TOPICS: Difficult to question everything and believe in nothing – many people dare not believe in what cannot be proven – belief becomes the foundation for knowledge – many people split by having deified intellect – some people met Jesus 2,000 years ago – no physical proof for spiritual mysteries – progressive revelation –
Question: I don’t worship any god, I question everything because that is what I am. I don’t follow any teacher in particular but study all teachers. I want to know as much as I can, the truth about your life, just plain factual historical truth. I don’t know how much we mere mortals are allowed to know about you or have a right to know? Your gospel story can be explained to all kinds of sources as gods or past historical people.
Answer from ascended master Jesus through Kim Michaels:
When a person posts a question to this website, there is often two levels to the question. The actual question is formulated by, and heavily influenced by, the person’s conscious, or outer, mind. Yet behind the outer question is often a deeper question which springs from the lifestream and its true desire to know. I am a spiritual teacher, and I am fully capable of tuning in to the hidden questions of each lifestream. When I answer a question, I address both the outer question and the inner question.
That is why, in my answer to your first set of questions, I gave you a teaching on the need to remain balanced and the need to establish a foundation for your spiritual search. My point was to help you understand that you can find true knowledge only by starting out with a foundation of belief, or faith. If you question everything but believe in nothing, then a spiritual teacher simply does not have anything to work with.
You see, when a student approaches a spiritual teacher, the teacher can, by cosmic law, only multiply that which the student brings to the altar. If the student does not dare to believe anything, the teacher has nothing to multiply, and therefore it becomes extremely difficult for the teacher to help the student.
I must tell you that you are a typical example of the state of consciousness shared by many people in this scientific and rational age. Because so many people have glorified and deified the human intellect, they no longer dare to believe in anything that cannot be proven by a so-called factual proof. Yet, as I attempted to explain in my previous answer, there is no such thing as a proof that cannot be questioned by the human intellect.
Therefore, both I and other spiritual teachers are now faced with a large number of people who have a sincere desire to know yet do not dare to believe in anything. The question is how we can communicate truth to such people? The answer is that the only way to help the student is that the student must first go through the inner process of finding something in which the student can believe. The lifestream must come to a point of daring to say: “I believe in this, even if there is no factual, outer proof that it is true!” In that respect, it is not all that important whether the student believes in something that is factually correct. As long as the student is open to a higher understanding, the teacher can expand and redirect the student’s faith.
By going through this process, the lifestream comes to a point of resolution at which it dares to believe in something regardless of what the world says about it. This point of faith becomes the foundation for the lifestream’s communion with its Christ self and its spiritual teachers. You see, God and God’s truth is beyond this world. If you want to know God, you must dare to look beyond this world and believe in something that cannot be proven by any worldly means. If you do not have this inner foundation, you cannot know God’s truth; you can know only the relative truth defined by the powers of this world.
How can you find a point of faith? You can do so only by making contact with your Christ self and thereby gaining an inner knowing, a state of gnosis, which is beyond the understanding of the intellect. The problem in today’s world is that so many people have a split in their lifestreams. Because they have glorified the intellect and rational knowledge, they no longer dare to believe in their intuitive faculties.
Many of these lifestreams are true spiritual seekers. They truly want to understand God and God’s truth, yet they have come to believe that they must have factual proof before they can accept God’s truth. As I have attempted to explain, you cannot find outer, rational or factual proof for the deeper spiritual mysteries. You can understand these mysteries only through the inner state of peace that passeth all intellectual understanding.
You say that you want “the truth about your life, just plain factual historical truth.” Yet you also say that you question everything. So how can I tell you something and make you accept—or rather believe— that it really is “factual, historical” truth? What could I possibly say that you would accept? The simple truth is that I can say nothing until you establish a point of contact with your Christ self whereby you can gain an inner confirmation that what I say is true.
A lifestream can remain stuck forever in the relative reasoning of the intellect. Because of the Law of Free Will, a spiritual teacher cannot force you to move beyond that impasse. You must move yourself beyond it by deciding that you are willing to believe in something regardless of what the world says about it. I cannot make that decision for you!
There is a group of lifestreams in the world who find themselves in a difficult situation. These are lifestreams who actually met me when I walked the earth 2,000 years ago. These lifestreams heard me preach and some of them saw me perform various miracles. Because of this outer contact, they came to believe in me as the Christ or the Messiah. Unfortunately, these lifestreams had very specific expectations about how the Messiah should appear. When these outer expectations were not fulfilled, especially as the result of what they saw as my less than honorable death, these lifestreams lost faith in me. They did not accept my resurrection, and they came to doubt that I was really the Christ.
