Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels, May 22, 2026. This dictation was given at the conference in Kazakhstan: Co-creating with the ascended masters on the seven rays.

I AM the Ascended Master Mother Mary and I wish to give you some more insights about elemental life.

Elementals vs. Form

Now, we can start with a question: What is the difference between the elemental that has manifested this bell and the bell itself? Well, that depends on who is asking the question. From the perspective of an ascended master there is no difference. The elemental is not able to ask the question because it cannot conceive that there could be any difference between itself and the form it has taken on. Of course, from the human perspective the difference is that you see the bell, you do not see the elemental. And that is important to realize because if you are to co-create with the ascended masters by projecting higher images upon elementals that are currently out-picturing a form, then you need to see beyond the image that your senses and your outer mind is projecting into your mind. Because there is a projection at the Conscious You through your subconscious selves that the form is all there is and that the form is independent of any form of consciousness.

I am saying there is a projection and the projection, of course, comes partly from the fallen beings, partly from the mass consciousness, but it comes into your mind through the subconscious selves that you have. 

The illusions between the 144th and the 96th level

Now it is important to understand here that these subconscious selves are not dualistic selves. We have explained the Conscious You starts at the 144th level, you take on a certain illusion, descend to the 143rd, take on another illusion and so on until you reach the 96th level. At the 96th level, of course, you take on another illusion, but it is a different illusion than the ones above the 96th. I want to give you, at least, some thoughts about this because what is the purpose of taking on the illusions between the 144th and the 96th level? Well, it is actually to give you the impression that you are living in a world of matter, a world of forms. You can say that you start at the 144th level taking on illusions that relate to your sense of identity as a being who can take on a physical body and live in a physical world.

Then some levels down you go into the mental where you set certain parameters for how you think of yourself. Notice I am not giving you exact numbers. Then the emotional and then the physical. Why this is important is that when you pass that initiation at the 96th level you then need to, at least somewhat consciously, start working on these illusions. It is not that you cannot have hints of this before, but really at the 96th level you need to start working at these illusions about the reality of matter and about the nature of matter. And of course, this is most easily done by starting to contemplate that you are not the physical body. That is relatively easy to see at this level. 

Are physical things real?

But you also need to start questioning whether the physical body is a real thing. And with that when I say real, what do I mean? Well, according to the way most people look at this, whether they are scientific materialists or religious or not even thinking about this, they will say: “Well, of course the body is real, of course the planet is real, of course physical forms are real.”

What I mean with real is: Is it real in the sense that it exists independently of mind and if it does exist independently of mind, then is it ultimately real? The real question is if it exists independently of the mind, your mind cannot change the form. But if it is a product of some form of consciousness, then your mind has the potential to change the form. The strong illusion projected from the world is, of course, that physical things are real because they are independent of mind. The Christ reality is of course the opposite, that physical things are dependent on the mind and therefore, not ultimately real, they are changeable. Everything is changeable. These are the illusions you need to start working on so that you eventually – and you do not have of course to rise to the 144th level to accomplish this – you can relatively quickly, at about the 96th level, come to the point where you see physical forms as fluid, not massive, not solid, not unchangeable. 

Seeing the elemental beyond the form

But how do you accomplish this? Well, as I said, by questioning why you see this bell and not the elemental that has materialized the bell. And the answer is of course, as Hilarion explained so carefully, that you are using the conceptual mind to project. Again, as Serapis Bey explained, you can use the conceptual mind to project out or down, or you can use the conceptual mind to project in and up. And when you are below the 96th level, you are primarily using the conceptual mind to project out and down. But above the 96th level, you need to start realizing that you are also, or have been up until this level, projecting upon yourself with the conceptual mind and upon the spiritual realm. And you have done this based on what you have seen in the material world. In other words, your conceptual mind has accepted the reality of forms, the solidity of forms. And that is why when you look at the bell, your conceptual mind is projecting the image of a bell, a solid object. You can then, and I am not saying you need to put a lot of attention on this, but you can at least contemplate the idea that you could come to, at least in your mind’s eye, see the elemental beyond the form.

It is almost as if you could shift your vision and you could see the atoms, the little dots that make up the image. It is kind of like if you take a computer monitor of very high resolution like you have today and you have a beautiful photograph of a mountain landscape. But then you change the settings of the monitor so it displays the image at a much lower resolution, which means that the individual dots or pixels that make up the image now become bigger so you can actually see them. 

That is what you can learn in your mind’s eye at least. I am not saying you need to see this physically, but in your mind’s eye you can learn to see that this form that appears so solid, it is made up of these smaller dots, these smaller images. And just like on your computer screen, the dots, the pixels that make up the screen can display any image. Instead of displaying the image of a bell, it could display another image. Instead of displaying the image of an unhealthy organ, it could shift and display the image of a healthy organ. But this can only happen when your mind is not trapped in seeing the image because if your mind is focused on the image of the bell, you are reinforcing the elemental out-picturing the bell.

Overriding an elementals’ resistance

You need to work with yourself, find a way to work with yourself so that you begin to question the solidity of matter, the unchangeability of matter, and then you can receive a higher image from the ascended realm, project that, for example, on an unhealthy organ, and project it in such a way that you are absolutely sure that the elemental will take on the form. As we have said: “The elemental, once it has taken on a form, it thinks it is its job to maintain that form over time.” But you see, that gives the elemental a resistance to you wanting to change the form, and that is why you need to override this. 

Now this is not as difficult as you might think because there are groups of elementals. As we have said: Identity level—fire elementals, mental level—air elementals, emotional level—water elementals, physical level—earth elementals. What you see is, of course, the elementals at the identity level are experiencing their level as much less fluid than the elemental at the physical level. There are elementals at the three higher levels where it is much easier to get them to change the form. The biggest resistance is from the earth elementals. But even there, there are differences. 

Now you take, for example, an elemental out-picturing a rock. A rock might last for a very long time in a particular form. If the rock happens to fall in a stream, it might be worn down by the water and become more smooth. The elemental experiences that even though it is holding a certain form, it will change over time. But now when you step up to the plant kingdom, you have plants that might start as a seed, grow to a flower, then wither and disintegrate. Elementals that out-picture a biological form, they are more used to that their form changes in certain cycles. Then of course you have animals where the body grows from an embryo to an adult form, then gradually ages and dies and disintegrates. The elementals that out-picture your physical body, they have an awareness that things change all the time. They do not understand how these changes occur but they at least have an awareness that there is change, therefore, they cannot be as clingy about maintaining their form as, for example, the rock elementals.

But still there is some resistance to out-picturing or to changing the form. It is as if the elemental can accept that there are certain biological processes that change the body, but it has never before experienced that a mind projects a different image than the one it originally took on. Therefore, there is a certain resistance there. 

Projecting without force

Now we reach the question that I really wanted to present to you in this discourse, and that is: “How much force should you use to project a higher image on an elemental? If the elemental resists changing its form, do you need to increase the mental force you are using to project the image?” And this is what at least some students in previous dispensations would have said that you have to do. You have to create enough psychic force, mental, emotional, identity-level force to override the resistance of the elementals. And this can be done. Some people have done it. Not all people can do it. But the teaching we want to give you here as part of progressive revelation is that this is not the highest way.

In other words, we are not telling you to, in your mind, formulate that image of a healthy heart, for example, and you project it with as much force as you can from the identity, mental, emotional, and onto the physical. Instead, we are asking you to take the approach that you can learn to do this without force, without force. In other words, there is a force-based approach to projecting with the mind, and there is a non-force-based approach. And what is the non-force-based approach? 

