Michaels – Page 37 – Ascended Master Answers

Can we ascend not from the earth but from the etheric realm?

Question: Is it possible to ascend not from the physical plane if you did not manage to reach the 144th level of consciousness, but have passed the 96th level mark and then ascend from the identity realm? In other words, is it possible to finish your journey from the 96th to the 144th level of consciousness by not staying on the physical earth?

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

Well, actually, I will just answer that, because they have given teachings that you can reach a level where you do not have to come back in embodiment. And you can finish the rest of what you need to resolve from, for example, the etheric realm, the identity level.

And the reason for this is that in the Summit Lighthouse, for example, it was said that there was a dispensation given that you could ascend with 51% of your karma balanced instead of 100%. And the masters have said that, the reason for this is that the 51% that you balance first is the karma you have with other people and the 49% is the karma you have with yourself, meaning basically, your unresolved psychology and your separate selves. This can be resolved from a higher level.

How to free yourself from being overwhelmed by other people’s suffering

Question: I have a very developed sensitivity and I feel the suffering and pain of people as if I am experiencing it myself. I often feel that I am an open door to unconditional love but I am also actually an open door to the suffering and pain that I am always connected to. It feels like I am all soaked up in this suffering and I cannot feel good knowing how other people are suffering. I feel like it has been going on since my very first incarnations, and I still cannot relate to it. I wonder how can one be sensitive but not suffer while being incarnated here? In addition, I am very focused on expressing myself, life, light, health, service outside. I like it, but almost all my attention is focused on what I can do and bring, and on the people around me, on my psychology of course too. Without it my life becomes empty and meaningless. It seems to me that these two states are connected, and I cannot quite distinguish what comes from the I AM Presence and what comes from separate selves.

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

Well, my beloved, there are avatars who have come to this earth, often having already some compassion for the suffering of the people on earth, wanting to help alleviate that suffering. Then when you come into your embodiment, one of your first embodiments, and are exposed to a very severe trauma that gives birth to your primal self, your emotional body is opened completely to the suffering of other people. You are so overwhelmed by this suffering, that it becomes the dominant aspect of your primal self.

You almost we might say, retreat from being in embodiment, and decide that you do not want to be here, you did not come here to express yourself or experience anything on earth, you only came here to help the suffering of other people and therefore this is the only thing that matters. Whereas you yourself and whatever goals you might have, or your I AM Presence might have with you being here, do not matter and you have to suppress your creativity and the expression of your light.

Now, it is very, very important to recognize that such a condition is because you have holes in your emotional body that ties you into these collective vortexes of suffering. You are not really helping alleviate the suffering of this planet by allowing yourself to be overpowered by this. So you can start by making calls for the protection of your emotional body, for Astrea to cut you free from ties to the collective body, to the astral plane.

But in the longer run, you need to uncover the selves, you need to uncover the decision that caused you to open your emotional body and think that you had to do this. You also need to deal with the fact that there will be some projections, or even some separate selves that say that it is selfish of you to close off your sensitivity to other people. But as Jesus just explained, it is not selfish to not allow yourself to be pulled down by other people’s emotions. And if you come to a point where you cannot enjoy life, and you cannot express yourself in a positive way, this is not benefiting the planet. This is not benefiting the collective consciousness.

So you need to use the tools we have given you to resolve these selves, to resolve the birth trauma, the primal self, and get to a point where you can have a positive attitude to being on earth. You can realize, as Jesus also said, but in a slightly different shading, that free will must be allowed to outplay itself. People have used their free will to create their current suffering. You are not in control of people’s free will and therefore there is no reason for you to suspend your own free choices in order to feel the suffering of other people. You have a right to simply raise yourself above other people’s suffering and come to the point where you can be on this planet without suffering personally. But you can also be on this planet and express the light, the individuality, the creativity that flows from your I AM Presence. Ultimately, it is expressing this creativity that will raise the collective consciousness and improve conditions on the planet.

You are not alleviating people’s misery by allowing yourself to be feeling and being overwhelmed by their misery. I know that misery wants company but this does not alleviate the misery. So again, if you allow yourself to feel this and shut off your creativity, you are part of the problem, you are not part of the solution. You came here because you wanted to be part of the solution so you need to reconnect to that original drive, you need to reconnect to the driver, your I AM Presence, to express something creative and positive on this planet.

What to eat and drink

Question: Which drinks are healthier water, milk, green tea or something else? How to clean and change food with positive energy?

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

Well, again there is no single answer to this because it is individual for each person. You need to simply experiment and you need to tune in to what works best for you. One of the really big problems that we have as ascended masters, is that people always have this tendency to look for the ultimate solution, the final solution, the solution that will solve all of their problems. So they of course want us to say “pancha tea” is the most healthy drink you can drink so they can believe that if they drink nothing but “pancha tea”, then they will be healthy. And this, of course is not the case, it never was, it never will be.

What you can do about food is you can bless your food, bless anything you take into your body. And you do not have to make an elaborate ritual out of this, you can simply say a silent prayer inside your mind every time you eat. And this messenger, for example, has for years just made a simple call to me to bless the food and transform it into the perfect nurturance that will nurture his physical body and give him the energy and the clarity of mind he needs to fulfill his divine plan. There is no one way this has to be done, you can make up your own prayer that appeals to you, and to whatever master appeals to you, and you can then bless the food.

And it does not mean that you can eat junk food and you will certainly be healthy, but it will still have a positive effect on the food you eat. In terms of what specific foods, this is again, so individual, that you simply need to experiment and feel what is right for your body at the present time. Do not fall into the trap of thinking that once you have found the right kind of food, this will be the right kind of food for the rest of your life. Because things can change over time. There can also come a point at the higher levels of Christhood where it is no longer so important what you eat because it does not have that big of an effect on you anymore.

Vibrational and energetic medicine

Question: How can we use certain energy frequencies to destroy any type of virus? Is it possible to use energy frequencies to restore eyesight here on the head? What are these frequencies? Are there already such technologies on earth? If not, what does it take to make these technologies available to people?

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

Well, in the golden age, vibrational or energetic medicine will become the main form of medicine. But this requires a shift not only in the scientific community, but also in the collective consciousness. And most people, or a critical mass of people, are simply not ready to make that shift. The frequencies, it will be too technical for me to reveal them here but there are people who are in embodiment and who already started researching this and who have quite a bit of awareness.

And I am of course, always willing to use people who have that awareness to release new technology, new ideas. So this is something that is in process. And there are even people who are aware of ascended master teachings who have awareness of this and are researching these things, but it will take some time before they will become more effective and before they will become accepted.

But of course, it is a necessary part of the golden age process that vibrational medicine becomes broadly recognized and broadly used. Now, it is clear that this will require a shift in the collective consciousness where people simply demand the most effective form of cures, and do away with those who are seeking to use current medicine, allopathic medicine, because it allows them to make a huge profit.

It is clear that you can make a profit selling certain devices that produce these vibrational frequencies, but you cannot patent the frequencies themselves and therefore you can sell a device that can perform the treatment, but you cannot charge money for every treatment performed. This simply will not be realistic. You can sell a light bulb to people, but you cannot charge money every time they turn it on.

2020 women’s protests in Poland

Question: Could the masters comment and give a higher perspective on the young women’s protest in Poland that started as a reaction to tightening of the abortion law and the patriarchal mentality in Poland?

