Michaels – Page 23 – Ascended Master Answers

The protests in Iran

Question: Anything you want to say about Iran and the uprising in Iran? Do you see them breaking free in the near future?

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

The situation in Iran is encouraging, in the sense that the people are beginning to take a stand for themselves and their freedom that they have not taken before in quite the same way. It is encouraging in the sense that it is mainly driven by women. It is also encouraging in the sense that it is a spontaneous people’s reaction, not really driven by any centralized leadership.

Now, there are commentators in the world who have looked at the situation and said that this movement is not likely to succeed, it is not likely to overthrow the government, because it lacks leadership. There is no clear leadership who could take over if the priesthood had to withdraw. But from an ascended master perspective, what I see is that this is not driven by a rivaling power elite that is seeking to overthrow the established power elite, it is more of a people’s movement. And that is encouraging.

Now, you are asking whether I see this breaking through anytime soon? Well, that depends on how you define “breaking through”. If I see that the current government of Iran will be overthrown and replaced by a more democratic government, well, that is not necessarily the most likely scenario. It is a possibility, but not the most likely scenario—certainly not in the short run. But it is clear that as more and more people take this stand, then the sitting government will eventually have to either fall, or they will have to make concessions and give the people more freedom.

It is again, one of those things where the vast majority of people in Iran know they are being oppressed by the religious leadership. They know the entire country is being held back, they are being held at an artificial level of poverty, because of this restrictive, backward-looking regime. The majority of people want change, but have not really come to the point where they have been willing to stand up for it, stand up for themselves and say: “This is not acceptable to us anymore”. And this is what these women are beginning to do.

Although still, there are many, many things that they could learn—many, many breakthroughs they would have in: What are they really objecting to? What is it they really want? What kind of a nation do they want? The big question, not only in Iran, but many other Muslim countries is: Do we want a secular democracy? Or do we want to continue some form of theocracy dominated by the Muslim religion?

You cannot have an affluent, modern democracy that is dominated by one religion, like Islam is dominating Iran today. It cannot be done. You need to decide, are you ready to break with the Muslim religion in its more conservative, restrictive aspects? It does not mean you have to abandon Islam, but you have to abandon the conservative, backwards looking version of it. Are you ready to do that? Do you want more affluence, freedom and democracy enough that you are willing to abandon the backward-looking aspects of Islam? Same question in most other Muslim nations. There is no way to build an affluent modern country that is restricted by this Sharia law and other backward-looking elements of Islam.

Humans in an animal body? (And the self behind the question)

Question: In 1999, I was driving my car when I heard a voice say: “She wants to be your cat.” I knew my guides were referring to the fact that a psychic told me I would have a child at my current age. I was very surprised by this and asked why she would want to do that. They said she needs the time and she wants to be with you. I said it was fine with me. And I told them to send her to a woman I knew who did cat rescue. And I asked them to tell me what she would look like. They told me she would have spots. A kitten with spots showed up at the shelter and she became my cat for seven years until she died suddenly. And during that time, I had human children. The masters have said that people never go back to being animals once they have incarnated as humans, but it seems like that is what happened. Also, I think we must have a lot of karma if she wanted to be my cat so badly. I know these situations are individual. But I am wondering how common this is. Can the Masters explain this?

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

My only comment is to reaffirm the teaching that humans do not go back to becoming, or incarnating as animals. You might want to look at what it is in your psychology that opened you up to believing this. Why would this be important to you? What is your basic thinking and beliefs about it? And then use our tools to work on this and you will have the potential, if you are willing, to identify certain separate selves.

Ask and you shall receive

Question: Would you please explain how ascended master students can balance their desires to be more, with their desires to respect the wisdom and guidance of the hierarchy of ascended masters? Is it appropriate for ascended master students to respectfully and neutrally request to learn about specific divine aspects of God, such as abundance? Are ascended master students not to ask about specific topics of interest, and wait for the hierarchy of ascended masters to tell the students which topics to learn? Is there a middle way like ascended master Gautama Buddha has proposed such that the hierarchy lead and guide and the students neutrally and respectfully make requests?

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

Well, we have said for a long time, “Ask and you shall receive”. That is what I said 2000 years ago. It is quite appropriate for you to ask. But it is, of course, an interaction between us. We give you teachings that we deem are important. We allow you to ask questions—which by the way, has not really been done in previous dispensations—and you are free to ask about any topic. There is both, there is that interaction of it.

Now, obviously, when you ask a question, you will get an opportunity to look at why you are asking the question, what is your motive? What is your attitude? What do you hope to get out of it? Some people do not really ask a question, they make a statement to demonstrate to others how smart they are. But we allow all to ask the questions. But as we have said before, you can ask anything you want, but we will answer whatever we want.

The intentions behind the calls for the judgment of Christ

Question: Is it valid to make the call for Christ judgment frequently on a person who murdered several people and got away with it? By clearing evidence and is still planning to hurt others? Or does it create karma to make frequent calls on this?

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, it depends on the mindset with which you make the calls, If you are putting fear or anger into it, then you will make karma for it. If you are attached to a particular outcome, you will make karma for it. You need to look at your own motives, you need to realize that if you have called forth the judgment of Christ, several times, then let it go—let it rest for a while.

But then be willing to look at: “Am I attached to a specific outcome? Do I want to see this person punished?” Then you need to look at that, look at the separate selves that are driving this and let him go. If you can overcome those separate selves, you can then make the calls from a neutral state of mind and then they will have more effect.

Self-doubt as an effect of the birth trauma

Question: When I try to identify my primal self for the birth trauma, I just seem to get so many possible scenarios of what they might be. I cannot seem to fix on a single most significant one, which underpins the rest. Is it really that important to identify this? I know this sounds defeatist. But for those like me, who always have been used to second guessing myself, and doubting what information I receive, then I do not think I’ll ever work out what it is. Does it really matter? And how did people before this dispensation even know about working with this birth trauma? Why is it important now?

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

If you look at the way you formulated the question, you can get a clue to what your birth trauma is. Why are you second guessing yourself? Why are you doubting yourself? Because of your birth trauma. You experienced something that caused you to doubt yourself, to second guess yourself, to doubt your right to be here, to be who you are and to express yourself on earth. Look at that, do the exercises, study the dictations. Work on that.

The reason why you are seeing many different scenarios is that you have had many experiences where you reacted with the primal self, the MO that you created as a result of the birth trauma. There are many situations where you can tie into this. But if you look beyond the actual situations, you can gradually come to uncover the origin of it.

Now you do not always need, as I have said before, to have the exact vision of a particular embodiment and particular events. You need to lock into the experience, the feelings, until you recognize: “What was the decision I made about myself, and what I can and cannot do on this planet as a result of the birth trauma?” Then you can work with that decision and resolve it.

It is true that previous dispensations did not know about this. But many people have still, whether they were in spiritual teachings or not, made progress with solving the psychology by observing themselves. We are giving you this teaching, specifically for avatars because by having the teaching, it becomes easier for you to work on it. You will know what you are working on, you will know in what direction to look. It is important at this particular time because there are many avatars that are close to their ascension, but they cannot break through and make it without resolving the birth trauma.

