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Ascended Master MORE through Kim Michaels, January 3, 2026. This dictation was given at the 2026 New Year’s webinar: Becoming Wise to the Serpents.

I too am more, for I AM the Ascended Master MORE. I would like to take this opportunity to first take a look back at the year 2025, which has been the initiations of the First Ray.

A balanced use of power

Mother Mary talked about the unbalanced use of power, but you have also in this year seen balanced uses of power. You will see more of this in this year of 2026, where people become more open to the wisdom, which then allows them to exercise power in a more balanced manner. Now you may say: “What is a balanced use of power?” Well, it is a power based on the reality of the Christ mind that all life is connected.

You may say all life is one, but many people will not be able to fathom this so let us go with the all life is connected, which is after all, something that even materialistic science is beginning to recognize through their experiments. When you use power in a balanced way, you are seeking to raise up all people, not just the elite, not just people in your own country, but you are seeking to raise up all. This is what some people call a win-win situation, in the sense that all parties involved in a certain interaction are winning from the interaction, are gaining something positive from the interaction.

Now what always throws a lack of balance into this kind of interaction is, of course, the fallen beings. They are not interested in raising up all people, they are only interested in raising up themselves as a one leader and as the elite that supports the leader. But the elite, of course, must not be raised up to a higher level than the leader, because then the leader feels threatened.

What you see is that some nations among the democratic nations have managed to become more balanced during this year of 2025. There are many. There are many in Southeast Asia, South Korea primary among them, because we have so many students giving so many invocations and decrees. Japan is also an example of a nation that has become more balanced. Even India has to some degree become more balanced, even though there is still something lacking. The Philippines also, and Australia, and New Zealand as well. You see in Europe, most of the democratic nations in the West have become more balanced during this year, partly because they have seen the imbalanced expression of power from America. Of course, Canada is a prime example of a nation that has become more balanced under the current leadership, where there is a desire to avoid confrontation with the United States, but nevertheless still stand firm in your unique Canadian identity and your right to exist as an independent country.

There is certainly hope that when you look beyond the headlines of the abuses of power, you can see that there is a growing awareness of the need to exercise power in a balanced manner. Even Ukraine has made progress towards becoming more balanced by being willing to deal with this specter of corruption that has been plaguing this nation, Russia itself, and other nations from the Eastern bloc of Europe for a long time. There are, of course, some nations that have not become more balanced. Poland, Hungary, Czechia, Slovakia, some of the Balkan nations, and others. But nevertheless, my point is that there is a growth in the balanced expression of power that you have seen emerging during this year, because when we release the energies of the First Ray, all will be affected by them. Some will take them and use them with an unbalanced expression of power and get almost drunk by the power they think they have and what they think they can get away with. But others will take them in a positive way and see that the First Ray is not an unbalanced, unrestricted expression of power. It is actually a very balanced expression of power. Why? Because the First Ray is balanced by the other seven rays.

The glass half empty or half full

What you will see in 2026 is you will see that some nations will continue to have a more and more balanced expression of power, and they will demonstrate this to the world. Other nations will become more and more unbalanced until things begin to break down. What I endeavor to help you see here is that it is very, very simple. You can ask yourself, how do you look at life? Is the glass half empty or half full? That is the question you need to ask yourself in this coming year. Are you focused on the negatives, the lack of balance? Or are you focused on the positives, the progress that is actually being made, even though it often does not make the headlines because the press has become so sensationalist that they always have to shock people. And of course, balance is not shocking, is it? You need to be careful, as other masters have said, to not be pulled into a negative.

Projections of inevitability

What does that lead us to? Well, it leads to one particular expression of the serpentine mind that I want to make you aware of. It is that the serpentine mind is very good at sowing doubt, as Maitreya explained. But one way of planting doubt in people’s minds is to create the impression that something is inevitable, that something cannot be stopped, that you cannot avoid this, that there is no point in even resisting because you do not have the power to stop it. There is an old American science fiction television show where you find the famous words: “Resistance is futile, you will be assimilated.” This is an expression of the serpentine mind. They will create this impression that something has already gone too far or something has such a momentum that a certain outcome is inevitable.

