L07. Wisdom and Freedom


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Ascended Master Lanto through Kim Michaels.

Lanto I AM, and I AM free
because I know reality.

The seventh level of initiation at the Royal Teton Retreat is, of course, about freedom. How does freedom relate to wisdom? There are those who will say that you can only be free when you have the highest wisdom, the ultimate wisdom. There are those who will say that freedom can only come when you accept the highest wisdom.

The unreality of dualistic belief systems

You may take almost any belief system on earth, and you will see that those who are the linear followers of that system say that those who know the system – those who accept its doctrines, dogmas and wisdom – they are free. All others are enslaved by ignorance, by the devil or whatever the system defines as the adversary. Truly, there is an adversary, but the adversary is unreal. The adversary is not what most belief systems on earth make him out to be, namely the opposite of the good, the opposite of God. As we have said many times in various teachings, the duality consciousness creates two opposite polarities that exist only in relation to each other. What most belief systems on earth define as good and what they define as evil both spring from the duality consciousness.

Even if a belief system labels the good as God, it is not the real God, the formless, transcendent God. It is a god that has been given form by the system, that has been defined by the system. Of course, the system was defined by those in separation, meaning the false hierarchy of the false teachers on earth. They have used the duality consciousness to define a system, to define God within the system, and then to elevate this system to the ultimate authority by claiming that it has the ultimate definition of God.

Anytime you think you can define God by words on planet earth, you are demonstrating that you do not have true wisdom. You only have the false, relative, dualistic wisdom where you have created your own system that seeks to define wisdom. Having such a system offers certain advantages, especially to people who are below the 48th level of consciousness. If you want to feel superior to others, if you want to feel that you and your group alone are being saved and all others will be condemned to an eternity in hell, then you need such a system. When you become an ascended master student and have it as your goal to climb from the 48th to the 96th level of consciousness, then you cannot continue to hold on to this approach to wisdom, this approach to wanting to define some ultimate truth. You cannot be free in expressing wisdom if you always have to compare it to something defined with words.

Be the open door for the Spirit of Wisdom

What have I said is the ultimate key to really knowing wisdom? It is to go beyond the worded systems on earth and tune in – inside yourself – to the Spirit of Wisdom. Until you experience that spirit – as the Conscious You can do when it steps outside

the perception filter of the outer self – then you do not know wisdom. If you do not know wisdom, why would you then seek to force what can only be a limited vision upon others? Why would you set yourself up as the judge of others?

Of course, you can set yourself up as such a judge, but then you really cannot be a true ascended master student at the same time. You may claim to be an ascended master student who has the superior wisdom in a particular ascended master teaching, but you are not a true student. You are one of the false students. You have simply used one of our outer teachings expressed in words to validate your view of the false path.

We, of course, are not fooled by this. People on earth may be fooled by it. We certainly know that there are many people who claim to be our students and who have fooled themselves, and even fooled certain others, into thinking they have some superior ascended master wisdom. If you are using your wisdom as a weapon against others, you demonstrate that you have only outer wisdom. You have not locked in to the spirit, and therefore you are not free. How do you know with the outer mind what the Spirit of Wisdom desires to express through you in a particular situation? If you are always demanding that before any expression of wisdom can come through you, it must be compared to an outer system and it must conform to that outer system, then what room do you give the spirit?

You may say: “But I have an ascended master teaching that was given by a sponsored messenger. It must be a valid teaching.” Certainly, it may, indeed, be a valid teaching. It was valid at the time it was given because it was an expression of the Spirit of Wisdom or another spirit at the time. It was given for a certain level of consciousness. It is most likely still valid for people at that level of consciousness and below it, but how do you know what the Spirit of Wisdom decides, desires, to express today, through you or someone else?

NOTE: The rest of this dictation is available in the book The Mystical Initiations of Wisdom.

 

Copyright © 2014 Kim Michaels

L06. Wisdom and Peace


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I AM the Ascended Master Lanto. I come to give you a discourse on the initiations you face at the sixth level of instruction under the Second Ray of God Wisdom. The sixth level corresponds to the Sixth Ray, which has often been called the ray of peace or the ray of service. How can you give true service unless you do so from a state of mind of being at peace? How can you be at peace unless you have attained the wisdom of knowing what is real and what is unreal, what is important and what is not important?

I have talked in previous discourses about the belief, so common on earth, that there must be some superior or ultimate wisdom, some absolute truth. When you look at the concept of wisdom from the dualistic mind, the mind that is based on separation from oneness, then you can look at wisdom in only one way. You look at wisdom as that which divides, for you think that true wisdom is set apart from false wisdom, superior wisdom is set apart from inferior wisdom, absolute wisdom is set apart from relative wisdom. The reality is, however, that everything that is expressed in words is relative wisdom. What does this mean?

The sixth initiation under the Second Ray

What we attempt to show students at the sixth level of my retreat is that it is not wisdom in a worded form, in any worded form, that will get you to the ascended state. I have talked before about how we can make visible on a screen what happens at the energy level. What we do at the sixth level of initiation is that we ask the students to go into the library and pick what they consider to be either the highest wisdom or, at least, a true and valid form of wisdom. When they come back with a book or a scripture, we then show them what happens at an energy level if they use that worded expression of wisdom.

We can show them that their path is like a spiral staircase. We can show them where they are right now. We can then show them the path of light that leads them higher towards the 144th level. We can then show them how the expression of wisdom that they have picked can take them up the staircase but only to a certain level. We can show them how, when they come to that level, their progress will stop. We can show them that, from that point on, the energies that are flowing through their beings cannot be translated into further progress on the path.

The simple reason is that they have now reached the highest level for which that particular teaching was given. You cannot go higher by clinging to the outer teaching and insisting that the light that flows from your I AM Presence should conform to and validate the outer teaching. Your I AM Presence is forever committed to your growth, leading all the way to your ascension and beyond. When you have reached the maximum level of growth that you can reach with a particular teaching, your I AM Presence will give you both light and ideas that go beyond the teaching.

This does not mean that you have to necessarily throw away the teaching, but you have to be willing to let your I AM Presence take you beyond the teaching. This may necessitate that you find a teaching that is given for a higher level of consciousness. It may necessitate that you have no teaching or that you have no teaching for a while. It may even be possible that you can keep a certain teaching and continue to use it as a foundation, but your I AM Presence takes you beyond it so that you develop a deeper understanding than what is expressed in the words of that teaching.

Your I AM Presence can only take you higher when you are willing to question the teaching. If you are not willing to do so, if you are not willing to look beyond, then the I AM Presence will continue to send you light, but the light will now become a factor that will disturb your inner sense of peace or equilibrium. It will disturb the sense that you have developed, namely that you are saved because you are following the highest teaching. There will be an inner pressure that will continue to build, and you will either transcend the outer teaching or at least your approach to it, or you will then do what you see so many religious people having done on earth. You will turn the outer teaching into a weapon to use against others in putting them down and raising yourself up.

Transcend words, don’t cling to them

You will see many people who have gone into the dualistic game of seeking to establish their teaching, religion, political philosophy or scientific philosophy as the superior one. They have gone into the state of battling with others. They are convinced that, because they have the superior truth, they must destroy false truths, they must make other people conform. This goal of changing something outside yourself is nothing but camouflage. You will not make your ascension even by getting all people on earth to follow a particular belief system.

The reason for this is simple. You will reach the ascended state only by going beyond any and all worded expressions on earth. It does not matter if you have a teaching that is the word of God or is expressed as a dictation by the ascended masters through a sponsored messenger. As I have said before, once the teaching is expressed in words, it is no longer the Living Spirit of Wisdom. You will not ascend by clinging to a worded expression. You will ascend by transcending words and becoming one with the spirit. First, you become one with the spirits behind each of the seven rays. Then you become one with your I AM Presence, your personal spirit.

We can show students on a screen what happens to the energies as they become attached to an outer teaching. Take note of the subtle difference. There is a stage where following an outer teaching helps you grow. It helps you rise up the spiral staircase. There also comes a point where the outer teaching cannot take you further, and it does not matter which outer teaching it is. Do you understand what I am saying? Do you grasp this with your outer awareness, with your conscious mind? I can assure you that many students find this difficult to grasp, even when they are at our retreats, and are not quite as colored by their outer minds. It is important that you grasp this with the outer mind.

There is no teaching given in words that corresponds to the 144th level of consciousness. There is no teaching given in words that corresponds to the 143rd or the 142nd. There comes a point, and I will not tell you what that point is, where you have reached a level of consciousness from where no worded teaching can take you higher. You must, at that point, go beyond words and make direct inner contact with the spirit behind the worded teaching. If you do not make this contact, you cannot go higher. This is to make sure that you cannot go beyond a certain level while retaining elements of the consciousness of separation, the consciousness of duality, the desire to put others down in order to raise yourself up.

When a student grasps this reality, a big burden is lifted from the student’s shoulders. Suddenly, he or she feels a greater sense of peace, for now the student knows that it does not have to go out and battle other belief systems. The student becomes aware that there are many belief systems on earth that can take people to higher levels of consciousness. It truly does not matter which one of these valid systems a person is following, as long as the person is growing. You cannot with your outer mind – at least not until you have reached a very high level of consciousness – judge whether other people are growing or whether they should be following this or that outer teaching.

NOTE: The rest of this dictation is available in the book The Mystical Initiations of Wisdom.

 

Copyright © 2014 Kim Michaels

L05. Wisdom and Vision


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I AM the Ascended Master Lanto! I come to discourse on the initiations that you go through when you come to the fifth level of initiations in the Royal Teton Retreat. This is, of course, the level of the Fifth Ray, which has often been called the ray of truth, the ray of healing or the ray of vision. What I would like to make you aware of here is that there is an element of the Fifth Ray that has generally not been known, even by students of the ascended masters.

The Third Eye Chakra

The Fifth Ray is, of course, related to the so-called Third Eye Chakra in the center of the brow. It is said that when this chakra is activated, you gain the ability to see things that you cannot see with the physical sight. Many spiritual people have heard stories of those who have had their third eye opened and can now see auras or other phenomena. Many think this is highly desirable and it is a sign of spiritual attainment. In reality, it may not be the sign of spiritual attainment at all, as you will clearly see in many of the so-called psychics you find in the world. They may have some ability to tune in to something beyond the material realm, but they often do not have the spiritual maturity to know how to deal with this.

There is an element of the Fifth Ray, of spiritual vision, that is not generally known. You will, of course, know from yourselves and your own experience how many people in the world are very attached to the concept of truth. I have spoken about this before, of how people think there is one particular expression of wisdom, one particular thought system or belief system, that is the superior truth or the superior wisdom. Many ascended masters’ students are so attached to one particular outer teaching that they cannot even follow us as we move on with the delivery of the Living Word that is an ongoing flow that will not stop until the last person has ascended from earth.

The dream of a secret formula

When people come to the fifth level of initiation in my retreat, they often think that now it is a matter of them going into our library and discovering a secret book that contains a secret formula that will suddenly give them these superhuman abilities. Just look at how many people in the world are chasing the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Some people are literally chasing a physical pot of gold in the form of material riches, but look at how many spiritual students are chasing a metaphorical pot of gold by seeking to acquire some kind of knowledge, or formula, or ability that is beyond the normal. This is a great hindrance for students on the spiritual path, and you need to shed it at some point or another and why not right here in my retreat at the Royal Teton?

We are fully capable of helping you acquire the wisdom that will allow you to dismiss this ego-based chase for superhuman abilities. What have I said about the ego? It seeks ultimate security. If you suddenly had some kind of secret formula or some kind of superhuman ability, would that not give you and your ego a sense of security? Yet, if you were to acquire this ability and if it would give your ego a sense of security, then would that actually further your spiritual progress? On the contrary, it would hinder your spiritual progress and put you in a blind alley.

We have many students who come to our retreat being in such a blind alley where they either have acquired some knowledge or some ability or where they dream of acquiring it. They come, thinking that we should help them acquire some superhuman ability. They also come, of course, thinking that truth can be expressed in words and that it must be possible to find some worded statement that is an absolute truth. We have a library at the Royal Teton Retreat that contains all of the spiritual teachings ever brought forth on earth. It is a parallel to the famous Library of Alexandria but far more extensive. Our library goes all the way back to previous civilizations long forgotten. You know of Atlantis and Lemuria, but our library goes back to civilizations that have never even been named.

When people have this quest for truth, for ultimate truth given in words, we put them into that library and we say: “Spend as much time as you like here searching for this truth, and let us know when you have found something.” They eagerly throw themselves at this library. At first, they are enormously excited and almost overwhelmed by the amount of books in the library, for there truly are millions of volumes. They pick some and they start reading. They become very excited, thinking they have found a very high expression of truth.

Then, they find another book that also has seemingly great authority and great depth and great wisdom, and they now read this. They go on and read another, and it is just a matter of how long it takes before they start realizing that there are many different expressions of truth that all seem valid, that all seem to have authority, but they are all a little bit different, or in some cases very different.

This leads students to a point of frustration where they don’t know what to believe. You will recognize this, perhaps, from your own life or at least from many people in the world who have become agnostics as a result of the unresolved war between science and religion. They don’t know what to believe, or they believe that there is no ultimate truth. Am I hereby saying that we want ascended master students to become agnostics? Not in a worldly sense, but we do want you to come to the point where you realize, as I have mentioned before, that no statement made with words can be an ultimate truth.

NOTE: The rest of this dictation is available in the book The Mystical Initiations of Wisdom.

 

Copyright © 2014 Kim Michaels

L04. Wisdom and Purity


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I AM the Ascended Master Lanto. I come to give you some thoughts on the initiations that students go through at the fourth level of the Royal Teton Retreat. These are the initiations of the Fourth Ray, meaning wisdom expressed through purity or acceleration. “Purity” means purity of intention, and what we seek to help students attain at this level is clarity about their intentions for using wisdom.

When students come to my retreat, they have the typical desire that is so prevalent on earth. This is the desire that is fueled by the ego’s quest for security in this world. People blinded by this desire are seeking to find a kind of wisdom that they can elevate to some status of infallibility. If your wisdom is infallible, then your security must be at its maximum, or so the ego reasons. This means that students tend to use wisdom in order to validate what makes their ego’s feel secure. The difficult task I face at this level is to get students to see the hollowness of this approach.

I seek to help students see how illogical this is, how hypocritical it is. People who are trapped in this desire to validate the ego will claim that they have the highest possible motives for their use of wisdom. They believe they have an absolute and infallible expression of wisdom, and it is in the interest of other people and in the interest of some higher cause, possibly even the cause of God himself, that they seek to force their wisdom upon others.

They claim they have an absolute form of wisdom. In reality, their wisdom is entirely relative. It is completely relative to what their egos have accepted and to a sense of security that the ego has built. As we have said many times before, the ego can never find absolute security. It seeks to build security in this world, but it will always be a house built on sand because nothing in this world can be unchangeable. Of course, nothing in the spiritual world is unchangeable either, and therefore the dream of some static state of perfection or security is nothing but an empty dream. This, of course, the ego can never see.

Absolute security in the River of Life

The Conscious You, however, can experience this by experiencing pure awareness. Hereby, it realizes that its own nature is an absolute state of security—not in the sense that it is unchanging, but in the sense that it is ever-transcending. Or rather, we could say that at the core of your being is that which is unchanging, namely awareness, and once you connect to that unchanging awareness, you then find security in constantly transcending the outer expressions of awareness, what your awareness is focused upon. You, therefore, do not need to stop the flow of the River of Life in order to feel secure; you feel secure in flowing with it. This is absolute or ultimate security, but it is security through self-transcendence. It is the security that is ever-flowing.

What have I said about the River of Life? It is constantly transcending itself. What have I said about Divine Wisdom? It is constantly transcending itself. Nothing, therefore, stands still—certainly, not the fount of living wisdom. This, again, means that the ego is on an impossible quest of seeking to create a static expression of wisdom that can never be changed, that can never be threatened, that can never be overturned. As we have explained with the second law of thermodynamics, anything that becomes a closed system will break down because its own internal contradictions will increase the chaos that breaks it down.

The fourth initiation of the Second Ray

The reality is that the harder a student is trying to maintain the outer security of its ego, the more the student will generate energy impulses that are sent into the cosmic mirror. These energy impulses will be returned as conditions that seek to threaten the student’s sense of security. The student must, therefore, send more powerful impulses to counteract this return, and this, of course, generates an even stronger return. This “arms race” can go on until the student breaks under the strain and can no longer do this.

We, of course, seek to help people see the fallacy of this before they break under the strain, but there are some students who come to our retreat and have to go through that process of breaking. They realize that they do not have the force, the power, to counteract the threats to their sense of security. What must you then do? You must give up; you must surrender. There is no other step.

The acceleration of the Fourth Ray is not the same as accumulation. You might think that if you need to generate an energy impulse to counteract something that is coming at you, then you need to accumulate more and more power, more and more material, physical power. As I have said, accumulating more power only means that you generate a more powerful impulse coming at you in the future.

Acceleration means that you go beyond accumulating power at a certain level because you accelerate your vibration to a higher level where you are no longer feeling the lower energies, that you generated in the past, when they are returned to you by the cosmic mirror. They pass right through you. They are insignificant to you. They are irrelevant to your life experience. This is true acceleration, and in this there is security in the sense that you go beyond the past.

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Copyright © 2014 Kim Michaels

L03. Wisdom and Love


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I AM Lanto and I love you. Why else would I be here with planet earth if it were not for the fact that I love you? I love other lifestreams embodying on this planet. I love the planet itself, and I love the vision and the plan for this planet held in the minds of the ascended masters, in this age, the master Saint Germain.

I am an ascended being. Consider for a moment the vastness of the material universe. Consider how many stars, galaxies, and planets there are. They are innumerable. Now, consider that you had a spaceship that allowed you to freely roam anywhere in the material universe. Would you stay with this little planet, or would you go to far-away horizons to explore what is there? Well, I can assure you that the spiritual realm is far more vast and has far more interesting horizons to explore than does the material universe. When you ascend, this entire vastness of the spiritual realm is open to you. You can go almost anywhere that you are willing to apply yourself. Why then would an ascended master choose to stay with earth? It can be for only one reason: love.

You can validate any viewpoint

As I said in my last discourse on wisdom, what we aim to show students is that you can argue for or against any viewpoint. By excluding contrary evidence, you can prove any point you want to prove. You can validate any dualistic belief to the satisfaction of the ego and those who see through the perception filter of a particular role. There are people on earth who doubt the existence of ascended masters. There are people on earth who doubt our motives for being with earth. There are people who say we should have moved on rather than staying with earth.

These people are completely convinced that they are right, for they are looking at us through a particular perception filter. There are even many ascended master students who are sure that we are real, who are sure we have valid motives for remaining with earth, but who are, nevertheless, trying to force us to fit into a particular mental box. Again, if you pick and choose, you can find an ascended master teaching that validates almost anything you want to believe. Do you want to believe that the ascended masters are like individualized versions of the angry god in the sky, promoted by the three monotheistic religions for thousands of years? Well, if so, you can find certain teachings that seemingly validate this viewpoint, but we are much more than that view. We are much more than any view. What we aim to show people at the second stage of initiation in the Royal Teton Retreat is that, once you have created a closed mental box, it will filter out any contrary evidence; and thus, it becomes a closed system, a closed circle, a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Breaking free of the mental box—by love or by force

There is no way out of the mental box as long as you are looking at life through the perception filter that created the box in the first place. You cannot question the perception from inside the perception filter. You must use the Conscious You’s ability to project itself outside of your current mental box and perception filter. What will propel the Conscious You to do this? In the School of Hard Knocks you can eventually come to a point where the knocks have become so hard, you are so beaten down by life, you are so frustrated, that you are willing to take a look outside your mental box in order to escape the pain.

At the Royal Teton Retreat, we have no intention of putting you through pain until the pain becomes so intense that you choose to seek an escape. We are not here to offer you an escape, and therefore, there comes that point at the third level of initiation where you cannot go any further until you develop a motivation that is based on love. You must love something more than your mental box. You must love a higher wisdom more than the wisdom defined by your perception filter.

If you do not have this love, you cannot move on. What we aim to do at the third level of initiation is to show students that you actually do have that love somewhere in your being. When you go deep enough, you realize that in your lifestream is a love for something that is beyond your current mental box. This love originated before you created your current mental box by stepping into your current role. It is the love that brought the Conscious You to take embodiment in the material universe. You have a love for seeing God’s creation unfold. You have a love for your I AM Presence and your particular individualized God qualities. You have a love for expressing those God qualities, seeing that light radiating in the darkness of the material realm.

This is the motivation that we seek to help you rediscover. Certainly, you have to some degree already rediscovered this motivation as you went through the initiations on the First Ray, but we help you go deeper and reconnect to the love that brought you to this planet. We help you see how you can express love with greater wisdom, with greater discernment. At the Third Ray initiations at our retreat, we aim to help you see that when wisdom is expressed through love, something new suddenly dawns on you. You begin to realize that what people do with wisdom on earth is not driven by love, or rather, it is not driven by Divine Love; it is driven by human love. They use wisdom as the basis for judgment, including a value judgment that is so dear to the ego and the fallen beings, the false teachers.

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Copyright © 2014 Kim Michaels

L02. Wisdom and Illumination


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I AM the ascended master Lord Lanto, and I come to give you the keys to understanding the initiations you go through at the second level after you start the process of being initiated on the retreat of the Second Ray. The first level is the level of using wisdom through the First Ray of power, and, naturally, the second level is that of using wisdom through the Second Ray of wisdom. This is then a double dose of wisdom. The initiation that you go through at this level is that you need to learn more about how wisdom can be used and misused.

Wisdom is not a competition

I have told you how we put people in groups and let them stay there until they are done using wisdom to overpower each other. At the next level, we again put people in groups, and now we have them take a particular issue, and then we have them come up with arguments for or against the issue. Again, it is somewhat amazing how eager many students are to show how wise they are, how good they are at arguing their case. You have been so programmed on earth to think that life is some kind of competition. If you are being initiated in the Second Ray of wisdom there must be a competition on who knows the most, who has the best argument, the most convincing argument. Yet, at the retreat of the Royal Teton, we have a different purpose. We are not seeking to teach our students how to come up with the best argument on earth. We are seeking to help them transcend the very state of consciousness that believes there is an ultimate argument.

Think how you have been programmed by the institutions of this world, especially the religious and the educational institutions. You have been programmed to think that somewhere there exists this ultimate wisdom, this ultimate standard, against which everything else must be measured. Anything that is not in accordance with this ultimate wisdom is false and should be judged.

The people who espouse this false wisdom should be judged likewise, according to whatever belief system they have chosen to accept. If, for example, you are a Christian, then you will say that those who do not agree with your version of wisdom surely must be the anti-Christ. They must be of the devil and they must deserve to go to hell. God wants them to go to hell. God at least wants them to get off the earth, and maybe God needs your help in killing these people so that they can get off the earth.

How many times in history have you seen this pattern repeat itself? How many places in the world do you see it right now where there are people who believe that they have a superior form of wisdom that entitles them, obligates them, to kill their fellow men? How many places in the West, where you are not seeing so many people willing to kill, do you still see people in the academic world who are willing to argue and argue and argue, seeking to literally psychologically destroy those who do not accept their wisdom as superior?

The second initiation on the Second Ray

What we do in our groups in the Royal Teton Retreat is that we let people argue until they get tired of it, until they have had enough of the argument. We watch our groups. We see when people on an individual basis begin to fall more and more silent. Instead of being eager to put forth their wisdom, they now fall silent. They sit there; they listen; they watch. We can tell that now their minds are beginning to be open. They are beginning to wonder how it can be that you seemingly cannot resolve a debate, a controversy. How is it that no matter how good of an argument that you construct, it is always possible to construct a counter-argument? How is it that people can become so attached to a particular argument that they will not see anything else? Is there, perhaps, something else to see beyond these arguments?

Ah, yes my beloved, this is when students begin to be open to the next level of initiation. What we then do is we take them aside. We leave those who are still willing to argue in their groups where they can argue, and they have new people, new lifestreams, coming in that they can argue with, and this can go on until they, too, tire of it. We take those who have begun to open their minds and we take them to a special classroom where we have the ability to use a large screen to display what happens at an energy level. We can actually show these lifestreams what happens in their energy fields as they engage in these arguments. We are able to visually illustrate how the light flows from your I AM Presence into your four lower bodies. We are then able to show also how we from the ascended realm can release a particular impulse of wisdom into the mind of an individual student.

We can show graphically, visually, what that impulse looks like and how it is made up of something that might be compared to the ideal forms taught by the philosopher Plato.

These are basic geometric shapes, not as simple as triangles and squares and circles, but more complex geometric shapes. When you see them visually, you see their beauty, their harmony, their balance, and you see how these geometric shapes can interact with any other geometric shape at this pure level without destroying it, without canceling it out, without creating a negative interference pattern. We can now show graphically what happens as this impulse of wisdom made up by these pure geometric shapes descends into the identity body of a particular student. We can make visual exactly what happens as the pure impulse of wisdom begins to interact with the geometric shapes in the student’s identity body. These shapes will, of course, be determined by the level of consciousness of the student. Because that level, by the nature of the student undergoing this initiation, is not so high, it is obvious that there will be an interference between the geometric forms in the student’s identity body and the forms of the pure impulse of wisdom.

This means that, already in the identity body, the original pure pulse of wisdom is partially blocked, partially distorted. What descends into the student’s mental body is barely recognizable compared to the original purity. We then show how what comes out of the identity body enters the mental body and begins to interact with the geometric forms stored there. Again, there is blockage, there is interference, there is distortion. We can now make visible what leaves the mental and enters the emotional body. Again, the impulse is diluted and changed and what finally enters the person’s conscious mind is so diluted that it has virtually nothing to do with the original pure impulse.

When students first see this, they are always shocked. They are shocked at their inability to transfer a pure impulse of wisdom through their four lower bodies and have their conscious minds grasp at least some aspect of the pure impulse. Our aim is not to shock the students. The shock is simply an inevitable fact of seeing how much your own mind actually distorts what comes from your I AM Presence and the ascended realm. At this level of the path, the distortion is extensive, and the shock factor is, likewise, quite dramatic.

We, of course, help the students deal with this sense of shock because we make it very clear to them that this is perfectly natural, that they are in no way standing out from the rest of humanity in a negative manner. They are in fact standing out in a positive manner because they are more open than the majority of human beings on earth. They are more open to having their mental box challenged and expanded.

NOTE: The rest of this dictation is available in the book The Mystical Initiations of Wisdom.

 

Copyright © 2014 Kim Michaels

L01. Wisdom and Power


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Ascended Master Lanto through Kim Michaels.

I AM the Ascended Master Lanto. I have been known as Lord Lanto. I am indeed the Lord or the Chohan of the Second Ray of God Wisdom; yet, I prefer not to use the word “lord” because it has been so misused by both secular and certain religious movements on earth. I am not an overlord of you. I do not see you as you see yourself. I do not see me as you see me.

I have been an ascended master for a very long time as measured with earth time, although it is still in the blink of an eye of cosmic time. I consider myself somewhat of a newcomer in the ascended realm, but as measured with earth time, it is a long time. I have, therefore, ascended to the Buddhic level of consciousness, and as such, I see the reality taught by Gautama that everything is the Buddha Nature.

