Michaels – Page 22 – Ascended Master Answers

Russian-speaking messenger (2022)

Question: At the conference in Kazakhstan in 2018, Jesus answered about the possibility of having a Russian speaking messenger. He also said: “Everything depends on individual growth, and it is a complex equation to become a messenger”. Four years have passed since then, is it still possible to have a Russian-speaking messenger? Or maybe that person hasn’t gone through his or her initiations, or has given up that mission, or is the situation in and around Russia such that it simply is not realistic right now?

Answer from the Ascended Master Jesus Christ through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2022 Ukraine Webinar.

Well, there is always the possibility, but you are correct that given the situation in Russia right now, it is not possible. We cannot sponsor a messenger in Russia given what has happened at the physical, and what has happened in the collective consciousness of Russia.

There needs to be a shift in the collective consciousness before we could possibly sponsor a messenger in Russia, and so it is not relevant now whether there is an individual who could fulfill this position, because we could not sponsor a messenger for Russia right now.

The spherical consciousness

Question: Beloved Masters, we know that you have a spherical consciousness, and I would like to understand how it manifests itself in action. How do you see, through the spherical consciousness, the world order? I realize that it is challenging for a linear consciousness to grasp this. It is probably similar to explaining to a person from the Middle Ages what the Internet is. How is spherical consciousness developed? Can it be compared to telepathy, clairvoyance, omniscience? The ability to feel what another being is feeling? Empathy? The ability to create with thought to change the course of events? Is it possible to develop the spherical consciousness on earth if one has reached a sufficient level of the Christ or Buddhic consciousness?

Answer from the Ascended Master Jesus Christ through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2022 Ukraine Webinar.

Well, all of the things you mentioned – these so-called supernatural abilities – are not part of the spherical state of consciousness. The reality is, as you suspect, that you cannot grasp the spherical consciousness with a linear state of mind. You cannot even understand it with a linear state of mind. In terms of the spherical consciousness, you can experience it or you cannot experience it. But trying to understand it with the linear mind will not bring you closer to the experience. In fact, in many cases, it has blocked people from having the experience because they were so focused on understanding it with the linear-analytical mind. They were so focused on labeling it and describing it that they could not have the experience, and only the direct experience will, of course, shift your consciousness.

That being said, many people in the world and many ascended master students have started to develop spherical consciousness. The spherical consciousness can be said to be a long process, and the start of the spherical consciousness is really the recognition that there is something to grasp or understand beyond your present knowledge and your present level of consciousness. In other words, we have talked about the mind becoming a closed, self-reinforcing, self-validating system. And this is the simplest way to say that this is, of course, not the spherical consciousness. When your mind is closed, but you think you know everything, but you are not open to grasping more than you know now, then you are not experiencing the spherical consciousness.

But once you make the switch of realizing that there is something beyond your current level of mind, your current view of the world, then you are starting to move into the spherical consciousness. You are expanding your consciousness to become aware that there is something outside your own mind. Even the evaluation that you do not do unto others, what you do not want others to do to you is part of the beginning stages of the spherical consciousness. You are having empathy towards others. You are having a recognition of other people’s rights. And this then goes through various stages, where you become more and more aware of something beyond your own mind, and you can of course do this as you are still in embodiment.

You cannot fully experience what an ascended master experiences, but you can come closer and closer to that greater awareness of something beyond your own four lower bodies, your own outer mind. You become aware that there is more to understand, and first of all, you become more open to constantly, gradually, step by step, increasing your awareness. We can say that it starts with this awareness, that there is something beyond your present level. And then it is just a matter of how high you are willing to go, in terms of expanding your awareness of something beyond the linear consciousness.

We have said that as you take embodiment or even as you start as a new lifestream, you have a localized sense of awareness. You have a point-like sense of awareness. You are focused on yourself and your immediate surroundings. The spherical consciousness is going beyond that focus on self, expanding your sense of self, but also realizing that there will always be something beyond the sense of self you have while you are unascended.

The spherical consciousness is not some supernatural ability, it is a greater awareness beyond the self. There are many people who have come into spiritual teachings, and who have thought: “Oh, I want to have that ability. I want to be able to manifest whatever I want, to change the world. To know everything.” But this is not the spherical consciousness, and striving for this will often block people, because why do they want this? They are still seeing themselves as a separate being, and they want the awareness or the ability as a separate being to do these supernatural things, so they can raise themselves up as a separate being in their own minds or in the minds of others. But as long as you are trying to achieve these abilities as a separate being, well, this is not Christhood. This is the left-handed path where you are trying to become a black magician who has some ability to manipulate things, but it is not Christhood and it certainly is not spherical awareness. You become more and more trapped in the localized separate sense of self.

Mass evacuations in Ukraine

Question: The Ukrainian authorities now claim they knew there would be a war in advance, but they told the people the opposite to reduce panic. What do the ascended masters think? Was it essential for the authorities to arrange mass evacuations in peacetime to prevent the number of victims and injuries? Is it wise to initiate massive evacuations now, given that the conflict is escalating?

Answer from the Ascended Master Lanto through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2022 Ukraine Webinar.

As I have discoursed about, it is always a question of what do people see before something has happened. You could look at Ukraine and say it is a large country, it has a large government apparatus, it has a large military, and some among that apparatus believed that there would be an attack from Russia. But there were many who did not, because they were in the same state of mindset that most of the rest of the democratic world was in, certainly the European nations, that Putin surely must be able to see the consequences of attacking, and therefore he would never do it. Or at least if he did something, it would be on the same scale as when he took Crimea and supported the eastern provinces. Very few people expected a full-scale invasion. And of course, saying that you knew, but you did not want to tell the people to avoid panic, is sort of damage control.

The fact of the matter is, of course, that Ukraine could have done more to defend itself if they had known or recognized what would actually happen. But the question is: is it really valuable at this point to go into this? There will, of course, come a time after the war is over to look back and evaluate. But right now, national unity and support of the government and military is far more important.

In terms of mass evacuations now, well, how would the Ukrainian government do this when they do not have any possibility of doing evacuations in the Russian held territories?

The physics of decreeing

Question: In today’s world many people with technical mindsets do not take the practice of the spoken words seriously. It is because they do not see how simply saying the words can attract spiritual light and facilitate a connection with beings from the spiritual world. Could the masters describe the effect of this practice in terms of the physics of the process? We know that invocations and decrees do not work mechanically but how do the Eastern mantras work? Eastern teachings emphasize the proper pronunciation of the mantra that gives the impression that this is enough to make the mantra work mechanically. At the same time ascended master students recite the mantras without much emphasis on pronunciation. Please comment on this topic.

Answer from the Ascended Master Saint Germain through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2022 Ukraine Webinar.

Well, people with a technical mindset as you say should be open to recognizing that, since 1905 when Einstein published the theory of relativity, it has been known that everything is energy. You live in a world where everything is energy. You should be able to realize that there are lower energies and there are higher energies. That like attracts like and that energies can accumulate. It should be possible for people who are not too mechanically minded to feel that they can be burdened by lower energies, by fear-based energies, and to even see that fear-based energies can spread in an entire population causing them to do something completely irrational out of fear.

They should be able to recognize that, if you really want to improve your personal situation and the way you feel, you need to become aware of energy. You need to recognize you have an energy field around your physical body and that fear-based energy can accumulate there which is what causes people, for example, to be pulled into addiction and makes it so difficult for people to pull themselves out of it. And therefore you need to do something to overcome this lower energy and you do this by invoking energy, by accessing energy, of a higher vibration.