Well, somewhat of a complex topic, but to get us started on the discussion, let us say you become aware that there is an issue with your heart. You reach up to the ascended masters for guidance on how to deal with this. You receive the impulse that there is an immaculate image in the ascended realm, in your I AM Presence, for a healthy heart. You just need to bring that image down. And how you do this is you focus on your identity mind, and you simply allow the image to descend to your identity mind. When it is there, you focus on the elemental at the identity level, and instead of projecting the image upon the elemental with force, you allow the image to descend.

But how this happens is not in a smooth movement. It happens in pulses, in cycles. It is as if the image is gradually lowered, then withdraws, lowered again, then withdraws, lowers, goes a little lower, withdraws again, goes back and forth in a motion like this. 

However you visualize it – it can be back and forth, it can be in and out, it can be a projection, then the light fades, you project again, but there is this cyclical movement of the image. It gradually works its way down upon the elemental. It is not forced upon the elemental. We might say you are sort of playing it onto the elemental. And this requires you to have some awareness, some sense of connection to the elemental, where you are connecting to that elemental at the identity level. You are not resisting it, you are not seeing it as something outside yourself. You are literally giving that elemental recognition and acceptance. Instead of projecting that the elemental is a slave that has to obey you, you are acknowledging the individuality, the uniqueness, the being of the elemental.

And you are just sort of playing with the elemental, almost like you are dancing with the elemental, back and forth, round in circles, and as this happens, the mental image is lowered upon the elemental. The elemental dances its way into it. 

And then as that is fulfilled, you now reach up for the mental element of the image and you then connect to the elemental at the mental level and again you are sort of dancing with the elemental, going around, back and forth in circles, playing that mental image upon the elemental. And because you accept the elemental, the elemental will accept you. And therefore, it will accept the image. Of course, you repeat the same at the emotional level and finally at the physical level. This is the non-forced base. There can be other ways to do this, but we will start here.

Running up against free will

Now the question is: “Is this always going to work?” And the answer is, realistically: “No, not always, because there will be some elementals that are trapped in a lower image, especially at the physical level, where you cannot play them out of it.” And the reason you cannot play them out of it is, if they are very trapped in lower energies, you cannot connect to them. They cannot connect to you, because they are trapped. It is almost as if you can say there is a normal dog, you see the dog, you walk up to it, it is curious, it wants to sniff you, it wants to be petted by you, and you feel you connect to the dog. Then there is an angry dog that is just barking and snarling at you, and you obviously cannot connect to it. Incidentally, the angry dog is because the elemental of the dog is trapped in a lower matrix. 

What to do in those cases? Well, in some cases, it can help to call to Archangel Michael, to call to Astraea, to invoke the violet flame, to transmute the energy burdening the elemental. But you also need to recognize that there are cases where an elemental can be trapped in a matrix that is very strong in the collective consciousness. This is where you sometimes run up against this problem of free will, that you as an individual cannot override the free will of the collective. There can be cases where your physical body has a disease, where the collective momentum is so strong that you cannot free the elemental from it. There are some instances where you must accept the condition. But in general, this non-force-based approach will work. The more you can see matter as fluid, the better it will work. The more you can see – I am not talking about physically seeing, but mentally seeing – the elemental behind the form, the better it will work.

Elementals trapped by the fallen beings

Now as a somewhat separate topic, I do want to talk about elementals that are imprisoned – deliberately, maliciously imprisoned – by the fallen beings. Because as you go beyond the 96th level, you will occasionally start to encounter this phenomenon. And this will especially be so when you go beyond healing your body, but start doing something in society. As we have said one expression of Christhood is that you go out and seek to change some condition in your society. And when you seek to change something that is held firmly in the minds of a large number of people, you will in some cases encounter an elemental or a group of elementals that have been imprisoned in a lower matrix.

There are of course many examples of this, but as just one example, let us look at a group of fundamentalist Christians. They feel holier than thou because they have the only literal interpretation of the Bible. Their pastor is the only one who can literally interpret the Bible. They feel better than others, they are sure they will go to hell. And they are absolutely sure that they will go to heaven as long as they hold on to that view of the Bible. What they do not realize is that at the elemental level, there are elementals that have been imprisoned by the fallen beings to take on the form of this belief.

We are not here talking about physical elementals, earth elementals, but identity, mental, emotional level elementals. They have taken on the form of this belief that there is only one way to interpret the Bible, only one way to be saved. And these elementals, they have had an image put upon them by the fallen beings that is much more intense than what human beings could project. You could say, let us just say that a group of human beings had by themselves started to believe in this fundamentalist world view. And gradually they had projected this on the elementals. That would have been possible, but the elementals would not have been imprisoned by this in the same way, because even a large group of human beings are not as powerful in projecting an image as the fallen beings are, who have had much longer time to develop this ability. 

What I am saying is fundamentalist Christianity was not developed by human beings, it was conceived by the fallen beings, and they used all their power to project this upon a group of elementals who took on this form and created what we have sometimes called a collective beast. You can also call it an entity, or you can in extreme cases call it a demon. These elementals who are imprisoned by these matrices created and projected by the fallen beings, they have a very great resistance to being changed, and they have a very great resistance to being challenged. 

Let us say you grow up in a small town in the Bible Belt of America. And now you have gone away to college, you have found ascended master teachings, and you decide: “Perhaps it would be a good idea to go back to my hometown and tell the people, ‘I know about these wonderful teachings I discovered about the real Jesus.’” You happily go and you start talking to people, and what do you encounter? You encounter anger, hostility, perhaps even hatred and negativity from the people. But where does this come from? Does it actually come from the people? Nay, it comes from the elementals who have been imprisoned by the fallen beings.

You see what I am trying to point out here is there are two kinds of ways to imprison elementals in a lower image. One is that human beings use the powers of their minds collectively to project an image upon elementals. But the other is that the fallen beings use their greater power to project. Now the natural, you might say, flow of things would be that only human beings project on elementals, because human beings are the next level up in the hierarchy. But on a planet with fallen beings, they can project from below, so to speak. And therefore, instead of being the masters of the elementals, human beings can now become imprisoned by the elementals. You can, of course, in a certain sense say that fundamentalist Christians are imprisoned by the fallen beings ultimately, but this happens through the intermediary of the elementals.

Avoiding reacting to the people and elementals

Why is this important to know this? Well, because as we said, many of you will as part of your Christhood have a desire to go out, to directly go out and seek to help other people to change certain areas of society. And you need to be aware, you need to be aware of this phenomenon of these elementals imprisoned by fallen beings. There are two reasons for this. Number one is, when you encounter this anger and hostility from human beings, you need to be able to look beyond this. You need to not react to the people, not become angry with them, not feel hurt or put down by them. You need to see that this comes from beyond the people or an individual person. It comes from that level of the elementals. This means that it really is not personal, that the people are personally directing this against you. That way you can more easily avoid reacting to them personally and therefore creating a downward spiral, a reactionary spiral. And it is very important when you are new in expressing Christhood that you are consciously aware of the need to avoid creating these reactionary spirals with other people.

This is one thing. The other thing is of course you need to recognize that there is a force, there is a force that is opposing you. It is at the elemental level. Now of course the elementals have had a matrix put on them from the fallen beings. But the elementals are not personally angry with you, they are just out-picturing the matrix. In other words, when you encounter an angry elemental, you need to realize that that elemental is not different from the elemental who out-pictures a beautiful rose. It has just been trapped in a different matrix. And therefore, you need to first of all not blame the elemental, but see that it has just been enslaved by this matrix. And you cannot blame the elemental for being enslaved, because the whole nature of an elemental is that when a being with a stronger consciousness than the elemental projects an image, then the elemental must take it on. 

