Michaels – Page 36 – Ascended Master Answers

Why do we need to read invocations out loud?

Question: Thank you for your suggestion today to try Archangel Michael’s rosary for 33 days. Does it need to be read out loud? Would it be “doubly” effective to include your spiritual attunement exercise right after? And is performing these mechanically, as you allowed for in response to an earlier question from a depressed person, still going to be adequate for this trial? I have a lot of discouragement in thoughts and feelings, wandering attention at various levels, and doubts about whether my visualization abilities are sufficient (for the attunement exercise). Finally, is my sense of being hypocritical at performing the “affirming” actions, while still doubting and not having results that I (or my carnal mind) can judge by, something else that I continue to let go of? This last one seems especially pertinent to the attunement exercise where we are instructed to proceed after, for examples, “feeling at peace” or “accepting that you love me unconditionally.” I’m guessing that I’m in that Catch 22 where I need my Christ Self to guide and reassure me, and yet I need to commit to an outer guidance first in order to get to that place. Thank you for your help with this predicament.

Answer from Jesus:

Yes, you do need to read the rosary out loud because by using the spoken word, you tap into the same creative power that God used to create the universe, the first act of which was the statement, “Let there be light!”

It is a good idea to give the attunement exercise right after the rosary because when you have established spiritual protection – and while it is still of maximum strength – you have the best opportunity to tune in to your Christ self without outside interference.

Performing the rosary mechanically should still allow a sensitive person to feel a difference, but as with all spiritual rituals, the more you put your heart into it, the better the effect. Make an effort to center yourself in your heart and then give the rosary with as much reverence and feeling as you can achieve. Yet do not strain, simply center yourself and then let the words flow freely without analyzing or worrying while you give it. Try to let yourself become lost in the rosary rather than being stuck in the intellect.

The symptoms you describe as “discouragement in thoughts and feelings, wandering attention at various levels, and doubts about whether my visualization abilities are sufficient “ are typical of what happens to many seekers in today’s society. You are surrounded by negative energies that pull on your emotional and mental bodies. We might say that your conscious mind is a radio receiver, and during the attunement exercise, you are trying to tune in to the station of your Christ self or an ascended being. The symptoms you describe are the result of static – foreign influences – that either prevent you from tuning in to the right station or prevent you from getting a clear reception.

The best way to overcome spiritual static is to invoke protection with as much fervor as you can muster. I think you will find that by giving Archangel Michael’s rosary for 33 days, you will begin to get a clearer reception. Then, imagine how clear the reception can become by continuing to give the rosary. Kim invoked spiritual protection for years before he was able to hear me clearly. Yet the trek upward is always worth the inconvenience, as one of my beloved colleagues is fond of saying.

However, it will also help you to purify your life of disturbing influences, such as high stress, psychic energy or addictive substances. Basically, anything that gives you stress and takes away your sense of harmony and inner peace will function as static that prevents you from tuning in to your Christ self. You also need to be on guard for an overactive intellect. Be careful not to overanalyze the process of attunement. Simply give your protection and then let it flow without analyzing what is happening.

Remember the biblical quote, “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen” (Hebrews 11:1). You need to have some faith that invoking spiritual protection will work, even if you do not see concrete or immediate results. The best measure of spiritual protection is greater mental clarity and emotional calm, but how exactly will you measure that? There is nothing hypocritical about making an affirmation while doubting the results, but the less you doubt, the faster you will see results. It can be a great help to specifically ask Archangel Michael [in the beginning of the rosary] to bind your ego and all psychic forces or energies that project doubt into your mental and emotional bodies. These forces want you to keep doubting the results of spiritual protection because they know that when you establish such protection they can no longer control you.

Other efficient tools for transcending doubt is the invocation for dealing with the Accuser of the Brethren or for protection from Pyshic projections. You can also use the invocation for Oneness with your I AM Presence.

You are quite right that many spiritual seekers are in a catch-22. You are also right that the best way to brake this stalemate is to make a firm commitment to giving an efficient spiritual ritual – and you have found one of the most efficient rituals on the planet in Michael’s rosary – and then simply give it faithfully. I am suggesting 33 days because I believe most sensitive people will see results by then. Obviously, when you see results, you should not stop invoking protection and think you are home free. As long as you are on this planet, you will be exposed to imperfect energies, and until you manifest full Christ consciousness, you can benefit from spiritual protection.

I can tell you that for sincere spiritual seekers, invoking spiritual protection is the master key to breaking the catch-22 and truly tuning in to the guidance from their Christ selves. You simply need to do it with the expectation that you will experience better attunement with your Christ self, and then you need to be patient if the results are not instantaneous. In your patience posses ye your soul.

Some channelers say we don’t need protection

Question: Master Jesus: I follow the Kryon channeling since the beginning of the convergence. For some time now Kryon says as light workers we do not need to surround ourselves with light for protection; we are light. That was the way of the old energy; we are now in the new energy and we are light. I have been using AAMichael’s protection and giving it to all my other light workers. I need some clarification on this.

Answer from Jesus:

Whether you follow this or that teaching, it is always prudent to use your intuition and common sense to evaluate all statements made. In the Bible you find the statement that God started the creative process by making the fiat, “Let there be light!” As I explain throughout this website, everything in the world of form is made from God’s light. You have always been light, meaning that even in the so-called “old energy” you were still made of light. So if you needed spiritual protection then, why would you suddenly no longer need it?

The important distinction here is not whether you are made of light but whether any of the light that makes up your four lower bodies vibrates within the spectrum of frequencies currently found in the four lower bodies of planet earth. As we explain elsewhere, this planet is currently polluted by many imperfect energies. If you doubt this, just look at the news. Therefore, as long as you are in a physical body, you will inevitably be exposed to these energies on a constant basis. The question is what happens to these energies as they enter your energy field?

If you have any lower energies in your four bodies, the energies that are directed at you will resonate with the energy in your energy field. The incoming energy will reinforce whatever negative energies are already in your field because like attracts like. So as long as you have any imperfect energies in your field, you will need to invoke spiritual protection.

It is possible to go through the spiritual initiation called the transfiguration. As you do so, your physical body will be purified of all imperfect substances and genetic defects. Your emotional body will be purified of all imperfect desires or attachments. Your mental body will be purified of all imperfect thoughts and beliefs. Your identity body will be purified of all imperfect sense of identity and all imperfect memories. When that happens, there are no longer any imperfect energies in your four lower bodies. You then live up to the statement that the prince of this world comes and has nothing in you. In other words, when you are exposed to the imperfect energies of the world, there will be nothing in your energy field that resonates with those energies. In a sense you have now become transparent to the energies of the world and they pass right through you. This transparency is the ultimate form of spiritual defense.

Yet I can assure you that very few people on this planet have passed through the initiation of the transfiguration. Therefore, it is prudent for all spiritual seekers to invoke protection, and this will be the case for the foreseeable future. Obviously, I hope that the Earth will eventually become so pure that it will be unnecessary to invoke spiritual protection. But I can tell you that this is not likely to happen for the foreseeable future.

It is correct that certain events signal or initiate a new spiritual cycle that affects all people on planet Earth. Nevertheless, there are no such events that will affect all people equally. For example, we have now entered the Aquarian Age, which makes it easier for people to communicate with the spiritual realm. Yet this does not guarantee that all people, not even all light workers, can automatically attain this communion. It is up to each individual to open up and maintain a pure line of communication. In the current situation on planet Earth, there is so much imperfect energy that it requires diligent spiritual protection in order to obtain accurate communion with the Ascended Host. If you do not invoke such spiritual protection, it is highly likely that you will communicate only with beings in lower realms.

Let me make a recommendation. Don’t listen to what I say. Don’t listen to what Kryon, or any other channeled message, says. Instead, give it a try and listen to what your Christ self tells you. Decide to sincerely invoke spiritual protection for a period of time. I would recommend that serious light workers give Archangel Michael’s Rosary every day for 33 days. A sensitive person will feel some effect from the very beginning. Yet after a 33-day period, you should be able to tell whether invoking spiritual protection has had a positive effect. If so, why not continue to invoke protection?

I think most people would clearly feel a positive effect after 33 days, although for some people it might take weeks or even months to experience a major breakthrough from invoking spiritual protection. So give it a try and see what difference it makes in your life.

Let me also mention that both Archangel Michael’s Rosary and Mother Mary’s invocations are not designed only for your own benefit. They have a major effect on the planet as a whole, including for your fellow light workers. In other words, even if you don’t think you need spiritual protection, there is still good reason to use the rosaries and decrees to invoke spiritual protection and purification for other people and for the planet as a whole.

By the way, Kryon is not a member of the Ascended Host but resides in the mental realm.

How can I attune myself to Jesus?

Question: Beloved Jesus, Thank you for this opportunity! I have visited many websites lately that are offering Christ attunement and they are quite expensive. I really would like to be attuned to your energy and love and work with you for my transformation and the spiritual benefit of the Universe. Can you share with us a technique for this? Thank you very very much! Shalom!

Mukunda

Answer from Jesus:

I already have, and they are freely available on this website. Unfortunately, some people tend to think that what is given away freely cannot be as effective or as valuable as techniques for which they have to pay high prices. They do not remember my statement, “freely ye have received, freely give” (Matthew 10:8).

For inner attunement with me, your Christ self or another member of the Ascended Host, use the technique for inner attunement or the vigil for calling for inner guidance.

For protecting yourself and others, including the entire planet, from dark forces, use the decrees for protection.

For transforming low-frequency energy into high-frequency spiritual energy, use the decrees to the Violet Flame.

And for a set of extremely effective rituals for both protection, transformation and attunement, use the beautiful rosaries and invocations released by my beloved Mother. These tools are truly from the heart of Mother Mary, and I can assure you that they represent a major dispensation and a major opportunity for the spiritual people on this planet. In fact, they are among the most effective spiritual techniques ever released on this planet.

If enough people start using them, you will truly see the world change, as it has already changed as a result of the relatively small number of people who are presently using the rosaries. Yet, remember that in reality all life is one, so even one person anchored in oneness with his or her spiritual self can have a major impact when giving the rosaries or other spiritual rituals—even by living a seemingly normal life.

Let me assure you that we of the Ascended Host have great hopes for what these tools can do for the planet. Yet for those hopes to be fulfilled, someone must decide that “I am the one who will give a rosary every day!”

BE that someone!

For an extremely effective tool for increasing your understanding of Christ consciousness, read the book The Christ Is born in You or follow the Master Keys to Personal Christhood course.

How can a pregnant woman best protect herself from lower energies?

