Author: Michaels

What are the main spiritual reasons for accidents?

Question: I fell on a mountain in January and broke my wrist. Whenever we have any of these mishaps, we sort of over-analyze it, guessing whether it is due to karma, the backlash of dark forces for our spiritual work, or just one of the many possibilities on a very dense planet. Should we go through this inner search, or just demonstrate inner balance and holding the path amidst missed hard external circumstances?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary  through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2021 Webinar – Ending the Era of Ideology.

Well, it is correct that you should avoid over-analyzing. In fact, you should avoid analyzing at all, and take an intuitive approach. Try to step back from the event, try to empty your mind of any preconceived ideas of whether this could be karma or dark forces or this or that. Go into as neutral of a state of mind as you can. And simply consider the question: What did this mean for me? Why did this happen to me?

And then you might get an intuitive prompting. If you get the intuitive prompting that it is karma, then you can use violet flame decrees to consume any karma you might have, that caused this and that is not resolved by the incident. If you get the impression that it is caused by dark forces, then you can step up your protection decrees, use decrees to Astrea to cut you free from any ties to this. And if you get the impression that it is simply a part of the chaotic environment in which you live, where certain things happen that is not caused by your karma that has not been caused by dark forces, then you can of course, simply adjust your attitude and not worry about it, and not worry about it happening again.

But there are, of course, other reasons why something like this can happen. And it can happen because there are various selves you have. There are some people that you say are accident prone, because they have certain selves that make them have a certain attitude to life. We have talked about before that there are many situations in life where the difference between a physical event happening and not happening can be a very fine balance. And this is where your attitude can have a certain impact on whether the physical event happens or not. There are some people who have an attitude where they attract accidents. There are some people who have an attitude that: “Oh, it will never happen to me”. And this means that they can also attract an accident, partly because they are not alert.

When things like this happen, you could also seek to get an intuitive guidance on whether your attitude had something to do with the event happening. You can also seek to get intuitive guidance on whether you simply are too careless about the activities you participate in. Obviously, you will see that there are certain activities where people are more likely to have accidents than others. I am not, thereby encouraging you to go to the extreme of never wanting to go out and get out of bed. But there are certain activities where you are more likely to have accidents than other activities. And you might consider whether you have had a too optimistic attitude to such activities.

I am not saying you cannot walk in the mountains. But you need to realize that when you do these activities, you have to be very alert for the potential of accidents. In other words, there may be a path that is more dangerous than another trail and therefore, if you are alert enough, you can avoid that path, or you can avoid that particular passage on a trail where there are loose rocks or a more steep climb, or loose footing.

What I am saying is this, you need to again, consider as a spiritual person, that there might be certain activities that you need to select out. For example, this messenger realized even as a child that he needed to avoid activities that involved high speed. For example, he knew intuitively as a child that he was not supposed to get into downhill skiing, riding a motorcycle, or doing other activities like this that involve very high speed that could easily cause an accident and where the difference between an accident and not having an accident was very narrow.

And so many of you might consider the same: that as you walk the spiritual path, you might use your intuition to see whether it is time to give up certain activities, where you are more prone to have a physical accident. I know this is a delicate matter. It is an individual matter, because obviously you can say, what causes the most accidents is probably riding in a car. But how can you live in many societies without riding a car? But then again, you can be more alert, you can take certain precautions, avoid driving fast, avoid driving in dense traffic, and avoid risky situations. And therefore, you can participate in the activity with a higher alertness that makes it less likely that you will have accidents.

 

Copyright © 2021 Kim Michaels

 

Non-binary people 

Question: I would like to know if people who identify as non-binary, have gotten to the point where they understand that we are more than this body, that we are spiritual people in these physical bodies. Kim: If I understand it correctly, there are certain people who claim to be “non-binary”, they are neither men nor women, they do not identify themselves as either men or women.

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary  through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2021 Webinar – Ending the Era of Ideology.

Well, some do and some do not. Because some have unfortunately gotten into taking an ideological approach, where they have adopted this attitude that the sexual discrimination of men towards women is wrong and needs to be challenged, and it needs to be done by them adopting this mindset that they will no longer identify themselves based on the sex of the physical body.

For some, they have not begun to look beyond the physical body. Some of them do have a higher understanding. And some can eventually come to that point of realizing that they are not identified by the physical body, whether it has this sex or that sex or this sexual orientation or that sexual orientation.

But of course, for spiritual people, it is not really necessary to make this kind of outer proclamation, it is actually more important to not identify yourself as a physical human being, but as a spiritual being in a human body.

 

Copyright © 2021 Kim Michaels

Exposure of the gambling economy 

Question: The economies have greatly benefited by the stimulus checks given directly to the citizens of American and Canada as well as many other nations in the world. Estimates have indicated that roughly a quarter of the checks given to the people were spent on material goods, towards paying down bills and their existing debts, whereas the rest of the stimulus checks went towards gambling, such as gaming the financials into stocks, bonds, commodities, Bitcoin speculation and real estate. Some economists have coined this gambling euphoria, the “everything bubble”, and has also driven price inflation among many goods due to the supply chain issues, such as high lumber prices and computer chip shortages. What would be the thought forms we can make the calls for in this upcoming Mother Mary Vigil in regards to the economy, if this “everything bubble” has the potential to collapse under its own weight?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary  through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2021 Webinar – Ending the Era of Ideology.

You can specifically make the calls that the entire, what Saint Germain has called, the “gambling economy” is exposed for what it is. What ordinary people have gone through is simply an extension of what the elite has been doing for decades where they have been gambling on the stock market, stock prices going up, real estate prices going up, and so forth. Many, many people in the more affluent nations have been pulled into this mindset of the gambling economy. And they have adopted this mindset that things will keep going up indefinitely.

You see, of course, that, contrary to what you would call conventional wisdom, even though there has been an economic downturn as a result of the epidemic, real estate prices have gone up—there is a building boom. But this is partly caused by the fact that when people cannot travel, they have money left over that they would normally have spent on vacations in foreign locations. And so, they use the money to consolidate their domestic situation. And instead of paying off debts, they are sometimes buying a bigger house, buying a better house. And this, of course, drives up a certain building boom that influences prices of raw materials.

You can make the calls for this gambling economy to be exposed and for people to be cut free from it. And of course, the many other calls for various other aspects of the economy that are part of this very important vigil.

 

Copyright © 2021 Kim Michaels

The fall and the number 4

 Question: The Masters say that the original fall occurred in the fourth sphere. But in our seventh sphere, the fall also happened in the fourth race, since the three first ones did ascend from the three higher realms, is there a pattern here created by the first fall in the first sphere? Ancient philosophies did time after time, interpret this as the density of matter being the cause because it is more dense in the fourth level, the physical that was the culprit for the fall. But there is some perplexity to this conclusion.

Answer from the Ascended Master Jesus  through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2021 Webinar – Ending the Era of Ideology.

Well, first of all, the way we used the fall, the concept of the fall in terms of fallen beings, is that they fell at the end of a sphere when the sphere was ready to ascend, and they were not willing to transcend their consciousness and ascend with their sphere. So this is the way we use the term of a “fall” in terms of creating fallen beings.

There was a time when the original inhabitants of the earth went into duality. And in previous ascended master teachings that was tied into the concept of root races. But this is not how we define “fall” in this dispensation. You can, of course, say that they fell into duality, and they fell, but since the sphere in which they descended into duality has not reached the end of its cycle, they have not actually fallen and become fallen beings. They have, as we sometimes say, entered into or taken on the fallen consciousness, but it does not make them what we define in this dispensation as falling beings.

So, you cannot mix these two together. It is of course correct to say that the spheres have become increasingly dense, which makes it we might say, easier for people to go into duality, because of the density of the matter in the sphere. As the spheres become more dense, it becomes more of a challenge to ascend and to enter an upward spiral in those spheres. This means that there will be more planets where the inhabitants go into duality.

You can also say that there is a certain connection here between the fallen beings and the existence of different realms. For example, in the fourth sphere, you did not have the division into the identity, mental, emotional, and physical levels. In the fifth sphere, there was a division into two levels. The sixth, there was a division into three, and the seventh a division into four. And this was to accommodate the various groups of fallen beings, so that there was a denser level, that was what you today call the physical material level, and then one or several higher levels, depending on the different types of fallen beings. This is a teaching that we might expand upon at some point, but we  have not done so, so far.

 

Copyright © 2021 Kim Michaels

UFO disclosure

Question: Over the past year, there has been a significant amount of news coverage on the topic of UFOs. The Pentagon has come out saying that a plethora of footage is real. I’ve also seen that the military admitted to possessing recovered crafts, I have never been one to put any energy into this sort of thing, especially since it has no spiritual benefit. But what is going on here?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary  through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2021 Webinar – Ending the Era of Ideology.

Well, in the process of raising the collective consciousness, it is clear that everything needs to be questioned, everything needs to be re-evaluated. And any kind of topics that people have been reluctant to talk about, the governments have been reluctant to talk about, need to be brought out in the open and they need to be debated and discussed.

It is clear that this maintaining of a certain secrecy around the topic of UFOs needs to be challenged, that people need to discuss it so that those who are interested in this particular phenomenon can have a chance to process their thoughts about it. Now, we have given a few teachings about UFOs. And I really do not have anything to add to that. Other than, as I said, any topic needs to be talked about openly in society.

