Question: We should focus on changing ourselves and not the outer world. Does this mean that we should ignore situations of social injustice we see in the world and not be involved at all? Or we could engage as the inner voice tells us to do but not be attached to the outcome. And then how do we discern between the inner voice and the voice of the ego or the subconscious selves or the inner spirits?
Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2025 Korean Conference.
Well, you are correct, of course, that you should follow the inner voice. It depends on your individual life plan. For some people, it will be in your life plan to engage in various causes in the world. For others, it will not. And again, there are various levels of engagement. Perhaps you need to do something physically. Perhaps you need to make the calls and decrees and invocations or perhaps you need to educate yourself to become an expert in the topic.
This you can only know by intuitively tuning into your life plan. And this, of course, is a matter of increasing your intuition by resolving the psychology, the subconscious selves that are seeking to force you into going into a blind alley or engaging in a cause that is a distraction from your individual path.
How do you discern between the inner voice and the outer voices? Well, the voice of the Christ mind, the voice of the ascended masters, respects your free will, does not seek to push you. Whereas the outer voices, even the external spirits, which are technically outer voices compared to the Conscious You and certainly, external voices coming from lower forces. They have this obsessive-compulsive vibration, a vibration of force. They are seeking to force you, to manipulate you, to persuade you, to make you feel guilty. All of these feelings that are projected at you, this is all coming from lower spirits, from lower sources, even from other people who might be open to such lower spirits.
You can learn to read the vibration. It may take a little bit of time, but it is not beyond what most of you are capable of doing. As we have said even today, the fact that you can recognize ascended masters shows that you have some ability to recognize vibration, to read vibration, and you just need to sharpen it when it comes to reading the vibration of these voices. There is, on an environment like earth, multiple voices projected at you constantly, and some you just ignore. But of course, in order to ignore them, you need to be able to read their vibration and see that this is not a higher source. It is just a matter of practicing. And of course you can, in the beginning, simply ask yourself, “Is it forcing me? Is there an element of force here? Or is it respecting my free will?” You can also use the technique we have given before, tuning into your heart and reading. Does it raise the vibration in your heart? Does it lower the vibration in your heart? This can also give you a measure.
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