Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels, May 21, 2026. This dictation was given at the conference in Kazakhstan: Co-creating with the ascended masters on the seven rays.

I AM the Ascended Master Mother Mary, and it is my great joy to be part of this figure-eight flow between you here below, I above. Or am I above, or am I more within?

Questioning the images in your mind

You see, images, images, images, images in the mind is how you co-create. Whether you co-create or de-create, whether you see yourself as a connected being or not a connected being, you are co-creating through images in the mind. And that is why, in order to raise your level of co-creation, you need to be willing to, on a continual basis, question the images in your mind.

We have given you the image of a figure-eight flow from above to below, and it is a useful image, but as all images on an unnatural planet, it can be taken too far into this extreme or that extreme. And that is why I am saying that you can visualize me above you, but if you do this from a viewpoint of separation, you will see a distance between you and I. And if you see a distance, a gap, an insurmountable gap, how can you co-create with me? How can you co-create if there is a gap?

And as Master MORE so eloquently explained in traditional religions and even many spiritual movements, people see a gap between God and human beings, even between ascended masters and their students. I am not expecting you to overcome the gap all at once, but I am expecting you to question your image.

You can see me above you. We are in a figure-eight flow. But how far above you? Do I need to be quite as far above you as the Christians would see me, or as they see Jesus, or as they see God?

How far above you are we? Gradually you can decrease the distance until you realize that yes, there is a figure-eight flow, but it is really not over a remote distance.

The parameters for the worlds of form

Now, I will turn my attention to another topic that I wish to contribute to here. You might consider it the omega aspect of what Master MORE gave you. What we have explained of course is that in the beginning was the Creator, and the Creator decided to create a world of form. And when the Creator had decided to create a world of form, the Creator actually took some time.

It was not time like you conceive of it here. I cannot tell you that the Creator deliberated for thirty-three days and fifteen hours and thirty-three and a half minutes, but there was an interval where the Creator decided upon the parameters for its world of form. These are very, we might call them esoteric to use a word, because they are of course beyond what you can easily conceive of when you are in embodiment on earth.

And you do not need to know these parameters when you are in embodiment. You certainly do not need them in order to co-create. But I am pointing out to you that the Creator set certain parameters for how this world of form would be, how it would unfold.

But even this was within a larger set of parameters that guide all worlds of form. In other words, we have made a distinction between the Allness and the level you are at where you have a world of form that begins with a Creator, evolves over time and reaches some ultimate stage. And this, of course, is the parameters for worlds of form.

Always room for experimentation

There is a beginning. There is a gradual growth process. There is an ultimate level of growth and then the beings who have reached that ultimate level in that world of form move on. In other words, the overall parameter for any world of form is growth. And growth means self-transcendence. And as Master MORE explained, self-transcendence happens only through experimentation. A world of form cannot create such strict parameters that there is no room for experimentation.

You see the contrast between this and what the fallen beings, at least some of them, dream of creating. They dream of creating a world where there is no room for experimentation because they do not want there to be room for failure.

They believe that free will was a mistake because free will can lead self-aware beings to become lost, to fall, to be erased in the second death and to not grow. They want to create a world where the outcome is predetermined. It is guaranteed because there is no room for deviance from this ideal outcome.

But you see, this is in contradiction to the very foundational principle for any world of form. There must be room for experimentation. The Creator can create laws and principles but they cannot be so detailed, so set in stone, so to speak, that there is no room for experimentation. And that is why, of course, as Master MORE said, the Creator did not know at the beginning and does not know now what the final outcome of this world of form will be.

The lie of an ideal outcome

This is important because you are living on earth, it is an unnatural planet, it is very heavily influenced by the fallen beings who have used the duality consciousness to project there is a certain standard. And you see, by projecting there is a standard, you have already gone against the basic principle for any world of form.