Freeing elementals from the fallen matrix

At the lower levels of Christhood, you need to know this so you can avoid reacting to the people or reacting to the elementals and their energy. In other words, you can have an intense anger directed at you, but you do not allow it in, you do not react to it, you realize it is just energy. There is no more need to react to anger energy than sunlight. But as you mature in Christhood, it is possible that you can come to a point where you can now serve to free the elemental from the matrix put on them by the fallen beings. But here is of course a distinction. You cannot acquire the power and the ability in your own mind to do this. You need to be mindful of what Jesus said: “I can of my own self do nothing.” You of your own self, even as an avatar, who is above the 96th level and close to the ascension, you do not have the power in your mind to counteract or go against the fallen beings and you never want to put yourself in a direct conflict with the fallen beings, seeking to overpower them. 

What you can do as you mature in Christhood is you can acknowledge: Here is an elemental that has been imprisoned by the fallen beings. It is a very powerful matrix that the fallen being has projected on the elemental, more powerful than you could have projected, therefore, you cannot directly counteract it. But the matrix projected by the fallen beings is not stronger than what the Christ mind can manifest. I am not saying project, but manifest. When you open yourself up to be the open door for the Christ mind, meaning the ascended masters to work through you, then you can with us co-create the event of freeing the elemental from the matrix of the fallen beings. And you have a perfect right to do this because the elemental does not have free will. It has just taken on the strongest image projected upon it so far. 

But again, you are not forcefully projecting upon the elemental. You are again just allowing the image to descend from the ascended level through your mind upon the elemental. And when you are neutral, the power of the ascended masters will do the work. And that can free that elemental from being a slave of the fallen beings, and this can have a positive impact on the collective consciousness because now other people can suddenly pull away from being so overpowered by that energy that they can actually begin to think again. Because what you realize is, if you know I never encountered, for example, fundamentalist Christians, but of course many other people, is these people are not thinking. They are not using their self-awareness, at least not with regards to this issue. They are not thinking about the Bible and what it means. They are just mindlessly repeating that matrix projected upon them by these elementals, this collective beast.

What is required for you to reach that level is that you overcome division in yourself because you cannot go up against these elementals trapped by the fallen beings or even the people who are overpowered by these elementals, if you have a division in yourself because they will exploit it. It is like they say about an aggressive dog that it can sense if you fear it, but if it senses that you do not fear it because you are undivided, it will not attack you. You have to be undivided and how can you be undivided? By being neutral, by being the open door. You do not have any subconscious selves that react. If a door is solid, it can be cut in half and opened as two parts. But if there is no door, how can you divide anything? 

I am not saying these teachings are relevant for all of you at this point. Of course they are not. Many of you can ignore most of what I have said about elementals imprisoned by fallen beings, although I will say that even though many of you may not have as part of your Divine plan to directly work on freeing these elementals, you can still benefit from knowing of their existence because you can then evaluate that there are certain people you encounter that have a reaction to you that just is not rational. Many of you have people, maybe even family members, who have a very strong reaction to you. And when you know about this phenomenon, you can see that these people have been overpowered by some external force. And therefore, again, you can react to them differently. You can depersonalize what they are doing to you, and therefore, pull yourself out of a reactionary spiral.

Now you recognize perhaps that we, or I, in this discourse have given you a slightly different view of something we have talked about before, such as entities or demons. So far, we have said that people have gradually over time created these collective beasts that can in extreme cases become a demon or an entity. But what we are giving you now is that nothing can be created out of nothing. Everything is created out of some conscious being. There is no form, not even a demon, that can be created without a matrix being projected on elementals. What you need to recognize is that even a demon, there is an elemental trapped in it. This does not mean, as we have said before, that you can reason with a demon, because the elemental does not have self-awareness. But what it does mean is that the elemental could be freed from the matrix put upon it by the fallen beings and reinforced by human beings.

And that gives you at least the beginning of a different perspective, that there is absolutely nothing that cannot be changed. Not even at the deepest levels of hell, or on the most dense and unnatural planet you could imagine, even denser than Earth, there is nothing that cannot be changed, because every form is out-pictured by an elemental. The elemental did not choose to take it on, and therefore, a new form can be superimposed upon the elemental that frees the elemental from the previous form. And that is how things can go down and things can go up.

In fact, we can say the entire process of bringing an unascended sphere to the ascension point is that higher and higher images are superimposed upon the elementals, until even the elementals begin to become self-aware. But that is a more complicated topic than I wish to go into at what is for you this time of night. I am of course as fresh as you were hopefully this morning, for there is no morning and night for me. I just AM. I will continue to be and let you go to your rest. I thank you for your attention. I have actually been wanting to give this teaching for some time, but have not found the opportune moment.

With this I seal you in my love.

Copyright © 2026 Kim Michaels

Back to Co-creating with the ascended masters on the seven rays

Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels, May 22, 2026. This dictation was given at the conference in Kazakhstan: Co-creating with the ascended masters on the seven rays.

I AM the Ascended Master Mother Mary and my purpose for giving this visualization is because I do sense that many spiritual people, many ascended master students find it difficult, at least at a certain stage of the path, to let go. And in a sense, we realize and experience that the more teachings we give the more frustrating it can be for some of you. You hear about separate selves, you hear that you are supposed to let go of them and you are wondering, how can I let go? You hear about this self-focused self, the last self you are supposed to let go of and you are wondering how can I let go? I want to let go, how can I let go? 

The purpose of the teachings

This is again one of these enigmas on the spiritual path, and the enigma is this, words are not the same as the experience. We can give you words that you are supposed to let go, but the words cannot mechanically, automatically, magically produce the experience. And the enigma we might say for all spiritual teachers is how can we help the students have the experience of shifting their minds. How can we use words to help people have that experience? And what we have attempted to do through this dispensation is give you this new teaching about these subconscious selves and of course about the Conscious You, so that we have attempted to help you grasp the process whereby you use the outer mind to look at a certain pattern in your psychology, a certain reactionary pattern, and you realize that this pattern resides in what we call a subconscious self. 

And you realize, because we are telling you over and over, that a subconscious self is made, is built on, based on a belief, a decision you made. You were in a frustrating situation and you made the decision, not in these words of course, but you made the decision of how you were going to deal with that situation so you could psychologically survive, maintain some sense that you are in control.

 So, you see the dilemma, perhaps? You are in a very difficult situation on this dense planet called earth, where there are all kinds of frustrations, contradictions, attacks on you. There is a situation that overwhelms you, it is too much, you cannot deal with it, but you cannot get away with it either. You are making a decision that helps you overcome the sense of being overwhelmed. You are somehow making a decision to deal with that overwhelming situation and after having made that decision and created the self, the self can suppress the sense of being overwhelmed. 

The purpose of creating a self

You feel you have established some sense of equilibrium. Some sense of being in control of your state of mind, but it is of course based on suppressing something, denying something, because you are not able to really look at it in the situation and process it. Now you have built this subconscious self that is basically meant to help you, give you that sense that you have some grip on your situation on this planet, so you can survive psychologically. But the self of course is based on a limited view, is based on a dualistic belief and therefore, the self has built in contradictions. And therefore, when you are now approaching life through the coloring of that self, you will experience other situations that are difficult to deal with, perhaps overwhelming, and that means that even though the self in that particular situation helped you deal with the frustration, the stress, the self itself produces more stress, more frustration. 

