Michaels – Page 12 – Ascended Master Answers

The fear of Russia’s collapse

Question: The US president George W Bush in 1991 called on deputies in the Ukrainian parliament to remain in the USSR and not declare independence from Moscow. It seems that even now the Democrats, Biden’s assistant Sullivan, the head of the CIA, Burns, are also trying to take into account the interest of the Kremlin by restraining US military assistance to Ukraine.

Is it the fear of chaos in Russia after the defeat of its aggression in Ukraine? And blocking aid in Congress by Trump and the Trumpists is essentially turning the Trumpists almost into a branch of Putin in the United States. Are congressmen really so afraid and dependent on the narcissistic Donald Trump not seeing an alliance of dictators, Russia, China, North Korea, Iran against democracies? Or is there more of a role here for the inner party’s struggle before the presidential election and Trump’s closeness to autocrats rather than democrats?

Answer from the Ascended Saint Germain through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2024 Easter webinar

Well, certainly if you go back to the dissolution of the Soviet Union, there was a rather considerable fear in the West of what would happen if Russia descended into chaos, potentially was split up into separate nations that had nuclear weapons. What would happen if some rogue leader decided to launch nuclear rockets from some territory in Eastern Russia, for example? You could say that this fear is still there to some degree because there are people who are projecting what could be potential outcomes.

You know, there are something called war games, but there are also people in various government institutions in the United States or in think tanks that are projecting what are some of the possible scenarios that could happen as a result of Russia’s war in Ukraine. And one of those is, of course, that the Putin government could fall and there could be such chaos in Russia that it would be split up into separate nations. And then the question is, what would happen to the nuclear weapons, who would gain control of them and what might they decide to do with them?

There is a certain tendency among certain circles in the United States to think that a known enemy is better than an unknown. They think that they have some feeling for what the Soviet Union was like and what they would do and not do. And they also think they have the same with Putin and his government because they think they can gauge what limits they would abide by. And they think they would not go totally beyond the line and become completely irrational and launch a nuclear war, for example.

But they do not know if somebody else took over what they would do. Yes, there is a certain fear of the unknown that plays into this. And you can see, for example, that when the Soviet Union was dissolved, there was Western forces that talked the Ukrainian leaders into giving up their nuclear weapons and getting some security guarantee, which, of course, has now been violated because the Western nations did not come to the defense of Ukraine directly.

This is, of course, one concern. But this is not really what is causing the turmoil in the Republican Party. What is causing the turmoil in the Republican Party is that this party is now in an existential struggle for survival because there are still people who hold on to traditional Republican values. And then there is the Trump loyalists who are willing to disregard any traditional Republican values in order to follow Trump and whatever his whims may be at the moment, which could change tomorrow or next week.

And so there is an existential struggle for the survival of the Republican Party. And whatever the outcome may be, it is highly likely that the party either will dissolve or be split up into at least two factions. What could prevent this is Trump’s defeat in the election, which would cause some Republicans to say: “This is enough, we have had enough for Trump, we need to get back to functioning as the Republican Party.” But it is still possible that Trump could maintain some kind of loyal following that would want to carry on his policies, and there would still be a split. If Trump was re-elected, which at this point is a low probability, then the Republican Party would be forced to hold together probably during his period in office. But after he left office, there would still be a conflict that could split the party because Trump, if he was re-elected, would continue taking his government further and further away from Republican values. There are indeed Republicans who are much more in tune with my plans and my vision for America than the Trump loyalists, who are by and large not in tune with me at all, as of course Trump is not in attunement with me whatsoever.

I can work with some of these Republicans like Liz Cheney, Kinzinger and others, and I will attempt to work with them to maintain some sense of continuity in the Republican Party. But it is at this moment, not an easy thing to do. The main message I want to give here is that the Republican Party is right now in an existential struggle and its future is uncertain.

Gospel of Thomas

Question: A question about the validity of the Gospel of Thomas. The Gospel of Thomas among other Gnostic scriptures is found in the Egyptian desert a few months after the end of the Second World War in December 1945. These scriptures have been found by two Egyptian farmers and by sheer accident because they were digging for something else.

Is it legitimate to assume that this discovery is somehow managed by the ascended host? I mean have these two farmers been guided somehow without them ever knowing or realizing? Does Jesus want to comment on the validity of these 114 so-called logions in the Gospel of Thomas? Are the words written there at least some of them indeed the words spoken by Jesus. And was it indeed Thomas who wrote them down at that time? If the Catholic Church even wanted to be resurrected in the mind of Christ the Gospel of Thomas would be at least one historic document people could rely on and build upon.

Answer from the Ascended Master Jesus through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2024 Easter webinar

Well, no it was not directed by the ascended masters directly. You see what happened was that there was a rather chaotic period after my embodiment as Jesus. And there were various people who decided that they would create a written record of my life. And as you know if you have studied this topic most of the Gospels were written down quite some time after my lifetime and they were not necessarily written down by the people who were actually my disciples Mark or Matthew or John.

They were written by people who used that name in order to give it some authority. And the same is the case with the Gospel of Thomas. Now this does not mean that these are fake Gospels because the people who wrote them down were somewhat able to use the historical facts that have been handed down as a basis for some attunement with the Christ mind. I am not saying that I dictated any of the Gospels because as I said before I deliberately did not write down any scriptures because I wanted to create an organization where there was the openness for me to work directly with people through the Holy Spirit. But there was still some inspiration and therefore, yes the Gospel of Thomas has some validity it could be used. But really why would you want to use a Gospel written down many centuries ago when you could have access to the Holy Spirit today? For that matter if you really want to reform the Christian churches use my dictations through this and other messengers or get your own attunement with me so that I can work through you directly.

There is a certain irony in the fact that people are always looking to the past to find some scripture that has some kind of validity when there is always the possibility of contacting spirit directly and getting teachings adapted to a specific age. It is the same as some Hindus who are looking back to the Vedas that were written down thousands of years ago and they think somehow that these scriptures were more pure because they were written down so long ago. But the reality as we have explained is that at the time the Hindu scriptures were written down the collective consciousness of earth was much lower than it is today. What these rishis could see was limited by the collective consciousness and therefore, higher teachings can be brought forth today as we have already brought forth many higher teachings through this messenger and other messengers.