I see the Buddha Nature in myself, and in seeing the Buddha Nature in myself, I see the Buddha Nature in you, even if you do not yet see this. It is therefore my goal, my only goal, to awaken you to the point where you can see the Buddha Nature in yourself, the Buddha Nature in everything that surrounds you, and even see the Buddha Nature in me so that you will know that we are indeed equals, as all self-aware beings are equals in the reality of the light of the Wisdom of God.

Ultimate wisdom

What is ultimate wisdom? Consider how men have been striving for wisdom for ages, but the ultimate wisdom is that all life is one, that all is the Buddha Nature, and thus, differentiation in form does not mean differentiation in value. Value, then, being a wholly artificial concept created by the mind that has separated itself from the reality of wisdom, that has created the illusion that it is separated from the Buddha Nature, that the Buddha Nature is not where it is, that the separate mind has created a separate abode that has somehow shut out the Buddha Nature.

There will a come a point in your own growth where you will see how ridiculous the claim is that something could be set apart from the Buddha Nature. You will see that the Buddha Nature is all and in all, and that without him was not anything made that was made. Nothing can be set aside from that which is everywhere, which is unconditional, which is all-penetrating. Yet, I fully understand that as you come to my retreat on your journey from the 48th to the 96th level of consciousness, you will not be able to see this. You will not be able to experience it, and why not? Because you are still looking at life through the perception filter that corresponds to the level of consciousness where you are at, and this is, of course, as it should be.

Shed the perception filters of anti-wisdom

My role as a teacher is to help you penetrate the veils of anti-wisdom, the veils created by the separate mind, the dualistic mind, the serpentine mind, the fallen mind—whatever you want to call it. Of course, we who are ascended only use these words because we know that, while you are yet on earth and see things through the linear mind, you need a name. Labels truly come from the mind of separation. We then do not need to label, for we experience the reality of the Buddha Nature, the one mind.

We instantly feel when something is separate from it. To us, all that is separate is, in a sense, like darkness. It is all unreal; it is all something you need to overcome. For us, it is not a matter of creating gradations, value judgments of saying that one kind of darkness is better than another kind of darkness. They are both unreal. They both need to be left behind as the illusions they are.

This is our role. In order to play that role, we do need to go in and look at you, look at your state of mind, look at your particular perception filter, look at the core beliefs that make up your perception filter, and then we need to address those beliefs. When you come to a certain level of consciousness, you are seeing life through a perception filter; yet, may I take this one step further? May I suggest that, as you climb from the 48th to the 96th level of consciousness, you are shedding a particular perception filter, a particular layer of perception filter, for every step you climb.

While you are at the 48th level, you are looking at life through 48 perception filters. Each of these 48 filters represents one step up the spiral staircase of initiation that leads you from the 48th to the 96th level of consciousness. I am not thereby saying that you are free from perception filters at the 96th level. You then start another level, another layer, of working through the 48 perception filters between the 96th and the 144th level.

It is helpful for you to know, and you will certainly learn when you come to my retreat, that the role, the process, you are going through, is to shed one perception filter at a time. This will help you understand that, when you are at a certain level of consciousness, you cannot instantly shed all of the perception filters through which you are looking at life. You may have 40 perception filters left that you are looking through. You cannot shed all forty at once. If this were to happen, you would lose your sense of identity, you would lose your bearings, you would lose your sense of continuity, you would lose your sense of self. You cannot instantly shift from a very human sense of self to the sense of self based on the individuality anchored in your I AM Presence. This would not be possible; you must take one step at a time, shed one perception filter at a time.

This can give you a sense of patience, as Jesus said: “In your patience possess ye your souls.” When a new student comes to my retreat in order to begin the process of ascending under the tutelage of the Second Ray, then that student often is somewhat impatient. This is natural, for you have just passed the initiations, the seven layers of initiations, under the direction of my beloved Master MORE and the first ray of God Power and Will. You need to develop a certain will, a certain determination, you need to have a certain power in order to pass those initiations. It is both natural and right, but one of the most important insights you can come to about the spiritual path is that it has certain stages. What will get you through one stage, will not get you through the next stage.

NOTE: The rest of this dictation is available in the book The Mystical Initiations of Wisdom.

 

Copyright © 2014 Kim Michaels

Fulfill your highest potential by going beyond feel-good spirituality

TOPICS: The challenges of being in embodiment – More information is available to you now – The difficulty with information overload – The false hierarchy deliberately opposes spiritual progress – How Christianity, materialism and agnosticism control people – The initiations for 2014 – The limitations of “feel-good spirituality”  – How the false hierarchy impedes spiritual progress – Your purpose for taking embodiment – You can do more – Being comfortable doesn’t accomplish your mission – What happens when you numb yourself – Make an effort to attune yourself and raise your consciousness – Bring forth the judgment of the fallen beings by being the Christ – Perspectives on the conflict in Syria – The ascended masters desire a peaceful transition to democracy – A deeper cause of the conflict in the Middle East – How totalitarian governments arise – The situation in Ukraine – How Russia delays its people’s progress –


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Ascended Master Mother Mary, February 13, 2014, through Kim Michaels

My beloved hearts, I AM the Ascended Master Mother Mary. I desire to give you, throughout this year and in the coming years, regular updates on how I view world conditions, specific world conditions, and certain topics related to your spiritual path. It is, of course, difficult for you when you are in embodiment to preserve the big view, the big picture, of what is going on, on this planet. You are in a situation that we fully understand, because we have been in the same situation when we were in embodiment.

The challenges of being in embodiment

We understand very well that, when you are in a physical body, you are looking at the world, you are looking at life, from the localized vantage point of your body, your outer mind, your outer self. You are dealing with your daily conditions. You have to live, you have to eat, you have to work, you have children, you have families, you have obligations that need to be fulfilled. My beloved, when I was in my last embodiment, I was not only the Mother of Jesus, I had seven children. After my husband Joseph died, I was alone with those seven children. Although they had started to come of age and could help me support the family, this was by no means an easy task.

I fully understand how difficult it is for many of you to balance your daily lives with your spiritual lives, with your spiritual path. I understand very well that in this modern age you are facing a special challenge that I did not face those almost 2,000 years ago. Back then, I was able to focus on my own immediate situation. There were no news services. There were no newspapers, no radio, no television, no internet. There was no way for me to know what was going on in the world at large, what was going on in remote regions of the world. I did not know, as most people back then did not know, that there were remote regions of the world. I only knew about the relatively small area around where I lived. I understand very well that in today’s age you are facing a very special challenge.

More information is available to you now

You, of course, have your daily situation to deal with, your daily responsibilities. At the same time, you have access, not only to radio and television, but to the internet. You now have access to such a wide range of information and news that it very quickly causes you to become overwhelmed. When I look at what has happened, just in the short time span since this messenger started the AskRealJesus website, I see how there has been a shift in the awareness of most spiritual people.

You might even remember yourself how it was when you first got online, as the saying goes, when you first had access to the internet. Suddenly, you felt as if a whole new world of information had been opened up to you. Compared to the amount of information you had access to before, through books or radio and television and newspapers, you suddenly felt like your life had been enriched by all the information you could now access, especially all the information that was beyond the mainstream media, and that, therefore, you had never even known about before. Here was the internet with so many websites with so much different information that was so far beyond the mainstream that it at first was very very exciting.

We can look back and see how, in the early days of the AskRealJesus website, many people found it and were astonished that such information was available. We also see that today several things have happened. One is, of course, that the amount of information available on the internet has not only doubled and tripled, it has expanded exponentially, many many times beyond what it was in 2002, for example.

This means that there is now so much information available that the challenge is not to find new information. The challenge is to sort the information that is available to you. I can tell you in honesty that when I think back to the state of consciousness I had when I was last in embodiment 2,000 years ago, I am wondering how I would even have dealt with the amount of information that is bombarding you every day.

This is, of course, a somewhat academic question because had I been in embodiment today, I would have a different state of consciousness than I had back then. I would have grown up, as you have done, with a much broader awareness of the world. Therefore, it would not have been such a shock to me, as if I was coming with the state of consciousness I had back then and was suddenly thrust into the modern world and its explosion of information. Nevertheless, I want you to know that I understand the difficulty of being bombarded with so much information and having to deal with this.

I truly understand that this is difficult. I understand that it is almost inevitable that you must develop a certain numbness, where you numb yourself to certain types of information that you either cannot process, that you cannot deal with, or that you feel has no practical implications for your daily life. I understand that there is certain information that you filter out, simply because you feel there is nothing you can do about that condition in a remote country that affects those people so severely. You feel that there is not much you can do from where you are for these people, so you filter out the information.

The difficulty with information overload

I would like you to know that I fully understand the difficulty. I fully understand the necessity of having to filter information. I also want you to know that what you are experiencing is, to a large degree, a deliberate plot created by the false teachers, the false hierarchy, on this planet. As we have said before, they know – both the power elite in embodiment and the power elite out of embodiment in the mental and emotional planes – that the key to everything, the key to control of this planet, is information.

For thousands of years, they had the lack of technology on their side, and therefore, they could be fairly successful in suppressing information so that the population simply did not have access to information. Now, because of the technology released by Saint Germain as a foundation for the golden age, technology is no longer quite so much on their side. As you know, there is no technology that cannot be misused. Splitting the atom can release tremendous amounts of energy and generate electricity, or it can release a tremendous explosion and devastate an entire city, even an entire planet.

Of course, it is possible to use technology to still suppress information, or at least distort the information that is coming out. But the foremost use of technology has been that certain people in embodiment, controlled by certain disembodied forces, have created such a huge amount of deliberate disinformation that it truly is overwhelming to anyone who tries to avail themselves of it, or even a small segment of it. This is, of course, the plot. They want to overwhelm you with information so that your mind cannot cope, and therefore, you shut down. They would love for you to doubt all of the information so that you essentially revert back to a situation where you live like people did 2,000 or 200 years ago where they were unaware.

In your case you will not be unaware because you do not have access to the information, but because you are not availing yourself of that access. You are not making use of the information because you have shut down your mind and your ability and your willingness to take in information, to process information and to act upon information. This is precisely what they want to see. They want to create people who are walking through life ignoring the vast majority of the information coming at them.

You notice for yourself, from a practical situation where you go to the store and you go to the rack of magazines, and there are hundreds of magazines on all kinds of topics. When you look at it, nothing stands out; everything blends together. Think of going into a large bookstore and looking at the shelves and looking at how many books there are. You cannot possibly read them all; you must ignore the majority of them. What the false hierarchy is trying to do is to get you to either ignore almost all of the information available or to doubt all of the information available so that you do not really believe that any of it is truly valid or valuable. You go into this modern mindset of agnosticism where you cannot really say what is true.

The false hierarchy deliberately opposes spiritual progress

Do you understand, my beloved, that the false teachers on this planet are quite aware of what we of the ascended masters are seeking to accomplish in raising the conscious of humankind, especially the top ten percent? Do you really understand this, my beloved? Do you really understand and acknowledge that there is a false hierarchy on this planet that is deliberately trying to counteract every positive development that happens on this planet?

They see what we of the ascended masters are doing, and they are trying to do everything they can to counteract our every move. I am not saying this to generate fear. The very fact that humankind is no longer living at the caveman stage proves that the false hierarchy cannot counteract our moves. But, as you can see from the dark ages, they are able to delay the progress of humankind, sometimes for a very long time. One of the primary ways in which they delay progress is through information, by either withholding information or by putting out so much disinformation that people either accept the lies or shut down and do not know what to believe.

How Christianity, materialism and agnosticism control people

Do you understand that, for a very long time in the western world, their primary means for controlling what people knew and believed was the Christian religion, specifically the Catholic Church. It was, as we have said before, one of the most effective and successful mind control machines created on this planet. For over a thousand years, it dominated the thinking of people in the western world. It still has a tremendous influence, not only the Catholic Church but the offspring of the Catholic Church in the form of all other Christian churches who, for the vast majority of them, are building on the foundations set by the church fathers 1600-1700 hundred years ago.

For a very long time, western thinking was dominated by the Christian claim that there is only one true religion, there is only one true road to salvation, there is only one true doctrine: We have the absolute and highest truth because we have the highest authority of God and Christ. For a very long time, the false hierarchy on this planet were able to use the Catholic Church and the Christian religion in order to control people.

As Saint Germain has explained, when there is an established power elite of fallen beings that have attained control of the population, there will inevitably be an aspiring power elite of other fallen beings. They may claim that they want to free the people, but they really want to take the position of the established elite so that they themselves become the established elite. This aspiring power elite started using science as their means to counteract and take down the control of religion. They, therefore, turned science into an entirely materialistic endeavor that also claimed to have an absolute truth, namely that there was no God and that all spirituality was just subjective illusions.

The net result of the battle between these two approaches to life is what I have just called the modern state of agnosticism. So many people have gone into a mindset where they see the fallacy of the orthodox Christian claim. They also have a sense there is something missing from the orthodox materialistic claim, yet because they do not know what is missing, they go into a state of mind of not knowing what to believe. They accept the subtle ploy, also promoted by the false hierarchy, that there is no absolute truth, there is no higher truth, there is nothing to really know and believe. Therefore, they don’t accept any authority beyond the human level.

What is the underlying plot? You may look at mainstream Christianity, you may look at scientific materialism, you may look at agnosticism and say they are quite different from a certain perspective. But, if you step back and look at them all, they are all based on the same mindset, which is precisely the mindset of the fallen beings, namely that the duality consciousness can define truth, can define what is real and unreal. This is the underlying belief of the fallen beings, my beloved. This is what they want you to believe.

Mainstream Christianity was a man-made religion that took a set of man-made doctrines. Yes, they were built on the teachings of Jesus, but they were distortions of the teachings of Jesus as anybody can see by reading the scriptures and reading the Nicene Creed. They took these man-made doctrines and elevated them to an absolute truth. Scientific materialism is based on taking selective findings of science and elevating them to an absolute truth. Agnosticism is based on the mindset that says there is no absolute truth, there is nothing beyond the material world.

Do you see that orthodox Christianity said the separate mind, the dualistic mind, can define the doctrines of Christ? Materialistic science says scientific measurements and conclusions can define what is real and what is unreal, what exists and what does not exist. The agnostic mindset says the dualistic mind can define that there is no absolute truth, no higher truth, and therefore, no idea or statement is more valid than any other. But, it is all the same mindset where you – in separation, in duality – you are defining what is true. This is the plot. It has, of course, been used in every area of society.

The initiations for 2014

As we have said before, this year of 2014 is dominated by the initiations of the Second Ray of wisdom. Wisdom means, first of all, discernment between what is real and unreal. Can you see that the initiations that this planet will be given in this year relate especially to this? Can we define reality with the human mind, or is there something beyond the human mind that we can grasp, glimpse, and that is valid? Are we forever trapped in this relative dualism, or is there something outside our own minds that we can grab onto and that can be the lifeline that takes us beyond the quicksand of our own minds?

This is the question to ponder in this coming year. You, who are the spiritual people, are of course, as always, the forerunners. If you will not ponder this, how do you expect the rest of the population to do so? How do you expect that the rest of the population can follow you, if you are not walking in a certain direction? What will they follow if you do not have a decisive movement? With this in mind, I wish to speak to you about a specific phenomenon that I would like to call “feel-good spirituality.”

The limitations of “feel-good spirituality”

What has happened in these last ten years or so is that the internet has been completely flooded with all kinds and types of spirituality—all kinds of channelers, gurus, and would-be messengers who parade their wares before the public. We, of course, do in no way discourage freedom of speech, freedom of expression. We are simply pointing out that it is a deliberate strategy of the false hierarchy on this planet to flood the internet with spiritual teachings, many of which are either based on black-and-white thinking or gray thinking.

There are, of course, a variety of them out there that are, like the fundamentalist Christians, based on black-and white-thinking. They are often the doomsday prophets or the conspiracy theorists that say that there is this doom and gloom hanging over humankind, this sword of Damocles ready to drop upon you and wipe out the world or at least unleash calamities of every kind. If you look at what is out there of these false prophets, you will quickly go into a state of having to numb yourself, for you cannot emotionally deal with this.

What do many people do? They go into the opposite extreme, the opposite polarity of gray thinking, which is what I call “feel-good spirituality.” Everything is good, everything is wonderful, and the earth is in this upward spiral and shifting into the 5th dimension because there is this benevolent force – whether it is called ascended masters or space brothers or whatever you have – and these cosmic beings are releasing these wonderful energies that are automatically sweeping the earth into a new dimension or golden age.

All you have to do as a spiritual person is go about your business and be kind and positive to everybody. You do not need to study any difficult topics, you do not need to be diligent in practicing particular techniques because everything is wonderful if you just relax and flow with this wonderful love. My beloved, this form of spirituality, “feel-good spirituality,” is somewhat of a delay factor to the plans of the ascended masters. You may look at it and say: “Well, what can be harmful about it? These people are being positive.” They are seeking to create positive vibrations, and have we not given you the teachings about energy, namely that you need to invoke positive energy in order to counteract the accumulated negative energy produced by humankind.

Here is the subtle distinction. It would be easy to go into a black-and-white mindset and say that this form of spirituality is all false and has no positive impact whatsoever because it is coming from the false hierarchy, or it is based on illusions. The reality is, of course, that things are never black and white. There are many people in this new spiritual movement who are having a positive impact on planet earth. If you keep yourself in a kind, positive, and loving state of mind, you will have a positive impact, as opposed to people who are in a negative, fear-based, or anger-based state of mind.

Therefore, I am not saying that the people who are engaged in this feel-good spirituality are not having a positive influence on the planet. Some will therefore say: “Well, if that is the case, just leave us alone then and let us feel the way we want to feel.” Certainly, given free will, I will leave alone all those who are not open to my message. Yet, I do want to state in the physical that feel-good spirituality is delaying the progress of this planet even though it is having a positive impact on this planet. You see my beloved, if you are dragging your car by a rope, the car is still moving forwards but not nearly as quickly as if you got into the car, turned on the engine, put it in gear, and stepped on the accelerator. Your car is moving forward if you are dragging it, but certainly not with the speed that is its true potential. So it is with this broad, New Age, feel-good movement.

How the false hierarchy impedes spiritual progress

You see, my beloved, the false hierarchy on this planet know, at least the more experienced of them, that they cannot forever delay the forward movement of humankind. They are satisfied with delaying it as much as possible. In order to do this, they have a three-fold strategy. You will know that we have given teachings earlier about dividing the population into the top 10%, the bottom 10%, and the 80% in the middle. The false hierarchy on this planet have divisions, departments, that are working with the bottom 10%, and they are seeking to create as much havoc and chaos as possible. They are seeking to create as much control as possible.

Then they have departments that are working with the 80% in the middle, and they are seeking to put the 80% in a state of inertia where they do not want to change, they just want to live the good material life. Then, they have departments that are working with the top 10%, and although they are quite sophisticated, one of their main departments is certainly the one that seeks to promote this feel-good spirituality. This causes so many spiritual people to go into a state of mind where they are making progress, and they are making a positive contribution, but not to their full potential. Thus, not only is the planet not progressing as quickly as it could, but in many areas, it is not actually progressing faster than the bottom 10% are pulling back on the forward movement of humankind.

Again, you may be doing something that is positive, but if someone else somewhere is doing something that is negative, it can counteract what you are doing. If they are more diligent or effective in generating negative energy than you are in generating positive energy, then the net result for the planet is not a gain. If you are sitting there feeling holier-than-thou because of your positive attitude and your sense that “It’s all good,” then you are really deluding yourself because you are not doing what you came here to do.

My beloved, I am not in this discourse speaking to the bottom 10% or the 80% of the general population. I am speaking only to the top 10% because they are the only ones who have the potential to be open to my message. I say they have the potential because so many of them are not fulfilling their highest potential. They have been lulled into the all-is-good attitude where they think it is good enough to walk slowly rather than running towards the goal. I can tell you with absolute certainty that all of the people in the top 10% took embodiment specifically to help raise the collective consciousness and bring planet earth into a golden age.

Your purpose for taking embodiment

You cannot have taken embodiment at this critical turning point in earth’s history  without having a love for Saint Germain and the bringing forth of the golden Age, and a desire to play a part in bringing that golden age into manifestation. It simply isn’t possible. You either would not have taken embodiment, or you would have embodied on some other planet. If you are one of the spiritually aware people, you have a love for Saint Germain, you have a love for humankind, you have a love for this planet, you have a love for the cause of raising the consciousness and bringing in the golden age.

You will not fulfill your desire, your divine plan, by sitting around feeling good. You will fulfill your divine plan only by opening up the connection to your I AM Presence so that the fire of your I AM Presence – the fire of Saint Germain, the fire of the ascended masters – can flow through you. Feel-good-spirituality cannot counteract the negativity produced by the bottom 10% of the false hierarchy. Only the fire of the ascended masters can counteract the negativity and bring this planet forward.

You can do more

There is no alternative. There is absolutely no alternative! Let me go back to what I said in the beginning. I fully understand how difficult it is to be in embodiment at this time and balance your daily life with all the things you are being bombarded with. I fully understand how difficult it is to balance the local awareness of your personal situation with the global awareness of what is going on, on the planet. I fully understand how tempting it is to say to yourself: “I have found this spiritual teaching. I am performing this spiritual practice. I am in a positive state of mind. I am being kind and loving to everyone to the best of my ability. Surely, I am doing all I can do to be a positive person in a negative world.”

But you are not surely doing all you can do. There is more you can do. You can be an open door for the fire of the ascended masters, to transform the earth, to propel the earth forward faster than the dark forces and the bottom 10% can pull it backwards. That is what you can do, and that is what you came here to do. You did not come here to live a humdrum experience where everything is “all good” but nothing really moves, nothing is really consequential, nothing really changes.

Being comfortable doesn’t accomplish your mission

My beloved, you may feel – as I know many people will feel – that the real Mother Mary, the real Mother of God, the real Divine Feminine, could not possibly speak this way. This can only come from one place: from the state of mind that I talked about, which believes it can define truth.

So many people among the top 10% have gotten themselves into a state of mind where they believe that they can define what God is like, what the spiritual reality is like, what we of the ascended masters are like, and how we should speak and how we should not speak so that we do not disturb you in your comfortability. You will not fulfill your potential, your own desires for coming into embodiment, by being comfortable. Jesus was not comfortable in his embodiment as Jesus. I was not comfortable in my embodiment as Mary.

This is not to say that you cannot be at peace, that you cannot feel joy, but there is a difference between inner peace and comfortability. Comfortability is numbness that comes from ignoring not only what is happening in the world but ignoring what is coming from your I AM Presence and you Christ Self.

What happens when you numb yourself

What is the real effect of the amount of information you are bombarded with from without? It is that your mind goes into overload, and you numb it. You filter out the information that is coming to you from without but what is the subtle effect of this? It is that you also close your mind to the intuitive insights coming from your I AM Presence. So many spiritual people, so many people in the top 10%, have done just that.

They have come to a certain level, to a certain plateau, on their personal path and they have said: “Surely, this must be enough for this lifetime. Surely, I do not need to go all the way and manifest the highest level of Christhood that I have the potential to manifest. Surely, this is enough. It’s all good; let’s be comfortable. Let’s enjoy life. Let’s go to all these gurus and channelers who are titillating our senses, making us feel how important we are for listening to them, and let’s not worry about the fact that we are treading water instead of swimming for the farther shore.”

When you numb yourself to a particular area of life, a particular area of information, what are you doing? You are saying: “I am not in a position to do anything physically about this issue, so I will ignore it.” But what are you then also doing? Well, in many cases people, are saying to themselves: “There is nothing spiritually I can do about this issue either,” and that may, in fact, not be true.

You may look at many problems on this planet. You may look at the continual fighting and conflict in Africa. You may look at the horrendous situation in Syria and you may say: “I cannot physically do anything about these situations.” But, it may very well be that you could do something spiritually by using our decrees and invocations to invoke light into that situation. Certainly, not everybody should do this because there are so many areas of life where there is a need for invoking light. Therefore, I am not saying that all of you should now start making calls for Syria or Africa or this or that.

Make an effort to attune yourself and raise your consciousness

What I am saying is that you, as an individual, need to make an effort to tune in to your Christ Self, to your I Am Presence, to your divine plan, to your ascended teachers and know which topics are important for you. Then, you go beyond your comfort zone. You educate yourself about the topic so that you know which spiritual calls to make. Then you use our tools, our decrees and invocations to invoke spiritual light with laser-like precision into the areas that are dear to your heart. This is what you can do—if you are willing to go beyond your comfort zone.

You can also do more than that. You can raise your own consciousness and move ever closer to Christhood whereby you become the instrument for judging the bottom 10%, taking some of these people out of embodiment that are pulling the planet down. You are bringing forth the judgment of the disembodied forces in the astral plane so that they can be bound by Archangel Michael and taken from the earth.

Bring forth the judgment of the fallen beings by being the Christ

We have given this teaching before. A fallen being, in embodiment or out of embodiment, cannot be taken from the earth until someone in embodiment has achieved the level of Christhood that the fallen being had before it fell. This is the law; there is no way around it. You cannot remove these fallen beings by sitting around feeling good. You can remove them by attaining Christhood to the critical level, and if these fallen beings are not removed, then the earth cannot progress beyond a certain level.

The 80% of the general population cannot free themselves from the influence of these fallen beings. They can be removed only when someone from the top 10% rises to the necessary level of Christhood. There are many people in embodiment today who, before they came into embodiment, saw the reality on this planet and saw the need for someone to rise to a certain level of Christhood in order to remove a particular fallen being. They volunteered, they said: “I have the potential to rise to that level, and I will go into embodiment to accomplish this.” Yet, when you come into embodiment, you are overwhelmed by the pressures of daily life and you forget this mission.

Therefore, I am here to remind you. Make an effort to go beyond your comfort zone. Dare to ask yourself: “Is there more I could do? Is there more I wanted to do before coming into embodiment?” Dare to listen for the answer. If you get an answer that is beyond your comfort zone, then pursue that answer. Do not settle for second best. Go all the way to what is your personal best for this lifetime.

My beloved, if you look at this planet honestly, you should be able to see that it is not all good. There is so much going on, on this planet that you know should not be happening, and I have now told you the essential key to changing things. It is that you rise to the highest level of Christhood you are capable of manifesting in this lifetime. Then you have done what you wanted to accomplish before coming into embodiment, then you have done all you can do, and then it’s all good as far as you are concerned, for you have fulfilled your reason for being.

Perspectives on the conflict in Syria

Let me comment briefly on certain conditions in the world today. When you look at planet earth from my perspective as an ascended being, you can scan the earth and the energies on earth. It is almost as if you take one of these maps that have seen created by scientists where you can look at various criteria, and you can color the map by certain colors. For example, you can scan the temperature of the earth, and you can see where there is warm air or warm water or where the earth itself is warmed up and where it is cooler. When you look at the earth right now and look for where is the greatest concentration of negative energy, you can of course see certain zones around the planet. Right now there are a number of these, but I wish to comment on two.