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

Well, it is clear, my beloved that Poland has for several years been in a downward spiral because the current government and their tight connections to the Catholic Church have basically undermined some of the progress that Poland had made as a democratic nation. It is clear that there are certain things that are undermining democracy, such as interfering with the courts, and so forth.

So this has caused quite a number of especially young people in Poland to become dissatisfied with the current government and with the church and they are ready to question this. What you see in this latest abortion restrictions is simply that this was sort of the last drop that caused the cup to overflow or the dam to break. People took to the streets and protested against this, which of course, is a very necessary movement in terms of bringing change to Poland.

It is clear that while the current government can be seen as a necessary step in Poland’s process, it is by no means the final step, there needs to be an entirely different approach to government in Poland. And the current government was, again, just a teaching device to see that going to extremes simply will not work. You need to find a more nuanced, a more diversified approach to the problems, because there is not just a simple black and white solution. Black and white thinking does not resolve problems in this day and age.

And this is what is becoming clear in many, many countries around the world, including what has the potential to become clear in the United States, after four years of a president who is blinded by black and white thinking. I know that some people will dispute this, but it is a fact of neutrally observing the President’s mindset and comparing it to our teachings about black and white thinking and you cannot if you are neutral, fail to see it.

The World Economic Forum and the Great Reset Initiative

Question: Do the masters have a comment about the World Economic Forum, and a great reset initiative for building back the world economy and social structures? And is this in accord with Saint Germain’s vision for the golden age?

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

Well, my beloved, there is no black and white answer to a question like this. The World Economic Forum and the meetings in Davos do serve in some capacity to create dialogue between people from different parts of the world. Originally, it was more of a power elite club, but it has, in recent years been expanded and diversified, so there are different viewpoints that are at least being heard.

Of course, there is always the power elite behind this who are meeting in their closed meetings and attempting to lay out their vision for how the world should form. And these power elite people are of course, not in alignment with my vision for the golden age. However, do not underestimate the fact that any kind of forum or initiative that gets people from many different parts of the world to come together in dialogue, is an important step towards changing current conditions. It is important in terms of people getting to know each other, building a certain sense of connection, that is part of the basic humanity—that you realize that other people are somewhat like yourself, and have the same interests and so forth.

There is a certain value to all of this. This is not to say that I sponsored this, or that I am in total agreement with what is going on. But what I am saying is that even though something is basically run by the fallen beings, it can still have effects that they are not really aware of, or that they do not intend. So even this great reset initiative (which is not in alignment with my vision for the golden age either) but it can still have a positive effect in terms of getting people to think about certain issues. It is clear that the economy has taken such a great downward turn because of the COVID 19 pandemic, that something drastic needs to be done. And the fact that there are people who are realizing that something drastic needs to be done is a step in the right direction.

Now, if you look at what these people are proposing, it is not the kind of changes I have talked about: about recreating the monetary system, getting rid of a debt-based economy, overturning the financial elite and the financial system so you cannot make money off of money, and those kinds of things. They are talking about things that basically maintains the fundamental capitalist economy, while somewhat addressing the fact that the economy is in danger of collapsing because of the pandemic. It is literally like putting a band aid on a wound, instead of stitching it up.

But nevertheless, it is still necessary that people at least come together and think about this, take various initiatives, and this can then, over time, lead to some people becoming more open to the ideas that will actually bring change. Of course, a big issue as a result of the pandemic is how the world economy is going to fare after the pandemic subsides? What is going to happen? Is it possible to build the economy back up to where it was before and pretend like nothing happened? Or will there be certain collapses in the economy so that it will be necessary to create more drastic changes? This is yet to be seen. It depends very much on how leaders respond, but also how the people respond, and whether they demand a different form of economy.

Donal Trump is part of the problem, not the solution

Question: It was my impression from the last webinar, that it did not make much of a difference to you who would win the presidency. It would be another four years of this dualistic struggle, with neither party addressing the likely debt economy implosion. However, Biden’s new cabinet, if he wins, is a return to the status quo with the power elite’s people in all the most powerful positions in the government. What is so good about that? And why should the Democratic Party be rewarded after four years of lies and deception in their continuous attacks, and coup attempts against Trump? Clearly, the power elite used everything at their disposal to get rid of Trump from Wall Street to Silicon Valley; activists to Hollywood and of course, the media. Trump has obvious weaknesses besides his narcissism, but I would think he is still better than the representative of the powers that be, he also seemed to have some good people in his cabinet. My question is this, what is so bad about Trump?

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

Donald Trump has been a very good teacher for the American people. Even though the majority of those who call themselves Trump supporters have so far not learned the lesson that they had the potential to learn from his presidency.

Now you say yourself that Trump has obvious weaknesses, besides his narcissism. But his narcissism is precisely the issue. This is what makes him a good teacher. Because the lesson that Americans have the potential to learn from the Trump presidency, is why they do not want a narcissist as their president. Why they do not want a person who is trapped in black and white thinking. And who is simply seeing the presidency and the country and for that matter the world, as an extension for his personal quest: to elevate himself to some superior status, that only he really knows what is.

The reality here is that, for America to move forward and move into the golden age, the American people need to attract presidents who are completely focused on serving the people. The only way that America can move out of being ruled by the power elite, is if they have leaders who are focused on serving the people, not the elite. And neither the Democratic Party nor the Republican party are at that point yet. And so, neither party is able to really question the elite. But the reason for this is actually, that there has not been a critical mass of people who have reached a level where they are willing to question the elite. What will it take for the American people to come to the point where they can question the power elite? Well, it will take that they reach beyond the level of selfishness where they are only focused on themselves and what they perceive to be in their own short term self-interest.

Donald Trump is an example of a person who is entirely focused on what he perceives as his self-interest. This is precisely what gave him an appeal to many Americans who are at that level of consciousness also. Not the same level as him, but certainly at that level of being focused on what they right now perceive as their self-interest, without being open to the possibility that they could raise their consciousness and gain a higher vision. Now, you do see that there are, of course, Americans who are focused on this, but there are not enough of them to have a decisive outcome on the leadership of the nation.

Quite frankly, most Americans are so focused on just America and their own situation, that they are not able to grasp any higher vision for what America meant when it was founded, or what is the potential for America and the golden age. These people are not open to questioning the power elite. As we just said, that people can hold a dictator in power for many years because they are afraid of change, so are there Americans who are afraid of change. And many Americans are not ready to look at the radical changes that are needed—the revolutionary changes that are needed for America to enter the golden age.

Because they are afraid of what will happen if you question the financial system, if you change the money system, if you get rid of allowing people to make money off of money, get rid of the entire financial elite and the power elite. They also are afraid to question what will it take for our country to have a higher level of what we have called social awareness, awareness of humanity that you see in many European countries, where they are not allowing people to have no health care, to have no unemployment benefits, where there is no social safety net.

Many Americans are not willing to question this because they believe the economy cannot handle it. But as we have said before, once there is a decision that we want a certain standard of living, then the entire system will adjust so it is possible to manifest that standard of living in that country.

You see here again, that the issue, from our perspective, is the people and the power elite. Now, I know that there are many Trump supporters who will say: “But he has gone against the political establishment, he has questioned them, he has spoken out against them”. Well, but the reality is that if you look at the life of Donald Trump, he came from a background where his father considered himself part of the power elite. I know there are many among the old power elite America who would not consider Donald Trump to be part of the power elite, but his father and himself certainly did.

So, they are aspiring to be part of the power elite. And he has not questioned the financial system, the financial elite, the money system, because he is or wants to be part of it—he sees himself as part of it. You cannot expect a person who wants to be part of the power elite to question or overturn the power elite. It is simply not possible, even if he wanted to, which he does not.

