Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels, March 6, 2026. This dictation was given at the conference in Vilnius, Lithuania: Making a Difference in a Turbulent World.
I AM the Ascended Master Mother Mary, and I am filled with joy welcoming all of you here, or rather you welcoming me here, although I am always here, for I am with you always as the Divine Mother for Earth.
The nexus of a figure-eight flow
Truly you coming together, so many of you, in this location which is in a sense the nexus of a figure-eight flow between East and West, at least in terms of Europe and Russia, is an auspicious occasion, for it gives us, the ascended masters, an opportunity to use your calls, to use your chakras, to use your auras, to open up this flow between East and West that is the natural flow.
If you look at planet earth, you will see, of course, that planet earth is contrary to what you normally experience, actually rotating from West towards East. Why did I call my rosary the East-West rosary? Well, because there is a certain light that descends over the Himalaya Mountains and it is released through the Dhyani Buddhas and through the people in embodiment in that region who are holding a spiritual balance through their attunement with the Dhyani Buddhas. And that light flows then from what, a certain vantage point is the East towards the West. You could say, of course, that the earth is rotating towards the light, so what is it that is flowing, the earth or the light? But we have to start somewhere, so therefore I chose to call it the East-West rosary.
And of course planet earth is round, so is there really an origin point, is there really only one nexus for the East-West flow, even though I say it originally came down in the Himalaya region? For wherever you are on the earth, if you are attuned to the ascended masters, to the Dhyani Buddhas, to the Divine Mother, you are the nexus point for the flow between East and West. And you will see that there has been, especially in Europe, an impediment to the free flow of the light. You had, not so many years ago, the Iron Curtain that cut off the flow between the eastern part of Europe and Russia, and the western part. And although that was dissolved and many of the Eastern European and Baltic nations became open to democracy, the West, and therefore, established a much better flow, there has still, especially since 2004, been re-established almost an Iron Curtain between Russia, Belarus and Western Europe, or Europe.
The karmic return to Russia
And this has of course slowed down the flow of energy. And now of course with the Ukraine War, this has become even more of a barrier. It is understandable that people, especially in Ukraine, but also in the Eastern part of Europe who are closer to Russia, will feel a certain hesitancy when I talk about establishing a flow between Russia and Europe. For you see of course that Russia is a threat, and I am in no way diminishing that. But on the other hand, we need to recognize that Russia has set in motion a karmic return that did not start with the Soviet Union in 1917, it did not start with Putin’s coming to power in 2000, it did not start with the annexation of Crimea in 2014, or with the attack on Ukraine in 2022. It goes back to ancient times, even to Atlantis.
By launching this war against Ukraine, Putin opened up for this karmic return which had been held back by the laws of karma for so many decades, centuries and millennia.This will happen. It is already happening to some degree. But it will happen for those people in Russia who will only awaken through the School of Hard Knocks. The knocks must become hard enough to awaken them.
Reestablishing the energy flow with Russia
But you who are the spiritual people need to recognize there are people in Russia who are not in the School of Hard Knocks. Even if they are not openly spiritual, even if they know nothing about ascended masters, they are still not in the School of Hard Knocks. And therefore, they can be awakened by feeling a flow of energy from you, and by you allowing a return flow and therefore consuming some of the energies that are burdening people. And this is what we need you to see. We need you to sort of switch your focus so you look away from the negative portents of the war, the threat from Russia, but you become willing to connect to the spiritual people in Russia, send your positive energy in a figure-eight flow, accept the return of some of their energy which you have the tools to transmute. This is what we are asking you to hold in your minds during this conference, to reestablish this energy flow.
During the rosary you just gave, I gave the messenger a vision that the Dhyani Buddhas broke down this barrier and opened up a portal that is the nexus of the figure-eight flow. I ask you to envision this for the rest of this conference. Some of you may wish to envision it after the conference as well if you have ties to Russia or if you are in Russia. You can envision this flow because as we also said in the rosary, unconditional forgiveness is the key to freedom.
Turning the other cheek
You may look at yourselves, those of you who have grown up, perhaps even being born in the Soviet Union, growing up in some of the Baltic European countries, and you may see that you have of course a certain resentment towards Russia and perhaps towards Russians. I am not trying to diminish that in any way. I am not trying to make excuses in any way for what Russia has done. But what I am saying is, you as the spiritual people, if you are to fulfill your highest potential in the current situation, you need to overcome any fear or resentment of Russia.
