Question: What areas in Vietnam society do the Vietnamese people need to improve the most in order to move towards the golden age? And what is the best way to go about it? For example, is the excessive deference to figures of authority in the four main religions, i.e., Buddhism, Catholicism, Communism, and family loyalty, a major impediment for society? How important is it to have more authenticity in relationships, more freedom in self-expression, more transparency and less corruption in public affairs? Or should economic development to escape poverty be the main focus, even though it largely benefits the power elite and strengthens the current power structure?
Answer from the Ascended Master Saint Germain through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2025 Korean Conference.
Well, this is a multifaceted and complex question that I cannot answer in this format. But nevertheless, you could say that all of the things you mentioned here, it is important to work on. And people need to work on all of it as part of the transition process. Now you can take some, not all, of the things we have said about Korea and learn something about Vietnam from some of these early dictations that we have given here in Korea.
Of course, not all of it applies because Vietnam has been under communist rule. It is clear that one of the major challenges for Vietnam is to overcome this very subtle mindset of passivity and submission to authority that has always been projected by communist authorities. In that respect, you can take some of the dictations we have given about Eastern Europe and freeing these countries from communism, from the communist yoke. Even some of the teachings about Russia can apply. Naturally, as Vietnam grows, it is necessary to leave behind this blind belief in authority figures, whether it be from this or that or the next thought system. What really drives the growth of a country is, of course, that a few people become the forerunners and that they walk the path to Christhood and dare to express their Christhood. This would be the primary thing to consider. Naturally other factors such as more genuine relationships, more freedom, more daring to express your Christhood are also important.
Naturally overcoming corruption is important because in all communist societies there has been traditionally systemic corruption. You can say, of course, that economic development is very important because as long as people are trapped in poverty, they will not have the options to think that their lives could improve. In any country that is rising from poverty towards more affluence, you can say that this will benefit the power elite. That is just an inevitable consequence. But still, as people become more affluent, they have more spare time, they have more freedom to educate themselves, and therefore, this will in the long run work against the grip that a power elite has on that society. What is important for any one person is that you do not become overwhelmed by the many changes that need to happen in your society. But as we have said, you focus on one, maybe two areas of society, and you focus your calls and decrees, you focus your work on yourself, you focus your educational activities where you educate yourself and become an expert on that area so that you can focus and avoid being overwhelmed and confused and pulled in too many different directions.
There is sometimes a tendency that ascended master students want to do too much, and you need to avoid this and focus on something so you can feel a sense of achievement and fulfillment without being overwhelmed and feeling like nothing is happening. Of course, it is also important to once in a while step back and look at your expectations and see whether they were realistic or not. This applies to any country, of course. We have seen many ascended master students over the years who became very eager to give the decrees and invocations because they had a certain ego-colored motivation and expectation of how quickly they should achieve certain physical results from their efforts. And then when the results did not manifest, they became discouraged, they became confused, and eventually they might even stop giving the decrees and invocations, or they might even feel that they were given false promises by us, but in reality, you were given false promises by your egos and the subconscious selves.
Once in a while you need to step back, realize that everything here on earth must work within the confines of free will, and that you can give the calls and invocations and it gives people an opportunity to make better choices, but there is no guarantee that they will take that opportunity and make those better choices. Therefore, you have to take the long view and realize that when you start giving decrees and invocations, you start clearing the identity realm, then you clear the mental, then you clear the emotional, and only after that has been cleared can there start being changes in the physical. Many times, ascended master students expect that by giving a few calls they should see an immediate physical change, but that is not a realistic expectation, as we have actually attempted to explain many times.
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