Question: I appeal to the Ascended Master Jesus. Brother, I ask you to tell me how I cannot confuse your teaching about non-violence and turning the other cheek. Earlier as a child, I defended myself against bullying and other injustices through physical and intellectual strength. Then having become accustomed to it, I began to abuse it. At the next shift, I renounced all of this but I have still not overcome anger, rage. I am a citizen of Ukraine and not wishing to take up arms, I left Ukraine with my family in 2022. Periodically I get a feeling that I am one of those who refuse their karmic responsibility to protect Ukraine. But in parallel there are thoughts that these are my separate selves trying to return me to the war. We try to help Ukrainians to the best of our ability, but I do not support the armed forces of Ukraine either through actions or money. Help me see, is it my responsibility to help the armed forces of Ukraine and defend the country or are these fallen beings through feelings of guilt and duty tempting me to return to violence? Help me see what practical things I could do to help Ukraine and Ukrainians while continuing to grow spiritually.
Answer from the Ascended Master Jesus Christ through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2026 American Webinar.
Do you understand that it is not within the law of free will that I tell you from without what you should or should not do in a situation like this? It is up to you to use our teachings and tools, including tools about separate selves, to sense from within what is right for you.
I will say, however, that for people who are spiritual students, it is in general not part of your Divine plan to take part in armed conflict. This is not a hard and fast rule, but a general rule, because as you work towards Christhood, it becomes, of course, more and more difficult to engage in such conflicts. You can, of course, take other measures to help your country and to help armed forces without bearing arms and this is up to you to decide.
What we can say in general is that when you feel guilt, this comes from a separate self or projections from dark forces. You can use our teachings and tools to look at the separate selves, expose them, let them go.
When you work on the separate selves, you can come to a point where you are neutral about this which you obviously are not right now. And when you are neutral, it is not that you make a decision with your outer mind, it just becomes obvious to you what you can do and what is part of your Divine plan. Right now, as is expressed in your question, you are feeling that you are being forced by pressures from without and within. You are trying to force yourself to see what you can do. But what we are aiming to accomplish with our students is that you use the tools about the separate selves to come to that point where you are neutral. And therefore, you are not even really deciding with the outer mind, it just becomes obvious to you: Yes, this is what I am doing.
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