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Ascended Master Gautama Buddha through Kim Michaels, August 9, 2025. This dictation was given at the 2025 Conference for America: Rising above the superiority-inferiority duality.

I AM the Ascended Master Gautama Buddha. We have talked about various factors that contribute to the inferiority-superiority dynamic on earth. One of the major ones being of course the fallen beings. You could in a certain sense say that the inferiority-superiority dynamic originated with the fallen beings was certainly put upon humankind in a more intense way by the fallen beings, although of course the original inhabitants had some of that dynamic before the fallen beings came, but that is inevitable when you go into duality.

Spirituality as a tool of the fallen beings

Perhaps we can say that the factor I will talk about here is not necessarily the cause of the inferiority-superiority dynamic, but it is certainly one of the most powerful tools, if not the most powerful tool, that the fallen beings have used to keep humanity trapped in the inferiority-superiority dynamic. And what is the factor I am talking about? Does anyone have a guess? [Audience: Money?]. Yeah, that was not my thought, but it is a good thought. Fear, divide and conquer, power, love, control. All good thoughts, but all not exactly what I had in mind. The factor I had in mind is religion, and for that matter, spirituality.

If you look at the function of religion and spirituality, you could say from a certain perspective that all religion and spirituality points beyond this world. There is some reality beyond this world, at least something beyond the material world, and therefore in a certain sense you could say, that the purpose of religion is to get you out of this world, to sort of graduate from school room earth, to be saved, to enter heaven, to reach Nirvana. But is that really the primary function of religion when you look at how human beings are using it? You see, when you apply the wisdom of the Mother to the field of religion, you could begin to consider what does it actually mean, to exit this world or to reach what has been called enlightenment, a supposedly higher state of consciousness than most people have on earth.

Transcending ignorance by using ignorance?

Well, if enlightenment is a higher state of consciousness than the maya that most people are trapped in, would the wisdom of the Mother not tell you that it has to be something entirely beyond this world? As Padmasambhava said, everything is really just an experience so you could say that the state of mind that most people are in is just a certain experience, suffering, maya, illusion and therefore enlightenment is a different form of experience that is beyond the experience of suffering. The wisdom of the Mother would allow you to begin to ask: “Well, then if the purpose of spirituality and religion is to help you attain this transcendent experience that is beyond this world, does it not stand to reason that you cannot look at and apply religion or spirituality through the state of consciousness you are seeking to escape?”

If you are seeking to escape suffering through Buddhism for example, you cannot really look at Buddhism through the filter of ignorance because how can the state that you see in this world tell you anything about what the experience is that is beyond this world? From this viewpoint, you would say that the purpose of spirituality is to help people attain an experience that is entirely beyond the experience that most people are having in this world. But when you look at this historically, you will see that very, very few people from any religion or spiritual teaching have actually grasped this. The vast majority of people approach spirituality and religion through the filter of the very mindset that spirituality is meant to take them beyond.

So can you go beyond ignorance by using ignorance to get there? We can say it in a slightly different way. If we accept the model that people in this world are in a lower state of consciousness, you can call it sin, you can call it maya, you can call it illusion, you can call it ignorance, you can call it the death consciousness, and that the goal of spirituality is to take them beyond that mind, then religion, spirituality must have originated from a source beyond the level of this world and religion is therefore meant to give you something that will help you transcend the ignorance you are having, you are trapped in. When you look again at this historically, you can say: “Has that really worked?”

You look at, for example, Buddhism. Supposedly I, the founder of Buddhism, was enlightened, meaning my consciousness was beyond what most people have. How many of those who follow the religion or movement or teaching of Buddhism have reached the same state? Do we see today that there are Buddhist movements that, in a regular systematic way, produce enlightened beings? Do we see other religions or spiritual movements that on a routine basis produce people in a higher state of consciousness? Why is this so? I am not saying nobody has reached enlightenment through Buddhism or other spiritual movements. I am just saying it is not a mass phenomenon. And why not?