By projecting that there is a perfect end goal that must be reached, all people are saved and go to heaven, for example, where they sit on a pink cloud and play the harp for all eternity. By the way, I do not see a lot of pink clouds with angels playing harps where I am at, but nevertheless, by projecting this, that there is a perfect end goal that is predetermined, that God knows in advance, and that there is a standard for how to get there, they have gone against the very basic principles of a world of form.

A straitjacket of the God Will?

And this means that when you have embodied on earth for a long time, even if you are an avatar who came from a natural planet, you have taken this on. And that means that when you begin the process of conscious co-creation, you have to begin to consider this. You have to take into consideration what this means. Do you still have this image that in order to co-create with perfect ascended masters, you have to be perfect?

One outcome of this that we saw in previous ascended master dispensations is that people thought basically, I am not saying they consciously thought this, but what they really envisioned in their minds was that you had your own will, your human will, and then you had the will of God. And in order to follow the will of God, you had to give up your own will and you had to basically become a marionette of the will of God. You were a slave of the will of God. It was like putting on a straitjacket.

And if you look at how people have behaved in many spiritual organizations, including previous ascended master organizations, you will see that it was almost like they had put on a straitjacket. They talked a certain way, they walked a certain way, they behaved a certain way. It was as if they were so afraid to experiment that they tried to follow a set of mechanical outer rules for how you should behave as an ascended master student.

And this, of course, means you cannot co-create with us. If you are afraid of somebody, if you have the idea that an ascended master wants to control you, how can you co-create? You can submit, you can become a slave, like the medieval peasants were slaves of their noblemen because they were afraid of being punished by a fate worse than death if they disobeyed. But you are not thereby co-creating, you are just submitting, you are just obeying, you are just mechanically following along, you are setting aside all possibility of experimenting to just do what you are told.

Questioning your image of the masters

These are some of the images you need to start to question. I am not saying I expect you to do this in the blink of an eye, but I am expecting you to begin to question it. In other words, why do you want to co-create with the ascended masters?

If you have an image of us as being some kind of overlord and you are just a slave, then why would you want to co-create with that image? We are, of course, not like that. But if you have an image in your mind of us being like that, then you cannot co-create with us, you are attempting to co-create with the image.

But since the image exists only in your mind, you are not co-creating with us, you are co-creating with yourself, but that is not co-creation, that is actually creation as a separate being. You may have awareness of ascended masters, you may think you want to co-create with us, but if you have an image in your mind that sits between you and I, you cannot co-create with me.

We are not co-, you are just in your own mind interacting with an image that exists only in your mind, and I must stand here and patiently wait until you have had enough of that image of me and decide to look beyond it.

Co-creation as an interactive process

Now, what Master MORE explained, what we have also explained many times before is that there are certain parameters set. As I said, the Creator set certain parameters for this world of form in general, but then there were certain parameters that were specific to the first sphere based on the experiences that the Creator had with the first sphere and that those who ascended from the first sphere had, this then was used to determine the parameters for the second sphere.

In other words, the parameters for the second sphere were not predetermined or they were not decided by the Creator at the beginning. It was only after the experience was gained from the first sphere that the parameters were set for the second, so forth of course, with the third, fourth, fifth and so on.

When the sixth sphere had ascended, certain parameters were designed for this sphere. Those parameters were used to create the original earth that the seven Elohim created originally, but as we have been stating between the lines, but which I will now state more clearly, co-creation is an interactive process. What is it in a sense that is meant when Master MORE said, you multiply the energies and you send them back up?

What is it you are sending back up to the ascended masters? Is it just energy or is it also the experiences you have had with your experiment? You see, we are receiving not just energy, we are receiving your experiences of how you experience being where you are at in a co-creative process. And this we use to continually adjust the parameters.

My point for this is, the Elohim created original parameters for earth, then the first three waves of light streams took embodiment here, in the identity, mental, emotional, and based on their experiences there was a continual adjustment of the parameters. Then when the earth went into a downward spiral and became an unnatural planet, that process of adjustment did not stop, it just took a different turn.

