Ascended Master Portia through Kim Michaels, May 23, 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 Portia. I have often been called the Goddess of Opportunity. What is opportunity? Well, the entire world of form is an opportunity to self-transcend. It is an opportunity to experience yourself as a certain self and transcend it. What an opportunity given to us by our Creator.

Self-transcendence in every experience

Now, of course, I know well that when you go into duality you might not be able to see the universe as an opportunity. You might feel that self-awareness was forced upon me: “I did not ask to be created. God forced me to exist and I can only suffer.” And if that is the experience you want to have, what can I say other than what a wonderful opportunity for you to experience yourself that way. And some might get insulted by hearing this, but what is it they are going through? They are having an experience and right now, it is an unpleasant experience. But what does an unpleasant experience do for you? It gives you a frame of reference, and it gives you the opportunity to ask yourself: “Is it possible to experience life in a different way?” Is it possible to have a different life experience?” And if you are willing to look around you, you will see that some of the people around you are not having the exact same experience you are having. In fact, some are having a better experience or at least they seem to be happier with their experience. Perhaps you could transcend your experience and perhaps the only reason you really went into this lower experience was to have a contrast to a higher experience so you have a frame of reference for choosing.
You could say when you are a new co-creator, you have a limited sense of self, a very point-like sense of self, you are only aware of a small environment around you, your opportunities for choosing are rather limited. There is what you can see in your environment, but there is also what you can see in yourself based on your sense of self. As you experiment with what you have and what you can see, you gain a frame of reference and you see that there could be more opportunities, more choices, more options. But how do you choose? Let us say you are walking outside but there is a dense fog, you can barely see a few meters ahead of you. What options do you have for choosing where you want to go and what you want to see? But now the fog begins to clear and now you see the road ahead of you, you see it divide, you see there is another road that goes that way, one that goes this way and now you have more choices, you have more options because you have gained a wider range of experience.

Duality as opportunity

What is duality? Just an opportunity to have a different kind of experience. Why is that an opportunity? Because it gives you a broader frame of reference, a broader experience space whereby you see more options. You see what we have said, you have to experiment with duality in order to become aware of the full range of how you exercise your free will. If you are not aware that you can exercise your free will as a separate being, you do not see the fullness of the options you have as a self-aware being with free will. But it is not enough to theoretically, intellectually understand what duality is because if you do not experience it, how do you really know what it is?

Going into duality is an opportunity to have a broader range of experiences than what you have when you are not in duality. Now, because of the nature of duality that we have explained in great detail over a long period of time, duality has an inherent imbalance because there are two opposite polarities that are both pulling on you and you tend to be pulled towards either that one or that one. And imbalance leads to suffering. The inevitable result of duality is suffering. And while suffering is unpleasant while you are in it, it is still just an experience, and any experience is an opportunity to broaden the options you can see.

You can say in duality you have the opportunity to experience yourself as a certain type of being until you come to the point where you realize: “I do not want to be this kind of being.” And then as we have explained, nothing in duality could abort your free will. You can always choose to be more than any sense of self and therefore, even duality is an opportunity. It is essentially the opportunity to experience yourself as a separate being for so long and in so many different versions that you can fully consciously give up seeing yourself as a separate being, wanting to exercise your free will and co-creativity as a separate being.

You can say that when you are not in duality the opportunity you have is to decide what you want to be. When you go into duality the opportunity you have is to decide what you do not want to be. It is the alpha and the omega and you need both in order to reach that level where you are ready to ascend because you must know what you are giving up as an ascended master. And you must come to a point where you do not feel that giving up this possibility is a loss, for you have had enough of the experience.

