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Ascended Master Master MORE through Kim Michaels, April 20, 2025. This dictation was given at 2025 Easter Webinar for Ukraine.
I AM the Ascended Master MORE, and I want to begin this discourse by referring to what I said at our Ukrainian webinar in 2022, where I talked about the need for Ukraine to overcome the victim consciousness. Now when I look at Ukraine today and what has happened in the meantime, certainly significant progress has been made in this regard of overcoming the sense of being the victim, whether it was the victim of the Soviet Union or the victim of the war. Yet there is still something that can be done and that will help make Ukraine more successful in its survival and in building a modern democratic nation after the war. Let me make some remarks in this regard.
Victim consciousness
What I want here is to tie in to the flame anchored by Surya, the Flame of God Reality. When we look back at the Soviet Union, Ukraine as a Soviet Republic, what was the characteristic of this entire system? It was that it lived in a self-created mental box. As we have talked about so many times, people in the duality consciousness believe that they can define a worldview, a theory, an ideology, a religion, and that this can tell them how the world should work, and then they believe the universe will conform to their ideology.
Certainly, this is what you see behind those in the Soviet system who actually had any ability to think clearly. They believed that the world would eventually conform to their ideology. Well, as we have also explained, once you go into duality, you are elevating one dualistic extreme, one relative extreme to the status of being absolute, but there will be other people who take another dualistic extreme, elevate that to the status of being absolute, and therefore, there will be a clash. We have also said that as you are creating a force-based impulse based on the duality consciousness, you are in a sense creating the opposition to your impulse. For every action, there is an equal reaction in the opposite direction.
What does this do? Well, it gives you the sense in your mind that the universe should conform to your theory, but you experience that it does not, so how does it make you feel? Like a victim. This is the essence of the victim consciousness. But what are you a victim of? You are a victim of your own state of consciousness.This is God reality.
The dualistic struggle
Certainly, as we have said, there are others who will take an opposite dualistic extreme: communism, capitalism. And therefore, they give you the perfect excuse for believing that you are a victim of them, but you see here the God reality is you are allowed to have any experience you want for as long as you have it, so as long as you still want to have it. But the God reality is that your experience will not change until you change your state of mind, so you may think at the conscious level that when you go into the dualistic mindset and you elevate communism to being the superior ideology, you may think that you actually want to experience superiority. But in reality, at the subconscious level, you do not want to experience superiority. You want to experience the dualistic struggle, and how can there be a struggle if there is no opponent? You want there to be an opponent, and if you do not acknowledge this, you feel like a victim, and therefore, you become trapped in the consciousness of thinking you have to struggle.
The only way out of this, well, there are two ways out of it, in a sense, but there is, in a way, only one way out, and that is a shift in consciousness. The question is what is going to bring about this shift in consciousness, and it can be either the School of Hard Knocks or the School of Higher Awareness, where you become aware that you are a victim of what you are projecting out. You are in fact not a victim because you are projecting into the cosmic mirror, and the cosmic mirror can only reflect back to you what you are projecting out.
What was it that happened in the Soviet Union? It was that the Soviet Union defined itself in opposition to the West, to capitalism. What is the excuse that Putin is using for his war, to justify his war to the Russian people? Ah, it is a war to stop the West trying to destroy Russia. It is a defensive war, for there is an opponent, the West. This was what dominated Soviet times, the opponent of the West that justified the repression of the citizens in the Soviet Union. Ukraine as part of the Soviet Union was also affected by this view, and it is in the collective consciousness of seeing Ukraine, seeing yourself as a victim of external forces. Now, here you have had for some time an opportunity to not be directly threatened by external forces, and suddenly Russia invades Ukraine, and now it is very easy to reinvigorate that consciousness that we are the victim of an external force.
Attacked, but not a victim
Now you are going to say, perhaps: “Master MORE, are you denying that we are the victims of an external force?” Yes, I am. You are being attacked by an external force, but you are not the victim unless you see yourself as the victim. What I am pointing out here, there is an external reality. You are being attacked by Russia, but the victim consciousness is an internal state that you can take on or take off. If you want to keep it on, you will continue being a victim, and you will continue to be attacked by an external force, because that is what you are projecting into the cosmic mirror that you want. If you take it off, that will open the door for you becoming the karmic mirror of the aggressor, mirroring their aggression back, thereby causing them to self-destruct. What do you want? This has very subtle ramifications. When you tune in to the Flame of God Reality, you can see that: “We will not overcome this war as long as we are in the victim consciousness. What does this mean? We need to change the way we look at ourselves, so we stop seeing ourselves as the victim.” As we have talked about at the last conference for Ukraine, you cannot see yourself as beggars who are coming to Europe, begging to be let into the EU. You need to shift and see yourself that you have something to offer, that you are a worthy member of the European community. But you, of course, also need to live up to that by espousing the democratic ideals.
