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Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels, August 3, 2024. This dictation was given at a Healing Retreat in Chicago: Heal your heart and the heart of America.

I AM the Ascended Master Mother Mary.

Now you all, of course, know how to search the internet, so you know that if you put in a certain word and hit the button you get three and a half million hits. But we have a similar feature in the ascended realm in the form of the akashic records, where you can also search and what you are searching is not, of course, what people have put in the akashic records, but what actually happens. You can actually do a search on the word heart and you can see how many times people have used the word heart in a spoken sentence, and then you can do a more sophisticated search where you see what words people have used in the same sentence as the word heart. And if you search this way you will see that the most common word associated with heart is broke or broken, as in: “It broke my heart”, “He broke my heart”, “My heart is broken.”

The (sense of the) broken heart

The topic I wish to talk about here is this concept of the heart breaking and obviously, I am in no way discounting or making light of people’s experiences. Many people throughout the ages have had this experience that something broke, either in their physical heart or in their heart chakra, even if they were not aware of the chakras they could have this sense that something breaks. And I am not discounting the experience at all. But the question I will start out with, of course the physical heart can break or be damaged, but when we are talking about the heart chakra, can the heart chakra actually be broken?

Is it possible for something in the physical, emotional, mental or identity realm to break the heart chakra? And the answer to that is an unequivocal no, it is not possible. The design of the aura is so that nothing from the lower vibrations of fear can break the chakras. Now take care, we have said that there are valves in the heart chakra, and in all of the chakras of course, that can be closed, but they cannot be broken so they cannot be opened again. We have also said you can take in energies and thoughts and ideas and images from the vibrations of fear into the outer chakra, the part of the chakra that is outside the valves, so the chakras can be polluted but they cannot be broken in a way that could never be repaired.

Healing vc. clearing the heart chakra

And this is important to keep in mind when we are talking about healing the heart, because we have called it healing the heart because it is what most people respond to based on this experience that the heart can be broken. But it is really a matter of clearing the heart, for the heart can take on pollutants, the valves can be closed, but nothing can be broken. When you realize this you can begin to look at experiences. Some of you may have had the experience in this lifetime that your heart felt broken. All of you, all of us, have had it in past lifetimes, certainly when you received the birth trauma.

You can now begin to look at these experiences and at least contemplate that as dramatic as they felt at the time, as it seemed like something had happened that could never be undone, that could never be repaired, while the feeling is there, and I am not discounting it, it is not reality. Nothing can be broken so that it cannot be cleared again. You can very slowly, and I know that for some this will be difficult in the beginning because the trauma is so fresh, it is still so deep, but you can at least begin to contemplate as we have said, with free will. You cannot make a choice you cannot undo by making a more aware choice, but even beyond this you cannot actually be broken by anything that has happened on earth.

Letting die, not fixing

We have said the Conscious You is pure awareness, it cannot be changed by anything that happens on earth. Again, there are deeper layers of understanding of this because the Conscious You can of course, take on the selves and you are then, the way you look at yourself and the way you look at the world is changed, but the point here is you cannot be permanently changed in such a way that you cannot again become whole. And again, I know that many people have felt that they were so hurt that it feels like you could never become whole again.

But that feeling is not the Conscious You, it is a separate self. And if you look only at the separate self you can say, well, it is probably true enough in the sense that the self that was created in a traumatic situation was created in a broken state and it cannot be fixed. What have we said so many times? The self projects there is a problem that must be solved. A self projects your heart was broken and it must be fixed, but what have we said so many times? You do not overcome the self by solving the problem that the self is projecting. You overcome the self by letting the self die and letting go of any desire to fix the problem. You cannot fix the self that projects that the heart was broken. You can only let it go. This of course, is the difficulty. We know this very well from our own experience.

“Consequences that can never be undone”

What does it really mean that it feels like the heart was broken? Well, it means that this self that was created based on, the trauma is based on, this belief that there are things that can happen in the unascended sphere that could never be undone.