No magical solution

Now what could help you deal with that initiation at the 96th level? Well, what is essentially the experience you are having on earth? Look at yourself, look at your present life, perhaps whatever sense you have of previous lifetimes. You could ask yourself: “Why am I here, why am I in this teaching, why am I listening to these strange masters that are talking through this person? Why am I struggling to understand and apply these teachings?” Well, because your experience of life on earth is colored by a certain frustration. It can take individual forms but if you look at all of you, you have or have had for most of your life a sense of frustration, and you are here because you are hoping that we can help you overcome that frustration. As Saint Germain was seeking to explain, it is very easy to get, when you get close to the 96th level, to get into thinking that there is a riddle, there is an enigma, there is a problem you have to solve in overcoming that self-focused self. And if you just had that magical knowledge, that philosopher’s stone, that holy grail, these magical words, yes, then you could see the self and let it go.

But there is no magical word, and why not? Well, because imagine that I had some secret mantra and anyone who heard that mantra would instantly awaken from duality. But how would that work with free will, because what if someone accidentally stumbled across that mantra and they were not ready to let go of duality, they had not had enough of the experience and suddenly, poof, they were out of duality? You see, at the level of words, there must be plausible deniability. Many of you, or at least many spiritual people around the world, are still looking for that magical teaching: “Oh, is it in the poems of Rumi? Is it in the Vedas, the Upanishads, ascended master teachings? Is there some cave, some grotto somewhere where it is inscribed on the wall?” And you go on these quests to find them, these epic quests. But you could really make it a lot easier for yourself if you would give up this entire idea that there must be a magical solution. For the very idea that there is a magical solution is part of what gives you the frustration, because you are thinking: “Well, it must be there, but I obviously have not found it. Why have I not found it? What am I doing wrong? What is wrong with me? What is wrong with the teachings I am in? What can I do to change it?”

Frustration as experience

I will suggest an idea, just one more idea, as the many we have suggested so far, that might help you, and that is this: What is your frustration? Is it not something that takes place inside your mind? Do you not feel the frustration in your mind? Yeah, you might feel it in your body, but do you not primarily feel it in your mind? What is everything, absolutely everything that takes place in your mind? What is it? Is it not an experience? Everything that happens in your mind is an experience. You may think of feelings and thoughts, but they are just components of the total experience you are having. What is your frustration? It is an experience.

What then is your mind? As we have said, there is an elemental that forms your identity mind, another that forms your mental mind, another that forms your emotional. But what are these minds? They are like screens that you can project images upon, but the screens are not changed by the images. They can easily reflect other images.

Your experience could be changed. It is not the only possible experience you can have. You do not have to be frustrated when you are in embodiment on earth. Why are you right now choosing to have the experience of being frustrated? And here is how many people have reacted when they are confronted with this: “I did not choose to be frustrated. I am frustrated because I cannot choose to be what I want to be, where I want to be. I want to go above the 96th level. Do you not think if I could choose it, I would have done so? I have not chosen to be frustrated!”

Enjoying contrast

But you see, what did Saint Germain try to explain? When you go into separation, you are creating the illusion in your mind, this separate self, that you are in an environment that is separate from your mind and therefore, you are a victim of that environment. And when you go into that state of mind, you will feel tension and in the beginning, the tension is not unpleasant. It is exhilarating because the tension between the two dualistic polarities gives contrast. And many people enjoy the contrast, as you can see in people on earth who are constantly going back and forth between this or that extreme.

There are people who enjoy the contrast provided by the dualistic polarities and they have not had enough of the experience. There is still tension, but they just find it exciting, exhilarating. But then after you have experienced this for a while, and of course, you experience that in duality you must always react, and when you react it creates more tension, and there comes a point where it becomes difficult to uphold the tension, where we might say the tension overshadows the exhilaration. And then you start looking for a way out of the tension, and then you come across a spiritual teaching and a spiritual path, and now you start climbing above the 96th level. And you are formulating the image in your mind that: “When you reach a certain level of consciousness, the tension will disappear, when you attain Christhood, the tension will disappear.”

Too much tension

And now you feel that you are actually making progress, you have made some progress, and you begin to realize that perhaps: “I am actually close to the 96th level, but I am not there yet because I still have the tension. Why am I not there yet?” And now, even though you have let go of a lot of selves between the 48th and the 96th level, you still feel tension. In reality you should feel less tension, but now you are beginning to build this tension: “Why have I not got over that 96th level?” But what is it that is going on in your mind? You are having an experience of tension, of not being there. Who is having the experience? Well, ultimately the Conscious You is having the experience, but how? Because you are experiencing yourself and the past through the coloring of that spiritual self that you built, the rocket that took you from the 48th to the 95th level—and what have we said about any sense of self you built? It wants to maintain its form because that is the only way it can continue to exist. It is its reason for being.

