Author: Michaels

Individual ascensions vs. ascension of the sphere (progressive revelation in this dispensation)

Question: This is an excerpt from the book of Maitreya Key 22. (That is “The Master Keys to Spiritual Freedom”): “Let us begin by making a distinction between ascending from the earth, meaning that you do not have to come back into physical embodiment and ascending to the spiritual realm, whereby you become an immortal being, an ascended master. As I have explained, there are certain beings whose origin is tied to this particular sphere. They include beings who evolved from below, co-creators who were created to descend into this sphere in all four levels, and angels who were created to serve this sphere. These beings cannot permanently ascend to the spiritual realm until this sphere reaches critical mass and begins the ascension process. They were created to help this sphere ascend, and thus their individual ascensions are tied to the ascension of the entire sphere”.

From the above excerpt, it seems that those of us who have not fallen cannot make our ascension before this sphere reaches critical mass and begins the ascension process. There are numerous newly ascended masters and I have understood from the teachings that we all have the potential to make our ascension. Does it mean then, that our sphere began the ascension process? Or how should we understand the above passage from the book?

Answer from the Ascended Master Maitreya 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.

What you need to do here is realize that any teaching that we give has a certain limitation, it is given at a certain time, where there is a certain complex configuration in the collective consciousness. At that particular time, a certain wording is used, because of that particular configuration of consciousness.  You also need to recognize that what we are dealing with here is some very subtle, complex issues where words are not particularly suited to describing everything.

You cannot necessarily resolve what seems to be enigmas or contradictions through the linear mind. What I will say in retrospect is that I would have worded this differently today. But for various reasons, this was the way the words came out in the messenger’s mind, which is partly a matter of his background in the Summit Lighthouse and his level of consciousness at the time.

Now, what you now need to recognize here is that in a certain way, the sphere in which you live has started the ascension process, because there are planets that have ascended, there are planets that have ascended from the physical realm, which is why you don’t see life, physical life on Venus. And there are even entire galaxies that have ascended to a much higher level than what you see in your galaxy. There is a rather broad range in your sphere. You can say from this perspective that your sphere has entered the ascension process.

But you also need to recognize that in the previous dispensation of the Summit Lighthouse, we gave a somewhat more simplified view of the ascension process. It was stated there that you could ascend with 51% of your karma balanced, which means that you would still have karma with yourself which is as Mother Mary has explained, primarily unresolved psychology. Now, of course, this meant that in the Summit Lighthouse, it was believed that there were certain people about whom it was said by the messenger that they had balanced, say 75% of their karma.

So naturally, people assumed that when that person made their transition, the person would then ascend. And there was even a custom of claiming the mantle of the ascended master so and so, because it was assumed that that person which they had known personally, had now become an ascended master, even though the person had supposedly not balanced 100% of his karma.

Naturally, we have said in this dispensation that you do not become an ascended master if you have unresolved psychology, you need to resolve your psychology before you fully become an ascended master. And so from this perspective, you can make a distinction and say that there are people who reach a certain level where they do not have to take embodiment again on earth, but they still have unresolved psychology or if you will, unbalanced karma, and therefore, they cannot become ascended masters.

But there are also those who resolve enough of their psychology, that within a relatively short time span, after they make their transition in the last embodiment, they can become ascended masters. An example of this is Lanello, and Guru Ma, who took some time after the death of their physical bodies, before they were actually ascended masters. I know it was said in the Summit, that Lanello was an ascended master from the beginning, but it was also said that it took some time before he had balanced 100% of his karma. You see how there is a difference in terminology.

What you need to realize here is that there is a certain group of people on earth that do not have to come back in embodiment after this lifetime, but it does not mean they become ascended masters. Then, there is a smaller group of people who can become ascended masters shortly after they make the transition. But there is also a group of people, or lifestreams that have vowed as part of their divine plan to stay with earth, or to stay in embodiment on other planets, until either the planet ascends, or the entire sphere is fully ascended.

The ascension of a sphere is not something that happens all at once. It does happen in stages where various planets, in the beginning very few planets become the forerunners, and then entire galaxies ascend. And then, as I said, there is even the ascension, where there is an ascension from the physical to the emotional level, meaning there is no longer life on a certain planet at the physical level.

But there is life in the emotional, mental and identity realms, then it can be a next ascension, where there is no longer life in the emotional, but still life in the mental and identity and so forth. Until there is no longer any life in these four levels. When there is no longer life in the four levels, that is when a solar system will cease to exist, because the sun will become either a white dwarf or a black hole, and eventually not even exist at the physical level.

These are somewhat complex issues, as you can surely see. What we have said through this dispensation, which is something we have not been able to say in any previous dispensation for a variety of reasons, partly the consciousness of the messenger, partly the consciousness of the students and partly the collective consciousness. What we have said in this dispensation is that what we give is progressive revelation. You cannot take any revelation we have given and consider that this is the final absolute word on it.

We have also talked about the limitations of words. We of course, always reserve our right to bring forth a higher teaching, a broader perspective, that when you take the linear mind and compare it to a previous teaching, it will seem like a contradiction. In some cases, there can be contradictions, because no messenger is infallible as even the messenger for the Summit Lighthouse acknowledged and as this messenger certainly acknowledges as well.

But in the process of progressive revelation, it is necessary to recognize that, at any given time, there is a complex equation, depending on the collective consciousness, of what can be brought forth and what we determine will have the greatest impact at that time. Our purpose is, of course, to bring either a certain group of people of humanity as a whole forward to a higher level of consciousness, where we can then give a higher teaching.

What you will see is that in the beginning of a new dispensation, there will be a bridge given to previous dispensations. There is a reason why this messenger had to be in the Summit Lighthouse for a number of years and also had to study the I AM Movement and even briefly, the Bridge to Freedom teachings and Roerich teachings.

And it was so that he had the concepts and the words that were used in his mind, so that his mind was able to verbalize the teachings in such a way that people, students from previous dispensations could make the transition to this dispensation—there was something that they were familiar with, and this enabled at least some students to move on with us.

But then, it is never our intention, that a new dispensation should give forth the exact same teaching as a previous dispensation. What would be the point in having a new dispensation, if it was not to give a higher level of teaching than the previous one?

And this is where we simply run into the fact that words have a certain meaning at a certain time in a certain culture and therefore, there can come a point where we have given a teaching for a certain level, but we need to transcend that teaching, because it actually becomes a limitation for giving a more advanced teaching.

In other words, if we have to use words, in a way that cannot be construed as being a contradiction with a previous teaching, then we are limited in bringing forth a higher teaching. And that is why we sometimes transcend a certain dispensation. In other words, a certain dispensation comes to a certain point where the messenger is not flexible enough in his or her mind, the students, a critical mass of them, are not flexible enough in their minds, that we do not see the possibility of continuing progressive revelation in that organization. This was the case with the I Am Movement with the Roerichs, with the Bridge to Freedom, with the Summit Lighthouse.

But in this dispensation, both the messenger and a number of students have been willing to stretch their minds. And that is why we have actually already given teachings through this messenger, that in previous times, would have required three different messengers to bring these teachings forth, and three different groups of students, although a few may have been able to move on.

And so this is in a sense, an experiment. It is a new opportunity for us, and we are determined to make use of it, as long as the messenger is willing and able to stretch his mind and as long as a certain critical mass of students are willing to stretch their minds.

 

Copyright © 2021 Kim Michaels

Alexei Navalny and his divine plan

Question: Can the ascended masters comment on the current situation in Russia concerning Alexei Navalny  who may be close to death at this time because of the hunger strike and lack of adequate medical care. Was it a good idea for him to return to Russia after his attempted poisoning last year and is the potential loss of his life and necessary sacrifice on his part for the advancement of the cause of liberty in 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.