The catch-22

But the self also forms a catch-22, because what was it the self did in that very difficult situation? It helped you maintain a sense of equilibrium, a sense of being in control, a sense of being able to cope, to deal with life. But now, long time after you created the self, you are becoming aware that you have a certain frustration in your mind, a frustration with life, perhaps a frustration with the spiritual path, you are not getting the results you were hoping for so your frustration is building and the frustration is actually, at least in part, created by this self. But in your mind, you cannot really look at the self, you cannot really ask the question: “Do I need the self anymore? Is it helping me or hindering me? Should I let it go?” You cannot ask these questions because you are thinking: “But the self helped me deal with life and helped me gain a sense of being in control, and if I let go of that self, what will happen? Will I not again be overwhelmed? Will I not be even more frustrated?” 

And the reaction is understandable, but it is also illogical and non-constructive. It is not reality. You see, something can be understandable on this very difficult, unnatural planet, but still not be real or constructive. And the problem with the self is that the situation that created the self happened a long time ago, when you were relatively new on this planet. You were shocked by the situation that caused you to create the self, because you were surprised, you did not expect it. You never thought this would happen to you. But you see, since then, you have been in embodiment on this earth many times. You have experienced many of the things that are happening on earth, but never happened on a natural planet.

You have gained more maturity, more experience with earth. If you let go of the self, you will not react the same way that you did when you created the self. You will not be overwhelmed. You will not be plunged into a black hole. You will in fact be able to look back at the situation and say: “Yeah, I see why I reacted that way back then, but I also see I would not react that way today. I do not need the self that was based on that old reaction.” 

How to let go

Still, even if you see this with the mind, with the rational, logical mind, that is not the same as letting go of a self, or letting go in general. You see how many times in this conference and even previously, we have talked about letting go. But how do you let go? 

Again, I cannot give you words that will produce the shift so you actually let go but I can give you some directions. You need to tune in to this inability to let go. You need to seek to clarify, to look at it from different angles so you come to see it. I am not talking about understanding it. There is a need for understanding with the rational mind, as I just gave you. What I am talking about now is just seeing it. Because most of you, when you cannot let go, it is because there is something you have not seen. You have not seen it clearly, you have not seen it for what it is. What you can do is just observe. You feel frustration, just observe it. You are just observing it. You are not evaluating, you are not analyzing, you are not thinking, you are just observing. You allow yourself to experience the feeling, go into the feeling. Wherever it takes you, it is still just an experience you are having. 

Seeing a self from the outside

You are just experiencing, you are just observing the feeling until somehow, something emerges, a clarity where you see the self from the outside. You see it is not you. That is all I am asking, that you see that the self is not you. Do you grasp what I am leading you towards? How can you come to see a self, how can you even think about a self, if it was you? 

If you had become the self, if you are the self, you cannot see it from the outside.You cannot even conceive of it, of there being a self that is different from you. The very fact that you have studied these teachings and tried to work with them, shows you something very simple. You see, a separate self could never grasp the teaching. It could never decide to apply the teaching. A separate self could never decide: ”I want to get rid of myself.” Only the Conscious You can do this, because you are not the self. 

The Conscious You is you

Now you can perform a little trick on yourself here, however you conceive of the Conscious You, however you might be able to experience the Conscious You, just focus on that. What is the Conscious You for you? Then try to step outside the Conscious You and look at it from the outside. What exactly is it? How do you see the Conscious You? 

If you do not quite get it, imagine that I am now asking you to become aware of your physical body and you are looking, you do not necessarily have to open your eyes, but you are visualizing, you are looking, and now I am asking you to step outside your body and look at yourself with your physical eyes. Of course you know you cannot do this, but you see, this is a metaphor for the Conscious You. The Conscious You is you. It cannot ever see itself from the outside. It cannot step outside of itself and that is how you can know that you are not a separate self. You have not become the self and all I am asking you here is to contemplate, perhaps experience, that you are not any particular self. You have no form. You are not a self. You are you, and if you can experience that, perhaps this might help you letting go of that which you now see is not you because when you see what you are, you also see what you are not. And therefore, that which you are can let go of that which you are not. 

“Why aren’t you there yet?”

Now there is a certain wisdom that has been given over again in Buddhist teachings, especially for example in Zen Buddhism and it is that some students get into this mindset that they see the spiritual path, they see in their minds the goal of the spiritual path. They see the means defined in their particular teaching for moving towards that goal and they dedicate themselves to this. They are very eager, they are doing everything just right, all the outer things they are doing right. But then after they have done everything right for a time, they build this frustration: “Why have I not attained the goal? Whatever they see the goal as, why have I not attained it? Why am I not there yet?” You know how if you get into the car with the children and you have a long drive and you know it is going to take hours and hours, but after five minutes the children say: “Are we there yet?”

And that is what some of your subconscious selves are saying, only they are saying: “Why are you not there yet?” And if you listen to these selves, you might build a certain frustration, and what Buddhist teachers in their monasteries and ashrams have been trying to do over the centuries is to somehow shock students into suddenly shifting out of the frustration. And they have done it in various different ways. There is an old story of a teacher who was dealing with a frustrated young monk and he suddenly without any thought slapped him on the face and the person became enlightened. And that might work on occasion, unfortunately it has caused an awful lot of slapping in Buddhist monasteries and not quite a corresponding level of enlightenment. 

Frustration is an inner experience 

But other methods have been tried, such as telling the student to stop trying, stop your efforts and sometimes when students actually stop doing the outer things, but also stop in their minds wanting to get somewhere, suddenly they shift. One other way to go about this is to realize, based on our teachings, that everything is an experience. Say you are very frustrated, you have not gotten results on the spiritual path. What is that? If you step back and look at the frustration, what is it? Is it not an experience? Why are you wanting to have that experience? And you will say: “But I do not want to have this experience, I want to get out of this experience, I want to have peace of mind, I want to experience enlightenment, I want to experience the flow of the ascended masters, the Holy Spirit, I want to experience everything else but this frustration.” 

Really? Is that what you want? Why have you then chosen to go into the frustrated experience? And why are you continuing to choose to keep yourself in it? And you might say: “But I have not chosen it, it just happened because I do not get the results.” 

Frustration is created and resolved within!

I see. So you are not then grasping our teachings that the inner experience you are having is not caused by outer conditions but by the conditions in your mind. What is the experience you are seeking? Peace of mind? Enlightenment? Whatever it is, what is that? It is an experience. How can you ever have an experience that is not taking place inside your mind? How could that be possible? How will you shift from your experience of being frustrated to the experience of having the result you want on the spiritual path? How do you shift from one experience to the next? 

Well, before you can get out of your current experience, you have to let go of it and what prevents you from letting go? Some condition inside your mind. You may think that doing some outer practice will remove it, but it will not. Why have you not shifted? Why have you not let go? Because there is something in your mind that you have not seen. There is something in your subconscious mind that you have not made conscious. You have not fully acknowledged that the frustration is produced inside your mind and therefore, it can only be overcome inside your mind. 

And you have not acknowledged that you created the self that gives you the experience of being a frustrated being and therefore, you have the power to uncreate that self and you are in fact the only being in the universe who can do it. No enlightened masters can come and undo in your mind what you have created with your free will. So why do you want to have the experience of not being there yet? There must be a reason. It must be doing something for you. What is the frustration doing for you that you value more than this experience of peace that you say you want? 

Building your self-mastery 

Again, I am just throwing out ideas to help those of you who feel this frustration come to see what you need to shift so you can let go of those selves, any selves, but also that last self-focused self at the 96th level. 

What are you? This is just another attempt, another experiment. What are you? You are an experiencer. What is the spiritual path about? It is not about having a spiritual experience. It is not about being enlightened, being awakened, ascending. The spiritual path is about self-mastery. What is self-mastery? 