This is a belief that has been cultivated originally by the fallen beings, not even in those who fell in the fourth sphere but actually in the sixth sphere. Some fallen beings came up with this idea that if they could get people to make a mistake and then project at them that this could never be undone, this could never be repaired, then they could put people in this catch-22 of trying to repair the irreparable, trying to fix what could not be fixed and therefore, people will be so focused on changing a condition in the physical world that cannot be changed.

You see again, the common experience in the physical realm is that there are choices you can make, things you can do, things that other people can do to you that have consequences that cannot be changed physically. If you are in an accident or in a war and one leg is cut off, well this cannot be undone at the physical level, and this applies at the physical level—there are some consequences that cannot be undone at the physical level. But as we have said so many times before, it is not actually the physical situation that affects you, it is what takes place in the emotional, mental and identity level in reaction to the physical situation, and nothing at those three higher levels can be permanent or unalterable. Whatever has happened to you at those levels, you can overcome by letting the selves die.

I realize, as I said, in terms of healing a physical disease, that this is difficult. If you have lost a leg, it is not easy to make peace with that fact and move on with your life. I am not saying it is easy, but I am saying it is possible. There are physical consequences that cannot be undone, but in the emotional, mental and identity levels there is no consequence whatsoever that cannot be undone by letting the self die. Therefore, your heart chakra, your heart, cannot be permanently broken. Whatever has happened, however strong the reaction was, it can be overcome. It can be transcended. It cannot be fixed, but it can be transcended so that even the physical condition does not take you away from wholeness, does not disturb you, does not stop your growth, does not prevent you from ascending.

The sense of being rejected

Now, if we go deeper into this sense that the heart is broken, what is really behind it? Well, it ties in with the other teachings we have given that you come here to express the individuality of your I AM Presence and you feel it is rejected, put down, “hammered down” as the saying goes, and this gives you that unbearable pain that makes you feel like the heart breaks because as we said, it is through the heart that your divine individuality is expressed. The Conscious You can have this reaction that it does not want that feeling to go up to the I AM Presence, so it wants to close the heart chakra so it cannot go up. But as we have said, whatever feeling the Conscious You has does not affect the I AM Presence the same way, therefore, the Conscious You does not need to protect the Presence. The Presence can take care of itself.

Once you have closed that heart chakra you can have additional traumatic experiences where you again feel like the heart breaks. If you have experienced in this lifetime the sensation of the heart breaking you have most certainly experienced it in past lifetimes also, because once you have gone through that experience one time then it becomes easier to have it again because now you have these outer selves that are based on this feeling that your individuality was rejected. They do not grasp the individuality in the I AM Presence but they feel that you were rejected and so when you have that sense of being rejected for who you are, that can cause you to feel that the heart is breaking. This often happens in a love relationship if a partner leaves you, but of course there are other situations where people feel the heart is breaking, such as if there is an accident or if a loved one dies.

These are the most common experiences. What is it that causes this? If you have a loved one who dies, is it really that you feel that you were rejected because the loved one could not help but die, whereas the love partner that left you could have chosen differently. But the reality is that when you create these subconscious selves, when you create essentially that first self after your birth trauma, the primal self as we have called it, you are now creating an outer self that is meant to make you never again feel the same pain you felt in the birth trauma and the self therefore builds a certain image of the world and how the world should work so that you can be, you can feel you have control over your life and you can avoid being really hurt.

You have a certain sense of how the world should be and you transfer that to, for example, your family members should not die until they eventually get old but certainly no accident should happen and many other conditions where you have a certain view of what should or what should not happen. And then when that view is broken, the self feels that it was rejected. Its worldview was rejected, the worldview that it is identified with.

In a sense we could say that originally the Conscious You felt that your divine individuality was rejected. This created the primal self and now the primal self feels that every time it is demonstrated that it does not have control over your life and the world, it is rejected by the world. If the world does not conform to the worldview of the primal self and other selves, the primal self feels rejected, and of course, when the Conscious You is not aware of the primal self and is inside of it, the Conscious You feels rejected.

