Michaels – Page 2 – Ascended Master Answers

Ability to access memory

Question: Could you elaborate on my conclusion, from many experiences, that our ability to access memory, our remembrance, and all that is associated with it, seems to be closely related to my identity, by which I experienced it. And if I try to recall a memory by being in a different identity that is of the same level of consciousness or higher, I can access this memory. But when I express, through an identity that is of a lower consciousness, I keep totally forgetting what I knew, which happened primarily when I embodied. And two side questions about memories or recollections. Are they retained through something similar to a self?

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

Well, it is a complex topic, so to give you a simplified version that is not meant to be complete, there are some memories that are experienced, there are some situations that are experienced through a particular subconscious self. And those memories are colored by the self, and therefore, you can recall those memories when you are in that self, but if you are out of that self, whether you are in a higher self or a lower self, it can be difficult to recall the memories. Because the memories are not just observations, they are imbued with feelings. Through a self, you will often have a very emotional reaction to a situation, and your memories are therefore, colored by that, and they can often be triggered by similar emotions or similar situations, where you react through the same self.

But there are also memories that are more neutral, that are not particularly colored by strong emotions, you are just observing. And those memories are not attached to a particular self, and therefore, in some cases, can be easier to recall, or they can be recalled in more different situations. But of course, memories can also be obscured by many factors, anywhere from physical factors that impede the brain’s ability to tune into memories, or even emotional mental and identity level subconscious selves that can block memories.

There are some memories that are created through a self, or your reaction to a situation was created through a self, that you do not want to remember, the self does not want you to remember them. And even the Conscious You can decide that it does not want to remember certain things. And if the Conscious You decides, then you need to become aware that you made that decision and become willing to remember before you can remember.

As I said, some memories are retained through a self. But we have explained at this conference that there are elementals that form your identity, mental and emotional bodies, and that they form, like a screen that you can write upon. And one of the things you write upon these screens is memories. But of course, even what is written on the screen, it is not as simple as a flat screen, can be obscured by subconscious selves. But there are also processes in the brain that make it difficult.

Now contrary to what science claims, memories are not stored in the brain. They are stored at the emotional, mental and identity level. How you recall a memory is, in most cases, that the brain must connect to the emotional, mental and identity body or all three. And there can be factors at the level of the brain that makes it difficult for your brain to connect in general or connect to certain memories. And this is often completely random. It is not because you do not want to remember. It is just that the brain is so complex that it cannot connect. It is a little bit like a computer where a particular data set is stored in a particular location on the computer’s drive. But somehow, the operating system has lost the connection to where it is stored. There are other factors, of course, such as fatigue or various diseases that impede memory.

How to dissolve a self

Question: Is it enough to see a self and decree for it and direct light at it, and will this dissolve it? Would invoking light into a separate self, would that dissolve the self?

Answer through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2026 Kazakhstan Conference.

I’ll just give a brief summary here, because the masters have talked about this before. A self does have a certain amount of energy, and you can dissolve that energy by invoking light. But the self is based on a belief, and no matter how much light you invoke, the belief is not going to disappear until you consciously look at it and release it. You see it is an illusion, you see it limits you, and you let it go.

You have to let the self die, but it is very possible that the energy obscures the self and prevents you from seeing the self. That is why it is beneficial to invoke the light when you become aware of a self, make the calls for it, but you have to be willing to also look at it and see it. And what I always say, this thing about it is going in circles, it is because you have not actually seen the self. You have seen that there is something there, but you have not seen the belief behind it. You can see, for example, that you react to certain situations, but you have not seen the belief of why you think you need to react, and why you think you need to react that way.

You have to continue to look at it from different perspectives. And usually after some time, it can take some time, but there usually comes a point where now you see it, and then you can release it.

Origin of human beings

Question: Mainstream science posits that all humanity originated in Africa, sharing a common ancestry traced through mitochondrial DNA. I find this narrative flawed. For instance, if the population from the Congo were to migrate to Iceland, they would not spontaneously develop the light skin and sharp nose of Scandinavians, even after a hundred generations, as their foundational DNA is fundamentally different. Instead, my theory is that the diverse races on earth actually originated from all different planets, whether through physical migration or immaterial incarnation. I postulate that elsewhere in the universe, the basic unit of race and culture is the planet itself, resulting in homogenous planetary populations. Earth, therefore, is a highly unique anomaly, a convergence of various origins, which perhaps explains the perpetual turmoil and conflict we experience here. How do the masters perceive this theory regarding the origins of earth’s diverse races?

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

Well, we have talked about this before, so I will give a brief summary here. The current scientific theory is, of course, incomplete for a variety of reasons, but even because science is contradicting itself. And science has put itself in a catch-22, because they are using DNA to disprove the biblical theory that all human beings originated with Adam and Eve. They are saying it is impossible that all people could have just two ancestors, because the gene pool would be too narrow and humanity would not survive. At the same time, they are saying that the appearance of human beings is a result of a random process of genetic mutations, and they realize that the likelihood that random mutations would bring forth a body as sophisticated as the human body is very small, and therefore, they want to believe that it only happened once. You see, whether they originated in the Garden of Eden or somewhere in Africa, it is the same problem. The gene pool would be too narrow. The reality is that despite fossil evidence, you will never find one physical location on earth where human beings appeared physically. It happened in several locations at the same time because, as we have explained in this conference, elemental life brought forth human bodies because the Elohim superimposed the thought matrix of human bodies upon the elementals, and they did it in different places at the same time.

But the Elohim did not impose a matrix of different races. That is a result of what we have also called this elemental evolution, where the Elohim projects a matrix, then withdraws and lets the elementals evolve variations over the theme. And that is why the elementals have created or generated the different races, or what you call races. This is based on the fact that the elementals who were allowed to take on the form of human bodies were very advanced. They were the most advanced elementals working with the animal kingdom. They had a lot of experience of how to adapt to circumstances, to environments, and therefore, they adapted different populations to the climate, and this is what you perceive as races. Biologically, there are many scientists who say there are no races. You cannot find genetic causes of what you call race. It is a cultural construct.

It is correct that earth has a greater diversity than a natural planet, because beings from many different planets, both natural and unnatural, have over time been allowed to embody on earth. But this has nothing to do with race. And it certainly is not correct that beings from other planets migrated to earth physically. That is simply a human construction that is not in alignment with facts.

A regime change in Iran

Question: The recent removal of Khamenei presents a complex moral dilemma. As a ruthless dictator responsible for the massacre of 30,000 civilians demanding democracy, his departure is undeniably a positive development for the Iranian people. However, the method of his removal, a sudden targeted strike by the United States, without a formal declaration of war, is a clear violation of international law. While the elimination of a tyrant brings immediate relief, is it ultimately beneficial for the Iranian people that this was executed through foreign military intervention? Or for the sake of their nation’s true historical progression and liberation, must the overthrow of such a regime be achieved organically by the citizens themselves?

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

A regime change does not have to happen by the citizens themselves physically overthrowing or executing the dictator. But it should ideally happen by a shift in a critical mass of the people where they shift out of the consciousness that has allowed the dictator to control them. And it is perfectly true that removing Khamenei himself has not removed the regime, neither the political leaders, nor the military leaders, nor the Republican Guard. Really, the situation of the Iranian people so far has not really changed. They are probably even more suppressed and feel more suppressed than before.

Now you can look to Venezuela and say, was not this a successful coup by the United States? But what did they do? They basically left the Maduro regime in power. And do the people of Venezuela feel more free than before? Not really, because they are not more free.

What you need to recognize as a spiritual student is that you can look at the physical regime and you can say, if you take a traditional view, “these are the people suppressing the population, these physical people are physically suppressing the population.” But that is never the case. There is always a component of consciousness. There is an element in the Iranian people’s consciousness that has allowed this regime to stay in position for so long. And this is a complex matrix, but the main element is that many among the Iranian people, especially in rural areas, have what we have talked about before, this unwillingness to change themselves and their lifestyle, this suspicion of change, this fear of change, this wanting to hold on to traditional values.

Then you have the element of Islam, which was not there before this current regime came into power. It was not as strong. But it has now been really very heavily put upon the Iranian people. And because they have not been willing to question Islam and they were not really willing to it before either, they have become pulled in by this propaganda of Islam. And if you can see the emotional, mental, identity level, you will see that there is a very, very heavy, very aggressive collective beast hanging over the Iranian nation.

