Ascended Master Portia through Kim Michaels, March 7, 2026. This dictation was given at the conference in Vilnius, Lithuania: Making a Difference in a Turbulent World.
I AM the Ascended Master Portia. Often, I have been called the Goddess of Opportunity because I hold that Flame of Opportunity for earth.
Seeing the world as an opportunity
How can you make a difference in a turbulent world? By seeing the world as an opportunity. By seeing beyond outer events, looking for the opportunity behind appearances. How might that be implemented in practice? Well, you could start by looking at history. You have many dramatic events in the past, many events that have caused many people to die, that have caused much suffering, and I am in no way trying to make light of this or make excuses for it. But still, you look at these events, they have from a certain perspective, been an opportunity and they have often led to growth in some areas of society. Even the dramatic events of the Second World War led to a certain raising of awareness in some nations of how important it was to have democracies instead of these societies where decisions were made by one man who often was so blinded by his own state of consciousness that he made disastrous decisions. As disastrous as Hitler’s decisions were, there was still that hidden opportunity where people could realize the need to step up to a form of government where you spread the decision-making process out among more people and certain decisions are actually made by all of the people.
You cannot fool all of the people all of the time
Why is that important? Well, you have that old saying by Abraham Lincoln: “You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time.” You can fool some people all of the time because they are trapped in their own perception filters and they are only looking for validation of those filters. You find these in all areas of society, but if one of these people is raised to the supreme position in the government, then that leader who is blind will make disastrous decisions.
Then, of course, you can fool all of the people some of the time, especially when the fallen beings manipulate world situations so that the people see that there are only really two options to choose from. There are, of course, never two options only. It is only in duality that there can seem to be only two options. For there is always the option to step beyond duality. There is always the option to raise your awareness and look at situations from a higher perspective, the Christ perspective. But you see, you cannot fool all of the people all of the time and therefore, when all of the people are involved in electing the government or perhaps even making direct decisions by voting on specific issues, then you will have a form of government that in the long run functions better than where the blind lead the blind. So even there was an opportunity.
Learning from physical out-picturing of the mind
The Soviet Union, as tragic as that was for all people involved, there was still opportunity. You look here in Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, many of the countries that were part of the Warsaw Pact, they felt oppressed and suppressed by Russia, but when the Soviet Union collapsed, they took the opportunity to grow and they have grown. I will not say that they are further ahead than they would have been if the Soviet Union had not existed. But still, they have very quickly caught up, so they are very close to the same level of development they would have had if they had not been suppressed by the Soviet Union.
On the other hand, you see some of the older democracies where people are beginning to take things for granted and they are beginning to decline, where certain things are beginning to fall apart, public services are no longer maintained and so forth. You see that you can look at it from a certain perspective and say: “People are suffering, there are all these disasters, this should not be happening.” But you could step back and say, what is it we have told you? There are some people who are in the School of Hard Knocks. They can only learn by seeing the physical out-picturing of their state of mind. Therefore, even when the knocks become hard, there is still a hidden opportunity. Again, I am not making light of people’s suffering, I am not trying to make excuses and say: “Oh, the hard knocks are necessary.” Well, they are necessary, but only because people are in a certain state of consciousness where they are refusing to see the connection between physical events and their state of consciousness, therefore refusing to look at themselves and say: “Oh, maybe we have to change instead of trying to force those other people to change.” There is always that opportunity.
And you could even say that as the level of the collective consciousness is right now, it would not actually give the fastest growth if there were no conflicts. Imagine that you could somehow suppress all wars. But that would not give the fastest growth and the reason for this is simple. When people are below a certain level of consciousness, they are in the School of Hard Knocks, they must see physical events because they cannot deny the physical events. You may look at Russia and you may say: “Well, what if Putin had not decided to invade Ukraine?” In that case, the collective consciousness of Russia would have remained at the level it was in before because people had become comfortable at that level. There was a status quo, an equilibrium and many people were comfortable there, they had accepted it. But by Russia taking the aggressive action against someone else, they are now forced to deal with this fact because it cannot be denied.
Denying the action, not the inner reaction
I know you can say: “Well, there is very little information reaching the Russian people because the government is controlling everything. There are many Russians who are denying that there are any problems with the war, denying the cruelty of the Russian soldiers, denying the jeering of their own soldiers when they would not attack in a meat-wave attack, denying that they are attacking hospitals and so forth.” Yes, they may be doing this at the conscious level. But as we have said before, when you can see what is happening in the emotional, mental and identity level of the collective consciousness in Russia, you see great upheaval. Because even though you can consciously deny physical events, you cannot avoid it having a reaction at the three higher levels of the mind. It is simply impossible.
When you take an aggressive action against another human being, you will be affected yourself, no matter what denial you have at the conscious level. You will be affected at the three higher levels. It simply is impossible to avoid because that is how the law of karma works. The law of karma is really just an aspect of the law of free will, which says: “What you do unto others, you are also doing to yourself.” And how that works is that you may say: “Well, you kill somebody else and you are not struck by lightning from above, so at the physical level you got away with murder.” Yes, but not at the emotional, mental, and identity level. You did not get away with anything because it still affected you there and sooner or later that will surface at the conscious level. Not necessarily in the same lifetime, but it will surface.
