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Left handed and right handed path

Question: What do the terms left handed path and right handed path mean in a current context? And does this relate to Ancient Egypt, where there was the school have the right eye of Horus and school of the left eye of Horus? Why is left often considered bad, demonic and so on? Is there any particular meaning to this in a technical sense, like where a spiral twisted to the left leads downward, plunging into ever denser matter? Is that why the left has a negative meaning?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given at the 2020 Webinar- Being the Divine Mother.

My beloved, we have said that the fallen beings chose to make men the superior sex, but they could have chosen differently. The fallen beings also chose to make left associated with bad or negative, but they could have chosen differently. The reason they did not do it was that most people are right handed. And therefore, it was easier to get more and more people to believe in the idea that left should be associated with bad and right should be associated with good. It is, of course nonsensical, and simply a choice that was made to manipulate people.

Of course, you can say that not only in Egypt, but in various previous civilizations there have been two opposing schools of thought. There has often been a school that used the expanding force of the Father, and perverting this expanding force of the Father, in order to gain power and control. There has often been another school who used a perversion of the contracting force of the Mother to in various ways gain control over matter. Both of these schools have been dualistic, and therefore, not a valid spiritual path.

But in many eras, one has managed to attain dominance over the other and has therefore labeled the other as the left-handed path, even though if you use that terminology, they are actually both the left-handed path. You will often see that there has been a dominant thought system of religion, such as the Catholic church during the Middle Ages, that labeled all competing or different thought systems as being bad, demonic of the devil, witches, anathema, blasphemy and so forth.

This is simply what the fallen beings do in order to polarize people into one or the other dualistic extreme. Some fallen beings do not even care which dualistic extreme people are polarized into as long as they are in duality. Others do care because they believe their dualistic extreme is the absolute and the superior one. But it is all a fight between the fallen beings that you of course need to free yourselves from.

Political change in Belarus?

Question: What is the probability of a change of power in the presidential elections in Belarus on August 9 this year? Is the collective consciousness of Belarusians ready for this?

Answer from the Ascended Master Saint Germain through Kim Michaels. This answer was given at the 2020 Webinar – Being the Divine Mother.

My beloved, as much as I would like to see Belarus make significant progress towards the Golden Age, there is a low probability that the current president will not win another term. This has a lot to do with several factors.

First of all, the Belarusian people are not quite ready to have a more open and you might say democratic form of government. There is currently, really not an alternative, a person or group of people, who could take Belarus to the next step.

This has not only to do with Belarus, but also it has to do with the situation in Russia. Specifically, Vladimir Putin and his plans. He would like to see that Belarus became absorbed back into what he now calls Russia, but what used to be the Soviet Union. He would like even the current president to give up his power so that Belarus essentially became a part of Russia. This, of course, is not what most of the Belarusian people want. It is not what is in a Golden Age matrix for Belarus. But in order to avoid this, you need a strong leader, even though he may be too strong in how he is dealing with his own people.

This is an example where it is impossible to move to an ideal situation. Because if there was a shift in government, it is very likely that Putin would do whatever he could to absorb Belarus into Russia or the Russian Federation. This would not be to the long-term benefit of either Russia or Belarus. The realistic way to avoid this is that the president who has so far managed to avoid it continues until something shifts in the equation.

About attachment to other people

Question: For a long time, I’ve been trying to get rid of the spirits that are behind my attachment to the past, especially with the people I used to have relationships or to the ones who passed away, but I can’t let them go. I’ve sincerely been using the recommended tools and have been working with my psychology but I feel very little progress. Could you comment on what beliefs might be behind the reluctance to let go the people we used to have relationships with?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given at the 2020 Webinar- Being the Divine Mother.

This is a complicated question to answer because it is so individual what causes you to be attached to people. But we can talk about certain main groupings. In other words, the particular belief that you have as an individual can be very specific to you, but it falls within certain categories.