The ascended masters’ task

We are still learning from you. Our task is not to reach some predefined result. Our task of ascended masters, again, you look at Saint Germain, yes he has elaborate plans for a golden age, but they are not all predetermined, because the overall goal is not to manifest certain physical conditions in the golden age, the overall goal is the raising of awareness.

What is our task? Our task is not to manifest some ideal future state that is permanent or will last for a thousand years. Our task is to look at human beings in the consciousness they are at, their current level of, we might say, how trapped are they in the duality consciousness? How much do they believe in current conditions, are set in stone, believe in the lies and illusions of the fallen beings, in other words, how trapped are they in maya, how trapped are they in illusion? And then our role is to go in, wherever people are at, and offer them something that can help them take the next step up.

The two-way process of constant adjustment

If we did not continually adjust, how could we fulfill our task? In other words, many ascended master students have believed that we have the perfect vision, we have the perfect plan, we know how everything should unfold. But we do not, because our task is to raise people’s awareness gradually.

We need to look at people at a certain level of awareness, we give them some kind of impulse, some kind of ideas, then we monitor what actually happens when they implement them. And then we adjust based on that. That is your role in the co-creative process, is to give us feedback.

You see, when you look at traditional religion, everything is a one-way street. The Catholic church is a hierarchical structure that has the Pope on top, he is the only one who is the Vicar of Christ, who communicates with Christ, he gets the perfect doctrines from Christ, because Christ sits up there with the perfect vision that is then communicated down as a one-way street. And you either obey it, or you go to hell, that simple.

Well, not quite that simple. The reality is that we are not sitting up here with a perfect image that you have to accept in its fullness, or you will be punished. You will not be punished if you do not follow our directions. You will just stay at your current level of consciousness and continue to experience life the way you are experiencing it now. And if that is what you want, because you have not had enough of that experience, we have full respect for your free will.

We can only offer more, but my point is, our task is not a one-way communication, it is an interactive process where we gain from the return current from you, from your experiences. We are always monitoring how people respond to our teachings, for example. But also, of course, many other ideas we release to people who have not even heard of ascended masters. But for you who are ascended master students, we are monitoring your progress, attempting to come up with something that will help you.

That is why we sometimes talk about the reaction of students in previous ascended master organizations, to help you not repeat the same pattern. You really do not have to reinvent the wheel all over again. You can build on the experiences gained in previous dispensations.

Adjusting to the downward and upward spirals on earth

Going back to the Elohim creating the original blueprint for earth, which was then co-created upon and expanded by the first three waves of lifestreams. At the time where the turning point happened and the earth started going downward, the earth was in a more sophisticated state than what was created by the Elohim, because of that process of co-creation. Now comes the downturn.

This does not mean that we consider a big disaster has happened. Actually, we did not even consider this to be a problem or a mistake. We just realized that the inhabitants of the earth had decided to exercise their free will in a different way, by seeing themselves as separate beings, and then we accommodated that.

This meant, of course, that we could not interact with them as directly as we could before, because if people desire to experiment with their free will by seeing themselves as separate beings, well, how can we communicate directly with them? Because how can they see themselves as separate beings if they still have a connection to ascended masters?

You see certain necessary consequences of the law of free will. But we still, of course, adjusted what we released to humankind, energy, the amount of energy, but also the amount of ideas that we attempted to release.

Now for a long period of time, the earth was in a downward spiral, which means there was a limit to what we could release, certainly what ideas we could release. But then eventually, there came that turning point where the earth started very, very slowly, first it stopped the downward momentum, it became slower and slower, eventually stopped, and then very, very slowly it started an upward momentum.

And as this momentum has increased, we have, of course, adjusted our interaction with human beings. That is why we eventually came to a point where we could stand forth publicly, reveal our existence, reveal how we interact with people, and give more and more advanced teachings, but also teachings that are more easily understood by a broader audience.

