Michaels – Page 9 – Ascended Master Answers

Has Kamala Harris as presidential nominee changed the election dynamics?

Question: As President Biden stepped aside and Kamala Harris has become the nominee, I have sensed a shift in the energy level regarding this race. Many of us feel as if Kamala has energized the country to some extent and there is a growing movement to have America not go back to the old way that Trump and the MAGA folks want to go back to. In a previous answer, the masters had indicated their recommendation would be for Biden to run against Trump. Can the masters comment on the changed dynamics of the upcoming election? Is this energy, hope and excitement that we are feeling real or is it just in our head?

Answer from the Ascended Master Saint Germain through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2024 Chicago Conference.

If I am to give a somewhat humorous answer, I would say that all politics is in your head. And, of course, from the ascended perspective we look at it in a different way. Now, it is true that when you go back to not so long ago, six months ago, a year ago, the situation as it was, meant that it was simply impossible to get any other candidates than Trump and Biden because the two parties were too locked. Naturally, I would have preferred two different candidates that were younger, that had a more open mind towards progress, however they could see it from their respective viewpoints. But it is clear that I would much prefer, not necessarily young inexperienced people, but younger people in politics. You see many countries around the world where it is more and more older people that are running the country, but you also see some countries where there are more and more young people coming up. And naturally, young people are more open to new ideas than older people. That is a general trend.

But it just was not realistic that either party in the United States would nominate a younger person, given how the situation was locked. That is why when it became obvious to more and more people that Biden’s health was failing, this was an opportunity to bring younger candidates in. And we, of course, generally support that. In fact, you could say that if either party had been more open they would have, in the last four years, groomed younger candidates to take over. But because Trump managed to create this hold on the Republican Party this was not possible. And when it became clear that he would most likely be the nominee for the Republicans, Biden felt an obligation to try to defeat him again as he had done before and many Democrats supported this because they thought this was the safe bet.

If there was something that the Democratic Party could have done more, it was to use the last four years to either groom other younger candidates or to promote Kamala Harris so she had more of a public profile. But, of course, you can always look back and say that by her not having a public profile there is more enthusiasm and optimism that perhaps she will be different. And that, of course, remains to be seen whether she is elected or whether she is able to move the country and the Democratic Party in a different direction, because there is a need to move the country in a different direction as I have said many times. Especially the issue of the income inequality where more and more wealth goes to the top two or ten percent. This is a very, very big issue in the United States. The Biden administration attempted to address it but have not done nearly enough. The question is, can the Democratic Party make this an issue because the Republicans are not likely to do it, certainly not under Trump.

Naturally there are many, many people around the country who have sensed that Biden and Trump were too locked in a certain approach to politics. And therefore, they have hoped for some younger people to step in, and now they see that at least the Democrats are giving a younger person a chance. Whether she will be the actual nominee or not, even though it looks likely now, it remains to be seen. There is a real optimism. There is a background or a reality to the optimism. But, of course, it all remains to be seen how this will play out. It will depend a lot on the approach that the Democrats take.

And if I were to make a recommendation, which of course is not likely to be listened to, it would be, take the focus away from Trump. Do not even comment on Trump. Do not even try to paint him in any particular way. Let him paint himself into a corner and focus on what you are going to do for the American people. Change the tone of the political debate. Speak with a different voice, a more compassionate voice, and let him continue to speak the way he speaks. Demonstrate the contrast. Do not try to beat him at his own game. Change the game. That would be my recommendation.

There are of course people who are tuned into my being even though they have no idea of the name Saint Germain. It remains to be seen whether they will be able to actually get this through or whether it will be the same kind of tone, the same kind of antagonistic confrontational tone that has demonstrated politics, certainly since Trump arrived at the scene, but even before going back to the 1990s where the Republicans decided to be more confrontational, basically be more epic about politics. Because the shift into painting American politics in these epic terms certainly can be traced back to the Republican Party and they bear the majority of the responsibility for it, but of course the Democrats have gone into it and have reinforced the trend, so there is a certain karma on both sides.

I very much would like to see, as we have said before, to change the political debate, change the tone, change the entire approach where you are not making other groups of people responsible for all of the problems of the nation, where you realize that there are some dynamics with the power elite that are not being addressed, have not been addressed, but you do not demonize them. You do not say that they are the cause of all the problems because you acknowledge that in a democracy, all people must contribute in a positive way and those who criticize and those who demonize and those who single out other people as the problem, they are actually in an anti-democratic mindset and they cannot further America as a democratic nation. And let me assure you that regardless of what might be said out there on both sides, America will remain a democracy. It will remain a democracy. But how much the people are influencing it versus now where the power elite has a disproportionate influence on a democracy, that is what remains to be seen.

Do the chakras spin in different directions for men and women?

Question: I love visualizing during meditation. I have learned some years ago about the different chakras’ spinning directions for men versus women. However, I am not sure if these teachings are valid. I feel like I would get more from my visualizations if I could visualize both the colors and the spinning directions. Can the masters comment on that?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2024 Chicago Conference.

NOTE from Kim: I originally got this answer wrong, because I was stuck in my linear mind. I have corrected it so the answer applies to how to visualise the chakras during meditation, as described in the question. I apologise for any confusion this might have caused.

Well, it is not correct to say that the chakras spin in different directions for men and women. There is a natural spinning movement of the chakras, and it is generally, if you are looking from inside yourself, they are spinning in a clockwise direction.

But it is possible that people can have chakras that are spinning in the opposite direction, in other words, spinning in what we might call the “wrong” direction. This messenger many years ago became aware that his solar plexus chakra was spinning in the opposite direction and it caused a constant agitation in the solar plexus chakra. He then had an experience of this being healed by the intercession of the masters.

This can happen to many, many people that their chakras are spinning in the opposite direction of what is natural. And you can, of course, use the tools we have, you can make calls to ascended masters if you become aware that there is a certain chakra that is agitated, for the chakras to be cleared so that it can start spinning in the natural direction.

The average number of separate selves

Question: What is the average medium number of separate selves for the 8 billion lifestreams currently embodied on earth?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2024 Chicago Conference.

You do not want to know. On a more serious note, instead of talking about the average number of selves, let us talk about the average person. Because the average person who is not walking a spiritual path, and who perhaps lifetimes after lifetimes are caught in reactionary patterns thereby creating more selves, they can have literally thousands of subconscious selves. Some of them are, of course, more superficial, and therefore, would be easier to overcome if they were willing to look at themselves.

But the problem is that when people create a certain amount of these deeper selves where they have basically a negative attitude to life, they go into a victim consciousness where they feel powerless to change their lives, and therefore, they can only have a reactionary approach to life. And, of course, every time you get disappointed or traumatized by life, you create more separate selves to cover this over and to give yourself an excuse for why you are not looking at the beam in your own eye. You are always projecting out, and so you create separate selves to project out even more, and that is why you see some people who have gotten themselves into a situation where they feel victimized by life itself. They feel that other people are just out to get them or they are not doing what they want them to do so they are constantly looking, subconsciously of course, they are constantly looking for the next disappointment, and they deal with it by creating more selves. You are looking at a very high number of selves for many people.

Now, most people who are on the spiritual path, you did not find the spiritual path in this lifetime. You have been doing work on yourself. You may not have called it the spiritual path. It may not have been in an outer spiritual teaching but you have been doing work on yourself for lifetimes so you have reduced the number of selves because even if you do not have the concept of the separate selves, once you are willing to look at yourself, your own reactions, and you are willing to look at situations and say: “Well, how can I change myself in order to improve my life?”, then you will start reducing the number of selves. You may not consciously be aware that this is a self but you can still have this reaction where you see something in yourself and you realize it is actually hurting yourself, and you decide that you do not want to do it anymore, and this can cause some of these selves to be dissolved. Obviously, when you have the teaching you can do this much more quickly, and you can do it more consciously but you have all made progress even in this lifetime before you found the teachings by observing yourself, looking at your reactions and being willing to change yourself instead of always projecting that it is other people or the universe that needs to change.

I know that some of you will want me to put a number: “Well, how many selves do I have?”, but it just is not constructive to look at it that way because, quite frankly, for most of you if you knew how many selves you have left, it would be discouraging, and we do not want to discourage you because it is not that you have to take one self at a time and another self and another self. Many times, selves are linked so when you see a certain reactionary pattern in yourself, you can overcome a number of selves all at once, and if you are willing to use the tools we have talked about for dealing with the birth trauma, getting to some of these deeper selves, then you can very quickly unravel a number of these selves that are sort of second ranking selves that came off of a bigger trauma and then they were created after. Once you get rid of that bigger trauma, that original self, you can very quickly unravel the others. That is why it is not constructive even to know how many selves you have because it is not a linear process to get rid of them. It is often a process that goes in some big leaps where you suddenly overcome the one that is holding the others and now it becomes easier to overcome the others.

This means that you cannot set up a linear timeline and say: “Oh yeah, if you have a hundred selves it is going to take 20 years to overcome them.” It can be done much more quickly when you use the tools and you are willing to look at yourself.

Question about ghosting

Question: In terms of relationships, I find more and more people who ghost each other. This technique can make it very difficult to connect socially because of the fear of how easy it is for people to just chop it all. I wonder if the masters can comment on this and if any karma is gained by ghosting people.

Kim: I do not know if you are familiar with the term. I was not, so I had to ask. But it means that you are in a relationship with somebody and it can be a close relationship and suddenly people just walk out, cut off all connection. Do not communicate, do not ask, do not say why, they just disappear out of people’s lives.

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2024 Chicago Conference.

