Michaels – Page 13 – Ascended Master Answers

Fallen beings and the light from I AM Presence

Question: When fallen beings fall into unascended spheres, why do they stop receiving light from their I AM Presence? Could a master give some more detail to this?

Answer from Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2024 New Year webinar.

I do not sense they will comment on it because it has already been stated. When you become self-centered, when you go into duality and separation, you cut yourself off from your I AM Presence and therefore you cannot receive light from the I AM Presence and from the masters. This is the same here on earth when you go below the 48th level of consciousness. I mean, the fallen beings, it is not that they were receiving light from the ascended masters until the moment they fell in that original sphere. They had stopped receiving light before they fell. They were just getting light from those who followed them in that previous sphere. And it is the same here on earth, with the fallen beings on earth.

How do I know who my personal master is?

Question: I have recently gotten a hint that Kuan Yin might be my personal ascended master guide, but as I also have affinity with other masters, I guess I could have a mental or cultural bias influencing my perception. Beloved Kuan Yin, could you help me see what I need to see in this issue?

Answer from Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2024 New Year webinar.

Again, I am not getting anything because they want me to just explain this. Again, you have to not be too linear about this. It is always valid to look at if you have a mental or cultural bias? You come from a certain tradition and therefore you have a master from that tradition that you think is closer to you. That is valid enough to look at that, but you do not have to be too rigid about it. I mean, you can have more than one master you are working with. You can work with one master for a certain time and then when you go to another level, you work with another master to go to a higher level. I mean, ideally, if you take the course of self-mastery, for example, you start out working with Master More, then Lanto, then Paul the Venetian, so forth and so on. And the reason why Kuan Yin does not want to answer the question is she does not want to tell someone from an outside source because you need to get this from within and you need to get it intuitively.

And of course, as always, your intuition is better if you do not have a cultural bias, if you can be as neutral as possible. But as I said, it is not an all or nothing, it is not now and forever, so just be a little bit flexible about it and use your intuition and see what comes. And if you feel it is Kuan Yin, then give her decrees and invocations for a while and see what comes to you intuitively.

More than two genders?

Question: When I was young it was generally accepted that there were two genders, male and female. The reproductive purpose of those two is well known. The reproductive purpose of those two is well known. Males have the XY chromosome and women have the XX chromosomes in the nucleus of their cells. In later years new opinions about gender have become very prominent. According to those ideas there are more than one gender and it is based on how the person sees and expresses oneself. There are many different gender identities including male, female, transgender, gender neutral, non-binary, agender, pangender, genderqueer, two-spirit, third gender and all. None or a combination of these. A tendency has been that it should be enough for a person to claim that they identify as one of the genders. Individuals who were born in what is normally recognized as male bodies and have gone through puberty and developed to full adults as males, one day proclaim that they identify as being female and with that they have been accepted for competing in women’s sports and often completely beating female athletes who have been recognized as being female from birth. These individuals have also been given access to women’s locker rooms and showers in public swimming pools without having gone through surgery to change their sex. Because they say they identify as being female, which women in these locker rooms have not been very pleased or secure about. I want to ask what is going on here. Is this the soul or Conscious You that is in essence genderless? Is this soul from planets where the binary situation of male and female does not exist? How do the masters see this development in human society? This has at least made me quite confused.

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

As I have said before, the primary background for all of this is that everything is being brought to the surface by the raising of the collective consciousness, by the spiritual energies being released. And this means that all imbalances must be acted out in more and more extremes until people finally see how unbalanced it is. And obviously you see that some of the factors described in this are highly unbalanced. But if you go behind all of this, what is also part of what is happening in the world and not just in this issue but in other issues, is that individuality is being acted out in more and more extreme ways so that people will be forced to look at the balance between the rights of the individual and the rights of the collective. In other words, can one person in a male body declare that he is transgender and should he then be allowed to go into a women’s locker room, making all of the other women uncomfortable? Does the situation of one individual override the many?

And this is simply an inevitable consequence, as we have explained before, on an unnatural planet like earth where there is so much influence from the duality consciousness, anything that happens will be perverted. You go back to society several hundred years ago, and most people in those societies were living in a very fixed position all of their lives. They were born into being peasants, for example, they would be peasants all of their lives. For the vast majority of the population, they did not have any ability or very little ability to express their individuality. There may have been a few at the top of society in the elite that had more possibility to express their individuality, but there were very few. And of course, as we have explained, what is spiritual growth? It is an expression of individuality. You do not ascend collectively, you ascend as an individual, you grow as an individual, because in order to grow spiritually on a planet like earth, you have to raise yourself above the collective consciousness, and therefore you have to have a strong individuality. You can also see that the very basis for democracy is recognizing the individual human being and that each individual has rights.

There has been this necessary shift from more of a collective awareness, where people were overpowered by the collective consciousness, to more of an individual awareness. And this is what democracies have allowed to happen over the last several hundred years. But as part of this further growth into the golden age, these democracies, some of them have gone too far in allowing individual rights and have not yet gone up to the higher level where there is a balance between individual rights and the collective. And this is what some of these countries need to find: a higher level of balance, and that is why some of these issues are coming up where individuals are acting out in clearly unbalanced ways, yet demanding that the collective should allow them to act out, regardless of the consequences for others.

You see again, on a dualistic planet like earth, everything can be perverted and will be perverted by the duality consciousness. You have an old law called Murphy’s law, anything that can go wrong will go wrong. Well, this is Mary’s law: Anything that can be perverted by the duality consciousness will be perverted by the duality consciousness.

Even the concept of freedom can be perverted. Freedom to express yourself as an individual can be taken too far, and of course has always been taken too far by the fallen beings. The fallen beings want to create this situation where any individual can simply declare that they have a right to do this, regardless of the consequences for others, but you never have that right. What has happened again is that many democracies have become more and more tolerant concerning individual expression. But now there are some individuals that are using this to say: “If I am not allowed to act out in a way that harms other people, you are being intolerant of me.” In other words, they are actually being intolerant of others, but they are using as their defense that others are intolerant if they try to restrict their extreme behavior. You see again, this is what happens as a natural evolution of democracies, where you simply go through a phase where you become a little bit unbalanced in allowing individual freedom, and then you have to find your way back to a better balance, a higher level of balance, where you balance the individual with the whole.

You could say, at least as an interim measure, because this issue of transgender will eventually be transcended, but you could say that, sure, you have a right to declare that you now have a male body, but your gender is female. But you do not have a right to impose upon other women by entering their locker rooms or competing in women’s sports, because you clearly have a male body. And even if you have an operation, other women should have the right to say: “We do not feel comfortable having this person in the locker room.” Societies simply need to find a higher level of balance between the individual rights and collective rights. You could say that it is not really a matter of the individual and the collective, it is a matter of finding a balance between one individual’s rights and many individuals rights.

Human emotions vs. Divine Flame

Question: Psychology tells us that a few emotions are biologically programmed and the ones that are not, are created by the collective consciousness and have a socio-cultural nature. It also says that emotions have an opposite. Knowing this, we can say that emotions and the so-called emotional body of human beings and planet earth are a creation of human kind and perhaps primarily of the fallen beings that could not connect anymore with the spiritual flames. Because it seems to be the simple truth that emotions are the biggest trap of humankind associated with desires and fear. They do not make it easy for us to be neutral and to connect with the Christ mind. As shocking as this may be for most of us used to associate good emotions to the humanity that we all share, emotions are the effect of duality and separation. Through them we keep ourselves in the duality consciousness of the relative personality and ego. But beyond this the masters teach us that there is a water element in the spiritual realm and the flames associated with it are not psychological. But how do we go from the chaos of the psychology of the ego and its emotions to the unity of the Christ mind and the reality of the flames?

Answer from Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2024 New Year webinar.

I do not sense they are answering this so I will make some comments on it. And I think the reason they are not answering is that it has really already been covered in all of the teachings they have given.

It is true that a lot of emotions are coming from the duality consciousness. And you see what Archangel Uriel said, that there is a relative un-peace and a relative peace. There can be what human beings call positive emotions that are indeed still duality. They are just the opposite of the negative emotions but they are still relative. And they are also fear-based. You take love for example where for many people love is possessive love. And if they say: “I love you.” to somebody, they take it as a statement of ownership. They have just claimed ownership of that person and they are obligated by their love to conform to whatever they want them to do. Yes, there are certainly both of what people call positive emotions, what people call negative emotions that are springing from the duality consciousness or the consciousness of separation.

And as Uriel also explained and as Nada explained, the duality consciousness can pervert anything. There are of course many emotions that the word has a parallel in the spiritual realm. Love of course has a parallel. There is a flame of love, divine love. But what has been created by the duality consciousness is a polarity where both what people call love and what they call anti-love, they are both dualistic. They are both relative to each other and therefore they come from separation. They essentially spring from fear.

How do you go from the chaos of the psychology of the ego and its emotions to the unity of the Christ mind? Well, by resolving psychology and this is what the masters have given lots of tools on. I mean look at the books, look at the website, there are so many tools on this, how you can do this. And especially take the Healing Your Spiritual Traumas book and the other books in that series. But depending on your experience you might also want to start with the books to the Chohans, The Path To Self-Mastery. You know, starting with the Mystical Initiations Of Power. There are lots of teachings on that, that is why they do not really have anything new to say about it.

Can we avoid the consequences of suicide?

Question: Jesus said that those that commit suicide go to the emotional realm after death. Is this the same for those that commit suicide in Prayagraj? I assume that is a place. Where if one commits suicide there, the sin of which is not incurred.