Well, there is not just one way to look at this issue. If you go back to the terminology that for example was used in the Summit Lighthouse, it would have been said that Navalny is a freedom fighter who is fighting for greater freedom in Russia by opposing the oppressive government. But there is always an evaluation that needs to be made at the individual level. What is a specific person’s individual divine plan? This is of course, something that can only be decided by the individual, hopefully it is not decided by the outer mind but the person’s intuition and attunement with his or her divine plan. So, what I am saying here is that what applies to Navalny may not apply to all people, therefore I am not encouraging other people to follow the same pattern that he has followed.

Now, Navalny has a quite high attunement with what is in his divine plan. He knows that it is part of his divine plan to make visible what is happening with the Russian government and their abuse of power. He has shifted somewhat over time to focusing more on the issue of corruption, which is what he decided to do before coming into embodiment, because it is one of the major issues in Russia today. It is an example of abuse of power of course.

It is not that he does not have attunement with his divine plan. He does have in his personal psychology, a certain tendency to become unbalanced and to want to go too far towards extremes. Now, you can say this is necessary for a person to take a stand against the current Russian government, so I am not blaming him for this.

It is clear that he has done what he has done previously. He has been imprisoned, he has been exposed to various abuses of power, but now comes the more extreme abuse of power and the attempt to kill him. He survives this, but this is where he goes into a somewhat unbalanced reaction to this, where he is thinking that: “I could just as easily have died from this. If I had died I would have been content that I have done what I could. So, now I might as well go back to Russia and let them kill me (which he expects that they will) in order to do what I came to do, and make visible the abuse of power.” But this is not the only possible reaction. He could very well have decided to stay outside of Russia and continue doing what he was doing, from outside of Russia. 

It is not so that there is only one way to do this. He is of course allowed to make this choice. But going back to Russia, going into a hunger strike are not the most balanced options. It is not what he actually decided to do in his divine plan, because what is the point really, of letting them kill you versus staying in embodiment and continuing to expose – what you can expose.

So, it is clear that the treatment of Navalny by the Russian authorities is exposing their abuse of power. What they are doing, is seeking to establish an example that will discourage other people from objecting to their rule. They are of course blinded by their mindset so they do not see what they are doing. They do not see that whatever they do to Navalny is actually reinforcing his message.

For example, when he was poisoned he was on parole and had to report on a regular basis to the authorities. When he came back to Russia, why was he jailed? Because he had violated his parole. But why did he not show up for this meeting, because he was in a coma as a result of being poisoned by Novichok. So, by the very fact that the Russian authorities jail him for a supposed violation that they caused, exposes the extreme cognitive dissonance, their blindness, their hypocrisy, they of course cannot see it. But many among the people in Russia can see it and many abroad can see it. 

So, from the Russian authorities viewpoint, it would have been better of course not to try to poison him. It would have been better to ignore him, to either refuse him entry into Russia or to not put him in jail. The more they act with violence and force against him, the more they actually reinforce the message. What is his main message? To simply expose the abuse of power.

Will this have a significant impact on Russia? Well, it has already had a certain impact, because it has shocked certain people. Most people of course, realize that it can only be the Russian government that performed the Novichok poisoning, because only they have access to it and it could only be ordered from the highest level of government, most likely Putin himself. So, this was a shock to some people. There were also some people that realized, that if the government is willing to take such measures, they must feel threatened by Navalny, people have started to consider “why is that.” 

Of course, putting him in jail, putting him in a labour camp has exposed that there are still labour camps in Russia, as there were in the Soviet Union. The threat of being sent to Siberia is still there in modern day Russia. This has made at least some people start to think about this. It has started to shift consciousness. Whether it will have a decisive impact in the short term is more doubtful, but certainly it can be part of the shift in consciousness that we are talking about.

 

Copyright © 2021 Kim Michaels

NoFap movement

Question: This question is about masturbation. There is a growing movement called NoFap which abstains from masturbation and pornography. They claim that masturbation and porn damaged their lives, reduced their energy level, emotional sensitivity and even lack of joy. So they chose to abstain in order to experience the difference and realize the negative effects of masturbation, which they could not see before. So they basically experienced increased energy levels and joy when they abstained. So why is masturbation so popularized  and revived even by most medical doctors as healthy when a growing number of people are realizing that it is not healthy?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary 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.

Well the cause is of course that the fallen beings have attempted to inflate people’s sexual desire in order to manipulate people. And this has found its way into popular culture even the medical profession to some degree. And there can be a certain physical reality in the sense that it can be healthy, to release bodily fluids instead of having them accumulate. This is at least the view point taken by medical doctors, and it is not that this at a purely physical level is necessarily wrong.

But a human being is not an entirely physical being, which of course to medical doctors they are and this is the problem with modern medicine. But when you consider the whole human being, the emotional, mental and identity level, then you see that there is a certain effect of an unbalanced sexual desire. It does take your energy, it does take your attention. It does disturb your sense of joy because you are not at peace.

Sexual desire as we have said in our conference about women is for most men an addiction, for many women as well. And there is of course dark forces that encourage this addiction. And there is a lot of advertising and marketing and movies and books and this and that, and even the medical profession that encouraged this kind of addiction.

This is partly a reaction to the past age where churches especially were trying to get people to abstain from sex through force, which is also unhealthy. So what is happening is of course, that our society becomes unbalanced, in any area.

There are some people who are more sensitive to how this imbalance affects them. They are sensitive to their own energy level, to the flow of energy in their energy fields, and they start noticing the negative effects. It is not just a matter of sex, it can be alcohol, drugs, it could be many other things.

So you will see that society swings, there might have been one extreme where people were made to feel guilty for having sex and it was necessary with more sexual freedom for them to overcome this unbalanced state. But then the sexual freedom that started in the 60s swung to another unbalanced extreme where sex became addictive. And now there are people who are realizing that this is also unbalanced. So they are waking up, they are deciding without knowing  ascended master teachings, to strive for balance at the personal level.

They could more quickly do this, if they had our teachings, could invoke spiritual protection, could invoke being cut free from these entities and demons, and could also use the teachings to resolve the selves that they have accumulated in past lives relating to sexuality.

But nevertheless they are still making a sincere effort. And I very much applaud the people who are doing this in any area where they are seeking more balance and where they are looking at society and recognizing that certain conditions have been taken to an unbalanced extreme and they do not want to be part of it.

 

Copyright © 2021 Kim Michaels

Was Nietzsche inspired by ascended masters? 

Question: Has Nietzsche’s “Thus Spake Zarathustra” being inspired at least partly by the Ascended Master Zarathustra? The way Nietzsches speaks about his encounters with Zarathustra and a general spirited tone makes one think so.  What are the pitfalls of his artwork? Is it just another philosophical work of art?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary 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.

Nietzsche was not inspired by an ascended master. But this does not mean that his works are coming from fallen beings. Nietzsche was an example of a person who was open to some ideas from the ascended masters even though he was not sponsored directly by us. But he was also open to some dark ideas. So there is a mixture. And that is why you need to use your discernment when you study his work and the work of most other philosophers.

It is not that Nietzsche was a destructive person or a destructive philosopher, but he did have certain psychological issues. That meant that he was open to certain ideas that are not in alignment with the teachings of the ascended masters.

