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Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels, April 18, 2025. This dictation was given at 2025 Easter Webinar for Ukraine.
I AM the Ascended Master Mother Mary and I take upon myself this task of opening this conference. I have spoken before about the war in Ukraine. I have spoken before about the potential that it would have stopped long ago, which was a realistic potential at the time. But it has turned out that this potential did not come to pass. Why not, you might ask? Well, partly because the Ukrainian people have not transcended their state of consciousness, but mainly because the Russian people have not transcended their state of consciousness.
There was a realistic potential that at some point, both some of the leaders of Russia and many among the people of Russia would see the futility of the war and that they would demand change, demand an end to the war, and that this could potentially even have affected Putin and so to speak, forced him to draw back on the aggression and the warfare. But this did not come to pass, mainly because the Russian people, not all of them but a majority of them, were not willing to look at themselves and take responsibility for deciding what kind of country they want to live in. The Russian people have not decided that they do not want to live in Russia as it is right now. They have not decided that they do not want to live with a dictatorial form of government that is suppressing their freedoms. They have not decided that they do not want to live in a country where prices are going up and where living conditions are becoming increasingly more difficult. They have not decided that enough is enough.
The necessary shift
Now, we have said before when we turn to Ukraine that the Ukrainian people also have important decisions to make and this is especially whether they will let go of the old mindset that became, so to speak, ingrained in the Ukrainian people during the Soviet era. From a certain level you can look at the Ukrainian collective consciousness and see that there has certainly been an increase in the unity and coherence in terms of resisting Russian domination of Ukraine. We have said before that the war partly started because there was a division in the collective consciousness of Ukraine, where too many people still felt so close to Russia and were not willing to let go of their ties to Russia and turn Ukraine into the direction of becoming a modern democratic nation oriented towards the West. This has shifted in the sense that there are many more people now who are willing to turn Ukraine into a democratic nation oriented towards the West and therefore, separated from Russian influence.
However, what has not yet happened is that a majority of the people have really taken a deep look at the mentality, the beliefs, the world view that was instilled in the collective consciousness and in many of them individually during Soviet times. With that I mean a number of subtle things. Now, you have seen some other Eastern European nations who have gone through this shift. You have seen the Baltic nations who have gone through this shift. But still, as we have even said in a previous conference some years ago in Estonia, none of the Eastern European nations have fully left behind the communist or Soviet era mindset. This has many aspects, but certainly one that I want to draw your attention to here is the balance between the state and the individual.
This is a very subtle topic because on the one hand you can say that: “What is it that makes a nation function? What gives a nation a national identity?” Well, that nation must have certain characteristics that are shared by at least a majority of the people in that nation, otherwise the nation will be too scattered and divided and will not have a clear national identity. There must be some coherence, some unity, even some commonality in thinking, in people’s world view. On the one hand, this is necessary in order to build a national identity. Yet, on the other hand, the question is: “What is it that brings the nation forward? What is it that opens the nation up to progress, to innovation, to change?” Well, it is individual creativity. If you look at world history, if you look at nations, empires, societies, you can see how there has always been this tension between the two.
Uniformity and the Soviet mindset
You can see if you take our teachings that go back to when the earth was in a downward spiral that what put the earth in a downward spiral was the uniformity of societies, where people had been brought up to follow the standards, the norms in society because the leaders of society had become afraid that if the people were not brought up with this uniformity, society would deteriorate. In reality, as we have explained, it was the lack of creativity, a lack of willingness to change that threatened the survival of society but the leaders failed to see this. You can see the same thing today. What was it in the Soviet Union that caused the leaders to feel that they had to, number one, program the people, brainwash the people from an early age with propaganda, and number two, suppress all dissenting voices? Well, it was this fear that differences would be a threat to the survival of the system.
This was, so to speak, built into the communist system. But still, it was also built into Russian mentality. During the Soviet times, obviously this was programmed into the minds of all of the people who were part of the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact. But there were big differences in how people submitted to this. Did people actually believe in the propaganda, or did they have enough individual awareness that they knew it was just propaganda? And here you see that Ukraine was number three, if you look at the Soviet Union and areas that believed in the propaganda. The number one was, of course, what you would call Russia proper, the Moscow, St. Petersburg, west of the Urals area. Number two, Belarus and number three, Ukraine.
