Ascended Master Kuan Yin through Kim Michaels, March 6, 2026. This dictation was given at the conference in Vilnius, Lithuania: Making a Difference in a Turbulent World.
I AM the Ascended Master Kuan Yin. Often, I have been given the title the Goddess of Mercy. But what is mercy? It is not forgiveness, for mercy, in a sense, comes before the act that needs to be forgiven.
Living up to the outer ideal
Mercy is, in one aspect, we might call it the omega aspect, what you have invoked in this invocation as basic humanity. Mercy is a state of mind. You might compare it to the Buddha and Buddhic tradition where they talk about harmlessness, being harmless towards other forms of life, specifically other human beings. You are in a state of mind where you cannot even envision forcing other people.
But what does it take to be in this state of mind? For you will see so many religions throughout history, even spiritual philosophies in the East, that set up an ideal and say: “This is what you should strive to attain – then you will be enlightened, go to heaven, be saved, awaken, overcome suffering.” They set up the ideal, but not really a clear path to get from your current state of consciousness to the state of consciousness where you can embody the ideal.
What does this do? Well, it actually causes many people to decide with the outer mind, perhaps based on a spiritual teaching that may be a valid spiritual teaching, but still they are deciding with the outer mind – this is what it means to be merciful. Now they force themselves with the outer mind to act and talk as if they live up to the ideal. And this causes them to put on a facade. And many, many spiritual people throughout the ages have gone into this state, this cycle of trying to live up to a facade, to maintain a facade, to appear to be very spiritual people according to this standard defined.
This becomes artificial, this becomes often hypocritical. For when you decide with the outer mind, the conscious mind, to force an ideal upon the subconscious mind, what are you doing? You are suppressing something in the subconscious mind that is against your ideal. You are saying: “This is how I should behave.” But if you have any kind of urge from the subconscious mind to behave differently, you suppress it.
Perhaps many of you have grown up in this age of modern appliances where you do not have a kettle that you use to boil water. But you will know, perhaps, that in the old days they had this kettle that they put on the stove. And there was this little cap you could put on. And when the water was boiling, it would whistle. If you now had a cap that did not have a hole in it, what would happen?
Well, as the water got warmer near the boiling point, pressure would build inside. And if it could not escape, what would happen? Well, the kettle would explode eventually and so will your subconscious mind, when you force, you suppress with the conscious mind.
Making the subconscious conscious
The irony of this, the greatest irony of this is that so many religions, so many spiritual philosophies throughout the ages have claimed that if you suppress the unresolved psychology and live up to the outer ideal defined on earth, you can still enter heaven, even with the unresolved psychology.
Now look at the spiritual and religious philosophies found today. And tell me how many will say what we have now been saying for many years, that there is only one factor that determines your entry into the spiritual realm. And that is your level of consciousness. And you will only rise to higher levels of consciousness not by suppressing the subconscious psychology, but by making it conscious and resolving it.
Why we harm others
Back to my statement, so many religions set up forth an ideal and you force yourself to try and live up to it and you may fool people here on earth. But will you fool the ascended masters? Will you fool the Christ mind? Nay, nothing will fool us.
The reality is–in order to have mercy you cannot create an ideal for what it means to be merciful and force yourself to live up to it by suppressing what is not mercy according to your definition. It must be resolution of psychology that puts you, that raises you to this state of mind where you become naturally harmless. You are not forcing yourself to be harmless. You become naturally harmless. But why? Why is it you can become naturally harmless?
Well, what causes most people to do harm to others, to force others? Yes, there are fallen beings, there are some that are in a state of mind where they enjoy forcing others, having power over others. But let us talk about most human beings. Why do they resort to using force? Because there is something that, first of all, they think they need and second of all they think they can only get it horizontally, meaning in many cases getting it from other people.
That is why you do harm, you force others to get what you think you cannot live without. I am not just saying stealing it. It could also be exploiting others by having them work for low wages in the factory that you own. Many other ways that people force each other, even psychologically forcing someone to give energy, because you think you need to get energy from other people instead of getting it from where? Vertically, from the ascended realm, from your I AM Presence, from the ascended masters.
The omega aspect of mercy
What did Jesus say 2000 years ago? “Fear not little flock for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.” We are the ascended masters. It is our role to be in the nexus between you in embodiment and the spiritual realm. We will gladly give you all of the energy you need and when you have all of the energy you need, you can magnetize to you physical conditions that you need.
It is our good pleasure to do this, so you can get everything you need from above and then you do not need to force others and therefore, you have the foundation when you realize this, to be in that state of mind where you are naturally merciful. You do not need to force others.