Well, certainly you can say that this phenomenon is born of people who are not willing to look at their own psychology, and therefore, they are not willing to use the relationship as an opportunity to resolve psychology. Now again you can say: “Can you blame people who have not been brought up with any understanding of psychology or any tools for resolving psychology?” But, of course, it is, again from an overall perspective, it is forcing people to deal with this individually and eventually it will force society to deal with it.

The only real solution to this is, of course, that society helps people with their psychology from an early age, and therefore, also helps them deal with relationships, how they relate to other people. It is naturally a karma-making situation in the sense that you miss an opportunity for your own growth, which you have in your Divine Plan for what lessons you want to learn, but also you are not helping the other person deal with their psychology, you just disappear, and therefore, you cut off the opportunity for both people to grow from this situation.

I am not saying that people should stay in relationships. Obviously relationships are complicated, and there are many people who will engage in a relationship, and it will last for time, and it will break up, but if they can at least communicate with each other about why they do not think their relationship is working, then both parties have an opportunity to learn from it if they are willing. Of course, if they are not willing, but the person leaving without communicating is making karma. If you communicate while you are leaving, and the person is not open to learning the lessons, then the other person makes karma, but you do not because you have given the other person an opportunity. You can, of course, make karma if you leave without looking at your own lessons.

Again, it is a complicated situation, but obviously the whole trend is, again, born of this very superficial attitude that people have to relationships, where you actually see that it is not just the Hollywood fantasy, but you see actually that there is a tendency in society that people in general are becoming more focused on themselves and “what is in it for me”. They approach a relationship with the idea that they are meant to get something out of it and not give something in return. You have many, many people today in the more modern democracies who are functionally narcissists, and who are only thinking about themselves, who are only focused on themselves, and therefore, cannot really have a successful relationship. Out of their unwillingness to look at themselves and think that maybe I have something to learn, maybe I should change, they just leave and look for somebody else who can give them what they want.

And there are people who can go through a lifetime of this going from relationship to relationship without ever finding what they are looking for and, of course, without making progress on their spiritual path, which they are not walking consciously, of course. Obviously it is not a positive trend, but it is again one of these things that can force people individually and force societies to see that the problem has become so extreme that something needs to be done about it.

How to help parents of children born with severe physical and mental ailments

Question: I have a question about how parents can better deal with situations when they have children born with severe physical and mental ailments. I have relatives who have a child that was born with a failing liver and a hole in his heart. Shortly after being born, he had surgery for a liver transplant and had heart surgery to repair the hole in his heart. He was also diagnosed recently as autistic. The physical ailments have left him immunocompromised and the parents have constantly been in and out of the hospital every month or so since he was born. The situation is understandably exhausting on both of them. One of the parents has recently told some of us that should her child die, she will go to an assisted dying facility (they live in Europe) and essentially commit suicide. I was wondering if the masters could comment on the situation. What is the common reason for a child to be born in this way? Do the parents volunteer for this kind of situation? Are there lessons that the parents are seeking to learn perhaps by undertaking this? What if anything we can say or do to help her see, so that she is not thinking about giving up her life due to how difficult this situation has been.

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2024 Chicago Conference.

There are very limited things that I can say to people who are not spiritual, because in order to understand these kinds of complex situations, you have to have a spiritual understanding of life and how karma works and how these kinds of difficult situations are always created by karma from past lives. There is, of course, always a lesson, because as we have said, karma is also very much a lesson to learn. In cases like this where a child is not fully conscious, there is not much you can do for the child other than try to take care of him as best you can. But for the parents, there can be, if they are open to the spiritual path, there can be lessons to be learned. It will, of course, be very individual.

In some cases, people are simply meant to learn to let go of any attachment to specific physical outcomes. This can seem very harsh if you do not have a spiritual background and an understanding, and that is why there is, in many cases, not much you can say to help such people. But you can certainly talk about how even if her child dies, there is no reason to commit suicide, because there are other aspects of her life that are important, and how suicide really just increases the potential that you can be born in a similar situation than in a previous lifetime. Of course, if people are not open to reincarnation, then again you have limited options.

What you do see if you step back and look at this from a larger context, you see as we have said, that many things in the world are becoming more and more extreme in order to force people to deal with issues they are not willing to look at. That goes not only for individuals, of course, but for society as a whole. Even in situations like this, there are lessons that need to be considered. And there are lessons that involve these very complex topics of how long should you prolong a person’s life, even though you now have the technology to do so.

Does it necessarily mean you have to use that technology, or is it necessary instead to create some kind of awareness of when to allow a life to terminate, because people have a severe illness? I am not trying to say that we have a ready-made answer for this, because it will be individual situations. But we are saying that the technology, the technological advances, are forcing people to deal with some of these very difficult questions that they did not have to deal with in the past, where people with certain illnesses would simply die, and there was nothing that could be done to prolong their lives. These are things that some societies in Europe, for example, are beginning to debate, whether you should allow people with a terminal illness to end their life. What is society’s attitude to this? And I am not saying there is one answer to this again, but what is happening is that societies are being forced to start debating these issues. And this is, of course, necessary for moving closer to the golden age. In the golden age, these issues will gradually fade away, because there will be more clarity about what life really is, and what an opportunity is, and how people can psychologically learn their lessons.

You could, as a general consideration, you could say that when parents give birth to a child like this, there is always a lesson that the parents wanted to learn from this, and this relates to something in their individual psychology. But, of course, in the current situation, very few people are prepared to learn that lesson, and society is not helping them either. That is why one of the things that needs to happen in the golden age is that society becomes more and more aware of the need to not just help people physically, but also help them psychologically. This is one of the overall reasons for why there is a certain increase in these kinds of cases. I know this is not at all comforting to the individuals who are going through this, but this is part of the bigger picture.

How to express higher ideas in a universal way

Question: Ascended masters have said that there is a need to express these higher ideas in a universal way. How do we approach this? Do we write something out of our minds or do we need to let our I AM Presence to speak through us? I tried to write something just on a blank page, but I realized there needs to be some kind of flow. Otherwise, the work does not go forward. Is it about finding our true voice, which would be the voice of our I AM Presences?

Answer from the Ascended Master Jesus through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during a 2024 Deep Healing Retreat Conference in Tallinn, Estonia.

Well, it is neither this nor that. It is a combination. We give teachings from our level. What we desire to see happen is that you internalize these teachings and you express them from whatever level you are at. It is not necessary to come to some perfect state or some oneness with the I AM Presence so that it is the I AM Presence that is writing through you.

What is it we desire to see happen? It I s that you take the teachings that you can grasp because you are open to ascended masters and you step them down for people who are not open to ascended masters, but who can still take in the ideas. Your outer experience of growing up in a certain environment, being in a certain environment, having gone through certain issues in your psychology, in your outer life, whatever it may be, all of these things you have gone through. There are other people that are going through the same thing, but have not gone as far as you have. But the fact that you have gone through it means they can relate to you, whereas they cannot relate to us.

You can take two approaches to this. You can write based on your experience and background. Or you can be impersonal about it or write based on your experience, but in a more fictional way. Either way can work. You see many books out there where an author describes what situation they have gone through, their upbringing, and what process they have gone through to rise above it, at least somewhat. And this can be very helpful to people who are in the same situation. But you can also see examples of where a writer took his or her personal experience and turned it into a work of fiction that was not specific to them. It can even be a crime novel where the author writes based on his or her experiences of either being the victim of a crime or being in the police force, but it is a fictional story. And either way, it can be used to step down the teachings. And it may be that a book just contains a few ideas that we have given. It is not that you need to start with our ideas and make a list of what ascended master ideas you need to put in a book, and then you write from that list. Instead, you start with the experience and you just see where you might insert a few ideas that can help people. Not to know about ascended masters. We are not concerned about this. We do not need fame or fortune. We do not need ascended master books to become bestsellers. But we would like to see some books that contain a few ascended master ideas without mentioning where they come from. We would like to see some of those books become bestsellers.

There are authors today who are able to tune into us. They do not know it. They are not conscious of it, but they can receive a few ideas from us. And this is what you can all do as well. But do not start from our level and go down from there. Start at whatever story you want to tell, whatever audience you want to reach. Look at their situation and then see how certain ascended master ideas could be inserted in that story in order to help people.

There is always this tendency that spiritual people, not just ascended master students, but any kind of spiritual people, become so fixated on the need to convert other people to their teaching or their movement that they cannot step back and look for universal ideas. But this is not what we are asking you to do. We are asking you to step them down to a level where people can grasp them.

In a sense, you could say that what the messenger is doing with his YouTube videos is talking about his own experiences, the process he has gone through, and therefore, he is in a sense stepping this down for people. But he has been on the path for so long and he has risen so high above his beginning level that he is not really able to step it down because he cannot remember anymore how it was to be at the level of consciousness he was at when he was 18. And the same goes for some of you, but many of you are still in touch enough with what you have gone through, what other people are going through, that you can step it down further.

Basically, I would say do not analyze this with the linear mind. Do not overthink it. Try to just tune in. Writers always talk about inspiration, the muses. And yes, the muses are ultimately your I AM Presence or the ascended masters, but try to tune in. Where is there a story you can tell? And the story will not come from the Ascended Masters, but there will be certain ideas that come from us that can be inserted in the story.

It is like the messenger was talking to someone at lunch about this whole series of books, Life and Teachings of the Masters of the Far East, which many of you know, and for some it was your first spiritual book. And the idea was that in the late 1800s, early 1900s, there was this expedition of Western scientists that went to India and Tibet and traveled around and met these masters with a higher level of consciousness and the ability to dismantle their bodies and move their bodies and produce various phenomena. And then there was somebody who found out that the author of this had never actually been on such an expedition and there had not been an expedition and so forth. And some have used this to try to discredit the books. But you see, the whole idea of the expedition was a literary device. It was just to tell a story so that a few ideas could be inserted in there. What does it matter whether it was a true story or not?

