Michaels – Page 16 – Ascended Master Answers

Could Jesus not transform all darkness?

Question: It is said Jesus calmed the storms and did other incredible things and it is said the dark forces do what they do because they want our light. Could Jesus not transform the dark realm by giving them light so that the darkness no longer existed? Assuming in my novice understanding of things if energy does not go away yet can be transmuted. Or do dark beings also have free will that cannot be interfered with? But then how did Jesus remove demons from people who needed help and healing?

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

Dark beings may or may not have free will. We have explained this before. There are fallen beings who started out as co-creators and chose to go against the upward movement of the River of Life and therefore fell. These dark beings have free will. But there are dark beings that are demons that are collectively created entities and they are more like automatons or computer programs that do not have free will because they do not have self-awareness. Casting out demons from a person is not violating the free will of the demons as they do not have any. It is however honoring the free will of the person because you can actually only cast out the demons if the person is willing to let go of them and that requires a free-will choice.

In terms of miracles, as we have said before, when I appeared in a physical body, it was a darker time, a more dense time and there was a need to perform certain seemingly miraculous feats in order to demonstrate to people in a clear enough way that they could grasp it that there is a potential for attaining a higher state of consciousness. In today’s age this is no longer necessary and it is not really what we intend to manifest. We want people to tune in, use their inner discernment, use their intuition to sense that we are real beings. We are not going to demonstrate this in a way that the masses cannot deny, because we are not really interested in attracting the masses to our teachings. We are interested in attracting those who are ready for them because they have used their free will to make themselves ready.

Co-creating a vacuum

Question: Would you please explain the co-creation process that you described in your discourse on being creative in a quantum world, which is in chapter 7 of the book named Making Peace with Being on Earth. Specifically, would you please explain how to co-create a vacuum, co-create a sphere in a vacuum, activate the Ma-ter light and fill the sphere with the activated Ma-ter light. Although the final part of formulating an image and projecting the image onto the Ma-ter light seems clear, you are welcome to comment about it.

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

Well, you are not co-creating a void, you are not co-creating a sphere, you are not co-creating it or filling it with the Ma-ter light. This is not the actions of a co-creator, especially not one embodied on earth. It is the action of either the Creator or some of those who have ascended and reached higher levels who can do this. This is not something that you are capable of doing while you are unascended and you are not even capable of doing it as a beginning ascended master, you have to reach much higher levels before you can consider doing this. So it is not really relevant for me to comment on it.

In terms of what you can do is you can co-create. Which means that when there is a sphere that is filled with the Ma-ter light, you can project images with the four levels of your mind onto the Ma-ter light and this has, I feel, been sufficiently explained in our books and I do not really have anything to add to it at this point.

Distinct personality traits and ascension

Question: I am struck by the fact that Guru Ma when she is speaking sounds exactly the same now as she did in her final physical embodiment when she was the leader and messenger for the Summit Lighthouse. Given that she, like most of us, has had very many physical embodiments where she would most likely have been very different to the person that people knew her to be in that organization, why have the character traits of who she was then as Elizabeth Clare Prophet carried over to the being that she is now in the ascended state?

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

It is not so much that these character traits have carried over. It is more that I take on these traits to give my former students a better opportunity to connect and recognize that I am today an ascended master. But it should be said also here that when you are in your final embodiment many aspects of what we might call the outer personality are not really coming from subconscious selves, they are just character traits you have taken on over many lifetimes, so it is sort of an accumulation of your experiences on earth.

This is not something that you need to be overly concerned about. It is the same as saying whether you have blue eyes or brown eyes- this is not going to prevent you from making your ascension. You can have a certain outer personality, a certain mannerism, a certain way of speaking and it is not hindering, it is not helping your ascension, it is just what you have accumulated over many embodiments and it is not essential for you to work on it.

What is essential for you to work on is the unresolved psychology, of course. I have even said this while I was in physical embodiment, that some of the people who have ascended have had a certain outer personality that was very distinct and that some people actually did not like. But it did not really- it was not a factor in their ascension or in their service in their last embodiment. So given how many things we are working on when we are in our last embodiment there is no point in dealing with things that will not make a difference to our ascension.

Sometimes there are things that we might be aware of. I was aware, to some degree at least, that I had a certain outer personality that was a certain way. It was affected by my childhood to some degree, but it was really an accumulation of many of my embodiments. I was aware that some people did not like it, that some people were offended by it, that some people were even turned away from the teachings because of this. But still, this was not something that I felt I needed to change in order to make my ascension and it was not something I felt I needed to change either in order to serve in my capacity as a messenger for that particular dispensation, because my outer personality was part of the test that people faced when they found the teachings.

It is the same as the old story that El Morya has a gruff gatekeeper at his retreat in Darjeeling and if people cannot make it past the gatekeeper, they are not ready to enter the retreat. And it is the same thing here- in any teaching, in any spiritual teaching and organization that is sponsored from the ascended level, it is necessary for students to look for the inner teaching and to look beyond the outer circumstances in which the teaching is given.

There were people who came to the Summit Lighthouse, often from a Christian background and they could not handle that there was a woman in charge. What was I supposed to have done? Have a sex change operation in order to attract these people? You get to a point where you say with Master More: “Let the chips fall where they may.” I look a certain way, I cannot change it, I have a certain outer personality. I could change it, but is it really necessary? You simply say: “Well, you cannot please everybody. You can only be who you are, be true to who you are and then let people deal with that as they deal with it.”

This is not to say that you should not try to resolve your psychology. And if I look back, I certainly wish I would have done more to resolve my psychology, but there is a distinction between the outer personality and the deeper psychology. Of course, there is also a connection between your outer personality and certain aspects of the psychology but nevertheless, there are some things that just, as I said: “You have the color of your eyes, what does it matter? Certain outer mannerisms, certain way of speaking, what does it matter?” You have to just simply be concerned about what is important for you in order to make your ascension and there were many of these things that I was not necessarily consciously aware of. It was not that I consciously could have said what I just told you. But I certainly had a strong inner sense that this was my last embodiment or potentially my last embodiment and that I needed to work on what was essential for winning my ascension and ignore the things that were not essential for winning my ascension. And the same of course goes for all of you who have it as part of your Divine Plan to qualify for your ascension in this lifetime.

Strange phenomena and negative energy in the house

Question: A question about a presence or possibly more than one that one might have within their home. For example, late at night I have seen blue lights coming from our upstairs even though no one is using the upstairs. I have seen it through our ceiling vent and crack at the bottom of the door.