The first one is the situation in Syria and in the Middle East in general. The question on many people’s minds is: What should the international community do about Syria? What should they have done? Should they have done more than they have done? Should they have done something to stop the fighting, the massacre, the torture? Should they have stepped in and stopped the killing of parents in front of their children, the killing of children in front of their parents, the deliberate torture of those who oppose either this side or that side? What should the international community have done about Syria?

The answer from the ascended master perspective will no doubt shock many people, but the answer is that the international community should have done nothing. This may shock you because it makes it sound like the international community should not step in to stop the horrendous conditions I have just mentioned, but that is not actually what I am saying. You may look at the outbreak of the civil war, and you may look at the atrocities that have happened since that war started, and you may say that the international community should have stepped in to stop these atrocities and this fighting.

When I am saying that the international community should have done nothing, am I not saying that they should do nothing to stop these horrendous abuses of human rights and human lives? I am actually saying that the civil war in Syria, the outbreak of fighting, was not the start of the problem. The problem, of course, goes much further back. My beloved, if you look at history, you will see that there have been quite a number of countries that have made a transition from a totalitarian form of government to a democratic form of government without any or without major bloodshed, and certainly without a civil war.

The ascended masters desire a peaceful transition to democracy

What do we of the ascended masters want to see? Well, we want many nations around the world to make the transition into a democratic form of government, and we want this to happen without bloodshed. If it cannot happen without bloodshed, we would rather have the transition to democracy be delayed until the people and the collective consciousness of the nation are ready to accomplish this without bloodshed. Look at the history of the world. Look at the major conflict over the last century, the so-called Cold War between the Soviet Union and the West. Do you not realize that if this cold war had become a hot war, it would have been a horrendous war?

There can be no doubt, can there, that we of the ascended masters wanted to see the dissolution of the Soviet Union and wanted to see the countries that were forced into that Soviet Union, or forced into the Warsaw Pact, become free and have democratic governments. We, of course, want to see Russia have a democratic form of government. Yet, this does not mean that we wanted to accomplish this so badly, and at a certain time, that we were willing to have a third world war in order to destroy the Soviet Union. We were and we are patient. We take the long view.

When you see a situation like you see in Syria where civil war breaks out, then you know that that situation is not what we of the ascended masters want to see. We would then rather maintain a totalitarian form of government until the people are ready, until the collective consciousness has been raised so that this can be accomplished without bloodshed.

A deeper cause of the conflict in the Middle East

Look at Iraq. Here comes the oldest democratic nation in the world, one who prides itself on being a proponent of freedom, liberty, justice and democracy. The United States decides that it is going to step into Iraq and remove the totalitarian dictator. Certain leaders believe that if they do this, there will automatically be freedom and democracy and harmony in that nation. But, as you clearly see, this has not happened to this day, and the reason is that the people are not ready for it because they are still too divided amongst themselves.

The situation in the Middle East goes back millennia. The collective consciousness has been created over a very long period of time by people embodying and re-embodying in the same karmic circles over and over again. It is completely and absolutely arrogant for western democracies to believe that they can step in and fix the Middle East by imposing their version of democracy upon that region. It cannot be done ever. This is not to say that there cannot be democracy in the Middle East, but it can never be a western-style of democracy. It must be that the people in that region find their own form of self-government, and it certainly cannot be imposed upon them from without.

This should be the one thing that has been proven by the Middle East over thousands of years: These people will never learn from someone else. They will only learn when they have made the same mistakes so many times that they have finally had enough and say: “We want more than this.” Certainly, there are many among the population in the Middle East who have already come to that point and who have said: “We want more than this.” But they have not come to the point of realizing that this can and must be achieved without violence and bloodshed. They have not been willing to admit that the violence and the bloodshed and the conflict is an expression of their own state of consciousness, the divisions in their own state of consciousness.

As long as they have not come to that point, there cannot be a peaceful transition to a democratic form of government. It is not possible. This is what you see in Syria. My beloved, can you – off the top of your head – name how many warring factions there are in Syria? I think most of you cannot because there are so many that it is hard to keep track of them. This shows you how deeply divided the collective consciousness is, and this is the real problem. This is what to make calls for if you are going to make calls for the Middle East. Call for the exposure of the divisions, for the removing of the dark forces that have created and are upholding these divisions, using them to divide and conquer the people.

What was the real vision behind Islam? It was to give them a spiritual framework that could unite the Arab people so that there would no longer be this senseless and ceaseless fighting of brother against brother. No people on the planet are more divided than the Arab people. This is what needs to be acknowledged, and then it needs to be addressed, both in a secular and a spiritual manner.

How totalitarian governments arise

When I say that the international community should have done nothing about the situation in Syria, I am not simply meaning that they should do nothing to stop the fighting. I mean they should have done nothing to start the fighting in the first place.

You have seen several nations now where there have been civil-war-like conditions. You saw it in Libya; you are seeing it in Syria. My beloved, when you have a totalitarian form of government, you have a government that exercises great control over its citizens. As part of this control, this government will do everything in its power to prevent that a group forms that has the numbers and the weapons to challenge its power.

When you do see the formation of a group in a totalitarian country that is able to wage a civil war against the totalitarian government, then you know that that group did not arise just within that country. It has been supported, perhaps even created, by forces outside that country. It has certainly received weapons and money and other forms of support from outside forces. What I am saying is that the civil war in Libya, in Syria, and the potential for civil-war-like conditions in other countries, can only come about because there are forces outside those countries who are actively and aggressively interfering.

You know very well some of the forces that are active and have been active in Syria. There are some of them that you do not know very well, but certainly, you know that Russia has had interests in Syria. You know that the United States has and has had covert operations in Syria. You know that militant Islamic groups of various persuasions have operations in Syria and have an agenda of creating a militant Islamic state, even turning the entire Middle East into a militant Islamic state.

When you ask what the international community should have done about Syria, my answer is: “Nothing. Nothing now, nothing in the past.” Let the people in Syria sort out the situation in Syria. As long as the people in Syria are not able to make the transition into a democratic form of government without bloodshed, then it is better for the people of Syria that the dictatorial regime remains, in order to create some kind of stability and law and order.

The situation in Ukraine

This, of course, is a concern that can be applied elsewhere. It can certainly be applied in Ukraine where you also know that there are forces from both East and West who are seeking to destabilize the situation because they have an agenda.

Yet, in Ukraine, you have a different situation than you have in the Middle East—at least it is somewhat different. When you look at Ukraine from a spiritual perspective, you see that Ukraine has a particular history in the Cold War scenario between the Communist East and the Capitalist West. You see the division in Ukraine between the Eastern part and the Western part, the Eastern part being more dominated by Russia and the Russian mindset, and the Western part being more open to a Western mindset.

In a sense, what is going on spiritually in Ukraine is an outplaying of the spiritual beasts that drove the Cold War. These beasts have been tremendously diminished after the breakup of the Soviet Union, but they have not been completely removed. The energies have not been transformed because not enough among the top 10% have made specific calls and invocations to transmute those energies.

They have thought all that is all in the past, this is all over, and now it’s all good. But it is not all good, my beloved, because the horrendous records on the astral plane generated by the second World War and communism and the Cold War are not removed that easily. Anyone who lives in a country that was part of the Soviet Union and has some spiritual sensitivity should be able to feel the weight of these energies.

You should know, then, that there are still beasts that are seeking to survive and seeking to take more energy. Right now, these beasts are concentrated in Ukraine, seeking to use the Ukrainian people to create conflict and bloodshed so that they can perpetuate their own existence by vampirising people’s spiritual light. This, then, is the calls to make for the resolution of that situation, namely that these beasts are bound, that the energy is transformed and that the fallen beings both in and out of embodiment, who are using the situation, are judged and taken from this planet.

Certainly, we have suggestions for what might happen in Ukraine, but I will wait with this for some later time. Until the energies have been transformed, hardly anyone in embodiment will be open to seeing these suggestions as viable and realistic. Right now, I will say that Ukraine plays an important role in the greater development and the manifestation of the golden age. For this to be manifest to its highest potential, it is necessary to fully overcome the division on the northern hemisphere between East and West.

How Russia delays its people’s progress

Ask yourself why the Russian Government is seeking to create a black-and-white situation where it seems like Ukraine becoming part of the EU is an act of hostility towards Russia. Why is Russia seeking to create its own free trade union, instead of pursuing membership of the European Union? Was this not precisely what Peter the Great sought to accomplish by building St. Petersburg in a swamp. Did he not seek to turn Russia towards the West, for he knew that was its future as a modern sophisticated nation?

Why, then, is the Russian government seeking to counteract or delay the opening up of Russia to new ideas? Why is there a power elite in Russia who does not want the Russian people to fulfill their highest potential? Why does this power elite want to keep a majority of the Russian people in a lower state of consciousness where they are functioning as worker bees, as slaves? I can assure you that the power elite in Russia have no love for the Russian people. They look down upon them as primitive peasants.

I, however, and all of us in the Ascended Host, have great love for the Russian people, and we want to see them rise up and fulfill their highest potential. This cannot be done by isolating yourself from the rest of the democratic world. It can only be done by embracing the timeless spiritual principles that serve as the foundation for the democratic world. It can only be done by seeing yourself as a worthy member of the family of nations and doing whatever it takes to actually be a worthy member of the family of democratic nations.

My beloved, as you can hear, I have yet many things to say unto you, but you cannot bear them now. I shall endeavor to give you further updates during this year and coming years. I AM your Mother Mary, and I AM here with you on earth always. For the earth is out of my Being, the Being of the Divine Mother.

 

Copyright © 2014 by Kim Michaels

Is religion a disguised form of satanism?

TOPICS: The difference between spirituality and religion – The essence of a mystical approach – The spiritual approach taught by the Buddha – Why people accept their beliefs – Your perception and mental state – Question and expand your perception – Going beyond your normal mental state – The ascended masters are our hierarchical teachers, not idols of worship – Attuning to the Ascended Masters – Religions and Satanism – The wisdom of Father and Mother – The perversions of the masculine and the feminine – Christ helps you transcend – How Lucifer perverted the Father – There is no ultimate experience – See past your perception – Any teaching is affected by cultural context – The thoughtform for 2014 –


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Ascended Master Gautama Buddha, January 1, 2014, through Kim Michaels

Gautama, I am! What is the topic that is foremost on the mind of the Buddha on this auspicious day, the first day of the New Year? It is, of course, that this year of 2014 will be a year that will be dominated by the initiations of the Second Ray, often called the ray of God Wisdom. What will these initiations entail? What will they mean for the world? What will they mean for you individually, those of you who are the spiritual people?

The difference between spirituality and religion

Let us begin by considering the difference between spirituality and religion. We of the ascended masters are, of course, not supporters of religion as it is generally known in the world on earth. Why are we not supporters of religion? Because religion separates people from their God, from the Buddha, from the inner experience of reality. Religion, as it has been known on earth in the large religions that have dominated countries, cultures, and civilizations, is not of God, is not coming from God, is not coming from the spiritual realm.

I know many will be startled and will object to this statement because they will say that, surely, their religion came from a direct revelation from a divine source. There are, indeed, several mainstream religions that make the claim that they are based on what is, in fact, genuine, divine revelation. Yet, these mainstream religions are not based on the divine revelation; they are based on a human interpretation of the divine revelation. And, herein, lies the difference.

Spirituality, or shall we call it mysticism, is different from religion, in that mysticism and spirituality does not seek to separate you from your God, from a direct, inner experience of a higher state of consciousness, even a direct inner experience of your own, inner being—pure awareness. This is the all-important difference, and it is one of the initiations that humankind will be faced with in this coming year, and even in many coming years. A new cycle has dawned upon earth, and it is time that human beings in greater numbers, certainly all among the top 10% and many among the 80% of the general population, awaken to the difference between religion and spirituality or mysticism.

The essence of a mystical approach

What is, then, the essence of the mystical approach to spirituality as opposed to the religious approach? Religion is based on the very subtle concept that there is a distance, a gap, a separation, between spirit and matter, between human beings and their God or the spiritual beings in a higher realm.

You might say, if you are philosophically inclined, that the situation of me giving this dictation through a messenger that you hear as an external voice actually reinforces this subtle belief. I would not actually disagree with this statement—if you do not understand the difference between spirituality and religion.

As I inspired this messenger to say earlier today, spirituality that is not internalized becomes religion.

The new cycle that has dawned is a cycle where more and more people need to awaken to the difference between a form of spirituality that is based on the illusion of a gap and that actually upholds this illusion and then, the true spirituality that seeks to help the individual overcome the gap and have a direct experience of the reality of a higher state of consciousness, of the reality of a higher realm, and of higher spiritual beings—having that experience of reality directly within themselves.

The spiritual approach taught by the Buddha

Religion sets up doctrines and dogmas, and it says: “Believe in this, and you will go to Heaven. Deny this, and you will go to Hell.” This, then, puts people in the situation where they have to accept or reject something that is external to them, to their own minds. What did I attempt to teach 2,500 years ago? That you need to look within to master your own mind and that you need to realize that the key to spirituality is to raise your consciousness. This is not a matter of following outer doctrines.

You do not know about this today because it has largely been lost to history, but the Brahmins of the Hindu religion opposed me and my teaching. They were not quite as radical as those who opposed Jesus and nailed him to a cross, but they came pretty close.

They did everything that they could to discredit me publicly, while I was still in embodiment on earth. Had there been better technology for communication and I had been able to spread my teachings even further, they would have done much more to discredit me, as they always do to the true representatives of the Light. Truly, there are those that seek to discredit any teaching that will awaken people to the reality of spirituality, as opposed to the illusion of religion.

Why people accept their beliefs

Truly, when you accept a teaching that is external to you, what are you doing? You believe something that you do not experience the reality of within yourself. This is, again, a statement that some will object to, and again, there is a discussion here of the more subtle aspects.

Now, in one sense, we can say that all human beings believe what they believe because they have had a certain experience of reality that has caused them to accept their beliefs as not being beliefs but being somehow real or having authority. The Brahmins of the Hindu religion, as the scribes and Pharisees of the Jewish religion, were absolutely convinced that their religion, their interpretation, their scriptures, were real. If you had said to them what I just said about the difference between religion and spirituality, they would have objected and said that they have had inner experiences that showed them the reality of the Hindu religion. Indeed, this is true.

As a human being, you have many fundamental psycho-spiritual needs that are not generally recognized by western culture. One of these needs is that you need to have a foundation for functioning in the material world. If you have no psycho-spiritual foundation, you cannot function normally. You might end up in a straightjacket, or you might end up in various forms of seeking to dull the mind through substances, chemical or otherwise. You might throw yourself into an endless race for more and more material possessions to cover over your inner insecurity.

All human beings need to have some foundation, something that they accept or believe to be real. How do you come to the point where you accept a religious scripture or a political ideology or even a materialistic philosophy as being real? How is it possible, for example, that some can claim to have had inner experiences showing them that the Bible is the literal word of God, while others will claim to have also had inner experiences showing them the fallacy of religion and that the world is entirely material?

The answer to this enigma – which truly is not an enigma considered by many people, but nevertheless, an enigma that needs to be considered by more and more people – is indeed, that you have an inner experience based on your present state of consciousness. This is what I explain in the opening verses of the Dhammapada.

Your perception and mental state

At the higher levels of your being, there is what I called a mental state. This is what we, in modern ascended master terminology, call your identity body. In your identity body, you have accepted a certain outlook on life, a certain sense of who you are in relation to the world, perhaps even in relation to God.

Most people are not consciously aware of this. In fact, even most spiritual students, even most ascended master students, are not consciously aware of this. It requires much work of cleaning your energy field, clearing your chakras, and meditation and contemplation to uncover your deeper beliefs about your identity. This is the work that people must do in the coming years in order to pass the initiations that will be forthcoming.

This mental state at the identity level gives rise to what I, in the Dhammapada, called perception. Your perceptions are your thoughts, your conscious beliefs, your feelings, or at least the feelings are the consequences, the outcomes, of your perception. When you go into the world and perceive the world, you see the world. Your perception of the world is defined by your higher mental state, the state in your identity body. You are not aware that your perception is colored by your mental state. You think that your perception is real because you are not aware that your perception springs from your mental state and shows you an image, a mental image. You think that your perception shows you the world as it really is.

[NOTE: The ascended masters teach that the mind has four levels, from higher to lower: Identity, mental, emotional and physical. At the identity level, perception and mental state are intertwined, meaning that you perceive the world based on your basic state of mind. For example, you may perceive the world based on the illusion that you are a separate being. This perception at the identity level gives rise to a state of mind at the mental level. This mental state of mind cannot override or question the state of mind or the perception at the identity level.

Your state of mind at the identity level affects how you see the world at this level. This in turn creates a state of mind at the emotional level. Again, you cannot question the mental level while you are focused on the emotional, and the same holds true for the physical level. The spiritual path is a process whereby you disentangle the core of your mind from the lower levels and become more aware at what is going on in your mind. You first become aware how your actions spring from your emotions, then how your feelings come from your thoughts and then how your thinking is produced by your sense of identity. You can then disentangle yourself from the separate self and become aware that you are a formless spiritual being.]

Question and expand your perception

If you see yourself, at the level of your identity body, as a separate being – separated from your God, separated from the world – then you will be susceptible to one of the religions in the world that reinforce this image of the separation between God and man. It may be the Buddhic religion, the Hindu religion, Islam, Christianity, or any other religion. Therefore, a person can have an inner experience that they will even claim to be a spiritual or mystical experience, showing them that their particular religion is real, that their scriptures are real. They’re absolutely convinced that this is so.

It is one of the great challenges of the spiritual path to come to the point where you understand, with the higher levels of your mind, that your perception cannot be trusted. All of you who are spiritual people have already started to acquire this understanding because you know that your physical senses cannot be trusted. That is why you are open to the idea that there is something beyond the material world, the world that can be detected by the senses. Even though you do not see the spiritual world, you are open to its existence because you have had an inner experience that there is something beyond the material realm, something beyond what most people call normal, human awareness.

Do you see what I am explaining here? There are many religious people who debate endlessly about the value of faith and belief, but faith and belief are not the determining factors in what you accept about life. The determining factor is your perception.

You may think that you have come to have a conversion experience, and that you were converted to a particular religion, as some people in the West claim to have found Jesus. You may think that this experience has caused you to believe, but in reality, the central aspect of this experience is that, for a brief moment, your mind was able to connect to something beyond your normal perception. You experienced a contrast between your normal perception and something higher. This “something higher,” therefore, seemed to have a greater reality than your normal state of awareness.

If you do not understand that perception can still be colored by your higher mental state, you might think that the experience you had was a pure experience or an ultimate experience. There are many spiritual and religious people, even many ascended master students who have had genuine experiences of something beyond their normal state of consciousness. Yet, they fail to understand the all-important truth that even a genuine experience is not necessarily the ultimate experience.

Going beyond your normal mental state

This experience might be beyond your normal perception, but it may not be beyond your normal mental state. Only when you have risen to a certain level on the path, will you be able to question and expand your mental state.

You see how a person can be influenced, for example, by a charismatic preacher or Guru to have a conversion experience. The person snaps out of his or her normal level of perception, experiences something that seems more real, but then makes the mistake of thinking – because this experience of reality came in a certain outer context – that the outer context must have reality. Therefore, the person now begins to accept everything said by the preacher or Guru, instead of using the experience of a higher reality as just the starting point for having more and more of these experiences until you have experiences that are not tied to any belief system on earth.

What I said earlier was that the spirituality that is not internalized becomes religion. We of the ascended masters have, for a long time now, been giving teachings that, from a certain viewpoint, we can call spiritual teachings because their aim is to give you a direct, inner experience, to put you in contact with something beyond your normal state of mind. Yet, if you do not use the teachings and the tools we give to rise beyond your perception and start to question your mental state, then you are not actually internalizing the spiritual teaching.

Then, that spiritual teaching will gradually become for you an outer religion that you follow. You may have started following it because you had a genuine experience of something beyond your normal perception, but you have not gone further and permanently raised your perception by questioning the underlying mental state.

The ascended masters are our hierarchical teachers, not idols of worship

My beloved, do you not see that we of the ascended masters have no desire whatsoever for our teachings to be turned into a mainstream or dominant religion? This is entirely possible, as you can witness by the fact that the teachings I gave 2,500 years ago have been turned into a mainstream religion. The teachings that Jesus gave 2,000 years ago have been turned into a mainstream religion.

Beware, if it ever comes to pass that the ascended masters and their teachings become mainstream. Beware then, because what is it that can make a certain teaching become mainstream, as opposed to being what it is now, a fringe teaching that only appeals to those who are willing to question their perception or their mental state?

My beloved, we are the ascended masters. We have no desire whatsoever to control you. We have no desire whatsoever to come between you and your God. We do not want you to worship us in front of, or before, the Creator. “Thou shalt have no other Gods before me.” We have no desire to become Gods that stand before the Creator in your vision.

Yet, we also know of the reality of hierarchy, and that, in order to get to God, you need to go through hierarchy. That means we are the link in hierarchy that is right above you, and that is why you cannot get to God without going through us.

There are those on earth who claim that the ascended masters are not needed, perhaps that we are impostors who precisely seek to set ourselves up between people and God. But it is not us who have set ourselves up between people and God; it is God who has set us up between people and God. Not that we stand between people and God, but that you cannot, as a human being embodied on earth, make contact directly with the Creator without going through the hierarchy of the ascended masters and higher beings.

You can, as we have said, use the Conscious You’s ability to step outside of your perception filter, even outside your mental state. You can experience the Creator, but it does not happen by you going directly to the Creator with nothing in between. It happens by your going through the chain of hierarchy. You may not notice this. There are people who have had genuine experiences of the Creator and who have not been aware that those experiences were facilitated by the hierarchy of beings that is the chain between humans and the Creator.

The reason for this is simple. We have no desire to come between you and your God. If you are able to raise your consciousness, we become transparent, and you might not see us. This is perfectly in order. We are not here to take credit.

Attuning to the ascended masters

We are here to make humankind aware that – by making use of us in our natural, God-designed role –  you will make it much easier for yourself to have genuine spiritual experiences that will not stop your progress and turn you into a religious follower. Instead, we aim to turn you into mystics who never stop, who are never satisfied by anything in the material world, even the teachings that we give in the material world, for they are only stepping stones to the direct experience.

As this messenger will know, he has had many genuine experiences of making contact with the ascended masters. He can look back to his first experience and see that it was a genuine experience, but that it was colored by the perception he had at the time and by his mental state.

He is even willing to admit that what he has today is also colored by his current perception and mental state. As long as you are in embodiment, there will be some coloring. This is inevitable. It is in order, for it shows people that all have the potential to contact us directly. The fact that one person has achieved a more than ordinary contact with us should not stop others from seeking their own, inner contact.

Religions and Satanism

What is religion, my beloved? Well, the stark reality is that most mainstream religions on earth are Satanism in disguise.

How can I make such a startling statement? It is really very simple when you understand what Satan is. My beloved, in the western culture – based on the Bible and the teachings of Christianity, including the Book of Revelation – you have the concept of Lucifer and the concept or name of Satan.

Let me endeavor to give you a brief glimpse of the difference between Lucifer and Satan. They actually represent two aspects of the misuse, the perversion, of the most basic elements of creation, namely the two forces depicted in the yin and the yang, often called the masculine and the feminine, the Alpha and the Omega. Lucifer has perverted the Alpha, the masculine aspect. Satan has perverted the feminine aspect, the Omega aspect.

This is what they represent. This is not to say that this is accomplished by two particular beings only, but for the purpose of using the cultural background that you have in the western world, we can say that Satan represents the misuse of the feminine element of creation, and Lucifer represents the misuse of the masculine element of creation.

When you have a perversion of either of these two elements, you cannot find balance, you cannot find the Middle Way. If you cannot find the Middle Way, you cannot make genuine spiritual progress. You cannot ascend from earth. You cannot enter a higher realm, whether you call it Nirvana, Heaven or anything else.

Why do I say that most religions on earth are Satanism in disguise? Because they have perverted the feminine aspect of creation, the feminine force of creation. This is an initiation that will be very prevalent in this coming year, but even beyond. It is time that humankind begins to understand the wisdom of the mother, which has, in the Christian, mystical tradition, been called the Divine Sophia. You may know of the scripture called the Pistis Sophia, where this concept is presented. Yet, there are other sources, so let me endeavor to explain to you what is the true wisdom of the Mother.

The wisdom of Father and Mother

The wisdom of the Father is that you are a co-creator with God. You have been given free will. Within the parameters set for planet earth, the Law of Free Will mandates that you have a right to experiment with your free will. The law also mandates that you will reap what you sow—you will make karma. You will experience the conditions that you project out by using your free will to direct the faculties, the co-creative faculties, of your mind.

The Alpha aspect is that you are a co-creator, that you have free will, and that you have the right to experiment with your co-creative abilities in the environment in which you have taken embodiment. The Omega aspect, the wisdom of the Mother is that any choice you make has consequences, and those consequences have a certain longevity in time and space.

That means that when you have made a certain choice, you cannot instantly undo that choice because the impulse that you have sent out into the four levels of the material universe will cycle through those levels, and it will come back to you. When it does come back, it may very well limit your ability to make completely free choices in your new return of karma.

The perversions of the masculine and the feminine

What has happened on earth is that there has been both a perversion of the masculine and the feminine aspect. The perversion of the masculine has caused, among other things, the arise of the illusion that you should be able to do anything you want, that there should be nothing that restricts your freedom. This is what you see in the western world in the many people who have abandoned traditional religion, meaning mainstream Christianity.

They do not want to have any doctrines or rules that restrict how they live their lives. Truly, this is a necessary stage on the spiritual path because if a soul has accepted this outer religion that claims that you can follow rules and this will take you to heaven, then you need to go through a certain stage of rebelling against this consciousness before you can move on to a higher level.

Nevertheless, this denial of any restriction of your freedom, which is a perversion of the father, naturally opens you up to a perversion of the mother where you simply do not understand the cycles of karmic return. Thus, when things happen, people do not understand why, and they become resentful. Some resent God, some resent the Mother, and this gives rise to hatred of the Father and hatred of the Mother.

The outcome of this scenario is that people are now in a situation where they experience that their choices are limited by the matter world, the world of the Mother. Given that people have another desire, another need, to understand their situation, mainstream religions have now been perverted by the satanic consciousness which says two things.

Number one, it says that you can look at the conditions in the material world and use them to make inferences and statements about what the reality of the spiritual realm is like. The effect of this state of consciousness is precisely what you see in many religious scriptures, such as the Old Testament, where people have projected the images of the human consciousness, the characteristics of the human consciousness, upon God. They have created the angry and judgmental God in the sky who will smite their enemies or justify that they themselves smite their enemies—men, women and children.

This is one perversion of the Mother: that spirit can be known or defined based on the conditions that exist in the material world. The other perversion of the Mother is that Spirit either cannot express itself in this world, or when it does so, should conform to the conditions already here. You see this in the western tradition in the desire of Peter to make Jesus conform to his mental image of what should or should not happen to the Christ in embodiment. What was the reaction of Jesus: “Get thee behind me Satan, for thou art an offense to me. Thou savourest not the things that be of God but the things that be of men.”

Christ helps you transcend

Jesus was a representative of the universal Christ consciousness, which is the consciousness sent by Spirit to help you transcend the consciousness that has created your own karmic return. It is the deliverer because it is the only way for you to transcend the very consciousness that has created your present situation. It is the only way for humankind to transcend the very consciousness that has caused them to collectively create the current situation on earth.

