Ascended Masters: "The Group of 9"; A Benevolent Guiding Presence
There's much misunderstanding and misrepresentation in this realm of who the real Ascended Masters are, and how they work to support the emergence of consciousness within the Shift. Icons have been created, that are often mimicked by Intervention energies, to disempower people and divert them from their aligned journey. The real Ascended Masters, on the other hand, are about resonating soul frequencies into a given location so as to liberate and uplift. Such is the work of the "Group of 9".
Group of 9: Ascended Master Consciousness
My sharing here is from direct personal involvement as a bridge into this authentic Ascended Master Consciousness. I don't require or expect you to believe me, per se. However, when you read the sharing, see how the resonance strikes an authentic note within you.
I have worked with the Group of 9 as a bridge into realities through plentiful lifetimes and incarnations. To be clear though, I do not channel them, or anything else for that matter. There's a high risk with channeling, in that you make yourself susceptible to intervention coming through. I can tell you, from personal experience, the Group of 9 DO NOT CHANNEL. That would be to override the first basic principle of the Universe: that every soul is endowed with the sovereign compulsion to determine their own perception of truth.
Hence the Group of 9 works in a very careful and specific way. They resonate soul frequencies into a given location. Like, for example, during the bogus pandemic here, they resonated the frequency of sovereignty and strength of individual will. So as to directly confront the manipulaton and control where it matters most - within. That way, the soul forges through the convolution and emerges more strongly out. Hence the outer reality changes.
In this way, although resonating firmly and benevolently within karmic constructs such as on the Earth right now, they don't appear in a leadership role. They are not in the least interested in being iconised or standing on some pedestal. Worshipping them is an anathema to their existence. Their encouragement is for you each to take centre stage in your own personal development.
"A leader is best when people barely know he exists,
when his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
they will say: we did it ourselves."
Lao Tzu
In this realm, at this time, I feel given to anchor and resonate frequencies of the Goup of 9, that I collectively call, "Openhand". Also to share insight to their philosophy, so as to provide a liberational mechanism for as many souls that can resonate.
What is an Ascended Master?
An Ascended Master is a being that has escaped the unconscious cycle of death and rebirth. In other words, they have escaped the wheel of karma. But not simply by dropping it. Instead, by surrenderring into it, and realising themselves as the immortal soul through the process of life itself.
Now, you get to choose your incarnations, based on the learning/expressing yearning of the soul.
Most importantly, you don't lose or forget your inviolable connection to the Source. This is something well worth working towards. Because it means you're no longer the victim of the twist and turn of events; nor the turbulent machinations of the Universe. You're free to act, but also to transcend.
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Group of 9: Tillers of the 9 Rays of Consciousness
In my awareness, there are Ascended Masters, a "Group of 9" who together, resonate frequencies of expression - resonances, through the dimensions with the purpose of liberating souls from engrossment in the relativity of life. By resonating key frequencies of being, they can bring awake souls caught up in identification. Resonating the ray 6 of sovereignty during the bogus pandemic here, for example.
They have been previously called "Kohan's" of the rays, or even "Lords of the Rays". Which, to me, is total nonsense! Because in them (the real ones) there's no desire to command or govern. Simply to liberate. Thus, they are preferably known as the "Tillers of the Rays".
Here are the nine frequencies that they work on...

Collectively, here in this work, I've been given to call the group "Openhand".
Ascended Masters: It's all about frequency
Take, for example, the Ray 4 - that of non-judgmental discernment: being able to figure out Right Action aligned with the natural universal flow of the moment. It is what some call the "Christ Consciousness" (although it is not religious in nature), which is spiking right now in the hearts of people all around the world.
However, rather than 'waiting for the return of another icon', it's about finding that frequency of being within ourselves - the ability to actualise non-judgmental discernment to find the right flows through a situation, without necessarily dishonouring those who are not going with The Shift; but then not giving in to their limiting beliefs and reality constructs either.
Be aware, there are those in the ether who are masquerading as Ascended Masters, channeling limiting information that although sounds compelling, does little or nothing to cause people to forge their own pathway. They are, at best, a distraction from the real path. Which is that of committed inner inquiry and forging of soul.