But you can only do this when you establish a connection to your I AM Presence, to the ascended masters and you can only do that when you resolve the psychology. Why? Because it is only the psychology that blocks you from receiving what we take pleasure in giving you.
Yet, look at how the vast majority of spiritual and religious teachings on the planet do not fathom this simple logic. Look how many people who are not religious do not fathom it. They engage in this game of seeking to get to themselves as separate beings, instead of connecting to the source of all and receiving from above. Letting it radiate out, because instead of thinking you have to take from others, you give to others in that figure-eight flow. You place yourself in the nexus and you know that the more you give, the more comes back to you multiplied by the law.
This is the omega aspect of mercy. You do not think you need to take anything horizontally from other people. Therefore, you can show mercy towards them. You do not need to invade their country. You do not need to take by force. You do not need to exploit. And then you are in the figure-eight flow where the more you give the more you have.
Whereas most people think that the more you give the less you have. But that is because they do not grasp the law that every religion, well not every religion but most religions, have actually explained one way or another. We can say that the omega aspect of mercy, it has facets, but certainly one of them is this: “You do not force others.”
The alpha aspect of mercy
Now what is the alpha aspect of mercy? Well, you do not force others. But the Alpha aspect is not what you do to others, but that you allow others to experience what they need to experience in order to come to the point where they have had enough of that experience and want something more.
You as spiritual people, you as avatars often struggle with this aspect of mercy, because you think it would be better for people not to suffer. Just consider this: “How many of you would end the Ukraine war tomorrow if you could?” Because you would say: “The Ukrainians are suffering, the Russians are suffering, the Russian soldiers are being sent into this meaningless meat wave attacks. Everybody would be better off if the war ended tomorrow.“
And you would say, most people, that that is showing mercy—because you want the suffering to end. But you see, when you take what we have explained—which again is very rare to find anywhere— but what we have explained about the law of free will, about the earth being comparable to a reality simulator where people are allowed to create any experience they want for themselves and have that experience for as long as they need to until they have had enough of it.
You will see that it would actually not be merciful to stop people from having the experience that they want to have. And now you are going to say, many people: “But they do not want to have the experience. Certainly, the Ukrainians do not want it. They are being attacked.”
From a certain viewpoint—correct. From another viewpoint—not the highest understanding of it. Because again, what have we said? The physical octave is an outplaying of what happens at the emotional, mental and identity levels. Therefore, both sides of any conflict are having a certain experience. If they had resolved the psychology that necessitates the experience, they would not have had the experience. This requires a little contemplation.
Learning from physical experiences
But what have we said many times? The physical is the bottom level of the material universe. It is a projection of what is happening at the identity, mental and emotional levels. Therefore, whatever you see out pictured in the physical is a result of what the people involved have in their three higher bodies.
They are simply projecting the matrices in the three higher bodies onto the physical realm. And they are essentially, not knowingly, not willingly—well, willingly from a larger perspective but not an immediate perspective—they are telling the universe, the reality simulator, what they want to experience at the physical level.
How are they doing this? The unresolved psychology, the subconscious selves they have at the three higher levels are coloring the light as it is flowing through it, like a kaleidoscope that is being projected onto the physical realm and therefore, gives them the experience that they want to have because they have created and upheld those structures.
You see what Mother Mary talked about? There is a large percentage of the Russian population who can only learn from the School of Hard Knocks by having physical experiences. Same goes most other countries. Some, of course, more than others, the democratic countries less so. But certainly all dictatorial countries, all autocratic countries have a large percentage, a majority of their population that can only learn from the School of Hard Knocks.
What is the Alpha aspect of mercy? That you do not force these people to not have the experience they are having until they are ready to give it up, because they have had enough of it and they are willing to look at themselves and say: “How do we need to change?”
The greatest challenge for avatars
You see, this is allowing free will, the law of free will, to outplay itself. And this is, and we all know this from experience, the greatest challenge for avatars coming from a natural planet to an unnatural planet. It does not just apply to earth, but to other natural planets in the unascended sphere.
Because you see, on a natural planet, a vast majority of people there have not forgotten that the physical level is a reality simulator and that whatever you experience at the physical level is a result of what you are projecting from the three higher levels or however many levels there are on a natural planet which can vary.
On earth, on an unnatural planet this is not the case, obviously. But when you come as an avatar, you can very easily think: ”Oh, this should still be the case on an unnatural planet. People should know that it is their own minds that are determining the experience they are having and that the physical conditions will only change when they change their minds.” You are thinking it should be that way.
But you see, that is not the case on an unnatural planet. Because on an unnatural planet, people are allowed to co-create their own conditions as they do on a natural planet. But on an unnatural planet, they are allowed to do this without consciously realizing what they are doing.