Spirituality as a ladder out of separation and superiority

Well, precisely because the vast majority of people are approaching religion and spirituality through the very consciousness that true religion and spirituality was meant to help them transcend. And why is this so? Well, it is because, what is the function of the material realm on a planet like earth? We have said many times, earth can be considered an experience machine, a reality simulator, where you can have a certain range of experiences. Currently, it is an unnatural planet because the vast majority of the people who inhabit it are trapped in a duality consciousness, the pairs that I talked about back then. And what is this duality consciousness, this illusion of separation? It is an experience.

You can have experiences as a separate being that you cannot have as a connected being. And in order to explore the full range of free will, as we have explained, you must be allowed to use your free will to go into separation, experience what you can experience in separation, until you have had enough of that experience. That means that the original purpose of giving a spiritual teaching from a higher realm is so that when people reach the point where they have had enough of separation, spirituality offers them a ladder they can climb to the higher level of consciousness, beyond the mass consciousness on earth, beyond the physical realm, beyond separation. That was the original intent for my teachings, also for the teachings of Jesus and other religions or spiritual movements, including, of course, the teachings we are giving today.

Spirituality reinforcing separation and superiority

However, it is inevitable that those who are not at the point where they have had enough of the experiences you can have on earth, they will use religion or even a spiritual teaching to reinforce the experiences you can have on earth. And one of the experiences that many people still have not had enough of on earth is the feeling of being superior to other people.

And when you look at history, it is not difficult to see with a touch of the wisdom of the Mother, or even common sense, which is also an aspect of the wisdom of the Mother by the way, that many, many people throughout the ages have used religion as the ultimate justification for them feeling superior. You have the Jews, believing they are the only people on earth, this little tribe in the Middle East, are the only people on earth who have been chosen by the ultimate God of the universe. You have Buddhists who believe that the Buddha was the ultimate spiritual teacher ever to appear on earth, and he was so special because of all of the miracles surrounding his birth and life and therefore, they are clearly superior to those who are not Buddhists. But wait a minute, there is this Buddhic sect and that Buddhic sect and a third and a fourth, and each of them feel they are superior to the others. They are more superior to the non-Buddhists, but they are even superior to the other Buddhists.

And of course, in Christianity, all Christians feel superior to non-Christians, but many of the individual Christian churches feel superior to all the other Christian churches. Same in Hinduism, Islam, spiritual movements of today. Look at how many gurus you can find out there on the internet who have made some claim to superiority, special abilities, higher state of consciousness, and they have attracted to them a small group of followers who, because they believe in the superiority of the guru, they themselves attain a superior status by being among the very few people on earth who can recognize this superior guru. It is an interesting phenomenon that the fewer people who recognize the guru, the more special those people are. The fewer people in the Jewish race, the more special they are because all others are persecuting them.

Two distinct functions of religion

What you see here is that you can say there is a religion, a spirituality that is given from a higher realm to help people who have had enough of the experiences of duality, exit this realm, or at least exit the dualistic state of mind. But even this true form of spirituality can be perverted into supporting the desire to feel superior. Then we must also say there are many religious and spiritual teachings that are not given from a higher realm. They were created here on earth, often by fallen beings. Now you may say, do fallen beings believe there is a God in the spiritual realm? Many of them deny it. They do not believe there is any reality to it, but some do. But they also have this intent of proving God wrong, and they see religion as a tool in that quest to prove their superiority to God. Others do not really believe there is a God, but they see that human beings want to believe, and so they use it to build their own sense of superiority, either because they can set themselves up to be worshipped or idolized, or they can feel they have fooled people into worshipping an entirely false god of their own making, and they feel that makes them superior.

What I am saying is, religion on earth has two distinct functions. One is to help you transcend the experience of superiority and reach a higher level of awareness. The other is to reinforce the experience of superiority. Am I thereby saying that, oh, this is all wrong? Nay, because one of the only things that can get people out of duality is that they have enough of the experiences you can have in duality. If religion intensifies their experience of superiority, then it can shorten the time before they have had enough and look for the real purpose of religion or spirituality.

