Question: We have been learning through the ascended masters that since the first beings fell in the fourth sphere and lost the connection to the spiritual realm, the ego with its analytical mind became the self-reference to these beings, and gave birth to the compulsive need to explain everything. On earth, all human beings have been contaminated with this need after the fallen ones came to earth.
What created the ideological mindset and it’s delusional belief that our mind, the ego’s mind is able to understand and find the absolute truth? And that is the reason isn’t it why we created the habit of thinking that there must be a rational reason for everything, and that we are able to find it, if we learn how to use the rational mind. We become closed systems inside a self-referential analytical mind using our logic to determine an infallible truth. But what we do is that we substitute our connection to the realm of spirit for our analytical mind. And the ego takes us to a dead end that creates false first principles to explain reality and our own identity. And in a kind of mental intoxication we believe that we cannot be wrong, and can even determine how the world should work.
How do we escape this mental intoxication that is also a lie we say to ourselves? Since we have not ascended yet, we can’t know better than God and the ascended masters how to discern truth from an illusion or belief. Could we say that the path to be free from this is to acknowledge that unascended beings are still in duality and do not have the full knowledge of anything? And at every moment of the path, we do not know better than God and our masters? So, isn’t there humility in saying: “I don’t know” whenever we get too certain, too sure of our conclusions is the best path we can take and we really want to be a spiritual student and be at peace on earth?
Answer from the Ascended Master Jesus through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2022 Webinar for America – The Resurrection of Democracy.
Well, yes, you have stated many valid insights here. As I said earlier, you cannot escape the consciousness of antichrist by using the consciousness of antichrist. You cannot out reason, the reasoning mind
You cannot, once you are trapped in this self-referential system, reason your way out of it. But what you can do is you can be open. You can acknowledge that the mind, the human mind, has a tendency to become this self-referential system. And you can therefore, open your mind to experiences, to ideas that do not come from your own mind, or come from the mind of other human beings, including fallen beings. You can see the need to reach beyond the rational mind. And you can therefore, use various tools and techniques to confuse the rational mind, and to strengthen your intuitive faculties. This is what Zen Buddhism is doing with these koans that confuse the rational mind.
You can, of course, also look at history and see examples of how people have used the rational mind to get themselves into a blind alley, and how this has sometimes led to disastrous consequences.
There are certainly many things you can do, but in the end, it is, as I said, a matter of experiencing the Christ mind—having an experience that there is a mind that is beyond the rational mind and that this mind can give you a sense of reality that is beyond what you get from the rational mind. This means you can then use that as a frame of reference for evaluating the arguments coming from the rational mind. And this is what can lead to a state of peace of mind.
In order to achieve this, it is correct, you need to be able and willing to say: “There is something I don’t know, I don’t know everything. I don’t understand everything”. We understand that you go through certain phases as a spiritual student. You take this messenger, who, for the first many years on the path, he was always looking to know more, to understand more, to increase his understanding of the path. And he was seeking for this ultimate understanding.
But he did come to the realization that it would not be possible for him to reach this ultimate understanding while he was in physical embodiment. He saw this intuitively. And therefore, he made a switch, a conscious switch of realizing that there was nothing he knew, even after 30 years of studying spiritual teachings and practicing spiritual techniques, there was still nothing he knew that was absolute. There was no understanding he had that could not be expanded at any moment. He realized that we of the ascended masters could at any moment give him an idea that was beyond his current understanding. It did not mean that his current understanding was wrong. It just means that it was not complete. It was not the full picture.
This is an attitude and approach that you can adopt. But in order to adopt it, you need to have a certain resolution of psychology. Because of course, what happened, if you came as an avatar to earth and was exposed to this traumatic event, this attack by the fallen beings, you went into a state of mind, you created a self, so that you could never be wrong again. And that makes it difficult for you to admit that you do not know everything, that you do not have the full understanding. And you often tend to use the rational mind to filter out what threatens your sense that you are not wrong.
It takes a certain resolution of psychology to get to this point where you can accept: “I don’t know everything, and I don’t have to know everything. I am on earth. I am on an unnatural planet. I don’t have to have the full understanding of life. And in fact, I never can have, as long as I am embodied on a planet like this.” And then you can decide to make this switch where you become open to anything we can tell you. You become open to the written and spoken teachings we are giving to you to become open, also to inner direction, so that we can anytime give you an impulse—your Christ self, your I AM Presence can give you an impulse that is beyond what you currently know and understand. You recognize that you do not have to know everything —you do not have to know everything—you do not have to always be right. Certainly, you do not have to be right among men, it is a matter of being right with God, and that only happens through the Christ mind, not through the rational, analytical mind.
These are some shifts you can make, whereby you can gradually come to this point where you open yourself to us so we can work with you unrestricted. You will see in many, many people and the messenger has seen it in himself how, in the beginning phases of the path, you really do not want us, the ascended masters, to be too close to you. You do not want us to expose your psychology. You are afraid that we will be as harsh to you, as the fallen beings have been— that we will criticize you and make you feel like you are wrong, that you are worthless, that you cannot make it, and whatever the fallen beings have made you feel. But as several masters, including Mother Mary have said, we are not the fallen beings, we are not in a fallen mindset. We are not seeking to put you down, overwhelm you or make you feel bad. We will give you one idea at a time that you can handle and that you can use to grow. And if you can work on making this shift, you can come to this point where now you are open, you are in a neutral frame of mind. You are open to us and say: “Masters, show me what you want to show me”. You are not resisting it, not even subconsciously, because the selves that resist it have been dissolved, you have let them die.
You understand that it is very, very understandable that when you are exposed to this trauma by the fallen beings, that you create a self that resists being put down, being found wrong. But this self will also resist impulses and instructions from the ascended masters, because it resists anything that could cause you to change your view of yourself. The self is like a computer that can only resist any new ideas. You find an ascended master teaching, there is a part of your mind that wants to come closer to us, that wants to be guided by us. But there is this self or this conglomerate of selves that are resisting it.
It is sort of a delicate balance for us to help many students, you go back and forth. You are sometimes open, sometimes you are closed. Sometimes you receive an idea, but then there is some self that starts reasoning and arguing with the idea and waters it down so you are not really making the shift in consciousness you could have made. It is sort of a push-pull like the old saying: you take one step forward and slide two steps backwards. And when you are ready to step up to a higher level, you can become aware of this, take the steps needed to dissolve it, so you can come to that point of just being neutral, and saying: “Show me what I need to see right now”.
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