Being the victim of external conditions
Why? Because the experience you cannot have on a natural planet is that you are the victim of external circumstances. You see, there are experiences you cannot have on a natural planet, because you know that what happens at the physical level is a projection of what happens in your own psychology, in your own mind. And there are some beings who wanted to have that experience of going into duality, seeing yourself as a separate being and when you see yourself as a separate being, well, what are you separated from?
You can say: “You are separated from God in the spiritual realm, of course. You are separated from other people. You are separated from your own environment.” But what you are really separated from is your own mind. There is now a division in your mind between the conscious and the subconscious mind.
You see, on a natural planet you do not have a subconscious mind, because you are aware that you are co-creating with the higher levels of your own mind. Where is the subconscious? And therefore, you know you are not a victim of external circumstances or forces, not even God, because you are a co-creator. But that means you cannot have the experience that you are being forced by external circumstances and that there is nothing you can do about it.
And that is why when a certain number of beings on one particular planet or on various natural planets develop the desire to have that experience, they are allowed to embody on an unnatural planet to have that experience—hopefully after some time being tired of it, being willing to change it.
“People should not suffer”
You see, most of us as avatars when we come to a planet like earth, we are focusing—and often we were focusing on this before we came to earth—on the suffering. And we are saying, we are reasoning: “But people do not want to suffer. They are suffering. They do not like it. They do not enjoy it. And it is just because they do not know that it is their own minds that are creating their suffering. If I just go down there and tell them this, of course, they will want to wake up so they are no longer suffering.”
But you do not realize they want to suffer, they like to suffer, because they have not had enough of the experience of being victims of external circumstances that they have not co-created.
And when you then go into this mindset of feeling: “Oh, this is wrong, people should not be suffering”, you are not having mercy, the Alpha aspect of mercy, because you are not allowing the law of free will to outplay itself.
Now we all understand, especially I who represent the Flame of Mercy, we all understand that it is difficult to watch people suffer. And you will notice that we did not give this teaching 20 years ago or through previous dispensations. But there are many of you who are ready to embrace this, and we have hinted at it before, of course, but you are ready to become more clear about this: that your role as an avatar on earth is not to prevent people from having the experience that they actually want to have.
Again, I know very well that you can say: “But they are not consciously wanting to have this experience. They are not saying: ‘Oh, I want to suffer.’” But you see, there was a point in the distant past where they made a conscious decision that they wanted that experience.
When you take the teachings we have given about the duality consciousness, you can see the mechanism that is happening here. When you decide you want to experience what it is like to be a victim of external circumstances, you cannot retain the memory, the conscious memory of that decision, because if you know: “Oh, it is just a game I am playing”, you will not have the experience.
If you are playing a video game where you are being killed in various ways by monsters, you know you can just turn off the computer and walk away from it. That is not the full immersive experience that these people decided they wanted to have. They did consciously decide that they wanted the experience, but after they go into the experience, they cannot retain the conscious memory of this.
They can reconnect to it when they again start being willing to rise above that state of mind. But while you are in the state of mind of seeing yourself as a victim, you cannot retain the memory that you chose to have this experience, because then you are not a victim. You could just walk away from it.
Being a savior
Now, what does that mean for you as an avatar? Well, it means, first of all, that you need to contemplate this alpha aspect of mercy which is that you allow the law of free will to work the way it is set up to work. Because long experience, even in previous spheres, have shown that eventually the vast majority of beings will have had enough of having that experience and want to get out of it. Some will not, but this is again the only way free will can outplay itself.
But now you can as an avatar go a little bit further and you can say: “Well, I am beginning to understand what the masters are saying about people on earth, both the original inhabitants and those who have come from other planets—they wanted to have that experience.”
But wait a minute now—on the wall is hanging a mirror: “Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the wisest of them all?”—Well, you are, oh avatar. You are wiser than all the people on earth.
But are you? Because can you not see in the mirror that what I just said applies to the people in the victim consciousness, applies to you as well? Why did you come to earth? Because you wanted to have a certain experience that you could not have on a natural planet. Now you will say: “But have you not told us that as avatars we had gone as high in consciousness as we could go on a natural planet? And if we are in a high state of consciousness and we see ourselves as co-creators, why would we want to have the experience that we are victims?” That is perfectly true.
You did not want to have the experience that you are a victim of circumstances beyond your control. But you wanted to have the experience of being among people who see themselves as victims so that you could see yourself as the one who is here to help them, to awaken them, to save them, to hold the balance, to manifest Saint Germain’s Golden Age, to save the world for democracy or Saint Germain or God or whatever.
The rest of this dictation, along with an invocation based on the dictation, is found in the book: Making a Difference in a Turbulent World.
Copyright © 2026 Kim Michaels