Can an avatar avoid cosmic birth trauma?

Question: Could we as avatars have fulfilled the purpose of our coming to earth to demonstrate to its inhabitants how to live without suffering, without descending into duality, and therefore, the School of Hard Knocks? Did we need to sufficiently understand and internalize what our teachers taught us during our preparation before the first embodiment? Would this have allowed us to withstand the cosmic birth trauma and prevent the birth of the primal self, instead beginning our ascent upward from the 48th level of consciousness?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2025 Holland Conference.

You could say that from a purely theoretical viewpoint, it could have been done, but in reality it never has been done, because the earth is simply so dense that the shock is too big. But you can also say that what is it we are here to demonstrate as avatars, not just how to live without suffering, but how to escape suffering, how to escape the state of separation and duality. If we had not gone into duality, how could the inhabitants of earth have seen us as examples that they could follow from their state to a higher state?

You look at Jesus, who has been turned into an idol to worship, rather than an example to follow by the Catholic Church, and you see how this destroyed his example. And this has happened in past ages as well, with certain avatars who were ahead of the consciousness. There is always the danger that when an avatar climbs to a higher level of consciousness, people will no longer relate to that person and will idolize it. But nevertheless, that is why there are so many avatars who have descended, who have gone below the 48th level of consciousness, and then have demonstrated how you climb up from there. There are enough examples, and there will, of course, in this age, be more and more examples that people can follow. And you can idolize one person, but you cannot idolize 10,000 people. The more people that walk that path, the more the inhabitants can accept that it is possible to rise above their level of consciousness.