The Karmic Wheel of Change and All of Us

Nothing slams us down more than the loss of something,  perhaps a job, a death in the family, or in my case right now a broken foot.   Just like the advice that I give to you, I too have to  swallow  my pride and take advice both from outside sources such as doctors and friends, as well as spiritual advice  from the spirit guides.  Everything that I write about is a lesson.  For me having to sit still is one of the most difficult task as sitting in one place and doing nothing is very difficult.  Here, at least I can work at the desk. 

When this accident happened,  I resorted to lesson number one.  Life is one continuum of lessons, this little accident jumped out to teach me a few things.  Understand something, it took me a long spiritual journey to understand the concept of lessons, but I am beginning to tap into the idea that we experience many lessons daily, and attempting to understand and see the meaning of a lifetime takes a little wisdom for  all of us, especially even me.

We attract everything to us according to our thoughts, and if there is one idea or concept that you understand it is to understand that your mind is the mainframe to the God energy.  The clearer your mind the better the input of energy, and the stronger the spiritual growth.  But the awareness of what we are all of us are learning comes with patience and time.  Do not put your "Jesus" shoes on so fast that you miss the boat.

The basic lesson is that life will continue to change, and your choice is to either learn from this change or roll on with the same karmic wheel of action and repeat the same thing over and over and over.  This thought was an absolute bummer for me, but somewhere in my soul I knew this truth was real or real for me.  This concept of repetition was the driving force that showed me the choice of quitting the habit of smoking and drinking or continuing to go down the same path.  The results of these habits are not particularly pleasant, but continue them if you will.....Just look at the final results with the aging process. 

Many of the solutions of life come from working the twelve step process.  What did I learn?  essentially that I was not large and in charge  and that that every gift, including the repetition cycle, was a gift from my Higher Power to either learn from the lesson or continue the same path.  Bad relationships come from the choices that we made to either stay with or repeat.   Likewise bad health habits are the same.  To have good health depends upon healthier choices, and not relying on some prescription pill to mask the problem.  Your body is your temple.  Treat it with respect.   

The Aura and How I Found It

Everybody talks about the aura but few see it.    With a little practice on your part, you too can join the few that are able to locate it. 

As  a child I used to "zone out" in class when I was bored or listening to a dull instructor.  This particular time I was in church listening to what I call "Hell, Fire, and Damnation".   I never liked those types of subjects so I chose to take a moment to zone.  There were no windows and the idea came to me to try to look for the aura around the  Preacher. 

"Zoning Out" is like staring at something and not paying attention.   Later, I realized  this is often what is done in forms of meditation.   Another way, of thinking about this is looking at something and not thinking about anything. 

That particular morning with the sermon  I couldn't go to sleep,  Mother would have "knocked" me into reality, so the game was on.  I could stare and nobody was aware that I wasn't listening to a word that was being said.   I was in the "zone". 

The aura looks like heat energy.   At least that is the way it appeared to me.   We can see this energy when driving a car down a long road that is hot and desolate.   Living in the south part of Texas this phenomenon occurs often.   However, around the human, this energy continues to move about, but always stays located around the person.   This energy, I call the God energy.  It is your lifeline,  your transmitter,  it retains your thoughts as well as transmits thoughts to others, and of course it attracts for you, whether you know it or not, other people into your life that are lessons for you to learn.  Upon death, naturally the aura is gone.   It usually  leaves shortly before you cross over. 

Edgar Cayce , a famous psychic, once hesitated and decided not to join those on the elevator.   Something was wrong about that moment that caused him to chose another route down  the building.   Later, he realized that none on the elevator had an aura.   The elevator snapped and these souls fell to their death.  Tragic story but true. 

Color will emerge with practice.  Take time and be patient.   I sometimes see the color and sometimes not.  It comes and goes for me.   I do see words coming from the month at times.  I have been told that when the words are red, the person talking is not telling the truth.   What a natural lie detector for us all.   I usually feel the lie instead.  It just makes me angry, and later, upon reflection,  I realize that I was fed an erroneous message.  

Take the opportunity to give this information a try!   Your story might work differently from mine, but isn't that okay as well?