In terms of spiritual people, you are perfectly right, there is no real spiritual benefit to it. And we definitely do not recommend that ascended master students put much attention on this. We have seen many examples of people who are somewhat spiritually interested, but really do not have the discernment to know what is important for their growth and what is not. And these people get pulled into the energetic vortex that has been created around UFOs.

It is important to keep in mind that whenever a group of people begin to put their attention on a certain topic, they create an energetic vortex. And those who do not have the discernment can easily be pulled into this. And once you are pulled into such a spiral, you are taking these ideas into your mental mind, you are taking the energy into your emotional mind, and it could create a vortex in your four lower bodies that then pulls on you. And suddenly, you can then make the shift of being convinced that this is something real and something important.

You might consider that there has always been this kind of consciousness of thinking about something beyond the ordinary. If you go back to medieval times, you would see that many people believed in various of what you today called mythological creatures. There are all kinds—a whole plethora of these beings that were believed in by various groups of people in the medieval age.

And you might say that this comes from the fact that there are other realms than the material realm, there is the emotional, the mental and identity realms. And people have from time to time become open to sensing these other realms, and sensing that there are certain beings in these realms. As we have said, there are certainly beings in the emotional realm, in the astral plane, who are seeking to influence people and pull them into some kind of spiral.

You might take note of the fact that in medieval times, these beings took a certain form based on what people knew and believed at the time. Today, you have these beings, extraterrestrial beings, you might say, taking the form of advanced technical civilizations who have technological devices. In the medieval age, they did not have the knowledge to even envision something like this.

In the technical age you have today, people have the knowledge and you have of course many fictional stories, movies, TV series about this. And so, you might see that the consciousness really is the same. There is this belief in something beyond the physical and of course, there is something beyond the physical, but there is also a tendency to project onto that, what people have in their mind based on the society and the time they live in. You need to question again whether people are projecting this.

But the real question is: are people being pulled into a spiral that does not help their spiritual growth. This is, of course, what the dark forces want. And that is why they create these spirals. And you will see that whether it is UFOs, or whether it is mythological creatures, there is often this mixture of on the one hand, is the fear that these beings could not be benevolent, on the other hand is the hope that they could actually bring something positive, do something for people, or even save civilization from itself.

 

Copyright © 2021 Kim Michaels

Two sides of ideology 

Question: Could we say that ideologies, thought systems and philosophies on earth have two sides? One psychological, that could have been originated by the feeling of lack of legitimacy of the ego, when the fallen consciousness decided to separate from the river of life. And in this sense, would be an original lie told by the fallen being to himself, in order to accept the ego as his true identity. In a sense that the being tells himself that it is free to decide what is or is not true. And a second side, directed to the collective consciousness of humankind. And that it is deceitful, manipulative and calculated, in order to keep anyone trapped in the net they created to themselves and steal human beings’ light, in order to survive.

Kim: It is a little bit of a complex question. But there is the psychological side, of ideology, in order to justify the ego. And there is another side that is directed at deceiving other people.

Answer from the Ascended Master Gautama Buddha through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2021 Webinar – Ending the Era of Ideology.

Well, as I have already talked about, there are various aspects of ideology. And I will talk more about this in coming discourses. But you are correct, that it can be said, that there is a purely psychological side, in the sense that it relates to justifying as I said, the experience you want to have. Justify doing what you want to do. This is what the fallen beings did when they fell. And they use some kind of thought system, some kind of reasoning process, to rationalize why what they did was not wrong and was indeed right. This is the internal psychological aspect.

And of course, there is an external, which is that the fallen beings feel threatened by any viewpoint that diverges from theirs so they have to try and suppress it. They do not want their sense of security, their sense of having the ultimate belief, or understanding, threatened. They want to suppress other people, who could challenge them, and they want to then, make people agree with them, if possible. As I also said, this is an impossible quest, it simply cannot be done because of the nature of duality. They can never achieve it. It is an impossible goal. And when you see it as an impossible goal, you can certainly free yourself from it, if you have been affected by it.

 

Copyright © 2021 Kim Michaels

The need to be special and the fear of being wrong 

Question: Could the Masters elaborate about the connections of these old spirits that want to be special and superior and they do not want to be wrong. There seems to be a connection between these two. In a way, that ‘don’t want to be wrong spirit’ seems to be a consequence of the former: I want to be special and superior. Is this true?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2021 Webinar – Ending the Era of Ideology.

Well, we have given teachings that spirits often are created in pairs. You can see that, when you have the desire to be superior, it follows that if you are proven wrong, then how can you really be superior to those who are right. Now, of course, there is the whole artificial construct of right and wrong, which as Gautama Buddha and many of us have explained, is meaningless. But nevertheless, to the spirits, it is still very meaningful and has some ultimate importance.

It is clear that there has been a certain consciousness that started with the fallen beings where, the reason they fell was that they would not admit, not necessarily that they were wrong, but that they had made choices that limited themselves. They would not admit that they had built a certain sense of superiority, but it was an illusion. In order to maintain the state of mind that they went into when they fell, they can never admit that they were wrong. And we might say that for the fallen beings, their entire basis for feeling superior is that they can never be wrong.

Now, this consciousness has been taken by them to earth. It has been on the earth for a long time. It has affected life on earth very much, there are strong beasts in the collective consciousness. Many people who are not fallen beings have taken on this belief. Many avatars have come to believe it as well. Partly because of what I just talked about, you came to earth with the best of intentions, you were rejected by people. And, the fallen beings were often involved with this, making you feel that you were wrong for coming to earth, you should not have come to earth.

Many of you also had this shock of not only having the birth trauma and a specific reaction, but also stepping back and thinking, was I wrong to come to earth, should I not have come here? Some of you had that feeling of fearing that you were wrong. You have taken on this consciousness of not wanting to be ever proven wrong again, even as avatars. This is very close to the same consciousness that the fallen beings are in.

Now, you have not fallen, so it is not as solidified in your mind as it is in the fallen beings. But you need to work on this as avatars, and come to a point where you are willing to be wrong. You are willing, first of all, to admit that you have done certain things that were not constructive, that were limiting you, that did not achieve the end that you wanted, and therefore you need to change.

But you also need to come to a point where you are willing to be wrong in the eyes of other people, and you can be completely non attached to it. Because you know they are judging you based on their state of consciousness, they are applying a dualistic value judgment. And you realize that, even though you are wrong in the eyes of human beings on earth, you are not wrong in the eyes of the ascended masters. Because again, your intentions are pure, your intentions for coming here were pure, you were not wrong for coming to earth. It does not matter if all people on earth think you are wrong, according to their standard, when that standard is an illusion.

It is very true that, in order to free yourself from this entire conglomerate of selves, you need to look at both. You need to look at them as forming a certain polarity, reinforcing each other. But the real key here is actually, to overcome the desire to be special. If you are not special, what does it matter that you are wrong? Because, being wrong, according to an earthly standard, does not detract from who you are. And being right, according to an earthly standard, does not make you special or superior. Because the earthly standard is unreal.

It might be helpful to go through a period, as this messenger has gone through, of considering that he is not different from most other people. He is not special, he is not superior. He had a need to feel special when he was young, as most spiritual people have. But he has looked at this and realized that there is nothing special about him. And he does not have a need to feel special according to any standard on earth. And in the Christ mind, there is no standard for some people being more special than others, because the Christ mind realizes that all life is one. How can there be some people who are special, when all life is one and all came from the same source, and all have the same potential to grow? You can say some are more mature, some have expanded their self awareness more than others. But it does not make them better according to a dualistic value judgment, it does not make them special or superior.

When you can let go of these selves, you will feel like an immense weight has been lifted off from you. Because now, you no longer have to live up to this standard of the fallen beings, of how you could never be wrong. You never have this tension of always being concerned about whether you are wrong, whether somebody thinks you are wrong, or did something wrong.

You can just say: “Well, I have a right to be on earth. I have a right to be in my present level of consciousness. I have a right to make choices based on my present level of consciousness, and what I see and do not see. And I have a right to look at the consequences of my choices and use them to transcend my present level of consciousness, instead of going into this entire artificial evaluation of whether it was right or wrong, what I did.” As Maitreya said, in a dictation during the Christhood webinar, you cannot make wrong choices if you are willing to look at the consequences, and see how they can help you grow. Any choice that helps you grow cannot be wrong, how could it be wrong? Growth is the purpose of life.

 

Copyright © 2021 Kim Michaels

Elitism and corruption in Brazil 

Question: The people of Brazil have a vivid sense of the economic potential of their country, and they are eager to improve their conditions, yet it has not happened. They also seem to have a subconscious memory of a past golden age. What prevents the Brazilians from taking command over their nation? What of the seventh root race in Brazil and South America?

Answer from the Ascended Master Saint Germain through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2021 Webinar – Ending the Era of Ideology.

Well, in this dispensation, we are not really focusing much on the seventh root race, because we have seen in previous ascended master dispensations, how this idea of the root races has been misconstrued by many people, to mean that these people are somehow superior to most other people on earth. We prefer to downplay the significance of the root races, and instead look at them as different evolutions that have come to earth. And that, even the seventh root race is not necessarily decisively superior to many of the avatars who have been on earth for a long time. It is not so that the seventh root race will automatically bring positive change or bring the golden age.