Sarah, wife of Abraham

Question: Did Abraham’s wife Sarah ever ascend? Besides Mother Mary, we do not really hear of any saint, prophet or significant female figure from the Abrahamic faith having ascended. I feel a connection to Master More’s story as Abraham. In this embodiment there was a lack of faith, doubt, mistakes, fooled by lesser spirits and yet God still maintained both an outer and inner connection despite being imperfect. I find that Sarah as well as Abraham had this experience and this story and this story is still valuable to Jews, Muslims and Christians in terms of reevaluating idolatry of significant religious figures though we always use male figures to demonstrate this, that people do not need to be perfect if God has a Divine Plan for them.

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2024 Easter webinar

Well, yes. The person who was Abraham’s wife Sarah later incarnated as Elizabeth Clare Prophet who is now the ascended master of Guru Ma. But the reason why there are no significant female figures recognized as saints based on the monotheistic religions is that they are patriarchal religions and therefore, they are very reluctant to acknowledge any significant female figures.

And when you ascend you may have had a certain embodiment in one of these patriarchal religions. But why would you as an ascended master, a female ascended master tie yourself to that embodiment which is in a male dominated faith and therefore, is not likely to recognize you anyway when it was indeed the only embodiment.

Why would Elizabeth Clare Prophet after she ascended take an ascended name associating with Sarah when she was given the name Guru Ma by Padmasambhava? And this fits more with where she wants to be. Why would she want to tie herself to this very distant embodiment? Likewise Master More did not call himself the ascended master Abraham. Again, because you do not want to tie yourself to such a distant embodiment in a specific culture.

I did differently because Jesus is the main spiritual figure for the age of Pisces and I as the mother of Jesus was such an important figure that the Catholic Church could not ignore me. And therefore, Christians have a certain veneration for that figure and there was a symbolic value in this. Also, it was my last embodiment before I ascended.

Free will: parents vs. children

Question: Thank you for the master’s dictations in the Easter webinar. As a mother sometimes I am confused in dealing with my son’s free will. Until where can I respect his free will? Or how far can I respect his free will? For example, about watching TV too much or playing games too much. I need to control his schedule. Is it okay from the respect of other beings’ free will?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2024 Easter webinar

Well, you cannot look at this situation only as a matter of your son’s free will. Because your son is living in your house, you are a family and so your son’s free will needs to be balanced with your free will and other members of the family. There is always that balancing of the free will of the individual with the free will of whatever group the individual is part of. And as we have said, no human being is an island so all beings are part of a group. You have a right to set certain boundaries for your children.

In fact, you have an obligation to set boundaries for your children. They may at some point rebel against your boundaries but it is better for them to have something to rebel against than not have any boundaries set by the parents. The parents who attempt to not set boundaries for their children are really not respecting the children’s free will. Because as a child you do not have the maturity to decide what you really want to do. You need to have something to relate to so that gradually as you grow up, get more clarity on who you are and what you want to do. And besides you also have the concern here that as an adult any person needs to function in a group setting. And if you do not learn that as a child it is much more difficult to learn as an adult. Therefore, as a parent you have a right and an obligation to set boundaries for your children so that they can function within the family unit which becomes the basis for them functioning in society. Otherwise they end up being these kind of people who find it very difficult to function in a social setting and that really is not in the child’s best interest.

Are any of the ascended masters original earth inhabitants?

Question: Are any of the ascended masters original earth inhabitants? If yes, which ones? In other words, are there ascended masters which started out as the original earth inhabitants?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2024 Easter webinar

Well, yes, there are many among the original earth inhabitants that have ascended. As we have explained, there were three initial waves of lifestreams that took embodiment on earth and the majority of them ascended. Then only in the fourth wave were there people who did not ascend.

But right now, both in this dispensation, in the I Am Movement, in the Summit Lighthouse, there are not so many ascended masters working through these dispensations that were the original earth inhabitants. And there are several reasons for this. One of them is that when you ascend as a newly ascended master from earth after it became an unnatural planet, you often really want to move on in the ascended realm instead of staying with earth. Because earth is such a low and chaotic planet that ascending is a bigger challenge than it is on a natural planet. Many times, a newly ascended master simply wants to explore what is available in the ascended realm.

The other reason is that when we received the dispensation to present ourselves publicly, as we have now done since the I Am Movement, we knew that the vast majority of the original inhabitants that are in embodiment were not ready to acknowledge us. Therefore, we created movements that are primarily aimed at avatars. This means that the ascended masters working with these dispensations have primarily been avatars. But there are certainly some that are known. Aphra is one example of an original earth inhabitant who ascended. The ascended master Patrick, who was Saint Patrick in Ireland, is one. The ascended master Hilarion, who was Jesus’ disciple Paul, is an original earth inhabitant. And the symbolism there is that the original earth inhabitants usually initially reject avatars. But Paul was willing to change his course and accept Jesus. And thereby also of course accepting Christ. And Nicholas Roerich is another ascended master. And there are many other original earth inhabitants who ascended and are working with earth. You should not construe it that the ascended masters who have spoken through these three dispensations are the only ascended masters working with earth. There are many ascended masters who are not speaking for a variety of reasons that are not important here through these dispensations.

There are many ascended masters who are working with earth in a non-public capacity. You might say they are working directly with people, assisting people in various ways.

Codependent relationship and fear of abandonment

Question: Beloved Mother Mary, I have been stuck for a long time in a separate self’s trauma reaction as a new situation triggers this self’s fear of being hurt again by my husband with betrayal as happened ten years ago. My fear-based reaction triggers a negative reaction back at me with verbal threats of rejection and abandonment and other forms of emotional abuse. As it escalates the self’s fear of feeling unloved and insecure, it leads to panic attacks and me begging for love and promises of security. I feel so bad and unworthy needing security from the abuser. This drains my energy and often it takes days to recover in all four bodies. Do I need to resolve the trauma before I can let this self die? It seems as these triggering situations come in cycles, I really want to be free from this pattern and have peace of mind in my life.

