? It is not just because of democracy. It is also because democracy has freed up women to take positions in society. And women have contributed with new ideas that have brought society forward.

In other words, the greatest resource for any nation is its people. If you suppress half of the population by ‘traditional values’, how can that nation become as affluent as a nation that allows women to make a contribution to new ideas and society? This, as they say, is not rocket science. It is just a matter of looking at it realistically.

Naturally, the more mature societies, democratic societies, have given the greatest freedom to women. The majority of the people know this intuitively. You can see there are some like the Scandinavian countries. These fundamentalist Christian movements or even conservative right-wing parties that want to go back to traditional values, they cannot get a foothold. Because even the men in those countries realize that it is to the benefit of everyone that women are given more freedom and opportunity. You can look at the countries where these movements have some foothold, some inroad, and you can see they are not as high in the level of the collective consciousness.

But of course, this is the decade of women, accelerated by the 12-year cycle. All I can say to these conservative people is: Duck! Because you are going to be hit by the energies, whether you want to or not, whether you believe in it or not. If there is one lesson that people should learn from history, is you cannot turn back the clock. You cannot recreate the past. You cannot put the cat back in the bag. All the king’s horses and all the king’s men can’t put Humpty together again.

Is interplanetary cooperation possible?

Question: Beloved ascended masters, you have taught that much of the UFO phenomenon arises from the astral plane and that focusing on it can create distraction or dependency. You have also said that highly spiritually evolved civilizations could theoretically travel between systems without interfering in humanity’s development. Some teachings describe advanced civilizations whose technology operates through consciousness and space-time curvature rather than conventional propulsion, suggesting that what appears physically impossible within linear 3D physics may not be impossible within a higher integration of mind and matter. If humanity reaches a level of spiritual sovereignty and vibrational maturity, no longer seeking rescue but engaging in conscious co-creation, could open contact with an advanced physical civilization become lawful cooperation rather than interference? Can the threshold at which contact is appropriate evolve as collective consciousness evolves? And how can sincere students discern between astral fascination and genuine vibrational readiness for broader cosmic interaction?

Answer from the Ascended Master Saint Germain through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2026 Lithuania Conference.

Well, what we have said is not necessarily that there are civilizations just in the astral plane. We have said there are also various groups of people, even civilizations in the mental and lower identity realms. What you see here is you have people throughout history, many, many people, who have been able to tune into something beyond the physical realm, beyond their physical senses. Some have, because of their low state of consciousness, tuned into the lower levels of the astral plane, which is like a hellish realm. Dante’s Nine Circles of Hell, was actually him tuning in to certain vibrational frequencies in the astral plane. Many other people have done the same. You see some near-death experiences who tune into this and have a negative near-death experience, whereas many tune into something higher. There are people who are tuned into this. Some have tuned into the mental realm, some to the lower identity realm.

What you can say is that there are many, many books out there, for example, that have teachings about advanced civilizations in other realms. They are not necessarily saying they are on other planets. Sometimes they do not clarify what they mean, but you could say that in the mental realm of earth there are certain civilizations that people have tuned into. People can have this experience. And if people find this fascinating, well, it is up to their free will to decide what they want to do with it. But you see, what happens is that over time there is a shift in how people conceptualize what they experience. You go back 500 years. Nobody talked about UFOs, spaceships, flying saucers, because back then the collective consciousness was at a different level and there was not the physical technology. They talked about sometimes various creatures, mythological creatures.

Again, you can go back to the Greek mythology and other myths around world and say, have people seen these creatures? Yes, they have. Do they exist, for example, in the astral or the mental realm? Yes, they did back then and some of them still do. It is not that people have not seen something that is there, but then you see that as technology began to be developed, suddenly you saw, for example, comic books, science fiction books that talked about space travel, travel from other realms. And after Einstein’s theory of relativity, you saw there was this realization that no physical object can travel faster than light speed, so they started coming up with warp speed, or jump beyond light speed, or this or that to overcome this physical limitation because they realized as astronomy developed, that there does not seem to be any planet with intelligent advanced life forms close to earth. Therefore, it became clear that it would take them a very, very long time to reach earth. All I am trying to say here is that you have to realize that it is one thing to have an experience beyond the physical senses. It is another to conceptualize this experience in your mind.

If people believe in fairies, gnomes, and unicorns that is how they tend to conceptualize their experience of something, what we might call extrasensory perception. If they have a technological civilization and they think in terms of flying airplanes, flying saucers, this and that, they tend to conceptualize their experience that way. Again, what we have said before is there are planets in the universe that are more advanced technologically than earth but they are not necessarily much more advanced in consciousness. You see these movies where these spaceships come to earth and they want to take earth’s resources. This is not an advanced civilization in consciousness. The law of free will mandates that such civilizations would not be allowed to discover earth because it would interfere with the growth, the unfoldment of free will on earth.