You cannot ascend if you have not resolved your birth trauma. That is why it is important at this particular time. But it is given at this particular time also because the collective consciousness has moved on. And this means that we can release, as we have said before, many new teachings. We can continue the progressive revelation based on the evolution in the collective consciousness. Even though this teaching is given specifically for avatars, it will gradually filter through the collective consciousness, many people will pick up on it. Some psychologists and spiritual people and spiritual teachers have already picked up on these ideas. Not expressed the same way in their minds as what we are saying with words, but they have picked up these ideas of these very deep traumas.

Keep working on it. Keep working on it, and if you doubt that you will ever get through it, well, keep working on that until you see the belief behind it and you will make progress towards resolving your birth trauma.

Sexual fantasies

Question: How can I increase my love for spiritual freedom or liberation to overcome this situation where I am not sure if my love for spiritual freedom is big enough to transcend my fear and doubt. I often feel confused about what I really want, between my spiritual freedom and the state of unbalanced sexual desires. It is embarrassing that I find myself trying to protect my base chakra from the attacks of dark forces, but part of myself still being attached to having sexual fantasies of women at the same time. Another part of myself even thinks I will not be happy or it might be boring if I completely make myself free from any lower desires, especially the sexual desire.

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

Well, if you study our teachings, we have never said that as a spiritual person, you need to be free of sexual desires. We have said that you can enjoy doing what you can do with the physical body. But you need to strive for a point where you can do this in a balanced way. What we mean by this is that you do not have this obsessive-compulsive desire for a physical activity, and you do not have these obsessive-compulsive dreams or fantasies about it.

Such conditions can only come from separate selves that make you open to the collective entities and demons that are projecting these unbalanced sexual fantasies into the minds of anybody who is open to them. There are enormous projections today about sexual fantasies directed at all people. But of course, only those who are open to it will notice it. But this is brought about partly because of the sexual liberation, partly because of the proliferation of pornography on the Internet and so many people partaking of this, that it has created this collective beast that is very strong.

You need to decide as a spiritual person, that you do not need to overcome all desire for sex. But if you want maximum growth, you certainly need to overcome these obsessive-compulsive projections and fantasies. And you do this by using our tools. First of all, invoking protection from Archangel Michael of your auras and chakras, your base chakra. Calling for Astrea to cut you free from any ties to this collective consciousness.

But what you really need to do is expose these selves that are giving you this push and pull, this dichotomy, this conflict, and use our tools to come to see them and then decide to let them go. It is a decision you have to make and you can see even from the way you have formulated the question that you have not yet made that decision and because you are not clear, because you are still undecided, you are being subjected to these projections from these forces. Anytime there is a division in your mind where you are not clear, you do not have a clear vision, you are vulnerable to Dark Forces.

Causes of infertility

Question: Can you please help us reach a higher understanding of infertility in both men and women? Could you share some practical advice to bring balance to the four lower bodies, in a way that supports co-creating a child for both men and women?

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

Well, there are physical causes of infertility, and there are non-physical causes. There can of course be genetic factors that cause infertility, there can be chemical imbalances in the body, there can be what you would call diseases in the body that cause infertility.

On a deeper level, there can be spiritual reasons, we might say, psychological reasons for infertility. In a few cases, it is simply because it is not in people’s divine plan to have children. They are blocked from conceiving a physical child. In some cases, but very few cases, people will want children with their conscious minds, but they are blocked by the subconscious mind. But there are many more cases of infertility where this goes back to past lives and unresolved psychology.

There are families where they have reincarnated together so many times—the same souls, the same lifestreams—that they are not growing from this. So there can be cases where there is more and more infertility in the new generations that come up, so that the people cannot continue to incarnate in the same families. There are also cases where people have abused children in past lives, and therefore they are karmically blocked from having children. There are cases where people do not want to have children for various reasons and therefore there is a blockage at the subconscious level that affects the physical body and the ability to conceive children.

If you are a spiritual person, you can, of course, use our tools to heal any separate selves, any unresolved psychology from past lives and it will, in some cases, have an effect. But not in all cases. Because as I said, if it is not in your divine plan to have children, then there is really not much you can do to create the physical fertility. For people who are not spiritual, there is not that much they can do, there is not much I can recommend, as they are not open to a spiritual solution to it.

About separate selves

Question: My questions pertain to when we are dealing with seeing our separate selves and dissolving them. What happens to the energy of the separate self when we let it die or transform it? Where does it go? When one comes at the separate self with the intention of letting it die? Is one coming at it with the feeling that it is wrong and needs to change? Will it try to hide if it knows we want it to die? If so, how do we come at it with love? If we do not like it and want it to change? Do we have to do anything or just see the separate self and say, “No longer, I do not need this anymore”. I know you have talked about this a lot, but I am still not getting it? Thank you.

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

Let me first comment on the energy aspect of this. The self is more like a construction in the mind. It is a matrix in the mind. And when energy from your I Am Presence, or even from the material realm flows through the self, it is colored and qualified by the self, we might say mis-qualified by the self.

This self is then stored in your emotional body, your mental body, your identity body. This energy is stored in your emotional body, mental body, identity body, and even to some degree in a physical body. This is why we have you give invocations and decrees. The effect of this is that it transmutes the energy, so that it is raised in a higher vibration, and therefore, cycles back up to the spiritual realm, where it then becomes your Talents that are multiplied and you are receiving new energy in return. The mis-qualified energy literally disappears by being transmuted. It is, again, changed into its original higher state.

Now, in terms of your attitude of coming at the selves, Well, that depends on how new you are to this. It is normal that in the beginning, you will have some sense that the separate selves are limiting you, you do not want them and they should go away. But as you become more practiced, more mature with this process, you just go into a neutral state of mind. You are not resisting seeing the selves, you are not having any negative feelings about it. You are just asking for our help, doing the exercises to see the self and when you do, you let it die.

We have given the formula that you come to see that: “You are a self, you are not me, I am not you, I do not want you anymore in my life experience, therefore, I am letting you die”. It is clear that the self will resist being exposed. But on the other hand, many of these specific separate selves do not really have a sophisticated reasoning process. They are more like a computer program. Whenever a situation occurs that triggers the self, it cannot really hide itself. The ego is a little more sophisticated and can therefore seek to hide itself, camouflage itself and so forth.

NASA’s DART Mission

Question: NASA has just launched Dart, a probe to crash into an asteroid in case an event like such threatens the life of the planet in the future. This kind of science, by all means, seems Hollywoodesque and dualistic as it fears the universe attacking us, the Armageddon mindset. I was actually upset that we are not content with damaging the insides of our planet and now we reach further out. The news now says the Dart has left a trail of 10,000 miles of debris in space. Can the Masters comment on this, please?

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

Well, it is clear that you have a certain level of collective consciousness on the earth right now. And people must outplay that consciousness. And this project is obviously an outplaying of the consciousness, where you do not trust that if you raise the consciousness of earth, there will be no danger of an asteroid destroying the earth.