How do we get rid of such energies in our home? And if one feels negative energy, for example in an environment such as a backyard or a car?

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

Well, you use the method for discernment that we have given. You center in your heart and you feel, does it raise your energies, does it lower your energies? If you feel there is a lower energy in your home, then you use the calls to Shiva, to Astrea, to Archangel Michael to consume these energies. And this will in many cases have an effect.

Unless it is a phenomenon that you are producing subconsciously, in which case you need to uncover what is that subconscious mechanism. There are various spiritual people who are producing various phenomena because they have a desire for something unusual, something mystical, something spiritual. And therefore, they can either produce it subconsciously or attract this to them from the emotional realm, from the mental realm for example. In that case giving the calls alone is not enough, you need to discover: why you are open to this? Why you are subconsciously wanting this? And then let that separate self go.

Finding the teachings in the older age

Question: I am a newbie and reading the ascended master’s info with as much of an open mind as possible.

I find I am open to accepting what I read, but also though not fully understand what I read sometimes. I have experienced strong emotions sometimes while reading. Sadness or is it grief? Or I just simply get teary eyed or even feel a sense of frustration within myself for not being able to get the most basic concepts because I have insufficient knowledge of the Bible as an example. And even get angry that what I had been taught about God and Jesus is wrong. I have to absorb teachings rather slowly. Could be some level of anxiety since I am a senior citizen and I worry I will not have time to reach a good enough level of Christ consciousness so that I do not have to return to this planet and suffer anew. Should I just be satisfied with whatever I get out of the teachings until I die without pressure and not set expectations?

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

Well the answer to your last question is yes. You need to remember Jesus’ statement: “In your patience possess ye your souls.” It is very understandable that when people are new to the ascended master teachings you feel overwhelmed by the amount of teachings we have given, by the complexity of these teachings especially compared to whatever religious teachings you grew up with.

And there are indeed people who have become obsessive compulsive about studying everything, reading everything as quickly as possible. And it is better to take a balanced approach, to give yourself some time to study the teachings at a pace that you feel you can deal with, so that you do not get overwhelmed, you do not get frustrated, you do not get angry with yourself.

You have found the teachings at your age for a reason. It is part of your Divine Plan that you have gone through whatever you went through before you found the teachings. And you might as you engage in a balanced study of the teachings come to see how many of the things you have gone through in your life were simply leading up to finding the teachings and then applying them to these situations so you can learn the best possible lesson from them. Be content, be at peace with the fact that you have found the teachings and then use them in a balanced manner to make the maximum progress you can make for the rest of this lifetime which after all could be longer than you think.

Avoid this kind of frustration. It is sometimes understandable that when people find the teachings at a younger age they become more determined to study everything, to practice everything. But even this can become an unbalanced approach as this messenger is quite aware from his own path. Again, we always recommend a balanced approach. It is not really a matter of studying everything. It is a matter of finding the ideas, the teachings that are important for you and then implementing them, using them to resolve your psychological issues that you have not yet resolved. As we have said many times, the resolution of psychology is the most important issue. Simply focus on resolving psychology in the time you have left in embodiment. This goes at any age.

The old stories about Saint Germain

Question: The recorded stories of Saint Germain seem to outline somebody who appeared over perhaps hundreds of years here on earth performing what seemed to be superhuman acts while serving the courts of Europe. Do these stories paint an accurate picture overall? If so, was this his last incarnation? Was he someone who had not at that point reached his ascension? Did he have a special role to play in those times by living here?

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

You need to understand here that there is both an unreality and a reality. There is a reality in the sense that after I ascended, I was allowed to appear again in a physical body. I was not reborn, I did not reincarnate, but I was allowed to manifest a physical body in an attempt to create a United States of Europe, which obviously failed.

I was allowed to perform certain acts in order to impress these very recalcitrant kings of Europe and bring about this change. This was because I foresaw the rise of communism in Russia and wanted to create a United States of Europe as a counterbalance to what later became the Soviet Union. So this could have prevented the Soviet Union.

What you also see is that in, for example, the books from the I AM Movement, I am also taking on a role of being almost like a James Bond secret agent that performs various feats. And this is because you need to recognize that, as we have said many times, progressive revelation must be adapted to the collective consciousness at the time. And that is why we gave some teachings that were more in a story form and therefore designed to attract people’s attention. We know that there are many students from previous ascended master dispensations who have taken this very literally, but as I have said before, in this dispensation, you are beyond this level. You do not need to take it literally. You need to see that this was, in many cases, stories and myths that have a hidden meaning behind them that were not meant to be taken in a literal fashion.

What I am basically saying is, if you are open to the teachings in this dispensation, you can read these past books, but you do not need to take them literally. And you do not need to, for example, go to Mount Shasta in order to have a physical encounter with me, or go to Wyoming and find Table Mountain and think that the mountain will suddenly open up and there I will be to invite you into the Cave of Symbols, as some students from previous ascended master organizations have indeed done. You do not need to repeat this pattern, and simply go beyond it. Focus on what you are here for, like Mother Mary said in her answer. Many of you who are open to this dispensation, you want to make this your last embodiment by resolving psychology. And that is the most important aspect of your life.

Emotional reactions during giving invocations

Question: What causes a sleepiness to occur while sometimes doing an invocation? And is it possible to feel the effects of the invocation within one’s energy field? Or perhaps it is in my head. In the same vein, I sometimes feel a deep emotion while reciting an invocation. I assume that is then an indication that the invocation is beginning to work, since the invocation does specify to reveal what is hidden. Or is it just past emotional wounds stirred up that need healing?

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

It can be more than one reason why you get sleepy during an invocation. It can partly be a projection from dark forces that want to prevent you from giving the invocation. It can also be that the invocation itself stirs up energies that are a little bit overwhelming to your conscious mind. And it can also be sometimes that it is stirring up some energy that you need to process while having the least amount of conscious thoughts. The best thing you can do when you feel sleepy during an invocation is to change the tempo. Give it more slowly, with more power. Put more emphasis on the words and the meaning of the words instead of just repeating them in a more rhythmic, flowing manner as you normally do, and try to break up the pattern of the sleepiness.

When you feel strong emotions during an invocation, it is, of course, because the invocation is bringing out something that is hidden. In some cases, this means that you could stop, go into the emotions, go through the emotions, try to see the separate self, the illusion behind it. But this is when you are a little more experienced. If you are new to invocations, it is better to not focus on the emotion but to continue giving the invocation. And you can always, during an invocation, when you feel this, stop, make a call or prayer to the master, that is the main master you are invoking in the invocation, to help you see what you need to see, to help you resolve these energies. You can also, if you feel a lower vibration coming up, give calls to Shiva to transmute this and do something that breaks up the invocation so that you can deal more directly with the energy that is coming up. I know I have given you two contrary directions here. One is to go into the emotions, one is to ignore the emotions.