What Is Our Part In Group Karma

Not much is mentioned about group Karma.   But rest assured, when you  join the group, you take on that vibration.  Groups even of themselves tend to repeat situations over and over again, and never resolve issues.  For my example just look at the Old Testament.  War has been on going for thousands of years and getting no where.  When are we going to stop?  Perhaps when we understand that war is not a good solution.

Countries can create group Karma, as well as organizations.  It is important to understand that when all of us are a part of the group we need  to pay attention to the actions of the group.  Failure to do so could possibly produce problems or learning lessons in lifetimes to come for the individuals who are attached to that group karma.  Learn that it is important to either vote or peacefully protest. 

I would not join a senior organization when I first qualified because I was unsure of what they represented.  I discovered that they were huge in the lobbying industry.  Who gave them the right to decide what I might or might not want?  In this case it was health care, and I refused to once again join the group.  This may or may not impact our world, but in my opinion it does play a part within the karmic scheme of things.  I'm not God here and can't answer that question for you either. It is important to become aware of your environment.

 Another example of group karma is observed   when large countries continue to wage war or participate in warfare either by selling ammunition or sending troops.  People who attach to this energy take on the karmic responsibility.  This could either be both good or bad.  It is not for me to decide or either to judge it.  I am not God here and cannot see the entire picture.  But I do not think it healthy to profit on behalf of someone's fight.

All races are each a group.  It is my belief that each of the races has gone through karmic payment and repayment over and over again.  It is important that all of us learn to get along and accept each other or each group as they are.  Certainly, war does not help here, but continues to drag the problem on and on through multiple centuries.   One of the major reasons that the earth is getting to go through such cataclysmic changes is that our choices either by individuals or groups have not created healthy energy for all of us who share earth together.  Think about it.  Well you certainly can't change others, but you can change yourself.  Why not ?    

Change or Repeat the Mess Which One?

Whether it is about relationships, business situations, or even family of origin, we will continue to repeat the past regardless of how we think.  All of us tend to deny that which is in front of our nose, and we plod along in life thinking that we are all terminally unique.  Nothing could be further from the truth.  All of us are connected to the same creative force like it or not.  For me, I feel rather secure in this fact or truth because I have been in a state of messes all of my life, and until I looked at my part in the mess, I remained in this "mud hole".   Not everything is all bad, but wouldn't you rather have a better relationship, or a better marriage,  or better sex, or perhaps  a better set of friends?  Then get to traveling down the information highway of life and join me in the fun of discovering your life and knowing that it can be better.

Assuming that I might have an ounce of truth here, let's suppose that we all cycle back with the same set of characters until we learn and we are able to escalate up the higher ladder of evolvement.   One of the clues that has been given to me  is the quote from the Christian Bible which states something like this,  "the sins of the Father are visited upon the son".  Early in childhood I  believed that statement was referring to disease.   I am now correcting that error to mean that what we learn and do within  the family of origin is passed on to the children, and they in turn repeat the same offense to the next generation and on and on.   How many of us swore we would not grow up to be our parents, and then caught ourselves repeating the same type of offenses?   According to modern psychology we will either repeat the same mistake or even worse swing to the opposite extreme.  This is a family dysfunction that can easily be eradicated with a little effort.  Having the "cajones" to research family history with show that we repeat dysfunctional mess over and over again. 

Many people think that we have inherited alcoholism or addiction.  I used to be one of them myself until I found another book that supported my theory on addiction as well as recovery.   I will share this quote from the book of Adult Children of Alcoholics that might be of service to you the reader.  It is about family dysfunction that we all experience ;

"In the interest of fairness, we must realize that our parents passed on what was done to them.  They are adult children as well.  We are not blaming them for being powerless over the effects of family dysfunction.  In most cases, the treatment that they handed out is the treatment they received growing up.  Our parents internalized their parents.  This has to be true if we are to believe that family dysfunction is passed down from one generation to the next." (1)

You can consider the next quotes that also came from the New Testament,  both Mathew 7:17 and John 15:2  give a similar message which paraphrased by me is something like "to know about someone consider the fruits of his tree".

When I encourage you to change.  I am referring to bad habits such as abuse, self-loathing, insecurities both emotional and financial,  worries about  that which you have absolute no control,  controlling others.  I speak about these defects of characters look them up on the subject of attraction.  You might find there is more information for you than you thought about.  But the outcome is pure joy of life.   Change your thinking, change your life.

