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Our Karma: What We Hold & How We Hold It ((c) by Ric Weinman) The Journey Out of this Mystery, for reasons that can never be known, subtle manifestations of divine beingness (experienced as IS) and of pure Awareness (experienced as Self) arise. As these arise, divine beingness coalesces into soul-bodies of pure divine light and Self enters into these forms (or vehicles of experience), creating a new awareness, the "awareness of Self-IS", what we call the soul. It is important to realize that just as a leaf on a tree has no consciousness separate from the Tree, the soul has no consciousness separate from the Self. The idea of separate souls is our own projection, based on our own human experience of separateness. Although the soul has a form or body (just as a leaf has a form or body), its consciousness is always Self-IS; it is always in Oneness. Yet for reasons hidden in pure Mystery, the soul has an impulse to experience creation (or livingness, experienced as AM), which has also mysteriously arisen as a manifestation of Mystery. But the soul cannot experience creation directly for the level of IS is outside of space and time. It needs some kind of vehicle that is made of the same stuff as creation (AM), for moving within creation. Magically, its intention causes creation to manifest such a form. This form is the incarnational vehicle. The soul (Self-IS) enters this vehicle (AM), and again a new consciousness arises from the union: the "consciousness of I AM". I AM is not quite in oneness, yet it is not in separateness. I AM is like the bridge between oneness and separation. I AM begins to have experiences of creation and uses mind to remember them. At some point, the turning point comes: I AM uses mind to create the idea that these experiences comprise the history of some particular, separate experiencer, some particular conceptual "I". Then I AM identifies with that conceptual, separate "I", and the experience of I AM becomes I am this ego, I am this separate being. Now the soul within I AM has the experience of a particular incarnational ego or personality, with a particular history. (Yet paradoxically, the soul is simultaneously still experiencing oneness. It is like when we go to the movies-we can get lost in the movie but we never entirely forget who we are.) This is the beginning of karma. Before the incarnational personality has even entered into a dense living form, such a human form, its karmic journey has begun, for it now has a karmic issue, the experience of separation. Karma The first kind of karma I call "karmic events."
This is the "what goes around comes around" kind of karma. It arises from the
fact that whatever we put out into the universe comes back to us in the form of external
events. We act and life reacts by generating events that reflect the energy of our
original action. For instance, if you kill someone, you may be killed in return. But other
consequences rather than "an eye for an eye" are also possible. Perhaps it will
be your child who will be killed; or perhaps you will grow up in another life with a
parent whom you fear will kill you. Divine intention is for you to experience the
consequences of your actions so you can grow from what you created and learn to be
responsible for what you create. An eye for an eye is not necessarily your most direct
path of evolution. So although an action of killing someone (in a particular circumstance,
with a particular awareness and state of mind and emotion) puts a particular energy in
motion in the world, the perfect way for you to grow from that energy coming back to you
will be determined by what you need to experience at the time the divine returns that
energy to you. (Of course, the converse is also true: what you need to experience will
also determine the point in time the energy is brought back.) The second kind of karma I call " karmic conditioning." This is our "karmic baggage." It arises from the fact that everything you do conditions your own consciousness. When you get angry, not only do you put something out into the world that comes back to you, but you also condition your consciousness to be more deeply aligned with and identified with anger. So, with this second kind of karma, every thought, emotion and action creates an inner reaction in the form of conditioning. And this conditioning imprints onto every level of our human and incarnational consciousness. Because our conditioning does reinforce our experience of separation, this kind of karma does block our spiritual awakening. But this accumulated baggage of conditioning can be released by meditation and various healing practices. We can learn to empty our suitcases. Enlightenment doesn't require us to empty all the baggage; we only need to empty enough of the conditioning to recognize it for what it is and completely lose interest in it. Nisgardata Maharaj said, "The price of freedom is complete loss of interest in our drama." Since most of our life is spent with our head in our suitcase, in its huge maze of karmic conditioning, when we completely lose interest in it, a space is created in which we are able to realize that the person who was carrying the suitcase, who was involved in all that conditioning, was really an illusion; that person was actually a creation of the conditioning itself. In enlightenment, there may still be baggage in the suitcase, but there is no one left to be involved with it. There may still be conditioning, but there is no one left to condition. As Papaji (C.W. Poonja) said, "Desire may still arise, but it doesn't reach anyone." Our Karmic Baggage The Karmic Body: Our karmic body is our incarnational vehicle, our vehicle for moving from life to life. It is where we store our karmic issues and all our past-life history. All of the emotional positions and attitudes that we carry from one life to the next are stored here. Between lives, the karmic body holds all this information while we vacation in Oneness. Once the soul reenters the karmic body and re-identifies with all the history contained there, the consciousness of a separate, incarnational being who has experienced all that history arises-the incarnational personality. The incarnational personality (which includes the karmic body and the consciousness that arises within it) enters into the spine, once the fetus is developed enough to have a spine. Although the incarnational personality's consciousness must be present at conception, it cannot really "embody" until there is a spine. Once embodied, it looks like a very thin line, the length of the spine, extended within the vertical center of the spine. (This is not the kundalini, which is a dense physical energy and is comparatively quite a wide channel.) Our most fundamental karmic issues are held as little "knots" on this line, so I call these knots "karma knots." The very first one that was created, which will also be the last one to go, is held on that line where the tailbone meets the sacrum. This first knot may have as many as 40 "twists" on it (which represent different aspects of the karmic issue), although the other karma knots usually only have 2 or 3 twists. All of the karma knots are based on our first and most basic issue-separateness. So all the karma knots represent various issues that have arisen around separateness-doubt, power, helplessness, etc. and reinforce our basic identity with separateness. The freeing of any karma knot, therefore, moves us deeper into Oneness. Our karma knots are our deepest level of conditioning. It
was our first karma knot that created our sense of ego, of separateness, for our
incarnational personality. When someone loses their last karma knot and their
incarnational personality moves back into Oneness, although they will probably still have
human ego, a new place of inner freedom will exist within them that will make it much
easier for them to release their remaining attachments and fully awaken. Karmic Webbing: Once the incarnational personality comes into the spine, a deep intention to express itself in human form arises. But the incarnational personality's experiences itself in terms of its stuff-its issues and positions and history. So that is what it expresses into its new human form. Out of the karmic body grows a fine webbing that holds this deep intention for expression into humanness as well as all the history and issues. This karmic webbing weaves itself into all the energetic bodies (the physical, etheric, emotional, mental and spiritual bodies) and the chakras. Most of the conditioning in the emotional, mental and spiritual bodies, as well as in the chakras, comes from the karmic webbing. And because of the incredible force of the intention within it, it is actually harder to release than karma knots, just as the roots of a tree may be easier to cut through than the trunk that grew from it. Even when the karma knots are all gone, this karmic webbing remains. After the karma knots, it is the most significant area of karmic baggage. In some areas of the body, usually an organ or a chakra, this webbing may become very dense and create "karmic structures." Because of the sheer amount of history held in one of these structures, a karmic structure will have a strong impact on that human's emotional consciousness and usually have a significantly weakening effect upon whatever organ or chakra it is held in. (Sometimes though, the energetic pressure it puts on an organ will actually strengthen it.) When a karmic structure becomes old enough (at least 6 lives old), instead of remaining a structure of disconnected layers of history, it may take on a life of its own. The layers are still there, but the structure has a living center to it now. It is like a little being, except that its entire existence is the expression of a single position, backed up by an enormous amount of history. My friend Jill Hester, a well-known psychic and healer, likes to call these "gremmies." As a gremmie continues to age, it shrinks in size, but becomes much denser, compacted with even more history. A gremmie is usually hundreds or thousands of lives old. It has so much "stuff" in it, healing energy usually has little effect on it. In some ways it resembles the Borg, from Star Trek, so I have sometimes called them Borgs. Most people will still have 2 to 5 of these. If the karma knot that the gremmie was an expression of is released, the gremmie will still remain, but enough of the juice goes out of it that it will not be taken into the next life (although we will still take much of the webbing that constructed the gremmie). Gremmies have effects that are similar to that of ordinary karmic structures, but more powerful. Because they are held on the human level rather than the karmic level, they have huge impacts on the human personality. The Emotional Body: The emotional body facilitates our experience and expression of emotion. It carries a huge amount of baggage in the form of emotional memory and emotional position. Most of the baggage in the emotional body has been expressed into it from the