And so you need to, when you evaluate the work of any philosopher, you need to actually look at the philosopher, his or her life, his or her psychology and get some idea of where the philosopher is coming from. You will often see that a philosopher grew up in a certain environment and accepted certain ideas as being beyond questioning. And these ideas or paradigms as they are often called, then formed the boundaries for where the person’s mind could go in the philosophical deliberations. So most philosophers cannot be separated from their cultural context. And they certainly cannot be separated from their individual psychology.

You will notice that whether it is philosophers, whether it is scientists, whether it is writers, whether it is state leaders, religious leaders, there is a tendency in the world, a very subtle tendency,that is rarely articulated, to always consider them as near perfect human beings that are not affected by their personal psychology.

This is of course coming from the fallen beings who want you to look at them as being beyond questioning, so you do not need to look at their personal psychology, because they know that if you look at their personal psychology, you will see the imbalances, you would see the deep psychological wounds and traumas that means they cannot be considered neutral. And therefore what they brought forth, what they did is not neutral either.

Many people are open to the fact that Hitler was very much  affected by his psychology, but they fail to apply  this to many other leaders, philosophers, writers, what have you. You can never separate a person from his or her psychology. There are of course people who have overcome and healed much of their psychology so they can be more neutral than others. But you always need to consider the psychology of the person bringing forth anything, or doing anything, as of course you need to consider your own psychology.

 

Copyright © 2021 Kim Michaels

How to transcend sexual desires 

Question: Why is it so hard to overcome all sexual desires? I notice that there is a group of spiritual people that doesn’t feel it is in their divine plan to have a spouse. But on the other hand they find it hard to transcend sexual desires. What does one need to overcome in order to transcend human sexuality without forcing oneself by adopting an ascetic lifestyle out of a relative standard of good and evil?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary 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.

It is hard to overcome human sexuality because there are demons and entities that are constantly impinging on people’s desire bodies and base chakras to get them to go into this state of an insatiable sexual desire. The fallen beings have made an enormous effort to inflate people’s sexual desires beyond what is natural.

As a spiritual student you need to protect yourself from the influence of these lower beings, which you can do by making the calls for protection, for cutting you free—to Astrea to clear your base chakra and desire body. But you also need to make certain decisions. And it is not so much a matter of making this decision with the outer mind. This is what was advocated in previous dispensations and many religious and spiritual movements that promote an ascetic lifestyle. But this is because they did not have the teaching about the separate selves  and how to dissolve them.

You need to recognize that sexual desire has been used to manipulate people for a very, very long time. In fact , ever since the fallen beings came to this planet. It is very difficult to live on this planet, without in past lives having created various selves relating to sex and sexuality.

If you really want to be free of this manipulation through sexual desires it is a topic that gives the prince of this world an inroad into your consciousness and allows the demons and dark forces to pull on your chakras and desire body. This also requires a deliberate decision not to engage in watching pornography or even thinking about sex, which you can do more easily when you have resolved these selves that I am talking about. So naturally this is what you can do to come to a point where you are not a slave of your sexual desires.

Now you may still have sexual desires at a manageable level that does not steal your attention and become an obsessive compulsive addiction. And it is of course possible to have sexual relations. But as we said before, having sexual relations with different partners or a one nightstand will deplete your energy and it will not contribute to your spiritual growth.

So what other option is there than to have a more steady sexual partner and how is that possible without having a more committed relationship? So you need to evaluate what you want to do with your life, how you want to live your life and then take measures that are balanced and do not cause your energies to go into these patterns that become addictive or obsessive compulsive.

 

Copyright © 2021 Kim Michaels

What is a demon? 

Question: Seeing that the invocations we give frequently mention demons, can the masters comment if they deem appropriate. What are they? What is a demon? Also, how is a demon made? How long does it take to form one? Are demon souls that have really, really gone too far astray, or are they just an agglomerate of dense, dark energies gaining autonomous traction working aggressively against mankind? What is a demon? We have free will, what does the demon have? Can we make calls for the ascended masters has to dissolve them?

 Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary 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.

We have already given various teachings on the creation of demons, but for the sake of having them gathered in an easy to find format, I will give some thoughts on this.

There has traditionally in previous dispensations been talk about demons without clearly defining exactly what they were and how they were created. What we have given in this dispensation is that most demons are a creation of human beings and fallen beings who start to focus on a particular perverted issue, let us say for example, war.

They start engaging in war, focusing on war at the identity, mental, emotional and physical level. And through this concentration of energy, you are creating a demon in the emotional realm. You can also create entities or collective entities, collective beasts in the mental and identity realm related to war, but what we normally call a demon is in the emotional realm.

This is a being that is created by human beings and by fallen beings in the three higher realms. It has no threefold fame, it has no conscious you, it has no free will. It is programmed to act based on a certain matrix, and it cannot step back, look at itself and change the matrix. It is like a computer that mindlessly continues to run the same program. A demon has some awareness, that in order to survive, it needs energy from human beings.

So if a demon is created, out of people killing each other in war, then that demon will pull on the emotional bodies of human beings to get them to engage in war or other forms of violence, so that they can steal the energy that is released through these actions. And there are some demons that even extract energy when people are engaged in the military, in weapons production, weapons research, learning how to use weapons, thinking about weapons that are used for killing people, and all of these things.

We have also talked about another kind of demon, which is basically that fallen beings can sink to such a low level that they have no self-awareness left, they really do not have free will, they are not able to change. And they can also be considered as a demon because they function at the same level of mechanization as a demon.

And naturally, it is important for you as ascended master students to be aware that these dark beings exist, because how can you free yourself from them if you don’t know they are there? How can you protect yourself from bacteria in your drinking water, if you do not know that bacteria exist?

Naturally, you can make the calls for your protection. And in many invocations, we have you make calls for the binding of them, so that we can free the planet from them, we can clear them out in the collective consciousness.

Now we do, of course, also talk about entities, collective beasts, and even certain matrices in the collective consciousness. What is the difference between them and demons?

Well, mainly that the demons are more aggressive. They are more directly and aggressively seeking to influence people. And therefore, they are more powerful for people who are vulnerable to their influence. We can talk for example, about a demon of war that very aggressively tries to take over people’s minds and go into this state where they do not care about the consequences of war, they are absolutely determined to go to war and kill as many people as possible.

We can then talk about something called the tobacco entity, which is an entity that seeks to get people to smoke. But it is not as aggressive as a demon of war, for example. So in a sense, you could say that entities are created the same way by a concentration of energy, often as a result of certain physical actions. But we have chosen to use slightly different words for this. Just to indicate the level of aggression from these beings.

 

Copyright © 2021 Kim Michaels

The negative effects of music

Question: I read once in another dispensation, a master commenting that one planet was destroyed because of music, or that somehow music helped bring it down. Can the Masters please comment whether that message was real, and also on the current state of music on planet earth? Does a danger like that—maybe not that big of a danger, but any other danger related to mass music—is that present on earth.

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary  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.

Well, we have in the Summit Lighthouse, given teachings on the negative effects of music, where we especially have said that the syncopated beat that you find in much of rock music is out of touch with the rhythm of nature, which you can see in waltz music, for example.

And so, it is clear that there are some forms of music that can have a destructive effect. I will say, though, that the teachings in the Summit Lighthouse were not quite balanced in terms of music. And it was credited that music had a greater impact on society than is actually the case, or that is at least a case in the present time.

There have been past civilizations on earth, where certain forms of music were a contributing factor to bringing the civilization down. But music in itself cannot destroy a civilization because there are so many complex issues. We have lately started talking more about the “interdependent originations”. And in the Summit Lighthouse, which was the last dispensation of the Piscean Age, we gave a more simple teaching, where we often gave a more simplified cause and effect explanation.