In other words, the mechanical laws of science describe how two energy waves create an interference pattern. You can take an energy wave with a low frequency, direct a high frequency energy at it, and the result is a new energy wave that is higher than the lowest wave. This is how you can transform energy and this is simply physics. There is nothing unscientific about it. It is a rather mechanical process.

The question now becomes how do you access high frequency energy? And of course people with a technical mindset will want a technological way to do it, but the question is whether it can ever be done. What you can perhaps make some people see is that, traditionally for thousands of years, people have used these mantras and invocations and decrees to invoke high frequency energy. You do not need to call it spiritual energy. It is simply a love-based high frequency energy and it can have a positive effect on your life.

And the way that we offer you to do it is that we are the ones whose job it is to help people free themselves from negative energy and therefore when you invoke our presence, we will give you the energy to free yourself. But this is not a mechanical way. It requires a certain attunement in your heart, a certain intuition. There will be people who are so into the mechanical scientific mindset that they have denied their intuition and those you may not be able to help see anything. But those who have some intuition, you can help them see this, and you can say to them: “How has science progressed? Because scientists have been willing to experiment. Are you willing to experiment? Will you try this out and see if it works for you? Because it works for me. I have experienced benefits from doing this and you can do the same.”

Now in terms of the question of Eastern mantras there is a pronounced tendency in Eastern mantras that people have a mechanical approach to it. They think that the mantra itself is so powerful, that if it is given and given correctly, then it will mechanically invoke the energy. We have explained to you that this is not the case because there is always an ascended master who evaluates the motives. If it was mechanical you could theoretically use a mantra to invoke energy that would harm another person. And this of course is not the intention.

What we say now is that the pronunciation is less important than the attunement in your heart. The sense of attunement toward the source of the energy and that there is a flow through you as the messenger talked about earlier. You can give decrees and invocations in a mechanical way. They will have some effect but very little effect compared to when you give them with attunement so that you feel the flow from the master through your chakras.

Speaking out in Russia

Question: How do I feel free in a country that is not free? I live in Russia and want to share, and I do, my vision of the current situation with the people around me. Still I often encounter rejection, misunderstanding and irritation on their part. Given that in the present situation in Russia it is becoming unsafe to speak the truth, what would I do if there is a need to speak out, not remain silent? It seems that is not a desire on my separate self but of the evolving spirit. And what can spiritual people in Russia do now to help everyone else in the current condition of the growing repressive apparatus?

Answer from the Ascended Master Saint Germain through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2022 Ukraine Webinar.

Well, first of all you can recognize that speaking out if you are living in Russia is a very individual matter. You need to tune in to your own intuition and see whether you should speak out or whether you should not. We are not saying that all of our students should risk their lives by speaking out. That is not a general recommendation we are making, far from it. We are not even saying that any of our students should speak out. This must be something you determine from within by tuning into your divine plan.

What can you do to tune into your divine plan? You can use the tools we have given you. You can use the tools for healing psychology which is how you become free even in a nation that is unfree. It is not your physical situation that makes you free, it is your psychological situation that makes you free. This is the case whether you live in Russia or Sweden or Norway or Denmark. You are free within if you are free from your psychological conditions that make you unfree.

You can also use our tools to give the decrees and invocations, make the calls, as Mother Mary just said, and then let the Karmic Board deal with the outer situation. You need to recognize that when you are an ascended master student who has embodied in Russia, you do so primarily because you want to help raise the collective consciousness. Not because you want to promote specific outer changes, certainly not something that could risk your life. By being in embodiment and by raising your own consciousness, you are raising the collective. By staying alert, by not believing the official propaganda but separating yourself in your mind from the government apparatus, you are helping to raise the collective.

You need to recognize that, as ascended master students, you are a small minority among the Russian people, and you cannot change the country alone. You can help raise the consciousness but it takes a critical mass of people to make the choices that will change the country. In a sense you could say that, until that critical mass is reached, speaking out may not make a difference. I am not saying it cannot make some difference, and if you feel prompted from within to speak out, you should. But again, I am giving you a caution here that in a situation like what you live in in Russia, it is more important to, number one, stay alive and to stay out of jail than to speak out against the regime where speaking out has relatively little effect at the present moment.

Now, there may come a point where there are many more people who are ready to go out on the streets like you see in Iran and say: “Regardless of the consequences we are going to demonstrate against the regime and that may change the situation”, but obviously the Russian people are not there, a critical mass of them.

Be careful, you say yourself: “It is not the outer self, it comes from within”, but make sure that it is from within, make sure you are not attached and in a sense you could say, strive to feel free before you speak out, so that you do not have a sense that you should speak out but you let it flow from within.

The judgment of Christ upon the Russian people

Question: A question about the precipitation of karma. I want to ask for a more detailed understanding how the judgment of Christ and the Divine Mother come to pass upon people mentioned in our invocations. And what will be the physical consequences for them if they reject this possibility? For example, should those Russians who speak out in support of Putin’s military actions be accountable and even subject to societal punishment even if they have not personally harmed Ukrainians? Or should these Russian world supporters answer to God, not to people?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2022 Ukraine Webinar.

Well, you have, of course, certain international laws and it is clear that Russia has violated a great number of them. It is also clear that in the coming years after the war is over, there will be various court cases in international courts against Russia and the Russian regime.

In terms of people who are speaking out in support of Putin and the war, well there is no real international law that these people are violating. You cannot legally hold them accountable. You can, of course, in a certain public opinion speak out about them or against them, but you can rest assured that they will be subject to their own karmic returns, and this will affect them not only in this life but also in future lifetimes. This is again one of these situations where, when you do not have the legal framework in the physical world, you need to trust that the law of karma works and that it will return to these people what they are projecting out.

In a sense you can say that there is a tendency to think that, if people are doing something that is obviously wrong and you call forth the judgement of Christ or the judgement of the Divine Mother, then something physical should happen to these people. But this cannot always be the case for a long series of complex karmic circumstances. In other words, we are not asking you, and we certainly do not encourage you, to make these judgement calls and then hope or think that these people should physically die or that something bad should happen to them. You need to be non-attached to what happens when you call forth the judgement.

But you need to recognize that many of these people are actually punishing themselves by being in the state of mind they are in. They may feel that they are powerful people. They may feel that they are winning. As we said, there are times when certain people who are unbalanced must be able to act out their imbalance in extreme ways which makes them feel for a time that they are winning. Putin still has such delusions that he thinks he is winning, that he can create a new world order. But look at him, look at the people in his government, look at the people in Russia who are supporting them, these militant nationalists who want even stricter measures or even more severe measures to be applied in Ukraine. What state of consciousness are they in? Would you want to be in that state of mind? Is it not a punishment in itself to be in that state of mind?

Then consider what we have said. The state of consciousness you are in determines what will happen to you after your physical body dies. Where will you go? And many of these people are beyond help from the ascended masters so they must go into the levels of the astral plane that are various levels of a very hellish existence that is even more limiting, more restrictive, more agitated than what they have on earth. And there they will have to remain until they make that switch where they say that they are willing to look at themselves in order to get out of this unbearable situation.

You as an ascended master student should not be concerned about what happens to such people in a physical way. You are making the calls, you are not attached to the fruits of action, you are allowing the very complicated karmic circumstances administered by the Karmic Board to outplay themselves. And you feel that you have done your work by giving the Karmic Board the authority to deal with this.