When you free your mind from these constraints of this has to be this or it has to be that, you will get some inspiration and then there will be some flow. And then you write based on that. Some of you will be able to tune in to us. The book, “My Lives”, happened because the messenger had finished another book and he said, “Well, I have some time now. Is there anything you want me to do?” And he got the impulse to sit down at the computer and start writing. And without having any forethought, the whole book just flowed. But still that book is at a certain level where many people cannot grasp it. The teachings could be stepped down much more than that. It is individual for you to tune in and see what it might be for you. But do not feel the pressure that you have to do this. You need to tune into your Divine Plan. It may not be in your Divine Plan to be a writer. Do not force yourself. Do not ever force yourself with the outer mind, but instead step back from the outer mind. Tune in. If you cannot tune in because the outer mind interferes, then look for the separate selves that cause this interference. Let them go. Then you will be able to tune in.

More than one Conscious You

Question: I am a bit confused about the I AM Presence sometimes sending more than one Conscious You or even the I AM Presence being an already ascended master, and another Conscious You that is sent, that is still evolving, will later merge with that master when it ascends. I am aware that this is not something to be grasped with the linear mind, but I would really appreciate your help in this as I already feel closeness to my I AM Presence and that there is no separation, that it is me. But with the reality of more than one Conscious You sometimes being sent, it becomes very confusing as how all the Conscious You’s have a sense of individuality and continuity when ascending and not vanish into that one being that sent them out.

Answer from the Ascended Master Jesus through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during a 2024 Deep Healing Retreat Conference in Tallinn, Estonia.

Yes, that is confusing from the viewpoint of the linear mind. And it will always be confusing to the linear mind. In a sense, there is no teaching that I can give you that can be grasped by the outer mind that will resolve this dilemma. It will only fully be resolved when you, the Conscious You that you are, when you ascend and merge with the Presence, then you will experience what it is. And therefore, in a sense, you could say that the best advice that could be given you is to stop being concerned about any other Conscious You that is an extension of your I AM Presence, but just focus on yourself and your situation and your process of ascending and merging back into the Presence. All of these other things will be resolved after you ascend.

Now, I can give you an explanation, but if you approach that explanation from the outer mind, the linear mind, you will actually end up being more confused by my explanation that if I did not give it. What I am saying is, the reason why this seems to be confusing to you is because you are overthinking it through the linear mind. Stop overthinking, stop thinking about it, just focus on your sense of closeness to your I AM Presence. Do not worry about any other Conscious Yous. You see, the Conscious You is an extension of the Presence. It is not the totality of the Presence. Therefore, you cannot experience the totality of the Presence as long as you are an extension. You can only experience the totality when you are no longer an extension because you have merged back into the Presence. And that is the only thing that will resolve it because no matter how much you think about it, you will not overcome the confusion. Therefore, I am choosing not to give you any further explanation.

The lesson behind Julian Assange’s situation

Question. What is to be learned or understood from the continuing saga of Julian Assange?

Answer from the Ascended Master Saint Germain through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during a 2024 Deep Healing Retreat Conference in Tallinn, Estonia.

Well, one thing that could be learned is that even though you have many nations that claim to be free and democratic and have freedom of speech, if you start exposing the power elite, they will come down on you very hard and attempt to destroy you. And this is, of course, because there are still fallen beings in embodiment who do not want to be challenged, and so they will seek to destroy anybody who challenges them.

Now, Julian is not a person who has resolved all of his psychology, but he was willing to take a risk of exposing what could be exposed about the power elite and their manipulation. And of course, I understand that this was against the laws of many countries. But you look back at history and you see that those who brought change sometimes had to go beyond the laws because the laws were designed to prevent change. This does not mean that I am giving a wholesale authorization, as some students in a previous dispensation interpreted, to break the law in order to bring Saint Germain’s golden age. You will generally follow the admonishment of Jesus: “Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar’s, and unto God that which is God’s,” which means you are generally following the laws in your country and you are certainly abstaining from violence. But there are times when it is necessary to expose with information. Exposing with information is not violence, especially not when you are exposing manipulation. Now again, this does not mean that I am giving some wholesale authorization that anyone who gets hold of secret documents should put them on the internet. There needs to be a certain discernment. And there are, of course, things that should not be exposed because they are dangerous for the country and there are hostile countries who would take advantage of it. But on the other hand, it is clear that, especially in a country as big and powerful as the United States, there is a power elite who has a very high level of control over the country and they do not want to be exposed. They do not want their schemes to be exposed.

Someone must take the risk. Again, I am not saying that this is some wholesale authorization. There are many people throughout history who claim to be freedom fighters, but who were actually acting out their unresolved psychology. What people can learn from this situation is that before you expose yourself to the wrath of the power elite, it is wise to work on resolving your psychology so that you do not make it easy for them to destroy you for what you are doing.

And Julian Assange has a certain psychology that caused him to react a certain way. And I am not here telling anyone what to do, but if we step back from the specific situation and talk generally, if you are challenging the power elite, do not seek to run away from it afterwards and hide somewhere where they cannot reach you. Instead, go head-on. Let them put you on trial because in a democratic country with some freedom of press, this will be exposed. By putting you on trial, they will expose themselves even more. And you could ask yourself, would it be worse to be in a prison somewhere, or to be imprisoned in some embassy somewhere where you still do not have the freedom to move? So either do it and do it all the way or do not do it. But make sure that you have resolved enough psychology that you can go all the way without being destroyed by the process, psychologically speaking.

People with severe mental disorders

Question: How do people born with certain kinds of mental disorders help themselves to transcend their current state if they do not have the necessary mental or emotional faculties that would permit self-awareness to do so, for example, those born with autism, schizophrenia, psychopaths, et cetera?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during a 2024 Deep Healing Retreat Conference in Tallinn, Estonia.

People who have descended into this level of psychological disorders cannot by the nature of the disorder help themselves. They do not have the faculties, the awareness to do it. So they will need help from somewhere. This may be psychological or psychiatric treatment, but it may be other people interacting with them. Now, these disorders you mentioned are of course very different. They have different characteristics, different help that people need. But nevertheless, common for these is that they are debilitating. And they are debilitating not primarily physically, but more in a sense that people are so focused on themselves that they cannot really step out of it and decide: “Oh, I am going to try to overcome this condition.” some of them you will not be able to help in this lifetime. Others can receive help when they see that people care about them, people are willing to help them, and they see that some people are just different and are not trapped in the same state of mind.

What I can say about that is common for these diseases is that they are brought about by the being, being unwilling to make its own decisions, take responsibility for itself, decide what kind of being it wants to be. And this probably started many lifetimes ago and has been reinforced over many lifetimes. That is why the condition has become so debilitating. There are some people where from a realistic assessment, they cannot overcome it in this lifetime. But they can approach the point where they have had enough of it. They cannot do it anymore. In between lifetimes, they can be willing to receive help from the ascended masters, which means that they can be reborn with a less severe condition so that they can have the option to do something about it.

The current situation in the Philippines

Question: Can the masters give a realistic assessment about the current state of the Philippines, especially with the election of the previous dictator’s son as president, the proliferation of corruption and the influence of the Catholic Church? And what can some of the ascended master students do to help raise the country to a higher level?

Answer from the Ascended Master Saint Germain through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during a 2024 Deep Healing Retreat Conference in Tallinn, Estonia.

Well, you can take what I said in my answer to the question about Hungary and apply it to the Philippines. Hold the vision, make the calls and the decrees and invocations. I realize there are not so many ascended master students in the Philippines, but you can do what you can do.

What I will comment on here specifically is the Catholic Church. I am aware, of course, that the Catholic Church still has more influence in the Philippines than in most other countries, but this will change. It may happen, as it has happened in several other countries, through these scandals, whether it is pedophilia, mismanagement of money, or abuse of power, or whatever it may be. But in the next decade, the influence of the Catholic Church in the Philippines will diminish.

And in terms of the dictator’s son, well, the dictator’s son is not exactly the same as the dictator, so there is always a potential that change can come out of it. But again, the question is, when will a critical mass of people have had enough of it? And I see that as not being so far off. Now corruption is a problem in many, many countries, and it is again, when will people have had enough of this kind of a corrupt society? And again, the world is moving towards that point where people will have had enough, as you already see some people in the modern nations have. But still, it is impossible to predict exactly when the shift will happen in a particular nation. But certainly, the Philippines is moving in that direction, as are many other countries.

How to hold the vision of the golden age for my country

Question: As a Hungarian, I often worry about the future of the country. We have become one of the poorest and worst performing countries in the EU. I also think that the role of democratic institutions and values has been diminished or even disappeared in recent years. Various politicians are trying to control the public mood through fear. Propaganda style short films flood the internet and the public discourse is dominated by tremendous negativity. I am also very disturbed that the vision shown to the Hungarian people is to be workers in foreign factories instead of learning and starting their businesses to take control of their own destiny. I often feel that the country is in a downward spiral or at least at a crossroads. Please give me some input to see more clearly and to hold the vision of the golden age for the country.

Answer from the Ascended Master Saint Germain through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during a 2024 Deep Healing Retreat Conference in Tallinn, Estonia.