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2024 Easter webinar

Do you need to resolve the trauma before you can let the self die? Do you need to resolve the self before you can resolve the trauma? Well, they are so intertwined that you cannot really ask the question like that. The trauma has partly an energetic component, which is energy misqualified in this lifetime and past lifetimes. This is what gives you the emotional pain. In many cases you need to resolve that pain by using the decrees and invocations before you can reduce it so much that you can actually look at the underlying beliefs that make up the selves that you are dealing with. From that perspective you need to resolve the energy before you can look at the trauma. But you cannot really overcome the trauma until you let the self-die because it is the very basis for the trauma. It was created as a reaction to the original trauma and this of course goes beyond your current lifetime.

We have given all the teachings and tools starting with healing your spiritual traumas that you can use. If this does not do it for you, I suggest you recognize that what you are describing here is the classical definition of a codependent relationship. And there is a significant amount of literature from the psychological profession and others about codependent relationships. There are therapists who are specialized in dealing with this. There are even in some cases support groups, even some support groups online. I suggest you seek out that and in fact I suggest you do both. Both work with our tools but also with the tools that are available out there. You seek what kind of groups you can find, if not a physical group, then an online group. And you avail yourself of what is there, try to find a therapist if that is possible for you. And then work on this, overcoming this codependency on a person who is abusing you.

Now this obviously always goes back to your unwillingness to take full responsibility for yourself and make your own decisions. By being in a codependent relationship that you feel you cannot get out of, then you are giving yourself an excuse for not taking command over your life, not taking responsibility for your practical life and also your growth. You also need to uncover those selves so that you can come to a point where you are not afraid to make your own decisions. And where you are willing to tune into your Divine Plan, tune into your Christ Self, your I AM Presence and the ascended masters you are working with and receive a different perspective that then allows you to make a more constructive decision about what to do about the physical relationship.

How to explain decreeing to people

Question: There are times when you have to explain decree, invocation and rosaries to people around you, your family or others. Can’t you explain it so that they can understand it? Should I just say that I am praying in moderation? To explain this, you have to start with the premise that there is an ascended master, because most people do not accept it. They say, what is it? Is it a god? Should I just explain it as a prayer to God? It seems very difficult for ordinary people to understand our rituals. I wonder about a balanced higher view of them.

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2024 Easter webinar

Well, it depends, of course, on the beliefs and the level of awareness of the people you are talking to. You are right that most people are not familiar with ascended masters, but many people are familiar with some beings in a higher energetic realm. Whatever their situation, their belief system, you can explain it in terms of these spiritual beings, and you are calling to them to invoke a higher frequency energy that can transform lower energies.

Explaining it in terms of invoking higher energies to transform lower energies is the most universal way to explain it. Will this work for everybody? No, again, depending on their situation. You simply have to look at the people, what they believe, and find some explanation that is neutral, and that makes use of their present beliefs and view to explain this. But a good starting point is simply the invoking of energy, higher energy, because it is not a prayer, you are not making a request. You can also explain that it makes you feel better, it makes you feel more calm, more centered, more peaceful, and it helps you transform the lower energies such as fear or anger, and thereby free yourself from this energy that otherwise burdens people. You might even be able to explain to them by using their own situation that they sometimes feel burdened by energy, or at least that you do, and that using the decrees and invocations help you free yourself from this burden of lower energies.

What keeps me from going to heaven

Question: If I have premarital sex, will it stop me from going to heaven? What will stop me from going to heaven? Could you tell me what I should or should not do?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2024 Easter webinar

Well, the answer to the question is no, having premarital sex will not stop you from going to heaven. In terms of what you should or should not do, what we have explained many times, and you will simply need to study the teachings further to find this, is that it is not your outer actions as such that keep you from going to heaven. Obviously, if you kill somebody, or do other directly malicious acts, then this can keep you from going to heaven. But it is not the acts, it is the consciousness behind it.

You simply need to take our teachings, study what we have said about the spiritual path and the path to Christhood, and apply those teachings so you raise your consciousness. It is your level of consciousness that decides whether you will ascend after this lifetime, or will have to take other embodiments.

Alan Watts

Question: Recently my path has led me to the teachings and lectures of Alan Watts, a philosopher who masterfully blends Eastern and Western spiritual traditions. His insights resonate deeply stirring thoughts of profound understanding within me. Though he modestly identifies more as a philosopher or an entertainer than a guru or spiritual teacher, his words often carry the weight of deep spiritual wisdom. As I navigate through his teachings seeking to integrate his philosophical insights through my spiritual journey, I find myself curious about the broader perspective from the Ascended Masters about the life and works of Alan Watts. Could the ascended masters guide me how to approach the teachings of Alan Watts? Are there particular aspects of his life or teachings that stand as pillars of wisdom to be embraced or perhaps cautionary elements one should know to maintain discernment? How might one best harmonize his valuable perspectives with the eternal truth and teachings of the ascended masters?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2024 Easter webinar

Well, as we have said before, there are many, many people on earth who have reached a level of consciousness where they can tune in to some higher level and therefore, bring forth some ideas from there. What you need to do in such situations is simply use your intuition. Tune into whether this helps you gain insights and then you use it. But you do not have to use the outer mind to decide that this means you have to accept everything that a person brings forth. You use your intuition when it gives you insights, then you take that if the person brings forth an idea or teaching that does not resonate with you intuitively, then you ignore it. It does not have to be an all or nothing.

Now, Alan Watts had some genuine insights, but he still had not gone beyond a certain focus on himself and a certain, we might say, more intellectual than spiritual pride of feeling he could grasp these concepts. In other words, he had not really surrendered the focus on himself. There is a limit to what he could see, how high he could reach. And he only occasionally was able to receive something from the ascended masters, but most of his teachings came from the lower identity or mental realm, not from false masters or imposters, but from beings there who had a higher insight than the average person on earth, but not at the level of an ascended master.

