A journey of the soul is a journey that everyone is on. Can you accept this about everyone, that each person needs to have the experiences in life that will teach them and help them to evolve? Just as you once were young and naïve so must others be allowed to be. Just as you once thought you knew so much and were certain you could take on anything so must others be allowed to have the same dreams and illusions. Life itself teaches the lessons that must be learned. But don’t forget that just as you are evolving so are others. With understanding, and with the knowledge that all are capable of taking life’s tremendous journey, let those who are closest to you take the journey that they must, while you do the same. There is no separation, there is only progress on another level, in synch with all of creation.
Not much changes day to day when you are focused and honed on one thing, one idea, one new attention, one new path. Let that be enough. Let your new focus be enough. Notice, as you keep your attention focused on your goal, how less and less of the old world bothers you, how it seems to fall away and behind you as you keep going forward. You are in the world for this purpose, to evolve, to change and to grow. Keep going.
“Only on the wheel of karma is there inequality; within eternity we are all the same, all One.”*
Karma is a term that depicts the universal law of cause and effect. All actions cause definite effects. The underlying principle that governs all consequences for actions taken, is balance. That imperative of balance is expressed through Newton’s Third Law of Motion: For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.
When we enter the active side of infinity we take a ride on the wheel of karma. When a soul separates itself from the inert state of oneness with everything, in infinity, it loads itself upon the wheel of karma and is delivered to a specific identity, which will unfold in a specific way, as contrasted with its former state of identity with the utter wholeness and oneness of everything.
When we are born we go from a state of oneness with mother into the powerful perinatal stages of birth trauma. This violent disruption of total care and containment eventuates in a state of total dependence and relative powerlessness, as a small separate being in a huge, unfathomable world.
This action of separation alone defines the primary karma for all life: to find its way back to its original wholeness. The wheel of karma is that journey homeward. The wheel depicts the cycles of actions and reactions we live through as we accrue the knowledge to ultimately find our way home.
Karma forces us to attach to a specific identity, which influences our actions and their consequences. For instance, if I am born with dyslexia, I may learn to compensate for my difficulty with writing, spelling and reading with enhanced intuition and explanations of written works provided by ChatGPT. I might learn to hide my spelling challenges with an eccentric handwriting that no one can read.
If I am dealt the hand of poverty, I might compensate with envy, a life of crime, or a powerful intent for an abundant life. Each of these options are equal energetic options to bring balance to the action of poverty. The wheel of karma might have me explore countless compensations in my journey with poverty before I find my way back to wholeness.
The key to my ultimate release from my impoverished karma is detachment, detachment from my identity as an impoverished being who must take action to feel better about his lowly self. Total acceptance of the experience of an impoverished state, without identifying as a poor being, restores my wholeness. I am now a being with intimate knowledge of a facet of all of wholeness, that of poverty.
Detachment does not deny the full experience of an impoverished life. To the contrary, the suffering attendant to a life of poverty is fully explored with all its karmic consequences. Detachment does, however, allow one to lift the veil to one’s greater wholeness, of which poverty was the chosen facet to be explored in the taking on of a human life.
Thus, the reality of inequality, injustice and victimhood are valid descriptions of the experience we enter when we enter the active side of infinity, in physical form, to explore a facet of the jewel of all that is and all that we are. To fully know the self we must fully explore and know our shadow. To know our infinite self fully there are infinite adventures to be taken, many of which include journeys into the karmic dark side of infinity.
Growth is the imperative of the active side of infinity. To grow we must fully know every facet of all that we are. Ultimately we must experience everything. That’s our infinite destiny.
Fear not and judge not the fullness or unfairness of the life you are in. All lives are equal and valid facets of all that is. Our differences are merely the current seat we occupy on the karmic wheel of existence. It’s a relative, not a permanent, seat.
No matter what life circumstance you are currently in, free yourself from total identification with it. See it as a necessary stop in your infinite journey of exploration of all that is. Furthermore, wakeup to the power of suggestion in your subconscious mind. You can direct the energy of karma into materializing consequences for your greater good.
The thoughts you most often entertain will be compulsively manifested by the power of your subconscious mind. Take control of your thoughts and enjoy their resulting karma. The equal and opposite reaction of a thought is its manifestation in physical form. From the spirit of thought comes its opposite, its physical birth in matter. Spend your karmic thought wisely, for the greater good of self and other.
Beneath it all, we are all one, Chuck
* Sam Reifler, I Ching: A New Interpretation for Modern Times, p. 238.
Stay centered within yourself no matter what comes from outside of you to throw you off your path. Watch out for what arises from within yourself to throw you off your path as well, for there is plenty within you that will try to retake command and dominance, try to reassert an old way of thinking and being. It takes nerves of steel and great determination to follow the spiritual path that is being laid out for you and that your inner self sees as the right path. Deviations from that path may occur but the longer you travel it the less often those deviations will show up. Pretty soon you will not be bothered by the old stuff anymore and your way will be even clearer.
Let not your fears of what might happen, or what is, get in the way of your inner truth that tells you very clearly to trust your instincts, to listen to that quiet inner voice within you that knows what to do and how to do it. Sometimes other voices of old try to interrupt the inner dialogue that is so intriguing and right on target, trying to pull you back into old beliefs and old systems of operation. Stay on target with the new voice of optimism and directness that is like nothing you have ever heard before. If you listen carefully, you will hear that it is your own voice, your own true voice leading you to what is right.