Shattering the old mental bubble
Going back to what I started to say, the characteristic of the Soviet Union was you lived inside this self-created perception filter, inside this bubble. And Ukraine has done this after the Soviet Union fell, still not freeing itself from the bubble, the tendency to look at everything from our perspective and think other people look at us the way we look at ourselves. Other people look at our situation the way we look at ourselves.
What Ukraine needs to do, and it has already started and significant progress has been made, but you have not really broken through. What Ukraine needs to do is to realize that this war is an opportunity to shatter the old bubble, tune in to the Flame of God Reality and say: “What is it going to take for Ukraine to survive? Well, we can either be absorbed by Russia or we can become part of the international community. If we want to be absorbed by Russia, we do not have to shatter our mental bubble because Russia is still in the same bubble it was in during Soviet times. That is easy. We can just let ourselves be absorbed. If we want to survive as an independent nation, this can only happen by us becoming part of the international community, meaning the democratic part of the world, because no dictatorship is going to defend us against the dictatorship of Putin. Only the democratic world will defend us or help us defend ourselves against the dictator. They will only do this if we are striving to live up to the democratic ideals that are causing them to be willing to help us. That means we have to look at the world in a different way.”
And you have the opportunity to do this because you have had the interactions between the Ukrainian government, first of all President Zelenskyy, but others as well, and international leaders. You have had refugees from Ukraine that fled to democratic nations, have seen what life is like there, and they can come back and give that perspective. And of course, as I said, the process has already begun and much progress has been made. I am simply pointing out that, as Surya said, those who will come out ahead in this conflict are those who can lock in to the Flame of God Reality.
Negotiations with the Trump administration
Let me give you an example. You have the situation where Zelenskyy is invited to the White House, and where the White House stages this, what shall we call it, circus in the Oval Office with Trump, Vance and others. And if you look at this situation, I am in no way trying to excuse what Trump and Vance did. But if you look at it realistically, what was it that happened? From a purely realistic viewpoint, Trump and Vance did their dance. They acted out their state of consciousness. I am not defending their state of consciousness. I am pointing out that if you look at this neutrally, you see that Zelenskyy had not made the shift that needed to be made, and therefore, he was pulled into the circus that they had planned, because they wanted to humiliate him, to get him to bend, because they realized they could not get Putin to bend.
Now it is perfectly understandable that Zelenskyy was used to getting the empathy and the sympathy and the support from Western leaders, including President Biden and those who represented him. It is perfectly understandable that he was hoping that the same thing would happen with a Trump administration. It is perfectly understandable. But nevertheless, it is not realistic, because Trump and his administration are not like what Zelenskyy was used to from democratic governments, because they are not a democratically-minded government. They, in fact, have much the same mindset as Putin. But what I am saying here is that Ukraine needs to recognize this, that this is the new reality. You cannot long back for what was there before January 20th. You can only look at the new reality, and you can make a determination: “Do we want to continue to have American military support and military intelligence sharing? Can we survive? Can we fight the war without it?” If you determine yes, then you can let things unfold. But if you determine we would like to continue to keep this, then you need to make the shift and look at the reality, the practical reality. The Flame of God Reality is also a matter of looking at the practical reality as that situation is right now.
My point for this is to show you that if you want to have an opportunity to keep having American support from the Trump administration, you need to shift your approach to diplomacy, to the peace negotiations. You need to realize here that Trump realistically has no ideals. He has no democratic ideals. He does not care about freedom and democracy in Ukraine. Why? Because he does not care about freedom and democracy in the United States. Why would he care about it in Ukraine? He has no commitment to democratic principles. Therefore, he looks at it from a purely practical, pragmatic viewpoint, which is all centered around him: “What will make me look good? What will make me not look good?” And he promised to end the war in Ukraine.
You need, as Ukrainians, if you want to have any chance of having continued support, you need to play the game. You need to do the dance. All of this about stopping the war is not because Trump has principles. He does not even care about people being killed, even though he continuously says this. He only cares about what makes him look good in his own eyes.