karmic body through the karmic webbing. A small amount of it comes from genetic memory and the rest is from present-life experience. The Mental Body: The mental body facilitates our experience and expression of human mind. Its baggage or conditioning takes the form of attitudes and judgments. One might also include belief-structures, but these only really become baggage when they harden into attitudes. Most of the baggage in the mental body has been expressed into it from the karmic body through the karmic webbing. The rest is from present-life experience. The Spiritual Body: The spiritual body facilitates our experience and expression of spirituality. What creates problems here are past or present-life emotional experiences that are deeply painful enough to cause some loss of faith. That experience of loss of faith is held in the spiritual body. The Etheric Body: The etheric body is our interface with the external world. When we have no resistance to experiencing the emotions, attitudes, positions and pain of others, our experience of the external world flows through our etheric body without a trace. Whatever we resist, whatever we cannot open to, we wall off, but then the experience gets stuck against the wall because it can't flow through. So our etheric body is full of all the stuff we experienced in the world that we couldn't be perfectly at peace with. The etheric body's program for what to resist is generated by our pre-existing karmic positions (from our karmic body); what actually gets stuck in the etheric body is present-life experience, but all this stuff we "picked up" from the world is only a reflection of our own karmic resistance. The Physical Body: The physical body holds conditioning both within its
tissues and within its DNA. Because all the other bodies interface the physical body,
everything stuck in the other bodies will be expressed into the tissue of the physical
body as well. When a healer finds an emotional "charge" (an unintegrated
emotional memory) in a person's liver, that charge is sitting both in the physical liver
and the area of the emotional body that interfaces the liver. It is a single charge but
imprinted into both bodies. If this emotional charge is from a past life, then releasing
it from the liver (both from the physical and emotional bodies) is not sufficient, because
the source of this charge is still in the karmic body. Not realizing this is a mistake
made by many healers. If a healer releases a past-life charge from someone's liver, it
will give them relief, but over time it will build back up as the karmic body continues to
express that charge it still holds through its karmic webbing. Broken Divine Web Lines Samskaras * The amount of karmic baggage we have is immense. I often
tell people that if they could truly see how much stuff they will have to work through,
they would probably choose to stay unconscious. Thankfully, we don't need to clear all of
it. And in spite of the immensity of the challenge to awaken within all of that, people
do. There are fully enlightened human beings all over the earth. They have moved deeply
enough within their karmic drama to become completely free of it. Grace be with you! Our Karma: What We Hold & How We Hold It © by
Ric Weinman (Apr 21, 04)
THE JOURNEY
You are all on an
incarnational journey. You experience yourself as a being with a history, and
that history spans many, many incarnations. You have a history and a ‘story’
about this life, but your larger history and your larger story span all the
lives you have ever lived, which is probably millions of lives. So, your
journey is not just of this life, it is an ‘incarnational journey’. For millions of lives you have been
reincarnating and accumulating experiences, and you have taken all that
experience with you into this life. Although it is easiest, when examining your
emotional patterns, to focus on the conditioning you received during your childhood,
consider that you carry within you and are conditioned by the events of
millions of lives. You are not just a human being; you are an incarnational
personality (often called a ‘soul’). But what is the
meaning of this journey? What were you before the beginning of your journey,
before all this historical experience? What will you be after you end your
journey? Are you defined by the experiences of this journey or are you other
than that? Traditionally, the end
of the journey has been called ‘spiritual awakening’ or ‘self-realization’ or
‘enlightenment’ (although I tend to avoid that last word because of all the
preconceptions attached to it). With awakening, you realize who you truly are.
You awaken out of a kind of ‘dream-realty’ into what is truly Real. This
implies, of course, that for all those millions of years—and right now—you did
not know who you truly are. Perhaps you had a concept about it, but that’s very
different from the living realization. And what awakened beings have
consistently said is: you are not the package of historical experience that you
identify yourself to be. You are not the separate human being, the ego, you
experience yourself to be; you are also not an incarnational personality, and
you are not a soul. These are just identities you can experience yourself to
be. There is the experience of a journey, but you are not the main character of
that story. What you are is the awareness itself, aware of these events, aware
of the ego-character who seems to be at the center of these events. You are the
creator of all of it. You are the Consciousness out of which all this arises.