In terms of Brazil, and the Brazilian people, there are of course, many, many complex factors that play into this. But first of all, there has not yet been a critical mass of people who are willing to take responsibility for their own lives, for changing themselves instead of expecting that their government, or some external force, is going to change their situation.

It is necessary to look at Brazil, and look at the fact that elitism is a very significant issue in Brazil. And that the real hindrance, at the physical level, to economic growth, is the elite that wants to monopolize the resources, instead of allowing them to benefit all of the people. And this has influenced the politicians to the point where most of the politicians, regardless of what party they belong to, are firmly convinced of the necessity of the elite, or they are directly bought by the elite.

You see a deep level of corruption at all levels of government, and even industry. And this is another issue that needs to be transcended. But it will not be transcended until the people decide that they will take responsibility, they will educate themselves. And they will look at other nations that have moved further along than Brazil, such as what we call the modern democracies, and see what have they accomplished, how have they done it, what do we need to do in Brazil?

Of course, it needs to be adapted to your specific situation but there are certain general steps that all of the modern democracies have taken, and that Brazil and all other upcoming countries will need to take, in order to reach a decisively higher level. Of course, you can say in general, that it is the raising of the collective consciousness. And this is where the spiritual people of Brazil and from other nations, if you are inspired to make calls for this, you can have an impact. But you must realize that Brazil is a large and populous nation. You cannot expect that a few people will have a major impact in the short run. This will be more of a long-term impact you can have on a nation this size.

 

Copyright © 2021 Kim Michaels

Birth trauma and your approach to earth

 Question: I have been on the path for a long time, and I fully understand and accept the concept of free will and separate selves that react. But I still feel totally vulnerable to the energies and aggression of people. Even if I do not accept what they say and do to me, I still can’t escape their attacks. It is like I am standing in front of them, completely naked, and I cannot stand up to an attack, I cannot defend myself. Despite a fairly developed consciousness, this does not help me. I still feel a lot of pain from almost every interaction with the world. I interact very actively and try to express my Christhood, expressing myself in love, light and dedication. I still cannot get used to the fact that people react and act aggressively and reject me, reject my love. Although I understand this, it is always a certain shock and sharp pain. Please show me what I may not see, what selves it may be, and what I can do to free myself from this excessive sensitivity and vulnerability.

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2021 Webinar – Ending the Era of Ideology.

Well, my beloved, what you are describing is the experience that most avatars that have come to earth have had. You come here with the intention to help people. You are doing this out of love and wanting to set them free. And then, when you attempt to show them, or explain to them how they can be free, they either ignore you, but in many cases, they aggressively reject you, want to put you down, want to silence you, want to make you wrong, or they even attack you physically.

This is an experience that all of us who have come as avatars have had. That at some point, we faced this shock that, even though we are here to help people, they do not want our help and they reject us and they aggressively try to silence us. This is what, for most people, was the experience that caused what we have called the cosmic birth trauma—the first major trauma you received after coming to earth. It may have taken various different forms for various people. But there was always that sense of shock of the fact that you are coming, and you are being non-aggressive, but you are being met with an aggressive reaction.

What you really need to do is use the tools and teachings we have given to try to uncover the birth trauma. Not in the sense that you just understand it intellectually, but that you actually experience it. And go through the process of seeing the self that was created as a result of birth trauma, and letting that self die. And even seeing what other selves were created, in order to defend yourself, or to avoid having the same experience ever again.

These are important tools. But you also need to do what this messenger has been doing since he got in contact with his original birth trauma, and let go of it. And that is he has been actually realizing that the reason why he experienced that trauma was that he came to earth with a certain attitude, certain expectations, a certain mindset. And this was what he needed to look at and free himself from, in order to be free of earth.

What I recommend is that you use the tools, you especially use my visualization for going through different layers, getting back to that theater where you are on the stage and you see these separate selves. But you also ask for my help and you contemplate in your own mind also, what is my basic attitude to earth? What do I think I am here for, what do I think I should accomplish, what do I think should happen on earth? What is my basic attitude to people? What do I think they should or should not be doing? How do I think they should respond to me?

And then you need to recognize here that it is not that an avatar is not here to make a positive change on earth. But an avatar is also here to learn something from being on earth. And what you need to learn from earth is what you had not learned on a natural planet, what you had not seen in yourself on a natural planet, especially relating to free will. Many avatars have the attitude that you think you actually respect free will because you would not force somebody else, and you are not being aggressive towards them. And therefore, you feel that other people should not be aggressive towards you.

But first of all, you need to recognize here, that on a planet like earth, there is no guarantee of this. It is very true that Jesus said: “Do unto others what you want them to do to you.” But he did not say that if you do not do certain things to others, they will not do the same things to you. He never said that. And that is because of free will, and a lower level of consciousness on earth, no guarantee that if you do not treat other people aggressively, they will not treat you aggressively. You need to recognize this.

And you need to come to accept that that is not only a matter of free will, but the state of the collective consciousness on this planet. If you have this expectation in yourself, that you should not be treated aggressively when you are not aggressive, it is an unrealistic expectation. It was very realistic on a natural planet, but it is not realistic on an unnatural planet.

You need to look at: Why do you have this belief? Where does it come from? What does it say about your actual attitude to free will, and that you do not fully accept free will? Because, if you fully accepted free will, you would not have the expectation that people should not treat you a certain way. You cannot have that if you fully accept free will.

This messenger has gone through a process, a gradual process of realizing that he did not fully accept free will when he came. He was not aggressive, and he would not force others. But he did not fully accept free will. And therefore, he had certain expectations. And those expectations caused him to react a certain way, when he was met with rejection and aggressiveness on earth. And in order to be free of that reactionary pattern, he needed to look at the expectation, the attitude to the planet, to people, to people in duality, to fallen beings, and investigate this entire mindset that actually brought him to earth, that caused him to decide to descend to a planet like this.

And this is what you all need to do, who are avatars, in order to be free of this planet, and rise above the mindset that brought you here. Because the mindset that brought you here cannot take you away from here, it can only keep you here, until you have transcended it, because that is what you really wanted to accomplish by coming here.

Yes, you wanted to have a positive impact on the planet. But, how do you have a positive impact on the planet? Not by changing other people, but by changing yourself. You have a positive impact on the planet by overcoming any pattern in your own psychology. Thereby, you pull up on the collective. Thereby, you make it possible that some people will also be able to transcend their own psychology.

There will also be some that will not, and they are the ones who are aggressive. But you cannot let them dominate your experience on earth. And therefore, you need to free yourself from these patterns, so that you can stand in front of their aggression. You can stand naked, in front of them. But it does not paralyze you, it does not pain you.

This messenger has since early childhood in this lifetime, and certainly in other lifetimes as well, had that same experience, that he felt an inner prompting to approach people, to be active, to be outgoing, to do something positive. But almost every interaction with other people caused him a certain pain in his heart. And he has not gotten over it until he started looking at these very deep issues that brought him here. His attitude to what he was supposed to accomplish, what was supposed to happen or not happen to him on earth.

And it is the same thing for all of us. We have to examine this. What brought us here, and that will then allow us to transcend it, to let those selves die, to let those beliefs die, and to simply feel free, feel free to leave the earth, even if you have not accomplished anything on earth. Even if you have not fulfilled any part of the vision you had that caused you to want to go here, what you thought you could accomplish. You can still leave the earth behind in peace and say: “I have had enough of the experiences I can have on this planet.” It is possible.

Many of you are not nearly as far away from it as you think. Even though you may still feel the pain, and still feel the hopelessness of why will it not go away with all the work you have done on yourself—all the psychological work, all the spiritual work and you still feel this pain. Why will it not go away?

But nevertheless, many of you are much closer than you think to making that, often a very subtle shift, where you change the way you look at life on earth. And you realize that nothing ultimately matters on an unnatural planet. And if nothing ultimately matters, nothing defines you. And if nothing defines you, why should anything on earth define how you experience being on earth?

And it is only when you can be on earth, be exposed to the aggressiveness of other people, be exposed to the very things that gave you the cosmic birth trauma, and you have no reaction to it, that you are truly free.

And you can all achieve it. Believe me, you can all achieve it by using the tools, not in a mechanical way, but in a creative way, by asking for our help, by being willing to continue to look deeper and deeper, to look behind this belief. Look behind the next belief, and continue until you get to the very core of how you approach being on a planet like earth. It is only when you free yourself from your approach to earth, that you can depart earth.

 

Copyright © 2021 Kim Michaels

What will it take for China to become free?

Question: What will it take for China to become free?

Answer from the Ascended Master Saint Germain through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2021 Webinar – Ending the Era of Ideology

Well, I will comment on the question. But I will start by saying that this is the kind of question that is so broad, that it is difficult to give a meaningful answer because there are so many facets that need to be addressed here. What exactly does it mean for China to become free? What is a free nation really, when it comes right down to it? You could say that, what does it take for China to become free of communism, but that obviously will take the fall of communism.