Cleaning the Wreckage of My Past

Therapy is relatively new to all of us, and certainly it true for me.  My family would never admit to having any kind of problems let alone tell  problems to some "therapist".   We simple did not admit any faults or certainly never admitted to anyone that we had some difficulties to overcome.   Lesson number one for me here was a lesson in how to stuff emotions on a grand scale.   Unfortunately for me or fortunate for you it is why I write today which is a therapy of clearing the energy of the past that is harmful to me and toxic perhaps to others.  Reflecting back by the time I was 5 I was totally enmeshed into family dysfunction.  Understand this,  there is room for improvement for all that walk upon earth.  This is school. 

Never, did it ever dawn on me that finding what we call the "inner child" would totally change my life and thrust me into a new world of the unknown.  Who was I, would I love myself, and of course would others like or love me?   For me, I have learned that when it is time to learn about oneself, the Universe always steps in to give us a nudge.  This nudge always felt uncomfortable because I was being jolted into a life of unknowns, and like it or not, I was into this journey of discovery before I recognized this fact.  

All of us have something to work on while on earth.  If we were perfect, we would not be here, but on another plane or planet of existence.   I am not talking about learning about vocations.  What I am referring to is understanding that there is always room for improvement, and in order to grow spiritually, it is important to address all of these "defects of character" that made each of us feel in adequate.  Defects that we use to manipulate others, get our way, and  control as many as we can, or become the victim.   I was all of that I have described.  One of my biggest fears was money.......   

I was about 5 years old  more or less.  I had not yet started formal education and I always loved to buy stuff.   As children we were allowed to walk to town to what was then called the 5 and dime store which was nothing more than  nickel and dime stuff for children.  Always we had a big budget.  Each of us was given 15 cents and that was like sending me to the moon emotionally.  Oh, what  I could do with what was to me a huge amount of cash.  For mother it was a godsend as she had about an hour and a half without squirmy  kids...These were corporate decisions here.   Cameron, Texas was a very small town who knew everyone, and it was a simple place for children to feel like for once in their life, they were big enough to go places.  Maybe the distance in total was one half of a mile, I never measured the distance.  The town square had two movie theatres big stuff for city folk from Fort Worth.  Cameron was still behind the times.   All phones were through the central office handled by an operator.  Does this sound ancient?  To many of you it does, but truthfully it was not long ago.  

Downtown consisted of two movie theatres, two banks,  two dime stores,  two grocery stores( very small by today's standard) an ice house for produce delivery and always a couple of bars for the men.  There were other stores that wrapped around the central  plaza, called the square.  You can get the picture, which was not a lot of activity.  We would make our purchases and walk back to grandmother's house. 

One day in Fort Worth, I ask my father to take me to the store.  I had accumulated a little cash, and the need was about to burn a hole in my pocket.   Dad reluctantly drove me to the "dime store", and I strolled in for the big purchase.   I bought only what I could afford, a bag of marbles.   Upon getting back into the car, my father inquired about the purchase.  "Why did you select this?", he asked.  "Well, that was all I could afford."  was my reply.  "Do you play marbles?" he asked.  " No, but they're pretty." 

Now for the lesson of a lifetime.  My father made me return the marbles and get my money.  Devastating for a little shopper, and then for the rest of my childhood and adult life made fun of the attempt to buy something I did not need.   This became the practical joke of the family, and all enjoyed the story except me.   I truly accepted the fact that I was not able to handle money and took this erroneous belief into adulthood.

  The Aztecs I believe calling this fact of  accepting a false belief about yourself and putting it into your mitote ( body of energy within the soul that holds truths either real or imaginary).   All of us, by the time we are 5 or 6 have been programed to believe many things about ourselves that are false. and we stuff these truths into our mitote.     Examples that were mine as well were, you are stupid, you can't manage money,  you never finish projects, the only A you make is in "hall", you need a man when you are an adult, and on and on.   Sometimes these truths are so hidden that it will take therapy of some kind.  My therapy came in the form of 12 step work, as well as other groups.   For those of you who are reaching a stumbling block look for the group that possibly might  fit your needs.  But remember this, it is up to you to make your own decision.  This is not up to "the priest",  the "counselor", the parent, the sister or brother but you.  You must stand by what you think is important to uncover about yourself so that you can change these erroneous beliefs and behaviors and join the world of the "living".