One category can be that you have a self that is dedicated to helping these other people. There are certain avatars who embodied with fallen beings when they first came to earth, and who formed a very strong desire to save that fallen being and get them on this positive path. For this kind of belief, I would recommend that you read the My Lives book where there is a description of how the protagonist went through an entire process of freeing himself from any attachment to Lucifer, the lifestream that is called Lucifer in the book.

You can also have an attachment to helping other avatars, to helping the original lifestreams on the earth. And here you need to start looking at free will. You need to start recognizing that other people have their free will and therefore you cannot save anybody else. You cannot change anybody else. This can be a difficult initiation to go through. This messenger spent years working on this until he realized that he had to let go of all desire to change other people. Because otherwise it would trap him on a merry-go-round for the rest of his life and perhaps even beyond.

You need to realize here that you have your individual free will and other people have their individual free will. You need to free your free will from the free will of other people. This is the only way you can make your free will truly free. You need to recognize here that if you are an ascended master student and if you’re sincere about qualifying for your ascension in this lifetime, you cannot be attached to other people who may not ascend after this lifetime. You have to therefore work on this, come to see these selves and let them die. If you still having attachment, there is obviously a self you have not seen, so you need to work on it until you see it, you need to continue to use the tools until you see it.

Another category is that you might have a self that has a desire to control other people. And therefore you will not let that other person go, because you feel you should have some control. This may again be from some seemingly benign purpose of helping that other person, but it is still a controlling self that wants to control or even own that other person. I am not saying this is the case for most spiritual people, but you can all have certain selves that were created a long time ago that you have not let go of. You need to be willing to look at this.

The basic fact is this: any attachment comes from a separate self. If you still have an attachment, you have a separate self you have not seen. Then use the tools we have given, contemplate the teachings, look at yourself, look at your beliefs. Why are you attached to these people, what you feel you should do, what you really feel should have happened or should not have happened. And continue to do this until you expose these subtle beliefs that you have that keeps you tied to other people. It all revolves around the fact that you think there is something you have to do here on earth.

As this messenger has described, when you resolve your birth trauma, your primal self and the other separate selves, you come to the point where you realize: there is nothing you have to do here on Earth. There is nothing you are forced to do; there is nothing you are compelled to do. You may still do things because you are the open door for your I AM Presence, but it does not come from a separate self.

About giving selflessly

Question: The Gospel records the following words of Jesus: “That your left hand not know what your right hand is doing.” I have always understood this in such a way that the right hand is giving the left hand is taking. Do Jesus’ words mean that when you give, do not think how much someone will have to give you in return, but that you simply give unselfishly. Is this correct? What did Jesus mean and why?

Answer from the Ascended Master Jesus through Kim Michaels. This answer was given at the 2020 Webinar – Being the Divine Mother.

Well, as Mother Mary has just said, when you take a spiritual teaching, and want to interpret it with a linear mind, you can find many of what seems to be enigmas or contradictions. I knew this very well 2,000 years ago, and I made many statements that were deliberately meant to confuse the linear mind. I made many more such statements that are recorded in the scriptures. This was simply one statement.

However, what I will say is that it is very correct that when you give you should not be concerned about what the other person can give back in return. In fact, if you truly give there is no concern about you getting anything back from the other person, we have given teachings on this before. It is only a separate self that evaluates what is the result of my giving, what will I get back from giving. This is not giving. This is trying to strike a bargain with either another person or with the universe or with God. We are saying God: “I am so good I’m giving to this person. Now you should give back to me.” This is not how the law works.

My concern was to help people understand the whole concept of the servants who had multiplied their talents and the one person who had buried his talents in the ground. Those who had multiplied their talents they gave without being concerned about what they would get back in a particular situation, what they would get back from other people or what they would get back in a physical way. In other words, when you give selflessly you will get a return.

But that return may be that the universe gives you something in the physical or that the universe gives you spiritual credit, spiritual attainment, however you want to see it that will benefit your growth. In other words, there may be no physical sign of this but there is a non-physical sign that will speed up your spiritual growth towards Christhood and your ascension.

