Michaels – Page 23 – Ascended Master Answers

Mental images vs. direct experience

Question: At a certain moment of our spiritual journey, we are faced with a need to get rid of all images that we have created about our identity, our masters, God and all our experiences. But this seems like a very hard task to accomplish. In fact, on one hand, we are so used to seeing ourselves, God, our masters, our experiences through the filters of our material bodies that we have been using for eons that it is an incredibly difficult task to let all those images go. But we know that until we manage to do it, we will stay in duality and cannot really unite with our I Am Presence, our masters, our true beings. But, on the other hand, how do we go up in our spiritual path? Is it not really by creating a new image of ourselves, our masters and so on? For instance, when we are attuned to our I Am Presence and feel the love coming from the core of our being and formulate the desire: “I want to be an instrument of love”, we are creating a new image of our identity.

And if we are attuned to our masters and feel that the single-eyed vision that makes us grow is true freedom that is inseparable from unconditional love, are we not creating another image? But we know that all images create a separation, a filter that is still duality.

How, truly, are we going to escape duality and ascend? What does it take to cancel the separation of the images? Is it the deep and absolute love of our I Am Presence that we can feel when we silence our analytical mind and just listen, and then at some moment, a quantum leap will happen, and we will need no more images between us and our true identity, our masters and God?

Answer from the Ascended Master Gautama Buddha through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2023 New Year’s webinar – Being a spiritual person in a chaotic world.

Well, as one possible way to deal with this paradox, which is a paradox that all of us have had to deal with, you can make a distinction between images and direct experience. What happens on the early stages of the spiritual path is that you find a spiritual teaching that talks about ascended masters, your I Am Presence, the possibility to ascend, and you, of course, look at that teaching through your present level of consciousness. You filter it through your present level. As a result of that, you superimpose certain images upon it. But these images come from the mind that is already blinded by separation and duality. They are images based on separation, and as long as you hold on to them, are attached to them, they will, of course, only reinforce the sense of separation, or at least keep you in separation.

What you can do is you engage in a path where you use decrees and invocations to transform the energies that are based on these images and that pull on your mind to accept and continue to accept the images. You can use our teachings to begin to question the images and realize, for example, that an ascended master is much more than any image. This is something that students in previous dispensations have not really paid much attention to. They have formulated a very, very fixed image of certain masters, for example, El Morya, and they were very reluctant to question it, which is why El Morya decided to change his name to Master More, to simply shock them and force them to deal with this, either reject it or accept it.

What is the alternative? Well, it is the teachings we have given about the Conscious You and your ability to step outside your four lower bodies and have some kind of intuitive mystical experience. This is a direct experience that is not filtered through your four lower bodies and images. The challenge after you have such an experience is that you do not superimpose the images upon it when you process or interpret the experience. In fact, you should strive not to interpret the experience and not to process it through your normal perception filter. You should be very careful not to let a mystical experience validate your present perception filter.

The question is, of course, how do you have such an experience? How do you free the Conscious You from its identification with the outer mind? Well, again, the only answer is to really walk the path, apply the tools and, as I said recently here, when you clear your emotional, mental and identity mind of the illusions and the energies, you will begin to see more clearly because there is not so much obstruction to experiencing directly your I Am Presence and the ascended masters.

It is true that as you walk the path, as you transcend a certain level of the path, you will create other images. We have said that you will have certain illusions with you until the 144th level. You always have a certain image because if you did not have a certain image of yourself in relation to earth, how would you relate to earth? How would you even stay in the physical body? There are certain images that you keep with you or, rather, you refine your images, and you always have certain images with you on the path. But this is just part of the path and something you need to accept. You can, of course, come to a point where, especially when you pass the initiation of the 96th level, where you less and less base those images on duality and separation and you refine the images. Not all images are dualistic. They are just a necessary vehicle for interacting with the material universe.

How to deal with sexual projections

Question: Can I use the method Mother Mary mentioned in the answer of How to Break the Addiction to Sex to prevent myself from having unwanted wet dreams, nocturnal emissions, by preventing myself from allowing energy to go into my base chakra and build in intensity? If so, Mother Mary, could you explain more in detail the meaning of the words: “partly by decrees, partly by awareness, partly by willpower” in the answer:

“You can come to a point where you learn to stop this fire before it even begins. You can stop yourself from allowing energy to go into yourself, from allowing energy to go into your base chakra, and build in intensity. You could do this partly by decrees, partly by awareness, partly by willpower, partly by when you feel this to direct your attention on something else, not allowing your attention to dwell on the topic of sex or related issues.”

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2023 New Year’s webinar – Being a spiritual person in a chaotic world.

Well, you can certainly use the teachings and the tools to deal with any issue related to sex or any issue related to addictions. It is, of course, important to give decrees for your spiritual protection and Astrea for cutting you free. It is also important to have a certain willpower where you simply decide: “I will not let these energies build up.”

It is also important for you to simply be aware that there are these external projections against your chakras and your desire body, your emotional body. By becoming aware of it, you can actually come to a point where you intuitively sense this. You can actually come to the point where you feel in your base chakra when there is a projection that stirs up your base chakra. And that is when you can then decide: “I will not allow this.” If it persists, you give decrees for protection and for cutting you free, and you visualize, for example, my image over your base chakra or take other measures.

