Question: This question is for Paul the Venetian. How are retreat locations chosen? For example, why is your retreat located over southern France and not say Venice, Italy? What is the impact of a retreat on the hosting country and area?
Answer from the Ascended Master Paul the Venetian through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2023 Korean Conference.
Well, there is a science to where we place our retreats. But it is a rather complicated science. And since you as an unascended being do not need to choose where to place a spiritual retreat, I will not go into it because it is simply too complex. What we can say in general is that we look at the collective consciousness, we look at the energy field of the planet. And we plan the impact at the time we are placing the retreat there. Now, this can, of course, shift over time.
Once we have given these locations for ascended master students, telling you that retreats have been moved can often create… What we have said, especially in this dispensation, is that you should not focus on the physical location. A retreat is located in the etheric realm. It is not a physical retreat. The idea that you see in previous dispensations that there is a physical equivalent of a retreat is not the highest understanding. There are ascended master students who have traveled to physical locations of the retreat, hoping, as some people in the United States have done, that they will find Table Mountain in Wyoming and Saint Germain will open up the Cave of Symbols and let them in physically. But this is not the way a retreat works. We do not, as a general rule, recommend that people go to the physical locations of the retreats, certainly not with the expectations that something miraculous should happen.
But they are chosen for specific reasons. And I know this, again, will sound illogical because when you look at a map, they are not spread out evenly or in any kind of pattern around the earth. But we are not looking at a physical pattern. We are looking at a very complex equation in the collective consciousness, in the energy field of the emotional, mental, and identity bodies of the planet.
The impact that a retreat can have for the area varies quite a bit. There is a tendency that when we place a retreat somewhere, especially a retreat that is placed to counteract certain dark forces, then people who have a tie to dark forces will be drawn to that area because they will attempt to counteract the effects of the retreat. But generally the idea of having a retreat can be several things. One of them is to radiate energy from the retreat into the energy field of earth, which can be either to counteract certain dark energies or to spread positive energies. But another function of a retreat is, of course, to allow spiritual students to go to a particular, we might say, energetic matrix, where they can receive both instruction and healing.
You will see that some retreats are not placed near population centers, but on more remote locations, such as the Royal Teton Retreat, and others, of course, as well. Again, there is a science, but a very complex science. You cannot fully appreciate it until you have ascended.
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