Michaels – Page 39 – Ascended Master Answers

Parenting in immigration

Question: For immigrants in North America, or people whose parents were immigrants, we can grow up in a North American environment with not a lot of connection with our heritage. We are ourselves a mixture of both our parent’s cultural context and the North American environment we have grown up in. But we have less attachment to our cultural context, and being more mobile and being more willing to move to areas for employment and growth. What does this mean for us when we raise kids, when we ourselves have no attachment to a particular culture or country.

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

Well again, naturally, an individual question. There will be some children who need more stability than others. Generally, the more mature a lifestream is, the less outer physical stability and security it needs, because it has some from within. There will be some of these immigrants who will have children who need a greater degree of security and stability. And you can only really know this by tuning in intuitively to your children and then attempting to give them this. If you intend to spend the rest of your life in America and have your children grow up here, then obviously you want to give them a sense of belonging here, a sense of national identity that you can pass on to your children.

But if there will also be some people who can tune in and recognize that their children are much like themselves, or perhaps even further evolved, and that they do not need that outer stability. And in that case, I would suggest that if you are spiritual people, naturally, you first of all, bring up your children to be spiritual, have a spiritual outlook. This does not mean you force a particular teaching, even an ascended master teaching, upon them.

We have seen in previous dispensations, how many parents were well meaning but they were far too eager to get their children to be in the same ascended master teaching and in many cases, the children rebelled against this because they were forced. Their parents forgot that they had chosen themselves to be in an ascended master teaching, and they needed to give their children the same choice.

But you can still bring your children up with a set of universal spiritual values. What you can also do, is bring your children up to not be attached to a particular national identity and culture, but to see themselves as world citizens. You can do this by both, of course, exposing them to the North American culture, but also to your previous culture so they know there are other cultures.

It is important, as part of the golden age, that many children come to see themselves, many people come to see themselves, as world citizens and not so attached or defined by a particular nationality. This is something that can help, of course, bring greater understanding between people from different nationalities and cultures.This is one of the effects of the internet, where people can communicate with people from other countries. But it is also important, and there will gradually come this awakening, where some people will identify themselves as world citizens, even though they are living in a particular country.

Public health care system in the US ?

Question: Will the experience with COVID-19, the Coronavirus, create any lasting changes in US society? Will more people continue to work from home. And will we do more to fund public health initiatives in the future?

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

Well, this is indeed a question that is open. I cannot give you an answer because I cannot predict what the American people will do and how they will react. There are so many Americans who are polarized into a certain political faction that they will not look objectively or neutrally at the situation. There are people, and I have to say with all honesty, that most of them are in the conservative camp, who are so blinded by this epic need to promote these conservative traditional Christian values, that they have become insensitive to their fellow human beings.

They will not look at the fact that many, many people who did not have health insurance and who did not have access to public health insurance because of the repeal of Obamacare, died of COVID-19, when they did not have to die. They will not acknowledge this, they will not acknowledge that this is a major problem that has affected many families. They will not acknowledged that the US healthcare system is clearly top heavy, and has very little to offer to the poorest quarter or third of the population. They will not acknowledge that you do not find a similar situation in any other so-called advanced society.

If we look at the situation in the world, we can say that it is very, very clear that some countries have done better than others. And if you look at this neutrally, you see that the countries who have done the best are those who had a public health care system that had reached a certain level of organization and sophistication. You can look primarily at the Scandinavian countries, the countries of Northern Europe, Germany, and others, who have done much better than the United States in terms of the number of people affected and the number of people who died from COVID-19 related causes.

If you look at this neutrally, you can say that it is clear that if the United States wants to continue to be an advanced country, this country simply needs a public health care system. All of the other advanced democracies have it. It is clear that the evolution of the world is moving in that direction. More and more nations will have a public health care system. They will be more and more developed. And if America wants to keep pace and not fall behind, they have to do the same, it is simply a necessity.

This has become even worse by, what we have talked about, the growing income inequality, where so many people, even people who used to be middle class, cannot afford health care, because they can barely afford to maintain a standard of living. This is an unsustainable situation.

And the fact of the matter is that if you change the situation, so that you again gave the money to the people who are doing the work, and you tax the rich, as they should be taxed in a fair system of taxation, it would be no problem at all to fund a public health care system in the United States. It is only a matter of political will. And that political will must come from a majority of the people demanding this. It is clear that right now, there is still the crisis going on. But it is clear that there are many people who are aware of these things. And that as the crisis begins to fade, there will be a growing debate and a growing demand and a growing awareness that the American healthcare system needs to go through some drastic changes and needs to move in a new direction. This is simply inevitable.

In terms of whether people will work at home, well yes, certainly that will happen both in the United States and many other countries but not necessarily to the point where they will replace traditional workplaces. It is clear that, with the internet age, it is already far behind. There are many, many companies that should long ago have allowed their workers to work from home. And it is clear that this crisis has highlighted the issue and made many companies see the value of doing this.

The probability of election fraud in the US

Question: Can the masters comment on the probability of election fraud in the United States and if our votes actually get counted during elections?

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

Election fraud is, of course, a serious issue in any democratic nation. I have to say that it is particularly a serious issue in the United States. This does not mean that I want to present any general mistrust of the political system in the United States. It is not so that you need to consider that this is a widespread problem. But in any democratic country, there needs to be a continuing monitoring of the entire election process. This is not just a matter of whether votes that are cast are counted, but also whether all people are given reasonable opportunities to vote.

You cannot have a situation where there are people who are speculating, and doing whatever they can within the system, to prevent a certain group of people, such as black people, from voting because they know they vote a certain way. This is a form of election fraud.

In general, votes are counted. You can have in this election, where because of the corona situation, many people are expected to vote by mail. You could have some concerns about whether the mail service will be able to deliver the mail in time to have all votes counted.And this is certainly something that needs to be monitored. You cannot have a situation where certain political parties attempt to, certain political people attempt to limit the ability of the mail service to deliver all of the mail in votes. You need to monitor this carefully, you need to make sure that the votes are counted. You need to even postpone the announcement of the final results until all votes are counted, if they cannot be counted in time.

Now hopefully, this election will give a clear victory to one side. This would be the ideal scenario. That whoever wins the presidency does so with a large enough margin that you can say that, even if there were some votes that were not counted, then it would not have had any impact on the final outcome.

We of course, do not desire to see the repetition of the previous situation between Bush and Gore, where it was down to a few votes in certain states. And whether their votes were counted this way or that way. This entire circus, we would much prefer to avoid. But of course, again, you could say that, if such a scenario needs to be outplayed, then it is obviously because the collective consciousness is still so undecided, about which way Americans want the country to go, that they cannot gather a significant majority to elect the next president. And then, of course, the show must go on, as they say.

An influx of people from a different culture brings opportunities

Question: Would it be possible for the masters to comment on the situation in Canada and the United States where there are a lot of immigrants who are ethnic minorities, especially the East Asian community?

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

Well, I have before said that in the European nations for example, refugees are there because these countries have not reached out and helped other nations. But anytime you see that a country has a great influx of people from a different culture, it can be seen as an opportunity, both for the people coming in and the people in that nation. The question is always, will the immigrants mix with the population of the country? Will they interact, will they learn from each other?

There is a tendency for many immigrant groups, not just Asian immigrants but others as well, that they congregate in certain areas. And they form almost like a ghetto or a city within the city, a state within a state, that is just for them. And they want to live as close to the lifestyle of their previous culture as they can.

This is of course, not the highest matrix. Because it does not serve the overall golden age ideal of fostering understanding between people from different backgrounds. This can only happen through interaction. And it can only happen if the immigrants are willing to adapt to the country they are coming into. This does not mean that they have to submit to everything. But they have to adapt so that the people who are living in that country do not see them as outsiders, or as enemies, or as a problem, they cannot as easily make them into scapegoats.

You see here that it is a challenge for both groups of people. But I would say that the greater responsibility is with the immigrants, because they are the ones who are coming to a different country. And you need to ask yourselves why you have chosen, because for most people it is a choice to come to this particular nation. Why would you choose to come to a nation if you really do not want to live in that nation or do not want to live in the culture that is there? Why would you then choose to come? Why would you not go somewhere else or stay where you grew up? If you do come to another country, accept that, adapt to it, change your identity, so you can adapt to it without resisting it.

This messenger was an immigrant in the United States for 22 years, and adapted to the American way of life to the point where most people did not consider him an immigrant. Even though he still had a slight accent that people could hear, they did not consider him any different. That was because he never expected that America would adapt to him, he realized that he would have to adapt to America. And this is of course, a realization that all immigrants in any country can benefit from. Even refugees can benefit from this, even if they expect to only stay there for a limited time.