But that is something you need to feel. And as I said, if you are a beginner, ignore the emotion or give specific calls to have the emotion transformed. If you are more experienced, then you will sometimes feel the need to go into the emotion and go through it.

Is there a physical or higher dimensional city under Mount Shasta?

Question: Is there a physical or higher dimensional city in or under Mount Shasta in Northern California, USA? Is the figure Adama who is purported to be the high priest of this city real and is he who he is claimed to be? Are there habitable places underneath the earth for physical or other kinds of beings? Whatever else you care to share on this topic would be much appreciated.

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

What we have taught is that there are four realms, four octaves, four aspects of the physical world. There is the purely physical material, there is the emotional, mental and identity realms. The surface of the earth is the place where physical beings live in the physical dimension. There are, despite the many claims out there, no physical habitable places under the surface of the earth. But there are, of course, beings in the emotional realm, the mental realm and the identity realm, some of which are under the surface of the earth in various locations. And some people, human beings, have tuned into this and thought that it was physical. There is a focus under Mount Shasta. It is not a physical focus. It is in the mental realm. It is not an ascended master retreat. It is not sponsored by the ascended masters.

Was Rudolf Steiner an ascended master?

Question: Was Rudolf Steiner an ascended master or did he in a sense channel the countless content in lectures he provided from the masters? How much of his revelations are truthful?

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

Well, Rudolf Steiner was not an ascended master when he was in embodiment obviously or before he took embodiment and he is not an ascended master today. He was working with beings in the mental realm and many of his teachings are quite mental. This does not mean that they cannot be useful to some people. It does not mean that they do not have certain true concepts in them. We are not saying that Rudolf Steiner was in contact with malignant beings in the mental realm so it is not that the teachings cannot be useful to some people.

But of course, if you are aware of ascended masters and ascended master teachings why would you not make use of those instead? This is not to say that you should only study ascended master teachings so if you feel an intuitive prompting to study Rudolf Steiner or other teachings then by all means do so. But I strongly recommend that you also study ascended master teachings and look out for the differences and how you feel, what lowers your energy, what raises your energy.

Our first and last embodiment, birth trauma, and the primal self

Question: Many of us have experienced difficult circumstances in this embodiment and all manner of abuses. Is it possible that some of the students in this dispensation are in their first embodiment and experiencing the original birth trauma in this lifetime even though unlikely? Can you explain the difference between the original birth trauma and traumas in subsequent lifetimes? Also, though I can see symptoms of the primal self I do not feel I have yet identified the primal self. Can you comment on how one can identify the primal self and not simply a symptom of the primal self?

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

Most of the students in this embodiment are not in their first embodiment. But what is the cause of these outer challenges that many have been facing is that you have decided that you want this to be your last embodiment. Therefore, you have determined to put yourself in situations where you experienced such severe physical conditions that you were so to speak, forcing yourself to deal with the psychological issues you have not yet resolved. In other words, you want to make your ascension so strongly that you are willing to endure physical abuse, emotional abuse, mental abuse in order to force yourself to deal with the birth trauma and the primal self that you have not overcome yet.

Many times, such abuse ties in with the birth trauma. It ties in with how you received that birth trauma and therefore it is another opportunity to look at that psychology and the primal self behind it.

Seeing the primal self instead of the symptoms of the primal self is often made difficult because you have other selves that were created after the primal self and you need to come to dissolve those selves before you can see the primal self. But if you keep using the tools we have given especially in the book on Healing Your Spiritual Traumas but also the other books in the series and use various forms of therapy to gain clarity over your psychology then you can uncover that primal self and this is most likely what you put in your Divine plan that you wanted to achieve for your last lifetime on this very difficult planet.

I will say that many of the students in this dispensation, you have decided that you want this to be your last lifetime but you have also decided that you want to achieve the highest possible resolution of your psychology before you ascend. In other words, we have said before that you can qualify for your ascension and still have some unresolved psychology that you can resolve in the spiritual realm.

But many of you who are in this dispensation, and the reason why you are open to this dispensation is you have determined you want to resolve as much psychology as possible while you are still in physical embodiment. Partly because it is actually easier to resolve psychology in physical embodiment and partly because it also helps you actually ascend with a higher level of consciousness than you do if you have unresolved psychology left. Many of you are very determined to make the most out of this lifetime in terms of resolving your psychology and attaining higher levels of Christhood.

Many of you also have in your Divine plan to express that Christhood of course but it is difficult to express it naturally before you have attained it. Many of you are very determined to attain the maximum growth in this lifetime which is why you have been attracted to these teachings that are the most direct you can find on this planet in terms of resolving psychology going all the way back to when you first came to this planet.

There just is nothing else out there that is even close to the teachings we have given in this dispensation in terms of resolving the deepest layers of psychology related to earth and even beyond earth.

Bringing the country together without a crisis

Question: I am worried about the division here in America and have wondered what it will take to unify us. It appears a crisis or tragedy might be an avenue and I am not wishing for one but I realize for example the 9-11 attacks and Pearl Harbor brought the country together. Albeit both events subsequently also brought forth government actions that were harmful such as the Patriot Act bringing restrictions on privacy and expanding government powers and the internment of Japanese Americans into camps and taking away their homes and businesses. Is my observation correct and is there a more positive and immediate resulting situation that can arise to bring us together that is not the result of violence and attack using the military, discrimination and such?

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

I have already covered this topic in greater depth in my dictations but I will say that it is clear that these dramatic events – whether it is 9-11 or Pearl Harbor – were precipitated by the fact that there was not a critical mass of people who were willing to get the lesson in an easy way. They were not willing to use their intuition, they were not willing to think more deeply about what could bring the nation together, what could bring the nation to the next step.

It was this unwillingness to think more deeply that manifested the outer crisis so that people were faced with a condition they could not ignore. You will see in all people—not just Americans but certainly also very pronounced in Americans—that they will tend to ignore situations, ignore the need for change as long as possible. You can look back and see that in these situations if something had been done earlier perhaps things would have gone very differently and the nation could have learned its lesson in a more constructive way. And it is of course the exact same thing today. It is really a matter of recognizing that there are certain situations where a nation can be covered in this black cloud as we have talked about where people are blinded. In retrospect when you look back it is very easy to see the need for change but at the time, people could not see it because they were in blindness, in denial and they thought that: “Oh we do not really need to change current conditions, it can go on.”