Projecting an image onto the Ma-ter light

Again, where are we now at? Well, you realize that there is an interactive process between us ascended masters, you in embodiment. So far, so good. You are thinking: “I need to tune into the ascended masters as part of growing in Christhood, increasing Christ discernment, so I can tune in and feel what are the parameters that are currently there for earth.” In other words, you are saying: “Co-creation is reaching up, then bringing down. I am reaching up to attune to the ascended masters, to attune to the Christ mind, the One mind, and then I act based on that.

Yes, but what are you acting upon when you do this? In other words, you tune in, there is a certain mental image, there is something you want to manifest in your life, you are projecting that image with your mind into the cosmic mirror, as we have said, but what is then going to happen? Well, hopefully certain physical parameters, certain physical conditions in your life would manifest, but what is it that manifests these physical conditions?

Well, it is, of course, as we have explained many times, the Ma-ter light, right? And we have said that the Ma-ter light can take on any form, but it cannot take on form by itself, it takes on the forms that are projected upon it by self-aware beings, going all the way from the Creator through the various hierarchies to those who are in embodiment on an unascended sphere on the planet called earth.

From this you might get the impression that the Ma-ter light is sort of a featureless substance that just passively takes on form that is projected upon it, and we may even have presented it that way previously. But we now need to step up to a more sophisticated understanding of this, and there is one main reason for this understanding, why you need this understanding, and it can basically be expressed in the old saying that discouragement is the sharpest tool in the devil’s toolkit, and this is, of course, what we see in many people who begin to become aware of the potential to co-create.

Avoiding disappointment

It can be that they do not even know about ascended masters, that they have been interested in some of these teachings that are out there about manifestation, where you manifest something through the powers of the mind, but it can, of course, also be ascended master students.

Here you are, you have some students, they become aware of the potential to co-create. Through the powers of the mind you are co-creating certain material conditions in your life. You now try this process, you reach up, you gain a certain vision, and now you are attempting to project that out with your mind, and now you may be patient, you may say: Oh, it might take some time for it to manifest, but I have to continue to project until it does.

And then there goes the time and nothing happens, and nothing happens, and nothing happens, and nothing still happens, or still nothing happens, and there comes that point where you feel a projection of doubt from the serpent who is whispering in your ear: Maybe nothing will ever happen, maybe you are doing the wrong thing, maybe the process is a hoax, maybe ascended masters are not real, maybe you are not capable, you are not special enough.

That is where you need to avoid this disappointment, and the way to avoid it is, one way, is to recognize that the Ma-ter light is not just like modeling clay that you can shape with your hands into any form, because there is a certain process, certain principles, certain parameters for how the Ma-ter light takes on form. Therefore, you cannot just expect that any mental image you project will be manifest as a physical form.

Realistic expectations for manifestation

And why is this so? Some students from previous organizations might say, but Saint Germain said in the 1930s during the I Am movement, that if you really focused on something, it would manifest. In the Summit Lighthouse, people were told to visualize a crystal amethyst and to manifest that physically, but you see, we gave certain teachings based on the level of consciousness at the time, and we have learned from seeing the success or lack of success the students had with those teachings, which is why we are now giving you a more nuanced teaching about this.

As I said, the parameters are continually adjusted, so earth becomes an unnatural planet, and how does it become a unnatural planet? Because the collective consciousness is lowered, people sink deeper into separation. That means they are projecting mental images with their minds from separation.

Now what is happening is, that you have an adjustment of the parameters of the earth based on the law of free will must be allowed to out-picture itself, and this relates to, as I said, a majority of the original inhabitants of the earth. And if you look at, just as one example, if you take the average person that you meet on the street and ask them—Do you believe it would be possible to manifest a physical crystal stone with the powers of the mind?—the overwhelming majority of them would say: “No, of course not. Are you crazy?”