The School of Hard Knocks as an opportunity
That is how we have explained that karma works, that you are sending an impulse that moves through the levels of the universe, they move up and then they start coming back down and that gives you a time delay where you have the opportunity to change the contents of your emotional, mental and identity bodies. And if you do, the karma does not have to be physical, but if you do not, then the karma will descend physically and then you will be forced to acknowledge this at the conscious level and that means that you will now open your conscious mind to what has been happening at the emotional, mental and identity level. And you will be flooded with this process that has been going on where you have either overcome your aggression or you have reinforced it. So even this is an opportunity. The School of Hard Knocks is an opportunity, certainly not the ideal one from any perspective, but it is, as we have explained before, simply how free will must be allowed to outplay itself on an unnatural planet.
We have talked about how you need to avoid being pulled into the turbulence and what I am giving you here is in the hope that this can help you, where you can accept that there are many people on earth who are still in the School of Hard Knocks and therefore, they need to see the out-picturing of their state of consciousness, but instead of focusing on the suffering, the atrocities, the problems, the disasters, you look behind the outer appearances and look for the opportunity—where is the opportunity for growth.
Seeing the flow behind the chaos
You can look at it from your own perspective, of course. See if you have a reaction to events and then go after those separate selves that cause you to have that reaction. That is then your opportunity to grow. But what we are hoping to take you to is this point where you become neutral about world events so that you are not pulled into reacting to them or even taking part of them physically. You are so to speak the objective scientist who is conducting a scientific experiment where you have built a maze and there is a bunch of rats in the maze and you are just observing how they are running around in the maze. You can be as impassionate as a scientist observing an experiment. I am not deliberately comparing human beings to rats. That was just a side effect.
Nevertheless, the Christ, as we have said, is neutral, neutral awareness, no value judgments, no dualistic polarities. As the Christ, you are just observing and you have a certain acceptance of free will and therefore, you are saying: “Well, if Putin attacked Ukraine, it must have been necessary for the Russian people to have that experience.” And as we have said before, the Ukrainian people volunteered to be part of mirroring back to the Russian people their own aggression and brutality. It could also be that it was necessary for both parts and you can say in a certain sense that it was also necessary for the Ukrainian people to have that experience because what is the opportunity for Ukraine? As we have said, to build a new national identity.
What we are encouraging you to strive for or perhaps even shift instantly into is the state of mind where you are just observing what is happening on earth. You are not allowing yourself to be pulled into an emotional reaction where you have fear-based feelings about it. You are not allowing yourself to be pulled into a mental reaction where you seek to analyze and understand and rationalize. As Master MORE talked about, there are things you cannot understand with the rational mind so you are not allowing yourself to be pulled into an identity level reaction where you feel that certain things should not be happening, certain people should not be doing what they are doing or certain people should not even be on the earth and other kinds of things like that so therefore, you can remain neutral. And therefore, stand on the rock of Christ and direct the flow so that instead of being chaos, seeming chaotic, seeming pointless, you see the flow.
You see, when you are focused on chaos, turbulence, you see movement, but you do not see the direction. You see the whirlpool but you do not see the river. And therefore, when you are just focused on the turbulence, it seems pointless. Where is it going? Where is the Ukrainian war going? Where is the war against Iran going? Where is the situation in Gaza going? Where is the situation in the United States going? But when you step back and have that Christ perspective, you see that it is actually going somewhere. And where it is going is towards the golden age and therefore, in every situation there is an opportunity to turn off your phone, for example, or to direct the flow, the energy and pull the collective consciousness up to a certain level that is higher than it was before.
Robot wars— the absurdity of war
Let me give you just a certain example of this. For decades, in fact in some ways since the Second World War, armies have been organized a certain way, tanks, infantry, rockets, this and that. More and more sophisticated but in many ways the same kind of weapons. The Ukraine war has done what? Opened up for a new approach to warfare with drones. The latest development is battle drones on the ground armed with guns and they can fight people but there is more and more beginning to emerge, this “robots fighting robots”. You are talking about robot wars now and they will of course become more and more sophisticated. But look behind it, there are two aspects here. First of all, there is the aspect that wars are in very great measure driven by the dark forces who want people to go to war so they can steal their energy. Well, now say that you have a battlefield where two countries have created robots that are controlled by AI computers and they are sending these robots against each other in this area where there are no people. And the robots are shooting at each other and they are killing each other, the robots. But how does this look from the astral plane? How do the demons get any energy from robots? Nothing. There is just nothing there for them. Where is the incentive to cause these kind of robot wars?
Then there is another aspect of it. You go back a few hundred years and now you had the invention of muskets, you had these armies armed with muskets and the soldiers would line up and they would walk towards each other in the battlefield. And when they got within shooting range, the front line of soldiers would kneel, the other would stand, they would aim at the enemy and fire. And the enemy soldiers would stand up and wait for the bullets to hit and then they would fire at the other side and whoever ended up losing the most soldiers would win the battle. But see, there came a point where people saw the absurdity of this. You are just standing there waiting for the bullets to hit because you have to what? Preserve your honor by being shot?
What needs to happen more and more is that people, a critical mass of people, come to see the absurdity of war. And when you see these two armies of robots lined up against each other, controlled by computers to eliminate the human element and allow them to respond faster, more and more people will begin to see the absurdity. Why fight? It is absurd. What is going to be the outcome? That one country surrenders because most of their robots were killed? Where is this going? You could see it as another example, nuclear weapons. When it became clear that the Soviet Union and America had built so many nuclear weapons that if they fired them all it would destroy all life on earth, the absurdity of war became more obvious.
The rest of this dictation, along with an invocation based on the dictation, is found in the book: Making a Difference in a Turbulent World.
Copyright © 2026 Kim Michaels