The mature souls who have volunteered to embody in Ukraine

Question: I was shocked by the atrocities committed by the Russian military in Ukraine, torture and especially violence against civilians, women and children. The ascended masters explained that the lifestreams who decided to incarnate in Ukraine at this time voluntarily took on these roles to reflect the inhumanity shown by the Russians. When I reflect on what many of the people who filled these roles went through I have many questions. Beloved ascended masters, in your teachings saying that a lifestream subjected to atrocious tortures may have its soul crystalline structure severely damaged due to trauma. Thus it destroys the lifestreams psychological wholeness and it cannot continue its normal development. I have tremendous compassion for souls who go through such a traumatic experience. I would like to know if the lifestreams who decided to incarnate in Ukraine at this time and take on this role, go through such an extremely traumatic experience, were aware that they may lose their identity due to this experience. It is challenging for me to imagine that a soul could voluntarily make such a sacrifice and what kind of souls are they in such a case. Are highly evolved souls more capable of enduring such an experience? As we know from My Lives, even Jesus was afraid not to withstand torture, and there is a scenario of exchanging bodies of Jesus and his fellow. I am highly concerned about the issue of torture on this planet and I realize that it is most likely related to my unhealed trauma, but I’d like to hear the explanation from the ascended masters.

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2022 Ukraine Webinar.

Well, again we, of course, feel great divine empathy with people who have been exposed to such atrocities. Torture is, of course, one of the worst examples of inhumanity because, when you look at why some people torture other people, you can see that there cannot be a rational explanation. There is, of course, the claim that: “We are trying to extract information”, but this is not an explanation for the severity of the torture. There is a rational explanation in the sense that these people’s minds are being taken over by demons in the astral plane who are using them as tools to extract energy and destroy souls. Not only for the purpose of extracting energy but also for the purpose of pure destruction.

As we have explained, the fallen beings want to destroy God’s plan and make it seem like God made a mistake for giving people free will.

Now, in terms of what souls have volunteered to take this on, well there were certainly souls who knew what could potentially happen. There was nobody who could know with certainty what would happen, but you will see that there are many countries around the world where you have these courageous mature souls who have volunteered to embody in a situation where they might be exposed to torture or other atrocities. If you go back to history you will see this in virtually all nations, even the ones who are today democracies. They all went through a period where somebody had to take a stand against the ruling elite of the time and some of them were subjected to killings and torture and imprisonment and various forms of oppression.

There is a fairly large group of souls who have volunteered to do this time and time again. This is not to say, of course, that all of the people who have been subjected to such atrocities, either in Ukraine or elsewhere, are mature souls. They are people who incur such situations because of their karma from past lives for various reasons. But there is a fairly large group of souls who are mature souls and who in lifetime after lifetime have volunteered to incarnate in situations where they will stand up to a repressive regime and therefore take the risk that this incurs. You will see quite a number of them in Iran right now as the young people who have embodied there to change the repressive regime there.

Now, when it comes to these more mature souls, you need to recognize that, of course, they are affected by the trauma but they are actually less affected by the trauma than a soul that has not reached the same level of maturity. First of all when they go through it they are not as severely affected by it. But then, of course, because they have a higher level of development they are much more open to working with us after that embodiment so they can have their wounds healed. Some of them can even work with us after the torture while they are still in embodiment to heal the wound. You can see that, at least for some of them, it does not have quite the severe impact on them that it has for souls with lower maturity.

Now of course we do not want anyone to be exposed to this but as we have said on a planet like earth with the School of Hard Knocks being the only way that many people can learn, well, then it is unfortunately still a reality that this happens, and that it happens in many nations on a regular basis.

What you can do is, you can first of all use the many tools we have given to heal your trauma, overcome these selves, but you can, of course, make the calls for the judgment, the binding of the dark forces behind torture. You can make the calls for the exposure of this so that there will be a rising awareness of what can be done about this. But you can also make the calls for the increase in humanity because what is it that ultimately will end torture? It is an increase in humanity. How is it possible that Russian soldiers who before the war were relatively normal people can certainly agree to torture women and children? Because there is a lack of humanity in the collective consciousness of the Russian people. Otherwise this would not be possible.

You cannot imagine that the kind of atrocities you see in Ukraine would be committed by the soldiers of any Western nation. It simply could not happen. I am not saying that there are not individual soldiers whose minds can be taken over in a war situation. But you certainly could not see it at the systematic level that you are seeing in Ukraine right now.

The war in Ukraine and the collective consciousness of the world

Question: How has the war in Ukraine affected the collective consciousness of the world? What changes can happen in the world after the war?

Answer from the Ascended Master Saint Germain through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2022 Ukraine Webinar

Well, this is, of course, a very broad question that would take hours upon hours to give a detailed analysis of, but what we can say is that there has been a very widespread awakening in the collective consciousness. You see this in all nations but the easiest way to see it is in the democratic nations, who have realized that they have to change their attitude and their approach to Russia. And not only that but also to those who are deliberately seeking to destroy or undermine democracy, including China. This is something that in the coming years you will see a very big shift. If you want to see a parallel you can see how there was an enormous shift after the 9/11 event in 2001.

I am not saying that everything that happened afterwards was ideal as we have commented on several times before. But what will happen, what is happening is, of course, that the democratic nations have realized a very simple thing – they cannot trust anything that Putin or his government says. However, you can also see in the collective consciousness that many other nations have had the same realization. There may be nations who are not democracies who are in some ways sympathizing with Putin’s quest to take democracy down a little bit and reduce the influence of the West, but they still realize that they cannot trust anything that Putin or his government says, not even written agreements. Because Putin has demonstrated that he will violate agreements that he has entered into on a whim, literally with no logical rational reason but just because he feels like it, for whatever reason.

This is something that has shifted in the collective consciousness. Even in China you see a growing awareness of this. Of course, China has never been a friend of Putin despite what Xi Jinping said earlier this year or in earlier times. China looks at what is in their interest and they only stand by Russia to the extent that it benefits them or that they think it benefits them.

But you will also see that there has been an abrupt awakening that the world order that many nations thought had been established after the Second World War, can in fact be threatened. And when I say world order I do so deliberately in order to challenge people to discern. I am, of course, not talking as Putin when he talks about a world order that is dominated by the West and where the West is using power and that he is going to force a new world order where the West is not the only power. I am talking about a world order where there were nations that trusted each other to the point where they knew that they would not be attacked by other nations.

And this is something that is not just the case for democratic nations. There are other nations who have had this sense that they could build a better future inside their own nation and they would not suddenly be destroyed by a neighbor who would come in and conquer them and take them over. There has been this sense in many nations, not only democracies, that the age of barbarism and plunder and conquest was over. And this, of course, has been threatened now where many nations have woken up and have realized that there are specific leaders, specific countries in the world who can be a threat to this world order. And that if they are allowed to succeed then it will threaten not only the peace but also the prosperity that has been rising in most nations.

You actually see quite a number of countries who have stepped back and begun to evaluate their relationship to Russia and to China based on the war in Ukraine and China’s unwillingness to denounce it and separate themselves from Russia. And you may not see this on an official level yet. You may not see them talk about this but I can assure you that in the collective consciousness it is very much there. There is great upheaval that is causing all nations to re-evaluate. You will even see that some of the former Soviet republics who have so far had a close relationship to Russia are stepping back and wondering if Putin could invade their nations next and what they can do to avoid it.