Gift of healing

Question: Recently, my dad experienced a serious form of Aspiration Pneumonia during the New Year Conference in 2024. I was grateful during the conference that when I made the calls to Padmasambhava to help me see the reality of my dad’s illness, because as soon as I finished making the calls 9 times, all of a sudden I had X-RAY vision and saw his lungs were black and I can see the matter light in dots and patterns of his lungs that led me to conclude that these are serious infections that can only be managed in the hospital, which then led me to call 911. When the paramedic came, my dad was totally unconscious. I was only speaking with him through the heart. When he was in ICU, he was in a state of hyperactive delirium for 2 weeks and in that 2 weeks, I was there in the hospital most days and I can feel the dark energies surrounding me and dark forces threatening me to give him up. I can feel that he was trapped in the emotional realm in a dark cage. But I wasn’t afraid nor attached to my dad’s outcome even if he dies afterwards from the infection, which helped me stayed neutral and non-attached. 2 weeks later, he was declared clinically dead from a cardiac arrest. I could sense in my sleep, as he was declared clinically dead at midnight, that he went to heaven. But 15 minutes later when the health care staff was ready to send my dad to the morgue, he came back to life! The health care staff and the doctors were stunned, which they call my dad’s resurrection as the Lazarus syndrome, named after Lazarus when Jesus raised him from the dead. Of course, after my dad came back to life, the doctors were telling me that because they did CPR on him violently, they cracked a couple of his ribs and he was somewhat in pain. And then, remembering what I read from the My Lives book, you can swap bodies and somehow, I was able to take on the pain of the crushed ribs of my dad as my rib cage and sternum felt pain, but I managed it using my own energy healing training. That helped my dad recover quickly and when he woke up, he immediately thank me for saving him from hell and didn’t even realize he had a broken rib cage. He told me that he saw me as a being of light in heaven, so bright that it’s like a helicopter above shining a bright spot light on me. He knew I am in an Ascended Master organization, but he didn’t realize I had such big influence and the beings in hell were so afraid of me that kept them at bay from my dad. This experience helped both of us resolved the biggest karma I had with him and myself as his life review had shown and the masters explained to him what I AM and what I AM doing on Earth. He now calls me by my first name, no longer identifying me as his son. My question is, was this my I AM Presence with the help of the masters such as Jesus, Mother Mary and the Buddha that were helping my dad and started to have these abilities such as seeing matter light behind any form as dots and patterns and be able to heal his rib cage by re-aligning the matter light that forms his rib cage?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2024 Easter webinar

Well, the short answer is yes. It is just a sign that you have reached a certain level of spiritual development, but you were able to step outside of the lower mind, reconnect to your I AM Presence to the ascended masters, and therefore, through that open door we could work with your father’s situation and bring forth a certain healing.

This is of course not something that all of you are meant to do, only those of you who are in some kind of healing profession, whereas others of you have other gifts that you can bring forth and that you can gradually attain.

Why did I choose to ascend from earth?

Question: What is it like to ascend from a natural planet? Are there natural planets here in this universe or our galaxy, like the Pleiades or other planets? Are they natural or are they also unnatural like earth?

Why would someone who lives on a natural planet want to come to earth, if not to be able to ascend faster? Is this the reason? To me, it is so difficult to be here, I do not understand why I could have chosen it.

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2024 Easter webinar

It is not really different to ascend from a natural planet than it is from earth. But of course, by having the experience of an unnatural planet, you have a broader range of experiences stored in your causal body than if you extend from a natural planet. That is the main reason why you will come to an unnatural planet like earth in order to get that broader range of experiences.

Now of course, it is possible that you are not an avatar who chose to come to earth, but that you came here from another planet that was an unnatural planet and you came here for karmic reasons. But most spiritual people are avatars, so you did choose. And we understand that after you come here and receive the birth trauma, you are asking yourself how you could ever have made that choice. But we have given many, many teachings including the book on Making Peace with Being on Earth and the other books in the series that can help you resolve this enigma of really feeling why you chose it.

You can come to see what was the reasoning that you had before you came here, what were the images you had of why you came, what should happen, what should not happen.

God flames working against doubt

Question: In the book My Lives, Ascended Master Sanat Kumara called doubt the most subtle poison of all. Is certainty a God flame? If yes, then which ascended master holds the flame of certainty for planet earth? Will the ascended master who holds the flame of certainty for planet earth please give us more divine guidance regarding how to overcome uncertainty than what is currently presented on the Ascended Master Resources Network? If there is no ascended master who holds the flame of certainty for planet earth, then would either ascended master Sanat Kumar or another appropriate ascended master please answer this question?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2024 Easter webinar

Well, as we have explained in this conference, the Christ mind is not a mind of certainty in the sense of outer statements or thought systems or beliefs. So there is no God flame of certainty. In fact, all God flames work against doubt. You can use any God flame, but of course, you have the Dhyani Buddhas, you can also call to, to overcome both ignorance and doubt and other spiritual poisons. Doubt is a poison, as we have explained, used by the serpentine mind to separate you from Christ. You can say there is certainty in Christ in the experience of oneness, but as we have explained, it cannot be turned into concepts or particular outer ideas. So there isn’t a specific God flame for certainty, but all God flames can give you that alternative to the doubt that helps you escape the doubt.

Changes in the energy sector

Question: The energy sector is on the brink of change because energy infrastructure needs to be transformed soon in order for it to be able to stand for example the huge loads from the quick charging power stations and keep providing electricity for everybody. For example 1 MWh station can consume as much energy that +- 1000 homes spend per year. Now the energy market has been fluctuating up and down and in those ups there has been really inhumane prices per kilowatt-hour for industry and homeowners.

The energy sector needs clearly to compensate with different battery storage technologies in order to smooth out the fluctuation prices or bring in new energy technologies. Why there seems to be resistance in energy monopoly corporations or lawmakers to transform the system even they see that it is a matter of time before the grid capacities begin to collapse because they can not anymore answer to the needs of electric vehicle revolution or the needs of the people.

How extreme the speculation in prices in energy market need to go before people are willing to say “thus far and not farther”! Are we close to the shift where the lawmakers put forward change for more anti elitist energy sector and also systems that are harder to monopolize?

Answer from the Ascended Master Saint Germain through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2024 Easter webinar

Well, there are many people who are able to see with the rational mind that there is a great need for changes in the energy sector. And strangely enough, this has been accelerated by the war in Ukraine and the pressure on the oil markets and gas markets resulting from the sanctions against Russia. This has made more people realize the need to create drastic changes in the energy sector. And there are certainly people who are beginning to realize that one of the major problems, as almost all people know from the oil crisis that has hit several times, is the monopolization of energy by countries or by large multinational corporations. There is definitely a growing awareness. There is definitely a growing willingness to counteract this. In fact, you see some countries who have already started doing this. But as usual, the United States is lagging behind other democratic nations because the United States is so heavily influenced by the financial elite, who are, of course, always trying to make a quick buck, as the saying goes, through speculation.