Many students over the decades have thought it is some magical ability that you acquire as you follow this strict disciplinarian path of the ascended masters. But self-mastery is very simple. The ability to choose your inner experience. What prevents you from having that mastery is that you have a self that has the belief that is based on the belief that your inner experience is a product of or dependent upon something outside yourself.

This might be something in the world, such as the perfect partner or lots of money. Or it might be something beyond this world, such as a spiritual master appearing to you, touching your third eye and suddenly you are enlightened, but none of these can do it for you.

Self-mastery is when you choose your state of mind, and how do you choose your state of mind? Well, first of all by realizing you are not those subconscious selves that are pulling on you. But even when you experience yourself as the Conscious You, as pure awareness, it does not necessarily mean you can choose your state of mind. You have to build up that mastery. But you cannot really start the process until you recognize that your state of mind is a product of conditions in your mind, in the four levels of your mind. Then you can gradually build the mastery in the Conscious You of choosing your inner experience independently of external conditions. 

What one has done, all can do! 

Is it easy? Not really. Is it possible? Definitely. Is it worth it? Absolutely. I have gone through it. Serapis Bey has gone through it.  Master MORE has gone through it. Even Jesus went through it, even though it took a little nudging from mom for him to achieve it much more than is recorded in the scriptures. So really, what you should say: “These ascended masters are not so special that they can achieve something I cannot achieve.” You should say: “Well, if these colorful characters could do it, then certainly I can achieve it too.” And of course in a sense, all of our teachings are aimed at helping you make that shift of seeing something in your mind, experiencing that it is not you, and therefore, realizing that if you let go of the self, you will not disappear, you will not die, you will not lose anything. You will gain freedom, peace of mind.

This was what I came up with for now. Perhaps more will come up later from other masters or myself, but my final thought is, try to acknowledge the frustration you feel. Then try to see that the frustration always has an external object. There is always a reason why you are frustrated but the reason why you are frustrated is not why you are frustrated. That is just what the self is projecting at you. The frustration is just the self. It is an internally produced experience and if you can acknowledge that it is an experience, you can say: “Why am I continually choosing to uphold that experience instead of one time choosing to let it go?” 

With this, I have given you my thoughts for now, and I will then leave this subject, this topic alone. But I am not quite done, but that will be a separate dictation.

Copyright © 2026 Kim Michaels

Back to Co-creating with the ascended masters on the seven rays

Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels, May 22, 2026. This dictation was given at the conference in Kazakhstan: Co-creating with the ascended masters on the seven rays.

I AM the Ascended Master Mother Mary. I am, if you would have me, your spiritual mother. I am asking you if you are willing to participate in this visualization. 

Tune in to your frustration

Close your eyes. And now you imagine that you are in your private room. However you see this private room, which is of course a metaphor for your mind. Whatever you experience in your private room could be frustration, could be stress, it could be that you are struggling to understand certain things, struggling to see something. Perhaps you feel there are contradictions in the teachings, in the way you look at the world, something you are straining with, something that is frustrating you, some sense that you are not where you should be, that you want to achieve certain results on the spiritual path, that you have not achieved them. Whatever efforts you have made up until this point, you have not achieved the results. I am asking you to tune in to whatever frustration you might feel about the spiritual path.

If you do not feel any frustration, then of course just tune in to whatever you do feel. It does not matter what you feel, but whatever feeling comes to you, you tune in to it, you just acknowledge it. 

Walk through the forest

Then you hear a gentle tapping on the window. And as you go to the window, you hear me say: “My child, would you like to take a walk with me?” And you open the window and there I am standing outside your window, However you conceive of me does not matter. And I am holding out my hand and saying, come. You climb out the window, jump down on the ground, it is a short jump, you take my hand and we walk. 

We are walking and there is a forest, there are trees and a path opens up in front of us. We walk down that path and suddenly you begin to hear the gentle sound of the birds. Perhaps you hear a gentle rain falling on the leaves of the trees, but you are not feeling the rain on your body. We are walking down the path and gradually you begin to relax.

Whatever frustration you felt in your room, you are beginning to relax. There is not quite the tension. It is almost like for every step we take, the tension decreases a little bit. After some time, smelling the fresh air, feeling the prana in the air, sensing how somehow the trees absorb your frustration and your stress. 

The stream

After some time we come to a little stream. It is so wide we cannot jump across it in one jump, but there are some rocks in the stream. I jump across the stream and I am standing there with my one foot on the other bank and my one foot on a rock and I am holding my hand out to you and saying: “Take my hand and jump across.” And you reach out to take my hand and you take my hand and then you lift your one foot to move it onto that rock that you see in the stream, but suddenly there is a fear that comes up. And with the other hand you grab onto a tree branch on the bank of the stream and you are standing there looking back at the bank, looking at me, not daring to take that step, not daring to letting go of the tree branch.

What do you think would happen if you let go?

I am not pulling you. I am just patiently waiting. And all I am sending to your mind is: Look at what is preventing you from letting go of the branch. What is stopping you from just letting go? You are holding my hand. You can see the rock in the stream. You can see the stream is not very deep, even if you fell in the water, you would just get wet. But something is preventing you, in your mind, preventing you from letting go. And as you think about it, you are holding on even tighter. And you are looking at me with frustration in your eyes, like you have these big question marks in your eyes. And all I can say to you is: “Look, just look. What is holding you back? What do you think would happen if you let go? What do you think would happen? And will it really happen? Will what you fear actually happen if you let go? Or will what happens be that you are free of the fear of letting go? Is it really that what prevents you from letting go is just the fear, no real substance? Perhaps there is a thought, perhaps there is a belief, but maybe there is just some fear.” And I am just asking you to tune in, to get a sense for what that is. 

Look into my eyes!

If nothing happens here, do not be frustrated. You can use this meditation over and over again. You do not even need the recording once you get to know the simple steps that I have taken you through. And you can allow yourself to feel that frustration and try to look into it, look behind it. Remember I am holding your hand. Until you see something, until you are able to turn your head and look into my eyes.

Just look into my eyes. Do not think, do not ask questions. Just look into my eyes. What do you see? What do you experience from looking into my eyes? Do you see any frustration in my eyes? Do you see any fear? Do you see any desire to force you? Do you see any? Nay, for I just love you. I have no intent. I just love you. 

Keep looking into my eyes until suddenly you look down and you realize: “I crossed the stream. I let go. While I was looking into Mother Mary’s eyes, I let go and I crossed the stream and I am on the other shore and I am free of the frustration.” And then you take my hand, we walk into the forest and now you just tell me whatever comes to you. You can say it aloud if you feel like it, if you are alone or you can say it in your mind. But you are just telling me whatever comes to you as a result of this exercise. Whatever comes to you. And then when you have nothing more to say, you visualize that holding my hand, we turn around, we walk a slightly different path, we get back to your room and there you are.

Has anything changed? 

You look into my eyes, you let go of my hand, you climb back into your room. But while you are in there, you might just see, has the mood in the room changed? Has the way you experience the room changed? Is something different? That is all I am asking. Just tune in to before and after and if you do not get results the first time, just do the exercise again. And if you start feeling a frustration with the exercise, then look at that. When you are holding on to that tree branch and have one foot across the stream and you are looking into my eyes, look at the frustration. Just look. And if you repeat the exercise, you will begin to see things and you will begin to let go of things. Letting go, letting go, letting go, letting go, letting go.

Copyright © 2026 Kim Michaels

Back to Co-creating with the ascended masters on the seven rays

Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels, May 21, 2026. This dictation was given at the conference in Kazakhstan: Co-creating with the ascended masters on the seven rays.

I AM the Ascended Master Mother Mary, and it is my great joy to be part of this figure-eight flow between you here below, I above. Or am I above, or am I more within?

