Embodiment in a family with a lower level of consciousness

Question: If we reach a higher level of consciousness in a previous lifetime on earth can we voluntarily immerse in a lower state of consciousness within a certain family and nation so as to awaken from there and help elevate the collective mind?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2023 New Year’s webinar – Being a spiritual person in a chaotic world.

Well, the short answer is yes, and it is in fact a rather common scenario. It can be for different reasons that you volunteer to do this. There are some times where you have karma with a certain person that is in a lower state of consciousness and therefore you want to embody with that person. In order to do this, you have to go down to a lower level of consciousness to even embody in that family. But when you do this, of course, you have an opportunity to more quickly rise back to the level of consciousness you had before.

There are also some times that you can have a desire to help a certain person. It can even be an attachment to help a certain person or group of people, and therefore you volunteer to go down to their level to show them there is an alternative and there is a path beyond their level.

It is not uncommon, in fact, in a certain sense you could say that anybody who has the potential to ascend after this lifetime will have reached a fairly high level of consciousness in their last embodiment, and in order to even come into embodiment in this lifetime, you had to be born in a family with a lower level of consciousness because there are not that many opportunities to be born in a family with a high level of consciousness.

There are many more people who have reached a higher level of consciousness in their last lifetime than there are families with a high level of consciousness. If it is in your divine plan to ascend, then most likely you have had to embody in a family with a lower level of consciousness. This also applies to some people whose choice it is to not ascend, but to embody again to help manifest the golden age.