Question: I was shocked by the atrocities committed by the Russian military in Ukraine, torture and especially violence against civilians, women and children. The ascended masters explained that the lifestreams who decided to incarnate in Ukraine at this time voluntarily took on these roles to reflect the inhumanity shown by the Russians. When I reflect on what many of the people who filled these roles went through I have many questions. Beloved ascended masters, in your teachings saying that a lifestream subjected to atrocious tortures may have its soul crystalline structure severely damaged due to trauma. Thus it destroys the lifestreams psychological wholeness and it cannot continue its normal development. I have tremendous compassion for souls who go through such a traumatic experience. I would like to know if the lifestreams who decided to incarnate in Ukraine at this time and take on this role, go through such an extremely traumatic experience, were aware that they may lose their identity due to this experience. It is challenging for me to imagine that a soul could voluntarily make such a sacrifice and what kind of souls are they in such a case. Are highly evolved souls more capable of enduring such an experience? As we know from My Lives, even Jesus was afraid not to withstand torture, and there is a scenario of exchanging bodies of Jesus and his fellow. I am highly concerned about the issue of torture on this planet and I realize that it is most likely related to my unhealed trauma, but I’d like to hear the explanation from the ascended masters.
Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2022 Ukraine Webinar.
Well, again we, of course, feel great divine empathy with people who have been exposed to such atrocities. Torture is, of course, one of the worst examples of inhumanity because, when you look at why some people torture other people, you can see that there cannot be a rational explanation. There is, of course, the claim that: “We are trying to extract information”, but this is not an explanation for the severity of the torture. There is a rational explanation in the sense that these people’s minds are being taken over by demons in the astral plane who are using them as tools to extract energy and destroy souls. Not only for the purpose of extracting energy but also for the purpose of pure destruction.
As we have explained, the fallen beings want to destroy God’s plan and make it seem like God made a mistake for giving people free will.
Now, in terms of what souls have volunteered to take this on, well there were certainly souls who knew what could potentially happen. There was nobody who could know with certainty what would happen, but you will see that there are many countries around the world where you have these courageous mature souls who have volunteered to embody in a situation where they might be exposed to torture or other atrocities. If you go back to history you will see this in virtually all nations, even the ones who are today democracies. They all went through a period where somebody had to take a stand against the ruling elite of the time and some of them were subjected to killings and torture and imprisonment and various forms of oppression.
There is a fairly large group of souls who have volunteered to do this time and time again. This is not to say, of course, that all of the people who have been subjected to such atrocities, either in Ukraine or elsewhere, are mature souls. They are people who incur such situations because of their karma from past lives for various reasons. But there is a fairly large group of souls who are mature souls and who in lifetime after lifetime have volunteered to incarnate in situations where they will stand up to a repressive regime and therefore take the risk that this incurs. You will see quite a number of them in Iran right now as the young people who have embodied there to change the repressive regime there.
Now, when it comes to these more mature souls, you need to recognize that, of course, they are affected by the trauma but they are actually less affected by the trauma than a soul that has not reached the same level of maturity. First of all when they go through it they are not as severely affected by it. But then, of course, because they have a higher level of development they are much more open to working with us after that embodiment so they can have their wounds healed. Some of them can even work with us after the torture while they are still in embodiment to heal the wound. You can see that, at least for some of them, it does not have quite the severe impact on them that it has for souls with lower maturity.
Now of course we do not want anyone to be exposed to this but as we have said on a planet like earth with the School of Hard Knocks being the only way that many people can learn, well, then it is unfortunately still a reality that this happens, and that it happens in many nations on a regular basis.
What you can do is, you can first of all use the many tools we have given to heal your trauma, overcome these selves, but you can, of course, make the calls for the judgment, the binding of the dark forces behind torture. You can make the calls for the exposure of this so that there will be a rising awareness of what can be done about this. But you can also make the calls for the increase in humanity because what is it that ultimately will end torture? It is an increase in humanity. How is it possible that Russian soldiers who before the war were relatively normal people can certainly agree to torture women and children? Because there is a lack of humanity in the collective consciousness of the Russian people. Otherwise this would not be possible.
You cannot imagine that the kind of atrocities you see in Ukraine would be committed by the soldiers of any Western nation. It simply could not happen. I am not saying that there are not individual soldiers whose minds can be taken over in a war situation. But you certainly could not see it at the systematic level that you are seeing in Ukraine right now.
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