In the coming years this will begin to find its way from the identity, mental and emotional levels into the physical. And you will see that in essence, to use a popular expression, Putin has dug Russia into a hole that it will be very difficult for Russia to dig itself out of even in the post-Putin phase. There are, of course, many other ramifications of this, such as the determination you see in Western Europe to become independent not only of Russian energy but of fossil fuels in general, and to invest more heavily than before in alternative energy sources and even renewable energy. This is also something that you will see in the coming years where there will come a point where no country in Europe will import oil and gas from Russia or from the Middle East.

Poroshenko, the former Ukrainian president

Question: Former president Poroshenko became a dollar billionaire when he was in office. Ukrainians have a lot of questions for him. When he lost the election to Zelensky, his electorate and many chatbot firms began to harm the image of Zelensky and Ukraine. Many faked and blatant disinformation about the president and his office appeared. Russian chatbots and Ukrainian Poroho-bots as Poroshenko’s bots call themselves often publish the same frauds. Poroshenko himself has many businesses, TV channels and a bank. At the same time he has been a politician and an official for more than 20 years. According to the law of Ukraine he had no right to engage in business. Question, is Poroshenko a fallen being and is he a KGB Kremlin agent?

Answer from the Ascended Master Saint Germain through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2022 Ukraine Webinar

Well, although we generally do not talk about certain people being fallen beings, I will in this case say yes. He is not a direct agent of Russia but he has certain sympathies and certain beliefs that make him an indirect agent. And it is, of course, correct that he is part of the problem not only with politicians in Ukraine but also corruption. It is clear that there needs to be a separation between commercial interests and politicians.

This of course is not just in Ukraine. You see the same thing in the United States, where it is a big problem that there are too tight bonds between politicians and the very big wealthy businessmen who can therefore pull their strings. This is something that needs to be exposed and it needs to be exposed when the war is over so that people can begin to look at this and see that this cannot be acceptable in the new Ukraine. What sense does it make that people can use their political status to enrich themselves or their comrades and what sense does it make that there are people who can steal the wealth of the commonwealth when people have suffered so much and the economy is in such a difficult state? This kind of enrichment of yourself whether you use political connections or you use your money and privileges cannot be acceptable in the new Ukraine.

How to raise Ukraine to a greater level of humanity

Question: The behavioral principle of most people “it has nothing to do with me” is one of the problems in Ukraine. It is when people witness the lawlessness against neighbors or acquaintances but out of fear they may pass by or close their eyes pretending not to see what is happening so they should not interfere even if they are asked for help. Is there any chance that in the current circumstances people might reconsider the harmfulness of such behavior attitude?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2022 Ukraine Webinar

Well, as Kuan Yin so eloquently explained, the challenge really is: can Ukraine rise to a greater level of humanity which means a greater sense of community that we are in this together? And if you are all in this together then you do speak out, you do take a stand, you do make clear what is not right, and you make that clear to your government as well, so that the right authorities can deal with such abuses, including corruption of course. Given that there is so much suffering perpetrated by an external force there is an opportunity that Ukrainians can come together, in a greater measure than they have done before. That is certainly what has happened to many other nations throughout history who have been attacked by an external enemy.

This is certainly a potential outcome but it, of course, requires people to rise to that level of humanity where you do not say as Cain “Am I my brother’s keeper?” You recognize that you are the keeper of your brothers and sisters because if you keep them, they will keep you and therefore, the whole will rise to a higher level than you could ever do, as long as you are divided and do not want to involve yourself in helping other people. If you look at the modern democracies in the West you will see that they have attained that higher level of a sense of solidarity, a sense of community where people feel that they are all in this together and they all need to help each other. They have it to various degrees but certainly some nations have achieved a quite high degree of this sense that :”We take care of each other”, and this is of course what needs to happen in Ukraine as well.

How to overcome the language-based division in Ukraine

Question: The division of Ukrainians into those who speak Ukrainian and Russian has currently intensified. To what extent can a war in Ukraine bring people together so that the division over language issues disappears?

Answer from the Ascended Master Saint Germain through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2022 Ukraine Webinar

Well, as we have spoken, both Mother Mary and Kuan Yin, there is a need to look ahead. And if you look ahead realistically, then the only realistic outcome of Ukraine is for Ukraine to become a free and independent nation, that is a modern democracy. In order to truly create a new national identity, which is something we will talk more about, Ukrainians need to have one language and it obviously is not going to be Russian.

If there is to be less division over the language issue, then the Russian speaking Ukrainians need to accept that they need to learn Ukrainian, and that this needs to become the official language of Ukraine. If they cannot do that then I would personally, if I had a chance to advise people on this, advise them to immigrate to Russia and not stay in Ukraine, and not try to force Ukraine to live up to their world view. Simply accept that there must be a separation between Russia and Ukraine and that if they do not agree with the direction Ukraine is going in, they need to then immigrate to Russia and integrate in that country and culture, which they can fairly easily do since they speak the language.

This is something I would advise many people around the world who are living in situations and countries where there is great division. If you do not agree with the majority of the country you are in, then go someplace where you can agree with the majority. This would be a general rule in terms of following the advice to do unto others, and to respect other people and their differences.

Belarusian involvement in the Russian invasion of Ukraine

Question: What are the consequences including karmic ones for the Belarusian people from the collaboration in the war against Ukraine by Lukashenko’s regime? How significant is the threat of losing the sovereignty of Belarus?

Answer from the Ascended Master Saint Germain through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2022 Ukraine Webinar

Does it really give any meaning to talk about Belarus losing its sovereignty? For as I see it, it has already done so when Lukashenko, so to speak, sold his soul to the devil in order to stay in power, and invited Putin to help him stay in power. It is clear that Belarus is not a sovereign nation, has always been under the dominance of Russia, especially since Putin took power. And this has only increased to the point where Putin, the leader of a foreign nation, can at any time send his soldiers into Belarus without any objection from anyone in the Belarus government.

Now, in terms of the karma of the Belarusian people, well it is clear that there is karma incurred by the nation as such, and this will affect the nation and the collective but as far as the individual people go, it totally depends on their attitude towards the Belarusian government. Those who are not in their minds supporting the government and have separated themselves from it, in their minds, will not incur the same amount of karma as those who are supporting the government. Those who have protested and objected to the government will incur hardly any karma in a situation like this. It is very individual. They are, of course, those who are not supporting the government but who have not spoken out, and have not really separated themselves in consciousness and they will incur a considerable karma for this.

The same could of course be applied to the Russian people—those who have spoken out will hardly incur any karma. Those who have separated themselves from the consciousness of the Russian government, they will incur no karma for the situation. But those who are directly supporting Putin and believing in all of the lies they will incur the highest amount of karma. Those who are neutral in a certain way but who have never spoken out and who have not separated themselves in consciousness will of course incur a severe karma. And those who may not support Putin but are taking advantage in order to enrich themselves from his regime, well they will also incur a very severe karma.