You see this expressed, for example, in Russia’s propaganda about Ukraine, that even some in the West have come to believe in, that a Russian victory is inevitable, that Ukraine cannot resist Russia forever, that Russia is so much bigger, has so many more resources, so many more people, that they will inevitably outlast and overpower Ukraine and Ukraine will fall and become part of Russia. This they have attempted to project, first of all, into the collective consciousness of Russia, also into the collective consciousness of Ukraine, but first and foremost into the collective consciousness and into the leaders of nations who are supporting Ukraine. There are leaders in Europe who believe this, Viktor Orban being one of them, and there are leaders in the United States, Donald Trump himself having had a tendency to believe this one week and believe the opposite the next week, as is the pattern you clearly see beginning to emerge from him, depending on who was the last person he talked to. But nevertheless, he has had a tendency to believe this because he himself believes that he has created a momentum in America that cannot be stopped, that the changes that he had initiated in America of undermining the constitutional restrictions for the presidential office are unstoppable, inevitable, and that they will lead to the result that he becomes the virtual king of America with unrestricted power. Some in his cabinet believe the same, some among the press and media, the alternative media, the bloggers and so forth, the MAGA movement, they believe the same.

Creating your own opposition

But what you will see in 2026 is that the wisdom of the Second Ray will cause many people to see the lie behind this. Nothing in the physical octave is inevitable. Nothing is unstoppable. Why? Because anything based on duality creates its own opposition. The more the people trapped in a certain dualistic polarity push towards what they see as the victory, the more opposition they create. Not necessarily, mind you, in the physical, but in the emotional, mental, and identity levels. No matter how unstoppable something looks at the physical level, it is still only an expression of the emotional, mental, and identity realms. Nothing in the physical can continue if it is cut off from energy from the three higher levels. That is precisely what the opposition, the pushing, creates. The pushing creates the opposition from the emotional, mental, and identity levels that eventually manifest either in a physical opposition or in a breakdown of those who are pushing.

You will see in this year that people will begin to see through these projections from the serpentine mind. You have the same thing in China, where China is trying to portray itself as this major world power that is unstoppable and that could take Taiwan and its army would be unstoppable. All of these things will begin to be questioned in 2026. People will begin to see how hollow the projections are from these leaders who are portraying themselves as infallible, all-powerful, unstoppable. It is a little bit like the old fairy tale, the emperor has nothing on. That is what more and more people will come to see and therefore, as Mother Mary talked about, the exercise of power in 2025 took many people by surprise, so to speak paralyzed them because they did not know how to deal with this. But this paralysis will very quickly be broken in 2026 and more and more people will take a stand, will speak out and simply say: “but this is not true, this is not in accordance with facts. This is not the way things work.” You will see that these leaders who claim to have all the answers, who claim to be on a roll, they will begin to lose their influence on the minds of the people and what will happen is they themselves will at some point be hit by the serpentine arrow of doubt.

Eroding the self image

You see, my beloved, there is a tendency to believe that the fallen beings are all-powerful, that because they are ruthless and willing to do whatever it takes, no matter the cost, they are unstoppable. But they are not, because they too have a psychology. They may be good at hiding it. They may be good at portraying themselves as these powerful people, but they have a psychology. When they do something, when they put themselves in a position where they exercise power, it is a two-way street. The results of their exercise of power will push back in their psychology and affect their self-image.

You may think that Vladimir Putin is putting on a facade of being the always cool, calm and collected leader who has everything under control. But what do you think has happened to Putin’s self-image over these last four years where it has become clear that he failed to execute a military takeover of Ukraine in a matter of weeks, when his army, which was before the war considered to be the second largest military force in the world, has failed to conquer Ukraine? What do you think has happened in his psychology as a result of this? He may be good at hiding it outwardly. He may be good at suppressing or denying it inwardly. But it is still working in his identity, mental and emotional bodies. For before the war, many people believed he was an infallible leader, and he himself believed it. Now, can he really believe this when it is demonstrated so clearly that he actually failed?