Snapping out of the focus on self

What is the way out of it? Well, we have given the tools for how to resolve the selves, the primal self and others, and they are of course useful and valid. You can certainly use them. But what I will give you here is just some thoughts about how you can shift your perspective, because as Kuthumi so carefully explained, the real effect of the birth trauma is that you are now focused on self. You came here not being focused on yourself, focused on raising the whole but after the birth trauma you are now focused on self.

And how do you snap out of this focus on self? Well, there are different ways to do it, so let me start with one. We have very carefully given you these teachings about natural planets and unnatural planets. What is the real message behind this? You can be fascinated with these ideas in various ways, nothing wrong with this, but if you step back from the real message, what is the message behind the teaching that there are natural and unnatural planets and that there is a fundamental difference between the two?

It is that on an unnatural planet you cannot predict what is going to happen and therefore it is dangerous, non-constructive, to have this idea of what should and should not happen. And of course, the primal self is completely based on the evaluation that the birth trauma should not have happened, instead something positive should have happened. But the Conscious You can contemplate these ideas, can look at the very fact that what causes most of your frustration, most of your disappointment in life is precisely that you have an idea of what should happen or what should not happen in a situation and that idea, that expectation, is not fulfilled and this is what causes the frustration.

You can therefore look at yourself, you can look at others and you can come to realize that the only way to actually survive emotionally, mentally, at the identity level, on an unnatural planet is by overcoming this entire conglomerate of selves and even the underlying attitude that certain things should or should not happen. And as Kuthumi explained, the Conscious You actually comes to earth with an expectation of what should happen—you should be able to do something positive to help other people escape suffering, to uplift the planet, perhaps you even have some sense that you should be received as the prince on the white horse, as a hero, the superhero that you see in movies who is able to fix what is going on on the planet.

When we come as avatars we do not have the expectation or even the fear that we could be attacked and put down. We do not really have a sense of what should not happen. But as soon as we come down here in physical embodiment and experience what life is on earth and experience that what we thought should happen is not happening, we very quickly develop this sense that: “Oh, this should not have happened, that should not have happened, this thing should not have happened, this definitely should not have happened.”

You are now caught in this dynamic and the primal self is entirely built on this dynamic of what should and should not happen. But the Conscious You has the ability to step outside of this and see that this is what causes you to be hurt. Why can you have the sense that the heart breaks? Because behind it all was this sense that certain things should never have happened but now they have happened and you are so shocked by this that it feels like your heart is breaking because your whole sense of what your life should be like is shattered, is challenged, and it is such an overwhelming feeling and that feeling of being overwhelmed once again, twice again, a thousand times again is what makes it feel like the heart is breaking.

Mother Mary’s and Jesus’ example

The Conscious You can come to see this mechanism and therefore, you can decide to work on this, to start working on it. And you can take certain examples of this, you can take what you know about the path. If you will allow me for a moment to take you back to the situation where I was in embodiment as the mother of Jesus, I have given birth to Jesus, I have followed him, seen how his potential slowly started unfolding, I have seen him start his last mission knowing that there was a very real risk that he would be killed.

It was not that I was not expecting this. Here we now are, he has been nailed to the cross, I am standing at the foot of the cross looking up at him, and you could say that as a mother watching my son die could have broken my heart, but it did not. It could have, and if I had allowed my heart to break I would not have made my ascension after that lifetime. But what prevented me from going through that trauma was that I had dealt with this idea of what should and should not happen because I saw that Jesus’ mission was to challenge the forces of anti-christ and I knew that it is meaningless to have a sense of what should or should not happen to Jesus as a result of doing this.

The other thing is that for me the experience I had of watching him on the cross was a sense of victory because I watched him suffer and why was he suffering? Not because of the physical pain, as intense as that was, but because he was still struggling with his own sense of what should and should not happen. You see how he even said that he could command God to send legions of angels to free him from the situation and that is what he felt up until he realized that he had to go through this being crucified. But even while he was hanging on the cross he had a sense that he should not die on the cross, God should save him in the last minute in some miraculous way, and then he goes through this shock of realizing this is not going to happen.