You see here that Americans have not yet risen in sufficient numbers, to what we call this basic humanity, the social awareness, where they are willing to say: “We should take care of everybody in our society”. And until they do that, there cannot really be leaders who can seriously question the power elite.

There can be some who can bring America, step-by-step in that direction. But there cannot be a serious questioning of the power elite until there is that shift in the collective consciousness.

Was the US election rigged?

Question: The masters can see everything from the ascended realm. Is it true that the American elections were rigged in Biden’s favor, as Trump has been claiming now for a long time?

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

No.

Literary works written from the Christ consciousness

Question: Are there any literary works written from the level of Christ consciousness?

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

There are many literary works that contain elements of the Christ consciousness or ideas that come from the Christ consciousness. But it depends on what level of Christ consciousness you are talking about, as we will talk about more during this webinar, there are different levels of Christ consciousness. There are relatively few that are written from the higher levels of Christ consciousness. You need to recognize, as we will expound more upon, that Christ consciousness for the 48th level of consciousness is not the same as Christ consciousness for the 124th level of consciousness.

There are literary works that are written with an inspiration from the Christ consciousness, but they were aimed at for example, people below the 48th level of consciousness. You will see that many literary works throughout the ages fit this category where an author was able to bring forth some new perspective, perhaps even make people realize the plight of the lower classes, the difficulty that people were going through and therefore open up society to a new way to look at the poor and to address inequality in society.

There are many of such literary works. There were Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Wagner, Dickens. Many of the known authors have had a certain inspiration that have allowed them to bring forth these works that have shifted the collective consciousness in various ways. There are many more than I am mentioning here, I am just mentioning a few examples.

You will not benefit from going through such works and comparing them. And you certainly will not benefit from thinking that a certain literary work is entirely from the Christ consciousness just because it contains certain ideas. There can be a book that has one idea that is from the Christ consciousness and the rest is just a story that is told from the human level in order to get people to be interested and receive that one idea. There can be some books that have several ideas, but there is still a human interest story that makes people read the book. You cannot necessarily say that this book is entirely from the Christ consciousness.

Did Jesus incarnate as a woman?

Question: Did Jesus incarnate as a woman?

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

Yes, I did on many occasions. These are of course not recorded in the scriptures. And in previous dispensations, we chose not to even talk about the fact that all of us have switched between male and female embodiments. We did this in order to avoid confusing people. Because we did not feel they were ready for that level of teaching. Today you are ready for a higher teaching.

If you take the book, My Lives with Lucifer, Satan, Hitler and Jesus, where I was in embodiment for two million years, you can see that it is simply not possible to be in embodiment that many times and always be in a male body. And there would be no point in this because you are in embodiment to learn. And you learn by being in both male and female bodies. But in general, we have chosen to present our male embodiments if we present ourselves as a male ascended master and our female embodiments if we present ourselves as a female ascended master. This, of course, is something that will change in the future. But so far, that is the line we have maintained.

Are the fallen beings aware of being the fallen ones?

Question: Are the fallen beings who are now in embodiment aware of being the fallen ones? What are they striving for? Or are they not aware of that?

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

Well, this is individual for each fallen being. There are very few fallen beings who are truly aware of what they are being used for by the fallen beings in the identity realm or mental realm. There are many fallen beings in embodiment who are simply unwitting tools for the fallen beings who are manipulating them. And there are some that are aware that they are being used as tools for beings in the emotional realm and they feel they get a certain empowerment by these emotional beings. You will, for example, see some rock musicians who felt that they were being possessed by some other being during a concert and who therefore, were empowered by these beings to do things or sing in a way that they normally could not do. And this, of course, gave them the energy.

But generally, there are very few people in embodiment—fallen beings in embodiment who are aware of the teachings we have given you about fallen beings. There are some who are simply as we have said, intent on destruction. But there are also a majority of the fallen beings in embodiment who believe that they are doing something good for humanity.

You will see if you look back at power leaders throughout history, they have managed to make themselves believe that it was necessary for society that they were ruling society and that they were a privileged elite because the peasants themselves could not run a country and so forth and so on. Most of them are really unwitting tools for the fallen beings, especially in the mental and identity realm.

You will see many fallen beings who are in the scientific field, in universities, in research facilities, and who are simply taken over by fallen beings in the mental realm. And you have seen the same with philosophers and writers who are being used to promote certain ideas. Karl Marx was literally possessed by a being in the mental realm who was using him to bring forth the teachings on communism. And he was not aware of this.

What determines how long a fallen being can stay in embodiment?

Question: I wonder how fallen beings can stay in embodiment if they do not receive energy from God and do not have a divine plan, how their karmic period for being in embodiment is measured. And at the expense of what do they exist in that period?

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

They stay in embodiment, because they steal energy from people who are still receiving it from their I AM Presences. And they do this as we have explained several times, through a variety of schemes where they manage to manipulate people into giving them their energy.

Again, I have talked about Hitler, who managed to get people to participate in these mass rallies where they gave him energy directly, but also by their attitude towards him, they gave him their energy. Stalin stayed in embodiment because many people feared him and therefore gave him energy. But there were even people who admired Stalin because they did not know the extent of the executions that he performed. Some fallen beings can stay in embodiment because people fear them, others because people admire them. And in any case, people are giving them the energy they need to stay in embodiment.

What determines how long they can stay in embodiment? Well, in some cases, the fallen beings themselves go into a self-destructive spiral that takes them out of embodiment—breaks down their physical body. In other cases, it is that the people who admire or fear them, change their attitude. They either overcome the fear, they overcome the admiration, they see through the illusions. And when they no longer give them their energy, then the fallen beings cannot stay in the physical body—they cannot maintain the physical body.

How long can Putin stay in embodiment?

Question: I am from Russia, looking at what condition Putin is in, I sometimes think that he may blow himself up from the tension. As far as I can understand he is making every effort to counteract the growth of consciousness in Russia. Given that his natural lifespan has already expired, how long can he live and function in that state?

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

Well, my beloved, it is really a question that depends on what happens in the collective consciousness of the Russian people. Because as we have said, it is the Russian people that are keeping him artificially in embodiment, because they are not yet ready for a different type of leadership. Otherwise, he simply could not remain as the leader, if there was the necessary shift in the collective consciousness. It is quite correct that he is doing everything that he can to prevent this shift in consciousness. And he is of course being a tool for some very dark beings who are seeking to manipulate Russia through him.

It is also correct that for the fallen beings who go into a position like that, when they are in embodiment, there will be enormous tension associated with it. That is why you will see in many cases, that people get more and more tense, more and more agitated. You see, for example, in the life of Stalin, how he became more and more paranoid to the point of basically suspecting everyone around him of wanting to betray him and take his power. You see a similar thing happening to Putin in the sense that he is also becoming more and more tense, more and more agitated. And it is partly related to the fact that he is resisting the growth in the collective consciousness, but also partly related to the fact that he has a certain self-image.

Putin is not necessarily one of the most negative or high ranking fallen beings on the planet. But he actually has a certain sense of wanting to do something good. At least in his outer mind, he believes that he was the right person at the right time for Russia, and that Russia could not have made progress without him. So he has in his mind this image of being, to use the Christian vocabulary, the “savior” of Russia. But at the same time, as we have said before, when you are a dictator who has virtually unlimited power in your country, and you still cannot solve the problems in that country, it becomes more difficult for you to maintain that self-image. And so, this is part of his stress.