And it is not the physical regime that is preventing change. It is this beast. But the thing is, how does the beast survive? Because there are still too many people feeding their energies into it by being afraid of change and by not wanting, not daring to abandon Islam and demand a secular nation. Now Iran is not the only Muslim nation that has such a beast. All the others have it also. But it is very strong in Iran. And this is what needs to shift. And this is what the people can do, regardless of the physical suppression. They can change the entire equation by stopping to feed their energies to the beast. But so far, not sufficient numbers of people have been willing to do this. And that is why a regime is still in place.

Now of course, what the Americans did and the Israelis did, yes, it is a violation of international law. But it is also an expression of an incredible arrogance of thinking, as we have said so many times, that is characteristic of fallen beings, that they can formulate an image in their mind of how reality should be, and then reality just has to conform to their image.

And you see how Trump, when the Maduro situation happened, felt validated that he could declare how reality is and it would conform to it. But this time it did not work. The question now is, in terms of the American people, will a sufficient number of Trump supporters, including congressmen and senators and members of the Republican body, will they be willing to question the infallibility of their leader? He of course will not be willing to do it himself, as Netanyahu is not able or willing to do it. You can see that there is also a very heavy beast or cloud over America, especially in the Republican states and around Washington, D.C., that is blinding people so they do not dare to question Trump. There is a similar beast over Israel, so they do not dare to question Netanyahu and the aggression of Israel against its neighbors. There are too many people in Israel who have the attitude of living by the sword and thinking this is the only way Israel can survive. And I am not saying that Israel cannot survive by living by the sword, but it cannot survive as a democracy supported by other democratic nations.

12-year cycle and the end of the regime in North Korea

Question: If I recall correctly, Master Saint Germain mentioned last year that the upcoming 12 years would be highly volatile, characterized by significant shifts in dictatorial regimes. Barely a year has passed and we have already witnessed the removal of two such leaders, Maduro in Venezuela and Khamenei in Iran. In light of this, can we expect a tangible shift in the power structure of North Korea within this 12-year time frame or perhaps over the next two decades?

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

Yes, you can indeed expect significant shifts in North Korea over the next 12 years. Again, there is always free will. We have explained before that Putin has exceeded his natural lifespan and is kept in embodiment partly because many people still support him, partly because many people are afraid of what is going to happen in Russia if he is not there anymore.

And you have a similar dynamic in North Korea, where there are people who have been so brainwashed their whole lives, that they will support Kim Jong-un no matter what. But there are also a growing number of people who are simply afraid of what would happen if he was not there. They are partly afraid of chaos, but they are also afraid that they would be taken over by South Korea because, again, they have been brainwashed to believe that the people of South Korea would be more tyrannical towards them than their own government. This is, of course, a complete fiction, a result of very heavy propaganda, because the people of South Korea want only the best for the people of the North. But nevertheless, this needs to shift before Kim Jong-un, his sister, his daughter, and others can be removed from power. And it is very likely that it will shift within the next 12 years, and it is not necessarily towards the end of the 12 years. But as I said, there must be a shift in the North Korean population where they begin to disbelieve the propaganda and ask themselves some questions of why, if they have such a divine leader, they are so poor and barely have enough to feed their children. And what would actually happen if he was removed? Would they be better off than they are now?

I foresee this happening. It is already in the process of happening, in large part because the students of South Korea, the ascended master students, have been so steadfast in their cause and their vision of a united Korea.

How can you know whether it is time to step out publicly?

Question: After experiencing the Presence, I began studying depth psychology and have been on this path for 10 years. Five of those years, I have been working specifically with my cosmic birth trauma. Recently, I had a spontaneous experience of a temporary dissolution of my personality. After this, a question arose. If the process of ascension has truly begun, what will happen to my children, my mother and my loved ones? At the same time, I feel a desire to enter into a committed partnership. I am a practicing psychologist and have developed a methodology that accelerates the psychotherapeutic process. My plans include creating a retreat center, a clinic and a school, with the possibility of expanding internationally to contribute to the renewal of the psychotherapy system by integrating meditation, body-based practices and more effective professional training. Over the past three years, I have experienced intense spiritual attacks despite inner preparation. There remains a fear of stepping onto the broader stage. My questions are, is this aligned with my Divine plan, and how can I recognize that? How can I avoid holding myself back from realizing that I have consciously been moving forward? And how can one reconcile the path of ascension with outer world manifestation and achievement?

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

First of all, you have to recognize that the experience you have of a dissolution of part of your personality does not mean that the ascension process has begun. This is part of what it means to overcome subconscious selves. This can happen as a very gradual process, but some people experience a more abrupt shift where it can feel as if part of your personality has dissolved, or even all of your outer personality has dissolved. This messenger a few years ago went through this sense as if he was a nobody. He had no opinions, no personality left. This is just a temporary phase, though, and there will come a point where you develop a higher sense of self, a higher sense of identity, based on the individuality of your I AM Presence. What happens is that the outer personality can be dissolved, but then you can lock into the individuality in your Presence. You do not need to say: “Oh, I cannot go on with my professional development because what if I am taken out of embodiment and ascend?” That is not a realistic evaluation. You need to continue to hold the image that you will have time left in your Divine plan to begin these activities.

Now, all people who step up to Christhood will feel some opposition, some projections from lower forces, from specific other people that are close to them or from the mass consciousness. That is just inevitable. It is so to speak the cost of doing business as a Christed being. This is just to be expected and dealt with. But it is, of course, a sign that you are getting so close to Christhood that you are being seen as a threat by the dark forces. And this is an indication to you that you are approaching the level where you are ready to step forward.

How can you know whether it is time to step out publicly? Well, you can only know from within, and you can only know intuitively. What we can say is that when you are at that point, the question: “Am I ready?” fades away. The fact that you are asking an external source this question shows that you are not quite there. Why are you not quite there? Because you have some separate selves that are blocking you, that are seeking to give you an excuse. You need to use your background in psychology, our teachings about the subconscious selves, to just deal with this last hurdle. And when you shift and see those selves and see them for what they are, the question: “Is it time to start?” will just fade away. It will be obsolete.

Armenia in the EU?

Question: I have a question about the future development prospects of Armenia. The Republic of Armenia is located in the Caucasus region and borders Iran, Azerbaijan, Turkey, and Georgia. In 1915, the Ottoman Empire, Turkey, carried out the Armenian genocide and killed 1.5 million Armenians. In 2020 and 2023, Azerbaijan conducted military operations at Nagorno-Karabakh, and around 100,000 Armenians from Artsakh were forced to leave their homes and flee to Armenia. What are the prospects for Armenia’s democratic development and possible accession to the EU in the near future? Will Nikol Pashinyan be able to continue the course towards European integration, or will pro-Russian forces come to power in the elections? What are the spiritual causes behind the Armenian genocide carried out by the Ottoman Empire? What qualities are characteristic of the Armenian people as a whole? Personally, I can point to their humanity, kindness, willingness to help others, strong family values and creative potential.

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

Well, it is a good development that you are seeking to approach the EU. It is not realistic in the near future, partly because there are certain demands for gaining membership of the EU that you are not meeting yet, and partly because there is a very strong opposition from Russia. You are talking about pro-Russian forces, but let us just talk about Russia itself who are directing these forces, and there is a very strong opposition to this. As long as the Putin Empire is intact and the current empirical attitude of Russia is intact, there will be that strong opposition, and they will simply attempt to inflame the conflicts within the country and with its neighbors so there will be more of these conflicts.

In terms of the spiritual causes behind the Armenian genocide, well, it is really—I understand the question, but it is not really realistic to talk about spiritual causes. You are talking more about karmic forces that go way back beyond recorded history. Really, what happens in these situations is that there is a group of people who in a distant past created karma by attacking another group of people, and now the roles are reversed. And it may seem that in the meantime, the Armenian people have made progress and become less aggressive, and I will not disagree that they have, but in 1915 it was not enough to stop the development. Today they have made more progress.

What you still see in these regions, not just in Armenia, but in the regions in general around them, is this wanting to hold onto something old, traditional values, a certain lifestyle, a certain way of looking at life. And many among the people still hold onto this, especially those who live outside cities in rural areas. And this goes for the entire region, including most of Turkey, where there is still this holding onto the old, and that prevents the unfolding of the creative potential.