The self built to take you higher

What kind of a self did you have below the 48th level? You had a self that projected there is something you need to achieve in this world. This self, even below the 48th level this self projected there is a process, there is a path that leads you to some goal defined in this world. It could be ultimate power, it could be ultimate riches, it could be ultimate recognition, fame and fortune, whatever it may be. There was a horizontal path, a horizontal goal, then at the 48th level you shift. Now you step onto a path that leads beyond this world. There is a path that gradually leads you up towards the 96th level and Christhood or awakening or enlightenment or whatever you see it as. There is now a vertical path and in order to have the experience below the 48th level you build a self to give you that experience. In order to have the experience you are climbing a spiritual path towards a higher level of consciousness you are building a self that is your vehicle. It is the rocket that takes you up.

What is that self programmed to do? To take you one step higher. What is built into this self? “You are not there yet. There is another step above you.” When you take Saint Germain’s teachings about building this conceptual self you could say between the 48th and the 96th level you have a self that says: “You are not there yet.” And when you come close to the 96th level the self begins to sense that perhaps you will not need it anymore, but it does not want to die so it uses one last ditch effort to keep you in that sense that you are not there yet. The self projects at you: “You should have solved this enigma. You should have gained this knowledge. You should have had this insight so you could go above the 96th level. But you are obviously not there yet so you should feel bad about it. You should be frustrated. You should be tense about it.” It is its last panicked attempt to get you to continually see yourself as a person, as a being who is not there, who has not arrived. What do you have to do?

Giving up the path based on lack

First of all, you have to realize that it is the very self that brought you to the 96th level that is preventing you from going above it. That the Conscious You can come to see, not intellectually, but you can actually experience it: “Oh my gosh, it is the very self that brought me here that prevents me from going on. How crazy is that?” But then you have to realize that in order to give up that self, you have to give up the concept of a path. And when I say this, that self goes into panic: “What do you mean you have to give up the path? What do you mean there is no path? You have said we can rise to the 144th level. Then we can ascend and in the ascended realm we can rise to higher and higher levels until we reach the Creator consciousness. What do you mean there is no path?” But you see, there is no path as that self conceives the path. Because the path between the 48th and the 96th level is based on a sense of lack: “I am not whole. I am not complete. I am not where I want to be. I need to go another step up. Then I will be closer, but I still will not be there, so I need to go another step up.”

In that concept of a path, you are always behind. You are never there. There are many, many examples throughout the ages of people who have accepted the concept of a spiritual path. You find it in all mystical traditions. There are many, many of them in Buddhism where they accept Buddhism, they start studying and practicing. They conceive of themselves as walking a path, but it becomes a circular path. Even though they think they are going up, they are not ever getting to the goal. They just go in a circle. At the 96th level you have to give up that concept of a path and in the beginning that really means you have to give up the path.

Examine yourself. What do you think would happen if you gave up the entire concept of a spiritual path? What is your reaction to this? This will give you some clue as to how you have looked at the path. Many will feel: “Well, if I have to give up the path, does that mean the path was wrong? Does that mean I was on the wrong path? I was misled? I was fooled?”

But no, the path took you to the 96th level. It is just that the path as you saw it cannot take you beyond it. What is it that you have to give up? Is it the idea of an outer path? Well, yes. What you really have to give up is the self-image that you are behind, that you are not there, that you are not really connected.

And all of our teachings about the Conscious You have been an attempt to help you realize that the Conscious You is pure awareness, which means the Conscious You cannot be behind, it cannot be incomplete. We have said the Conscious You is out of the Christ consciousness. The Conscious You can experience itself as not being the Christ, as being a separate being, as being an incomplete being, as being behind, as being a being who is climbing a path, but it experiences that through selves. The Conscious You was never actually on a journey that took it into duality and is now taking it back out. The entire journey into duality and back out is what? What is that entire journey? It is an experience.