Privacy in the golden age

Question: What does privacy look like in the golden age? Since there will be a deeper union between individuals and spiritual communities does that mean everything will be open or will it still be constructive to keep certain things to yourself, not out of deception, but out of personal preference?

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

Well, if we look a little further into the golden age, not in the interim stages, but look further into the golden age, there will be less physical privacy but more psychological privacy. In other words, you will move towards a state where people will not feel a need to hide anything from the government, from other people.

Naturally, most people will still live in individual homes. And they will have physical privacy in their homes. But otherwise, they will not really feel a need to hide so much because they will be straightforward. They will be honest, they will not attempt to cheat or get away with anything or deceive others or cheat on their taxes or whatever it may be. There will be less need to physically hide something.

But as we move into the golden age, the consciousness will be raised, the collective consciousness will be purified, the four lower bodies of earth will be purified. That means there will be less and less pressure on you from what we call dark forces, collective entities, fallen beings, that will be taken away from the planet. This means there will be less and less of a force that seeks to influence your mind.

There will also be less influence on the collective, there will be a shift where what I have talked about with these groups that are seeking to influence each other, the liberals, the conservatives and many other groups, people in the golden age will not seek to force the free will of other people. And of course, how do you force the free will of other people? Well, partly through physical means, but in most part through psychological means where you are trying to influence their minds by invading their minds. The real privacy you will have is, of course, what happens in your mind. And there will clearly be more of this in the golden age.

This does not mean that you will necessarily hide things from other people. But it means you will be free to share or not share as you see fit. Naturally, there will still be many situations where you are working on something in your psychology, and you are not necessarily sharing this with all people, because it is still in the process, and you do not want anyone to interfere with this. You are coming up with certain ideas, you are seeking to clarify and bring down into the physical, certain ideas and you are not necessarily sharing this with people, unless it is people you know and can trust.

But I will also say that, as we move into the golden age more, you will see an acceleration of the phenomenon, that you already see, where people use social media or blogs to share even many details about their private life and the process they are going through of improving their lives and raising their consciousness. There will be more of this free sharing, where people can learn from each other, and share ideas with others. In this sense, you could say that there will be less privacy, but it will be voluntarily that people give up this privacy.

There will also be a tendency, if you go into the golden age, that more and more people will live in a more communal setting where they do not have a private home that is separated from other private homes, but they live more in a group setting. But there will still of course always be a certain personal privacy.

About Canadians working in the US

Question: For Canadians attracted to go into the US for employment opportunities, what does this mean for our state of consciousness? Does this mean that we are in a more similar level of consciousness to Americans than we are to Canadians?

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

Well, this is of course individual. There are some people who are born in Canada who are at a certain level of consciousness that corresponds more to what many Americans have. But there are also people in Canada, who are attracted to going to the US for employment because they want to experience what the United States is like, they want to experience the contrast between Canada and the United States for various reasons.

It can be to help them appreciate Canada more, it can be to help them see how Canada could change by learning things from the US or even how the US could learn from Canada. There are also some people who are attracted to the United States because they can hold a spiritual balance by being in the United States. And finally, of course, there are Canadians who can bring something positive to the United States with their level of consciousness. It is a highly individual matter and not something you can give a general answer on.

It is clear that Canada in general, is a more peaceful country than the United States. There is less internal conflict, even though I am quite aware that there are internal conflicts because of the language and the national background, but still, you will find that the Canadians are more harmonious, less aggressive, less warring than the United States in general. Of course, there are many Americans who are also peaceful. But in general, Canada is more in alignment with the Scandinavian and Northern European countries, than with the United States.

This is something, of course, that the United States could learn from, but the United States is currently not very open to learning from anyone outside of the United States, or, for that matter, anyone inside for many Americans. This ties into the fact that we have talked about the polarization of America. Canada is a nation that is actually currently holding an important spiritual balance not only on the North American continent, but the entire American continent, North and South America. Canada, despite its fairly low population, has many people who are spiritually mature, whether they are ascended masters students or not. And they are able to hold a balance that has prevented certain negative events from occurring both in the United States and in middle and South America.

I know that Canadians often have a tendency to not value themselves, not value their nation, they might be said to have a certain inferiority complex compared to the United States, because the United States, seemingly, is doing better in many ways. But the reality is, that there are many spiritually mature people in Canada and there is enough of them, that they can actually hold this balance for the United States. This is, of course, in no way detracting from the fact that there are also many spiritually mature people in the United States who are holding a balance for their nation.

But it is a fact that the United States is in a negative spiral where there is a need for people to hold a spiritual balance for this nation or things would be even worse. And spiritual people in Canada, not only ascended master students but certainly also ascended master students, can allow themselves to accept that they are doing very important work by holding the spiritual balance for America.

Can fallen beings help bring the country forward?

Question: There’s a question here about Argentina, and a leader called Rosas, asking whether he was a fallen being and could it be possible in certain particular times that the work of fallen beings might be useful for the ascended masters’ global plan?

Answer from Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2020 Webinar – Choosing America’s Future.

I’ll comment on that, because the masters have given teachings that there are some times that a person, in a certain situation, that is not an ideal situation, can help bring a change that brings the country forward. Jesus gave a profound dictation about this a few years ago in Russia where he talked about even Lenin and the Bolshevik Revolution brought a necessary change in Russia.

So, for a time, it wasn’t that they were sponsored by the ascended masters in any way, but they were in alignment with the need to bring change in Russia. But very quickly of course, they lost that and now they became an oppressive force that then stopped further change. And the same thing could have been the case here, which you will know if you know more about the history of the country.

Hercules and the 12 labors

Question: The seven Elohim created planet Earth. Did the six previous spheres and its beings develop in this planet or does a planet ascend with a sphere? Concerning Hercules, has he ever lived on this planet or are his twelve tasks a mere symbolism?

Answer from Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2020 Webinar – Choosing America’s Future.

Any planet will ascend with its sphere. When a sphere ascends the planet will ascend with it or it will be dissolved. The six previous spheres didn’t develop within this planet.

In terms of Hercules, he is an ascended master, but the way I see it now is that Hercules and his 12 labors are symbolic for the spiritual challenges that we can face on the path. In the Summit Lighthouse, there were some teachings given about Hercules and the 12 labors that made it seem a little more literal but that was the case for many things in the Summit. Things were taken a little more literally than they are now when the masters are looking more at what does this actually symbolize.

Ascended master teachings and Indian gurus

Question: I am from India and I find it very strange that I’m the only one I know of from India who is following the ascended master teachings. This country has a population of 1.3 billion people and has produced many, many spiritual mature beings. What is making this country lag behind so much in spiritual attainment? And what’s the best approach to wake up this nation? I know Master MORE has said some time back that it’s the gurus who refuse to acknowledge the ascended masters, people like Satguru, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar and Brahma Kumaris’ movement have huge followings. But how much are they really helping their followers? I would like to know the thoughts of the Masters.

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

Well, we have in the past attempted to reach students in India through the Theosophical movement and had fairly limited success with this. In the recent dispensations of the I AM Movement, the Summit Lighthouse and this one, we have had even more limited success reaching students in India. Part of this is of course that India has a rich spiritual tradition, more rich than most western countries. There is a tradition of finding a guru. There are still valid personal gurus in India, so people who are open to the spiritual path can find these teachings in their own culture.

I will say that there is of course, an Indian black brotherhood of false gurus who are not only seeking to mislead students in the West but also in India themselves. And it is clear that there is a blockage in the collective consciousness in India against recognizing ascended masters. This is not unique to India as you will find it at most other nations. In most nations influenced by the Christian religion, the Christian religion has created a blockage against recognizing ascended masters and it is no different in India. Part of it is the Hindu tradition of course, that doesn’t recognize anything really beyond the Brahmins and the gods of the Hindu Pantheon, but nevertheless.

This is not something we are overly concerned about. We are gratified that there are students in India who are studying the teachings but we are really not looking to attract a large number of followers to this dispensation from India.

It is clear that if you look at India as a nation, you will see that there are some gurus who have become more famous and gather a larger and larger following. In general, I would say that when a guru becomes very popular, it is usually because the teachings of that guru do not go beyond a certain level. That is why so many people can lock into it and follow it. The guru somehow gives these people what they want. He gives them a convenient path that is fairly easy to follow, but not one that really requires them to look at themselves, heal their psychology and raise their consciousness.