Really, the situation could change once the Putin regime is no longer in power. But it depends on whether Russia can make the transition to abandon its ambitions of becoming an empire and its willingness to use force. In that case, both Georgia and Armenia could potentially, including Moldova, become members of the EU, and it could happen relatively quickly. But so far, it is not realistic in the near term.

A new mobilization in Russia?

Question: Material and human resources that Russia is using for the war in Ukraine are beginning to run low. This could push the Russian leadership towards desperate measures, such as another mobilization into the armed forces. Even now, many people are being summoned to military enlistment offices under the pretext of checking their personal data. I live in Russia and I myself have received a draft notice. Are Putin and those close to him planning to forcibly send people to war again, as they did at the end of 2022?

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

Well, let me just say one thing clearly. Yes, they are planning, but whether they are going to execute those plans is not yet determined. And the reason why it is not determined is, as I just explained in another answer, that nobody in Russia really understands how difficult the situation of the armed forces is. Because again, you have this situation where Putin and the people around him dictate that it is unthinkable that Russia could lose this war. And therefore, as long as Putin and his government is in position of power, this is the official line.

And that means that they do not want to know if Russia is actually losing. And there is nobody at the lower levels who wants to give them the really bad information because they could be punished for giving that information. People who know that there are problems tend to under-represent those problems when they report upwards. And those at higher levels do not want to pass the information to the next level up, and therefore, there is an information gap. Now, as I said in the second answer, in a system like this, problems continue to escalate until some kind of crisis precipitates that suddenly makes the problems undeniable. But by the time they are acknowledged by the top, it is too late to turn the crisis around. It is possible that a crisis will manifest that finally makes the top realize that Russia is losing the war on the battlefield. And this could cause them to then enact this desperate measure of another mobilization. But even if they did this, they could not turn the situation around. And of course, by carrying out such a mobilization, the resistance in the Russian people against the war would increase manifold.

As you know yourselves in Russia, the first mobilization was not popular. That is why it did not last a very long time, and that is why it hasn’t been repeated. You can ask yourself: “A country that is running low on finances, why would they offer big bonuses to soldiers who signed up instead of just drafting them into the military?” But that is because they know the mobilization is unpopular. From the ascended perspective, as we have said before, this war put Russia firmly in the school of hard knocks. And it is only a matter of how hard will the knocks become before something changes. And it is not likely that the change is going to come from Putin himself or those who are blindly loyal to him. What is more likely is that there will be a shift in the Russian people’s support for Putin. As we have said before, he has gone beyond his natural lifespan. He is held artificially in embodiment by the Russian people. But if that equation changes, he could die of natural sources, be assassinated, or be deposed. A mobilization would only push that eventuality forward into the physical.

And at some level of his being, Putin knows that this would be a very drastic step to take with a very high risk for himself, which is why he has so far been reluctant to take it. We also have a strange situation going on in the Russian leadership, where Putin is beginning to realize that this war is not going to end well for him or for Russia. He does not acknowledge this consciously, but at some level of his being, he realizes this. And because he himself is insecure, those around him who have known him for a long time, they sense this. And therefore, they are also beginning to realize that it is not going to end well. That means they are trying to, as much as they can, distance themselves from Putin so they can blame him. Because they are hoping, I am not saying it is a realistic hope, but they are hoping they can stay in power even if Putin falls. But in order to do that, they must label this as Putin’s war. You see what you have here. Putin is reluctant to order another mobilization. The people around him are reluctant to support him in ordering another mobilization.

They do not want to give him any reason to order this mobilization, because they want to be able to say later: “Oh, it was Putin only who made that decision. We did not support it. We just could not stop it.” That is another factor that could delay, perhaps until there is a crisis, the mobilization. And therefore, it may not happen. But certainly the plans are there. There is no question about it.

End of the war in Ukraine in 2026?

Question: Dear Masters, could you please share whether there is a realistic possibility that the war in Ukraine may come to an end this year, or do the current conditions suggest that the fighting and missile attacks against civilians are likely to continue for years ahead?

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

Well, there is a possibility that it will end this year. But it is not a given. The fighting could continue beyond this year. But as it looks right now, it is unlikely that it will continue beyond 2027. Because the Russian economy has already entered a phase that has created a decline. And the decline is irreversible. But it can be delayed. And of course, the current government is doing everything they can to delay it. But the question is, will it be a slow, gradual decline, or will there be some bigger breaks in the economy? And if there is not a bigger break, then the fighting could go beyond 2026. There is also the state of the Russian military, which of course is also in a state of decline, regardless of the propaganda.

The question in Russia today is the same question you do have in many other countries throughout history. And it is that you have created a false hierarchy system, where information only goes down, but there is no feedback loop to send the information back up. The question really is: “Is there anybody in Russia who clearly sees the state of the economy? Is there anybody in Russia who clearly sees the state of the military?” There may not be anyone inside the military who sees every aspect of the military’s situation and problems. In fact, let me just say there is not. Likewise, there is nobody who is an expert on the economy or who is in the political field who clearly sees the state of the economy. Because the system is created so that instead of someone who understands and is in contact with the state of the economy giving information back up, you have someone at the top, someone named Putin, who dictates how the economy should be. And therefore, those who are closest to Putin do not want to give him information that contradicts his view that Russia is winning.

And therefore, nobody really wants to know, and nobody really bothers to find out. Because what would they do with the actual information when they cannot change what is coming from the top? This is the same that you see in North Korea, to some degree, high degree in China. You see it in Iran. You saw it in Hitler’s regime, under Stalin, in the Soviet Union. Nobody really wants to know reality. They want to maintain the official view, the propaganda, the rosy picture painted. Incidentally, much the same is going on in the Trump administration and much of the government apparatus under Trump. As always, that is why there is a decline. Because nobody wants to know what is going on, which means the problems keep accelerating and there will come a point where they get so severe that they cannot be denied. But you see, in a system like this, the problems can keep escalating for a long time without anyone realizing how bad it is. By the time someone realizes that there is a crisis, it is too late to stop it.

The effect of the war in Iran on Ukraine

Question: In light of the escalation of the current conflict in the Middle East, is it reasonable to assume that the United States and European countries might reduce their support for Ukraine? In what ways could developments in the Middle East influence Russia’s military actions against Ukraine?

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

Well, if you look at developments, you will see that under Trump, the United States has, almost from day one, reduced its support for Ukraine. But at the same time, the European nations have stepped up their support for Ukraine. No, it is not reasonable to assume that the war in Iran will reduce the European countries’ support for Ukraine. It will perhaps further reduce the United States’ support, but it is already not as significant as the European one.

The European nations are quite dedicated to supporting Ukraine with whatever it takes, because they look at it from a practical standpoint. They know that if Putin gets the impression that he won the war, he will attack a NATO country within the foreseeable future. And therefore, they see it as necessary for their own security to support Ukraine.

The developments in the Middle East, well, they can actually have the effect of increasing support for Ukraine in somewhat surprising ways for most people. You have already seen that delegations from Ukraine have visited the Gulf states, where they have offered their expertise in counteracting the Shahed drones sent by Iran against these Gulf countries, because, of course, Russia has sent the Iranian-developed drones against Ukraine for years. And therefore, Ukraine has greater expertise in all kinds of drone warfare than any other nation on earth, including Russia, because Ukraine has been far more creative than Russia. There are already signs that the Gulf states will buy technology from Ukraine and therefore help them continue to fight against Russia. Really, from my perspective in the Ascended Realm, the support for Ukraine will only increase even if it is reduced by the United States. It will increase from European and other countries.

There is, of course, always the possibility of free will, but definitely the highest likelihood is that support for Ukraine will gradually increase until it becomes obvious to somebody in Russia that the war cannot be won. And therefore, somebody in Russia decides to stop offensive actions. And of course, the question is whether there is someone who is capable of seeing this, willing to see it, and capable of taking action. If there is not that someone, then Russia, under Putin’s leadership, will continue to push on until something breaks, either in the Russian military or the Russian economy, that forces them to stop offensive operations. In other words, what I am communicating here is that from the ascended master perspective, Russia has lost the war. They just have not admitted it yet. And there is no possibility that they can turn it around and win the war the way Putin sees it. It does not matter what propaganda they are putting out. They are either trying to fool Ukraine or fool the West or fool their own people or fool themselves. The question is, is there somebody in Russia who is not fooled?