What we can say here is this, that the first step towards a more free China, is that the realization that has already started growing among many people, especially younger people, needs to be accelerated. And that realization is that communism has outlived its purpose. Whatever people in China think about communism, and many think it was a necessary phase for China, there can be this spreading realization that it is no longer necessary for China to be communist. In fact, it is hypocritical, self-contradictory, non-sustainable for China to uphold a communist ideology, while in reality having a capitalist economy.

It is not sustainable. One or the other has to win in the long run, or there has to be a different form of economy than a strictly capitalist economy. But China is right now being pulled in two directions by the ideology, and by the money-making machine that has grown to such proposals in China, that it is almost strong enough to overpower ideology.

So you have these two beasts that are fighting for domination in China. And the solution is not that China gives up communism becomes entirely capitalist, that would just propel it from one kind of unfreedom to another kind of unfreedom. The solution really is that China transcends both communism and capitalism and finds a different approach to the economy and to society.

Now, this, of course, will require that the current leader of China will be out of power, whether he goes out of embodiment or is dethroned by the Communist Party. It will also require many of the old guard in the Communist Party to either die or be removed from their positions and replaced by younger people who have a more flexible, more open-minded attitude.

What this will require is a gradual raising of the collective consciousness. And this, of course, is something that is happening fairly slowly in China, partly because of the size of the country. Partly because of the unwillingness among many Chinese people to make their own decisions, take responsibility for themselves, and partly because, of the tremendous resistance from the party apparatus from the demons and collective beasts behind them and from the fallen beings, who are still trying to maintain China as a communist nation in order to uphold some remnants of the capitalist communist tension.

So many, many factors will play into this. If you are concerned about this, you can certainly give invocations and decrees for this. But it will take a long time for a small group of people to have an impact on China. There is a process for raising the collective consciousness, it is being raised—the consciousness of China is being pulled up by other nations, but it is difficult to predict exactly when this will break through.

The question right now is whether the current leader will have to die a so-called natural death or whether he will be removed by more progressive forces because he has created not so much a personality cult, but a very strong personal power apparatus around himself. And that is not going to allow any changes, because they would be seen as threatening his power.

 

Copyright © 2021 Kim Michaels

How to deal with the death of our loved ones 

Question: Can the masters give us a higher understanding of death, this incarnation. Why do we hurt so much when we lose a loved one? How are we supposed to react when we lose someone we love? Is to cry? How do we transcend all the negative feelings we feel when we lose a loved one.

Answer from the Ascended Master Mary  through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2021 Webinar – Ending the Era of Ideology

Well, this is of course, a difficult topic for most people. And it has a whole conglomerate of separate selves that are involved with this. So again, you need to use our teachings and tools on the separate selves to deal with this, whatever it is for you individually.

What can be said in general is that, the essence of this is that you feel a sense of ownership of another human being. You feel this is my loved one. And you have allowed yourself to come to feel that something in you, your sense of identity, your sense of wholeness, completeness, your sense of stability, your sense of security, depends on that other person.

But when you look at the reality of planet earth, you are an individual human being. Your loved one is an individual human being. The body of your loved one can die at any time, your body can die at any time. How can you ever really allow yourself to feel that you, your state of mind depends on something that could be lost at any time. It is not wise to allow oneself to feel this.

I know that saying this does not necessarily help you because you feel this way because you have separate selves from past lives that make you feel this way or that made you go into this state of codependency. But nevertheless, it is possible to use our teachings and tools to uncover these selves, to work on them and to let them die.

When you feel severe pain when a loved one dies, it is always self-focused. You are focused on yourself, not on the loved one. You might benefit from reading some of the many descriptions of near-death experiences where many people have described that dying is not an unpleasant process, they do not suffer, they go to a higher realm where they have a much better existence than they had on earth.

So really, you are not feeling sorry for your loved one, you are feeling sorry for yourself. Or rather, there is a self that feels sorry for itself. So you need to do the work to uncover the selves that creating all these feelings in you, and let them die one after another. And then you can be free of this pain, you can react in a way that is much more balanced.

It does not mean you can not cry over the loss. But there are different ways of crying. There is one way of crying, where there is a release of feelings and after the release, you feel lighter, you feel freer. There is also a kind of crying that ties in with the collective consciousness, the collective beasts and the demons behind them. And that simply sucks your energy into a downward spiral that makes you feel worse and worse and worse.

If you experience this kind of reaction, you need to be very determined to use our decrees of Archangel Michael and Astrea, to cut you free from these collective entities from these demons, this entire collective momentum that simply projects at you that you should feel sorrow, otherwise, you did not really love your loved one. But if your loved one has moved on to a better existence, why do you need to feel sorrow? You see, this is entirely illogical. There are certain selves that are very strong in the collective that you have taken on and you need to let them die in your own state of mind in order to be free of them.

 

Copyright © 2021 Kim Michaels

Question about rock musicians 

Question: A lot of famous musicians have died young, a lot of rock stars in the past decade and rappers in the modern age. I cannot help but feel that some of them were here to make a positive change, at least at their level of consciousness. Am I being delusional? Were some of them even fallen beings?

 Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2021 Webinar – Ending the Era of Ideology.

This is one of those questions that does not have a clear-cut answer. Jesus has given some very important teachings on the fact that there are sometimes a situation that is so locked, where people are so locked in a certain mindset, that a person needs to be a forerunner to go in and challenge that mindset and the energies behind it.

And so it can be that for a time a person needs to do something, which is not really coming from a higher perspective of the Christ mind but it is necessary to break up a locked situation. We have talked about how sometimes it is necessary to have a certain revolution and that this can for a time be in alignment with the mind of Christ in the sense that it can break the deadlock and bring change.

The same can happen with music. There are certain musicians who have brought forth a new type of music that was very provocative to people but it was necessary that they were provoked in order to break up an old mindset, an old matrix in society. I am not here saying that all rock musicians and rappers are out of alignment with this need for change. Some of them have, at least for a time, been in alignment with this. But this does not mean that rock music or rap music is harmonious in the sense that it produces harmonious vibrations that benefit the planet. It has a disruptive, chaotic effect. But as I said, this can be necessary for a period of time to break up certain locked patterns.

Now, most rock musicians and rappers are actually fallen beings, not all of them, but most of them are. And quite frankly, do not start asking questions about who is and is not because this is not something we want to use time and space on.

The reality here is that many of these rock musicians, rap musicians are fallen beings. They have outlived their, what we might call, natural lifespan. And they are only being kept alive because people are giving them their energy by listening to their music, or by going to concerts ,where they are forced into a certain state of mind, where they release huge amounts of energy.

You can see people at a rock concert who are screaming uncontrollably. And this releases tremendous energy which the rock musicians can absorb, which the demons behind them can absorb, which is one of the purposes behind rock music and rock concerts. Once you see this fade away, that their popularity fades away, some of them can no longer remain in embodiment, and leave the physical body behind.

And the other aspect of this is, of course, the time factor. There was a certain period of time in the 60s and 70s, when many new rock bands arose. They were usually young people at the time, now they have reached a certain age. And partly it can be because they do not receive enough light. It can also be because many rock musicians were so unbalanced that they lived a very unhealthy lifestyle, and it is simply catching up with their physical bodies.

This sort of goes hand in hand with the whole rock culture, which was very much the rebellious culture, rebelling against the norms of society. Therefore, it was okay to abuse alcohol and drugs and have promiscuous sex and live a party lifestyle. And of course, there comes a point where your physical body simply cannot handle it anymore. Again, you can point to certain exceptions that have managed to stay alive for a long time. But look at these people, and look at the fact that they are empty shells that are barely staying alive and that are really not spiritually alive anymore.

 

Copyright © 2021 Kim Michaels

How to work on the separate self 

Question: If I am aware of a separate self that arises, what is the best way to meditate on it? I usually like to journal and that can help me come up with insights. But when I simply meditate on a particular feeling that comes up, I become more aware of the emotions associated with that self. But I do not have any recollection of where these feelings come from, so I do not know what to do from that point.

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary  through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2021 Webinar – Ending the Era of Ideology.

We have given teachings on this already in our books, and we have given the invocations and the processes for becoming aware of it. What you can do on your own is always realize that behind every feeling there is some kind of belief that causes the feeling.

In other words, you have the four lower bodies, the identity, mental, emotional—it first flows from the identity into the mental into the emotional. So feelings originate with some kind of belief in the mental realm and that often relates to some kind of decision that you made either at the mental level, or the identity level, often relating to how you see yourself in relation to life on earth.

You can benefit from considering this: what is the belief behind it—trying to go behind it. But of course, we also strongly recommend that you ask us for help, you ask us to help you see it and that is the power of giving an invocation where you invoke the intercession of a particular master, then we can step through and give you more assistance as you are open to receiving it.

Of course, it also requires that you are open to seeing what you cannot see now, and this means in some cases, that you have to be willing to get in touch with the feelings, and to even go into the feelings instead of avoiding them. But again, we have given teachings on this in our books. Start with “Healing your Spiritual Traumas” and the other books in that series and this will help you.

 

Copyright © 2021 Kim Michaels

Internal Family Systems therapy

Question: There is a form of therapy known as Internal Family Systems (IFS). It is very similar to the teaching about separate selves but there is also a focus on the concept that you can communicate with your separate selves to make them go away or take on a lesser role. Do the ascended masters have any suggestions for utilizing this form of therapy more effectively beyond what is already being taught now? For example, are there any common mistakes people make when they try to communicate with a separate self? Can you combine other modalities to help see your separate selves easier whereas to integrate ascended master teachings into the process?

 Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary  through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2021 Webinar – Ending the Era of Ideology.

As we have said many times, we work with many different people in many different capacities as they are able to tune in to us and the ideas we are releasing. We are not seeking to create any kind of a monopoly and we do, in fact, hope that many of the therapists that are open to an alternative form of therapies will, at one point, find the ascended masters teachings and see how some of the ideas we are releasing can enhance their particular form of therapy that they have either developed or decided to use.

In terms of communicating with internal spirits, there are several different therapies that use this technique. For example, you can communicate with your inner child, you can communicate with your inner critic, and so forth and so on. It is not that this cannot work but you have to be careful here, because once you have created these entities, whatever you want to call them: your internal family, your inner child, your inner critic, your separate selves—once you have created this, they will have a certain survival instinct, so they will want to survive and in order to survive, they are often willing to morph themselves into a different form that then becomes acceptable to you.

There are people who have communicated with such an inner self and caused it to morph into a form that they find acceptable, but which is still limiting them. In other words, they have not actually overcome it, they have not transcended it, they have not gotten rid of it. And in the long term, you have to get rid of all of these, whatever you call them, you have to get rid of them.

And how do you get rid of them? Not by reasoning with them, because as we have said about separate selves, they are like computer programs, you cannot reason with them to the point where they suddenly give up existing. They will fight for their lives, they can morph, but they cannot be reasoned with to see that they should just lie down and die. They will die only when you who created them transcend and neutralize the decision that caused you to create them. And you need to do this consciously by being willing to see this as a separate entity in your mind that simply needs to go.

You need to let it die, to be willing to let it die. And when you are willing to let it die, it will die, maybe after some time where it has been starved of energy. And you can speed up that process by giving the invocations and decrees, which of course, are also tools that many, many therapists out there could benefit from using. It is simply a matter of: Do you want the biggest possible effect for your clients?

Then it is not a matter of giving credit to the ascended masters or this messenger, it is simply a matter of saying: Are these tools effective? Let’s try it out. Let’s do an experiment and use these ascended master tools, decrees and invocations along with the ideas of separate selves and letting them die and see if that helps our clients. And if it does, then we use them without necessarily becoming ascended master students or loyal to a particular organization or messenger. We simply use them to help our clients.

 

Copyright © 2021 Kim Michaels

How to be free from sexual trauma 

Question: How do the ascended masters see children sexual abuse and incest compared to other unbalanced things happening on earth. How can one free him/herself from the trauma of sexual abuse and forgive their abusers?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mary  through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2021 Webinar – Ending the Era of Ideology

Well, it is clear that any form of abuse that happens to people who cannot easily say no or defend themselves or walk away from the abuser, is a more severe form of abuse than other forms of abuse. Clearly, children often find it difficult to walk away from certain adults in their lives, especially family members, they often find it difficult to say no, and they cannot defend themselves against an adult. So this is a very, very severe form of abuse that leads to tremendous karma.

In terms of how you can free yourself from it and the trauma. Well, this is something we have commented on several times. And especially in the book, “Healing Your Spiritual Traumas” and in the other books, you can find tools for helping this. Any kind of abuse leads you to create a separate self in order to deal with the abuse, in order to deal with how you look at yourself as a result of having been abused.

There is a certain consciousness that ties in with any form of abuse. And it is that for many people, they have a clearly subconscious realization that there is a certain cause and effect. And they think, based on long programming, that if something happened to them, they must have deserved it. So there is a certain tendency to believe that if someone did something to me, I must have done something either to them or someone else in a past life. Otherwise, I would not have deserved this.

And we have of course given teachings on karma. And there can be situations where what happens to you and this life is a result of your karma. But we have also given teachings that make it clear that not everything that happens to you is a result of your karma or something you did in a past life.

It may in fact, be a result of the free will choices of the abuser. It may also be that you have chosen to embody with an abuser in order to give that person a chance to transcend the abuse. But it may also be that you have chosen to embody in that situation in order to overcome something in your own psychology that you  have not overcome in past lifetimes. And by being exposed to abuse, you force yourself, to bring it to the surface where you have to deal with it.

The best thing you can do is, look at yourself, look at the entire situation as an opportunity to heal your psychology from these deep wounds from past lives. And then work on that, work on discovering those separate selves, letting go of these separate selves and then the forgiveness will be a result of letting go of these selves.

There is not only forgiveness of the abuser, but there is forgiveness of yourself for your reaction or for even having allowed the abuse, where many people feel guilt for having allowed it. This is also something you need to forgive yourself of. But it can only be done by letting go of the self that makes you feel guilty for having allowed it, that makes you feel like you should not have been exposed to this.

So there is a whole conglomerate of separate selves that are involved in these situations of abuse. And you need to simply use our teachings and tools to unravel them. It may take some time, it may be one of the primary things you wanted to achieve in this lifetime. But it is definitely worth it to spend however long it takes to overcome this. Of course, it can also be necessary to use therapy of various kinds to bring certain things out. So we are not recommending only our teachings and tools.

 

Copyright © 2021 Kim Michaels

Only two books to read?

Question: One time, the Ascended Master More recommended something like if you had only two books to read, they should be the Bible and the Screwtape Letters. Recently, the message has been more along the lines that the Bible is a book filled with so many distortions that it is probably better to be avoided. At least that is how it comes across. So I would like to ask Master More what he recommends today when it comes to reading the Bible and not just the Old Testament, but the book of Revelation, which seems to have gone from a mastery to a put aside for now treatment.

Answer from the Ascended Master More  through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2021 Webinar – Ending the Era of Ideology.

Recommendations are made at a certain time, at a certain configuration. This particular recommendation was made a long time ago. Things have changed much since then and it simply is not realistic anymore to even consider if you only had two books to read, which books should they be because there are today so many books that are valuable.

It is perfectly correct that we do not particularly recommend the Bible because we have given so many other teachings, we have even given many teachings on the real interpretation of the Bible. And the interpretation given of the Bible by most Christian congregations and churches is so distorted that it is not useful to a spiritual student.

We do recommend, however, that you have at least a working relationship with the four gospels of the New Testament so that you have some idea of what happened, and the events around Jesus’ life, some of his teachings, so that when we give a quote for example, you have some idea of the context in which it was given.

But in terms of reading only two books, it all depends on your level of consciousness, does not it? Because what is suitable for one level is not suitable for another. Today there are so many more books that it is really a matter of tuning in. Certainly, if you are in doubt about where to start, then start with the Course in Self Mastery and use those books to the fullest ability before you move on to others.  Then you have a very good foundation and you will have anchored yourself on the inner path by using those books.

 

Copyright © 2021 Kim Michaels

The stimulus economy vs. the debt economy

Question: There seems to be a new ideology in town, many nations are spending like they have never spent before. What is the end game of this new monetary theory, which has the potential to create not just high inflation, but perhaps even bring down the whole deck of cards that is the debt economy? One would think that after the pandemic, nations would be happy to just get their economies back on their feet. What is the cause and core behind this massive experiment at a time of significant fragility and instability in the world economy?

 Answer from the Ascended Master Saint Germain through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2021 Webinar – Ending the Era of Ideology.

I would not say it is as much an ideology as a necessity, where nations are looking at the economy and they are simply realizing that if they do not stimulate the economy, then they will have a crisis that might in fact cause the entire system to break down. They feel that the only way is that the government stimulates the economy because surely, private businesses are not going to do so.

You have not in the history of capitalism seen that a company like Google or Amazon or Apple will say: “Oh, we have made a huge profit, we have so much money in the bank, we are going to give this away to people in order to stimulate the economy.” That just is not likely to happen. Therefore, it is up to the governments to do this.

Now, it is true that this can lead to inflation but it does not have to. It depends on how it is approached. And it depends on the nation’s willingness to look at the entire financial and economic system, especially the debt economy. We have talked about this before that it is not sustainable, that you allow private banks to create money out of nothing and charge interest and that there needs to be a different way to approach this. Many nations are not open to this at the present but if they continue spending money, then they might be forced to consider it because they might be faced with either we do something differently, or the entire system is going to crash.

It is clear, as we have said before, that there will come a point where the debt has reached such proportions that the only realistic solution is to nullify all debt. But this, of course, will not work in the long term unless you also look at how did we get into debt in the first place and how do we change this.

In the American Constitution it is stated very clearly that only Congress has the power to print money. But Congress has given that power to private banks, they are not printing the money, they are creating it artificially through loans that they do not have any security for. But nevertheless, it is virtually the same as allowing them to print money but in reality, it is possible to create a system where the government is in control of the amount of money that circulates in society and they do so in such a way that there is enough money to create sustained economic growth without creating inflation. It is possible to do so, especially today with modern computer technology. It would have been difficult to do this 30, even 20 years ago, but today it is possible to do so.

There are economists in the world who are tuned enough to my presence that they can bring forth these new economic tools and theories and it is simply a matter of there being the willingness on the part of the governments to look at this and implement it and the question here is: Will they do this voluntarily or will they have to be forced by an impending breakdown to look at something new?