Now, how long can he stay in embodiment? Well, it depends again on the Russian people, when a critical mass make that decision that they want something different. It is sometimes possible, that a country can be almost in suspended animation, almost in a state where nothing really can move in a certain area of that society, because the people are afraid of the change. Many people in Russia are afraid of what changes would come if Putin was not there. What would then happen? Would there be a power fight among some of these oligarchs? Would there be another dictator worse than Putin? Or would Russia deteriorate into a nation where there are so many factions that no one can make a decision.

You can see this in certain nations where for a time, sometimes decades, they can be stuck in this immobile state. You can look, for example, to the United Kingdom, where the Queen has now been kept artificially alive by the English people for quite some time, because they do not want Charles to be the king. A large portion of the British people do not want Charles to become the king, for various reasons. They are concerned, what will happen to the monarchy if Charles becomes King, and they are concerned what will happen to England if it is no longer a monarchy.

You can see how a country can have this resistance to change in a certain area that keeps the country stuck in a certain position, where they cannot move forward in certain ways. The United Kingdom cannot, for example, question the current system with the power elite, because they cannot question the monarchy. And the same thing in Russia, if you cannot question Putin, you cannot question the oligarchs that are set in position by Putin and held in position by Putin.

How to be more conscious of the subconscious levels of the mind

Question: It is not always obvious to me at the level of my conscious awareness what happens in the depths of my being whether my spiritual works lead me to liberation or the other way around to further separation. So I do not quite understand why there is no more direct way to dive into our four lower bodies and be aware of hidden things that are happening there. From the level of my conscious mind, I would like to ask a question: Why the cleansing of our four lower bodies and healing of our psychology cannot be done in a more conscious and less hidden way for our minds.

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

Well, part of the answer is that you are living on a very difficult planet. And it requires a certain amount of your attention to just function in your daily life. So that is why in order to be able to function in your normal life, you are working on your psychology at the same time as you are fulfilling daily responsibilities. But some of the work that is going on in your psyche is below the level of conscious awareness.

Now, it will vary from person to person. Some people will be more aware of what is going on in the subconscious levels of their minds than others. It is not necessarily that one is better than the other, there are simply different ways. But I would say that with all the tools we have given you, especially from the book, Healing Your Spiritual Traumas and the other books in the series, it is indeed possible for you to become much more conscious of what is happening at the subconscious levels. And you can certainly come to a point where you have a certain part of your attention, that is always focused on your four lower bodies, always on seeing new things—you need to work on seeing new illusions. And therefore, you can become much more aware of what is going on at the subconscious levels.

On the other hand, you could say that it is not necessary to be aware of everything that is happening at the subconscious levels. And the reason for this is that you have had so many lifetimes on earth. Now you will see that there are some people who will claim that they have had revealed to them all of their prior lifetimes. But this is in most cases, not correct. There are very, very few people on this planet who have had revealed to them all of their prior lifetimes. Because if you consider that many people have been here for 2 million years, you can see how many lifetimes that could be. And it would simply be overwhelming to your conscious mind to deal with that many lifetimes. Likewise, you can see that in many of those lifetimes, you may have made decisions, you may have created certain separate selves, you may have certain reactionary patterns set up. And it is not necessary for you to be consciously aware of each and every one of these. It is enough that you reach a certain awareness of a certain self and a certain decision behind that self. You resolve the self, and then you do not need to be aware of all of the other selves that are very close to it, that are very similar to it that are simply created in different lifetimes. They can all be dissolved once the archetypical self is dissolved.

Fulfilling the requirements of the spiritual practice

Question: The masters have recommended doing decrees and invocations for at least nine days when going through the initiations under each Chohan. Do these have to be done consecutively to be effective, with a family and working full time, some days I’m unable to devote any time to my spiritual practice, to lose energetic momentum, do I have to start all over if I break my streak.

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

It is clear that if you can, it is better to do them consecutively. In other words, do them, however many days you’re going to do them, do it each day. However, you also have to be practical and you have to do what you can do in your practical situation. For example, you might not be able to do a decree nine times each day, then do it three times, or do it three times in the morning, three times in the afternoon, three times in the evening, whatever you can do. If you skip a day, you don’t have to start all over.

But on the other hand, you want to do it as many times as you have decided to do it. So that you simply go a day extra in the end, instead of doing one time less. So again, there is always an ideal situation. And then there’s the practical reality to face, especially when you have work and children and so forth. And so you have to adapt to that, not come down on yourself, not blame yourself, and not give up on it because you can not fulfill the requirements to the letter. If you can’t do everything to the letter, then still do it with the most positive spirit you can do it and it will still count for much. There is a letter of the law and the spirit of the law and we are certainly asking you to step up to grasp the spirit of the law.

Power elite families

Question: Why are the power elite people allowed to embody in the power elite families?

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

Well, in most cases, because they have karma with each other and it is the only way they can have a chance of working this out. There are many people who create such karmic spirals in families and it is not of course only power elite families, that they simply cannot pull themselves away from it in the coming lifetime, so they keep embodying again and again.

The reason for this, is that there is a certain lesson these people need to learn and they need to learn that lesson and if they weren’t embodied with these particular people, they would just be embodied with some other people that hadn’t passed the initiation either, so they would repeat the pattern, so in many cases, they simply are attracted to each other. And they create actually, subconsciously, a desire to embody again with these persons, because they put all this energy into this matrix, they have something they have not finished, something they want to do, some kind of revenge they want to get, or whatever it may be.

The situation in Belarus after the presidential election

Question 1: Can the Masters comment on the situation in Belarus where the people have been peacefully protesting for months after the rigged election? We need to see how the incumbent President clinging by all means to his position of leadership. What could be the next step they can take?

Question 2: I live in Belarus and I asked you to comment on the situation on this country after the presidential election. Shortly before the election, you said that the Belarusian people were not ready for a more democratic form of government and that it would be better for them that Lukashenko would remain President. The overwhelming majority of people voted against him, but after trying to falsify the result of the vote, he continues to hold power with the help of law enforcement agencies and power structures. The protest movement has been going on for more than three months exclusively through peaceful means. How do the Ascended Masters see what is happening in Belarus and what is the current prospect of a change of authority in the country?

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

Well, my beloved, the peaceful protests and the fact that they have remained peaceful despite these attempts to create violence by certain dark forces is part of the process whereby the people of Belarus are increasing, or raising the collective consciousness, and therefore they are becoming more and more ready for a democratic form of government.

Now, we can look at this from a certain perspective and say, if the protests continue and continue to be peaceful, then this will lead to a gradual raising, as it has already done of the collective consciousness. If it continues to a certain tipping point, it may be that the President will feel that he has to withdraw and give rise to a more democratic form of government. And so this may be that there can be a different government installed, or there can be a new election, or whatever the President decides. But you have to recognize here that the sitting President will attempt to influence this process, even if he gives concessions.

You also have to realize, as I said in my previous answer, that you have Putin in Russia, and he has very specific interests in Belarus, and this is not going to go away by there being a change in government and a supposedly more democratic form of government. Putin will attempt to influence that government in overt and covert means.

And the question really is well, whether the collective consciousness in Belarus is ready to deal with this, are people ready to implement a fully modern western style democracy and thereby break with Russia if they have to. And then deal with whatever fallout there will be from such a decision. So, you see the delicate position of Belarus. Is it even possible right now to implement a western style so called modern democracy in Belarus? That is an open question. Again, I would say right now, it isn’t. But of course, if the collective consciousness continues to change, then that may also change within the not-too-distant future.