You have of course the common belief that an asteroid eradicated the dinosaurs. We could say that those people who know they are dinosaurs, because they have not shifted their minds into the golden age mindset, they fear that the same could happen to them. That is why they are using the technology they have, in the effort to do something. It is, of course, not necessary. But nevertheless, it is what needs to be outplayed and there could be some technological benefit from doing this that can be used for constructive purposes.

The trouble with the birth trauma visualization

Question: Mother Mary’s visualizations, past-life regressions and going into my subconscious mind while being awake is not possible for me in the meantime. In that case, what would you recommend for chapter three in the, Healing Your Traumas book? Is it possible to heal our birth trauma without visualizing past lives?

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

We have commented on visualization, and it is not necessary that you see a past life in detail. As we have said before, some people think that visualization, they take it too literally and think they have to see this from the inner eye. You just have to do the exercise and feel whatever sensations you get. They may not be visual, they may be words, they may be subtle sensations. But you do the exercise and keep doing it until you have some kind of breakthrough, where you feel the shift has occurred.

The likelihood of a nuclear war

Question: What is the possibility of a nuclear war and the earth not making it to the golden age? Is there enough upward spiral that eventually a shift will occur?

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

The possibility of a large-scale nuclear war is extremely low. There could be some local exchanges of nuclear weapons, but even the possibility of this is low. What is the possibility of the earth making it to the golden age? 100%. It is only a matter of what time it takes before certain things can manifest.

Ascended Master Lanto

Question: I have a question about Ascended Master Lanto. Before I came into contact with the ascended master teachings, I was taught a lot through Lao Tzu’s, Tao Te Ching. Has Master Lanto ever incarnated as Lao Tzu? Or is he a different person? If he is another person, would you tell me what the last life of Master Lanto was like?

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

I’ll just answer this because I do not sense the Masters want to say anything. But Lanto was not embodied as Lao Tzu, at least not according to what I have heard and what was said in the Summit Lighthouse. It was not really openly said in the Summit, who Lao Tzu was, or whether he is an ascended master even. But Lanto works as the Chohan at the Royal Teton retreat, which is over the Royal Teton Mountains in Wyoming in the US.

And he teaches people that come from the Confucian, the Tao Te Ching, the Buddhic tradition. That might be why you feel some affinity to him. The only thing that has ever been said about Master Lanto’s last lifetime was that he had reached such a devotion to his threefold flame that it could actually be seen physically through his chest. It said that he ascended about 500 years BC, but other than that we do not have any specific embodiment. It is not like he was a historical person, apparently.

About fallen beings (and taking the reasoning process too far)

Question: We live on an unascended planet, and in a sphere that has not ascended either. And where like the masters say, God does not look into our sins, nor remember them because earth is an experimental environment for our free will, where nothing is absolute, but everything is temporary. But beyond this theater of experimentation for our free will, that is earth and the material universe, every sentient being on earth has a divine spark that connects him or her potentially to the oneness of all life through the I AM Presence. According to this, couldn’t we say that one of our last illusions on earth is to overcome the perception of the division between spiritual persons on the path of Christhood or Buddhahood and fallen beings? Of course, at the beginning stages of the spiritual path, we need to keep the perception of separation between us and the fallen beings that use all means they can conceive of to manipulate and deviate human beings from the spiritual path and keep them in the duality consciousness. But this means that at these stages we are in duality, although only partially. But as we move to higher stages on the spiritual path and give up more and more of the dualistic mind, don’t we begin to see also that even the fallen beings deserve the mercy of letting go of the fixed images we keep about them, and practice also the Christ acceptance by remembering that they also have an I AM Presence, and could regain the connection with their divine identity, if they choose to, like masters Kuan Yin and Jesus who say it is a possibility for every being. This would make it possible for us to experience oneness with all life, even when we are still on earth. Couldn’t this make possible the experience, even if for brief moments of the unconditional love of God, even before ascending? And wouldn’t this also be the best way to deeply understand and practice free will?

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

Well, I encourage you to read the book My Lives with Lucifer, Satan, Hitler and Jesus, where you see especially the situation of Lucifer before he goes to the second death, and you will see some of the dynamic described here. What you need to recognize here is that the reasoning mind can reason for or against anything. What you are partially doing here is reasoning, with this reasoning mind, the mind of antichrist, about what it should be like. You are taking something out of context, and saying: “The logical consequence of this should be that we should do such and such.” And that is a common element of the consciousness of antichrist, the intellectual, analytical mind.

You need to recognize here that you do not need anything from or with the fallen beings in order to go into an experience of oneness, and in order to experience unconditional love on earth. You do not need anything from outside yourself. You need to be very careful and make a distinction here. You do not need anything from the fallen beings, nor do you need to do anything with the fallen beings in order to attain Christhood. This does not mean that you are completely wrong in your reasoning. It is clear that as you reach the higher levels of Christhood you are not looking with any negative feelings at the fallen beings. But neither are you trying to change them or trying to think that you have to somehow relate to them in order to attain something in your own mind.

There comes a point where you look at the fallen beings from a completely neutral state of mind. You do not actually see them as fallen beings. This messenger has moved beyond the point where he is looking for fallen beings or judging that: “Oh, this person must be a fallen being.” There are some times that he receives an intuitive insight that shows him that this is a fallen being, but he is not looking for it. You come to that point where you treat fallen beings as you treat any other human being. In other words, you are not giving them any special status in your mind. You are not trying to convert them, you are not trying to condemn them, or put them down or judge them or fight them. You are not giving them any special status, you are looking at them as individual beings, you relate to them based on how they act and what comes to you from within. You are not having in your intellectual reasoning mind this sense that: “Oh, this is how I should behave towards the fallen beings”.

If you read your question carefully, you can recognize these elements where you are taking the reasoning process too far. This is one of the characteristics of the consciousness of duality, where you say that: “If I have said A, then I have to say B. If I have started reasoning this way, I must continue to reason this way until we reach the logical extreme of this line of reasoning”.

This is what you can see in many philosophers throughout the ages. The silly example is the Sophists in Greece and their reasoning: “Is this dog yours? Is this dog father? Ergo, this dog is your father.” This is a silly example. But nevertheless, this is how the reasoning mind says: “We set up the premise for logic as Aristotelian logic. And we have to continue in that direction once we have set them up”.

But what you are saying yourself is that there are stages on the path. And there is a stage on the path where you need to use your reasoning mind because you cannot do anything else. There is even a stage on the path to Christhood where you are using the reasoning mind. But there comes a higher stage where you begin to see the limitations of the reasoning mind, and therefore you transcend it—you become more intuitive. You are not reasoning, or evaluating or judging. “Judge not that you be not judged. For with whatever measure you mete out, it shall be meted out to you”. Because when you have your life review, you are looking at your life with your present level of consciousness, only you are seeing what you could not see while you were in the body. But you are evaluating your own life based on the state of consciousness you have and that is why you need to make an effort to transcend that, so you can have a more constructive life review and make maximum progress. Even make maximum progress before you leave the body.

