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Ascended Master Gautama Buddha through Kim Michaels, April 20, 2025. This dictation was given at 2025 Easter Webinar for Ukraine.
I AM the Ascended Master Gautama Buddha. My contribution is to talk about space. It has been said, we have said, I have said, that the Buddha holds space for earth. Yet is space purely physical? Could there be an emotional body if there was not space for it? Could there be a mental body if there was not space for it? Could there be an identity body if there was not space for it?
The space in the mind
The Buddha holds space at the four levels of matter. Why does that matter? Well, because those of you who are our direct students can begin to contemplate that you have space in your emotional body. You have space in your mental body. You have space in your identity body.
The first consideration is: “How much space do you have?” The second consideration is: “What fills the space that you have?” We may say that, as you go to the lowest level of the 144 levels of consciousness possible on earth, you are decreasing the space in your mind. This may seem contradictory, as those who are at the lowest level of consciousness often seem to be very knowledgeable, having certain skills, certain advanced supposedly knowledge of how to manipulate matter, how to manipulate people, how to manipulate the mind. Would it not seem that if they have greater knowledge, they must have space for that knowledge to be there in their minds?
But what have you learned from computer technology? Some of you will remember the very first computers had something called a floppy disk, a very big disk that could hold a very small amount of data. Now you have these very small devices you put in your phones or cameras that hold thousands of times more data. You see, it is not necessarily so that you need more space to store more data. It is a matter of how compressed the data is. And the more compressed the data in your mind, the harder it is for you to look beyond it. That is why the lower you go in consciousness, the more your mind becomes a closed system, because there is less space for you to see a wider perspective.
What happens when you climb higher in consciousness? You expand the space in the mind. You do not necessarily expand your knowledge. In fact, if you take a being at the lowest level of consciousness, and if that being turns around and starts climbing up the ladder of the 144 levels, that being will gradually forget some of the sophisticated knowledge it had, but it will gain a broader perspective so that its mind becomes less closed.
Incompatible data formats
Naturally, when you reach that turning point of the 48th level, you can begin to store a different form of knowledge in your mind, partly because there is space, partly because you are now able to see yourself as a connected being and receive knowledge from the ascended realm.
Why cannot a being at the lower levels receive knowledge from the ascended realm? Because the knowledge from the ascended realm cannot be compressed into a data format that the separate mind can read. It is, so to speak, that at the lowest levels of consciousness, the mind of this being has an operating system that cannot read the file format that we use in the ascended realm. It is not a matter of there not being space, even though you could say that the file format we use in the ascended realm has a much longer wavelength, and therefore, there is not space for those longer wavelengths in the compressed mind. But it is also a matter of different data formats in order to use the computer analogy.
Then, you can expand the space in the mind as you climb from the 48th to the 96th level, and you can begin to download information from the ascended realm.
However, there is another turning point at the 96th level, where, if we again use the computer analogy, the knowledge above the 96th level is another data format, or you could say another level of encryption, that the mind below the 96th level cannot read. Partly again because there is not space, because of the longer wavelength of the light used to carry the information.
What occupies the space in your mind?
What you, who are direct students, can begin to contemplate is: What occupies the space you currently have in your mind? Wherever you are at above the 48th level: What occupies the space? And the immediate question is: “If I am between the 48th and the 96th level, how much space in my mind is occupied by the information I took in while I was below the 48th level? How much of my emotions, my feelings, my sense of identity, do I carry with me from when I was in separation?” And you can begin then to contemplate this. You can begin to look at your reactions, your thoughts, your feelings. This does not need to be some elaborate ritual or method.
I realize, as I sense your return current from my words, that many of you feel that this is too difficult, this is too overwhelming, this is too subtle. But it is not really. It is a matter of, just once in a while, paying a little attention to your reactions, to your feelings, to your thoughts, to your sense of identity. Of these subtle, we might call them projections, that come to your conscious mind, but they are not projections from the outside as much as coming from the inside, although projections from the outside may also make use of what you have on the inside and magnify it, intensify it.
It is just a matter of paying attention. Is there some sense that you have certain feelings that are maybe frustration, impatience, perhaps a certain anger, or being in embodiment, being exposed to what you have been exposed to here in the physical octave? Then, you can use this to expose the separate selves you have not yet seen. You can use the tools for seeing these selves. And when you do, you clear the space in your emotional body.