Question: Dear Jesus, When a woman is pregnant, is she more vulnerable to dark forces and emotional trials. If this is so, why? And what could she do to protect herself psychologically as well as spiritually.

love Sara

Answer from Jesus:

When a woman carries an unborn child inside her body, she has to open up her energy field to allow for the lifestream and the energy field of the child to gradually mesh with the fetus. To do that, the woman has to accept energies from outside of herself and allow them to enter her energy field. Since much of this process takes place below the level of conscious awareness, it is quite possible that a woman can open her field to energies that are not part of the energy field of the child but an outside – and not necessarily benevolent – influence. You also have the fact that a woman’s body is under stress, and this can cause her to be weaker and more easily exhausted. All of this adds up to the possibility that if the woman does not remain balanced, she can be more vulnerable to dark forces than she normally is. This is one reason some women go through major emotional adjustments during pregnancy.

Another factor is that there truly are dark forces that seek to take every person away from the path of Christhood. Such forces will seek to attack the child even while that child is in the womb. The reasoning of the dark forces is that the earlier they can get some kind of psychological hook in the child’s consciousness, the more easily they can manipulate the child as it grows up. Some souls might already have such hooks from previous lifetimes.

It is the responsibility of both the father and the mother to provide the spiritual protection of the incoming soul, and also to protect the child until it matures and can protect itself. Obviously, current culture does not teach people about the spiritual aspects of life, and therefore most people are not aware of the need to provide for their own spiritual protection, let alone that of their children.

The ugly reality is that the dark forces are in no way deterred because of people’s lack of knowledge. You know that before people recognized the existence of bacteria, they would still become the victims of infectious diseases. Likewise, even though most people do not recognize the existence of dark forces or the need to invoke spiritual protection, they will still be the victims of the attacks of such forces.

As an additional complication, it has been a divine law for some time that parents are allowed to give birth to children who have greater spiritual attainment than themselves. This was done to speed the growth of the entire human race in order to break the downward spiral that would have led to humankind’s self-destruction. As a result of this law, many women have (in recent decades) given birth to souls of very high spiritual attainment. Even though a woman might not be consciously aware of this, the dark forces are keenly aware that such high souls represent a threat to them. Therefore, they attack such souls, and their parents, with all the power they can muster.

Please do not misunderstand these remarks. I am in no way trying to scare you or anyone else from having children. There is truly no influence from dark forces that cannot be counteracted by the light of God and by your wise choices to avoid the subtle lies of dark forces. Many women have provided adequate spiritual protection for themselves and their children simply by remaining balanced and remaining true to timeless principles and ideals, especially through practicing their religion. If they do not engage in negative behavior and do not take toxic substances into their bodies, many women will be adequately protected during pregnancy.

However, if you are a spiritually aware person, there is obviously much you can do to increase your protection. You can also cut your child free from any negative influences from past lives. I highly recommend that people give the Elohim decrees during pregnancy, as they give a good balance. Archangel Michael’s rosary is very efficient if you feel you are under severe attack. This can be a great advantage and give your child a much better start in life. Also, Mother Mary’s invocations will work both as protection and for the transformation of energy. They can also help to resolve psychological issues for your incoming child.

You see, while you carry the child in your womb, the proximity of your energy fields gives you a unique opportunity to help your child resolve psychological issues that might have burdened it for lifetimes. Many women are so sensitive that they feel such issues during their pregnancy. An outer aspects of this can be cravings for certain foods that are truly cravings that come from the soul of the child. Yet at deeper levels, a woman might also sense psychological issues that she has never noticed in herself before. The reason is that these issues are not her issues but those of the soul of her incoming child. Yet because the woman senses these issues, she can help her child greatly if she works on resolving them as if they were her own.

Because of the woman’s greater maturity and because she is not as attached to these issues as the child, she can resolve such issues while the child is still unborn. This will allow the child to grow up without being burdened by these issues. If the issues are not resolved, the child probably will not be able to deal with them until adulthood, and by then the issues might have been reinforced by various experiences and have become so solidified that they are much harder to resolve. Incidentally, there is a real need for sensitive therapists to develop an entirely new branch of prenatal therapy. This could also help women have an easier pregnancy.

Building a momentum on using a technique for protection

Question: My question concerns negative energy. If you use the protection measures espoused what is stopping the negative energy knowing this and then sending a stronger vibration against you. To use an analogy, you protect yourself with a stick, they use a knife, You then use a gun, they use a canon. Poorly expressed, but do you get my drift. I don’t understand how the dark energy seems to overcome light protection when the best intention and methods of protection are used.

Michael

Answer from Jesus:

Your analogy is very good, and it is true but only up to a point. When you begin to use spiritual protection, the dark forces will step up their attack and try to break down your protection. However, if you make a sincere effort, you will build a momentum on using a technique for protection. As you increase your connection to your Christ self, you can invoke such a powerful spiritual protection that none of the forces of this world can penetrate it. You can literally invoke spiritual protection of such strength that the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

This is easy to understand when you contemplate the reality that everything is energy. The forces of this world can use only the energies of this world to attack you. All of the energies in this world are of lower vibrations than the energies in the spiritual realm. Therefore, when you invoke a wall of spiritual light around yourself, that wall will have such a high vibration that the lower energies from this world cannot penetrate it. By continuing to attack the wall, the dark forces can gradually break it down. If you don’t renew it, they can eventually create holes in your protection. However, as long as you keep up your protection and renew it on a daily basis, you will be protected from the dark forces.

Unfortunately, you are correct that dark forces can overcome your light protection in other ways. The reason for this is that the spiritual protection you invoke will not override your free will. As an illustration of this, imagine that your spiritual protection forms a wall around you, much like a house. The wall is impenetrable, but it has doors and windows. If you open a door or window, then energy can penetrate the wall from the outside and reach you even though you are inside the wall.

So what causes the opening of the doors and windows in the wall? It is your own imperfect beliefs and psychological wounds. As long as you maintain certain imperfect beliefs, such as the belief that you are a miserable sinner who deserves to be punished for doing something bad, then the dark forces can attack you through that belief. This does not mean that such imperfect beliefs completely neutralize all spiritual protection. But it does mean that imperfect beliefs can be like a door or window in the wall. A certain amount of energy can enter your forcefield through that opening. You are still much better off than without the wall of protection, but you are not completely protected.

Another factor that can cause chinks in your armor is psychological wounds that cause you to respond to certain situations with negative feelings. For example, if you are afraid of dark forces, the vibration of fear can create a hole or crack in the wall of spiritual protection. Another common factor is anger. If people respond to certain situations with anger, they will create openings in their spiritual armor, and the dark forces will then have access to their conscious and subconscious minds. In fact any of the spiritual poisons described by Mother Mary will create holes in your armor.

What you see here is that when you first learn about the need for spiritual protection, you will face an uphill battle for a time. You will invoke spiritual protection, but it will be partly neutralized or broken down by imperfect beliefs or psychological wounds. If you never do anything to resolve such beliefs or heal your wounds, the battle can go on for the rest of your life. It is literally like taking two steps forward and sliding one step backward. Many people do indeed live their entire lives this way, and the reason is that they do not make the necessary effort to resolve their imperfect beliefs and heal their wounds.

When you decide to fully engage in the path to personal Christhood, you will engage in a serious study of spiritual teachings that will eventually help you remove all imperfect beliefs from your being. You will also engage in an effort to heal your psychology, to heal your soul, from all wounds received in this and past lifetimes. As you do this, you will close the doors and windows that make you vulnerable to the attacks of the dark forces. When you invoke spiritual protection, your subconscious choices will no longer neutralize that protection. Therefore, you will be sealed inside a wall of light, and as long as you maintain that light, you will truly be invulnerable and sealed from the dark forces.

However, for your spiritual protection to work with maximum efficiency, you need to overcome the beliefs and the wounds that make you vulnerable to the temptations of the dark forces. When you do, the Prince of this world will come and have nothing in you whereby he can tempt you into neutralizing your spiritual protection. You can then be in the world without being of the world. You can be the light that shines in the darkness, and the darkness comprehends it not, nor can it attack your light.

The purpose of saying mantras, affirmations or decrees is to invoke spiritual light

Question: Dear Master Jesus: Could you please explain the purpose of saying mantras? I am in the process of trying to indoctrinate myself from orthodox Christianity. Since orthodox Christianity teaches that saying mantras is “of the devil,” I would like to know the truth about this practice and if it would really aid spiritual growth.

Curious truth seeker

Answer from Jesus:

As explained elsewhere, the purpose of saying mantras, affirmations or decrees is to invoke spiritual light and draw it into your personal energy field or into the energy field of the planet. You can direct the spiritual light to form a shield of high-frequency energy around your field to give you spiritual protection. Or you can invoke spiritual light that will transform negative energy into a higher vibration. Because you are invoking spiritual light, it is appropriate to say a mantra more than once.

As explained in the The Secret Coming of Christ, orthodox Christianity has become trapped in a fear-based approach to religion. This approach is in direct opposition to the love-based approach that I taught and demonstrated. One effect of this fear-based approach is that many Christians tend to label anything which is different from traditional Christian practices as being of the devil. This happens almost automatically, and most Christians do not bother to examine a topic properly before they label it as evil.

If you take a look at Christianity itself, you will see that it has an old tradition for using the power of the spoken word. You are using the spoken word to invoke spiritual energy when you give the Our Father, say the rosary or sing many Christian songs. The same happens through the Gregorian chants, the reading of Scripture out loud or the recitation of other Christian prayers and rituals.

The process used by Christians in these ways is essentially the same as the process used by many other religions in which people use spoken mantras or affirmations. It is quite unfortunate that orthodox Christians have labeled the prayers or affirmations used by other religions as mantras and have labeled all mantras as being of the devil. This is a fear-based and close-minded approach that has no constructive value whatsoever.

I am not hereby saying that all mantras are good. There are certainly some mantras that have a negative effect, and therefore one might label them as being of the devil. Nevertheless to label all mantras or the technique of saying mantras as being of the devil is simply incorrect.

One of the main characteristics of personal Christhood is the ability to discern between what is of God and what is not of God. As you attain Christhood, you will build this discernment, which starts as intuition. However, it is a simple fact that you can learn only by doing. You can build Christ discernment only by exercising your ability to discern even while it is not yet perfectly clear.

The unfortunate effect of a fear-based approach to religion is that people are afraid to exercise their intuitive faculties. They have managed to get themselves into a state of consciousness where they believe that if they make a mistake, they will go to hell. They easily get into a state of mind based on a black-and-white perspective, an all-or-nothing approach to spiritual growth. They believe it is so important to avoid making a mistake that it is better not to try at all. Yet the simple fact is that if you don’t try, you will never develop the ability to discern what is truth and what is error.

Imagine that you have a child who is so afraid of falling down that it does not dare to try to walk. No child could ever learn to walk without experimenting, and in experimenting it will inevitably fall down. If the child refuses to experiment, it will never learn to walk.