Questioning the images in your mind

You see, images, images, images, images in the mind is how you co-create. Whether you co-create or de-create, whether you see yourself as a connected being or not a connected being, you are co-creating through images in the mind. And that is why, in order to raise your level of co-creation, you need to be willing to, on a continual basis, question the images in your mind.

We have given you the image of a figure-eight flow from above to below, and it is a useful image, but as all images on an unnatural planet, it can be taken too far into this extreme or that extreme. And that is why I am saying that you can visualize me above you, but if you do this from a viewpoint of separation, you will see a distance between you and I. And if you see a distance, a gap, an insurmountable gap, how can you co-create with me? How can you co-create if there is a gap?

And as Master MORE so eloquently explained in traditional religions and even many spiritual movements, people see a gap between God and human beings, even between ascended masters and their students. I am not expecting you to overcome the gap all at once, but I am expecting you to question your image.

You can see me above you. We are in a figure-eight flow. But how far above you? Do I need to be quite as far above you as the Christians would see me, or as they see Jesus, or as they see God? 

How far above you are we? Gradually you can decrease the distance until you realize that yes, there is a figure-eight flow, but it is really not over a remote distance.

The parameters for the worlds of form

Now, I will turn my attention to another topic that I wish to contribute to here. You might consider it the omega aspect of what Master MORE gave you. What we have explained of course is that in the beginning was the Creator, and the Creator decided to create a world of form. And when the Creator had decided to create a world of form, the Creator actually took some time.

It was not time like you conceive of it here. I cannot tell you that the Creator deliberated for thirty-three days and fifteen hours and thirty-three and a half minutes, but there was an interval where the Creator decided upon the parameters for its world of form. These are very, we might call them esoteric to use a word, because they are of course beyond what you can easily conceive of when you are in embodiment on earth.

And you do not need to know these parameters when you are in embodiment. You certainly do not need them in order to co-create. But I am pointing out to you that the Creator set certain parameters for how this world of form would be, how it would unfold.

But even this was within a larger set of parameters that guide all worlds of form. In other words, we have made a distinction between the Allness and the level you are at where you have a world of form that begins with a Creator, evolves over time and reaches some ultimate stage. And this, of course, is the parameters for worlds of form.

Always room for experimentation

There is a beginning. There is a gradual growth process. There is an ultimate level of growth and then the beings who have reached that ultimate level in that world of form move on. In other words, the overall parameter for any world of form is growth. And growth means self-transcendence. And as Master MORE explained, self-transcendence happens only through experimentation. A world of form cannot create such strict parameters that there is no room for experimentation. 

You see the contrast between this and what the fallen beings, at least some of them, dream of creating. They dream of creating a world where there is no room for experimentation because they do not want there to be room for failure.

They believe that free will was a mistake because free will can lead self-aware beings to become lost, to fall, to be erased in the second death and to not grow. They want to create a world where the outcome is predetermined. It is guaranteed because there is no room for deviance from this ideal outcome.

But you see, this is in contradiction to the very foundational principle for any world of form. There must be room for experimentation. The Creator can create laws and principles but they cannot be so detailed, so set in stone, so to speak, that there is no room for experimentation. And that is why, of course, as Master MORE said, the Creator did not know at the beginning and does not know now what the final outcome of this world of form will be.

The lie of an ideal outcome

This is important because you are living on earth, it is an unnatural planet, it is very heavily influenced by the fallen beings who have used the duality consciousness to project there is a certain standard. And you see, by projecting there is a standard, you have already gone against the basic principle for any world of form.

By projecting that there is a perfect end goal that must be reached, all people are saved and go to heaven, for example, where they sit on a pink cloud and play the harp for all eternity. By the way, I do not see a lot of pink clouds with angels playing harps where I am at, but nevertheless, by projecting this, that there is a perfect end goal that is predetermined, that God knows in advance, and that there is a standard for how to get there, they have gone against the very basic principles of a world of form.

A straitjacket of the God Will? 

And this means that when you have embodied on earth for a long time, even if you are an avatar who came from a natural planet, you have taken this on. And that means that when you begin the process of conscious co-creation, you have to begin to consider this. You have to take into consideration what this means. Do you still have this image that in order to co-create with perfect ascended masters, you have to be perfect?

One outcome of this that we saw in previous ascended master dispensations is that people thought basically, I am not saying they consciously thought this, but what they really envisioned in their minds was that you had your own will, your human will, and then you had the will of God. And in order to follow the will of God, you had to give up your own will and you had to basically become a marionette of the will of God. You were a slave of the will of God. It was like putting on a straitjacket.

And if you look at how people have behaved in many spiritual organizations, including previous ascended master organizations, you will see that it was almost like they had put on a straitjacket. They talked a certain way, they walked a certain way, they behaved a certain way. It was as if they were so afraid to experiment that they tried to follow a set of mechanical outer rules for how you should behave as an ascended master student.

And this, of course, means you cannot co-create with us. If you are afraid of somebody, if you have the idea that an ascended master wants to control you, how can you co-create? You can submit, you can become a slave, like the medieval peasants were slaves of their noblemen because they were afraid of being punished by a fate worse than death if they disobeyed. But you are not thereby co-creating, you are just submitting, you are just obeying, you are just mechanically following along, you are setting aside all possibility of experimenting to just do what you are told.

Questioning your image of the masters

These are some of the images you need to start to question. I am not saying I expect you to do this in the blink of an eye, but I am expecting you to begin to question it. In other words, why do you want to co-create with the ascended masters?

If you have an image of us as being some kind of overlord and you are just a slave, then why would you want to co-create with that image? We are, of course, not like that. But if you have an image in your mind of us being like that, then you cannot co-create with us, you are attempting to co-create with the image.

But since the image exists only in your mind, you are not co-creating with us, you are co-creating with yourself, but that is not co-creation, that is actually creation as a separate being. You may have awareness of ascended masters, you may think you want to co-create with us, but if you have an image in your mind that sits between you and I, you cannot co-create with me.

We are not co-, you are just in your own mind interacting with an image that exists only in your mind, and I must stand here and patiently wait until you have had enough of that image of me and decide to look beyond it.

Co-creation as an interactive process

Now, what Master MORE explained, what we have also explained many times before is that there are certain parameters set. As I said, the Creator set certain parameters for this world of form in general, but then there were certain parameters that were specific to the first sphere based on the experiences that the Creator had with the first sphere and that those who ascended from the first sphere had, this then was used to determine the parameters for the second sphere.

In other words, the parameters for the second sphere were not predetermined or they were not decided by the Creator at the beginning. It was only after the experience was gained from the first sphere that the parameters were set for the second, so forth of course, with the third, fourth, fifth and so on.

When the sixth sphere had ascended, certain parameters were designed for this sphere. Those parameters were used to create the original earth that the seven Elohim created originally, but as we have been stating between the lines, but which I will now state more clearly, co-creation is an interactive process. What is it in a sense that is meant when Master MORE said, you multiply the energies and you send them back up?

What is it you are sending back up to the ascended masters? Is it just energy or is it also the experiences you have had with your experiment? You see, we are receiving not just energy, we are receiving your experiences of how you experience being where you are at in a co-creative process. And this we use to continually adjust the parameters.

My point for this is, the Elohim created original parameters for earth, then the first three waves of light streams took embodiment here, in the identity, mental, emotional, and based on their experiences there was a continual adjustment of the parameters. Then when the earth went into a downward spiral and became an unnatural planet, that process of adjustment did not stop, it just took a different turn.

The ascended masters’ task 

We are still learning from you. Our task is not to reach some predefined result. Our task of ascended masters, again, you look at Saint Germain, yes he has elaborate plans for a golden age, but they are not all predetermined, because the overall goal is not to manifest certain physical conditions in the golden age, the overall goal is the raising of awareness.