Many of these lifestreams have spent the last 2,000 years going in and out of embodiment in an attempt to resolve this nonbelief in the Living Christ. Some of these lifestreams have resolved their impasse by making contact with the Christ within themselves. Unfortunately, others have not been willing to go within, and instead they continue to look for some outer proof that can help them regain their faith in me. As I have attempted to explain, there is no such outer proof. There is no factual proof which the human intellect cannot question and doubt. Therefore, the only way to restore your faith in me is to go within yourself and get proof directly from your Christ self.
Let me now address your questions and comments.
“I do not worship any god”
God has no need to be worshipped by human beings. The question is, “Do you believe in God?” Do you believe that God exists? Do you believe that there is a connection between yourself and God and that this connection enables you to know God and know your true relationship to God? If not, you need to make an effort to go within and discover that connection.
“I study all religions, I don’t follow any teacher in particular but study all teachers.”
While it is good to be open to more than one religion and one teacher, it is dangerous to spread yourself too thin. One of the main ideas described by the ascended masters is the Guru-chela relationship. The idea is that there is a group of spiritual beings, who for eons have been serving as spiritual teachers for human beings.
The basic principle of the Guru-chela relationship is that the student finds a true teacher and then allows the teacher to take the student to a higher level of consciousness. This sometimes requires that the student must follow the teacher even if the student’s outer mind cannot understand the directions of the teacher.
If you are not willing to follow a teacher, then you have not truly understood the principles behind the master/disciple relationship. I would recommend that for a time you select one teacher and teaching and follow it with great intensity. This will help you go within and establish a contact to your Christ self. Once you have this inner contact, you will know when you should again look beyond that one teaching.
“Your gospel story can be explained to the mysteries and the esoterics.”
Sure it can, and the reason is that the Gospel story contains many timeless and universal spiritual elements and teachings. Some of these can be found in earlier pagan religions. I can assure you that I did and said certain things for the specific purpose of establishing a connection between my own mission and the universal spiritual truths that have guided humankind since the beginning of time.
The problem is that too many people look at my life with a bias created by modern Christianity. As I state in several places on my website, I did not come to found the religion of Christianity. I came to demonstrate a universal spiritual path that leads to a higher state of consciousness. I had no intention of becoming elevated to an idol or as the only son of God or even as God incarnate. It was my desire to be seen as a mystery teacher who was part of an ancient mystery tradition.
Unfortunately, humankind, with its tendency to create idols, distorted my true teachings and my true message. That is precisely why I have created my website in an attempt to reach those who have ears to hear and who are willing to look beyond orthodox ideas and find the true esoteric teachings that I came to demonstrate.
However, remember my teaching that knowing the facts will not give you faith. As a true spiritual seeker, your first order of business should be to seek the inner contact with your Christ self that will give you faith regardless of what the world considers fact.
“I don’t know how much we mere mortals are allowed to know about you or have a right to know?”
I do not avoid questions, but there are questions that I do not want to answer and there are questions I am not currently allowed to answer. True spirituality is always based on the principle of progressive revelation. The idea is that we of the ascended masters give people a specific spiritual teaching. When people study and apply the teaching, they will raise their level of consciousness. This then becomes the foundation for the release of an even higher understanding of spiritual principles. Until people have embodied the previous teaching, we are not allowed to release a more advanced teaching.
The purpose of my website is to help people discover my true teachings about the inner path. Helping people do this is a delicate balance because so many people have been brought up to believe in the orthodox version of my teachings. I do not want to destroy anyone’s faith in me or in the value of my teachings. Therefore, I will occasionally refuse to comment on a question if the answer goes too far beyond what I think most people can accept.
Hopefully more and more people will raise their consciousness so that I can release all of the facts about my life. You can help this process by truly embodying the teachings found on my website.
I understand your desire to know, but I hope you will recognize that your desire for outer knowledge is not the real issue. The real issue is that your lifestream has a desire to reestablish its faith in me as the Living Christ. That faith cannot be established through outer knowledge. Go within and seek me in your own heart and you shall indeed find me.
Copyright © 2003 by Kim Michaels