Even though you had such shocks as the Holodomor in Ukraine, there were still many people who believed in the propaganda. I am not thereby saying that they believed in communism and Marxism and Leninism, but they believed in certain propaganda about what it meant to be of a Russian origin, a Russian descent, the Russian people’s specialness. Therefore, they believed that when you were an individual in Ukraine, you had to submit your individuality to the common collective consciousness, to the common worldview, to the common view of what it meant to be an individual in this state. There were countries, especially the Baltics, where the majority of people did not submit to the propaganda, did not believe in the propaganda, did not believe in the worldview. They felt suppressed, they longed for freedom, and as soon as they saw an opportunity, they took it.
Transitioning into a democratic mindset
Ukraine, too many people believed in this and while I am not just talking about the closeness to Russia, the submission to Russia, but the idea that the individual should submit to the state. The reason why this is such an important topic is precisely because, as we said, the question faced by the Ukrainian people is: “Will Ukraine become a democratic, independent nation oriented towards the West or will it remain in the Russian sphere of influence?” And if Ukraine wants to remain in the Russian sphere of influence, then resisting the Russian invasion has been completely futile. Now I say this to provoke, because I know that the majority of people in Ukraine do not want to submit to the Russian takeover of Ukraine and therefore, they have resisted and they have supported the resistance, supported the war. But as I said, not enough people had made the switch of realizing that the Soviet era mindset is the antithesis of the democratic mindset.
The Soviet era mindset is: “The state first; the individual is insignificant.” The democratic mindset is: “The individual is supreme; the state is there to serve the individual.” But of course, the individual has to find its place in the whole, because democratic ideals does not mean free reign for egotism, selfishness, and narcissism. It is clear that in a democratic nation, there has to be a certain coherence, so that individuals do not act out in such extreme manners that it hurts the whole. But this happens voluntarily, not by the state suppressing individuality and that is a transition that, historically speaking, it is difficult for people to make.
I am not trying to say in any way that this is more difficult for the Ukrainians than many other people. It is a difficult transition to make. There is not a clear-cut procedure for doing this. It is something that will take time. It has been accelerated by the war. I am simply pointing out and I am projecting into the collective consciousness that the process needs to be taken further if Ukraine is to manifest its highest potential, which is to become a democratic nation based on democratic ideals. I will not necessarily say Western ideals, because they are democratic, universal democratic ideals. It just happens that more countries in the West have grasped the significance of this.
The tension between democracy and dictatorship
What you see is, if you look at it in a bigger context, we have for some years now talked about the tension between democracy and non-democratic forms of government. We have said that democracy is under attack by non-democratic nations who are not willing to make the transition into democracy. We have said that they are making a last-ditch effort to limit or even overthrow democracy.
What is actually happening here is that you might know that there are certain examples of how two rivers come from different directions and suddenly flow together. You might know there are examples of one river being very brown because it carries a lot of mud, and the other river being more clear. When they meet, there is a tension between the two waters, and there will be a zone in the middle where they begin to mix. The clear becomes more muddied, the brown becomes clearer, but it takes some time before they are mixed enough that one becomes dominant compared to the other. We might say that, if you look at the world, there are certain of these meeting surfaces, meeting points, where the forces of anti-democracy meet up against democracy. Ukraine, obviously, is right there in the center of this.
Ukraine’s challenge as a meeting point
Right now, you can look at other places around the world where the same thing is happening, but right now, certainly, Ukraine is in between the anti-democratic Russia and the democratic Europe. This, in a sense, makes it easier for Ukraine to make the transition but, in another sense, makes it challenging. Because of the war, Ukraine has to make the transition faster than certain other countries where there was more time. This makes it more important that the Ukrainian people begin to contemplate this. You may say: “But Mother Mary, we are in the middle of a war, what time do we have to sit down and philosophize?” That is true for many of you, who are engaged in fighting the war. But there are people who are not particularly engaged in fighting the war. In fact, there are people who are living almost normal lives, similar lives to what they lived before the war started. There are people who have some awareness, some free time to contemplate this. There needs to be people who have time to contemplate the long-term perspective on Ukraine’s future because if all you do is focus on the war, then how can you have a clear goal to move towards?