Naturally, the selves will also have a mental component. There will be some thoughts of what you can and cannot do on earth, what you can and cannot do in life, what you can and cannot do for the rest of this lifetime, how you can and cannot change your life. And then there will be, when you clear this, more space in your mental mind.
Then, you can sometimes sense a certain sense of projection of identity. Are you, for example, identified as a certain nationality? Russian, Ukrainian, American, Dutch, Estonian, whatever you have. You can begin to clear this also. For as we have said, there are no Russians and Ukrainians and Estonians in heaven, because you have to transcend national identity, religious identity, sexual identity, any kind of identity on earth you have to transcend in order to ascend. And you can begin to contemplate how much of your space, the space in your mind is occupied by these outer things that pull your attention into all these outer dealings.
I am not talking here about your daily tasks, your daily chores. You all have to make a living. You all have to make the practical life work. That is not what I am talking about. What I am talking about is what occupies your mind that makes you feel limited, frustrated, feel like there are things you cannot do. Then, you can go after that in your mind, because this is the remnants of what you took in while you were below the 48th level.
Of course, some of you are close to or have gone beyond the 96th level. You can still contemplate if there are some remnants from below the 48th, but even those between the 48th and the 96th where you realize, as we have said, that the self you built in order to climb to the 96th level, you have to break down above the 96th level in order to make space for the higher information you can download.
Outdated information
What I am giving you here is a teaching that is parallel to what I have given before but expressed in a slightly different way, where you could, from a certain perspective, look at the mind as a carrier of information, as a storehouse of information. The mind is like a hard drive in a computer, like a memory card. What fills it? You know that your hard drive can fill up with files that you no longer need. What do you do? You have to clean it out. Well, certainly, why would not you have to clean out your mind once in a while from all this information you took in that you no longer need because you have risen to a higher level of consciousness?
We may look at life on earth and say that science has revealed deeper and deeper layers of what makes life possible. There was a time where people thought that the entire earth was made up of four physical elements: fire, air, water, and earth, and a fifth, ether. Then it was discovered that everything is made out of atoms. Then it was discovered that atoms were made out of elementary particles, still physical particles. Then it was discovered that everything is really made out of energy, energy waves, energy fields. Now some of the most advanced scientists have begun to realize that everything is made up of information, and a few scientists have even begun to realize that information cannot exist outside a conscious mind.
What have you stored on your computer’s hard drive? Many will say it is information, but to the computer it is not information. It is data. It is zeros and ones. The computer has no idea whether this shows an image of your last vacation, or is a word processing document that has a specific meaning. Only when the data from your hard drive is taken in by your mind, does it become information. You may think this is a very abstract discourse that has little to do with the topic of this conference, but what have other masters talked about? Have they not talked about a transformation of consciousness and said that those who can transform the consciousness the most will come out ahead of this conflict? What that really means is that those who can let go of the old information and embrace a higher form of information are the ones who will prosper. What created the conflict, what precipitated the conflict? The old information held in the minds, even the collective minds, of both Ukrainians and Russians.
It was the outdated, low-frequency information in the Russian collective consciousness, in Putin’s own mind, that caused him to make that decision to start the war. What determines the outcome on the battlefield? The kind of information that the soldiers have. This goes for strategy, tactics, it goes for physical equipment but also how to use it. Everything is information. What is it that is the biggest hindrance to an end to the war? It is the information held in the minds of a majority of the Russian people and the information that is not there. They have faulty, outdated information about the situation in Russia, the situation in Ukraine, the situation in the world, and they are acting based on this outdated information. Putin himself has outdated information about the actual conditions on the battlefield and the conditions of the Russian economy, and he is acting on that outdated information. The Ukrainians have a much more realistic view of what is happening at the battlefield.
What will shift the equation? Well, information in the Russian collective mind and in the individual minds of Russians, even the leaders’ minds must shift. There must be that willingness to say what kind of information occupies our minds. Is that information accurate? Is it connected to the reality, the physical reality, outside our minds? What did Shiva talk about, about the serpentine lie held in the collective mind of so many Russians? It is information, or rather disinformation, but it is still what keeps the Russian people trapped in that serpentine lie, because they will not look at what occupies the deeper levels of their mind and evaluate: “Is it accurate, is it useful, is it constructive, does it have any connection to any reality, or is it a complete illusion, a figment of the serpentine imagination?”