"Do not believe anything because it is said by an authority, or if it is said to come from angels, or from Gods, or from an inspired source. Believe it only if you have explored it in your own heart and mind and body and found it to be true. Guatama Buddha
The Intervention here has established these false and distorting energies to lead people astray. But this can only happen where the aspirant is looking outside of themselves to be given their truth (as with channeling, for example). Or else they're not digging deep enough to peel off the obscuring layers of karma. Each must now be bold and courageous if you're truly going to break away from the Simulation and go with the real Shift.
Here's how the false Council of Nine
was established to mimic the Group of 9
Here's how the lead entity Ra,
is Simulating the Shift to misdirect souls
Working with the Group of 9
Humanity is yearning right now for help, and the Group of 9 are responding - they are well aware of the plight of humanity, and the challenges of emergence from the Simulation. If you can learn to work with these resonances of soul frequencies, that bring alive in you your own truth, then you can develop a powerful alchemical flow of transformation through your life.
Here are 5 key ways you can tune in and gain support through the field:
1) You must shift orientation in life from efforting to gain some outcome in the exterior, as opposed to self-realising through life's experiences. It's about learning to self-actualise the best version of you in any given moment.
2) Wherever triggering and reactivity take place for you, there's a need to own it as your own. It matters not how distorted the other beings in the equation might have been. The question is: how have you been triggering? Why - what is it you might have been attached to? Now work it through, until you come to the Sacred Ground of Being within - the hallowed shores of The One.
3) It is to allow freedom of expression to reign in your life; working past fears, worries and anxieties of what those in the exterior might think of you, or project onto you. Instead gaining your validation internally, from feedback loops with the Universe and rising kundalini.
4) Now you're looking for the felt-sense of a frequency of being that wants to come through in given situations - your soul-ray-harmonic (harmonies of the 9 Rays). This is the real game-changer of your existence. Because in setting the vibrational expression of the soul free, now life begins to shape around you. Rather than you constantly chasing.
5) Now celebrate the reflective feedback loops that come your way: Numerology perhaps; sacred geometry; patterns and flows; creatures in nature; the movement of clouds. Let these feedback loops begin to create pathways through life for you. Express the sense of gratitude with life and with the Team. Because you'll find their energies there with you, all around - perhaps in the next rainbow that you see, or the 11:11 calling card for the Shift.
A Benevolent "Openhand"
Guidance may be felt as a simple synchronistic exchange with a bird, in the lyrics of a song, the words of a friend, the metaphor in a film. Or it could be a peak experience that shatters you to the core of your being. It depends on how ready you are.
Their communication knows no limitation of false grandeur. In this way, we can all open a bridge to the Group of 9 (should we choose to), who will benevolently extend an "open hand" of synchronistic frequency across it. That is their purpose. They are willingly here for us, especially now, in these monumental times of profound change.
Bright blessings
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Hi Open,
The last few weeks I've been seeing the number 9 ,or combinations of 9, around me - in a t shirt, time, charge of mobile etc. I've been asking what are they talking to me. I also felt a connection to Quanyin - unconditional love and compassion wrapped in pure white robes. I also observed that my processes are speeding up as if I'm jumping from one inquiry to another until I hit a knot.
And I'm landed on working with Bs. How can I embrace and work with the Bs which has been created due to unconsciousness in the chakras, plus coming from the bigger field. It's circulating the area between thirdeye and crown, making me feel anger. So I'm wondering whether I express anger or not, which often comes as projections. Now I'm mindful of that, but I'm also have a doubt whether it's my anger or is it the way BS wants me to be. Because I know anger is not my frequency.
Thank you🙏
Soumya
Look for the truth in any distortion 🤔
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Hi Soumya,
It's clear then, that the energies of the Group of 9 are inviting a connection.
Secondly, it's a good question, yes: spiritual people are very wary of expressing anger - understandably.
However, it's essential not to get into 'throwing the baby out with the bathwater'. Because where we override natural soul frequency, that becomes fertile ground for intervention too.
