Question: Dear Kim, thank you from the bottom of my heart for your ministry. I am one of the Russian disciples of the ascended masters, and I have long wanted to ask my question to the ascended masters, but it was very difficult for me to decide to voice it. But by the last day of the webinar I did make up my mind, and if I have sent it not quite late, here is my question. I work for a Russian military industrial complex company, and I am involved in the development of communications equipment used by the Russian military. I reacted very strongly to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and my indirect involvement in that aggression. Nevertheless, I could not make a decisive choice to quit this job. I had a lot of anxiety about my decision to stay, but at the same time I felt that I was needed there to do some spiritual work that would help bring about a shift in the consciousness of the people around me, my co-workers. However, I am plagued by the question as to whether I create karma by making this decision, or whether it was in accordance with my Divine plan.
Could the ascended masters please comment on this?
Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2025 Ukraine Webinar.
Well, as we have explained before in connection with Ukraine, you can say being a soldier, being involved in the production of weapons, is from an overall viewpoint a karma-making situation. On the other hand, when you look at it individually, if you are a soldier who is called by your country to go to war, then you make less karma than if you take personal actions to kill somebody for personal reasons, we might say. This goes for both Russian and Ukrainian soldiers, but it is clear that since Russia is the aggressor and Ukraine is defending itself, there is more karma on the part of the Russian soldiers. The same with production of materials.
There is, in principle, more karma by being involved with this as a Russian than a Ukrainian. However, there is, as you point out yourself, the possibility that being in a situation like this can be part of your Divine plan because you are holding the spiritual balance. Therefore, you need to simply be at peace with being where you are at, make the best of the situation, transcend your consciousness as much as you can, and raise the collective consciousness. What specific action you take in terms of talking to your co-workers depends on what risk you are exposing yourself to. As always, we do not recommend that you expose yourself to the risk of being imprisoned or executed, so you need to be very careful and discerning when speaking out, if at all speaking out. There are people who can be in a situation, and it is just part of your Divine plan to be there and raise the collective consciousness.
My recommendation is also for other people who are in this situation. What you do is you look at, if you cannot make a clear decision, there can be two reasons. The one reason is that there is something you have not been willing to see, willing to look at. There is something you are attached to in your current situation, you do not feel like you can take the consequence and leave the country, for example. You need to look at this, because if you are staying in a situation because you are attached and afraid to leave, then this will make karma.
If you look at your psychology, then you will also come to a point where you will have greater clarity, and you might then have the clarity that you are indeed meant to stay because you can hold a spiritual balance in a situation. You see that by looking at your psychology, you can only win, because you will either have peace of mind for leaving the situation, or you will have peace of mind for staying in the situation. But you see, I cannot tell you from without something that will give you peace of mind, because peace of mind must come from within. It can only come by you being willing to look at your psychology and see: “Do I have any attachments? Am I afraid to make a decision? Am I afraid to leave a certain situation?” If you ask yourself these questions, you may come to a point where you realize, no, it is actually your role to stay where you are, and then you have peace of mind. Now, you may also come to the point where you realize it is part of your Divine plan to leave the situation, but then you will leave with peace of mind.
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