You could also say that you can balance karma by giving selflessly without expecting a return and you won’t get a physical return, but you will get the balancing of karma which sets you free to grow quicker. It can be understood this way. It can be understood that the left hand could be a symbol for the human self, which should not know what your higher self is doing, because then it cannot interfere with it. You give without having that concern or evaluation of the human self – what will I get in return?

The Garden of Eden is a symbol

Question: The teaching says that the God who walked in the Garden of Eden and taught the disciples was Lord Maitreya. I believe that the history of the Garden of Eden goes back to more ancient times. If Lord Maitreya ascended 2,500 years ago, how could he walk in the Garden of Eden as an ascended master?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given at the 2020 Webinar – Being the Divine Mother.

If you take the dictation I have just given, I have given very important teachings in there for how you deal with these kinds of situations.

What you realize here is that what I call the thinking mind, the linear mind always wants to take everything literally and put everything on a linear timeline. This will give rise to these kind of contradictions, seeming contradictions. If you take almost any spiritual teaching, any religion, even scientific materialism, any philosophy and apply this kind of very linear, analytical mindset, you can find what seem to be contradictions.

What you are doing here is you are trying to take the biblical story and put this in a linear timeline. You are therefore saying that the person who taught in the Garden of Eden should be the Lord Maitreya we know today and there must be a linear timeline for when the Garden of Eden was and that must be before the time we have been told that Lord Maitreya ascended and therefore this can’t be correct.

The reality is here, that these are symbols. Even the teachings given in a previous dispensation about Lord Maitreya, was based on this linear mindset. There are teachings given in the Summit Lighthouse that as we have said before were given specifically for people in the Piscean mindset. And they were based on and colored by this mindset. And that is why you will see these linear contradictions.

The name Maitreya has been used by different ascended beings over time over the long timespan of this earth. The Garden of Eden story, as we have said before, was not really a pure teaching from the ascended masters but was very much influenced by the fallen beings. It is more constructive to look at this as a symbolic teaching that cannot be put in a specific state in time.

It cannot even be put into the context that there was only one Garden of Eden, there was only two people in that garden, and there was only one teacher or one God. This is far too linear to take such a teaching if you are to make anything constructive out of it, you do as we have said through this messenger, see it as a symbol for the duality consciousness and how all people were tempted by the duality consciousness, and this caused them to lose contact with their spiritual teacher, whoever that spiritual teacher may have been. It was not the same for all people on earth, regardless of what was said in previous dispensations.

Questions about dementia

Question: My mother has senile dementia. I have been caring for her for almost six years. I feel severe fatigue from this very heavy process of caring for her. In Russia due to the national mentality, as well as financial inability, many people bear the burden of caring for their sick relatives who have the same disease. In this regard, I have the following questions.

Kim Michaels: There are four questions so we will take them one at a time.

Question 1: What are the spiritual tasks of people who care for people with this disease?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given at the 2020 Webinar – Being the Divine Mother.

The spiritual tasks vary widely depending on people’s level of consciousness. This answer will not just apply to this particular disease but to anyone who cares for other people. For the majority of people in the world, the spiritual task they have is that the situation is brought about by karma from past lives.

In some cases, you may have been embodied with this person before, you may have harmed them in some way and people can, to use the normal expression “payback their karma” by caring for that person. You may also in some cases pay back karma for harming other people by caring for one particular person. So, this is the case for the majority of the people who do not have a particular spiritual awareness.

If you have a higher spiritual awareness, the primary spiritual task you should look for is how you can use the situation to transform your own consciousness. You can use our teachings if you are familiar with our teachings on the separate selves to seek to discover what selves you have, that are reacting to this situation that are resisting the situation. And then you can look at it as a learning process, as an opportunity to accelerate your spiritual growth tremendously by using it to look at what it is in your own psychology that you can overcome.

You can also of course, give our invocations and decrees to transform the person’s karma that you’re caring for. Thereby you can help that person move on in their spiritual unfoldment so that they can perhaps get out of this situation earlier and move on to their next embodiment.

Question 2: What happens to the soul of a person who has this disease? What octave or plane does it occupy during the disease? Is it more difficult for such a soul to rise to the light after the transition?