Here could be civilizations that had both the technological development and the development of consciousness that they would not interfere with earth. They would not come here and destroy and take all the resources. But you see, such civilizations would tend to look at earth and say, ”What could we possibly want from this planet? We have transcended the level of consciousness thousands of years ago. What could we gain from interacting with humans?” Then you could say, they could potentially say, “How could we help humans?” But again, such civilizations would have respect for the law of free will. How would they have developed the level of consciousness and technology they have? Only by working with the ascended masters.

There is a level of technological development and a level of consciousness that is a threshold. You cannot go beyond unless a civilization connects to the ascended realm. If such a civilization is working with us, they would not do it against our advice. And I am not saying that in the entire cosmos it has never happened, that there has been interplanetary cooperation. But what I am saying is that you have to ask yourself a simple question. If there is an advanced planet somewhere else that is working with the ascended masters, why would we want them to come to earth if earth has not made contact with the ascended masters? And when people begin to have more contact with us, why would we need an advanced civilization to come and give people the technology instead of people receiving these ideas from us and therefore, gradually developing? You see, part of this entire phenomenon, not only UFOs but advanced technology— there is a certain movement in the collective consciousness that dreams about some fantastic end result where technology has solved all of humankind’s problems. But you see, as we have explained numerous times now, I am not looking at my golden age and saying: “Here is the end goal and I want to achieve that as quickly as possible.” I am looking at a process because the goal is not to achieve a specific technological advancement on earth or a specific civilization. The goal is to raise consciousness and that can only happen gradually.

You see what I am saying. Let’s say you have a planet that is 5,000 years ahead of earth in technological development and now they come to earth and demonstrate their technology, give that technology to human beings. What would be the purpose? They develop that technology through a gradual process of raising consciousness and that is what also needs to happen on earth. Why would I want to catapult earth 5,000 years ahead in technological development when it could not possibly correspond to a development in consciousness because the earth cannot cover that distance in consciousness in one year. It needs to take time because as we have said before, the goal is to raise the individual consciousness, not to manifest a specific advanced civilization. I could care less if people still lived in caves if they had the Buddhic consciousness.

Technology is sort of a double-edged sword because as you can see on earth right now, we have released the technology to split the atom. Has humankind risen in consciousness where they can use that technology wisely? Well, in a sense there has not been a large-scale nuclear war but on the other hand, if they really had risen in consciousness, they would have gotten rid voluntarily of nuclear weapons. You see what I am saying. You take a three-year-old child and give him a machine gun and it will not be pretty. You take earthlings today and give them advanced technology, how could they possibly use it wisely? There would just be more advanced wars>

I do not have a problem as an ascended master with people looking into all kinds of things that are out there, all kinds of phenomena. But we have our old saying: “When the student is ready, the teacher appears”. When people are still focused on phenomena and UFOs and space travel or also physical phenomena, it is not that different from Christians who want miracles. They are still focused on phenomena, that means these people cannot tune into us. They can of course find an ascended master teaching because they are available in the physical realm but they cannot tune into us and therefore: “We must say: “Well, we cannot really work with them personally.”

We can only hope that through the outer teachings they will raise their consciousness and whatever they need to go through to get to that point. You see so many people that grow up without any spiritual understanding. They grow up in a traditional religion or materialism and suddenly they awaken to the, there is more to understand about life, than what they were brought up with and they get interested in all kinds of things. That is not a problem in itself but the thing is this fascination with phenomena can very easily become a distraction from their spiritual growth. Where many people have spent an enormous amount of attention, time and energy on researching all these phenomena that may satisfy curiosity, it may give you intellectual knowledge, but it does not raise consciousness.

What have we talked about so many times? 144 levels of consciousness. Let’s say a person is at the 50th level of consciousness in this life. The person is open to some kind of spirituality, but now he becomes fascinated by all these phenomena and it might spend 10-15 years studying all these kinds of things and it may only raise one or two levels in consciousness in that time.

Whereas if it had been more committed to a real spiritual path, a genuine spiritual teaching, and there are many besides the Ascended Master teachings, it might have risen 10 or 15 levels of consciousness in the same time. And it is the raising in the levels of consciousness that is our objective. That is what we are here to give to humankind. We are not here to satisfy people’s curiosity. We are here to help them transcend their level of consciousness.

Is David Bowie an ascended master?

Question: I recently heard that the late singer David Bowie has become an ascended master. Is it correct and if so, what is his master name?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2026 Lithuania Conference.

No. That is not correct.