Any issue related to addictions, and for that matter many other issues, have to do with the buildup of energy in your chakras until it becomes so intense that it pulls on or even overpowers your conscious mind. You can actually apply this to all of the chakras and come to that awareness where you sense when a chakra is receiving a projection or when there has been a gradual buildup in a chakra and therefore you can do something about this. Many of you could start with the solar plexus chakra and realize when it is stirred up and you are not feeling at peace. This is especially important after a difficult year like 2022 where there have been many impulses that have impinged upon your solar plexus chakras, seeking to take away your peace. But it applies certainly to all of the chakras.

Do we need to know our spiritual origin?

Question: Beloved masters, thank you for guiding our transcendence and for answering our questions. I would like to know how to know the beginnings of one’s embodiment after God initially created us. Which planet did one come from, whether one is an avatar or otherwise? If one was an original volunteer with Sanat Kumara’s mission on planet earth, did one need to attend Lord Maitreya’s school as preparation to come to earth from elsewhere? And if one left his school prematurely, could they have been a part of Sanat Kumara’s team and if and why did one leave?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2023 New Year’s webinar – Being a spiritual person in a chaotic world.

Well, you need to appreciate here the fact that there are many different kinds of people on earth from many different backgrounds, therefore, it is impossible to give a general answer to such questions. They can only be resolved on an individual level by you using your intuition and getting guidance directly from within, from your Christ self, from your ascended teachers, from your I Am Presence.

But you need to also consider here, why do you want to know this? What difference would it make for your spiritual growth if you knew where you came from originally or what was the first planet on which you took embodiment? The important thing is to consider: “How do I move on from here? How do I take the next step? How do I qualify for my ascension and fulfill my divine plan?” There is plenty of time either in between embodiments, or after you ascend, to resolve such questions.

There are many, many spiritual students who become sometimes almost obsessed by resolving these kind of questions, and it is, quite frankly, often because they still have this desire to feel special compared to others. We have, in previous dispensations, seen how after we gave the teachings about Sanat Kumara and the people from Venus, there were certain people that became convinced that they were from Venus, for example because they had a certain hair color. And they became very prideful about this, and it actually held back their progress on the spiritual path. It is not so important to know whether you were in Maitreya’s mystery school or not, and what caused you to leave,

What is important is to intuitively sense what are the things you need to overcome in this lifetime. What are the challenges that you defined in your divine plan that you wanted to overcome in this lifetime, and then focus on resolving your psychology by using all of the tools. Now, if you take the books, especially Healing Your Spiritual Traumas, and use those tools, you might get insights about your past, your past lifetimes, where you came from. And you might not. Because if it is not important for you to know, then you will not get those insights. And then you need to simply accept that and say: “Well, there are so many other things to focus on that I will not spend my time and attention on this.”

Economic forecast 2023

Question: What is the probability that the US global economy will go through another collapse as has been spoken about in recent dictations? Right now, we seem to be in a recession caused by the central banks and inflation. Is there a current possibility that we could see a gradual shift in the economy rather than an all-out collapse?

Answer from the Ascended Master Saint Germain through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2023 New Year’s webinar – Being a spiritual person in a chaotic world.

Well, there is certainly a potential for a collapse. There is also a potential for a gradual change. It is not, of course, without thought that we have had you focus your Mother Mary 500 Vigil on the economy for so long and will continue to do so. There is currently around a 30% chance of a large-scale economic collapse, or at least a crisis similar in severity to the 2008 crisis. There is also a 30% chance of a gradual transition where any major crisis can be avoided, and then there are various scenarios in between with some gradual changes and some more severe crises.

This does not necessarily help you very much, but at least it gives you the impression that it is worthwhile for you to give these vigils on the economy because they have already had a positive effect and more can be achieved in the coming year. Naturally, war will be a big topic in 2023, but still, as we said for 2022, the underlying issue in the world is the economy and what will happen in the economy.

Testosterone Replacement Therapy

Question: The question is about the ascended master perspective on testosterone replacement therapy. It has become a very popular health treatment in the United States for men and sometimes women to begin TRT, testosterone replacement therapy. It is said that the average testosterone has dropped 50% since 1950 because of toxins and hormone disruptors in our environment. I recently started TRT and feel much better with increased muscle mass and better mood, sleep, etc. But I am a little hesitant to be on this for the rest of my life. I am curious to hear the ascended perspective on this treatment.

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2023 New Year’s webinar – Being a spiritual person in a chaotic world.

Well, you need to, of course, look at what has been said by the medical profession about this. It was developed to treat a specific medical condition, not to generally make you feel better or give you greater energy or vitality. You need to consult with your physician based on his evaluation of your health and especially the potential side effects. You will see easily that there are certain side effects that could potentially be serious. I recommend that you pay close attention to this. Use your intuition to see whether this is for you at all or how long you should stay on the treatment if you have entered it.

Obviously, there cannot be a general answer to this as it depends on your specific body’s condition. But I will say that the medical science currently is so focused on treating symptoms that again, they take, as Gautama Buddha mentioned, they isolate a certain phenomenon, a certain effect. They look for an isolated cause and then they attempt to treat that cause. And this is, of course, not the highest approach because the general drop in energy and vitality is not just caused by a lack of testosterone. It is caused by many factors. It can even be caused by psychological factors in many people when they reach a certain age.