You are the Christ!

You and your I AM Presence, you grow from having these experiences, but the Conscious You is not changed by the experience. It does not become the experience. At the 96th level you can contemplate: “Am I actually behind? Do I need to change anything in myself in order to get above the 96th level and be the Christ?” And you can come to realize all you need to do is let go of the sense that you are not the Christ and accept yourself for who you are and always were. I understand that the outer mind, the linear mind will come up with all kinds of objections and say this is contradictory because of any number of reasons, but I am talking about here the Conscious You and how you see yourself. And you can come to experience, not understand, not conceptualize, you can come to experience: “I am there. I have arrived. I am the Christ.” And when you accept this, it is not that now you are suddenly perfect. It is not that there are no more selves to resolve because you are still at that 96th, 97th level and you still have to go to the 144th level to ascend and you may still have some selves you are dragging with you.

You are still walking a path, but you look at it differently than you did through that spiritual self that took you to the 96th level. You see? It is not really that the path disappears, but your view of the path changes in a fundamental way. You see it one way, you see it another way. But you cannot see it both ways at the same time. You have to shift between one and the other and therefore, you have to give up the lower path. What I am saying is you feel like an incomplete being below the 96th level. You give up that sense of self. You feel now as a complete being. You just realize that you can still take many steps to higher levels of consciousness, to higher levels of being. But you are not walking that path above the 96th level with a sense of incompleteness, with a sense that you are not there, with a sense that there is something wrong with you, something lacking. You are complete in being who you are, but you are still rising towards being more. It is in a sense, in a crude example, the difference between owing money to the bank and trying to pay back a loan and then being debt free and saving money in your account.

The shift is now

Can you make this shift right now? Well, there is only one time to make the shift and that is now. Is it this now or some future now? Well, that is up to you. But you will not make the shift until you accept that: “It is now and I have shifted. I am a different being.” That is what Mother Mary aimed to show you with her exercise of crossing the stream. And what was it that took your attention away from what you were holding on to? Looking in her eyes. It might help you to look up, some ascended master, your I AM Presence, something you can connect to that is up there. Look at that and see if that helps you realize you have shifted.

Elementals and the four levels of the matter realm

Now I will shift gears, so to speak, and give you some more thoughts about elemental life. We have said there are different orders of elementals, levels of elementals, different levels of awareness of elementals. In previous ascended master teachings, we gave the view that, the image that there are fire elementals, the salamanders that correspond to what we now call the identity realm, what we then call the etheric octave. There are air elementals, the sylphs that correspond to what we now call the mental realm. There are water elementals, the undines that correspond to what we call the emotional body. And there are earth elementals or gnomes that correspond to what we call the physical level, which we then called the physical octave.

This is, of course, a valid enough view, but you have to be careful that you do not see this as separate classes of elementals that work independently of each other. There was a tendency, there is a tendency among many people who work with understanding elementals to see it that way, but they are not independent. Everything is interdependent. In the spiritual realm, you have the ascended masters. They define certain parameters for the unascended sphere. The ascended masters define certain parameters for the identity realm and the fire elementals in the identity octave take on those parameters for the identity realm, which of course, are defined in the spiritual. The elementals at the identity level are not deciding on their own how to carry out their job. They do it within those parameters set by the ascended masters.

Now the elementals at the mental level, they are functioning within the parameters defined at the identity level. They do not decide on their own what they want to do. You understand elementals are not experimental beings. They only take on form that is projected upon them. And then again at the emotional level, the elementals there are taking on the forms that are defined by the parameters at the spiritual, identity, mental level, and again, so at the physical.

What has confused people over time is this idea of relating the four levels of the material universe to the elements that you see in, for example, alchemy—fire, air, water and earth. In alchemy they are often seen as different elements that somehow work together to create the physical world. But what confuses many people is this idea that fire should somehow create air, and air should create water, and water should create physical matter. It is hard to see a progression there from fire to air to water to land or mass, and that is why we do not, in this dispensation, talk so much about these four elements because we see how it confuses many people.