Relationships and the Divine plan

Question: I have heard that it is difficult for avatars to find romantic partners. As for me, I alternate between days when I wish I were in a relationship and days when I enjoy the freedom and independence of being single. How do I tune into my Divine plan and know whether I am meant to be single or in a relationship in this life? How do I get over feelings for someone I should not have feelings for? Is it all about resolving psychology and letting the separate selves die?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2026 Lithuania Conference.

Well, the short answer is yes. It is all about psychology and letting the separate selves die. You need to look at, first of all, you look at this question, and you can see you have a division in your mind. Sometimes you wish you were in a relationship, other times you enjoy being single. Well, you cannot have both, right?

You have to find out what do you want more, and then look at, do you have a view of relationships that makes you feel like you are giving up something by being in a relationship, you lose something, or you do not want to accommodate another person. Because in that case you need to work on this and decide: “Do I have a subconscious self that I can resolve so I can be in a relationship and not have these divisions in my psyche about it? Or do I simply want to decide: I am not going to be in a relationship.?” As long as you have that division, you are in a sense subconsciously resisting finding a partner. And thereby you are also resisting your Divine plan. I am not saying it is in your Divine plan to have a partner, but if it is and you have the division, how will you recognize that partner when you meet him or her? You could miss the opportunity.

On the other hand, if it is in your Divine plan to be single, it would be better for you to know it and therefore, be at peace with being single, but how will you know? You see, if you look at your Divine plan, what have we said so many times? A big part of your Divine plan is resolving psychology. By the very fact that you have this question, you can reason it is part of my Divine plan to resolve my psychological issues concerning relationships, and therefore, you focus on doing that. You see what I am trying to say here? Your question implies that you think there is up there in your I AM Presence, there is this plan for your life, and it is set in stone. This is how it is. This is what you are supposed to do. And if you could just tune into that, then you would know and then you will be at peace in going into a relationship or not going into a relationship.

But you see what I am saying is part of your Divine plan is to resolve the psychology. And as long as you have not resolved the psychology, you will not be able to see whether it is in your Divine plan to have a relationship or not, because the unresolved psychology blocks that vision, but the unresolved psychology is part of your Divine plan. That is why I am saying it would not be productive, for example, if I as an outside force told you: “Oh yeah, it is in your Divine plan to have a relationship, go find somebody. Go on this internet dating site and get it over with”. Because you need to discover this from within, but you will not discover it until the psychology is resolved.

How to work with school-aged children

Question: I work with school-aged children. Sometimes I do not know how to deal with them. I am not an authority to them. It seems that children these days have no respect for authority at all. If I treat them as equals, they start to lead me. If I am strict, they find it funny. How to deal with today’s children?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2026 Lithuania Conference.

Well, you are certainly not alone in feeling this way. But the reason is that we are in a transition period where many children are being born that are meant to bring society forward, but they are not fully aware of this. And so, you have these children that do not respect authority, but on the other hand are not mature enough to lead themselves. I know this is a very delicate consideration, but you have to find a middle way where you do not set yourself up as the traditional authorities. But on the other hand, you affirm in yourself what you will allow and not allow. In other words, you are not asking them to accept an authority figure. You are not creating this role of an authority figure, and you are stepping into it. But you are in your mind firm that you are a human being, you have a particular role in that situation, and they should respect you as a human being and treat you as a fellow human being who has a role to play. And you have a right to expect and demand from them that they do not allow the situation to descend into anarchy or chaos, because that does not serve them either.

It is more instead of having this old image where you have this authority figure, even going back to quite frankly religions and biblical times and priests and popes and this and that, you have a right to expect that children will respect you as a human being and will treat you as a human being. But for you to establish that, you need to work with your psychology and come to a point where you are not divided in yourself. You could in a certain sense say, Jesus talking about a house divided against itself, so you could say that there are dark forces that are constantly seeking to divide you in your own mind, to make you a house divided against yourself, by using your subconscious self to pull you in this direction and that direction. And you could look at a class of school-aged children as dark forces trying to divide you in your own mind. And the only way to maintain your sanity in that environment is to work with your psychology so you overcome the selves that can cause them to divide you. You are standing firm, you know who you are, you know what you are going to do in that situation, and you have a clear expectation that the children will respect you as a human being.

Again, I am not saying this is a cure-all answer, but it is at least a good step. And then perhaps you also need to work in the situation in the school with other teachers and authorities to establish that kind of an environment where you can say you have mutual respect, not the blind obedience to authorities that you had decades ago.

Key challenges for France

Question: Today, France faces a highly unstable political situation that affects all areas of society. Political forces are fighting amongst themselves, blocking parliamentary work and unable to find a compromise. Parliament changes regularly. Local elections are scheduled for this year, and presidential elections are scheduled for 2027. What challenges does French society face in the coming years? What possible developments in France after the elections are possible? What can people do to support and develop democracy? How can economic growth and prosperity be made possible? Thank you so much.