Now right there, Jesus’ heart could have broken but he was able to not go into that reaction because he had dealt with his subconscious selves, his primal self before that and therefore, he was able to give up the ghost, that last sense of what should and should not happen so he could accept: “Yes my body is going to die on the cross”, and he therefore let it happen. And I was standing there watching him, actually very much holding the vision, the immaculate concept for him going through this transformation because this very giving up the ghost was the key to his victory on the cross. Of course, no Christian has grasped this but nevertheless. I stood there holding my breath and when I saw him come to that inner resolution and decide to give up that last sense that he should not die on the cross, I knew he had won his victory. It was not a sense of sorrow, not a sense of the heart breaking because I did not go into this sense that: “Oh, my son should not have died on the cross, God should have saved him.”

So, be careful now, if you have experienced that your heart broke in this lifetime. Do not go into thinking that means you cannot make your ascension regardless of what I just said. What I said was that if I had allowed my heart to break and created this self based on the belief that this should not have happened, then I could not have ascended until I had dealt with that self. And even if you have felt that your heart broke in this lifetime, you only created a self and when you let that self die you can still ascend, just as you have other selves you need to let die before you are ready to ascend. Again, there is nothing done that cannot be undone on earth in an unascended sphere.

Gautama’s example

Now take the other situation that we have talked about before. Gautama Buddha is sitting under the tree in meditation, ready to go into Nirvana but he has to pass that last initiation of the demons of Mara trying to pull him into reacting. And what would have been the primary inroad they would have in his consciousness if he had that sense of what should and should not happen? But he did not. He had overcome that so there was nothing that the demons could use. They created all kinds of scenarios in front of him, of masses of people dying because he was just sitting there not doing what he could have done to stop this. But he remained non-attached. There was nothing that should have happened, there was nothing that should not have happened, and that is why he won his victory of going higher and ascending, earning his ascension.

You can transfer that to yourself as this messenger did many years ago when he realized what had actually happened to the Buddha and Jesus on the cross. You can see that they simply demonstrated the path that we all had to walk to earn our ascension, of letting go of all of these selves of what should and should not happen. You are on an unnatural planet. You are on a fairly low, fairly dense unnatural planet. There are other unnatural planets that are not quite as unnatural as earth even though that might be hard to imagine for you. There are also some that are more unnatural than earth which might be even harder to imagine but nevertheless.

The interdependent originations

It is meaningless to say what should or should not happen. This is partly because of the interdependent originations. Everything is affected by everything else. You may take some kind of action in producing a certain result. This is what co-creators do. You have a vision of what you want to manifest and you are moving towards manifesting it, but you cannot know for certain what will happen because you can only have certain probabilities. And as they say in quantum physics, until the moment where the measurement is taken, there is no way to know exactly what the outcome is going to be, because the actual outcome is not defined by a very small situation involving this condition, that condition, this cause, that cause. If you look at a billiard table with three balls and you hit one ball that moves and hits another ball, it seems like a fairly simple system where you can easily figure out how the second ball is going to move if you know the momentum and speed of the first ball. But life is not a billiard table.

It is so much more complex because everything is connected and interdependent. You can of course, envision that something is going to happen, like you are going to start a business or whatever it may be and you can move towards it. But you need to avoid fixing in your mind a specific expectation because this is what sets you up for disappointment and frustration. Again, your heart has been hurt because of this experience that something happened that you thought should not have happened. But you can process this experience, you can come to see the mechanism and you can realize that the key to your freedom, the key to your peace of mind, the key to your spiritual growth, is to let the self die.

Now this does not mean that I am saying you should withdraw to a cave in the Himalayas and sit in meditation for 12 years. You can still take an active part of life. You just have to go into this neutral state of mind. You are taking steps but you are not having this idea that if a certain thing does not happen, you have failed. You can actually go into this state of mind where you realize there is no failure on earth. You are taking a certain action which has a certain direction, you have a certain vision, but whatever the outcome is, it is just an opportunity to learn, to grow, first of all, to grow in becoming non-attached to the fruits of action.