You see, you, when you start co-creating, have to have a realistic expectation of what environment you are co-creating in, and therefore, you cannot just see the Ma-ter light as some substance that will take on any form you project upon it. Because if you are projecting a mental image upon it that is beyond what the majority of people on earth can accept, then there will actually be a resistance from the Ma-ter light to taking on that form.

Resistance in the Ma-ter light

Do you grasp what I am saying here? If you look at ascended master teachings, especially previous dispensations, you would get the impression that the Ma-ter light is willing to take on any form, that there is no resistance in the Ma-ter light itself. But there is, because the Ma-ter light is not only a passive substance.

What does this mean? Well, this is where we need to again step up to a more nuanced understanding. If you take a lump of clay, you can model that into any form. It can be a sculpture, it can be a pot, it can be a mug. But there are of course certain parameters for what kind of shapes you can create out of clay that are sustainable. We are always working with the clay.

The Ma-ter light and the elemental beings

But beyond this, the Ma-ter light is not like clay, because clay, at least as most people would see it, is an unconscious substance. But the Ma-ter light is not unconscious. The Ma-ter light has consciousness. You could also say this in a different way and say, what is the Ma-ter light? Is it just this passive substance like, for example, the atoms or the subatomic particles that scientists are talking about? Nay.

The Ma-ter light can, say to have a universal aspect, but in order to take on form, there needs to be a conscious being that imposes that form on the Ma-ter light, so to speak, collects the light around the image of the form, and then maintains it there over time. And those beings are of course what we have called elemental beings.

The elemental beings are conscious beings, but they are not self-aware. They can eventually, as we have explained, attain self-awareness, but for a very, very long time an elemental being will not have anything that resembles self-awareness. That means that it sees itself as a servant. In a sense you could say that elemental beings see themselves much as the peasants of the Middle Ages who thought they could only be the slaves or the servants of the noble men.

The elementals see themselves as servants of humankind. Therefore, in a sense you could say that even though the elementals have a certain understanding of how the Ma-ter light takes on form, they do not have the ability to decide what form should or should not be manifest.

In other words, the elementals, at least at the lower levels, do not have any vision of the parameters defined by the Elohim. They are not able to say: “Oh, this form is in alignment with the Christ mind and this one is based on separation.” They cannot make that discernment. They just are dedicated to taking on or manifesting whatever form human beings project upon them with their minds. And they are dedicated to doing this.

The bad news about co-creation

At lower levels of elemental beings they are dedicated to doing this at a collective level. In other words, they are tuned into what the majority of people on earth can see, their level of consciousness. That is why what the average person can see as possible or not possible to do with the mind, that is also what the elemental beings see as possible or not possible.

You see, you can project an image upon the Ma-ter light, or rather upon the elemental beings, that is perfectly in alignment with the Christ mind. Therefore, you can say there is nothing wrong with your image. But it does not mean that your image can be manifest given the current level of the collective consciousness. And if you do not take this into consideration, you will be disappointed over and over and over again. And you might give up on the whole process.

We might say Master MORE gave you the good news about co-creation, I am giving you the bad news about co-creation. Master MORE is the good cop, Mother Mary is the bad cop. But really there is no contradiction between what we are saying. Because in order to become a better co-creator, what do you need to do?

What does self-mastery mean?

You need to have self-mastery as Master MORE explained, but what does that mean? It means you reach up for higher awareness of how the world works, what parameters were set from the spiritual realms, but you also reach horizontally for a higher awareness of the environment you are in and how that environment works. If you do not do both, you are not attaining self-mastery because you have to attain self-mastery on earth before you can ascend from earth.

And again, this can sound contradictory based on previous teachings, where you might think that it is only a matter of reaching up, it is only a matter of reaching these perfect understanding of spiritual principles and applying them and then matter must passively conform to your mastery.

Again, the power of the First Ray when it is forced upon the Ma-ter light, the Ma-ter light must take on those forms, but it must not. In fact, it must not take on forms even if those forms are based on the Christ mind, if they are out of alignment, so to speak, with the collective consciousness.