And you need to recognize this, and the consequence of this is, you need to seem as if you are willing to negotiate a peace. And what does that mean? It means you cannot have any red lines. If you look from a distance at the Ukrainian war, what could it be said to be? It could be the war of the red lines. How many times have you heard this expression, red lines? “Oh, we cannot give Ukraine long-distance rockets because it is one of Putin’s red lines.” And then you get the rockets, and Russia does nothing beyond what they have always done, and so the red lines move and move and move. Arguably, if the Biden administration had realized at an earlier stage that Putin had no red lines, they could have given more military support earlier. But again, let us not lament about the past. My point is the war of red lines, but what does that mean for Ukraine? It means that if you come to negotiations with the Trump administration and you have red lines and say: “We cannot give up territory,” then you might as well not go to those negotiations.
What you need to do is to pretend like you have no red lines so that you put the entire focus on Putin and thereby expose the reality that you already know and which Trump is not willing to recognize. Namely, that Putin does not want peace. You cannot be the one that has a red line that will prevent Trump from getting his public relations coup of seeming to stop the war. You need to direct the attention at Putin and show that he is the one who has red lines. He is the one who does not want peace. He is the one who is not willing to give anything in return for peace.
Now, you may decide: “Well, it isn’t realistic that we can get anywhere with the Trump administration.” But this actually is not realistic. You can manipulate the situation. You can play the game so that in the end it will be Putin who breaks off peace negotiations, or at least lets them fade out, so that Trump has no other way to save face than continue giving support and intelligence to Ukraine.
Be practical realists!
What I am pointing out here is this: Overcoming that last element of the victim consciousness is shattering your old bubble and realizing what kind of world you are in, what kind of countries are there and how you need to deal with them. You need to recognize here that you can count on most of the European nations to live up to their democratic ideals. But you can only count on this if you are willing to live up to the democratic ideals. You can no longer count on the United States to live up to its supposedly democratic ideals because the Trump administration has no democratic ideals, no allegiance to them. This is what has not yet become clear to a critical mass of the people who voted for and support Trump and therefore, you need to buy time. You need to buy time by playing the game. You can always say: “Well, we shouldn’t have to play the game.” But that is the victim consciousness. It is perfectly true that you should not have to play the game, but saying this will not change who is sitting in the Oval Office in the White House. Therefore, you need to tune in to that Flame of God reality and say: “What is the situation we’re dealing with and how can we make the best use of it?” You understand what I am saying from a larger perspective? Doing this will help you step outside of, shatter the bubble of, the Soviet era that is still there in the collective consciousness of Ukraine and that is one of the main factors right now that is preventing Ukraine from making the transition fully into the democratic mindset.
Many people in Ukraine before the war were in the victim consciousness, in the sense that they were holding on to what they had, even though what they had was not very much. But they thought things could never get better. That has been shattered, but many people have not changed their consciousness. But many people have, and what is it that will drive Ukraine’s survival and prosperity? It is that many of these people who have left behind the victim consciousness start their own businesses, come up with new ideas, take initiative.
Realistically speaking, what is the opportunity that Ukraine has? Well, the Ukraine War has demonstrated that the old approach to warfare is completely obsolete, partly because of drones but also for other reasons. Russia did not realize that at the start of the war. They have begun to realize it. Ukraine did not realize it at the start of the war. They have made more progress than the Russians, but still more progress could be made, as we have said. But the West has not fully realized it because they have not been up against the Russian army in its present form with the addition of drones. There is a tremendous opportunity now that Europe has decided to make itself more independent of the United States and arm, for Ukrainian businesses to provide insight, ideas, but also the practical tools needed. You might say that one of the things that helps Ukraine survive after the breakup of the Soviet Union was the selling of arms to the world, to anyone, to the highest bidder. Well, now it will be the selling of technology. Arms technology, drone technology, communications technology. I am not saying this is ideal. I am saying it is practical realism.
There is an opportunity here. If you step back and look at this from an overall perspective—karma, what is ultimately going to create peace on the planet—of course it is not ideal, but we have to be practical realists, especially we who are the Chohans. And this is the practical realism. There is in every situation an opportunity, but the principle is simple. What precipitated any situation? The consciousness of the people involved. You can look at any conflict from the victim consciousness and you will not be able to see the opportunity. Or you can transcend the victim consciousness and then you will clearly see the opportunity. There is a tremendous opportunity for Ukraine here, but in order to see it, people have to transcend that sense of being victims.
