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Ascended Master Shiva through Kim Michaels, April 20, 2025. This dictation was given at 2025 Easter Webinar for Ukraine.
I AM the Ascended Master Shiva. I am gratified to be able to announce to you that due to the efforts of the many spiritual people in Russia over the years, the many spiritual people elsewhere who have given these decrees and invocations, including those who have given these decrees for the situation with the Ukraine war over these last years, and of course, those of you who have been part of this conference, I have been able to permanently bind and consume a specific serpentine energy that has been hanging over the Russian people for a long time, even longer than there has been any talk about Russia and Russian people.
Serpentine energy
If you were to look at a tree, you might see that there are branches, there are leaves covering the tree. But if you were to look closer, you might see that between the leaves is hiding a serpent that has wrapped its body around the trunk of the tree and is slowly choking the tree. Well, this is the situation that the Russian people have been in for a very long time, going far back in the past as we have talked about before. They have been affected by this serpentine energy that has acted like a poison that has entered their identity, mental and emotional bodies, even to some degree the physical.
What is this serpentine energy? Well, you will know from the story of the Garden of Eden that Adam and Eve had been given a specific instruction, been told that they would surely die if they ate the forbidden fruit. And the serpent inserted doubt in their minds: “Thou shalt not surely die.” Well, the Russian people had been given a promise by the ascended masters that they had the same potential as everyone else. And that they could transcend themselves and reach the same level that they saw in others. At the time, the Russian people were not as advanced as other groups of people on earth, but they had been given the promise by the ascended masters that if they were willing to transcend themselves, they could reach the same level they had seen in others. The serpent inserted doubt at the identity bodies of the Russian people that this was a lie, that this was not true, that they could not reach the same level because they were not worthy.
Serpentine lies
And many people believed it because they saw: “Well, there is a vast difference between where we are at in consciousness and between our outer situation and where other people are at in consciousness and their outer situation. Maybe it is true that we are not worthy.” Then, at the mental level, the serpents inserted this more sophisticated intellectual reasoning that the Russian people were meant for a special mission in the world, but they could not fulfill it by being sophisticated as they saw other people being. But they could fulfill it because they were special because they were willing to do anything, no matter how low it was. In other words, they were told that these other people, they had certain things they were not willing to do. And that is why they could not do what the Russian people could do for the world.
And then, they were told at the emotional level that in order to fulfill their special mission, they had to be willing to suffer more than these supposedly more sophisticated people who were not as tough, as hard, as insensitive, as willing to sacrifice for the cause as the Russian people. And then, if they were willing to sacrifice enough, then they would fulfill their special mission and do something epically important for the earth that no other people could do.
“We want more than this”
I am not saying that the Russian people were the only ones told a similar lie, but the Russian people, many of them believed it. And believe it to this day. What is the effect of this? Well, look at the Soviet Union, look at Russia under Putin, look at the situation with the war in Ukraine. What is it that has caused many other people to transcend themselves, to create a better standard of living for themselves, a better form of government? It is that they came to a point where they said: “Enough is enough. We want more than this.”
What will make the Russian people able to improve their situation? They must come to a point where they say: “Enough is enough. We want more than this.” What prevents the Russian people from coming to that point? The serpentine lies I have just described. For what do the serpents whisper in their ears? “You cannot allow yourself to say that enough is enough, because then you will fail your mission. You must be willing to sacrifice more, to suffer more, to be more and more hard, more and more forceful, more and more brutal, for this is the only way you can fulfill your mission. Therefore, you must accept whatever hardships are put upon you by your own government.”
Chinese torture
This is reminiscent of an ancient form of Chinese torture. Say there is a person who has been captured by an enemy and is now held captive in the enemy’s camp. The person, of course, would like to escape, but is not sure this is possible. Then, somebody is sent in, undercover, so to speak, to where the person is held captured. And this agent tells the captured person: “In just a few days someone will come and we can escape and you can be free. But tomorrow, the leader of the gang that is capturing you is going to call you in, as he is going to tell you that you have to choose a certain body part that will be amputated. And I am telling you, you need to choose the one you can best avoid, or the one you can best be without, so you can survive another day and you can be free.”
The person believes this. Next day, he is called in. He chooses a body part. It is amputated. He is put back in the prison. Now, the person who was the agent says: “You know what? There has been a delay. The liberators are not coming today, but they will come soon. When you are called in tomorrow and must choose another body part to have amputated, you just choose the next one you can best do without.” You see the pattern. Every time an amputation has taken place, the person lets go of another body part. He is told: “Oh, the liberation has been delayed again, but just hang in there. Just be tough, it will come.” And as long as the captive believes in this scheme, what will he do? Continue to accept that more and more body parts are amputated, because he holds on to the hope that he will eventually be liberated.