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

This is a false teaching. There is no place on earth where you can commit suicide and avoid the effects of it. It is not so much a matter of sin, it is a matter of what are the effects on your consciousness when you do this. Because you are by committing suicide refusing your responsibility, to take full responsibility for your own growth and your own state of consciousness.

You are trying to run away from something and this of course means that you potentially open yourself up to forces in the astral plane that might very well pull you into the astral plane. There is no place and there is no way to avoid the effect on your consciousness. Because whatever compels you to commit suicide is of course something that is partly caused by your own unresolved psychology. Partly caused by you opening yourself up to dark forces and both of these factors will still influence you after the death of the physical body. That is why we strongly advise against committing suicide because it does not actually help you get away from what you are trying to get away from. You can find books and videos on the internet about people who have had a near death experience after committing suicide and came back. And they have told about what they have experienced and they all will agree that it did not help them whatsoever and they did not escape their problems by doing this.

Helios and igniting the heart

Question: Here is a question to the God of the solar system, Helios. Helios tell me how to ignite my heart so that I can then light up the hearts of all people on earth.

Answer from Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2024 New Year webinar.

What comes to me is why would you direct that question to Helios? Because the masters, Mother Mary and other masters have given lots of teachings about this. I have seen this over the years where some people, they want to reach the highest possible master, to get the highest possible help or directions. And I have to say it is a little bit unbalanced. Because the masters have given lots of teachings and tools on how to open your heart, how to resolve the subconscious selves. The other thing I would say is that you as a person are not going to light up the hearts of all people. You cannot work against other people’s free will. It does not matter whether the God of the universe would light up your heart, it would not enable you to light up the people, the hearts of all people because there is free will involved.

What you can do is raise your own consciousness, clear your chakras and radiate as much light as you can. But it is a matter of whether people accept this or not and that is up to their free will. It is almost like there is a little bit of a misunderstanding here of how the path actually works. But there are definitely tools out there, there is a rosary for clearing your heart for example. And a lot of dictations that talk about this also.

Error in the dictation on the economy

Question: I have been reviewing past dictations focused on the economy and I came across a passage from Mother Mary that says: “The rise in real estate prices is the systematic way by the big banks and mortgage companies to steal the value of people’s labor. But certainly, my beloved, when the price doubles on a house, well the amount of interest that the buyer has to pay during the paying back of a 30-year mortgage does not simply double, it goes up exponentially.” Surprisingly, this statement is factually incorrect. When the price of the home doubles and the mortgage amount doubles, the amount of interest paid during the life of the mortgage also doubles. It does not go up exponentially. This may seem like a picky question but it may be uncomfortable to find a clear error in a dictation. Could Mother Mary address this? Does she need to correct the statement or do I need to expand my understanding of what she said?

Answer from Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2024 New Year webinar.

I will just comment on this. I can see that I did not get the wording exactly as she wanted it. This happens sometimes in a dictation where there is kind of like a flow in a dictation. As the words are literally coming out of my mouth, I can feel I did not quite get what the master wanted to say but I can not stop and correct it because the flow goes on. In this case, I just apparently did not see this and so I have not corrected it. But I will make a note. What actually she meant is this. It is not just that as real estate prices go up, the interest goes up. It is also that the mortgages have become longer and longer. And you can go out there and you can find these mortgage calculators on the internet and you can play with this. I just did a very quick experiment. And this is not an unrealistic experiment, by the way. Some places in the US, for example, the East Coast or the West Coast, you can go back 40 or 50 years and there is a particular house that cost $50,000 at that time. Today, the same house will cost $200,000. The same house. That is how much prices have gone up and some places have gone up even more.

Just as an example, let’s say that you took out a $50,000 mortgage 40 years ago. Back then, a lot of mortgages were 15 years or 20 years. If you paid back the $50,000 in 15 years and the interest was 5%, you would pay $21,000 in interest on that loan of $50,000. On the half of the loan, you would pay interest. If you took out a mortgage today for the same house at $200,000, most people could not afford to pay that back in 15 years because the monthly payment would be too high. Because people’s salaries have not gone up four times. They take a 30-year mortgage instead and if you financed $200,000 for 30 years at 5% interest, the interest you will pay during those 30 years is not $21,000 but $186,000 in interest. Almost as much as the loan amount and that is what she means. That people today are paying a far bigger percentage of their income in interest to the banks and mortgage companies than they were 40 or 50 years ago. And that is what steals the value of people’s labor because of course salaries have not gone up as much.

I still have bad dreams

Question: I asked for your help in the last webinar about having bad dreams almost every day, around 90% of the days since around August 1st. It is still about the same so I am not well. Please help again. Mother Mary said last time, one possibility could be food but I do not think it is. Another possibility though might be this. I was the one that experimented with reciting around 50 times each. Om Guru Michael help me, help me, help me. And Om Guru Michael Astrea cut me free from all dark forces. With a mala, after blessing the mala with Om Uchiramani. I started having bad dreams that same night. I have had experiences of having bad dreams when I recited within a certain day, incorrect mantras before, but those disappeared within a couple of days. This time though it has been more than five months, that is why I thought the Uchiramantra which is said to multiply mantras millions of times has multiplied the two mantras. But the two are incorrect. I think Mother Mary should know this just in case. Also, I have recited the invocations and decrees prescribed by Mother Mary, the protection, clearance and transmutation decrees and invocations. Also an Archangel Michael decree, because of the multiplication factor for 33 times, it is like I recited it over a thousand times but even that does not seem to be enough. Around how many times do I have to recite the prescribed invocations and decrees by Mother Mary to solve the issue.

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

It is not a matter of reciting decrees many times and it is not exclusively caused by reciting incorrect mantras. The deeper cause is that you have an imbalance in your psychology that causes you to want to do everything in extreme ways. You are literally trying to take heaven by force and thereby what can happen as has happened to many people is that you force something, you force an unbalance to become more unbalanced. Some people call it, forcing the Kundalini to come up and it can have various impacts on your psychology including dreams.

You simply need to look at this and be willing to use our tools to look for the subconscious selves that causes this imbalance, this wanting to take heaven by force. And you need to uncover this and you need to see whether you are willing to let this go or whether you are not willing to let it go. If you are not willing to let it go I cannot help you, if you are willing to let it go then use my tools for overcoming the subconscious selves and I will be willing to help you as you are open to receiving that help.

The issue of gender identity

Question: This is a question for Guru Ma. Some peculiar notions have come to the fore since your departure. One of them is to allow young children to choose their gender orientation and change their name without even notifying their parents. ‘Wokeism’ with its diversity, equity and transgenderism have become a part of Western culture. This attack on the youth has accelerated the decline of civilization in so many ways. What is the end game of the forces of darkness behind all of this? Or is this just the death consciousness moving towards its natural conclusion, destroying everything in its way? Please comment.

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

Actually, Mother Mary will comment on this because this is more her area. Well, again the simple answer here is that the raising of the collective consciousness, the release of energy is bringing out things that were lying dormant before, that were not as well known before. Things are being acted out in more and more extreme ways. And this is simply what you are seeing in the whole issue of gender. And in a sense, you could say that, yes, it is of course dark forces that are using this to create confusion and conflict, even to create these very severe psychological traumas in individual psychology.

What you see is that for many of these children who change their gender, it is not a successful process, it is not a peaceful process, it does not lead them actually to a better state of mind or life experience. Many of them end up regretting it later and in all of them it causes a certain psychological trauma. This is partly an attack on people on an individual basis. But it is also simply that as the earth is transitioning into a new phase, things need to be acted out in more and more extreme ways to force people to deal with this, to force societies to deal with this. And there are societies who have allowed this for a time and who are now beginning to realize that this was not the ultimate approach, and that they need to take a more balanced, a more nuanced approach to this. Because they see that it does not work out so well for these children and they often regret it, but then of course it is very difficult to reverse an operation.

We have said before that you can have had several lifetimes as for example a man. And now you come into a female body, and because you have not sufficiently made the switch that you needed to make in between embodiments, you come into embodiment feeling you are in the wrong body. And it would be far more constructive if such children could receive psychological help to integrate with their current physical body, to overcome the psychological hang-ups they have from past lifetimes. So that they could accept their physical body and accept that this is what they chose, or what their karma dictated for this embodiment, and therefore it is better for themselves to make the switch and accept the sex of the body they are in.

Of course, this is not something that you can expect to see in the immediate future, but this will be the eventual outcome of this. However, it of course requires that societies will recognize reincarnation and that there are so many things in human psychology, especially in the psychology of children that you cannot explain based on the genetic inheritance of the parents or the family, or the upbringing of the child. And therefore, the only way to help children with these deep psychological issues is of course to look at past lives. We have said before that many, many people have been hurt by the wars you have seen in the last century, have gone into severe trauma. They come into their next embodiment without having fully resolved the trauma and it sets their lives on an unfortunate track. And this is something again that society in the golden age will become aware of, will accept and will see the need to help people with this. Not only for the sake of individual people but for the sake of society, because society will realize that if we do not help people resolve their psychology it will have a very debilitating effect on society.

Scientific Knowledge of an Ascended Master

Question: Ascended masters appear to possess expert knowledge in various technical subjects such as physics, mathematics, computer science and economics. Does one naturally gain access to the source of all knowledge as his spiritual consciousness develops or do ascended masters engage in the study of these subjects in the upper realm? If the former is true, technical knowledge naturally expanding alongside the growth of consciousness, would it be a more efficient use of time, while in embodiment, to devote oneself to reading invocations rather than researching academic subjects?