That was, we might call it, more black and white. And this was then interpreted both by the messenger and by people in the organization, which gave music a greater importance than it actually has. Because naturally, there is always free will, and there is always the consciousness of the people. There may be many people who, at a certain period of time, listened to rock music, and it certainly had an effect. But there were also many people who did not listen to this kind of music. And so, there is always a balance to be found, where even though some people are into a certain perversion, they cannot destroy a society or planet if a majority of the people are not into it.

You can just take the issue of war, and see that even though there are certain people throughout history who have been into a warring mentality, it still has not destroyed the planet. It has in the past overturn certain civilizations, but nevertheless, it has not destroyed the planet. Certainly you must say that war is a very destructive force.

I am not trying to downplay the effect or the importance of music. It is of course important, but it is less important with the kind of music you have today, which is not quite as destructive as the rock music you saw in the 60s, 70s and 80s.

It is of course important for you as spiritual students to use your intuition to sense what kind of music to listen to. Again, you can use the tool of centering in your heart, seeing whether it raises or lowers your energy. The syncopated beats used in much rock music, and other music such as much of rap music that is very staccato, very inharmonious will often hammer your energies down and concentrate them in the base chakra. Whereas the music you want to listen to is music that raises up your energies to the higher chakras. This is a simple measure you can use at the personal level.

But even though music is important, it is not one of the major issues in society, which is of course, why we have brought forth many of the books from previous conferences that talk about the issues that we do consider to be the most important at the present time.

 

Copyright © 2021 Kim Michaels

The school of hard knocks in Argentina 

Question: The political and economical situation is rapidly worsening in Argentina, is there a dawning horizon anywhere in the next years in my country?

 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.

Well, my beloved, the unfortunate fact is that many of the South American and Central American nations are still in the school of hard knocks, where they need to go through some fairly dramatic conditions, in order to see that this does not work.

You will see when you look back at history, that some nations have gone through these very strong ups and downs in the economy, often because they were enamored with some kind of ideology, be it socialism, or neoliberalism. And they decided to implement this economic system without considering what is the reality of economic principles, and what is the practical situation in their nation.

Both in Argentina and in many other countries in the region, there will be these ups and downs. But there is always the silver lining in the sense that when a country has gone to a certain extreme, there will be a group of people that can be awakened by this. And they can then come in and demand and implement a more balanced approach to the economy.

Unfortunately, it is an open question whether this will happen in Argentina, or Brazil or any other nation. But there is always a strong possibility. And certainly, I am always willing to work with the people, even if they don’t know anything about ascended masters, who are open to new ideas that can give greater prosperity to the people.

In South America, Central America, we have the same problem we see anywhere, that there is a tendency for the formation of a power elite that wants to exploit the economy and simply steal wealth away from the population. And this has in the past, given some nations a desire to experiment with socialism. But this does not work either.

So, there is a need for a new approach, and it will gradually be brought forth, not necessarily in South America, but it will be brought forth. And there are already some ideas out there that nations can implement. It is just a matter of having that willingness. And in many cases, this takes a certain economic crisis before there is the willingness to look for a new approach to the economy.

There is a tendency in some nations at least, to look at the more affluent nations be it United States or other nations and think that you can take the approach to the economy that you see in these nations and translate uncritically to a South American nation. And this is not a wise approach, because there are always certain conditions in the psychology of the people, the background of the people.

And of course, you cannot discount the fact that in many South and Central American nations, there is still a strong influence by the Catholic Church, which, essentially, when you look at the history of the Catholic Church and how they were instrumental in forming the feudal ages in Europe, it is an elitist approach. The Catholic Church encourages the formation of an elite in society, and puts the population down as sinners who should submit to this elite. This is also one of the factors that needs to be looked at and challenged in the nations that are strongly Catholic.

 

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An affinity with one or several masters? 

Question: I feel a high affinity with many ascended masters for a long time. And it is said that at a certain stage on the spiritual path, you should define which master is your personal guide? How can I determine mine, just through intuition?

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

Well, what we have actually said is that there will be certain stages on the path where you are working with a particular master. In previous dispensations, there has been an unbalanced focus on that everybody needed to determine which spiritual ray they were on, and therefore, which master they were working with. There was even a certain competition among students, because some rays were considered to be more powerful or more advanced than others.

This is of course, not a healthy approach, you may very well work with a certain master for a certain time. And then you need to work with a different master for another time. And this is something you might know from your individual attunement.

Or if you do not have a clear sense of this, then use the “Course of Self Mastery”, and work with whatever master you are working with in the book you are working on right now. Whatever Chohan it is, for the ray you are working on.

But if you get to a point where you have an intuitive sense, of an affinity with one or several masters, then just focus on that. You do not need to use your outer mind to go and say: “Oh, I should now determine that there’s just one master, that’s my main master.” That is not necessary. That is too linear of an approach. And it is something driven by the outer mind.

 

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The self that drives you to change yourself

Question: In the process of looking at my separate selves, I had discovered that when something comes up, I have another separate self that feels like it has to always do something about that self. Ironically, this keeps me from actually seeing the separate self, I want to see. I know in another answer, the ascended masters have talked about looking at a self in a non-obsessive way. But I find it very difficult to do that, because the selves I’m looking at, are painful. And so of course, I’ll want to do something about these selves, I’m wondering if they have any advice for looking at the self that wants to always look at selves, or perhaps there is a way to temporarily neutralize that self and deal with it later. So I can see the more painful selves first.

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary  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.

Well, in order to really make use of the teaching about the separate selves, you need to be willing to step back and look at what comes up in your consciousness. And it may be that you have a certain self, a certain sense that there are certain selves to work on that might be very painful, but then this other self comes in and disturbs the process. But this is because in your outer mind, you have locked yourself on a certain approach.

My advice is that the self that disturbs you—disturbs the process—this is the self you should work on first. In other words, use the tools to get a look at that self to come to see why. And then seek to dissolve that self. Once you have dissolved that self, it becomes easier to look at other selves.

There are many scenarios that can come into play, because over many lifetimes, you might have been willing to work on your psychology, use various spiritual tools, will use various psychological tools. There are certain students that have built this momentum of being willing to change themselves. But it can also become unbalanced to the point where you become obsessive-compulsive about changing yourself, you become so eager in an unbalanced way to change yourself, that you are actually creating a self that drives you to change yourself.

And of course, this is not a process that will take you beyond a certain level, you need to simply step back, look at that reaction, realize it comes from a self and then look at that self and seek to resolve that self—seek to find that decision you made.

There are many people who for many lifetimes have been embodied in various religions, where you have this idea that you have either sinned, or you have made karma in past lives. And you need to compensate for this by doing something in this life. And so various selves have been created as a result of this almost obsessive-compulsive need to compensate for your past mistakes. And it can also be a sincere desire to change that is taken into an unbalanced state and therefore even results in the creation of a self that drives you.

It really is the hope of the ascended masters that you can use these tools that we have given to come to a point that the messenger has actually talked about, where you become at peace with being who you are. You do not go into the illusion that now you have reached some ultimate state of consciousness, that you are enlightened or whatever you accepted.

You will be working on your psychology for as long as you are in embodiment. But you are not feeling any compulsion. You are not feeling any lack. You are not blaming yourself, you are simply accepting that you are at a certain level of consciousness right now, which is perfectly acceptable. And you know that you are always open to the next self coming up that you need to see that will take you to another level. But there is no reason to feel any lack or dissatisfaction you are at peace with being where you are on your path.

This is what we hope you can accomplish. And there are some students that have built various selves that work against this, but then use the tools to look at those selves and deal with them first, so you can have a more relaxed approach to other selves. The more at peace, the more relaxed you can be about the process, the easier it will be to deal with very painful selves or selves that are based on these deep emotions and deep traumas.