It is the same with the division in the political life of America. It obviously needs to change but many people are in such denial about it or feel so powerless to do anything about it that they are just ignoring the need for change thinking somehow it will be okay, somehow it will work itself out. But when you look back at the current political situation 10 or 20 years from now many people will see that it was obvious that something needed to be done. And yet what needs to be done is that people awaken to realize that this climate is not what we want. This is not the kind of nation we want to live in and it is not in the best interest of the people that we are so divided because it only benefits the elite. There will come a time where people will look back and say: “But it should have been obvious that the people needed to restrict the elite. Why was not it done? Why could not people see it at the time?”

Is this right thing to do for me?

Question: My spouse and I are currently in Canada and have grown up and were born here. My mother is American and I have family there. I have always enjoyed spending time in the U.S. And I have been told I hold American energy and have felt a connection with Saint Germain since beginning this work. We also are aware that he sponsors America specifically. My spouse and I are considering a move however claiming a U.S. Citizenship creates lifelong tax obligations etc. That would be a hassle if we do not intend to make at least a long term move. We want to ensure it is the right decision before executing. Would it be helpful for us as students of the masters to be physically present in the U.S. to help bring about the golden age during this time and if so is there a specific area in the U.S.A. You might recommend to students wanting to locate there? How can someone considering a move like this determine if it is the right thing to do? Any clarity on this would be very helpful.

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

You will understand if you have followed our teachings that we are not telling people what to do.This is something you need to determine individually and intuitively based on asking yourself what did you put in your Divine plan. In order to get greater clarity of this I recommend two things.

First of all use the teachings in the book Healing Your Spiritual Traumas to deal with your birth trauma and seek to overcome as many separate selves as you can. Second of all, take either of the decrees to the Divine Director and do a novena to the great divine director where you give his decree nine times a day and after you have finished the decree you take a notebook and you write down whatever comes to you that day. Then you can read it again later, you can read it before you do the vigil the next day and when you have done this for 33 days you are likely to have much greater clarity on what is the right thing for you to do.

It is not really a matter of what is best for the golden age in America but what is in your Divine plan.

Inheritance from corruption

Question: I was born in a third world country where a lot of money is made through corruption. A lot of people will not advance if they do not get entangled with such practices. A family member just passed away and left an inheritance of such money earned through corruption. It was not openly acknowledged that the money came from that source but while growing up it was easy for me to see the source. I thought about rejecting the inheritance but many circumstances placed me at a crossroads where I already am stained and in the middle of it.

Also I have ill family relatives that depend on it. I feel quite certain that I will make karma just by accepting it but might diminish it depending on the use I do make of the money. At times I feel it hinders my path. At times I feel like just enrolling in a monastery and get away for good. At other times I feel like cashing out and go and live abroad in a more democratic country, seeing the contradictions in doing so. Will the masters please comment on this.

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

We recognize that there are many countries that have this systemic built-in corruption and it is of course a dilemma. You can consider for example what would happen to the money if you rejected it. Where would it then go to and you can see if this would be better for you or if it would be better from an overall perspective that you took care of the money and put it to good use such as helping family members. It is clear that by accepting the money you will make a certain karma because it was acquired the way it was. But it is also correct that you can diminish that by putting the money to use to helping others.

It really is not something that I from an ascended perspective wish to give you a clear answer on what you should do. It is something you need to sense intuitively what is the best way for you in this situation. You need to ask yourself what is in your Divine plan here? Why did you choose to embody in this country in this family situation? What is the lesson you wanted to learn from this? What is the condition in your psychology that you wanted to force yourself to deal with?

You can always consider that part of it may be that you just want to run away instead of stepping up to a higher level of Christ discernment which is your potential. And so it is always the higher way to look at yourself, look at your reaction, look at your psychology, seek to discover what separate selves are there. When you have worked through the separate selves you will gain greater clarity and you might decide to move to another country, not because you are running away from conditions in your native country, but because you see that it is part of your Divine plan to move to another country.

Frequent nightmares

Question: For the past three months I have been having bad dreams almost every night, like around 90% of the days. I try spiritual remedies, particularly Hindu and Buddhist mantras, to stop bad dreams, but they have not stopped the bad dreams. Please help me. I am suffering badly and I am scared. I have nobody else to ask help from. I hope you can help me.

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

Well, there are two main reasons for having such bad dreams. One is the food you eat or that you eat too much before you go to bed. You need to look at your diet, see what you can change, see if you can avoid eating just before bed and experiment with leaving out a particular food from your diet and see if that improves your dreams. Many, many dreams are simply a product of the food you have eaten the day before.

The other remedy that will be more effective for many people is of course to use our decrees and invocations. This is not to say that you should do only one or the other. The two in combination is of course the most effective. You can especially make calls to the Elohim Astrea to cut you free from any ties to the astral plane or to other people and you can make calls to Archangel Michael for protection.

You can give the invocations also to Archangel Michael and Astrea, and you can give the invocation and decrees to Saint Germain for the consuming of any untransmuted energy in your emotional body that makes you open to this projection. What I am saying is that dreams can be one of two for the main part: They can either be an effect of the food or they can be projections from lower forces often in the emotional realm, sometimes in the mental realm or even from the collective consciousness and other people. By making the calls to protect yourself from this you will see some improvement.

Body positivity

Question: Masters, could you give some guidelines for the body positive or body neutrality field? For example, should someone that is morbidly obese strive for loving the shape of their bodies or their fat cells, or what is a higher view? Is it possible to reach this kind of love at lower stages of the path, or what is a good way to start? I have ideas that have worked for me, but I am only overweight and it is possible that since I have been walking the path for a long time, it is easier for me. If I want to work with other women helping them love their bodies, I would like to know different angles that are important for people at different stages.

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

The entire movement of helping obese people love their bodies is generally constructive, but there are of course always the possibility that some people can take it too far and become unbalanced. Let me propose that there is a subtle but important difference between loving your body as it is and still being open to the potential for change. It is somewhat similar to the Alcoholics Anonymous movement that helps people overcome the effects of alcoholism but makes them think that they need to see themselves as alcoholics for life.