I am not here blaming people who are focused on the war and securing the survival of Ukraine as an independent nation. I am just saying there needs to be both. There needs to be people who can begin to contemplate and that is why I am projecting this into the collective consciousness: “What kind of a nation will Ukraine be once the war ends?” This is a matter of contemplating: “How do we, in Ukraine, look at this interaction between the individual and the state?”
Changes in the Ukrainian military
You will see that there are some clear areas where there is work to be done. Just as an example, let me mention the armed forces, where many of the people who are leaders in the Ukrainian military were trained either during Soviet times or in Russia by Russia and they still think the way Russian military doctrine programmed them to think, which is that the individual is insignificant. The individual soldier is insignificant.
That is why you see Russia sending these meat-wave attacks without any regard for how many soldiers are killed, as long as they achieve the objective. Now, you can see from just a common sense perspective here, that given that Russia has a larger population than Ukraine, Ukraine cannot win with this strategy. You do not have enough people. Therefore, there needs to be a different approach, which of course, many among the Ukrainian military have already shifted or started to shift but it needs to be more. There needs to be more freedom for individual initiative in the military. There needs to be a different command structure, where there is a better information flow from the frontline to the leaders at the highest level of the military, so that they really know what is actually happening, instead of what they want to be happening.
This is one of the big weaknesses in Russian military, that those who are at lower levels are afraid to report the facts on the ground to the leaders. The leaders live in an information bubble, where they do not know what is actually happening on the frontline. Even Putin, ultimately, does not know the casualties, the cost of the war, because he does not want to know, and nobody can force him to know. This needs to shift. I am not saying it has not begun to shift, but it certainly has not shifted as it could. You can see here how, even though this may seem like a philosophical goal, it is actually also a very practical thing because the Ukrainian military will not win if they do not make this shift.
The top-down management
Another aspect of this shift, and we can again illustrate this with the military but it goes beyond the military, is that in the Soviet Union, what did you see? You saw that you had a party elite. They also lived in an information bubble because they had what we have called the ideological mindset. They were defining a five-year plan, for example, and then they expected that all those at lower levels would carry out that five-year plan. Now, part of this five-year plan was, for example, agricultural production, which is highly dependent on the weather and therefore, often, a five-year plan could not be fulfilled. But was there a backwards information flow that could inform the people at the top? Or was there an attempt to hide what was actually going on from the higher-ups, so as to avoid being blamed for not meeting the unrealistic goals?
You see, this is a mindset, where everybody at lower levels are seeking to hide from those at higher levels. The higher levels do not really want to go out, get their hands dirty, and see what is actually happening because they are afraid of those at an even higher level and therefore, there is not that willingness to look at what actually works. Instead, people look at how do we want things to work. This is something that has already shifted in most of the European democracies, not all, but most of them. That is why they have had economic success and have raised the standard of living of the population because what is it that allows you to raise the standard of living? Well, it is you are willing to look at the practical, physical reality, what works and what does not work. For example, you have a factory that produces, say, cars. You are willing to go in and look at the individual worker’s situation and say: “If we improve the worker’s situation so that he can do his job more easily, he will actually become more productive, and therefore, by treating our workers better, we can increase productivity and production.”
When this is repeated at all levels of society, you raise the standard of living. It also requires you to look at can we allow a small elite, whether you call them oligarchs or something else, to become so much richer than anyone else in the population? Can we allow them to dominate the economy because they are going to want to defend their privileged positions, instead of, as I said, looking at the practical realities, what works best, not only for the individual, but also for society.
Does it actually work best for a society that you have a small elite that are very, very rich and the majority of the people are poor? Well, if that was the best model, why did the Tsarist empire in Russia collapse? Why did the feudal societies of Europe collapse? Why have many others of these elitist societies collapsed? Because, again, there is not the information flow, and that means that the people at the top do not know what is actually happening in practical reality, and therefore, they cannot make good leadership decisions. They cannot change their society as conditions change.
Adaptability and the figure-eight information flow
What is it you see in history, as we have talked about many times? It is not survival of the fittest, if you by fittest mean the strongest or the most aggressive. It is survival of the most adaptable, those who can adapt to changes, because everything is constantly changing.