An equal part of the international community
There is also a tremendous opportunity for Ukraine to establish itself as part of the international community. Let us again step back and look at this realistically. Where was Ukraine’s standing in the world before the war? Many people could not have pointed out Ukraine on a world map. Why? Because Ukraine still lived in the bubble of Soviet times. Now you have the opportunity to step outside of that bubble and find your place as an equal among democratic nations. But you have to overcome the victim mindset and its opponent, its dualistic polarity, the superiority mindset. There is the master mindset and the victim mindset. They form a dualistic polarity, you see it in the Russian people, who have the sense that Russia should be special, the Russian people should be special, they should have a special position in the world. Yet, everybody is opposing them and they are the victim of the world. You cannot be a master of the world and a victim of the world at the same time. But you cannot be just a master or just a victim either, because you cannot embrace the one and completely escape the other—they are a dualistic polarity. What can you do? Transcend both, which is what democracy is all about. And the countries that are most affluent, most successful in giving their people a better standard of living, are the ones who have transcended both. They do not see themselves as victims, but they are not seeking to be superior to others either. Therefore, they can cooperate as equals.
Ukraine has a tremendous opportunity to overcome that dualistic polarity of the victim and the master and become an equal member of the European community. It is a tremendous opportunity, and if it is taken, as Shakespeare said: “There is a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads unto fortune.” Well, the tide working for Ukraine is at the flood. And if you take it, you will not believe the change in five to ten years in Ukraine’s standard of living and prosperity. If it is not taken, then Ukraine will survive, but not much more than that.
The School of Hard Knocks in Russia
With this, I have given you some food for thought. You may say: “Well, who is going to read this or hear this among those who can make decisions?” But as we always say, by your participation I have radiated this into the collective consciousness. And this means there are now people who will pick up on this who otherwise would not have had these thoughts, these realizations. Now, you understand, I hope, that I am not blaming Ukraine. I am not blaming Zelenskyy for this circus at the White House. I am simply pointing out that there is always an opportunity, always a lesson to be learned. And I am pointing it out because I, as so many other ascended masters, are committed to doing whatever we can to secure the future and the growth of Ukraine as an independent democratic nation. We are, of course, equally committed to the future of Russia.
Yet, the question is, can people in Russia make the necessary changes to secure a prosperous, democratic future for Russia? Right now, it is far more likely that the people in Ukraine can make that transition. What happens in Russia remains to be seen. I have, clearly, a special love for Russia, for the Russian people. I would like to see them move towards a prosperous future where they have freedom and democracy, where they have rights. But, unfortunately, it seems right now that the shift that the Russian people will have to make in order to move into that future can only be brought about by some very hard knocks. Right now, too many people in Russia have gone into the state of mind that they went into during Soviet times of not wanting to know reality. They do not want to tune in to the Flame of God Reality. They want to live in their fantasy world where it seems like they do not have to make any decisions, let alone the decision: “Do we want more than what we have right now?” If you are not willing to say: “We want more than we have right now because what we have right now is not enough for us, it is not acceptable to us.” Well then, what will bring you to that decision when even that which you have is taken away from you?” That is the principle of the multiplication of the talents and, right now, with this mentality, the Russian people, a majority of them, are not multiplying the talents. They are burying their heads in the ground and burying the talents with them. What is the principle that Jesus described 2,000 years ago? Even that which he has shall be taken away. And then, perhaps, when you have nothing left to lose, you will be willing to decide: “We want more.”
Could you make that decision right now, I would render all the assistance I could, as would many other ascended masters. But you see, what have we said so many times? Free will reigns supreme. We cannot force people to make the choice. The fallen beings can force people to make certain choices, or rather, not make certain choices. But we of the ascended masters cannot, will not, violate free will. It is only a matter of how hard do the knocks have to become before people decide: “We have had enough.” The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind. The answer is blowing in the wind. I sincerely hope that the Ukrainian people will grab the opportunity, so that the answer is a clear: “We want more.”
With this, I seal you in the flame of MORE that I AM, and I commend you for being part of this release and for radiating this into the cosmic, into the collective consciousness. And of course, the cosmic consciousness as well, even though it does not need it. You have also helped us radiate impulses into the collective consciousness of the United States of America, which right now is really not united whatsoever. It is in a state, but not a united state. But that, of course, can also change by people saying: “We have had enough of the insecurity, of the vacillating back and forth. We have had enough of the chaos, the contradictions, the grandiose declarations that are then changed the next day. We have had enough. We want America back.”
With this, I seal you in a flame of MORE that I AM. May you tune in to that flame and be MORE every day.
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