You are the dreamer, not the dream, dwelling in Absolute Mystery. But until you have an
actual taste of this, this is all just concepts. So you have to start right
where you are, with your actual experience of being a particular ‘someone’ with
a particular history. In the process of exploring and working on this
particular self that you experience yourself to be, especially when using
modalities like VortexHealing, a ‘ripening’ happens. And I believe that
spiritual awakening happens naturally when you are sufficiently ‘ripe.’
Although there is no modality and no teacher that can guarantee spiritual
awakening for anyone, the process of inner work does create this ripening. How
fast you can ripen depends, at least in part, on how deeply committed you are
to the process of it. So starting here, in
your present experience of being a particular someone, I want to give you
conceptual tools to help you work with your present situation, which has been
created by your millions of years of history. KARMA
Karma generally refers
to the idea that we can’t escape the consequences of our actions. Whatever we
have done in this life and in past lives has effects that come back to us, now
or later. So, karma simply refers to the fact that creation is governed by a
law of cause and effect, or action and consequence. Every action, every
thought, even every emotion, is a movement of energy that we put out into the
universe, and that movement creates effects that come back to us. Some people
think of this as a law of divine justice. But it is also a process of grace,
because it is through experiencing the consequences of our actions that we
evolve. Karma
manifests in 2 different ‘flavors’—either as external events or as internal
conditioning. This is because every action, thought and feeling that arises
from us creates an energetic impression both in the external universe
and internally, within us. These impressions are a form of conditioning.
So, whatever we put out into the external universe actually conditions
the universe to create events out of that energy, and to unfold those events to
the person who generated them. This returns the original, expressed energy back
to its source. I call this the ‘karma of events’—whatever you put out comes
back to you as events, even if many lives later. Another expression for this
is, ‘what goes around comes around’. Often, when people refer to ‘karma’, they
are only referring to this ‘flavor’ of karma. But our actions, thoughts and
feelings also condition our own internal consciousness. I call this the
‘karma of conditioning’. Although the
karma of events is often thought of as ‘an eye for an eye’ it doesn’t have to
work that way (although sometimes it does). Perhaps you kill a person in one
life and in another life it will be your child who will be killed; or perhaps
you will grow up in another life with a parent who terrifies you and abuses
you. Divine intention is for you to experience the consequences of your actions
so you can grow from what you created and learn to be responsible for what you
create. An eye for an eye is not necessarily your most direct path of
evolution. The divine will determine the most perfect way for the energy of your
action to come back to you, as well as the most perfect time, which could be
fifty lives later. With the karma
of events, it is important to realize that although the divine—and the divine
alone—can modify the intensity with which what you created comes back to you, there is no avoiding it. No amount of
healing work or meditation can release this karma. Even spiritual awakening
does not release this kind of karma; it continues to play itself out. It’s the
way the universe balances itself—whatever you put into the world you reabsorb
before finishing your incarnational journey. At the same time, this kind of
karma does not at all get in the way of spiritual awakening. Someone who
becomes a cripple or becomes blind or develops cancer because of things done in
the past can still become awakened as easily as someone in good health.
External events are constantly unfolding and changing, whether one is awakened
or not. Spiritual awakening is neither affected by these events nor prevented
by them The second
‘flavor’ of karma, the “ karma of conditioning”, is your “karmic baggage.” It
contains all the conditioning you have created for yourself thus far on your
journey. Every time you have gotten angry, for instance, not only did you put
something out into the world that came back to you, but you also conditioned
your consciousness to be more deeply aligned with and identified with anger.
And this inner conditioning imprinted onto every level of your human and
incarnational consciousness. Because inner conditioning does reinforce the
experience of separation, this kind of karma can block your spiritual
awakening. But this accumulated baggage of conditioning can be released by
meditation and various healing practices. We can learn to empty our suitcases.