So, can you find an outlet for the expression, but without projecting at others?
What about beating a cushion or a punch bag, for example?
Then you learn to embody the strong energies of the warrior - the ray 1. However, we learn to embody only the aligned expression of it - not the distorted projection.
Give it a whirl - let it out, and see what happens.
Much love
<<< Open 💎
Let it go
In reply to Look for the truth in any distortion 🤔 by Open
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Hi Open,
I have to admit that I held the energy a little longer—actually, I was experimenting with it. This created dissonance in the emotional plane, an intense pain in the lower abdomen. When I released it by punching a cushion, the pain eased, and I felt relieved. I also felt a surge of power—the Ray 1 warrior energy.
My experiment was about how to embrace the energy without letting it go. It might sound weird 😁. Maybe I need a better understanding of what “embrace” truly means.
Thank you for your reflections😊🙏
Soumya
What is the nature of authentic "Ascended Masters"? 🙏
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27/08/2025 Shift Insight: Ascended Masters
I've been asked quite a lot recently on my views on authentic Ascended Masters - particularly the nature of the Group of 9 that we work with here at Openhand.
So I felt to update this lead article on the topic above. It contains five key ways you can come to work with them yourself. But be aware, there are shadow energies in the field trying to mimic them - to get you to hand over sovereignty and power for your own soul's direction and determination.
Hence the importance of the illumination.
Do let me know your throughts.
Love and well wishes
<<< Open 🙏
Thanks
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Open, thanks for the time and effort addressing this thread.
Also, thank you for not claiming to be the 'fountain of all wisdom'.
I actually agree with much of what you say. It just seemed for me to be an important point about whether you can 'know what's coming next' or not.
I personally believe that psychic knowings transcend the probability factors of physical reality, mainly because the events they predict have already happened - time and space being an illusion.
Landing in the moment of now
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One way or another
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Thanks for the reply Open.
I agree with your assessment. There is no doubt that an "opportunity" for my friend to drive safely appeared when I warned her to be careful driving. She ended up falling asleep at the wheel and running head on into an eighteen wheeler. I also have no doubt that the opportunity for consciousness to learn or evolve is infinite since there is no time or space or limitation on pure consciousness. Perhaps the only limit is imagination.
Whether my friend was reading from the higher script or not I cannot tell. I only know what I experienced and what it tells me is that consciousness or my soul or whatever you want to call it, wants me to sometimes know the future. Or, you could say it wants me to 'know what's coming next'.
In light of my direct experience your statement "accept that we don't know what's coming next" is not always true.
One way or another
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Hi Bruce,
What a deeply powerful experience you shared...
- "One of my friends was leaving my clinic when I suddenly had a sick feeling and saw in my minds eye a flash of cars on a highway. The feeling I got was that she would not be safe driving. I told her emphatically to be careful driving. I forgot about it (not holding it in my mind) until one week later when I found out she had been killed in a car wreck.
My feeling is you were tuning into the field and a co-creation that was happening. It may have been experienced as a 'premonition', but really I would say you were tuning into a higher space that was perceiving parts of the future that were already landing in this one moment of now.
In this case, it's not about whether 'this' or 'that' happens, it's a movement of energy which is inviting the exploration of truth - of self-realisation. No doubt you communicated a message. But here's an important one that reaches out to the general situation mankind faces at the moment: most people are not reading from the higher 'script'
Hence things that might have gone a particular way, went another one instead. Still, the river of consciousness flows ceaselessly down the mountain. There's always another possibility of learning, always another tributary that will reach the ocean, one way or another.
Open
Go for it.
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Hi IamthatIam,
You said...
- "The need for more profound self-honesty really resonates with me, so I will plumb the depths of my soul more fully about my motivations to act in certain ways and whether my actions truly express my highest self."
I'm sure you speak for many. Go for it sister!