Unfortunately, this is what happens to many Christians who take the fear-based approach to religion. In their refusal to use their intuitive faculties to discern what is truth and what is a lie, they prevent themselves from developing those faculties. Therefore, they begin to believe that they cannot know truth on their own, so they should allow some church authority to do their thinking for them. This often aborts these people’s spiritual progress and confines them to a certain level of consciousness. They will remain at that level of consciousness until they decide to run the risk of exercising their discernment even while it is not perfect.

If you read the scriptures, you will see that I often chastised my disciples for having too little faith or too little understanding. However, I did not reject my disciples because they were not perfect. I continued to work with them to help them grow, and this is what every true spiritual teacher will do. No spiritual teacher requires the student to become perfect instantly. The real requirement is that the student is willing to try and to keep trying. As long as the student does not stop trying, and does not stand still, the student is fulfilling the requirements of being on the spiritual path that leads to God.

If you are not willing to try, not willing to open the mind to new ideas, you have essentially turned your back upon God and upon me. Many Christians sit in their churches and feel holier than other people. Yet I tell you that they are unreachable for me or for any other spiritual teacher. They have built walls around their minds that prevent their spiritual growth. I gave my life to bring forth the teaching that could set people free from bondage. Do you think I am happy with the fact that so many orthodox Christians have used my teaching to build prison walls around their minds?

The Law of Free Will and praying for others

Question: How are we to pray for others? My daughter is in a very abusive and extremely volatile marriage. I want to know how to correctly pray for her safety and her newborn son!

Answer from Jesus:

In situations like this, it is extremely important to understand the Law of Free Will. I explain the importance of free will throughout this website, but especially in my teachings on the path of Christhood. The essence of this law is that God has given every human being free will. Therefore, no heavenly being will violate the free will of anyone on Earth. The importance in this context is that when you pray for others, we of the Ascended Host cannot violate the free will of the people for whom you are praying.

In other words, even if you pray for my intercession in your daughter’s situation, I cannot intervene against the free will of your daughter and her husband. Therefore, in such situations the best approach is to pray for their enlightenment, so that the people will come to a higher understanding that will allow them to improve the situation.

Before I go on, let me say that in situations like this, it is extremely important not to rely on prayer alone. Because of the Law of Free Will, you must take physical action to help change the situation, especially to protect your daughter and her newborn son. You must contact the proper authorities and ask for guidance as to how they can help you. This is extremely important, and you can see this by contemplating the saying that God helps those who help themselves.

Let me give you some practical advice on how to pray for a situation like this.

First of all, you need to recognize that even though every human being has free will, most people are not exercising their free will. You simply cannot make a free choice unless you have a clear understanding of the situation, the options you have and the potential consequences of those options. When people are in a crisis situation, they are so burdened by the energies of that situation, that they simply do not have the clarity of mind to make truly free choices. Therefore, your first and foremost concern is to remove the barriers that prevent the people for making free choices.
Use decrees and invocations for calling to Archangel Michael for the protection of yourself or for other people. I suggest that you use these prayers for your daughter, her son and for her husband also. Call for them to be protected against all negative energy that prevents them from having a clear vision of the situation and how they are harming themselves.
In situations of abuse, you must recognize that the person committing the abuse is not doing this entirely of his or her free will. People who abuse others are always influenced by dark forces and potentially demons. Therefore, you should call to Archangel Michael and myself for the binding of all evil forces attacking your daughter and her son through her husband. You have the right to call for Archangel Michael to bind the human ego that prevents him from seeing what he is doing. You even have the right to call for the judgment of all dark forces, including the human ego, working through your son in law. You should also call for the binding of your daughter’s ego, so she can overcome any attachments that prevent her from getting away from the situation.
You should recognize that each human being has a Christ self and that each human being has a guardian angel who is assigned to protect and enlighten the person. You can therefore call, through a silent or spoken prayer, directly to the Christ self and the guardian angel of a person and ask them to protect and enlighten the person, so that he or she can take the best course of action in the situation.
You can help improve the situation by using proper techniques for consuming the negative energy that interferes with the situation and prevents the people from seeing the right way out. The need to transform toxic energy is explained in great detail elsewhere. Use decrees and invocations for transforming such energy.
It would also be extremely helpful to talk to your daughter. Help her see the potential dangers so that she can make a clearer and more levelheaded choice as to whether she should stay in a situation or remove herself from it as quickly as possible. You should recognize that in the end, you cannot make choices for her. It must be a choice that comes from inside herself.
However, you might tell her about this website and about the idea that she has a Christ self that can help her make such decisions. You might tell her about the technique for attuning to her Christ self and ask her to perform it. If she will not, then you can perform it for her and visualize that I and her Christ self give her the answers that she needs even while she is sleeping at night.
You can also pray for your daughter’s soul to be taken to the spiritual retreats at night, as described elsewhere.
You might even consider doing a vigil or novena on behalf of your daughter, as described elsewhere.

I can promise you that if you make use of these suggestions, you will see that your daughter will become empowered to make a better decision. However, because I respect the Law of Free Will, I cannot promise you what kind of choices your daughter will make. This is truly a matter over which I have no control.

I fully understand that it can be very difficult and frustrating for you to watch such a situation and feel helpless. I can tell you that both myself and my colleagues in the Ascended Host often feel helpless when we watch human beings continue to harm themselves and others by making choices that everyone can see are not in the best interest of anyone.

However, because I am a spiritual teacher I am able to take a longer view and see that in some cases lifestreams have encaged themselves into so many erroneous beliefs that they need to go through certain situations in order to finally come to the realization that those beliefs are harming themselves. Therefore, even very difficult situations can truly help the person learn lessons and move on to better things.

However, let me caution you once again to not rely exclusively on prayer but to take the appropriate physical action to get your daughter the protection and counseling from the proper authorities that she needs.

Having a better communion with your Christ self

Question: I have made the 33-day vigil, as you advised. Increased the sensation of the internal fullness. Every time I asked some question, but in most cases answers were dim and through writing only. Can during such vigils carnal mind to distort the message of the Christ? The thought about this forces to distrust in truth of the message. If this possible on this website, prompt, if I made all correct? I know that you can be connected to my consciousness. Possible, such question appeared beside many. Please, tell also, how differs the automatic writing from that what I did during the vigil?

Thank you very much.
Igor

Answer from Jesus:

I commend you for doing this ritual, and I encourage you to continue to use these tools, including the tools for spiritual protection and for the transformation of negative energy.

What my exercise is designed to do is to help you sharpen your intuitive faculties and establish a direct communion with your higher self. This communion is between your conscious mind, which abides here in the material universe, and your higher self, which abides in a higher realm. In between the material universe and the level of your higher self are several other levels of vibration, including your emotional and mental bodies. These other realms can act as noise or static just as the noise or static you have on a radio receiver. This can therefore influence and distort the messages you get from your higher self or from your Christ self,which is the bridge between your higher self and yoru conscious mind.

In my instructions to the exercise, you will notice that I encourage people not to ask questions about what to do, but instead ask for a higher understanding of the issue.

I encourage people not to consider the answers you get as absolute or infallible answers. You should still use your conscious mind and your common sense to make decisions based on the answers you get.

When you are new to this technique, there is a possibility that the answers you get from your higher self will be influenced by your emotional and mental bodies or even by outside forces. You can improve the connection through practice, whereby you become better at discerning the answers that ring true and the answers that are influenced by noise. This will come as you keep practicing the technique.

However, the noise or static that I am talking about is actually low-frequency energy that is either stored in your mental and emotional bodies or directed at you from outside forces. So by protecting your personal energy field from negative energy from the environment and by transforming the negative energy that is already stored in your field, you can gradually reduce the amount of noise and gain a clearer connection. Use the decrees and invocations for this purpose.

So not all of the answers you received were accurate, but that will be the case for virtually anyone who is new to this technique. However, please do not let this discourage you. There is a tendency in modern society that people expect immediate results from spiritual techniques. They think it should be like flipping a switch to turn on the light. That is not how it works on the spiritual path. Depending on your personal situation and your past, it might take some effort to establish a clear connection to your higher self. However, I can assure you that it can be done and that it will be well worth the effort.

When you write down the answers that come to you after the exercise, you are writing down thoughts that go through your conscious mind. You are not in a trance as people often are during automatic writing. You are writing down the ideas; it is not some outside force who is writing through you. If you feel that some outside force is writing through you, then I strongly encourage you to increase your spiritual protection or even discontinue the exercise.

Because the writing goes through your mind, there is always the possibility for interference. Nevertheless, it has never been my goal to turn people into mediums who write in a trance. It is my goal to turn people into Christed beings who gradually build such a strong connection to their higher selves that they can receive directions from above while they are fully conscious and in the midst of everyday activities.

I encourage you to continue the vigil, even if you do not have time to do it every day. Simply set aside time on a regular basis to perform the exercise, including spiritual protection. I also encourage you not to be too attached to getting specific answers. The more attached you are to getting answers, or to getting answers to certain questions, the higher the risk that your emotional or mental bodies interfere with the answers you get. In fact, to receive truly accurate answers, you need to be completely non-attached. You need to have what I called the mind of a little child or what Zen Buddhists call beginner’s mind.

Therefore, you might consider performing the exercise without having any specific questions but simply writing down the thoughts that come to you afterwards. The important point of the exercise is not so much to get specific answers as to establish a connection to your higher self. After you begin to establish this connection, you will often get the answers you seek after the exercise, at a time when you least expect it.

Simply allow the process to run its course. Different people will communicate with their higher selves in slightly different ways. If you keep experimenting without being attached to a specific outcome, you will gradually find your personal form of communication.

Life is a path whereby lifestreams gradually grow to a greater awareness of their true identity as spiritual beings

Question: Should we strive to ascend to the Inner Planes as a method of spiritual development and if “Yes” what is a safe method to do so? This also brings up the question of what is consciousness and what part of us actually ascends to the inner planes. In particular, I’m very interested in a safe method that I and others could use to rise to the level of the I AM Presence.

Answer from Jesus:

As I explain throughout the ARJ website and in the books, life is a path whereby lifestreams gradually grow to a greater and greater awareness of their true identity as spiritual beings. No lifestream can be completely happy or at peace as long as it is separated from its spiritual self, its I AM Presence. Only by attaining union with the I AM Presence can the lifestream be fully at peace.

So the answer is that all true spiritual seekers should strive to ascend to the inner planes. However, the only safe method is to walk the spiritual path and strive for union with your Christ self. And you should strive to attain this union while you are still in the physical body, so that you can be the Christ in embodiment and express your Christhood in this world. Thereby, you can help raise the consciousness of all human beings and contribute to the raising of the vibratory level of the entire planet.