There are many factors to consider here. It is not the highest approach to single out a certain single symptom and a single cause, and then attempt to treat this by interfering with some of these very subtle, intricate systems in the body. There is currently not enough understanding of how the hormonal system works and many other systems in the body, to really allow the medical profession to come up with treatments that do not have unintended side effects. There are known side effects to testosterone replacement, but there are also unknown side effects that science cannot even currently imagine because they do not look at the body or even the body-mind as a whole.

How to help your country of birth

Question: I know the masters have given some teachings regarding Haiti in response to certain questions that were asked in the past. However, since Haiti’s situation continues to deteriorate, I was wondering how can I help? I was born and raised in Haiti and seeing the current situation is heartbreaking to say the least.

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2023 New Year’s webinar – Being a spiritual person in a chaotic world.

Well, as an individual, you need to recognize that there is a limit to what you can do against the collective consciousness. If the collective consciousness or a critical mass of people are not willing to transcend themselves, there is not that much you can do as an individual. But, of course, you need to tune into your divine plan and see whether it is in your divine plan to do something physically in the country by being in the country and taking part in the process that is happening, or whether it is more in your divine plan to stay away from there and potentially also make the calls.

The fact that you are born and raised somewhere does not necessarily mean that it is in your divine plan to work with that country. It can be that it was simply a place for you to be born and you are meant to take certain experiences from there but then move on to another country and apply those experiences there. But it could also be that it is part of your divine plan to do something. It can also be that it is part of your divine plan to do the only thing you really can do in many cases, which is to make the calls. Use our invocations and decrees to make calls for specific people or for the collective consciousness in general. You could even take one of the invocations that talk about world conditions and rewrite it to make specific calls for Haiti, in between the decrees to the masters. You could, of course, also attempt to find other spiritually minded people from Haiti and create some kind of decree vigil where you have the multiplication factor of more people.

More universal decrees?

Question: Masters, is it possible to change decrees a bit to make them more universal? This means not mentioning the names of ascended masters but words like “life”. Would these decrees still invoke the light of the ascended masters or does the person have to call for the ascended masters or archangels by their names?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2023 New Year’s webinar – Being a spiritual person in a chaotic world.

You can make decrees that are more universal and that will have some effect, but not the same effect as when you call to a specific master by name. There is a reason why we have given our decrees with the names of ascended masters because if people are not open to calling directly to ascended masters, they are not really in a level of consciousness where they can make maximum use of decrees and invocations.

You could create more easily, some invocations that are more universal and they could still have an effect because many of them address psychological conditions. Certainly, you could take some of the invocations that deal with psychology and make them more universal.

Challenges Facing Colombia

Question: Masters, what is the Colombian population (South America) ready to transcend right now?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2023 New Year’s webinar – Being a spiritual person in a chaotic world.

Well, there are actually several things that are up for transformation in the collective consciousness of Colombia. First of all, there is the need for people to step up to a higher level of humanity and recognize, as we have said before, that there are some of these movements in South America where there are certain leaders that have been labeled as socialist or left wing but they actually have a higher level of humanity than the leaders on the right wing. This is not necessarily socialism, it is humanity.

Then there is, of course, the entire challenge of drugs that the economy has become so dependent on that there are many people who seriously doubt that the economy could survive without the cocaine trade. This is something that it is necessary for a critical mass of people to transcend. Where they realize that there is actually a way forward whereby Colombia could manifest a viable economy without the drug trade, and without the drug cartels influencing politics and the economy and other aspects of society. It is possible to get Colombia off the cocaine addiction in an economic sense, and this will be somewhat of a challenge, but it is a potential.

Then there is, of course, the general trend in all, or virtually all South American and Central American countries of transcending the Catholic Church, the Catholic mindset, and the Catholic influence on society, especially on politics and on the way people look at themselves. The Catholic Church, with the entire concept of sin, is a very significant factor in holding back growth in Central and South America because people feel unworthy—they feel they are sinners and this pacifies them and makes them powerless to make some of the changes that could be made if they were more willing to accept their self-worth and to stand up for their self-worth when their leaders are being abusive.

The Catholic Church is, of course, in the process of losing influence in some countries. There has been the exposure of sex scandals. There will be more of this in the coming years unless people voluntarily transcend the Catholic mindset. If they do not, then they will learn through the School of Hard Knocks as has already happened in some countries.

Can winning the World Cup change Argentina?

Question: Against the background of social and economic crisis and a profound division in our society, Argentina won the World Cup in Qatar, triggering an unprecedented unanimous feeling for a month. Was this unifying momentum used by the ascended masters to help raise the Argentinian collective consciousness?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2023 New Year’s webinar – Being a spiritual person in a chaotic world.

Yes, of course. When there is an event like this, we always seek to work with it to raise the collective. But, of course, this depends on what people are willing to do. You often see in events like this that there is a certain euphoria because of this unprecedented thing, or in Argentina’s case not quite unprecedented thing, that happened. But you also see that when the honeymoon is over, so to speak, people are again faced with the daily problems and they are often not able to take the euphoria and transfer it to how they deal with the daily problems. It is not something that necessarily has a huge effect because it all depends on what people are willing to do with it. But there is always the potential that people can carry some of the enthusiasm over into other areas of society than just the sports, or whatever it may be, so that it can lead to a positive change.