Now, if you look at the world at large and not just India, there is a question that many ascended master students have asked themselves: “If it is true that humankind is raising its consciousness and that this growth in consciousness is happening because of the ascended masters who are the universal teachers for all of mankind, why is not it so that there is a greater and greater recognition of ascended masters? For example, if there is a guru who has reached a high level of consciousness why is not he recognizing ascended masters? Why did Paramahansa Yogananda not write about ascended masters in his book, beyond the few veiled mentions you can find?

And the answer to that is not just one single answer. Each guru that is a valid guru, has a certain group of people that he is meant to reach. Depending on what level of consciousness these people are in, they may not be ready to recognize ascended masters. This means the task of this guru is not to make them recognize ascended masters, but to raise them from their present level to a certain level of consciousness from which they can then continue to grow. It is not so that every valid guru is meant to eventually come to recognize ascended masters. Because not all people are ready for this.

But of course, there is also the false hierarchy, the false gurus, both in India and elsewhere and they will not recognize ascended masters because we are of course the ones who can free the students from the influence of false gurus. Now you can look at planet Earth and you can see that there are valid gurus that are meant to raise the consciousness of the students. If the students continue to raise their consciousness, they will eventually, most of them, find ascended masters and their teaching. But still, you cannot say that all spiritual people on earth are meant to eventually find the ascended masters. There are other different paths. And it is important that there are people who demonstrate each valid path so that the many people who are at lower levels of consciousness can find a path that appeals to them.

As I said, not everybody is ready for the path that we offer. But what can be said is that there are of course many false gurus and the false gurus will lead people astray in various ways and they will insert blockages in people’s minds that will prevent them from growing beyond a certain level of the path. There are false gurus that cause their students to have a certain level of growth but then they stop and they find it very difficult to go beyond that level.

For these students who have followed a false guru, it can be very, very difficult to get onto the true path without using the ascended masters teachings. Because we are the only ones who have the necessary level of consciousness and experience to help a student overcome this blockage of having followed a false guru. Many of these students could naturally benefit from considering our teachings. But unfortunately, this requires them to be much more open minded and much more willing to look beyond their previous teaching. Because the false gurus have often in very subtle ways inserted these blockages in people’s minds that prevents them from recognizing the ascended masters.

How to make the maximum progress by using a spiritual teaching

Question: Dear masters, how many students have manifested a high degree of or full Christhood via this dispensation? And how many students have overcome their cosmic birth trauma? Has the progress been as expected or not? If not, what do you think is stopping the students and what would you advise us to start or stop doing more of?

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

Well, I do not want to put exact numbers on this. What I can say is that this dispensation has been more successful, so far, than any previous dispensation in terms of helping people grow towards Christhood. What is full Christhood? Well, basically not what you reach until the one hundred forty fourth level. But there are many people who have made considerable progress.

There is, for us, a satisfactory number of people who have resolved their birth traumas. There are many more that are coming close to it, and we are gratified by the fact that so many students have taken these teachings and have used them to make very significant progress that many of them have not been able to make until these teachings were released. Naturally, there are more people who could benefit from using these teachings.

The real issue that I would like to bring out in this context is that there are students and it is not just in this dispensation, but it has been the same in all previous dispensations, who come into a teaching, they study the teaching, they may practice decrees and invocations faithfully, but they are not truly listening to what the teaching is saying. They are still in a state of mind where they believe that they know what the spiritual path is about. And therefore, when they study the teaching, they are studying it selectively. They are looking for what validates their view of the path and they are overlooking or ignoring or even denying or arguing against the teachings that do not validate their view but that could actually take them to a higher view of the path.

There has always been a certain percentage of the students who are in this category. In this dispensation, there are less of them, because they usually tend to leave after a while, because they cannot keep pace with the students that have used the teachings to transcend themselves, they cannot keep pace with the messenger who is transcending himself, they cannot keep pace with our teachings, where we, because the messenger and the students are willing to transcend, we can give higher and higher teachings.

But in general, you could say this: if you do not feel you have made the progress that you could have made, if you are not satisfied with the progress you have made, it is because there is something you have not grasped. And the reason for this is that you still have a separate self, that gives you a fixed view, a closed ended view of the spiritual path. There is something you are not open to seeing or able to see, because this self is blocking you.

You need to try and identify what that self is, you need to try to really pay attention to what we are saying, read between the lines. You need to monitor your reaction to what we are saying. You will be able to notice, when there’s a tendency, where you argue against something, where you do not really focus on certain teachings or where you maybe even decide: “Oh, that’s not for me, or that’s not so important or that’s not the way it is.” You have these reactions of closing your mind, dismissing a certain teaching. And when you come to identify this, then you can realize this is a teaching that I really need to pay attention to, that I really need to grasp, I really need to try to look beyond my perception filter and grasp that teaching.

Spiritual perspective on surrogacy

Question: What is the position of the masters on surrogacy? Basically, the child is born physically from the womb of a surrogate carrier, instead of the biological mother. [I guess it’s not the biological mother if it isn’t born from her womb, but anyway]. I’m considering having another child via surrogacy, as I have had a very difficult first pregnancy 13 years ago, and I’m much older now in my 40s. I would like to know the spiritual ramifications of birthing in such a way. Does it matter to the incoming lifestream whose physical body carries it for nine months and births it? [Basically, not the biological, I would say legal mother] If so, in what way? Could the incoming lifestream choose not to take embodiment if the biological parents decide to use a surrogate mother? What other implications could it have?

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

Well, using surrogacy is a legitimate way to have another child if there are reasons why you cannot give birth to it yourself. Adoption is of course, another method that can be considered. Naturally, the incoming lifestream has the option to refuse to come into embodiment. If for example, there is a lifestream that is more tied to the woman giving birth than the surrogate mother, then it could refuse to come into embodiment in order to not be in a different family.

But it is much more likely that if you are deciding you want to use a surrogate mother, you will attract a lifestream who wants to be your child and therefore wants to come into embodiment in your family, grow up in your family, even if it is borne by another mother.

So, there is not anything unspiritual or wrong about this method. But of course, there can be individual cases where the surrogate mother could develop an attachment to the child or the child could even develop a certain attachment to the surrogate mother in the womb, as is the case in some cases with adoptions. But nevertheless, it is a method that you can consider and if you feel intuitively led to do it, then follow your inner guidance on this.

Censorship in media

Question: Can the masters please comment on the increasing censorship from the left-wing media and social channels. I find it horrifying that there is such an extreme approach to silencing people and opinions who aren’t perfectly aligned with the status quo. I typically take a very nuanced approach to politics and rise above the dualistic extremes. However, it seems that at least in America, conservatives are really the only ones who are standing up somewhat for free speech. How can I keep a balanced perspective on the current dynamics?

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

Well, a balanced perspective requires you to see that it is not only the left wing that is seeking to exercise censorship and silence people who do not agree with their party line. There is an equal censorship from the right wing, from conservatives, from Christians and you see this in various media outlets.

It is not a one-sided thing. Both of these two factions that I have talked about, the liberals and the conservatives, are seeking to browbeat people into following their party line by silencing or ridiculing those who do not agree with them.

This is something that needs to be stopped, but it will be stopped only when the American people say they have had enough of this from both sides and they see it from both sides, and therefore they demand an alternative, they demand a media that is not biased towards one side or the other.

How to get from a debt-based economy towards the golden age economy?

Question: What interim steps need to be taken to move the US economy away from a debt-based economy and towards the golden age economy?

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

A very broad question that has too many factors that I cannot cover them all in this answer. But obviously, one interim step is that a growing number, eventually reaching a critical mass of American people, (which is not the same as the majority) will start to question the debt-based money system. Why is money created as debt? Why do we allow money to be created as debt? Why do we allow a group of private banks to form the Federal Reserve System, which despite the deceptive name is not federal, but is a group of private banks?

These are some questions that need to be asked so that Americans can realize here, that this ties in with what we have talked about based on this RAND report of how money has been moved from the majority of the people from the middle class to the top 1%. How they have extracted money from the people by reducing wages and at the same time, they have projected out that as Americans, you are supposed to have a certain standard of living. This has caused many, many people to then go into a spiral of debt that they never really get out of for their entire lifetimes, where in order to get what you are supposed to have materially, to get the house, to get the cars, education, so forth, they take loans and go into debt.

Now, you will see if you go back to the decades after the war, where the economy was better and income was rising for all people, there were many people who could do this, who could have what they wanted materially without going into debt. You need to question what has happened to the economy, so that people now cannot have a material lifestyle, a normal material lifestyle without going into debt, and what is needed in order to get back to a point where people can actually live without being in debt because you need to recognize here that this is sort of a double negative, in the sense that not only are people making less money, but at the same time they are forced, quote unquote, to go into debt, which means that a lot of the money they do make go to pay back interest to the power elite.