When tradition prevents society from progressing

Question: The current dispensation has frequently pointed out traditions as a sign of a nation’s lack of progress. While sometimes colorful and artistic, they seem to be holding back the mindset of a group. Sometimes they make good returns in tourism, appreciation and visitation due to its cultural imagery. People create identity around them and social expression, I myself seem to enjoy them. But reckon that I do so from an outsider perspective. To talk against them will turn one into the target of ridicule and disregard of appreciation of the historic past. Are traditions meant to serve as transitions to moments in history and then let go for new cultural expressions? Can the masters comment more on the role of traditions, and the mixture of them with the lies of antichrist.

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, you understand that the nature of a tradition is that it looks back to the past. And the nature of progress is that it looks to the future. Now, certainly, there has to be a balance. “He who does not learn from the mistakes of history are destined to repeat them.” So you need to have an awareness of the past, you need to be willing to look back to the past. And of course, human beings have a need for continuity. I am not here saying that a country should abandon all traditions and only look forward, you need to look backwards also.

Nevertheless, you will see that there is a tendency, especially in the most modern democratic nations, that traditions are sort of fading away. You will see, for example, that in many European nations, they had these traditional folk costumes, and folk dancers. And there were groups of people that would keep that tradition alive by making the costumes, doing the dances, and so forth. But there are fewer and fewer people that do this, because it is mostly older people who do it, and they naturally pass from the screen of life and are not able to carry on the tradition. And the young people are not interested—this is too old fashioned for them, so they move on.

When it happens this way, you can say, well, this is a tradition, that is not really holding back progress in a negative way. It is in a sense, holding back progress, but not in a severe way. But there are of course, other traditions that become much more of a tool for really closing people’s minds to progress and being focused on the past. It maintains people, a group of people, in a certain sense of identity that they ideally should transcend and move on from. One example is native peoples from around the world where you see that there is this tendency among native peoples that they feel they have to remain loyal to their past and keep their traditions alive. And this often prevents them from integrating in life.

We have talked before about the native peoples of America who are in many cases stuck in the past, trying to maintain a lifestyle that just is not practical in the modern age. They are living on reservations, separating themselves from society, and therefore in a way, telling the universe that they want to be discriminated against because they do not want to be like other people. Whereas the better scenario for them would be that they were able to move on, forge a new sense of identity based on the reality of how life is today. It makes no sense really, to maintain a tradition in modern day America, where you want to live in a hunter-gatherer culture that could barely sustain itself as it was 150 to 200 years ago. I know that many people will resist this, will be angry over it. But truly, you can see that these people are held back—many native peoples around the world are held back. And it prevents them from embracing the progress that their nations have actually gone through.

About the animation industry

Question: In the 80s and 90s, the cartoon industry was mostly innocent and with good messages. Since the beginning of the year 2000, I have noticed how it slowly started changing. And nowadays, it seems as if the fallen beings almost completely took over and are controlling what children watch. The characters are mean and the drawing and colors inharmonious. Do you see that this had a significant impact on children? And I am making calls on this. Will making calls on this help bring change?

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, I would say that the problem with the cartoon industry goes much further back—that there has always been a tendency that many of the images were distorted, that they would actually tie into the astral plane with these inharmonious images. And the storyline and the characters were also questionable. Certainly, you can find some positive cartoons, but you can also find many that are not positive at all.

And naturally, this affects children who sit there—in the United States, many children sit down on Saturday morning watching these cartoons, and they do this from a very early age, where they are certainly not ready for the images or the messages that are being programmed into their subconscious minds. Certainly, it can help to make calls on this. But the question really is whether it is the highest priority right now. If you feel it is, you should, by all means make calls on it. But I am not thereby saying that all ascended master students should do this, because there are so many other topics to make calls on.

Reaching beyond the rational mind

Question: We have been learning through the ascended masters that since the first beings fell in the fourth sphere and lost the connection to the spiritual realm, the ego with its analytical mind became the self-reference to these beings, and gave birth to the compulsive need to explain everything. On earth, all human beings have been contaminated with this need after the fallen ones came to earth.

What created the ideological mindset and it’s delusional belief that our mind, the ego’s mind is able to understand and find the absolute truth? And that is the reason isn’t it why we created the habit of thinking that there must be a rational reason for everything, and that we are able to find it, if we learn how to use the rational mind. We become closed systems inside a self-referential analytical mind using our logic to determine an infallible truth. But what we do is that we substitute our connection to the realm of spirit for our analytical mind. And the ego takes us to a dead end that creates false first principles to explain reality and our own identity. And in a kind of mental intoxication we believe that we cannot be wrong, and can even determine how the world should work.

How do we escape this mental intoxication that is also a lie we say to ourselves? Since we have not ascended yet, we can’t know better than God and the ascended masters how to discern truth from an illusion or belief. Could we say that the path to be free from this is to acknowledge that unascended beings are still in duality and do not have the full knowledge of anything? And at every moment of the path, we do not know better than God and our masters? So, isn’t there humility in saying: “I don’t know” whenever we get too certain, too sure of our conclusions is the best path we can take and we really want to be a spiritual student and be at peace on earth?

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

Well, yes, you have stated many valid insights here. As I said earlier, you cannot escape the consciousness of antichrist by using the consciousness of antichrist. You cannot out reason, the reasoning mind

You cannot, once you are trapped in this self-referential system, reason your way out of it. But what you can do is you can be open. You can acknowledge that the mind, the human mind, has a tendency to become this self-referential system. And you can therefore, open your mind to experiences, to ideas that do not come from your own mind, or come from the mind of other human beings, including fallen beings. You can see the need to reach beyond the rational mind. And you can therefore, use various tools and techniques to confuse the rational mind, and to strengthen your intuitive faculties. This is what Zen Buddhism is doing with these koans that confuse the rational mind.

You can, of course, also look at history and see examples of how people have used the rational mind to get themselves into a blind alley, and how this has sometimes led to disastrous consequences.

There are certainly many things you can do, but in the end, it is, as I said, a matter of experiencing the Christ mind—having an experience that there is a mind that is beyond the rational mind and that this mind can give you a sense of reality that is beyond what you get from the rational mind. This means you can then use that as a frame of reference for evaluating the arguments coming from the rational mind. And this is what can lead to a state of peace of mind.

In order to achieve this, it is correct, you need to be able and willing to say: “There is something I don’t know, I don’t know everything. I don’t understand everything”. We understand that you go through certain phases as a spiritual student. You take this messenger, who, for the first many years on the path, he was always looking to know more, to understand more, to increase his understanding of the path. And he was seeking for this ultimate understanding.

But he did come to the realization that it would not be possible for him to reach this ultimate understanding while he was in physical embodiment. He saw this intuitively. And therefore, he made a switch, a conscious switch of realizing that there was nothing he knew, even after 30 years of studying spiritual teachings and practicing spiritual techniques, there was still nothing he knew that was absolute. There was no understanding he had that could not be expanded at any moment. He realized that we of the ascended masters could at any moment give him an idea that was beyond his current understanding. It did not mean that his current understanding was wrong. It just means that it was not complete. It was not the full picture.