The same thing with Donald Trump. You can even look at him because he is not as good at hiding it as Putin is, and you can see the change in him over these past 11 months or so. You can see how he has become more unbalanced, more emotional, more incoherent in his speech. If you could see what is happening behind the scenes inside the Trump White House, you would see that although he has always had a tendency to be verbally abusive, he has become increasingly abusive towards his own staff. Blaming them for not delivering the results that make him look good. For he is realizing that the infallible image that he portrayed during the campaign is beginning to very slowly, gradually fall apart because he has not done what he promised to do: stop the Ukraine war in 24 hours, bring prices down from day one, make everybody rich, move production back to the United States, make the whole world pay the tariffs.

You see that in 2026 the public image of these leaders will erode further because the wisdom of the Second Ray will allow people to see through their propaganda, but also, the state of mind of these leaders will erode further. China is likely to make some serious mistakes in this coming year that will have repercussions for the economy. Other nations that have leaders will also make these mistakes. In Iran, you see the beginning of a public uprising that is likely to accelerate during this year. You will also see a challenge to the current Israeli government during the coming year where people in Israel will begin to evaluate what are the actual consequences of what we did in Gaza. Does that correspond to our self-image as the good people? Or did we actually attempt to commit genocide against the Palestinians as we so often claim the Nazis did to us?

Focusing on the upward trend

The cognitive dissonance that was there during last year cannot survive in the golden light of wisdom. What I am saying is that you will see here that the entire illusion that something is unstoppable will be punctured, perhaps even shattered in many cases. This means that those who are able to see beyond the dramatic headlines, will begin to see the positive, will begin to see that this 12-year cycle does not simply mean upheaval and challenges, but actually means many positive breakthroughs, many shifts, and that there is a general upward trend that will bring societies and the planet forward. This is very important for you to contemplate because you can be the forerunners for this shift towards a focus on the positive, but you must first shift in your own mind before you can help other people shift.

Projections vs. reality check

You need to recognize here a very, very simple reality. You take the story of the Garden of Eden and the serpent. Did the serpent somehow wrap itself around Eve and force her to eat the apple? No, it had no physical power. It only had the power of influencing the mind and this is what you see in all unbalanced leaders. Surely, they have some physical power. You can attack and invade another country, you can send forces into another country and capture the leader and take him to your own country, but the power to project that you have started a momentum that is unstoppable is entirely in the mind. Therefore, what power do the serpents have over you? Only the power you give them in your mind by believing in this serpentine lie that is being projected at this planet right now, that certain changes are unstoppable.

The whole idea that the world is going to abandon the rule-based international order that has been there since the Second World War, the whole idea that the world from now on is going to be ruled by the strongest, by America, Russia and China, who are going to do what they want to do and take what they want to take, and that nobody can resist this—these ideas are just projections in the mind. They have no reality to them. I am not saying that these nations could not do things with their military as Russia has done in Ukraine. But what is the cost? Not only the human cost, but the economic cost. Russia is put on a track that will condemn it to poverty for decades. China has made some decisions that also has put its economy on a track, and just imagine that China did attack Taiwan. If the democratic nations stopped trading with China, if people in democratic nations stopped buying goods made in China, how long would the Chinese economy survive, given how volatile it is right now?

The same with the United States. Tariffs, despite the propaganda of Trump, how much money have foreign governments paid into the treasury of the United States because of tariffs? I will tell you how much, exactly that much, zero. Where has the money come from that is claimed to be an income from tariffs? From American companies and consumers. You are essentially taxing your own people. How is that lowering prices? How is it actually in the long run boosting the American economy, bringing manufacturing back? What damage has this done to America’s standing in the affluent part of the world, which is also the democratic part of the world? Do you not see that America has so far been the bastion for the democratic world? But in 11 months, Trump has dismantled the standing of the United States that it has built since the Second World War and he has done it primarily in the democratic nations because they are committed to principles and a rule-based world order and therefore, they are the ones who will stop trading with America. And they are the ones who have the most money to spend. The economic loss to America is the greatest.