Insight Arises
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It amazes me that there are words that describe what has always been just a feeling, a notion, a reflection, a knowing, a glimmer on the path...It is all so natural. It was not always this way. I remember "helping" ants escape to the grass had they unfortunately found their way into the concrete jungle. Running away as a teen because everything was "money, money, money," I knew there was an imbalance, felt guided and cared for but as I grew was pressured and left w/o any resources decided to succumb and play the game instituted by society. It swallowed me whole at times yet the flashes would momentarily ignite the inner flame to shine light to the absoluteness. I have always had conversations with those of the universe. When I was nine years old I would faint in church every week. I remember looking at Jesus on the cross ( it was so gruesome and odd) so so so many thoughts and feelings would flood me. My heart would race, I would feel so incredibly hot, sweat would bead, then my fingertips would start tingling, numbness ensued up my limbs. My peripheral vision would become fuzzy and disconnected at the edges as the darkness encapsulated me into an unconscious state. I cant count the number of times(no medical issues, I've never even had a cavity). I continued to converse into my twenties. I would ask for "signs" that I was on the right path, for guidance, for help. I pleaded at times, cried, rejoiced, was thankful. One time in particular stands out as we moved after picking a green spot on the map..I said silently,if I see a weeping willow tree, I will know I am on the right path. Almost 2,000 miles later, pull into the drive of a modest home and directly across the street is the most beautiful age old weeping willow tree these eyes have ever seen...sigh...those signs were always like a reset button in some way, I was relieved, threw my thanks out there and told them I would continue to give back to those I crossed paths with. Fast forward a decade and it has continued to evolve as received. Thoughts, ideas, feelings come through...no need to understand or intend at this point, the signs increased my awareness. Ahhhh there is just too much that arises. Enjoy. Glorious Day
Premonitions
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Open, iamthatiam,
Thanks for the responses.
But, 'holding in my mind what is coming' (as Trinity said) was not my experience with premonitions. For example: One of my friends was leaving my clinic when I suddenly had a sick feeling and saw in my minds eye a flash of cars on a highway. The feeling I got was that she would not be safe driving. I told her emphatically to be careful driving. I forgot about it (not holding it in my mind) until one week later when I found out she had been killed in a car wreck.
Obviously, there is no such thing as time and space. Everything is consciousness. But, why does consciousness choose to gift the human mind with some foreknowledge of the future? Is it about helping our souls evolve? It must be since that is all that is happening anyway. Which seems to be the short answer to my question, or any question for that matter. Why this or that? Because it is helping your soul evolve.
So I am the 'nothing in it all' acting through a fictional character in a story (ego/identity) that is helping my soul evolve.
Group of Nine
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Greetings Open: There is so much here that resonates with my heart's inner knowing. I feel like a kid in a candy shop! I will re-read this a few more times to let it all sink in. I feel a "charge" about completely embracing freedom of expression, which may be linked to previous experiences of persecution when being visible in the world and speaking my truth. I know that I need to lean in fully and feel this fear to dissolve it. I have the sense that I have been skirting around the edges of painful experiences, emotions, and distortions. This is probably why I have not been able to dissolve them fully. Now that I am aware that I have been doing this, I sense that I have the courage to embrace and welcome my distortions; allow them to express fully; infuse them with Light and Love; and then release them to return to the Love and Light of Source. The need for more profound self-honesty really resonates with me, so I will plumb the depths of my soul more fully about my motivations to act in certain ways and whether my actions truly express my highest self.
Bruce, I get premonitions about the future, as well. It is my sense that events may change, however, from the way I am perceiving them in the present since they depend on the free will of all those involved. And others may change their minds, which would impact how those events unfold in the future. So what I see now as happening in the future may indeed change.
Open, just as I was feeling somewhat lost in the maze of illusion, I found your article and Tiffany's article posted yesterday to help me find my way. Thank goodness for synchronicity! With love and appreciation, Catherine
What's coming next?
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I get the synchronistic thing. And, I even have some synchronistic clues that the team of 9 actually exist. However, I am a little confused about the content of the first recommendation: "...willing to accept that we don't know what's coming next."
My wife and I have both had predictive dreams and premonitions about the future that were very accurate. I have also had psychics tell me obscure things that came true years later. So, in a way, we do know what's coming next.
Being 'nothing in it all' and knowing what's coming next seem to be two different things.
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