An important part of my mission was to demonstrate the path that leads to the ascension of the lifestream. Because reincarnation, as explained elsewhere, was removed from Christianity, most Christians do not have a clear understanding of the process that leads to the ascension. In fact, many Christians think that I was the only one who could complete this process. This is a very dangerous fallacy that I would like to see all Christians abandon once and for all.

The reality of the situation is that a number of lifestreams made the decision to eat of the forbidden fruit. This fruit was a symbol for a state of consciousness in which the lifestream becomes aware that good and evil can be defined as relative terms instead of the absolute reality that is beyond good and evil.

Because these lifestreams partook of this relative state of consciousness before they were sufficiently bonded to their I AM Presence, they gradually became lost in the lower state of consciousness and lost their connection to the I AM Presence. This caused these lifestreams to misqualify the pure energies of God, which the teachings on reincarnation describe as karma.

As long as the lifestream has karma in the material universe, it cannot permanently ascend to the spiritual realm. Therefore, the lifestream must keep reincarnating until it has balanced all karma and requalified all impure energy. This then becomes what Eastern religions call the wheel of rebirth, but contrary to the teachings of many Eastern religions, the wheel will not continue forever. Each lifestream has an allotted time, and if the lifestream does not qualify for its ascension before the time is up, the lifestream will go through a ritual called the second death and be erased as an individual lifestream.

Virtually every religious teaching on this planet talks about how to rise above the lower consciousness and ascend to the spiritual realm. This is what many Christians call the process of salvation. Unfortunately, partly because of the loss of the teachings on reincarnation, many Christians take a passive approach to salvation and think I will do all the work for them.

There are many safe methods whereby the lifestream can rise to unite with the spiritual self. Over the past century, the Ascended Host have sponsored several organizations that brought forth new teachings and techniques that are specifically designed to help spiritual seekers in today’s age. However, you can also base your path on older religions.

To be effective, a spiritual teaching must give you the following tools:

A way to requalify the misqualified energy, or karma, that keeps you tied to the material world.
Teachings and techniques that help you resolve all false beliefs about yourself, about God and about your relationship to God so that you can voluntarily choose to ascend back to the spiritual realm.

All of the tools we give on this website are designed to help you complete the process that leads to the ascension. Together with the teachings, they form a path that is safe and effective. However, each lifestream is an individual. There are certainly other valid teachings/tools that can help you make progress, and you need to follow your own inner prompting and use what resonates with you.

What is consciousness? In its essence, Consciousness is God’s substance and Being. The unmanifest aspect of God, what I call the state of pure Being, is a state of pure consciousness. The Creator is an individualization of the state of pure Being, and it is conscious of its own existence and its ability to create. An individual lifestream is an individualization of the Creator.

A new lifestream is not created with a full awareness of its oneness with God. The lifestream is meant to grow and mature and gradually rise to higher levels of awareness, until it can fully recognize itself as an individualization of God and as a co-creator with God.

The unique individuality of each lifestream is anchored in the I AM Presence, or spiritual self. At some point in the past, a number of lifestreams decided to experience life in the material universe. For this purpose, a lifestream, or I AM Presence, created an extension of itself. This lifestream is what we call the Conscious You.

One might say that the Creator is an individualization of the state of pure Being, the I AM Presence of each lifestream is an individualization of the Creator, and the Conscious You is an individualization of the I AM Presence.

The soul is simply a vehicle that enables a lifestream to descend into the material universe and experience this level of God’s creation from the inside. Obviously, the very fact that the soul is made from lower energies than the I AM Presence makes it possible that the Conscious You can become lost in this universe, because it comes to identify itself as a human being rather than as a spiritual being inhabiting a human body.

Because the Conscious You is the part that can act in the material universe, it is also the seat of your free will. That is why the spiritual path can be described as a process whereby the Conscious You must gradually raise its understanding, so that it can begin to make constructive choices. Constructive choices are decisions that bring the lifestream closer to God, as opposed to destructive choices, or sins, that bring the lifestream further away from oneness with God.

The Holy Spirit is more than the Violet Flame

Question: Master Jesus: Are the Holy Spirit and the violet flame one and the same?

Bambi

Answer from Jesus:

The Violet Flame is one aspect of the Holy Spirit, but the Holy Spirit is more than the Violet Flame. In other words, the Holy Spirit can take on several God qualities. The seven main God qualities, also known as the seven rays, are described elsewhere.

Let me give you a visual illustration of the relationship between God the Father, God the Mother, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. The image I will use is to compare creation to a movie projector.

The central element of the movie projector is the light bulb, which radiates white light. The light bulb itself can be compared to God the Father. He is the source of all light. Yet when the light has left the bulb, it takes on the quality of the Holy Spirit. Therefore, the Holy Spirit – in its impersonal or universal aspect – is the light that streams through all levels of creation and gives it life, movement and forward momentum. As I explain elsewhere, the Christ consciousness is a state of mind which holds the matrix, or blueprint, for the form that is to be created. This then is the film strip upon which you find the images. The matter (ma-ter) substance of the divine Mother can be compared to the movie screen.

So you now have God the Father acting as the light bulb, which produces the light that drives everything in creation. The light of the Holy Spirit passes through the film strip and is colored by the images on the film strip, meaning the images in the minds of all sons and daughters of God, including human beings.

When the colored light of the Holy Spirit hits the movie screen, meaning the energies of the divine Mother, it projects an image upon that screen. The divine Mother lovingly reflects whatever is projected upon her through the power of the Holy Spirit and through the minds of the sons and daughters of God.

Human beings are always co-creating their own reality on Earth. This happens when the light of the Holy Spirit passes through their subconscious and conscious minds, where it is colored by the perfect or imperfect images that people hold. People create these images by using a combination of the qualities/flames/rays of God or a perversion of those qualities.

The seven main qualities are:

God Power
God Wisdom
God Love
God Purity
God Truth
God Peace
God Freedom

These qualities are perverted when people descend into the lower state of consciousness, and therefore people begin to create imperfect images that reflect control, ignorance, hatred, impurity, deceit, aggression and bondage.

The Holy Spirit also has a personal or specific aspect, which is created when the lifestreams in an unascended sphere use their co-creative abilities to raise all life. The principle in an unascended sphere is that after an initial release of the Holy Spirit, more light will be released only when co-creators multiply what was given previously. I explained this in my parable about the three servants who were given talents by their master.

Thus, in an unascended sphere the Holy Spirit is the combined force created by all of the lifestreams who have made constructive choices. Each selfless choice ads to the force of the Holy Spirit and this is what creates an upward spiral that leads an unascended sphere – or planet – towards the ascension point. You can either shut yurself out from this upward spiral – whereby life becomes a constant struggle – or you can tune in to it and flow with this River of Life.

The Violet Flame is a very efficient technique for consuming or transforming imperfect energies

Question: Through the Summit Lighthouse I have learned that the science of the spoken word and the use of the Violet Flame is the quickest way for us to make our ascension in this life. What do you say about this? Also what about other things that people can do with sound, such as healing. I am very interested in sound healing but do not want to get caught up with psychics in my search. What do you suggest? Thank you for you consideration.

Answer from Jesus:

What you have learned is correct. We of the Ascended Host have used several organizations to release spiritual techniques that make use of the spoken word. The spoken word is very effective, because when God created the universe, he said, “Let there be light.”

Therefore, the entire material universe was created through the power of sound. A thought carries power, but the spoken word releases that power into the material universe. The Violet Flame is a very efficient technique for consuming or transforming imperfect energies, including karma.

However, one must always bear in mind that each lifestream has a unique path that leads back to God. Therefore, even though a spiritual technique may be extremely effective, one should not reason that every human being should be using this technique. People are individuals, and some people might need other techniques to make it back home. Furthermore, much depends on where a given lifestream is on its personal path. At some levels, a lifestream might not be ready to use the spoken word, and if not the technique will not be effective for that particular person.

However, I will say that a very large number of people could benefit greatly from using the technique of the Violet Flame.

Sound healing

Considering that sound is the creative force that the Elohim used to create the material universe, it is obvious that sound is a powerful tool for healing. That is why we have given so many tools – decress, affirmations and invocations – that make use of the spoken word. All of the tools that produce sound are a form of sound healing.

Every lifestream has a unique sound, which can be described as its inner name. This inner name is a “soundless sound,” and it cannot be spoken by the human tongue or heard by the physical ears. However, as a lifestream attains a certain level of Christ consciousness, it can, by making a conscious effort, come to know it’s inner name. This inner name is a very powerful key to healing the lifestream. Because of the nature of the inner name, I cannot give you an outer teaching on this. This is something that each person must attain through inner knowledge. However, knowing that the inner name exists is a good starting point.

Obviously, there are many ways to use sound for healing purposes. I am sure you are aware of the effect of classical music that has been documented by some scientists. The messenger I am using for this website is not an expert on healing. Therefore, we of the Ascended Host are always looking for messengers who can bring forth new ideas and teachings concerning healing. You might want to consider that you could become an open door for bringing forth such new ideas.

Concerning psychics

I understand your concern about psychics. However, if you recognize the teachings that the Ascended Host have given forth through various organizations, you already have a guiding rod for evaluating other teachings and people. In other words, you can only recognize the truth in our teachings if you have attained a certain measure of Christhood.

Christhood gives you the discernment to know what is of God and what is not of God. You simply need to recognize that you have attained some level of Christhood, and then you need to make a conscious effort to increase your discernment. This discernment can tell you whether a person’s vibration is psychic or spiritual.

I must tell you frankly that there is no fail-safe way for you to avoid psychics. To grow in any aspect of life, you must be willing to try, you must be willing to open your mind to new ideas. If you close your mind, you cannot grow, as so many religious people, including many Christians, have already demonstrated.

When you decide to open your mind to new ideas, you might make imperfect choices, but instead of being afraid of making any choices, I encourage you to see them as another opportunity to learn.

Obviously, you never want to give your soul to anyone, including a healer. However, if you exercise due caution, you can always learn something from investigating new ideas or techniques. Simply realize that everything can be used to increase your discernment. If you learn from an experience, it was never wasted. It was not even a failure; it was simply another step on your path to greater understanding.

Use the appropriate tools to pursue the path of personal Christhood. Always strive for balance and use common sense to avoid the extremes on both sides. If you remain balanced and use your intuition to evaluate every new idea, you will find ideas that are valid and useful to you at the present level of your personal path.

Is meditation the best way to experience God?