In this case, there is a potential that Argentina or the collective consciousness in Argentina, could recognize that they do have a sense of worth. They are able to achieve something. The question is whether they can then transfer this and say: “Well, we must be able to achieve other things as well. It cannot just be about kicking a ball around on a field. We must have other abilities and we must activate and use them.” And this is, of course, not something that we can tell people directly but we can always hope that they see this, and at least some people see it and therefore it can become an upward trend.

How to work with young people

Question: I feel that my divine plan is working with the youth and maybe more with girls. I want to teach classes about the creation of relationships with the opposite sex, about the creation of a mature family. Could teachers give me insights, what is the most important things to highlight for young people at this time? Now I have information and material about that mostly based on Catholic teachings, their collected researches and films.

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2023 New Year’s webinar – Being a spiritual person in a chaotic world.

Well, depending on the country you live in and the culture there and what is the dominant religion, you cannot, in most cases, bring forth ascended master teachings directly. At least you cannot state where they come from. You will have to try to take our teachings and make them more universal so that they do not require people to believe in ascended masters or believe in karma or reincarnation or these kind of things. In a Catholic country it will be difficult to make people believe in reincarnation, and certainly ascended masters.

You may have to adapt somewhat to the culture in which you live in but you need to find a way to describe it in universal terms, which really can be focused on the psychology. What is it that makes you function as an individual? It is the psychology, the resolution of psychology. What is it that makes people unable to function in society? It is their psychology. What is it that helps you have a mature relationship? It is also that you resolve your psychology, that you understand something about your partner’s psychology and can help the partner resolve his psychology. How do you become a mature parent? It is again, resolution of your psychology.

Many, many young people in today’s age are quite aware that their parents had difficult or unresolved psychology that affected their childhood in profound ways, and they have a desire to escape this and raise themselves above it and so this is the place to start. Look at where people are at, look at some of the dysfunctional patterns in relationships and then show people how they can learn to resolve the psychology behind it, so they can free themselves of what they saw in their parents’ generation.

Embodiment in a family with a lower level of consciousness

Question: If we reach a higher level of consciousness in a previous lifetime on earth can we voluntarily immerse in a lower state of consciousness within a certain family and nation so as to awaken from there and help elevate the collective mind?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2023 New Year’s webinar – Being a spiritual person in a chaotic world.

Well, the short answer is yes, and it is in fact a rather common scenario. It can be for different reasons that you volunteer to do this. There are some times where you have karma with a certain person that is in a lower state of consciousness and therefore you want to embody with that person. In order to do this, you have to go down to a lower level of consciousness to even embody in that family. But when you do this, of course, you have an opportunity to more quickly rise back to the level of consciousness you had before.

There are also some times that you can have a desire to help a certain person. It can even be an attachment to help a certain person or group of people, and therefore you volunteer to go down to their level to show them there is an alternative and there is a path beyond their level.

It is not uncommon, in fact, in a certain sense you could say that anybody who has the potential to ascend after this lifetime will have reached a fairly high level of consciousness in their last embodiment, and in order to even come into embodiment in this lifetime, you had to be born in a family with a lower level of consciousness because there are not that many opportunities to be born in a family with a high level of consciousness.

There are many more people who have reached a higher level of consciousness in their last lifetime than there are families with a high level of consciousness. If it is in your divine plan to ascend, then most likely you have had to embody in a family with a lower level of consciousness. This also applies to some people whose choice it is to not ascend, but to embody again to help manifest the golden age.

Avatars and the resolution of the enigma of free will

Question: The teachings have mentioned that we, as avatars, may have come here with a misunderstanding of free will or at least against the advice of our teachers in a higher realm. Yet there are also other teachings saying that avatars volunteered to embody as an act of service to humanity to give humanity a choice to follow the fallen beings or the avatars. Could the masters comment on these two seemingly different teachings?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2023 New Year’s webinar – Being a spiritual person in a chaotic world.

Well, first of all, there are different groups of avatars who have come from different natural planets and they have had different reasons or motivations for coming to earth. But second of all, you need to realize that these two are not mutually incompatible, they are not mutually exclusive. You can volunteer, in your mind, to embody on a lower planet in order to hold a spiritual balance and give people an alternative to the fallen beings while you still have a certain misunderstanding of free will. This is, in fact, a very common scenario for most avatars who have come to earth.

Do not misunderstand this, we are not saying that you are not giving a service by embodying on earth. We are not saying that we do not want avatars to embody on earth as a counterbalance to the fallen beings. It is not necessarily that you embody on earth against the advice of your spiritual teachers, but that you did not grasp what your spiritual teachers were trying to tell you about free will and how it works itself out on an unnatural planet.

You understand that there are some avatars that did not grasp the significance of free will but wanted to embody here as a service. There are other avatars that had started grasping the significance of free will but they knew there was something they had not quite locked into. Part of their motivation for coming to earth was to learn, to grasp what they had not grasped. There are complex reasons for why an avatar comes to earth, and we have also said that you can have one reason in what is the equivalent of your conscious mind, but there can be deeper reasons that you are not quite seeing and that you then can come to see now, and which is the key to your ascension from an unnatural planet—that you come to see what you did not see on a natural planet and resolve what you did not resolve on a natural planet.