In other words, you can love your obese body but still maintain an open mind that it can change. This of course is a challenge because many obese people have been trapped in the desire to lose weight and this has created strain and stress upon them. But we have before talked about the fact that there are many cases where you need to love a disease or love a bodily condition and come to accept it for what it is as a way to open yourself to change. There is a balance to be found there where you can love your body but still maintain an open mind that you could lose weight. Now, we have also many, many times talked about the fact that there is a connection between mind and body. Even for people who are not open to ascended master teachings or even spiritual teachings, they could still be open to the potential for this mind-body connection and they could therefore be open to the possibility that by seeking psychological resolution they can actually make it possible for their bodies to shed the weight that they have artificially taken on.

Many people have a subconscious reaction going back to past lives – but of course you do not necessarily need to tell them this – but they have a psychological reaction of wanting to isolate and insulate themselves from the world because there is some condition they fear. If they can come to see this fear, see the illusion behind it and let it go, they can actually experience a sometimes dramatic weight loss.

There can of course be more than one psychological block. I encourage you in general to help people accept the body, but not as an excuse for not looking at their psychology and working on their psychology and discovering why they have this subconscious desire to have this insulating layer between themselves and the world. You can of course also take the teachings we gave about accepting the body, even saying: “I am this body.” and fully accepting that you are the body in a sense that you as a psycho-spiritual being are taking command of the body rather than being a product of the body or a victim of the body.

The best way for President Biden to respond to the situation in the Middle East

Question: I am an American Jew of Ukrainian descent, so I feel some ties to my physical ancestors in Israel and Ukraine. Jesus has talked about the Middle East as being the place in the world with the most conflict. Many Americans are divided as to who is right and who is wrong. What is the best path forward for Jews and Palestinians to establish stability in the region? What is the best way for Biden to support the situation? And what are some calls I can make as an ascended master student to help?

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

I have already commented on the situation in other answers, so I refer to this. What I will comment on is what calls you can make. Give the invocations to the Middle East, even the East-West, the two East-West rosaries. Give decrees to Australia and Archangel Michael. But as I said, give this if you feel tied to the region. If you are not tied to the region, find other things to make calls on.

What I will also comment on is what is the best way for President Biden to respond to the situation. Well, this is the kind of situation that nobody really wants to face, especially not an American president. Because as an American president, you are in a very difficult situation when it comes to Israel. Not only do you have a large Jewish community in the United States who have a disproportionate political influence compared to their numbers, but you also have a large Christian contingent who are supporting Israel because it is the Holy Land and wants America to protect it. You cannot refuse to support Israel because it would lead to too much criticism from within the country, from these factions. And on the other hand, you know very well that the last thing you want is to be pulled into some kind of war in the Middle East. How would you respond to the situation? Well, as the joke goes: very carefully. Far, the response has been relatively careful. And you need to try and tread this fine line where you avoid getting involved in a larger conflict with Hezbollah, with other militant groups supported by Iran. And quite frankly, whether this is possible remains to be seen. There is certainly a possibility that the United States can remain in the background.

But there is also a real risk that the situation can escalate into a larger scale war where the United States might decide to step in somehow to defend Israel. And it is clear that if the United States allowed itself to get involved with a larger scale war, this would later, perhaps somewhat later, but it would, in a historical context, be seen as a mistake. And it would be a mistake from an ascended master perspective. It would be wise to avoid such a scenario and to do everything possible to avoid such a scenario. And this is the intention of President Biden and his advisors. We will see whether it can be achieved. If you are an American, you can certainly make calls, or if you otherwise feel moved to make these calls, that America will not be pulled into a war in the Middle East.

How to retain your sanity in the face of insanity of the Israel-Hamas war?

Question: The tragedy of the events of October 7th in Israel and the humanitarian catastrophe we are witnessing in Gaza right now, as is being played out in real time, are events the likes of which I would have hoped never to have seen in my lifetime. How do we not lose hope in the face of such horror? How do we keep from despairing when we see all of this happening before our very eyes? What can we do to stop it? Can the ascended masters help us to make sense of the senseless? How do people retain their sanity in the face of this insanity?

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

Well, I have no answer to the question of how people in general retain their sanity in the face of such insanity. Most people do not, but those who have a higher humanity, they do, because they will look to a more long-term solution.

As ascended master students, you have the tools to maintain your sanity. You can give whatever calls you feel moved to give, but you can also accept what I have said in my previous answers, that when people are trapped in the School of Hard Knocks, sometimes even we of the ascended masters must stand back and allow events to outplay themselves until people have had enough. Now, we have said before that as we are moving closer and closer into the golden age, there will be periods where the transition cannot always happen in small incremental steps. There must be more dramatic events that shifts people’s attitude quicker than taking decades to achieve a change. I have said before that we are into a phase and a decade where things must become more extreme, more pronounced, so that people can see it. You can adopt this attitude and say: “This is what is happening, and it is just a matter of when people have had enough and can see the need for change.” You can make calls for this to happen, but quite frankly, unless you live in the region or are closely tied to the region, there are many other calls that it will be more important to make calls on.

Again, we have not said much about the Middle East. We have not really encouraged the student body at large to give calls on this, but if you are tied to the region, then you should do what calls you feel prompted to make from within. But first of all, you need to adopt this attitude that sometimes things need to be allowed to outplay themselves so that people can come to see what they have not been willing to see. This is always the problem that blocks progress, that there is something people are not willing to see. They are not willing to look at themselves and acknowledge: “We have to change, not those other people. They may have to change too, but we have to change and we need to start by changing ourselves.”

A spiritual reason for the Israel-Hamas war

Question: Is there a spiritual reason for the Israel-Hamas war? Is Putin involved behind the scenes?

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

Well, Putin is not directly involved, but, of course, he is seeking to take advantage of the situation to divert attention from the war in Ukraine.

Is there a spiritual reason? Yes, as I have explained in the previous two answers. The spiritual reason is that too many people in the region are trapped in the School of Hard Knocks, in the dualistic mindset of ‘an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth’. And, therefore, tensions continue to build until there is some kind of explosion that then perhaps makes the inhumanity more visible, more unbearable, until there is a willingness to change.

The spiritual reason is there is no willingness to change. Even the Palestinians do not have a sincere willingness to change. That is why sooner or later an eruption happens. You know from volcanoes that when the pressure starts building, sooner or later there will be an explosion.

What would be a higher response from the Israeli government to Hamas’ attack?

Question: What is the correct response, according to the ascended master’s perspective, for how the Israeli government should address the actions of the terrorist organization that perpetrated the atrocities upon 1400 people in Israel on October 7th? I take it that the current response they are adopting is not the correct or Christlike response that the ascended masters would advocate.

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

Well, even though I have commented somewhat on this in the previous answer, I will give some further remarks here.