Question: Kim, thank you for your site. I have studied spiritual teachings for years and meditated, but it was not until I discovered your site that the pieces all seemed to come together. I have been doing many of the rosaries and affirmations along with prayer and meditation. Here is my question for Jesus. My concern is that even though I feel God’s presence, I have not yet had a direct contact experience and I tend to believe that this would most likely occur during meditation. I’ve read Autobiography of a Yogi and feel inspired to study Kriya Yoga. The SRF Fellowship indicates that Jesus was initiated in this yogic practice. Their study course is 3-1/2 years long and involves initiation into Kriya Yoga. However, on this site Jesus seems to discourage the meditation path for those in the Western culture, or am I interpreting that incorrectly? Could Jesus provide some guidance on the value of this type of meditation to make the connection with our inner God self. Or are there other spiritual techniques that are more effective? I have prayed and meditated for an answer to this question, but to this date I continue to be without an answer.

Answer from Jesus – September 2, 2011

During my 17 so-called “lost years,” I did travel in the East and I did experiment with and learned a number of Eastern spiritual techniques, as I was indeed very open to learning anything that might help me in my mission—which at the time I did not fully understand or “see.”

I did learn something that is comparable to Kriya Yoga, but to say that what I learned is the same or was taught the same way as what the SRF Fellowship is offering today would be a misrepresentation. You also need to remember that I learned many other Eastern techniques, so it is not my intent here to endorse or recommend any one technique.

Everything is meant to evolve over time, as change is indeed the order of the day on this planet (due to the fact that the collective consciousness is lagging behind the growth rate of the rest of the universe). So even though Indian gurus have a tendency to claim they have rediscovered a lost technique, it simply isn’t possible to separate a spiritual technique from its context, meaning the society in which it is used and the level of the collective consciousness at the time. Which explains why we of the Ascended Host do not generally recommend Eastern meditation techniques for Western students.

Now, I know there are people who will immediately reason that this statement alone means I am not the real Jesus. For example, many SRF students will reason that since Yogananda was working with the real Jesus, then anything said on this site should be in complete agreement with what Yogananda said—and if it is not, this can only mean this site is not from the real Jesus. Of course, people from other movements or gurus do exactly the same.

Yet for those with a more discerning mind, let me make it clear that I did indeed work with Yogananda. Yet what I could bring forth through Yogananda was very much a product of how far he was able to transcend his own background, as this website is a product of how much this messenger can transcend his own background.

You see, an ascended being has transcended ALL backgrounds on earth and is always seeking to get people to do the same, starting with their current world view. Thus, we are indeed willing to work with most people who are willing to transcend, and we always seek to bring forth something that can help a certain group of people transcend their current thought system.

What causes many otherwise sincere students to miss our instructions is two things:

The belief that we of the Ascended Host have a universal, fixed or absolute truth up here that we are seeking to bring forth in its complete non-diluted form.
The belief that we have already brought forth parts of this truth, and thus anything said after a certain guru or movement MUST conform to what was said before.

It is precisely these beliefs that cause people to become stuck in misguided loyalty to an outer teaching, guru or movement. Which not only causes their personal growth to come to a halt, but also causes the universal work on raising humankind’s consciousness to slow down.

This is also what causes a clear pattern in spiritual movements, that any honest student can observe, namely what we might call the “expand and deflate” syndrome. You will see a number of spiritual movements that have gone through a quick growth phase, only to then stagnate and slowly deflate. The deflation often begins with the death or retirement of the leader, but it sometimes starts even before.

The reason for this deflation is that either the leader or a majority of the students of a movement cannot or will not multiply the talents—in the form of the teachings or techniques given. You see, there is a spiritual law, which guides ANY spiritual movement.

Contrary to what many ascended master students think, we are NOT working with just one or a few movements. We are working with students wherever they are, seeking to accelerate the growth of the students—having no fixed loyalty to an outer teaching or movement. Which means that if a movement is indeed helping people transcend their old thought patterns, we will give a certain multiplication to that movement.

Take note that this does not mean we endorse or agree with everything done or taught in the movement. There have been many movements which had a teaching that was largely out of touch with reality, yet the movement was still helping people transcend their old level of consciousness, and thus it received the multiplication factor—and it was our multiplication that caused it to grow.

Yet what often happens is that a movement cannot maintain the growth rate, and the reason is that too many students stop transcending themselves. Instead, they use the teachings and the tools to reinforce the world view of their egos, meaning they now feel superior to others and feel they will be “saved” without having to expose their egos.

When that happens, a true guru will leave the movement, and in many cases even leave embodiment. A not-so-true guru will stay, but the movement will now become subject to the force behind the second law of thermodynamics, wherefore chaos will increase, until the movement breaks down or slowly declines.

So my point for this long discourse is to show why certain Eastern gurus have been successful in establishing a movement in the West and also why they usually decline after a time. The reason is that in most cases, Eastern gurus cannot sufficiently transcend their backgrounds and adapt their teachings and techniques to the Western mindset.

You see, in most cases an Eastern guru comes to the West with a subtle sense that the spiritual tradition of the East is superior. The guru thinks he is here to bring something superior, and thus it is not he who has anything to learn. Which is why you see that Eastern gurus are usually not very willing to adapt to the Western mindset.

Yet when an Eastern guru comes to the West, that guru is being severely tested in his or her ability to be flexible. You see, you will not help the forward movement of humankind by seeking to turn Western spiritual students into clones of Eastern spiritual students. You will further growth ONLY if you can distill the truly universal elements of your spiritual tradition and then express it in a Western context. One of the few Eastern techniques having been successfully transferred to the West is yoga, and the reason is that it has not been under a centralized control but allowed to diversify.

What ads to the complexity of the situation is that there are many of today’s spiritual students who chose to embody in the West in order to help with the spiritual awakening of the West. Yet for several lifetimes before this one, they were embodied in the East, and thus they have not themselves transcended Eastern spiritual tradition. They are attracted to Eastern gurus, and once there, they think the Eastern tradition is not only familiar to them but also superior and thus should not be changed.

So, you see, like attracts like. The guru who has spiritual pride in the Eastern tradition attracts students with the same pride, and they together reinforce each other in creating a closed system that will eventually decline.

What you are essentially dealing with here is the eternal challenge of balancing the two basic forces of creation, namely the expansive and the contracting force. The expansive force says you need to transcend the old, and the contracting says you need to remain true to tradition.

If you become unbalanced in the expansive, you will indeed lose your bearings and everything will be blown apart in an uncontrolled expansion. Yet if you become unbalanced in the contracting force, everything will contract and implode from within.

So the key is the Christ perspective, which is always seeking to expand, but is NOT seeking to get everyone to accept one superior truth. The Christ meets people where they are and then seeks to help them grow from there. And if people are not willing to transcend the old, then the Christ withdraws (if they do not kill him first).

This explains why I left my students after three years and why Yogananda left his students when he saw that SRF had reached the limits of transcendence. The Living Christ has no loyalty to anything on earth, but always looks to the next level of transcendence.

Now, that we have a better foundation, let me address the original questions:

“However, on this site Jesus seems to discourage the meditation path for those in the Western culture, or am I interpreting that incorrectly?”

I am discouraging people from plunging themselves into using meditation as it is often presented by Eastern gurus, namely as a “one solution to all problems” and as their only spiritual technique. The West is a very busy, intense and chaotic environment when it comes to the psychic energies to which you are exposed in daily life. It is NOT advisable that anyone uses a technique for stilling or emptying the mind without invoking spiritual protection, such as through our decrees and invocations.

Take note that what we always encourage is that people follow their own inner promptings. If you feel a strong attraction to for example Kriya Yoga, the reason is that you need to learn something from that experience. What you need to learn will in some cases be that this is not for you, but most people still cannot learn this by being told from without. So if you feel a strong attraction, follow it—but be alert that the true spiritual lesson may be beyond what you outer mind can conceive right now.

“Could Jesus provide some guidance on the value of this type of meditation to make the connection with our inner God self. Or are there other spiritual techniques that are more effective?”

What we are talking about here are two very different things, namely a systematic technique and an experience of the formless God. Take note of what is said in the question:

My concern is that even though I feel God’s presence, I have not yet had a direct contact experience and I tend to believe that this would most likely occur during meditation.

The problem here is that many people seek an experience of God, yet they think they have to use a systematic approach in order to produce or even “force” the experience. This simply cannot be done. The formless will NEVER be forced into ANY form, so you need to question any image of what God is like and what a mystical experience should be like.

Many people think they have had an experience of God as the result of using some technique or even taking drugs. Yet what they have done is to force their brains and nervous systems to produce an experience so far beyond their normal experience, that they thought it was God.

Do you see the subtle distinction? ANY experience you force will be produced by the mind, and it will take place INSIDE the mind—and as such it CANNOT GO BEYOND THE MIND. Yet a true experience of God is completely and utterly beyond the mind.

Do you see the impossibility of using the mind as a tool for transcending the mind—it can NEVER be done. The more you focus on using the mind, the more you tie your true self to the mind. Because your very attention creates a bond of energy that causes YOU to be imprisoned by the mind, which is meant to be only a tool for interacting with the material world. How can you use this tool to go beyond the material world?

So the key to having an experience of God is to realize that there is nothing you can DO to bring it about.

This is not to say you should not use a technique. A proper technique can further your growth in terms of clearing your mind and balancing your chakras, which will make it easier to have an experience of God. The more you reduce the chaos in your mind, the easier it will be for YOU to free your awareness from identification with the mind.

One of the most efficient techniques available right now is the Elohim Decrees. Although we have not (deliberately so) announced them with great fanfare, they represent a major dispensation for clearing and balancing all of your chakras. Yet again, this is not to say that using them will guarantee you an experience of God.

A mystical experience cannot be predicted, because it is beyond form. Thus, you cannot meaningfully define what a mystical experience should be like—it will take different forms for different people.

So the key is to focus on using a technique that is attractive to you, but never allowing it to become routine. Never allow yourself to fall into the pattern seen in so many movements, where people think they have to continue to use a technique for the rest of their lives and that this will guarantee them some result. You must be very alert to when your higher self prompts you to move on to a new technique or a higher use of your present technique.

You also need to get yourself out of the mindset of seeking or even wanting a mystical experience. If you want something, it is because you have a mental image of what the experience should be like, and that is like seeking to force God to appear to you in a certain form. That is a graven image, which will almost certainly block your experience of the formless God.

Instead, focus on raising your consciousness, so you can give better service in the universal cause of raising all life. In other words, many well-meaning seekers have become so focused on themselves and having a peak experience, that they have become closed systems. You need to get out of the narcissistic mindset, and the only way is to focus on serving others or a greater cause—but doing so selflessly and not in order to elevate your ego.

So you need to strive for a state of complete non-attachment to what form of mystical experience you should have—and even whether you should have such an experience. If you can achieve this, you might just transcend the outer mind to SPONTANEOUSLY have an experience. But then again, you might not have a mystical experience, because many people can make progress without one or by having just one.