Well, you start out the question as a Hungarian. My recommendation, since you end the question by saying to help you more clearly hold the vision of the golden age, my advice to you is first question your sense of identity as a Hungarian. What does it mean in your mind to be a Hungarian? What are the limitations defined in the collective consciousness for what it means to be a Hungarian? Question that, but also question—are you a Hungarian or a spiritual being who happened to be born in Hungary in this embodiment? And the reason why I am saying this is that if you go into this collectively created sense of identity for what it means to be a Hungarian, then you cannot hold the golden age vision for the country. Only when you step out of that and see yourself as a spiritual being who was born in Hungary, but is not defined by the country, then you can hold the golden age vision. And this of course goes not only for Hungary, but for any nation.

You are spiritual beings who for various reasons chose to be born in a certain country. Now, it may be that part of your Divine Plan is related to that country to hold a vision, to bring forth some new ideas that bring the country forward, or to give invocations and decrees for the country. This may be, but in some cases your embodiment was not tied to a particular country. You just looked down as you were planning your next embodiment and saw where is there a body that is available and it happened to be in that country, but it could just as well have been in another country.

For all of you, whatever country you are from, you have to step out of the national identity in order to hold the golden age vision. Because many countries right now, not just Hungary, but many other countries are in a downward spiral in the sense that the public mood is becoming more and more negative, more and more focused on the negatives and the limitations, more and more polarized towards these extremes, inflating the animosity and the conflicts in the country. Just look at the United States. The United States is not really in a negative spiral, but many people feel it is. And therefore, they are of course wanting it to be true and they are helping to actually slow down the progress of the country.

Again, you feel that the country is in a negative spiral. Well, question that. What is it that feels this? Is it the Conscious You and the I AM Presence or is it some subconscious self? Then look at that self, let it die, and then you will be able to grasp my vision. I have a vision for Hungary. I have a vision for every country. I do not look at the current situation as: “Oh, this is some insurmountable obstacle to a manifestation of my golden age.” I look at conditions and say: “Okay, apparently the people in that country needed to have that experience for some time, but when will they have had enough of this so that we can move to a higher level?” I always meet a country wherever it is at and seek to take it higher. I do not have these regrets that: “Oh, this should never have happened.”

Certainly, I wish the Ukraine war would not have happened because it would have made it easier for Russia and Ukraine to grow, but still the fact that it did happen means that people needed that experience, many people, not just in Ukraine and Russia. I am looking at now that it has happened, how do we then turn it into a positive? That is all I am focused on. And if you are focused on: “This should not have happened,” or: “This should have happened, but it has not happened,” you cannot tune into my vision for the golden age.

How to help teenagers during their growing-up years?

Question: Teenagers often show extreme patterns of behavior. They often seem to lose themselves completely, between childhood and adulthood. What happens to the four lower bodies of teenagers? Can we help them in their growing up years? And if so, how?

Answer: from the Ascended Master Mother Mary, through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during a 2024 Deep Healing Retreat Conference in Tallinn, Estonia.

Well, this is a very individual thing, what happens in the teenage years. We have explained, in a previous dispensation, that for most people, when they are born, there is a certain grace. That we, from the ascended level, withhold a person’s karma for the first 12 years. And then when they turn 12, the karma starts descending, and now they have to deal with it. And this is what often causes a dramatic shift in the minds of teenagers. They suddenly have to deal with, you might say, karma, but you might also say, the separate selves from past lives.

Now, this explanation that we gave is not wrong, but it is not the full explanation. Because a child not only has some external karma that is like a weight dropping upon it, but it also has the internal karma of the separate selves. A child comes into embodiment and certain separate selves are there at birth, or at least when the soul begins to integrate with the body, which can happen sometime after birth. That is why you can see that you have children who have a distinct personality almost from the moment they are born. And certainly, when they go through what is often called the terrible twos. And all throughout their childhood, even up to the 12th year, you can see that children have a distinct personality. And that is the subconscious selves that they carry with them. Now, some of these selves can be held back by us, so that they are not dealing with all of them at once. And then, they will have to do that, beginning at the 12th year. But even then, there can be a certain gradual release of this.

What happens to teenagers is that, if they had a normal childhood that was not an abusive childhood, they will have experienced life as fairly pleasant, fairly easy. And suddenly, at the teenage stage, they begin to realize that life was not nearly as easy as they thought during childhood. And this generally comes as a shock. And it is individual how people deal with it. Some people have to go through a period where they almost withdraw from life, because it is so difficult for them to accept that life is so different from what they expected or what they experienced during their childhood. They go into various forms of escapism, like, music, or computer games, where they can go into a controlled environment where they do not have to face this having to make choices that they thought they did not have to make as children. In other words, what really, ideally, happens in the teenage years, is that after this inner sense of childhood, the teenager becomes gradually more willing to take responsibility for itself and make its own decisions: “What do I want to do with my life?”

What happens is that as the separate selves are activated, suddenly the person begins to realize: “Oh, I have to make my own decisions based on my own psychology.” The grace period is over. And, depending on how complicated of a psychology the child carries with it from past lives, or perhaps what it has taken on in this lifetime through an abusive childhood, this is a shock. That is why some have to withdraw for a while, in order to, basically, have a reprieve, where they are subconsciously processing the necessity to make their own decisions.

Now, you will see that some people eventually emerge from this and begin to take a more active part in life. They engage in school, they get an education, they are willing to get a job, have a family. But you see also others that it is like they want to remain children even though they are no longer teenagers. They cannot actually get a go, make a go of life. They live with their parents until they are way into their 30s and so forth. And this is because they are not willing to take that responsibility and say: “Okay, what do I actually want to do with my life? Given my psychology, do I want to just be a victim of my psychology? Do I want to do something to change my psychology, or do I just want to withdraw from the responsibility?”

What can you do? Well, that is again very individual. And what often happens, of course, is that when the teenager’s psychology is activated, the parent’s psychology is activated also, and they clash.

If you want to help your teenager, you need to, as we always say, look at yourself, look at your reactions, even look back to your own teenage years. What did you go through that you might not have processed from your teenage years? And it would, of course, be wise to do this before your child reaches the teens. And then, if you can process it in yourself so you do not have a reaction to your teenager, whatever they do, then you can avoid making the problem worse for the teenager. But there are also, in some cases, where you have to realize that as a parent, you can only be who you are, given your psychology. If you are a spiritual person, you can of course strive to transcend your psychology. But nevertheless, you are who you are as your children are growing up and you have a right to do this. What you are doing is, you are giving your children an example of how life can be lived. And while they are children, your children might just accept this, they might not question it. But then when they become teenagers, their psychology from past lives is activated. And now they realize they do not want to live life the way you have lived your life. And that is why they often go through this rebellious phase of rebelling against parental authority or even authority from society. And if that happens to your teenager, the best you can do is just give them space. Do not try to control them, do not try to persuade them about anything. Just simply step back, look at your own reactions, work on your own psychology and let them work things out.

But you can only do this if you have overcome this dysfunctional projection that is being put on parents, that you are responsible for the behavior of your children. And that is why, when you are a spiritual student and you recognize reincarnation, you can realize that your children are not your children in the sense that they are a product of your genes and your upbringing. Your children are individual beings that probably were not related to you in past lifetimes. In some cases, you can have children you have been with in past lifetimes, but in many cases you do not. This is a complete stranger that suddenly flies into your life and grows in your womb, jumps out, and now acts like a complete stranger. Because, what else can they do? You have to realize that modern society has become more conscious of the need for parents to develop certain skills. There was a period, if you go back several decades, for many of you, it will be in your grandparents’ generation, where the whole idea of children’s psychology was not even a topic. All you had to do as a parent was give them a roof over their head, clothes on their bodies and food to eat. Then you had fulfilled your parental responsibility.

Today, in many of the more modern nations, there are much more demands on parents in terms of their responsibility for their children. But, because of the materialistic paradigm, or even the Christian paradigm, both of which deny reincarnation, an unrealistic and unfair sense of responsibility has been projected upon parents. Because your child is an old soul that came into this embodiment with a psychology that was created over many past lifetimes. And often, you had nothing to do with the creation of that psychology. And this child comes in with this psychology and you may be able to help the child, but in some cases you simply cannot. You cannot directly change your child’s psychology. And therefore, you need to have a certain discernment where you do what you can do, but you do not feel responsible for how your child turns out as a teenager or as an adult. You can give them an example, that you can work on your psychology and overcome your psychology, but it is not your responsibility to force them.

What often happens in the teenage years, is that because of this unbalanced responsibility put on parents, the parents feel: “My teenager’s behavior reflects badly on me as a parent, and therefore, I have to try and control and suppress the teenager’s behavior, so I do not feel bad about myself, or so that I do not get a negative reaction from other people in society.” And this is what you need to look at and come to a point where you are not trying to change your teenager in order to change your own state of mind or other people’s opinions of you. You are giving them the freedom to act out their psychology, and then you just give them an example that it is possible to transcend that psychology. There is, of course, much more that could be said, I realize. But these, at least, give you some pointers on how to get started dealing with this, that we all have to go through.

As I have said before, Jesus was not an easy child, and he was not an easy teenager. But as you see from the Bible, he went away during his teenage years. I was not confronted with him at that stage, which I consider a grace. And he will even admit it was a grace. You see that even a person with a level of consciousness, a fairly high level of consciousness, that Jesus had at birth, still had to go through a difficult teenage period, because he also had to deal with the fact that he had a potential. And how was he going to fulfill that potential? Or was he going to rebel against it and just withdraw and create his own little cave, and stay in that cave? And this was a much more difficult process for Jesus than we have actually explained so far, as it has been for many of you, to come to the point where you can at least begin to contemplate what your Divine plan may be in terms of doing something to raise the whole, bringing some kind of gift to other people or society. In a sense, you could say that if you really want to help your teenager, you need to come to this point, where you have dealt with this in yourself, this coming to make peace with your Divine plan and your highest potential. Then you can help your teenager see that perhaps he or she also has a potential. And it is necessary to overcome the psychology that creates the turbulence, in order to fulfill that potential.