This is what the Buddha called the interdependent originations 2,500 years ago. It has been proven over and over again by science, by just an observation of history. Everything is changing. Those who can adapt to change will succeed, will survive, will thrive. Those who will not adapt to change will go the way of the dinosaurs. My point for pointing out this Soviet era mentality is that it works against change. It seeks to create uniformity and stability and sameness rather than the ability to adapt. What is it that drives the ability to adapt? It is the individual who is out there plowing the fields, working in the factories, doing the work in all areas of society. They are experiencing directly what works and does not work. If there is no feedback loop whereby communication can flow upwards, how can the leaders make informed decisions? They are therefore, making uninformed decisions which are stupid, self-destructive decisions. Do you see that instead of talking about democracy and dictatorship, you could arrange societies based on how flexible are they, how adaptable are they that depends on the information flow upwards, not downwards.
Therefore, you can see that those countries who have that information flow, it is not just a one way from below to up, there needs to be one from down as well so there is transparency, so that the leaders can explain to the people why they are making decisions, we can say it is a “figure-eight flow” of information. This is one type of society that have the figure eight flow of information and the other type of society is where this flow has been stopped. There is no flow because the leaders do not want to hear the practical experiences of the people below and they do not want to tell people what is going on at the higher levels. They do not want to explain why they are making the decisions they are making.
Avoiding accountability
Why not? Why do not the leaders want to tell the people why they are making the decisions? Well, because they do not want to be held accountable. There is a very deep desire to avoid accountability.
You see this so clearly in Russia right now, where Putin and his propaganda machine are doing everything they can to avoid accountability for Putin himself. Who made the decision to invade Ukraine? Putin. Who is the only one who could really stop what is happening? Well, Putin. Who is the one who has not made that decision? Putin. Who is responsible for the increasing negative consequences for Russia and the Russian people? Well, Putin is. From a purely neutral objective viewpoint, Putin is the one who is accountable but at the same time, in Russia, Putin has zero accountability. He is not being held accountable. There is an old saying: “All power corrupts, but absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Why is that? Because when you have absolute power, there is no information flow coming back, and there is no explanation going down for why things are being done. This means that the leader who has absolute power has no accountability but that also means that that leader becomes inflexible. Once the leader has started going in a certain direction, the only way he can see is to keep going in that direction and apply more and more force until he runs out of force, the school of hard knocks.
Resisting the transition
We have said before that for Ukraine to survive the war, to move forward, Ukraine needs to distance itself from Russia, but first of all, the Russian mentality that I have now described. Ukraine needs to become much more flexible, needs to become much more transparent and open in terms of information flow. Ukraine needs to establish this figure eight information flow and there are many people in Ukraine who resist this and who will resist it. There is the armed forces. There is many of the large business people, call them oligarchs or something else. There are people in the government who are used to having a privileged position where they can take bribes and they can avoid accountability. There are elected politicians.
Certainly not all of these people will resist the transition, but many of them are resisting the transition. Even though there are some of them that can see that the war means that Ukraine cannot remain the same. There are still people in Ukraine who believe that oh, one day the war will stop and life will go back to normal. But there are more and more people in these past over three years who have begun to realize that nothing will go back to the way it was before the war, that the war has forced Ukraine to make an absolute shift. But even many of those people who can see that things will not go back, they still resist making this change I am talking about because they think: “Yes, I see that Ukraine has to change, but I can keep my position, surely I can find a way so I can stay comfortable.” That is what is right now holding back Ukraine and it is actually holding back an end to the war, because it is preventing Ukraine from taking certain steps that could bring it above that critical line where the collective consciousness has shifted, so that Ukraine becomes more of a karmic mirror for Russia.
The karmic mirror for Russia
I know this is a new concept, but think back at the situation where Jesus is arrested, put on trial. He does not resist his arrest. He does not defend himself. He does not argue with those who are accusing him. He lets them do what they want to do to him. Now, I am not there by saying that Ukraine should stop fighting and let the Russians take over. What I am pointing out here is that when you reach a certain level of consciousness that is higher than those who are attacking you, your consciousness becomes a karmic mirror that reflects back the aggression directed at you. Ukraine has not reached that level of consciousness yet, which is why the war has moved into this largely a stalemate situation. This is why, even though Ukraine has received military assistance, it has not broken through. Now, this is not to say that this is only because of Ukraine. Nevertheless, if that critical mass of people would shift, you would see the situation begin to change.