Well, the Russian people have been exposed to this form of torture at the psychological level and, to a large degree, at the physical level too. Both during Tsarist times, Communist times, and Putinist times. There is always the promise that the Russian people have a special mission and that it can be fulfilled. “But not just yet, because you have to give up more of your freedoms, more of your rights. You have to suffer even more. You have to let more soldiers go to Ukraine to be killed. But then, the liberation will come. Well, it is not going to come yet, because there is so much opposition from the outside. The West is working against Russia, so you must sacrifice some more. But then, the liberation will come, then the Promised Land will come.”
And how long will this go on? As long as the Russian people believe in the lies, they are being told by their leaders. As long as they believe that more sacrifice, more suffering, more hardships, more brutality, more force, will very soon lead to the Promised Land. Many Russians have already let go of this serpentine lie, pack of lies, during Soviet times. Many more have let go of it since the war started, but there are still so many that are holding on to it.
The opportunity for the Russian people
But now, thanks to the calls and my intercession, I have slain this serpent. They are set free to rethink, reevaluate. As always, this does not go against people’s free will. But now, at least they have the opportunity—also through the intercession of the Dhyani Buddhas who have consumed this spiritual poison—they have the opportunity to rethink, to reevaluate “Will we continue to believe in the lie that more and more suffering will lead us to the Promised Land, where there is no suffering? Will we continue to believe in the lie that suffering will lead us beyond suffering?” Or will they ask themselves: “Why are we doing this?” The opportunity is there, an opportunity that you, the Russian people, have not had for thousands of years. When I say Russians, I do not mean people only in Russia, but also in Ukraine, Belarus, and wherever they are around the world. You have an opportunity you have not had for thousands of years.
If you take it, you can transcend the past. You can accelerate yourselves, transcend yourselves, and you can have what other people have. But you cannot have it through suffering, through brutality, through force. You can have it by acquiring basic humanity and moving on to essential humanity. It is the humanity that is the Promised Land where there is no suffering. And it is the lack of humanity that keeps you out of it. Continuing to use the lack of humanity will not get you closer to the Promised Land, it will only push yourselves further and further away from it.
This is the choice I set before you. And I have sent my angels and representatives to every single person who is part of this group. And we stand before them in the etheric realm and we are shining a light into the lower identity, mental and emotional, so that they cannot fail to notice. Perhaps not at the conscious level, but certainly at other levels. The opportunity has now been extended. And we can only wait and see what they will do or not do.
Freeing the souls of soldiers
Now, I wish to take another action here where I am using your calls to accelerate a certain development. It is, of course, to go to the battlefield and cut free all of the souls who have become stuck there since the war started. And who are still stuck in the emotional or mental realm, even a few in the lower identity realm. I will cut them free so they have an opportunity to move on, if they choose to take it. In that respect, I wish to describe a certain difference that I can observe from my level. You may look at a Russian soldier who has been killed and a Ukrainian soldier who has been killed. Naturally, they are all individuals, but there are certain tendencies that emerge.
Now, you can go in, take a specific person on either side. And say: “Here are the specific circumstances under which the person was killed. There was a certain military action, battle, skirmish, whatever you call it, and a person was killed.” Now, you may say: “Did that, the death of this soldier, accomplish anything in terms of the war, pushing the war in either this direction or that direction?” Why is this important? Well, because when a soldier is killed in war, most of them, after they leave the physical body, they want to answer this question: “Did my death make any difference for my country?” This is a question that most soldiers have—not just Russians and Ukrainians—throughout the world, throughout history.
Dying for your country
You may say that a country has a certain right to ask certain things of its citizens. You educate yourself, you have a job or start a business, you pay taxes, you follow the laws, you have children, so forth. And in the extreme cases, a country has the right to ask its citizens to die for their country, to defend the country. But this is an extreme sacrifice to ask of your own citizens. And therefore, in order to have any legitimacy, there must be a reason that people can lock in to, so that they feel that their death made a difference. If you cannot give your own soldiers the sense that their death made a difference, you are making a very severe karma by forcing them to go to war.
The Ukrainian soldiers
What you see is that at the Ukrainian side, you will have individual skirmishes. For example, you may have a Ukrainian general who misunderstands the situation on the battlefield, commands certain units out in what is essentially a hopeless quest, where it is guaranteed that most of them will be killed. And it will not make any difference whatsoever, because the general made a miscalculation. You may say that those soldiers, from a certain sense, died in vain. But of course, from an overall perspective, did they completely die in vain? Did they feel it themselves? Because they have maybe the sense when they leave the body that yes, this particular skirmish did not really make any difference. But overall, our sacrifice made a difference in helping our country survive. Generally speaking, Ukrainian soldiers, when they leave the body, they still have a sense that their sacrifice was worthwhile, it made a difference.
What does this do for the soldier? It makes it easier for the soul to move on, to move, as near-death experiences talk about, into the light. And to therefore, receive assistance to process their lifetime, to transcend themselves, to heal psychology, and to move on. There is less chance that they get stuck in the emotional realm, because they have a positive attitude.