Christ then – or any true representative of the spiritual realm – comes to help you go beyond your perception, even beyond the conditions of the material world. What is it that Satan whispers in people’s ears that they must do? They must take the representative of Christ and force him to conform to their perception. But how can the Christ help you transcend your perception, if you demand that the Christ should conform to your perception or you will not listen to the Christ?

How Lucifer perverted the Father

This is the catch-22 that many people have created for themselves. It has not only come from the perversion of the Mother. It has also come from the Luciferian perversion of the Father relating to free will, denying that you either have it, or denying that you still have it after having made unwise choices in the past.

What have we attempted to explain now for several years? You cannot make a choice that cannot be undone through another choice. This is what Lucifer denied or attempted to make people deny. He attempted to make people believe that they could make certain choices for which there was no redemption, such as the concept of original sin.

Again, there is a subtlety. Yes, you cannot overcome the choices made by the human consciousness by staying in the human consciousness. Lifetimes ago, you accepted a certain identity for yourself. This became your higher mental state [at the identity level]. It has determined your perception of life.

Your perception of life is not simply that you receive sense impressions. Perception also has an alpha aspect, the active aspect, where you project out, but what you project is based upon what you have taken in.

You now see a situation where humankind collectively have created many limiting conditions on earth. You now take an individual human being who perceives the conditions currently found on earth. Based on this perception, the person then directs an impulse into the four levels of the material universe—the cosmic mirror. This creates karma.

When the karma comes back, the person will have to deal with it, and naturally, the person wants to escape it. But you cannot escape it with the same level of perception and the same mental state that created the karma in the first place. You will only seek to compensate or get away from it and that will only create another karmic impulse. All of a sudden, you are in a downward spiral that leads you to feel like you are drowning in the Sea of Samsara—and you are. You are drowning in your own karmic return and the collective karmic return created by humankind.

Yes, you cannot escape this on your own. You do need the Christ. You do need a higher state of consciousness. Yet, for that Christ to deliver you, you must make the choice to question your perception, your mental state, to abandon them and to accept Christ as the higher perception, the higher reality.

Yet, because of the combination of the perversion of the Alpha and the Omega, the perversion of the Divine Father and the Divine Mother, many people are so attached to their perception and their mental state that they think their current perception is more real than what is offered by the representatives of Christ. Therefore, they say to the representatives of Christ: “You are not real. You are a false teacher. You are a false guru. You have a false teaching.” How many times, my beloved, have we seen people react this way?

There is no ultimate experience

Many people are actually ready at inner levels to embrace the teachings of the ascended masters, but they have not yet come to the point of consciously being willing to question their current perception, even the sense of reality that they have.

My beloved, as long as you are in embodiment, it is always possible to have a higher, more pure, mystical experience. There is no ultimate experience possible while you are on earth. You may find any number of gurus in the world who claim that they have achieved some ultimate state of consciousness or authority. You may find any number of people who simply long to believe in this claim, thinking that if they follow this perfect guru, they themselves must be guaranteed to be saved.

Again, this is a necessary stage where people have to go into the School of Hard Knocks and get some very, very hard knocks by being disappointed by false gurus until they become open to the reality we teach, namely that you must go within, but that you must continue to go within, seeking for higher and higher experiences. This is the deeper reality that we of the ascended masters teach, that we have taught for a long time now, but that we have never taught as clearly and as directly as we do now.

Thus, for those of you who are open to this teaching, consider that you are receiving a unique opportunity to embrace it, to internalize it. You can thereby become one of the forerunners that will carve a pathway through the jungle of the collective consciousness. This will make it easier and easier for others to follow the trail, until they reach the mountain upon which sits the Buddha that I AM, even the many Buddhas of the many ascended masters who have reached the Buddhic level of consciousness.

See past your perception

My beloved, we give many teachings that may seem straightforward, but they have many layers. They can be understood at many different levels—at least 144 different levels for those of you who are in embodiment.

Perception is, and always has been, and always will be, the single greatest challenge on the spiritual path. Perception, combined with a sense of realism, is really the greatest deceiver of spiritual students. As I said, one of the basic needs that human beings have is that there must be something they think is real or they cannot function. If you do not believe the earth is real or that the sun will rise in the morning, how can you function in your daily life?

Yet, when you come to the higher levels of the spiritual path, it is absolutely necessary that you begin to question your perception. We have no desire to have you become a skeptic who questions everything and believes nothing is real. We have no desire to have you become an agnostic who says that a human being can never know what is real. You cannot know what is real from a distance, but you can experience something that is real.

We do not desire you to intellectually question your perception. We do desire you to go into a twofold process of using our teachings, our invocations, our decrees, to question, to look at, to become more aware of, your perception while, at the same time, using our tools to seek for a direct, inner experience of a higher state of awareness, even the pure awareness that is possible for you. When you have this experience, then you will still know that something is real. We only ask you to be very careful not to ever think that you have had the ultimate or the highest possible experience. As long as you are in embodiment, there is no such thing.

We also ask you to consider very carefully to separate the inner experience of reality from any outer context, including your physical body, your outer personality, what many people call your soul, a particular religious ideology, even the outer teachings of the ascended masters. Any outer teaching expressed in words can only be an approximation. It can only be a description of reality—it is not reality itself.

Any teaching is affected by cultural context

Words are inherently tied to the culture in which they are used. They are given very subtle, sometimes very ambiguous, meanings by that culture. If you do not understand this, you might come to be attached to a certain teaching, a certain worded expression.

What I am giving you through this messenger is a genuine teaching, but I could give a similar teaching about similar concepts in a completely different way in a completely different cultural context. I could not do it through this messenger who has grown up in a particular cultural context and, therefore, is used to using words in a certain way. But if I had a messenger who has grown up in a completely different cultural context, then I could give the same teaching in a different way that might seem very strange, even false, to those of you who have grown up in a Western culture. Yet it would seem perfectly acceptable and profound to those beings in that other culture.

This is not to say that you need to downplay the importance of a given teaching that has helped you expand your awareness, be it this one or another teaching. It is not to say that you need to go and doubt the validity of all teachings, but it is to say that you should not turn any teaching into an end in itself and worship it as the graven image that you set before the direct, inner experience, not of a higher description, but of something that is beyond description, beyond words—that is pure awareness.

The highest truth is the formless. The formless is beyond all form. This is the Buddha nature that is the source of all form but can never be confined to any form. Truly, if you could internalize the teachings I have given in this relatively short discourse, you would be what many people call enlightened, although you would also see the folly of attaching any label to yourself.

The thoughtform for 2014

The thoughtform I wish to give you for this coming year of 2014 is that, in the center of the earth, sits a Buddha figure. It is not a Buddha figure, as you would normally see, that has a smooth exterior. It is a Buddha figure that, as it were, is made up of a diamond with many facets.

Each facet of this three-dimensional Buddha figure is a facet that radiates light to a particular nation on the surface of the earth. For this year of 2014, the Buddha figure radiates yellow, golden light, the light of the second ray of wisdom to all countries. Each country receives a unique facet, adapted to the current level of consciousness in that country and the initiations they need to pass in this coming year and beyond.

Thus, if you wish to pass your personal initiations and the initiations of your country, spend a little time to meditate on this multi-faceted diamond Buddha in the center of the earth. For I AM that Buddha, and I hold the balance for the earth, as I AM indeed the Lord of the World. Gautama, I AM!

 

Copyright © 2014 by Kim Michaels

Give Up Changing the Fallen Beings


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Ascended Master Jesus through Kim Michaels.

I am the ascended master Jesus Christ, and I wish to give you a different perspective on the Easter story. Instead of focusing on the resurrection, I wish to focus on the fact that I was arrested by the powers that be, the power elite, and that I was imprisoned, that I was humiliated in various ways, that I was judged by them, and that I was eventually executed after being tortured.

This is a parallel to what all of you experience when you are in physical embodiment and when you begin to approach your Christhood. It will not, of course, take the same physical form where you will also be nailed to a cross made of wood, but it will take some form or other, perhaps not even physical. Perhaps you will be persecuted and crucified in the emotional realm, the mental realm or the identity realm.

But there will be some persecution even in the physical. It is simply part of the deal, my beloved, when you volunteer to embody on earth. It has always been so since the fall of this planet and the first fallen beings embodied here, for they will attack those who are the Holy Innocents. They will attack those who are the light bringers, those who dare let their light so shine before men, those who will not hide it beneath the conditions defined by the fallen beings.

The awakening is drawing closer

These fallen beings form a force on this earth, and in their blindness – their spiritual blindness – they have such spiritual pride and arrogance that they believe they control life. They believe that they can shut out the Christ and the Christ light from this planet. I came 2,000 years ago to prove them wrong. I did prove them wrong, for there was a group of fallen beings that was taken out of embodiment back then and they will never again embody here.

You may look at Christianity as it has unfolded over the past 2,000 years and you may see that it has not produced millions of people with the same level of Christ consciousness. You may think that even though the fallen beings could not kill me by killing my body, they have still killed my example, they have killed the church, the religion that claims to represent me.

But I tell you, it is not so for there are still the 10,000 and the millions more who are ready to manifest Christhood in this embodiment and they are coming ever closer. Some have found the teachings we have given through this and other messengers. Some have known from within or even through a teaching not given directly by the ascended masters.

People are beginning to awaken and realize that we are standing before a monumental shift in consciousness on this planet and that they have a role in it. In order to fulfill that role they need to transcend that sense of self, they need to transcend themselves, their former limitations and conditions.

Being in a close relationship with fallen beings

I would give you a deeper teaching than I have given before about how you deal with the fallen beings. There are many of those who volunteered to come to earth with Sanat Kumara, or after Sanat Kumara came, who have volunteered, as Venus explained, [See the book The Song of Life Healing Matrix] to give an opportunity to those who are trapped in the fallen consciousness. Many of the spiritual people on earth have embodied in close relationships with those in the fallen consciousness. It may be parents, spouses, children, family members or people that you otherwise associate with. It is often people where you have a very close physical relationship that can even be a physical dependence.

This is a common scenario because when you are in your last embodiment or close to what is your last embodiment, you want to pass the initiations and you want to pass them quickly. There is no better way to pass the last initiations than to be in such close association in your personal relationships with a fallen being. Not all of you are meant to stand up to the fallen ones in a public setting, as I did. Many of you have, at least as an initial step, chosen to embody with fallen beings in these close, personal relationships.

What is the key to passing this initiation? First of all it is that you do not allow the fallen beings to change you to the point where you deny your Christhood. You will often have to hold back your Christhood in order to even associate with the fallen beings, but this does not mean that you have to compromise it to the point where you cannot express it—when you have fulfilled divine cycles and you no longer need to be concerned about adapting and maintaining a relationship.

What then is the key to moving to the next level of initiation? In many cases you have a deep sense that you are meant to help this other person. You may, over time, begin to see certain patterns in that person’s psychology, and you may see that the person is not willing to look at this, is not able to look at this, and will not acknowledge that he or she has a problem even though you may have demonstrated how you have transcended yourself many times during the course of the relationship.

This makes it easy for you to come to that point of thinking that you have to change the other person. However, if you allow yourself to believe that you need to change a person who is in the fallen consciousness, you are making your own progress and your ascension dependent on the choices of another self-aware being.

We might say that the person in the fallen consciousness is not truly self-aware at the highest definition of that word. You are making your life dependent on the choices of an unenlightened being who may think that he or she is smart and spiritual, but who is nevertheless trapped in the blindness of the fallen consciousness.

This is something you do not want to do, my beloved. I tell you that many of you who are the spiritual people, many of you who have that Holy Innocence buried somewhere deep within your hearts, you need to consider that perhaps it is time for you to look at the people in your circle of influence, to begin to identify who are the ones in the fallen consciousness and therefore begin to look at how your relationships with these people have affected yourself, your view of yourself, your view of spirituality, your abilities to express your light, your abilities to do things in the physical.

There is no one in the fallen consciousness who is not trapped in the pattern of wanting to control others, wanting you to be in a co-dependent relationship that you cannot move out of because they have managed to put on you the belief that you are somehow limited, that you should somehow hold yourself back in order to maintain that relationship. They want to keep you trapped, they often even believe that they are the ones who have given you a certain position or a certain ability, and therefore they have some sense of ownership over you.

NOTE: The rest of this dictation is available here and in the book Freedom from Ego Dramas

 

Copyright © 2013 Kim Michaels

Claiming Your Innocence

Ascended Master Jesus through Kim Michaels.

The most subtle and thus potentially most devastating effect of the epic dramas is that they rob you of your innocence. If you try to center your attention in your heart, you will notice that deep within your being is the sense that you have lost something, perhaps even a sense of irretrievable loss. That sense of loss comes from the fact that the Conscious You can never quite forget that it has lost the most precious gift with which it came into this world. We might call it innocence, but I have also called it pure awareness, an awareness that is not colored by the value-laden polarities of the mind of anti-christ.

Most of the people who will be open to this book are those who did not come into being as new co-creators on planet earth. You have come from other planets or from other realms and you have descended to earth on what we might call a rescue mission. Even using the word “rescue mission” is dangerous because it so easily ties in to the epic mindset.

Christ and judgment

Consider how my coming to this earth has been presented as the most epic act ever, namely the descent of the only son of God on the ultimate rescue mission to wrestle the world from the hands of the devil and prevent all people from being condemned to an eternity in hell. In reality, this was not at all the purpose for my coming, and if you have read the first books in this series, you will already know why: Free will is the ultimate law.

The fallen beings are the ones who want to force the free will of human beings. Those who represent Christ will never seek to force people’s free will, for we know it is only through making choices that people grow, and growth in self-awareness is the purpose of the universe. We might challenge people to let go of beliefs and attitudes that restrict their free will, making it less than free, but even this is not done through force.

All that a Christed beings ever does or will do is to be who it is. As a Christed being, you are the open door for your I AM Presence. You no longer have an outer self which evaluates what should or should not be done based on some standard or the conditions found on earth. You are letting your I AM Presence shine its light wherever it listeth and you have no opinion or judgment about what should come from the Presence. Neither do you have any opinion or judgment about how other people should react or how they do react. You are not adapting the light to them deliberately based on a mental image, although the expression of light will be somewhat influenced by the fact that you have grown up in a certain culture and you express yourself in the conceptual language of that culture.

This is innocence. You do not judge what comes from the I AM Presence. You do not judge what other people should do with it. You do not judge what they actually do and then let your outer mind set up restrictions for how the light should be expressed in the future. You are allowing the I AM Presence – who has the infinitely broader perspective from the spiritual realm – to judge what it sends forth. You allow the Presence to judge what happens here on earth.

I know I said that the father judges no man but has committed all judgment to the son. I know that I also called the I AM Presence “father.” However, I used the word “father” to refer to both the Creator and your Presence. The son is the Christ mind, and the Creator has given it to that mind to judge. The I AM Presence uses the Christ mind in order to “judge” what you encounter on earth. When the Conscious You fulfills its role of being the open door (and nothing more), you no longer have an outer self that judges what you encounter on earth. You remain centered in pure awareness and you simply observe, you witness what is happening without judging. You have no human opinions or expectations—and thus no pain or suffering. Every situation is new and you meet it with a clean state of mind. You have become as a little child.

The I AM Presence does “judge” but it does not do so based on the dualistic standard of the fallen beings. You can experience the evaluation of your I AM Presence, but you can do so only when you have systematically let the human self die. If you have not done so, you will – often without being aware of what you are doing – impose subtle judgments from the human mind upon the Presence. You will have a subtle desire for what the Presence should or should not express through you. You will also want the Presence (or the ascended masters or God) to validate and confirm the judgments of your ego. The ascended masters will never do this, but there are plenty of false hierarchy impostors who will validate any judgment of your ego.

I have said that those who attain Christhood may indeed serve to bring forth a judgment of the fallen beings so that these beings can no longer embody on earth. This judgment is not brought about by you forming an evaluation with the human mind and then thinking God will validate your view of another person. The judgment of Christ is brought about when you attain innocence and allow your Presence to express light that the fallen beings then reject or put down. It is in this act of rejecting the light of Christ that the fallen beings are judged.

I trust you see the vital difference. The fallen beings are not judged based on choices you make. They are judged based on choices they make. You are simply being the open door for the light that “forces” them to choose this day whom they will serve.

As a Christed being you never force the will of other people, you never force them to make a specific choice. You are simply an open door for the light of the Presence, and when this light is expressed on earth, no one (especially not the fallen beings) can ignore it. They must either accept or reject the light, and their choice is their judgment. According to the Law of Free Will, you do not have the right to force anyone from the mind of anti-christ. You do have the right to force someone to react to the light of Christ being expressed through you. The reason being that the choices of other people to go into the mind of anti-christ can never override or set aside your right to go into the mind of Christ and becoming an open door for that mind to shine its light into the dark dungeons of earth.

NOTE: The rest of this dictation is available in the book Freedom from Ego Dramas.

 

Copyright © 2013 Kim Michaels

Does the Christ Have Opinions?

Ascended Master Jesus through Kim Michaels.

I want you to seriously consider whether a Christed being has human opinions. You have likely been brought up to think you need to have opinions about everything, including political issues, religious issues and how other people live their lives. Many spiritual seekers have experienced that as they discovered the path they became aware of a lot of issues that most “normal” people do not even think about. This has caused many sincere spiritual seekers to formulate a set of opinions beyond what most people have. Many even think that having these opinions and holding on to them is part of their spiritual growth. Why did I tell people not to judge after appearances?

It is indeed a subtle effect of the epic dramas that you need to formulate an opinion about everything you encounter in life. What is an opinion? It is often a black-and-white judgment based on a very one-sided view of the issue or of other people. It causes people to judge an issue based on limited knowledge, and once the judgment is formed, the ego thinks it is a matter of life or death never to change it or have it proven wrong.

What is the effect of this? It causes people to identify themselves with their opinions. In reality, you are the Conscious You and you are pure awareness. Pure awareness is beyond any human opinion or judgment. A human opinion is formed in the outer self, but the Conscious You does not become the outer self and thus it does not become the opinions of the outer self. It is not a matter of life or death for the Conscious You if an opinion is proven wrong. It is only a matter of life and death for the spirit who was formed to defend that opinion. Do you really want to have your conscious attention eaten up by an inconsequential effort to defend the opinions of spirits that have no real life in them?

The quest never to be wrong

Another effect of the epic dramas is that they project that it is epically important for a human being to have the right opinions. Being wrong is disastrous in an epic way so it is essential that you are never proven wrong. What does it mean to never be proven wrong? It means that one of your opinions is never proven wrong.

What have I said is the characteristic of the duality consciousness? It always has two opposing polarities. This means that any opinion which is formulated based on the duality consciousness will have an opposite. As long as an opinion has an opposite, it can always be proven wrong. When you adopt a dualistic opinion, you are actually allowing a spirit to enter your soul vehicle. There will always be another spirit which has the opposite opinion of the one you adopted. You cannot avoid being affected by the conflict between these two spirits.

The fallen beings have managed to trick most people into a never-ending game of seeking to never be proven wrong by defending your opinions. It is inevitable that some other people will have adopted the exact opposite of your opinion so your opinion will always be threatened by its opposite. You now have to prove that the opinions of other people are wrong in order to defend your own opinion. As a quick look at history will prove, there is literally no end to this game. It will consume your attention right up until the Conscious You awakens and becomes wise as a serpent and harmless as a dove. Meaning that you see the fallacy of needing to have opinions and you give up all desire to be proven right among men, seeking instead to be right with God.

The fallen beings have created a very aggressive force that does attack anyone who dares to express Christhood in this world. Most of the lifestreams who have the potential to manifest Christhood at this time came to earth in order to help raise this planet beyond the fallen consciousness. When you first came here, the fallen beings knew you were a threat to their control so they attacked you viciously. Their aim was to in any way possible prove you wrong by criticizing you, ridiculing you and putting you down. They would literally do anything – including lying in all kinds of ways – in order to prove you wrong.

What was their purpose? It was to get you to feel that in order to prove that they were wrong for making you look wrong, you had to engage in an effort to prove them wrong. The violent fallen beings pull you into a dualistic game by presenting you with a situation where it seems like you have to kill them in order to prevent them from killing you. The deceptive fallen beings seek to pull you into the game of proving them wrong in order to avoid having them prove you wrong. If you fall for this deception, you are now caught in a drama to prove others wrong rather than being an open door for the light from your I AM Presence. The light can indeed raise the world whereas proving others wrong will never raise the world.

Take note of what I have said about duality. Every opinion has an opposite, meaning there is no final argument, there is no absolute truth. You will not promote the growth of the earth by proving the devil wrong. You will promote the growth of this planet only by raising yourself above the entire dualistic game of proving one dualistic illusion right by proving another dualistic illusion wrong. When you have pulled that beam from your own eye, you will then see clearly and can now seek to help others do the same.

NOTE: The rest of this dictation is available in the book Freedom from Ego Dramas.

 

Copyright © 2013 Kim Michaels

The World Might End

Ascended Master Jesus through Kim Michaels.

If you have ever been exposed to what is called “high-pressure” sales methods, you will know the psychological mechanism. The goal is to create a sense of urgency, meaning that you have to buy now or lose a unique opportunity that will never come back. As mentioned before, the goal is to get you to make rash decisions that you would never make if you took time to step back and look at the situation from a larger perspective. The sense of urgency narrows your perspective, gives you tunnel vision and forces you to focus on the need to make a decision right now, meaning you must make it with the information you have available now, the information presented to you by the sales person.

The fallen beings invented this tactic and they use it effectively through the epic dramas. One of the subtle ideas projected into the collective consciousness is that the earth might be destroyed or that it could be taken over by the devil. What worse threat is imaginable for human beings? What could create a greater sense of urgency? What better way to force people to make rash decisions based on incomplete knowledge, the knowledge presented by the fallen beings with no external frame of reference?

Could the earth be destroyed?

There is some reality to the claim that a planet could be destroyed. This has happened to a number of planets and some of the fallen beings who have embodied on earth have experienced it first-hand. From that perspective, one could say they are right in warning human beings that this is a possibility. The problem is that it is only a possibility because of the presence of the fallen beings. It only becomes a realistic possibility when a critical number of human beings blindly follow the fallen beings and engage in the epic struggle against other human beings.

It now becomes obvious that the fallen beings are using the threat of the destruction of the earth in order to create urgency and get people to fight each other. They are not seeking to warn people out of the goodness of their hearts. They are seeking to manipulate people through fear, and some of them believe they can avoid having the earth be destroyed. Some of them feel no reverence for the earth as a planet and don’t care if it is destroyed. Some would even gain a sense of power from destroying (another) planet.

Let me now give you a realistic assessment from the ascended perspective. Planet earth has recently crossed an important dividing line and it is no longer a possibility that this planet could be destroyed or could self-destruct. This is caused by the fact that a critical number of people in embodiment have risen above the epic mindset to such a degree that certain fallen beings have been taken from the planet. There is no longer any fallen being in embodiment with the momentum of evil that could bring the earth to the point of destruction.

You may have read prophecies of a “third anti-christ” that should supposedly rise in the near future and bring the earth into an all-out war. This potential was there until recently, but it is no longer a possibility. Due to certain people rising to the necessary level of Christhood, the fallen being who could have filled this role has been taken from the earth and will never again be allowed to embody here.

There is no longer a realistic risk that the earth could be destroyed or could be taken over by evil. I am telling you this because I know very well that when people begin to awaken to the spiritual path, they will of necessity expand their awareness of many topics that most people ignore. This will cause spiritual seekers to take prophecy seriously, and many have been sucked into a fear-based spiral, making a variety of unbalanced decisions. The net effect being that many of the people who were on the brink of awakening have actually been pulled even deeper into the epic mindset. Even many ascended master students have been pulled into thinking that they are locked in a to-the-death fight against the dark forces on this planet.

NOTE: The rest of this dictation is available in the book Freedom from Ego Dramas.

 

Copyright © 2013 Kim Michaels

God Needs Your Help

Ascended Master Jesus through Kim Michaels.

As I have explained, there are two main groups of fallen beings, the violent ones and the deceptive ones. The violent ones are what most people see as evil, and they truly are hell-bent on destroying human beings and everything positive built on earth. They are absolutely determined to destroy, and they have no reverence for life. You cannot reason with them, you cannot talk them out of destroying because they have crossed a line where no reasoning is possible. Why do they do this? Partly because they enjoy the act itself and partly because they enjoy the sense of power that it gives them. They enjoy having the power to destroy the ideal growth scenario defined by God and the ascended masters.

Even though the presence of the violent fallen beings on earth is clearly something we would like to see come to an end, these beings are not our primary concern. Our main concern is to help you see through the deceptive fallen beings because they are the ones who are preventing the removal of the violent beings from earth. How do they do this? The equation is simple. As long as human beings are willing to fight the violent fallen beings – as long as people resist evil – these beings cannot be removed from the earth. What makes people willing to resist evil? The epic dramas defined by the deceptive fallen beings. It really is that simple.

Is God evil?

The function of the violent fallen beings is to provide such a presence of evil that human beings cannot ignore it and are manipulated into looking for a way out. People get the sense that there is an urgency, meaning they must do something. This makes them susceptible to the idea that they must fight evil and the people whom they see as representing evil.

The underlying illusion that is being projected by the deceptive fallen beings is that the presence of evil on this planet proves that something has gone wrong with God’s plan. This has been used to argue that God is either incompetent or that God must be evil.

The deceptive fallen beings have projected the image that God is almighty and that God is wholly good. The presence of evil seems to contradict both of these claims. If God is almighty, then God must be able to remove evil from earth. The fact that he has not done so leaves only two options. Either God is not almighty, meaning evil has such power that even God can’t remove it. Or God is not willing to remove evil from this planet. If God is not willing to remove evil, how could he be wholly good? How could a good God allow evil to continue and refuse to use his power to remove it?

In order to see through this deception, you need to recognize that the image of God projected by the fallen beings is out of touch with reality. God is neither all-powerful nor good—when good is defined as the opposite of evil. As I have explained several times, God has given self-aware beings free will because that is the only way they can grow in self-awareness. God has then set up a universe in which you have maximum opportunities for exercising your free will without destroying yourself.

The Creator does indeed have the power to eradicate evil on a planet like earth. Or rather, God’s representatives have that power, as the Creator itself does not even see the evil on earth. The seven Elohim created this planet and they can at any time wipe the slate clean and remove evil. Doing so would, however, be contrary to the purpose for which the earth was created, namely as a laboratory for self-aware beings to exercise their free will and see the results outpictured in the material realm.

We might say that while the Elohim have the power to remove evil, they have suspended that power, allowing it to be dependent upon the choices of human beings in embodiment. As I have explained, only when a critical mass of human beings had gone into duality were the fallen beings allowed to embody here. They will be removed only when a critical mass choose to rise above duality by refusing to resist evil and turning the other cheek.

