My journey with ascended masters...

In this post I will share with other spiritual people my journey of how I became an ascended master student and why I continue to be one.

I first heard the term "ascended master" in a book about hypnosis and past life regression called "Many Lives, Many Masters". The author, Brian Weiss was a psychologist and he stumbled upon a communication from an ascended master during a regression session with a subject. This communication was so profound for him personally that it left him astounded and intrigued. For me, the biggest takeaway was the discovery of ascended masters, even though that was not the primary subject of the book.

Thankfully I am in the internet age, and google searches gave me lots of data on ascended masters. I read everything I could find like a hungry caterpillar and felt a strange satisfaction to find out about these wonderful and loving beings. They seemed to be my connection to the spiritual world which I had been looking for since I was a child.

One day I came upon Kim Michaels' website and began to read his material. His website said he was a messenger for the ascended masters and I found dictations from many different masters. One of the dictations, from the ascended master Jesus, really struck a chord in me and from then on I was hooked to Kim Michaels' material.

Now, it is very possible to start reading spiritual material for entertainment and excitement, which I did for sometime. Almost a couple of years. I experimented with the ideas and daydreamed my pet dreams and felt special about myself. But there were certain things that the masters urged the readers to do, which I was not willing to do. At first I did not want to say invocations and decrees. I found them weird. Other things too, which were related to the ego and required that I work on myself and take charge of my reactions and decisions, which I mostly ignored. Unconsciously, I was rejecting them because I was not yet ready to work on myself. I was mainly enjoying the discovery of being able to hear from God, or beings close to God, in this day and age. These dictations had been spoken through the messengers in the last 10 years, 5 years, 6 months and so on. To me, it meant that God was not stuck in mute photos or statues in temples, unreachable to the average person. It meant God was around and communicating with humans and somehow I had got access to that.

There was also the whiff of suspicion, what if these dictations are all madeup? The websites are a farce, a ploy to get something from me? So I was always searching for the catch, do they want money, do they need me to do something in return and so on. But I also had a strong desire to know what God wanted to tell us, and I was intrigued, so I kept reading whatever I could find for free.

Around the same time, I found my outer life situation spiraling out of control. I was in a very challenging situation, the details of which I will not go into, but my life was kind of shattered. I recall a distinct moment when I asked myself a serious question. Do I really believe what these "ascended masters" are saying even though I have never seen them or met a single person in my outer life who knew about them ? Something deep within me resonated with a yes. Then I began to reason, whatever I was reading felt right to me, and I hadn't found anything else that resonated more than these messages, so why not? I told myself that, if in the future I found something that resonated more than these "ascended masters" then I could always let this go and follow that. I made the decision to try it out and see where it takes me.

Soon after that decision, I spent my first few dollars on a Kim Michaels book.

That was about 5 years ago. Today my outer situation is slightly different though not so much. But my perspective is very different. I am happier, much much happier. I have sincerely tried to follow what the masters teach, I have read many books, applied them to myself, changed myself, my approach, my perspective, my attitudes. In so doing, I have also developed a beautiful relationship with God and a few ascended masters.

I have also outgrown my suspicions of the intent of the messengers especially Kim Michaels. One of the conclusions of my experimentation was that Kim and possibly other messengers are on a quest similar to mine. They too have a desire to come closer to God and are willing to help their human brothers and sisters in the process. So, if they are spending all their time being a messenger and don't have a regular job, then selling books becomes a practical matter and source of livelihood for them.

Buying a few books gave me a kickstart but now I'm at the stage of my experiment where I am able to also commune with the masters without an intermediary. I can get impulses in my heart and I am training myself to get guidance from within. I think it will be a lifelong process.

Another great development has been finding spiritual people like myself. I have developed a friendship with a few like minded spiritual people. We are ordinary people from all over the globe, and we have a common passion to come closer to God. This passion has blossomed into a small spiritual community of ascended master students. It is such a beautiful communion when we come together for a common purpose, either during an ascended master conference, a webinar or simply to invoke light when we say decrees and invocations together (yes I did start saying them).

All in all, its been a successful experiment so far and that is why I am still an ascended master student. I haven't yet found anything better than this.

- Anu Bhimjiani