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Ascended Master the Divine Director through Kim Michaels, June 8, 2025. This dictation was given the conference in Seoul, South Korea: Being the Living Christ in everyday life.

I AM the Ascended Master the Divine Director. What I come to offer you is a, we might say, practical tool for how you can increase your attunement with the Christ mind, with your I AM Presence and with whichever ascended master is closest to you.

A practical tool for seeing your psychology

Now, I have already given this tool before, in the sense that it is a novena where you can give my decree nine times and then you sit with a notepad and you write down whatever comes to you. What I want to emphasize here is that you can do such a novena for the specific purpose of coming to see the elements of your psychology that you need to see at this present level of your path. In other words, it is not about getting some vision about how to deal with your outer situation, how to deal with the practical aspects of life. The purpose of this is to see the blocks in your psychology that you are facing right now at your present level, and that you need to see in order to rise to the next level up.

You do not have to use my decree for this. I know that all of you have a certain master you are closer to than others. If you know who that master is, then you take that master’s decree, give it nine times, then write down. If you do not know a specific master you are closer to, then use my decree. [You can also use the invocation that follows this dictation.] The important point here is: You do the preamble, you dedicate this to your desire to see what it is, what subconscious self, what illusion you are working with at your present level. Then you give the decree nine times and then, without reflecting, without analyzing, without anticipating, you simply write down what comes to you. Whatever it is, you write it down. After you are done with this, you might put it aside or you might read it again right away. In the beginning, there may be some influence from your ego, from the subconscious selves, that give you an impetus of what you should do or how you are special and what your role might be and what you might do for the planet in the future. Such vision of outer things, this you completely ignore, for the purpose of this ritual is only psychology.

Whatever is focused on your psychology, that you can then take, you can try to understand it, try to come to see what you do not see. You might, if there is a particular issue, try to find some books on psychology that talk about it, try to find our teachings that talk about this, and then you work on it. You use the tools from the Healing Your Spiritual Traumas books to come to get a clear vision of this. You give your decrees to consume the energy and then, when you feel you have worked through a specific issue, you can continue the novena if you so want. You can also give the novena the next day to gain clarity on this specific issue, so you do not move on to another issue before you feel you have resolved the first one.

Now it may be that you do not get anything about your psychology. Then, you keep doing the novena and anything that does not relate to psychology that you write down, you just ignore it. Give the novena the next day and you keep doing it until you get something about unresolved psychology, because I assure you that if you are open and willing, you will at some point get something.

Divine direction and Christhood

I also wish to give you some teachings about Christhood. My title is the Divine Director and it signals, of course, divine direction. I am supposed to give people divine direction. Many people have over the decades thought that as you walk the path of Christhood, you gain more and more divine direction and you gain a more and more clear divine direction.

Is that true? Well, yes and no, because it depends on your view of divine direction. The ego wants to present the view that divine direction should be infallible, that divine direction, if you follow it, should give you what the ego wants: the security that it can never be wrong. As other masters have talked about, there are problems on Earth created by the duality consciousness, where the Christ mind has no solution to them because the only solution is to transcend the consciousness that created the problem. Many ascended master students have thought: “Oh, I am facing a particular situation in my life, I don’t know what to do, I don’t want to do the wrong thing, I want to do the right thing, so I am going to do a novena to the Great Divine Director and surely he will tell me what is the right thing to do in this situation.” If people are so focused on the outer situation and getting outer results, I have nothing to give to them. I cannot give them direction, I cannot tell them: “You should do this,” because no matter what they do from their present level of consciousness, it will not lead to the result they desire.

This is partly because the result they desire is unrealistic anyway because it is based on the vision of the ego. It is also because whatever they could do, would not resolve the situation because many situations on Earth, especially conflicts between people, have no ideal solution. There is no ultimate outcome. Well, you could say the ultimate outcome is that you use the situation as a tool for transcending a specific subconscious self that is causing you to react the way you do to the situation. That is not what people are looking for when they are looking for divine direction and see it as something coming to them from outside themselves that will enable them to always be victorious.

Divine direction and free will

You see, divine direction does not interfere with people’s free will. Divine direction does not seek to solve the problems created by the duality consciousness, for divine direction sees they have no solution. What does divine direction do? Helps you see the illusions in your own psychology so you can rise to the next level up, for that is in a sense the victory of Christ: every time you rise to a higher level of consciousness.

You see again, many people have found an ascended master teaching, heard about the path to Christhood and they think it is a matter of surrendering to the Christ, to the ascended masters, having them tell me what to do, how to live my life. Yes, we have talked about surrender. This messenger has talked about surrender. Yes, it is essential to surrender, but what are you surrendering: your illusions, your subconscious self.

You are not surrendering your willingness to make choices. You are not surrendering your willingness to take responsibility for your life and make the choices that need to be made in specific situations. Some people have come to the path and they have felt: “I am willing to surrender my outer will, just tell me what to do and I will do it.” You see, surrender does not mean surrendering your free will. You cannot surrender your free will to Christ or the ascended masters. You can surrender your free will to the ego or to other people or to external dark forces, and they will tell you how to make choices, or they will make choices for you.

Christ is the defender of free will and, therefore, will not allow you to surrender your free will. I can assure you that if I, as an ascended master, who is at an even higher level than the Chohans, if I were to tell you how to live your life, I can assure you this would not lead you to your ascension. Why would I do it? Of course, I would not, but I am saying: Give up this illusion that you can qualify for your ascension by surrendering your free will. No, it is by embracing your free will that you qualify for your ascension. It is by embracing your free will that you walk the path of Christhood. What is the path of Christhood about? As we have now explained so many times, it is about coming to see an illusion (that you are holding on to) that is the foundation for a separate self and then consciously making the choice to give up that illusion. Consciously. If you do not do it consciously, how is it integrated in your causal body? How does your I AM Presence grow? How does your sense of self grow? Conscious choices are the foundation for rising to the next level on the path.

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.