Kim: I think this question has been addressed before. Hasn’t it? There has been other questions about dementia, I think I’ve addressed this.

So what I’ll basically say is that it depends on the person’s level of consciousness. Some may go to the astral plane, some to the mental some to the identity plane. If people have a higher level of consciousness, it might be an opportunity for them to work on their growth while they are not focused on the physical body, but they are still not ready to leave embodiment or they are not ready to ascend.

Question 3: Is this disease in accordance with this life streams scenario for this life or is it a deviation from it as a result of life streams free will choices when it does not follow its divine plan?

Mother Mary: Again, this depends on the person’s level of consciousness before they came into embodiment, and what they do with the opportunity to be in embodiment.

For many people, the disease is a result of their karma from past lives. It is the result of them over several embodiments not being willing to take responsibility for themselves. Not being willing to grow, not being willing to work on their psychology and learn from the experiences they are having. This can cause some people to get one of these debilitating diseases where either they are not conscious in the body or they are paralyzed in the body and have very few things they can do through the body. This then is a way for a life stream to force itself to look at itself, which it has not done for several embodiments.

However, there are a few people who have a higher level of spiritual awareness and they can use such a disease to work on their psychology at inner levels and therefore make progress towards their ascension.

In some cases, it is correct that if people are not following their divine plan, they can precipitate a disease such as this, which then forces them to, again look at themselves, work on themselves instead of being trapped in the physical or focused on the physical.

Question 4: I feel a strong affinity to my mother, to this lifestream. I feel love and compassion for her and a desire to help. But since this situation has already been very prolonged, how can I know whether it contributes to our growth or whether it is just an attachment by one of us and a reluctance to let it go? I of course ask myself these questions, use spiritual tools, but I do not have a clear answer.

Mother Mary: Whenever you are in a situation where you do not have a clear answer and you are an ascended master student, you should look at this as an opportunity to grow further. You should reason: the reason why I do not have a clear answer is that there is one or several separate selves I have not yet seen. You can say that as long as you do not have a clear answer then the situation is an opportunity for you to grow further. And you can therefore use it as such.

What I will recommend in situations like this is to step back from the situation. I know that many people who are caring for others in such situations feel they have been forced by circumstances to go into the situation. Perhaps they were the only one who was able to do this. Or perhaps there was some external pressure to do this, whatever the situation may be. But you can start by recognizing that you are still an individual human being with free will. And you do have a choice. You do have a choice to say I will no longer do this. And then there might be others who will have to take over.

It is important for you to recognize that you have a choice. Because by even contemplating that you could remove yourself from the situation, you will feel a reaction in your own psychology, you can then look at that reaction and realize it comes from various separate selves, and then you can start working on these selves.

But what you will often realize is, that on the one hand, you have a self that makes you feel that you have to take on the situation. But on the other hand, you have one or several selves that are resisting you being in the situation. What you can do then is start working on these selves and strive to come to a point where you no longer have any resistance to being in the situation.

This can be a tremendous opportunity to overcome the separate selves that may have nothing specifically to do with this situation but relate to your attitude towards the physical realm, towards the material world, even the Mother realm. It can help you overcome your resistance, even hatred of the Mother for the fact that the Mother does not always give you the conditions you want. Many, many people, in fact all people have such selves, and this can be an opportunity to work on it.

If you can come to a point where you have resolved these selves, you will get a clear inner answer on whether you are to stay in a situation or remove yourself and what your options are. You may even in some cases, see that the person you are caring for is now free to move on because you have resolved what you needed to resolve.

Of course, you can also make calls for the person to resolve their psychology and you may even be able to use some of the tools we have given you for the separate selves. If you take the book, Healing Your Spiritual Traumas, the visualization I have given where you go through the different levels on turn, you come back to a theater where you will see a situation from the past, you can actually use that on behalf of the person you are caring for, to help them resolve the situation. You can make the calls to me so that you can be the one who helps this other person, see what they can see and I will assist that person as they are willing.