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

An ascended master does study the topics that he or she wants to become an expert in, even after you ascend. What happens, of course, as you move closer to the ascension point and after you ascend is that it becomes easier for you to grasp and absorb knowledge. You can more easily integrate it, but you are still studying as an ascended master.

There are many newly ascended masters who do not, for example, go back and work with the earth for a time because they devote themselves to going on into the various institutions in the spiritual realm and studying a particular topic. Either because they want to understand the topic or because they want to help unascended beings with that topic. You do definitely have to study. Now, there are of course some of us, who did study a lot in our last embodiment and reached a certain proficiency and expertise in certain topics, which we could then very quickly build on.

It is not necessarily that, or rather it is not so that reaching a higher level of consciousness means that you have all knowledge. You have access to more knowledge, you can more easily absorb it and grasp it, but you have to study it, you have to apply yourself. We have never said that you become this perfect being after you ascend. We have always said, at least in this dispensation, that you are still growing in the ascended realm. This was also said in previous dispensations, although there was a tendency that the students had more of an idolatry of us and projected upon us that we naturally must have access to all knowledge.

But why do you think there are seven Chohans who are specialists on the seven rays? It is because we have studied and gained expertise on that ray and the topics that are relating to the ray. It does not mean that we do not all have a certain understanding of these topics, but certainly if I want to understand certain aspects of law, for example, I naturally contact Nada to gain her expertise and guidance. And so with all of us, we learn from each other, we help each other, we support each other.

In terms of what you should do, should you give invocations and decrees instead of studying academic knowledge? Absolutely not. Do a combination of both as you have time. And if you need to study in order to get a degree, then put aside the invocations and decrees that you need to do, in order to complete your studies. It is not black or white. Let us put it this way, if you have a specific area that you feel is important to you, then study that in the remainder of this embodiment, because it will make it easier for you to expand upon that either in between embodiments or after you ascend.

Kundalini rising vs. the resolution of psychology

Question: If one has Kundalini raised to their ajna chakra, (third eye chakra) and has accumulated a lot more positive karma than negative karma, but in their present lifetime, before and after Kundalini has reached ajna, they have committed crimes and even crimes that, according to Jesus, should warrant a death penalty. Is it possible that after they die, while in between embodiments, they end up in the emotional realm, even if they do not want to?

Answer from Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2024 New Year webinar.

There are these different models out there, where you can talk about Kundalini rising. And there are certain spiritual traditions where they talk a lot about this. But they forget that there are certain things that can happen that are not necessarily the signs of high spiritual development. You can force Kundalini to rise, for example. And there are various spiritual practices that are aimed at forcing the Kundalini up. And it is possible to do this, but usually either it will not stay up or you will have some negative effects of it, disturbing effects of it, if you have not resolved your psychology and your karma.

I would say that, you cannot necessarily say that just because somebody has raised the Kundalini to a certain level, that that means they are automatically going to ascend. I mean, if they have karma from past lives, if they have unresolved psychology, they will have to deal with that. If they have not dealt with their psychology, they will be attracted after death to a certain level that corresponds to the consciousness they have not resolved. This could well be that they will go to the emotional realm and that then they come back into an embodiment where now they have to deal with this, what they have not dealt with before.

I think the most important realization there, is that it is the same thing. I have, over the years I have been on the spiritual path, encountered people who had their third eye opened, or had other clairvoyant abilities. And there are some people that have an idolatry of this and think: “Oh, that person must be in a higher level of consciousness.” But that is not necessarily the case. In fact, they can sometimes be in a rather low state of consciousness. They just have, for some reason, that ability and it is usually because it is a challenge for them. They need to look at this and look at their state of consciousness and resolve it instead of thinking: “Oh, now I do not need to look at my psychology anymore because I have achieved this.” You know, the path is always about resolving psychology. It is not really about acquiring these special abilities or forcing the Kundalini up or doing this or that. It is not really what it is about.

Rising crime in Korea

Question: I have seen a lot of crime in the news lately, at least in Korea. A type of crime that used to be rare. Examples are extreme school violence, brutal killing of small animals, family killings, especially violence and killing of the old or infants. I think most of the offenders are believed to be fallen beings because they have no human aspects. Have many of these fallen beings been reincarnated recently? Or are they being expressed in different ways with the times? Or are they just being spread more in the news than before?

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

It is simply an effect of what we have said before, that as you transition into the Aquarian Age, everything becomes more extreme, more pronounced. And it is simply that things are brought up to the surface so that it becomes more difficult for people to ignore.

There is in many societies a certain underlying violence, often within families for example, that is not acknowledged sufficiently, that is not talked about. It is kind of a taboo that you do not talk about. And these taboos are being broken simply by the raising of the collective consciousness and the energies that we are releasing to the planet, partly as a result of the effort of many spiritual people.

It becomes more difficult to hide. It also means that the press takes it up more because they feel they cannot ignore it. And the purpose, of course, is to bring a society to a shift where they look at this and say: “We have had this tendency in our society, in our culture, but it is no longer acceptable.” You can see that there are nations that have already, a long time ago, dealt with the violence against women, for example, and then this is not acceptable. But there are other cultures, including cultures in Asia, that have not done so and where it is still happening, but nobody really talks about it.

But you also have to add a factor here that, when you become aware of a certain issue, you tend to look for something that relates to that issue. You see it more because you are looking for it. And if you find that it is something that is important for you, that you suddenly become more aware of, then you can certainly make the calls on it. Use our invocations and decrees to reinforce the tendency in the collective consciousness to be willing to look at these issues.

Multiplication factor

Question: I know that Mother Mary has previously said that there is a multiplication factor when reciting decrees 3, 9, 33 or 144 times. My question is whether if invocations/ decrees are recited 9 times or 33 times, they are multiplied by 9 times or 33 times respectively. So, is it considered one has recited them 81 times or 1089 times?

Answer from Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2024 New Year webinar.

This is too linear. The masters have said there is a multiplication factor when you do it 3 times, 9 or 33 times, or 144 times. They have not said it is that number squared. They have never said that. It can vary a little bit because there are also sometimes masters that will sponsor a certain invocation or a certain decree, so that it is multiplied by a certain factor by the masters. But they often do not say what it is. It is not necessary to be so linear about it. You can just know that if you are giving it multiple times, why not give it 3, 9 or 33 because you know there is a multiplication factor. Don’t worry about how big it is.

You can even look at it from a different perspective also, that is not so linear. It is that giving decrees is not a mechanical thing. You can have one person give a decree and it is just sort of mechanical, just mouthing it off, and it has a certain effect. But then you can have another person who is really giving it with a heart, really into it, really feeling what is said in the decree or invocation and it has a bigger effect. Naturally it will be multiplied accordingly to the effect. And it may be sometimes that the greater attunement you have, the more the multiplication factor is. You have to not be so linear about it. Just enjoy the flow and basically do not think too much about this. Neutralize that thinking analytical mind and just let it flow from the heart.

Making mistakes when decreeing

Question: If I make a mistake while reciting a decree or invocation, can I repeat the sentence where I made the mistake and continue? Will the invocation decree still work?

Answer from Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2024 New Year webinar.

The answer is yes, of course. You can repeat it if you feel like it or if it is easier to just continue and keep the flow going, then just do that. You do not have to be so focused on details or having everything right. I remember myself when I was in the Summit Lighthouse and was new to decreeing. I felt everything had to be just right, and it is just not necessary. I mean, if anything, it is more important to keep the flow going. Just do not let it disturb you. Just do whatever is the fastest to keep the flow going, so you move on.

Future changes in food and medical industries

Question: Do the masses have a tangible vision for the gradual approach we need to take to reach Saint Germain’s vision for medicine and healing in the golden age, especially if we are to see visible changes in the food and medical industry 50 years from now, as mentioned by Saint Germain in one of his previous answers?

[Full text of the question: This is a more practical question regarding St Germain’s vision for medicine and healing in The Golden Age. As the Ascended Masters have mentioned before, there is no one-size-fits-all approach to healing. Therefore, energy medicine and consciously working with our higher bodies will be the ideal outcome for individual heealing in the Golden Age.

More and more people today have an awareness of alternative medical systems such as Ayurveda, Integrative Medicine, Naturopathy, Energy Medicine etc., but is this enough to create a holistic approach to healing, that involves the Identity, Emotional and Mental bodies?

For instance, Ayurveda uses principles that stem back 5000 years ago, focusing on the five elements and the unique emotional, mental and physical constitutions of each individual. Which foods and lifestyle habits to adhere to depending on your constitution. In this case, it tailors to each individual, but of course it does not focus on the Ascended Master teachings per se. But for people who are not working with the AM for now, would it be a good starting point to begin to see the connectedness between the different higher bodies by promoting ancient wisdom and returning to Mother Nature?

Should we mainly focus on incorporating diagnostic technology that measures these emotions and auras in our higher bodies?

In other words, there is this current divide in the collective consciousness between the most natural of holistic means and technology. A sort of judgement between the old and the new. How do we bring the two together in a world powered by scepticism of natural remedies / “wishy washy science” and the “fear of technology”, AI, artificial tools etc.