And the only way to do that is unconditional forgiveness, which is not done for the sake of Russia, but for your own sake to set yourself free from this fear and resentment that is a burden for you. You can therefore serve to set free your own countries from this. For you see, my beloved, if someone attacks you and you respond in kind, you create a karmic situation. The magic of Jesus’ teaching to turn your other cheek is that when you do not respond in kind, instead of taking the karma upon you, you let it return to the sender, to the aggressor. And therefore, they will now feel the karma, they will be burdened by it, and it will limit their ability to conduct further aggression.
Now I am not talking about here not taking physical precautions. I am not telling the European nations to not arm. They need to do what they are doing so they can deter a Russian aggression. I am not saying that Ukraine should not defend itself. I am talking about and talking to the spiritual people who are the forerunners for a shift in consciousness, for the best way to resolve the situation is to establish a figure-eight flow between the spiritual people in Russia and the spiritual people in Europe, and increase that figure-eight flow so it can pull up on the people in Russia who are not in the School of Hard Knocks, so that they can raise the collective consciousness and sort of break through the clouds that are blinding the Russian leadership and the Russian people so they can only see that their only option is to continue on the track they are on.
If you hit hard and you do not get the results, they can only see you must try and hit harder. You can only continue. You think that you have to knock your way through the wall by the effort of hard knocks, but that is precisely what keeps you in the School of Hard Knocks, and the knocks that come back to you are just your own force reflected back to you multiplied by the karmic mirror, so to speak.
The upward movement in Russia
There are people in Russia who can feel the flow and tune in and bring forth certain thoughts and ideas, even a certain shift, where more and more people begin to have this thought: “Is this really what we want? Is this really what we want our personal lives to be, our nation to be, our future to be?” And gradually, slowly, this can begin to spread so that instead of only having Russia be in the School of Hard Knocks, there is also an upward movement, and this will be the best possible outcome for all parties involved, even the Europeans. Again, this is an instruction for spiritual people, not for the general public, but for you who are spiritual people and want to be forerunners for breaking the stalemate that has in a certain way existed for four years. You may say: “Has there been movement in those four years?” Yes, of course, but nevertheless, there has still been a certain stalemate that none of the parties on the two sides has really been able to break free from. And that is what I ask you to envision, that both Russia and Europe, for that matter the United States, even though they have already marginalized themselves to some degree, will break free from this and find a new way to approach this.
Now, take note that I am not here talking about Putin getting what he wants. I am talking about an entirely new approach that the current leaders of Russia, the current leaders of the United States, and most of the current leaders of Europe cannot envision yet, but it can break through because, of course, we as the ascended masters, we always see a higher solution than the escalating conflict or the downward spiral of karmic return.
We understand, because we read the collective consciousness, that there are many people in Ukraine, in the West, who are feeling: “Why should we have to deal with this aggression from Russia? Why should we have to have our country destroyed by Russia? Why should we in Europe have to spend all this money on arms instead of spending it on developing society?” There is a certain desire there to see Russia punished, to see Russia put in its place. And we understand that this is there in the collective consciousness, but again, we are asking you who are the spiritual people, you who are the forerunners, to transcend this, to let it go, and instead say: “What is the higher solution?” Instead of wanting to punish Russia, you want Russia to be transformed. And that, of course, cannot be done with the current leadership in Russia, but you can envision that a new form of leadership emerges. It is not impossible at all.
Increasing the light
You see, when you tune in to this light, this flow from East to West that you invoke in this rosary, you realize that the light does one very simple thing. It displaces the darkness. The light is not an aggressive force. The light does not really do anything to the darkness. Yes, there is a certain transformation of particular energies when you invoke spiritual light, but the light I am talking about here is in a sense a higher light than, for example, the violet flame. It is a light that just lights up. It is like you are in a dark cave and you light a candle, and suddenly there is light where before there was only darkness. And for a time, the fact that the light is increasing means the shadows become darker and more visible, which is, of course, what you see in this 12-year cycle. But that is just a phase. And that is why for you to make a difference in this turbulent world, you need to see that it is necessary to increase the light to make the shadows more visible. For you will notice that when there are no shadows, it is because there is only darkness. Do you see this, my beloved? There can only be shadows if there is some light. For in total darkness, there are no shadows. What you are seeing in the world is that the shadows are becoming more visible.
Focus on the light, not on the shadows
And those who focus on the shadows will think the world is getting worse. But the world is not getting worse because there is more and more light. What we are asking you to do, and all spiritual people to do in this 12-year cycle, focus on the light, not on the shadows. You do not need to necessarily turn off your internet connection and stop watching the news, but do not focus on the shadows. Focus on the light. Tune into the light. Become that nexus wherever you are physically. Become that nexus for the figure-eight flow of light that always comes from the East, flows through the West, then turns around, flows back towards the East, is multiplied, flows through that figure-eight flow where you are the nexus.