Now, we have talked about this before, that there is a great need for a willingness to stop speculation in all aspects of society. And we are indeed approaching the point where this will begin to break through. And more and more governments and lawmakers will see that it is their responsibility to prevent a small elite from speculating and thereby putting this unreasonable burden on the broad population. Exactly when it would happen is again up to free will, but we are definitely getting closer to a breakthrough in this area.

Sharing divine inspirations anonymously

Question: Something truly great was delivered to my hands, surely from the Masters, and in appreciation and gratitude it has set me in a resolved stand for Christ. When I look at it, I sense it has the potential to have an impact on the world, but really I do not presume to know the ways it might cause waves for sure. Now I cannot consider myself the author, so I plan to give it away for free, even in anonymity. But then I thought if by giving it that way and not procuring the property rights, it may then end up altered or adulterated by this chaotic world, and it then may lose the integrity or the grace of integrity it has and be at risk.

In a way I am saying too that probably I am not that much comfortable with the attention and scrutiny it may bring me. But surely it came from the opening of my door to the Christ consciousness. I am considering anonymity, but is anonymity stepping up to the Christ consciousness? I think Jesus is behind it. Should I place you as an author? Will you help me see the full spectrum of what I have in my hands and what is the best way to release it to the world? And please tell me whatever you think will help me serve you and what is the best way to go from here.

Answer from the Ascended Master Jesus through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2024 Easter webinar

Well, there are many people who are able to receive ideas from the ascended realm, from whichever ascended master they are working with. And in some cases, it is acceptable for them to be anonymous, especially if they put them at risk, either physically or psychologically, depending on what idea they receive.

But of course, if you are talking about Christhood, then Christhood is standing up in front of the world and taking whatever reaction comes. Claiming that you have received something from an ascended master and the ascended master is an author may actually hinder the spreading of your gift—prevent people from accepting it. And it would be in most cases advantageous to secure the property rights or copyright on this so that it cannot be abused. Besides, if there is any kind of monetary gain from an idea, then if you are receiving the idea, you are also worthy to receive that return current and it will then be up to you to decide what to do with it. If you do not want to use it for your personal gain, you can find some kind of charity and donate to that.

When you are in this situation where you doubt this, it is because there is a division in your psyche. In other words, even though you were able to receive an idea, you still have a division, you still have these subconscious selves. What you need to do is use our teachings and tools, uncover these selves, let go of them and then you will have greater clarity. None of us would want to tell you what to do from an outside source such as what is coming through this messenger. If you have been able to receive an idea from us, you will also be able to receive more clarity on what to do with it. But you need to then be willing to see the division that blocks this vision, see these subconscious selves that are pulling you in different directions and leave them behind you.

Can’t the Masters just bypass our images and connect with us?

Question: In Chapter 7 of Connecting with Your Spiritual Teachers, Shiva says that the images in our minds about what it means to connect with the Masters can block our connection. He clarifies that if the Masters lived up to those images, they would validate that our images were correct so they do not live up to them. My question is, why cannot the Masters simply bypass those images and give us a true experience of connecting —just an initial experience—so that we can have a clear frame of reference of what connecting means? That should make it much easier for us to then let go of any false or limiting beliefs. Assuming we ask for such an experience, would this not still be in accordance with the law of free will? It seems very difficult to know what images are false without first having a more tangible experience of what is real. Why can’t it be easier to have that real experience? The same goes for an experience of ourselves as pure awareness.

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2024 Easter webinar

I understand the question but it is based on a misunderstanding of what it means to connect. What we have explained, many of us, not only Shiva, is that we are always ready and willing to connect to you. We do not limit the connection, but your mental images do, and we cannot bypass those images because you would not be able to see it. A perception filter is a perception filter. It is like putting on yellow glasses and you are seeing the sky as green. We cannot appear to you in a pure form as long as you are holding on to the images because you would not be able to see it. Your images would color the appearance and therefore, you would believe that our appearance conforms to your images.

That is why the only way out of this is that you become aware of what images you have, see these subconscious selves, let go of the images and the selves. Then you can experience our presence as it is. And this is not beyond what can be done, which is why we have given all of these many dictations and tools in the book.

Having twins

Question: Can a mother make a request for twins, when trying to conceive? Are there special circumstances for twins to be born or is it purely genetic based on the family history? For example, Nigerians seem to have a lot of twins and people say it could be the yam they eat.

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2024 Easter webinar

Well, having twins can be genetic, inherited in families, but it certainly is not related to whether you eat this or that root vegetable. There are certain genetic predispositions. You also have artificial insemination that makes it more likely that more than one egg is fertilized, and so you have a tendency that this can lead to more multiple births.

You can make a request for this, but it will only work if it is in your Divine Plan to bring forth twins or more children that are so closely linked as they are when they are born as twins or triplets or whatever. But you need to do this not with the outer mind, but only if it is part of your Divine Plan. You need to tune into that and see what is the right circumstance for you.

The urge to have more children

Question: Can the urge or belief that one should have more children ever come from the fallen beings? For example, to try to destabilize the family unit due to increased financial pressure that more children would bring.

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2024 Easter webinar

Well, yes, it certainly can. It can also come from other lower forces who are trying to project into you something that is not in your Divine Plan. You need to really tune into your Divine Plan in order to know how many children it is in your Divine Plan to bring forth. And in order to do this, you need to look at whether you have certain subconscious selves or beliefs that makes you feel obligated to bring forth as many children as possible. There are various cultures where there is pressure put on families, especially women, to bring forth many children. An example of this is the Mormon culture, but there are others as well. You need to see if this is the case for you. Uncover this sense of obligation to bring forth children because it is these selves that make you vulnerable to such projections. And then when you have uncovered this, you can be more neutral about it, tune into your Divine Plan, and know from within, without feeling any pressure, whether you should bring forth more children or not.