Ultimately, my question is:

Do the Masters have a tangible vision for the gradual approach we need to take to reach St Germain’s vision for medicine and healing in The Golden Age? Especially if we are to see visible changes in the Food and Medical Industry fifty years from now as mentioned by St Germain in one of his previous answers. https://ascendedmasteranswers.com/the-vision-for-health-care-in-the-golden-age/]

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

Well, certainly we have a vision for this. But you need to recognize here that this messenger is not an expert in the healing arts. And therefore, he is not the one through whom we will bring forth that vision. We will do this through people, whether our direct students or not, who have experience with the medical field and who also have attunement with us, that intuitive attunement. We will bring forth some ideas through one person, some ideas through another. But what I will say is that, it is clear that what is keeping the world today stuck at a certain level is this black and white approach, where you say everything has to be ‘either-or’. Either we go completely with modern science and empirical data and what can be proven, or we go completely into the natural healing and the ancient healing arts. It does not have to be black and white, and it will not be black and white in the golden age. What you will do is you will look at these older healing modalities and natural healing modalities and you will say: “What can we learn from them? How can we incorporate them in today’s medicine?” And in order to do this, you need to investigate them with technology.

There are some healers out there who have this ideological view that all the older healing modalities are much better than the modern because they do not have any side effects and this and that. But you have to realize here, science and technology are not going away in the golden age. On the contrary, they will be expanded and they will be expanded by incorporating consciousness, by incorporating intuition, not just being intellectual, empirical, and so forth. It is necessary and important to use whatever scientific methods and technology you have to investigate the effect of these healing modalities.

I will say, though, that there are some healers who are experimenting with these older healing modalities, who have adopted this kind of romanticized view that because Ayurveda, for example, is 5000 years old, it must have been brought forth in a pure time and they had a much better intuition of how healing works. And as we have explained before, this is not really a realistic scenario because the collective consciousness was lower 5000 years ago than it is today. And therefore, what could be brought forth back then was not the ultimate healing methods. When you have this openness to incorporate intuition and inspiration into science, you will see the arising of new healing modalities that may somewhat be based on the old, but they will not be trapped in the paradigm of the old. You can see certain ideas taken from Ayurveda, for example, without accepting the entire philosophical overlay of Ayurveda and the same for other healing modalities. Some alternative practitioners are, of course, already open to such techniques and modalities. And it is just a matter of seeing this unfold in the coming decades. There will be major changes here. They are already on the way.

The mass shooting in Prague

Question: Two weeks ago, 14 people were killed in a mass shooting in Prague University and another 25 were injured. This event has profoundly shaken Czech academia and society as a whole. It was widely believed that such events could not occur in Central Europe, which is considered relatively safe and peaceful. What is the lesson for the Czech Republic behind this incident? What are the major challenges for Czechia in the years to come so that it could grow in consciousness?

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

Well, there are always individual factors behind such an incident. There is a person who has to do this. This person has to be in a weak state of mind so that his or her mind can be taken over by dark forces, often in the emotional realm.

You have to be careful not to over-interpret this as having a greater significance than it does. In other words, it is not necessarily that because this happened in Czechia, there is some kind of problem in the country or in the collective consciousness, that the country then needs to look at and change.

What I would rather focus on is to say that after the invasion of Ukraine, there has naturally been an increased tension and insecurity in all of the countries who were either part of the Soviet Union or the Warsaw Pact. What has happened is that there is an increased tension in the entire region and this makes it more likely that incidents like this could occur. And it is not necessarily that this could have occurred only in Czechia. And it is not necessarily that there is any particular issue or problem in Czechia that made it occur there. Because it could have occurred in any of the other countries if there had been a person whose mind was weak enough to be taken over.

You understand that what we have said about fallen beings is that they are not a united group, which is the primary reason they have not been able to take over the earth. There are of course different groupings of fallen beings, but there is clearly a group of fallen beings in the emotional, mental and identity realms that are behind Putin, behind Xi Jinping, behind the leadership in Iran and certain other nations. These have as part of their agenda to destabilize democratic nations. And as I said, because of the past, because of the records in the collective consciousness, this has had a severe effect in these nations in Eastern Europe. And it is the agenda of these fallen beings to destabilize these countries in any way they can. And this is just one way to create something shocking that makes people in the country think there must be something wrong with our country, there must be something wrong with us.

And I am not here trying to give people an excuse for not looking at themselves, but I am just saying that it would be more constructive to look at the past and to connect it to what is happening with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and how their records from the past have been stirred up by this. And this needs to be processed, and there needs to even ideally be an open discussion about: Have we moved on from the past? Where are we at today? Are we really committed to being part of Europe, being part of NATO, being part of the democratic world? And it is not just in Czechia, it is the entire region, all of the countries who were part of the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact. This is the more constructive way to approach this incident. And of course, other countries could learn from it as well and take up this willingness to look back at the Soviet past, what has been stirred up by Russia’s invasion and Putin’s threat to expand the Soviet Union and how will we deal with this as a country.

It is also of course important to look at these countries and their support for Ukraine in the war. And this is of course especially important for Hungary where there has been some, we might say, divided signals coming from Viktor Orbán concerning Ukraine and the support for Ukraine and his ties to Russia and so forth. And this is also something that all countries in the region need to look at.

And what does that mean? Where do we stand as the country of Hungary for example? Have we forgotten about the past, the Soviet past? Have we forgotten about the tanks rolling through our capital? Where do we stand today in our relationship to Russia now that we see that Putin has revealed his intentions, which we could conveniently ignore until the invasion of Ukraine? Which direction do we want our country to go in? Do we want to keep having one foot in the EU and one foot out, or do we want to commit to the EU and NATO, or do we want to go back towards being closer to Russia and thereby inevitably being dominated by Russia? Because, should it not be clear by now that any country’s relationship to Russia must be black and white, either you submit or you must try to remove yourself from Putin’s influence. I mean, can there be a gray zone in between there as some seem to think? This is what needs to be discussed.

How to be neutral when speaking out

Question: I am asking the masters to comment on neutrality, reactivity and speaking out. I have often not spoken out because I felt I was being reactive rather than holding neutrality. Can the masters explain how to hold neutrality speaking out and reactivity in balance with Christ consciousness?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2023 American webinar.

It is indeed wise to monitor your reactions in situations where you are either speaking out or attempting to speak out and see if you are not neutral. There may be situations where it is wiser to then not speak out because you sense you are not neutral. But on the other hand, you can also take another approach and say: “Well, I will speak out. I will look at the reactions of others. I will look at my own reactions and I will see if this helps me see something in my psychology that I have not seen”.

Basically, the way to be neutral is to overcome the separate selves because it is the separate selves that pull you into reacting. Separate selves are reactionary selves. Anytime you are reacting, you can basically assume there is a separate self behind it. That is why I am saying that by speaking out and then seeing how you react, well, you have an opportunity to expose a separate self. And if you keep doing this, you will come to the point where neutrality is not something you try to force. It is just a natural effect of not having the separate selves that pull you into a reaction.

We can say that neutrality is the natural state. It is a natural follow-on, a natural result of attaining Christ consciousness. And it is the separate selves that force you into a reaction. You cannot force yourself out of reaction. You can only resolve the self. You cannot force yourself into neutrality. You can stop forcing yourself out of neutrality and you will naturally go into it. This, of course, requires also that you come to a point where you realize that whenever you have strong opinions or whenever you feel a strong desire to convince others, this is again coming from separate selves. You have to make the decision as a Conscious You that you are willing to be neutral, that you do not have to convince other people.

And this requires you to get to that point where, as we have talked about, you are not speaking out in order to get other people to react a certain way because you are not seeking to get validation from other people. You are not seeking to change your own state of mind by changing other people’s state of mind. When you overcome these separate selves, then you will naturally be neutral. It will be effortless to be neutral. There is no amount of effort that can produce neutrality.

CRISPR technology

Question: What is the ascended masters’ opinion on CRISPR* technology? Some people are taunting it as a save-all method of medicine for all diseases.

And “C-R-I-S-P-R, it stands for Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats, is a technology that research scientists use to selectively modify the DNA of living organisms. CRISPR was adapted for use in the laboratory from naturally occurring genome editing systems found in bacteria.”

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2023 American webinar.

It is not a cure-all. It is not a save-all method because there is no such thing. There is no one method or one technology that will ever be able to cure all diseases. This is, of course, partly because the only way to cure diseases is to also work with the psychology because all diseases have a psychological component. This entire dream of finding this one mechanical means whereby you can cure all diseases is simply an unrealistic dream.

Now, this is not to say that I denounce the technology. There is value in researching various technologies. And there will in the golden age, be technologies that are beyond what people can even imagine today that will help heal disease. But in the golden age it will also be so that there will be a clear recognition of the connection between the psychology and physical diseases so that you will work with both aspects of the person, and therefore have a more holistic approach to this.

The unfortunate outcome of materialistic science is this mechanical, mechanistic approach where you think that everything can be reduced to certain laws. And if you know those laws, you can change any effect by changing the cause. And this just is not the case. It is a detour for science. It will later be seen as a detour for science. But this is not to say that mechanical science has not produced certain valuable technologies. And CRISPR is one of those technologies that has a potential to be used. But you might recall, if you are into gene technology, that there was a time where people thought that by mapping the human genome they would be able to cure all diseases and this turned out not to be the case. There will always be a limit to what you can achieve with this kind of technology.

What are our options after ascension?

Question: In a question-and-answer session during the 2023 Korea conference and webinar, Paul the Venetian essentially said: “People can ascend either by fulfilling certain basic requirements, i.e. mastering the seven rays, or by attaining greater mastery than the minimum requirements, i.e. mastering the seven rays and some of the secret rays. This, of course, has an impact on what you can do after you ascend.”

What are the options, including but not limited to specific assignments, and where can one go after one ascends by mastering the basic ascension requirements for earth? Are post-ascension assignments linked to the services that one provided on earth? For example, if one served as a scientist on earth, then would one likely serve in the field of science after one ascended from earth?

Answer from the Ascended Master Paul the Venetian through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2023 American webinar.

