Karma
_I: These days I've heard the word Karma many times... In various situations. There's such a heavy connotation to it that sometimes it bothers me to hear it...
_AM: It has become popularized as something negative instead of conveying what it truly is.
_I: Yes, that's it. It became synonymous with bad things. "You have bad karma," "This is your karma," "What heavy karma," "It will come back as karma," "I can't do anything, it's my karma." Even I myself tell myself that what I'm doing this year and the next are part of my karma, and sometimes I see it as a burden. But, what is karma really?
_AM: Karma comes from the sacred Brahmi language that you call "Sanskrit." It's a word composed of two others: "Kar," which means "action, cause," and "Man," which means "thinking, the one who thinks." Both together compose a concept that refers to "the action that affects the thinker." A human being is a thinking being, and through thought projects a driving energy that we call emotion, which propels the machinery towards action. But every action has an effect, a result that modifies the thinker, changes their way of seeing, learns. The bird that observes from the nest down below has an inner impulse that encourages it to throw itself into the void without prior knowledge, only observation. Thus it thinks, calculates, feels, and at a specific moment, decides to jump into the void. Falling, the reaction is activated, which is the effect of the action taken to jump into the void, and this means that there is no turning back, because it is already falling into the abyss, and therefore, the action taken conditions the thinker. Now, with the fall, the bird has two options as a consequence of the cause: collide against the ground at high speed, or flap and fly away.
_I: So karma is not something conditional to the point of saying: if you jump, you will get hurt.
_AM: No, karma is simply the consequence of your actions. And it doesn't matter if they are good or bad, what matters is how you react during the push of the previous action, how you act during the process. What for one person may be a bad decision, for another it may be the solution to their problems. What will differentiate one from the other is their ability to take aptitudes and attitudes when taking responsibility.
_I: Karma is like a test, an exam that one sets for oneself to overcome oneself... It's not a judgment imposed by the Universe. So one can decide whether to live their karma or not.
_AM: Karma is like learning. You make a decision, and that decision will lead you to an action that probably has unexpected results, and from them, you will learn. Karma is not a judgment, but a consequence of your own actions, but still, they can determine you.
_I: How can they determine me?
_AM: You can't stop a wave with one hand. If you have caused a tide, you will have waves as a consequence, and no matter how much you deny them, there they will be, pushing you towards the currents. You have set the conditions. The problem is that we are not consistent with those choices, that is, we are not coherent, and we become unconscious, acting by reactions instead of being responsible for taking conscious actions. When your actions are performed from consciousness, karma teaches you to fly when falling from the nest. But if you react from unconsciousness, karma will hit you with all its force against the ground. And just like the waves, the tides, everything you haven't learned must be revisited. Sooner or later you will have to jump again, because if your program says you should fly, no matter how much you deny it, life will put you in front of precipices.
_I: Of course, the system that I programmed for myself repeats until I learn, that's why I related Karma to Learning. Karma isn't that if I did something wrong, bad things will happen to me, or if I do good things, good things will happen to me, but karma only reminds me that I am responsible for my conscious and unconscious actions.
_AM: The view of good and bad karma is moralistic. Do you remember what morality was?
_I: Norms imposed by a culture in relation to the place or context in which they live; from "moris," which means "to inhabit."
_AM: Right. Religion and Philosophy are key in the moral development of a people seeking harmony among its parts. Spiritual concepts are transferable and can be shared as values. Thus, in the same way that for Christians there is the concept of sin and forgiveness, for Brahmi cultures there is karma and dharma. If karma is the action that affects the thinker, dharma will be what the thinker has managed to possess. "Dhar" means "possession, law." Thus, it implies that the thinker has learned something new, and now for him, it is his law, it is what he possesses as secure. Morally, the simplistic explanation of karma and dharma would speak of being careful with the actions we take because they can condition our lives for the worse, and therefore we must behave well to have good karma that leads us to dharma, to happiness. In this way, long before the social and normative laws of a judicial system existed, cultures regulated consensus and social order through philosophical concepts that did not want to specifically express the law of good and evil.
_I: That's why, when Eastern cultures mix with Western ones, the idea of karma and Christian sin mix, generating this idea that karma is equivalent to medieval Christian sin, and therefore, without talking about: "if you do something wrong you'll go to hell," we say "if you do something bad, it will come back to you as karma"... Which would be the same but said without the medieval Christian weight...
_AM: That's right. Weight has been placed on a word that doesn't belong to it. Karma should be seen as going to school. You have different subjects, different teachers, who will teach you things. Depending on your abilities and aptitudes, you will learn in one way or another. And that methodology used by you is what will have its consequences at the end of the year. There the teachers will tell you if you have to retake subjects or not. Therefore, you will spend vacations studying to pass those pending subjects, and if not, you will have to repeat the whole course the following year.