You see how the economies of these three large nations will prevent them from carrying out this world domination because you cannot trade with a country you are seeking to dominate. Why would they buy your goods if you are not treating them according to democratic principles? You see here that there is a reality and there is the propaganda, the impression that the conservative movement in the United States is unstoppable, that the conservative movement in the United States will spread to Europe and it will become unstoppable there. There is a projection of this and there is a deeper reality and what people will begin to see in this coming year is the difference between the reality and the propaganda. And as this happens, Trump, Putin, Xi Jinping, other dictatorial leaders will become more and more frustrated, more and more stressed and as we have said, sooner or later, something will break either without or within. Who will break first? Most likely Donald Trump, Putin a second, Xi later. Xi might very well survive longer than any of the others. But still, the aura of invincibility, infallibility and inevitability will be challenged in this coming year.

The greatest power in an unascended sphere

What can you do? You can first of all free yourself from this serpentine illusion. Look at your own psychology. Take Maitreya’s discourse about the duality consciousness and use it to challenge yourself and how you look at life on earth. As an avatar who has been exposed to the birth trauma, it is not uncommon that people believe, that avatars believe, that the fallen beings have such power and such ruthlessness that they cannot be stopped. Be willing to realize this comes from subconscious selves created to deal with the trauma and then use our tools and teachings to uncover those selves and let them die so that you can accept the reality that will puncture another serpentine lie, which is that once you have gone into duality, once you have stepped into the quicksand, the quagmire of duality, you are tainted forever and can never free yourself. It is the lie that you could do something or have been exposed to something or reacted in such a way here on earth that you have become impure in such a way that you could never free yourself from it. This is another aspect of this inevitability.

The serpentine mind tempts you into doing something and once you have done it, if you did not like the consequences, it will use this to say: “Now you have made such a terrible mistake, you can never be free of it.” But you see, you can. Why? Because what are you? You are the Conscious You. Nothing on earth can touch the Conscious You. It can only touch the contents of your identity, mental, emotional bodies and of course your physical body. But when you stop identifying yourself with the four lower bodies, nothing on earth can touch the pure awareness, the neutral awareness of the Conscious You. The serpents are very good at projecting at you that you must take their accusations seriously. You must react to their accusations that you are impure, that you made this terrible mistake.

What power do they have to make you take them seriously? Do they have a physical power? Can they go in and physically change your mind? Nay. They only have the power that you give them by taking them seriously. What does it matter to the Conscious You that someone is projecting at you that you made a terrible mistake that you can never overcome? It may matter to something in your identity body, but that something is what? A subconscious self, which is made up of what? An illusion, a belief in an illusion and some mis qualified fear-based energy but nothing that is real, nothing that has longevity and endurance. That is why there is magic in identifying that what causes you to react to the fallen beings is just a subconscious self and it is not real, and it has no power over the Conscious You. Therefore, you can just look at it, separate yourself from it, look at it from the outside and say: “I am letting you die.” You do not have to prove that the serpents are wrong in what they are projecting. You do not have to go out and do something to compensate for the supposed mistake you made when you first came to earth so long ago. There is nothing you have to change or compensate for.

You have the greatest power in an unascended sphere. The serpents, those in the serpentine mind will project at you that they have a power that is greater than yours. But the reality is, you have the greatest power in an unascended sphere. And what is it? To just walk away, to turn away, to surrender it, to let it go, to say to Jesus, to Christ: “What is that to me? I will follow Thee. I am willing to lose my life, the life in my separate selves, for the sake of following Christ into the eternal life of the One mind.” That is the greatest power.

The path to self-destruction

You, the Conscious You, you have it. The fallen beings do not have it. They could reclaim it by turning around, but as long as they are in the fallen consciousness, they do not have that power, because they cannot let go. That is why those leaders in the fallen consciousness are on a path of self-destruction, because they cannot do what Lanto said, use the wisdom of the Second Ray to evaluate the effects of their use of power and adapt.

As Mother Mary also explained, they cannot adapt to changing circumstances. They must continue to power their way in the only direction they can see and their only way of looking at it is: “I have to use more power if I have not gotten the results so far.” That is why they cannot change. That is why they will become more and more imbalanced, and that is why more and more people in this coming year will see the lack of balance and they will not be able to understand why people do not believe them anymore. Putin will lose support among the Russian people, among the Russian leadership, among other countries who have so far been friendly or at least not hostile to Russia. Xi Jinping will lose support in China. He will lose, he will squander much of the so-called goodwill that China has built up over decades by investing in third world countries.