But there are certainly different groups of avatars on earth and we have started somewhere by giving some teachings and will eventually give more and more until we hopefully cover the entire spectrum.

Other golden ages of Saint Germain

Question: Saint Germain has said this is not his first golden age, that he had them on other planets. Is this Saint Germain’s field of endeavor as the master to embody on these lower planets and multiplying the seventh way to create a golden age?

Answer from the Ascended Master Saint Germain through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2023 New Year’s webinar – Being a spiritual person in a chaotic world.

It is not really my field of endeavor to embody on lower planets and not even my field to be on the seventh ray. In order to manifest the golden age you really have to use all seven rays, but ,of course, there is one primary ray and I have not always been on the seventh ray even on other planets. You have to be careful not to apply a linear view of this because there are many different considerations that come into play for why you or I or others decide to embody on specific planets.

The Women’s Movement in Iran (and other Islamic countries)

Question: Dear masters, a new protest movement started in Iran against the death of a young woman in police custody in September. The role of young people, especially young women, is very prominent in this movement, and the slogan, “Women, Life, Freedom” is vastly used by demonstrators. Although the government has resorted to violent repression as usual, they have not been very successful so far. How do you evaluate the future of this movement and the potential of a revolutionary change in Iran?

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

We have commented on the situation in Iran briefly, but I will give more perspective here. It is clear that when you look at history, when you look at the fact that we are in the transition phase to the golden age, Iran has to change as a country. There is no question whatsoever that in the golden age Islam will not be dominating Iran, or any other country for that matter, as the Catholic church will not be dominating any country. The question is how can this change come about?

What you have in Iran and several other Arab countries is that the fallen beings have managed to use either fallen beings in embodiment, or people in the fallen consciousness, to create this very repressive regime. And their excuse for doing this has been Islam or rather a completely unbalanced and distorted interpretation of the original teachings of Islam. This has led to this very, very severe repression of society that has held back the development of society for decades. Iran today is decades behind where it would have been if this had not happened, if such a repressive regime had not been there.

What happens in such regimes is that tension must continue to rise until there is a breaking point. It is the same as you see in a steam engine where you close the valve, the safety valve that lets out steam. The pressure can only keep building in the system. The question is, where is there some weakness in the system where there is a blowout, so that the pressure can be relieved.

Despite the fact that I use the word weakness, I do not thereby mean to imply that the protesters are a weakness in the system. What I mean is that there will come a point where those who are actually more open to change will be the ones who say: “No more, we cannot accept this anymore, now we need to do something.” And the reason for this is of course that a repressive system must become increasingly repressive. Which means, it drives certain people into a situation where they feel like they have no life to look forward to.

Many young people in these repressive regimes face unemployment, an uncertain future. They cannot see how they can actually build a reasonable material life for themselves. Of course, in all Islamic countries, women are the ones that are the most suppressed. And that is why, as Mother Mary has said, this is the decade of women. There is a great potential that not only in Iran but in other Arab countries, or Islamic countries, that women can drive a change.

Women can drive, I am not talking about a violent revolution, but actually a peaceful revolution that will cause these societies to change. It is a very unfortunate situation, from my perspective as an ascended master, that people are driven to the point where they say: “Well, I am going to protest, even if I lose my life on this.” It is unfortunate for the people who can lose their lives, but it is even unfortunate for the country, that it loses the resource of these young people, who are often some of the brightest that could actually manifest a better future for the country. Of course, the fallen beings, or those in the fallen consciousness, can never see this because they do not see people as a resource, they see them as a threat.

There is certainly a potential that this can grow and become a movement that your authorities cannot hold back. They cannot suppress it, they cannot kill or enslave or imprison all of the people who are willing to protest. I would much prefer that such a transition could happen peacefully, but as we have said several times, when people become unbalanced, they must act out their imbalance to such an extreme that it finally becomes obvious that this is not sustainable. The question is simply, what will it take, how long will it take, what kind of violence will it take, before even those who are in charge of the country can see that this cannot continue.

There is a potential, in this decade, that women can take initiatives in Islamic countries to improve their situation and have greater freedom from this oppression that they are subjected to by these patriarchal societies. It is clearly an unbalanced state that is unsustainable and incompatible with the golden age. If these countries are to enter the golden age anytime soon, only women can drive the change, because men cannot. There are, of course, some men who can. But in general, the initiative cannot come from men, it will come from women. Unfortunately, then, the men who are in charge might use violence to try to suppress this and that is why there is a potential that this could become a very chaotic situation. But I hope, of course always, that reason will prevail, but we shall see. Certainly, those of you who are ascended master students, and feel responsible for this, can make the calls for it. But then again, there are many issues in the world to make the calls for, so I will leave it to your individual discernment to feel what is in your divine plan

About taking steroids

Question: Can you tell me what happens at the level of the lower bodies when a person takes steroids and how does it affect the identity body?

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

You have to be careful here to make a distinction. I am not hereby saying that everything you do to the physical body has no effect on the higher bodies. But as a general rule, many of the things that affect the physical body do not directly affect the higher bodies. But there is, of course, a reason why people take steroids, drugs, alcohol, and other substances that are harmful to the body. And that is because they have some unresolved psychology in their emotional, mental and identity bodies.