Examining religious beliefs

But when you begin to grasp this, you can use the wisdom of the Mother to look at whatever religion or spiritual teaching you have been affected by. And for many of you, it will be important to do so, because when you have, for example, grown up in a religion, you will have taken certain things in, in childhood, that you were not really conscious of. You, so to speak, took them in with the mother’s milk. You accepted them uncritically.

And there are so many beliefs in these religions that are created on earth, or even the perversions of originally valid religions, that can prevent your growth, your escape from the maya, your attaining a higher state of consciousness. Because the fallen beings are very clever at inserting this, what we have called serpentine logic, that creates a sort of circular movement in your mind that you cannot get out of. That is, of course, also the nature of the duality consciousness, is that if you have no access to the wisdom of Christ, and if you are not willing to apply the wisdom of the Mother, you cannot reason your way out of it. You just keep reasoning your way around a closed circle. So it can be important for you to take a look at whatever spiritual teachings, religious teachings, you have been brought up with, especially to evaluate whether they reinforce a sense of superiority, a sense of superiority in you and in other people following that religion. For if they do, then you can clearly see these religions have the function of reinforcing the experience of separation and superiority, rather than helping you transcend that experience and attain a higher experience.

Reaching beyond the human mind

Again, I respect your free will. I am not telling you that the experience of superiority is wrong. But I am telling you that in order to transcend it, you have to take a very close look at it, because it is not going to happen automatically, and no external savior is going to do it for you. When you begin to grasp these concepts, and of course I know that most of you have started grasping them, but I am also directing this into the collective consciousness because many people out there are ready from all religions and spiritual movements. There are people everywhere ready to transcend this dynamic where the mind becomes a closed circle, for they have had enough of the experiences that are created in the mind. And when I say “in the mind,” I mean in the four levels of the mind, the identity, mental, emotional, and even the physical level.

Many, many people in today’s age are at that point where they are beginning to long for something. They do not know what they are longing for, but in reality, what they are longing for is an experience that is not created in their own minds. How do you have that experience? How do you free yourself from the circular movement of your own mind? Well, you must as we said, first come to see the contradictions, the limitations of your mind then reach for something beyond which you can call the Christ consciousness, the Buddha nature. But it really in practicality, is your higher self and your spiritual teachers. We call ourselves Ascended Masters, but you could use other names. You must connect to a mind that is beyond your own, so you have a frame of reference from beyond the circular movement of your own mind.

The trap of the ultimate superiority and inferiority

But now consider how “clever” the fallen beings are by connecting religion and superiority. First, there is this idea found in many religions that there is this ultimate God, there is this God figure that is the ultimate being, the highest possible being, the originator of form, the almighty all powerful God. There is nothing beyond this. This is the highest authority in the universe. If you have a person who holds a position in a religious movement like the Pope, and that Pope is speaking for God, then that person is the ultimate authority on Earth for those who believe in this claim. And what do the fallen beings crave most? To be the ultimate authority somewhere. They would like to be the ultimate authority of the universe, but if they cannot figure out how to do that, they at least want to be the ultimate authority on Earth, if they are stuck with this planet.

Once you believe that an earthly institution is representing the ultimate authority in the universe, and therefore that earthly institution is the ultimate authority on Earth, it becomes very difficult to question the doctrines and rituals and even the actions of this church. And if you cannot question the beliefs that have been put into your subconscious mind by your affiliation with this religion, how can you free yourself from that influence? How can you free yourself from the sense of superiority that you belong to the only true church of Jesus, and therefore you will be saved if you are a good Catholic? Especially because you will see that this belief in your superiority because you are a good Catholic, is clearly in a dualistic polarity with the inferiority that if you are not a good Catholic, if you question the Catholic church you will reach the ultimate state of inferiority, namely a fiery hell where you will burn for all eternity.

You see how they have the carrot of superiority and the stick of the ultimate inferiority in hell. A very potent combination for people who are still trapped in duality because many people, not only Catholics but in many religions, are mortally afraid of questioning the beliefs they have taken in. But the beliefs are designed to keep them trapped in the inferiority-superiority dynamic. How are you going to transcend the dualistic consciousness? How are you going to escape duality and separation? Well, you must transcend inferiority and superiority. You do not ascend by becoming a superior follower of a particular religion or guru. You do not ascend by being able to recite the Buddhist scriptures and tell fanciful stories of the Buddha’s life or by meditating so many hours because this just reinforces your sense of superiority.