If you imagine that the figure-eight flow is a racetrack. Some of you may have, when you were children, had these little racetracks with electric cars and they may have been shaped as a figure-eight. You see that there are two straight lines and then there are two curves. And you know that if you drive the car too fast around the curves, it might run off the track. Why? Because there is more force on the car, centrifugal force, when it turns. What I am saying to you here is, if your focus is out there on the problems and the shadows, it is like you are keeping yourself in the turn, where there are all these gravitational forces pulling on you. Where is the safest place to be? In the nexus, the center, for there is actually no movement. Not on the racetrack, I understand, but you see my metaphor. When you are in the nexus of the figure-eight flow, instead of out on the periphery, that is where there is calm. But how can you be in the nexus? By not resisting the flow, just letting the flow come through you from the East, letting it return out there, come back from the West, flowing through your heart chakra, and you can remain in the nexus and be calm.
Now, we understand very well what many people are going through in these years. We understand that there is a great shift during the corona crisis, where many people started to look at the future with negative expectations. And many people have not gotten out of it. Many people got pulled into what we have called the epic mindset, thinking you are living in some dramatic, perhaps even end times. Many ordinary people who are not open to any kind of religion or prophecy still feel the tension, and of course you feel it as well. Some of you who are spiritual people have a special reaction to this because you feel a sense of responsibility for helping raise the earth, raise society, and some of you feel like, because you can give invocations and decrees, you need to be aware of what is happening out there, and sometimes you spend too much time reading the news so you get burdened by it. You have to find a way where you can remain centered despite the turbulence. And we will of course talk more about this during the conference, but I wanted to give you an initial idea.
Heal your traumas first
You all know that there has for a long time been a certain method, we might say, of how to administer first aid in an accident, in some kind of emergency situation. The certain guidelines and principles for how these responders or even ordinary people can respond to the situation. And the first rule is always safety first, minimize the accident, prevent the situation from escalating further. What does that mean for you? Well, it means if you want to make a difference in a turbulent world, the first thing you need to do is not add to the turbulence. We understand how easy it is to be pulled in by all the events that are happening, especially if they are affecting you personally. But you have to find a way to decide that you will not allow the turbulence that is outside to enter your aura, your chakras, your energy field, your mind.
And of course it does have a lot to do with subconscious selves that for many of you were created in past lifetimes in situations, mind you, that were far more dramatic than what you see in the world today. Many of you have in past lives experienced situations far more traumatic and dramatic than what you are experiencing now. You carry that with you. If you feel that kind of a response, then use our tools, Healing Your Spiritual Traumas and other tools and books to go after that. Because that is the only way you will make it through this 12-year cycle and make the maximum progress and give the best contribution to raising the whole.
Make your own decisions
But beyond that, beyond resolving selves that pull you into reacting, it is also a matter of making a decision. You see, we understand that we give many, many instructions. Many different dictations and ideas and tools. And it can sometimes be confusing how you react to it, what you focus on. You could take our teachings, for example, about the subconscious selves and you could say: “Well, I just need to resolve all the subconscious selves so my mind is clear and then I’ll know what to do.” There are people who reason that way. It is almost like they think that personal Christhood means that either your Christ Self or some ascended master or your I AM Presence is always telling you what to do. But it is actually not the case.
You do not become a marionette by becoming the Christ. Even though Jesus said: “I cannot of my own self do nothing, it is the Father within me doeth the work. And as I hear, so I speak,” and so forth. But still there is a fine balance to be found. Because as you resolve the subconscious selves, you are reducing the pull from those selves on the Conscious You. And the selves pull you into making certain decisions. Because when you are inside a self, colored by the self, there are certain options you cannot see. And especially if those selves open you up to the collective consciousness, so you are even more limited. But you see, even if you removed all the selves, you, the Conscious You, still need to make decisions. You need to make choices. Because that is why the I AM Presence sent the Conscious You into embodiment. It did not just want a Conscious You that could be like a marionette for the I AM Presence. It wanted the Conscious You to make decisions from that vantage point. Because that is a unique experience that the I AM Presence also learns from.
No right or wrong decisions
What I am saying is that most of you have resolved some psychology. But you have to be careful that you do not, in your mind, think that as you remove these subconscious selves, your I AM Presence will tell you what to do, and you, the Conscious You, do not have to make choices. What it actually means is that when you resolve the subconscious selves, there is nothing horizontally that pulls on the Conscious You. And you have the option now to tune in vertically to the I AM Presence, to the ascended masters. But you still have to make decisions. I say you have to, but it is really when you resolve the subconscious selves, making decisions is not a burden.