Elementals and the seven rays

The important thing to realize is that everything in the physical started when the elementals in the identity realm took on an image at that level. That image was then projected down to the elementals at the mental level, who took it on there and then projected it to the elementals at the emotional level, who took it on and projected it onto the elementals at the physical level. What you can see there is that the levels become increasingly dense. You can in a way, also see that in the classical elements where fire of course, is the least dense, air is a little more dense than fire, water is even more dense, and matter of course more dense than that. But still, because of the association with physical air, physical water, many people have become confused.

Now so far, we have not talked so much about the correspondence between elemental life and the seven rays, but we have of course, gone through the seven rays with the Chohans. As we have said, the topic of elemental life and the manifestation of matter is quite complex, and we are trying to not overwhelm you too much by keeping it somewhat simple. So far, we have said there is an image, a mental image created at the identity level. But what are the components of that image? Well, ideally it is all seven rays. Sometimes it is just one of the rays when it comes to human beings but with the Elohim it is all seven rays that are used to create this image. And when it is projected down you also have all seven rays at the mental level, again at the emotional, again at the physical. It is, of course, difficult to see how the seven spiritual rays are pictured in the physical world. But that is part of the whole idea of being in separation where your mind, your conceptual mind is projecting the image of separate forms. Still even at the physical level there are all seven rays present.

How can this help you co-create? Well, some of you can just ignore this. But those of you who are more curious about understanding this, you can contemplate that all seven rays are involved and you can then learn to sense whether you are currently focused on one of the seven rays. And you can then focus on the Chohan, the archangel, the Elohim of that ray and work with them to increase your ability to project that ray onto elemental life. As you do this more and more, you might expand this to another ray and eventually all seven. Now as I said, some of you can ignore this but others will find it beneficial.

Freeing the imprisoned elementals

What some of you can also learn to do is to realize that when elementals are imprisoned by fallen beings or humankind, it is always through the perversions of the seven rays that the elementals are imprisoned. It can be one ray or it can be a combination of more than one. Relatively few fallen beings have perverted all seven rays and are able to use that to imprison elementals. Most have only one or two. If you sense that you are currently focused on one ray you can use the decrees and invocations of that one ray to deliberately make calls for the elementals to be set free from the perversions of that ray. You can also, of course, work with opening your minds to the pure qualities of a certain ray or more than one, and then work on opening your mind to radiating those pure qualities upon elemental life and upon the collective consciousness.

You can learn to intuitively look at the earth, look at society, even look at nature and see how, or sense at least, how certain forms of elemental life have been imprisoned by certain perversions of the seven rays or one of the rays. You can see this for example, in natural disasters where the elementals can be imprisoned and therefore, they are not able to maintain a balanced state in nature. And the tension keeps building and the elementals feel more and more burdened until there comes a point where they can no longer withstand the pressure and, so to speak, the elementals give up holding the matrix.

For example, you have a matrix for an area of the earth, and at the surface it seems calm, but below it is a fault line and the different plates are creating a tension and scientists will say this is a purely material phenomenon. But nothing is a purely material phenomenon. There is a certain perversion of one or more of the seven rays that are magnifying the tension and burdening the elementals and therefore, there comes a point where the pressure becomes too great and the elementals can no longer hold the plates together, and instead of moving very, very gradually, they move in a sudden shift that creates an earthquake. The same with water and the air normally calm, but the tension builds until a hurricane or a tornado manifests. You can learn to sense this if you feel this is part of your Divine plan and make the calls to the masters of those rays.

Elementals and balance

Now there are, of course, not only the different classes of elementals, but there are also, as we said, levels of consciousness among the elementals. You have the more we might say new, inexperienced elementals that can only take on a limited form. You have the more advanced that can take on an element such as water. You have even more advanced elementals who are beginning to develop what we have called a certain discernment and the elementals, even at these higher levels, they do not grasp what we have taught you about the duality consciousness. But the elementals that are more experienced, they become aware of what we can call balance.