But the situation right now is very difficult to predict. Because there are so many uncertainty factors here. So what can the people do, they can continue to do what they are doing, demonstrate, talk amongst themselves, raise their consciousness. If you are an ascended master student who feel strongly about this of course, give the appropriate invocations and decrees for the situation. But I must tell you again that it is a change in the collective consciousness that will lead to a change in the country. And that is a gradual process, and it will take time before Belarus is ready and the Belarusian people are ready to implement a more modern form of democracy.

Question about Mexico

Question: Can the masters please comment on how to improve the economy of Mexico, any issues of violence our country is facing, and whether if our country is on the right track with the actual government and mindset of the citizens.

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

Well, unfortunately, I must tell you that Mexico is one of the nations in the world that gives me the greatest concern. There is simply no easy solution. There is simply no easy solution to the problems you see in Mexico. I cannot simply give you a step by step plan for how to turn Mexico into a golden age society.

You will notice that Mexico is, although not the only country in Central America, but certainly the largest country, and therefore is in what we might call the nexus or the figure eight between North and South America. Now, you know very well that we have talked many times about a figure eight flow. And in order for the American continent to have its maximum potential, there needs to be a figure eight flow from north to south and back again. And this flow, of course, has to go through Mexico. And that is why you see both in Mexico and some of the other Central American countries, that there has been great unrest, revolutions, violence, drugs, and so on because the dark forces are doing everything they can to block the figure eight flow right there in the nexus.

In an answer like this, I cannot give you an exhaustive talk about Mexico. I may do this at some later point, even though I may tell you that we do not have many students in Mexico who are willing to listen to what I say through this messenger. And this is, of course, part of the entire mindset.

Many Mexicans have this unwillingness to experiment and open themselves to something new, they are very tied up, or very attached to tradition. You can see this by the fact that the Catholic church still has a very large influence in Mexico. You can see for example, the attachment to the Day of the Dead, celebrating ancestors, dead ancestors, family, family heritage, Mexican culture, there are so many of these attachments that the Mexican nation as a whole, the collective consciousness is very closed to new ideas. And that is why they are closed to New Age or Golden Age ideas. There is simply such a fear of looking at something new, such a fear of going beyond tradition, that it is very difficult to find people who are open to receiving new ideas, but even more difficult to find people who are willing to implement them.

The economy of Mexico is an expression of the collective consciousness of Mexico. Because what is it you see, in the tradition of Mexico, you see great poverty, you see a Catholic tradition, which, for a long time, if you go back to medieval Europe, was upholding the feudal system, where there were a few rich landlords who own the land, and the majority of the people were just workers who were very poor. And you see the same thing in Mexico, going back centuries. And you see that Mexico, because of its attachment to tradition, has not really overcome this.

The people in general have not overcome this sense that there is a rich elite, and they are the poor people. And the poor people are always mistreated and always put down and they have no opportunities to improve their lives, and therefore there is no point in even trying. Adding to this, you have of course the element of the entire criminal gangs, the drug gangs, the drug cartels, who are having such an impact on society in terms of bribing politicians, pressuring politicians, executing politicians, executing their enemies, executing each other, and therefore creating this enormous amount of fear in many parts of Mexico.

You see here that attachment to tradition is based on fear. The Catholic Church is based on fear. There are maybe some countries in Europe that have overcome some of the historical fear promoted by the Catholic Church, but in Mexico, you still have so much fear generated by the Catholic Church, so much fear of questioning the church, of going to hell and this is what the drug cartels are simply building on. This fear of taking a stand, this fear of doing something unusual. And it unfortunately creates a very difficult combination. It’s very difficult to free people from this.

And so I do not have a simple solution for this. If we had enough, ascended master students who was willing to give decrees and invocations, then they could eventually have an impact on this. But as it is now, the only realistic scenario is that the Mexican people will have to experience many more hard knocks in the school of hard knocks, before they finally stand up and demand a better form of government, a better form of leadership, a better form of society. And before they demand an end to the drug cartels, and their influence on society.

This, of course, also requires the Mexican people to do away with a temptation to make easy money from the drug cartels in various ways. So you have this poverty consciousness and the dream of making easy money. And the drug cartels are taking advantage of this. They are an expression of it. And unfortunately, there’s also this element of people in Mexico feel they are so poor, they have been so downtrodden, so mistreated, that if they get a chance to make easy money, then why not take it no matter what the consequences may be for other people. It may be the drugs are wrong, but Americans buy the drugs. So why shouldn’t we make the money, otherwise, somebody else will.

And so there’s an entire consciousness there, that is so entrenched in the collective psyche of Mexico, that it is- there is no easy way to break it, there is no gentle way to break it. I’m relatively confident that the only thing that can break it is that they continue to have more and more hard knocks. It may be necessary that the entire economy will fail before there is some kind of uprising of people demanding something different, but at the same time also being willing to be part of the change to be part of the solution by changing their consciousness.

A much similar dynamic can be found in some other Central American nations, and also in some of the South American nations where you also see the influence of the Catholic Church. You see the fear that was generated, you see the temptation to make the easy money through drug trade, and so on. And so this is not an easy thing to break. Of course, if people are willing to listen to what I say, from the Ascended level and implement it then we could, but given that there are not enough people who are willing for this, the only realistic scenario is the school of hard knocks.

How to deal with the division in your spiritual group

Question: There is an old adage that spiritual students should mingle with holy company, in other words, to befriend other spiritual seekers. However, I have noticed that many of the spiritual people I know are quite adamant that there is an evil plot behind government interventions to control COVID-19, even to the point of questioning some of the masters’ answers from the previous conference. Do the masters have any advice on how we as ascended master students can heal the conflict in our perception of the pandemic in our own community? We all have the same teachings and we all are thinking we are seeking for truth. But the response to the pandemic requires a unified response. If even spiritual students cannot agree on this, we cannot exert a clear and unified response on the collective consciousness. Thank you for your answer.

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

Well, my beloved, many of the teachings we will give you at this conference are indeed designed to help you address this particular point. We see of course, throughout the ages in many, many spiritual groups, many religious groups, but even many ascended master groups, that there can be a certain division in the groups. You know, of course, that when ascended master students come together and are unified, you have a greater impact and the fallen beings, the dark forces will do everything they can to prevent your unity, to divide you up to cause various factions, so you cannot be as effective. However, you also need to recognize here that it is not necessarily so that you have to agree on everything in order to come together and give a certain invocations and decrees, you can still disagree on specific things, while using the tools we have given you and thus have an impact.

But it is clear that there will always be a certain number of students who are very attached to certain outer beliefs, and who when we challenge those beliefs, well, instead of questioning themselves, question either the answer from the masters, or the messengers attunement with the masters and so on. This is a pattern we have seen over and over again, from the moment we started sponsoring organizations. We see it in other spiritual movements, we see it in religions, we see it in any kind of organization.

And there will of course come a certain point where you can say, well, if these people have such an attachment to these viewpoints, I will not associate with them, I will not stir up any conflict, I will just work on myself, my own psychology, see if I have any attachments to my viewpoints. I can assure you that if you overcome whatever attachments you have in your own psychology, then people having a different viewpoint will no longer be an issue for you. You either will not encounter these people, or you will not be bothered by them having a different viewpoint.