What is our task? Our task is not to manifest some ideal future state that is permanent or will last for a thousand years. Our task is to look at human beings in the consciousness they are at, their current level of, we might say, how trapped are they in the duality consciousness? How much do they believe in current conditions, are set in stone, believe in the lies and illusions of the fallen beings, in other words, how trapped are they in maya, how trapped are they in illusion? And then our role is to go in, wherever people are at, and offer them something that can help them take the next step up.

The two-way process of constant adjustment 

If we did not continually adjust, how could we fulfill our task? In other words, many ascended master students have believed that we have the perfect vision, we have the perfect plan, we know how everything should unfold. But we do not, because our task is to raise people’s awareness gradually.

We need to look at people at a certain level of awareness, we give them some kind of impulse, some kind of ideas, then we monitor what actually happens when they implement them. And then we adjust based on that. That is your role in the co-creative process, is to give us feedback.

You see, when you look at traditional religion, everything is a one-way street. The Catholic church is a hierarchical structure that has the Pope on top, he is the only one who is the Vicar of Christ, who communicates with Christ, he gets the perfect doctrines from Christ, because Christ sits up there with the perfect vision that is then communicated down as a one-way street. And you either obey it, or you go to hell, that simple.

Well, not quite that simple. The reality is that we are not sitting up here with a perfect image that you have to accept in its fullness, or you will be punished. You will not be punished if you do not follow our directions. You will just stay at your current level of consciousness and continue to experience life the way you are experiencing it now. And if that is what you want, because you have not had enough of that experience, we have full respect for your free will.

We can only offer more, but my point is, our task is not a one-way communication, it is an interactive process where we gain from the return current from you, from your experiences. We are always monitoring how people respond to our teachings, for example. But also, of course, many other ideas we release to people who have not even heard of ascended masters. But for you who are ascended master students, we are monitoring your progress, attempting to come up with something that will help you.

That is why we sometimes talk about the reaction of students in previous ascended master organizations, to help you not repeat the same pattern. You really do not have to reinvent the wheel all over again. You can build on the experiences gained in previous dispensations.

Adjusting to the downward and upward spirals on earth

Going back to the Elohim creating the original blueprint for earth, which was then co-created upon and expanded by the first three waves of lifestreams. At the time where the turning point happened and the earth started going downward, the earth was in a more sophisticated state than what was created by the Elohim, because of that process of co-creation. Now comes the downturn.

This does not mean that we consider a big disaster has happened. Actually, we did not even consider this to be a problem or a mistake. We just realized that the inhabitants of the earth had decided to exercise their free will in a different way, by seeing themselves as separate beings, and then we accommodated that.

This meant, of course, that we could not interact with them as directly as we could before, because if people desire to experiment with their free will by seeing themselves as separate beings, well, how can we communicate directly with them? Because how can they see themselves as separate beings if they still have a connection to ascended masters?

You see certain necessary consequences of the law of free will. But we still, of course, adjusted what we released to humankind, energy, the amount of energy, but also the amount of ideas that we attempted to release.

Now for a long period of time, the earth was in a downward spiral, which means there was a limit to what we could release, certainly what ideas we could release. But then eventually, there came that turning point where the earth started very, very slowly, first it stopped the downward momentum, it became slower and slower, eventually stopped, and then very, very slowly it started an upward momentum.

And as this momentum has increased, we have, of course, adjusted our interaction with human beings. That is why we eventually came to a point where we could stand forth publicly, reveal our existence, reveal how we interact with people, and give more and more advanced teachings, but also teachings that are more easily understood by a broader audience.

Projecting an image onto the Ma-ter light

Again, where are we now at? Well, you realize that there is an interactive process between us ascended masters, you in embodiment. So far, so good. You are thinking: “I need to tune into the ascended masters as part of growing in Christhood, increasing Christ discernment, so I can tune in and feel what are the parameters that are currently there for earth.” In other words, you are saying: “Co-creation is reaching up, then bringing down. I am reaching up to attune to the ascended masters, to attune to the Christ mind, the One mind, and then I act based on that.

Yes, but what are you acting upon when you do this? In other words, you tune in, there is a certain mental image, there is something you want to manifest in your life, you are projecting that image with your mind into the cosmic mirror, as we have said, but what is then going to happen? Well, hopefully certain physical parameters, certain physical conditions in your life would manifest, but what is it that manifests these physical conditions?

Well, it is, of course, as we have explained many times, the Ma-ter light, right? And we have said that the Ma-ter light can take on any form, but it cannot take on form by itself, it takes on the forms that are projected upon it by self-aware beings, going all the way from the Creator through the various hierarchies to those who are in embodiment on an unascended sphere on the planet called earth.

From this you might get the impression that the Ma-ter light is sort of a featureless substance that just passively takes on form that is projected upon it, and we may even have presented it that way previously. But we now need to step up to a more sophisticated understanding of this, and there is one main reason for this understanding, why you need this understanding, and it can basically be expressed in the old saying that discouragement is the sharpest tool in the devil’s toolkit, and this is, of course, what we see in many people who begin to become aware of the potential to co-create.

Avoiding disappointment

It can be that they do not even know about ascended masters, that they have been interested in some of these teachings that are out there about manifestation, where you manifest something through the powers of the mind, but it can, of course, also be ascended master students.

Here you are, you have some students, they become aware of the potential to co-create. Through the powers of the mind you are co-creating certain material conditions in your life. You now try this process, you reach up, you gain a certain vision, and now you are attempting to project that out with your mind, and now you may be patient, you may say: Oh, it might take some time for it to manifest, but I have to continue to project until it does.

And then there goes the time and nothing happens, and nothing happens, and nothing happens, and nothing still happens, or still nothing happens, and there comes that point where you feel a projection of doubt from the serpent who is whispering in your ear: Maybe nothing will ever happen, maybe you are doing the wrong thing, maybe the process is a hoax, maybe ascended masters are not real, maybe you are not capable, you are not special enough.

That is where you need to avoid this disappointment, and the way to avoid it is, one way, is to recognize that the Ma-ter light is not just like modeling clay that you can shape with your hands into any form, because there is a certain process, certain principles, certain parameters for how the Ma-ter light takes on form. Therefore, you cannot just expect that any mental image you project will be manifest as a physical form.

Realistic expectations for manifestation

And why is this so? Some students from previous organizations might say, but Saint Germain said in the 1930s during the I Am movement, that if you really focused on something, it would manifest. In the Summit Lighthouse, people were told to visualize a crystal amethyst and to manifest that physically, but you see, we gave certain teachings based on the level of consciousness at the time, and we have learned from seeing the success or lack of success the students had with those teachings, which is why we are now giving you a more nuanced teaching about this.

As I said, the parameters are continually adjusted, so earth becomes an unnatural planet, and how does it become a unnatural planet? Because the collective consciousness is lowered, people sink deeper into separation. That means they are projecting mental images with their minds from separation.

Now what is happening is, that you have an adjustment of the parameters of the earth based on the law of free will must be allowed to out-picture itself, and this relates to, as I said, a majority of the original inhabitants of the earth. And if you look at, just as one example, if you take the average person that you meet on the street and ask them—Do you believe it would be possible to manifest a physical crystal stone with the powers of the mind?—the overwhelming majority of them would say: “No, of course not. Are you crazy?”

You see, you, when you start co-creating, have to have a realistic expectation of what environment you are co-creating in, and therefore, you cannot just see the Ma-ter light as some substance that will take on any form you project upon it. Because if you are projecting a mental image upon it that is beyond what the majority of people on earth can accept, then there will actually be a resistance from the Ma-ter light to taking on that form.