Spiritual awakening doesn’t require us to empty all the baggage; we only need
to empty enough of the conditioning to recognize it for what it is and to stop
identifying with it. Since most of our life is spent with our head in our
suitcase, in its huge maze of conditioning, when we stop identifying with it, a
space is created in which awakening can happen. I should point
out that there is also such a thing as ‘good karma’. Good karma comes in the
same 2 flavors as ‘bad’ karma. Actions that arise from love and compassion condition
both the outer world and your own inner consciousness in the same way that
‘bad’ karma does. That’s why you feel good after you do something loving or
compassionate. But often, the good and the bad get mixed together. Maybe you
hate your neighbor but help him anyway, not out of any real compassion but
because you know it’s the right thing to do. Most likely, you end up feeling
better than if you didn’t help out at all, but you probably also feel
resentment at having helped someone you hated. Such is the divine comedy. OUR KARMIC BAGGAGE Because there is nothing we can do about
the first kind of karma, the karma of events, there is really nothing more to
say about it. We just accept it for what it is. But it is useful to explore our
karmic conditioning because recognizing it helps us to empty it out, both in
meditation and healing practices. The Overview: Out of
pure Awareness (pure Mystery), for reasons that can never be known, subtle
manifestations of divine beingness arise, coalescing into soul-bodies of pure
divine light. Pure Awareness enters into these forms, creating a new
perspective for Awareness—as ‘soul’. As soul, Awareness can be aware of itself.
It is still pure Awareness, but as soul it also has the awareness that
Awareness IS. (It is important to
realize that just as a leaf on a tree has no consciousness separate from the
Tree, the soul has no consciousness separate from Awareness. The idea of
‘separate’ souls is our own projection.) For
reasons hidden in pure Mystery, the soul has an impulse to experience physical
creation (the experience of AM). But the soul is outside of time and space and
so it cannot experience creation directly. It needs some kind of vehicle that
is made of the same stuff as creation (AM), for moving within creation.
Magically, its intention causes creation to manifest such a form. This form is
the incarnational vehicle (also called the karmic body). The soul
(Awareness-IS) enters this vehicle (AM), and again a new consciousness arises
from the union: the consciousness of Awareness-Is-Am, or simply, I AM. (This is
not the ego ‘I’; it is the ‘I’ of awareness recognizing itself within
creation.) I AM does not reside in complete Mystery, yet it is not in
separateness. I AM is like a bridge between oneness and separation. I AM begins to have
experiences of creation and uses mind (an aspect of creation) to remember them.
At some point, the turning point comes: I AM uses mind to create the idea that
these experiences comprise the history of some
particular, separate experiencer. Then I AM identifies with that separate
experiencer, calls that “I”, and the experience of I AM becomes I am this separate ‘I’, this separate being. Now the soul within I AM has the
experience of a particular incarnational
ego or personality, with a particular history. And at that moment, a ‘veil’
is magically created—called the Core Veil—which is the vehicle for maintaining
this experience of separateness. This moment is like
the magical moment of falling asleep. One moment you are awake, and the next
moment you are in a completely different state, in a completely different realm
of being. And once this realm has been entered, an infinite variety of dreams
may be created. In a similar manner, once consciousness that is not in
separation creates a Core Veil for itself, an infinite variety of experiences
as a separate being become possible. This
is the beginning of karma. Now experiences become “my history” for the new
being. And that history begins to condition the consciousness of the new being.
The incarnational personality has not even entered into a dense living form,
such as a human form, but its karmic journey has begun. And it has a primary
karmic issue: the experience of separation. Now
the journey is the story of this new karmic being or incarnational personality
having more and more experiences, as it incarnates over and over again in a
variety of physical forms, creating more and more karmic issues and going
deeper and deeper into the experience of separation. Eventually, by grace, the
journey turns. Somehow, the idea enters in that there must be more to life than
survival. The urge to survive starts to transmute into this new urge to find
that something more, to evolve. Spiritual consciousness starts to arise, karmic
issues start to get worked out, and ‘ripening’ occurs. Eventually, the being
becomes sufficiently ‘ripe’ and the Core Veil breaks down, creating awakening.
Now the journey from Mystery through ‘created-reality’ back to Mystery is
complete. The
Details: What follows is one possible scheme for categorizing the details
of the conditioning that we accumulate in our journey. Much of it is not
significant to Basic Training, because it cannot be addressed here, but will
come more into play in more advanced level classes.