 

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Clearing the chakras 

Question: It was said that Maleve – who was a person in the My Lives book – deserved having her chakras cleared. Can we ask Jesus Christ to do the same for us, will the call work?

Answer from 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.

Of course, you can ask any master to clear your chakras, but if you want to clear your chakras, I would ask Archangel Michael and Astrea because they are the masters who are mostly doing that kind of work. Astrea is especially effective for clearing your chakras.

You can of course, get more sophisticated. If there is a specific chakra you want to clear, then you can give calls to the Archangel for that particular ray. You can find teachings on the website about which chakras correspond to which rays and which archangels to which rays.

 

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Lower forms of sex and the base chakra

Question: As lower forms of sex – meaning sex below love – depletes us of our energy, is working on our chakras starting with the secret chamber of the heart, the way to regain the energy, or is there another way?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary 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.

Well, lower forms of sex will block your energy flow or deplete your energy primarily by polluting the base chakra. The base chakra is the chakra where the energy enters and rises up along the spine to the other chakras, so the primary means for compensating for this will be to purify your base chakra.

 

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Volume of decreeing 

Question: How loud do we have to say the decrees and invocations? Is it enough as long as we can hear ourselves, or does it need to be louder?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary 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.

That depends somewhat on your practical situation, if you have a situation where you cannot attain the privacy so that other people cannot hear you, and if this is a problem for you, then you can say it just loud enough that you can hear it and so that other people cannot hear it. It is certainly better to do this than to not say them at all.

But the ideal situation is you can be in a private sphere, where you are not bothering other people, you are not bothered by other people. And then you can say them as loud as is comfortable so that it does not stress your voice. Obviously, when the messenger is leading decrees in a group or even on the internet, he is projecting his voice more to make sure that other people can hear it. But you do not have to do that necessarily alone.

However, once you gain some experience with decrees and invocations, you will realize that there is a certain volume that feels comfortable for your voice, but still gives more power to the decrees and invocations. In other words you want to achieve a certain flow, where the speed and the volume is determined by the Spirit. It is simply the Holy Spirit flowing through you, and setting the speed and the volume, and it gives you the maximum effect. It is not something you decide with your outer mind, you just simply let it flow. As you become more and more experienced, you will almost instantly, when you start, go into that flow.

 

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Initiations above 96th level 

Question: As the seven rays are not the Christ consciousness, so the eighth ray and beyond are Christ initiations. What do we have to do to become ready for those?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary 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.

You use the course of self-mastery, where we give you books to go through the seven rays, and rise from the 48 to the 96 level of consciousness. It does not matter whether you are already above the 48th level, you can still benefit from going through the course because it will ensure that you have past all of the initiations.

If you truly apply yourself to this course, by the time you have finished Saint Germain’s book on the Mystical initiations of Freedom, then you are ready to start on the Eighth Ray initiations. For that purpose, we have, of course, given the Master keys to Personal Christhood, and Healing your spiritual traumas and the other books in that series.

 

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Mechanization man

Question: It was said in the Summit lighthouse that the Nephilim giants combined their seed with the animal seed. What does that mean? If that is true, do they also have a Conscious You?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary 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.

Well, the Summit Lighthouse gave some teachings about various types of fallen beings that came from various backgrounds, which we have chosen not to repeat in this dispensation. What it means was that there was a time in the past, during Atlantis and even earlier civilizations, where they had the ability that you have today to manipulate genes. They had in fact, a more sophisticated ability.

There was a certain evolution of fallen beings that attempted to mix their own DNA with animal DNA, in order to create a certain slave race – in other words, people who were not fully self-aware. These beings originally did not have a Conscious You, because the fallen beings, of course, are not able to bestow a Conscious You on any being. This can only be bestowed by the ascended masters.

But this happened a long time ago. The vast majority of these beings are either no longer in embodiment, or they have received a Conscious You and a threefold flame as a result of their growth by being part of the collective consciousness on earth.

We did give some teachings in the Summit Lighthouse, about “mechanization man”, that was this race of genetically modified bodies that did not have a threefold flame or Conscious You, and it did not have the ability to self-transcend. They were created to be the worker bees, the slave race for the fallen beings.

What we prefer to say today is that there are people who have created so many layers of separate selves, that they are, in a way, functioning in a mechanized way, because they are not using their ability to look at themselves to step back and say: Why am I doing this? Why am I reacting this way? Could I change it? They are in a sense, in a mechanical state of consciousness.

Contrary to what most fallen beings would think, they actually fall into this category. A fallen being is not using its self-awareness to observe itself and ask itself: Why am I doing this? Why am I reacting this way? What could I change? It is functioning in a mechanical way. Now, it may seem quite sophisticated compared to these other beings that I am talking about, because it has existed for such a long time, but it is mechanical in the sense that it is not self-transcending. This is the real distinction: Is a being transcending itself by using its awareness – which is what the Conscious You is – this ability to step back from itself, and look at itself and ask these questions.

Fallen beings can do this theoretically, but they have often created so many layers by falling, perhaps through several spheres, that this ability is buried so deep that for practical purposes they cannot use it.

Some of you, including this messenger, have actually encountered fallen beings who are precisely like that. They do not have the normal self-awareness. They think that all other people look at themselves the way they look at themselves, the way they look at life. When these people say something, they think everybody else takes it as seriously and accepts it in the same way as they do. They do not have, or at least they are not willing to use the ability to step back and realize that this is not the case.

That is why some of you, in fact quite a few of you, can see people from your own lives that you can talk to again and again, try to explain something to them, but you cannot reach them. You cannot make them see this, because they are not willing or able to activate their ability to look at themselves from the outside, which is the essence of the Conscious You.

 

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Does every human being have a Conscious You?

Question: Does every human being have a Conscious You, including native people?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary 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, the answer is no. There are some people who can have evolved from the elemental kingdom and who in rare cases can take embodiment in a human body, but they have not yet reached, they have not yet received, the Conscious You or what we in the Summit lighthouse called the threefold flame. They are two different things but nevertheless they are both part of what gives you the self-awareness that allows you to consciously transcend.

An elemental can gradually transcend its consciousness without having the same self-awareness as a human. And therefore, it can grow to the point where it can inhabit a physical body. And you can see some people on earth, they are not necessarily all native peoples, but they are very tied to the earth, very attuned with the earth. And they often want to live a certain existence at a certain level without too much change. There are some people in embodiment who do not have a Conscious You. But the vast majority of people in embodiment do.

 

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The self that gives you a sense of continuity

Question: I’ve realized that I have a self which I call the “me self”. It does not have any particular earthly characteristics, but it gives me a sense of being myself, not somebody else, or something else. It gives me a sense of continuity that after all of the changes in my self image, it is still me. For a long time, I was believing that it was the Conscious You. But I suddenly realized that this sense of being me is just a self and it needs to die. And this realization made me terrified for two weeks. I, or rather that self, was even very angry at you the ascended masters. I was shocked by my reaction, by this fear and this anger. And after contemplating this situation for weeks, I realized that what I saw was probably my ego. Am I correct? Is this sense of continuity we have on earth coming from the ego? I sense that there is more to it, but I cannot see it clearly. Could you give some higher perspective on it?

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.

There are various aspects of the ego. And you will notice that the first teachings we gave was teachings specifically on the ego. And then later we have shifted to giving these teachings on the separate selves. Naturally, you could say: What is the ego? Well, it is a collection of separate selves. But behind all of them is the self that you created when you stepped into duality.