Plausible deniability

You see, for example, just to give you one example of this, we have said before when Jesus walked the earth in a physical body, he was allowed to perform certain miracles because the collective consciousness was so dense at the time that some people needed to see that the powers of the mind could manifest what they thought was miraculous, was supernatural, beyond natural, right?

In other words, the collective consciousness had a certain level, they thought it was impossible to heal somebody with the mind, and they had to see a demonstration of this in order to shake their belief that this was possible. But you also realize, as we have said before, there has to be plausible deniability, and that is why Jesus was allowed to show this to a very limited number of people.

Very few people actually saw him perform a miracle, and even among those who saw it, there were those who denied it. They thought it was a trick, they had hallucinated. But most of the people, they did not see it first-hand, they heard about it second-hand. And now there is another possibility of denying it, because you can more easily deny something you hear with your ears than something you see with your eyes.

If at the time of Jesus, there had been this invention called a video camera and television, Jesus would not have been allowed to perform these miracles, because when it is recorded, it becomes more difficult for people to deny it. In today’s age, this is different, because people have gotten more used to it, so it is not quite as strict of a law today. Adjustment, again, over time.

What is realistic to manifest?

But nevertheless, what I am pointing out to you is, at any given time, there is a certain level of the collective consciousness that is being projected on most elemental beings, and that sets a limit for what can actually be manifest through the powers of the mind. And if you formulate an expectation in your mind that you can manifest something, and you should be able to manifest something, that is out of attunement with that level, you will not be successful.

And therefore, you will very easily become open to these projections from the serpentine mind that something must be wrong. And of course, the serpentine mind is never going to project at you that it is your expectations that are the problem. No, the problem is always outside of you. It is the Ma-ter light, it is the ascended masters are wrong, their teachings are not right, always looking out.

But the reality is, if you are attempting to be, if you are dedicated yourself to performing a co-creative experiment, and the physical result is not what you expected, then you need to look within. Look at your mental image, your expectation—is it realistic?

And with realistic, you can have two considerations. You could say, if you really understand how the universe works, that everything is created out of the Christ consciousness, if you align yourself with the Christ consciousness, you should be able to manifest anything that is in alignment with the Christ consciousness. That is realistic.

Yes, but that is not actually correct. It is not realistic. Because what is the Christ consciousness? The Christ consciousness, yes, it reaches up for what is the ideal image held in the mind of the Creator. But it also reaches horizontally to see where people are at in consciousness. The Christ consciousness is aware at the level of the collective consciousness. The Christ consciousness is aware that it is not constructive to manifest something that is too far beyond the current level.

And therefore, in a sense, you need to say that perhaps your image of what could be manifest is realistic on a natural planet that you are used to and that you have some memory of, but it is not realistic on an unnatural planet like earth. And therefore, you need to be willing to look at your expectation, look at your image, and refine it instead of giving up on the co-creative process, thinking there is something wrong.

You see, my entire purpose for this discourse, and I will of course expound more on these things later in the conference, but my entire purpose for this discourse is to help you avoid disappointment when the things you try to manifest do not manifest exactly as you envision them. Because this will happen to all of us. It did happen to all of us when we were in embodiment.

We ascended because we were willing to adjust our expectations and our understanding of the material world. In other words, ascending, self-mastery is not just about understanding spiritual principles, but also about understanding the practical principles of how the environment you are in here on earth currently functions. That is realism.

With this, I have given you what I wanted to give you in this installment. I will of course give you more. As the male masters give you more, we of the female masters will give you the omega perspective on this. And we will see how this experiment unfolds depending on your interaction, your feedback that you are giving to us during this conference.

Consider yourselves who are here physically, who are on the webinar, who are connecting with us—you are teaching us as we are teaching you. You are teaching us how to teach you better.

With this, I seal you in the joy of my mother’s heart.

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