You are on earth to fulfill a mission here and qualify for your ascension. Earth is far from being an ideal environment for experiencing oneness with God. You have only a certain amount of time to qualify for your ascension, but once you ascend, you have unlimited time to experience oneness with God. Set your priorities accordingly.

The concept of resurrection

Question: I am looking for an ascended master description on what resurrection means and entails. Some religions have scriptures referring to resurrection as the renewal of our physical bodies being recreated and brought back to life in a perfected human form. As in: “So would it be with the resurrection of the dead. The body that is sown is perishable, it is raised imperishable”. I have also read that resurrection equates to crystallization of the light body and such things. Does resurrection equate with ascension, or is it different?

Answer from the Ascended Master Jesus through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2020 Webinar – Increasing Your Christ Discernment.

The resurrection is not the same as the ascension. But the resurrection that I talked about 2 000 years ago, was not a bodily resurrection. There are unfortunately, some misunderstandings of this, even in the scriptures. And there are many Christians who have built this erroneous concept that at some point in the future, when the second coming of Christ occurs, then all those who are good Christians will be raised incorruptible in their physical bodies. And they will then live in the heaven realm, in physical bodies like they have today, but they have been perfected so they don’t get old and they don’t have diseases.

This is an unrealistic scenario. As we have said before, in the spiritual realm, why could you possibly need a physical body? You need a physical body, only in the material realm, because your physical body is made out of the energies that make up the material realm. That is why you need a physical body. In the spiritual realm, you have no need for physical body whatsoever. You do have a light body.

You can say that you are reborn into an ascended body. But that is not actually the same as the physical resurrection that so many Christians think about. In a sense, you could say that, there can be a certain form of resurrection. You have what we have told you that, after my ascension, I was allowed to take on a physical body and live in Kashmir for some years. And you can say that—you can express it different ways, because words are really not adequate—but you can say that I resurrected my body into a higher level. You could also say that I manifested a new body. It is really a matter of how you define these words.

Resurrection really is not that important of a concept, when you have the teachings about the ascension. You are focusing on ascending, which does not mean that your physical body ascends. It does not, as we have explained, mean that your four lower bodies or your three higher bodies ascend.

We realize that in previous dispensations, such as the Summit Lighthouse and the I AM Movement, there was a concept of a physical ascension, where the physical body was raised up. And there was the sense that your soul ascended, meaning your three higher bodies—your emotional, mental, and identity bodies—became perfected, so that they could ascend. But these were teachings that were given for that level of consciousness. And what we give today is a higher level of consciousness for the Aquarian Age, where we have given you the teachings that you do not take the physical body with you, you do not take the emotional, mental, or identity bodies with you. It is only the Conscious You, the man who descended from heaven, that will ascend back to heaven.

How to deal with the pressure associated with spiritual work

Question: I usually sense when there is something bigger coming up in my psyche. I actually sense it long before it becomes very clear to my conscious mind and reveals itself. As soon as I sense something though, I find myself falling into the pattern that I start to over-analyze and constantly ask myself questions around the topic I sense. This self puts me under a kind of pressure that takes away my peace of mind, and I’m not able to trust and surrender completely in that moment, that it will come to me when I am ready. What beliefs are behind that self?

Answer from the Ascended Master Jesus through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2020 Webinar – Increasing Your Christ Discernment.

Again, there are individual conditions here. You can indeed have a self that drives you to always look at yourself and over-analyze. Many people have built this in past lives of analyzing themself, and it is, again, a control issue. There may very well be a self that causes you to create this pressure in your mind. And this is something you can then look at and use our tools to resolve it. But otherwise, there are many of you who can sense when something is coming up. You simply become aware of a certain issue, you might read something, you might hear something, or it might just come from within. And in that case, it is correct to use, to proceed asking yourself questions about it. But of course, what you need to do is avoid the pressure. And the pressure comes from an unresolved self.

You can come to that point where you feel something is coming up, you put your attention on it, you ask questions about it, but you are not over-analyzing, you are not putting pressure on yourself.

In fact, what this messenger usually does in these situations, and it happens to him, of course, on a regular basis, is that he puts his attention on it, he asks certain questions, he considers the issue. But he does not do it in an obsessive way. He is not putting pressure on himself. He thinks about it, and then he lets it go. He simply drops it, and he waits for some other impulse to come back to him. And he might look at it from a slightly different angle. And this may go on for some time before he has a more conscious awareness of what is going on, and looks at something in a more conscious way. Then he usually, after even doing this, lets it go again. And then after some time, and it could be days or even weeks, he may feel that release from within that shows that the issue has been resolved.

Why some people choose to live in different countries

Question: The dictation and discourse today helped me a lot to gain a deeper understanding about this restlessness, and a desire to have so many experiences. I have lived in five very different countries so far, and I wonder if we choose specific countries because we have some karma to resolve with other people from past lives, or are there other reasons?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Jesus through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2020 Webinar – Increasing Your Christ Discernment.

It is correct that some people have a sense that they have karma in different countries with different people. If you are in what you plan to be your last embodiment, you may indeed want to move several times and live different places in order to resolve that karma. But you can also have a desire to experience how life is looked at in very different countries.

This can help you break up what you were brought up with—the way you were brought up to see life. Or even going back to other lifetimes, break up the habit of looking at life that you have built, by seeing how different people look at it differently. It can help you broaden your perspective, free yourself from some of these old patterns.

You can, of course, also have people who need to learn something from these cultures that will then help you express your Christhood or your creativity in helping other people. There can be a variety of reasons for doing this. This is not to say that everybody needs to do it, because it is individual.

Question about dynamic meditation

Question: Can you give us some insights about what happens in dynamic meditations?

Answer from Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2020 Webinar – Increasing Your Christ Discernment.

I’m not entirely sure here but I assume that this is the kind of meditations that were given by Osho Rajneesh where people have this movement, dances they went through and where they release all kinds of emotions, whatever comes to them, they scream, or do whatever, I assume that’s it, if I’m not correct, then you need to submit the question again. But I’ll just comment myself, if this is what you’re talking about, I have seen this—what they do.

Question: I’ve experienced several people have a huge release of stuck energy while moving their body and doing some sort of dynamic meditation. Is this also tying into the reverse energy flow you explained in one of the last conferences with the spoken word?

So my sense of this is that you can have these forms of meditation that actually force people to release emotions or emotional energy. But it does not vibrate healthy to me. I think, in many cases, it opens people’s emotional bodies up. It may release some energy, but it is such a violent release that it opens your emotional body to the astral plane or to other people and lower forces. I think people who go through something that violent will often end up feeling depleted of energy, or feeling overwhelmed and they can become open to lower beings. I would not personally do something like that.

Kindness does not mean that you never challenge or oppose other people

Question: Lord Maitreya’s dictation was about kindness and what that means on a dense planet such as earth. I mean, how do we stay being kind and not become a doormat?

Answer from the Ascended Master Maitreya through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2020 Webinar – Increasing Your Christ Discernment.

Well, this is indeed a difficult question to answer in a linear way, it is a challenge that all people need to go through. We have said that there is a point where you have this desire for control, this need for control, and you are willing to project out at other people in order to get the sense that you are in control. This of course is not kindness, so when you overcome that desire to be in control and all kinds of aggression towards other people, that is when you start manifesting what people normally call kindness.

Many people will then go through a phase where they almost overcompensate for feeling that they were not kind before. And so, they go into this passive view of what kindness is where they think that kindness means that you never challenge or oppose other people. You basically let them do whatever they want to do and then you always turn the other cheek, and this is kindness. But when I originally volunteered to come to earth, I raised a question of whether people on earth could be awakened through kindness. And the answer I received from my spiritual counselors at the time, was that only if I mastered the 144 shades of kindness.

In other words, there is a shade of kindness for each of the 144 levels. And when you go towards the lower levels of consciousness, or when you are dealing with a person at the lower levels of consciousness, being a doormat and allowing them to do whatever they want, it is not kindness, it is not kindness towards them, because it will only reinforce their state of consciousness that they can get away with abusing others.

When you are dealing with people at a lower level of consciousness, people who are aggressive, letting them get away with it is not kindness, it is actually kindness to challenge them. Not in the sense that you go into a physical battle with them, or that you seek to destroy them, but that you seek to make their behavior more obvious to others and ultimately, perhaps to themselves.

In other words, you seek to call them out, you seek to ask them questions of why they are behaving like this, why they think this is justified, why they think this is necessary, why they are not concerned about the effects on other people and various other questions that you can ask. And then of course, in some cases, kindness is to just walk away from these people and leave them alone, if they will not listen.

So, you can see here that whatever level of consciousness you are at personally, there is a shade of kindness that corresponds to that level. And that is what you can be aware of and seek to attain individually through an intuitive experience. You can certainly ask for my help, give my decree to help you see what kindness means for you at your level, but also what it means when you are dealing with specific people that you have to deal with. So, ask and I shall give it to you, to the extent that you are able to receive it by again being in that neutral state of listening.

Ascended Masters have a spherical, non-local state of consciousness

Question: How do ascended masters connect with us when we tune into them in our hearts? For example, if I meditate and call upon Jesus, will he be interrupted in the ascended realm with his everyday doings, so he needs to rush to me? Or does his office have many beings who help him? A lot of people are constantly seeking to have communion with Jesus. How will he handle this?

Answer from the Ascended Master Jesus through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2020 Webinar – Increasing Your Christ Discernment.

Well, the question is asked from the level of consciousness you have here on earth, where you are in a very linear state of consciousness. It is understandable that people have this question and wonder about this. But it is based on the fact that when you are in embodiment on a dense planet like earth, you cannot even imagine, or envision what it is like to be an ascended master, you cannot imagine what state of consciousness we are in. You are in a localized state of consciousness that is focused around your physical body. So, you think that if someone calls you to come and help them, you have to physically go to them and your entire consciousness goes there with your physical body.

I do not have a physical body. I do not have a localized sense of consciousness. I have a spherical or non-local state of consciousness so I can be in two places at the same time. In fact, I can be in 2 million places at the same time. I can be everywhere in a localized sphere of earth so I can help millions of people at the same time. I do not need helpers to send one helper to each person, I can be there at the same time. It does not distract from my normal doings. In fact, it is part of my normal doings. This is not to say that everybody who meditates on or prays to Jesus, reach the ascended master Jesus Christ—some reach lower beings, some reach imposters, it’s very individual. But there are certainly many, many people who have built a certain connection to me, some of them are Christians and therefore they can sense my presence. And I can of course, manifest my presence with them, and still have a part of my presence that is doing other tasks in the ascended realm.