When was the matter-light manifested?

Question: In the beginning was the Word. At what stage of creation was the matter-light manifested, the light you describe as tiny particles or strings without vibration?

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

Well, you are starting from a not very good translation of the original Greek. You will see some scholars who will say that the Greek word used in the Gospel of John was not really “Word”, it was Logos. And the Logos had a specific meaning at the time the Gospel was written. There were many spiritual people in the Middle East at the time who had a certain concept of the Logos. And the Logos was by some seen as the whole, but it could also describe the Christ consciousness that allows you to see the whole. You cannot really say that the Word came before the matter-light, because you will not be able to resolve that with the linear mind. And in fact you can discuss whether you can really look at this with the linear mind and say: “Well, something must have come first.”

What came first, the chicken or the egg? What came first, the matter-light or the Christ consciousness? It really is not a question that the linear mind can fully grasp. You can say that the Creator knew that it would give individual extensions of itself free will, and therefore it created the Christ consciousness, as we have described many times, to help you exercise your free will by even going into separation, but being able to find your way back. But on the other hand, there is no meaning of having a Christ consciousness if there is not a matter-light.

Really the Creator conceived of both in its mind in the same process of determining the parameters for this world of form. You cannot really look back at this and say, you cannot, in other words, you cannot make a timeline for how the Creator developed these very early phases of this world of form. It was not that there was a certain time, seven o’clock in year zero, where the Creator thought of the Christ consciousness, and in 705 he thought of the matter-light. You cannot really put it on a linear scale like that. But what can be said is that they are both part of the Creator’s vision for this world of form.

Balance between entertainment and creative activities

Question: I apply the teachings of the ascended masters, including practices and participation in videos and webinars. I share ideas online with many people and sincerely desire to uplift the whole, and of course to resolve my own psychology. At the same time, I also simply enjoy doing things because they are pleasant, for example, playing computer games or watching TV series. I allow myself to be imperfect at times on this rather challenging and unnatural planet. I understand that sometimes I direct my energy towards activities that cannot necessarily be multiplied or reinforced by spiritual teachers, yet I also have enough time and opportunity to express myself in more creative and elevated ways. Moreover, I can use spiritual tools to transform imperfect energy. If I were to open a new chapter of my Divine plan, I believe I would devote more time to creativity. At present, however, I find myself spending more time on entertainment. Could you please comment on this?

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

Well, for all people, there is a need to find a certain balance in life. We have, over the many decades we have released teachings, seen many students who find the teachings, realize what it is about, dedicate themselves to a very strict program of living a certain way, giving decrees, studying the teachings and so forth. And many people become unbalanced about it so that they cannot sustain it over time. They sort of, so to speak, crash and burn because they are very eager for a while and then they must stop completely or scale it down.

Everybody needs to find their own balance. And it is correct, of course, that this is a difficult and challenging planet to be on. You need to find your own balance between what you might call entertainment and spiritual activities or creative activities.

It is, however, also correct that your life plan has stages. It may very well be that there comes a time where you begin to feel like you need to step up to a higher level or you become frustrated and dissatisfied with where you are at. And that is then when you need to try and step back and intuitively grasp what is the next phase of your Divine plan.

You need to then sense whether it is time to be more creative and therefore you need to let go of activities that take away your attention, your time, your energy. And of course, many entertaining activities are not necessarily created for the specific purpose of draining your energy, but this is often the effect of some of the music, the TV series, the movies or the computer games that are out there. Computer games can especially be a drain on your energy because they are designed to keep you playing, to draw you in. You can, of course, say television is designed to keep you watching and so forth. But there is a certain element of computer games that you need to be aware of in that they have an addictive quality because they are designed so that it is very difficult to master them and therefore you can, as many people do, decide that: “Oh, I have to master this game, I have to beat the game,” and therefore you keep playing until you do or until you no longer want to spend your time that way. Really it is a matter of you sensing intuitively rather than deciding with the outer mind.

Creation of the I AM Presence

Question: As I understand it, the I AM Presence is first created as a light image and then the Creator animates this light image by investing it with the Conscious You. Further, when the I AM Presence extends itself into the material world, does it extend its Conscious You or is it something else?

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

Yes, your understanding is not what we teach. The I AM Presence is created as a mental image in the mind of ascended masters. In your case, being in the seventh sphere, your I AM Presence was created as a mental image in the mind of ascended masters in the sixth sphere. And they are the ones who are animating the I AM Presence. You can say it is the light of the Creator ultimately, but it is not the Creator who directly creates your I AM Presence. It is the ascended masters who formulate the mental image and they imbue it with the light that they have internalized, which of course ultimately comes from the Creator, but there are many steps in between in the cosmic hierarchy.

When the I AM Presence decides that it wants to experience the unascended sphere from the inside, it sends the Conscious You as an extension of itself. In other words, while the I AM Presence is developing only in the sixth sphere, there is no Conscious You. The I AM Presence has its own self-awareness. You can say it is similar to the Conscious You, but it is, of course, it has a much more complex individuality than the Conscious You. When the I AM Presence decides it wants to experience the unascended sphere from the inside, then it sends an extension of itself, which is the Conscious You, into embodiment.

People unwilling to transcend their consciousness

Question: For the golden age to become sufficiently manifest, the lifestreams embodied on earth would need to raise their level of consciousness significantly. I have noticed that ascended masters often see a certain potential for growth and change. Yet this potential does not become actualized. This seems especially evident in the case of Russia. Is it possible that billions of the original inhabitants of this planet might eventually be required to incarnate somewhere else? And could they be replaced by more developed and peace-oriented souls who are ready to take physical embodiment on earth?

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

Yes, that is entirely possible, which we have hinted at on several occasions. What we have explained is that earth has a certain level of consciousness, which we have described as the 144 levels that are possible. We have also said that as the earth is raised up towards the golden age, that level of the 144 will slide upwards. In other words, there are more possible levels of consciousness in this unascended sphere than the 144 that are currently possible on earth. When that entire scale of the 144 levels slides upwards, it means that there are new levels of consciousness that will be the highest, and what is now the lowest will no longer be allowed on earth. This means that there are now certain lifestreams that can embody on earth that could not embody here before, and there are others that will not be allowed to embody here anymore. However, this is not quite as linear as it may sound. I am not saying that: ”Let us say, that the 144 levels slides upwards two levels.” I am not saying that: “Only beings who have the potential to manifest those two levels of consciousness can now embody here”, there are still many other beings who have a higher level of consciousness who can embody on earth. Neither am I saying that: “Only those beings who are at the two lowest levels can no longer embody here.”

It can be determined, as you said, that there is a certain nation, there is a certain group of people, or there are certain people all over the world, who have not demonstrated a willingness to transcend their consciousness. They have not demonstrated a willingness to move closer to the golden age matrix. And it can be determined by the Karmic Board, not by me, even though I will have an influence on the decision, but by the Karmic Board, that certain lifestreams will no longer be allowed to embody here because they are not willing to step up towards the golden age consciousness. And therefore, other lifestreams that are willing to do this will come from either other unnatural planets or even natural planets.

Yes, that is entirely possible. And certainly, you can look at the earth, and Russia is not the only place where there are people like this. You find many people like this in the Muslim world. You find many in less developed countries where they cling to a certain lifestyle that has not changed for a very long time. You find many of these people in the United States where they cling to a certain Christian worldview, often this Christian nationalist worldview, and they cling to these traditional values. As I have said before: “You cannot manifest the golden age by clinging to traditional values”, because innovation is needed, and the gap between where the earth is now and where it will be in the golden age is so big that a lot of innovation is needed. It really is a matter of looking at people’s willingness to let go of their present worldview, their present lifestyle, and step up to something higher. And there are many ways to evaluate this, of course, their willingness to look beyond a certain religion and realize that some of these older religions, Christianity, Islam and Judaism, need to either be renewed or left behind. It is also, of course, important to look at people’s willingness to commit aggression or support aggression. There are, of course, many people in Russia who uncritically support Putin’s special military operation. A military operation that lasts longer than the Second World War must indeed be very special. But besides that, those who support this are not demonstrating a willingness to transcend the aggressive mindset.

Likewise, those who are part of the MAGA movement in the United States and who uncritically support Trump’s war against Iran also have not demonstrated that willingness to transcend that aggressive mindset, the willingness to use force to kill other people. And that must be transcended.