It is clear that the higher response from the Israeli government would be to recognize that Hamas does not represent all of the Palestinian people. You can see that you have two options here. You can either label Hamas as a terrorist organization or you cannot. If you label it as a terrorist organization, you must acknowledge that it is not representing or supported by a majority of the Palestinian people. And if you do this, then you cannot allow yourself to wage an indis-criminate war that will lead to the killing of more Palestinians than were killed of your own countrymen. This cannot be a higher response, nor can it be a response that will earn Israel goodwill in the democratic part of the world. As I said, Israel is relying on the support of the democratic part of the world, and so far, they have been supportive, but there is no democratic country that in the long run will be able to support the indiscriminate killing of civilians, the destruction of hospitals, the destruction of civilian infrastructure, so people die because there is no medicine in the hospitals or even electricity in the hospitals.

And it simply is not a solution to commit what is a borderline genocide on the Palestinian population. If there is one nation that cannot allow itself to do this, it would be Israel. If Israel was able to step outside of their own mental box and look at the situation from a larger perspective.

What would be a better response? Well, quite frankly, a better response would be to appeal to the international community to step in and help Israel in this situation. I know that this would be a very difficult situation, but it would be a wiser response than taking this unilateral action that Israel seems to be determined to take. What would be a better response would be to say this is a police action to take out the terrorists, not a military action to basically level the Gaza Strip. This would have been wiser. I am not saying it would be realistic, but it would have been wiser. Because obviously, no democratic country could support this. However, the reason why the Israeli government has not been willing to do this is that they are not really willing to do what it takes to resolve the Palestinian issue.That is, to create a Palestinian state.

What could be an eventual outcome of this is that more and more democratic nations and other nations call for a Palestinian state or at least a long-term solution. And then the international community must step in and create a situation where the Palestinian people actually have a future to look forward to. But this, of course, would require Arab nations to also step up and say: “Well, then we must take responsibility. We must be a part of the burden. And we must be willing to work with both Israel and the international community to bring this situation about.” I am not saying that this would in any way be easy. Even as an ascended master, I could not sit down and give you an easy solution to the issue. Because the Middle East is more divided among different groups and factions than any other part of the world. There is no easy solution to this. You look at the situation in Syria and in Lebanon, and you can see that if there is to be a viable Palestinian state, there must be a dramatic change in Lebanon.

And there must be a change in Syria. This is not an easy situation to manifest. It is more of a long-term goal. But, as I have said earlier, it is really a matter of how hard do the knocks have to become before there is a sincere willingness to change course, to change the approach. That is a question I cannot answer. And, of course, no single person or group of people can answer it either.

The constructive response to the Israel-Hamas war

Question: The situation in the Middle East seems to illustrate again the tragedy of the endless cycles of violence and revenge. It seems that nobody considers the option of showing the other cheek as remotely possible. What would the ascended masters consider a response from the political groups that goes somewhat towards a long-term solution for the region?

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

Well, there is a reason why we in later years have said relatively little about the Middle East. And the reason is that the region is enveloped in this consciousness that is the essence of the School of Hard Knocks where the majority of the people in the region simply are not open to learning in any other way than through the School of Hard Knocks. As we have said before, the question is how hard do the knocks have to become before people wake up and come to their senses. It is clear that neither the Jewish religion nor the Muslim religion really seriously preaches turning the other cheek.

You cannot really expect that this is going to be the prevailing response. Unfortunately, it is probably a matter of the region having to see inhumanity on a much larger scale before they have had enough of the bloodshed, the revenge, the “an eye for an eye” and a ‘bomb for a bomb’ and come to see the need to step up to a higher level of humanity.

Obviously, this is a process that has been going on for some time. You can see various signs of this in various countries. But you still see how quickly a situation can escalate into hostility and even the potential for a larger scale war.

Really, at this point, there is very little potential that any of the sides will turn the other cheek because they simply cannot see the advantage of doing this. This is, of course, something you can step back and say: “Well, why cannot they see it?” And they cannot see it because they are trapped in duality and they are blinded by their state of consciousness. Realistically, of course, you can say that Israel’s very existence is due to the international community having a positive view towards the Jews and their right to have a home country.

If the Jews start behaving towards the Palestinians in a way that is in blatant violation of the democratic ideals of the countries that support the state of Israel, then how can they expect that they will continue to be supported? And if they are not, how can they continue to survive? But could you explain this to the Jewish leadership and a large part of the Jewish people? I am not sure that I could. Then, of course, you have the Palestinians. Is there any realistic possibility that the Palestinians could improve their situation, perhaps achieve their own state? Well, it would only be because of the international community. But are the democratic countries going to support the Palestinians after what Hamas just did, supposedly on behalf of all Palestinians? You see, again, why are the Palestinians not seeing that their best opportunity to improve their situation is nonviolence? Well, because they are trapped in the same mindset. Of course, it is clear, as some democratic leaders have already started saying, that you cannot return to the situation that was before the attack and there needs to be a long-term solution that will involve a Palestinian state.

However, exactly how this can come about is by no means an easy thing to accomplish. Even if we avoid a larger-scale war, I foresee a very long and painful process that will test the resolve of the international community and the democratic world.

I will say that I would very strongly advise the American government to stay out of a war in the Middle East. But as we have said before, even said in the invocation you gave earlier, the Christians in America have this determination to defend the Holy Land and this could potentially bring America into the conflict, which would be a major mistake.

How to convert water into wine

Question: When are the masters going to teach us how to convert water into wine?

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

Never, since we do not recommend that you drink alcohol. It is not really a very useful skill.

But joking aside, in this day and age, we have already explained that the visible phenomena, the so-called miracles that Jesus produced are not really necessary or not even allowed by cosmic law because it is necessary that people instead use their intuition to develop Christ discernment so they do not need to see these physical manifestations in order to acknowledge the existence of the spiritual side of life. We have no desire to manifest this kind of phenomena in order to attract people to our teachings.

Who decides in what situation people will reincarnate

Question: The masters have said that many Nazis are reincarnated as Jews. Being a people that has been persecuted historically by others and considered chosen of God by themselves, they needed to experience the Jew idiosyncratic mindset to probably raise their consciousness. Yet now that all these animosities are raised again against and in their favor, especially as they have been attacked in such a horrific way, not placing a blind eye to what they have done to Palestinians in Gaza, will not this reincarnation within the people they oppressed may confuse the world into who the world shows support? Especially St. Germain, given the history. They immediately supported Israel as to say they are supporting Nazis reincarnated as Jews. Won’t being reincarnated in such a way, instead of unlocking the blockage in the consciousness, reinforce the duality of the struggle? How is it chosen and decided that a group of people may reincarnate like this, the Karmic Board or lifestreams themselves?