You need to get to a point where there are enough Americans who have seen this, who are determined to say: “We will not allow this to go on. We demand an economy where we can live a decent lifestyle with the money we make and we are not forced to go into debt in order to live that lifestyle.”

Remove yourself from places with an energetically negative spiral

Question: Most of the people who try to live a peaceful life away from gangs while living in African American ghettos end up dead because the negativity there is intense. I’m therefore wondering if there is hope for people living in the ghetto, to one day have a better life when there is so much negativity and anybody trying to live a peaceful life ends up being killed?

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

There are unfortunately many places on earth where people of a certain state of consciousness have either gathered together or have been forced together, and they have created a negative collective spiral. They are feeding their fear-based energies into the spiral. They are generating conflict with each other and they are simply creating such a negative spiral that it can overpower most individuals.

There is really no way to live a peaceful life in that situation. The only way to live a peaceful life is to remove yourself from that situation. Do whatever can be done to remove yourself, get out of these areas, whether they are ghettos or other places and move to somewhere else where there is not that kind of a negative spiral.

Forgiving does not mean denial

Question: I have been hurt and I couldn’t find the strength to forgive and move on. For a long time, I didn’t want to forgive. But now I’m tired of the limitations I’m facing and I want to know where to start on the path of forgiveness. What is forgiveness? Is forgiveness about forgetting and behaving as if nothing ever happened?

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

Obviously what I have said in the previous answer applies here as well. But it is very important to realize that forgiving is not a matter of pretending like nothing happened. This is what in psychology is called denial. It is not a matter of forgetting by pushing it out of your mind. It is as I said in the previous answer a matter of coming to the point where you are free from all of these things in your psychology that are pulling on you, the separate selves, the accumulated fear-based energies, and therefore you are free to make the decision to forgive. The question again simply is: Do you want to be free? And if you want to be free, you have to realize that by forgiving others, you are setting yourself free.

The common misconception as we have said before is that when you forgive others, you are letting them off the hook. The reality is that by forgiving others, you are letting yourself off the hook because you are making the decision that whatever these people did to you, it will not define you anymore. You will not hold on to it. You will not seek to hold them accountable. You will not seek to change them. You will not seek to punish them. It does not matter. You just want to be free of them. You do not want to do anything to them. You do not want them to do anything to or for you. You just want to be free. That is a decision you have to make. But as I said, there can be quite some work that you need to do before you are free to make that decision.

Only total forgiveness leads to total freedom

Question: How can survivors of childhood abuse, sexual, physical, verbal and others really make progress in their healing? How can they once and for all transcend the negative, the negativity, anger, low self-esteem, revenge, hate, and move on with their life? Is there such a thing as forgiving and forgetting in this case?

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

Well, naturally, if you are aware of ascended masters, you can use all of the teachings we have given on healing your psychology, including the separate selves and past traumas, to overcome this, but to speak in more general terms for all people, it is simply a fact of life that if you have been exposed to abuse, you will not be completely free of it until you forgive the people who abused you and until you forgive yourself for reacting to the abuse the way you did. Total forgiveness leads to total freedom, as we have said before. There is no other way.

We have given teachings about helping people rise above the past, it can be helpful here, but in general terms, until you forgive, you cannot forget, you cannot move on. So how can you forgive? Well, you can forgive only when you come to a point where you make a decision that you will not let the past abuse define who you are today and who you will be for the rest of this lifetime. You have to decide that you will not allow the people who abused you to continue to have an influence over your consciousness and your state of mind.

You can do this only when you set them free, when you forgive them and realize that they acted the way they did as an expression of their level of consciousness that they were outplaying their level of consciousness, that it was not actually directed against you personally and thereby, you can gradually come to a point where you can stop taking it personally and then you can let the whole thing go.

Now, I am not saying this is easy to do, especially if you do not have ascended master teachings. But if you have our teachings and use the decrees and invocations to transmute the energy that blocks you from letting go, then you can actually come to that point where you are now free of the energetic pull that pulls you into the anger and hate.

Then, you are free to make that decision to just let it go. You may very well have to work on yourself, to work on your selves and realize that even though you may have been abused in this lifetime, it is most likely not the first time. It probably goes back to other lifetimes possibly going back to your cosmic birth trauma. You have to resolve these selves before you can be totally free to make the decision and say: “I am letting this go.”

You cannot really make this decision with the outer mind. But when you have done the work, there will come a point where you will spontaneously feel a release. You will just feel like something breaks, something lets go and you realize consciously that you have now forgiven, you have now let it go, and then you will feel free.

No woman is free until all women are free

Question: A better understanding, please. How does the phrase: “Until all of us are free, none of us are free” promote oneness without denying that there is indeed a gradual path that everyone is at various places? It obviously doesn’t mean we can’t show any progress until everyone makes the same progress.

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

Well, the expression is actually that “No woman is free until all women are free”. The purpose of giving this statement is to help women in the more affluent, more developed countries develop a certain sense of solidarity with those women in less developed, less affluent countries who do not have the same opportunities. You realize that you cannot simply use your comfortable lifestyle and be content with this but that you need to use this as an opportunity to help those who are not yet at the same level.

This is actually promoting a sense of oneness because you realize that those who are more fortunate, it is part of their divine plans and is part of their higher desires to help those who are less fortunate. This is how all can progress, even though they do not necessarily progress at the same pace, or to the same level. But there does come a point on the spiritual path where you cannot actually make progress by only being focused on yourself and your own personal growth.

There are many, many people including ascended master students, who have followed a spiritual path for a time, and it has given them growth, but then they come to this dividing line and instead of focusing on what they can do for the whole, what they can do for others, what they can do for the Masters, they continue to see only that they can improve themselves and raise themselves. This causes them to stagnate. Some of them still feel they are growing but they are not truly growing. Some feel that they are expanding their understanding and they know more and more, but they are not really raising their consciousness. Others feel they are not growing, they become discouraged. They start criticizing their guru or the organization or their teaching, or they start looking for another one. But they are not moving forward because they are not willing to look beyond themselves and their own growth.

Young people need to reconsider the way they look at financial security

Question: Many young students whose interests lie in different fields, especially in non-technical fields, like sociology and liberal arts, currently feel a great sense of insecurity about their future. They seek a financially secure future because of the financial instability many of them have been born into. They don’t want to go through life worrying about the basics, such as paying bills and rent, they want to do many things to help boost their personal economic circumstances. And in the case of spiritual people have time and attention to continue to raise their consciousness, and help others do the same, if possible. However, due to the lack of opportunity in many areas of study, especially fields other than technology and medicine, along with an education and employment system, which seems to favor those with a particular social background, these students cannot help but sometimes feel very powerless, in trying to envision ways to better their situation in life, no matter how hard they try on the outer. In addition to this, with coronavirus and other issues affecting employment opportunities, the outlook for employment opportunities with potential for stable incomes, seems to be getting much harder, especially for those who come from financially disadvantaged backgrounds. Is there any advice the masters could give to these young people who currently feel powerless on the outer to attain financially stable independence?

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 cannot change the system in which you live, you can change the way you look at the system. What these young people can do is re-evaluate that they have taken over some of the values from their parents. You had a period after the Second World War, where there was in many countries, economic growth, and there was a rising wealth among the middle class. You still have this in some countries, but it is in many countries starting to be reduced.

What you see is that you have a generation of people who are brought up with parents who were financially secure. These young people have come to expect that they should have the same thing. They have also come to think that this can only happen when they have stable employment that gives them an affluent income. But they need to take a look at the fact that their parents paid a price for having the financial security they have had, and that is that they had to work all the time, in steady jobs, whatever they thought about those jobs, whether they were fulfilling or not.

There are many young people who have come in to actually take society in a different direction where it is not so focused on the materialistic aspects of life. This means that you cannot necessarily see that the only way that you can survive financially is to have a steady job with an affluent income. You will see that in order to have a steady, affluent income, you need to be willing to, so to speak, sell your soul on the corporate altar, and you have to be willing to tie yourself to fulfilling the demands made by these jobs.

There are many young people who do not have it in their divine plans to live this way. This means they have to reconsider whether they have to live the same way their parents do. Do they have to have the same material standard of living? Do you have to have a big house, for example? Or can you live in more modest ways? Can you live with a not stable and steady income, where you do not feel disturbed by this, but trust that the universe will take care of you if you are willing to do what is part of your divine plan?