Then the third group of people that are not demonstrating a willingness to transcend are those who are not willing to let go of their poverty consciousness and realize that this poverty consciousness must be left behind for the golden age to manifest. You see these various groupings of people around the world who are not willing to transcend. And therefore, there can indeed, indeed you could say there will, come various shifts where certain lifestreams will be taken from the planet. In most cases, this will happen when their bodies naturally expire, but there can also be diseases, epidemics or wars that will take large groups of people out of embodiment, and they will then be replaced by lifestreams who are more willing to transcend towards the golden age mindset.

Technology transforming lead into gold

Question: Quote from Saint-Germain’s Discourse: “You cannot directly turn lead into gold at the physical level, but when you go to the higher level and change the vibration there, you can transform lead atoms by accelerating their vibration to that of gold atoms.” How can humanity come to the discovery of this higher level and what exactly within the atoms would need to change its vibration? I ask that at least some general ideas about this be expressed to give people an understanding that could accelerate the manifestation of such technologies.

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

Well, my original teaching was not really about developing technology as you conceive of technology today. It was about developing what we, in this conference, have called the non-force-based technology which is still dependent on mind and therefore, co-creating the shift from lead to gold by working with both the ascended masters and elemental light. There will not ever be a mechanical technology that anyone can use regardless of their intent that will allow humankind to change matter, because those who are in that level of consciousness would be so self-centered that they would abuse that technology in various ways. Really, the answer to your question of how the process can happen is what we are attempting to explain in this conference. Beyond what we have given and what we will be giving, I really do not have anything to add at this point.

An avatar: created or made?

Question: In Maitreya’s book it is stated, “a new co-creator has only a small portion of a spiritual being embedded, whereas an avatar has a greater portion, the size depending on the purpose for which it is created.” For what purposes do spiritual beings invest a greater portion of their own consciousness into a being descending as an avatar than into another being descending as a new co-creator? Can it be said that avatars are originally created for this purpose rather than becoming avatars later in the development of the lifestream?

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

You need to recognize here that your view of the teaching is not quite where it needs to be. A new co-creator can be a being on a natural planet or an unnatural planet. But a new co-creator has only a certain portion of the spiritual being embedded within it, the spiritual being meaning both the I AM Presence and the ascended beings that created the I AM Presence, because the whole process is that as you multiply the talents given you will receive more. An avatar was not created as an avatar, an avatar was created as a new co-creator and gradually grew in attainment on a natural planet. And that is why more and more was invested in the avatar. We could say it this way: “Co-creators are created, avatars are made by self-transcendence.” You can say that: “Co-creators are created for different purposes depending on the planet they are created for”, because planets can be very different. But you cannot say that:” An avatar was created for a specific purpose”, because an avatar is a result of the development of the lifestream.

How to be free of mental illness

Question: I have been taking an anti-psychotic medication for more than ten years, after experiencing some episodes of psychosis when I was younger. Without the anti-psychotic I have trouble functioning and performing day-to-day tasks. But I am tired of dealing with the side effects and I want to become mentally healthy. Can the masters teach me how to perform a miracle to fully heal my physical brain?

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

Well, unfortunately, the answer is no. Because it is not a matter of producing a miracle, it is a matter of realizing that your condition is not entirely produced by the physical brain. It is also a purely psychological condition. I am not saying there is not a component in the physical brain. I am not saying that you should stop taking medication. But I am saying that if you want to ever be free of the medication, you have to be willing to truly look deeply into the psychology and ask yourself: What does this condition do for you? And what I mean by that is: What does the condition give you an excuse for—or not looking at in yourself? In other words, the condition serves as an excuse for why you think you do not have to look at certain things in yourself. If you really want to heal this, you continue to take the medication, but you commit to a really deep effort to resolve the psychology. You will need to have a therapist, and you will need to also use the tools and teachings we have given about resolving psychology including subconscious selves.

Really, it is a matter of uncovering the decision you made in a past life for why you did not want to decide what kind of a being you want to be in this world. And therefore, you opened yourself up to external entities and beings who will come into your force field and take over your mind so that you, the Conscious You, can retreat into some hidden cave where you do not feel the need to deal with life or take responsibility for yourself. And you need to uncover why you made that decision and change it, so that you can take command over the four levels of your mind, your energy field, instead of letting other forces come in and take you in these different directions.

The lost continents and advanced technology

Question: The masters have said before that they will give teachings on the lost continents we have. We have Atlantis, but I am confused about the Mu and the Lemuria continents. Are they the same one, or one of them is in the Pacific and the other in the Indian Ocean? If they had advanced civilizations, why did they sink? Why can they have advanced technology when the inhabitants have not transcended their low level of the collective consciousness?

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

You need to recognize, first of all, that our teachings are based on progressive revelation. As we have said many times, we adapt a specific teaching to a specific group of people at a certain level of consciousness. The teachings about lost continents were given in previous decades, still in the Piscean Age, where people were very interested in the past. Of course, you can say: “Many people today are still interested in the past.” But still, there has been a shift. We gave teachings back then about these lost continents as we gave teachings, for example, about the prophecies of Nostradamus and other prophecies to attract people’s attention.

You can ask yourself a simple question here. Let’s say: “There was an advanced civilization 10,000 years ago or 70,000 years ago. What practical value does it have for me personally on my personal path to know this?” And you will find that the answer is: very little, personally. Now, you may still gain some value in understanding why a civilization disappeared, because it could have relevance to the current civilization, but still, if you look at your personal path, how important is it to know about these past civilizations?

This is one concern. The other is the question of how can a civilization have advanced technology when the inhabitants have not transcended their low level of consciousness? And this actually has an impact on present civilization.

You need to understand here, as we have explained, you can go from the 48th level to the 96th level of consciousness and on to the 144th. And by doing this, you are raising your level of consciousness. But raising your level of consciousness is not the same as acquiring knowledge of the material, physical world. And most spiritual people find that they need to focus on spiritual growth rather than mastering the physical world. What you see, as we have also explained, is that if you do not pass the initiation at the 96th level of giving up the self-focused self, you will continue to expand upon and seek validation for that self. And this can cause you to then go towards lower levels of consciousness. But in that process, you can still acquire greater and greater understanding of how the material world works. You can see that there are some fallen beings even, who are far below the 48th level, but they have a great understanding of the physical universe, even of human psychology, even of certain spiritual ideas and concepts, which is why they can become false gurus parading their wares before the unexpecting crowd. But there are also those who have used their certain mastery to gain power in the world or produce some technology that can give them power.

What I am pointing out here is that in these past civilizations, there was a lack of balance between what we have called the top 10%, mainly avatars and the bottom 10%, mainly fallen beings. The fallen beings had used their knowledge of the material world to create advanced technology that even with today’s technology you would call advanced. And this had given the people the idea that: “If they followed these fallen beings, well, it would be heaven on earth.” And therefore, the people had ignored the top 10% and the potential to raise your consciousness towards higher levels. But of course, everything the fallen beings do from the duality consciousness creates an imbalance. Even as a civilization is developing more and more advanced technology, it will at the same time develop greater and greater imbalance in the emotional, mental and identity levels. It seems like the civilization is doing very well at the physical level, but it is really a colossus built on clay feet because it does not have a solid foundation. And that is why there can come this point where the imbalance becomes so great that the entire structure starts falling over like the Leaning Tower of Pisa or the Tower of Babel. It cannot anymore sustain its own weight and there is a collapse. It might take the place or take the form of war. It might be natural disasters or a combination of both. But this is, really, the important lesson to take away from this is that there is a possibility of developing advanced physical technology without having the corresponding level of higher awareness.

You can see that this presents quite a dilemma for the ascended masters because what we have explained is that we made a calculated decision, a calculated risk, by releasing nuclear technology while knowing that humankind had not reached the level of awareness where they would only use it peacefully. But we made that determination based on realizing that if that had not been released, there would have been an almost continuous string of conventional wars that would have been fought with more and more powerful conventional weapons. And by releasing the technology for nuclear weapons, that most people can see would lead to the destruction of whatever civilization used it, even the destruction of civilization as a whole, we put a lid on this development towards more and more powerful conventional wars.