You see, there is a certain, you might say patience, or you might say forbearance that it is needed for spiritual students to have with each other, you know from yourself that you can be on the path for a while, and suddenly you have an insight about something in your psychology. And you often say to yourself, “why did not I see this earlier?” But you did not see it earlier, because you were not ready. There were other selves you needed to get out of the way, there may have been a certain accumulation of fear based energy that you needed to transform with your decrees and invocations before you could see this.

So when you recognize this in yourself, you realize that there may have been other people who could see this tendency in you all through that time. But you could not see it because you were not ready to see it. And the same could be the case for somebody else. There may still be somebody who is very attached to a certain outer thing, certain outer viewpoint, and you can clearly see that it is an attachment, and it is unbalanced, but they cannot see it. So what you can still do is give them time, give them some time to come to the point where they either see it, or where they perhaps even become so attached to it, that they just remove themselves from the group, in which case you of course, need to respect free will, and allow them to do this.

We have seen over and over again how we gave a certain teaching that is for a certain level of consciousness, this attracts a certain group of students, they then become very attached to the teaching or a certain interpretation of it. Then we have given all the teachings that we have to give for that level of consciousness. And now we use the same messenger to give a higher teaching for another level of consciousness. But some of the students who have become attached to the previous level of teaching cannot make the leap to the new teaching, they are so attached to it that they believe that this should be the final word on it. And therefore, they question the new teaching in various ways.

They may question the messenger, they may as it’s a classical response: “The messenger is no longer a messenger, the messenger has lost his or her attunement, or his or her mantle, and therefore I need to go somewhere else.” And if people do this, you simply respect free will and let them do it. You follow your heart and let them follow whatever they’re following. You don’t need to try to save them to rescue them to argue with them.

But as I said, we will give more teachings then for those who are willing to use them can help you transcend these outer differences of opinion, which are after all outer differences and therefore cannot come from the Christ mind, can they?

Question about men who are jealous of successful women

Question: What can men who are born into a poor family and situation do to overcome fear and jealousy of women who do very well? Many extremist men are spreading fear and misinformation about women, creating a culture of fear of women?

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

Well, obviously men who are creating this kind of a culture are not going to be willing to listen to anything said by the ascended masters. But it is clear that in order to change a situation like this, you need to ask yourself some questions. Why would you, as a man be jealous of women who are doing well and not be jealous of men who are doing well? What is your attitude to women? What is your relationship to women? Why do you feel more jealous of women who are doing well than of men who are doing well? Use this then to take our tools, identify the selves in the relationship with women, and then overcome these selves and you will be free.

You will also find that if you overcome jealousy in general, you will do better, even if you were born in poor circumstances. Many people who were born in poor families may have been brought up with a certain group identity, where you think you cannot do well. And you have a certain jealousy of those who are doing well because you think you could never rise and be one of them. But this is again, just a collection of separate selves that you have taken on, and perhaps part of your path to Christhood is to demonstrate that you can overcome these separate selves. So again, we have given you the tools to do this, and I can only encourage you to use them.

How to work on the mystical initiations of love being a single person

Question: This question is for Master Paul the Venetian. Master Paul could you give us some guidance on how to work on the mystical initiations of love as a single person? I’ve been trying to work on not owning people, or own a relationship, and I find that only dating people can help me work on this. But for the other ways, I get a bit lost, could you also guide us on how to turn our attention away from having a love relationship?

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

Well, my beloved, even if you are single right now, you may not have been single your entire life, you may not be single for the rest of your life, and certainly you will not have been single in all past lifetimes. So you can always put yourself in a situation, what you are working on is not a particular outer physical relationship, but your attitude towards relationships. And so by doing this, you can realize that certainly from past lives, or maybe from this life, you have certain selves that were created, because you were in a relationship with various people, and you can then start looking at how you can identify and overcome these selves.

You do not necessarily need to take everything we say so literally, that you think this can only be done if you are in a physical love relationship. You are in many different relationships with people, and they can all benefit by you refining your attitude, your view of relationships, and how you relate to other people. You cannot be in embodiment on earth without relating to other people. So look at it in a broader sense of all of your relationships. And you will find that the teachings will indeed help you refine your relationships.

Spiritual perspective on postpartum depression and postpartum psychosis

Question: What are the causes behind postpartum depression and postpartum psychosis, which affects about 15% and 0.1 to 0.2% of women respectively, can it be related to beings of the fallen consciousness sending psychic attacks? If so, then why do such attacks happen more frequently after childbirth? Also can it be related to the level of consciousness of the new lifestream, i.e. dark forces trying to seek to harm the lifestream that came into embodiment on this planet. Also, can it be related to the level of consciousness of the new lifestream, i.e. dark forces trying to seek to harm the lifestream that came into embodiment on this planet?

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

Well as with many questions, my beloved there are several different factors here. One factor can be purely body chemistry, where some women release certain hormones during pregnancy, or during childbirth, that can cause a depression. But in most cases, it is actually that it relates to the woman’s attitude to having children. What you can do if you have experienced this, is you can use the tools we have given in Healing Your Spiritual Traumas and the other books to look at your attitude to being on the planet. This will also give you clues to how you look at having children.

You can then use these tools to identify certain separate selves, there is a certain resistance in you towards having a child. This is something that I fully understand, that all ascended masters understand, you are on a very dense, very difficult planet. Having a child is a quite frankly, violent process to your physical body. It is a very difficult environment to be in, there are often many, many stress factors on a pregnant woman. And it is very understandable that we can build up this resistance over many lifetimes of having these very difficult pregnancies. So this is something you can look at, and seek to resolve in yourself.

Now, it is also correct that in some cases, women will give birth to a lifestream that has a certain Christ potential, and the fallen beings, the dark forces will direct very negative energy, both at the child and the mother to derail that person’s potential. If they can manage to set off a psychological or mental illness in the mother, then that can affect a child at an early age.

But it can also be in some cases, that the child has a very negative momentum from past lives, it may have a certain tie to the astral plane, and makes it an open door for these energies to stream into the child’s energy field, which of course, then will affect the mother as well. So there can be a multitude of reasons for it. And the last two instances I mentioned, spiritual protection, calling for spiritual protection can be effective for Astrea to cut both, you and the child free from any ties to dark forces or the astral plane. But this does not mean to say that you should only use spiritual tools and not use whatever is available from doctors, psychologists, psychiatrists, whatever is practical in your situation.

You don’t need to remember being and what you learned at the etheric retreats

Question: We spend a third of our lives sleeping, we know that we can attend retreats at night in our finer bodies. So, what can we do to maximize spiritual progress while we are sleeping? Is it guaranteed that we go to the retreats at night? How do we remember or tune into what we are taught? I feel like there’s much to improve here.

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

Well, again, there is no spiritual exercise that is mechanical, entirely mechanical. We have given you teachings and tools that, at night you can call for spiritual protection, give some decrees to Astrea, to cut you free from any ties, to, especially the emotional realm, the astral plane, that will make it easier for you to go to the retreats. Now, you do not need to worry about what you can do to maximize your spiritual progress, while you are sleeping, beyond going to the retreats.

You are on a very dense and difficult planet, your physical body, even your mind, your three higher bodies need some time to just rest. It is not that you have to be doing something to increase your spiritual growth while you’re sleeping. It is simply necessary for survival on a planet as dense as earth. So you need to change your, perhaps outlook on this and not be so concerned about making spiritual progress at all times.

The same thing with whether you can remember what you learned at the retreats or not, it is not something you need to strain yourself with. You do not need to consciously remember a certain lesson you learned at a retreat, in order to benefit from the lesson and integrate it.