The reality that the fallen beings do not want you to know is that it is not God who can remove evil from earth but you. The Elohim have the power but not the authority. Human beings have the authority but not the power. What is missing is that a critical mass of human beings give the authority to the ascended masters so that we can remove evil. How can you give us this authority? You cannot give it to us as long as you remain in the dualistic mindset, for this is precisely what allows the continued presence of evil. You can give us the authority only by rising above this mindset, and this means you must rise above the epic dramas and stop resisting evil.

Just to be clear, God did not sit up in heaven and make the decision to allow evil to appear on earth. God is not evil but God has allowed everything in the material world to depend upon the choices of beings embodying here. This really cannot be put on a scale with evil at one end and human good at the other. It simply is the way it is. You either accept this with the Christ mind or you reject it with the mind of anti-christ.

NOTE: The rest of this dictation is available in the book Freedom from Ego Dramas.

 

Copyright © 2013 Kim Michaels

You Know Better Than God

Ascended Master Jesus through Kim Michaels.

As I have just explained, the only way out of suffering is to start to make your own choices and ask for guidance from the Christ mind. It should be no surprise that the fallen beings have attempted to block this way out. A very dangerous effect of the epic mindset is that it makes people think they know better than God or the ascended masters. They use a specific teaching or idea that is in the physical realm as a justification for refusing either our teachings given as progressive revelation or the words and ideas we give them directly within their own minds. You would scarcely believe how many people who actually know about ascended masters but have rejected valid directions they get from within themselves, either from their Christ selves, their I AM Presences or from their personal ascended teachers. This is clearly the greatest single obstacle for our efforts to free individuals and raise the collective consciousness.

A special concern in this respect is that there are many people who have come to accept a specific outer teaching as coming from us and therefore being a valid teaching. They now use the outer teaching that is in the physical as a justification for rejecting the Living Word that we seek to give them from within. There are even those who are still so absolutely convinced about the validity of the epic dramas that they have interpreted ascended master teachings from the epic mindset, being convinced that we really do affirm the epic struggle and the necessity to defeat dark forces.

These people will take our teachings about fallen beings and reason that it is justified to use force or violence in order to remove the fallen beings from the earth and defeat their schemes. Look back at history and see how much warring has taken place on this planet. If it had been possible to remove the fallen beings through violence, don’t you think it would have already happened?

By the very fact that it has not happened, it should be obvious that it is not possible to remove the fallen beings through violence. The simple reason is that every act of violence perpetuates the epic struggle and thus helps the fallen beings stay in embodiment and stay in control. The fallen beings were allowed to come to this planet because a critical mass of human beings had gone into duality. They will be removed only when a critical mass of human beings transcend duality. It would be a joy for us if those who claim to be our students would be among the first to take this step into a new state of consciousness where you are wise to the serpents but so harmless that they cannot pull you into the struggle.

Of course, what I have said here is not obvious to those still blinded by duality. They will insist that the epic struggle is real and they will even quote our previous teachings in order to prove their point.

The reality of progressive revelation

What I am doing through this messenger is progressive revelation. In the past, we have brought forth teachings through other messengers that were also examples of valid progressive revelation. What does it mean that  revelation is progressive? In the 1930s we brought forth certain teachings that were specifically designed to help people at a certain level of consciousness transcend that level. As I have said before, we had to give these teachings in such a way that the people at this level could accept them, meaning they would have to contain elements that were defined by the limitations of people’s consciousness. The teachings also contained elements that could help people go beyond that level.

As a critical mass of people used these teachings to rise to a higher level, it became possible for us to bring forth new teachings designed for a higher level of consciousness. These teachings did not contain some of the limiting elements from the previous teaching, and this caused some students of the earlier teachings to reject them because they did not validate some of their cherished beliefs. They also contained elements that went beyond the old teaching and this caused other students to reject them because they seemingly contradicted previous teachings.

Some students did take the new teachings and they used them to transcend the level of consciousness for which the teachings were designed. This once again gave us the authorization to bring forth teachings for the next level of consciousness. When will this process stop? When the last person has ascended from earth—and realistically, that is quite a ways into the future.

There are, of course, still many people in embodiment who have not transcended the level of consciousness addressed in the teachings we gave in the 1930s or even earlier. There is nothing wrong with people focusing on the teaching suited to their level of consciousness and ignoring later teachings. Yet any ascended master student should be very careful to avoid using one teaching to reject a later teaching. If your use of a given teaching is successful, it is only natural that you transcend a certain level of consciousness. Once you have done so, you will not have maximum growth by continuing to follow that teaching for the rest of this lifetime. You will only have maximum growth by stepping up to the next teaching and continuing to do so as you get inner direction. Of course, if you fix your outer mind on having to follow a specific outer teaching for the rest of your life, you will reject that inner direction, won’t you?

Many ascended master students have the potential to truly overcome the epic mindset in this lifetime. In order to do so, they have to be willing to look at the fact that the epic mindset makes people’s egos think they know better than God and better than the ascended masters. It is essential for your growth that you make an effort to step outside your outer self and experience the pure awareness that is the open door to direct contact with your I AM Presence and your ascended teachers. Only then will you be able to accept the direction that we offer you directly within yourself. Take note that I am not telling you to follow an outer teaching, not even this messenger and teaching. I am telling you to follow your inner direction—once you are able to receive it. We have given many tools for helping you open your mind to that inner direction. [See www.transcendencetoolbox.com.]

NOTE: The rest of this dictation is available in the book Freedom from Ego Dramas.

 

Copyright © 2013 Kim Michaels

A Specific Outcome MUST Be Achieved

Ascended Master Jesus through Kim Michaels.

Another subtle consequence of the epic world view is that it projects the idea that on earth a specific outcome must be achieved in order to manifest God’s plan and avoid the worst possible disaster. This is a very serpentine idea that has trapped numerous spiritual people in various blind alleys so I will look at it from different angles.

Any experience can help you grow

I have said that you have free will and you have the right to have any experience possible on earth until you have had enough of it and want something higher. What determines the kind of experience you desire to have? Naturally, you cannot desire to have an experience that you cannot see as a possibility. Before the fallen beings arrived on this planet, many of the experiences that people today take for granted simply were not available. Large scale conflict, what you today call war, had not taken place on this planet so having the experience of being a warrior or a general commanding vast armies was simply not in the field of view of human beings. They couldn’t even desire it because they couldn’t see it as a possibility.

This is where certain fallen beings would take what I said earlier and say that this proves people were restricted in how they exercised their free will. The fallen beings have given people greater freedom of will by showing them options they could not see on their own. From a certain perspective, I would even say this is correct. Why did the karmic board allow fallen beings to embody on earth? Because the inhabitants of earth had already gone into the struggle consciousness. By allowing the fallen beings to embody here, the struggle would be intensified and this would have the effect that people would more quickly have had enough of the struggle.

From an overall perspective, any experience that is possible in the material universe can serve to take you to the point where you have had enough of that kind of experience and want something higher. Any experience you can have through separation can serve to take you to the point where you have had enough of the struggle and want more, therefore reaching for the Christ consciousness.

What we need to add here is that what the fallen beings did was to help people see options that would limit their self-awareness even more than what human beings had envisioned themselves. The fallen beings did not actually free people. They deceived them into limiting their self-awareness whereby they blindly follow the fallen beings. As I have said, this can also expand your self-awareness but only when you awaken from the illusion.

What we now see is that in the original scenario, lifestreams would be on a path that would gradually expand their self-awareness. It was a steady upward curve where people never took a backward step. After the fallen beings arrived here, most people have gone into a downward spiral of limiting their self-awareness. The downward momentum continued until people had created such an intense struggle for themselves that they could no longer stand it and cried out for deliverance.

People have then gone through a very abrupt awakening, have asked for our help and we have given it in order to help them climb to a higher level of self-awareness. Some have then been ensnared by another serpentine illusion and have again started limiting their self-awareness. Again, they had to hit bottom before they asked for help and again we delivered it.

From a purely pragmatic perspective, this process can eventually lead people to have seen so much struggle that they give up the entire struggle consciousness. This will also lead to a growth in self-awareness, but it will include infinitely more suffering than the steady upward progress designed by the ascended masters. Beyond the suffering, there is also a mechanism that makes the epic dramas a very serious trap that can delay the awakening for many people.

The cost of making choices

In the original scenario, people would make choices, observe the consequences and then use their experience to make new choices. In this scenario, it never even entered their minds to consider that they might have made a wrong choice. Why would they think so when every choice led to consequences that caused them to expand their self-awareness and experience life as richer than before?

With the advent of the fallen beings and their epic dramas, a new consideration was projected into the collective consciousness, namely that certain choices are right and certain choices are wrong. How was this achieved? By defining that there is a specific outcome here on earth that must come to pass according to God’s plan. This led to a very subtle shift in people’s approach to life.

Before, people had the approach that the goal of life was the growth in self-awareness. Any choice you make leads to consequences and you learn from the consequences by evaluating: “Do I want more of this or do I want less of this?” The overall result is that you learn from all choices and that you expand your self-awareness. You know what works for you and what doesn’t work for you, which means you also learn who you are. We might say that people’s focus was on producing a result that reaches beyond the material world, namely growth in self-awareness.

In the fallen scenario the focus of life suddenly became to produce specific results here in the material world. It was projected that producing this material result was more important than your individual growth in self-awareness. You should submit your individual will and growth to bringing about this collective result. There was now a new way to evaluate the consequences of your choices. It was no longer about what leads to growth, it was a matter of what was right and wrong based on the superior standard (a standard defined by the fallen beings).

The arrival of the fallen beings happened a long time ago, so long ago that it can’t easily be fitted into the current understanding of human history. For a very long time, countless people have fed their energy and attention into creating a spirit in the collective consciousness. This spirit, or beast, has become very powerful and there is now such a force directed at people that most people simply cannot see what is right and wrong about right and wrong. They uncritically accept that there is an overall standard for what is right and what is wrong and that such a standard was defined by God. They unknowingly submit to the beast and become blind followers of the fallen leaders. In order to rise above a certain level of Christhood, you have to come to see the fallacy of this entire mindset so let me give you a teaching on this.

All human beings have been affected by this spirit that there must be a standard for right and wrong. Many spiritual seekers have transferred that to their spiritual teaching and even our students believe the ascended masters have defined a standard for what is right and wrong. What is the most subtle psychological effect of this mindset? It is that if you make certain choices, those choices were wrong. Because of the intense momentum created over eons of time, it is very difficult to admit a mistake because most people cannot stop themselves from going into deep feelings of guilt, self-blame, fear and other negative emotions.

The subtle psychological consequence is that before the advent of the fallen beings, it was very easy for people to change their choices. If a choice produced a consequence they did not want more of, they simply made a different choice, abandoning the old one. They didn’t think: “Oh, I made a mistake, I was wrong and that makes me a bad person.” They simply changed their minds and moved on.

Today, admitting that one of your choices was not the best one carries a major penalty. You made a mistake that can be wrong in an epic sense with all of the negative emotions that might produce. What is the effect? That it has now become very tempting to avoid admitting that you “were wrong,” making it much more difficult for you to change direction in life. Once you have gone into the epic mindset, it becomes very difficult to get back out.

NOTE: The rest of this dictation is available in the book Freedom from Ego Dramas.

 

Copyright © 2013 Kim Michaels

Could God Make a Mistake?

Ascended Master Jesus through Kim Michaels.

One aspect of my role as a spiritual teacher is to stir you into action, to give you an energetic impulse that can help you rise above your normal state of awareness and decide to embark on a new phase of your path to Christhood. This path has both evolutionary and revolutionary phases, and sometimes you do truly need to awaken to a new realization that helps you make a decision to rise to a new level. That is what I sought to do in the previous discourse.

Once you have risen to a new level, you will, of course, face the evolutionary challenge of dealing with the initiations of that level. Hopefully, I have now helped you see the need to rise to the level where you are consciously dealing with the epic dramas, and in the following discourses I will give you the insights that will empower you to transcend these dramas.

The epic dramas have had major physical consequences on this planet, but the most devastating effect is that they present you with an enigma, a riddle that is difficult to solve. This is what causes many people to either accept the dramas and seek to outplay them or to become so overwhelmed by the dramas that they are spiritually paralyzed. Just look at the story of the temptation of Eve where Eve was cast into doubt by the serpentine logic.

The epic dramas distort the way people look at every aspect of life and they do so in a way that is very difficult for most lifestreams to deal with. New co-creators simply don’t have the self-awareness to deal with the questions posed by the epic dramas. That is why they are often paralyzed by doubt and cannot reason against the serpentine logic presented in the dramas. They have not become wise as serpents, and that makes it very difficult to become harmless as doves.

As you step onto the path to Christhood, you must start to deal with the serpentine illusions and overcome them one by one. You must become wise as serpents while becoming completely non-violent and overcoming all desire to use force. In order to reach the highest level of Christhood, you must overcome each and every serpentine illusion. This truly must be done through Christ discernment that can only come from inside yourself. Your ability to reason can be a valuable tool for getting started on the process of building Christ discernment. To that end, I will give you some insights in order to help you sharpen your reasoning ability and your discernment. Let us reason together.

The difference between true and false teachers

As a new co-creator you have only a limited self-awareness and you are simply not ready to deal with large or cosmological questions. As you grow in self-awareness, you will expand your ability to deal with such questions. You will also be guided by your spiritual teacher to deal with each and every question related to life, God and the universe. However, take note of an important difference.

The true spiritual teacher is not in duality and has no personal need to  control you or convince you that a certain viewpoint is right. Such a teacher will present you with the Christ reality about a certain topic or question. He or she will start by letting you make your own decision and will then give you teachings or ask you questions aimed at guiding you towards a higher understanding. If you want an example of how a teacher might work, consider the Greek Philosopher Socrates who asked questions in order to get people to question what they took for granted.

The true teacher has no need to get you to accept any particular view because the real aim is to raise your self-awareness, which can happen only through your own internal processes. The true teacher has no agenda and simply seeks to stimulate your internal process without controlling it or working towards a particular outcome. Contrary to what many people believe, the aim of a true teacher is not to get you to accept certain facts or dogmas but to raise your level of self-awareness. Furthermore, the true teacher never directs any forceful or aggressive energy at you. Why is this so? Because the true teacher has personally resolved all questions and knows that God’s plan for the universe works perfectly. He works within that plan and sees no need to correct it.

In contrast, the false teachers believe there is a fundamental flaw in God’s design. They have various specific ways of describing this flaw, as we will see, yet the true “flaw” they do not like is that all self-aware beings were created equal, meaning that God did not put them in charge of the universe. They wanted to rule their original sphere and have special status and privileges. When they were not allowed to, they rebelled and have ever since tried to prove God wrong by getting other beings to misuse their free will. They have also tried to set themselves up in this world with the power and privileges they so strongly crave.

As a result of this, they do have a clear agenda, and it is not to raise your self-awareness. It is to get you to unknowingly limit your self-awareness so you never manifest and express your Christhood on earth. Christianity is simply a mind-control machine designed to make sure that there will never be another person doing the works that I did.

The main mode of the false teachers is that they seek to deceive you and cast doubt upon everything. You may say that Socrates also raised doubt about everything, but the difference was in both intention and method. It is one thing to ask questions that make people think, it is another thing to accuse people that what they believe is wrong according to some epic standard. It is one thing to encourage people to expand their awareness, it is another to seek to get them to accept one particular viewpoint—especially when that viewpoint springs from the mind of anti-christ.

The main difference is that a true teacher is energetically non-aggressive. He or she never directs any aggressive or force-based energy at you. The true teacher gives you knowledge and insights or asks questions, but there is no lower energy that turns them into arrows that force their way into your energy field. In contrast, the false teachers create a psychic impulse made up of two elements. One is a particular lie based on serpentine logic, and the other is an energy impulse charged with lower emotions, such as fear, doubt, anger, blame etcetera.

The true teacher accepts your mind as your exclusive domain. The false teacher has no such respect and is constantly seeking to force its way into your mind for the purpose of causing it to become paralyzed into blind acceptance of a certain epic drama. You can actually learn to expose the false teachers by reading the vibration of the intention behind what they say or write. You can even learn to read the vibration of an idea. This is all part of Christ discernment.

Again, why were the fallen beings allowed to embody on earth? Because a critical mass of the original inhabitants had gone into duality whereby they had become lost to the true teachers. This meant they could learn only from the School of Hard Knocks, but even this school has teachers. Only, the teachers are the fallen beings who seek to force the minds of the students. One could say that after so many lifestreams entered duality, the Karmic Board who oversees the evolutions of earth decided that if people truly wanted to learn from the School of Hard Knocks, they would allow the fallen beings to embody here. The purpose was to make the knocks harder in order to shorten the time it would take before lifestreams began to question whether there might not be a higher way to learn.

We could therefore say that the fallen beings are substitute teachers. Of course, they are not seeking to help you learn or raise your awareness. They are seeking to keep you under their control. This does not mean that you cannot learn from the false teachers. However, you will not learn as long as you are allowing them to manipulate your mind. You will learn from them only when you become aware of their existence and learn to see through the illusions they use in order to manipulate your mind. You will not learn by listening to them; you will learn only when you stop listening to them.

Helping you to stop listening to the false teachers is the role of a true teacher so let me get on with my job.

NOTE: The rest of this dictation is available in the book Freedom from Ego Dramas.

 

Copyright © 2013 Kim Michaels

Play Your Part—Indefinitely

Ascended Master Jesus through Kim Michaels.

Shakespeare, who was an embodiment of Saint Germain, coined the immortal words: “All the world’s a stage.” I would add that all the world’s a stage—in which all the roles are defined by the fallen beings. I have said that in order for you to step onto the path of Christhood, you have to be willing to start defining your own role on earth instead of playing predefined roles. You especially have to stop playing the roles that the fallen beings have defined for human beings.

This is truly a challenge because the effect of the epic dramas is that the fallen beings have defined a large number of roles that are not seen as roles. Instead, they are seen as being real and as being mandated by God. The message being that you must continue to play these roles until the end of your life or until the epic objective has been achieved—which, as I have explained, will never happen. Many people are trapped in playing these roles—indefinitely.

Consider how easy it has been for the fallen beings to pull people into the epic dramas. All they have to do is to commit some kind of aggressive act against someone, and if that someone feels violated – feels victimized, feels attacked, feels unjustly treated – then that person will slip into the dualistic mindset and will then play the role of one of the dualistic identities that have been created over time.

Playing a pre-defined role

The beings who fell in the higher spheres created certain identities based on duality. These identities can be compared to the roles you have in a theater production where some people play the hero, some people play the villain, some people play the victims. Those who are trapped in duality are already – without realizing it – trapped in one of these dualistic identities, in one of these parts, one of these roles in the play.

When they act out that role in aggression against the innocents who are not yet trapped in such a role, there is a possibility – a strong possibility – that the innocent children will feel victimized by the aggressor and therefore will slip into the role of being a victim. Then they are trapped in the dualistic dramas of the ego. Now they see themselves in relation to – in opposition to – someone else who is in a dualistic role. Without knowing it, they slip right into one of these dualistic roles, such as the role of victim. Some slip into another role, that of the one who seeks revenge, or that of the one who seeks justice by somehow compensating for the wrongs done in the past by committing another wrong in the present.

This is the basic fabric of the ego—that it always plays one of these dualistic roles, it takes on one of these dualistic identities. You need to become wise as serpents so that you can see the unreality of the serpentine mind, the serpentine logic, that has created these varied dualistic parts and identities. You can then realize that you have taken this on as an actor in the theater takes on a costume, puts on make-up, puts on false teeth or a wig or a hump on the back in order to resemble the part it is meant to play.

When you see the unreality of this, when you become wise as a serpent – wise to the serpents – you realize that you are not the part you are playing, you are more than that part. That is when you can begin to contemplate the possibility of separating yourself from the part, even separating yourself from the entire play so that you can eventually walk out of the theater and say: “I have had enough of playing that old worn-out part. Find somebody else, for you will have to do without me. I am done with this. I have had enough!”

The game ends when you decide to stop playing

When will your struggles end? You have free will, do you not? When will your struggles end? When you decide that they will end, now! Can you make that decision right now? Perhaps not. But I tell you, there will come a now when you can make that decision—if you decide that it is going to happen now.

The universe is a mirror, which means that whatever you send out, the universe must reflect back. When you take on a certain role in the play, in the dualistic play, then the universe thinks that you want to experience the outer conditions that correspond to the role. If you feel like a victim of life or a victim of outer circumstances, the subconscious message you are sending into the cosmic mirror is that you want to experience what it is like to be a victim. The more victimized you feel, the more frustrated you feel, the universe can interpret that in only one way: “Oh, he wants to experience even more of a struggle, he wants to be victimized even more.”

Why does the universe interpret it that way? Because the cosmic mirror has absolute respect for your free will. As long as you are in that role, that identity of being the victim, the universe can only interpret it in one way, namely that you are not done playing the part of a victim. You still want to experience what it is like to be a victim. Naturally, the universe gives you what you want. It will continue to do so, even accelerating it, until you finally come to the point where you take responsibility and say: “Okay. I have been a victim for a long time, but it was because I made a decision that caused me to enter into that victim consciousness. I took on that part, I put on that costume. But I have had enough of it!” You then decide that you will no longer play that part.

Let me assure you that the universe is based on free will, which means that whenever you decide you have had enough, you are free to leave the theater. Even if it is the night before the big premiere, you are free to quit and say: “Enough of this madness!” This is why you need to be wise as a serpent. Because the serpents will do everything they can to make you believe in the lie that for this, that or the next reason you cannot just walk out of here, you cannot just walk out of that part. Once you have taken it on, it is permanent, you can never escape—or so they want you to believe.

This is why they have come up with so many clever illusions, including the mainstream Christian delusion that you cannot save yourself but that only Jesus, as the external savior, can save you. All of these Christians think they are headed straight for heaven. But they are still in the consciousness of being a victim, still feeling that there is some external force who is pulling them down to hell or pulling them up to heaven—when in reality it is themselves and their own consciousness that is pulling them up or down. Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also (Matthew 6:21).

NOTE: The rest of this dictation is available in the book Freedom from Ego Dramas.

 

Copyright © 2013 Kim Michaels

What the Ascended Masters Can and Cannot Do

Ascended Master Jesus through Kim Michaels.

For thousands of years this planet has been enveloped in a thick cloud created by the epic dramas that where defined by fallen beings who rebelled against God in a higher sphere. These dramas have influenced the thinking of individuals – even entire civilizations – in many subtle ways. When I say “subtle,” I mean that the dramas have distorted people’s view of life in such a way that people truly and firmly believe that the illusions defined by the dramas are real and give an accurate view of reality. They mistake illusions for reality.

As a result, only very few people in embodiment are able to understand how we of the ascended masters look at the earth and how we seek to help human beings rise above the clouds, the veil, created by the drama consciousness. It is my hope that my discourses on dramas can increase that number.

The grand illusion of right and wrong

Master MORE has said that if people knew better, they would do better. This is true because when the Conscious You truly sees how it is limiting itself, it will change. The problem is that the drama consciousness prevents people from actually knowing better. As long as people think their dramas present an accurate view of reality, why would they even consider questioning their dramas, their world view? Why would they even consider that their thought system is simply seeking to fit the entire universe and God into a particular mental box? They will be absolutely convinced that they are doing the right thing, even doing God’s work, while they are simply outplaying an epic drama and their personal dramas.

People who are trapped in this state of consciousness cannot fathom that they might be living a lie, they cannot even consider it. How do you know whether you are affected by this subtle lie? Let me give you a guiding rod. I have talked about the Law of Free Will and I have said that this law gives all self-aware beings the right to create any experience they want and to hold on to it for as long as they can. I have said that this law makes you responsible only for your own growth and ascension, but you are not responsible for the growth and ascension of anyone else.

One of the most subtle effects of the consciousness of the epic dramas is the belief that there is an absolute standard for right and wrong. If you follow the standard, you are a good person. If you violate the standard (repeatedly), you are a bad person. Choices can be divided into right and wrong and people can be divided into good and bad. Let me now make an absolute statement. If you believe in this division into right and wrong choices and good and bad people, then you are affected by the epic dramas created by the fallen beings.

There are no two ways about this. We of the ascended masters have ascended precisely because we have transcended all of the epic dramas and their illusions, especially the one just described. We do not evaluate the choices of human beings by comparing them to any standard that can be defined by words and labeling them as right or wrong. We do not evaluate people and label them as good or bad. To us, there are no bad people—but neither are there any good people. We do not look at people and label some as evil, as fallen angels or as beyond hope—even though we are aware of the history of each being.

When we look upon the earth, we see only self-aware beings who are making choices based on their present state of consciousness. To us, the choices you make are irrelevant in the sense that the cosmic mirror will reflect back to you what you send out. We of the ascended masters are not seeking to influence your choices. Why not? Because we understand the eternal truth that your choices are the products of your state of consciousness. We are focused on one thing, namely to inspire you to raise your consciousness. We know that when you do raise your consciousness, your choices will automatically change.

No need to judge others

Here is the problem with the epic dramas. They sprang from the minds of certain beings who came to believe that the fact that co-creators could get lost proved that there was a flaw in the Law of Free Will. These beings reasoned that they had to correct this flaw in God’s design by seeking to force other beings to change their choices.

Traditional, mainstream religions on this planet are indeed focused on changing your behavior by making you change the choices you make. What I describe as the outer path is based on the promise that if you change your outer actions – without changing your consciousness, without looking at the beam in your own eye – you can (and will automatically) enter the kingdom.

This is a direct effect of the epic dramas, and it has caused most people to believe in the overall illusion that if only the actions of all people conform to a standard defined by their belief system, then God’s kingdom will come to earth. If not, the earth will be destroyed and all souls be captured by the devil. Such people think that it is their duty to change the actions and choices of other people. The net effect being that they look only at the splinters in the eyes of others and do not look at the beam in their own eyes—which means they cannot escape their own dramas and are not growing. They cannot move from the broad way of dramas to the strait and narrow way of Christ.

Consider how subtle and pervasive this state of consciousness is. If you think that you have to “help” other people by getting them – by means that you think are legitimate and benign – to change their minds, change their choices, then you are trapped in an epic drama. If you think you have to evaluate other people’s choices and judge them as right or wrong based on any standard, then you are trapped in an epic drama.

We of the ascended masters have no need to judge or evaluate people’s choices, as we know a simple reality:

For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned. (Matthew 12:37)

We also know that this quote is not entirely correct. The true meaning is that by thy WORD thou shalt be justified and condemned. The term WORD refers to a person’s total state of consciousness, the sense of self with which you express yourself in this world. This is comparable to the concept of the LOGOS, which is the basic vision – held in the universal Christ mind – that the Creator defined before creating anything that had form. You likewise have a basic vision of life through which you color everything you do in the world of form. This basic vision is shaped by your life experience. I referred to this when I said:

A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things. (Matthew 12:35)

Obviously, you can see that while in embodiment I did use the dualistic term good and evil, but nevertheless the point is that what I called “the heart” is your WORD, your LOGOS, your basic approach to and outlook upon life in the material world. We might say that entering the kingdom of God, which is the Christ consciousness, is like entering a door with a screen that holds back anything too big to fit through the holes. Any illusions that spring from the duality consciousness – any remnants of a personal or epic drama – cannot pass through the screen and will thus keep the Conscious You from passing through the door as long as you identify with them.