This is an attitude and approach that you can adopt. But in order to adopt it, you need to have a certain resolution of psychology. Because of course, what happened, if you came as an avatar to earth and was exposed to this traumatic event, this attack by the fallen beings, you went into a state of mind, you created a self, so that you could never be wrong again. And that makes it difficult for you to admit that you do not know everything, that you do not have the full understanding. And you often tend to use the rational mind to filter out what threatens your sense that you are not wrong.

It takes a certain resolution of psychology to get to this point where you can accept: “I don’t know everything, and I don’t have to know everything. I am on earth. I am on an unnatural planet. I don’t have to have the full understanding of life. And in fact, I never can have, as long as I am embodied on a planet like this.” And then you can decide to make this switch where you become open to anything we can tell you. You become open to the written and spoken teachings we are giving to you to become open, also to inner direction, so that we can anytime give you an impulse—your Christ self, your I AM Presence can give you an impulse that is beyond what you currently know and understand. You recognize that you do not have to know everything —you do not have to know everything—you do not have to always be right. Certainly, you do not have to be right among men, it is a matter of being right with God, and that only happens through the Christ mind, not through the rational, analytical mind.

These are some shifts you can make, whereby you can gradually come to this point where you open yourself to us so we can work with you unrestricted. You will see in many, many people and the messenger has seen it in himself how, in the beginning phases of the path, you really do not want us, the ascended masters, to be too close to you. You do not want us to expose your psychology. You are afraid that we will be as harsh to you, as the fallen beings have been— that we will criticize you and make you feel like you are wrong, that you are worthless, that you cannot make it, and whatever the fallen beings have made you feel. But as several masters, including Mother Mary have said, we are not the fallen beings, we are not in a fallen mindset. We are not seeking to put you down, overwhelm you or make you feel bad. We will give you one idea at a time that you can handle and that you can use to grow. And if you can work on making this shift, you can come to this point where now you are open, you are in a neutral frame of mind. You are open to us and say: “Masters, show me what you want to show me”. You are not resisting it, not even subconsciously, because the selves that resist it have been dissolved, you have let them die.

You understand that it is very, very understandable that when you are exposed to this trauma by the fallen beings, that you create a self that resists being put down, being found wrong. But this self will also resist impulses and instructions from the ascended masters, because it resists anything that could cause you to change your view of yourself. The self is like a computer that can only resist any new ideas. You find an ascended master teaching, there is a part of your mind that wants to come closer to us, that wants to be guided by us. But there is this self or this conglomerate of selves that are resisting it.

It is sort of a delicate balance for us to help many students, you go back and forth. You are sometimes open, sometimes you are closed. Sometimes you receive an idea, but then there is some self that starts reasoning and arguing with the idea and waters it down so you are not really making the shift in consciousness you could have made. It is sort of a push-pull like the old saying: you take one step forward and slide two steps backwards. And when you are ready to step up to a higher level, you can become aware of this, take the steps needed to dissolve it, so you can come to that point of just being neutral, and saying: “Show me what I need to see right now”.

Argentina’s potential to become a more democratic society

Question: Is Argentina taking a final true democratic switch in the next few years?

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

There is a potential for Argentina to make a switch and become a more democratic society. Whether this happens or not, is up to the free will of the people, or at least a critical mass of them. So far, it is not possible to even predict this, whether it will happen or when it will happen.

There are many other countries in South America that are divided, pulled in different directions by two different forces: one against democracy, one for it. You see the struggle in Brazil that is going on with the presidential election, between two different candidates and one of which is clearly a narcissist. And you see that in other South American/Central American nations, they cannot make a decisive shift so they are continually pulled back and forth—they go from crisis to crisis.

And really, as of this moment, it is impossible to predict when a nation will shift. We have of course, not many ascended master students in South America, at least not from this dispensation, so there is not so much for us to work with there. But of course, there is a general upward movement, that many of the nations are being pulled up by. So there is cautious optimism for the evolution of these nations.

The spiritual progress of Napoleon

Question: Did Napoleon go on with his upward spiritual evolution after his iconic lifetime?

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, I know it has been stated in past ascended master dispensations that I actually sponsored Napoleon, because I wanted him to create a United States of Europe. But you have to recognize that regardless of this, Napoleon was a fallen being. And it does not mean that we have not occasionally used fallen beings to do something that was necessary to be done for the overall growth of society. But it is a rare phenomenon.

And Napoleon, in his case, has not really made significant progress. I am not saying that Napoleon is the worst category of fallen beings seen on this planet. But nevertheless, you clearly see his mentality, his mindset, his absolute conviction that he was right, you see the characteristics of this narcissistic personality disorder that we have talked about.

Was Van Gogh inspired by the ascended masters?

Question: Was Van Gogh directly inspired by the ascended masters to show us that the whole world of form is a swirling interplay of light waves? Is this way of painting the way the masters stated we should train our senses to perceive the matter light?

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, we can certainly say that Van Gogh was inspired by the ascended masters. The question is how direct it was because his mind was somewhat unbalanced. But it is very correct that his paintings can give an inspiration in terms of how you can train yourself to view the matter light as being made up of energy that is constantly moving. It is not necessarily moving the way you see in the paintings, that was what Van Gogh was able to grasp. But he did certainly sense that the world was made up of energy, even though he could not really put words on this. Instead, he put pictures on it.

You need to recognize that many, many people throughout the world who have had a higher vision than is normal have also been somewhat psychologically imbalanced. This is a common theme that you can see throughout history, where those who are open to a different view of reality, are often too open. And therefore, they are overwhelmed by impressions. It can in some cases, be from the astral plane, as you see some of the very dark paintings from the Middle Ages, or the very dark stories that have been written. But it can also be the higher emotional realm, the mental realm, even the identity realm, in a few cases, even the spiritual realm. Many of these people have had a genuine vision, a sense of connection to something beyond the material, and certainly beyond the mass consciousness of their time. But they have not been able to live a balanced life.

This is something you need to ponder as ascended master students, that while it is good to strive to have some kind of vision, it is also necessary to have some kind of balance in your lives. The only reason this messenger has survived for nearly 20 years in his position, is that he has been almost from childhood, aware of the need to have a certain balance. And although some will say his life has not been balanced compared to a normal standard, he has been at least balanced enough in his psychology to continue doing the work he is doing. And that is what you all need to strive for. You need to avoid going into these extremes. You need to avoid having obsessive-compulsive needs, that : “Something needs to happen, something significant needs to happen in my life, and it needs to happen now”. And therefore, you become unbalanced—you seek to take heaven by force, as many people have done.

Balance is really the key to sustainability, the sustainability of your effort. And that means that you can continue to be an open door, to have a greater vision for a longer period of time than instead of this crash and burn syndrome that we have seen in many of these avant-garde progressive people. We do not want to see this for our students. Therefore, we have given you a much more balanced path, more balanced tools and techniques, whereby you can resolve the psychology that makes you unbalanced, because, of course, why was Van Gogh unbalanced? It was because he had all of these separate selves created from past lives going back to when he first ascended to earth as an avatar and received his initial birth trauma. But he did not really know how to heal from this. Therefore, his imbalance kept getting worse and worse for several lifetimes, until it culminated in what you saw in this lifetime.