144 levels of consciousness and reincarnation

Question: When the physical body of a lifestream passes on and the being reincarnates to a new body and a new life, does this being start at the same level on 144 levels of consciousness, as where it left its previous life? The reason I’m asking is, is that I have the idea that a lifestream has to go many times through 144 levels of consciousness instead of just one time.

Answer from the Ascended Master Jesus through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2020 Webinar – Increasing Your Christ Discernment.

In most cases, when a being reincarnates, it comes back at the same level of consciousness that it had at the end of its last lifetime. There are a few beings that actually deteriorate while they are out of the body because they get caught in the astral plane and they descend to a lower level.

There are also a higher number of beings who are spiritual students, whether they are ascended master students or studying other spiritual teachings, who managed to make progress in between embodiments. They process their psychology, they get help from the ascended masters, and they rise to a higher level so they can come in one or even several levels higher than they were in their last embodiment.

The idea that you have to go through the levels several times is not correct in a linear way. There are, of course, people who will go up to a certain level, and then either standstill there for some time, or go down again. It is not such a linear process that once you have reached a certain level, you could not go below it.

There are people who will go back and forth several times and therefore in that way, they go through some of the levels many times, but there are very, very few people who reach the higher levels of Christhood and go backwards.

How can we help our adult children to deal with difficult situations?

Question: I have a 21 year old son who is in his fourth year in medical school who has suddenly lost interest in the field of medicine with just two years more to complete the course. He complains of headaches and insomnia, and loss of interest in the field of medicine, and therefore wants a new experience to study mathematics. Is he following his divine plan or is it because of a trauma and separate selves from past lives and projections from forces of death and hell, causing him to abort the medical course? And how can he be helped?

Answer from Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2020 Webinar – Increasing Your Christ Discernment.

Now I’m reading this question because it’s actually a, it’s an example of a question that’s a little bit personal, where the masters would not want to say, for example: “Yes, this is part of his divine plan”, or “No, this is not part of his divine plan”. Because your divine plan is something that you need to sense from within, and you are really the only one who can do it.

But I’m reading it because I feel that the masters want me to make some comments. So, what I would say when I hear this, the first thing that comes to my mind is: Here’s a 21 year old person who was in his fourth year of medical school, that means he started when he was 17, or 18 years old, studying medicine, which is a very intense study. So no doubt he went to school up until that point in lower levels of school. So maybe he is just very young and maybe he needs to have some more time to mature. Maybe he needs to do something else for a while. It doesn’t mean he couldn’t come back to it.

And what I would also question is, why has he lost interest in the field? Is it possibly because he’s seen the limitations of traditional medicine? Or is it because he feels that this really isn’t what he expected it to be? I would also consider looking at what is the context in which he’s grown up? What is the attitude in his family towards studies in general? Has he felt a certain pressure to become a doctor, to go into medical school? And has it just caused him to do something that really wasn’t part of his divine plan? And now he’s reached a point where he realizes that it isn’t what he is meant to do. I’m not saying this is a final answer, I’m just saying these are questions that I would consider if I was in a situation.

Headache and insomnia, loss of interest. It could be a sign that he is overworked, that he’s stressed out, that he’s burned out, that it’s simply too overwhelming for him. It could also be a deeper issue where he feels that this really isn’t what he’s supposed to be doing and it’s become too much of a strain to suppress this.

So could it be trauma and separate selves from past lives? Yeah, of course it could be. But then the question is, is he open to ascended master teachings, is he open to giving decrees for protection or could you do it for him and maybe see an effect of that? The same with forces of death and hell, it could be projections, but again, you can give calls for that protection.

Then the final sentence in the question is: How can he be helped? Well, that’s why I would say well I understand that as a mother or father, you want to help your children. But sometimes you have to consider what does that mean to you? What exactly do you mean, when you say that my child should be helped? What are you basing that on? What’s your evaluation of the situation? How are you looking at it? And is there possibly something in the way you look at it, that could be a result of your programming, your upbringing or your separate selves and you could resolve this? You can also ask the question, does he need to be helped? And maybe he does, I’m not saying he doesn’t, but then it would be a matter of how well can you communicate with him? How free is your conversations? Can you talk to him about this? Are you at a point where you are able to help him? Are you open and neutral to talking to him, hearing about his issues and trying to find out and understand what’s really going on?

Because if you have decided with your outer mind that him being helped means he has to go back to his studies and complete his studies, that may not be the help he really needs. He may need someone who will listen to him who will try to understand what he’s feeling and maybe that will be enough for him to talk through it and work through it. Or maybe it won’t, maybe it will help him gain a greater resolve that he’s going to go in another direction? I don’t know. There isn’t a final answer. I’m just saying, this is what comes to me that I would consider in a situation like this.

About rocking back and forth during decreeing

Question: While decreeing I often find myself rocking backwards and forwards, not all the time, but I wonder if this affects the energy flow and if it is better to remain still. Sometimes I will go between being very still and then find myself rocking. Also, I have noticed a slight and at other times stronger pressure in the heart center. Can this also be addressed?

Answer from the Ascended Master Jesus through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2020 Webinar – Increasing Your Christ Discernment.

Well, there is nothing problematic about you rocking back and forth. It can be as a result of an energy flow that stirs up something in your four lower bodies and then causes this. When you have a flow of energy through your chakras, you will sometimes have a physical movement of the body. If this does not becomes so pronounced, that it disturbs you, and distracts you, then you do not need to even be concerned about it.

You will also find that if you try to forcefully stop it, then this will be disturbing to your centeredness in your heart. Unless it becomes so strong that it is disturbing, I would not be concerned about it, simply let it be. If it does become very strong, then you can experiment with whether you can suppress it by simply making the decision to stop it or not allow it to go on, or whether this becomes disturbing in itself. Otherwise, you may need to, for some time, just let it run its course and make the calls, for example, violet flame, to transmute any unresolved energy in your four lower bodies.

How to have a deeper unity through sex

Question: Most of the time, I feel that I need sex no more. But sometimes I want to feel a deeper unity with my husband. I know that my husband wants and likes to have sex with me. I like it too, but I can’t understand how we can achieve deeper unity through sex, or is it easier without it?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2020 Webinar – Increasing Your Christ Discernment.

Well, what would be helpful for you is to look at your relationship or your view of your physical body as a woman. And you can look at your cultural context, how traditionally people have looked at women, at the female body, the physical body and at sexual activity in that culture. By being willing to work on this and see what kinds of selves you have taken on or created as a result of your upbringing, you might be able to resolve some of these so that you can actually come to a point where you can see and you can experience how to have a deeper union through sex.

It is not that it cannot be done, but it requires, of course, a certain openness, so that you are not blocked. Many, many people have been brought up with an attitude to sex that blocks that deeper union. It will also require some adjustment on the part of the man to come to a point where a man and women can have a deeper unity through sex.

You also need to be aware that once you clear away these blockages, you can have a deeper unity without sex. You can have it just by lying next to each other, or you can have it by touching and kissing without having actual intercourse. It is indeed possible to have a deeper unity through sex, but it is also possible to have it without sex.

You always run into the age-old challenge on this planet that men want or feel they need sex more often than women. This is an individual thing of how you can deal with this. But as we have said, if a man is addicted to sex or has these selves that makes him feel he has to have sex, then these will block a deeper unity. If the man will be able to overcome these, then there is more of an opportunity for you to have that deeper unity, where the sex is not a physical activity primarily, but it is driven by this desire to have that deeper unity.

How to create a more open love relationship

Question: How do women have to speak with men? Or how do women have to change their mind about all men or husbands? Or how must a woman look at a man or her husband? Maybe the way we speak to each other is a habit. But I think that it also depends on some beliefs at higher levels.

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2020 Webinar – Increasing Your Christ Discernment.

Well, as we move into the golden age, men and women will be able to change the traditional relationship between men and women in drastic ways. It is not only women who can do it, but they will no doubt be the forerunners. It is clear that as we move into the golden age, there will be many changes in the relationship between men and women. You can already see some of these changes in certain countries such as the Scandinavian countries.

It will first of all mean that there will be a much more open, honest and direct communication between men and women. What you can do at this level is that you can attempt to change the communication. If your male partner is also a spiritual person, perhaps even a student of the ascended masters, then he should be willing to work on establishing a better communication in your relationship. And that requires men to be willing to talk about some of the things that women find it easier to talk about, such as feelings, but that men can also learn to talk about without being uncomfortable about it.

Now, if you are ascended master students and want to improve your relationship, you can of course use our teachings for healing your spiritual traumas, and overcoming all of these different selves. Because if you look at the world, you will see that probably 95% or more of all relationships are dominated by the separate selves of both partners. It is simply these separate selves that are causing people to go into certain reactionary patterns that block growth in their relationships. Naturally, as ascended master students, you want to make an effort to overcome this. And if you are willing to speak openly about this, you can indeed make great progress on this. By doing this in your relationship you can help pull up the collective consciousness and give examples of how other people can do the same.

Exactly how this needs to be done depends very much on where you live. What is the context in which you have grown up? What is the traditional relationship between men and women in your country? I am not here saying that all people around the world should instantly step up to what you see right now in the Scandinavian countries. You cannot expect that people who have grown up in an Islamic culture can make that leap in a short period of time. It will certainly take time.

But nevertheless, you can look at your culture and look at how men and women have traditionally been relating to each other. Then you can talk openly about how you can improve your relationship and have a more open and honest relationship. And by working on these separate selves many of which you can see in your culture, you can see it in your parents, you can see it in other people, then you will be able to make progress and you will be able to establish a more free relationship, where you can come to see each other as equal partners. Not that the man is dominant or that the woman is dominant.

But of course, I realized that there are many cultures where the man has traditionally been dominant. Therefore, it will require more work in these cultures. It will actually require more adjustment on the side of the male partner who needs to overcome this programming that he has been exposed to from childhood, of how a man should be in that culture. It can be certainly more difficult for men who have grown up in such an environment to establish a more equal relationship with their wives. But it certainly can be done and it certainly can be done by ascended master students.

Is Joe Biden part of the old established elite?

Question: My question is, if Trump is an aspiring power elite, then who is Biden? Is he part of the old established elite? And if so, then how is that better for America than having Trump continue as president?

Answer from the Ascended Master Saint Germain through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2020 Webinar – Increasing Your Christ Discernment.

When we are talking about an old established elite, we are first of all in America, talking about these very rich, very old families primarily on the east coast, who have amassed great wealth and great influence through that wealth. There is also a certain power elite on the west coast, but it is actually not as influential as the eastern power elite.

Now, you can look at Biden’s personal history and you can see that he was not part of this elite. He grew up in relatively modest circumstances. He is not a millionaire, he has not enriched himself by his politics and if you actually look at his history, you will see that he has experienced great personal tragedy: losing his first wife, losing his son. As a result of that he has developed great empathy for people. He is actually what you would consider a decent human being.