The ascended masters have no need to form opinions, to evaluate or to judge anyone on earth. We know that the law is unfailing and that people will enter the Christ consciousness only when they take full responsibility for their own state of mind instead of worrying about other people’s state of mind. We focus all of our attention on inspiring people to raise their consciousness.

In doing so, we are – naturally – having to adapt to people’s current state of consciousness. We always have to challenge people’s existing mental boxes, but the question is how much we can challenge the mental boxes without disturbing people’s sense of equilibrium too much—meaning that they panic, close their minds and start to defend their mental boxes. We walk a delicate balancing act, and let us take a closer look.

NOTE: The rest of this dictation is available in the book Freedom from Ego Dramas.

 

Copyright © 2013 Kim Michaels

Why People Cling to Their Dramas

Ascended Master Jesus through Kim Michaels.

One of the most subtle and difficult to recognize effects of a drama is that it creates a mental box. As a result, people in the box are constantly projecting mental images upon everything that happens to them. Even a teaching that talks about dramas will be read by people through their personal filters, meaning they will superimpose their mental images upon the teaching and – depending on their particular drama – find cause to either reject the teaching outright or (the most common reaction) see how it applies to other people while failing to see how it applies to themselves.

The one fundamental realization that is the foundation for all spiritual progress is that: “There is something I don’t know.” There is something you do not see, there is a veil that prevents you from seeing a reality that is beyond your own mental box and the collective mental box of humankind. The Buddha called it the “veil of Maya,” and I talked about it in various ways, including the beam in your own eye and calling for those who have eyes to see and ears to hear. In this day and age, we can be a lot more specific.

Quantum physics and mental boxes

The findings of quantum physics are revolutionary in many ways. In this context, let us begin with the fact that quantum physics has proven that for a human being it is impossible to make a truly objective observation, meaning an observation that is not affected by your mind. In classical physics, the universe was divided into two realms, a realm of matter that existed independently of any mind (and was objective) and the realm of mind that was entirely subjective. By using proper instruments and procedures, scientists could – so it was claimed – make an observation that was not affected by their minds.

What quantum physics has shown is that the realm of matter is an illusion created by the physical senses and a particular mindset, a particular mental box. The deeper truth is that consciousness is the fundamental reality and that matter is a creation of consciousness. Quantum physics talks about this by saying that everything that exists is made from quantum waveforms, which in reality are mental images superimposed upon the Ma-ter light by self-aware beings.

What is currently keeping quantum physicists in a deadlock is that they will not acknowledge that there are self-aware beings who are not human beings and that these beings have also superimposed mental images upon the Ma-ter light. Scientists are left to ponder such questions as: “Is the moon really there if no one is looking?” The reality is that the moon truly is there even when no human being is looking because the moon was created by spiritual beings who are always looking.

There is something which we might call an objective reality, in the sense that it was not created by human beings, meaning beings trapped in the duality consciousness. The earth in its pure form was created by the Elohim and the spiritual realm was (and is) created by higher beings. There is indeed a reality that is not affected by the duality consciousness and its illusions.

You will not be able to perceive this reality in its fullest as long as you are looking at life through any mental box. The reason being that as long as you are looking through a mental box, you will inevitably project the mental images from the box upon everything you see. As quantum physics explains it, the act of observation is influenced by your consciousness. What you see is a product of an interaction between the quantum waveform of your consciousness and the quantum waveform of whatever you are observing.

The conclusion is that as long as you are looking though a mental box, you cannot see the reality created by spiritual beings (at least not fully). Instead, you are seeing something that you have created by superimposing your own mental images (or the collective images of your “group”) upon that objective reality.

As an example, consider a fundamentalist Christian who finds my website. He or she is looking through a particular mental box and is very attached to having that mental box confirmed. As soon as the person finds something on the site that does not confirm the mental box, the only possible reaction is to reject the site. Did the person actually hear what I am saying, or did the person only “hear” an echo created by his or her consciousness superimposing a fixed mental image upon my words?

Now take this one step further and be willing to look in the mirror. No matter who you are, no matter how long you have been on the spiritual path, no matter how many teachings you have studied or what techniques you have practiced, you are also looking at my words through your current mental box. The essential dividing line between those who are teachable for a spiritual teacher and those who are not is the following realization:

I too have a mental box.

It does inevitably affect the way I look at everything, including the spiritual teacher/teaching.

I do not see how my mental box is affecting my vision of everything and the conclusions I draw based on my observations. I tend to think that what my mental box is showing me is reality.

I need a spiritual teacher precisely because I cannot, on my own, see beyond my mental box.

My ability to make progress depends on my willingness to let the teacher challenge my mental box and show me its inconsistencies and limitations.

I only make progress to the extent that I allow the teacher to show me what I cannot see.

If I seek to protect and defend my mental box, I close my mind to the teacher’s help and become unteachable.

It is my responsibility to keep my mind and heart open to the teacher by being willing to question everything. It is my responsibility to continually purify my mind of all dualistic illusions, even the most subtle ones that seem like absolute truth. What I am not willing to question becomes my prison.

One might say that the central question is whether you want to defend your current mental box/drama by projecting and rejecting or whether you will let the teacher open your mind to a higher vision of reality by seeking to understand and expand. Most people on earth are completely unaware of the fact that what they see is not reality but a product of their own mental images superimposed upon not only reality but the distorted “reality” created by humankind for eons.

I have said that you will have a mental box as long as you are in embodiment. However, as you do purify your mind, the Conscious You can begin to disassociate itself from your mental box. Because the Conscious You is an extension of the Creator’s Being, it can step outside of any mental box and experience an objective reality. Having such an experience is extremely valuable. However, as Maitreya explains in greater detail in his book, once you come back to your normal awareness, you will inevitably look at and interpret the experience through your mental box. We again see the need to continually purify your mind of dualistic illusions so that you do not seek to force a transcendent, infinite experience to fit into a finite mental box.

NOTE: The rest of this dictation is available in the book Freedom from Ego Dramas.

 

Copyright © 2013 Kim Michaels

The Essential Flaw of Dramas

Ascended Master Jesus through Kim Michaels.

Let us look at the essence of a drama. A personal drama makes it seem like your salvation is dependent upon you achieving something in your sphere, something that cannot be completed without the co-operation of other people. The epic drama makes it seem like the salvation of the world cannot be completed without achieving something in this world, such as making Christianity the only religion on earth.

The central illusion is that the drama is not a drama but reality. You will believe that either yourself or the world will not be saved until the goal defined by the drama has been achieved physically. Because this goal is defined based on an illusion, it can never be achieved, meaning that you are pursuing an impossible goal. You can seek this goal indefinitely, and the only way out of this impossible quest is to come to see the unreality of the drama.

Why is it easier to escape a personal drama than an epic drama? A personal drama is a struggle between you and some authority figure and other people within your own sphere. You are trying to prove yourself right and the others wrong, but you are not trying to prove that God is wrong or that the entire universe is based on a flawed design. A personal drama is clearly centered around you, and there is at least some possibility that you will eventually come to realize that the only way to change your outer situation is to change yourself.

When it comes to the epic drama, you have not only refused to take responsibility for yourself, you have projected that responsibility upon a force that is on a much bigger scale, such as God, the universe or humankind at large. It now becomes possible to believe that the cause for which your drama makes it seem like you are fighting is so big that it could not possibly be resolved by you or could not be resolved in one lifetime. This gives you an even more watertight excuse for not looking at yourself but continuing to project responsibility outside yourself, projecting it on forces or circumstances that a human being on earth could not possible influence alone.

We might say that the personal drama revolves around “me, myself and I,” which keeps it on a scale that at least has the focus on you. When you begin to see through the drama, you can relatively easily see that you do indeed have the power to overcome the drama by changing yourself. The epic drama projects responsibility so far away that it makes it more difficult for lifestreams to accept that they still have the power to overcome the drama. It is easier to see that a personal drama is created in the mind whereas it is far more difficult to see that this is also the case for the epic dramas.

What makes a lifestream susceptible to the epic dramas? It is the lifestream’s personal dramas because the epic dramas tie in to the personal dramas and offer an even more watertight excuse for not looking at the beam in your own eye. If you believe there really is a Battle of Armageddon between God and the devil, and if you believe other people are on the side of the devil, then you can easily believe that you have no reason to look at the beam in your own eye—for you are obviously on the good side. You simply have to keep fighting the bad side until the battle is won—which might happen any day or in a thousand years, but in either case postponing the decision to look in the mirror.

The essence of a drama is that you think the fulfillment of your goals in life (even your salvation) depends on the choices made by other people. The drama makes it seem like you are not responsible for your own destiny. The people around you are, and you have to try to force their will. Epic dramas add that in order to ensure the fulfillment of God’s plan, in order for people to be saved, in order for the battle of Armageddon to be won, you must deal with the free will of all human beings. Instead of just saving yourself, you now have to save the entire universe.

The net effect of this illusion is that it focuses attention on the splinters in the eyes of other people. This causes people who have taken on the drama to use the drama’s “perfect” excuse for not looking at the beam in their own eyes. Why is this a problem? Here is another absolute statement: As long as you are not looking at the beam in your own eye, you are not growing! It really is that simple and there is no way around it.

This is precisely what the dramas make it difficult for people to see. In the previous discourse I said that once you enter a drama, you can no longer see it as a drama. You think that the view of life – the mental box – presented by the drama is real, that it represents the way life really works. You now have the “perfect” excuse for not even considering that the drama is unreal, that it has no more reality than what you – and other people – give to it. You refuse to see that you can indeed walk away from the drama any time.

Consider what you would say about an actor who had become convinced that he really was Hamlet and who refused to take off the costume, insisting on playing the role even outside the theater and claiming he really was the prince of Denmark. You would probably think the person had lost touch with reality. Yet your own personal drama has the exact same effect—it causes you to lose touch with reality. What is the exact effect of this?

Why dramas make you unteachable

Let me first restate an absolute and inescapable fact. The Law of Free Will is the fundamental law of the world of form. You can become a permanent being – an ascended being – only by freely choosing to enter into oneness—oneness with your source and oneness with all life, with the whole. In order to make this choice, you must free your mind from all influence from the consciousness of separation, the consciousness of duality, the consciousness of anti-christ. All dramas are created out of this consciousness so it follows that you cannot make your ascension until you give up any and all dramas.

A drama forms a mental box and the box is closed. Any drama is based on an illusion, a view of reality that is out of touch with reality. This does not mean that the view is completely false. It may indeed contain many ideas that are true in themselves, but the way they are presented in context means that the entire world view cannot lead you to the ascension.

The problem is that once you step inside the mental box defined by the drama, you can no longer see that the world view is an illusion. Instead, from your vantage point inside the box, you think the world view is real, that the world really is the way it appears from inside the mental box of the drama. It is like my often-used example that if you put on yellow glasses, you think the sky really is green.

What is the logical conclusion? When you are inside the mental box of a particular drama, you believe in an illusion. You also believe that this illusion is reality, and this is what makes it a catch-22 that is very difficult to escape.

Consider how the situation looks from the vantage point of a spiritual teacher. The teacher knows your world view is based on an illusion. He knows that the only way you can ascend is to help you see through the illusion. What is the most natural way to seek to help you? It would be a two-fold approach of seeking to present you with a correct world view while pointing out the flaws in your existing world view.

Now consider how you will experience the teacher’s attempts to help you when you see them from inside the box. You think your view is reality, and thus what this self-appointed spiritual teacher is presenting to you can only be unreality. He must be a false teacher and anything he says must be meant to deceive you and make you believe a lie instead of the reality you already have.

The subtle mechanism that comes into play here is that if the Conscious You identifies itself fully with the drama, your mind will be closed to anything that a spiritual teacher could possibly say to you. Nothing could penetrate the defenses erected by your mental box. Anything that goes beyond or contradicts your existing world view will be rejected. In order to help you escape your limited world view, the teacher must of necessity give you knowledge that contradicts or goes beyond your existing world view.

How come some people actually manage to listen to spiritual teachers? Because after having outplayed their dramas for a sufficient amount of time, their conscious selves have begun to doubt the world view presented by its drama. The Conscious You has begun to separate itself from the drama so that it can start opening itself to an outside perspective on the drama—what is presented by the spiritual teacher.

NOTE: The rest of this dictation is available in the book Freedom from Ego Dramas.

 

Copyright © 2013 Kim Michaels

The Origin of Epic Dramas

Ascended Master Jesus through Kim Michaels.

We will now build on the foundation set in the previous discourse, and let us begin by taking another look at personal dramas. When a co-creator creates a personal drama, the drama is based on the co-creator’s current perspective on the environment in which it lives, be that the material universe or a previous sphere. The co-creator is inside its sphere and is looking at life from that vantage point.

A co-creator cannot see its sphere from the outside, meaning it cannot fully understand how life, free will and the process of growth works. In order to fully understand how life works, the co-creator must first take full responsibility for itself, and if it did so, it would have no need to create a drama. By the very fact that the co-creator creates a drama, it is proven that it has not fully understood life. We might say that the co-creator looks at life from inside a particular mental box that presents a limited or even a distorted view.

What we now need to add is that co-creators are not the only beings created to assist in the ascension of a given sphere. Co-creators are the beings who are created to take on bodies made from the sphere’s base energies and work on raising the sphere from the inside. There are also beings who are created to help a specific sphere by working from the outside, from the higher level(s) of the sphere. These beings are what people on earth normally call angels.

When a co-creator wins its ascension, it becomes an ascended master. Many religious people believe angels are created as permanent beings, but that raises the question of how angels could fall. The explanation is that there are ascended angels and unascended angels. For each new sphere, many angels are created to serve that sphere and they do not become permanent beings until their sphere ascends and they ascend.

Although angels are not meant to take embodiment, they still have free will, for how else could they grow in self-awareness? When an angel is created to serve a particular sphere, it also has a limited self-awareness. Because it is not in a body, it has a wider perspective on its sphere than the co-creators who are looking at it from the inside. This means that as a sphere rises in vibration, the angel has the opportunity to gain a broader understanding of how God’s creation works, including free will. A co-creator can also gain this understanding but only after it has taken full responsibility for itself and has no need to create the dramas that will prevent a co-creator from seeing the full truth.

The test of angels

Here comes the all-important distinction. The growth of a sphere is dependent upon one thing and one thing only, namely the growth in self-awareness of the co-creators who embody in the sphere. The angels who serve a sphere can contribute to the growth of the sphere, but they can do so only by assisting the co-creators who are inside the sphere. This assistance can be given only within the context of free will. An angel has no right – and indeed has no direct power – to force or overrule the free will of co-creators.

When a group of co-creators refuse to take responsibility for themselves and start creating personal dramas, the angels can clearly see how this will limit the co-creators and the growth of their sphere. If the co-creators refuse the assistance offered by the angels, the angels can do nothing but simply watch as the co-creators generate a downward spiral. If a majority of the co-creators in a sphere refused to grow, the angels could only stand by (if their help was rejected) and watch as the entire sphere disintegrated. Likewise, if a group of co-creators refuse to transcend their dramas when their sphere ascends, the angels can only watch as they fall into the next sphere and are lost to their original sphere.

What is the test of angels? A co-creator comes to a point where it has to take full and final responsibility for itself. Instead, the angel faces the challenge of allowing the process of free will to outplay itself freely—meaning that the angel must allow co-creators to express their free will in any way they want. In order to pass this test, the angel must acquire a complete understanding of free will, and it must come to respect free will with the same absolute acceptance that the Creator has. In passing, let me mention that ascended masters have acquired this understanding and acceptance by taking embodiment and ascending, a perspective that angels naturally do not have. This explains why ascended masters have no problem with the test that can be difficult for many unascended angels.

Another way to say this is that a co-creator faces the test of fully accepting its own free will whereas an angel faces the test of fully accepting the free will of others. If you look more closely, it is actually the same test from different vantage points. When you take full responsibility for yourself, you come to have full respect for your own free will, and this also gives you full respect for the free will of others.

If an angel does not develop full respect for the free will of others, it is because the angel has not taken full responsibility for itself (if the angel did, it would know that it can grow in self-awareness even if co-creators do not). When you do take full responsibility for yourself, you also accept that you are not responsible for the choices made by other self-aware beings. When an angel fails the test of free will, it actually develops an inappropriate sense of responsibility for the co-creators it was meant to serve. As we shall see, this false responsibility gives rise to the desire to force co-creators.

What happens when an angel faces this test and refuses to rise to a higher understanding and acceptance of the Law of Free Will? The angel is actually faced with a test that is as important as that faced by co-creators when their teachers require them to take full responsibility and define their own roles. The angel is likewise guided by a leader, and if the angel will not accept free will, then the angel must do what co-creators do in order to justify their rejection of the teacher and the lesson.

Rebellion of angels

When an angel fails the test of unconditional acceptance of the free will of co-creators, the angel can do this only by creating a drama. This drama is somewhat similar to the dramas created by co-creators, only it is based on the viewpoint – the mental box – of the angels. It is based on a greater perspective and understanding of how life works than the inside perspective of co-creators. This gives rise to a different possibility.

The personal dramas created by co-creators are based on the duality consciousness and they have a built-in tension that causes a co-creator to rebel against authority in its own sphere – its spiritual teacher – and to generate conflict with other co-creators. The angel, however, does have some overall understanding of how life works, and this means it can rebel against the entire process of growth in self-awareness. A co-creator can only rebel against what it sees, namely its spiritual teachers and other co-creators. An angel can rebel against God and the Creator’s purpose and design, specifically the decision to give co-creators free will.

This means that the dramas created by co-creators are directed outward (horizontally) in their own sphere whereas the dramas created by angels are directed upward and downward (vertically). The angels come to believe that the Creator was wrong for giving co-creators free will so they want to prove God and free will wrong. They also believe they are responsible for the growth of co-creators and that co-creators should be forced to do what is in their own best interest—according to the definition of the angels. In a sense we might say that all dramas are control games. Co-creators want to control their spiritual teachers and other co-creators. Angels want to control God and all co-creators.

This explains why I have made the distinction between the personal dramas of co-creators and the epic dramas created by angels. The angels can create dramas that take the duality consciousness to its ultimate extreme by portraying God as one dualistic polarity that is opposed by another dualistic polarity of equal strength—or at least of such strength that there is a real battle and a real potential for God to lose some souls. Co-creators simply could not create such a drama from their limited perspective. Only the unascended angels have the perspective – without the full understanding – to create such an epic drama.

NOTE: The rest of this dictation is available in the book Freedom from Ego Dramas.

 

Copyright © 2013 Kim Michaels

The Origin of Personal Dramas

Ascended Master Jesus through Kim Michaels.

I have said that there is a blurred line between ego games and ego dramas. I have also said that when the fallen beings started to embody on this planet, they took the ego games already created by the people on earth and they gave them a twist so that they became ego dramas. Of course, they also added some dramas that no people on earth had thought about or could have thought about.

As an example, let me refer to what I said about competition games, namely that people who go into separation can begin to see themselves as being in competition with other people. They desire to be superior to others by doing better than them in sport, business or as a warrior.

The ego game of competition is in a sense straightforward and honest. It is a matter of improving yourself so you can do better than others in your chosen field. In its pure form, this is all focused on you and improving your own abilities. Quite frankly, this can serve the cause of expanding your self-awareness, as proven by some martial arts practitioners who have added a spiritual dimension to being a warrior. Once you transcend the need to compete against or fight others, you will have expanded your sense of self and your awareness of how the material universe works, even how your mind can use the body and direct energy.

Take note that in its pure form, competition is based on a strict honor code. There are certain things you don’t do because that would take away your honor, your self-esteem. For example, you don’t do anything to ruin your competitors’ ability to compete, you don’t cheat and you don’t use deceptive or violent means to take your competitors out of the competition. There is an invisible line that you simply do not cross because you can see no justification for doing so.

We can say that in a competition game, there are heroes but no villains. Sometimes you are the hero and sometimes it is someone else, but everyone follows the honor code. What can turn a friendly competition game into an unfriendly competition drama is the fallen beings who add the twist that the game has a “greater purpose” and a villain who opposes that purpose.

For example, there might be a power play between nations, such as seen during the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the West. It isn’t enough to win based on ability alone because winning demonstrates the superiority of your political system, which is the ultimate higher purpose. It now becomes acceptable, even desirable, to use any means in order to give your nation more gold medals. In that context, using experimental steroids to boost the abilities of your young athletes becomes a justifiable necessity, and the long-term effects on the health of the athletes is simply not a concern for those directing the drama.

Take note that this overall concern that the state or the system is more important than the individual is very much a mentality that the fallen beings brought to this planet. It is not something that the original inhabitants of the earth came up with on their own. The original people had competition games, but it was the fallen beings who taught them how to create the ultimate competition game, namely war.

What is the underlying mentality here? Why didn’t human beings have war games? Because they had a certain kinship with each other and it was difficult for them to justify killing each other. The fallen beings had – and have – no reverence for life in general, but they especially have no sense of kinship with the beings on earth. On the contrary, they look down upon them as being far below them and much less sophisticated. Indeed, when it comes to controlling or destroying others, human beings are far less “sophisticated” than the fallen beings.

Seeing your own mental box

Having said what I said above, I need to add a word of caution. It is very tempting to say that this earth wasn’t too bad until the fallen beings came here and they were the ones that really perverted everything. Saying this is actually not far from reality. Yet there is an essential distinction between seeing the reality of what the fallen beings have done and then appointing them as scapegoats so you don’t need to look at yourself.

The essential characteristic that allows you to step onto the path of personal Christhood is your willingness to question your mental boxes. The real question is whether knowledge of a certain topic takes you closer to Christhood or further away from it. I have said that you simply cannot make it on the path of Christhood unless you recognize the existence of the fallen beings and begin to see through their deceptions. Will knowing about the fallen beings take you closer to taking full responsibility for yourself, or will it serve only to give you an excuse for not looking at the beam in your own eye?

The answer, of course, depends on what you do with your knowledge about the fallen beings. Or rather, it depends on whether you are willing to see that the fallen beings could control human beings only because they took advantage of the psychology that human beings had already developed. Until you begin to see what it is in your psychology that makes you vulnerable to the deception of the fallen beings, you have not really started the path to Christhood.

The path toward Christhood is an ongoing process with many levels. Until you ascend, you will have a mental box. Your progress from any level will be determined by your willingness to question your mental box. The ego and the fallen beings will always seek to make you cling to your current mental box.

As you rise on the spiritual path, the mental boxes become more subtle and more difficult to see. Many sincere spiritual seekers have allowed their egos, their friends or the false teachers to make them believe that they have reached a level at which they no longer have or need to question any mental boxes.

Let me make an absolute statement. There is not now and there never has been any being in embodiment on earth – no matter how advanced such a one might appear or claim to be – who has had no mental box left. If you truly have no mental box, it is not possible to remain in embodiment in the current density of this planet. You will inevitably be pulled up and lose your ability to hold on to the physical body. When I was hanging on the cross and one hairsbreadth away from winning my ascension, I still had to “give up the ghost” of the last remnants of my mental box. As soon as I did indeed give it up, I drew my last breath and left the physical body behind.

Had I not been willing to entertain the possibility that I could have a mental box, what would have happened? I would not have qualified for my ascension! My body would still have died on the cross, but I would have re-embodied to outplay whatever drama I had not been willing to see and surrender. Even if you are one decision away from qualifying for your ascension, you still have that last step to take and what might it be? It is precisely that you give up the last mental box, the last illusion based on the consciousness of separation.

Another important perspective is that the path of Christhood has several levels. As you rise to a given level, you will be able to see something that was invisible to you before. What you see at the higher level might give you an entirely different perspective on certain elements of life or the spiritual reality.

The ego and the fallen beings have set up the ego dramas precisely to prevent you from letting go of the old. How can the ascended masters help you escape this? By giving you information that challenges your current mental box. If you insist that your existing view is an absolute truth, then you will obviously have to reject what we are saying.

At the higher levels of Christhood, you begin to see that no knowledge expressed in this world is the absolute or highest truth. There is always a step higher, namely a direct experience of the Spirit of Truth. In order to have the fullness of that experience in the ascension spiral, you must be wiling to give up everything you think you know right now. I do mean everything.

NOTE: The rest of this dictation is available in the book Freedom from Ego Dramas.

 

Copyright © 2013 Kim Michaels

How the Epic Struggle Is Justified

Ascended Master Jesus through Kim Michaels.

The most dangerous effect of the epic struggle is that it serves as the perfect “machine” for allowing the ego to justify doing what it wants to do—namely raise itself up by putting others down. Seeing this should not require much thought. Just look at how the sense of an epic struggle makes it justifiable to do virtually anything to “save the universe from destruction.” When you add to that the sense of urgency, you will see how people can be made to do things that they know are wrong while being absolutely convinced that they are necessary in order to bring about a greater good or avoid a greater evil.

The most dangerous effect of the epic struggle is that it leads to the consciousness that “the ends can justify the means.” This is the very consciousness that is responsible for the vast majority of atrocities seen in known history and beyond. When the “end” is believed to be serious enough, it follows that any means that are believed to be necessary for achieving that end are automatically justifiable. Normal moral or ethical concerns simply do not apply. What is actually happening in this process?

Although most people are blinded by the duality consciousness, most are not so blinded that they have lost all sense of a greater reality. The Conscious You can never totally forget its origin, and it cannot completely lose an innate sense that doing certain things is not in your own best interest. The only way your ego can get you to do something that your Conscious You knows is non-constructive is to find a way to neutralize your inner sense of reality.

The primary tool for doing this is, of course, the epic struggle. There is a power elite of fallen beings who are seeking to control planet earth and its inhabitants. These beings have – as a result of their own choices – cut themselves off from being able to receive light directly from the spiritual realm. Their continued existence is dependent upon stealing light from beings who have not yet lost that connection. This can be done only by getting people to misqualify the pure spiritual energy they receive from above, which is best done by tricking people into engaging in any self-centered activity.

In order to achieve this, these forces of anti-christ – what I called the “prince of this world” – have created elaborate schemes that build on the epic struggle. For examples of this, take a look at history and see how many schemes have been used to override the most basic sense of right and wrong, namely the inner knowing that it is wrong to kill another human being.

This is truly the most basic of all moral imperatives, for the Conscious You knows that it has no right to take the life of another human being—it has no right to so drastically violate the free will of another being. I realize most people will immediately seek to qualify this by referring to self-defense, but the self that is defended by killing another human being is the separate self, and the act of defending it only reinforces the sense of separation. Because this is a crucial point, let us take a closer look.

Understanding the command “Thou shallt not kill”

When you look at history, it is clear that the members of the three monotheistic religions, Judaism, Christianity and Islam, have engaged in conflicts that killed millions of people. The people doing this killing were deeply religious people who honored the Old Testament, the center of which is the Ten Commandments, one of which states: “Thou shallt not kill.”

This commandment is but an outer reminder of the innate sense that you have no right to kill another human being. How can the members of these religions be made to override both the inner command of their own beings and the outer command of their religion?

When you look at the text of the Ten Commandments, you will see that it is unconditional. The commandments do not specify any conditions under which it becomes acceptable to kill. I know that you can quickly point to other passages in the Old Testament in which God supposedly commands the Israelites to kill other people, but there is a contrast between the unconditional nature of the Ten Commandments and the rest of the Old Testament. What is happening here?