What it takes to bring free energy technology

Question: As ascended master students, we have been stimulated to question the status quo. Now since I followed the ascended master teachings I have heard many times Saint Germain talk about free energy. At the moment, the world is desperately in need of free energy. The prices of energy and everything else are skyrocketing because of oil and gas prices. And in the coming winter and the next few years, it looks like many people will suffer from the cold and might die of the cold because they cannot afford the energy bills. Although already too late, it would be now—the moment to release the information to earth’s scientist to be able to produce free energy. Scientists and ascended master students and many others are more than open and desperately willing to receive information from Saint Germain about free energy and pass it through to the ones who will make sure that all can benefit. What is holding him back?

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, you are holding me back—your consciousness and the consciousness of many, many people who do not fully grasp the equation on earth. You need to recognize, again, free will determines everything. You may say: “Well, many people and scientists are open to free energy”. I disagree. They are not open to free energy. They are open to an easy way out of the current situation. But that is not the same as being open to a fundamental shift in how we look at energy and energy generation, how we conduct science in a non-materialistic way. Because materialistic scientists cannot grasp and be open to the necessary discoveries that need to be made before free energy technology can become feasible and practical.

You need to recognize here that if you go back to before there were cars on earth, you are looking at cars today and taking them for granted and saying: “Oh, cars were a simple invention”. Many people think that there was a certain person that invented the first car. But if you actually go back in time, you see that before a car could actually be invented, many other inventions had to be made that brought forth the knowledge and the technology. And we could actually say that the first car was not invented. It was just assembled based on many other individual discoveries that seemed unrelated. But someone had the vision to pull them together and create the first car, as primitive as it was. You see the modern cars compared to the first cars, and how many, again, individual inventions have been made to create modern cars.

This is the same with free energy technology. It cannot be brought forth in a matter of months or a few years. Even if we said: “Today, we have governments, we have scientists, we have people who are open to free energy technology. Saint Germain, give us the ideas and we will implement them”. It could not be done in a few years. It would, because of the delay factor of materialistic science and the collective consciousness, take a number of years to bring forth the separate, seemingly unrelated inventions and discoveries that are necessary before free energy technology can actually be manifest in the physical.

It will also take a long time to shift the consciousness so that it could not be monopolized by the power elite and be used to further control or suppress the people. Free energy technology does not just mean free in terms of it does not cost money, but free in terms that it cannot be monopolized by the elite, and therefore, used as fossil fuels have been used to manipulate the people.

There are many shifts in consciousness that need to happen. It is not something that will happen overnight. There are interim stages that need to be taken. And for practical purposes, renewable energy, solar, wind power, fission and so on will have to be taken until the shift has happened that will make free energy technology feasible.

You need to look at this and realize that there is always a tendency for people to want the easy way out when there is a crisis. But free energy technology requires a fundamental shift in consciousness of a critical mass of people—not a majority but a critical mass. And that has not happened yet. Now the crisis can, and already has brought forward this shift because people are now more open to new ideas, but it will still take time before it can actually filter through and become a physical reality. I am not the one who is holding back. People are holding back.

Where are the results of our decrees and invocations?

Question: Thousands of times a day, invocations are being made to improve things on earth, and stop war and COVID. I have heard the masters compliment the ascended master students and that their efforts doing these invocations have such a great impact. If that is really the case, where are the results we can see on earth? I see no changes. COVID numbers are rising again. The war in Ukraine is still going on, and many other conflicts are still in place or on the brink of starting. It is easy to blame the consciousness of humankind and say that their consciousness is too low. But then as the ascended masters have said themselves in the last webinar, for democracies to be able to exist, there needs to be a certain level of Christ consciousness. The consciousness in Europe cannot be that low. Why then do the people in Europe, where there are many democracies, have to suffer from skyrocketing prices, and the cold. But, of course, this question counts for everywhere on earth, and especially for the most poor people who will suffer the most, their consciousness to me is not low.

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, if you study our teachings, you will actually see that we have explained this in many different ways and in many different perspectives. Everything revolves around free will, the free will of the people. And this is not necessarily something that you can analyze with the human mind and figure out. You can always say: “Why are the people in Europe, where there are democracies, suffering from high energy prices?” Well, partly because it is the role of democracies to stop the advancement of dictatorships, and rising energy prices are a consequence of this. It is also a consequence of the fact that Europe has not made itself independent of Russian energy, even though they had the warning in 2014. They are suffering the consequences of their own choices or lack of choices. And this is, again, free will outplaying itself.

We have said many, many times that decrees and invocations can have a positive effect, but they cannot override the free will of the people. When you come to understand this—really grasp this, really see this through an inner intuitive experience, you realize that you cannot give invocations and decrees with the expectation that you should see specific results in a specific timeframe. There are results. There have been results. Do you know what the planet would have looked like if the decrees and invocations had not been given, for now, many, many years, many decades? Do you have really a grasp with the outer mind of what that would have been like? I can tell you it would have been far worse than what you see today.

Fallen beings as substitute teachers

Question: Specifically, in these days, we have seen the return of the dictator’s mentality in the actions of Putin. Not only him, when we look back in history, we find many fallen beings like Stalin, Mao or the intellectual ones like Marx, leaving a trail in history. This has to make us think if they will return with the same inclinations, will the world be prepared to counteract their ambitions? Are all of these fallen beings coming back into embodiment during this age? Are our efforts as ascended master students and as democratic societies, a way to create social environments where they will not have it as easy into reaching power, or releasing the ideas to deceive people. Can the masters assess what to expect of these figures that have been recycling around and around on this planet, and how to deal with them?

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, we have said before that when a population enters the School of Hard Knocks, the knocks have to become hard enough for the people to wake up. And who is better at delivering hard knocks than the fallen beings, which means that the fallen beings become a kind of substitute teacher.

It is clear that, in this day and age, we are in the process of moving from Pisces to Aquarius, and this means that the lessons that were not learned during the Piscean age need to be learned before we can really move into Aquarius. And one of the lessons that needed to be learned was to overcome this tendency that people have to follow the power elite or to submit to the power elite of fallen beings. Naturally, because so many people have not learned that lesson, it is allowed karmically that many fallen beings embody in this age. It is not necessarily the same ones who have been embodying over and over, but many of them have, of course, embodied in previous times. It is not so that, as we have said before, that Hitler or Stalin or Lenin or Mao are coming back into embodiment at this time. There are other fallen beings that are allowed to embody.

This is a phenomenon that will become more and more prominent in the sense that people’s awareness will be raised. You already see the raising of awareness of narcissists, sociopaths, and it will only continue. There will come a point where the psychological profession can no longer maintain this unspoken agreement that they do not take the ideas of narcissists and sociopaths and psychopaths and apply it to world leaders. They cannot maintain this. There will come a point where if the psychologists do not do it, other people will, as they have already started doing.