Let us say you have a person who is a bodybuilder or an athlete and takes steroids in order to push the capabilities of the physical body. Why does the person have a need to do this? Often you will see that bodybuilders, for example, have low self-esteem or have an unbalanced relationship to their physical body, so they seek to compensate for this in a physical way by taking steroids.

But the real way to overcome this issue is, of course, to resolve the psychology. That means come to see the selves and let them die, the selves that are found in the emotional, mental and identity bodies. What is the distorted sense of identity you have that your physical body is so important that you have to use chemicals that are actually toxic to the body and will harm you later in life, in order to gain some temporary advantage?

You will see many bodybuilders, for example, who may have had a temporary advantage of fame and money and even becoming movie stars, or governors or whatever, but they have also damaged their heart to the point where they are likely to die before their natural lifespan, of heart disease. There is obviously some unresolved psychology behind this and I can only encourage people to look, to resolve that psychology, use the tools we have given, instead of using these artificial means to push the capabilities or the looks of the physical body.

Northern and southern lights

Question: I would like to know what from your perspective the phenomenon called the Aurora Australis polar lights means. Science explains that it results from disturbances in the magnetosphere, caused by the solar wind. But despite this, I feel that some high spiritual beings, in their fine luminous bodies, in which violet and emerald colors prevail, are behind them. May they be the angels of the violet and emerald flame? They create a dance of incredible beauty with their aura, and the highest frequency energies come from the earth to the magnetic poles, which purify and transform the distorted energies in all four realms of our planet. Am I sensational or is it a fantasy?

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

It is not a fantasy, but of course, there is a scientific explanation, as the scientists have given. It is incomplete, but nevertheless, it is not completely wrong either. Your sense that there are non-material beings including elementals behind this is correct.

I am not saying you should assign any unbalanced importance to this because there are, of course, many natural phenomena, in fact you could say with all natural phenomena, there are elementals or angels behind them.

The concept of Sophia

Question: Who is behind Sophia of the early Christian Gnostics? Behind the cathedral of Saint Sophia in Kiev and Constantinople? Behind the icon painting of Sophia? Behind the sophology of the Russian Silver Age? Does Sophia exist as a spiritual being in the spiritual world? If so, what is its status?

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

Sophia, in the early Gnostic mystics, was a concept. It was not a person, it was not a spiritual being, it was the concept of what we have called the Wisdom of the Mother. In other words, the Feminine Wisdom of how the material universe works and how it was created, and how you can come to a greater awareness of how it works, so that you can improve your physical situation and further your spiritual growth.

Sophia was a concept. It was seen by, at least the two mystics who had fathomed this, as a state of consciousness, as an accumulated state of consciousness throughout the ages of the Wisdom of the Mother. Comparable, in a sense, to what we have said about the Holy Spirit, that it is the accumulated momentum of self-transcendence built over the ages. Later, of course, there were people who could not grasp its concept, who turned it into a being, a painting, who dedicated cathedrals to it, without understanding what it meant, as you see with much of Christianity and many other religions including the Tibetan Buddhism that Gautama just mentioned.

Finding the “right” partner

Question: I have a question that I have been waiting for an answer to all of my life. I hope the ascended masters will give me a broader understanding. The question is about virginity. All my life, I have intuitively felt that my future husband should be like me. But in my life, I have met men who have already had sexual relations, tried to seduce me into marrying them, and criticized me in every way for still being chaste. Still, I felt it was the demons of Mara who came to me and just tried to confuse me into breaking my vow of chastity before marriage. But they failed, and I walked away from such men, because I still believe that if I keep my innocence, I will surely meet a husband like me. I would like to know the opinion of the ascended masters on that. Will I meet someone like me, if I continue to resist mockery and condemnation from society in every possible way, and why do people react so negatively to people like me?

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

You have the old saying by Einstein, “if you keep doing the same thing, and expect different results, you are insane”. I am not saying you are insane, but I am saying that your approach is unbalanced. If you keep doing what you have been doing, you will end up never being married and therefore having to deal with that situation.

What you are doing is you are using your outer mind to impose some kind of criteria on yourself and your relationship. It is, in a sense, a self-sabotage syndrome. What you need to do is use our tools for psychological healing to find out why it is that there are separate selves in your being that do not want you to get married and therefore they are causing you to believe in this criterion that will block you from getting married.

I am not saying you should get married, that is a free-will decision. But right now, you are not making a free-will decision. You are allowing some separate selves to push you into an unbalanced reaction. When it comes to having a relationship, the ideal way to approach this is to use your intuition to sense when here is a person that it is in your divine plan to have a relationship with. But you cannot use your intuition unless you are neutral. And by imposing this demand, that your husband should be a virgin like you, you are not neutral, and therefore you cannot receive intuitive insights.

You are instead approaching the entire issue of relationships with your outer mind, and you are going around in circles, thereby being unable to tune in to your divine plan. It does not matter whether your husband is a virgin or not. What matters is, is he the person that you decided in your divine plan that you wanted to marry? But how will you know this if your outer mind is so fixated on this outer criterion?