The rape and murder of Ukrainian women and children

Question: Because of the war in Ukraine, many women and children have been brutally murdered and raped by men. Please beloved masters, give us a broader vision and understanding of why pure and innocent children or adolescents are most often subjected to such atrocities. Please advise young girls who have not been affected directly on overcoming a lifelong fear of the male gender they have developed by seeing what has happened to others, the victims of the violence. How can they get out of this state so that to meet a worthy life partner in the future and not consider all men as wild beasts who can only rape women?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2022 Ukraine Webinar

Well, we have explained before in connection with pedophilia that young children have, in general, a higher level of innocence and therefore have more spiritual light. And this is why they are attractive to the pedophiles who are seeking to steal their light and to the demons and entities who are controlling the pedophiles. This is the same with Russian soldiers who are raping women, their minds are taken over by demons and therefore they are doing what the demons want. This, of course, is little comfort, we understand, but it is an explanation of why this is happening.

What can girls do who see this happen to others? Well, they can first of all realize that there are only certain men that will rape women and certainly not all men will do so, and therefore they can look at the men they know who are not raping women and would never consider doing so, and therefore seek out a male partner among such men.

You can, of course, also always seek to heal your psychology, although I realize that not all people are open for this, but there can be a general recognition that such acts which are clearly crimes and atrocities are only committed by certain men.

Spiritual people in the armed forces

Question: My son is now serving in the military force of Ukraine. He consciously made this choice, even though he has been on a spiritual path for many years and accepts the commandment thou shalt not kill. But because of a treacherous attack on the country, he chose to defend the values of freedom with a gun in his hand. There is no hatred in him. My question is, how will this choice affect his karma? Could it be that it was in his Divine plan? Please comment on the situation of Ukrainian warriors defending the country with weapons in their hands.

Answer from the Ascended Master Jesus through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2022 Ukraine Webinar

I have given quite extensive teachings on Christ discernment. I have given teachings some years ago that there are even situations where those who are promoting change, even if they are doing so by force, can be at least for a time in alignment with Christ, who always wants change and transcendence. I know we have said that there must come a time where nations pull away from using violence and where some nations will begin to abandon their military. But we have also explained that Ukraine is not at that level and the whole world is not at that level, so all democratic nations could not abandon their military as demonstrated by Putin’s attack on Ukraine.

I will not here make a general statement about spiritual people being in the armed forces because that is an individual matter. And you need to trust that your son had enough attunement to know what was in his divine plan and therefore he is doing that. Obviously, you can say that the situation in Ukraine, the attack on Ukraine was not ideal. It was not in alignment with the Christ mind in any way. Yet now that the attack has happened, what is then the least violent alternative and what will create the least human suffering?

As we have said before, had Putin been allowed to take over Ukraine, there would have been more suffering and more deaths than has been the case so far. Therefore, you can say that at least on a temporary basis, defending Ukraine against the Russian attack is in alignment with Christ, not ultimately in alignment but on a temporary basis where on a planet so steeped in duality there are times where the ideal vision cannot be followed.

Ukraine’s rules keeping men in the country

Question: At the beginning of the war, the President of Ukraine passed a decree stating that men of the conscription age, with some exceptions, could not travel outside of Ukraine. This decree violates several international norms regulating human rights. In fact, at the borders of Ukraine there is a new illegal item of income, a form of corruption, and men if they have financial capabilities can leave the country. Because of their world views and beliefs, many men do not want to take out arms and participate in war. Since the men are not allowed to leave the country, some men’s wives or mothers do not leave either for fear of being separated. Is it wise for people to unite and involve the world community in demanding restoring their violated rights. How can this be stopped? Why is the media silent on this matter, although there are gross violations of millions of people’s rights and freedoms?

Answer from the Ascended Master Saint Germain through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2022 Ukraine Webinar.

Well, it is clear that when the war is over there will be all kinds of opportunities to take a look at what could have been done differently. But as for now, I encourage you to consider that the president of Ukraine did what he did because his country was attacked by a superior enemy, at least numerically superior, who was attempting to literally obliterate Ukraine as a nation. This means that those people who had left Ukraine would have had nothing to come back to. If Putin had had his way and taken over Ukraine, do you think that human rights would have been a concern? Do you think that any international laws would have been recognized? Consider here what you wanted the president to do in order to preserve his country.

Thomas More, Thomas Moore and Master MORE

Question: How does it come to be that some ascended masters have found themselves with the same name or virtually the same name in different lifetimes a few hundred years apart. For example, Master More, who was embodied as Thomas More at the time of Henry the VIII was later embodied as Thomas Moore the Irish poet laureate a few hundred years after the Tudor era?

Answer given by Ascended Master MORE through Kim Michaels, This was given during the 2022 Webinar for America – The Resurrection of Democracy.

Well, there is a secret here, there is more to understand. No, my beloved, I am joking. But there is, of course, a certain continuity in your soul, in your lifestream as you are moving closer to the ascension point. That is why you can carry certain things with you. You have certain memories, you have your attainment and it also means that you have a certain opportunity to choose where you want to be born.

And for me, for my lifestream, I was always dedicated to this becoming more, the flame of becoming more. This goes back beyond these embodiments that are known but I was always dedicated to this. Obviously, Thomas Moore in Ireland was one of my later embodiments. And, at that point, while I was between embodiments, I had the opportunity to choose and I chose a family with that name so that I could carry that with me. This was not really anything of significance, other than you might call a whim of mine, that I kind of felt it was humorous to do this.

Now, we have hinted at this before but I will say it again. We have given these past lives so that people can realize that we have had past lives and that we have not always been these superhumans, perfect human beings but we have had some very human characteristics. You will see in my life as Thomas More, I was persecuting people who were not good Catholics. And you will see in my life as Akbar the Great that I was a very warring person. We want you to understand that we have been human beings.

Now, in the Summit Lighthouse, where we gave many of these embodiments, this had the effect that people were primarily focused on and what the organization was talking about, was primarily our embodiments as historical persons. There was a tendency to idolize us based on our past lifetimes. That is the main reason we do not talk very much about our past lives in this dispensation because we want people to transcend that.

And the reality here is that, when you embody there is a certain continuity, there is something you carry with you. There can be certain outer characteristics that you carry with you, a certain personality. But how do you ascend? Well, what have we said? You let go of the outer personality, you let go of all of it. The tendency in previous dispensations was you would look at our past lifetimes and people would then use the human linear mind to project that our past lifetimes, my past lifetimes, could tell them something about how I was as the Ascended Master El Morya or Master MORE. But this is not the case. This was what people believed and needed to believe at the time because they were not open to the higher teachings we give today that you lose all of the outer personality.

You will see that there are many Christians who believe that, if they are, for example, members of the Catholic Church and they follow the church’s rules and doctrines, then Jesus will come and save them after this lifetime and they will go to heaven essentially having the same personality they have now. And this is, of course, grossly inaccurate. There are many ascended master students who had a similar belief, that you fulfill certain requirements for the ascension, you have balanced all your karma, you fulfilled your divine plan but basically you ascended with the same personality and individuality that you have in this lifetime. And again this just is not accurate. You have to let go of the outer personality, let go of all these selves that make up the outer personality, so that there is only the individuality in your I AM Presence left.

Only the man who ascended from heaven, who descended from heaven, can ascend back to heaven as Jesus said 2000 years ago. Be very careful when you look at these past lifetimes that you do not project: “Ah, now I know how Master MORE is, because he surely is the same as he was as Thomas Moore or Thomas More. But it just is not the case, and it will actually prevent you from tuning into us as we are as ascended masters.

Superficial perspectives on abortion

Question: Many people in the United Sates and elsewhere see the issue of abortion as healthcare, a very necessary form of healthcare. Can the ascended masters comment on this?

Answer by the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. The answer was given during the 2022 Webinar for America – The Resurrection of Democracy.