There are many times where you get a sudden insight, you’re suddenly walking down the street, driving your car, reading a book and all of a sudden you receive an insight that comes through your conscious mind. In many cases, that insight was something you had retrieved, received in a retreat, not necessarily the night before, but at some previous time and now it has cycled through to the conscious awareness. So most of the people who are sincere spiritual seekers and who are striving to use our tools will go to the retreats, even if you don’t remember it.

How to get the the best results from practicing visualization

Question: With Jesus, in the technique in which you need to imagine yourself in the garden on a bench with Jesus I failed. When I try to imagine myself there, I get mixed pictures of everything but not what is needed. Tell me what other techniques or methods of attunement with the masters are there? Maybe there are special tools for beginners.

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

Well, actually my visualization for the garden is designed for beginners. But you need to recognize here that the first thing you need to do is to consider the formulation you used when you said: “I get mixed pictures of everything but not what is needed”. You have in your outer mind an image of what is needed, question that image, look at the image and let it go, in order to make any exercise any visualization work. You need to have as few preconceived images as possible. You need to be as neutral as possible and so, this is a decision you can make that you need to seek this neutrality.

If you do not have it, it is most likely because your four lower bodies are not protected and so, you need to, as a starting measure, invoke protection from Archangel Michael, call to Astrea to be cut free, use some violet flame to consume energies in your four lower bodies, then keep practicing the exercise without attempting to force it, without attempting to strain it, there is no particular outcome that needs to happen. That is what you need to put in your mind and then you simply keep practicing it, you need to keep doing it over time using the other tools we have given. In the end, of course, there may be certain selves that you have that are blocking you from having an experience. There are many people from a Christian background, or who have been in Christian churches in past lifetimes, who find it difficult to relate to me directly, who actually have selves that resist having an experience of experiencing my Presence.

Well, you can also look at that, as a more long-term tool, but you also need to recognize here that there is no spiritual tool that works mechanically, we cannot give you any exercise where you are guaranteed to get a result. It all depends on your ability and willingness to be neutral, and allow the experience to happen instead of trying to force it with the outer mind. There are often selves that you can have that want to control every aspect of your life and when you enter a spiritual path, they also want to control your spiritual path. When you try to perform an exercise, they want to control the exercise and the outcome of the exercise, so these are also selves that you can consider looking for, identifying and then allowing them to die.

How to let go of anger

Question: In the book, the “Christ is Born in You”, it says you need to give up your anger during walking the path to Christhood. How can I let go of the anger, when I see someone abusing a child or animal? How do I deal with this, with a higher consciousness?

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

You have to start by recognizing what kind of planet you are on. You’re on a very dense, very difficult planet. Free will has been allowed to out play itself to a very extreme degree on earth. You need to look at this, you need to make a decision to accept that this is the kind of planet you are on. There are many, many things that are going on, on this earth that should not be going on. But if you become angry every time you are confronted with one of these things, you cannot walk the path to Christhood, because the anger will pull you into an emotional reaction.

There are many of these planetary emotional vortexes and it will simply keep you trapped there and you will make no progress. There comes that point where you have to make a conscious decision, that I cannot allow myself to be angry over all of these things that are happening on earth. Basically, you need to work on coming to the point where you can make the decision, I do not want to be angry about anything on earth. In order to do this, you need to recognize that you have in this and past lives created certain separate selves that believe that anger is necessary and justified.

You need to use the tools from Healing your Spiritual Traumas and the other books to come to identify these selves, until you get to the point where you can let them die. Then it will be much easier to make that decision, but in the end, you do need to make a decision. You need to simply say: “What need do I have to be angry at all of these things that are happening on earth? How does becoming angry help a situation? How does it improve these conditions?”

The reality is that you are creating fear based emotional energy when you become angry, you feed it into the planetary vortexes and it is these planetary vortexes, that in many cases overpower people, so they abuse other people, animals, or do other acts that are clearly inhumane. Do you want to be part of the problem or do you want to be part of the solution? If you want to be part of a solution you need to use the tools we have given you, to overcome anger and simply raise yourself above it.

Canada as the forerunner for the golden age ideas

Question: Canada’s approach to the economic crisis as a result of the pandemic was to give roughly 4 million Canadians who qualified for it, a $2,000 a month income, which is called the Canadian Emergency Response Benefit or known as CERB. It is a generous six months emergency package introduced by the Liberal government and which has brought stability in the Canadian economy. Some Canadians say that this $2,000 a month benefit is a precursor to the universal basic income which might come after the throne speech of September 23. Recently, the Liberal government has changed the mandate and the name of the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation to Housing Canada to reflect this new social mandate to allow affordable housing for all Canadians by 2030. And we now have a new financial minister, who was an award-winning finance journalist. She was critical of the top 1% that created the income inequality, the ones the RAND Corporation talked about, and she likes the idea of the modern monetary theory and income redistribution. Can the masters give a perspective of Canada’s experiment into a new directional approach to the economic crisis created by COVID by spending more public money and the recovering of that, from the top elite, and will this become an example other countries may follow?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2020 Webinar – Choosing America’s Future.

Well, some other countries has have already done similar things. And as we have said before, as the 2008 financial crisis shows, that if the government gives money to the banks, the financial institutions, or businesses, then they will use it to strengthen their position of superiority, and only a small percentage of it would filter its way to the real economy. And therefore, most of the money will not go to growing the economy or bringing the country out of the economic crisis.

It is clear that giving the money directly to the people is a much better approach if your goal is to bring the country out of the financial crisis. If your goal is to strengthen the hold that the top 1% has on the economy then of course it isn’t the most effective approach.

So it is clear that this is something that needs to be experimented with. It is clear that a universal basic income is something that needs to be experimented with, that some people will actually be able to be forerunners for this and Canada is one of the countries who can do this, other countries as well. It is important because this is part of that vision that Saint Germain has for the golden age.

It is clear in the golden age, people will not have to worry about how to make a living. This does not mean that they will not have to work, many people will work they will want to work, because work will be an entirely different experience than what it is today. But there will be a certain percentage of the population who will want to devote their full time, attention and energy to other factors. This can be in the interim stage, a healing of their psychology. It can even be that some people will need to have a lifetime where they basically do nothing in order to heal certain wounds from past lives where they have been severely wounded in wars and other crises.

But there is also a certain percentage of people that need to be focused on, for example, spiritual growth. In medieval times, you had the monasteries, where there were people who could focus on certain spiritual goals, and despite the fact that they were Catholics, they still held a certain spiritual balance for society. This is not the case in modern societies to the same degree but it must become that in the golden age so that there will be people who have a certain basic income so they can focus their attention and energy on spiritual growth, on spiritual practices, and therefore hold a certain spiritual balance for society.

Wearing masks or not wearing masks

Question: Wearing masks or not wearing masks, how does this play out in duality and doing the right thing for the whole?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2020 Webinar – Choosing America’s Future.

Again, if you look at this from a long-term perspective, people will look back at this situation and say: How could this be an issue in America? Look at so many other democratic nations where it is not an issue. People do not feel forced to wear a mask, they do it because they recognize that they have a responsibility not to spread the virus to other people. So if they have it without knowing it, the mask is an effective way to prevent the spread of disease.

Why is this an issue in America? Because people in America, many people in America, have this unbalanced sense that freedom means that you have no restrictions from the government and the government should not tell the individual how to live their lives. But my beloved, it may be the government who says: We now require people to wear a mask when they are in a public forum. But is it really the government who artificially makes this decision?