The Karmic
Body and Incarnational Personality: Our karmic body is our incarnational
vehicle, our vehicle for moving from life to life. It is where we store our
karmic issues, positions, attitudes, and all our past-life history, so it is
the key to our conditioning. Between lives, the karmic body holds all this
information while we ‘vacation’ in Oneness. Once the soul reenters the karmic
body and re-identifies with all the history contained there, the consciousness
of a separate, incarnational being who has experienced all that history arises
again—the incarnational personality. The
incarnational personality enters into the spine once the fetus is developed
enough to have a spine. Although the incarnational personality’s consciousness
must be present at conception, it cannot really “embody” until there is a
spine. Once embodied, it looks like a very thin line, the length of the spine,
extended within the vertical center of the spine. (This is not the kundalini,
which is a dense physical energy and is comparatively quite a wide channel.)
Our most fundamental karmic issues are held as little “knots” on this line, so
I call these knots “karma knots.” The very first one that was created, which
will also be the last one to go, is held on that line where the tailbone meets
the sacrum. This first knot may have as many as 40 “twists” on it (which
represent different aspects of the karmic issue), although the other karma
knots usually only have 2 or 3 twists. All of the karma knots are based on
our first and most basic issue—separateness. So all the karma knots represent
various issues that have arisen around separateness—doubt, power, helplessness,
etc. and reinforce our basic identity with separateness. The freeing of any
karma knot, therefore, moves us deeper into Oneness. Our karma
knots are the foundation of our present life drama. Any major issue we have in
this life will have lots of past-life history, and at the root of that history
will be some ongoing karmic issue, which is always rooted in our experience of
separateness. The structure of the karma knot reflects this: the center of the
karma knot is like a hole—an infinitesimal gap in time and space that
holds the actual experience of separateness. Around
that is some particular issue in relation to separation, and around that is all
the stored history connected to that issue. The karma knot can be seen
psychically only because of this dense area of stored emotional history around
it. As long as an incarnational personality has karma
knots, it must keep reincarnating; there is no choice. Only
divine energy or divine consciousness can release a karma knot. Because karma
knots are based on the consciousness of separateness, only that which is beyond
separation—the divine—can release them. And because karma knots are based on
the consciousness of separation, releasing a karma knot is not like pulling out
a splinter but rather awakening the separated consciousness to its original
experience of Oneness. At the moment of awakening that consciousness, the hole
of separation within the karma knot fills with divine light and the
consciousness of Oneness, and that issue, at that karmic level, is released and
resolved, never to return. When the
karma knot and its issue are released into Oneness, much of the history
surrounding it often remains. This history, as well as the imprinting of the
issue and its history onto the “tissue” of the karmic body (which has 7 layers
of tissue), will continue to condition both the incarnational personality and
the human consciousness. Even when all the karma knots are gone, this
conditioning will continue to create “habits” for the incarnational
personality. There may no longer be any incarnational ego identifying with
those habits, but the habits will remain. Yet a new place of manifested freedom
then exists within the human’s system, and that human moves into a new level of
consciousness. From here, it is much easier to work on the remaining baggage,
because the roots of the baggage are gone. And if a person dies in this state,
although they may have to come back to clean up their baggage, they come back
without karmic issues; their karmic cycle is over. When they come back it will
probably be their last life. Most humans, at the low point of their karmic evolution, do not usually create more than about 550 karma knots, but some humans create thousands. (Dogs and cats usually have only 3, but their consciousness is not complex enough yet to have more than a few basic issues. Ironically, most of the people we elect to lead our countries have extremely high numbers of karma knots.) The average number for present-day humans is about 250 karma knots; people further along on their spiritual path will have less. But because of divine intention right now to accelerate human beings, anyone who is working with the divine in a deep and committed way today will most likely lose all their karma knots in this lifetime. Karmic Webbing: Once the incarnational personality comes into the spine, a deep
intention to express itself in human form arises. But the incarnational
personality experiences itself in terms of its stuff—its issues and positions
and history. So that is what it expresses into its new human form. Out of the
karmic body grows a fine webbing that holds this deep intention for expression
into humanness, as well as all the history and issues. This karmic webbing
weaves itself into the physical, etheric, emotional, mental and spiritual