However, he is not a visionary by any stretch of the imagination. He has been in politics for a very long time. You cannot really expect him to create some radical new changes. And that is not even how he sees his role as president, he sees his role as establishing some kind of dignity and continuity in the American political scene.

Now, the Vice President Elect is a different story, she has more of a potential to be open to new ideas, as has some of the many younger people who have been elected to Congress and the Senate from both parties. It is not that there is not a potential that there can be some progressive new ideas introduced over the next four years and beyond. But you need to recognize here that if you just look at the facts of Biden’s background, that he is not what we call a member of the power elite.

You may say that there is a certain political elite in Washington, but he is not really part of that, either. But he has been there for a long time and this has affected his outlook, so that there are certain ideas that he would not be able to grasp simply.

How to deal with Covid vaccine

Question: The COVID vaccine is going to be introduced to the world very soon. How should we deal with the situation? And how can we prevent the possible ill effects of the vaccine?

Answer from Kim Michaels given during the 2020 Webinar – Increasing Your Christ Discernment.

You need to choose for yourself whether you want to do it. I think it’s an individual choice is really the answer to it. You need to look at the situation in your country and how the vaccine was developed, and how confident you feel that it has been tested sufficiently.

I can comment on how I would look at this. Personally, I don’t like having anything spayed into my body. So, unless I felt it was absolutely necessary to get a vaccine, I wouldn’t do it.

I live in in Denmark, where there hasn’t been any talk about making it mandatory. I don’t think they’re considering this. While there may have been a debate about it, but I don’t think it’s ever been really serious that they would do this. I would say that, given that I’m not in a particular risk group, I wouldn’t do it as I see it right now. But if the situation changed, and there was more of a risk of getting the disease, then I might do it. You know, because I would feel that if it was approved by the Danish health authorities, I would feel confident enough that it had been tested and therefore it would be safe enough to do it. That’s how I would look at it right now. I’m not saying I would never take the vaccine—that would depend on what it was. But I will say that if I was a doctor or nurse who worked in the hospital, then I would do it just simply to avoid the risk of contracting the disease.

The muslim countries and secular democracy

Question: There is no caliphate anymore. But the institution lasted 1300 years and Islam had a golden age. Will a return to the caliphate help Muslims more?

Answer from the Ascended Master Saint Germain through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2020 Webinar – Increasing Your Christ Discernment.

Well, the short answer is no. The caliphate was a form of dictatorship. You can see also that some will claim that during the Roman Empire, that Rome had a golden age. You can see other situations or examples from history where a dictator brought a civilization into what has been called a golden age.

But we are in the modern times now. And the challenge for all nations is to move into a democratic form of government. This is the only thing that will ultimately help the Muslim countries. In order to fully do this, they will need to create secular democracies that are not dictated to by Islamic fundamentalists, or other religious authorities. You simply cannot create a fully functioning democracy if it is dominated by one particular religion.

How to deal with physical violence

Question: I’m a bit confused about how to deal with physical violence when we encounter it. You once mentioned it is not enough to give decrees and invocations etc. There must also be a physical attempt to stop the violence. In the book from Lady Master Nada, she mentions that we make severe karma when we intervene and stop someone from being violent as we go against the free will of that lifestream. To me though, trying to protect a child, for example, from being physically abused, seems the right thing to do. Could you please elaborate on this?

Answer from the Ascended Master Jesus through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2020 Webinar – Increasing Your Christ Discernment.

Well, you need to go and study Nada’s teaching more carefully, because you will see that it was given in a specific context and it cannot be applied in general ways as the linear mind wants to do.

Now it is clear that if you see a child being abused, you need to take appropriate actions to stop the abuse. But this does not mean of course, that you use violence to stop the abuse. This was the deeper meaning of turn the other cheek. But you can of course, involve the appropriate authorities when you see violence and abuse. By making them aware of this and then allowing them to take whatever action they deem necessary you have fulfilled your responsibility in the situation.

Children and positive affirmations

Question: I don’t know if I misunderstood the answer about the positive affirmations given earlier. But I make my daughter say positive affirmation such as: “She is a child of God, she is one with God, she is a spiritual being, God loves her” and others, unconditionally. Will that create some separate selves in her?

Answer from Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2020 Webinar – Increasing Your Christ Discernment.

Well, I will answer this because if you look at the answer again, you will see that if you do it in a forceful way, it will create separate selves. It is very individual, how your daughter is, how it functions. If this is something that is being forced, then it can certainly develop a separate self. You also need to consider the age of children because I have seen in the Summit Lighthouse how some parents got almost obsessed about developing their children’s highest potential even in the womb, and also when they were babies, and I think that in some cases, they actually stressed the children, and it became too much for them. You have to sometimes, you know, let children be children and let them play because that’s part of childhood as well.

What can I do to have better eating habits?

Question: I feel happy and satisfied only when I eat unhealthy foods. When I eat healthy, I feel like something is missing that I am not full. What can I do to have better eating habits?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2020 Webinar – Increasing Your Christ Discernment.

Well, the answer is partly in the question: “What can I do to have better eating habits?” For many people eating is a habit. There is a certain habit that you have formed, perhaps since childhood, perhaps even over lifetimes. You can form the habit where even at the physical level—at the level of your body, your body only feels satisfied when it gets the kind of foods that it is used to. Because your body has adjusted to a certain type of food and digesting that food and taking nutrition from that food, so the body can feel that it has not gotten enough nutrients, when it doesn’t get the food it is used to.

Now obviously, you do need to look at general guidelines for what foods contain the nutrients that your body needs. I am not saying that you should eat foods that do not contain enough nutrition.

Eating is a very individual matter. Some people need, for example, more protein than others. And they cannot fulfill that by being vegetarians, for example. The question is, “What is your definition of healthy food? What is your definition of unhealthy food?” This is something you need to look at.

Then you need to consider that you have two things that are going on in the world concerning diet and nutrition.

You have these collective entities that have been built that cause people to introduce eating habits of eating certain types of food. You will find them locally around the world where certain countries, they eat certain foods, and people have a habit of eating this kind of food.

Then the other tendency you see in the world is that there is—as a result of a growing awareness of everything, including nutrition—there are all of these nutrition gurus that spring up. Many of them have an ambition of making money or becoming famous and they launch these sometimes elaborate theories about a better way to eat. In some cases, they may have some points. But the fact of the matter is that you cannot create one single theory about nutrition that fits all people. You need to somehow tune into your individual body.

The tendency that you see in the world, and you see it among many spiritual people, is that you come across some kind of system or idea about nutrition, you decide with your outer mind, or perhaps you even feel some intuitive prompting that this is what you should follow. But then you become very strict and rigid in following it. And this is where you do as we have said before, you attempt to use an idea to force it upon your physical body. This has caused many spiritual people to start eating a certain diet that simply does not fulfill the nutritional needs of their bodies.

For example, many, many spiritual people have forced themselves to become vegetarians, or even vegans, when their bodies simply cannot get enough nutrition from this kind of diet. Not only protein but often also minerals. You need to consider: is my body actually signaling to me, that the foods that I think I should be eating are not fulfilling its needs.

You also need to consider that if you have a habit of eating what is clearly according to normal standards, unhealthy foods, such as junk food, then your body can have built this habit of feeling that unless it gets a certain amount of carbohydrates, for example, or fatty foods or fried foods, it just is not full, it does not feel satisfied.

This can even have an emotional level component where you feel satisfied by eating these kinds of foods, emotionally. This is where you can then discipline yourself to not eat these foods, and eat more healthy foods. You may need to do this for some time, until your body or even your emotional body develops, or sheds the old habit and develops a new one.

You can of course, also look at your attitude to nutrition, your attitude to certain foods, your attitude toward your body, and use our tools for discovering what selves you have that relate to the body, to how you see the body in general and to nutrition in general. You can then make progress with resolving some of these, which means that sometimes you do not have to force yourself to establish the new eating habit, it just happens spontaneously, as a result of you resolving these selves.

Why do spiritual organizations focus primarily on women?

Question: Master Jesus, I know that I’m a spiritual being, but still, I’m grateful for the opportunity for being in a male body. I have the most sincere desire to master my masculinity and become the best Christed man that I could possibly be. I am and always have been a spiritual person. Being a spiritual person as a man is difficult, because all spiritual organizations and teachings that I have encountered during my current embodiment, are very gynocentric. According to Google, gynocentric means centered on or concerned exclusively with women, taking a female, or specifically, a feminist point of view. I believe that this gynocentric approach that is demonstrated by all spiritual teachings and organizations that I have encountered, is very unbalanced and it degrades men. It also causes us men to flee from spirituality, not because we don’t have spiritual inclinations and aspirations, but because all spiritual teachings and organizations in our present days have a very strong tendency of being hostile towards men and masculinity. Master teachers, could you please share your thoughts on this?

Answer from the Ascended Master Jesus through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2020 Webinar – Increasing Your Christ Discernment.

You will look historically at the fact that for thousands of years religions have been male dominated, and been very focused on portraying this image that men are superior to women. As we move further into the raising the collective consciousness, we need to go through a period where there is more awareness on women’s situation, and raising up women to have leadership positions in society and even in spiritual movements.

This is part of the explanation. But the fact of the matter is that we have said many times in this dispensation, that you are not born as a man or a woman, you are born as a spiritual being. Any of the teachings we give and have given both in this and previous dispensations can be applied equally by men and women. It is not the focus of the teaching that causes men to flee from spirituality, if they indeed do that. Many, many obviously do not, but some men may do so. But that is because of their particular psychology, their own unwillingness to confront certain aspects of their psychology.

You are, of course, free to pursue building your masculinity, if you see that as a goal. But I must stress the fact that you will not ascend as a man. Neither will you ascend as a woman. You will ascend by transcending the gender roles defined on earth, including the view of what it means to be a masculine man. Which is also something relative, defined on earth, based on the history of various societies. You will see that in some nations the gender roles have softened up, and have even to some degree reversed, so that men can take care of the children, men can be at home, the woman can be at work. And this is part of this process of overcoming this male-dominated focus that has been there for so long, and it has put women down as a sort of second-rate citizen.

If you have a problem with this, I suggest that you have an unbalanced view of masculinity and what it means to be a man. And you would benefit from considering what separate selves you have, that you could simply let go of, and then you would feel much freer. And you could actually find a higher way to pursue masculinity.

We are not, of course, saying that in spiritual movements, men and women need to become alike, and men need to start behaving like women. But it is clear that as you move higher in consciousness, you are not acting in the traditional male or female roles. You will find new ways to act and interact.