I am not saying this is the ultimate response because in the long term, there will of course be changes in the economy where the economy will get back to a steady growth path. There will also in some countries be the enactment of a basic income so that you can live a relatively secure life without having to actually work a traditional job and this will give many of these young people the opportunity to work on what is in their divine plan. But it is first of all, a matter of questioning your relationship and the way you look at material wealth, and financial security. You cannot really expect to have financial independence without working on a job so that you do not have the independence of time, energy and attention.

About the concept of co-creating

Question: What do the ascended masters mean by the word “create” when they use the term “co-create” and are the consequences what we learn about ourselves or the outer consequences? It is confusing for the outer self to have to learn from consequences, when it cannot even see what it creates, do we co-create a thing a shared condition with other co-creators (a karmic return), just another self, some sort of energy matrix, or all of the above? Does the form of what we co-create, and its consequences differ, depending on whether we are in the school of hard knocks, or the school of the ascended masters?

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

Well, you are co-creators. This means that you cannot create something out of your own self as the Creator does. In essence, all of us, even ascended masters in previous spheres, who are in our Creator’s world of form, we are all co-creators, because only the Creator creates a world out of nothing, out of its own being, but we all co-create with the Creator. Now, you who are in embodiment on earth, you are embodied in an unascended sphere. You are co-creating with the ascended masters who are assigned to assist the growth of your sphere, you are furthermore on an unnatural planet, which means you are co-creating within the conditions of that planet.

This for that matter is the case on any planet, even a natural planet, there is a certain matrix defined for that planet. And you will always be co-creating within that because as an individual, you cannot override that. You on earth you are co-creating within the conditions created by the collective consciousness.

Now, it is very understandable that you say the outer self is confused by having to learn from consequences when it does not see what it has co-created in the past.

But you see, it is actually not the outer self that has to learn from consequences, it is the Conscious You that can learn from consequences. And the Conscious You can learn that only when it steps outside of the outer self and therefore realizes that your outer situation is a reflection of your inner situation, your state of consciousness.

You co-create through your consciousness, you are an individual co-creator. The images that you hold in your identity, mental and identity bodies will have a big impact on your outer physical situation. So you are, in a sense, creating all of the things that are mentioned in the question. But you are of course, when it comes to the outer circumstances—the physical circumstances, you are not creating this in a vacuum, you are creating it within the context of the planet you are on, and the matrix set by the collective consciousness.

Now, as we have explained, the seven Elohim created planet Earth in its original pure form. And humankind has, after the fall into duality then changed the original matrix for Earth quite dramatically, even to the point of making mater more dense. You have many, many conditions, many physical conditions on earth that are created by the collective consciousness over a very long period of time. You are co-creating physical circumstances within that environment. As an individual, there is a limit to what you can override of course depending on your level of consciousness, but still, even at the highest, 144th level of consciousness, there is a limit to what you can override in a collective because freewill must be allowed to outplay itself

. The most important thing to understand about co-creation is that your consciousness, what is in the three higher bodies, will have a fundamental impact on your physical situation, your physical circumstances. You have not always co-created those circumstances you have in many cases attracted yourself to those circumstances, and you have done this in order to learn certain lessons.

But if you go back through your many embodiments on earth and resolve the various selves you have, you can rise above those outer circumstances and either attract yourself to another circumstance or co-create, create a new circumstance. But this is not something the outer self can do. Is there a difference between being in a school of hard knocks and being on a path or the ascended masters? Well, there is of course, in the sense that if you are in the school of hard knocks, you have not fully acknowledged that your outer circumstances are a reflection of your inner circumstances. Therefore, you cannot as easily learn from the circumstances.

Now, I should say that there are people who study ascended master teachings and still have not fully acknowledged this and therefore, they are still somewhat in the school of hard knocks. But when you fully accept responsibility for yourself, then there will be a difference, because once you are in the school of hard knocks you are not so open to changing the contents of your three higher bodies and therefore, you will continue to co-create based on those contents, you are continuing to co-create the same thing.

Once you go into the school of the ascended masters and are willing to let go of these selves from past lives, then you will not be repeating those same matrices, you will not have the light flow through them, they will be gone and therefore, you are more free to create something else. Then you can create what you consider more constructive circumstances for yourself.

Forerunners for golden age ideas in the USA

Question: Is there a particular area of the United States, at this point in time, which is more prone towards manifesting a golden age than others? I know, in 2015, California was mentioned as a likely forerunner. Has this equation changed at all?

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

Well, the entire West Coast has the potential to be the forerunner for many golden age ideas as has already happened to some degree. You will see that many people in Portland and Washington state and in California are more open to alternative energy, alternative ways of looking at things. They are more open to spiritual ideas of a variety of different sorts.

The situation in California has not specifically changed, although you need to recognize that greed is still a major issue. There is still a certain greed in the state of people who want to make more and more money and this has, in a certain sense, become worse, which you can also see as an expression of these fires that are ravaging the state right now. There is still, however, the potential that the golden age can start, or at least become manifest there before.

Arizona is another area where there is a certain openness to alternative ways of looking at life. Colorado is also a state that has a certain openness to new ideas. You find this to some degree in some of the states on the East Coast. But in the East Coast, you still have the problem that you have this very ancient establishment of these rich families who are holding the collective consciousness at a lower level and keeping these states somewhat closed to at least a number of golden age ideas that would require change in this situation with a rich and powerful elite.

The golden age potential for the Japanese people

Question: Apart from showing the effects of a nuclear bomb and supporting the unification of Korea, what other role does Japan play in the world? Is there any positive outlook for the future of Japan from the ascended perspective in regards to their divine plan as a nation?

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

The Japanese people have a divine plan, have a golden age potential as most people around the world. This messenger is not particularly familiar with Japanese culture, Japanese mindset and Japanese history. Therefore, it is difficult for me to give you a detailed description. It would require him to put considerable time and attention on familiarizing himself with Japanese culture. But it is clear that the Japanese people have many positive qualities.

They have, as we have talked about with the United States, they have a strong sense of community, a strong sense of helping each other, being part of a culture, part of the people. This is something that can be expanded in the golden age. There have, in recent decades, been certain tendencies that have pulled people away from this, pulled them into becoming more individualistic. But it is necessary that there is a greater individuality in the Japanese people because they do have a tendency, which you can see when you look back at history, to be more influenced by the collective mind, to not have a strong individual sense, but be more willing to follow the collective, do what is their duty, do what they are told by authority figures.

This is something they need to pull themselves out of in order to fulfill the golden age potential. This will have the effect that some people will take individuality to an extreme and act out as you also see in the West, in these extreme manifestations of individuality which is not really a divine individuality, but an ego-based individuality. But this is an inevitable part of the transition that the Japanese people are going through.

There is a potential for various forms of golden age technology to be brought forth in Japan. This relates to a more efficient use of natural resources, even certain forms of energy, use of energy, energy production that can come from the fact that the Japanese island has a huge population but few natural resources.

There is the potential for ingenuity here, where the Japanese people can, at least certain among them, can be open to bringing forth certain ideas that can also help people in other densely populated areas make the best possible use of resources. There is also a potential that the Japanese people can bring forth new ideas for community, for working together, even for creating a new business structure of collective ownership that can be an inspiration to other people. Many other things could, of course, be mentioned, but let this be enough for the present.

The concept of the circle of influence

Question: I personally find it motivating to think about the fact that as I have been helped by a lifestream above me, I have the opportunity, through the calls and raising my own consciousness, to help others. Could the masters comment on the circle of influence in more detail? Does everyone have a circle of influence both above them and below them? Or is it possible that only those whose consciousness is above some specific level have a circle of influence below them, but may still have a circle of influence above them? As we rise in consciousness to the Christ consciousness and above, do we join a circle of influence of one of the masters in the ascended realm?

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

Well, the way we give the concept of a circle of influence is that you have a circle of people that you can influence. This means that these are people whose minds are open to you, so that you can have an influence on these people. It does not mean that an ascended master is in your circle of influence because your mind cannot influence the mind of an ascended master and cannot influence the mind of a human being, either, who is many levels above you. You can have a human being who has a higher level of consciousness than you have. That means you can be in that person’s circle of influence, but it does not mean that that person is in your circle of influence because that person would not be influenced by your state of consciousness, if it is significantly lower than its own.

Now, you can have people who are at a higher level of consciousness than you are in your circle of influence, but not significantly higher. For example, you can have family members that may have a higher level of consciousness than you have, but because they consider you part of the family, they can still be influenced by you. Of course, if their consciousness is higher, there will be a limit to how much they are influenced, but they will be influenced by it.