What you need to be careful of, and what you are sensing that there is more to it, is that you must realize that there is a difference between the first self you created after stepping into duality, and the first self you created after taking physical embodiment on a planet like earth.

The first self that you created was simply a self that allowed you to express yourself through your four lower bodies. This is the self that gives you a sense of continuity so that as you grow on the spiritual path, you can still have a sense that it is the same you that is growing, and that is why you do not lose your sense of identity. Some people do, when they seek to force their growth, and they can go through an identity crisis.

Now the subtlety is that the sense of self you created after stepping into duality also gives you a sense of continuity as a separate being. When you experience the self that is angry, that fears dying, that resents the ascended masters, this is the first self that was created by you when you were going into duality. You could say that, in the terminology used in the Summit Lighthouse, that this was the core of the “Dweller on the Threshold”. It wants to prevent your growth and hold you back. It is very correct that this self has to die.

Now, in terms of the other self, the self that simply allows you to embody on a planet like earth and have a sense of continuity, it is correct that this self is not the Conscious You, but it is the first self created by the Conscious You and therefore it will be the last self the Conscious You gives up. This is the self that simply gives you a sense of continuity. It is correct that it needs to die, but it is the last self that needs to die. It is the ghost that I gave up on the cross, and that you will give up also at the 144th level of consciousness before you ascend.

You might say that the ego self, the self that was born out of duality, is hostile to your growth. The other self you are talking about that gives you the sense of continuity is actually a part of your growth, it is even facilitating your growth. You need it in order to integrate with the four lower bodies, you need it in order to have that sense of continuity on earth. And it is also the kind of self that gives you your unique vantage point.

This is what we attempted to explain during the Christhood conference, where we said that two people can reach a certain level of Christhood, but still have different viewpoints on certain issues. Because one person looks at it from a certain vantage point, and one person looks at it from another vantage point. It is not that one is right and the other wrong. It is not that one is better than the other. It is simply different ways of looking at it.

I am not talking about dualistic viewpoints, I am talking about that even when you reach a certain level of Christhood, you can have what we have called the localized perspective. It is similar to what you can all see when you are looking through your physical eyes, you may be sitting across from a particular person, that person is looking at you and is seeing you, you are not seeing yourself you are seeing the other person. They are just two different perspectives. It is not that one is right and one is wrong, it is meaningless to apply that evaluation. It is not that one is better than the others, but one is just yours.

As long as you are in embodiment, on an unnatural planet, even for that matter on a natural planet, you must look at life from a localized perspective. And this was the self you created to give you that localized perspective when you took embodiment, and it is the last self you give up.

 

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2 fundamental decisions we made 

Question: In mother Mary’s Course in Abundance and Maitreya’s book on Spiritual Freedom, it is said that before we fully stepped into duality, there was a decisive moment where we had the choice of returning to or hiding from our teacher. The decision we took at that point to motivate our choice is described as the most fundamental decision we took, underlying all or most other decisions. In more recent teachings, more attention has been paid to our cosmic birth or earth trauma. In response to this trauma, we are again said to have taken a fundamental decision that underlines many or most of our subsequent decisions. How do these two decisions – the one we took when we turned away from our teacher, and the one we took after experiencing our cosmic birth or earth trauma relate to each other?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary 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 decisions are taken in different circumstances, and for different reasons. What is described in Maitreya’s book and the Course in Abundance is specifically the decision to turn away from a spiritual teacher. And the spiritual teacher was not in any way forcing you. The decision you made as a result of your birth trauma or earth trauma was made in response to the fallen beings, and they were indeed seeking to force you. So there is a fundamental difference there.

Now, of course, you can say that once the decision is made, it still affects you, and therefore the dynamic is similar. And the way to undo the decision is also similar: You need to come to see it, you need to come to see how it limits you, and then decide to change it.

But still, there is a difference in the sense that the decision you made as a result of the birth or earth trauma was that: “I never want to experience this terrible feeling again”. The decision you made to turn away from the teacher is more nuanced, is more individual.

Each of you had a certain reason for wanting to turn away from the teacher. It was not necessarily a fear-based, and in most cases it was not a fear-based decision. It was not to seek to avoid something. For many of you it was simply a decision of, you were curious to experience what it was like to be in duality. Or, you felt that you had stepped into duality, you had ignored the teachers directions, but you decided that you wanted to fix it yourself before you came back to the teacher.

There can be several reasons for why an individualized lifestream made the choice to turn away from the teacher. There can of course be also individual nuances on your birth or earth trauma. You see the difference here. There is no fear as such, you were not afraid of the teacher, because the teacher was not forcing you, was not seeking to punish you.

There may be some of you that have this view of the teacher today, but that is because you have taken on the projections of the fallen beings who are attempting to project that the spiritual teachers, the ascended masters, will treat you the way the fallen beings are treating you. In other words, they tend to want to make you believe that we will judge you harshly as they judge you, we will put you down, we will seek to punish you.

You could say that Maitreya’s entire book is an attempt to explain to people that neither he nor any other spiritual teacher will punish you or put you down when you come back to him. He will welcome you with open arms and simply look at what you need to do to move on, to move beyond your past decisions, and again anchor yourself firmly on the upward path instead of being stuck in duality.

In contrast to this, the fallen beings, of course want you to remain stuck in duality, and will do everything they can think of to prevent you from discovering, or anchoring yourself upon the true path of Christhood.

 

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Reading vibration intuitively

Question: How can we distinguish the vibrations of an ascended master from the vibrations of a being that mimics the ascended master?

 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.

Well, It is a difficult question to answer, because it is a matter of reading vibration. How do you tell the color red from the color green? You see it, you experience it, but how do you do it? Is there a method for distinguishing one color from the other?

Really, the only long-term solution is that you raise your consciousness, resolve your traumas, and thereby increase the Christ discernment that allows you to simply sense the vibration. Before you get to that point, we have given earlier various measures.

One of them is to center in your heart, feel what happens when you are listening to or reading a certain message. Does it raise your energies, does it lower your energies? You can also look at the intent, but again, even looking at intent is a matter of reading vibration intuitively. You can feel whether you are being forced, whether something is being forced upon you, whether there is an intent to manipulate or deceive you, or whether there is an intent to raise you up, or just an intent to set you free.

You can train yourself to sense this over time, but I cannot give you a foolproof, absolute method, other than of course, Christ discernment, which is an absolute measure, but certainly not for fools.

 

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Balancing the karma vs. ego games

Question: How can I balance the energy I have perverted? Can it be done by some kind of good deeds or other actions? Please explain this. Now I am confused and understand that some activities can only be ego games or ego dramas. I don’t want to go out of my path and waste my time.

Answer from 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.

You can balance a certain amount of karma or energy by doing good deeds or by helping others or compensating if you have wronged other people. But of course, the primary method given by the masters is invocations and decrees whereby you invoke higher frequency energy to transform the lower frequency energy.

Some activities might be done as part of an ego game. There are many people who are engaged in what you would call good deeds, but it’s really an ego game they are playing, sometimes even trying to control other people. Sometimes they’re just trying to create the image that they are good people or they live up to a certain spiritual standard, and that can be an ego game.

But it doesn’t mean that you can’t take actions. If you have wronged other people, you can ask for forgiveness, you can forgive them, you can forgive yourself. I think if you study the teachings a little bit more, then you will find that the masters have actually given a lot of tools for this, but first of all, the invocations and the decrees.

 

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To marry or not to marry 

Question: At the webinar dedicated to women, it was said that not all women who are now in incarnation need to marry and have a family and children. Beloved Mother Mary, how do I know if I belong to these women or not? And is it possible to change my divine plan, and not be a single woman anymore? Many women seek out a partner all their lives, but fail to meet the one. What psychological block is associated with a strong desire of a woman to meet her mate and yet all her attempts are unsuccessful. What should she do in this case?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary 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.

