Why is it Taking So Long? Michael Answers | Steve Beckow

By Steve Beckow, May 28, 2025

(Golden Age of Gaia)

In 2017, I asked Archangel Michael why everything was taking so long.  He answered at length and I’d like to reproduce that answer here:

(“Archangel Michael on Snaps, Expansion, and Ascension,” June 6, 2017, at https://goldenageofgaia.com/2017/06/06/archangel-michael-on-snaps-expansion-and-ascension/.)

Archangel Michael: It is taking longer because you’re still collectively trying to do it as one.

[The inhabitants of Earth, via the collective consciousness, asked the Mother if the deadline for Ascension could be extended so that we could spread the knowledge and have more come with us.]

Now the time of separation is very close. That is why we are speaking to all of you with perhaps a greater urgency than you’ve heard and felt before.

Steve: What do you mean by time of separation, Lord? It has been discussed.  SaLuSa discussed it years ago.
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AAM: When you made the collective decision to ascend as one it was spiritually a very mature and evolved decision. You have witnessed individually and collectively, how many have reneged on that promise, that decision.

That does not mean that, yes, in the infinite and eternal existence of the Mother, she will wait forever because this is the unfoldment of her Plan. This is what the penetration with all of our voices into each and every one of you is about.

There will be those who choose to leave, to abandon their physical forms rather than ascend in physical form.

Steve: That is what you mean by separation? Leave?

AAM: That is what I mean and I do not mean being spun off into an alternate world or Earth or Gaia or planet. I mean simply, abandoning the body, dying, and leaving and coming home. There is no penalty or shame or guilt. It is simply a decision.

But it is not the desire of the Mother that this [Ascension process] simply continue [forever] because what she also sees (what we all see) and what you’ve repeatedly said to us, even though we operate often in terms of eons rather than years, many of you are tired.

So we do not wish for those who have been stalwart and continue and practice fortitude and persistence along with love to reach the point where they abandon their bodies. And you are seeing that in many.

Steve: I can think of one person in particular that seems to be thinking of abandoning her body, so yes.

[In 2025, I can think of more.]

AAM: When it comes to a decision point of whether the recalcitrant remain or whether those who are determined to fulfil the Mother’s dream remain, make no mistake about it: Those who have been in the truth of their heart and service will be victorious. I cannot be clearer than that.

Footnotes

(1) “If you can find balance and harmony in your life now, we would say that you are already living from a higher state of consciousness. Is it then no wonder that you feel different to many people around you, and find their ways no longer acceptable? It is a sign of the separation that is occurring at the present time, and it is a perfectly normal development.” (SaLuSa, May 31, 2010 at https:galacticchannelings.com.)

“We see the divide on Earth becoming wider between those of the Light and those who are still held back by the lower energies.” (SaLuSa, Oct. 3, 2012.)