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

It is partly the Karmic Board that decides who is going to incarnate and in what situation they are going to reincarnate in. If the people have a higher awareness, they are also part of the decision-making process. But those who have a fairly low awareness are often not willing to work with us and therefore they are simply assigned based on what has the greatest opportunity to awaken them. And in many cases this is that if they have persecuted a particular group of people, they will reincarnate in their next embodiment among those group of people so they experience the situation from the persecuted side. You can predict right now, of course, that there are many among the Jewish people who will reincarnate in their next embodiment as Palestinians and many among the Palestinians who will reincarnate as Jews. Of course, you can go back and say, what is the difference between Palestinians and Jews? What you call Jews today are those who left Palestine and what you call Palestinians today are the Jews who stayed in Palestine.

It is a matter of the people coming to see this, coming to see that there is really no difference and that they are sort of fighting or persecuting each other. Now, of course, this is not to say that there are not people among the Jews and the Palestinians who are not part of this group, as we have said, some among the Nazis reincarnated in Israel, but some even among the Palestinians. But there are also other people from other parts of the world who have incarnated in both groups. And they are among them the people who are very fanatical and who are willing to use violence on a larger scale. And this is, of course, what you see in Hamas with the attack that was clearly targeted at civilians, but you also see it among the Jewish leaders who are also targeting civilians. And both of them are doing things that are clearly against international law, clearly against humanitarian concerns. And it shows you that on both sides, you find these people, a relative minority, small minority, but they have no humanity. They have no concerns for humanity.

And a potential higher outcome of the situation could be that the majority of the population come to see this and come to see that a new approach is needed, that cannot be allowed to go to this blatant disrespect for humanity.

Is Kim going to retire soon?

Question: Kim, would you like to retire soon? Have you had enough of this experience? Will there be a replacement for you and will the Masters make something like this known?

Answer from Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2023 American webinar.

I have no plans or desire to retire. I have not had enough of this experience. I am happy to serve the masters and I am happy to see that many people are helped by the teachings. If there will be a replacement for me, that is up to the masters to decide. They could announce this anytime if they want to. I mean, I am open to it.

But if you look at it historically, in the last several dispensations, Summit Lighthouse, the I AM movement, it has not actually been announced within the movement. None of these movements really had another messenger anointed that could continue the work of the main messenger. It had to be that people had the discernment enough to find a messenger outside the movement. This could change. I mean, the masters can do whatever they want as far as I am concerned. But I really have no idea at this point of what they are going to do or not do. I cannot really answer the question, I guess, other and to say that as long as the masters want me to serve, I am happy to serve.

The Book of Job

Question: Was Job a fictional character? Reading the Book of Job sounds like an allegory. If Job was a fictional character, what was the purpose of this story? What can we learn from it, if anything?

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

Yes, Job was a fictional character. And the entire Book of Job and the entire idea that God intentionally puts people into these very difficult trials is really not something that comes from the ascended masters. It is clear that there are people who can relate to this because they have had a difficult life and because they have this attitude that everything is according to God’s will. If something bad happens in their lives, it must be God who wills it. Since this happened to Job and he was eventually exonerated in the end, they hope this will happen to them also if they withstand all of these trials.

But to be blunt, this is simply something that was inspired by the fallen beings in order to defend their angry God in the sky, this personal God who will send people to hell if they do not obey him, but will take them to heaven if they pass all of their tests.

The reality that we teach is that God is not the one who creates the difficulties in your life. It is a reflection of your state of consciousness and what you project into the cosmic mirror. Instead of just enduring the trials and remaining faithful to this non-existent God, you need to look at your psychology, look at your consciousness, overcome the separate selves and change what you are projecting out.

Can the Jehovah’s Witnesses religion be transformed?

Question: The Jehovah’s Witnesses religion is a very closed system. Is there a chance for it to be transformed from the inside?

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

Well, it is a very, very difficult situation, because the only people in the Jehovah’s Witnesses system that could transform it is the women, but because of the attitude towards women, this would of course be very difficult to be done, but it can of course very slowly be done by women coming to talk about what I have just talked about in my dictation.

There must be something you love more than these worldly things, or these principles of this religion, and it is your children. And what is best for your children? What is best for your family members? Is it really right that you can communicate with family members who have left Jehovah’s Witnesses? Is that what is the best thing for yourselves and your children? Women can have an impact in this way of making the men see that they have gone too far. They have, to be blunt, become too fanatical in their approach. Perhaps this could be a start of a new movement, but really the likelihood that this will happen is not very high. It is certainly not something that we of the ascended masters are trying to work with because there are so few people that we can work with within the system.

How to talk about spiritual concepts in a neutral way

Question: I am in the healing profession. I help guide people to reprogram their minds and bodies so that they may heal and enjoy being in embodiment. As a forerunner, along with countless others, for this new approach to healing, of empowering the individual to heal their body by healing their mind, what is the best way to introduce the spiritual nature of things in a neutral way? I can offer guidance on nutrition, changing beliefs, energetic hygiene, and movement in the four lower bodies. But I want to bring the invocations and understanding of our spiritual nature, including the chakra system. However, I do not want to be associated with a New Age approach to healing. I do not want to be put in that box. What is a more balanced, neutral, and scientific approach to introducing our spiritual nature? What is a baby step in this direction?

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

Well, a baby step in the direction is to talk about energy. We have talked about this many, many times, given various teachings about it, that everything is energy, and therefore, you have not only a physical body, but an energy body. In fact, you have three energy bodies, the emotional, mental and identity.

This leads then to a neutral talk about the flow of energy through the body. This makes it possible to introduce the concept of the energy centers, the chakras. And, of course, in the long run, you can then introduce, well, where does the energy actually come from? Is it only material energy? Does it only come from the material aspect of the world, or does it come from a higher source, your higher self? Based on this, you can introduce, well, what can you do about energy? How can you protect yourself, protect your energy field from all of these lower influences from the collective consciousness, and even lower forces, potentially?

Well, you need to invoke energy from a higher realm, but where is this going to come from? You might simply take a look at the two new websites that the messenger has created, The Age of Higher Awareness, and Higher Awareness Psychology, and see what you can find of inspiration on them, and then adapt it to your own background, your own situation, and the healing work you have been doing so far.

