Question: If the life that I experience is really just an out-picturing of the contents of my consciousness, then I am thinking that I co-created the animals in my life, that they are reflecting to some degree what is in my consciousness. Therefore, if they are of ill health, perhaps if I work through specific separate selves, their health to some degree will improve. For example, I have a horse with a chronic illness, Cushing’s. Many horses develop it as they age. The vast majority do very well with dietary changes and a certain medicine. My horse is an exception. For all horses with Cushing’s, it gets worse between the summer solstice and the winter solstice. For my horse it was almost impossible to control it. He was on so much medication he had horrible side effects. It was a daily question if I needed to put him down. Is it possible that he may do better if I can identify which separate selves are associated with my horse’s Cushing’s being almost impossible to control and his subsequent suffering? Can it work like that?
Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2026 Lithuania Conference.
You begin your question by asking: “Is what I experience just an out-picturing of the contents of my consciousness?” The answer is, of course, yes, but you have to be careful here. Your horse’s illness is not a direct result of your subconscious selves or the horse’s subconscious selves, because horses, of course, do not have subconscious selves. But your relationship to your animals is meant to show you something about the way you look at earth and your role here on earth. We have explained how many avatars came to earth with a certain vision of wanting to do something good. And what happens is, of course, we receive the birth trauma, we realize we cannot fulfill our vision and our hopes, and then we can go into seeking to compensate. We want to find something that we can improve, some aspect of life on earth that we can save or heal. And there is a certain percentage of avatars who, because of disappointments in past lives, reason that people are too difficult to work with, they are impossible to work with, and they give up. “I do not want to work with people. I do not want to try and save people.” But you still want to save something, so you now turn your attention to animals.
And I am not saying this is necessarily wrong. We are generally not using the words right and wrong. But what I am saying is, this is not why you came to earth. You did not come to earth to save horses. You came to earth to help people. You can say that your horse’s illness is an out-picturing of something unresolved, some subconscious self, but it is not the illness that matters. It is that it seems incurable. It seems like you cannot help the horse. And the message really is: “When will you return to your original purpose of helping people? When will you see that working with animals is a diversion from your original purpose? And that you will only really be fulfilled when you focus on helping people rather than animals.”
Now I know that many people will say: Well, does that mean that nobody should be a veterinarian, that you should not try to help animals? But that is not what I am saying. There are many people who are in a lower level of consciousness than you are, and it can be part of their Divine plan to work with animals for a variety of reasons. But when you are an avatar, when you have reached a certain level of consciousness, where you are open to asking an ascended master a question, you are at a level of consciousness where you need to reconnect with your original vision for coming to earth. And this does not mean that you necessarily have to fulfill that mission, but you have to look deeply into the psychology, go back to the primal self and the birth trauma, and come to the point where you see why your vision for coming to earth was unrealistic, and you give it up. You resolve in your psychology that you do not want to do this impossible task anymore. Then you can do a possible task of actually helping people by being the Living Christ in embodiment, as we have explained at this conference.
You see what I am saying. You can be fixated on trying to solve a specific problem, but it is not solving a specific problem that is the important thing. It is the deeper lesson of stopping trying to do the impossible and returning to what is possible.
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