It is really a matter of spreading the awareness that there are a certain type of people that have a certain attitude to human beings, to other human beings. But they do not see themselves as human beings, and they see human beings as inferior to them. And therefore, they do not need to consider them as human beings. They do not need to consider their rights, their lives or the suffering they create for these people. You can see in Putin that he does not care whatsoever about the soldiers, the Russian soldiers that have been killed or maimed for life in Ukraine. Even his own people, he does not care about.

And this is what you need to see, what people need to come to see in these leaders that you might find an excuse for them not caring about other people that they see as enemies. But what excuse can you find for the fact that they do not care whatsoever about their own people and the suffering of their own people? You need to see that these people have a personal ambition, a personal agenda, and they are willing to sacrifice the lives and the suffering of the people that are under them to an almost unlimited degree in order to achieve their ambition.

Anybody who had any kind of humanity would not have done what Putin did in the first place, but certainly would not have continued, when it only creates more and more suffering for the Russian soldiers. Neither would he have put them in a situation where they are poorly trained, poorly equipped, pushed to fulfill his ambition of doing what cannot be done militarily in Ukraine. You see this willingness to sacrifice the lives and the suffering of what is supposedly their own people. And this is what the Russian people need to come to see before there will be that shift in the collective awareness. That means Putin and the power players around him will be put out of business and a new form of leadership can emerge in Russia. The same, of course, goes for other nations, Iran where you already see the uprising of the people at an unprecedented level, eventually North Korea, China and so forth.

There is no question that the days of these people, these leaders are numbered. They will only be allowed to do this for a certain time. But the exact timeframe will depend on the response of the people, not only the people that are under these leaders, but the people of the world. If the people in the democratic nations can transcend a certain mindset, then that can also have an impact on the removal of these leaders from the planet. People need to recognize that warfare and conflict will not stop as long as there is this kind of person in embodiment. It is not the people who are creating war and conflict, it is a specific kind of people that are not actually normal human beings. And they will continue to do what they have done throughout history because they cannot say: “Stop”, and therefore, the people must say: “Stop”.

Will Russia use nuclear weapons?

Question: How likely is Putin to use a nuclear weapon in the war?

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, not nearly as likely as the sensationalist press makes it out to be. It is, of course, clear that he is realizing that he is in a bind. And many among the Russian leadership are beginning to realize that there is no good outcome of this situation. They cannot win the war. They cannot defeat the Ukrainians. And there really is no good way out.

Now, Putin has not admitted this consciously, although he is aware of it subconsciously. It is not likely that he will escalate this to using nuclear weapons because he knows there will be a severe reaction not only from the Western world, but also from China which does not desire to see that level of escalation.

You have to recognize here that you can say many things about Putin, but he is not a madman, as some in Western media want to portray him as. You would understand Putin better by recognizing his background, first in the KGB, then in the city government in St. Petersburg that was very closely linked with the Russian mafia. Putin has, over the years, adopted and developed a certain mindset of doing what the mafia does in terms of intimidating people with threats. Now, you will notice one very simple thing, a mafia organization—the leaders of a mafia organization, they generally believe that they are untouchable, that whatever they do will not hit themselves. But this also means they have a certain rationale, of not doing things that could hit themselves, that could harm themselves.

Now, in a sense, you can say that Vladimir Putin is the leader of the biggest mafia operation in the world called the Russian government. And therefore, he has that same mindset. If he thinks something could damage him personally, he would not take that step. And he is able to see that the consequences of using even a tactical weapon in Ukraine, would be very severe. There is, of course, also, the reality that he has now declared four regions as part of Russia. But the Russian army has been pushed back so that the Ukrainians are now in those four regions. So if he is to use a battlefield nuclear weapon, he would have to use it on the battlefield. But the battlefield is now in what he claims to be Russia. So what leader would use a nuclear weapon in his own country? And of course, using it in another part of Ukraine would also incur a very determined reaction from the rest of the world.

You have to realize that even though Putin does not think the way most people in democratic nations think, he has a certain rationale, a certain way of reasoning that means there is a limit to what kind of risk he is willing to take. You can, for that matter, see that in how the war has been executed so far. The unwillingness to call for a general mobilization, for example, the unwillingness to call it a “war” and so forth.

Evangelical Christians after death

Question: What happens to an evangelical Christian when he or she dies? Do they meet Jesus? Are they told the truth about the false teachings of the Church? How open are they normally when they hear the truth? Or do they instead choose to remain in denial?

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

Well, that is a very individual matter. It all depends on the person’s openness. You realize that when you are out of the body, you have the potential to attain a broader vision than you have while you are in the body in the four lower bodies and the perception filters of them. But it depends on your openness of mind, your willingness to see beyond that perception filter.

There are many people that are so closed minded—and it does not apply only to evangelical Christians, but it applies to many evangelical Christians. They are so closed minded that, when they pass from the screen of life, go out of embodiment, we cannot tell them the truth about the church and the Christian religion. We cannot tell them the things that I have given you even in the dictation I gave earlier today. This is partly because of the law of free will. Because we are not allowed to force people to see something, they are not willing to see.

What unfortunately happens to many of these people is that they magnetized themselves to certain areas in the mental and emotional realms. Often not the astral plan, the lower emotional realm, but the higher emotional realm. And here they enter into a kind of Devachan where they can experience what they are open to experiencing, and hopefully grow a little bit from this—move closer to the point where they have had enough of that experience. But in most cases, they do not make much progress. They just come back into their next embodiment, in some cases in an evangelical environment, in some cases in another Christian environment, in some cases in a different religion, but with the same level of fanaticism and closed-mindedness that they have in their four lower bodies.

How do people become narcissists?

Question: Can the masters comment on if childhood trauma is a major link to narcissism or fanaticism later in life, whether in politics, religion or any other sphere.

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, you cannot look at a person’s current lifetime and say what happened to that person in childhood is the reason why he or she is now a narcissist or a sociopath. You do not become a narcissist or sociopath in one lifetime. No matter how severe of a trauma you might experience in childhood, it simply does not happen. Many of the most prominent narcissists you see in the world, or have seen in history did not have a particularly traumatic childhood.

You become a narcissist or sociopath over many lifetimes by consistently making self-centered choices that deny the humanity of other people and make you insensitive to the consequences that your actions have for other people. This has to be built over a long period of time. For the fallen beings it is built, even over a longer period of time when you talk about past lives on earth. It goes back to previous spheres. Of course, a childhood trauma in this embodiment might trigger certain narcissistic tendencies that the person had built in past lifetimes. But still, you have, of course, many examples of people who experienced childhood trauma without becoming a narcissist or a sociopath.

Sutras and special gifts

Question: I recently took a video course with a well known energy healer. She has done a lot of training in India. And in this course, she gave us 20 sutras to recite to ourselves to be used along with meditation. She claims that using them will help to open up psychic gifts and lead to spiritual advancement. She talked a lot about opening the gates to the twelve chakras above our heads and initiations. Although I do not believe her claims that the sutras lead to special gifts, I have felt some energy above my head while using them. And I wonder if the masters can explain the history of this practice and whether it is helpful or not.