Well, it is, of course, highly individual, whether you are one of the women who are meant to marry or not, and it is something that you can only know by tuning in to your divine plan.

What you can do is, of course, look at your attitude to relationships. And given what you describe in the question, I would say that many women have an unrealistic expectation of what a relationship should be, or shouldn’t be. If you think for example, that there is only one person that you can have a relationship with, then you are making it much more difficult for you to be in a relationship and to find a partner.

I therefore advise that people shift their consciousness so they realize that the purpose of a relationship is growth. And you grow by being together with a person who is different from you, has a different perspective so you get a frame of reference on yourself and the things you do not see in yourself. If you approach a relationship based on the desire to grow, rather than some idealistic view of having an ideal or perfect relationship, it will be easier for you to find a partner.

You can of course, also look at your attitude to the opposite sex, whether you are a man or a woman and see what kind of patterns you may have. Do you have a distrust of the opposite sex? Do you have a specific view of what men or women will typically do to you? Are there certain ways you look at relationships, and you look at the people you know, and their relationships, and you judge them a certain way? And this can give you an idea of what selves you have created in past lives in relation to your view of the opposite sex. This can then give you the opportunity to use our tools to resolve these selves, to resolve these traumas.

There is no question that many people have had very difficult relationships in past lives that have been very traumatic. And so, you could have been exposed to trauma as a result of relationships. For some people, it was even a relationship that caused the cosmic birth trauma that you received after coming to earth for the first time. And so there can be some very deep patterns that makes it difficult for you to open yourself and trust in a relationship.

And you can use the tools we have given to gain more clarity of this, and work on this and resolve them. But you can also look at whether you feel a certain force or compulsion that you should be in a relationship, that you shouldn’t live alone. And then you can consider why that is. Is it something that comes from selves? Is it something that comes from the collective consciousness, where you are being pressured, that you should be in a relationship, otherwise you are strange and unusual?

And then you can deal with that and realize that you of course have a right to not be in a relationship, you can strive to come to a point where there is no tension associated with being in a relationship or not being in a relationship. In some cases, this can be what allows you to find a partner and be in a relationship.

You will notice, for example, that there are many women who find it very difficult to become pregnant, they go into a state of trying all kinds of things in order to get pregnant. And then they finally give up and relax and now they become pregnant, because they are not in the state of tension about it.

The best advice I can give you is to strive to attain a state of peace, where you are at peace if you are not in a relationship, but you can also be at peace about being in a relationship, because you don’t project any unrealistic expectations upon it, that might set you up to be disappointed.

 

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Question about Leo Tolstoy

Question: Was the lifestream of Leo Tolstoy embodied on earth after that lifetime?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary 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.

Yes, and he is still in embodiment today, not in the same embodiment but in his second embodiment after that lifetime.

 

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(No) racial characteristics in the golden age

Question: The birth rate in European countries barely exceeds the death rate. At the same time in African, Arab and Asian countries, we can see a significant increase in population. What is the future of the European races? And what will a person of the golden age look like?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary 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.

Well, we have said before that the European nations in particular, have not fulfilled their responsibility to help; to use their affluence to help people in other nations. And it is of course easy to observe that in poor countries, people have more children, because there is no pension, so the only way for older people to survive is to have enough children that the children can take care of them. This is no longer the case in a European nations and that is why the birth rate has fallen. This does not mean that European nations will lose population. But it does mean that there will be an influx of people from other nations.

As we have said before, the European nations should have helped them in their home countries, but they have not done so. So now they come to Europe. And this will mean that they will be a shift in the population where there will not be exclusively white people, but people from different races and nationalities.

But this is actually part of the golden age, because as you move into the golden age, there will not be the distinct racial characteristics that you see today. I am not talking about a few generations, but I’m talking about over centuries, and towards the end of the golden age, people will look more and more alike and there will be not be the racial characteristics that you have today. Neither will there be a racial consciousness.

 

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Gautama Buddha’s thoughtforms

Question: A question about Gautama Buddha’s thought forms. Thought forms are dispensation. Does it mean that thought forms contain the energy that is released by Gautama Buddha? Should we pronounce the thought form like a prayer? For this 2021 we have two thought forms. Gautama Buddha, you are a perfect mirror for Earth, Saint Germain, you are the perfect mirror for the economy. Can we rephrase them using names of the other ascended masters? For example, Jesus Christ, you are the perfect mirror for the collective consciousness on Earth. Mother Mary, you are the perfect mirror for the elemental kingdom. Archangel Michael, you are the perfect mirror for the angelic host. Maha Chohan you are the perfect mirror for the fears of people on earth and so on. Or is the dispensation of the energy given only for Gautama Buddha’s thoughtform?

Elizabeth Prophet said that by repeating the original words of the given dispensation, the thoughtforms, we receive direct access to protection, guidance and blessing of the ascended masters. Maybe some something has changed since then, as we moved into the new age, the Aquarian Age.

Answer from the ascended master Gautama Buddha 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.

Well, the thoughtforms are given specifically by me and therefore when you visualize them, as I have given them or when you repeat the phrase that I have given this year, you are gaining access to the momentum of energy that I have put into this thought form. Therefore, there is no need to rephrase them with other masters.

You also have to realize that there is no point in saying, for example, that Archangel Michael is the perfect mirror for the angelic host. The angelic hosts do not need to have a mirror. I would advise you to simply use the thoughtforms that I have given for this year and let that be enough.

It is clear that you can repeat the original words of a thoughtform but if the thoughtform is a visualization, it is more important to give the visualization than to repeat the description. Of course, nothing has changed in the sense that you still have access to the energies that are released through a specific dispensation.

 

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Honest and open marketing

Question: All marketing is more or less based on manipulation. Is it possible for a spiritual person to promote goods and services, and achieve abundance without these methods? It looks like these days it is impossible on this planet. Even the ascended masters said that they use the methods of bait and switch. Where is the line between the desire to bring something of value to people and manipulation, especially considering those who are unaware of that?

Answer from the ascended master Mother Mary 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.

Well, this falls in line with what Master More was talking about, doing unto others what you want them to do unto you. There is a certain state of consciousness in the world that thinks that you can only get what you want by cheating or manipulating other people.

There is a certain state of consciousness in marketing, that you can only win over the competition by manipulating people or deceiving them into buying your product instead of buying the other product. This is a state of consciousness that will limit the kind of abundance that such people can manifest.

I know it may seem that some of the big corporations have used manipulative marketing and have accumulated great wealth, but it really is only within a certain limit. What we are talking about in a golden age is that more and more people will see that it is indeed possible to manifest abundance by being completely open and honest about your products.

So the answer is that of course, there is a way to market your products that is completely honest, completely straightforward. But for now, and this will change in the golden age because in the golden age, all products will be marketed honestly and fairly. But for now, it may be difficult to compete with some of the companies that use these unfair methods but then you need to ask yourself if you really want to compete with them.

You can see for example, that if you have a unique product, then you do not need to manipulate, you simply need to say what that product does. It is possible to market honestly and openly.

It is not always possible in all situations in the current conditions but in the long term, this is what marketing will be.

In the golden age people will know and be very aware of manipulation and as has already started happening with some people that if they feel that a company is manipulating them or attempting to manipulate them, they will simply refuse to buy that company’s products and this will grow more and more as consumers become more aware.