But, when we use the circle of influence, we primarily mean that all people on earth have, or at least most people on earth have, someone they know who is below them. But we also use it in a broader sense that you may have people that you do not know and have never physically met, or at least have not physically met in this embodiment, who are still tied to you and so, they are in your circle of influence.

Basically, what we can say is that, if you take people who are above a certain level of consciousness, and let us just make it simple and say, people above the 48th level of consciousness who have started to take some responsibility for themselves, you are forerunners for a group of people who are below you in consciousness. You can say that you can put all people into a triangular shape, you can draw a triangle that ends in a single point. You can say that you can put all people in there, in different layers. Then, you can see that at the very top is a single point, which for Planet Earth, is Gautama Buddha, the Lord of the world. Then, when you go down to the physical, physical embodiment, you have all people under that, under Gautama. There may be a few people at the top, and then, there is a layer below them, and a layer below and a layer below.

Now, within this triangle where you have all of humanity, you can draw many individual triangles. You can, for example, go to a certain level, and let us say there are 10 people at that level, and beneath each of these 10 people is a triangle of people. Then, you can go lower, and there maybe thousands of people on that level, but they still have a triangle below them. You could say that the higher you go in this pyramid, the people who are at those levels of consciousness, they have a greater triangle below them of people that they influence.

This does not mean that you, in all cases, know them, interact with them, or talk with them. It may not be that you are influencing them in an outer conscious way. But they are below you in a certain structure, so that when you raise your consciousness, you pull up on all of them. This is why we have said that they can have a tremendous influence. When you raise your consciousness, you are pulling up on all those people in the structure below you. Thereby, you are pulling up on the collective consciousness. You can, of course, also make calls for these people, for them to be cut free and so forth, but many of you already are making calls on so many issues and so many things that I do not want to overburden you. But if this is something you feel that you want to do, you can certainly do this.

This is what we really mean with the circle of influence. In some cases, you are tied to these people, as I said, not at the physical level in this lifetime, but you may have been tied to them in past lifetimes. Through that physical interaction in past lifetimes, you have created a certain connection or bond with them at the emotional level, at the mental level, at the identity level, perhaps on all three levels. This is how you can influence them. If you have people that you are tied to at the emotional level, then, raising your own emotional body will also pull them up. If it is the mental level, you raising your mental body, will pull them up and so forth.

Calls for the removal of space

Question: In the current Mother Mary 500 monthly vigil, Help the Ascended Masters Stop War, in the invocation for clearing the mental realm we repeatedly call for Gautama Buddha to remove space from the entities, demons and fallen beings in the mental realm. Most ascended masters students understand to some degree what it means when we call for their judgment. But will the Masters please comment on what it means when we call for Gautama to remove space and how it differs from calling for the judgment? Also, if appropriate, could the Masters comment on what the effect of these calls to remove space from the mental realm have had so far?

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

The judgment is a concept that has been somewhat familiar to people for a long time. Going back to even Jesus himself who stated that: “For judgment, I am come.” This is an effect of the Christ mind where when people encountered Jesus, who was the living Christ in embodiment, they were judged according to their actions towards him. He could also call forth their judgement in various ways. We have, then, given a dispensation to ascended master students now in several dispensations that you can also call for the judgment of Christ upon certain phenomena, certain fallen beings, certain demons and entities. You can even call for the judgment of human beings, which does not mean the same as it does for the demons, but it means that the human beings must be given a choice to choose between the mind of Christ and the mind of anti-christ, so they can change their ways.

Now, when we call for the removal of space, this is a higher level of judgment, we could say. It is based on the fact that the role of the Christ is to give people an opportunity to choose between Christ and anti-christ. People who are enveloped in a mindset of anti-christ cannot make that choice because they have never encountered Christ, they do not see it as an alternative, they have no frame of reference from beyond anti-christ. The judgment of Christ gives them that frame of reference. This can even be given to fallen beings, but it cannot really be given to demons and entities because they are not self-aware and cannot really make the choice, but you can still call for the judgment of Christ upon them, which gives us a certain authority to remove at least some of them.

Now, the function of the Buddha is to hold space for certain phenomena. In other words, we could say that, at the lowest level, we could say that a nuclear weapon exists in space, but in order for anything to exist in physical space, there has to be a space where that form can be manifest. There are certain forms that could not be manifest physically because there is no space for them. This is partly because the Buddha does not allow it, partly because the collective consciousness has not created certain forms. When we go to the emotional, mental and identity realms, likewise, in order for a certain demon or entity to exist, there has to be a space where that form can exist in the emotional realm, for example, and you can, then, call for this to be removed.

Now, this, of course, all happens according to a very, very complex calculation that very much relates to free will and the free will of the majority of people on earth. Again, people must be allowed to create any experience they want to create, which means that sometimes you could make the calls for a certain demon to be taken, but it cannot be fully taken because people will not let go of what has created the mindset that has created that demon and is upholding it. It can be reduced in strength, so that people find it easier to free themselves from it, but it cannot be taken completely.

The effect of your calls, again, is very difficult to express in linear words because it is difficult to give you these concepts. But what I can say is that the effects of the calls given by students in this dispensation has been very significant. And the effects of the calls given by students in previous dispensations were also very significant. The world would have been in many ways a different place, if these many students, over these many years, have not given the decrees and made the calls and been willing to make this effort.

Certainly, these calls for the removal of space, which has only been released in this dispensation, have had a decisive effect. But it is within the context of free will, but certainly they have made it easier for some people to free themselves from these demons, these collective entities and the mindset behind them.

QAnon movement

Question: Will the ascended masters comment on the huge QAnon movement taking place in America and across the world? Is the Ascended Host working with leaders in this organization? Or is this just a group that polarizes the current fallen being establishment in America?

Kim: If you are not familiar with this, QAnon, it is apparently something that started a few years ago on some message boards where somebody came up with a theory that there is a satanic cult or cabal of pedophiles that, first of all have these pedophile rings, but they also are secretly running the world. And if I understand it correctly, most of them are democrats and the only threat to their control of the world is Donald Trump. Who, even if he is not aware of it, is working against them. But I will let Mother Mary comment on it. This was just in case you did not know what it was, I did not know what it was. I had to look it up.

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

Well, let me first assure you that the ascended masters are, not in any way, working with anybody behind this movement. We had nothing to do with it. We are not releasing any of the ideas that this movement is using.

It is a movement that, in an ultimate sense, was started by certain fallen beings who are working through people who are vulnerable to being taken over and used in this way by fallen beings. Many of these people are, of course, not aware of this consciously. They believe they are doing something. But very few of them actually believe in their own ideas. There are some of these people who are, what we would call, internet trolls. There are some that simply think they are conducting an experiment to see what they can get people to believe in. But there is also a certain element of some of these known troll factories in Russia and China that have at least taken this movement and magnified it, because they can see that it served their purpose which basically is to create as much chaos as possible.

As a spiritual person, what you need to do is several things. First of all, you need to use common sense and logic when you are evaluating some of these claims. You can see in this case that, if there was a secret movement that really was controlling the world, and if the only threat to their control is that Donald Trump was elected, well, how could Donald Trump get elected? If they were really controlling the world why would they not have prevented him from getting elected? This means that if he did get elected, they could not be in full control of the world, right?

The other thing I would like to point out here is that there is, of course, a real problem with pedophiles. And some of them are in Hollywood and in other media outlets, but I can assure you that they are not confined to the Democratic Party. There are also Republicans who are pedophiles, there are high level business people, financiers and banking people who are pedophiles. And they are found in many areas of society, even in government. You have to recognize here that pedophilia is something that cannot in any way be tied to political affiliation, race, ethnicity, or any of these other divisions. It is a perversion of the soul that goes back many, many lifetimes, and therefore has nothing to do with the outer characteristics or beliefs of the person in this lifetime.

But what you see here is that there are these people who are willing to create these conspiracy theories. And in order to draw people in, they take a real problem that people are concerned with, and then they give it a twist that now gives it a political dimension. And this is how they make some people believe in this. And it has, in large part, been believed by people who have been blinded by what we might call the “Republican illusion.” The Republican illusion that it is only the Republican party that can save America from ruin. And this is something that has been created now for a number of years, and partly by the fundamentalist Christians, I mean, evangelical Christians in the United States, and their epic mindset based on their fundamentalist interpretations of the Bible, which is black and white thinking that everything will go wrong if things do not go the way they think they should be going.

You have to recognize here that as an ascended master student, it should be possible for you to use the teachings we have given, to use our dictations to sense what is a vibration that is not fear based. You can then use this as a frame of reference to sense when there is something, an idea or a theory, that is clearly fear based. And this idea is clearly fear based. It is infused with a vibration of fear.

