Michaels – Page 34 – Ascended Master Answers

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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?

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.

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?

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.

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?

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.

Does every human being have a Conscious You?

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

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.

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.

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?

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

(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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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?

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.

Question about Elena Roerich

Question: In the Summit Lighthouse, it was claimed that the children of Elizabeth and Mark Prophet are the reincarnation of famous public figures. Sean was King Solomon; Erin, the eldest daughter, was Mahatma Gandhi; Moya was John F. Kennedy; Tatiana was Elena Roerich. Is this really the case? And can souls with such high achievements in their previous lives, as for example, Elena Roerich, who was a messenger of the ascended masters, be incarnated in the next life in a completely different capacity, even the opposite of the previous one, or even descended to lower levels? What prevented Elena Roerich from making the ascension as her husband did? And does the mantle give an advantage to the messenger?

Well, we have explained before that the Summit Lighthouse was the last dispensation that we were allowed to bring forth in the Piscean Age. And therefore, there were certain things that were said through the Summit Lighthouse that had a specific purpose of challenging some of the things that people had not overcome during Pisces but that they were ideally meant to overcome.

For this purpose, there were certain things said that were not meant to be understood literally but they were given for another purpose. Now, you may say that this was deceptive. You could also say it was simply an adaptation to the consciousness of the people.

Now, if you look at the early days of the Summit Lighthouse, many people who are on staff or who were the more involved members of the organization were told about their past lifetimes. This means that if you look at this small group of people, there would have been between them many of the famous people from history.

The question is whether this was realistic. Of course, it was not, but there was a reason why these people needed to be given this test of thinking they had been these famous people from history. We have said before that by thinking you were a certain person from history, you have an opportunity to resolve a certain psychology that was outpictured by that person.

Many other famous people of history serve as a kind of archetype that illustrate certain types of psychology that many people have. There are people for whom the only way that they are willing to deal with that psychology is if they think they were actually that person in a past life. That is why some people were told this as an initiation on the path.

In terms of Elena Roerich and whether a messenger necessarily must ascend there is, of course, no natural law that says that a messenger must ascend. The mantle of a messenger is a great protection for the messenger and is also an opportunity for the messenger to grow but the messenger still has to be willing to grow. It is possible that if you have a husband and wife who are serving as messengers, then one of them might qualify for their ascension and the other may not.

This was the case with Nikolas and Elena Roerich. The reason why Elena Roerich did not qualify for her ascension was that there were certain aspects of her psychology that she was not able and willing to overcome in that lifetime. And therefore, she had to reembody again, and have those same initiations in a slightly different context.

You understand that the goal for any lifestream is the resolution of psychology. This is the primary qualification for the ascension, the resolution of psychology. If you have a lifestream that has been in a certain position but has not resolved his psychology, then it would not do that livestream much good to reincarnate under very similar circumstances. There need to be some similarities but not necessarily the same circumstances. This gives the livestream an opportunity to look at the psychology from a slightly different perspective and, therefore, hopefully makes it easier for the person to see what it is that he or she needs to overcome.

I would also say that, there is of course, no guarantee that because a person is selected as a messenger, that person will make their ascension, will make significant progress in that lifetime. It is possible for a person to regress, to go to a lower state of consciousness because nothing in the world is mechanical. This would be against the law of free will and the purpose of growth. If a messenger of the ascended masters was turned into a kind of robot, how would that serve as an example, for other people walking the path?

So, a messenger can therefore serve as an example, whether or not he or she grows or does not, they can still serve as an illustration of the path and what you all have to go through to walk the spiritual path, you all have to overcome psychology and there is no guarantee that anyone will do so. It is a voluntary individual decision.

New teachings on the cosmic clock?

Question: Will the cosmic clock teachings that were given through Elizabeth Profit be extended or added to?

We will not, through this dispensation, add onto or extend the previous teachings. I may at some point decide to release a teaching that parallels this but at a slightly higher level more in line with the other teachings we have given through this dispensation.

So, it will not be the same, and it will not be called the same, but it might have some of the same applications as the older teaching.

