and return to the Creator. Thus the pattern of creating Earth karma began, and it became increasingly difficult for us to give up what we enjoyed in the physical. This does not mean we have to give up all our earthly passions and become nuns or monks. It is meant to trigger the awareness that who we are encompasses much more than what is apparent here on Earth’s surface. We are also capable of much more than what is apparent. In fact, we are potentially capable of anything.
A majority of the world believes in reincarnation, with a rising number of Americans thinking it might be possible. The purpose of reincarnating perhaps hundreds or thousands of times is soul perfection-godliness-growing to a state of wholeness and understanding, so that we may become complete and rejoin the Creator as co-creators. To do this, we must become completely cognizant of our actions and how they affect other people. You may, as you become more aware, begin to act in a wholly unselfish manner. This does not mean, however that you cannot still enjoy the fruits of the earth. Maybe Earth’s fruits are put in place for us to help others and ourselves enjoy, as long as we are not hurting others or ourselves in doing so.
We all are co-creators to some extent at this stage of our evolution, because of the gift of free will. Proceeding through life, we use that free will through each and every choice. As we interact with others and create new karmic situations or work out old karma, we are ever-evolving and growing toward that ideal state of perfection.
No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.—Kahlil Gibran
The Temporal Zone
A few weeks after my mother’s sudden death, she appeared to me during meditation. During this, the first of many visits, she told me about a place she had visited called the Temporal Zone. This is the holding place for purification, in which the soul is cleansed of the earth’s dense vibration before moving on to a higher level. Here, souls are given a period of therapy and rest along with healing waters of rejuvenation. Gently, they are helped to move beyond the travail of Earth. Astral hospitals are available for people who need additional healing—to mollify their trauma or help them to forgive—if they would otherwise be unable to move on.
At any point after reaching the astral, or ethereal, level, the soul is confronted with the karmic implications of the life it left behind. Every word, thought, action, and intention is reviewed. With master teachers, strengths and weaknesses are analyzed, and together a determination is made about the individual’s needs. This process occurs within a calendar based on cosmic time, and so may ensue over a period of decades, centuries, or a millennium. With the masters’ guidance, lifetimes are reviewed to choose what karma can be worked on. It may be in an accelerated or difficult manner, or more cautious and easy.
Parents who can provide the proper lessons are selected, and to some degree, the individual’s experiences for its next incarnation are charted and decided upon.
Only Enlightenment, according to Buddhists, eliminates new karma and the need to reincarnate. The earth is seen as a place of great turmoil, and lifetimes spent here can be difficult and unpleasant. But the earth is also a place of learning, and when the lessons are received and successfully implemented, we may move on. If we choose not to learn or receive, we stay in a place of darkness, and the lessons become harder, more difficult to bear, and occasionally, life-altering.
The Sleeping Prophet, Edgar Cayce, describes an apparent out-of-body trip to the Akashic Records to get information on a client.
He said he felt himself leave his body and travel in a narrow, straight shaft of light. . . .
Finally, he arrived at a hill, where he saw a mount and a great temple. Inside was a large room like a library, filled with books of people’s lives.
All he had to do was pull down the book he wanted.—Hugh Lynn Cayce and Noel Langley, Edgar Cayce on Reincarnation
It is nature’s kindness that we do not remember past births . . . Life would be a burden if we carried such a tremendous load of memories.—Mahatma Gandhi
CHAPTER 4
Breaking Patterns
Karmic Correction
You know by now that karma is the universal law of cause and effect, or, “What ye sow, so shall ye reap.” You also know by now that karma is created by our actions, words, and thoughts, but most importantly, by our intent. Also, you know that there is no such thing as “Good Karma” or “Bad Karma,” and that karma is not a punishment. Instead, karmic experiences, which include nearly all our experiences, are for the purpose of balancing, or karmic correction. This correction is meant to provide an opportunity for learning, growth, and our eventual rebirth as we head toward the state of God-perfection, and enlightenment.
Understanding karma and its universal laws helps us to straighten out our lives, and to keep to the paths we wish to follow.
Sometimes the dissonance between reality and false beliefs reaches a point when it becomes impossible to avoid the awareness that the world no longer makes sense. Only then is it possible for the mind to consider radically different ideas and perceptions.
—Mark Engel, from Gregory Bateson’s Steps to an Ecology of Mind
You may be still questioning these ideas, thinking that the whole “karmic correction” idea is unjust. You may still ask why human beings have to pay off karma that they don’t remember creating. Why suffer problems or handicaps in the current century for choices made eons ago?
It is important to know that karmic correction is not necessary if in the soul’s evolution through the rebirth process, the individual eliminates the imbalance. The purpose of rebirth is first and always balance. The universal law is, that when a part of the soul’s development is lacking or overabundant, the situation requires correction. For example, several lives of affluence may call for lifetimes of poverty, especially if greed or lack of compassion for those less fortunate manifests in one’s nature. So too, many lifetimes as one sex may cause a lack of empathy for the other. So we incarnate as the other sex, until there is balance, appreciation, and understanding of the natures of both male and female.
The Akashic Records
Although we may not consciously remember past lives, every one of our thoughts, words, and deeds is indelibly etched into the journals of our soul. These journals are known as the Akashic Records, the knowledge of which is contained in the ethers, or surrounding atmosphere. This knowledge is also contained within seed atoms, etheric kernels of knowledge which circulate within our beings and remain with us from lifetime to lifetime.
It is through God’s grace that we do not consciously remember past lives. We cannot work on the unfinished karma of our present existence while weighted down with recall of other lives. A person cannot function within the reality of 21st century America, for example, and the intricacies peculiar to this time frame and his/her own individuality, if he/she is simultaneously experiencing a set of experiences