Transcending duality

You see what we have said, the Christ consciousness is the equalizer. As Jesus explained, there is a gate and Jesus is the gatekeeper who evaluates: “Are you ready to walk through that gate or do you need to go to another gate?” Well, one way to describe the criteria is that in order to walk through the gate you have to be completely free of duality. You could say it is like the ocean, it has to be completely calm. If there are waves up or down, you cannot pass through. There cannot be any sense of superiority, any sense of inferiority. You simply cannot pass through the gate. You have to overcome this. You have to have the equalizing effect of finding what I call the Middle Way, a completely balanced way where you are not pulled in either direction by these pairs of dualistic opposites.

But fallen beings and your ego whisper in your ear “No. The key to getting into the kingdom of heaven is to reach some ultimate state here on Earth defined by this religion or spiritual movement. Look at this guru, he has awakened, he is enlightened, he can get in. And if you can reach that same state, you can get in.” Or if you become a good Catholic who is doing everything right according to the outer religion, or a good Jew like the scribes and Pharisees who are observing all the outer rules, thinking that will get them to the inner kingdom.

You see the fallen beings are using the superiority illusion to say that the way to qualify for entering into heaven is to reach a superior state based on criteria here on Earth. For surely heaven is a superior state compared to Earth so only those who are superior can enter. This is just one of many examples of what we have called serpentine logic. There is no way out of this unless you reach beyond that form of thinking. Either reach up for the Christ mind or apply the wisdom of the Mother to see that this cannot be logical—it cannot be logical that people are trapped in a certain state of mind and that the only way out of this state of mind is to take that state of mind to an extreme. People are trapped in either being inferior or superior so the way out is to become really superior.

No, the way out is to walk the Middle Way where you transcend both dualistic extremes. You do not find a midpoint. You transcend the entire scale so the scales fall from your eyes. Interestingly, in the English language, “scale” has a dual meaning. It can be scales that cover like the scales of a fish or it can be the scales that weigh and the scale must be balanced so you are not seeing with your eyes everything in terms of two polarities.

What kind of spiritual teaching do you want?

The question that I hurl into the collective consciousness is: “What kind of religion or spiritual teaching do you want? Do you want one that gives you a more intense experience here on Earth or do you want one that gives you an experience that is beyond Earth?”

There are many religions that will intensify your experience by telling you how special you are because you can see this superior spiritual truth and you have been willing to apply it more than most other people and you can use such a religion to create a spiral for yourself where you become more obsessive-compulsive about seeking some superior status, somehow demonstrating to whomever you think is up there looking at you that you are willing to do more than anyone else. Whether it is prostrating yourself on the floor, spinning a prayer wheel, lighting candles, saying rosaries, giving decrees, whatever it may be. You think that by doing more and more here on Earth you come closer and closer to the door that leads beyond Earth but you are just digging a deeper and deeper hole for yourself. Again, if this is the experience you desire, I have no issue with this. You are free to exercise your free will.

I am only speaking for those who have begun to feel there must be a different approach to religion. And you can apply the wisdom of the Mother but in the longer run only the Christ consciousness will help you fully transcend that desire to build or intensify a sense of superiority by using a spiritual teaching or even the entire concept of a spiritual path.

Using  AM teachings to reinforce superiority

You may say: “But you are the Ascended Masters, you are beyond Earth, you are giving a direct teaching here. Surely you are giving a teaching to help us exit, to help us reach a higher state of consciousness where we can exit or we can stay here and express Christhood.” Sure, that is exactly our goal but that does not mean you cannot take an Ascended Master teaching and use it to build a sense of superiority which Ascended Master students have done in the previous dispensations and some even in this one. Again, we know the dynamics on Earth. We also look at those who find our teachings and say: “Well, our teaching is meant to help them raise their consciousness. We cannot really demand that they raise their consciousness before they walk through the door.”