Well, you cannot give a general answer to this kind of question because it is individual what people do. What I wanted to introduce is the concept that the ascension is not simply the ascension. There was a previous dispensation where it was said that the main requirement for the ascension is to balance your karma, and that the dispensation were given where people could ascend with 51% of their karma balanced.

And what I wanted to show is that if you fulfill this minimum requirement, you are not ascending at the same level as someone who fulfills a higher requirement. To make it more graphic, we can say that if you ascend with 51% of your karma balanced, well, you have 49% of unbalanced karma. An ascended master does not have unbalanced karma. Therefore, it is not actually realistic, as was in the culture of this previous dispensation, that if somebody ascended with 51% of their karma, they became instantly an ascended master. You would actually have to spend time in the spiritual realm or the lower identity realm, the etheric realm, to balance the rest of your karma before you can really become an ascended master.

Now, there are also, of course, masters who have ascended and they instantly became ascended masters, because they had not only balanced their karma, but they had also fulfilled many of the more subtle requirements that we have talked about in this dispensation. First of all, doing what you came to earth to do, but also overcoming the sense that you were here to do something, fulfilling this very subtle resolution of the psychology that brought you here as an avatar.

There are certainly masters that have attained a greater mastery while they were still in embodiment. And this then means that after you are out of embodiment and you do not have to return to embodiment, you have more options for what you want to do in the ascended realm. There are certainly people who have worked in a certain field in perhaps many embodiments, including the last one, and they will continue to work in that field after they ascend, for example, in science or education or spirituality. There are ascended masters who choose to stay with earth and work with the people in that particular field, for example, science or education, whatever it may be. This is often the case, but not always, because as an ascended master, you may also choose that you want to focus on an entirely different field. And, of course, you can choose you do not want to work with earth. You might want to go work with a natural planet or you might move on to other realms.

There are a few ascended masters, newly ascended masters, who have attained the mastery before they ascended, whether it was from earth or another planet, including natural planets, who do not have to work with other planets. They can go on to serve in higher capacities. They can, for example, go and work in some of the highest spiritual retreats at the archangel level, at the Elohim level or some of the others like the Divine Director, God and Goddess Meru, the Sun, the Central Sun and other things. They are not directly working with unascended beings after they have ascended, but they are serving in some of these retreats. And this can serve as a preparation for where you can eventually even ascend to the next sphere. There are certainly ascended masters who have ascended to the sixth sphere as a result of ascending in this one. Not many, but there are some.

The higher attainment, the higher resolution of psychology you attain while you are in physical embodiment, the more options you have. The specifics of how this plays out are very individual because there are not really any general considerations that can be applied to ascended masters because when you have ascended, you are really free to choose what you want to do.

But it, of course, depends on your level of awareness and your consciousness. In other words, you cannot say that even after you ascend from earth, you have to work with unascended beings on earth. This is not a general rule, even though many ascended masters will choose to do so.

Bringing forth beauty

Question: Can bringing forth beauty in whatever manifestation be part of a Divine Plan for some women in embodiment on earth? Does beauty have a particular geometric matrix?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2023 American webinar.

Well, certainly beauty has a geometric matrix. You might know about the golden ratio and that there are certain proportions that are universally recognized by people as having more beauty. This is not just in, of course, how people look but in all aspects of life. There are many people, men and women alike, who have it as part of their Divine Plan to bring forth beauty. It can be your looks. It can be art. It can be architecture. It can be many other things where beauty is a factor. And this is something you need to tune into individually and see where this fits into your Divine Plan.

You need to, of course, take care that you work with your own psychology, work with some separate selves you might have that might have a certain almost a sense of superiority related to beauty or a sense of feeling better than others. And this is something, of course, you need to overcome.

If you work with your psychology, if you increase your intuition, you can certainly come to see how this is a part of your Divine Plan and how to express it in a way that not only enhances your personal growth but also has the potential to help other people. Beauty is not for its own sake. Beauty is really to help people transcend their consciousness on a planet like earth. Beauty has another function: that is, to show people that there is an alternative to much of the ugliness you see on earth. There is a higher level. There is something higher. There is a spiritual realm where you do not have the ugly manifestations you see on earth.

There are natural planets, which are important for avatars. Beauty can, for many avatars, be one way to tie into their history of coming from a natural planet, and reawakening this awareness that there is really an alternative to earth. “I am not stuck here. This is not the only way a planet can be.” Beauty has many ramifications that can be important for your Divine Plan.

A personal relationship with Guru Ma

Question: Based on a question yesterday I feel there is some chance this might not be too personal for a general audience. But if it is, then I understand.

Guru Ma appeared to me in a dream between her passing and her ascension. And even though I was not familiar with her then, in an outer sense I experienced an incredible rush of love and even what might be called reunion. But when I encountered her videos once awake, I was repelled by her outer personality as she described yesterday. This caused me to be wary of her teachings for years. And only in the time since have I warmed to her, culminating in my discovery of the book Don’t Drink Your Own Kool-Aid, which I have received with much joy and edification very recently.

I hope that this question is relevant for others. While I want to know how to make the most of the time that I retreated from her and her teachings, and hope that it did not slow my progress too much towards my growth and ascension. If there is anything relevant in this dream and my relationship to her that I should be aware of I would love to know this as well. Thank you so much.

Answer from the Ascended Master Guru Ma through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2023 American webinar.

Being in a position that I was in in my last embodiment is a very complex endeavor. I was the leader of an outer organization which had many, many members. I did not have a personal affiliation or relationship with all of them. But I did have with some. But there were many people that I had a personal affiliation with from past lives that were not attracted to the Summit Lighthouse, and were not meant to be attracted to the Summit Lighthouse.

As a being who is now an ascended master, I look back at my many embodiments and I see how there are these very complex relationships that you have with many, many people. You see that there is a certain group of people that I had a personal relationship with over many lifetimes, sometimes just a few lifetimes. But as we have talked before, it is that each of us who are walking the spiritual path, we are, so to speak, at the top of the pyramid. And there is a group of people below us that are tied to us and our growth. And we can help them grow by our own growth. This is what you experienced in the dream, that you have this personal tie with me going back often many lifetimes.

Now, of course, it is one thing to have an inner relationship and it is another thing to have an outer relationship. You see on a planet like earth you have these very complex relationships between people. And I would have, back when I was in embodiment, I called it karmic relationships. But you can look at it from an outer angle and see that you have people who have an inner tie to each other. You can call them soul mates or whatever you want to call it. But they have an inner tie to each other. But they have been together in past lifetimes where their outer personalities have clashed. This is a very common scenario among spiritual people, that they have this inner tie but their outer personalities clash. This is what I call the karmic relationship because they have been together in past lives, they have had conflicts, and they have not overcome them.

It is not uncommon, in fact it is quite common, that there were people who because of these past interactions could not handle my outer personality in my last embodiment. I talked a little bit about that in my previous answer, but it was not uncommon. There were people who came, they were attracted because they had the inner connection to me. But when they encountered my outer personality, they could not deal with it. There were people who came on staff who when they encountered me in a more close, personal situation, they had this very strong reaction based on conflicts we had had in past lifetimes.

I am not saying this to blame anybody. I am simply explaining that it is not uncommon that you can have an inner tie to a person but at the level of the outer consciousness you cannot really deal with that person, whether that is a spiritual teacher or leader or not or just a person you meet. It can be a person in your own family. You see many siblings for example who have this dynamic. Parents and children obviously, spouses. There is no reason to look at this situation with any regret. It was not that you wasted the time because by the fact that you acknowledged the inner connection and that the dream was showing you something real, you started a process, even if you were not consciously aware of it, of gradually starting to resolve these outer blocks, these outer bearings. And as you demonstrate, you have been willing to take my book. You have been willing to work with this. And, therefore, it is not a matter of looking back thinking you wasted time. It is a matter of saying: “How do I go forward from here? How do I expand my inner tie to the Ascended Master Guru Ma?”

And there is no need for any regrets here. We simply move on from here. I am willing to move on with you and work with you and many other people personally. If you are willing to work with me then let us get on with it and make things happen.

Projections and attacks: Challenges in expressing your Christhood

Question: When I imagine going out into the world and expressing myself, there is a particular image that keeps on coming. No matter what situation I imagine there is always this one being that will oppose my efforts and will try to dishonor me in public. I am not sure if that is a memory and a fallen being that I have been encountering in past lives or if this is a projection of some sort. Can you help me clarify and also share how to best deal with such images?

Answer from the Ascended Master Jesus through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2023 American webinar.

Well, as we have explained many times, the fallen beings will do anything they can to prevent people from manifesting and expressing Christhood. They will project against you. But many people also have from past lives these separate selves that will develop because the fallen beings attacked you and tried to destroy you. I can assure you that when I was in my mission in my last embodiment I had many of these projections, and I had many, many thoughts of: “Oh, who are you? Who do you think you are? You cannot possibly do this. This cannot possibly work. You cannot manifest Christhood,” all of these thoughts. And it is something that you just need to come to a point where you recognize that in an environment such as earth this is, as they call it, the cost of doing business. If you want to manifest your Christhood, if you want to express it, there will always be somebody who does this.

Now there are many people who have a specific somebody that might have done this to you in several past lifetimes. But even beyond a specific person, the fallen beings will attempt to do this, and they will use anybody whose mind is open to being taken over by these demons or entities or even by fallen beings. It is simply an unavoidable aspect of your Christhood, and you should actually look at it and welcome it as an opportunity. Because, first of all, it is an opportunity to look at your own reaction, and therefore see if you have a separate self that reacts to this. Because then you know that the separate self will actually prevent you from manifesting the fullness of your Christhood. You then need to deal with that self and use the tools and teachings to deal with it.