The entire story of the Israelites being imprisoned by Pharaoh is a metaphor for the enslavement of the spiritual people of earth by the elite of fallen beings trapped in the consciousness of anti-christ. “Egypt” is a symbol for the duality consciousness, as opposed to “Israel” – Is real – which symbolizes the state of oneness with your source.

The escape from Egypt is a symbol for a cycle in earth’s history where greater numbers of people started to question their overlords. We of the ascended masters were allowed to send various teachers to represent the Christ consciousness and lead people out of the duality of “Egypt” and toward the promised land of oneness.

Moses ascending the mountain represents that such a leader goes to get a new covenant that can guide the people in their newfound freedom. The withdrawal of the teacher was also a test to see whether the people would rise to use their inner discernment or would simply look for another overlord to tell them what to do. The people cannot be free from a tyrant until they are willing to take responsibility for themselves. Moses did originally get a higher covenant, but when he returned and saw that in his absence the people had sunk right back into the duality consciousness instead of rising to the occasion, he smashed it in anger (which was a mistake on his part that cost him his ascension in that lifetime).

Moses had to go back and get a covenant adapted to the lower consciousness of a particular group of people, meaning that the original covenant was withheld for a time. That is why the Ten Commandments are such direct statements of “do this” and “don’t do that,” instead of a higher teaching.

As a side note, the original covenant was then given by me in my embodiment as Jesus. You will see the seeds of non-duality between the lines of my teaching, as I have explained throughout my books and website. You will also see that I had to pass the test of not reacting with anger no matter how the people responded to my ministry. I had to pass the ultimate test of letting them humiliate and kill me without responding with anger. In doing so, I cemented the new covenant and made it a permanent part of the collective consciousness. Since then, people have had a greater opportunity to embody the Christ consciousness on earth—an opportunity that was – in practicality, not in theory – out of reach before.

The new covenant – the Christ covenant – is one of the people using their innate ability – the key of knowledge – to discern between what is God’s reality and what is an unreality created by the duality consciousness. The most important effect of this is that people use their discernment to see through the many subtle disguises of the epic struggle and the consciousness that the ends can justify the means.

The conclusion being, of course, that the ends can never justify the means. This can be understood only when you know the reality of which kind of “end” God is looking for. As I have explained, the goal of God is to raise up all life. This cannot be achieved by using means that put down – or kill – one part of life while raising up another. Killing is never justified in the greater cause of raising up the All, which is precisely why I told people not to resist evil but to turn the other cheek. Turning the other cheek is the only way to avoid being pulled into the dualistic struggle.

The ego and the false teachers of anti-christ have come up with myriad schemes for overriding the Conscious You’s inner sense of reality. They seek to get you to ignore, override or analyze away your inner knowing so you fall prey to the belief that in this particular case it is justifiable to do what you know to be unacceptable.

Letting something in this world override your inner sense of reality is never justified and will never contribute to God’s cause of raising up the All. For true students of Christ, this entire consciousness must be unmasked and abandoned, which means you must begin by looking for this beam in your own eye.

NOTE: The rest of this dictation is available in the book Freedom from Ego Dramas.

 

Copyright © 2013 Kim Michaels

The Unreality of the Epic Struggle

Ascended Master Jesus through Kim Michaels.

We will now take a closer look at the epic struggle. This struggle is the single-most successful device created by the forces of anti-christ to keep human beings – and other self-aware beings – trapped in the mind of duality, thereby feeding their light to the forces of anti-christ. This light enables them to survive, even though they have long ago been cut off from receiving spiritual light directly.

The key to understanding the epic struggle is my teachings that God is undivided and indivisible. God is the Infinite, and that which is infinite is everywhere, meaning that it cannot be divided into parts that are separated by distance. Concepts such as division and distance simply have no meaning when you are talking about the ultimate God. As a side note, this means that any God who favors one group of people over all others, such as the ancient Israelites, can only be a dualistic god.

The Creator has allowed its own Being to be manifest as the Ma-ter Light out of which everything in the world of form has been given form. The Creator’s Being is embedded within everything. The Creator has also allowed the creation of self-aware beings with free will. These beings are meant to serve as co-creators who bring about the unfoldment of the world of form from within. Both the Ma-ter light and the self-aware extensions of the Creator form the Divine Feminine or the Mother aspect of God.

Understanding the two basic choices

Co-creators have two spheres within which they can exercise their co-creative abilities. One is the Sphere of Oneness in which they co-create within the framework of God’s laws. This means that everything they create will raise up themselves and all life, bringing God’s overall plan closer to manifestation. By exercising your free will within this sphere, you do not give up any freedom. On the contrary, as illustrated in my parable about the talents, your creative abilities are multiplied, and you actually gain greater creative freedom.

The other option is to exercise your creative abilities outside the Sphere of Oneness by acting as a separate individual. This is not possible in the spiritual realm because the vibration of the Ma-ter light that forms the spiritual realm is so high that the illusion of separateness cannot be maintained. The material universe has pockets – earth being one of them – in which the vibration of the light is so low that the illusion of separation seems plausible. The illusion can be maintained only because of the density of matter that prevents your thoughts from being instantaneously manifest. This gives the illusion of a separation between consciousness and matter and makes possible the illusion that you are a separate individual who is not linked to others through the collective consciousness.

This illusion of separation gives rise to the further illusion that you can take physical actions and escape the consequences, meaning that you can do onto others without having others – or the universe – do onto you. This is, of course, a complete illusion, for no one can escape the consequences of his or her actions. When you exercise your creative abilities in a way that limits other parts of life – seeking to raise up the separate self – you will diminish your creative power and limit your freedom.

When people are blinded by the illusion of separation, they fail to see this. They can – for some time – maintain the illusion that they are raising the separate self in comparison to other separate selves. They can even maintain the illusion that they gain freedom only by going against God’s will—the will of the external god of their own making.

You can co-create in a way that raises up all life – including yourself – or you can de-create in a way that diminishes all life—again, yourself included. The first option should be the obvious choice, but once beings are blinded by the illusion of a separate self, it is not. The illusion that you can gain an advantage by raising up the separate self in comparison to others becomes the “obvious” choice. Out of this illusion, the epic struggle is born.

Why the epic struggle is pointless

Many myths portray the world as being locked in an epic struggle between two opposing forces. These myths range from ancient mythology, such as the Iliad and the Bhagavad Gita, to modern mythology, such as Star Wars and Lord of the Rings. Throughout the ages, many people have looked at the world and concluded that this portrayal is true and that there is an epic struggle. Indeed, there is such a struggle—only it is not between the true God and some entity that opposes God.

When you begin to glimpse God as infinite and formless, you see that because that which is infinite cannot be divided, it can have no opposite. In God, there is only oneness so how can there be a struggle? The Infinite God does not see itself as opposed by anything, meaning that there is no struggle within God’s Sphere of Oneness.

How is the struggle born? You can leave oneness only by creating a sense of distance, which you do by defining two opposing polarities that will forever be separated. As soon as those two polarities are defined, the epic struggle between them is the inevitable result.

I trust that those who have studied my previous ego discourses will see that the struggle can have no reality in God. It can exist only in the minds of self-aware beings who have stepped outside the Sphere of Oneness—meaning that it is ultimately unreal. Why is it unreal?

The promise of the struggle is that there are two sides and that one represents ultimate good and the other ultimate evil. By aligning yourself with ultimate good and by fighting against the people who are aligned with evil, you – as a separate self – will gain a distinct advantage. Eventually, ultimate good will win the struggle and then all who helped destroy ultimate evil will be rewarded.

On a deeper level, this promise of a reward for a separate self is an illusion—since the separate self is an illusion. Of course, no one blinded by separation can see this. Yet even those blinded by separation can see that if the promise of a reward was false, it would be silly of them to fight for one side and against the other. Consider how the promise could be fulfilled? It can happen only when good finally destroys evil. On a deeper level, what human beings call “good” was created in a polarity with what they call “evil.” The two are inseparable, meaning that one can never destroy the other. The only way for the epic struggle to end is if both are transcended! Good does not cancel out evil. The reality of God cancels out the illusion of the dualistic struggle.

No one blinded by separation can see this point, as such beings cannot see beyond the illusion of separation. Those who have started seeing beyond duality can see that the epic struggle is utterly pointless. It simply is not possible that good can win over evil, for “good” and “evil” are relative terms that cannot exist independently of each other. They were created together and can only be “erased” together.

You might say that ultimate good can win, but even that is an incorrect use of words. Ultimate good – the indivisible God – is not engaged in any struggle, for it recognizes no division—his eyes behold no iniquity. The ultimate God is not trying to defeat the devil, for God recognizes the unreality of the devil and thus sees no need to engage him in any way. The devil is not a threat to the Creator—the devil is simply irrelevant.

The epic struggle is a grand illusion that has the effect of sucking people into an activity that eats up their attention and energy without having the potential of giving them what they seek. Even spiritual seekers can be sucked into this struggle by thinking they are fighting for the ultimate cause, fighting for God’s cause. Even ascended master students have had their attention consumed by the struggle.

This brings us to an interesting point, for some will say that the ascended masters have encouraged people to engage in the struggle by decreeing “against” certain dark forces and calling forth their judgment. In order to understand this, you need to recognize that we of the ascended masters have only one goal and that is to raise the consciousness of all people. We will therefore have to meet people at the level of consciousness where they are at, and then give them teachings that take them up from there. Until recently, very few people on this planet have been ready for the non-dualistic teachings we are releasing today.

In the past, we had to adapt to what people could grasp, and the fact is that even the epic struggle can be used to promote spiritual progress. One of the greatest enemies of progress is that people become comfortable in a certain lifestyle and simply want to enjoy life in the material realm. Throughout the ages, the epic struggle has indeed had the effect of pulling people out of that comfortability and “forcing” them to increase their skills in order to “defeat” the enemy—as for example seen in martial arts.

Even though the struggle is an illusion, it can still be used to promote growth. The downside, of course, is that once people become warriors, they can become stuck in that role for many lifetimes before they finally move on to become sages, seeking peace through the mind rather than seeking it through victory in war.

It has always been our hope that those who are direct students of the ascended masters would eventually rise above the struggle, as we have indeed given veiled teachings on this in the past—for those who have eyes to read between the lines. For those who have not been willing to see this, we have had no other option than to push people’s buttons in order to intensify the sense of struggle until people finally have enough. How long can you be in the mindset of fighting a war? Even the second world war lasted only five years, but some students have been fighting their own private, spiritual war against evil for decades. Their egos are laughing all the way to the bank where they cash in the light that people misqualify through the struggle.

NOTE: The rest of this dictation is available in the book Freedom from Ego Dramas.

 

Copyright © 2013 Kim Michaels

Why the Ego Is Always “Right”

Ascended Master Jesus through Kim Michaels.

In order to give you a gentle on-ramp, let me address the point of how the ego can always project that it is right. I originally described this as an ego game that sprang from the security games. On the individual level it truly is an ego game. Yet the fallen beings have taken this game and have used it to define and justify the ego dramas, which is why it is included in this book.

Myriad spiritual seekers – as well as religious and non-religious people – have spent lifetimes on the quest of proving their egos right. They have been happily following the false path – what I called the broad way that leads to destruction – instead of finding the true path to spiritual freedom.

When you take an honest look at the world, you will notice that many people are caught in the game of proving that some thought system is the only right one and that all others are false. This game takes on many disguises, and it can indeed keep people occupied for lifetimes. Yet eventually, the real you will tire of this game and begin to wonder if there isn’t something beyond the thought systems found in this world, some form of ultimate truth, ultimate reality.

At that point, you are facing the essential choice that can take you onto the path of Christhood. That choice is whether you are willing to find a higher reality or whether you will simply accept a more sophisticated version of the ego game to establish the ultimate belief system. Most people, of course, do not understand the choice they are facing. My purpose for this discourse is to clarify the choice for those who are willing to understand the deeper reality behind my statement:

22 Ye worship ye know not what: …
23 But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.
24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. (John, Chapter 4)

How separation leads to idol worship

Let me ask you to conduct a simple thought experiment. When I say the word “apples,” take note of what happens in your mind. Immediately, a mental image comes up, a mental image of what apples mean to you. Now imagine that I tell you that a new fruit has been discovered on a remote island. I may describe it, and based on that description, you will formulate a mental image. The difference is that you have had a direct experience of apples so your mental image of apples is at least somewhat tied to reality (taking into account that the physical senses cannot be entirely trusted). On the other hand, your mental image of the unknown fruit is not tied to reality since you have not experienced it.

This shows the fundamental problem with the ego’s perception of God. The ego is born from your separation from your source, and thus the ego can never have a direct experience of God. The ego will for its entire existence be basing its concept of God on a mental image that it can never compare to reality. The ego will always seek to defend its mental image of God, which means it must prevent the Conscious You from actually experiencing God. The difference being, of course, that because the Conscious You is an extension of the Creator’s Being, the Conscious You can actually have an experience of God.

“Worshiping God in Spirit and in truth” means that you make use of the Conscious You’s ability to have a direct experience of God’s Being. People who are not willing to make use of this God-given ability – the key of knowledge – will be worshiping idols, and their entire approach to religion is based on a graven image of God. That is why you see so many religious people who insist that their religion is the only true belief system. Of course, you also see people who are doing the exact same thing with a political belief system or even the belief system called scientific materialism.

Understanding the origin of duality

Let us now move on to consider what should seem like a peculiar fact, namely why so many people can be absolutely convinced that their belief system is the only true one when there are so many conflicting belief systems that they cannot all be true. This should make people wonder whether perhaps all of them are out of touch with ultimate reality.

Let me make an absolute statement. Any belief system that has ever existed or that could ever exist on earth will give an incomplete description of God. Why is this so? Because the Creator is beyond its creation, is beyond the totality of the material universe. No belief system could ever give an accurate or complete description of God. It is like trying to describe the sun by looking only at the moon.

The subtle difference is that because the ego is separated from God, it cannot have a direct experience of God’s Being. The ego thinks God can be reduced to a description, to a mental image—which then inevitably becomes a graven image. The Conscious You can indeed have a direct experience of God’s Being, and when you have this experience, you will know that God could never be described by any belief system. God can only be experienced, and as soon as you try to put words on the experience, you degrade it.

To the ego, God is not a real, Living Presence. God is a concept, a mental image. The Conscious You can experience God as a Living Being that is right here whereas the ego can only see God as a remote, conceptual being. As I said with my analogy of apples and the unknown fruit, the ego can never compare its mental image of God to reality, meaning it can never overcome its idol worship. It is up to the Conscious You to extricate itself from your ego’s graven images of God. In order to do that, you need to understand how the ego expresses its insatiable desire for security in creating an infallible belief system.

The concept I will give you next might be difficult for you to grasp—if you have not yet had a direct experience of God’s Being. It is still valuable for you to have this concept in your mind. It is actually not entirely correct to say that the Conscious You can have an experience of God’s Being. The reason is that using the word “experience” often makes people think of experiences they have in their normal state of awareness. For example, you may go to the beach and watch a beautiful sunset, but you are aware that you are a separate observer watching the scenery from a distance.

This “observing from a distance” is precisely how the ego thinks of God and thinks of the concept of experiencing God—and everything else for that matter. It thinks you have to experience God as the remote being in the sky. In reality, you will never experience God as long as you look for him outside yourself, which is why I told you that the kingdom of God is within you.

In order to experience God’s Being, you have to be willing to stop seeing yourself as a separate being – at least for a moment – and instead come to experience your oneness with God. You can experience God only through what some of my early followers called “gnosis,” which means a oneness between the knower and the known. The normal separation between the object and the observer is set aside and the observer becomes one with the object being observed. As a side note, this is possible because everything has consciousness. The Conscious You can experience oneness with the consciousness of any object, even a rock.

The ego can never experience Gnosis, for if it did, it would instantly cease to exist. Gnosis is oneness, and in oneness there is no room for separation, meaning that there is no room for opposing viewpoints. Because the ego was born from separation, its world view does indeed have room for opposing polarities. The ego can never escape the form of thinking that incorporates at least two polarities. Why is that so?

I have said that in God’s reality there is only oneness. How can you separate yourself from oneness? You can do so only by creating a distance, which can be done only when there are two opposing polarities that are seen as being separated by space—for in oneness there is no space for distance. Only when there is distance, is there room for the illusion that you are separated from oneness and can have an existence outside of oneness, even being able to hide something from God, as Adam and Eve supposedly hid from God in the Garden.

NOTE: The rest of this dictation is available in the book Freedom from Ego Dramas.

 

Copyright © 2013 Kim Michaels

The Importance of Ego Dramas

Ascended Master Jesus through Kim Michaels.

In this book I will talk about a topic that is little known to most spiritual seekers. There are several reasons for this:

People’s egos and the false teachers of this world will do anything to prevent you from understanding what ego dramas are and how they are used to abort your growth and your expression of Christhood.

Many people are not at a level of the spiritual path where they need to be concerned about ego dramas, as they first need to become aware of the ego’s illusions and its games.

The ascended masters have not given any teachings on this because we have not had a critical mass of people who were ready for them. This has now changed.

Why is it so important for some people to consider ego dramas? An underlying theme for my websites and for all of the books in this series is that there are currently 10,000 people in embodiment who have the potential to claim and express their Christhood in this lifetime. There are millions more who can attain a high degree of Christhood. It has therefore been my intent to give these people all the teachings and tools they need in order to manifest their highest potential.

Let me talk about two stages of spiritual growth. The first one is what we might call the general spiritual path where people are working on raising their own consciousness. The second stage is what I call the path to Christhood. During the first stage people tend to be focused on themselves, and they are often as little children who are innocently exploring what spiritual growth means and what is available in the marketplace. They are seeking to raise their own consciousness with little concern for other people or the world. Many people are reading books or following gurus that promote a more superficial form of spirituality. With superficial I mean that people have an outer path where it seems they can reach a spiritual state of consciousness without confronting the beam – the ego – in their own eyes. It is what I have called the automatic path to salvation. This path can still take people to the point where they are ready to step onto the path of Christhood.

The second stage is where people become more serious and dedicated and they realize they need to work hard and they need to change themselves. They also become more concerned about perspectives that reach beyond themselves. They often reawaken to what brought them to this planet, namely a sincere desire to improve conditions and help raise the collective consciousness.

This is a much more critical stage of the path. The high potential is that people can indeed manifest personal Christhood and make a major contribution to raising the collective consciousness. The risk is that they can become focused on changing other people and begin to feel this justifies using means that do not respect the absoluteness of free will.

This is truly a critical distinction. If you manifest and express Christhood, you will make a real and valid contribution to raising the whole beyond the human struggle. If you go into using force, you will make severe karma for yourself and you will only contribute to dragging the whole down into another spiral of struggle.

The false teachers and the forces of anti-christ know very well how much is at stake, and that is precisely why they have defined the ego dramas. It is their ultimate weapon for diverting your path to Christhood into the false path of seeking to force people to be saved according to your vision, or rather the illusion created by the serpentine mind.

I am in no way saying this to induce fear because for those who have risen to the path of Christhood, fear is no longer the dominant emotion. Nevertheless, I am indeed saying it to promote a sense of profound realism, for there is much at stake here. The work of the ascended masters can only be fulfilled through people in embodiment. It can never be fulfilled by people who are still affected by the force-based mindset of the fallen beings. It is essential for you to come to see through this force-based mindset and see its unreality. To this end, I offer this book.

What is an ego drama?

Let me ask you to re-read what I said in the previous book about the relationship between ego games and ego dramas:

An ego game is directly related to you and what you do as an individual whereas an ego drama relates to what you do in relation to some greater – seemingly impersonal – consideration. We might say that an ego game is what people normally see as egotistical behavior, namely what revolves around your personal desires or needs. An ego drama goes beyond your personal level and relates to a greater cause. A drama is something you pretend to do for others or even for God, yet it is simply a camouflaged offspring of the ego. An ego game is often obvious selfish behavior whereas an ego drama is selfish behavior camouflaged as unselfish behavior. An ego game is what you do in relation to other people who are also focused on themselves. An ego drama is what you do in relation to a greater cause, even to God or to other people who are also pretending that their selfish behavior serves an altruistic cause.

Truly, this is the essential point. Did I not say, those many years ago when I walked the earth in a physical body:

But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also. (Matthew 5:38-40)

Does this not imply a total and uncompromising respect for free will? Does it not imply that the forces of anti-christ have always sought to drag you into a struggle against them by violating your free will? They will attack you again and again and their sole purpose is to get you to react to them and to engage in a struggle against them. They know that when you resist evil, you will never manifest Christhood, for all of your energies and attention will be fed into the downward spiral of the struggle they have generated on this planet.

Just look at how many people around the world, such as in the Middle East, who are feeding their energies into struggling against other groups of people. They are feeding the fallen beings and enabling them to continue an existence. By using their free will to engage in this struggle, they also prevent the judgment of the fallen beings so that the ascended masters cannot remove them from this planet.

It is a basic fact that by resisting evil you only reinforce evil. How do you avoid resisting evil? By always turning the other cheek with complete non-attachment. How can you turn the other cheek? Only by having an uncompromising respect for free will—your own and that of others.

When the fallen beings attack you, you respect that God has given them free will. On planet earth, there is nothing that prevents them from attacking you physically. Yet you also realize the truth behind my words:

And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. (Matthew 10:27-29)

The fallen beings do have the power to kill your physical body, but they have no power to kill your soul. This truly means that they have no power to influence how you choose to react to them. You have – and must claim in order to walk the path of Christhood – complete mastery over your mind. “He who can destroy the soul” is actually yourself, the Conscious You. You can drag it into your own private hell of struggling against something in this world until the friction gets hotter and hotter and ends up burning the soul and its structure.

The strategy of the fallen beings

As we explain in greater depth in Healing Mother Earth, there are two groups of fallen beings on earth. There are those who will directly and openly violate you and seek to drag you into opposing them. The people who are ready to start the path of Christhood have risen to a level of consciousness where it is difficult for the fallen beings to drag them into this direct struggle. The second group of fallen beings have come up with the ego dramas as a way to drag you into the struggle while thinking you are working for a higher cause. The ego dramas will imply that a certain cause is so important that it justifies measures that force the will of others. It might not be overt physical force, but it is definitely a force, often a psychic force. Any use of force is a violation of the Law of Free Will, which is the most important law for this universe.

One more thing I want to give you in this introduction. As Maitreya has explained in his book, the common conception (Based on the Book of Revelation) that the fallen beings were angels who fell in heaven is not correct. The material universe is the latest in a series of spheres. A sphere is created like your world, meaning it is yet impermanent and the beings inhabiting it have not yet ascended. As the beings in a sphere raise their consciousness individually, they raise their sphere up until the entire sphere can ascend and become part of the spiritual realm.

Before a sphere ascends, there is room for the duality consciousness, meaning lifestreams can choose to go into separation. Once a sphere ascends, there is no longer room for beings who are in duality. When a previous sphere came close to the ascension point, a number of beings were not willing to leave behind duality. These were beings who had attained high positions in their unascended sphere, yet in order to ascend, they had to give up these selves. As I said: “He who would be greatest amongst you, let him be the servant of all.” I also told people to be willing to lay down their lives in order to follow Christ into the ascended state of consciousness. The reason being that a separate self cannot enter the spiritual realm.

The Law of Free Will mandates that if lifestreams go into duality, they must receive many opportunities to live out this state of consciousness until they have had enough and want to return to oneness. When a sphere ascends, the beings in duality obviously cannot ascend with it so they are given the opportunity to fall into the next sphere that is being created as the previous one ascends.

When a being falls into an unascended sphere, it does not lose the separate self it has built. You now have a situation where a new sphere has two types of beings. There are new lifestreams who have a point-like sense of self and no experience with the world. Then there are the fallen beings who have a much broader sense of self and a lot of experience with the world.

This obviously gives a certain advantage to the fallen beings because they are much more sophisticated than new lifestreams. In the beginning, the fallen beings are not allowed to interact with new lifestreams, being instead given their own planets. There are numerous planets where the innocent inhabitants never chose to go into separation. These planets have evolved without ever having fallen beings embodying on them.

NOTE: The rest of this dictation is available in the book Freedom from Ego Dramas.

 

Copyright © 2013 Kim Michaels

How to stop rejecting the abundance of the Divine Mother

TOPICS: Manifesting material abundance – Imagining having material wealth – Fearing to have material wealth – The fear of material freedom – Choices in the time-space continuum – How to experience gratitude – Seeing life as an opportunity to express light – Share a universal spiritual bond –


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Ascended Master Mother Mary, June 23, 2013, through Kim Michaels. Given at a conference in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

I AM the Ascended Master Mother Mary. I come for this occasion as the twin flame of Master MORE. As we have explained, in the ascended realm we are far more fluid beings than what you can conceive of in the outer mind. Thus, we have the ability to blend with each and every other ascended master. When I come as the twin flame of Master MORE, Master MORE becomes more Mary and I become, then, MORE. Thus, I wish to discourse with you as a continuation of the previous teachings, but I wish to relate it to some of the topics that you have asked for this conference.

Manifesting material abundance

One of them is the abundant life and how to manifest the abundance you require. Let me say to you that the Divine Mother is more than happy to give you the abundant life both materially and psychologically, and the Divine Father is more than happy to give you the abundant life spiritually. So I will give you the perspective of the Divine Mother, and I wish to bring out the thought that since the representatives of the Divine Mother and the Ma-ter light itself will gladly outpicture abundant material circumstances, the question to ask is: “Why you do not have it, why does such a large part of humanity live beneath the poverty level, why do they not have material abundance?”

As Master MORE just said, everything is subject to free will. There is an individual free will and there is what becomes a collective will, which is not really one unified will but is made up of the entire chaotic blending of the individual wills of people in a society or even humanity as a whole. What we have taught before is that people have various dramas created by the ego. Therefore, I can say with absolute certainty that if you do not have the abundant life it is because there is some kind of drama that causes you to reject what the Divine Mother offers you.

Now, in some cases your particular personal situation may be tied in to the collective situation in your area. I am not trying to give you the idea that you can always say that if you don’t have abundance there is something wrong with you. You may be living in a certain area, a certain nation, among a certain group of people for a higher purpose, for a spiritual purpose; and there are situations where it would be very difficult to manifest abundance in that nation.

What I say here does not apply universally, but let us acknowledge the fact that most of the people who are currently open to ascended master teachings live in countries that have a greater degree of affluence. Therefore, there is also a greater degree of opportunity to acquire material wealth. Now, on the one hand let me make it clear that we of the ascended masters look to our students and we have only one evaluation: “How can we help them fulfill their individual divine plans?”

Your divine plan does not necessarily require you to become wealthy materially, and therefore we are not setting up a standard saying that there is anything wrong with you as a student or as a person if you do not have abundant wealth. Yet if you feel that you would like to have more material abundance than you have, then I suggest you consider what kind of human dramas you might have taken on in this and perhaps previous embodiments.

Imagining having material wealth

For this purpose, start by looking at your family and the society in which you live. People play many different dramas. For example, there are many people all over the world who are outplaying the drama that they are somehow the less fortunate classes, the working class who can only take whatever jobs are available. There are many people who have grown up in families where no one has ever gone on to receive a higher education for they simply could not conceive of doing so. Traditionally, you see many societies where it is believed that you need a certain amount of intelligence, a certain amount of ability, in order to receive a higher education, but you first of all need the attitude that you are willing, that you are able and that you are worthy. This is precisely what is lacking in many people.