Naturally we allow you to come in with whatever unresolved beliefs and psychology you have and we know you will project this on the teaching. It does not fool us but it does not concern us either because we know that if you apply the teaching, you will gradually overcome this. And if you do not apply the teaching, well, it does not really make much difference whether you are in an Ascended Master teaching or in some other teaching. It is of course always our hope that most of you will come to the point where you really grasp what the teaching is about, what is the goal that we have for the teachings and where you come to that conscious recognition: “Ahh, I see it! I see that it is about attaining freedom from this separate sense of self that is always pulled by these dualistic extremes. Now I see it and that is what I want!” And that is when we can really help you.

We are always ready and willing to help but the thing is, until you have seen this dynamic that I have described, you are using our teaching to build your sense of superiority. And what does that mean? Well, what have other Masters said? You are essentially subconsciously saying: “Get thee behind me Gautama, I do not need you, I want to feel superior and I know that if you come in I cannot continue to feel superior, so leave me alone.” And then we must bow to your free will because you are trying to hide something from me and therefore you cannot hear me. I am not hiding from you but you just cannot hear me because that which you are trying to hide from me blocks you from hearing me. Do you not see this?

When an impulse comes to you from a higher realm, from your I AM Presence, from an Ascended Master, it must pass through your four lower bodies before it reaches the conscious mind. And these beliefs you have, this unresolved psychology that you are seeking to hide from us, will block the impulse coming from us so it does not reach your conscious mind, also it is colored by the beliefs you are not willing to give up. You see through a glass darkly because you are not yet ready to see us face to face, to see us as we are. Again, no blame here. I am not seeking to make you feel inadequate or inferior but I have to give a direct teaching to help you come to see how you have used our teachings to intensify the sense of being superior.

Initiation at the 96th level

You see, Christ is the equalizing mind. When you go beyond the 96th level and attain the beginning stages of Christhood, you need to relatively quickly overcome all sense that you are special because you have walked the path and attained Christhood. There are a few steps where you can be allowed to carry this with you but you need to overcome it so that the entire idea that walking the path to Christhood has made you superior, simply fades away because you experience the Christ mind as a complete opposite of the dualistic mind. You experience the unreality of this sense of superiority and you cannot maintain it because you want the Christ more. Now those who do not pass that initiation at the 96th level, what do they do? They use the attainment they gained between the 48th and the 96th level to continue to reinforce the sense of how superior they are because they have walked the path, they have found an Ascended Master teaching, they have recognized the Ascended Masters, they have given all these decrees, they have come to all these conferences and therefore they must be superior. And they can then start going down to lower levels of consciousness without realizing what is happening.

Now you may say: “Gautama, it sounds like this is a contradiction. How can you go to lower levels of consciousness while being convinced that you have attained Christhood or some superior state of spirituality?” But are you not realizing what is going on in the mind of a fallen being? They are below the 48th level. Some of them are close to the lowest level possible on Earth. Do they realize they are at the lowest level? No. They feel more superior than anyone on Earth. The lower you go in consciousness, the more superior you feel. Why? Because the more clever you are in applying the dualistic serpentine logic, filtering out all challenges to your sense of superiority, building up the absolute conviction that you cannot be wrong. And you can use anything on Earth, even an Ascended Master teaching.

The moment an Ascended Master teaching is expressed in words, even fallen beings can use it to build their sense of superiority. They could, for example, claim that they are messengers for the Ascended Masters, they are the superior guru, as some have done. As some have done. When you go towards lower states of consciousness, you cannot see it because what causes you to go towards lower states of consciousness is your quest for superiority in this world that you are not willing to give up. It may be that you never rose above the 48th level of consciousness, but you can rise to the 95th level not being willing to give up your sense of being superior and therefore start going down while still building your sense of superiority. Again, I am trying to make you feel guilty or inferior or ashamed or anything but you understand, I hope, what I am saying. I have to give a direct teaching that is not as easy to interpret by the ego and this is part of what we do with progressive revelation.