You take right action, you are not attached to the fruits of action. Whatever the fruit of action is, you just adjust, you learn, you step back, you expand your sense of self, you take a new action, a new impulse and if you keep doing this, it will start manifesting, but not necessarily the way you originally envisioned it. And that is what can ultimately lead you to reconsider—as Kuthumi said—what inner selves did you have before you came to earth and you can reconsider those selves and let them go and therefore, be at peace with being on earth and life is whatever it is because there is no should or should not.

The heart and the golden rule

You look at this nation of America, you look at the polarization, you look at the animosity, what is behind it all? Each side has a fixed image of what should or should not happen in this country and they are so focused on that image that they are not in their hearts, they are in their other chakras, many of them the solar plexus chakra or in the throat chakra where they are screaming and yelling at those that they see as the enemy. But they do not have heart and so they cannot connect with each other and they cannot connect to what we have called the basic humanity, because it is only through the heart that you connect to the basic humanity and the basic humanity is what allows you to embody the golden rule, do not do unto others what you do not want them to do to you. You have a certain sense that other people are like you, have the same inalienable rights that you have and therefore, they cannot be the enemy. But when people have closed their hearts perhaps because they felt their hearts were broken by life and they go into this state of anger, then they lose that basic humanity and it is very, very common when people have gone through this sense of the heart breaking that they want someone to blame, and of course it cannot be themselves, so it has to be those other people.

As we have said, when you are connected to the heart, when you are connected to your I AM Presence, to the Christ mind, there comes a point where you see that there are no other people. Nothing is ‘other’ for everything is out of the One mind. But when your heart is closed you cannot connect to this and when your heart is broken you feel like you did not do this, these were these outer circumstances and therefore, you can very easily go into wanting a scapegoat, wanting someone to blame and wanting someone to punish, for when your heart is closed and when you feel like it was broken because something happened that should not have happened, you have this desire to fix it. But if you are not looking inside yourself and seeing that the reaction was entirely inside of you, then the cause must be out there and then you can become so angry that you actually think that if you punish somebody else enough you would feel better, you would somehow feel that order was restored, and this is what people lose when their hearts are closed, this ability to actually connect to the golden rule because what does the golden rule say?

What does this actually say? Step back—the golden rule, do unto others or do not do unto others, what is it actually saying? It is saying that you cannot fix anything by punishing others. It is saying other things, but it certainly is saying that when you feel that others have done something to you that should not have happened to you, you cannot fix the situation by punishing those people. Even if they did something to you, you will only be free by continuing to follow the golden rule, but when people close their hearts, they cannot fathom this. They cannot connect to this and therefore, they become susceptible to the serpentine logic of the fallen beings that says that two wrongs can make a right.

Looking for a scapegoat

This is one of the most subtle serpentine lies spread on this planet. Just look back to biblical times—an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. They even thought God had given them this rule because they thought that if somebody had hurt you and spilled the blood of your tribe or family, if you spilled the blood of their tribe or family, somehow order would have been restored. Two wrongs can make a right. Has that ever happened in the history of the universe? Nay. But people cannot see this when their hearts are closed, when their hearts are broken.

But what sense does it make that if your heart has been broken, you can heal your broken heart by breaking the heart of someone else? Well, it makes no sense when your heart is open. But when your heart is closed, suddenly this makes sense to people and therefore they think that if they can punish the scapegoat, they will restore their inner sense of order. You take the Nazis in Germany in the 1930s. They had this inflated sense of self-importance and superiority before the First World War. They lost the war and their self-image was shattered. They became so angry at this. But here comes Hitler who says: “Oh, but it was not you, it was the Jews”, the scapegoat. They think, not the general population, but certainly those who were behind the Nazi party, they think that by eradicating the Jews, they can somehow restore their sense of superiority, their sense of being in control because what the German people felt before the war, and of course the French and the English felt exactly the same way, was that they were so superior that they could not possibly lose the war. It should never happen to them that they lost because they were so superior.