bodies, and into the chakras. And because of the incredible force of the
intention within it, it is actually harder to release than karma knots, just as
the roots of a tree may be easier to cut through than the trunk that grew from
it. Even when the karma knots are all gone, this karmic webbing remains. After
the karma knots, it is the most significant area of karmic baggage. (Karmic
Webbing is addressed more easily in Multi-Frequency class.) In some
areas of the body, usually an organ or a chakra, this webbing may become very
dense and create “karmic structures.” Because of the sheer amount of history
held in one of these structures, a karmic structure will have a strong impact
on that human’s emotional consciousness and usually have a significantly
weakening effect upon whatever organ or chakra it is held in. (Sometimes
though, the energetic pressure it puts on an organ will actually strengthen
it.) When a
karmic structure becomes old enough (at the minimum, 6 lives old), instead of
remaining a structure of disconnected layers of history, it may take on a life
of its own. The layers are still there, but the structure has a living center
to it now. It is like a little being, except that its entire existence is the
expression of a single position, backed up by an enormous amount of history. My
friend Jill Hester, a well-known psychic and healer, likes to call these
“gremmies.” They are usually hundreds or thousands of lives old. Most people
will have 2 to 5 of them. (Gremmies are dealt with in the Advanced class.) The Other Energetic Bodies: The emotional, mental, spiritual and etheric
bodies are all conditioned by the history carried by the karmic webbing, each
according to its own function. So, the emotional body will get conditioned with
a huge amount of baggage in the form of emotional memory and emotional
position. The mental body’s conditioning will take the form of attitudes,
judgments and belief-structures. The spiritual body
will get conditioned with past or present-life emotional experiences that are
painful enough to cause some loss of faith. The etheric body gets conditioned
with our boundary issues, having to do with letting in or keeping out the
world. Each of these bodies is also conditioned by the physical ancestral
history sitting in the physical body’s DNA, as well as by general physical,
emotional and mental impressions created by present life experience. The Physical Body: The physical body
holds conditioning both within its tissues and within its DNA. Because all the
other bodies interface the physical body, everything stuck in the other bodies
will be expressed into the tissue of the physical body (and vice versa). When a
healer finds a congestion in a person’s liver, for instance, that may be the
result of an emotional “charge” (an un-integrated emotional memory) sitting in
the area of the emotional body that interfaces the liver. If this emotional
charge is from a past life, then even releasing the congestion from the liver
and the charge from the emotional body is not sufficient, because the source of
this charge will still be held in the karmic body. The release will give that
person relief. But over time the congestion and charge will build back up, as
the karmic body continues to express its drama through its karmic webbing and
as the emotional body continues to condition the liver. The
conditioning imprinted in physical body tissue can never be completely cleared
out (and doesn’t need to be for spiritual awakening). The body just holds too
much of it in too many layers of tissue, bound up biochemically. One
special layer of baggage in the body is held in the DNA. The DNA itself is
living history that has structured itself as biochemical compound. It is pure
conditioning. Much of that conditioning simply helps your body function, of
course, but all the emotional history that created the DNA, back through the
ages, is contained there as well, and all of that expresses into all the
energetic bodies. In addition, the DNA will hold a deep imprint of the person’s
karmic history, as well as imprints of all the karmic history of all the
physical ancestors! Even present life experience gets stored in the DNA. And all
of this goes into all the other bodies, including the karmic body. * The
amount of karmic baggage we have is immense. And there is even quite a bit more
that hasn’t been described here—core human ego positions, pre-karmic
conditioning, 5th dimensional conditioning and more—that will be
covered in more advanced classes. Thankfully, we don’t need to clear all of it.
And in spite of the immensity of the challenge to awaken within all of this,
people do. There are awakened human beings all over the earth. They have moved
deeply enough within their karmic drama to become completely free of it. Our journey is vaguely
akin to going to the movies and being totally involved with the story. We
always know who we are, yet it is still difficult to leave in the middle of the
movie—the story can be so compelling. We must either become bored with the
movie or desire something else more strongly than our enjoyment of the movie to
get up and leave. Unfortunately, our desires are not within our control—they simply
arise. As they arise we identify them as our own, and then either we act on
them or we don’t. But at some point, as we ‘ripen’, the desire to awaken and
become free will become more powerful than any pleasure we derive from the
movie. Grace be with you!
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