Well, we have given a number of comments and teachings on the abortion issue. And it is clear that people who take the position that abortion should be legal, they tend to see it as a form of healthcare. But this is a superficial viewpoint because, as we have also pointed out, there are many other considerations that should be part of the debate around abortion.

One perspective is the soul of the unborn child, another perspective is the situation of a single mother who becomes pregnant, but also the situation of women in general in society. You have on the one side people who look at it only from the point that this is murder of the unborn child and you have those who say, oh, it is just like any other kind of healthcare. And both are superficial and both are incomplete. But we have already given teachings on this so I will not go further into detail with it.

The concept of the God-free being

Question: I have always wondered about the term God-free being when I come across it in dictations or invocations. Why would we want to be God-free beings? Do we want to be free of God or free of the human concept of God? I don’t get it.

Answer by the Ascended Master Jesus through Kim Michaels. The answer was given during t the 2022 Webinar for America – The Resurrection of Democracy.

Well, you are actually not reading the term God-free the way it is used. It does not mean you are free from God. It means you are free in God, you are free in being aware that you are an individualization of God. You have an ascended master called the Ascended Master Godfre and it means that he has realized that he is an individualization of God and in that realization he is free from all of these human concerns, the consciousness of separation and this and that. But you are correct that it also means that you are free from the human images of God, the idolatrous images, often created by the fallen beings.

Central America: basic humanity vs. ideology

Question: I am from Central America and new to these teachings. What are the main reasons that in Latin America the communist political parties are gaining more followers and reaching power? And does this mean we are going backwards in our consciousness as a continent?

Answer from the Ascended Master Saint Germain through Kim Michaels.

The answer was given during the 2022 Webinar for America – The Resurrection of Democracy.

Well, it does not necessarily mean that a country is going backwards. You need to recognize what we have talked about, the essential and basic humanity. And you have in many Latin American countries or South American countries, you have these more conservative or right wing parties that as you can see to some degree with the Republican party in the United States that have become more and more trapped in the ideological mindset and less and less open to humanity, less and less aware of or considerate of the basic humanity.

They are willing to set aside these humanitarian concerns in order to force their viewpoints on the country and this is the case in several countries in Central and South America. The alternative to this has traditionally been the socialist or even communist parties but what has happened to some of these parties is that they have become less ideological and more focused on the humanitarian. They are not always what you would traditionally call a communist party. They may still have some ideological ideas they carry with them but they have become more focused on the humanity. And that is, in several cases, why they get elected by the people because the people feel that the conservative party of government is not considering them, especially not those who are at the bottom of society because traditionally many of these right-wing parties are more focused on the elite.

This is not necessarily a backwards trend if it is based on this higher awareness of the basic humanity. Then the ideology is not as important because, as people become more and more aware of the humanity, they will transcend the ideological mindset to some degree and this can in the future open up for parties who say: “Well, let us dispose of this communist baggage that we are carrying with us and let us focus on creating a party that really is focused on improving the life of the people”.

An LGBTQ book?

Question: Do you want to write a book on sexuality especially pertaining to America with so many issues with LGBTQ and now people want to be known as pronouns – they, them. Is it a topic you foresee covering in the near future?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2022 Webinar for America – The Resurrection of Democracy.

At this point we are not planning to release such a book. We can give teachings on it if people will ask specific questions but we are not planning on it because it is not really a topic that is essential enough for the work we are doing with bringing the golden age.

Anti-gravity technology

Question: Saint Germain remarked recently that the ancients used acoustic levitation to build massive structures such as the pyramids. Did they tap into occult or dark forces to gain this power or was it benign? Could acoustic levitation become useful today if the old methods were rediscovered or are there new methods that may be released?

Answer from the Ascended Master Saint Germain through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2022 Webinar for America – The Resurrection of Democracy.

Well, acoustic levitation, as you might call it, is just one way to suspend gravity. It is not black magic. It is not a dark force or energy. But there are other ways to do this as well and as we move further into the golden age, I will release some of these technologies that can suspend gravity and therefore make it easier to transport all kinds of objects.

It is clear that, as we have hinted at before, that all of the forces of nature exist in a polarity. The force of gravity is also in a polarity with another force that is opposite of gravity and it is a matter of learning to use that force to circumvent or suspend gravity.

This can be done mostly on a temporary basis because after all, it is gravity that keeps the planet together and it keeps you on the surface of the earth and it keeps your house from floating off into space. It is a very necessary force but, of course, it exists in a polarity like the plus and minus of electricity, like the expanding and the contracting forces. And when knowledge of this is released and grasped by people because they open their minds to it, then it will be possible to suspend gravity and move objects.

Chronic pain

Question: Some people who have chronic pain try many different complementary and alternative therapies, together with psychotherapy and hypnotherapy and none of them seem to work for them. Is this mainly a matter of a lack of belief or does the effectiveness of such therapies, at least in part, depend on one’s state of consciousness?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2022 Webinar for America – The Resurrection of Democracy.

Well, everything depends on your state of consciousness. We have said before that some people take on illnesses that can give you chronic pain and there is not in all cases, something you can do about it other than you can work with yourself psychologically, so that you can find a way to live with the pain, not resist it. You can also learn various techniques for distributing the pain over the entire body. But I realize this is not an easy situation.

I can only recommend that people who are on the spiritual path, that they will use this as an opportunity to work on their psychology, use the tools we have given you, other tools, various forms of therapy, to resolve the psychology that they have. Even if this does not remove the pain, you will still benefit from resolving the psychology, certainly after this lifetime.

New fascist leaders in Europe and America?

Question: Can the ascended masters comment on the rise of fascism and fascist ideologies in the United States, the threat they pose to democracy and why fascism and fascist leaders have now been elected in Brazil, Sweden and Italy.

Answer from the Ascended Master Saint Germain through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2022 Webinar for America – The Resurrection of Democracy.

Well, first of all, you cannot really say that the leaders in Italy and Sweden are fascists according to a traditional definition. Many of the people in America are not really fascists either in the same way as Mussolini, Hitler and others. So you have to be careful with the definitions here. But we have commented before on why there are these populist leaders, who are very antagonistic, very confrontational, very black and white. And it’s simply that, again, this needs to be out played.

What are these leaders doing? They are making it obvious that there is a certain part of the population who has certain very unbalanced viewpoints. That is why they can get elected. This needs to be brought out so that the people can see this, they can begin to see the consequences. They can compare it to history, and they can say: “Is this really what we want in our nations of today?”

And so, you see this all around the world. And it is part of what Portia was explaining that there is this opportunity here to break through to a higher awareness, a higher form of leadership, a higher form of government, and the fallen beings are doing whatever they can to stop it. But the way, the only way they can conceive of doing this is to push these forceful, force-based leaders. And this, of course, exposes it even more.

You will see that these tendencies have been lying dormant in the collective consciousness of many nations for decades without being recognized, without being dealt with. And so, forced to enter the golden age, they need to be brought out in the open so that they can be dealt with and therefore transcended.

Putin and the threat of nuclear war

Question: President Biden has stated that the world is now closer to a nuclear Armageddon, than at any time since the Cuban Missile Crisis. Vladimir Putin holds the nuclear threat like a gun to the head of the Western leaders. Is this a case now, where the master’s should consider removing Putin from physical embodiment?

Answer from the Ascended Master Saint Germain through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2022 Webinar for America – The Resurrection of Democracy.