The Russian soldiers
Now, when you look at the Russian side, you see at the local immediate level that one of the main tactics used by Russian commanders is what is called ‘meat wave’ attacks, where Russian soldiers, sometimes even wounded soldiers, are sent out over open terrain, to simply take fire from the Ukrainians to expose the positions so that they can be exposed to artillery fire.
But what happens in many of these attacks is that many, many, many more people die than was actually necessary to reach any kind of military goal. Many times, the Russian commanders are making an evaluation. Who are the weakest soldiers? Who are the ones who can be most easily done without? Do they have physical handicaps? Are they overweight? Do they have psychological problems? Then, they are expendable. Send them out there to draw fire and be shot. What do you think such soldiers feel when the soul leaves the body? Well, they feel nobody cared about them. It did not make a difference that they died.
Then, you have this difference between the Russian and Ukrainian armies. Now, you may say any army has a certain brutality because the individual cannot be respected. It is the overall success on the battlefield that matters. And therefore, people have to be forced in line. Yet there is a difference even though many of the Ukrainian commanders were trained in the Russian army, there is still a difference in how they treat their soldiers. On the Russian side they are treated with obvious brutality and disregard for life. And this also contributes to the Russian soldiers feeling nobody cares about them.
Now, you may say that when soldiers go into battle, many of them will have a sense they are doing this for their country and their country cares about them. The leaders care about them. Their families at home care about them and the sacrifice they are making. But how long does that sense last? Well, again the Ukrainian soldiers can maintain it. Even after the body dies, they still have that sense that their country cared. In Russia, even though they may know that their families care—but when they are exposed to the brutality of the Russian army, the brutality of the battlefield—they realize that their families only cared because they have been given a completely unrealistic view of what the war is like.
They also realize their military commanders do not care. And some of them have had the sense that: “Well, at least Putin cares, because we are doing this for him. He is the father of the nation. We are sacrificing for him.” But most of the Russian soldiers who end up dying on the battlefield, especially in these meaningless attacks, their illusion is shattered. They realize Putin does not care about them as individuals whatsoever. And this makes it very difficult for the soul of such a soldier to move on, because all it really wants is to disappear. We may say die, but the body has already died and the soul is still conscious. But what they want is to no longer be conscious. They do not want to live. They do not want to grow. They do not want to receive help. They do not want to heal. They basically just want to disappear into non-existence.
“This is too much”
This makes such souls very difficult to help for the ascended masters, who of course, want to help every soul on earth. That is our task. That is our assignment. That is our commitment. But we must work with free will. Of course, what do such souls open themselves up to? Demons from the astral plane who want to steal their energy by making them feel bad, making them feel worse. Literally, some of these souls are magnetized to what people have seen as hellish realms, where they are constantly tortured and milked for energy.
Why am I telling you all of this? Well, because what have I just said is the serpentine lie. It is that any amount of sacrifice is worth it to achieve the end. But one of the things that can awaken the Russian people from this is to realize that there is a limit to how much sacrifice they are willing to give. There comes a point where you look at the sacrifice of these soldiers who are your own family members. And you say: “This is too much. The state does not have the right to ask this of us. We will not accept this. Why are we doing this?” And I am projecting this into the collective consciousness so that those people who have soldiers who are lost, who are killed or who have come back wounded, can be awakened. And realize that out of compassion for the people they know, they cannot accept this lie that more suffering will free us from suffering. More suffering will only lead to more suffering.
What I have done as a result of your calls is send representatives to each of the souls who are stuck, cut them free—even those who are trapped in the astral plane—and offer them an opportunity to grow, to rise to a higher level where they can receive assistance. Some will take it, some will not. I have also gone to the relatives of these soldiers, cut them free from the illusion, so that at inner levels they have an opportunity to choose. “Do we still believe that the sacrifice of our sons was worth it? Or will we look at reality that this is a completely senseless waste of human life? And that the state does not have the right to ask this of its own people.” Some will awaken, some will not. That is the nature of free will. Let it then be the judgment of Christ upon those who reject the opportunity.
While this may seem a somewhat somber message, as the others we have given at this conference, it is actually a hopeful message that there may be an end to the Russian people’s suffering. There can be an end if you choose. And of course, if you choose not to end the suffering, then it must be because you have not had enough of suffering. And then, we from the ascended level must bow to your free will and leave you alone in your suffering for the indefinite future. Again, it may seem a somber message. But, my beloved, there is also hope in it, for you now have an opportunity you have not had for thousands of years. I have no opinion, as you might say from the human level, about what individuals or a critical mass of the Russian people should choose.
I am content, having extended the opportunity. I am content to stand back, but constantly be ready to offer assistance for those who ask for it, those who accept it. It reigns upon the just and the unjust. The unjust can become just, just by accepting the opportunity. With this, I have had my say. I have radiated enough light through your chakras and auras into the collective consciousness of the Russian people, which of course, includes many Ukrainians who are also part of that karmic group. And therefore, I seal you in the fire of Shiva.
Copyright © 2025 Kim Michaels