How to free yourself from a codependent relationship

Question: I ask the ascended masters to help me with a broader understanding of the following problem. My mother is an abusive person, and I have suffered from her attack on me, physically and emotionally, my whole life. All the other members of my family are entirely on her side, and no one even suspects my suffering because as a rule, abusers are believed by everyone around them, because they treat others differently. The ground for this woman’s hatred of me is my father. In her opinion, he abused her and broke her life. For some reason, I became to her a kind of enemy for life. Even though my mother also knows about the teachings of the ascended masters, she finds some arguments of her own there that I am still guilty of her broken life. She does not give me my share of the inheritance so that I can buy my place and get away from her. I am suffering psychologically very much because of all this family drama. Please, masters, tell me how to get out of this situation. Please help me see what I cannot see.

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

First of all, let me say that there are examples of people who are using our teachings to justify continuing their lifestyle of not wanting to take responsibility for themselves. If your mother is blaming you for your father’s abuse, she obviously has not taken responsibility for herself, and this means she is not really a serious ascended master student, or she would not do so.

What you can do is realize that the key to breaking free from your mother is not to receive your inheritance, buy your own place and move away from her. The key is in your psychology. You need to resolve what it is in your psychology that makes you think you cannot move away. What you are describing is a classical co-dependent relationship, where you have become dependent on your mother and therefore you think you cannot free yourself from her and the abuse. You can find psychological literature about co-dependent relationships, you can seek professional help, and I in fact encourage you to do so. But you can also use our tools about healing your spiritual traumas, resolving these separate selves, so that you can break free from this.

It is not a matter of physically moving away as much as psychologically moving away, so that even if your mother continues the behavior, it no longer affects you. We have given you the tools to accomplish this, but you have to be willing and have a strong determination to break free of this, which I realize is difficult when you are in a co-dependent relationship.

But in a sense, you can see, if you are willing, that your mother is projecting at you that she cannot change her life because of you. Yet at the same time you are projecting to your mother that you cannot change your life because of her. This is the classical co-dependent mechanics. You need to decide, do you want to break free, and then you need to do what is needed to break free. First of all, realize that it is not your mother who is preventing you from breaking free, it is a mechanism in your own psychology, the separate selves.

Discomfort during Mother Mary’s meditation

Question: I have been practicing Mother Mary’s meditation to heal the birth trauma, from the book Healing Your Spiritual Traumas for over a year. While practicing this meditation, I feel discomfort, pain and inner tension after some time. Then I stop and pause for a while and then I continue again. I feel lighter than I did a year ago when I first started the meditation. Can you tell me if I am doing everything right?

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

You need to not lock your mind on giving one particular meditation or invocation. If you get the kind of reaction you are describing from giving a particular invocation or exercise, then do something else for a while. The reason for the discomfort is that there is something you have not seen. There is some separate self that you have not seen.

This is because either you are not capable of seeing it right now, or you are not willing to see it. You need to step back, do some of the other invocations and exercises, and look at the issue from a different angle, a different perspective. Then hopefully, over time, you will get to the bottom of the separate selves, see them for what they are, and let them die, so that you can move on.

What determines your next incarnation?

Question: Tibetan Buddhism says that the last thought before death determines the next incarnation. That seems a little inadequate to me. For example, a person has followed a spiritual path for many years, but before leaving his body he experiences intense fear of death. How would that affect his future incarnation?

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

Tibetan Buddhism has a number of elements that are typical of what we have called the outer path, the mechanical path. You can look at the fact that they have prayer wheels upon which prayers are written. Instead of reciting the wheels they spin the wheels and they think this balances your karma. They also have developed these ideas that you spend your entire lifetime preparing your mind for the moment of physical death so you can think the thoughts that will ensure the best possible incarnation.

You are, of course, perfectly right that it is not the last thought you think before your body dies but it is your overall state of consciousness that determines your next incarnation. All the progress you have made through this lifetime is what will determine where you magnetize yourself after you leave the body, and the progress you make in between embodiments will determine the situation that you come into in your next lifetime, if there is one.

It is very much, as we have explained over and over again, a matter of the resolution of your psychology. In Tibetan Buddhism, there is not much about resolving psychology. There is not in mainstream Christianity and most other mainstream religions. This is an indication of the fact that Tibetan Buddhism, despite the claims made, is in many ways completely out of touch with my original teachings and the teachings that we of the ascended masters are giving today.

Personal attacks against spiritual people

Question: I found the path in 2010. Since then, I have been constantly attacked by and taken blows from black magicians, non-harmonious people, relatives, and even those who follow the path, especially when they are in non-harmonious states. And just out of nowhere, there have been as many as a hundred blows and I am currently again exposed to the blow, most from our spiritual group says this does not happen to them. What is wrong with me?

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

This is one of these issues where there can be two main reasons for it, but they can of course be somewhat intertwined. When you increase your spiritual light, as you do when you walk the path, this light can agitate people in a lower state of consciousness. It is provocative to them. You can have people who have spiritual light walking down the street and someone they have never met before can come up and yell at them. I am not saying this happens to all people, but it can happen.