I have been also called the Goddess of Justice and the symbol is the two scales, the two cups that are connected and can go up and down, but if they are evenly weighted they find a balance. And the higher-level elementals can learn to sense balance, and they can sense when something is out of balance. And this means that they actually become able to sense that the higher goal of the masters above them is to have a certain balance on earth. Whereas the lower-level elementals will project, will take on any image projected upon them, the higher-level elementals can refuse to take on an image when they sense it will create imbalance. This does not mean they have free will, but it does mean they have enough awareness to make a selection, as even animals can make a selection to go away from danger and go towards food. They can sense the need for balance.

The hierarchs of the elemental kingdom

And then, of course, you have the four classes of elementals are organized in hierarchies that have hierarchs that are the directors of those classes of elementals, and in the Summit Lighthouse we gave the names.

The earth elementals, the hierarchs are Virgo and Pelora. The hierarchs for the water elementals are Neptune and Loira. Air is Aries and Thor, fire is Oromasis and Diana. And you can still use these names. What you need to recognize is that these hierarchs are not elementals. They are ascended masters who have taken on that task. You can certainly call to these. We do not have decrees in this dispensation. You can find some in the Summit Lighthouse or you can just call to them or tune into them and try to work with them. Now as I said, most of you do not need to pay attention to this, but there are always some people who feel a more close connection to, desire to, help the elemental kingdom. I am just giving you, we are giving you some teachings for those kinds of people also because we have sort of neglected those kinds of people in this dispensation.

Balance in nature

Where I want to take this, before I close, is that you have this concept that you have had for a long time of the balance of nature. And human beings, scientists and philosophers, and shamans and witches, and others who are in tune with nature have sensed that need for balance. There must be a certain balance and this is, of course, a very, very fluid concept that can be understood at many, many levels. But there is a balance of nature. Now, this is an unnatural planet, so what you would call the balance of nature here is really not balance, it is status quo. But you can still say that even though the status quo on earth is out of balance compared to a natural planet, there is still some balance right now.

There is always a certain state of balance and that is the balance that once in a while is disturbed when elemental beings are overloaded with negative energy. But the balance of nature also shifts over time, and in fact, even in recorded history, it has shifted quite a bit. And one way to see this is in the animal species where you see that from time to time there are populations that suddenly start growing very rapidly to a higher level. And in some cases, this then leads to the point where they have eaten all of the food supply in their area, and now there is a hard winter and the population crashes because most of the members of the population starve to death.

This is one expression of balance in nature and how it can shift. You can also have some species that for a time are very dominant and then either become extinct or their population decreases to such a level that they do not have the same impact. This is also because the balance of nature in that particular area shifts. What you can say is that if you are concerned about helping elemental life your frame of reference so to speak, should be balance—that you are seeking to set the elementals free from anything, energy, the perversions of the seven rays, that pulls them away from balance, so they cannot maintain a certain balance. We can say it this way that the top level elementals see the need for balance and they communicate that down. But when the lower levels of elementals are taking on the negative energy of humankind or have been imprisoned by the fallen beings, they cannot take on this communication from above so they out-picture unbalanced states, and over time the imbalance grows to where now there is this sudden change.

Animals expressing imbalanced state

You can focus on this, helping the elementals become free so they can come into balance. But you need to be very careful that you do not hold a fixed image of what the balance of nature means because as we have explained as we move closer to the earth becoming a natural planet the changes that will happen in nature in the animal kingdom will be very dramatic. You have to realize that the balance of nature does not mean the preservation of the state of nature that is there now. The current state of nature is quite unbalanced and moving into the golden age and beyond to a natural planet requires the balance of nature to shift quite dramatically. And this has often been a hindrance for people who are very concerned about and attuned to elemental life because these people also have in most cases, a great love for animals, a great compassion for the suffering of animals, and they have a desire to not harm the animals. Many, not necessarily ascended master students, but many people who have this compassion for nature or animals, they think it is a disaster if an animal species becomes extinct.