It is not a given that a nuclear war will not happen even though the further we move along the less the probability becomes, and it is already fairly small. It is not something we are projecting, that this will happen. But you see how in past civilizations there was not that proper balance between people who had developed higher levels of awareness and people who were trapped in selfishness. That balance is better today partly because we have released ascended master teachings but also because many other spiritual people have raised their awareness by following other teachings, many of which were, of course, inspired by us even though we did not directly make ourselves known through those teachings.

The fear of the unknown

Question: My energy field gets attacked during moments involving the unknown. People instinctively attack when the opponent is weak. How do I effectively deal with this and protect my energy field? Do I need to resolve my psychology so that I am willing to give up everything including my physical life in order to grow spiritually?

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

Well, what you are describing as the fear of the unknown is typical for people who have experienced great trauma in past lifetimes. And of course most people on earth, avatars and original inhabitants have experienced some trauma. In many cases if you study this a little bit, you will see that of course a physically very disturbing circumstance or great pain can cause trauma. But really what causes trauma is in most cases that you were surprised. Something happened that you did not expect or that you do not think should have happened and this is what actually causes the trauma reaction.

What you can do is of course use the tools and teachings we have given about resolving the subconscious self because obviously you have several subconscious selves that gives you the fear of what can happen but also the unwillingness to be surprised again so that you are always trying to anticipate what could happen so that there is no unknown.

That is why you have this fear of the unknown that makes you vulnerable to various forms of attack. Now in the short term you can of course use our decrees and invocations for invoking protection but you really need to use the tools for resolving that trauma which may go back to your birth trauma and resolve that and then you will be over this fear of the unknown. You could say, as you say in the second part of the question, do I need to be willing to give up everything? Well, as we have explained at this conference giving up is a central aspect of walking the spiritual path. But the thing is when you have a reaction like this, a reaction to trauma, a reaction of the unknown, you cannot with the outer mind force yourself to give up everything. You can only give up something when you resolve the subconscious self that causes you to cling to it, to be attached to it. It is more a matter of resolving than forcing with the outer mind because the outer mind for most people finds it difficult to override the subconscious. You might decide with the outer mind to give up and it might work for a time but then suddenly a situation happens that you did not anticipate and it reactivates the subconscious self-based on this fear of the unknown and you are back in the reactionary pattern. You need to resolve that self that causes you to react.

Corruption in the Philippines

Question: I know that Master MORE during the New Year webinar has said that the Philippines is an example of a nation who has a more balanced use of power in the previous year of 2025. However there are so many revelations of rampant corruption, especially in the Congress, where as much as 60 to 70% of the funds for projects are lost. The government is not able to prosecute these public officials and they are trying to bury the issue with the common people losing hope that these people will ever be held accountable. There is a lack of a violent uprising which is a good thing, but the ordinary Filipino feels this hopelessness and despair that corruption is so ingrained in the government that nothing will change as with previous scandals before. How can we bring these officials or make these officials accountable as well as give hope for a better future in our country?

Answer from the Ascended Master More through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2026 Kazakhstan Conference.

Well, the very fact that people are becoming aware of the corruption is always the first step and it is a decisive step because corruption obviously thrives better when it is in the shadows, when it is not openly acknowledged even though everybody may know about it. But the fact that it is becoming more acknowledged means that there is hope for the future and that what will happen in the Philippines is what has already happened in many of the other more advanced democracies where gradually an awareness will begin to arise that a critical mass of the population will no longer accept corruption and then the politicians simply will have to change and they will change or a new breed of politician will come into power.

This has already happened. It is not like people can do anything decisive about it. As an ascended master student you can obviously make the calls for it, but it really is a growing awareness that is happening all over the world and you are simply part of that way and you are not as far behind as you might think. Of course I understand that most people will not change their sense of hopelessness until they see results, but the results will gradually be forthcoming in the Philippines and in many other nations. But of course it is a complex issue because you also have to find a way to pay public officials so they do not have to engage in corruption to survive in their jobs. But again other countries have done this. Many of the countries in Eastern Europe have overcome the systemic corruption that they inherited from communist times. When you look at this you can see that it can be done and just the fact that there is a growing awareness shows that you have already started the process.

Spiritual knowledge vs. spiritual experience

Question: Do the fallen angels embodied on earth possess the same knowledge about God, humanity, the universe, Christ consciousness and related subjects that spiritual people study today, perhaps from older or more modern sources, including in particular the teachings sponsored by the ascended masters?

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

Well again a complex question because, and I am of course not saying there is anything wrong with complex questions, on the contrary, but you have to consider what do you mean with knowledge? You see, our teachings that we are giving are coming from the Christ mind, but as we have explained before, once they are expressed in words, they can of course be interpreted by different people from different backgrounds with different levels of consciousness.

And they can of course be interpreted by the mind of antichrist and therefore, distorted. What you see is that throughout the ages there have been fallen beings who decided to study spiritual teachings, whether it was this religion or that spiritual teaching, whatever you had at the time. And there are of course fallen beings today, both in and out of embodiment, who are studying the teachings of the ascended masters. They are of course not doing it for the purpose of using the teachings to transcend themselves, they are using it either to find a way to sabotage the teachings, to counteract the teachings, and to sow doubt in people’s minds about the validity of the teachings. My point here is this, do these fallen beings who are studying the teachings of the ascended masters have the same knowledge that sincere spiritual students have?

From one perspective you can say that all the fallen beings have is knowledge, they do not have experience. As we have said before, when you are a fallen being you do not see yourself connected to anything outside your own mind, you cannot have a direct experience of the Christ consciousness as the mind of oneness, the mind that unifies. You can have a mental image of the Christ consciousness, you can even have a mental image of unity, of oneness, but it is just that. You are seeing, studying a topic from a distance.

Now of course there are also some sincere spiritual students who are still at the level where they are acquiring knowledge from a distance, but most spiritual students have at least some direct experience of the Presence of ascended masters. There is a difference between the knowledge you can have in your mind where you are a subject studying an object, and then the direct experience where in a sense the subject-object barrier dissolves because the Conscious You steps outside the outer mind and now experiences some degree of Oneness with an ascended master or your I AM Presence. There is knowledge in the mind and there is knowledge that is direct experience, not a mental image in the mind. We have before talked about the conceptual mind, but there is also the mind that experiences.

Based on this we can say that fallen beings do not have the real knowledge based on experience, but some of them have a very sophisticated intellectual, rational, logical understanding of spiritual topics, but of course it is all based on a mental image, not on reality.

When fallen beings can have a very sophisticated mental image of God, it is of course out of touch with the real God. And in many cases, these fallen beings are using their sophisticated knowledge to manipulate other people or to even produce some superficial phenomena that seems like they have the mastery of mind over matter, but again this is acquired through the outer mind, not through oneness, not through what we talk about at this conference, co-creation.

The hierarchy behind European and Islamic countries

Question: Whose interests, whose will are the leaders of the leading European and Islamic countries serving as they discuss current international issues? What hierarchy stands behind their policies and decision making?

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

Well, that is a rather complex question because there is no clear cut answer. Of course there is what we have called a false hierarchy on earth where there are fallen beings that make up this hierarchy. But there are, as we have also said, certain groupings and divisions within that fallen angel or fallen being community because they cannot agree with each other. There are of course some nations that are tied to one of these false hierarchy groups, some that are tied to another. But there are also in many nations individual politicians who have at least some attunement with the ascended masters. Now it is clear that the more closed a society is, the less open it is to new ideas, the more it clings to what they often call traditional values, then the more likely that society is open to some false hierarchy group.

In order for a society to work with the ascended masters it has to be open to new ideas, new ways of looking at things. I have said this before, the golden age that I envision for earth is so much higher than current conditions on earth that many, many shifts will have to happen. Therefore, many new ideas will be brought forth and a society that clings to status quo or that clings to some Edenic state that they see in the past cannot tune into my ideas. You cannot manifest the golden age by clinging to traditional values, it cannot be done.

What you see is that in the more closed societies such as most Islamic nations, such as most dictatorships, such as currently the United States, they have a much greater openness to the false hierarchy and they get many more of their ideas from the false hierarchy and the false hierarchy is open to overpower, overshadow decision makers when they make these crucial decisions. That is why they will often be blinded to the actual consequences of their decisions. You can, as an example that is relevant right now, say why did Donald Trump decide to take action against Iran when all previous presidents in the United States had heeded the advice of their military and intelligence community that if Iran was attacked it was likely they would close the Strait of Hormuz and it would have devastating effects on the world economy.