_I: In this system, I still see something failing... The concept is focused on "passing" and not on "learning."
_AM: Excellent. Here is where you have found why current society sees karma as something to overcome, to pass, to eliminate as quickly as possible from our lives, and to continue advancing instead of incorporating and enjoying assimilating the information. Because current society is designed to "improve," to surpass, to have success, to accumulate titles, to be able to say: "I passed it, I overcame it!" And then...
_I: Then what happens to all of us happens. Many years later a problem arises related to what I should have learned in primary school and I don't know how to solve it.
_AM: And there karma is activated again. Karma is not something to be overcome, it is something to be integrated, like shadows. You cannot face the shadows to erase them, but to understand them and use them in your growth process. That's why people take karma as something to overcome in their lives, to solve it to feel free. But karma is the action that affects the thinker, it is the ability to be transformed by our own creations. That's why you can create good karma, what Westerners would call good learning or integration process.
_I: Thinking about my year, one of the things that always comes to mind is that on February 23, 2022, I finish my karma of 12000 years. I free myself from the weight and responsibility of my task with the past, I close what I came to do in relation to my life in Khem, in the Nile, and I start living my life here and now in relation to the future. Before, I saw this as heavy karma, as something I have to do no matter what, because it's the echo of that action I took so long ago and that today affects me, the thinker, but now I see it as a learning experience, as if in the middle of the fall, I was learning to fly.
_AM: Karma is not determinative, karma is an echo that reminds you of what you must review and integrate, but only you can decide how you will do it, how you will live it. You free yourself from the condition of karma when you yourself become unconditional. You free yourself from karma when you free yourself from moralistic and deterministic preconceptions, to venture into learning, integrating, transcending.
_I: When you free yourself from the guilt of your actions...
_AM: That's another big topic.
_I: How to become aware of the karma we have with other people?
_AM: We are all nodes in a network, we are all interconnected in many dimensions, through time and space. Therefore, we all have things to learn from each other. No one possesses the truth, everyone possesses a part of it. You cannot expect anything from anyone, just take what you need from each one to complete your image, and to receive those parts, you must love your neighbor as you would love yourself. For love is the resonance that allows sharing such karma. And love has many frequencies, from the low ones like hate and resentment, to the high ones like happiness and fulfillment. Loving interaction between the parts can be conditional or unconditional, where the former limits your possibilities by making you believe that you have no choice but to live what is supposed to be your karma, and the latter leads you to open up to the infinite possibilities of experiencing and integrating in expansion. Consciousness lies in the capacity you have to be conditional or unconditional in your bonds. For unconsciousness keeps you tied to people by karmic conditions, while consciousness makes you feel free from people by karmic unconditionality, where you can interact without expectations of time or space.
_I: So karma, in one way or another, does not depend on the universe, but on the conscious and unconscious decisions of the individual.
_AM: That's right.
_I: What about this thing called "Karmic Council"?
_AM: It's a way of humanizing what in the Sixth Dimension is seen as an energetic wheel that pushes unconscious (positive and negative) energy that due to polarity has no axis or direction of its own. The Karmic Council is like an energetic engine that orders vibrations by resonance into data packets. Thus, souls that live from the unconsciousness of their actions are ordered into circumstances similar to their vibration so that they can continue testing integration.
_I: So there's a system that conditions.
_AM: Of course. Because you have decided to be unconscious. It's like blaming the parasympathetic system of your body for making your heart beat without your conscious permission...
_I: Hahaha, I understand. If the parasympathetic system had to ask me every day how to make my heart beat, I would have died a long time ago.
_AM: That's why you have the parasympathetic system to take care of everything you are unconscious of (the Karmic Council). And then you have the sympathetic system to make your own decisions. That is, if you nourish your body physically and emotionally well from consciousness, your heart will have no problems beating from unconsciousness.
_I: Karma and Dharma, then, are a cycle, like death and rebirth, that pass through time and space... An inheritance...
_AM: The Great Inheritance...
_I: Like the book I wrote...
_AM: Karma is the inheritance that we ourselves give ourselves through time. It's like that mysterious chest that in your story you give to your grandchildren, and with which they must decide what to do, in their actions.
_I: I feel that what you're telling me is to prepare for this Eclipse... My own inheritance, my own karma. In that parallel reality, I did it from Unconsciousness... It's time to do it from Consciousness.
_AM: And there you will solve the great mistake you made... So, are you willing to receive your own inheritance and this time do it consciously?
_I: Yes, I am willing...
_AM: You know, the key to the Portal is you...