Article Highlights:

• What’s karma, really?
• Religious hangover
• Easy way to resolve it

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What is karma? We bandy the word about all the time, and if we stop to really hear what we’re saying we might notice it often has a tone of justice, judgment, retribution, repayment. I think it might be time to question that. What IS karma?

Do we even know what we’re talking about? Or have old programs and ideas, borrowed from here and there over time, created a less conscious glop of beliefs that we are parroting in an uninformed way?

When we say karma sometimes we are joking or using it in a light context. Good parking karma, for instance. But when we use it in a more serious or real application it’s often in the context of energy causing us problems in the present that comes from wrong-doing in the past. Karmic debt. A preposterous idea, if you ask me.

God=Love and when has the loving god ever worked in terms of debt and punishment? Never. That idea comes right out of the human minds of every ashram we’ve know. It comes through a system of caste and prejudice. And it also has roots in every monastery, nunnery, and punitive hell-fire and punishment religious system we’ve experienced through time. Including now. And it’s wrong. It carries the wrong tone and emphasis.

I always had an unusual inner spiritual life, but my outer expression was religious when younger. In the early 1980’s, however – having recently left my childhood religion and set foot on a spiritual-not-religious path – I asked Wisdom, “What is this karma thing I keep reading about?” A simple answer was given.

Karma is unresolved intensities of feelings and experiences.

It’s instructive just how simple that answer is. One way to recognize the truth of core spiritual principles is to look for simplicity. Complexity is the tendency of human minds. Rules, punishments, long philosophical arguments about definition – these are the human ideas grafted onto core Wisdom. In this instance, we have judgment and punishment grafted onto the core principle of karma.

Later, I asked for more about karma and was given the following:

Karma involves unresolved intensities moving toward balance.

Another simple concept was added to my understanding. At the basis of things is the fact that life is always moving toward balance. Whether at the most cosmic and purely energetic level or at the level of human behavior. That’s the nature of all creation. So karma is about coming into balance. It’s not about punishment, it’s about balance.

Some years later I asked Wisdom to elaborate on karma a bit. Though the reply contained a few added words, the answer was still simple.

Karma is impressions of experience that did not process freely.

To the first two ideas, is added the thought that karma is unprocessed impressions of experience. One’s own impressions or the impressions of others. Very interesting. Karma isn’t the acts or the experiences themselves… but the impressions one carries forward regarding an experience, event or act… those carried on in a way that prevented things from processing freely.

Game changer. Really. Don’t you think? What it points to is that one might experience something truly intense but what makes it karmic is that it didn’t process freely. Not that it happened, but that it didn’t process freely. It points to healing in way we can all immediately recognized in the workings of our own lives.

Intense experiences happen in the flow of life’s river. And the river flows on carrying that experience downstream. Perceptions of that experience are things we pluck out of the river to carry with us instead of letting them go on downstream freely. They can become burdensome and heavy in our backpacks, interfering with life. But in the river they flow beyond us.

One of the first things to note here is that karma isn’t weights and measures. It’s not wrong-doing and right-setting. Not punishment and justice. It’s just unprocessed energy… specifically unprocessed impressions of what something was or should have been. And it’s showing up for resolution, to bring balance. Things we chose to pluck out of the river to keep in our possession. That’s what karma is and how its accumulated.

So when we think, “wow, that person (or I) must have really done something bad because look at what’s happening now as karmic repayment,” we are grafting old religious ideas onto a more pure spiritual energetic principle.

We would be a lot more accurate (to say nothing of compassionate) to say “There is something trying to come back to balance.” Or, “That looks like an opportunity to process something intense so it can freely flow now. We could send a prayer into that, or a kind word.

It completely removes those old religious hangovers about deserving what is happening. It frees us from feeling we did something wrong, or that someone else must have. It frees us from the hopeless task of repairing a past that is gone. We can just let the held energy begin to move, the energy that lingered for lack of free processing. It can complete now.

Most important, it frees us from the story. The story isn’t the problem. It’s my lingering perceptions about the story. And they are causing energy to be held up rather than processing freely. I can pinpoint and understand those perceptions and let them flow, process and release.