The other reason can be that you have some unresolved psychology where you are, without seeing this consciously, actually, in a sense, wanting these kinds of attacks because they have some significance to one of your separate selves. They prove something to a separate self. In other words, you have a drama in your subconscious mind that you are wanting people to affirm. You cannot go wrong by using our tools to uncover what might be the cause of this attitude you might have, and you can start by looking at your own reaction to these situations, and seeing not just the feelings, but the deeper thoughts behind it. What are the thoughts that come to you when you are exposed to something like this? What are your long-term thoughts about the situation? Then you can follow this by using our tools and come to see what separate selves you have that are determining your reaction.

Corruption in Ukraine

Question: In the former Soviet Union countries, for some people, breaking the law almost indicates that they have some superiority, despite all sorts of punishments. For these people, to tempt a person with a bribe is almost like winning in some competition. Many people are happy when they manage to break the law to solve some of their issues. What prospects do ordinary Ukrainians have, based on the given circumstances, to change their world view, to give up legal nihilism and the initiation of corruption?

Question 2: I was born and live in Ukraine. I see massive corruption in this country and a significant gap between the authorities and the people. I know that in the Soviet Union, stealing was very much developed. People were stealing everywhere in the enterprises where they worked. I think corruption is not something unacceptable for the people of Ukraine. How can Ukraine get rid of the filter of perception in which theft is considered something normal and acceptable?

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

We have commented on this in our dictations, but I will say that again, it boils down to this: There needs to be a shift in awareness where people realize that when you are stealing or engaging in corruption, you are stealing from the whole, you are stealing from the collective. There needs to be that sense that: “We are in this together and that it is not just everyone who is out for himself or herself.” And this is something that has the potential to develop in a greater measure after the war, because this has been such a shocking experience for many people.

There can be this awareness that we are facing this task of rebuilding the nation. We cannot allow corruption, we cannot allow people to steal and we cannot even allow the oligarchs or other people high up in business to steal from the country and steal from the people. I am not saying this is an easy transition, but it is a possible transition that other nations have gone through.

The Experience of Oneness

Question: How do the experience of awakening, the realization of one’s true nature and the unity of All, which Eckhart Tolle, Ramana Maharshi and others experienced, relate to the 144 levels of consciousness? What are the reasons for this experience?

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

This is a difficult question to give a clear answer to, because there are various definitions out there of what it means to be enlightened. What we have explained is that when you come into embodiment on earth, you go through a process of taking on the various illusions that relate to each of the levels of consciousness from the 144th to the 48th level.

You could say in a simple way, as I just explained in another answer, that the process of spiritual growth is that you escape the illusion that you are a separate localized self and you attain a more spherical awareness of who you are. From this perspective, you could say that attaining enlightenment is rising towards a more and more spherical awareness, where you are not seeing yourself as a separate localized being. And there can come experiences where people have a breakthrough, and they have a direct experience of the connectedness of all life—that everything is connected in consciousness. You can have this not necessarily only at the 144th level. You can have it at lower levels as well – at least for a short period of time.

You could say that there is a process of growth that is linear. You go from the 48th to the 49th step, and from the 96th to the 97th and so on. This is a linear process. You are escaping certain illusions that make you see yourself as a localized, separate being. But we have also explained that the Conscious You is pure awareness. So theoretically, regardless of which level you are at among the 144th levels, the Conscious You has the ability, at any moment, to step outside of your current sense of self and experience a greater reality. You may not necessarily experience the highest reality, but you can step outside and recognize or have an experience of a higher reality. This possibility is always there. Of course, the lower you are on the levels of the 144th steps, the more difficult it is for the Conscious You to pull itself out of this. The higher you go, the easier it is to disengage from your normal sense of self and have this kind of experience.

At the lower levels you can have this experience for a short time and then you go back into your normal state of consciousness and then you have the task of dealing with that experience from that level of consciousness. How do you even process this experience and what do you do with it? That is why you will see that some mystics have had a spherical experience, a universal mystical experience, but they were firmly anchored in the Christian faith, for example. So, they have now come back, and after processing the experience, they have reasoned that the experience validated their Christian beliefs.

Of course, in many cases it did no such thing, but that was the only way that people’s outer minds could deal with the experience. That is why you have the terminology that you have: Christian mystics, Sufi mystics, Hindu mystics and so on. When you are truly universal – when you truly grasp the universality of your spherical experience, you see that it cannot be confined to any belief system on earth, and neither can you.

The reason for having the experience is, of course, that it helps people realize that there is something beyond their present level of consciousness and this can then serve as an inspiration for others if people choose to share their experience. This is essentially how humankind has progressed – that some people had an experience that pointed them beyond the normal level of consciousness in their society, and by sharing the experience and seeking to help other people have similar experiences, there has been this gradual progression, this gradual raising of the collective consciousness. To use one of Lanto’s concepts, where certain things have become obvious to more and more people.

And that is why you have so many democratic nations today, because certain things have become obvious. This is in a sense also an example of how the Conscious You steps outside of its normal state of consciousness and experiences that there is a higher reality, that there are certain rights that people have, and that no authority on earth should violate those rights. This is not an intellectual reasoning even though you can turn it into an intellectual reasoning. But it is an experience, and it is by people having this experience where they see something that is beyond what they could see before, and they experience the reality of it, so that it becomes obvious to them. This is how individual consciousness shifts. But as many people go through this, the collective consciousness shifts as well.

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.