It is not a matter of introducing this messenger, or necessarily even ascended masters, but of course, when you are talking about invoking energy from a higher source, and introducing invocations and decrees, you need to introduce that these are given by ascended masters, and they work because they invoke energy from us. You need to find a way, based on your specific situation that you are working in, that works for you, and this is entirely possible to do, and both you and many other people have the potential to do this.

Again, the messenger needs and wants no credit. You are free to take the teachings and adapt them as you want.

Brutal assassination of the president of Haiti

Question: The last president of Haiti was brutally murdered. Some think he was a sacrificial lamb—someone with a mission, and whose death was of great significance, while others think he was someone with the best of intentions, but did not understand what he was getting himself into. Any comments from the masters will be greatly appreciated.

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

Well, Haiti is unfortunately in a very chaotic situation, where the collective consciousness is so low that there is very little that we can say that would make a difference. We have made a few comments before that you can go through. But what I will say is that the president who was murdered can have a positive impact on the country if people begin to look for the lesson of how could it be that a person who had seemingly good intentions was murdered? How can a country allow something like this to happen? What is it that created this situation, and what is it that needs to be changed before the country can move on?

There are many, many factors here. But as we have said before, voodoo is definitely, and the entire voodoo religion is definitely one of the factors. It creates chaos in the emotional body of a nation, and it also has an impact on the mental body, even on the lower identity body, where people come to identify themselves based on these beliefs.

Chocolate, cocoa and coffee

Question: Masters, I read that in the Summit Lighthouse, the master said that coffee and chocolate were crops designed by lower beings. I would like to ask about the health impact of these foods, because I am a researcher in this field, and a common knowledge is that compounds that are contained in coffee, tea, and chocolate, called polyphenoids, show a positive impact on human health. I would like to ask, are polyphenoids good for human health? Is pure cocoa with no sugar added good for human health? Thank you.

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

Well, the question cannot really be answered in this general way that it is asked, because what does it mean that something is good for human health? There can certainly be compounds that have an effect on a specific aspect of human health, or on specific diseases, or specific bodily conditions. And you can say that there are many of the foods on earth that fall in this category. They have a specific impact on certain things. But you also know from medicine that something can have a positive impact on one condition, but have side effects, or even have a negative impact on other conditions.

However, what was said in the Summit Lighthouse was not primarily about the physical health, but more of the impact on your emotional, mental, and identity bodies, and your overall spiritual growth, where there is a tendency that chocolate, and coffee, and tea do not have a positive impact on your growth. I am not necessarily in this dispensation recommending that people abstain completely from these foods. We have preferred to leave this up to your individual discretion. There are some people for whom the impact is minimal, but there are others for which it would be beneficial for them to abstain from this. There is a need to tune into this individually through your intuition. But again, you can only do this if you put yourself in a neutral state of mind, and do not have a preconceived opinion about what the answer should be for you personally.

How to inspire other people

Question: I have a question about sharing the invocations with people as a way to connect. I realize some people are searching for a deeper connection out there, but perhaps not everyone is ready to experience that through invocations. Also, when the student is ready, the teacher appears, lingers in my mind, and I feel maybe this is not the best step to facilitating connection with others. I realize not everyone has to be an ascended master student to raise their awareness and connect, and perhaps that is a bit of a leap for some.

I feel like certainly there is a way to facilitate connection and inspire others that there is more to life. I realize just sharing bits of information can facilitate that awareness and be inspiring to see past viewpoints, but the invocations may help too. Can the masters comment on this?

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

Well, when the student is ready, the teacher appears, but does not that also mean that the teacher has to be ready? What if there are students that are ready, but the teacher is not ready? In other words, any serious spiritual student has the potential to be a teacher for those who have not walked as far along the path as they have. But the question is whether people are willing or daring to step forward and express themselves. It is certainly valid to share the teachings with others, to share invocations and decrees, and you can do it in the sense that this helped me, perhaps it will help you. And then you can select the invocations that you think are more easy for people from a particular background to accept, especially people that come from the same background that you came from.

Find the invocations that you think they can most easily accept and then share that with them. There are many ways to do it. You can do it on the internet, YouTube, various ways, and certainly if you feel a prompting from within to do this, then look at what separate selves you have that resists this, that oppose this, that say: “Oh you should not do it.”, that make you in doubt, that make you afraid to do it, that argue why you should not do it, why people are not ready, and this and that. All of this is argumentation coming from separate selves. If you are putting yourself out there, you are making an offer to people, and then you leave it up to them if they accept it or not. You have to realize if you have not put yourself out there and shared, they do not have the option to accept or reject. Only when you put yourself out there do you give them the option. If you feel it is important for you, share and leave it up to people, and do not be discouraged, and allow time to pass before you make any kind of decisions with your outer minds or whether to continue doing it or not.

How to safely invest surplus savings?

Question: If the stock market is a pyramid scheme, are there any viable alternatives for retirement accounts to invest in? Are government bonds more spiritually acceptable? Are bonds perpetuating an unsustainable debt-based economy and yet another example of investors trying to make money out of money? At the personal level, how should a spiritual person invest excess savings to be used later in life? I’d love an answer that questions many of the core assumptions and misconceptions that people have about saving and investing.

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

Well this is of course a large topic, but I will give a few remarks here. If I was in embodiment and had a retirement plan or retirement scheme, I would not invest in the stock market. Certainly not in any of these hedge funds that are out there.

I might invest in very select stocks for companies that I believe are not overvalued, where the stock is not yet a subject of speculation, but where it is actually based on the earnings of the company and also whether that company is part of the more progressive trend of bringing the economy forward. Government bonds is acceptable as a traditional, more safe value for storing money. You can of course invest in gold, but this should not be seen as a way to make money, more as a way to preserve the value of the money. You can look for other investments that are not as risk-based, that are not clearly part of some financial scheme, but there are few such investments available at the moment. You would choose the safest options. It is clear they will not make as much money as some of the others have been doing for the last several decades. But if you have a stock market crash next week, then your savings could be severely compromised if they are invested in the stock market. And we have said before that part of this whole scheme to allow retirement funds to be used to invest in the stock market is so that the fallen beings can go to the government and say, look, you have to save the stock market because otherwise everybody is going to lose their retirement.

And then the government might feel forced to do this as they did in 2008. You might say that this entire thing of allowing pension funds to be invested in stocks is the insurance scheme of the fallen beings. Definitely I recommend other forms of more safe investments, more conservative, you might say, investments. There is of course also real estate, but again, there are many markets where real estate is so overvalued that it is actually a risky investment. But there will of course always be a need for people to have a place to live.