The purpose of genuine spiritual teaching

We have often seen students who came and thought that, ah, progressive revelation is about coming out with continually higher and higher teachings. There are ascended master students who are always looking for a higher teaching than the one we have given at this point. However, first of all, we can say that there are teachings on Earth that have all the elements you need to transcend the duality consciousness, if you understand how to use it and read between the lines. Yes, what we are giving now is a very direct teaching adapted to the time and the consciousness right now, but there are other teachings. So it is not really necessary for you to free yourself from duality to continue to give higher and higher teachings. There are students who are always looking for a more advanced teaching because they think: “Oh, this will do it.” But you see, if they have not applied the teaching already given, what is a higher teaching going to do for them?

You see, it is not really a matter of evaluating a teaching based on high and low. These are dualistic terms. And if you think you have a teaching that is the highest that could ever be given on Earth, or at least that has so far ever been given, you are building your sense of superiority. Because if you were not an advanced student, you could not recognize the teaching, as so many people on Earth are not recognizing the teaching. Again, the fewer ascended master students there are, the more special they are, and that is not a dynamic you want to get stuck in for longer than absolutely necessary.

A teaching just needs to have certain elements that either contains the wisdom of the Mother or allows you to reach for a higher mind beyond your own. It is not really the outer teaching that does it for you, as I have said several times before. The purpose of the outer teaching is not the form of the teaching. It is to give you a tool for connecting in your own mind to the Being who gave the teaching.

What is the real purpose of the teaching that I gave 2500 years ago? To help people connect to me as a spiritual or ascended being. That was the main purpose. Look how many people have become focused on the outer teaching, and the form of the teaching, and the interpretation of the teaching. Of course, you can interpret a teaching in different ways because there are different groups of people on Earth. They have different levels of consciousness and come from different backgrounds. I am not trying to say that there is only one branch of Buddhism that is the only true one. They can all have functions for different groups of people. It is not a matter of coming to develop or find the ultimate form of Buddhism. But they only have value if they help people transcend the outer teaching and connect directly to the being with whom the teaching originated.

That was what I attempted to do before I took leave of the physical body. That those who had been my direct students would have a connection, not just to me, but to other ascended beings, other ascended masters so they could continue to get teachings from that source and get that frame of reference from the Buddha nature, we might say. But what was eventually preserved and written down left certain things out that were difficult at the time to express in words. It has become easier today. I can give a more direct teaching today than I could 2500 years ago because the collective consciousness has been raised. But still, what I am giving now is just words. And what did Padmasambhava take so great care to explain? The interdependent unfolding.

Rejecting the challenging teachings

I AM an Ascended Master. I AM an enlightened being, if you want to use that terminology. What is coming from me is at a higher level than the state of consciousness you have right now. But when the teaching and the energy enters your energy field, your mind field, it cannot override what is there. It can only interact with what is there and the question is, how much is your conscious mind colored by what is in the subconscious mind, so that when my words reach the conscious mind, you are no longer hearing my words, but a distorted version that might validate some belief that you are attached to, which could be anything. We have seen students come to an ascended master teaching, even this one. They are open. They hear there is something there that is interesting. But then they hear one statement which contradicts an existing belief that they are very attached to. And what do they say? “Oh, this cannot be true. This cannot be coming from the real ascended masters. Kim has lost his mantle. He is no longer in contact with the real masters.” In many cases, it is because they have used that belief they are attached to as an integral part of building their sense of superiority. Now we are challenging that belief, and thereby we are also challenging their sense of superiority.

This is a catch-22 that some students are in and we have seen people come to an ascended master movement, and many other spiritual movements for that matter, being very attached to a particular belief, having it be challenged, and they leave in a huff. But you see here, what I am trying to say? How are you going to be free from the dualistic state of mind, your present state of consciousness? How are you going to attain Christhood? What did Jesus say? “He who is willing to lose his life for my sake shall enter the kingdom with me. But he who is not willing to lose his life, he who seeks to save his life, cannot enter the kingdom, because you are still having the experience here on Earth that you want to have, and which you cannot have in the kingdom.”