But I will say also that in the future, in the golden age, as we have said before, there will actually be a widespread movement that children move away from their parents in their teens and move to other environments, like you see Jesus traveling around. But this, of course, was not an ideal situation. I was always worried that Jesus could die, and he could have died in all kinds of ways in the environment back then. But he did not. There can be in the future, there will be more safe ways for teenagers to experience a different situation. Like you have, for example, in Denmark, where when they finish elementary school, instead of going right on to a higher education, they take a year off and go to some preschool or prep school or whatever you want to call it, where they are just focusing on a certain activity like sports or music. But really, they are just interacting with other teenagers without being with their parents. And it gives them a different perspective. This will become much more common as we move further into the golden age.

Is there a separate self of the body at the physical level?

Question: The masters have never spoken of a separate self of the body, only of the emotional, mental and identity realms. Is there even any separate self that is tied to the body, or do they die at the end of each embodiment as the body dies?

Answer: from the Ascended Master Mother Mary, through Kim Michaels.This answer was given during a 2024 Deep Healing Retreat Conference in Tallinn, Estonia.

There is not a separate self of the body at the physical level, but there are separate selves relating to the body at the emotional, mental and identity levels, and that is why we have talked about separate selves at those levels. There are, of course, selves that operate a physical body. The body is very complex, especially the brain and nervous system, but the entire body is very complex. You think about the many trillions of individual cells that make up your body, and they can all move as one unit. It is a very complicated process. And there are of course, what you could call selves, or you could call them programs, that operate the physical body. They have also been called instincts or reactions. These are very complex, but these are not selves that you create. Because, based on the current density, you are not directly creating your current physical body, you have taken it on, you have come into it.

In other words, your identity, mental and emotional bodies have integrated with your current physical body. When this body dies, your three higher bodies disintegrate from the body and move to a higher realm in between embodiments. But you have created separate selves in these three higher bodies that relate to the physical body. For example, resenting the pain, and therefore creating a certain division and resistance in your mind in relation to the body. And this of course, is something you project onto the body, and it can burden your present physical body.

You can have certain diseases in the physical body that are determined by genetic inheritance, going back perhaps many generations in that family. And you will take those on when you come into embodiment in that body. But on top of that, you can have these separate selves in your three higher bodies that you are then projecting onto the physical selves, which can also cause disease. And that is why, as Raphael said in the very beginning of this conference, there can be certain conditions that are just what you had to take on in order to come into your present physical embodiment. And the best you can do is make peace with it and not resent it. But what you can do to heal is, of course, look at the separate selves you have in your three higher bodies, dissolve them so that you are not adding your individual burden to your physical body beyond what it had from the genetic inheritance.

Separate selves vs. Necessary selves

Question: As I understand, we have taken on illusions that are part of the rule set to currently embody at the 48th level of consciousness at birth. Is it correct to assume that these illusions then translate as selves, not separate selves? And we create our separate selves horizontally in addition to the primary illusions at various levels by either taking them on from the mass consciousness or by creating them on our own. Thus, I conclude that separate selves are always of a dualistic nature and may persist and outlive their original state of consciousness in which they had been created or accepted. I assume that this is so because our illusionary selves that determine our state of consciousness are just perception filters by which we are naturally affected, while the separate selves are by nature somewhat more compulsive and offensive.

Answer from Kim Michaels. This answer was given during a 2024 Deep Healing Retreat Conference in Tallinn, Estonia.

I am just going to answer this because it is obviously correct what the question is saying, and Archangel Raphael explained it also in more detail, and Cyclopea also. It is that the only thing I would say is that they are part of the rule set to currently embody at the 48th level at birth. You have to say the first time we embodied on earth, we were at the 48th level. It is not that every time we re-embody, we start at the 48th level. We can rise to higher levels in previous lives, and then we come in at whatever level we are at. But it is correct that what the masters said is, we start at the 144th level, and we are taking on a certain illusion, and we are creating a certain self. That is not a dualistic illusion. It is just what is necessary for the Conscious You, which is, it does not have a structure to integrate, start integrating with the identity body and start creating a sense of identity. Cyclopea was explaining how the Conscious You does not have any individuality. There is no container that can contain any parameters for how you are individually. That is all in the I AM Presence. When the Conscious You goes to the 144th level, it takes on the illusion that is necessary for you to start integrating with the identity body. But you are creating an individual belief about this, based on the individuality of your I AM Presence. Each of us have a slightly different self that we create at the 144th level.

And Cyclopea was saying that the reason we need to create this is that he compared it to a film strip, where the Conscious You is like the white light in the movie projector, and the identity body is a film strip. And when we go to the 144th level, we are drawing something on the film strip. And then the light is just projected through that drawing to the 143rd level. And it becomes a subconscious self that is maintaining that belief. And then at the 143rd level, we take on another one, we create another drawing on the film strip that is then projected. And then of course, we have a film strip for the identity body, we have another for the mental, we have one for the emotional, and one for the physical, because even the physical body is just basically a film strip that is being projected onto the Ma-ter light. The selves we take on from the 144th to the 48th are not dualistic selves. They are just selves that help us integrate, because they are also saying that for the Conscious You, which is pure awareness, it is very complicated to integrate with the physical body, and even begin to operate it. And Cyclopea would actually use what one of you said yesterday about, “But I am the Conscious You, I am pure awareness, how can I write?” And it illustrates that the Conscious You, when it sees itself as pure awareness, it cannot operate a physical body. It cannot even conceive that you could write words, and that words have a meaning. This is all something we take on gradually in the identity, mental, and emotional level. We can operate a physical body. These are in a way necessary illusions.

But the danger of it, you could say is, not really the danger because we are meant to descend to the 48th level, that when the Conscious You goes down to the 48th level, it can identify itself with or as the physical body. But it is just that as we walk the spiritual path, we are no longer identified with the selves we have created. They are still necessary to operate the physical body, but we can come to a point where we are not identified with them. And that means we can then be more at peace with being in a physical body. And then of course, when we go below the 48th level, we create the selves based on duality and the illusion that we are separate beings. And that is what creates all the frustration and the pain and the suffering. Because now it is like we become a house divided. Instead of fully accepting that we are in this physical body, and we are operating this physical body, there are now these selves that are resenting the body.

Like, even this question about menopause, you are resenting being in a physical body, getting older, losing your hair, and this and that. You are making it worse, because now you have this resistance or opposition in your own being. And of course, that is what the fallen beings take advantage of, all these separate selves. And they are actually, if you think about it, you realize that the fallen beings are actually projecting that it is wrong of us to be in a physical body. That is why you can see this old spiritual tradition that the body is an enemy of your spiritual growth. It is what I have talked about in some of my YouTube videos, where you see the Eastern spirituality—they are always against the body. The body is just a hindrance. You need to control the body, abstain from any bodily pleasures, because they have this idea that only Brahman is real, the world is an illusion. You need to get back to this undifferentiated state, where you basically do not exist, like we talked about yesterday.

This is what creates, all of a sudden, instead of being co-creators who are happy to be in a body and express ourselves through a body, all of a sudden we resent or resist being in a physical body. And you can actually, once you have taken on these dualistic selves, you can carry that with you, even as you raise your consciousness. The masters explained fairly recently, I cannot remember if it was Easter, there was a question about it, where Jesus said that, you see what I have just said, you create a certain self in order to descend to a certain level, and in order to rise higher, you just have to overcome that self. You can rise from the 48th to the, say, 96th level, but you are still carrying with you some of these selves you created in separation, or at least these beliefs, like resenting the body.

You can have these yogis and masters from the East that have raised their consciousness, but they are still carrying with them this resentment of the body, so that even though they are at a fairly high level of consciousness, they are still resenting the body, seeing the body as an enemy of spiritual growth. It is almost like there are two parallel tracks, there are separate selves, and the necessary selves, and we can start rising back up, but still carry some of these separate selves with us, and that gives that division. That is what we need to strive to overcome in order to have peace and wholeness and even healing.

A higher perspective on the climate crisis

Question: Do ascended masters want to share their vision with us about the climate crisis. What is true and what is not true, and how can we best deal with it?

Answer from the Ascended Master Saint Germain through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during a 2024 Deep Healing Retreat Conference in Tallinn, Estonia.

Well, as Jesus has actually explained quite a number of years ago about global warming, the problem with the current climate crisis is that the debate is entirely materialistic. It centers around: “Here is a materialistic phenomenon, we can see that the planet is heating up, and weather is becoming more extreme, the ice caps are melting, and so forth.” But because they are in a materialistic paradigm, they can only look for a materialistic explanation. And therefore, they are saying, “Oh, it must be the burning of fossil fuels, CO2, pollution, this or that, that is causing the planet to heat up.” And this is, of course, completely inadequate, because in order to explain or understand what is happening, you need to look at the earth as a total energy system, and that the physical earth is really just a screen reflecting what is being projected upon it by the emotional, mental, identity bodies of humankind, the collective and individual. Unless you understand this, you cannot actually understand what is happening in the earth.

The other thing that is happening is, of course, that if you really look at the available data, going back as far as you have data, but even old manuscripts that talk about conditions hundreds or even thousands of years ago, you will see that the planet on a regular basis goes through cycles where it warms up and cycles where it cools down. You have all heard about the ice ages, but you also know that there were periods in the past where there was tropical vegetation in Greenland, for example, and so you know that there has been warmer periods as well. And this is simply something that happens on a regular basis. And you are in a cycle where there is this warming trend.