There are many families where they look at themselves as just workers, and they almost look down upon those who have a higher education. Therefore, many parents, without even realizing this, discourage their children from going on to pursue an education. There are likewise many families that can only conceive of themselves as having a job offered by others. They could never conceive of starting a business where they might offer jobs to others. This is not because they don’t have the ability or the opportunity, but they do not have the mindset. They cannot even imagine and believe that they could do this.

The Divine Mother, the Ma-ter light can outpicture any possible circumstance. What do you need in order to outpicture a certain circumstance? You must first be able to imagine it, and here be careful to listen to what I am saying. Surely, all of you can watch a program on television where they portray some rich people that live in a huge house, have five or six cars, and spend money as if it was water. But can you imagine yourself being in a position of having material abundance?

You see, there are so many times where people’s imagination does imagine easily being rich, but there is a gap in imagination between this image of what it means to be rich and then seeing yourself in that position. What is it that makes up the gap? Well, it is precisely these dramas that you have taken on. For example, as I said, many people around the world somehow look at themselves as being only poor and actually look down upon, or look at it as something to be avoided, to be rich. They cannot imagine themselves in that position and thus what is the Ma-ter light and the Divine Mother giving to these people? Exactly what they are subconsciously saying that they want.

Fearing to have material wealth

The Divine Mother serves. We serve by giving you the experience, the exact material conditions that correspond to what you carry in your subconscious minds. If you carry a drama that says you want to be disadvantaged, you want to be limited by material circumstances, we must give it to you. Now, we may, according to cosmic law, accelerate this tendency so we actually give you more and more severe material conditions until you open your mind to the potential of something better by changing the contents of your mind, precisely by looking at what dramas you are outplaying.

What is your excuse for rejecting the abundant life? Many spiritual people have in past embodiments lived in what we called monastic conditions where you have retreated from the world, where you have renounced material possessions. This has been an ideal in both Eastern and Western religions for thousands of years. Many of you have, lifetimes ago, decided that you wanted to pursue a spiritual lifestyle as you saw it at the time. In doing so you did, those lifetimes ago, accept certain beliefs; certain beliefs about material wealth that are actually still in your subconscious mind and that might very well be blocking the manifestation of material abundance. There is a part of you that wants it but there is another part that pushes it away.

You will, of course, see, many of you, that you have observed what happens to many people who have great material abundance and how they often cannot handle it. They have changed in many ways, often even to the point of behaving in a way that is clearly not in accordance with any higher spiritual principles. Therefore, you might have a subconscious fear of what would happen to you if you had great wealth. Could you handle it? Or would it actually take you away from the spiritual path?

These are legitimate concerns, but if you truly want to grow then consider why you shouldn’t be able to handle having material wealth. Why should this be a problem for you if you are willing to look in the mirror and continue to work on your psychology as you have been doing? Certainly, you would be able to handle this in a responsible manner by continuing the process you know is the spiritual path: using our teachings, observing yourself, being honest and straightforward. Certainly, many of you can handle it.

The fear of material freedom

Now I wish to go to a deeper level. I wish you to recognize, and ask yourself why people have created the dramas, and this very much has something to do with what Saint Germain discoursed on, namely the mindset that blocks the golden age. Saint Germain is, of course, the Master of Freedom, and I am and can be his twin flame as well. Thus, Saint Germain has earlier given the teaching that many people are actually afraid of freedom.

It is truly a challenge to stand there, having gained some mastery on the Seven Rays, and now you are on the Seventh Ray towards that final exam. What do you have to do to pass the final exam and move on from the 96th level of consciousness? You have to do what Master MORE talked about: You have to be willing to exercise your free will, to make choices, to make a choice as to what you will do with your creative abilities. I can assure you that there are many spiritual people who, over many past lifetimes, have built up this sense that they should not be rich.

The reality behind it all is that you are actually afraid to have the freedom that it gives you to have abundant material wealth. You are afraid of what you will do with it. How will you use the money? Would you hoard it and use it to build more and more wealth as some rich people do? Would you buy more and more material things?

Do you see, my beloved, that it is possible to be afraid of having freedom to the point where you subconsciously limit yourself? Because if you do not have the money, then you do not have to make the choice about how to spend it. This then ties in with what Master MORE said; that you have accepted the mindset of the fallen beings where there is always a standard of right and wrong.

But you see, when you reach a certain level of the path – and certainly when you are at that 96th level where you must either go down or you must go up towards Christhood – then you face that initiation. You must be willing to express yourself and say: “This is my choice, this is my individual choice. It is not a matter of right and wrong for I know enough to not express myself in a selfish manner. Therefore, I am willing to make a choice and realize that the way I am expressing myself is one among millions of possible ways but it is the right one for me at this very moment, given who I am in the time-space continuum.”

Choices in the time-space continuum

You see, the unique quality of time and space is that you can only be in this moment right now, you can only be in this location right now. You are in a certain situation, there are certain conditions here and therefore you have a unique opportunity to express your creativity in this situation. Tomorrow, or ten years from now, you will have moved on and will be in a different circumstance in time and space. You will be in a different circumstance in consciousness and thus you make a different choice not bound by the choices you made in the past.

This is one of the challenges that many ascended master students face. You have been on the path for some time, you have risen to a certain level of Christhood and therefore you cannot look back and say: “I must continue to follow this outer rule” or “I must continue to make choices today based on the choices I made yesterday.” This is what the fallen mindset, including your own ego, will whisper in your ear: “You have been such and such a person in the past, you must continue to be this way.”

What did Master MORE say? “Free will is free!” It is as free as you allow it to be through your imagination and your willingness to transcend the past, to leave it behind, to look at these ghosts from the past and say: “Get thee behind me Satan for you are no longer part of who I am today, and thus I will not choose today based on what I chose in the past for the past be gone!”

How to experience gratitude

This is when you can begin to step up and look at each situation you encounter in life in a different way. If you will look again at the dramas that people are outplaying, you will see that a large majority of the people on this planet have a very subtle mindset where they see themselves as victims of outer circumstances.

I know you can set up gradations and say that some people really are facing very difficult outer circumstances, but I tell you that even many people in the richer countries who actually have very good material conditions, they still have a subtle sense that they are limited by outer conditions. They can only react to them, and that they can only react in certain ways, often by doing the same thing they have been conditioned to do by their parents and upbringing, therefore continuing to make the same choices they have made in the past. Of course, when you look at life this way, you look at life as one continuous string of challenges that are coming at you, that are seeking to overwhelm you and that are limiting you.

When you look at life this way, life is not fun, is it? This ties in to another topic that you brought up for this conference: how to experience gratitude, and how to be in the stream of gratitude. Well, when you see life as something that is imposed upon you where there are constantly outer circumstances or other people who are impinging upon you – making demands upon you, forcing you or trying to force you to go here and there or do this or that or even to react – then you lose your joy in life. How can you feel gratitude in life when there is no joy? How can you feel joy if there is not creative freedom?

Do you see that when you make the shift I have outlined, when you are willing to make choices and say: “This was the best I could do in that situation, this was how I wanted to express myself in that situation” and then be at peace with that, then you can begin to see life, not as an endless string of forced situations but as an endless string of opportunities to express yourself, to express your creativity, to share your Presence.

As Master MORE said, if you can become non-attached to outer results, you see that in any situation – no matter how limited it might seem – you have the opportunity to share your Presence—and this will make a difference. It will make a difference to some people, it will make a difference by bringing light into the collective consciousness. It will make a difference to you by adding on to the momentum where you actually dare to imagine the highest possible outcome, where you dare to now imagine, even with your outer mind, the images that your I AM Presence is holding for you. You dare to imagine that there is no gap between the vision of your I AM Presence and the fulfillment of your divine plan and the materialization of that divine plan. You see yourself and you accept yourself as having the conditions that your I AM Presence sees for you.

You are “as above so below.” You have united your vision with what is above, you have dared to overcome the dramas that separate you and can make you unable, unwilling, to accept that what your I AM Presence envisions for you can be manifest by the Ma-ter light and by the Mother realm. Thus, you can come to the point where you do not see the Ma-ter light or the Divine Mother as your enemy, as someone who is forcing something upon you by outpicturing all of these unpleasant material conditions. Instead, you see the Divine Mother as your greatest friend and supporter who only wants to nurture you in your growth toward Christhood. The Divine Mother sees you as the Christ child, and when you begin to see yourself as the Christ child, then you are beginning to work with the Divine Mother instead of working against material conditions, thinking you have to force your way to have certain conditions.

Instead you simply tune in to your I AM Presence, accept the vision of your I AM Presence, see the vision of reality and let the Divine Mother outpicture it in the cycles of time, being patient, knowing that the call compels the answer but that there are certain cycles in the material universe that must be fulfilled, in many cases. Although there is certainly also the potential for an instant manifestation, as you saw in the life of Jesus, but that requires a higher level of self-mastery, a higher level of oneness with the Presence where you have no gap between you and the Presence because you can say with Jesus: “I and my Presence are One.”

Seeing life as an opportunity to express light

This is the key to gratitude: You see life as an opportunity, even as an opportunity to learn. You realize the Divine Mother only presents you certain material conditions in order to give you an opportunity to learn, to give you an opportunity to consciously decide that you want more. When you come to a certain level, there is no contradiction between wanting more and still feeling gratitude for what you have. You see what you have as an opportunity to express your creativity and to share your Presence, yet you are still looking for the future to bring your more opportunities to express your Presence. You are not actually looking to have, to own, to control and to preserve something. You are looking to receive greater opportunities to express your creativity and to share your Presence and therefore do more and more to increase the light in the material world. Increasing the light is your true labor of love.

Whatever conditions you face, there is the potential to express the light of your Presence. When you do this, you have multiplied the talents. As Jesus’ parable demonstrates, then you will be given more for I can assure you that we of the ascended masters, we, the representatives of the Divine Mother, want to see the abundant life manifest for all people on earth. We know that this can only be done by releasing more spiritual light, but we also know that we can only release spiritual light through those in embodiment who are willing to become the open doors. Therefore, we are standing up here having more light than we could possibly hold, we are just looking to have that light be born, that it can be released into the material world. We are just looking for anyone who will give us an opening for releasing this light.

You who are the spiritual students, who know the ascended masters, you have the potential to make the effort to be the open doors for the flow of this light. This is what we desire for you, this is what we envision for you. This is why we give you teachings and tools, and truly we have given you already so many teachings and tools that most of you who have found our teachings can manifest the abundant life. We will, of course, continue to give teachings as we hope to reach wider and wider groups of people who might need slightly different teachings, slightly more simple or slightly more profound or just slightly different ways of expressing the same eternal truth and principles that have been expressed in the past in other ways.

Truly, as Master MORE said: How will you truly use a teaching? Not by learning it by heart with the outer mind but by looking beyond the teaching, using it as a ladder to climb into the heart of the ascended being that released the teaching. This is the key, the absolute key, to matter-realization. I AM the master of matter-realization, thus I will work with anyone who applies to my heart to learn the process of materializing the spiritual images, concepts, the spiritual reality.

Share a universal spiritual bond

Now then, I wish to express the gratitude of myself, the gratitude of all the ascended masters, for these twin conferences that you have had in Novosibirsk and here in Almaty. I can tell you that it is a great joy to us to see what you have brought forth, through your coming together, through you invocations and decrees, through your being the open door for the light released from our side. You have formed an arc of light between Almaty and Novosibirsk. If you could see it in the etheric realm, you would see it almost like a rainbow stretching from one city to the other. Yet when you see it from a distance, it radiates a golden light and when you look at it more closely, you see the hues of the seven Rays on the golden background with the golden light shining through each of the colors of the rays.

This is a most beautiful sight, a most beautiful sight, my beloved. We are very grateful for this arc of light for it is actually a potential to create a greater connection between the two nations, especially the Eastern part of Russia and the nation of Kazakhstan and the other nations in this area who should, according to the golden age blueprint of Saint Germain, start forming a region. A region where there is cooperation between the people based on the geographical location and also the natural resources and also the mindset that they share.

I encourage those of you that are spiritual people to consider what we have said about looking beyond outer divisions. I encourage you to recognize that there are indeed people, both those that were part of the former Soviet Republics and other people, who look with some suspicion upon the Russian people. I encourage you to recognize there is a tendency for many among the Russian people to look with suspicion upon non-Russians and to look down upon certain nations.

There is a certain tendency for Russia to look down upon the people of Kazakhstan for the Russians do not understand the qualities of peace embodied by these people. Yet I encourage you who are the spiritual people to look beyond this and to form a bond in your hearts where you recognize that you are first and foremost spiritual people and that there are spiritual people in every nation, in every nationality and in every ethnic group. In every grouping that you see there are the spiritual people who share a universal bond.

My beloved, do you not see what Saint Germain has said that in the golden age people will not be divided by all these outer things? There will be the arising of a universal consciousness of oneness. Not one that destroys diversity but that sees oneness behind diversity and therefore sees the diversity as beautiful, unique expressions of the same oneness, therefore never seeing it as a threat. My beloved, how shall this universal consciousness be born in the physical unless it is born through the spiritual people? Thus if you cannot see beyond outer divisions and characteristics and form a bond of the heart, how shall we have the non-spiritual people manifest such a consciousness? How can they manifest this if they don’t have examples to follow? And who shall be the examples if not you?

You might indeed visualize that in the future you build these golden arches of light, the golden arches of light of the seven rays between all nations and all groups of people. You may, as you come in greater contact with spiritual people from other nations, envision it between yourselves and those nations. There are representatives here from other nations, nations in the West, Hungary, America; other nations, and you may visualize these golden arches from here to South Korea, from here to other nations where people have tuned in over the Internet, a golden arch to Ukraine, to Belorussia, to other areas and cities in the Western part of Russia: Saint Petersburg, Moscow, other cities from which people have come. You may, all of you who have come to either this conference or the conference in Novosibirsk, manifest a golden arch between these two cities and your home city and your home nation. Visualize how the light is streaming from the focuses created by these two conferences directly to your hearts and spreading out to your city and nation.

Whoever may in the future read or hear these dictations, visualize this golden arch to where you are. Visualize the light, visualize how the light consumes the outer divisions and be willing to have it consume your own prejudices that you might hold towards people of other nations or other groups. Be willing to see the universal behind diversity for this is the role of the representatives of the Divine Mother, such as myself and Kuan Yin. We see beyond the diversity, we see the Christ child and the Christ potential in each human being and we only seek to nourish that Christ child in each and every one of you.

Thus, I give you my great gratitude for these two conferences. You have indeed achieved a breakthrough that will have important ramifications not only for the nations of Kazakhstan and Russia but for the world at large. East can indeed meet West, but it can only do so in the heart of the Divine Mother. Thus, be sealed in my peace and in my infinite gratitude.

 

Copyright © 2013 Kim Michaels

Elitism is the key to understanding history

TOPICS: The attempt to hold back information – The force that resists growth in awareness – The crucial awareness that is missing – The universal worth of all human beings – The hidden influence of elitism – Democracy and elitism – Do not try to battle the elite – Overcoming the epic mindset –


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Ascended Master Saint Germain, June 22, 2013, through Kim Michaels. Given at a conference in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

I AM the Ascended Master Saint Germain and I wish to discourse on the shift in mindset that will help bring the golden age into manifestation. I have, of course, already talked about part of this shift but I wish to take this to a different level.

The attempt to hold back information

If you look back at the last 2,000 years, what most spiritual people see as the Age of Pisces, you will see that the shift that has been happening is not so much in technology and outer achievement but a shift in the raising of awareness. How can you create the kind of sophisticated technology you have today, technology that would have blown the minds of the people of ancient Rome who thought they had the most sophisticated civilization ever to appear on earth? How do you create technology that is so much more sophisticated than what people could even dream about 2,000 years ago? You do so because there has been an increased awareness of how the physical universe works, what scientists call the laws of nature. What I wish to focus on here is the increase in awareness. Truly, what drives progress in society is this increase in awareness.

If you look back at the past 2,000 years, you will see that the increase in awareness has not happened as a deliberate effort to increase awareness. It has actually been a process that has encountered a lot of opposition, and if you look back to the Middle Ages you will see this probably more clearly than most people see it today. Of course, many people today are aware that during the Dark Ages and the Middle Ages the Catholic Church was in the West the major factor that held back the growth in what most people see as knowledge but which I see as a broader awareness.

Most people know that the Catholic Church burned all of the books of the Greek philosophers, suppressed any kind of new knowledge, attempted to suppress science. Therefore, you can see that the Catholic Church was an outer expression of this opposition to the increase in awareness. You now become aware that there is a force that seeks to slow down or even stop, if it could, the increase in awareness.

I do not wish here to focus on the Catholic Church for it is only one example. We have, of course, seen many other examples even in the modern age where we see the communist empire of the Soviet Union seeking to hold back information. We see, for example, that the Soviet Empire could continue to exist only as long as the people were unaware of exactly what was going on, and what was going on both inside and outside of the Soviet Empire. We see even today how the Empire of China is seeking to filter the amount of information available to its citizens even on the Internet, which of course is an almost impossible task even for a regime with the intent and the resources of the current Chinese governmental apparatus.

The force that resists growth in awareness

What we see here is that on the one hand there is a force that wants to stop the growth in awareness but we also see over the past 2,000 years that this force has not been able to hold back the growth in awareness. This is, of course, because we of the ascended masters have released the light and the ideas and teachings that have caused an increase in awareness on an overall level.

Certainly, the force that seeks to hold back the growth in awareness has been successful in slowing down the growth of awareness. Had it not been so, society would have been even further along both technologically and in other ways than it is today. They do have an impact, yet we of the ascended masters do hold the ultimate power to increase awareness on earth. It is, of course, subject to free will, otherwise we could have raised consciousness even more. The fact is that in every age there will always be some individuals that refuse to submit to the force that seeks to limit awareness. They are therefore willing to be the open door for the bringing forth of some ideas that help bring society, civilization, humanity forward.

When you look at the present age, you still see that there is a force that is seeking to hold back the growth in awareness. This is something that unfortunately too many people in the West, in what calls itself the “free world,” is not aware of. They are not sufficiently aware of this force because many people have been deceived into thinking that because they have so-called free societies, free democracies and freedom of speech, there is no force holding back the growth in awareness. This is, of course, not true. All people on earth suffer from a lack of awareness of certain facts, therefore all people are affected by a limited awareness. They are held back in their personal lives and all societies are held back in their ability to manifest the golden age and let go of the past.

The crucial awareness that is missing

What is the one awareness that is missing, the one missing ingredient? It is first of all the awareness that life has a spiritual side. As I have said before, I am not looking to create one dominant religion in the golden age, but I am indeed looking to spread throughout the world a very universal awareness that there is a spiritual realm and reality beyond the material, that human beings are not evolved animals because human beings are lifestreams that were created in the spiritual realm and have descended into physical bodies on earth. They have descended because life on earth gives them an opportunity to raise their consciousness, to expand their awareness. Therefore life on earth has a purpose.

This purpose reaches beyond the lifetime of one physical body. Therefore, all people have had previous embodiments on earth and they might have future embodiments depending on the growth of their consciousness. In other words, there is a path that people can follow that leads them from whatever level of consciousness they have now to the level of consciousness that allows them to ascend and become permanent residents of the spiritual realm, become ascended masters.

These are very universal ideas that are not confined to any particular religion. They do not need to be defined by a particular religion as doctrines and dogmas. They are ideas that can be spread. Even some existing religions might be able to accept them, otherwise other religions can come forth that will incorporate these ideas in their own ways, clothing them in a certain outer framework or mythology and stories that appeal to specific groups of people.

Once you have this universal awareness that human beings are not “human” beings but psycho-spiritual beings and that their lives have a purpose, then you have the foundation for stepping back, looking at life, looking at history and really asking: “What is the force that is opposing the growth in awareness that will allow civilization to reach a higher level in all ways?”

The rest of this dictation, along with an invocation based on the dictation, is found in the book: Envisioning Saint Germain’s Golden Age.

 

Copyright © 2013 by Kim Michaels

The questions most people cannot even ask

TOPICS: The power elite upholds the consciousness of separation – The consciousness of inequality – Asking the unasked questions – Why do democracies build armies? – Creating an enemy for the arms race – How to undermine a democracy – Capitalism financing communism – Educating children on basic psychology – A golden age approach to education – Psycho-spiritual welfare – The potential to serve other nations –


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Ascended Master Saint Germain, June 22, 2013, through Kim Michaels. Given at a conference in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

Saint Germain I AM, and I wish to continue my discourse from this morning where I talked about the shift in consciousness. You first have the Alpha aspect, which is that people realize that they are more than human beings, that they are spiritual beings and that everything on earth is a schoolroom where they have the opportunity to raise their consciousness. Life has a purpose that reaches beyond the physical body and the pleasures you can encounter here on earth.

The Omega aspect of this realization is that life on earth is not the way it is meant to be because life on earth is not geared towards giving people equal opportunity, equal rights, equal worth. The reason for this is that there is an elite who is always seeking to set itself up to have privileges and power over the population. The elite does not have the mindset that all people have equal worth for they believe they are worth more than the ordinary people.

The power elite upholds the consciousness of separation

Why do the members of the elite not want people to have this awareness? Well, first of all because they do not want to be exposed, they do not want to be seen for what they are. They know that if people see the elite and see that they actually are like the Emperor who has noting on, then they will not be willing to submit to them. Why would you submit to the elite if you see that the elite has no power? How can you see that the elite has no power? You can see this when you recognize that you are more than a human being. You are a spiritual being, and therefore you do not have to submit to any power on earth.

This is what the Buddha demonstrated, this is what Jesus demonstrated, and this is what other spiritual leaders, such as Padma Sambhava, have demonstrated. You can attain a state of consciousness where you can walk the earth in a physical body, but you will not be subject to any power on earth. You are willing to be the open door for the power of God, and the power of God cannot be controlled by the power elite. They cannot maintain their power over the people when sufficient numbers among the people begin to see themselves as spiritual beings with the potential to be the open door for the power of God.

As we have said before, the last thing the power elite wants on earth is for people to follow Jesus’ example so there are suddenly 10,000 people with full Christhood in embodiment and many with a smaller degree of Christhood. Why is it they are actually so afraid of this? Because when there are people who have attained a degree of Christhood, they will not be subject to the consciousness that I have talked about, the consciousness of the elite. The essence of this consciousness is actually that you see yourself as a separate being, separated from God and separated from other people.

The consciousness of inequality

What does this lead to? It leads to the consciousness you see on earth, the consciousness of inequality. Do you see that the essence of the elitist consciousness is the exact opposite of the consciousness I outlined previously? I said that if all people are extensions of spiritual beings in a higher realm, then all people have equal worth and they deserve equal opportunity. The consciousness of elitism is based on a fundamental inequality so that all people are not created equal, they are not all endowed with inalienable rights that no power on earth can take away from them. The power elite can have power, they can have a privileged position, only if they are not equal to a majority of the population. They must find some kind of philosophy that puts people down and divides them into distinct categories. This is what you have seen in all past civilizations and you have seen it today as well.

You see how even the Christian religion, even the teachings given by Christ, were used to create, sustain and support an elitist society where the king and the noble class and the church hierarchy formed a privileged class and the majority of the population were literally the property or the slaves of this privileged class. You have seen even under communism – where the comment was made that all people would be equal and that there would be no classes in society – yet, of course, there was a class for those who ran the communist system. As I said, this promise was also made in the democratic nations that all are equal under the law, but as you see in the United States and in other nations, clearly there is an elite who rules through economic power, rules behind the scenes.

As I said, this elite can rule only because the majority of the population are also blinded by this illusion of separation. This is what makes it possible that you can see such incredible inequality on earth between, for example, the rich countries, such as the United States, and some of the poorest countries that you see in Africa, Asia or Southeast Asia.

When you begin to attain a degree of Christ discernment, you first of all have the Alpha realization: “I am not a human being, I am more than a human being, I am more than an evolved animal, I am a spiritual being that descended from above.” As you begin to truly integrate this realization, you will come to the point where you look around you and you say: “Well, if I am a spiritual being, then where did all other people on earth come from? Are they not also spiritual beings as well?” This leads you to the obvious realization that: “Yes, all human beings originated as spiritual beings.”

This leads you to a state of consciousness that is characterized by oneness instead of separation. There is the vertical oneness of you knowing you are one with God instead of separated from God. There is also the horizontal oneness where you know that you are one with all other human beings instead of being separated from them. This is what Jesus expressed when he said: “I and my Father are one” and “Inasmuch as ye have done it unto the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.” This is what you begin to feel when you attain a degree of Christhood.

Asking the unasked questions

When you have this Christ discernment, you can step back and you can begin to ask some of the millions of questions that people who are trapped in the consciousness of separation simply cannot ask because they cannot even conceive of these questions. I already gave an example of how the scientific elite can sit there and spend billions of dollars researching inconsequential theories, seeking to prove inconsequential theories, while millions of people are starving.

You can ask: “How is it possible that you can have these nations that have such a high degree of material welfare – such that truly no one needs more and certainly no one should want more – as long as there are two billion people or more living under the poverty level and millions of people starving?” Only the consciousness of separation can explain the fact that many among the richest nations are completely absorbed in their affluent lifestyle, only focused on getting more and more money, more and more property, bigger houses, bigger cars, more vacations. And by the way, when they go on vacations, do they go and see how people really live in other parts of world? Nay, they may travel to a country where there are many poor people but they travel to the protected and exclusive tourist resorts that are set up by the international power elite.

What kind of consciousness fails to have compassion for the fact that not everyone has a lifestyle that is worthy of spiritual beings? Well, only the consciousness of separation. I am not here seeking to blame anyone nor am I seeking to shame anyone into changing their approach. I am simply pointing out that what will bring the golden age into manifestation is that millions of people attain a degree of Christ discernment where they naturally begin to ask these questions and ask them publicly, project them out publicly through all means available to them. This ranges from discussing this with their acquaintances to writing about it in any outlet where there is an opening, and even creating outlets where there is no opening such as creating organizations that seek to raise awareness about these issues. This includes the organization Mother Mary outlined the last time we gave a conference here in Kazakhstan, of an organization raising the awareness of the issues related to women. But there are many other such organizations that can be created to raise awareness of particular issues.

For that matter, it is possible to create a worldwide umbrella organization that has as its goal to raise awareness through all means possible. This, of course, is an endeavor that will require many people of a variety of experiences. You may say: “Well, what about the United Nations, is that not one of the purposes behind the United Nations?” Certainly it could be, but right now it is not being fulfilled as I envision it for there are, of course, not enough people who dare to openly acknowledge that life has a spiritual side. Society, civilization cannot fulfill its potential if we do not acknowledge that life has a spiritual side. There is only so far we can go as human beings. Only when we achieve Christ discernment, will be able to step back and ask the questions that we cannot even ask from the consciousness of separation.

The rest of this dictation, along with an invocation based on the dictation, is found in the book: Envisioning Saint Germain’s Golden Age.

 

Copyright © 2013 by Kim Michaels