Resistance in the Ma-ter light 

Do you grasp what I am saying here? If you look at ascended master teachings, especially previous dispensations, you would get the impression that the Ma-ter light is willing to take on any form, that there is no resistance in the Ma-ter light itself. But there is, because the Ma-ter light is not only a passive substance.

What does this mean? Well, this is where we need to again step up to a more nuanced understanding. If you take a lump of clay, you can model that into any form. It can be a sculpture, it can be a pot, it can be a mug. But there are of course certain parameters for what kind of shapes you can create out of clay that are sustainable. We are always working with the clay. 

 The Ma-ter light and the elemental beings

But beyond this, the Ma-ter light is not like clay, because clay, at least as most people would see it, is an unconscious substance. But the Ma-ter light is not unconscious. The Ma-ter light has consciousness. You could also say this in a different way and say, what is the Ma-ter light? Is it just this passive substance like, for example, the atoms or the subatomic particles that scientists are talking about? Nay.

The Ma-ter light can, say to have a universal aspect, but in order to take on form, there needs to be a conscious being that imposes that form on the Ma-ter light, so to speak, collects the light around the image of the form, and then maintains it there over time. And those beings are of course what we have called elemental beings.

The elemental beings are conscious beings, but they are not self-aware. They can eventually, as we have explained, attain self-awareness, but for a very, very long time an elemental being will not have anything that resembles self-awareness. That means that it sees itself as a servant. In a sense you could say that elemental beings see themselves much as the peasants of the Middle Ages who thought they could only be the slaves or the servants of the noble men.

The elementals see themselves as servants of humankind. Therefore, in a sense you could say that even though the elementals have a certain understanding of how the Ma-ter light takes on form, they do not have the ability to decide what form should or should not be manifest.

In other words, the elementals, at least at the lower levels, do not have any vision of the parameters defined by the Elohim. They are not able to say: “Oh, this form is in alignment with the Christ mind and this one is based on separation.” They cannot make that discernment. They just are dedicated to taking on or manifesting whatever form human beings project upon them with their minds. And they are dedicated to doing this.

The bad news about co-creation

At lower levels of elemental beings they are dedicated to doing this at a collective level. In other words, they are tuned into what the majority of people on earth can see, their level of consciousness. That is why what the average person can see as possible or not possible to do with the mind, that is also what the elemental beings see as possible or not possible.

You see, you can project an image upon the Ma-ter light, or rather upon the elemental beings, that is perfectly in alignment with the Christ mind. Therefore, you can say there is nothing wrong with your image. But it does not mean that your image can be manifest given the current level of the collective consciousness. And if you do not take this into consideration, you will be disappointed over and over and over again. And you might give up on the whole process.

We might say Master MORE gave you the good news about co-creation, I am giving you the bad news about co-creation. Master MORE is the good cop, Mother Mary is the bad cop. But really there is no contradiction between what we are saying. Because in order to become a better co-creator, what do you need to do?

What does self-mastery mean? 

You need to have self-mastery as Master MORE explained, but what does that mean? It means you reach up for higher awareness of how the world works, what parameters were set from the spiritual realms, but you also reach horizontally for a higher awareness of the environment you are in and how that environment works. If you do not do both, you are not attaining self-mastery because you have to attain self-mastery on earth before you can ascend from earth.

And again, this can sound contradictory based on previous teachings, where you might think that it is only a matter of reaching up, it is only a matter of reaching these perfect understanding of spiritual principles and applying them and then matter must passively conform to your mastery.

Again, the power of the First Ray when it is forced upon the Ma-ter light, the Ma-ter light must take on those forms, but it must not. In fact, it must not take on forms even if those forms are based on the Christ mind, if they are out of alignment, so to speak, with the collective consciousness.

Plausible deniability

You see, for example,  just to give you one example of this, we have said before when Jesus walked the earth in a physical body, he was allowed to perform certain miracles because the collective consciousness was so dense at the time that some people needed to see that the powers of the mind could manifest what they thought was miraculous, was supernatural, beyond natural, right?

In other words, the collective consciousness had a certain level, they thought it was impossible to heal somebody with the mind, and they had to see a demonstration of this in order to shake their belief that this was possible. But you also realize, as we have said before, there has to be plausible deniability, and that is why Jesus was allowed to show this to a very limited number of people.

Very few people actually saw him perform a miracle, and even among those who saw it, there were those who denied it. They thought it was a trick, they had hallucinated. But most of the people, they did not see it first-hand, they heard about it second-hand. And now there is another possibility of denying it, because you can more easily deny something you hear with your ears than something you see with your eyes.

If at the time of Jesus, there had been this invention called a video camera and television, Jesus would not have been allowed to perform these miracles, because when it is recorded, it becomes more difficult for people to deny it. In today’s age, this is different, because people have gotten more used to it, so it is not quite as strict of a law today. Adjustment, again, over time.

What is realistic to manifest? 

But nevertheless, what I am pointing out to you is, at any given time, there is a certain level of the collective consciousness that is being projected on most elemental beings, and that sets a limit for what can actually be manifest through the powers of the mind. And if you formulate an expectation in your mind that you can manifest something, and you should be able to manifest something, that is out of attunement with that level, you will not be successful.

And therefore, you will very easily become open to these projections from the serpentine mind that something must be wrong. And of course, the serpentine mind is never going to project at you that it is your expectations that are the problem. No, the problem is always outside of you. It is the Ma-ter light, it is the ascended masters are wrong, their teachings are not right, always looking out.

But the reality is, if you are attempting to be, if you are dedicated yourself to performing a co-creative experiment, and the physical result is not what you expected, then you need to look within. Look at your mental image, your expectation—is it realistic?

And with realistic, you can have two considerations. You could say, if you really understand how the universe works, that everything is created out of the Christ consciousness, if you align yourself with the Christ consciousness, you should be able to manifest anything that is in alignment with the Christ consciousness. That is realistic.

Yes, but that is not actually correct. It is not realistic. Because what is the Christ consciousness? The Christ consciousness, yes, it reaches up for what is the ideal image held in the mind of the Creator. But it also reaches horizontally to see where people are at in consciousness. The Christ consciousness is aware at the level of the collective consciousness. The Christ consciousness is aware that it is not constructive to manifest something that is too far beyond the current level.

And therefore, in a sense, you need to say that perhaps your image of what could be manifest is realistic on a natural planet that you are used to and that you have some memory of, but it is not realistic on an unnatural planet like earth. And therefore, you need to be willing to look at your expectation, look at your image, and refine it instead of giving up on the co-creative process, thinking there is something wrong.

You see, my entire purpose for this discourse, and I will of course expound more on these things later in the conference, but my entire purpose for this discourse is to help you avoid disappointment when the things you try to manifest do not manifest exactly as you envision them. Because this will happen to all of us. It did happen to all of us when we were in embodiment.

We ascended because we were willing to adjust our expectations and our understanding of the material world. In other words, ascending, self-mastery is not just about understanding spiritual principles, but also about understanding the practical principles of how the environment you are in here on earth currently functions. That is realism.

With this, I have given you what I wanted to give you in this installment. I will of course give you more. As the male masters give you more, we of the female masters will give you the omega perspective on this. And we will see how this experiment unfolds depending on your interaction, your feedback that you are giving to us during this conference.

Consider yourselves who are here physically, who are on the webinar, who are connecting with us—you are teaching us as we are teaching you. You are teaching us how to teach you better.

With this, I seal you in the joy of my mother’s heart.

Copyright © 2026 Kim Michaels

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