Guidance from the ascended masters after the 96 level

Question: You say that after crossing the 96 level of consciousness, the spiritual seeker will be left alone without help or guidance from the ascended masters. Please explain this point.

It is not correct to say that you have no guidance from the ascended masters, but what actually happens is that you come to a point where the guidance from ascended masters shifts, and you are not getting the same kind of guidance that you might have gotten before. We are sort of stepping back more and allowing you to make your own decisions, do your own experiences because this is part of Christhood, where you are evaluating from within what you want to do instead of having an external teacher who is telling you or giving you feedback.

So, there are certain periods on the path, and it is not only after the 96 level, but there is always a certain back and forth whereas, sometimes, we will give a person more direct guidance if the person is open to receiving it. But there also comes a point where, for a period of time, we must pull back and allow that person to walk on his own, to integrate the lessons learned, to make his own observations.

Then, perhaps at a later date, we can come back, give more guidance, and again, we might withdraw for a time. This is all an individual process that we conduct based on our experience with how to best help people. We apply this to each individual so that you get the guidance that is best for you.

Why the masters cannot do the work for you

Question: If God’s love is unconditional and the ascended masters only want to set us free, then why are there so many conditions on the way to our ascension? For example, it is necessary to give invocations for many years to transform energy, although with more assistance of the ascended masters, we could do this much faster. We are forced to take certain lessons for a long time and only in physical incarnation, which is quite difficult. At the same time, the current messenger does not provide personal counseling as Jesus used to do. Why are there so many restrictions and rules that are presented as a desire to provide us with some kind of work, setting ourselves free from negative images and decisions of the past, without which we might end up getting bored here on this planet? Why are there so many restrictions and requirements that are presented as a manifestation of the free will and desires of spiritual people in the incarnation, which the ascended masters, out of respect to free will, have to comply with?

Well, my beloved, if you are willing to take an honest look at the question and the mindset from which it is asked, then you have to say that this is a person who has not spent a lot of time studying our teachings, at least not as they were given in this dispensation. You have not truly studied what we have said about the spiritual path because what we have said is that all of the conditions that you have to fulfill in order to qualify for your ascension were created by yourself.

The energies that you have misqualified in many past lifetimes are the energies you need to transform by giving rosaries and invocations and decrees. The psychological selves that you have created as a result of choices you made in past lifetimes are the ones that you have to come to see and resolve in order for you to be free.

The reality of free will is simply that you can compare this to a maze: There is an entrance to the maze, and then, there are many twists and turns, but you are choosing whether to turn this way or that way every time you come to a fork in the road. This means that if you look at yourself from above, you can see that you have followed a certain path through the maze from your starting point to where you are now. How will you get back? By going back and reversing the decisions you made, tracing your steps back to the purity with which you descended.

How would you gain anything from us doing the work for you, setting you free from the misqualified energies? How could we possibly resolve the selves that you have created when they were created, made by your decisions and can only be uncreated by your decisions?

Then, of course, you can step even further back and say: “What is the purpose of life?”

The purpose of life is that you exercise your free will. You make decisions, you see the consequences of those decisions as physical circumstances or as emotional, mental and identity conditions in your three higher bodies, and you learn from that. But the purpose of life is not that you come to earth, make karma, the ascended masters take away that karma and then, you go back. The purpose of life is that you learn from making decisions, and seeing the results of your decisions, evaluating it, so you can raise your consciousness and make more aware decisions. Only you can do this.

It is not the purpose of life to take you to earth and take you back to heaven. The purpose of life is your growth. You grow through your own decisions, through your own observations, through your own conclusions, through your own epiphanies, whereby you raise your consciousness.

This is how you grow. It cannot be done mechanically. It cannot be done for you. We cannot do it for you. We can only help you do things for yourself, but you must be willing to do it.

Question about Bulgaria

Question: What can you say about the fate, future and destination of Bulgaria? Does the country have any significance at the regional level? Does Bulgaria have a special connection with Russia? And if so, what is it? What role can spiritual people play for Bulgaria? Is it possible to revive it? What is the role of Bulgaria in a manifestation of the Golden Age of Staint Germain?