You can, of course, always also make a choice. That is your right to say: “I feel this is as many children as I can handle and I can take care of in a responsible way, both materially and psychologically.” This is your right to make this choice once you are in embodiment. But if you are able to tune into your Divine Plan, you will know and therefore, you will feel more peace about it.

River of Life and practical aspects of life

Question: I’m trying to follow a divine plan, but I’m struggling with not seeing a clear next step. I know that I need to resolve my psychology to see the next step. But in the three-plus years since I’ve been introduced to the Ascended Master teachings, I’ve never had a clear next step come to me. I don’t know if this is because my intuition is not yet at a level where I can clearly see the next step, or if I will see the next step once I resolve my psychology. Also, I’m having a hard time finding a job. I’ve done a lot of attunements over the years to know what career is in the divine plan, and as a result, certain keywords, words, come to mind (some inconsistent, some reliable). I don’t know if I should do what I think I want to do in that particular field, set goals and work to achieve them, or if I should let go and let the big flow take over and let it happen naturally. But keeping in mind the Ascended Masters teaching to let go and flow without exerting effort, I’m not looking for a job. I’m not working at all at the moment as I’ve gotten the intuition that I don’t even need to look for a part-time job (Sometimes I’m offered a job. And when I have a intuition about a particular job, I apply for it). Surrendering myself to the great flow, waiting to know the next step or for things to change, but I keep getting poorer and poorer, even running out of food. In this situation, I have tried many attunements. The consistent message I’ve gotten is “I don’t need to get a job, let it flow” (my intuition isn’t that clear, but I trust the “attuning to Christ” method to be as accurate as I can) Whenever I got to a point where I couldn’t hold on any longer, I would (accidentally) get enough money to hold on a little longer, or I would dramatically get a job, but the money would soon run out and I would quit my hard-earned job. This has been happening repeatedly for quite some time. When I was trying to get a job to make money, I would avoid working if I didn’t have something I wanted to do, and even if I didn’t have enough money, I would just wait until I had something I wanted to do. Many times I’ve thought to myself, “I wonder if I’m repeating the above situation to learn a lesson about ‘attitude with don’t do what I don’t want to do’,” but I’m willing to take a job if I need it, even if it’s not what I want to do. Currently, I am more than 6 months behind on my rent and various utility bills, and I’m facing the possibility of losing my water or having my lease terminated, which puts me under psychological pressure every day. I would like to know the Masters’ views on my situation.

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2024 Easter webinar

My beloved, get a job!

Flowing with the River of Life does not mean doing nothing. It does not mean sitting passively and waiting for the orange to fall in your turban. It means taking active measures to do the practical things you need to do to survive, to take care of your body, and to therefore live a relatively stress-free life. Then you can focus on your spiritual growth and flowing with the River of Life, when you have secured the basic needs of your physical body.

We are not in any way encouraging our students to be passive or to sit there passively and wait for something to happen. We are telling you to be proactive, to secure a reasonable living standard for yourself, where you do not have the stress of not knowing where the money will come from to meet your normal obligations. This is not Christhood. You need to be practical so that you have enough spare time and attention to grow spiritually and focus on your service.

Any dispensation for beginners on the path?

Question: What are the dispensations that work now for beginners on the path?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2024 Easter webinar.

We have not, in this dispensation, given any specific dispensations for beginners. There is no particular dispensation for beginners. In fact, we are not really in this movement talking so much about a dispensation in terms of we are promising, for example, to set aside people’s karma if they do a certain amount of decrees, because we are bringing you to a higher level of Christhood where you are self-sufficient. You could say that if you talk about the spiritual path in general, the teachings we are giving now are not for beginners on the spiritual path. They are for people who have reached a certain level where they are beginning to become self-sufficient and manifest Christhood.

Omri Tas and Suriya’s dispensations

Question: Are Omri Tas and Suriya’s dispensations of the 23rd of each month and Mother Mary’s dispensation of the 8th of December currently in effect and have their conditions changed?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2024 Easter webinar.

Yes, they are in effect and the conditions have not changed. But we have not emphasized them in this dispensation because there are so many other decrees and invocations you can give. Really, if you are familiar with, or part of, a previous dispensation, then they are in effect. But if you are part of this new dispensation, you do not really need to give the decrees on those dates.

You can, of course, do so if you like and you can research what it means. But we have so many other things, so many other calls, so many other things to make calls for, including the Mother Mary 500 Vigil and the Vigil for Spiritual Healing, that I would prefer that our current students participate in.

Name and fate

Question: Does a person’s name and surname affect their psychology or fate? And if a person changes their name, their fate and psychology may change as well.

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2024 Easter webinar.

No, it does not. There is, of course, always complexity. You could have a person who has a famous last name, is born into a famous family. And such a person will then be more affected by the collective consciousness of that family, who may want the people to live up to the image of that family, whatever that family is. You see this no more clearly exemplified in the royal family of Britain, where the children are under enormous pressure to fulfill their roles, and where at least one of them has rebelled against it. And the same can be true in other families where they have this very strong image of being an important family. But this, of course, is not so that it affects your fate from a larger perspective. It affects your psychology and how you look at yourself and what you can and cannot do, even what you can allow yourself to do.

And there are many people, of course, who have been pulled into conforming to the expectations of their family and thereby delayed, or even sabotaged their Divine plans, or even missed their ascensions because they were trying to live up to this. It is often necessary for spiritual people to break free of this pull from their family. And to, in some cases, it can be constructive to change their last name in order to break with that strong pull from the family.

Can we invite the elementals to give the decrees with us?

Question: In the last dispensation, there were teachings about elementals: that they could help read decrees and invocations, and that they could read decrees and invoke the violet flame themselves. Can they do that, and do they need to be invited to give invocations or decrees with me?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2024 Easter webinar.

Well, if you feel that you have a tie to elemental beings, and this is important to you, by all means invite them to give the decrees with you. There are some elementals that have worked up a momentum on giving decrees from previous dispensations and they do not need to be specifically invited. But it is always, if you feel this is important to you, good to invite them. I am not thereby saying that all ascended master students should do this. If you do not feel you have a particular tie to the elemental kingdoms, then you do not need to do it. But you can, of course, if you want to.