Updating information
You, as ascended master students, can, of course, make the calls that people you know will be cut free from this serpentine lie to evaluate the information in their minds. You can do whatever you can to update the information, to give them new information. You can update yourselves, and this can again have some impact. But what we are really saying here is that the side that will come out ahead in this conflict is the one that is willing to update its information. Clearly Ukraine is more willing to update information, but there is still a need in the Ukrainian mind, both in individual people and in the collective, to look back at Soviet times and realize: “We are carrying a lot of information from Soviet times in our minds. If we are to make the transition into becoming a modern, democratic, affluent nation, we must get rid of that information. We must take in new information from the democratic nations so we do not have to reinvent the wheel and repeat the mistakes made by others.”
How far do you have to look? Well, look over the border to Poland, look at the Baltic countries. Be willing to ask them: “How did you make the transition from Soviet times to where you are at, today? What did you have to do? What did you have to look at?”
What will it require for Ukraine to do this? You have to overcome this serpentine mindset that penetrated the Soviet Union, that: ”We are superior, we are better than others because we are Communists, we are Soviets, we are Russians, we are this, we are that.” When you think you know better than others, you are not likely to ask them for new information, are you? If Ukraine is to be successful in making the transition, you must overcome this unwillingness to ask, to ask for help, to ask for information. You must be willing to go to these other countries and say: “How did you do it?” It does not mean you have to do it exactly the same way because there are national differences, but you can nevertheless learn from asking. And now you have Ukrainian refugees in many different European countries. They are a resource, both while they are abroad and when they come back. Be willing to ask. The difference, if you look back throughout history, between those who have made progress and those who have not, is that those who have not made progress have clasped the information they had, wanting to hold on to it indefinitely as if it was a matter of life and death.
And it is indeed a matter of life and death because holding on to information as the wheels of time grind on is death. And the only way to live is to move on in that ever-flowing interdependent originations, the River of Life. You cannot make the transition from where Ukraine was at before the war to where it needs to be to become an affluent democratic nation in an instant. You can see that other nations took longer time, but you can also see that the Baltics and Poland and other Eastern European nations have made that transition in a much shorter time because they looked at what others had done. If you are to be successful, if you are to fulfill the highest potential for Ukraine, you must overcome this desire to do it on your own, to be self-sufficient, to be smarter than others. You are not smarter than others. You are not less smart than others, but you are not smarter than others. No one is. It is simply a matter of how fast do you want to shift.
Do you want to reinvent the wheel and repeat the mistakes that others have made, or do you want to learn from those mistakes so you can move on faster than they did? This is not rocket science. This is common sense, you might say: “Only not so common”, certainly not among the people of Russian descent, who, because of this serpentine mind-trap, are very reluctant to ask for help, to look at others and say: “How did you do it? How come you are ahead of us? What did you do to become ahead of us?” To simply say: “What can we learn from others?” Who are the smartest people? Those who think they can do it all themselves, or those who say: “Why should we repeat the mistakes of others? Let us look at them, let us ask them, so we do not have to repeat those mistakes.” Who are the smartest?
With this, I have given you what I wanted to give you. We have given you what we wanted to give you. Accept our gratitude for your willingness to be part of this release, part of previous conferences in Ukraine, in Russia, in Kazakhstan, in Estonia, that have all helped raise the consciousness of those nations, those people who were affected by the Soviet Union, the biggest geopolitical disaster of the last century, the Soviet Union, the existence of the Soviet Union.
But nevertheless, as we have said, everything is an opportunity, everything carries within it an opportunity. But in order to make use of that opportunity, you have to consider that the Soviet Union was created from a certain set of information. And in order to learn the lesson that can be learned, you need to be willing to look at it, process it, let go of what is outdated, and reach for higher information. This can be a growth opportunity for all who were part of the Soviet Union, but only if you are willing to look. With this, again, our gratitude for your willingness to do the work, to raise your consciousness, to make use of our teachings. And I, therefore, seal you, I seal this conference in the flame that I hold for earth. What is that flame? What is any God flame? Information. You can tune in to that information. You can bring yourself in formation with the Buddha’s mind. That is my ultimate gift to you and to this planet. With this, I seal you, Gautama Buddha, I am the package of information that I have named as Gautama Buddha.
Copyright © 2025 Kim Michaels