I do not care to make any prediction on this, some countries will be willing to look at it voluntarily, others will have to be forced, which ones can be difficult to assess at the time, so let us just wait and see what happens.

 

Copyright © 2021 Kim Michaels

How to approach a new phase on the path 

Question: After following the teachings of the ascended master for many years, the so-called honeymoon phase began to go away. As it was mentioned in a recent dictation – I felt like I stopped making progress. The dictations that once brought me to tears of joy now produced an unpleasant contracting feeling in my energy field. I felt deep down that my next steps for growth were to free myself of all ideologies and mental images, instead of being so attached to the teachings that had already been given. I wanted to fully experience and immerse myself in the living waters of truth. However, my fear of leaving the teachings behind and stepping up higher held me back for a very long time. How do we best handle this phase of our path so we can make the most progress? Also, I felt that some of the recent dictations are really stepping up to a higher level and I have been resonating with them. A personal “thank you” to Kim for always being open to transcending himself and not getting stuck at a certain level.

Answer from the Ascended Master Jesus through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2021 Webinar – Ending the Era of Ideology.

Well, as Mother Mary addressed in her dictation based on a question at the last webinar, the Russian webinar, it is natural that you will have certain phases on your spiritual path. And it is important not to fixate your outer mind on having to follow a specific teaching or follow the teaching in a specific way.

Many students have decided with their outer minds that this is how they are going to study the teachings, this is how many decrees and invocations they are going to give. And this can be valid for a time to push through a certain resistance and push yourself above the mass consciousness. But then there comes a time where it is not productive anymore – then you will feel that there is more resistance. You will feel that you are not getting out of it what you used to get out of it – and you are not, because you are not growing. Because now you need to do something differently.

It does not necessarily mean you have to leave the teaching or study another teaching, but if that is the prompting you get from within, then you should do. We have never said that people should be loyal to a certain teaching. On the other hand, you also have to be careful that you do not leave the teaching when you should not have done so, based on your divine plan and your growth. In other words, this is not a decision that should be made by the outer mind but through an intuitive prompting.

What I first of all recommend is that you look at your approach to the teaching, to the path and these spiritual practices, and realize that it may be time to find a different approach, where you do not force yourself anymore. You could do what comes from within: if you need to take a break from giving invocations, then do so.

I would still recommend, though, that you keep a certain minimum, especially find some of the invocations we have given based on transmuting the separate selves and keep giving those perhaps giving them more slowly while really meditating on the words, studying those dictations as well. I also recommend that you keep in touch with the teaching and what is happening to the teaching, because we do step up from time to time, and it may be that you have simply been ready for that step before it came through in the physical. And if you leave the teaching behind, you may not see that we are giving a higher teaching and therefore not be able to take advantage of it as quickly as you otherwise could.

The non-constructive reaction is, of course, to look at what is happening inside your mind and project it outside—that now something has happened to the teaching, something has happened to the messenger, he is no longer a valid messenger, he is no longer in touch with the real ascended masters and so on.

Remember, that the real path, as I said in a previous answer about the narrow way, is an inner path. It is about your consciousness – what is happening in your consciousness. Only when you are looking at your own reaction to the teaching, rather than the teaching itself, will you get the full benefit and experience maximum growth. When you have this experience that you are feeling resistance that you are not getting the results you are used to – it is always because there is something you have not seen in your approach to the teaching. By looking at that, you may not have to withdraw, you may simply take a different approach, and therefore still experience growth.

 

Copyright © 2021 Kim Michaels

Receiving words or concepts during the conferences 

Question: During the “Christ Discernment” webinar, I was having a bizarre experience, perhaps that masters can shed light on. During the dictations, I felt the presence of the masters incredibly close. I merged in with a stream of consciousness that I felt. What shocked me was that I felt words and revelations pour through my mind. Ten seconds after getting a revelation, Kim would say almost verbatim exactly what this voice had said. In between dictations, during the breaks, this presence was showing me new revelations. And when we would come back to a session, the new dictation would be exactly what I had just received from within. This is continued for the entire conference. It was like this beautiful dance that lifted my consciousness and filled me with gratitude. Can the masters comment on this experience and what was actually happening?

 Answer from the Ascended Master Jesus through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2021 Webinar – Ending the Era of Ideology.

When we give a dictation through the messenger, we have a certain matrix, an energetic matrix, a certain matrix of ideas, that exists in the spiritual realm. We then first push it into the identity realm, then into the mental, then into the emotional and then into the physical mind of the messenger, where it is translated into words that are then spoken by the messenger. This does not mean that the words are there exactly in the spiritual realm as they are spoken in the physical—as the words are gradually formed as the dictation is pushed through the four levels.

Now, when you are participating in a conference, you can – and this is what we always encourage – you can attune your consciousness to that of the ascended masters. And this means that when a dictation is given, you may be able to pick up the words, say at the mental level, before they are pushed all the way through, to the physical. Therefore, you can actually hear the words before they are spoken. You can also in between dictations tune in your consciousness to the masters and receive, not necessarily the words, even though you can, of course, receive the words, but also the concepts.

There are many times at a conference where we have certain ideas that we wish to talk about, and some of the students that come to the conference, have tuned in to those ideas. Often the messenger has experienced that one or two students will come up and tell him about something, or ask him about a certain concept, and then, later, we will comment on that particular concept. This is because the students have been attuned to the ideas that we want to bring forth.

This is something we encourage all of you to do. All of you are capable of doing it. But I do not want anybody to feel discouraged if it does not happen to them. You just simply focus on attuning your consciousness to us, to the best of your ability. Some of you will find it more difficult to receive words, some of you will find it easier to receive images or concepts. Some may just feel a flow of energy that is not specific to ideas or concepts. Whatever it is for you – just tune in as best you can, and be happy with whatever level of attunement you have, whatever form it takes.

 

Copyright © 2021 Kim Michaels

Kriya Yoga and Westerners

Question: I was recently initiated into Kriya Yoga. From the perspective of the ascended masters, with a frame of reference of these Western teachings — what are the spiritual benefits of Kriya? Can it be used in tandem with invocations and decrees for spiritual growth?

Answer from the Ascended Master Jesus through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2021 Webinar – Ending the Era of Ideology.

Well, we have commented before on Kriya Yoga as a valid spiritual technique. But if you are from a Western country, we always recommend that you look at Western spiritual techniques before the Eastern ones. You also need to be aware that many Eastern techniques can have the effect of raising the Kundalini in a way that is not sustainable in the long term, and therefore it can be disturbing to people.

Naturally, we also want to make it clear that we do not consider our current teachings and tools to be exclusive. It is not so that you can only practice our decrees and invocations—you can practice them with many other spiritual techniques. But you need to be aware that if the Kriya Yoga has the effect of raising the Kundalini in a way that you cannot balance, then you need to stop it, at least for a time.

 

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Financial crisis in 2021?

Question: Is Saint Germain willing to give a prediction for what will happen to the economy in 2021? Is a crisis such as in 2008 with a credit crisis unavoidable? Up until now, both the real and the financial economy seems to survive the COVID pandemic without any structural and long term damage.

Answer from the Ascended Master Saint Germain through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2021 Webinar – Ending the Era of Ideology.

Well, what will happen to the economy not only in 2021 but also beyond, depends very much on what the governments, of especially the modern democracies, the more well-to-do nations, are going to do. Are they going to make a conscious and deliberate evaluation of neoliberalism, realize that it has failed, that it is not a functioning economic ideology, and swing towards a new model where the government needs to be more involved with the economy, instead of letting the “market lift all boats”, which it clearly does not do?

It also depends on their willingness to continue with certain stimulus. You will see a situation where many companies, especially smaller companies have been surviving because of the stimulus. Many people expect that there will be a wave of bankruptcies when the stimulus packages stop, but this depends on when these are stopped and how much the real economy has gotten started, which depends on the speed of vaccinations, and so on.

It is clear that if certain governments may insist on holding on to neoliberalism, even though they obviously have not followed it during the pandemic, but if they think they can go right back to it after the stimulus package is stopped, then those countries will experience a financial and economic crisis.

What you have seen so far is that the stock markets and the real estate markets have done very well during the pandemic. This is what we have talked about before of the gambling economy, or the perception-based economy, where there is a perception that governments will continue with the stimulus. If that is not fulfilled, then there will be a certain downturn because of that.

The question really is, as we have talked about before, whether countries are willing to step up to a more long-term approach to the economy, that does away with neoliberalism and realizes that, in the modern world, the government simply must play a role in the economy, because if not, they are allowing the small elite that has gained a monopoly on the money system and the financial system, to exploit the population and suppress economic growth.

We have talked about income inequality, which is a problem that simply must be addressed in practically all nations but especially in the United States. And if it is not addressed, then it will gradually precipitate a crisis, because how can there be enough consumption to keep these small businesses from going under? The bigger businesses can weather a storm better than the smaller ones, but they will still not be able to prevent an economic downturn.

This all depends on whether the income inequality is addressed as part of the larger picture. And if certain nations are not willing to do that, then I predict that there will be a financial crisis in those nations, not necessarily in 2021, it may be pushed out to 2022.