The webinar for Russia this year

Question: Why did the ascended masters not want to hold a webinar for Russia this year, which the Russian students of the ascended masters initiated?

Answer from the Ascended Master Saint Germain through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2024 Easter webinar.

Well, I have explained in another answer that when Putin invaded Ukraine, he put Russia in a downward spiral. This means that there is nothing that we of the ascended masters could say about Russia or to the Russian people or even into the Russian collective consciousness that would make a difference, because the downward spiral has to be allowed to run until the knocks become hard enough that the Russian people will see the inconsistency between their view of Russia’s importance and the actual actions of Russia in Ukraine, as I have already explained.

We have nothing really to say to Russia or about Russia. In fact, you could say that when Russia invaded Ukraine, we as ascended masters stopped being concerned about Russia, because Russia is in the School of Hard Knocks and is unreachable to us. Before that, there was at least some potential that Russia could continue to grow. But now it is simply a matter of how hard the knocks have to become.

We are not concerned about Russia or the Russian people. We are only concerned about ascended master students in Russia. But still, you can participate in other webinars as you are doing with this one and have done with several others. And it is actually preferable to us that you participate along with students from the rest of the world because only by increasing your oneness with students outside of Russia can you have the maximum impact on pulling up on the collective consciousness in Russia. And also, by interacting with such students, you can get a different perspective, so that you can see how most people in the rest of the world look at Russia, instead of being completely enveloped in the collective consciousness of Russia, which is largely blind to this really dramatic shift that has happened in how the rest of the world looks at Russia.

And it is only by tuning into this as ascended master students that you can have maximum impact on pulling up on the collective consciousness. That is why we actually prefer that you are together with students from other countries.

Ukraine after the war

Question: How safe will it be to stay in Ukraine after the war ends? My husband and I would like to buy real estate, but we doubt whether it makes sense shortly after the end of the war in Ukraine.

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2024 Easter webinar.

Well, this is not a question I can answer for you. You need to simply wait and see what the situation will be when the war ends. And then you need to intuitively make a decision what is right for you individually.

Obviously, at some point the war will end, and it will not end with Russia taking over all of Ukraine. Therefore, there will be some safety in Ukraine after this happens. But whether that is safe enough for you individually is something only you can determine.

The coalition of pro-Russian nations

Question: We know that the fallen beings’ different factions often conflict with each other. But lately we see that after Russia attacked Ukraine, a large coalition of the fallen beings of all planes has formed, and they rally around Russia and its fight against democratic nations. Some countries like Belarus, Iran and North Korea are giving direct military aid to Russia. Also, other Asian countries from Turkey to China are helping Russia circumvent sanctions imposed by Western nations. Third, countries such as Serbia, Hungary and Slovakia provide political support to Russia. Furthermore, there is a significant pro-Russian lobby in the U.S. Congress that is hindering military aid to Ukraine. Please comment on this.

Answer from the Ascended Master Saint Germain through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2024 Easter webinar.

Well, it is simply as we have said before, that we are moving deeper into the golden age. And the fallen beings know they cannot stop it. But they are trying to work with all kinds of people they can work with where they have an inroad into their consciousness to create as much upheaval and chaos as they can.

It is also a product of the fact that as the earth is being pulled up by the rest of the universe, people who are unbalanced must act out their unbalance in more and more extreme ways so it becomes more obvious to themselves and others.

You simply see this polarization as we have talked about before where the world is clearly going in the direction that more and more states will become democracies. The fallen beings of course do not like democracy and would have preferred to prevent the emergence of democracies. They are now using whatever people, whatever nations where they have influence, to create this last-ditch attempt to slow down the move towards democracy. And Putin and his government and many among the Russian people have been willing to let their minds be taken over by these forces. Xi Jinping and many among the Chinese government have done the same. North Korea, of course, and amazingly really when you think about it, some among the Republican Party in the United States have been willing to go into this anti-democratic effort.

This is, of course, partly because some among the Republican Party come from a background of the fundamentalist evangelical Christians who have this view that America should be a Christian nation. But you see, if America was to become a Christian nation, it cannot remain a democracy, at least not in its pure form. That is why you see that the Islamic countries that are under the Sharia law are not real democracies, because they are a religious dictatorship where the people can vote for political representatives but they cannot override the religious authorities. And this is what some among these Christian nationalists want to see for the United States. And that is why they have, some of them at least, decided to support Donald Trump because they think he is going in the same direction. Trump is actually not going in the same direction because he does not care about Christianity or Christian nationalism. He only cares about himself and his own building up his self-image, his brand. But then the Christian nationalists have so far failed to see this. Even more and more people are beginning to see it.

This is simply what is going on in the world. You see this, as we explained in a previous conference where we focused on democracy, this attempt to slow down the evolution towards a democratic world. And we see that these forces are becoming more and more extreme, more and more desperate, because really when you stand back and look at Russia’s war in Ukraine, it is becoming more and more desperate. It has been desperate from the beginning, after the first three days where they realized that Ukraine would resist, but it is becoming more and more desperate. And you see this in how they treat their own soldiers, how they attack civilian targets, civilian infrastructure, and how the brutality even towards their own soldiers is only increasing.

The division into Ukraine, Belarus and Russia

Question: Was the division of the Eastern Slavs into three nation states with different national identities and divine flames: Ukraine, Russia and Belarus, planned in the spiritual realm?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2024 Easter webinar.

No, it was not. It was simply a manifestation of the duality consciousness that always creates division even among people who come from a common origin. There is nothing spiritual about this division. What would have been spiritual was if they had managed to retain some kind of cohesion and unity so that there could not be the kind of conflicts you see now between these three groups. In other words, it would not have been possible for the Russians to think that they were superior and had the right to suppress the other groups.

What does it mean that Lord Maitreya is the coming Buddha?

Question: Lord Maitreya is the coming Buddha. What does this have to do with the teachings of the ascended masters? What is the true message behind this expression? How will it be manifested?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2024 Easter webinar.

Well, as we have explained, there is a progression in the ascended realm where certain ascended masters hold certain spiritual offices. And over time, as a given ascended master who has held an office for some time has reached a level of consciousness where it is ready to move on. And another ascended master has grown to the point where he or she can take over that position.