I can process them now so they become part of the river’s flow or I can pluck them up and carry them forward. Becoming aware of them and releasing them to the river is what lets them complete and not become karmic. (more…)

Article Highlights:

• Love’s problem
• Love’s secret
• Love’s surrender

You can read about my newest session here.  Or scroll to the end of this article for a brief description of all the sessions I offer.  

Dear One,

Valentine’s Day is soon and our thoughts circle around love since it’s a day we focus on love.  Whether on this day or any other, whether we focus on loving another or loving ourselves, there’s a problem regarding love.  

Love’s problem is one we cannot overcome – at least not the way we generally go about it.  The problem with love is we can never fully and finally achieve it as long as we are loving 3D.

3D love is something we need to do – love as an action verb. So we try to do it, we keep trying to love ourselves and others, we keep trying and hoping to be loved.

As long as we approach it in 3D, we’ll sometimes do better at this and other times fall short. We’ll sometimes have success, feeling love for ourselves or another, but then we or they will shift or tilt, love will be disturbed – and so it goes.

3D = duality and that’s the way duality is – it’s the constant movement between the two opposites of a matter.  In this case, between love and not love, between feeling it and not feeling it, having or not having it.

Duality is an exploration.  Thus, we can only keep trying, seeking, wanting, learning, failing, achieving.  You have seen this in your own life.  You may achieve more love, learning to hold closer to the “desirable” side of the opposites, but it is never fully stable.  It makes you wonder finally, “What is the secret to love?”

Here is the secret of love:
Love is not something to do,
it is not something to give or receive.  
Love is not something to have.
Love is what you are.

We think of love as a feeling.  It can express through feeling, through emotion, but Love is not the feeling, it’s not the emotion – those are just conduits.  Love also is not a state we must try to achieve. 

Love is not a feeling,
Love is not a thing.  
Love is what we are.

I cannot fulfill my desire to be loved or my desire to love myself until I realize the Love I Am.  When I relinquish my 3D way of perceiving love, when I am ready to end my tireless explorations of the vast territory between love/not love, then something more is possible.  I can realize all I am.

The task is neither to search for love nor hope and pray for love.
The task is to surrender to what we already are.
The world over, this is what is meant by
The surrender to Love

Leaving the duality – releasing myself from that journey – I can fall deep into the Love that I am.  In the surrender to Love, my world changes profoundly.  For if I am Love, I can only see with the eyes of Love.  

Jesus – a master of love – did not heal by seeing the world of pain and responding to it with compassion. He didn’t weep for people, he rejoiced in them, seeing them only as Love and Light they truly are. He was Love realized.  Therefore he was the eyes of Love, the heart of Love, the hands of Love.  It was the absoluteness of Love that healed others.

This is a profound thing. The mind rebels with ego’s conundrums and questions, with past experience and learned programs, but that is all 3D.  Surrender to Love, the truth of what you are, and this falls away.

The opportunity of Love
is to live in surrender to what you are.
Are you ready for The Surrender to Love?

The longing for Love rises continuously and strongly from your Soul.  It is calling you.  What to?  It’s not just calling you to a moment of love, or a partner for love.  It’s a longing that’s calling you home to who you really are, home to Love.

You came from Love,
you return to Love
without ever leaving Love at all
For Love is what you are. (more…)

I have a pretty cool mini-course starting at the end of the month that has my best info on how to get your life to happen from your deepest soul intent rather than just your bright ideas and effort. If you want more info, scroll to the PS at the end.

Dear Conversant,

Last week I wrote about a funny AHA at my own expense, when I was reminded by spirit during my holiday travel to stop being annoyed or judgey or concerned about those who were sick and unmasked. I was advised to just send them healing. Duh.

You might naturally wonder if I got sick when I got home. Well, I did. Sort of. Maybe. Or not. Here’s what happened: at home, 6 days after that exposure to so many who were obviously ill, I did feel it hit my immune system. All that day I felt a drag on it, as my body worked to rally its resources. So I did what many of you might do and dosed myself with my various immune boosting remedies. It helped. But.

That evening it hit hard and I suddenly went from coping pretty well to feeling full-blown “in it.” I used a home test kit (for the sake of my personal science – I felt interested in knowing what was actually happening.) It showed positive for Covid. So yes, there it was.