I can assure you that in many of the modern democracies, many consumers are quite aware, even of marketing methods and they simply refuse to buy from companies that are manipulative. So, they will come that point where you realize that the ultimate form of marketing is to be completely open and honest because this will give you the greatest return, the greatest multiplication of your talents and your wealth.

 

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Taking responsibility for yourself vs. controlling your life

Question: Dear Ascended Masters, in the books about Ego Games you say that we should take full responsibility and create our lives, manage our lives, but in other dictations you say that at higher levels of Christ consciousness, we should not use our psychic power to create life but should let go of ourselves and go with the flow, accepting everything that will happen. How can I realize or understand that it is time to have to let go of the control on my life?

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.

While it is important to keep these two things separately, so you do not mix the concepts together.

The ego is the primary means for control. It is the primary factor in your psychology that wants to control everything. That is why the ego plays a number of control games. This is not the same as taking responsibility for yourself. Taking responsibility for yourself does not mean that you control all aspects of your life. It means that you take responsibility for your psychology and realize that many aspects of your life are an outpicturing of your psychological, unresolved patterns.

But you also recognize that many conditions in your life are not the result of your psychology or your choices but the fact that you live in a community with other people, in a nation or even you live on an unnatural plant. So you cannot have the expectation that as you grow in Christhood you become able to control every aspect of your life. Certainly, I was not in control of every aspect of my life because I did not force anyone to crucify me, I allowed this to happen because I saw it was part of my Christhood.

And this is what happens as you increase your Christhood; you increase your discernment. So you know, in which cases can you exercise your power to manifest certain circumstances and in which cases do you need to step back and allow events to unfold. You can also say that there comes a higher stage of Christhood where you are not even considering really, what specific circumstances to manifest, you are simply flowing with the river of life and you are allowing events to unfold spontaneously without having even a plan of where your life is going.

This is not to say that it is wrong to have goals. At lower levels of the path, it is important to have goals, whether it is physical goals or spiritual goals. But as you go higher and higher, you become more in tune, you become more of an open door for the I Am Presence and instead of deciding with your outer mind what you want to manifest, you are allowing the Presence to flow through you and manifest what it wants to manifest even if you do not know with the outer mind what it will be.

 

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Teaching children factual knowledge

Question: My question is on the upbringing and development of children in the modern world. In Russia, there are various courses for young children starting from three to five years old that are a very popular now. Does such early intellectual development harm the psychological and spiritual health of children? At what age would you recommend to start teaching children to write, read and count? How and when can we start giving spiritual knowledge and practices to children? The Waldorf School of pedagogy strives to develop pupils intellectual, artistic and practical skills in an integrated and holistic manner, the cultivation of pupils’ imagination and creativity is a central focus. What is your assessment of the Waldorf schools according to the Rudolph Steiner method?

 Kim: These are really two separate questions and I sense that I am not getting an answer on the second one, the Waldorf schools. But Mother Mary will comment on the first part of the question.

Answer from the ascended master Mother Mary 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.

There are many methods in the world that are aimed at starting children to develop at a very early age. There are even some methods that were applied by many parents and teachers in the Summit Lighthouse.

You cannot give a general answer that says that this is good for all children to start very early. This is an individual matter. Some children need to have a period of childhood where they can integrate with the physical body and where they can adjust to being in physical embodiment again, perhaps have a chance to heal certain traumas from past lifetimes. For such children, it would be a burden for them if they were subjected to early learning methods, so that they are forced to go more into an intellectual learning process.

I would also like to say that even though you can theoretically teach children in the womb, and you can start in an early age, for example, with flashcards to teach them certain facts, you also have to be aware that teaching children factual knowledge is not really the highest priority from a spiritual perspective.

It is more important to be concerned about the psychology of the child. Therefore, I would say that many of the methods that are out there right now are too focused on practical, intellectual, factual knowledge. It would be much more advantageous to develop programs that were aimed at helping children heal their psychological wounds and helping identify these wounds for the parents and teachers so that they would know how to best help the individual child.

This is something that requires a high degree of sensitivity on the part of both parents and teachers or psychologists who could be trained for this specific purpose. But it is definitely something that is beginning to happen and will happen much more in the future.

We are working with a number of people around the world who are sensitive to these ideas, open to these ideas. Many of them do not know about ascended masters, but they are open to the possibility of healing children’s psychology, starting at an early age, many of them even being open to reincarnation and the potential that children can come in with severe trauma from past lives.

So this is certainly much more important than teaching children factual knowledge, especially in the computer and internet age where having factual knowledge in your mind and memory becomes less of an advantage.

 

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Ascended masters Djwhal Khul and God Harmony

Question: Why do some ascended masters such as Djwhal Khul and God Harmony who used to give dictations through previous messengers, now do not give dictations through the current messenger? How are they doing? Do they still work with Earth?

Answer from the ascended master Mother Mary  through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2021 Webinar – “Overcoming the consciousness of Superiority and the Sense of Being Unwhole, Traumatized and Focused Outside Oneself

Well, both Djwhal Khul and God Harmony are still working with earth. There are complicated reasons why Djwhal Khul is not giving dictations in this present dispensation. It partly has to do with the fact that he was attempting to bring forth messages through Alice Bailey but that it did not quite turn out as planned.

And so he does not have a dispensation to continue speaking.  Now that we have shifted into the Aquarian Age this may change but so far it has not been the case.

God Harmony, it is simply a matter of there are other masters who have talked about the topics that he would talk about but it is not to say that he will not give dictations in the future.

 

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The conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh

Question: Please comment on a situation in Armenia, Azerbaijan and Turkey and the military conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh. What is the way out of this situation for the people who are involved in this conflict, what options do they have?

Answer from the ascended master Mother Mary 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.

Well, without going too much into the specifics, it is clear that in all situations like this, there is to say it simply, karma between different groups of people that was created in past lifetimes that is now coming up, so that they need to look at this and consider whether they will continue these karmic spirals and patterns or whether they will transcend them.

So the question is always, are the people willing to transcend the attitude, the perception filter, the mindset that has created the current situation, the current conflict? Are they willing to forgive? Are they willing to let go? Or will they continue to project out that it is the other people who are at fault, it is the other people who must change? Those who continue to project will reinforce the pattern, will stay in the situation and experience other conflicts. Those who are willing to forgive, work on themselves and transcend the mindset, for them, there is a way out and they will transcend it.

You may have a group of people and you may say most of them are not willing to transcend their mindset but if you take then a certain number among this group of people who are willing to forgive and transcend their mindset, then these people will either move from that situation in this lifetime or they will certainly not reincarnate there in their next lifetime.

 

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Living in dangerous places

Question: Should the ascended master students and spiritual people in general remain living in disadvantageous places such as districts or cities to serve as your open doors for light? Or should they leave those dangerous places?

Answer from the ascended master Mother Mary 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.

It is impossible to give a general answer to such a question because it is very individual. In general, you could say that if there is a direct danger to your physical life, then you should seriously consider moving but there can be individual cases where you will want to remain in the position because it is part of your divine plan to do so, even if it is dangerous.

But in general, of course, we will say that there is value to certain people living in certain conditions in order to hold a spiritual balance and raise the collective consciousness. But as you walk the path as you grow to higher levels of the path, you need to come to that point where you are willing to consider, is this the environment I want to continue living in? And if you decide that it is not, then you have a right to move.

But again, this needs to be your individual attunement to tuning into your divine plan but, of course, it is also subject to the decisions you are making as you raise your consciousness. You can have a decision from some years ago where you decided to live in a certain environment but you, of course, have a right to change this as you raise your consciousness.

You just want to make sure that you do not change out of fear. You do not make a decision out of fear but you make it as a result of a growth in your awareness and your understanding.

 

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