Gautama Buddha holds the office of the Lord of the World currently, and at some point, Lord Maitreya will take over that office, as there are other offices where the master is gradually replaced. It does not actually mean anything for the teachings of the ascended masters because they will continue to be given based on this progressive revelation that we have started.

People with dementia

Question: Can someone make strong-willed decisions for a person with dementia? Is this a violation of the patient’s free will? What is better to do if the patient is in self-harming behavior? Where is it better for the person with dementia to live: in a related treatment center or at home?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2024 Easter webinar.

Well, can you really say that a person who has reached a certain stage of dementia is able to exercise free will? Therefore, it is perfectly acceptable that other people who are in a position to do so make the decisions for the patient, especially to stop self-harming behavior or even behavior that could unwittingly lead to harm.

If it is possible, it is in most cases where people have gone beyond a certain limit, better that they live in some kind of specialized treatment center rather than living at home. This is especially true if there are not people close to them who can take care of them on a daily basis at home.

Western nations helping Ukraine and other nations

Question: In one of the dictations, the masters said that a large-scale confrontation with the West would quickly deplete the potential of the Russian armed forces. We see the opposite situation. Western partners cannot provide Ukraine with the necessary weapons. The masters also said that developed countries should support those living below the poverty line in underdeveloped and undemocratic nations, which in turn directly or indirectly help Russian expansion.

Given the current circumstances, to whom and in what manner wealthy developed nations should provide aid?

Answer from the Ascended Master Saint Germain through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2024 Easter webinar.

Well, if there was a direct confrontation between NATO forces and Russian forces, then the Russian forces would quickly be depleted. Now of course, some of NATO’s weapons have gone to Ukraine, but still in a direct confrontation, Russia would be in real trouble very quickly.

In terms of other nations, well, you see in Africa, for example, how Russia has certain forces there, even extensions of the Wagner Group, who are trying to take advantage of various conflicts in order to gain control. There are certainly nations in Africa where the Western nations could provide some kind of aid. And I do not mean aid as a form of Band-Aid, but where they could, as we have talked about before, truly go in and help these countries develop to a higher level, where they would not necessarily become modern democracies overnight, but they would at least be put on a track to where they could have a self-sufficient economy.

I understand that this is a very difficult thing to do in some of these nations, because you basically have the extension of tribal warfare that goes back centuries. And therefore, some of these nations are very divided. And what Russia does is it picks one of these factions, gives them weapons and support in the hope that they will eventually take over, and this will give Russia some advantage. And obviously, this is not what I am talking about with the developed nations.

There may be some nations where it cannot really be done, but there are certainly others where more could be done. The same with nations in the Middle East, where also more help could be given, not as a form of aid, but as a form of an assistance to actually build a viable country.

Are there any changes in the collective consciousness in Russia yet?

Question: Is the collective consciousness of Russia changing? Are the people of Russia awakening to the realization that the blind are leading the blind and in the end, everyone will fall into the pit? Or has not enough time passed and more vigorous blows are needed?

Answer from the Ascended Master Saint Germain through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2024 Easter webinar.

Well, I have commented somewhat on this in a previous answer about the war. But what I will add to it here is that obviously the change has not happened yet, because if it had happened, Putin would not be in embodiment and there would be at least a beginning of a process of Russia withdrawing from the war. Because if it was not for Putin sitting there holding the entire situation in this fixed position, then there are other people who can see that there is no military victory that can be achieved in Ukraine. And it does not matter how many soldiers you throw at it, how many bombs, how many rockets, how many drones, how many artillery shells. There is no military victory that can be achieved, at least not a meaningful military victory. And the cost is way too high compared to what you get out of it.

Obviously if there had been enough of a shift in the collective consciousness, as we have said before, Putin is kept artificially alive by the Russian people and the moment that changes, then he will no longer be in embodiment. Obviously, the blows have to become harder.

You see, what most people do not realize is that when a situation like this happens, an entire nation can be put on a downward track. And an example of this is the German nation after Hitler invaded Poland in 1939. The entire German nation was put on a track that was leading downwards. It was, as we have called it, the School of Hard Knocks, and the knocks got harder and harder. And the two very decisive knocks were that Germany lost the war and the exposure of the Holocaust. Because what caused Germany to go into the war was this dream of greatness and the sense that we are so special and we have a special role in the world and we are saving the world. And when the war was lost and the Holocaust was exposed, many among the German people could see that there was a glaring contradiction between what Germany actually did and this over-inflated sense of self-importance. And the sense of self-importance cracked and that has caused the German nation to move on to a much higher level than it would have been otherwise.

When Putin invaded Ukraine, he put Russia on the same kind of track. Russia has the same over-inflated sense of self-importance— the dream of being an empire, being important in the world, even saving the world. This is what led to this notion that the goal was to de-Nazify Ukraine.

But the mindset that caused Putin to start this war was exactly the same mindset that the Nazis had in the 1930s. This over-inflated sense of self-importance, wanting some recognition from the world of being an important nation. It is a matter of how hard do the knocks have to become before that over-inflated sense of self-importance cracks for the Russian people.

When will they see that there is a glaring discrepancy between this sense that Russia is such a special nation and the level of brutality that is being acted out in Ukraine? I am not only talking about the level of brutality against Ukrainians, but the level of brutality against Russian soldiers, where so many—tens of thousands—have been killed unnecessarily. You do not win a war by walking out in front of machine guns in an open field and being shot without having a chance of shooting the enemy. As an American general once said: “You do not win a war by dying for your country, but by making the other guys die for their country.” And the way that soldiers have been used in these “meat wave” attacks as they are called is not going to help win the war for Russia. It is simply a level of inhumanity and brutality that has not seen in Russia since Stalin’s time and that most of the world has transcended.

This level of brutality against your own people is in glaring contradiction to this over-inflated sense of Russia’s importance in the world or greatness as an empire. And it is a matter of when a critical mass of the Russian people sees this contradiction and gives up this dream of creating some Russian empire that saves the world from the decadence of the West. And when will that happen? Well, as we have said, there is great movement, great upheaval in the collective consciousness and things are shifting. But when exactly the critical mass will be reached, well, that is something I will not put a date on.