But you can also have this general attitude where you are, as an avatar, many avatars have felt this: “But I came to earth to help, to do something positive. I should not be blamed or put down or attacked for this. I am just here to do something positive.” But, again, you need to recognize that on earth there are fallen beings, and they do not care about your good intentions. They will try to destroy you no matter what. You need to change your attitude so you realize: “This is the kind of environment I am in. I know there are these fallen beings and dark forces and I cannot let them get away with it. I cannot let them destroy my Christhood”.

How many times do you think this messenger has confronted this very consciousness since he initially started the Ask Real Jesus website so many years ago? You would be surprised at how many times he has been exposed to these kinds of attacks, these kinds of projections. And in the beginning it was difficult for him to deal with it. But over time, especially after he had the teachings about the separate selves, he had become better at just looking at this and saying: “Oh well, cost of doing business. What else can you expect on a planet like this?” Or even saying: “Oh, so there it is again. Now it was this person, last week it was somebody else. But, nevertheless, ah, that is just the way it is. Do I really need to pay attention to this? No, of course not.” You let it go. And if you feel a reaction in you, you realize there is a self. You look at this self. You expose it. You let it die, and then you move on.

It is inevitable that when you start expressing your Christhood you will be attacked. It is not necessarily just dark forces, it is also other people. There will be people who are jealous of you because you are daring to express something that they are not daring to express. It is so easy for them to type in some kind of brief message and post it on social media or on a YouTube video or wherever it is. And they do not even, in many cases, realize what they are doing. Many people do not realize that their minds are taken over by these demons or entities or even by fallen beings. You just have to look at this and say: “Oh well, there it is again.” And it is basically, you know, you just shake it off. You just need to shake it off and say: “It is like the old saying, water off a duck’s back.” You just shake it off and it rolls off. And you do not make any big deal out of it. You do not react to it. You do not feel: “Oh, this should not have happened.”

But in order to do this, of course, you have to look at this self that feels you should not be attacked for coming to earth to make things better. Because this self will block your Christhood. It will prevent you from manifesting Christhood. Many, many of you have not dealt with these kinds of selves. And that is why you are so reluctant to speak out even though we, a long time ago, started encouraging you to speak out, write your personal story and other things. Few of you have done this precisely because you have not yet dealt with these selves and this reaction to coming to earth. The question really is: Do you want the fallen beings to win, or do you want to be the Christ in action?

Responding to unforeseen incidents with a state of shock

Question: I discovered quite some time ago that I have a deep wound that relates specifically to accidents. What I discovered so far is that when something unexpected happens in the physical, it really puts me in a state of shock. It feels as if my entire being just wants to withdraw from the physical plane. No matter how small or big the accidents, for example, a bird flying into my window and dies, it is very heavy on me. “I did not see it coming” and “this should not happen” are beliefs I have uncovered but I was not able to shift out of them yet. Can you share a higher perspective on this as I could really need some guidance?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2023 American webinar.

Well, these beliefs come from separate selves. Again, use the tools and teachings we have given to uncover the separate selves and let them go. The method is there. But what I will say is that again you are raising a very, very common issue, especially for avatars, because on natural planets, you do not have these kinds of accidents where you did not see it coming. Because on a natural planet it is much easier to see the consequences of your choices. On earth, you have such a chaotic environment. There are many things that are hidden, as we have said, as the result of the density of matter. Many times you are making choices and you cannot see the consequences. Then you have the fact that other people can choose to do something unexpected. Then you have the entire concept of the fallen beings who can create not only accidents but all kinds of wars and atrocities that you also did not see coming because you did not expect it. And then you have of course the whole karmic interplay that makes it very, very unpredictable what happens on earth.

For example, it is very common that you see people who are exposed to natural disasters. They feel that: “Oh, this should not be happening,” or “We should have seen this coming.” What you see is that it is very, very common both for original inhabitants but especially for avatars that you have this inner knowing that these things really should not be happening. And that ideally they would not be happening. But yet here you are, you experience that they do happen and so you, of course, tie in with the fact that you have experienced this in past lifetimes as well. And in past lifetimes you have, in many cases, experienced more severe situations that you are experiencing when a bird flies into your window. You might have experienced being killed or having your entire group of people be killed — horrendous atrocities that have happened throughout history and are still, of course, happening today. You tie in to this trauma but again the trauma is in these separate selves.

Specifically for avatars, you can have this sense that: “I should have seen this coming. I should not be surprised.” Because on a natural planet you can see it coming and you can predict the consequences of your actions. But as I said, planet earth is a fundamentally different environment. Things are so complicated here that when you are new on this planet or even when you have been here for a long time, you cannot see it coming. What have we said several times? Even we, as ascended masters, cannot predict everything that will happen on earth because the equation shifts all the time depending on the choices people make. You see, if we could not see it coming, how can you think that you in embodiment should be able to see it coming?

You need to use the tools and teachings to uncover these selves and really make a realistic assessment: “I am not on a natural planet. I am on a very dense, very chaotic planet and I cannot blame myself for everything that happens here and I cannot blame myself for not predicting it, not seeing it.” I understand that you will still, after you reason this way, have the self that reacts in shock. But as I said, by overcoming this self, letting it die you can overcome that reaction as well. This will require for many people a lot of work with decrees and invocations to transform that energy in your emotional body that you tie into when you are exposed to this kind of shock. But again it can be done and the tools are there.

I want to add here that it is also a very common reaction, especially for avatars, that when you are exposed to something that is shocking, you just want to withdraw. You just want to get away from the physical plane. It is a very common reaction. It is an understandable reaction but it is not constructive. It is again coming from a self, but it is also coming from a certain reaction, where you have as a result of all the trauma, you have developed this negative attitude towards earth and life on earth, that you really do not want to be here. You really do not want to be exposed to all of these things. And although this is also a self, there is also a more general attitude that the Conscious You can develop, that you simply need to see and you need to make a decision that this limits you. It is not constructive for you and it certainly does not help you to get permanently out of the physical realm through your ascension. Because as long as you have this attitude of wanting to get away from something you cannot actually ascend.

The ascension is not an escape mechanism. It is a transcendence of the mindset on earth but you only transcend the mindset by looking at it and resolving it, not by running away from it. I know this sounds harsh, but it is the reality. You cannot ascend by running away from anything. And the only way to get away from things on earth is to ascend. It seems to be a catch-22 until you have the teachings about the separate selves and how to resolve them and then you see that there is no catch-22.

The dualistic pair: “I know better” and “I should have known better”

Question: I suddenly saw a belief today: “I should have known better”, and realized that this is the belief that keeps me trapped in the mortal sense of self. Can you explain and share deeper an understanding of how the decision I made when I separated from my teacher and therefore started to identify with the mortal self and the primal self relate or do not relate to each other?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2023 American webinar.

Well, I would recommend that you read Maitreya’s book Master Keys to Spiritual Freedom and consider what he says about why you left the spiritual teacher and then use your intuition to see what it is in your specific case. Most people have their own individual reason for doing this, but it is very true that you could say that many people left the spiritual teacher because they thought they knew better than the teacher what they needed to go through. It is not the case for all but it is the case for many. When you come to see this and see the (we might say) unrealistic aspect of this belief you can then come to swing to the opposite extreme and feel, “I should have known better”.

But do you see how these two actually relate to each other or at least form a dualistic polarity? You have the belief: “I know better” therefore I am going to go my own way. When you see that this is not working you are saying: “Oh I should have known better.” But you still think you know better because you think you should have known better. You see how this is the serpentine mind, the duality consciousness, subtle but inconsistent. In the mind of Christ, you made a choice. You have now come to see the limitations of that choice. Then you seek oneness with the Christ mind. Instead of blaming yourself that you should have known better, you are realizing: “But I experimented. Now I have seen the outcome of it. Now I want to go higher. I want to lock in to the Christ vision or the Christ consciousness that can help me see this illusion, transcend it and rise to the next level up.” That is how you use the Christ mind. The Christ mind does not say: “You should have known better.” This can only be a separate dualistic self or the fallen beings who are projecting this at you.

“You should not have known better.” You did what you did based on your level of consciousness at the time. You could not know better given your level of consciousness. You experimented, now you have seen the result of it. Now, you have the opportunity to know better. But you cannot know better with the outer mind, with the separate selves. You can only know better by locking in to the Christ mind and truly seeing the illusion that caused you to make that choice.

The separation of church and state

Question: Evangelical Christians in America believe God wants the US to be a promised land for their religion. The newly elected Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, has spent years working to eviscerate the separation of church and state in America. Could the ascended masters please address the principle of the separation of church and state that Saint Germain established in the founding of America and its importance in today’s American society?

Answer from the Ascended Master Saint Germain through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2023 American webinar.

Well, this is something that I could give a long discourse on, which I might do at some point. But if you take Jesus’ magnificent discourse about the problems with Christianity in America, you can say that many of the leaders of the Christian religion are, as Jesus said, feeling that their control over people and over American society is slipping away. And that is why some of them are seeking to blur the separation between church and state so that their Christian religion can take over the state.