Many of these people are actually, without being aware of it, they are reinforcing the image that keeps the elementals imprisoned in the current state of imbalance that manifests a certain animal species. Many of the animal species on the planet are not an expression of balance, but of an imbalanced state in the collective consciousness or deliberately created condition by the fallen beings. As we move closer to the earth becoming a natural planet, many of the current animal species will disappear and there will be a new form of balance in nature. Truly, if poisonous snakes and insects disappeared, would that be a loss to anyone? Well, it would be to people who have this unbalanced view that these animals must have evolved for a reason and they are part of the balance of nature and when they are not there, the balance of nature could be destroyed. No, it would find a higher level, a more balanced balance than the current imbalance.

The need for balance above the 96th level

My final explanation here is that even if you do not feel particularly close to elemental life, the concept of balance is still very important because you can say that as you go above the 96th level, it is extremely important to hold in your mind the need to stay in balance and this can be understood at many levels. It can be understood on an energetic level, purely energy, where you can learn to sense that there is a certain balance, a certain equilibrium in your emotional body, but if you suddenly become angry or irritated, your emotional body goes out of balance and then stress can start accumulating.

You can also learn to sense that in your mental mind, certain thoughts are very disturbing, thoughts that promote fear or doubt, for example, thoughts that lead to fear of outer conditions or conspiracy theories or this or that. They also pull your mental mind out of balance and you can learn to sense that certain projections of identity pull you away from the balance in your identity body. For example, you can have grown up in a culture that projects a very strong identity that you are a religious person and as a member of this religion, you have to live this way. And if you give in to this or are disturbed by this, there will be an imbalance in your identity body. You can learn to identify this.

You can learn to identify that even though you have passed the 96th level, you still have certain selves that cause you to react to other people. And I am not going to go into what those selves are right now, but what I aim to help you see here is that you can learn to just sense when there is imbalance. You can learn to sense when you are pulled towards an unbalanced state, pulled towards that extreme or that extreme, you are pulled into reacting. You can use the image of Gautama Buddha sitting in meditation under the bo tree and the demons of Mara appear before him. And in his meditative state he is in balance, but they are trying to pull him out of balance by seeing if he has any attachments that cause him to react to the demons. Because if he has any attachments, then he cannot enter Nirvana because Nirvana is the perfect balance. And likewise, Christhood is balance, increasing levels of balance as you rise above the 96th level, but it is balance.

Balance does not mean the midpoint between the two dualistic extremes. Balance is that centeredness in the One mind so you are not pulled into neither this dualistic extreme, neither that one, neither some shade in between the two. The prince of this world cometh and has nothing in you. You can quickly learn to sense when you are out of balance. You already have the ability. If you lean your body to one side, does there not quickly come a point where you realize you are out of balance? And if you keep leaning you are going to fall off the chair. Well, likewise you can quickly learn to sense, and many of you already sense this of course, when your emotional body is out of balance and is in danger of tilting to one side where you, for example, become angry or fearful. You can learn to sense when your thoughts are being pulled out of balance and cause you to go into this obsessive-compulsive thinking about a certain topic that you feel you have to understand, a certain problem you have to resolve. You can learn to sense when your identity is pulled out of balance.

And when you sense that you are out of balance, you need to first of all decide you will stop the pull, you will not give in to the pull, and if you have given in, you will stop it and seek back to balance. How do you seek back to balance? By focusing your attention upwards towards the ascended level or your I AM Presence. Whatever is easiest for you to connect to—an ascended master, your I AM Presence—you connect to that because you decide that your connection being in the flow is more important than going in that direction you are pulled in. But of course, in a little more long-term, you need to recognize that, yes, there are of course always forces in the world who are seeking to pull you out of balance, but they can only pull on you, if there is something in you, a self that is yet unresolved. You need to be willing to look at that, go after that self and resolve it. But that I will leave to other masters to expound upon.

With this I have given you what I wanted to give you, and a little bit more, because I sensed that some of you were ready for this, and so again, I thank you for your willingness to co-create this flow with me.

Portia, I AM.

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