You see again the sense of what should and should not happen was shattered and you might say that many among the German people, their hearts were broken. And certainly, many of the Jews that were sent to the concentration camps, their hearts were broken. But did that restore order to the universe? Of course not. What happened to the German people was that when they lost the second war and when the holocaust was exposed, their hearts were broken again. And this is what the golden rule says: If you suddenly start doing to others what you do not want them to do to you, then the universe will do to you what you have done to others and therefore, by hurting others, you are only hurting yourself.

This is a very persuasive beast in the collective consciousness on earth. You see literally thousands of examples in history where groups of people have gone into this mindset. You see it exactly in the United States today. You see the opposition between what we might call the Democrats or the liberals on one side and the ultra-conservatives on the other side. You see that both sides are in opposition. But it is really only those on the conservative side who are ready to take up arms and harm other people. They feel they have to fight for their vision. And this is the same beast that drove the Nazis to persecute the Jews, that drove the Soviets to persecute their own people, that drove people in the Middle East to seek revenge for revenge for revenge in an unending spiral, that has caused tribal warfare in Africa, that has caused so many other conflicts around the world, the cultural revolution in China under Mao, so many conquests. And right now, right here in America today, in what they see as the greatest nation on earth, you have the exact same dynamic that some people are looking for a scapegoat, thinking that if they can just punish the scapegoat or shut out all those immigrants, their sense of order will be restored. But no matter what they could possibly do, their sense of order will never be restored, because what threatens the sense of order is not the outer conditions, the other people, but their own psychological reaction.

Knowing better than Christ

When will enough people wake up from this mass delusion? What you essentially have in the United States right now is that some people have gone into what we could call a lynch mob mentality. Somebody has to be punished, violence has to happen, and then order will be restored. It is a bubble. It is a delusion. It could break at any minute. And why am I talking about this? Why are we giving these teachings about the heart? Because we are sending out impulses that will awaken some people. And if enough people awaken, suddenly the bubble can burst, and people can come to see: “What are we doing? What are we doing? How could we ever come to think that violence would solve any of our problems in this nation?” And some can even awaken and see that: “How have we who claim to be Christians come to contemplate violence and think that turning the other cheek and doing unto others is weakness? How have we come to think that the very thing that gave Jesus his victory is a weakness that we who claim to be followers of Jesus should not fall into? Oh no, we are good Christians, but we should not do what Christ did or what he told us to do. For we know better than Christ.”

Who was it that thought they knew better than Christ two thousand years ago? They thought that Jesus was so dangerous that he had to be executed. Well, they were the forces of anti-christ, those who were in the consciousness of anti-christ, what we have called the fallen beings. Who is it that thinks today, as these leaders of these Christian churches, that they know better than Christ? In some cases, the exact same people reincarnated. There are people incarnated in America today who cry: “Barabbas, Barabbas! Never mind the Living Christ. We do not want him. We prefer a murderer.”

There are those incarnated in America today as leaders of Christian churches who were the very leaders of the Jewish religion that had Jesus condemned to death and now they are doing the exact same thing. Not to Jesus, but to the Christ in their brothers and sisters in America. Does that make sense to anyone? I know it does not make sense to you here, but I am sending this impulse. Does this make sense? Then awaken from your delusion that you know better than Christ and start turning the other cheek and keep turning the other cheek until there is no one hitting you because you have transcended the consciousness that caused you to be in opposition to others.

This is the magic of the golden rule. If you keep doing to others there will come a point where they start doing the same to you. The universe starts giving you back what you are giving to others. You cannot fathom this if your heart is closed, but when your heart begins to open, you can be reborn, and then you are truly a born-again Christian when you fathom what Christ actually said instead of what some pastors in the fallen consciousness think he said.

You who are devoted to the Word of God, what do you think is being spoken right now? This is the Word of God spoken by an ascended being through a human messenger. If you cannot fathom this you are not among the chosen ones, because you have not chosen oneness with Christ. You have chosen death, or you have not been willing to give up your sense of superiority, your sense that you know better than Christ, in order to follow Christ. You have not been willing to lose your life for Christ’s sake. How can you be one of his disciples? How can you represent him? He will say: “I know you not.”