Why is there in the American Constitution the separation of church and state? Because even though many people have forgotten this or have never realized it, you can go back to 1776 and you can look at the situation as it was back then. Many of the first settlers in America came from Europe, which for a very, very long time was dominated by the Catholic church. There was no separation of church and state in the Catholic system because the church had a very deep influence on the state. But of course, the king also had an influence on the church, as you saw with Constantine being instrumental in the creation of the Catholic church as an extension of state control. It is simply that there was a desire by me, and the founding fathers saw this, to create a democratic country that could not be dominated by a religion as Europe was dominated by the Catholic church for over a thousand years. It is also a general principle. Look at the Declaration of Independence: “All men are created equal. They are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights.” Meaning that the state does not have a right to override people’s rights.

And what are these rights? Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Well, part of the pursuit of happiness and liberty is that you are free to choose your religion. Why is this important? Because, contrary to what many people believe, God does not have a desire for there to be only one religion on earth. God or the ascended masters or the Christ consciousness desires people to grow. And whether people grow through that religion or the other religion is not so important. What we have seen is, over history, that those who decide to have one religion that dominates everything are the fallen beings. They are the ones who want to be in control. They are the ones who want to use religion for control purposes. God does not want to use religion to control the people. That is why God has given people free will. Therefore, from God’s perspective, God wants people to be free to choose their religion and does not want the state to impose a certain religion on people. Therefore, it is written in the Constitution that people have that right to choose their religion or choose no religion.

This is, of course, what the leaders of today’s Christian religions or churches in America cannot see, will not see. Why? Because they are either fallen beings in embodiment or their minds are taken over by fallen beings and they believe in these lies promoted by the fallen beings. They also believe, of course, that the Christian religion or, at least, their specific Christian religion is the only way for souls to be saved. But as we have explained so many times, this is not the case. What did Jesus just say in his dictation? That Christ consciousness is the only way to be saved, not an outer religion. But the fallen beings want to make it seem as if the only way to salvation is the outer religion and then they want to pervert that outer religion so it prevents people from attaining the state of consciousness that is the key to salvation. This is what they did with the Catholic church. This is how they have kept it now for seventeen centuries with the Catholic church and even all of the Protestant churches that came out of the Reformation or have been developed later, they are based on that same consciousness. They are preventing people from attaining the Christ consciousness that is the only key to salvation.

Capitalism vs. free enterprise

Question: While I concur that there are certain people and corporations that are abusive and monopolistic within the capitalist system, these people and corporations exist within every economic system that humans have devised. Capitalism has enabled many immigrants to arrive with nothing and raise themselves up to prosperity within a single lifetime. I do not see capitalism as a problem. I see people that desire control over the material world and other people to be the problem. Am I missing something in this line of thought?

Answer from the Ascended Master Saint Germain through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2023 American webinar.

Well, it depends on how you define capitalism. As I have expounded upon several times before, there are many, many people, especially in America, who believe that capitalism and free enterprise are the same thing. But they are not. This is a very common misunderstanding. Capitalism is an economic system. And, as with any economic system, it is created by the elite and it has the purpose of giving the elite a privileged position. Even communism is a system created by the elite to give the elite a privileged position in society. What enables immigrants to come into a country and raise themselves up in one lifetime is free enterprise or at least that the enterprise is as free as possible. The ultimate outcome of capitalism is monopoly, where one corporation owns all means of production, and in such a system there is no freedom for people to do better. They will have to join the corporate machine and be satisfied with whatever station they are given. The ability to transcend yourself and do well is the result of a free economy. And free enterprise is not an economic system, it is a free economy.

If you define capitalism the way I do, then this is what you are missing. If you define capitalism in the common way, well then you can continue to argue that free enterprise and capitalism are the same thing and I really do not have any response to that. If people have not seen that there is a tendency towards larger and larger corporations and that the ultimate outcome of this is that one corporation owns and controls everything, then there is no argument that can make them see what they are not willing to see. And that is why you find so many people out there, especially in America, who believe that capitalism is the greatest economic system and that capitalism won over communism. You are, of course, right that the problem is not so much the system as it is the people. But as I have said, capitalism is a system created by the very people who want to take advantage of others, who want to force themselves into a privileged position and want to use force to keep it, thereby keeping other people down and stealing the value of the people’s labor.

It is not the kind of economy that is survivable in the Golden Age. And that is why you will see that there will be situations where the capitalist economy, and the greed that is the hallmark of it, will create these major economic problems and downturns, major economic crises, like the 2008 financial crisis, like crashes in the real estate market, crashes in financial instruments and many other crises that will come up until democratic countries, democratic governments, decide that they can no longer allow a small elite to run the economy, to run the money system, to run the financial system. But it needs to be an economy that is of the people, by the people and for the people.

How can I trust myself after believing fallen beings’ lies

Question: When we see that we have taken on the karma by believing fallen beings’ lies, does simply admitting this and using the decrees to clear the energy free us? How do we truly let go not only of the guilt and shame, but also the fear of lying to ourselves again? Unfortunately, I do not honestly know how to actually let a self die. I keep falling back into it.

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2023 American webinar.

Well, letting a self die is a matter of coming to see the self. If you keep falling back into a self, it is because you have not seen it yet. You need to do whatever you can to use the tools we have given to come to see it. You may see an aspect of a self or you may see one self that was created after your primal self. You may feel that you are making some progress and you have resolved something, but you have not yet gotten to the very core issue. In terms of believing in fallen beings and being afraid that you could fall into this situation again where you did not see what you should have been able to see, you did not see that they were manipulating you, you did not want to believe what they were really doing.

I can only say that this is what we have all been exposed to. We have all been in this state of mind as avatars who came to earth. We have all interacted with fallen beings. We have all met them with a pure innocent state of mind wanting to believe the best about people. And therefore, we have all had this situation where we wanted to be loyal to a certain person. We wanted to try and help that person. We wanted to believe the best about that person and it took perhaps a somewhat dramatic event before we came to see that our trust had been misplaced in a sense that the person was either manipulating us or was doing these horrendous acts that we were not willing to see.

This is a very common theme for avatars. That does not, of course, comfort or help you, but it does, perhaps in the sense that you need to recognize here that what is the difference between being on a natural planet and being on earth? On a natural planet, you experiment with your co-creative abilities. Now, you do not always do what is the best possible thing to do. The only difference is, that on a natural planet, whatever you do, you do not see it as some epic irreparable mistake that could never be undone, that you could never be free from. And that is because the fallen consciousness is not there on a natural planet.

You come from a natural planet with this mindset that you can do things on earth and you can free yourself from it. But then you encounter the fallen beings who are experts at manipulating you into a certain situation where the physical consequences of what you did or what you allowed other people to do or what you supported other people in doing were very severe, more severe than anything you have ever even imagined on a natural planet. And then, on top of this, they project at you, as we have said many times before, that you have now made a choice that you can never free yourself from. And that is why you feel this shame, this sense of loss, this sense of some irreparable damage that you are stained forever and you can never be pure again. But you can, when you take the teachings we have given about fallen beings. You can come to see that this has no reality outside the fallen mindset. It has no reality in Christ. There is nothing that you cannot be redeemed from, in Christ or by Christ.

Therefore, this sense that you have is not based on reality. It is a separate self. Again, we have all created these selves, we have all felt this way. It is understandable that we do this. But you can come to see that it just is not real in the mind of Christ. It is not necessary to adopt this mindset. It is a manipulation of the fallen beings who are deliberately trying to destroy you. And when you see this you can lock into a certain determination in you to not let them get away with it. To just walk away from this entire mindset. Let these selves go. Why can you lock into this determination? Because you are not an average co-creator. You would not have volunteered to come to an unnatural planet if you did not have a strong determination to grow, to transcend yourself, to become more, to manifest the highest possible level of Christhood.

And when you lock in to this, you realize that any experience you have on earth can be the foundation for you stepping up to a higher level of Christhood. And in fact, the lower the experience might seem to be, the more you attain Christhood by transcending it, by overcoming it, by seeing that regardless of how serious it seems and how serious the fallen beings project at you that it is, or that other people on earth project at you that it is, you can still transcend it by locking in to the Christ mind. And when you work with this, you have to find a way to tune in to what exactly it was for you that made you accept that you had made this mistake and that you cannot trust yourself again and that you might again lie to yourself in the future. Or whatever it is for you individually. We all had our individual reaction to this where we formulated some kind of belief. If you keep looking for this, using whatever tools are available, even going to psychologists or whatever is realistic for you, you can come to that point where you see it.

And once you see it, once you see the decision you made and the illusion of that decision, well, you will let the self go. Because when you see the illusion that the self is based on, how can you hold on to the self? You can realize here that this is one of these situations, where you have more than one self. You have a self that caused you to react to the situation and feel you have done something wrong, then you have another self that is reacting to the situation by projecting that the fact that you made this one mistake means that you could do it again and therefore you cannot really trust yourself.

But these are both selves. So what if you make the same mistake again? In the Christ mind this is not a problem. You can make the same mistake many times until you get it, until you learn the lesson and step up to that higher level of Christhood. And it does not matter how many times you make a mistake as long as you get the lesson. Again, you can come to look at these selves. You can look at the reasoning behind it. You can come to see that it is limited. It is dualistic. It is one sided. It is looking at the issue from one particular angle and for the self this is the only way to look at it. But when you tune into the Christ mind, you can see that there are other ways to look at it. In fact, it is possible to step back from the whole mindset and see that nothing in matter really matters.