There are some of you, and we understand it, but there are some of you that have this unrecognized idea that making decisions is a burden. It is a risk. Because you could make the wrong decision, you could make a mistake. But you see, we have talked about this before. Even when the Conscious You is not pulled into making a certain decision because of a subconscious self, but when the Conscious You is neutral, any decision you make is perfectly acceptable. It cannot be a mistake. It cannot be a mistake because a mistake is dualistic value judgment that only exists in the subconscious separate selves based on duality.
When the Conscious You is neutral, there is no mistake, there is no right decision, there is no wrong decision. There are only decisions that have a certain outcome. Then you observe the outcome, then you learn from this, then you move up higher, and you make a better decision, and a better decision, and a better decision. Or rather, you make a more free decision. They are just decisions that have a certain outcome, and whatever the outcome, you can grow from it.
The decision to stay in the center
What this leads to is this realization that you can make a decision to focus on the light instead of focusing on the shadows, to focus on the opportunities instead of the problems. And you can especially make that decision to stay centered in the nexus of the figure eight flow.
You see what I said earlier, during this conference, you can see yourself that you are here in the nexus, you are allowing light to flow from you to the east, but you are also allowing a return current. Now you could become burdened by this return current, but you can also decide to stay in the center, just let the energy flow. Because when the energy flows, the lower vibrations will be raised up, and the return current from above will be to raise the light, to multiply the talents.
You see, you can in a sense say there is a horizontal flow between you and Russia. But you see, the Dhyani Buddhas are involved in this flow, and whatever you allow to flow through you will be purified by the light coming from the Dhyani Buddhas. And that means that you
will have a return current of that multiplied light. When you stay in the center, you are not burdened by whatever flows through you. The same goes for any other situation where you are aware of something happening in the world. You can allow yourself to be in the center of
the figure-eight flow, to open up a figure-eight flow where you are, but you are not focusing on what is flowing through the center. You are staying in that calm center. And you can make that decision that the most important for you, for the rest of this 12-year cycle, is to stay
in the center and just allow the light to flow in both directions through you. You can visualize it as a figure-eight flow between the ascended masters and yourself. When the light is flowing through the I AM Presence and the masters down through the nexus, and it flows out into the world, there is a return current that flows back up to the masters and is transformed. But you are not focusing on that. You are focusing on the calmness in the center.
Allowing the energy to flow
We understand, or rather we experience, because we experience your state of mind, your consciousness, that this is not easy to do in a turbulent world. And the more turbulent of a situation you are in, the more difficult it becomes, of course. But still, it is possible. But it takes that, not just one decision, but it takes that every time you feel you are being pulled into the turbulence, you make that decision, focus on the center. Do not focus on the turbulence. Do not give it your energy. Do not allow energy to be pulled out of your aura into the turbulence. Instead, allow the light to flow from above.
You see, normally, if you are in a certain situation, there will be a pull on you from dark forces, from the collective consciousness, through your subconscious self. And they will attempt to pull energy out of your aura. But when you establish a figure eight flow, it is energy from the ascended masters that will flow into the situation. That means you are not losing anything. You are allowing the light to flow through you, rather than energy that is already in the material realm to be sucked out of your energy field. And then when the return current comes, you do not take it in and multiply it or be concerned about it or worry about it. You just let it flow back up. You see, you become the open door for the flow. You become a conduit where the energy flows through you, but you do not take the negatives in. You do not lose the positive. And what actually happens is that when you allow this flow, there will be a return current, and that return current will stay in your aura, in your chakras, and increase the light you have, so instead of losing light to the turbulence, you are receiving more light from above through the figure-eight flow. But you see, for this to happen, there has to be the flow.
The shift at the 96th level
And this is again one of these shifts because it is easy to get into this, and we see many ascended master students and many other spiritual people who get into this mindset that you realize you have an aura, you have an energy field. There is a certain amount of energy in that field. You realize there are forces, including other people, who want to suck energy out of your energy field, take energy from you. And sometimes you feel you have lost some energy, sometimes you feel you have taken in some negative energy. You get this idea that you need to build a shield of light, protection from Archangel Michael, you need to be cut free by Astrea. So that there is not any negative energy flowing into your aura, and there is not any positive energy being sucked out of your aura.