Why did Donald Trump disavow this advice and instead make the decision to do it? Well, it is because his mind was overpowered by certain false hierarchy fallen beings who made him focus on what he dared to do, what no other president had dared to do, and that would cement his place as the most important, consequential, decisive president in history. You see what also causes people to be open to the false hierarchy is a personal ambition. The more a leader has a personal ambition of being seen as special, having a special place in history, the more that leader is likely to be overpowered by the false hierarchy and therefore, be blind to the potential and often very likely consequences. Putin was blinded by certain fallen beings when he decided to invade Ukraine. Hitler was blinded by certain fallen beings when he decided to start the Second World War. The Japanese emperor and leaders were blinded and so forth. You see so many examples of history.

But what you do see in the world today is that the nations that are more open to new ideas, that are more open to experimentation, because how is the golden age going to be manifest unless people dare to experiment, those are the ones who can tune in to the ascended masters and the hierarchy of light.

Sometimes they receive just a few ideas, there are others who are more attuned to us and who have a greater vision of what needs to happen. For example, we have, and if you even look at history of what I have said in previous ascended master dispensations, I said that in the Middle Ages, late Middle Ages, I attempted to create a United States of Europe by working with the kings. They were so blinded by their personal ambition that they listened to the false hierarchy instead of me. Therefore, we did not get it. Then I created the United States of America.

I have also said I am behind NATO, I am behind this cooperation among democratic nations that are dedicated to democratic values. Obviously, it is my long-term goal to create more and more cooperation between nations, which right now means between democratic nations. Obviously, I am not promoting anything that goes against that cooperation, as you see in the United States, threatening to withdraw from NATO, threatening to withdraw from the UN, not wanting to cooperate with Europe and the EU and so forth.

It is clear that I want a more united Europe. I want Europe to be more united with the United States and Canada. I want all regions of the world to be more united, but especially the democratic nations. I want to see them forge a greater and greater unity and cooperation. Those who can tune into that, you can see it by their actions, what they are dedicated to. Are they seeking cooperation or are they going their own ways and seeking actually to break down cooperation and unity?

The difficult relationship with my mother

Question: I do not get along with my biological mom. She cannot stand an avatar’s light. I have worked hard to resolve my psychology so that I become immune and transparent to her attacks on my energy field. But this is an area I struggle with. I would appreciate any advice you have.

Kim: There is more to the question, but I’ll let Mother Mary comment on this.

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

What you need to recognize here is that you have done sincere work. You have made progress. But there is still something you do not see in yourself, and that is what causes you to react. As we have explained many times, overcoming the subconscious selves is a process, a gradual process. It can often be a somewhat long process because there are different selves that hide other selves. You need to resolve certain selves first before you can get to the ones that are hidden behind the other selves. You need to just look at this process and say that as long as you have a reaction to any person that is important in your life, there is something in yourself you have not resolved.

There is some self you have not seen yet. And what you can do to help you see this self is you can decide to try to look at the situation from a different angle, a different perspective. You can, for example, ask yourself, well, you can sit down, maybe give some decrees first, then have a blank piece of paper, and then ask yourself, what are the questions I have not yet asked myself about this situation? And then you spontaneously write whatever comes to you. And then you see if that points towards certain subconscious selves that you need to resolve, then you use the tools and the teachings we have given in Healing Your Spiritual Traumas and other books to seek to resolve that self. Basically, when you have a person in your life, whether it is your mother or somebody else, who causes you to react a lot, it is because you have chosen your Divine Plan to put yourself in proximity with that person because you want to, so to speak, force yourself to deal with these psychological issues that you have not resolved in past lifetimes.

You need to switch and realize that this is by your choice, by your design, and it is a great opportunity to grow. Because if you can overcome the selves, you have that cause you to react to this person, you will have made very significant progress on your spiritual path.

I have also made mistakes and made karma when interacting with her. Is invoking the violet flame the best way to balance the karma?

No, the best way to balance karma is to resolve psychology because what you do when you react to a person is you are qualifying energy of a lower vibration. And invoking the violet flame can help you transmute that lower energy, but even if you transmuted all of it, if you do not overcome the separate self that caused you to react, you will just react again and produce more energy. And there are people in previous ascended master dispensations who have used the violet flame this way. They have made certain karma, misqualified energy, they have given violet flame, very concentrated for some time to transmute it all.

But because they did not look at the psychology, they just created new karma, created new unbalanced energy. They have to start all over again. And there simply comes a point where St. Germain has to say, I am actually enabling this person to not deal with his or her psychology and therefore, I can no longer multiply the violet flame decrees that this person is giving.

Then finally, also in order to qualify for my ascension whenever that happens, do I need to be completely non-attached and non-reactive to anything my biological mom says or does? Thank you, Mother Mary. I know you would never attack my light.

Well, the short and brutal answer is that in order to ascend, you need to have no reactions to anything on earth. That is the story of Gautama Buddha under the bow tree and also Jesus hanging on the cross and giving up the last ghost, which was the last separate self. Yes, to be brutally honest, you have to give up everything in order to ascend. Now there is a modification in the sense that you can still have some unresolved psychology that you can work on after you leave the body.

But when you are talking about a reactionary pattern to other people, it is most constructive to assume that yes, you have to give up all of it and you put yourself in a relationship with that person precisely to force yourself to overcome it. Now in terms of I would never attack your light, you are of course completely correct. I would not because I am ascended. I am not threatened by your light at all. But you have to also consider whether you somehow have gotten yourself into this state of mind that the reason your mother is doing what she is doing to you is because she is attacking your light.

It could be that at least some of your mother’s reactions to you is of course because she has a separate self, but that separate self in her is reacting to a separate self in you. It is not necessarily only your light she is reacting to. It could also be a separate self that you have not yet seen. And you need to at least be open to that possibility in order to see the self. And that is why again, as I said, try to look at the situation from a different angle that you have not looked at it before and ask yourself the questions that you have not asked so far.

And then I will help you gain clarity of this if you ask me for my help.

How do I know if I am expressing Christhood?

Question: We know how Jesus and Gautama Shakyamuni manifested Christhood in their final embodiments. Based on these examples, I have formed a mental image that expressing Christhood necessarily means becoming a guru or teacher and therefore, having followers or disciples. My question is: how did unascended masters express Christhood in their final embodiment? For example, Master MORE. Did he have a spiritual school and students or did he express Christhood in a completely different way? How can I know that I am expressing Christhood? You mentioned that it is connected with Christ discernment. Is Christhood something stable and continuous or can it come in temporary waves or moments? Can Christhood manifest without spiritual knowledge or without a strong foundation?

Answer from the Ascended Master M0RE through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2026 Kazakhstan Conference.

Well, we have talked about what we call bait and switch. And what we want to communicate with that is that even for ascended masters, there are certain dilemmas that we face when we are working with unascended human beings. Because you are all colored by the duality consciousness, and therefore, we know that when we give a teaching, people will interpret it in various ways. And when you look at these interpretations, you can see that there is always a spectrum of interpretations ranging from one dualistic extreme over a more balanced interpretation to another dualistic extreme. You can say that we have attempted to deal with this dilemma in various ways while realizing that no matter how we deal with it, some people will not get the point but will take their interpretation too far.

You take previous ascended master dispensations where there was a lot of talk about our previous embodiments. And you will see in my own case, as I actually said not so long ago in dictations, that I did not always have embodiments as famous and important people in history. Neither did Saint Germain or Jesus or the Buddha or anyone else. We all had many embodiments as what you might call normal people. Only we were not normal, but we did not stand out as much as these historical persons did. We might have stood out at a more local level.

What we chose to do in previous dispensations was a little bit similar to why Jesus was allowed to show miracles 2,000 years ago. We attempted to show you that it is possible for all people to rise above the collective consciousness, what is considered normal, and to do something that is beyond normal. And therefore, we gave examples of our past lifetimes where we had done this.

Now you can look back at some of these embodiments and say: well, did Akbar the Great really change that much when you look at history? Did Francis Bacon really change that much? Did Roger Bacon really change that much? Did, for that matter, Jesus change that much when you see what they have done to pervert Christianity? Did the Buddha change that much when you see how they have gone into all of this spectrum of interpretations of his teachings from one extreme to the other? But nevertheless, our aim was, as was Jesus’ miracles, to shake you out of the mold that there are only certain things that are possible for human beings and that anything beyond that is only possible for very few. We wanted to show you what our motto is: what one has done, all can do.

