Ascended Master Mother Mary, December 23, 2005 through Kim Michaels.

My Beloved hearts, do you understand the key concept that we have being trying to give you? Jesus has been trying to give you this on his website, I give it to you in my new book. The concept is that you cannot solve a problem with the same state of consciousness that created the problem. The problems you see around you in South America and Columbia were created because the people are in a certain state of consciousness. There is no solution to these problems as long as the people remain in that state of consciousness.

So what will it take to bring about a change? It will take that some people will be the open doors for reaching beyond the consciousness that has created the problems in South America. And many spiritual students have truly proven that they are willing to raise their consciousness, to go beyond the consciousness that has created the problems around them. Do you understand how important that is? Do you understand how important it is for the ascended masters and how important it is for God? Truly, there is no other way to solve the problems of humankind, whether it be in South America or elsewhere. Someone must be willing to raise their consciousness beyond the consciousness that created the problems.

Jesus walked the earth in the Middle East 2,000 years ago precisely because it was the darkest area of the earth. It is still the darkest area of the earth because not enough people have embraced his teachings. What was his teaching all about? It was all about reaching beyond the human consciousness, the consciousness of duality, so that you could reach up for the Christ consciousness, the vision of Christ, the vision of the Christ consciousness. This truly is the only solution to humankind’s problems. There is no other solution.

It is a complete illusion when people think that this political system or that political system can solve their problems. Capitalism will not solve the problems of poverty in South America, but neither will communism or socialism or any form of political ideology created by human beings who are trapped in the duality consciousness. Do you see, my beloved hearts, how important this is?

This is a concept that – if enough people could understand it – could totally change this planet almost overnight. If they, instead of looking high and low for human solutions to human problems, would start reaching higher than the consciousness that created those problems, and instead reach for the divine solution that comes to them through the mind of Christ. If only they dared to connect to the mind of Christ within their hearts, instead of expecting that the Pope or Jesus or the government or the president will solve their problems for them.

Stop waiting for the outer savior

My Beloved hearts, this is the essential problem on planet earth today, and it is a problem that is especially pronounced in South America—that the people wait passively for someone else to solve their problems. Or they pray passively to God to solve their problems for them. Do you see that so many people who are religious are in a passive state of consciousness of thinking that they can pray to God, and then God will magically step in and solve their problems for them?

This simply will not work! People have prayed for thousands of years for God to solve their problems, yet the problems have not gone away. And it is because the approach is not right. The approach needs to be raised up, so that people realize that God WILL solve their problems, but he will do it not for them as an outside force; he will do it through them as the inner force, the inner God that works through man in embodiment. This is truly what Jesus came to demonstrate 2,000 years ago, when he said, “I and my father are one, I can of my own self do nothing. But my father worketh through me. It is the father within me who is doing the work.”

Yet God needs a vessel in embodiment to work through because he has given humankind free will. So someone who is here in a physical body must use their free will to rise above the human consciousness, to reach for the divine solution and to be the open door for bringing that solution into manifestation.

You look at South America and you see many problems. And some people come and say, “Is there hope for the solution to these problems?” Yet I tell you that for every problem you see, there is an idea, there is an understanding, that will help people solve that problem. Take note of what I say. There is an idea that will help people solve their own problems. All problems spring from ignorance. The solution to any problem is understanding, the Christ understanding that is beyond the human ignorance, the human understanding, the intellectual understanding that created the problem.

When an idea is brought into the physical octave through an open heart and mind, and when that idea is given out to the people, then literally an entire society, an entire nation, can be changed overnight just because that idea spreads. And all of the people who are attuned suddenly wake up and realize, “We don’t need to do things the old way any more. We can do them a new way, we can find a new way to do them.”

It is when people come together and they are of one mind, of one heart, of one accord – as were the disciples of Jesus when the Holy Spirit descended at Pentecost – when people come together in oneness, then they establish a platform for opening up the door for the ascended masters to step through the veil.

This is an excerpt from a longer teaching. You can read the full dictation HERE.