The breakdown of the Russian economy
The other aspect of why the situation is a stalemate is of course, that there has not been a shift in Russia. This is largely because the economy in Russia has not yet broken down, but it has come closer and closer to the breaking point. Now, we may say there could theoretically be two factors that would cause Russia to have to stop the war. One would be that they lost decisively on the battlefield, but the other is a breakdown in the economy. As it looks right now, the breakdown in the economy is the more likely factor that will break the stalemate. Russia has moved closer and closer to the point of no return. You could argue that it has already passed the point of no return, but it has not yet fully broken through, so that the collapse is obvious.
There are those who will say Russia is already in a state of collapse, at least certain areas of the economy in Russia, but there has not been a widespread recognition of this from the Russian leaders or the Russian people, or for that matter, internationally. This is largely because of this lack of information flow. What is very likely to happen is that during this year, the breakdown will become more and more obvious. It really is only a matter of time before Putin and those close to him will have to make a choice. Will they stop the war and try to salvage the economy or will they continue the war until the economy breaks and forces them to stop the war?
Keep persisting and be flexible!
Why am I bringing this up? What does it have to do with Ukraine? Well, naturally, there are things that you can do as Ukrainians. But you also, in the current situation, simply have to continue resisting and wait for the equation to change. You need to persist until something breaks in Russia. This, we all know as ascended masters, is a very difficult situation for you. We all know what you have endured in these three years. We have, as we have said before, not a human compassion, but certainly a divine compassion for what you are going through. We have an equal compassion for what the Russian people are going through. But they are, for the most part, unreachable to us. Of course, most Ukrainians are also unreachable to us directly. But the collective consciousness in Ukraine is more open to change than the collective consciousness in Russia. What you need to prepare yourself for is to hold on and persist until something breaks. You need to be flexible and work with whatever the situation is, including in the United States, in the Trump administration, where it obviously changes very quickly. You simply need to see that right now the situation is in such flux and while this might feel insecure, it is actually an opportunity because the unpredictability of the situation, while unpleasant, also carries opportunities.
Things can break down in Russia, things can break down in the United States, so that there will be a breakthrough that will be to Ukraine’s advantage. You simply need to be flexible, keep all opportunities open, and be patient. Allow the situation to unfold, because what have we said? We have said at New Year’s that with the descent of the light for this next 12-year cycle, those who are unbalanced must become more and more unbalanced. Clearly, the Trump administration is unbalanced in its view of Europe, NATO, and Ukraine. For a time it may seem like the imbalance becomes worse and worse, but this is because a breakdown is coming closer. The situation will change, so you need to be positive towards the future. What did we say at New Year’s? All people need to be positive, especially the spiritual people.
The impact of the ascend master students
My last intent with this release is to point out that the spiritual people, especially the ascended master students in Ukraine, in Russia, in Kazakhstan, and other former Soviet or East Warsaw Pact countries, your calls have made a huge difference since the war started. Your willingness to come together, give these decrees and invocations, and I know it is difficult for some of you in Russia to do this, but your willingness to do this has had a major impact. We know very well that many times it can seem like you give these decrees and invocations, but what changes in the outer situation? You have, first of all, held a spiritual balance, but also prevented worse things from happening. You have also paved the way for positive things to happen.
As we have said before, naturally, Ukraine is the victim of Russian aggression, but we are not looking to punish the Russian people, but to take both Ukraine and Russia and other nations forward as much as we can. Your calls have helped open the way for progress for both Russia and Ukraine and other nations who are part of this entire equation. For this, you have my gratitude, and I hope you will be inspired to continue your calls and vigils until we direct you to focus on other topics. With this, I want to thank all of you who have made calls for this situation in Ukraine over these more than three years. All of you who are participating in this conference, you have my gratitude as the representative of the Mother of God for earth. Your calls give us the authority to do many things in the emotional, mental, and identity realms. Many things that you cannot see, but that certainly have a major positive effect.
As we have said before, we have, because of the Law of Free Will, limited power to intercede in the physical octave. But your calls give us the power to intercede in the emotional, mental, and identity realms and remove those beings for which you are calling the judgment. That means that the people in physical embodiment, their minds will not be as taken over by these beings, and this can also lead to progress in the physical realm. For this, you have my gratitude and, I hope, my encouragement. Therefore, I seal you in the Flame of the Mother of God that I hold for earth, for all people on earth.
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