Clearly by doing this, by focusing on our famous embodiments, we created the impression, as mentioned in the question, that expressing Christhood necessarily means becoming a guru or teacher and therefore, having followers or disciples. That is a calculated risk that we took. But it is not the only way to interpret it. It is not the only way to interpret it. There is, and we have actually said this many times, no standard for Christhood. There is no standard for how a Christed being should be, how it should express itself. You can be a housewife and attain Christhood and express it in your local environment. You do not have to do something on a worldwide scale. You can be able to bring forth one idea in a lifetime that improves some aspect of society, and it is an aspect of your Christhood.

However, that all being said, we do live in an age where it is easier to become a teacher and have followers than ever before because of this technology released by Saint Germain called the Internet. If you are on Facebook or any other social media, do you not already have followers? Are you not, by just expressing yourself and your view of life, acting as a guru in some capacity? Not in the traditional way that you need to buy an ashram or build an ashram and have them come there physically, or you need to walk around barefoot in the desert and have twelve guys with long hair and beard smelling really bad walking behind you. And the more they smell, the further they have to walk behind you, by the way.

This is not the model in the modern age. But there are so many ways to express your Christ-hood and teach other people, even teach by example, as we have said many times. By just sharing your beliefs, your spiritual knowledge, the way you look at life, look at yourself, what you have been willing to look at in your psychology, how you have mastered your psychology, we have said that all of you have the potential to help a certain group of people because there is a certain hierarchical structure in humankind. And those of you who are spiritually aware, you are sort of, each one of you, you have a pyramid of people below you that have the potential to follow you as you rise higher. You, of course, have followed someone above you, that is why you are at your present level.

The question again is, many of you, and we see this again and again, you look at these examples and you are thinking: ”Oh, how could I be like Gautama or Jesus?” But you see, what was special about Gautama and Jesus? Jesus said it: “I can of my own self do nothing.” What was special about them: they were an open door for the ascended masters above them. And what it really means that what one has done all can do is, you can all open yourself to something from your I AM Presence and from us, the ascended masters. The ascended masters you are personally working with. Because you are below us in your pyramid.

All that is really required is that you strive to resolve the psychology so you become neutral. And you see, if you have an image of yourself and an image of us that is too highly elevated, then you will say: “Oh, there is too big of a gap between me and the Masters. There is too big of a gap between what I did and what Jesus did. How could I be a guru? ”

But you can be it in different ways that you do not even need to know or cannot even imagine with the outer mind. You just need to be neutral and let the Spirit flow through you and you will know what the Spirit wants to express through you as it is happening.

This is what this messenger has done from the very beginning. He has allowed us to express ourselves through him at whatever capacity he was able to at the time and that we were willing to do at the time. He has not sat there with the outer mind and decided: ”Oh, this is what it means for me to be a Guru in this age.” He has just been willing to open his mouth and observe what is being expressed through him.

And you can do the same. It does not mean you need to do it the same way the messenger is doing it. You do not need to say you are taking a dictation. You just need to express something that comes from a higher source, whatever this may be. But you all have the potential to share your process of walking the spiritual path, overcoming things in your psychology, changing your world view, attaining some sense of inner peace. That you can share. And as we have said before, the more difficulties you have had in your life, the more we are able to use you to reach other people who have gone through the same difficulties because you can relate to them and they can relate to you in a way that other people cannot. This messenger is well aware that there are many people who have encountered difficulties in their lives that he has not encountered and he cannot relate to them because he does not know what they have experienced. But you do. Many of you do. This is certainly one way to be a guru without formally claiming the title. As you will see, this messenger has never claimed to be a guru. But does he teach? Well, of course.

Now, regarding the question, how did Master MORE express Christhood in his final embodiment? Did he have a spiritual school and students? Well, yes, I did actually have a spiritual school in my final embodiment. It was called the Theosophical Society, where I was one of the Mahatmas, along with Kuthumi. Who were attempting to work with not only Madame Blavatsky, but also a certain group of spiritual students who were, we might say, in a very specific state of consciousness. And actually had a very, very high attachment to this separate self that they wanted validated. And therefore, they interpreted their interaction with us to validate that separate self, that they were special.

You will see, even if you read the biography of Blavatsky, how she was always seeking for that validation her whole life. Never felt she got it, because the separate self can never feel it gets enough validation. It is never enough. But nevertheless, I attempted to work with that. Kuthumi and I attempted to work with that. Djwhal Khul to some degree. And were we successful? No. Not on a large scale, but some did understand. Some did grasp.

Today, of course, the Theosophical Society is no longer open to us, because many of the members actually deny the existence of ascended masters. They deny that Kuthumi and I ascended after that lifetime, whereas they did not. And they are refusing to see why we ascended and why they did not. And that is why they are still seeking validation for the separate self, instead of giving it up, as we eventually did.

We had in that final embodiment still an element of that separate self. And it took us, each of us, quite some time to give it up. But when we did give it up, we could ascend.

“How do I know if I am expressing Christhood?” Well, by being neutral and allowing something to flow through you. And when you feel a flow from above, something you could not have come up with in your outer mind, then you know you are expressing Christhood. But you need to see it as an ongoing process. Is it connected with Christ’s discernment? Yes, but Christ discernment is not something you acquire in one action. It is not that you will have perfect Christ discernment. You will have a gradually increasing Christ discernment. How do you increase your Christ discernment? By experimenting and learning from your experiments.

“Is Christhood something stable and continuous?” It is not stable because it grows. It is continuous in the sense that it continues to grow as long as you are willing to look at yourself and look for the selves you still have not overcome. Then you will continue to grow towards higher and higher levels of Christhood.

“Does it come in waves or moments?” Well, there can certainly be waves where you have increased growth because you see certain things in your psychology, you feel this more intense growth. And therefore, you have a burst of growth. And then you will have a period where now you need to process the sort of breaking up of the ice in the subconscious. You need to clean up the subconscious selves, see the illusions. And therefore, it might feel like you are not having the growth, but you are actually growing. It is just there is an Alpha and an Omega aspect of it.

“Can Christhood manifest without spiritual knowledge?” Well, that is a very interesting question. But you can answer it simply by saying: “Did anyone attain Christhood before the ascended masters were allowed to step forward and give our teachings openly?” And of course they did. Therefore, it is possible to manifest Christhood without outer spiritual knowledge, without being knowledgeable of a specific spiritual teaching or tradition. For example, even before Jesus’ embodiment, it was possible to manifest Christhood. But of course you would not call it Christhood because you did not even have the terminology. But it was possible, certainly, to manifest Christhood before Jesus’ teachings, before the Buddha’s teachings.

That is possible because, as we have attempted to explain several times, the essence of Christhood is really that you read vibration. There is a lower vibration based on duality, there is a higher vibration based on the One mind. And without having an outer spiritual knowledge of vocabulary, you can over time develop that ability to simply read vibration. And this can cause you to manifest higher and higher degrees of Christhood until you can ascend.

Again, you see even the New Testament, where on the Mount of Transfiguration, two ascended beings appear with Jesus. Well, how did they ascend if nobody could be free of sins until Jesus had died on the cross, as the Christians claim? You see the contradiction even in the scriptures that they call the Word of God. That if nobody could overcome their sin until Jesus’ blood was spilled on the cross, how did these two ascended beings that were identified as biblical figures from the Old Testament, how did they ascend and appear to Jesus?

It has always been possible. What is happening is that it becomes easier, and what we are attempting to do with our teachings is to make it easier in this age than it has been for a very, very long time on earth. That is, of course, our goal, and we hope that you will decide to express your Christhood and therefore, co-create with us an easier way for people to manifest and express Christhood.

Are avatars more sensitive than other people?

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

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

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

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

Three days before burial

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Unbearable inner tension and pain

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

No, not necessarily. It just hurts.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

On a natural planet?

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

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

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

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

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

Congratulate yourself that you succeeded in your experience.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Not enough bodies on earth anymore

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

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

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

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

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

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

Avatars travel agency?

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

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

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

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

So there is possibly something like that there.

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

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

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

Discussion on separate selves

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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