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Ascended Master Kuan Yin through Kim Michaels, June 6, 2025. This dictation was given the conference in Seoul, South Korea: Being the Living Christ in everyday life.

I AM the Ascended Master Kuan Yin. What I wish to discourse on here is another element of how the ego can use Christhood to attain another ego goal. There are many, many students over the decades, where we have given direct teachings through various dispensations, who have come upon the concept of Christhood. Without realizing what was happening, they allowed their egos to project an image into their minds that when you have Christhood, it means you are always right. You can always win an argument, because surely Christhood must be the ultimate truth, the ultimate reality, and when you have the ultimate truth, surely you will always be right.

This is the line of reasoning that does not come particularly from ascended master students or even spiritual students. It actually comes from the fallen beings and the serpentine mindset. In order to understand this, we need to step back and look at the serpentine mindset. Now, as we have explained very carefully, the ego is on the impossible quest of seeking to attain an ultimate state by using the things of this world.

How the ego seeks to be right

When I say the things of this world, what does this mean in this specific context? Well, it actually means the duality, consciousness. The ego is seeking to attain whatever ultimate goal it sets by using the duality consciousness. What we have explained many times, and what this messenger has explained in many of his YouTube videos, is that the duality consciousness has this characteristic: There are always two opposite polarities.

This means that when the ego seeks to be ultimately right, the ego goes into one polarity. It sees this polarity as being the ultimate one and the opposite polarity as also being ultimate but being ultimately wrong. One polarity is ultimately right, it is the truth, the other is ultimately wrong, it is the lie. However, as we have also explained, in the duality consciousness you can actually prove both of the two polarities as being right, because what do you do in the duality consciousness? You add a value judgment, and when you add the value judgment, it means that you now create a filter. You say: “This is ultimately right,” that is the value judgment. The filter that is created is: Any argument that supports this viewpoint is valid. Any argument that questions it is invalid.

You see, it is inevitable that you will have some people who do exactly the same to the other dualistic polarity, saying this dualistic polarity is right. They just add a different value judgment, and now they create the opposite filter, saying anything that validates this dualistic polarity is right, anything that questions it is wrong. To give you a historical example we have used before, some people say capitalism is the ultimate economic system. Any argument that supports capitalism is valid, any argument that questions it is invalid. Other people say communism is the ultimate economic system, the value judgment, any argument that validates that is right, any argument coming from the other side, from the capitalists, is wrong, and therefore, you can ignore it.

When you understand this dynamic, can you not see what happens when the ego of a person who is trapped in this mindset hears about the concept of Christhood? The ego of this person believes: “Ah, when I attain Christhood, I will be ultimately right.” Meaning that the ego believes that the Christ will validate the dualistic polarity that the ego has chosen as the ultimate one. Therefore, the Christ will invalidate or banish from the Earth the opposite and the people who believe in the opposite.

The irony of how the ego sees Christ

Can you begin to see the irony? The ego is trapped in the dualistic mindset. What is the function of the Christ? To set people free from the dualistic mindset, from separation. Now people hear about the concept of Christhood but they allow their egos to project into their minds that when they attain Christhood, it means that their dualistic polarity will be validated by the Christ mind as the ultimate truth.

Look at Christians for example. Most Christians, of course, do not believe that they can attain Christhood, but you will see some people who have opened their minds to the idea that other people than Jesus could attain a higher state of consciousness. They think this means that when they attain Christhood, Christianity will be validated by the Christ mind as the ultimate religion and any other religion will be invalidated and put down by the Christ mind. Can you begin to see why this can never be?

Can you, my beloved, begin to see this? Yes or no? I am merely asking for a response to help you stay awake. If you fall asleep again, I will have to ask you more questions. This by the way is how the Christ expression can adapt itself to the realities of the physical octave. You can see then how this dynamic has outplayed itself throughout the ages in many different contexts, in many different spiritual traditions where people come into a spiritual tradition. They may have come from no spiritual tradition or they may have grown up in another spiritual tradition, but now they go through an awakening or conversion process and they become convinced that now they have found the ultimate spiritual teaching or tradition.