Then what you have on top of this is that you always have the fallen beings who are trying to use anything that happens to control people, to create guilt and blame, to get people to deny themselves. And they are exploiting this situation partly for the purpose of control, partly for the purpose of making money, because they are now trying to force especially the rich nations to invest in various measures that can lessen the climate crisis. There is a certain amount of manipulation going on that is coming from the fallen beings.

But this of course is not the entire explanation, because as Jesus also said, there is a very strong influence from the emotional, mental and identity bodies of the collective mind. And it is partly because there is more friction there, because as you can clearly see, everybody is going towards, or many people are going towards the extremes, being polarized. And this of course is releasing immense amounts of emotional energy that is causing a certain friction that simply warms even at the physical level.

And beyond that is of course the fact that the entire universe is being pulled up, because most planets are natural planets. The earth is being pulled up by this, humankind is resisting it, and this is also creating a certain friction that goes from the identity to the mental to the emotional level, and then spills over to the physical.

However, this does not mean that this is all the negative, because what is happening is actually that the entire debate about the climate crisis is forcing at least some nations and scientists to step back and look at the cause of pollution. And it is clear that what is causing pollution is primarily fossil fuels, where you are burning something that releases certain gases. And many have not reached that point yet, but some have and more will do so fairly soon, where they will realize that the only real way to solve the climate crisis is to find other forms of energy that are not polluting. And I know some are thinking about renewable energy, solar, wind, ocean waves, some are talking about nuclear, but the effect of this is that it is gradually opening up people to consider what I have called non-force-based forms of energy. And there are people who are thinking in these terms, there are some that have been thinking for a long time, but there will come a point where people will realize that unless you set society back to the Middle Ages, you cannot solve the climate crisis unless you find a different form of energy than what is available today. I am not saying that governments should not research in or invest in solar and wind, but there needs to come a point where they say there must be another form of energy that is not based on force, whether burning fossil fuels or splitting the atom. Even the fusion technology is a step up from fission technology. I may be mixing those two, I am realizing, but anyway. There is a great need to research in new forms of energy.

And therefore, I am sort of stepping back and just letting the situation unfold, because I see that this will gradually move societies closer to my vision for the golden age. But it is gradually opening them up for a need to make a qualitative shift, a shift to a higher approach to energy. Even though the fallen beings are trying to take advantage of the situation and they think they are controlling the situation, they simply do not have enough awareness to realize that they are actually moving the situation to a point where they will lose control. Because whereas it is possible to control force-based energy, it won’t be possible to control non-force-based energy, at least not the same way. Again, it is simply necessary that society begins to think in new ways. And for me, therefore, the major consequence of the climate crisis is that it is forcing societies to think beyond the materialistic mental box. Because in essence, there will come the realization also that you cannot discover these new forms of energy if you hold on to the current materialistic paradigm. You need to either expand your vision of what the material world is, so you see that it is more than you currently see, or you need to let go of the materialistic paradigm. And either way, it is moving in the right direction.

About hot flashes

Question: Dear ascended masters, what is the psychological background of hot flashes that women experience during the perimenopause phase? Some women have it in an extreme way and do not know how to deal with it. They tried everything in the material and of course this does not solve the problem they experience. I know there are certain selves involved, but what are these selves based on and what kind of beliefs do they have?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during a 2024 Deep Healing Retreat Conference in Tallinn, Estonia.

Well, part of the explanation for the hot flashes is actually physical. As Raphael explained, in the current conditions on earth, there is a certain density of matter, a certain density of the physical body, so there is a certain mechanism that happens that is purely physical and there really is not anything you can do about it at the present situation. There will be more options available in the future, but that does not help you now.

There are, of course, certain selves and if you look at what happens to many women, you will see that while they are younger, they are not so concerned about their physical bodies. If they are reasonably healthy, reasonably good looking, reasonably thin as they see it, whatever that may be individually, they are not worried about the body. But then comes the point of perimenopause where now they realize that their body is changing, it is aging, and what that brings out is something they had either suppressed or ignored before, namely their relationship to being in a physical body, to the physical material universe.

You think about the hot flashes, what produces heat? Well, as they try to make all boy and girl scouts believe, if you rub two sticks of wood together long enough, you can create fire. Heat can be created by friction. And with friction, I do not mean physical friction, because as we have explained to you, the physical body is just the densest part of your total energy field. And we have talked about the four lower bodies, and so there can be a certain friction in the sense that in your emotional, mental, and identity bodies, you have these subconscious selves that are resisting being in the physical body, resenting being in the physical body, because the physical body can cause you pain, or it can cause you a sense of embarrassment if you gain weight, or if you are not as beautiful as you used to be.

Basically, the best advice I can give to people in this stage, and it applies to some degree also to men, even though they may not have the same symptoms as women, there is still a certain aging process, and there is a certain realization that: “I am losing my hair”, for example. What you can do is look at your attitude, your approach to the physical body. Try to uncover these selves that you have that resent the body, that do not want to be in the body, that think that the physical body should not have such severe and unpleasant consequences, should not cause you pain, or embarrassment, or whatever. It will be individual for many of you.

There are, of course, general tendencies, but you need to discover what is your individual approach to the body. Many of you, for example, have this sense that the body should not cause you pain. Here you have a situation where you have certain pain in the physical body, but the body is not actually feeling the pain. The body is not saying, “Oh, this hurts.” The body is just registering that there is an imbalance in a certain part of the body, and it is not feeling that it is unpleasant or not unpleasant. The body does not evaluate this. This evaluation takes place in the mind, in the emotional, mental, and identity levels, where you have these selves that say, “Oh, this should not be happening.” And now you resist what is happening. And many people then go into, they just want the pain to go away, so they take painkillers, because they do not want to think about what could be the underlying symptom. Many people try to suppress the pain instead of looking for the cause of the pain, which of course can make the disease even worse, before they cannot ignore it.

What I am saying is that the mind is what experiences pain. The body just experiences energy. But the mind is what turns this into a negative, and this makes the pain worse. If you can actually discover the self that resents the pain and let go of that self, in some cases the pain goes away. In other cases, it becomes much more manageable. But of course, you also need to look at that the pain is always a warning signal from the body that there is a problem.

If you are willing to look at that, then you can achieve much more than if you just resent the pain or try to suppress it. There are actually yogis who have learned to live with pain, because they realize that everything has an energetic component. Even a physical disease, and to give you an example, there are documented cases from Eastern medicine where when somebody had burned, had a burn, they would cover the burn with tinfoil, have a copper wire to an acupuncture needle that would be placed in another part of the body so that the energy that caused the heat was diverted instead of being concentrated in the one place. Because when there is pain in a particular place in the body, your attention goes there. And that means that your energies are now flowing there, and the concentration of energies makes the pain worse, it accelerates the energetic imbalance.

If you can learn mentally to divert the pain and spread the pain over your entire body or a larger part of the body, you can actually diffuse the energies. And in some cases, this can cause the pain to go away, because the pain was caused by an imbalance of energy. In essence, all disease is an imbalance of energy, a concentration of energy. And if you can diffuse it, this can be enough to heal certain conditions. But this of course requires you to overcome these selves that resent the pain, because when you go into this reaction of resenting the pain, you are focusing on the pain, and therefore, concentrating more energy there.

Economic forecast 2024

Question: Can the masters comment on the economy for 2024? As some economists predict that interest rates will drop and there are speculators wanting the rates to go down so they can load up on more real estate, especially in Canada where Canadians are betting and hoping rates will go down so they can continue to speculate on real estate.

Answer from the Ascended Master Saint Germain through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2024 Easter webinar.

Well this is one possible scenario. Interest rates are likely to go down in 2024, but of course the larger question here is the speculation in real estate. And this is a real problem for the economy in many parts of the world where speculators have been allowed by governments to create this bubble economy in the real estate market. And what has happened especially in some of the democratic nations is that a large part of the population have been pulled into this scheme where they hope that they can also speculate in real estate and make some easy money.

The problem is that this has reached a level where in most nations real estate has now become so expensive that people with normal jobs cannot afford to buy a house or even rent. And this is a real danger to the economy of many nations. And it is a real danger both in 2024 and beyond that it could create a crash in the economy similar to what you saw in 2008 again caused by real estate and speculation in real estate.

What unfortunately happens in these situations is as we have talked about in other dictations that the fallen beings start a certain trend, but then some among the population think they can get advantage of jumping on the bandwagon. And this reinforces the trend and now it becomes more difficult for a democratic government to step in because instead of just a small elite it is now a broad part of the population. Look for example how many people in certain nations have their pension plans invested in the stock market. But this is also a bubble that could burst.

So, we have what I have before called a gambling economy where it is all a matter of perception. And if perception shifts and people start unloading real estate then the entire system could crash. But the system can also crash or go through a crisis because you get to a point where too much of people’s disposable income is tied up in paying their mortgage or their rent or the interest. And therefore, they do not have the money left over for consumption and it affects other aspects of the economy such as manufacturing and retail and services and therefore, what we can call the real economy starts going down because of this bubble in the artificial economy.

And this is a real problem that in the coming years governments will have to deal with. And the democratic governments need to realize that it is their responsibility to prevent a small elite of people who already have more money than they could ever spend from creating these speculative bubbles that really hurt the economy of the broad population and threaten the economy of the entire country. So, this of course is a broader topic but it is clear that the majority of democratic governments have not fulfilled their responsibility to protect their populations against speculation by a small elite that already has more money than they should be allowed to have in a democratic nation.