Well, I will speak here in general terms about the nations who were either part of the Soviet Union or the Warsaw Pact.

The primary role of all of these nations is to catch up to the point where they would have been if they had not been held back by the Soviet Union. We are not saying that the Soviet Union did not bring any kind of progress. But it was a much slower progress than these nations would have experienced if they had not been suppressed by the Soviet Union and communist ideology. The primary role, or the primary task, for all of these nations is to catch up to where they otherwise would have been if they had been allowed to develop without this external influence.

Many of these nations have a certain tie to Russia. But what do we really mean, when we talk about a tie? There can be a certain karma that goes far back into history. But as we have said, people from many different backgrounds embody in many different nations in order to bring those nations forward. You cannot really say that just because a nation was part of the Soviet bloc, then it means they must have a certain tie to Russia or the Russian people. The question really, for these nations, is not so much what was our past, but what do we want as our future?

The question really is, are you willing to, then, look at the past, look at the Soviet era, learn the lessons that can be learned for your specific nation, look at whatever mindset you created in response to this situation and transcend it so that you can move forward from here?

This is what determines your ability to tune in to the golden age ideas that Saint Germain is willing to release for every nation. But the question is, are there people in those nations who can receive those ideas?

In order to receive these ideas, you need to free yourself from the old mindset. You can say that many of the things we have talked about so far, at this conference, do not only apply to the Russian people, but also to all people who were affected by the Soviet Union because that mindset was, to a certain degree, spread, even if it originated in Russia, it was spread to other countries. Many of these countries have created their own national versions of it, which is still holding them back.

Humor and violence in Hollywood movies

Question: I believe there is a tendency in Hollywood movies to show more humor in action movies, even movies that show a lot of violence. The players use a lot of jokes about the violence they are using. Is there a development that people tend to relax more about violence in the world? Or is it a way to perhaps, in a way perhaps driven by dark forces, to make violence more accepted and acceptable in society?

Well, both are correct in the sense that there is a certain tendency in the world in general where people are getting used to certain phenomena because they are being inundated with them. It used to be that if you go back 20 or 30 years, there might be a movie where there was one act of violence in that entire movie, and it had a certain shock effect.

Then what happens is that in order for the next director, who has an ambition of creating a movie that will be more talked about, well, that director has to have more of a shock effect. So he has to have more violence, either more acts of violence in the same movie or more extreme forms of violence, or they show them in more graphic detail.

You will notice that in older movies, a person might get shot, and there might be a very short glimpse of blood. But there will not be, as you see now, graphic pictures of decomposing bodies or bodies that have been split apart by an explosion. They are simply the effect that people get numbed, and therefore there has to be more and more extreme measures.

But it is very correct that there is a tendency to mix violence and humor. And this is something that is definitely originating with dark forces, who want to make violence seem more acceptable, something that really is not so bad and it may be necessary. And it is, of course, not a trend that is positive from an ascended master perspective. And it is not something you need to encourage by necessarily indulging in these movies. You can of course vote in only one way by not buying or partaking in this kind of content.

It is clear that there are certain dark forces who have this intent of creating more and more violence. And that is why you see that there is, in certain aspects of society, more violence. There is more violence and crime. And there is also a certain attitude of presenting war as a more glorious or heroic, or at least necessary way.

This, of course, you could say was more the case in previous decades. Whereas today, there are at least some movies and TV series that portray the horrors of war in order to give people a more realistic way, or a more realistic view of war. In a sense, you could say that there is a certain necessity of showing the horrors of war, so that people realize that war has a very real human cost. And that it is not a glorious heroic adventure that gives people honor, as I talked about in the book about war.

But on the other hand, clearly, the tendency to mix humor and violence can only come from the dark forces, who attempt to make it more acceptable with violence. This is, of course, a desperate attempt to them because the reality is that in most of the modern nations the population is becoming less and less violent, less and less prone to accept violence in the real world.

The dark forces are desperate to do whatever they can to reverse this trend, but they cannot reverse it because people are becoming more and more aware of the cost of violence, whether it is war, or whether it is mass shootings, or whatever it may be. And there is a growing opposition to violence, a willingness to demand that society stops violence.