Trump on the eternal quest to raise himself up as the most important, as the greatest president in American history, will not be able to understand why the people are not supporting him. He will not be able to understand why the Republicans who declared their loyalty to him in order to get elected in 2024 are now abandoning him for the 2026 election. He will not understand why there are people in his own staff who will crack and have to leave. He will stand there and wonder: “Why do they not see me as I see myself?” Well, because you see yourself as a great leader, but you think that a great leader is one who never admits a mistake, never apologizes, never changes, but stays on the course. But a great leader is one who is flexible, who looks at reality and is able to change as conditions change. It has always been so. What will begin to emerge in this coming year is this realization that balance is more important than persistence or consistency. But what is balance? Balance is the ability and willingness to adapt to changing conditions. Therefore, really what is important is the willingness to change, to self-transcend, to grow, to become more than, instead of more of.

A perception-based economy

Do you realize that the world economy is what Saint Germain has explained a long time ago, a perception-based economy? Do you realize that the United States stock market, for example, could crash tomorrow? Well, not tomorrow since it is not open, but certainly on Monday. I am not making a prophecy here. I am just saying, do you realize that a shift in perception could crash the stock market in one day? The same in Russia, China, other nations. The economy is based on perception, a perception that the growth in the economy is unstoppable, is inevitable, and that the elite-based economy will endure, will continue growing and concentrating money in the hands of the elite. Do you realize that this entire system could crumble in one day? Not that the economy as such would crumble, people still need to eat. There will be a real economy, as Saint Germain has talked about, that will survive, but the entire artificial economy could crumble in a very short period of time and there is nothing that Trump, or Putin, or Xi, or anyone else could do to stop it if it happened. And it is more likely to happen in this coming year than in the last year since 2008. It is not inevitable, but it is certainly more likely.

Now again, does that mean the glass is half full or half empty? That depends on how you look at the economy and what is your place in the economy, whether you have tied yourself to the elite and the artificial financial instruments, or whether you have tied yourself to the real economy. Certainly, there will be a greater awareness of the importance of the economy in this coming year. You can already see this in some of the analysts that are starting to speak out. Some are, of course, speaking about doom and gloom, but I am not advocating doom and gloom. I am advocating a positive view that you will see an unprecedented change to the elitist economy, neoliberalism, and other theories of economics that are focused on the economy being driven by a small elite who somehow have superior abilities to the common person. This will be challenged in this coming year, partly by people raising their awareness, partly by events. The balance will be the more people raise their awareness, the less severe the actual events will become. The less they are willing to shift their awareness, the more severe the events will become, so that they will have to shift their awareness and can no longer ignore it.

Shattering the projection that inequality is inevitable

You see the deeper aspect of the serpentine mind here. It is based on the temporary reality that matter is more dense on earth than it was when the earth was a natural planet. Therefore, things take longer to change, and the serpentine mind then projects this inevitability. It is inevitable that the world will become more elitist, that the billionaires will acquire more and more money, and that the people will just have to accept that they get poorer than their parents. But you see, this is all a projection, a perception, and the perception could shift very quickly. And that is what you can hold the vision for, make the calls for, in this coming year, that more and more people will wake up and see that it is not inevitable that a small elite should control over 90% of the wealth, and even see that this is not a democratic economy. And as we have said before, why do we have a democratic political system and a profoundly undemocratic economic system? How does that make any sense to anybody?

Using your chakras, I am projecting this into the collective consciousness. I AM the Ascended Master MORE. I am not looking for the economy to fall apart and people to be poorer. I am looking for the economy to shift so that the people get more wealth, and so that poverty is eradicated. That is my vision for this next 11 years. Having shared this with you, I am grateful for your willingness to be part of this event, and to give me this opportunity to look back at the previous year, to look forward to the coming 11 years, and even beyond.

With this, I seal you in the Flame of More that I AM for earth. May you be more in this coming year!

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