In many cases it is the sense of superiority that people are attached to, and they have used some outer belief to build the sense of superiority. And this is the risk we are taking by giving a teaching. Do you understand the dynamic? Because of the way spiritual teachings and religions have been used to build the sense of superiority, people’s sense of superiority is linked to specific beliefs. We see that if we are to free people from the dualistic state of mind, they must be willing to let go of those beliefs so we give a teaching that challenges them. But some people cannot let go of the sense of superiority and accept the teaching. They hold on as if it was a matter of life and death to that particular belief they have. Why? Because the sense of superiority makes you feel that because you believe in that particular idea, you are right. And if we challenge that idea, you are afraid that you will be plunged into feeling you were wrong and you will fall from the lofty heights of your own illusion of superiority into the deep dungeon of inferiority. You cannot bear this, so you must deny the teaching.

Are you willing to give up everything?

But what is really the dynamic here? It is you are not ready and willing to give up the experience of superiority on Earth in order to enter the kingdom, nirvana, enlightenment. It is amazing to me when I look at spiritual students. Well, amazing may not be the best word, but nevertheless, when I look at spiritual students, not just ascended master students, but from everywhere, the effort, the ingenuity, the subtlety that they will use to defend a particular belief because they have come to believe that that particular belief is their ticket to heaven and if it was proven wrong, they are afraid they will not go there. Many, many people are trapped in this constant evaluation process. “What is real? What is right? What is wrong? Would the ascended masters really say this? Would they say that? Is this a true teaching? Is this a false teaching?” But the way out of this is so simple.

These people think that in order to qualify for entry into the kingdom, I have to let go of all false beliefs and maintain the true beliefs but the reality is entirely different. It is so simple. What beliefs do you have to let go of in order to qualify for entry into the kingdom? All of the ones you have here on Earth. Every single one. Every single belief and idea. You have to be willing to lose your entire life on Earth. Could it be more simple? Forget the intellectual arguments. Forget: “Oh this is a true teaching. That is the high teaching. No, this guru is higher than your guru. My dad was stronger than your dad.” If this is the experience you want of seeking to establish superiority on Earth, by all means continue. But then you do not need me, do you?

If you want to transcend that experience, just let go of all your beliefs. This took this messenger decades to realize and you are now going to say with the linear mind: “But are you saying that all the beliefs we have are wrong? Many of our beliefs and ideas are based on the teachings you have given directly. Are you saying they are wrong?” No, I did not say that. I just said you have to be willing to give them up because what has been expressed in words on Earth is not the highest teaching, not the highest view, because there are things that cannot be expressed in words on an unnatural planet. How will you experience the higher truth than what can be expressed on Earth? Only from the ascended state. How will you reach the ascended state? Only when you stop holding on to experiences on Earth, you are willing to let them all go in order to reach something higher.

How simple is that? But of course, it is completely undecipherable for the ego, for the separate selves, for the fallen beings. You are not your ego, not your separate self, you are not a fallen being or you would not sit here. You, the Conscious You, can come to experience that you are pure awareness and when you experience that you are pure awareness, this is the magic of this teaching, you realize you are not your beliefs. You do not need to carry those beliefs with you. You need to return to the pure, neutral awareness you had when you first descended from the I AM Presence.

Only the being that descended from heaven can ascend back to heaven. The beliefs you have on Earth have helped you reach the neutral state. Those beliefs that have not helped you are hindering you. So obviously you need to give up the ones that are hindering you. But even the ones that have helped you reach the 96th level must be given up for you to reach the 97th and so forth until the 144th. At the 144th there is that last ghost that Jesus had on the cross and he must give up that ghost in order to ascend. I had to give up my ghost. It was different from Jesus’s. It’s different from yours. It does not matter what form it takes. It just has to go. The ghost has to go. “Go ghost! Get thee behind me ghost!”

You face the Presence and you unfold your sense of self from the worldly sense of self into the sense of self that is the I AM Presence. And then you experience I AM Presence. And then after you have ascended you continue to unfold your sense of self to where you may sense: “I AM the Ascended Master Gautama Buddha.”

With this my beloved I seal you, those who are physically here, those on the webinar and I seal this conference in the Flame of Peace. How do you attain peace? So simple. Just give up everything.

 

Copyright © 2025 Kim Michaels

 

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