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Ascended Master Shiva through Kim Michaels, June 6, 2025. This dictation was given the conference in Seoul, South Korea: Being the Living Christ in everyday life.

I AM the Ascended Master Shiva. I hope that was not a surprise. I wish to say a few words here about the Hindu trinity, Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva. Brahma the Creator, Vishnu the sustainer, Shiva the destroyer. Yes, perhaps there are a few more deeper teachings that can be given here.

Deeper teaching about the Hindu trinity

What is Brahma the Creator? It is not the ultimate Creator, Brahman—if Brahman really is the ultimate Creator in Hindu mythology, where they have a different view of Brahman than what we have given you about the Creator. Set that aside for now. What is the creative element in the world of form? Well, it is first the Creator, but more so the ascended beings after the first spheres were created. In your unascended sphere – you may say our unascended sphere – the creative element was first of all the ascended masters in the Sixth Sphere. For Earth, it was the Elohim who created the Earth. The self-aware beings with free will, such as you, the co-creators, are also part of Brahma.

What is the sustaining element? Well, it is indeed the ascended masters who created this unascended sphere because they are holding the vision that sustains it. You, the co-creators, are also part of the element that sustains the current form. Humankind, with their lower consciousness, are the ones who took Earth below the original blueprint of the Elohim, and who are sustaining Earth in that lower state by not being willing to transcend your consciousness.

What is the destroyer? Well, it is the Christ consciousness. The Christ consciousness that in its universal form is unmoved, immovable, but in its manifest form, in its expressed form, takes the form of beings who take embodiment on Earth. They rise to a higher level of consciousness than the average, thereby demonstrating the path to Christhood: Jesus, the Buddha, many others, yourselves hopefully included.

What is the destroyer, really?

What you see here is that the Hindu view of Shiva is not the highest possible. Many think that I am some god up there, and one day I will come and destroy the Earth or destroy those people that they do not like. If I were to do this as an ascended being, that would violate free will. What is the destroying element on Earth? Well, it is those who have attained the higher levels of Christ consciousness and therefore, become the open door for the judgment of Christ and the challenge of Christ.

What does it really mean to destroy? What am I destroying as an ascended master, as an expression of the Christ consciousness, as the being who holds that flame, which Hindus have called destruction, but which is not really destruction, it is transcendence. Nevertheless, what am I destroying? Am I destroying people? Am I destroying the entire Earth? Nay, I am destroying illusions, because what has manifested the current conditions on Earth? The illusions that human beings have projected upon the Ma-ter light through their identity, mental and emotional bodies, and the actions they have taken with their physical bodies.

What can change this? Well, only that the vision, the images, the selves they hold in their four lower bodies are changed. Since those are based on illusions, well, the illusions must be challenged, the illusions must be destroyed. Now, there are many students who have come to ascended master teachings and they have heard about the path to Christhood and they have thought: “Ah yes, when I become the Christ, I can go out and challenge people. I can force them to see the error of their ways. I can even go into society and challenge the leaders, challenge the power elite, challenge the fallen beings.” They become very obsessive-compulsive about this. Some have tried to do it and have then been hammered down by the fallen beings, as the saying goes, and found that it is not quite that easy. That is because they have not attained a sufficient level of Christhood before they did it, so they did it with the coloring of the ego that has the ambition of setting itself up as an authority who can do this important work.

When you overcome all of this, when you go through these phases that other masters have described and reach those higher levels of Christhood, you are not challenging the illusions on Earth. The ascended masters may, through your open door, challenge. This does not mean that all of you have that as part of your Divine Plan. Your Divine Plans are individual. Some of you may be more focused on the creative aspect, some of you even on the maintaining aspect, but some of you are more focused on Shiva, the destroyer of illusions.

The rest of this dictation, along with an invocation based on the dictation, is found in the book: Being the Living Christ in everyday life.