So I took my more hard core natural remedies and had a restless sleep. The next day I felt rough but somewhat better it seemed. And I improved all that day, returning to fairly normal feeling though still tired. I continued dosing and regaining energy for two days. Occasionally I felt a chill or a flush but by taking my temp throughout, i could see that my body temperature didn’t rise.

The third day I tested with a home kit again and it was negative for covid – all clear. And I felt well. Since then, I’ve continued observing with interest to see if there were more periods of worsening, if other symptoms developed, if fever happened. No. And I used a home kit twice more during what felt like dips, but again, no, not covid. After one afternoon of feeling quite bad and three days feeling mostly normal but a little subpar, I stopped having any symptoms at all and seemed to return to normal.

I continued, however to journal temperature, energy, symptoms etc to see if they returned and now, 21 days later I seem to have stayed in the clear. So it was a brief encounter and it felt to me like it was actually good “exercise” for my immune system, something useful for my on-going well-being, something strengthening.

What was most of note to me was that I felt interested and curious as well as oddly and deeply peaceful about it. You might remember in my article last week regarding the plane trip that I said that on the plane:

“Right away I switched to compassion and started sending loving understanding and healing to the poor folks who were suffering. Immediately I felt a calm come over me as my frequency shifted up. It was a very good moment and in it was also the knowing that even if I did get sick all would be well in that too.”

That feeling of well-being that I had on the plane seemed to be there throughout the post-travel period. This interested me and led to one of those dialogues with spirit that I like to have. I generally write them down, here’s this one as it unfolded.

Me: So, beloved Light Family, this has been an interesting experience…

Light Family: We would say that in part, it is your frame of mind that is to be noticed upon your return home, you let your curiosity have at least as much space as any concern. This is somewhat common for you, you often get so absorbed and engaged with interest that you no longer are engaging in a worry or fear.

Me: Oh, ok, right, that is something to ponder. And what I was going to say was that this time what was so noticeable – so interesting – to me was the feeling of calm I had on the plane that if I got sick all would be well. Not so much that I had that to try to hold on to or work with as an assurance, but rather than I could actually feel it like something that was tangible. As though it was something created then that was like a pill or an actual antidote placed in my field or something…

Light Family: Within the multiplicity of timelines, this was of course something that was indeed occurring on the plane. It was also something that was in a state of immediately becoming the past. And it was also something as yet to occur – within the simultaneity time, it was all these perspective in “time.” And so, yes, as you sense, you created on the plane your own wellness for your post-travel period yet to come. And you did this by sending healing not only to those on the plane but to all in need as you felt guided to do. This included you at a so called future moment.

Me: Hmmm. Now that’s very interesting, isn’t it? Our minds struggle with this idea of simultaneous timelines… but in that moment on the plane I did have a sense of it. Not in understanding or words, not in conscious thoughts, but I can say that I did feel a sort of tangibility in the moment…. It’s hard to explain but there was a different “weight” or quality in the energy then. And I’ve felt that same quality in this post travel period, something noticeable to me…

Light Family: You, and others such as yourself, can look for, begin to notice more, these different qualities or sensations of experience. They indicate dimensional shifting of a kind going on more now. They are the movement into greater timelessness, they are the movement toward more expressive and immediate simultaneity, they are merging intersections of inter-dimensional and quantum shifts.

Me: oh yes, I see! The concept of using an experience like that on the plane… one that of course quickly becomes past… to place in it something to serve as a healing aid… for an experience in what was future but…. Well… also not future…. Nice… much to ponder here.

Light Family: Yes, and let us remind you of something you have been given regarding how healing works. It caps this dialogue nicely.

Me: At this point I stopped the dialogue to look back in my file of such dialogues and came upon the following:

“Healing both includes the one needing and the one offering it. It includes both and it includes them through time. And healing goes beyond the one seeking, the one sent to, and the one offering – it moves across the earth in its entirety and it reaches to the stars. It heals those near and far. It heals the ancestors and those who have gone, it heals those who have yet to come. Healing is a blessing beyond time and space.

If you do not know this, how can you heal and how can you stay well? If you do not know this, how can you receive the countless healings coming to you all the time from places and persons and beings known and unknown, throughout all dimensions of time and space, both now and here, and beyond words and time.

Know that this is true. As you persevere in your healing, you heal the world and the world heals you in an endless round of ever-evolving wellness and transformation.” (more…)