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

Well, there are many techniques and tools that have validity in the sense that they can have a positive effect. There are, of course, many ways to invoke energy, higher energies than the decrees and invocations we are giving you. You have from the tradition of Hinduism and Buddhism, and other Eastern traditions, many valid techniques. You are giving some of these sutras when you give the Om Mani Padma Hum, the Om Ah Hum, Vajra Guru Padme Siddhi Hum and others of these chants and mantras, so there can be validity to it.

But be aware that it is not really the purpose of a valid spiritual technique to produce supernatural or psychic abilities. Because no valid spiritual teacher will encourage this in their students and will seek to attract students who want this. On the contrary, most valid spiritual teachers will seek to avoid such students because they know they come because they want some outer phenomenon that raises the ego, makes them feel superior to other people, and they are often willing to take heaven by force. Many of the more mature, evolved spiritual teachers seek to avoid such students by not making these claims that, by practicing a certain technique, you will almost automatically or guaranteed to attain certain special abilities. Very few people can develop genuine psychic abilities, and very few people have it as part of their divine plan to do so. For most people, it is a distraction on the path to a higher state of consciousness.

How to do visualization exercises

Question: Visualization exercises are found in the Healing Your Spiritual Traumas book. For people who are having difficulty visualizing, either not being able to see or visualizing images different from the exercise, which may include dark or scary images, what do you suggest they do? What do you suggest they focus their attention on?

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, in a sense, everybody can visualize. It does not mean that, as some people think, that you have to see this for your inner eye almost as clearly as if you saw it physically. Images can be somewhat fleeting. But everybody has seen (unless they were born blind), has seen images—has seen situations, has seen the physical world. You can, in your mind, put your attention on a certain image while you are giving an invocation or a visualization exercise. It does not have to be completely clear. It is a matter of focusing your attention on what the exercise deals with.

In terms of seeing darker images, then do not pay them too much attention. Do not give them energy. Just let them pass before the screen of your mind by focusing on the exercise, not on the images. If you could become aware that you have become focused on the images, then you just return to the exercise and move on from there. You do not analyze it. You do not come down on yourself for having been focused on these images. You just drop them. Focus on the exercise and move on with the exercise.

Representatives of the Divine Mother for major groups of people

Question: I know there are representatives of the Divine Mother at many levels, including for earth, in both hemispheres. Are there also representatives of the Divine Mother specific to each country?

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, certainly there are, we have representatives of the Divine Mother for every country, every race, every religion, every major grouping of people that you can identify. These are not necessarily female beings. Many of them are male beings who have volunteered to work with a specific group of people and help them raise their consciousness. This often means that this being, this master or angel is releasing certain energies to the people, but also releasing certain ideas seeking to work with the people in the group who are sensitive and open to these ideas.

But of course, there are other ways that we minister to people of different groups, even at the energetic level, wherever there can be some mitigation of, for example, natural disasters or other events. Or we may lift certain karmic energies if we deem it could be constructive to give the people an opportunity. Or in some cases, we work at the energetic level by consuming some karma, descending some accumulated energies, and thereby working with people for this. We also, in some cases, bind or consume certain demons, even certain collective beasts and dark forces working against this group of people. But there is always a limit to what can we can do by the free will—and what that means in terms of the collective consciousness—of the group.

Again, it is a matter of people learning their growth in consciousness and many groups on earth are still at the level where they only learn from the School of Hard Knocks, so we cannot prevent these hard knocks from knocking at the doors to people’s minds. The more closed the doors are, the thicker the doors are, the harder the knocks must become and we must often stand back and allow this to unfold in what from a human perspective can seem completely unjust and unfair. And it has caused many people to become angry with God because they feel that this disaster should not have happened, what have these people done to deserve this? But there is always a reason for it, that the consciousness of the people precipitates the event, or at least the consciousness of some people precipitated the event.

The earthquakes in Mexico

Question: In this year 2022 was the third time an earthquake hit on the same date in Mexico, September 19th. It happened in 1985, 2017, 2022. The first more deadly than the second and the last milder than both previous ones. Yet that it continues to happen seems like the country hasn’t passed a course, like a failed subject. On the other hand, last earthquakes have been less damaging. Online there is a common thread trying to make sense of why that specific date is repeating, placing scientific thinking in question. Many people I read were thinking that fear and stress of previous events trigger a new one, which is to say that the mind of millions can make an earthquake happen. That explanation won’t satisfy me fully since I read the take on this matter from the Dhyani Buddhas. Yet in such I see an opening to link consciousness with natural events and the planet’s life. What can the masters comment on this matter? Has our country moved a bit upward in a way that now this matter is mitigated? Why does the occurrence repeat?

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, it is clear that you can always look at something like this as a message, that somehow the Mexican nation is being presented with a message, and it is, of course, valid to look at the teachings we have given on consciousness and a connection between earthquakes and people’s consciousness.

What we can say is that Mexico has moved forward as the planet has moved forward. Mexico has not moved forward as much as many other nations have. It has not moved forward as much as it has the potential to do. This is in large part due to the drug cartels which have such a strong influence on Mexican politics, Mexican society and even the collective consciousness by creating this fear in many among the Mexican people, also, of course, the corruption that is being created by these drug cartels.

I can tell you that there has been a certain progress, but I can also tell you that there is a potential that more severe earthquakes can happen, not necessarily on that date, but on other dates. In fact, it is likely that in the next few years, there will be more severe earthquakes in Mexico. I do not wish to put a date on it or a place on it because this is not what we are doing with this messenger, but I will say that there is a high likelihood that more severe earthquakes will occur in Mexico.

Building acceptance for an alternative money system

Question: I recently read the book, “The End of Scarcity”, which discusses alternatives to our current money system. Is the producer credit system described in the book, in which money is tied to the production of actual goods and services, in line with a money system envisioned by the masters for the golden age? If not, what are the potential limitations of this approach?

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

There are various ways to determine the amount of money that is necessary without creating inflation. As I have said before, it simply needs to be tied to something that has real value, either a product or service. Whether you do it the way described in this book or in some of the other ways that are available out there, they are all valid, because it is valid to consider alternatives to the current money system. It is not that there is only one way that this can be done. It is not that I am sitting here saying: “I have one model and this is the one that will be manifest, or that must be manifest.” Different societies can do it in different ways. But the important thing is that there are people who are thinking in terms of alternative money systems and alternative ways of creating it, determining the amount of money that is needed without creating inflation.

You will, as I have said before, encounter great opposition to this from the power elite, the financial elite, because the reason why they have created the current money system is that they can manipulate it in so many ways. And they will want to continue to do this, so in order to implement an alternative system, you need to take this into account, you need to realize that there are those who want a money system that can be manipulated, and they will oppose one that cannot. And if you are not aware of this, your system most likely will not be accepted by society at large. Therefore, you need to recognize that it is not just a matter of coming up with a good idea for a new money system, it is also a matter of raising the collective consciousness so that people can actually accept it and that enough people can accept it, that it counteracts the elite and their attempts to destroy it.