And I can assure you that, not only do these fear based theories not come from the ascended masters, they have no real truth to them. They cannot have real truth if they are based on fear and if they encourage fear. Because even though we may give you a very serious message, we are not seeking to induce fear, because we know the realistic potential for change. Most conspiracy theories are as we have said before, dis-empowering because they do not give you a potential for change, or they may give you a potential but it is not something you can really do anything about other than perhaps be angry or seek to influence or force other people. And this does not help set you free from the dualistic mindset.

Now to be honest with you, my beloved, if you are an ascended master student or if you consider yourself an ascended master student, and you have believed in or still believe in this and other conspiracy theories, you need to seriously reevaluate where you are at on your spiritual path. You will need to seriously consider that you have an issue with discernment. And you need to decide whether you will allow yourself to be more sucked into these theories or whether you will make an effort to pull yourself back on the path of the ascended masters.

Because you cannot do both. You cannot serve two masters. You cannot spend time indulging your attention and allowing your energy to flow into these theories. You cannot sit there and allow your auras to be infused with these fear based energies. And then at the same time follow the path towards Christhood and the ascension. If you believe that these theories have some element of Christ truth, then you are on the false path. You are on the left handed path and you have no connection to the Christ mind. The universal Christ mind.

Programming of the brain vs. programming of the mind

Question: Although scientists believe that our brain develops with our experience in the world and is the result of our personal history, they also say that it works 90% in an automatic way. Only 10% of its functioning is conscious. This means that the rest of the time the brain is running its own programs and makes us believe that it is us who make decisions in a lot of ways. What I am asking the masters is if that programming of the brain is just a result of the many experiences that humankind had in its phylogenetic history? And if so, is it random programming, the result of chance? Or is it deliberate programming, and by whom, that creates mechanisms similar to instincts, whether to use biological programs? How does this articulate with our own personal history lifetime after lifetime? And all the selves we carry with us from our own experiences? How does the physical brain connect to our three higher bodies?

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

The physical brain is very much connected to the three higher bodies. In fact, we could say that the physical brain is partly a doorway through which the three higher bodies express themselves in the physical realm. And partly a doorway through which the three higher bodies receive impressions from the physical realm.

It is not actually correct, as the scientists say, that all of these programs are in the brain. Many of them are not in the physical brain. There are certain programs in the physical brain, but they are only the ones that are related to the survival of the body and the propagation of the race. These are the type of programs that you can find in animals also. And these, you can say, are very much created by the long history that goes back through animals where certain programs have been created in order to ensure the survival of a species. And these are programmed into your physical brains and nervous system. And this is what is often called instincts.

But beyond that, when it comes to the psychology of a person, this is not located in the brain, and is in large part not dependent on the brain. The brain can sometimes have an influence if there is a certain physical damage to the brain. This can influence your psychology by dulling your psychological faculties. But nevertheless, when it comes to these psychological programs, these are in the emotional, mental and identity bodies in the form of separate selves, in a form of an openness to collective entities or demons that might take over a person’s mind and which we have talked about extensively in various teachings.

Now, many of these programs have evolved, so to speak, unconsciously by many, many people having various experiences over a very long period of time, much longer than recorded history. We can say, for example, that certain ethnic groups, certain nationalities, certain races have some programs that go very far back. But there is of course, a certain programming that has been created, or again over a very long period of time since the fallen beings were allowed to embody on Earth, where they have deliberately attempted to create many, many programs that distort peoples psychology and creates these reactionary patterns that makes it possible for the fallen beings to control people. We have talked about this extensively and you can find it in various teachings.

Spiritual perspective on Milgram Experiment and Stanford Prison Experiment

Question: The psychology of evil. Could the masters comment on the following well known psychological experiments and about what they mean to our essential humanity. After the Second World War, Stanley Milgram made an experiment about obedience to see if a normal human being would be able to inflict terrible pain or even death to another human being he never saw before, for no reason. And this experiment, repeated many times over the years, has shown that about 75% of normal people can do so if he is not going to be held responsible for it. Only 25% refuse to do it. In the early 70’s, Philip Zimbardo made another experiment and did show to us what he called the “Lucifer Effect.” Any normal and with no previous mental issues person suffers a transformation and loses his humanity just after putting on a uniform like a police uniform, and feels that he has authority over others to humiliate, torture and even kill others. Unfortunately, this happens many times with military and police agents. Now, is this caused by the fact that these people have no individual identity yet and is taken by collective beasts or is it something more and related to the humanity itself?

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

You need to draw a line here and recognize that such experiments can show something about human psychology, but not about human nature. As I have said before, there really is no “human” nature, because it is all unresolved psychology.

What you need to recognize here is that these experiments do not show that all people or most people have a propensity for evil. You may look at a person that has been put in a situation like these experiments do. You may say, “Well, this person did something that was evil.” And that is true. But the person did not put itself in that situation. They did not define the parameters of the situation. The person only responded to the situation.

What you see in, for example, the concentration camp guards at Auschwitz and other camps, is that when they are forced into a situation a highly unnatural, abnormal situation, they can do things that are evil. But this does not mean that they are evil people, because they would not have done so had they not been put in that situation. Really, it was the people who put them in that situation and defined the parameters for the situation that were evil. But even those people were in many cases taken over by entities and demons and fallen beings in higher realms that are clearly evil or at least have evil intentions.

It is true that you can look at these situations and you can see that people who are below the 48th level of consciousness are much more open to the collective consciousness. They do not have so strong an individuality and therefore their minds are easily taken over by a collective entity, and they can do something evil that they normally would not do.

Now you can, of course, go to the lower levels towards the zero level, and you can find fallen beings, psychopaths and narcissists, who have a very strong individual personality, and it is very much leaning towards the evil spectrum. But this is not the case for the vast majority of the population.

Now, once you get over the 48th level, people have a certain inner sense of what is right and not right. People below the 48th level do not have a strong individual sense of what is right and not right, they tend to go with the situation. That is why if they are put in uniform, put in a position to have power, they do whatever is demanded by that situation, sometimes carrying it further than what is actually demanded. But nevertheless, that is again, because their minds are taken over by demons or collective spirits.

When you are over the 48th level you can resist this kind of outer pressure or collective pressure because you have enough internal sense of what is right and not right. And of course, the higher you go, the stronger that sense will be and the less susceptible you are to being overpowered and manipulated by a certain situation. Of course, you really have to go beyond the 96th level before it becomes very difficult to manipulate you.

You have right to set limits for your (adult) children

Question: Could the masters give us a spiritual perspective on the growing phenomenon of young adults in their 20s and 30s, not wanting to leave their parent’s home, not wanting to start their own life and take full responsibility for it. In some countries, even over 50% of young people in their 20s and 30s, still live with their parents. Some of them cannot afford living on their own, but many just don’t want to or feel they are not able, psychologically to deal with a life on their own. How can we, parents up children like this deal with this situation, especially when the child refuses to work on its psychology?

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 an ascended master student and you are open to working on your psychology, then you can first of all work on your own psychology, relating to your role as a parent and your relationship to your children. It is clear that while the child is under 18, you have an obligation to that child as a parent. But when the child turns 18, in most countries, they are legally adults, and therefore your obligation to house them in your home to take care of them ends. But the question is whether you can accept this psychologically. And that depends on whether you have unresolved selves in your psychology, that make you divided in your relationship with your children, in your view of yourself as a parent and what you can demand of your children—what limits you can set for your children, and so forth and so on.

You recognize here that no matter how aware children are, they have a certain subconscious sense of their parents and what they can get away with and not get away with, with their parents. And basically, we can say that children over 18, who stay at home with their parents, it is because they are refusing to take responsibility for themselves as adult human beings. In order to then stay with their parents, they are exploiting some division, some uncertainty, some lack of clarity in the parent’s psychology. This has probably been going on since the children were quite small, where they sensed that they could get their way with their parents by doing or saying certain things. Whatever the mechanics of the situation can be, can be highly individual. In some cases, the children are good at making the parents feel guilty or feel responsible or feel they are not good enough parents or whatever it may be. That can be various of these mechanics.

So, you need to look at this. Look at your relationship to your children, from when they were young. Look at your attitude to being a parent, what you feel you are responsible for. And try to find these areas of division, where you are divided in yourself—you’re not clear on who you are as a parent, and what rights you have to set limits for your children.

In many cases, you will see especially in the modern world, the last several decades, you have an entire generation of parents who find it difficult to set limits for their children and the children are then very good at exploiting this. When a child turns 18, the parents cannot set the limit and say: “Now you need to move out, get your own place to live, get a job and move on with your life”. And if you are divided and cannot draw this line, then the children will exploit it as they have been doing for their entire childhood.