Well, as we have commented on, the likelihood that Putin will use nuclear weapons is small. And even if he used it in a limited capacity, it would certainly incur a reaction from the world that he probably is not prepared to endure. Like we have explained, like Portia explained, he is trapped in a certain perception filter, but he still thinks that he has a way out of this, that he has a way to still maintain his position in Russia and cover over the mistakes. We have also said that he thinks like a mafia boss who uses intimidation where there is really not the physical threat behind it.

You need to recognize that President Biden and many people in the Biden administration, in the military and the CIA go back to the days of the Cold War, they understand somewhat the thinking of the Soviet Union, people and of Putin. So they realize that his threats of nuclear war is more an attempt at intimidation. He is sort of, so to speak, testing the waters saying as we have explained: “What can make the Western nations give in? What can make them force the Ukrainians to settle, so they get some part of Ukraine?” And so he is simply testing how do nations react to the nuclear threat. There are people in America who are aware of this and therefore they are simply throwing this back. In other words, for each threat, they are threatening severe consequences, because they realize this is how Putin thinks.

There is however, also another aspect of this that you will see in the Western response to these threats. There are quite a number of nations in the West now, who are very much trapped in this very linear, intellectual analytical mindset. But there are many other cultures especially in the East or in the Hispanic cultures where they do not have the same linear mindset.

In other words, you can see a person from a different culture meeting with a person from a Western culture and the Western person says: “Would you do this for me?” And the other person says: “Oh, yes, I will”. Now in his mind he has no intention of doing this. But he does not want to say it directly. So he just says he will. And then he goes his way and figures he can find a way to avoid doing it.

In other words there is a difference in how people look at what they say. In a Western linear mind if you say something you mean it. To the Western mind threatening nuclear war is such a severe thing that you would only do it if you absolutely meant it. And that is why some people look at Putin and they think, well, he must be like us. So if he says it, he really means it. But as I said to Putin, there is not necessarily a direct connection between what he says and what he is prepared to do. He is just throwing something out there, to see what effect it has.

Many of the things that Putin has said over the years, were these kinds of statements. He says something to see what the effect is. Sometimes he says something because he knows it will provoke and he just wants people to react to it. He wants to force them to react.

If he was serious about starting a large-scale nuclear war, then he would be taken out of embodiment. But at this moment, we still think that it’s more valuable to have him in embodiment because he is making so many mistakes that he is forcing the Russian people to see what they are not willing to see. He is also forcing people in the rest of the world and you see that even the Chinese are concerned about the war and would prefer that it did not escalate further.

So these are important developments to give this time to focalize so that there is more of a united response or united opposition to Russia’s aggression, and especially the brutality and inhumanity that they are demonstrating to the world.

The first embodiment of avatars

Question: The ascended masters said that when we for the first time come into embodiment on earth we take all illusions from the 144th to the 48th level of consciousness. It seems that in the My Lives book, the protagonist comes into the first embodiment without these illusions. Could the masters comment on this?

Answer from the Ascended Master Jesus through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2022 Webinar for America – The Resurrection of Democracy.

Well, if you look at this from a linear perspective, you would say that the protagonist in the book has a certain awareness and a certain attunement and certain abilities to deal with energy. However, you have to be careful not to be too linear. The reality is that the illusions you take on does not necessarily mean that you do not have a certain awareness of energy, or certain ability to read energy, or to deal with energy. It is not quite the same.

The illusions you take on more relate to the physical realm on earth, the collective consciousness. And you can also see that the protagonist reacted in certain ways to what we might call his birth trauma, where he was attacked by the fallen beings, and he reacted not based on the highest level of Christ consciousness. That is why he could go into for a long time fighting the fallen beings.

But in general, when you come as an avatar into your first embodiment you do carry with you some of the abilities and awareness you had on a natural planet. It is not the fullness of it but you are at a higher level than the average person on earth. Again, you still have taken on the illusions to descend to the 48th level. But having taken on these illusions does not mean that you cannot have a certain ability and a certain awareness.

So what happens to most avatars is that after you go through this first trauma, you forget this. The ability is no longer there. You can reclaim some of it but you forget where you came from, what abilities you have. It is like they explain with many babies that come into the physical body. After they are born they are still not fully anchored in the body. So they still have some awareness of another existence before they came into the body. Perhaps even a past lifetime.

So you are sort of in your first embodiment in an interim stage. And this means of course, that you are dangerous to the fallen beings because you are demonstrating something that most people do not have, and it is going to attract the attention of people and present them with a frame of reference for the normal level of consciousness, and also for the manipulation of the fallen beings. So this is why they attack you, of course they attack us and want us to forget this awareness.

What is electricity?

Question: What is electricity? Are the minus and plus polarities in the electrical current expressions of the Alpha and Omega, yin and yang aspects of the universe? Our brain is operating on electrical signals, so how is electricity connected with consciousness?

Answer from the Ascended Master Saint Germain through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2022 Webinar for America – The Resurrection of Democracy.

It is valid to say that the plus and minus of electricity is connected to yin and yang, Alpha and Omega, the Father and the Mother, the expanding and the contracting, the two forces. And electricity, as you understand, all electricity in the material realm is not really directly related to consciousness. The brain uses electricity, yes, but as we explained in our teachings, your consciousness is not produced by the brain. Your consciousness exists in the mind, in the identity, mental and emotional levels and it expresses itself through the brain.

So the consciousness is not produced by the electricity of the brain. The electricity is how the neurons or the different parts of the brain communicate. So you can say that if you are driving an electrical car, you are not directly interacting with the electricity, it is a tool for getting from point A to point B. Likewise, the electricity and the brain is a tool for the mind to use the brain and the physical body to do things in the material realm.

There is much more that can be said about this, but it would require a much longer discourse than I am prepared to give here.

How the masters communicate with people who are not spiritual

Question: Will the ascended masters communicate with people in a lower state of consciousness, which are therefore unable to hear them in their heart chakra, through other chakras, or do the ascended masters commune only through the heart chakra?

Answer from the Ascended Master Jesus Christ through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2022 Webinar for America – The Resurrection of Democracy.

We do not only communicate with people through the chakras as such, because we communicate primarily intuitively. It just depends on what level of consciousness people have, what they are open to. Many people do not have strong intuition. And intuition is associated with the heart chakra and the secret chamber of the heart. But still, there is a form of intuition related to every chakra. If people do not have that strong intuition we often cannot communicate directly with them.

What we seek to do is we seek to give them some kind of impulse, some kind of idea. We are often watching them and watching the situations they get into, to see where there can be certain situations in life where people are more open, where their minds are open. Unfortunately for many people this only happens in a crisis situation, in an accident where they feel their life is threatened or if they experience some kind of trauma like the loss of a loved one. Some people are actually more open at a funeral of a loved one than in many other cases. So we always seek to give them some kind of thought impulse, some kind of sensation that can assist them in going forward.

We do attempt to communicate with everybody and give them something. But you cannot really call it direct communication, because they have no idea where it is coming from. And they do not recognize us as ascended masters or spiritual guides or whatever they can see.

The life review

Question: Can you give us a teaching about the life review a man experiences after death? Does he review the reminder of the energy waves that were reshaped after he experienced them, as explained in a dictation by Master More in Estonia, or what was actually there? In other words, if the soul has lost its power, or the Presence, what happens in terms of the review? Also, what happens if the soul is broken? Are the memories not stored in the soul? If the soul is broken or lost, so is the memory? Let us fill that empty hole of the life review question with answers and knowledge from the ascended masters.