And that is perfectly valid for a time. At a certain stage of the spiritual path, this is perfectly valid. But when you start approaching the 96th level and going above it, this is no longer the constructive approach. Because now it is not a matter of shutting your energy field off from the world, it is a matter of establishing the figure-eight flow from above. But what did Jesus say with his parable about the talents? If you bury your talents in the ground, there is nothing to multiply. And there comes a point on the spiritual path, around that 96th level, where even if you keep the light in your own aura, you are burying it in the ground. You are not at the 60th or 75th or 49th level of consciousness. Because there you need to absorb and build the energy in your aura to rise above the collective consciousness. But when you start going beyond that into the 96th level, you need to establish the figure-eight flow, so that the light flows through you into the world, return current that flows back up and is multiplied.
But for this to happen, you must be in that neutral state of mind. It is like you can say no force in this world, like Jesus said: “The prince of this world comes and has nothing in me.” No force in this world can reach into your subconscious self and forcefully pull out energy. They cannot steal energy from your aura. But still, there can be seemingly turbulent situations where energy flows through you. But it is not the energy in your aura, it is the energy from above. And then as the energy is returned, there can be lower energy that flows into your aura, but it does not stay in your aura. It flows through the nexus and up, where it is transformed by the masters, returned to you, multiplied.
You see, it is not that one teaching contradicts the other. It is that one teaching progresses from the other. As we always say, we are giving progressive revelation. There is a period where you need to seal your aura, prevent energy from being sucked out. You need to prevent yourself from taking in negative energy. But at the higher level, you need to establish that figure-eight flow and just be in the center. Whatever flows this way, whatever flows that way, you are neutral. You just let it flow through you, and you stay neutral. But that also means that you have to be willing to look at what you have of viewpoints of what should or should not happen in the world. Including, as I said, what should or should happen about Russia. You are just letting the light flow. You do not need to have an outer opinion or expectation about what should or should not happen. You are just letting the light flow.
Being the nexus during the conference
This is what we are asking you to envision during this conference. You are here in Vilnius. This is the nexus. You are the nexus. Light flows from us, the ascended masters, through you into Russia, Belarus, Ukraine. The light just flows. The more neutral you can be, the more light can flow. It does not matter what happens. It does not matter whether this or that happens or does not happen or falls apart or does not fall apart. You are just allowing the light to flow. You are just allowing the return current, whatever comes back, you just let it flow up. You do not need to worry about us being burdened by it. You just need to not be
burdened by it yourself because you just allow it to flow up. And then you allow the return current to flow down again. And that is what we are asking you to help each other do, help each other achieve. Just be neutral. And then after the conference, if you do not feel that Russia is a particularly important topic for you, you focus on other things that are important to you. But again, this, be the nexus of the figure-eight flow from the ascended masters into the world and back. But be neutral to whatever flows through you.
Making a difference for ourselves and the world
With this, I have accomplished what I determined I wanted to give you in this opening installment. But I want to extend our gratitude to all of you who are here, all of you who are on the webinar. All of you who are part of this upward movement through previous conferences, webinars, by you giving your decrees personally, your invocations.
You see, in an intensified cycle like this 12-year cycle, it can feel like: “Does what I am doing make any difference? Does it matter that I am giving these decrees and invocations?” Because you look at the headlines, and as I said, you look at the shadows becoming darker, and you feel like: “How is it making any difference? How can I, as one person sitting here in my home giving invocations, how can that make a difference?” But it does make a difference. You may not be able to see it. You especially may not be able to see it as physical, visible results. But I can assure you, I see the difference that each of you is making. And many of you have, over these last, now, quite a number of years, we have talked about these subconscious selves, many of you have made tremendous progress in how you feel about yourself and about life. I can assure you that if we took a picture of you today, compared it to ten years ago, and you could see the difference in your auras, you would be amazed at the difference, many of you. But you do not really need to see that picture, do you? Because you feel better. Or do you not? There is a reward in you feeling better about yourself. And that means you do not have to worry about: “Does it make a difference in the world?” Because you know you are part of the collective consciousness. If there is an improvement in your energy field, there will also be an improvement in the collective, even if you cannot see it in the headlines. And why do not you see it in the headlines? Because the media is focused on the shadows. There is no news like bad news. And that is what they are focused on. Therefore, you cannot expect to see it, except once in a while, by accident they report some good news, almost lost in the stream of negatives. But you can once in a while see that there has been a shift, there has been a change.
I, as an ascended master, I enjoy interacting with you. I hope you enjoy interacting with me. And I hope you will consider interacting with me also when you are at home, in your private life, and not at a conference like this. For I am always there with you.
With this I seal you in my great joy.
Copyright © 2026 Kim Michaels