Answer from the Ascended Master Saint Germain through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2026 Lithuania Conference.

In a sense, France faces very similar challenges as many other democratic nations. And one of those challenges is: “Will you become more isolationist, far more focused on yourself, or will you still be willing to cooperate?” For France, of course, you are in the EU, you are one of the founding members of the EU, but are you still committed to the European Union, European cooperation? Or will you allow certain conservative forces in your country that are aligned with forces outside of your country that are anti-democratic to turn France inward, like you have seen in America, for example? And that is a challenge that is very much faced, especially by the European nations, because with the situation as it is in America, with the situation as it is in Russia and China, it is more important than ever that the European nations can cooperate. And the question really is: “Does France want to be one of the forerunners for a more integrated Europe, or does it want to betray its original vision for starting or being part of starting the EU?”

There is no fixed outcome here that I can predict with certainty, but it is most likely that the French people will look at the United States and Donald Trump, and that a majority of them will not want to repeat that pattern. There is also likely there will be more exposures in this year and coming years of how the more right-wing parties, not only in France, but in the rest of Europe, are either paid for or in other ways tied to Russia, and that Russia is now using these right-wing parties to undermine democracy, which of course is an irony because 30, 40 years ago, the Soviet Union was using the left-wing parties in Europe to seek to undermine democracy. If this realization can spread to a critical mass of people, you can avoid France turning inwards. And you see that Macron, President Macron, is still committed to European integration and more cooperation and a vision for Europe, even the defense of Europe. There are of course other politicians in France who have the potential to come forward and be part of this process.

Certainly, you have a certain gridlock in France, but you have that in many other nations in Europe. And this is just part of the process whereas democracies mature, you might say that there is a certain cleansing, a certain clarification that must happen, where an older democracy must clarify its vision of what a democracy means, its commitment to democratic values. But also, the European countries are facing this: “Will we look beyond our narrow national self-interest and forge a stronger European Union?”

I have mentioned before that going back to the Middle Ages or a little later, my vision was for a United States of Europe. And when that could not happen because of the kings being completely self-centered and none of them wanting to give up power, I instead established that in the United States. But this does not mean that I would not like to see a United States of Europe, because I would. And as I have said before, there is a potential that Europe can become a superpower and a bastion for democracy and human rights, partly because of the history of Europe, where many people in Europe are more aware that we do not want to return to Nazi Germany, Franco Spain, and other totalitarian countries that we have seen in Europe. Whereas many Americans have not experienced this themselves or do not have parents and grandparents who have experienced it, and therefore, they do not have quite the same awareness, which is what you see being outplayed with the Trump presidency.

I of course also have the vision that a critical mass of Americans, and many have already done so, will rise and look at the Trump presidency, learn the lesson, and recommit to democratic values and human rights. Because you will see that the right-wing parties in Europe do not have that commitment. And of course, that is why Russia can use them, because Russia, of course, does not have that commitment.

It is, in a way, or at least it should be for many people, shocking that Russia is now seeking to promote and fund these right-wing parties and export their traditional values. Because what they mean with “traditional values” is a lack of respect for human rights, especially when it comes to women. You might say that one of the challenges in France, is also how women are viewed by French society, especially, of course, by the male part of the population, but even in the collective consciousness. Because France has not actually overcome the traditional view of women to the same degree as other European nations have.

This will be an issue for France to deal with in the coming years: “Are we committed to some kind of equality between men and women, or do we want to pivot towards ‘traditional values’—so to speak?” Because whenever people talk about traditional values, they are talking about going back to a time where women, so to speak, knew their place. But you see, in this age, a very large percentage of women do know their place, and it is not the same place as their mothers and grandmothers. And a society that believes it can turn back the clock and have women go back to those roles is just completely out of touch with reality, completely out of touch with the Ascended Master Saint Germain and other ascended masters. Because, as we have said so many times, we of course, have a completely different vision of the equality between men and women. And this is the decade of women. And you can basically say that if you take these conservative movements that promote traditional values, it fits with the old story of a big battleship sailing at night and seeing a light ahead and signaling to the light that it should change course. And then the light signals back that: You should change course because I am a lighthouse. And if you continue on that course, you are going to hit the cliffs. And these conservative movements, if they continue wanting to try and re-suppress women, they are on a collision course with history. This is also an awareness that I look to becoming more prominent in France and in many other nations where there are these conservative movements.

Truly, as I have said before, you will not manifest Saint Germain’s Golden Age by returning to traditional values. Only by transcendence will you manifest the Golden Age.

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.