WARNING: This
is a dynamic website and the teachings may change at any time.
By Kim Michaels, May 17, 2010
There is no place on this website where I or a master through me makes
the claim that these teachings represent an infallible or absolute
truth. It is not the masters’ intention with this website to bring
forth “The Word of God” that once given must stand unchanged for all
time.
It is a misunderstanding to take the same approach to this website
as fundamentalist Christians take to the Bible, namely that everything
should be taken literally and that nothing must be changed. The masters
can at any time instruct me to change or take out any teaching on
this website.
As the masters explain throughout this website, it has never been
their intention to bring forth an absolute or infallible truth, because
this simply cannot be done given the current level of consciousness
of humankind. Nor can it actually be done with words. As the masters
clearly state, they want us to look beyond the outer message and tune
in to their Spirit and vibration. We cannot know a master through
words, but only by experiencing the Presence of the master.
In the past the masters have given many teachings, and some of them
have been turned into major world religions. Yet even the scriptures
of such religions are not the infallible
word of God. Those who believe this are trapped in black-and-white
thinking. They are also victims of the ego’s attempt to set itself
up as being superior by elevating its own belief system as the “only
true religion.”
This website is part of a long tradition of progressive revelation.
Progressive revelation is dynamic precisely because it is adapted
to current conditions on Earth. A specific teaching is given by the
masters to help people at a specific level of consciousness transcend
that level of consciousness. The masters can give more advanced teachings
today than Jesus could give 2,000 years ago because the consciousness
of humankind has been raised.
Thus, it is quite possible that if people change their consciousness,
a teaching might become outdated or obsolete. It is even possible
that a teaching given in a dictation can become incorrect through
people’s choices. In other words, a teaching that was correct when
given can now convey an incorrect message because people’s free-will
choices have changed the condition the masters were talking about.
It can be helpful to consider that there is an Alpha and an Omega
aspect to the teachings given on this website. The Alpha aspect is
that the masters give teachings that are universal or timeless, meaning
that they talk about spiritual truths that are independent of conditions
on Earth. Such teachings are not likely to change, although a given
teaching might become obsolete through the addition of a more advanced
teaching.
The Omega aspect is that the masters talk about specific conditions
on Earth, and many of these conditions are produced by and can be
changed by the choices of human beings in embodiment. In the Golden
Age section there is an entire section in which the masters comment
on current
world events. Obviously, this can be subject to change as a group
of people change their consciousness.
It is helpful to keep in mind that when the masters talk about anything
related to conditions on Earth, they are not trying to make an absolute
statement. Their statements have one purpose only, namely to do what
has the maximum potential for changing people’s consciousness. This
goes for groups of people as well as individuals.
Thus, it should be obvious that the teachings on this website can
indeed be changed or certain things can be removed as conditions change.
This is simply normal maintenance on a dynamic website. If you want
teachings that are set in stone, join an ascended master organization
where there is no longer progressive revelation. Or join a fundamentalist
church.
In the spring of
2010 I carried out a major reorganization of this website, where I
created the Archives and
placed all dictations here in chronological order. I then read each
dictation and divided it into topics that were then placed as separate
pages in the other sections of the website. The approach I took was
that I would place the original dictation in the archives and extract
information based on its relevance, leaving any remaining information
to be found only in the Archives.
I at first intended to leave the dictations in the archives in their
original form, but upon reading them, it became obvious that in about
a dozen dictations (out of over 300) certain information was no longer
conveying a correct message because they mentioned persons and an
organization that are no longer affiliated with this website and my
work.
Obviously, when the masters talk about a specific person or organization,
anything said can be subject to change depending on people's choices,
either individually or as a group. So as I was reading through all
of the dictations, I became aware that certain people had been mentioned
by name but the information said about them was no longer correct
because of their own choices. Likewise, a certain organization was
mentioned but it is no longer used
by the masters. It became obvious that if I left these statements
unchanged, they would be conveying a message that is no longer valid,
and this would obviously be misleading especially for new visitors.
In seeking direction from the masters, they made it clear that they
did not want to leave the information as it was, but that it was up
to me how I implemented this. This is quite consistent with how the
masters work with me. They often give me the direction of what to
do but leave the practical details for me to decide. This then becomes
my test and my opportunity to grow, which I fully accept.
I decided to remove
the names so that what was said was not tied to a specific person
or organization. Yet in each place where I removed information, I
inserted a note with a link to this page, so people will know why
information can be removed. However, I also took a closer look at
the context in which a name or other information appeared. I acknowledged
that when a name is removed, it is appropriate to reconsider whether
any of the information in that sentence of paragraph is still relevant.
For example, if something was said specifically to the participants
of a conference in 2005, does this still have any relevance today?
In other words, I evaluated whether the information was given for
a specific (and now outdated) purpose or whether it had any relevance
to the overall purpose and direction that the masters have for this
website. I also considered whether a sentence or paragraph conveyed
any information that will be useful to new visitors to the site. Based
on this evaluation, I in some cases removed a sentence, paragraph
or section. In some cases I edited a sentence slightly to omit a name,
and this change was marked in [brackets] with a link to this page.
This
does not mean that I removed all outdated information. For example,
Mother Mary started several dictations by thanking people for participating
in a rosary vigil that is long gone. This information is outdated,
but since it does not convey incorrect or misleading information,
I have left it in the Archives. It still conveys the message that
the masters appreciate rosary vigils.
It is possible that a similar evaluation will be applied to other
parts of the site in the future if time and priorities allow. For
example, the current affairs section contains some information that
is no longer relevant because world conditions have changed. Likewise,
some of the early questions
and answers really no longer fit in with the tremendous change
that has happened to the site since they were given back in 2003 or
2004.
In this respect, let me point out that the masters have always attempted
to make this website be able to stand on its own, meaning that they
generally do not talk about topics that are not explained on the site.
For example, in the early days there was no direct explanation of
the human ego. Thus, many of the early answers do not mention the
ego even though it would have been relevant to the question. Yet many
of the answers given after the ego teachings were released do indeed
refer to these teachings.
So based on this one consideration, it would indeed be relevant to
update some of the early answers so they make use of the ego teachings
and other later teachings. At this point this isn’t a priority for
the masters, but who knows when it might become so?
As Saint Germain has
inaugurated the Aquarian age and stated that “Everything has changed,”
who knows what changes might occur in the future? Personally, I find
this very exciting and look forward to what the masters have up the
sleeves of their seamless garments.
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