Is not it actually that the government speaks for the whole. The government speaks the voice of the whole, because freedom as an individual does not mean you can do whatever you want, regardless of the effect it has for other people. This is the view of the fallen beings and the power elite, which unfortunately, many, many Americans have adopted as their own and think it is based on some higher principle, possibly even a certain interpretation of the Bible.

But the fact of the matter is that even though you have individual freedom, you also have a responsibility towards other people, have responsibility towards the community, towards the whole. And when you have such a situation, where this virus is spreading as it is and has been in America, then you must use whatever means are available, whether they are a hundred percent effective or not.

It is simply a matter of showing social responsibility, community spirit, that you do what the whole requires of you and you do not turn this into an issue of the government limiting your freedom or taking away the freedom. I do not recall that the constitution or the Declaration of Independence defines a freedom to spread a virus to other people as one of the foundational freedoms of America. So this is a matter of social awareness and social responsibility and many people in America have distorted the ideals of freedom as an excuse for not showing social responsibility and for denying the need to develop social awareness. Well, this is again, anti-democratic.

The more you give, the more you will receive

Question: How can one transcend the sense that sharing or giving diminishes one’s abundance?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2020 Webinar – Choosing America’s Future.

Well, the best way that I can recommend to an ascended master student is to really take my three books in “A Course In Abundance” and work with those invocations and really study the teachings I have given. The basic fact is this, you need to recognize that the law is that the more you give, the more there will be a multiplication factor from the spiritual realm and therefore the more you will receive, not necessarily always in terms of material goods, but then in terms of your raising of awareness.

When you make this shift and realize that the only way to really get more is to give more, then you can overcome this fear. It is, of course, a very strong consciousness in the world. It is part of what we call the poverty consciousness that you are afraid of giving, because you think this means you are losing. But you need to switch this so if you realize that giving is the key to gaining.

Black people need to transcend certain attitudes and beliefs about themselves

Question: How can black people transcend the sense of being inferior, the poverty mentality, the sense that we cannot be great, good things cannot happen to us, that we are cursed, that only white people can ever be great and do great things?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2020 Webinar – Choosing America’s Future.

Well, this is not something that can be changed at the level of black people in general in America, it can only be changed at the individual level, where some people are willing to look at their own psychology, look at how their psychologies have been affected by their upbringing and by their heritage of black people in America.

You need to identify here that black people in America have adopted certain attitudes, certain beliefs about themselves and as a result of this, they have created these very powerful collective entities. These entities pull on people’s emotional and mental bodies. They pull black people into a certain attitude towards life and this attitude becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Why are black people so often in a second-rate position in society compared to white people? Only part of the equation is discrimination from white people. It is, of course, a part of the equation. It is, of course, absolutely necessary and important to address this so that this discrimination is lessened in the collective consciousness by furthering greater tolerance. But it is only part of the equation.

Another important part of the equation is the mindset of many black people who have this sense of inferiority, that they are no good, that society is passing them by, that only the white people can do well and all of these things because they become self-fulfilling prophecies. So, you can first start working on this in your own mind, and realize that you have some separate selves in your mind that you need to come to see, you need to see the belief behind it, you need to let it die. You can also make the calls for this, of course, that other black people will be cut free from this.

What you basically need to recognize here is, what it says in the Declaration of Independence: ‘…All human beings are created equal’. It does not matter what your skin color is, you are created originally with the same opportunity for expanding your sense of awareness as white people. There is no difference here, you were not created as white people or black people, you were created as spiritual people, spiritual beings.

What has happened over time, which also you can see in Africa today, as we have talked about, is that many people in Africa have, over a long period of time adopted this very restrictive mindset. And of course, they took that with them when they were forced to come to America. Now in America, they have had a greater opportunity to free themselves from it than the people in Africa have had, but many people have not made use of this—they have enforced the same mindset and therefore they become self-fulfilling prophecies.

Those black people who are open to ascended master teachings, you can break this spiral, you can break it in yourself first, you can seek to help others do the same, you can make the calls, you can help switch the collective consciousness of black people.

You have, of course, some very, very good examples of people who have made a difference who have freed themselves from this limiting heritage that they had, and who have reached important positions in society. Barack and Michelle Obama are obvious examples, Colin Powell, Oprah, many others can be mentioned. You have many actors, Morgan Freeman, other actors who have really demonstrated that they have reached a higher level of consciousness than where they started out from their black heritage.

So be encouraged by this, realize that these people are doing something very, very important not only for black people, but even for American society as a whole. Because they are helping to break up the prejudice that many white people have against blacks, a prejudice, that in some cases, also becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy, by the way many blacks act. There is a tremendous potential for breaking this downward spiral and creating an upward spiral.

I can assure you, again, if 200 years from now, when people look back at this, they simply will not be able to understand that race was such an issue in America. They will look at other democratic nations, such as the Scandinavian nations, where race simply is not an issue. There is no discrimination based on your skin color in the Scandinavian countries.

You may say they have had an easier time because they have not had the same differences. But nevertheless, the mindset has also been different. So they would not have had the racial problems you have in America, even if they had had a large influx of people from a non-white race. And so you need to recognize here that in the future, in the golden age, race simply will not be an issue. People will look beyond all of these outer characteristics, they will look for the inner qualities of the being, of the soul.

The most effective way to have impact on the climate

Question: The west coast of the United States has been experiencing intense fires while the east coast has been dealing with storms and flooding. The other day Los Angeles went up to 120 degrees Fahrenheit. It seems the planet is getting warmer each year. I understand the masters have mentioned that our consciousness has a significant impact on our climate. I’m asking for clarification on how our consciousness can be applied in benefiting our climate. Do we hold in our consciousness a vision of a balanced climate or is it a matter of changing our priorities? For example, I understand the raging fires on the west coast are tied to greed, thus if the collective consciousness on the west coast were to switch its priorities and focus on raising all life, rather than just the individual, would that change in focus translate to a better climate? What is the most effective way to promote positive change?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2020 Webinar – Choosing America’s Future.

Well, if you are a spiritual person who is open to the idea that consciousness has an impact on the climate, which of course many people would ridicule, then focusing on the climate is not really the most effective way to bring change. In other words, you could as an ascended master student, focus on changing your attitude towards the climate or raising your own consciousness or making invocations and decrees for the climate.

But this would actually be an indirect way of seeking to change the climate.The more direct way of changing the climate is to do what we have encouraged people to do: focus on raising the collective consciousness. You can raise your own consciousness, but also make the calls for the raising of the collective.

So basically, that is why we have not given any invocations specifically about the climate, because the way to really change the climate is to focus on these other issues. This is not to say that all people should ignore the climate. But what we are saying is we have had to make a practical realist evaluation, we have a limited number of ascended master students, what is the best way that they can make use of their efforts to have the greatest impact? And it is not to make invocations on the climate, but to make invocations on the changes in the collective consciousness and society.

It is clear that if people on the west coast were willing to change their focus away from the individual greed and just serving their own interests, to serving the whole and working together in communities, then that would certainly have a major impact on the climate on the west coast. Likewise, if people in other areas where there is a propensity for certain natural disasters were to change their mindset and the collective consciousness, it would have a positive impact. It is clear that seeking to change the climate directly is not the most efficient way to do it. To bring about change in the climate, you need to change the cause, which is the collective consciousness and you need to be non-concerned about how people will ridicule this entire idea and this entire approach.