The earth is a reality simulator. Nothing here is really permanent. No mistake you can ever make is permanent, is irreparable. You can overcome anything that you have done. But in order to overcome it you have to let go of the self that you created in reaction to the situation. And there is nothing that prevents you from doing this other than some other self or rather, in the end, the decision of the Conscious You. There comes a point where the Conscious You has to make a decision and say: “Have I had enough of blaming myself, feeling ashamed? What is it really, this state of consciousness that I am feeling, this burden that I have carried with me for so long? What is it?” Well, it is an experience. It is one of the experiences you can have on an unnatural planet that you could not have on a natural planet. “Have I had enough of this experience?” And if you feel that you have, if you come to the conclusion that you have, then how do you change the experience? By walking away from the whole mindset, by walking away from the selves. There are selves to resolve but there comes a point where the Conscious You has to make a decision and say: “Enough of this experience. I do not want this experience anymore. Enough! I am not this kind of a person. I am not inadequate. I am not a person who cannot trust myself. I cannot trust my outer self but I can trust my Christ self, my I AM Presence. I can trust the Conscious You because when I realize who I am as pure awareness, I am not trapped in any of these selves anymore. There is nothing on earth that defines me. I can trust that whatever mistake I might make, I can transcend it. This I can trust.”

Unless of course you want the experience of not being trustworthy, not being redeemable. And if you have not had enough of it, well, you have free will to make that choice. I am just saying it is a choice you are making and any choice you have ever made can be undone, transcended by making a more aware choice.

Jesus’ partners

Question: A channel book on the Order of the Magdalenes states that Jesus had three partners: Miriam of Tiana, Magda and Mariam. This book features statements by these three persons on how they worked on themselves to handle the situation. It also mentions that this was similar to Padmasambhava’s Dakinis. In addition, the book mentions the practice then of conceiving in the light where it appears that conception can take place in ways that are different from what is currently on earth. Is this information reliable and what might we learn from it?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2023 American webinar.

Well, in terms of Jesus having three partners, this is not accurate when you talk about having partners at the same time. It is not consistent with the real situation. It does not mean, as we describe in the book My Lives, that Jesus did not have various sexual partners in order to deal with his sexual desires, but not at the same time and not while after he had met Mary Magdalene and started a more consistent relationship with her. This is simply not accurate.

In terms of the conception by other means than physical, well, this is what happens on a natural planet. It also did happen on earth when it was a natural planet. This is accurate enough, but not at the time of Jesus. It was not possible because of the level of the collective consciousness. The virgin birth, as I have said before, is not a fact either.

Conception through rape and incest

Question: I currently live in a state where abortion is banned even in cases of rape and incest. Forcing a woman to give birth even in these situations seems cruel but at the same time as mentioned in other ascended master teachings there is also the opportunity of the lifestream to embody. Can the masters comment on this issue some more? Can they also comment on the various reasons why a lifestream would choose to embody in this way? Does the woman who undergoes this situation plan something like this before embodying as well? If so, what are the various reasons she would want to bring someone into this world in this way?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2023 American webinar.

Well, you cannot give a general answer to this question because there are always exceptions. There can be a few women who have it as part of their life plan, their Divine Plan, to be exposed to rape to become pregnant and to bring forth a child this way. This is then because they are wanting to force themselves to confront a certain psychological issue in themselves.

There can be various of these issues. But when you allow yourself to be violated it is because you have not been willing to stand up for yourself in past lives and you are wanting to force yourself to do it in this lifetime. There can also be the issue that you really want to force yourself to accept a child even if it is brought forth in this very difficult situation. You want to increase your tolerance, your forgiveness and even your ability to say: “Well, it is not the child’s fault that I was raped by the father and therefore I cannot let this affect the child”. These can be just some of the reasons why a few women choose this. But the vast majority of women who are victims of rape or incest, it is not something they deliberately plan. It is because they are not yet at the level of consciousness where they are really able to plan their next lifetime. They pretty much let their karmic circumstances outplay themselves. You have simply these karmic circumstances that manifests these kinds of situations.

What I am saying is that there are many people on earth who are not in detail planning their next embodiment, creating a Divine Plan, because they are not at a high enough level of awareness to do this. And this is what you would in a traditional way say it is the outplaying of karma, where it is simply the karma from past lives that materialized certain conditions in this lifetime. And then the people have to deal with it as best they can, which of course will be according to their level of consciousness.

Of course, talking about this issue, it is clear that in a democratic nation, it is simply cognitive dissonance to outlaw abortion in cases of rape and incest. You are, as a democratic country, saying that all people have rights and they have a right not to be forced. This means if they are forced by rape or incest, they should have the choice not to be forced to give birth to a child and perhaps be responsible for it for the rest of their lives. It is really inconsistent with the democratic ideals.

I know you can argue against this point endlessly, as some no doubt will do, but nevertheless, from the Christ perspective, if you are a democratic nation, well, then you must give people choice in situations like this where they are obviously forced. You can say as a democratic nation or democratic state: “Well, people are being told and taught what causes pregnancy, how to protect themselves against getting pregnant. If they do not take advantage of this and still get pregnant, then we can say they have exhausted their right to choose and therefore we have a right to forbid abortion as a means of prevention”. This is still consistent with democratic ideals. I am not saying that countries should do this. I am just saying this is at least consistent, whereas outlawing it in terms of rape and incest is not consistent with the democratic rights that people have.

Immigrants taking over entire neighborhoods

Question: Can the masters please help guide me to see what I am not seeing with this question? From my perspective, living in America, there has been an influx of immigration, Indian and Asian and Hispanic, and they have taken over entire neighborhoods. The middle class Americans living in the area can no longer compete and purchase homes in the area.

Also, many of them do not assimilate, they stay in their groups and lobby against the European Americans. The liberal white-leaning people in America, I assume it is the white liberal leaning people in America, allow this and make it bad to be white, and make the white Americans who feel there should be some laws to help the situation racist. You cannot say anything, you just have to leave your home where you grew up because you can no longer afford it, and when the entire schools are Indian-Asian, it does not feel like a community in America any longer for the existing Americans. I feel so much anger rising in my chakras because of this. I used to not look at race at all, but now I feel anger towards immigrants. Is this a past life issue for me? Why do some white people hate their own white people? Why is this happening in America and also in Europe? Will it destroy the European and American existing cultures and people? Please can the masters give me a higher perspective on why this is happening? What is there to do about it and what am I not seeing in myself? I am a sincere spiritual student and I need to see what I am not seeing. Thank you for your help.

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2023 American webinar.

Well, to begin to see what you are not seeing in yourself, consider what you are saying in your question. You are saying that the immigrants tend to form close-knit communities and they are not assimilating, they are not integrating, they are not interacting with the white Americans. You are now identifying this based on race. But if you step back, you will see that this is not a racial issue. This is a psychological issue that you find in people all over the world, where they prefer to be around people that they are familiar with. Yes, you can identify this as race, but it can also be religion or many other characteristics. What you see is that there is this preference to be around people you are familiar with and there is a distrust of those who are different. It is not specifically race, it is a psychological group issue, group consciousness.

And it is not that you are not correct in what you are saying about these immigrant groups. But can you not see that the attitude that you see in them is the same that you have in yourself and your group? You want to be around other people that are like you and you have a certain suspicion of people who are different. What you are seeing in others is what you have in yourself, but you have not quite seen it. The higher perspective here is to transcend this, to look at this as coming from separate selves. And again, you can say, which many people will say: “But these are the people who are coming into our country and changing things.” This is what you see all over the world. “We were here first. We are the traditional Americans. It is our country that they are coming into. They should submit to our rules. They should behave like us.” But this is precisely the mentality that creates conflicts between groups of people. If you are a sincere spiritual student who is walking the path to Christhood, you need to make an effort to rise above this consciousness by getting rid of these separate selves.

I am not saying this is an easy task, but I am saying this would be the best way for you to make spiritual progress from this situation. Of course, you can consider moving as well, but it would be much better to look at the separate selves that you have. You are quite correct that for many people this ties in with past life issues. You look at the history of the earth, you see that there are many, many examples where a group of people have been living in a certain area. There is a certain homogenous consciousness that they have and suddenly there is an influx of people from another culture and it seems to break up or threaten this status quo that was there. The issue is, however, that in many cases when there is this kind of status quo, these people may have a comfortable life, but they are not growing, certainly not at the maximum rate. That is why if you want to look at it from an overall perspective, you can look at this influx of people, this moving around of people as an aspect of the School of Hard Knocks where people tend to stagnate.

You can also look at the people who are coming in from another culture and you can ask yourself: Were they forced to leave, so they are refugees? Or did they choose to leave in order to have a better life? In many cases those who are forced to leave do not want to give up their culture and that is why they do not want to assimilate, whereas those who choose because they want a better life are generally more open to adapting to their new country. But if you look at it from an overall growth perspective, you see that as part of the School of Hard Knocks, people are moved around and it forces them to rethink the attitude, the mindset, the status quo that they grew up with and it gives the possibility for growth. The Buddha said: “Moving away from your home country is accomplishing half the Dharma”. And what he meant with that is that part of your Dharma is to overcome the mindset that you grew up with, that you were brought up with and free yourself from it and realize you are a spiritual person.

You are not defined by these outer characteristics and this culture and this mindset. This is of course not to excuse the many acts of violence and warfare that are forcing immigration. I am not saying that this is excusable or justifiable or that it does not make karma for those who are forcing other people to move. But what I am saying is that you see many, many areas of the world where you have a relatively homogenous group of people who have lived in the area for several generations, they have built a certain mindset, a certain culture and it might be very comfortable for them, but they are not growing. And the only way to really bring growth is to break this up. And the fact of the matter is that there are many, many groups that if they were more open to grow on their own accord by being willing to question things, they would not have to be confronted with this influx of immigrants. They might go elsewhere. Or even if they were confronted with this influx of immigrants, it would not be an issue for them. They would not feel threatened by it.