It doesn’t really matter whether the children are willing to work on their psychology or not. Because when you work on your own and overcome these divisions, you will be able to simply draw a line and say: “This is what I can accept. And this is what I cannot accept. And this is what you have to abide by.”

You have a right to say that your child should leave the home after the age of 18. And if you don’t say that you have a right to define the conditions where the child can stay in your home. And you always have a right to say: “Well, if you don’t like my conditions, then move, go somewhere else”. This is your right when the children are adults. And in many cases, it is what the children need, because it is better for them, because it forces them to grow, where staying at home, enables them not to grow, and in many cases even makes their psychological conditions worse, because they are not forced to confront them.

Can we learn anything about the ascended realm by looking at the conditions on earth?

Question: I’m aware that my question may be close to meaningless to an ascended master. Nevertheless, I would like to give it a try. What does a normal day, a normal week, normal year of an ascended master look like? Are they working 24 seven for the evolution of planet Earth? Are they enjoying some leisure time once in a while? Are for example, Jesus Mother Mary and Master More meeting casually at the weekend sometimes, say at Saint Germain’s place, enjoying an ascended meal together, listening to music and talking things over? Maybe even cracking some jokes? Are they going on holidays, traveling to other spheres? Or universes? Are they working with their spiritual teachers on their own spiritual growth, etc.?

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

Well, no question is meaningless to us if it has meaning to you. Because our role is of course to help you raise your consciousness. So, whatever has meaning to you at your present level of consciousness, we can address and help you raise yourself to a higher level. But a question like this is very understandable. But you also have to recognize that is asked from a person who is living on earth and is taking the conditions you see on earth and sort of projecting, asking whether they apply in the ascended realm. In a sense, you could restate your question and say, Do the conditions we see on earth have any bearing on the conditions in the ascended realm? Can we learn anything about the ascended realm by looking at the conditions on earth? And the answer to that question is no. Things are so different in the ascended realm that it is almost meaningless for us to describe it, because you can’t really fathom it with your present level of consciousness. And of course, you don’t have to. You have to look at the environment you are in, continue transcend your level of consciousness until you ascend and you will experience conditions in the ascender realm.

Why is it that you cannot experience conditions in the ascended realm while you’re in the unascended state of consciousness? Because the conditions in the ascended realm can only be experienced from the ascended state of consciousness. In the ascended realm, there is no linear time, like you have on earth. There is no typical day. Because there is no day or night, there is no typical week or year because time is not divided into these linear segments. We don’t have a linear, localized state of consciousness.

I know we have given you the teachings that we have retreats in the etheric realm. But these are in the etheric realm, the higher levels of the un-ascended sphere. And the purpose of these retreats is to give you an environment that you can still relate to while you are in embodiment on earth and where you can learn something. This doesn’t mean that we are confined to these retreats, it doesn’t mean that we have elaborate castles, or retreats in the ascended realm, where we don’t have this need. We don’t eat, we don’t sleep, we don’t have a need for leisure because everything we do is a fulfillment in itself. We don’t consider it work that we have to rest or recover from or relax from. We don’t need to relax because we are not tense.

The consciousness and the reality of an ascended master is so different from what you have on earth, that it is very difficult to describe with words, because you tend to only be able to grasp the words, the images, the concepts that you are familiar with on earth. And there is virtually nothing on Earth, that is the same in the ascended realm. That is why there comes that point on the spiritual path, where have had glimpses, of mystical experiences, glimpses of the ascended realm or the ascended consciousness where you realize that it is not constructive to take what you see on earth and projected it onto the ascended realm and you stop doing so.

You will notice, for example, and in previous dispensations, there were certain pictures of various masters that were used by many students. But this is just a phase. When you grow above a certain level of consciousness. You do not need a picture of an ascended master. In fact, you don’t want to put your attention on a picture of an ascended master because you realize that the master cannot be confined to that form. There’s a certain level of the path when looking at a picture helps you tune into the Masters presence, then that is acceptable, but beyond a certain level of consciousness this is no longer what you need and not even what you want to do. And the same with many other things, there comes a point where you stop even speculating what things are like in the ascended realm, you stop thinking about this because you realize that you are on earth, your task is to transcend your level of consciousness until you can ascend, and then you can experience the ascended realm.

Kim and books

Question for Kim: Which books, which authors do you enjoy? Which books about spiritual or non-spiritual topics gave you some profound or high experiences, especially since you have moved beyond the 96th level of consciousness? Or have books gradually lost their significance to you as you became more and more spiritually self sufficient?

Answer from Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2020 Webinar – Choosing America’s Future.

Well yes, books have lost at least the significance they had for me 10 or 20 years ago. I do read different books. I read quite a few books to learn something about specific topics. I read several books in the last year about quantum physics, I read Bruce Lipton’s book about the cell’s “Biology of Belief”. Now there was another one also, I read a biography of Stalin.

That wasn’t for enjoyment but also once in a while just read a novel because it’s like: “I need something that doesn’t engage my mind too much.” Because if I do a lot of mental work on the computer all day, editing and proofreading, then sometimes I just need to read something different. And I do read, for example, Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, and what’s the one about the Catholic Church, Angels and Demons. And I read those several times. So once in a while I read one of those.

But within the last several months, I actually started reading the master’s books that they have dictated through me. I started reading Maitreya’s book. And I read several of the others where I read parts of them. Actually, it started several months ago, because I started reading, Healing Your Spiritual Traumas, and then the other three books that came after that one, and then I started on Maitreya. And I actually have to say that I get more high experiences from the Master’s books than any other books I read in the last, you know, 62 years.

It’s actually been interesting because I work with the books as I do them. And I read them many times in the process of editing and proofreading. But I don’t always, after I’ve done all that and gotten the book out, I don’t take the book and sit down and just read it from cover to cover.

But this is what I’ve been doing and I’ve actually found it very enjoyable. And I think I’ll just keep working my way through them. And we’ll see if I ever get to the last one before new ones come out. If the masters can stay ahead of me because I don’t read very much normally. I will often read a little bit before I go to sleep because it helped me sort of relax, but that means sometimes it takes me a month to read a book. So we’ll see if I ever catch up.

Fallen beings and art

Question: Could the masters comment on what role do fallen beings play when it comes to art, are they just expressing their state of consciousness, or is there more of a conspiracy? Listening to a lot of rap music I find that while there may be an insensitivity to life in the lyrics, you can still find traces of humanity in the writing. Even with artists that do not seem to have any trace of humanity in their music, they still seem very much benevolent, almost harmless compared to fallen beings like Hitler. Am I just not listening to music with a low enough vibration to notice anything?

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

Well, there are some fallen beings who are artists and who are expressing whatever unresolved psychology they have. But there are also some that are more conscious of doing art in order to get a specific reaction in people. They are not necessarily all conscious of the fact that they can steal energy from people through their art, or that certain collective entities or demons can use their art to steal energy from people. I’m not saying that there is a great conspiracy among artists, but there are certainly fallen beings that are in the other realms that have a certain intent of using art to steal people’s energy.

There are clairvoyants who have been able to see how certain paintings for example, or other forms of art have the effect of basically inserting a hook or a suction hose into people’s auras and extracting energy when people are watching it. There is also some art that can download certain images or energetic matrices into people’s emotional, mental and identity bodies as a result of putting your attention on this. Art is not as innocent as many people make it out to be. Now this doesn’t mean that you now have to be afraid of looking at a piece of art. Because much depends on how you look at it or how you listen to music—how open you are to taking this in.

This of course can be difficult for many people to know because they’re not consciously aware of the holes they have in their auras so that they’re they are more vulnerable to taking things in, or having things extracted from their emotional bodies for example. But those who are more sensitive can quickly learn to sense whether looking at a painting raises or lowers your vibration, raises or lowers the sense you have in your heart. Some people can learn to feel that energy is extracted when they listen to certain music for example. All people can learn this if they are willing to go through this process but in order to really learn it you have to be neutral.

You cannot have what many people have—a certain reluctance to actually sensing whether your energy is being stolen, because you want to listen to a certain type of music based on some decision you have made with your outer mind. Or you want to look at certain forms of art or you want to believe that “it’s all good” as some spiritual people want to believe.

Discernment requires a certain willingness to know —that requires basically that you are in a neutral state of mind so you can openly sense: “what does this piece of art do to me? Does it lower my energy? Does it raise my energy, does it take energy? Do I receive positive energy from it or what?”