 

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The broad and the narrow way 

Question: In his Sermon On the Mount, Jesus said: “Enter through the narrow gate for wide is the gate and broad is the way leading to destruction and many are those entering through it.  For small is the gate and narrow is the way leading to life and few are those finding it”. Can the ascended masters please give us, ascended master students, a current-day teaching on this? Are there specific spiritual practices or requirements that will best help us stay within and be able to pass through this narrow gate that Jesus talked about when he was on earth?

 Answer from the Ascended Master Jesus through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2021 Webinar – Ending the Era of Ideology.

We have already given quite a few teachings on this. It is simply that there is a difference between the outer path and the inner path. The broad way, the wide gate is what most people on earth follow through the mainstream religions. It is promised that if you follow a few outer rules, follow a few outer practices, obey the outer priesthood, then you will be saved after this lifetime. I will come and save you for you and do all the work for you.

This is the broad way that leads to destruction, because the narrow gate that leads to your ascension is the inner path of transforming your consciousness, purifying your mind from all reactionary patterns, from all wrong beliefs, from all separate selves, from all ego. Most people are not aware that this path exists, most people have not been ready for it. Of course, the mainstream religions have been so taken over by the fallen beings that this knowledge has not been widely available.

As you can see by the number of people who are interested in non-mainstream spiritual teachings, more and more people are waking up to this, but there is still a big gap between what many people are ready for and what the mainstream religions teach. Basically, the way to follow the narrow way is to follow the spiritual path as we outline it. This is not to say that this is the only way it can be done.

Mainly, it is about coming to see something in yourself and consciously choosing to rise above it. And we have of course given numerous teachings on it. I recommend that people who are interested in this, take the course: Path to Self Mastery and start with that, going from the 48th to the 96th level, and then using the other books that we have recommended after that.

 

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Repeating the verses of an invocation

Question: I give invocations almost daily and some time ago, I was prompted to repeat some of the verses that I felt were more important. I understand that the ascended masters have unlimited power but I also understand that there is a limit that I as a person have, how much light can be brought through my chakras. I started to wonder if there’s a point in repeating the verses in that case. Or say if I repeated some verses three times would that have the same effect, as when two people say the same thing one time. Would there be more effect if one gave a call for one country only, instead of the whole world? Or is there no difference?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2021 Webinar – Ending the Era of Ideology.

Regardless of what limitations you may have for bringing forth light through your chakras, if you feel an intuitive impulse to repeat certain verses more times during the giving of an invocation, or even a decree, by all means do so. This is because there is something important in those verses either because of the energy it produces, but also because of what they actually say.

If you feel an impulse to repeat a certain verse, always pay attention to what is being said, and see if it can help you gain some insights, some intuitive insights, some ‘aha’ experience or resolve something in your psychology.

In terms of whether to give decrees for one particular country, it is clear that if you have a particular issue that is important to the country in which you live or the country you feel impelled to decree for, then it is more powerful to give the calls just for that particular country.

You will see in our invocations that in many cases, they are more broad in general, and in some cases, they are more specific. So it depends on the invocations. But if you are giving specific decrees, then it is more effective for one person to focus the decrees as narrowly as possible. When there is a group of people, it is a different dynamic, depending on the size of the group. It can be just as efficient to focus them more broadly.

 

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About the term of “spiritual people” 

Question: The masters use the term “spiritual people”. Why are some people spiritual and others not? Are spiritual people of a different cosmic origin than non spiritual people? Are they older lifestreams, so at a higher level of consciousness? Can non-spiritual people become spiritual people in their next lives in the distant future?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2021 Webinar – Ending the Era of Ideology.

I understand very well that it can be difficult to make the distinction when we use the word spiritual people, but we primarily use the word spiritual people for practical reasons. Because in a sentence, it is easier to say spiritual people than to say, people who are open to or following the spiritual path.

What we really mean is, of course, as I said, people who are open, who are following a spiritual path consciously and are consciously making an effort. This is what we generally mean with “spiritual people”.

We have, of course, given other teachings that there are some souls that are older, that are more advanced, they are avatars who have come to earth, they are people, souls at a different level of consciousness, but in a strict sense of the word, there are no “spiritual people”, there are only people.

But there are people who have awakened to consciously following the spiritual path. That is what we generally mean when we say spiritual people. Of course, people who are not open, who have not consciously awakened to the spiritual path can awaken to it and they can do so right in this lifetime. It does not have to take multiple embodiments. For some it will take many embodiments, but it does not have to. You can at any time wake up and become aware of the spiritual path. Many people have done so, many of you have even done so. So this is always a possibility.

 

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Who are the people in my circle of influence?

Question: In invocations, there’s often a phrase addressed to the masters to extend the call to all the people in one’s circle of influence. How do I know who are the people in my circle of influence?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2021 Webinar – Ending the Era of Ideology.

Well, you do not need to know this with your outer mind. Because it is virtually impossible to know with the outer mind. There is no real constructive purpose for it.

We have before given teachings that all of you are interconnected, all people are interconnected. We can say that for each person who has reached a higher level of consciousness, who has engaged in the spiritual path, you are sort of at the top of a pyramid of other souls that are below you in consciousness. We might say that you are the forerunner, you are the tip of the spear, and as you are breaking new ground in raising your consciousness, it becomes easier for these people to also raise their consciousness. Of course, as you can see in a pyramid, there may be just a couple of people in the level right below you and then four or eight or many more people as you go to lower levels.

These are people that are being pulled up by you. In many cases, they are of course, people you have met physically, but there are also many people that you have not met physically and will never meet physically, that are part of your pyramid that you are pulling up and that you are holding a spiritual balance for we might say, so that it becomes easier for them to grow. By you holding a certain level of consciousness, you are making it possible for these people to approach that level of consciousness and that is one meaning of the concept of holding a spiritual balance for other people.

You also need to realize that there can be people that you have met physically, it can be because of karma, it can also be simply because of where you were born and you are going to meet a certain amount of people, but they are not really connected to you spiritually. You do not need to fall into the trap of thinking that all people you meet physically, are connected to you spiritually, or that you need to meet physically all people that you are connected to spiritually. It is simply that you are helping these people grow and they may never know it, and you may never know it, and it does not really matter.

 

Copyright © 2021 Kim Michaels

The loss of attunement during the pregnancy 

Question: Dear Mother Mary, I have for some years now been a very dedicated student on the path and have a great joy experiencing the presence of the ascended masters in my life. I know that you are there, I have felt your presence with me as I have done the work and attune myself to you and there has never been a doubt in my mind that you are there close to me. But I have now become pregnant and I suddenly feel so very different. I’m in week 20 of my pregnancy, and from a very early stage of the pregnancy, I’ve had this strange feeling there is now a wall or some kind of barrier between the ascended masters and me, it actually feels as if I have fallen into a lower state of consciousness. Before I got pregnant, I would happily do the work: study, do invocations and self inquiry and this I did with ease. But now everything feels so heavy, I even find it difficult to do my daily invocations. I’m in a completely different state of mind now that I’m pregnant, please help me understand what is happening.

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2021 Webinar – Ending the Era of Ideology.

Well, your experience is not uncommon in the sense that many women experience a shift in consciousness, or even their energy level when they become pregnant. It is simply because the soul, the four lower bodies of the incoming child begins to interact with your four lower bodies. So it all depends on the incoming child.

Now naturally, there is always a reason why you have volunteered to bring that particular soul into embodiment. It may relate to karma from past lives, it may relate to a desire to help that child, to give that child an opportunity. It is not necessary to in any way judge your child based on the energy or feeling.

But it is not an uncommon experience that a woman can feel that there is a certain heaviness when she becomes pregnant. It is not uncommon for spiritual women to feel that there is a wall blocking their attunement with the ascended masters or with their own higher selves after they become pregnant. It is, as I said, simply the energy field of the incoming soul that is interacting with your energy field.

As you know, two energy waves can create an interference pattern that can be higher or lower, sometimes more chaotic, and sometimes therefore can block your attunement with the spiritual realm, the ascended masters, your higher self. You can attempt to switch your mind so that you realize that it is simply the incoming child’s energy and that you tried to get in touch with your own desire to study the teachings, give invocations. If you can get in touch with that desire and realize that you do not have to set aside all of your personal desires because you are pregnant and bringing forth a child, then you may be able to get back to giving decrees and invocations more easily.

But it can also be in some cases, and this is highly individual, of course, that you need to take a break and step back and not force yourself to do what you did before. But simply take a break, perhaps even try to tune into the energy field of the child and see what is it that your child needs.

You always have to be careful that you do not have a certain habit of studying and practicing before you become pregnant and then with your outer mind you think you should continue this after you become pregnant. You have to be sensitive that perhaps the incoming soul has different needs, which means you may need to take a different approach, not give so many decrees and invocations, perhaps give others than you have done before.

This is something you can tune into individually. I still strongly recommend that you give a certain amount of protection decrees to Archangel Michael, a certain amount of violet flame to consuming of the child’s karma and a certain amount of calls to Astrea for cutting the child free from any ties it may have to the astral plane, to the mental realm, to the emotional, the lower identity realm and so forth.

You can simply decide with your outer mind that you will do a certain minimum of decree work a day, and then you attune and see if there is anything else to be done or if you simply let that be enough. Then you can always after the pregnancy evaluate, again, how has the dynamic changed now that the child is in physical embodiment, and therefore not as intricately interwoven with your own energy field anymore. There is, of course, always a connection between mother and child but nevertheless, after the birth of the child, it is not as intimate a connection. Therefore you will often find that your attunement returns.