Time vs. River of Life

Question: According to the masters we create through our Conscious You, making use of our conceptual mind, creating an image, projecting it into the Ma-ter light filling it with mental and emotional energy and acting upon it. We only can do this within a series of moments. We need time to be able to think, feel or do anything. Everything we do, even everything we are is directly related to this continuum of moments we are used to call time. However, what really is this moment now and the next and the next and so on? The moment of now is everywhere in this universe, now as well as all awareness is everywhere now. Is there a relation between consciousness and this continuum of nows in a way that it could be said that time is actually consciousness?

Answer from the Ascended Master Saint Germain through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2024 Easter webinar.

Well you are asking some questions that have rather complex answers but if we want to simplify it we can say that the concept of a now as related to the concept of past and future is really a division that exists only in the mind.

What is what you call the string of nows? Well, it is actually what we have called the River of Life—the forward progressive movement created by all beings who are raising their consciousness. So what happens is, when you go into separation especially, you cannot flow with this flow because you see yourself as a separate being separated from the flow. This gives rise in your mind to this division where you are at the lower level, you are only thinking in terms of past and future. Most people are not aware of a now. They are not even thinking in terms of the now. So they are either thinking about their past or thinking about the future. Either regretting what happened in the past or trying to analyze what happened or what should not have happened or they are fearing for the future or perhaps even looking forward to the future. But it is always this or that. They are rarely centered in the moment, rarely enjoying the moment.

Now you have these teachings that have come out from various sources of “now”, the importance of now or the power of now. And it is not that these teachings cannot be helpful in a certain way. But the problem is that most people simply cannot really apply these teachings and cannot really relate to them because again they have so many separate selves that pull them into the past or the future. There can be separate selves that are always regretting what happened in the past, separate selves that are always looking forward to something better in the future or looking to the future with dread and fear. These will be pulling most people out of focusing in the now.

And really we could say from a certain perspective is there any point in focusing on the now? Because which now are you going to focus on? It would seem, would it not, that the moment you focus on your mind on focusing on the present now, time has already moved on, so there is a new now. So, now you can be chasing the now all of the time. But of course, really what is meant with these teachings about the now is to come to a point where you are not pulled by the past or the future and therefore, you can experience a certain stillness. However, telling people to focus on the now without helping them resolve the separate selves that are pulling them towards past or future is not particularly helpful for most people.

That is why we have given these teachings on resolving the selves. And when you resolve certain selves then you can come to that point where you are not pulled towards the past or the future. It does not really mean that you should focus on the now as most people will see the now as a moment in time, in other words a certain still stand. It is almost like many people when they hear about the now they think it means stopping the clock. But of course this cannot be done, you cannot stop time. But what you can do is you can go within, be still and flow with the River of Life. In other words instead of being pulled towards a time that is no longer there or pulled towards the time that is not there yet or being focused on a time that supposedly stands still in the now, you can transcend the focus on time and focus on the flow, the River of Life. And this we have given many teachings and tools for achieving including of course our conference in Kazakhstan where we talked about flowing with the River of Life, but many other teachings we have given throughout the years including resolving the selves.

Why do some people behave like children in old age?

Question: Why do some people behave like children in old age?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2024 Easter webinar.

Well, it is really a combination of factors. It can be what is normally called Alzheimer’s or Dementia, but it is also because they have not as adults been willing to take responsibility for themselves. Now obviously when you are a child you are not able or you are not expected even to take responsibility for yourself and your own state of mind. So, you have a certain innocence as children but then as you become an adult in your late teens and forward you should ideally take responsibility for yourself, your life and especially for your state of mind.

But many people do not do that because they do not receive any help growing up on how to do this. So they live their whole life in this what we might call a deficit but they feel like they are pulled along by circumstances that they resist, they resent and they do not want and instead of taking decisions and deciding what they want their life to be they are just allowing circumstances to push them along. And there can come a point where this becomes such a strain for people that their minds cannot deal with it and so they withdraw from it and they seek to go back to this state of children where they feel like they did not have to take responsibility. They abandon their self-awareness of what they realize is proper behavior and they act out in childish ways. It really is a sign that the person has given up on its spiritual growth for that lifetime.

Being pulled in two directions

Question: I feel especially recently that my separate selves are pulling me in two directions until I feel I am losing my mind and I do not know how to make a decision of what to do. I do not know how to hear what to do from my I AM Presence instead of the selves. How do I surrender? My questions are: what specific book teaching can I read to help me resolve these selves so I can allow the Holy Spirit to flow? I realized I am angry with the ascended masters for abandoning me here with the pain I have been through. How do I ask them for help and connect with them when I am mad at them for what feels like abandonment?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2024 Easter webinar.

Well, the books that are meant to help you deal with the subconscious selves are Healing Your Spiritual Traumas and the other three books in that series ending with Making Peace with Being on Earth. And so, I suggest you start with Healing Your Spiritual Traumas, read them, do the exercises and see where that takes you. But you also have to realize here that you have to be willing to make decisions in order to overcome the selves that are paralyzing you and making you feel like you are pulled in different directions. This is a division in your psyche. It is two selves that are trying to paralyze you so you cannot make a decision. And so, obviously you have to work on resolving the selves but you also have to develop this willingness to make your own decisions regardless of the outcome. You cannot have this attitude that many spiritual people have that before you make a decision you want to be sure that it turns out right. And this actually ties into your second question of how you can ask the ascended masters for help when you are angry with them and feel abandoned, biased. As we have explained in several teachings including in these books that I am talking about, we have not abandoned you. You are the one who decided to go below the 48th level of consciousness and go into separation and therefore, you abandoned your connection to us. We could do nothing but respect your free will.

So, you have to be willing to do this and that means again taking responsibility for the fact that in past lifetimes you made these choices to go into separation. We are not blaming you, we are not judging you, as Cyclopea so clearly expressed earlier today, but you need to come to the point where you are not judging yourself and projecting your judgment on yourself, on the ascended masters, that we are the ones who did something to you. This is part of taking responsibility for your own growth. And when you do make that decision and do use our teachings and tools to get rid of this self that is projecting that you were abandoned by us, then you will be able to ask us for help and you will receive it. You can for that matter ask us for help now and you will receive it as you are open to hearing it. But these selves that are dividing you are probably going to block you from hearing us from within yourself and that is why you need to use the outer tools and work on resolving these selves.

Music for the golden age

Question: I want to ask Saint Germain. There are some people who are musicians among the ascended master students. They want to make good music in the golden age to inspire the people to the Christ mind or Higher Consciousness. Could you give some good examples of music for the golden age? What style of music is proper in the golden age?

Answer from the Ascended Master Saint Germain through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2024 Easter webinar.

Well, generally it is a matter of being able to read energy and we are given these exercises for centering in the heart, feeling whether it raises your energy or lowers your energy. You can do the same with music. The music that is productive for the golden age, for bringing forth the golden age, is music that raises the energies. Now if you are sensitive you can learn to read it in other chakras as well and it can be music for each of the chakras but the question is does it raise the energy, does it lower the energy?

It is not so that there is a specific style of music that does this. And of course, this messenger is not a musician and I am not intended on using him to bring forth music for the golden age because there are other ascended masters students and even people who are not ascended masters students who are able to tune into this music not just from me but from other masters and bring it into physical manifestation.

Truly if you are musically interested then work on learning to read the energy. If you feel that you have subconscious selves that block this then work on those, give the decrees and invocations to transmute any lower energies in your energy field and then seek to raise your vibration so you can attune to whichever master you are close to so you can bring forth this music. It can come and it will come simply through inspiration from within, from the Holy Spirit, from a particular master but it requires that you have, number one, musical skills and number two the ability to read energy and number three the ability to attune to an ascended master. And many people have this and many people can develop it.

A better future for Africa

Question: Currently in some African countries that used to be constitutional democracies, they are taken over by military dictatorships. These coup d’etats are mostly in countries colonized by France that has continued to interfere politically in those countries whilst exploiting their resources to the detriment of the African populations. These military leaders have begun to build alliances with Russia instead of democratic countries who have also not stopped exploiting them.

What can African citizens do in this context to be able to liberate themselves and move towards the journey of Saint Germain’s Golden Age? What advice has the ascended masters for the African youth who are very disillusioned about their future to move out of the current problems on the continent into a better future for Africa?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2024 Easter webinar.

Well, you need to recognize here that it is correct that there has been a certain exploitation, not necessarily from countries but more from multinational corporations. But you also need to recognize that it is not just Russia that has attempted to insert themselves in some of these countries, China has done the same. And so, you simply need to ask yourself, will this lead to progress for these African countries? In other words, will the Russians or the Chinese do something for these African countries that the democratic countries are not able or willing to do, or will they simply exploit them in a different way?

There is no easy answer to this question because it only has a long-term answer and that is that you gradually raise the collective consciousness in these African nations so that the critical mass of people become willing to take responsibility for themselves, for their country, for educating themselves, for raising their own consciousness and dedicating themselves to bringing forth a democratic government that does not allow the exploitation of the people either by other countries or by multinational corporations. And this can be achieved but it is not a short-term goal. There is no short-term goal for these African countries or no short-term solution for these African countries.

You need to look at the history of democratic nations all over the world and how they gradually transitioned into becoming democracies. It does not mean you have to repeat what these nations did but you can still, by looking at their history, learn lessons on how you move into a country that has a more free and equal society that does not allow the kind of exploitation you clearly see in dictatorial countries.

Just also take a look at Russia and China and ask yourself, are the people in those countries more free than the people in these African nations even while they were being somewhat exploited by democratic nations? So, do you really think that China and Russia can give African people more freedom than what they are giving to their own populations?

The original vibration of the planet

Question: Beloved Masters, in the book My Lives, the author writes that after you have lowered the energies below the level of the original vibration of the planet, you cannot leave this planet until you raise them again. My question is, what was the original vibration of the planet? What is the energy of the original vibration of the planet? How to achieve it in this incarnation?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2024 Easter webinar.