We have seen many people in the East who are suddenly awakened to Buddhism, one of the forms of Buddhism, one of the traditions of Buddhism, and they believe this is the ultimate one. Then they hear about the idea of higher states of consciousness and a spiritual path, and now they think that attaining a higher state of consciousness means that their outer tradition will be validated. They look to a particular guru who has validated their outer tradition and they take that as proof that their tradition is the ultimate one.

You can see how there are people in India who have become convinced that this or that Indian guru either was enlightened or had reached some other definition of an ultimate state of consciousness. They have felt that because this guru came from the Hindu tradition, this has now validated Hinduism as the ultimate religion. The same in Buddhism, the same in Taoism, the same in Christianity, the same in Islam—everywhere.

What you see here is that most people are following the outer religion, but in every religion or spiritual tradition there are those who are beginning to awaken to the mystical path. They are starting to become mystics, but now they are misled by the ego into thinking that attaining a higher state of consciousness, however they define it, means their tradition will be validated and they themselves will be validated as being the most advanced students. Can you see this, my beloved? Then I shall continue.

Ascended master students blinded by the ego

You see, when you look at ascended master students, you will see the same dynamic. You go back to the 1930s when we started expressing ourselves through the I AM Movement. There are not many of the original I AM students still in embodiment, but there are still some that are convinced that that was the ultimate progressive revelation from the ascended masters. They do not need to look at anything that came after because theirs was the ultimate one.

The same in the Summit Lighthouse and we are hoping that those of you who are part of this dispensation will not fall into this trap or at least will be able to get yourself out of it fairly quickly. Because we have no desire to have you seek ultimate validation of the outer teaching, the outer messenger or the outer message. What we desire to see is for you to attain individual Christhood, but in order to attain it, you need to give up the desire to be right. This does not apply only to your spiritual teaching, it applies in everyday life.

Take a look at yourselves, at people you know and see how many times you are in situations where you want to be right or other people want to be right. In every spiritual movement you can find on the face of this planet, you will have people who get into personal conflicts. Now, in many cases these conflicts are not different from the conflicts you find out there in the world among people who are not spiritual. They are simply differences of opinion because you have a different background, you have a different psychology, you look at things from a different perspective.

Unresolvable conflicts in spiritual movements

In a spiritual movement this is often blown out of proportion because you think it has some epic importance that you are proven right and the other opposite side is proven wrong. Now you have a black-and-white conflict among spiritual people and there can often be no resolution to it. We have seen people get angry and leave spiritual movements, we have seen spiritual movements fall apart from within because they could not resolve this.

You see, what is it that creates the black-and-white conflict in spiritual movements? It is this idea that you have attained some level of Christhood and because you have attained this level of Christhood, you are right. The other person has not attained this level of Christhood and, therefore, that person is wrong. You can see this because you have Christhood, the other person cannot see this because he or she does not have the level of Christhood you have. Therefore, the situation is locked and there is no way to resolve it.

There is no way to resolve it when both sides are still thinking that their expression of Christhood is not colored by the ego. You see when there is a conflict, both sides are colored by ego or there would not be the conflict in the first place. What is the resolution to this? It is that those who are sincere students who really want to attain Christhood, you need to recognize that you all have, we all when we are in embodiment on Earth, we have these selves created in past lives of wanting to be right on Earth by proving something on Earth.

Therefore, you think that when you attain Christhood, the Christ mind through you will prove something on Earth, will prove something in matter. This is not the case, this is a misunderstanding of what Christ is. For what is the function of the Christ mind? It is to unify you with your higher self, with the ascended masters and to unify people horizontally. There is a vertical unity that leads to a horizontal unity. If there is not the horizontal unity, perhaps the reason is that there is not sufficient vertical unity on both sides.

Now, this can easily be misunderstood but bear with me. The function of the Christ mind is to unify, unify with your higher self, unify horizontally. The ego, the dualistic mind will never be able to fathom this—never. “It does not compute,” as they say. The ego will always seek to be right by proving something on Earth. The question you need to ask yourself is: “Where do you want to be right? Do you want to be right among men or right with God?”

The rest of this dictation, along with an invocation based on the dictation, is found in the book: Being the Living Christ in everyday life.