I can assure you that when I was pregnant with Jesus, I felt much the same way. Because it was a very heavy pregnancy energetically, because of the spiritual balance that I was holding for Jesus, because of the tremendous opposition to his incarnation.

This is also the case for many spiritual people that you are bringing forth a child with a higher level of consciousness and there is opposition to the child coming into embodiment. This does not mean that such a child does not have psychological issues it needs to resolve and this is where you need to be very, very careful. Because we have seen in past ascended master dispensations that there was a certain consciousness that women wanted to bring forth a child with a very high level of consciousness. They thought they had done so or they were even told, perhaps by the messenger, that they have brought forth an advanced child, and then they thought that this child should have no psychological issues. This is not the case. Anybody has psychological issues, regardless of their level of consciousness, otherwise you would not be able to come into embodiment on this planet.

You need to recognize here that there can be souls who generally have a high level of consciousness, but they have one particular psychological issue that they have not overcome in past lives. And it can be very difficult for them to overcome it in this lifetime. That is where you as the mother need to be very careful, and try to tune in to the child’s psychology and at the same time, look at your own psychology, whether there is a reaction in you to the child’s psychology, and then you need to work on that so you can overcome it in your own psychology and thereby help the child overcome his or her psychology. So this is an intricate matter, a delicate matter that requires a certain attunement.

 

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How to deal with obsessive-compulsive attraction to another person

Question: I have recently attracted to myself a person who has severe issues relating to mental health. She suffers from physical health problems also. In addition to this she is seeking refuge away from her terribly abusive family and ex-partner. We have talked every day for over three months and we have both fallen in love with each other quickly while she is staying at the refuge. Although she suffers from a lot of difficult conditions, I love her very much and want the best for her. However, she strongly rejects any offering of help I give to her. I mostly just listen to her problems. She recently discovered a lump in her breast and we were both scared about it due to the potential of it being cancerous. Not being able to physically visit her, I often feel useless. My question is, why did I have to fall in love for the first time with someone who seems to be extremely damaged in all four of her lower bodies? Is there a lesson for me in this experience, we are both 21 years old.

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2021 Webinar – Ending the Era of Ideology.

Well, in most cases where you have this kind of a relationship, you will be able to recognize that there is a certain obsessive-compulsive element of it. This is a sign that there is karma involved. In other words, you have karma from past lives, and this is why you feel this attraction that happened so quickly, that it is not really the normal way that you fall in love with people. You can see this in many relationships that start very quickly. Whether they are physical or not, that there is this almost obsessive-compulsive attraction. This is a sign that there is karma.

Now, the attraction is because either one or both parties have a strong desire to balance the karma and move on from it. But the big question that people could benefit from asking is whether a physical relationship is the only or even the best way to balance the karma.

I know that in most cases, people are not able to ask this question because of the obsessive compulsive character of the relationship. They think it simply has to be and it has to be a physical relationship because people are so programmed in the current culture to always think that when there is an attraction, there should ideally be a physical relationship. This, of course, is not the case and from a purely spiritual perspective, there are many cases where it would be better to avoid having a physical relationship, because that prevents one or both parties from making more karma.

You see many, many times where people feel this strong attraction, they rush into a physical relationship and after a certain period of elation, the honeymoon is over, and now the two parties find it very difficult to get along with each other. Therefore, they actually start making more karma, instead of overcoming their karma.

If you are able to do this, it is better, more constructive for your spiritual growth to step back and look at yourself and your psychology involved. Try to get behind the surface attraction and find out, how do you look at the relationship? What are the dynamics that you can see in this relationship? Do you feel a certain desire to save this person, to help this person? But are you actually able to do so given that person’s psychology and for example, their refusal to get help?

Based on this, you could study your own psychology. Simply put aside the psychology of the other person, look at your own psychology and say: “What is my reaction? What is the dynamic I recognize here? Can I see any drama in my own mind relating to how I look at this relationship? And how could I benefit from overcoming this? How could it advance my personal growth and consciousness if I overcame this?”

Then you can realize that the psychology that you have has nothing to do with the other person or the relationship, it is something in your mind that was triggered by the relationship to the other person. But this does not mean that you have to have a physical relationship in order to overcome that in your own psychology. You can do this without having a physical relationship, you can do it at a distance. And in fact, in many cases, it is far better not to have a physical relationship because once you are involved in a relationship, it pulls you in to these reactionary patterns, intensifies them and makes it more difficult for you to see it.

 

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Christhood is a very individual matter

Question: Can the ascended masters give some examples on what are acceptable ways to express Christhood when we are at the 96th level of consciousness? What sort of activities express Christhood when we are at this level?

Answer from the Ascended Master Jesus through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2021 Webinar for Russia – Overcoming the consciousness of Superiority and the Sense of Being Unwhole, Traumatized and Focused Outside Oneself.

Actually, we prefer not to give such examples because we have said before that Christhood is a very individual matter, it depends on the situation you are in. And for example, for people in one country, Christhood can be expressed in one way that would not be appropriate in another country.

There is not a universal way to express Christhood. And it certainly is not possible to look at human activities and say: “This activity is an expression of Christhood, and this is not.” You can engage in various activities with the level of Christhood, and with a lower level of consciousness. It is not so much a matter of the activity, but your level of consciousness you approach, how you are engaging in a certain activity.

 

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The Nord Stream 2 Pipeline

Why does Germany support the construction of the Nord Stream 2 Pipeline, while the West does not impose tougher sanctions for the numerous crimes in the Putin regime? This unity after Donald Trump and the problems in the United States or the Brexit or is it corruption and disintegration of the Western elite by Russia?

Answer from the Ascended Master Saint Germain through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2021 Webinar for Russia – Overcoming the consciousness of Superiority and the Sense of Being Unwhole, Traumatized and Focused Outside Oneself.

The situation you have in Europe right now is that several nations in Europe, Germany included, is attempting to maintain a pragmatic approach to Russia. They realized that there is a problem in Russia. It is caused by Putin primarily. But they are not sure where this is going to go. They are hoping that they can still maintain a somewhat pragmatic approach to Russia, where they can avoid escalating a confrontation that could lead to war even.

As a result of this pragmatic approach, German leadership has decided that their best option for covering the energy needs of the German nation is to import gas from Russia. And the best option for doing this is to build this new pipeline. I am not saying that this is necessarily the highest option or the only option, but it is what the German leadership has decided. And they are hoping that this will actually, in a sense, cause Putin to also take a more balanced approach because he, of course, realizes that, in the current economic situation of Russia, they need the income from this gas, as their revenues have fallen during the corona crisis and the fall in energy prices.

Some of the countries in Europe are hoping that much of what Russia is doing, for example in Ukraine, is simply posturing, but that there are still some people in Russia who are pragmatic enough that they will not allow it to escalate into a more dangerous conflict.

This is not the only approach it could be taken. But it is certainly not necessarily a completely wrong approach because so far, it has at least kept the conflict within certain boundaries, whether this will always be the case is difficult to predict. It really depends on what happens to the collective consciousness in Russia, and how quickly it rises to the level where Putin and his administration simply have to go, and therefore, the equation changes in a fundamental way.

 

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Putin and the conflict in eastern Ukraine

Question: Putin withdraws the army from Ukraine. Was it intimidation or preparation for war or study of the reactions of the West and Ukraine? How far are Putin and his entourage willing to go in unleashing a war given Putin’s vindictiveness and imperial fanaticism with a connivance of certain Russians? Is China pushing Putin to confront the West?

Answer from the Ascended Master Saint Germain through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2021 Webinar for Russia – Overcoming the consciousness of Superiority and the Sense of Being Unwhole, Traumatized and Focusaside Oneself.

Well, you can say that we have talked about the Russian mindset that the current Russian leadership, their elite needs to have some conflict, some ongoing conflict with someone outside the country. And Ukraine has, for a variety of reasons, been part of this pattern. What you need to recognize is that there is an ongoing intent from the Russians, not to create a large scale war, not to launch a full scale invasion of Ukraine, because they realize that they cannot get away with simply conquering and occupying Ukraine. There will be such a reaction from the world, that they are not willing to deal with the consequences of this. But they are interested in keeping the conflict going, so that there is always something going on.

In this particular case, the main motivation was actually to test President Biden and his administration for how they would react to Russia, as opposed to how Trump and the Trump administration reacted to Russia. Putin was quite aware that during the Trump administration, he could get away with quite a bit. And he simply needed to test what could he get away with under the new administration. He thought that he might be able to get away with more. But it turned out that the new administration is willing to draw a clear line.

China is not particularly pushing Putin to challenge the West. But there is a certain sentiment, in China and Russia, of wanting to challenge the West. This is driven by dark forces who are working through the leadership. But you will also notice that the current Chinese leader has taken upon himself a power, a personal power, that has not been seen since Chairman Mao. And you could argue that Putin has taken on a personal power that has not been seen since Stalin. These two leaders have a similar mentality. And of course, they are vulnerable to the same dark forces who are seeking to create confrontation and conflict, even though it does not benefit the Russian people or the Chinese people.

 

Copyright © 2021 Kim Michaels