You are not quite interpreting what was said correctly. When the inhabitants of a planet have lowered the vibration of the planet from its original level, then it will be difficult for them to leave the planet, but it can be done on an individual level.

There are still individuals who can raise their consciousness above the collective and ascend. The original vibration of the planet was in the beginning what it was created with. But then the first three groups of lifestreams that descended to earth raised the vibration beyond what it was created with. And then when the downward trend started after the fourth group of beings incarnated here, they lowered it beyond that level and even beyond the original level of a natural planet. So, that is the level of vibration that is talked about. And that is why there is a large group of people in embodiment on earth who find it very difficult to grow because they are not willing to take responsibility for this and raise their individual consciousness. But there still has, ever since the downturn started, been individuals who were able to ascend from earth of the original inhabitants.

I still have bad dreams (II)

Question: I am the one who asked about the bad dreams problem previously. It has been more than eight months and it is just as bad. Mother Mary said it partly has something to do with reciting incorrect mantras. Did any of the incorrect mantras I recited somehow get multiplied by the Ruchira mantra? That is why I have been suffering this long? By the way, I did not get bad dreams after I recited Om Guru Michael Astrea cut me free from all dark forces. With the Ruchira mantra, three to five days before I recited, Om Guru Michael, help me, help me, help me. It was after I recited the latter that I started having this problem. If it got multiplied, does it mean I am going to have many, many years of bad dreams? Or even carry it into my next life if I do not resolve it. That would be a very big problem and it worries me a lot.

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2024 Easter webinar.

Well, I suggest you stop using these mantras and focus on the tools that we have given. As I said the last time, use the tools for resolving the separate selves. That is what causes your anxiety, what causes your dreams.

If our tools for doing this does not work for you, then look at what is available from the psychological profession. Find books, therapists or whatever may be practical for your situation. But you need to do something to resolve the psychology behind this because it is not just the mantras. It is the unresolved psychology that is the real problem.

The Peter consciousness in Islam

Question: Were there any key messages by Archangel Gabriel, for example reincarnation, conveyed to prophet Muhammad and hidden by his followers after his death? Who was the biggest subverter of such messages, his companion Omar? Is there a kind of Omar consciousness prevailing in the Arab world similar to the Peter consciousness in Christianity? Would Abu Bakr consciousness, a Sufi-like companion help better?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2024 Easter webinar.

Well, yes there were certainly some messages given to Muhammad by Gabriel that were not even transmitted by Muhammad because in his mind he was not willing to bring this out. There was a filter in the mind of Muhammad, there was a filter not only in Omar, but in other of his followers very similar to the Peter consciousness. In other words, they recognized there was some genuine revelation here but they were very intent on making it conform to their worldview, at least certain aspects of it. And this has of course continued up through history in the Muslim religion just as you see in Christianity and other religions, that there emerges a priesthood who think that they are the only ones who can interpret how the original revelation should be interpreted and it is just a pattern you see everywhere.

Certainly the mystics of every religion have a greater connection to, a greater sense for, the original revelation and its meaning than those who take this outer doctrinal approach. In every religion there emerges a priesthood where among them are fallen beings who are seeking to do what fallen beings always do: using that religion to control the followers. It is not that Islam is any worse than other religions but it is no better either despite what Muslims want to believe but then Christians believe the same, Jews believe the same, Hindus believe the same and so forth.

It is just the human consciousness that does what the human consciousness does and the fallen consciousness that does what it does and if you do not realize this well then you will be a blind follower of the blind leaders as Jesus talked about the scribes and Pharisees of the Jewish religion being the blind leaders of that religion. But there are blind leaders in every religion and there are blind leaders who get angry when anyone says anything about their religion that they do not like to hear because they are not willing to change.

The purpose of the original revelation given to Muhammad was to get the Arab people to change but after some time as happened in other religions the priesthood reinterprets the religion so that people do not have to change because if you just follow the outer rules and the outer doctrines and the outer scriptures you are guaranteed to be saved. Nothing new under the sun here. Every major religion has followed that pattern.

Is there a need to protect close ones from extreme feminism and LGBT?

Question: How can we protect wives and children from coming under the toxic influences of extreme feminism in universities and LGBT propaganda in schools?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2024 Easter webinar.

Well, l I would assume that by the way the question is formulated that you are a man who feels a responsibility to protect your wife and children so you need to consider why you feel this. Are you coming from a patriarchal culture where you have been brought up with some kind of view that a man’s role is to prevent women from being exposed to certain things? When you consider the law of free will, is it really the man’s role to decide what a woman should or should not be exposed to?

Would you even be able to accomplish something by trying to do this as you see in many, for example Arab nations, where men feel that they should make decisions for the women? Is this constructive for people’s growth?

If you are an ascended master student and you are walking the path, then you can give your wife and children an example of what it means to walk the path but then you need to let them have their own experiences, make their own conclusions and you need to simply allow their free will to outplay itself.

I mean implicit in this question seems to be that you have grown up in a culture where there is this fear on behalf of men that women could easily be influenced by these influences but is that really realistic? Is it not based on a distrust of the women’s ability to discern what is the right thing for them according to their Divine Plan? Why would you assume that you can know better especially than your children what is in their Divine Plan?

Can an avatar and an original earth inhabitant be twin flames?

Question: I have a question about spiritual twin flames who are currently embodied on earth. If one of them is an avatar here having come from a natural planet does it necessarily follow that the other would also have come from a natural planet or could they be an original earth inhabitant for example? Kim (So an avatar would have an earth’s inhabitant as a twin flame.)

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2024 Easter webinar.

Well as you can see we are not emphasizing the concept of twin flames in this dispensation because again we want you to transcend this because the ascension is, as we also said in previous dispensations, an individual process. So we are not really prepared to give any detailed answer to this question. But I will say though that an avatar does not have a twin flame tie or a close tie with original earth inhabitants because you come literally from different planets. The entire concept of twin flames is a complex issue as I have said before, we may go into it at some point in greater depth but we do not feel it is a priority right now.

Thinking while decreeing

Question: When giving the decrees and invocations thoughts come to mind. How to solve everyday problems, memories or situations in life. How to maintain greater neutrality when working with spiritual tools.

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2024 Easter webinar.

Well in the long run you can use our path for resolving the subconscious selves and some of the thoughts will subside because you do not have the subconscious selves that are projecting these thoughts into your mind of problems you have to deal with. But there will always be some projections and it is also so that when you are invoking light you are transforming some of the energy in your subconscious mind as it comes up it can color your conscious mind it give you certain thoughts and feelings and memories.

The approach here is simply do not fight the thoughts. When you become aware that you are thinking just switch into focusing again your attention on the decree or invocation. Do not feel any regret, do not try to analyze, do not think: “Oh I should not have been thinking.” You do not need to approach decrees and invocations with the attitude that you should not have any thoughts while you are decreeing you should be totally focused on the decrees, that is not productive. There will always be thoughts coming to you and when you become aware of it you just go back to focusing your attention on the decree or invocation and do not make any kind of an issue out of it just switch, go on, switch, go on.

When Kim ascends what will his ascended name be?

Question: When this current messenger ascends what will his ascended name be?

Answer from Kim. This answer was given during the 2024 Easter webinar.

I do not think that will be revealed until that happens so I do not sense they have any comment on it.

Kim’s previous embodiments

Question: Why have we not heard anything about this messenger’s previous embodiments?

Answer from the Ascended Master Jesus through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2024 Easter webinar.

It is a combination of factors. First of all, we do not want to set him apart from you. We do not want to create this idolatry in this dispensation that we have seen in the previous dispensations of the organizations we sponsored and in many other spiritual movements. There is always this tendency that the person who started a movement or is leading a movement is idolized by the followers. We really have no desire to give any kind of material that can make you feel that this messenger is so special and has something you do not have. What have we said in this conference? The Christ is within each and every one of you. You each have a Christ potential, you each have a Divine plan. You each have a contribution you can make to manifesting Saint Germain’s Golden Age and none is more important than others.

Now this messenger was chosen as a messenger in part because he has no desire to set himself above others and that is one of the reasons why he does not even want to know personally what his previous embodiments were because he does not want other people to idolize him and he does not even want to have the temptation of thinking: “Oh if I had this embodiment I must be an important being.”

His attitude is that if we want him to know we can tell him but he would prefer not to know and we would prefer not to expose it so that you do not idolize him. The other thing is of course that in this dispensation we are focusing much more on developing your Christ potential and it does not matter to us what you were in past lives. What matters to us is how willing are you to apply the teachings and move forward from the point you are at now.

All of this stuff for what you were in past lives or what you did or what you did not do is not important for your growth. What we have seen in previous dispensations and other spiritual movements that if people have come to believe whether rightly or not, that they were some important or famous person in a past life they thought in many cases: “This must mean I am an advanced spiritual student and therefore I do not have to look at my own psychology.” and this is counterproductive to your spiritual growth. We have seen in the Summit Lighthouse for example where in the early years, some people were told that they had been some famous people from history and they went into a state of spiritual pride where they thought: “Well I obviously do not have to look at my psychology because I was this or that famous person.” and it slowed down their growth and in some cases, caused them to miss their ascension.

We do not want to repeat that pattern here. Now you can say why was this allowed there? Well, partly as a test for these people to see if they would go into a prideful reaction or not but most of you do not need that test so that is why we need you to know you have had past embodiments but not the specifics. We also need you to know that you are avatars but as we have also said it is not that one avatar is more special than another. We all came to earth pretty much for the same reasons for the same kind of psychology.