Answer from the Ascended Master Jesus Christ through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2022 Webinar for America – The Resurrection of Democracy.

The actual form of the life review depends on that particular person’s level of consciousness. There are many, many people in the world who are not open to the life review. They are not open to it at all. There are some that are partially open but in a very selective way in terms of what they are willing to look at. So, there are some times where we do not have much to work with for people. They reject our help, and they are usually attracted to one of the lower levels of the emotional realm, which we have called the astral plane. And they spend some time there in between embodiments before they re-embody with much the same consciousness they had in their previous embodiment. That is why you can see people on earth who are incarnating several times but making very incremental, very gradual progress.

Now, if people are more open then we try to work with them. But we can only work with them within the parameters set by their free will, their willingness to look at themselves and take responsibility for themselves. If a person has not started the spiritual path in a past life then there is a limit to what we can do. We must then assist this person as best we can. And often the person is not even open to meeting us as ascended masters, but is open to meeting its relatives from its last lifetime. Again, they go into a sort of, not necessarily the astral plane, if they do not have a lower consciousness, but they go into one of the higher levels of the emotional realm or the mental realm where they might be able to make some progress. But still, they return to their next embodiment with relatively little progress made.

When people are on the spiritual path we have more to work with. And again, depending on how open they are to looking at themselves, we can then give them a much better life review, which is basically that you look at your life, not from the inside, but from the outside. But as we have said before, this does not mean that you are necessarily in a higher level of consciousness. People who are on the lower levels of the path or, are not even on the path, they will look at events from their last lifetime and they will evaluate and judge those events based on their level of consciousness. It is just that when they are outside the body, it is more difficult for them to ignore or explain away certain things. They tend to look at it more directly, they tend to see what they did, and how it affected other people. And they then judge it with their level of consciousness. If they have been very judgmental of other people, they tend to be judgmental of themselves.

Now, if people have made more progress on the spiritual path then they can have a much more constructive life review, where we can actually take them to a higher level than the consciousness they had in their last lifetime, have them look at their life, and therefore learn far more from it.

Now, in terms of those cases where the soul has been shattered, you cannot really say the soul has been lost, but the soul has been damaged or divided. It is true that there can be some events that are not remembered by the being. But in the life review we can actually replay those from the akashic records so that a person can see what happened. But this we only do if the person is wondering what happened in this or that situation or: “Why did I have this trauma that divided my soul?”

What we do to these damaged souls is that we take them to special places that we have created in the lower identity realm, where they can receive healing and assistance to heal their souls, and if they are willing, even retrieve some of these lost soul parts, so that they can return to embodiment without the same kind of wounds. But this again depends on how open the soul is to this. In some cases people just need to be in a safe and comfortable environment where they can heal, over sometimes a very long period of time.

The effects of psychedelic use

Question: Shamanism extols the virtues of power plants as a way to accelerate consciousness. Can Mother Mary comment on this? And particularly, what can someone do to remedy a psychotic episode from overdoing this in combination with marijuana use?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2022 Webinar for America – The Resurrection of Democracy.

We have commented several times on why we do not recommend using these plants. Basically we have said that if you are using a physical material means, then this is not what the spiritual path is about. The spiritual path is not about having experiences, but having mastery over your mind.

Now, if somebody has experimented with drugs, because let us call it that, and had a negative experience or even a psychotic episode, the best you can do is to recognize that one effects of these plants is that they open your aura, your chakras to influence from the astral plane. This happens because when your mind is overpowered by these chemicals in the plants, your free will is so to speak suspended. You are not as conscious of what you allowed to enter your mind. And some people are even so eager to have a certain unusual experience that they voluntarily open up their minds to all kinds of lower beings.

This means your aura has and your chakras have been invaded by entities, demons from the astral plane. When you recognize this you can use the tools we have given. First of all, the decrees to Astrea, then the decree to Archangel Michael and call for these entities or demons to be bound, for you to be cut free of any ties to the astral plane, for your chakras to be cleared.

But you also need then to use our tools for healing your psychology and ask yourself why you wanted to do this in the first place. There is, as Jesus even talked about 2000 years ago, those who seek to take the kingdom of heaven by force. They are actually not able to take the kingdom of heaven by force, but they are able to force a certain experience that may seem like a spiritual experience, or even an experience on the path to a higher awareness. It may even seem like higher awareness, but if it is created by a chemical affecting the brain, then it is not a spiritual experience, it is just the brain producing an experience.

A real spiritual experience is when you transcend the brain and the Conscious You experience a higher realm. This is not produced by the brain. You need to ask yourself why you have this obsessive-compulsive desire to have a spiritual experience or an unusual experience. And you need to come to recognize that this comes from a separate self, most likely many separate selves, and you need to use our tools to resolve those separate selves and go beyond it.

Intuition vs. intelligence

Question: Can the ascended masters explain why if I, as an ascended master student, have a relatively high level of consciousness or awareness, then why are there so many other people in the world who are not particularly spiritual, that have abilities and intelligence far greater than I have? How is it that a person can have a high level of perception and awareness but not necessarily have enormous intelligence? What is the relationship between consciousness or awareness and intelligence? And what is it that determines a person’s level of intelligence in any particular lifetime?

Answer from the Ascended Master Jesus Christ through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2022 Webinar for America – The Resurrection of Democracy.

We have talked about before that there is no direct connection between what the world calls intelligence and what we call spiritual awareness or spiritual attainment. Growing in spiritual attainment is something that is beyond the world. Christhood is beyond the world. Growing in worldly abilities is not the same as being on the spiritual path.

You will see that many of the people in the world who have special abilities, special intelligence, or have the ability to lead people, or exercise power are fallen beings. The reason for this is that they cannot walk the path of Christhood, so they focus instead on developing their worldly abilities using all means, even what we call black magic, to achieve this.

What the world currently calls intelligence, or at least what the Western world calls intelligence, is using the intellectual mind, the linear analytical mind, that can, as we have said, argue for or against any issue. Now, this also gives you a certain ability to understand issues like mathematics and other scientific topics. But it is a worldly ability. It is not something you really need in order to walk the path of Christhood and qualify for your ascension. That is why for most of the spiritual people, you did not just become a spiritual person in this lifetime, you have been a spiritual person most likely for many lifetimes, you have not really felt any intuitive promptings to focus on developing these outer abilities. Why would you, when your goal is beyond this world?

You need to recognize that, as a spiritual person, it is not about developing worldly skills or worldly abilities. It does not mean you cannot have it, you could have developed it in past lifetimes, but it is not your main goal. Your main goal as a spiritual person on the path to Christhood is to tune in to the Christ consciousness, to the ascended realm, to the I AM Presence, and that is not an analytical intellectual ability. It does not require intelligence, it requires intuition. That is why you focus on developing your intuition. And in many cases, the more intuitive you become, the less intellectual, analytical, linear your thinking will be. And you might actually find it difficult to grasp these linear analytical topics.

It can happen that in your younger days, you were quite adept at understanding scientific concepts, these linear analytical concepts. But as you grow on the spiritual path, you become less able to wrap your mind around it, so to speak, because you cannot really focus your mind anymore on that level of thinking. Your thinking, or your mind, is not as focused or trapped in the mental realm. You are moving on to the identity realm where you have a much more intuitive vision.