Politics based on heart

Truly, there is only one thing that can bring America to the next level and that is heart. Many times, in the history of this nation, people have shown heart. But where is it today? Where are those who will break the deadlock, the gridlock, the animosity, who will change the tone of the political debate so that instead of being based on the closed heart, it is based on the open heart. Instead of being based on the solar plexus or the throat chakra perverted, it is based on the open heart chakra.

Where are those who will do this? They are in embodiment. Some of them have already started to awaken, but more can awaken and be awakened by this impulse that I am sending. It is time to wake up. It is time to open your heart to a new way to approach politics in America and make it based on heart, not hate. And when you open your heart, you will clearly see those who are speaking based on hate and have no heart, and how can you vote for someone who does not have heart?

Let this self-focus die

With this, I have given you what I wanted to give you in this installment. Again, you will need to go back, reread it, relisten to it, and process it, what it means for you personally. But I trust that those of you who are open to our teachings will have found something here that appeals to you, that applies to you, that you can see how you can use this to start changing this sense of what should and should not happen. And therefore, you can make peace with your life, however it has formed itself so far.

What did the messenger say yesterday? He hopes you can feel accepted for who you are right now. Well, I share that hope. I have no condemnation, no judgment of any of you. Whatever may have happened in your life, whatever you feel should not have happened or should have happened, what you should have done, should not have done, the mistakes you should not have made, it means nothing to me. What means something to me is your potential, that I see much more clearly than you do, and my only desire is that you will come to see it as well and come to accept yourself.

Whatever your life may have been up until this point, there is nothing that cannot be healed. There is nothing that cannot be transcended. There is nothing that cannot be overcome, but it can only be overcome by giving up the ghost, the ghosts, one at a time. And the last ghost to overcome is what Kuthumi talked about, the focus on self.

What was the ghost that Jesus gave up on the cross? What does this say when he said that he could command God to send legions of angels to save him? What does this say about Jesus’ state of mind at that moment? He was focused on himself. I had, in a certain sense, a higher level of non-attachment, a lower level of focus on myself, than Jesus had when he was born. That is why I could be the mother holding the balance for him, and I saw throughout his entire life how [this was] his essential challenge and the only way he could fulfill his mission was to overcome the focus on self. And he did make progress, but still, even during the three years of his public mission, he always had a certain sense of self-importance and the importance of his mission.

I am not criticizing or judging this, it was part of what drove him to do what he did. I am simply pointing out that he only won his victory by letting that ghost die, by giving up that ghost. And it is the same for each and every one of us. And what I am also saying is that some of you, in fact quite a few of you, have the potential to give up that focus on self in this lifetime and still live for a long time on earth without the focus on self, which means, of course, that you will be more at peace, you would enjoy life more, but you will also be the open door for bringing forth something from the ascended realm that is blocked by the focus on self.

And so, my vision, my desire for you, is that you overcome that sense of being so focused on your selves. You are not actually focused on yourself, you are focused on your selves, beginning with the primal self. You are focused in the outer instead of being focused on the pure awareness of the Conscious You, and the I AM Presence and the ascended masters. You are focused on this outer self, but you can give up that ghost anytime. Jesus could not give it up until he was hanging on the cross, but that should not stop you from giving it up without any dramatic events. Jesus had a flair for the dramatic, so he had to go through this extreme situation.

The Buddha, on the other hand, sat under the tree in the forest and just gave it up without any drama. You decide who you want to be because, I tell you, that the world and the fallen beings will gladly give you all the drama you could want. But if you have had enough of the drama on this planet, then it is just a matter of coming to the point where you realize this is the now to give up the ghost. Of course, for many of you it will require a process of letting go of other selves, and that is why we have given you all of these tools. But many of you are already at the point where you have made enough progress that you could actually step back, see that you have this focus on self, see how it is limiting you, and just give up that ghost. That is what would warm my heart more than anything else.

With this, I seal you in the joy of my heart, the heart of the Mother of God, the office that I hold, but even the personal heart of the Ascended Master Mary who loves you, each one of you, in a very personal way that is beyond the office that I hold. Be sealed in that joy.