Voice of the Spirit

Abortion is one of the most highly controversial and divisive issues facing our society today, with people’s physical safety and even their lives being on the line.  As the country is divided between pro-choice and pro-life belief systems, there seems to be no real way of reconciling these two polar opposite viewpoints.

In this writing, I will look at abortion from a different perspective that is rarely, if ever written about – a karmic perspective.  What are the karmic ramifications of an abortion?  How does abortion affect our future, not just in this incarnation, but future lifetimes as well?  What might be the karmic plan regarding an abortion?  With these spiritual complexities in mind, I will try and offer the many varying karmic possibilities in a non-judgmental way regarding this most emotionally charged issue.  In addition, I will shed light on what the varying karmic plans might be between the souls involved regarding pregnancy, miscarriage, and birth. 

Before a pregnancy happens, there has already been a karmic plan for it to occur between all of the parties involved.  This karmic plan occurs on the other side, before anyone has been born into the physical lifetime where the pregnancy would occur.  It involves the father, the mother and the soul that may be born into a physical body.  This plan may also include an adoptive parent or stepparent as well as any family members and / or friends who would be connected to this potential birth and the physical life that may follow.

As with any karmic plan, there are unlimited possibilities as to exactly what an agreement may entail.  Just as we can have any number of contracts between human beings in our earthly lives, any number of variables can exist in a karmic plan between all of the parties involved regarding the initial pregnancy and what comes after. 

It all depends on what the lessons involved are as well as the choices that are always present all the way up until the actual birth happens.  Even still, it must be noted that these plans from the other side are not written in stone.  Before incarnating, everything appears to look easy, as if one will come into the physical world, live up to their agreements, zip through all of their lessons and triumphantly return back home to spirit.  However, when one is stuck in the limitations of a physical body and the restrictive housing of the personality, it can BE very different. 

Frequently, once on earth, people are not able, or do not feel that they are able to live up to the agreements made on the other side. Therefore, there are many possibilities as to how the karmic plan will actually be implemented and executed.  Below, I would like to break down the different karmic possibilities regarding pregnancy, birth, miscarriage and abortion.

The most simple and clear-cut example of a karmic plan on the other side regarding a child being born is where all parties agree to a pregnancy, which is to be concluded by a birth in the physical world.  Then, when the actual pregnancy takes place, it is followed through with the birth of the child.  Here, it is quite simple as to what has been planned and what was carried out.  In certain instances, though, before the actual birth occurs, there could possibly be a miscarriage.  Let’s look at the many variables regarding karmic plans involving a miscarriage and why it might happen.

Sometimes a karmic plan is agreed to where a miscarriage will occur.  You might ask, why would this be pre planned?  Because the soul may be agreeing to come back and forth to the fetus from the other side to practice attaching itself to its physical body, which is in preparation to eventually be born.  As it is quite traumatic for a soul to be born (where you have to dumb down from knowing and seeing to starting from the beginning again as an infant), it is not at all easy to do.  Often, a soul may be preparing to get used to the birth process again.  Since all of us have reincarnated countless times already, certain souls may have come to dread the process of birth, death and rebirth.

In addition, a karmically pre planned miscarriage can teach us certain lessons such as:  Loss, disappointment, sadness, guilt and other emotions that may need to be learned on a spiritual level by the parties involved for reasons of growth.

A miscarriage that is not a karmic plan can occur through many negative, careless and destructive choices.  What if the father was reckless and too sexually aggressive with the mother?  How about if the mother was using alcohol, drugs, or engaging in wild behavior?  What if the mother was not seeking the proper medical care?  All of these choices could cause a miscarriage to occur that was not a karmic plan.

Stress in any area of living:  Finances, career, health, family, as well as the tension created by the father treating the mother badly can also create a miscarriage.  I have had many female clients who were pregnant and lost the baby due to the difficulty of all they were going through with the father. 

Sometimes, the mother is so totally stressed out during a pregnancy, that she would boldly proclaim, “I want this pregnancy to come to an end.  I don’t want this baby,” which can facilitate a miscarriage to occur.  Let me say, however, that in no way am I trying to suggest to any woman who has had a miscarriage, that somehow she was responsible for it, or perhaps created it.  I am just pointing out that sometimes an intense desire to end a pregnancy can cause the body to carry out such a powerful request.

In these above-mentioned instances where a karmic plan did not exist for a miscarriage, there would potentially be negative emotions.  This would be experienced by those connected to the miscarriage such as the parents, the soul on the other side and other family members / and or loved ones connected to the pregnancy.  Also, there can be a karmic consequence.  If negative karma is created, it would need to be evaluated and looked at specifically as to determine the consequence by the lords of karma (the spiritual forces that oversee, regulate and govern karma in the physical plane).

Beyond miscarriage, is the hot button issue of abortion (which from a karmic and spiritual perspective), is not the clear cut black and white, right or wrong choice that it has often been portrayed to be by people with strong opinions.  In any situation where an abortion occurs, one must look at the karmic plan, which as established above, can literally be anything. 

If a karmic plan is for a pregnancy to occur concluding with giving birth, yet an abortion is chosen, it would create karma.  However, that karma would depend on several variables:  Was the woman under unusual stress?  Did this woman know any better at the time?  What were the extenuating circumstances that contributed to the abortion?  How much financial difficulty was going on at the time?  Did the father, family or others push the mother into making this choice?  Did this woman simply feel that she couldn’t handle a baby and made the best choice she knew how to at the time?

A birth is precisely timed in the spirit world before it occurs (which would be seen by the natal astrology birth chart). Also, since the parents and potential child have a karmic plan that is specific unto them, it may take a while for the time, place and circumstances to be spiritually correct for the unborn child to have another chance to be born after an abortion.  This can take years, decades, and possibly even centuries.

It is not as if the proper circumstances are mix and match:  Subtracting one set of parents and adding a new one, interchanging different social settings as well as brand new family and friends – as a karmic plan is specific to all of the parties involved, including the timing and circumstances.  Why?  Because it is all designed for the stage to be set for the appropriate karmic and dharmic lessons to be learned by all of the parties involved.  It would be like planning a movie with: The leading actor and actress, the budget, director and producer, the extras, the time to shoot the film, the location, etc.  How easy is that to recreate?

However, I have felt the following scenario in many readings:  A woman has an abortion or abortions and then gives birth within a few years after the abortion or abortions.  In some of these instances, I have psychically picked up that the soul who was trying to come into this world where the pregnancy or pregnancies were aborted, came back and was born through a latter pregnancy.  Often, the circumstances are still compatible with the original karmic plan; therefore, all parties are given another chance to still complete the karmic plan.  (This same exact scenario can also apply to miscarriages, where the soul trying to come in was not able to because of a miscarriage or miscarriages, and subsequently is born through a successful pregnancy and birth.)

Sometimes the karmic plan as to whether or not to have an abortion is open to options that are not to be decided until the time of the physical pregnancy.  These choices may be tough decisions and are karmically supposed to be left up to the mother and all involved parties – here, there is no clear cut right or wrong.  There may be no preset conclusion in the karmic plan as to what the decisions are to be, but the lessons are for the parties involved to do whatever is “right” for them at the time.

In the cases of rape and incest, the karmic plan may be to make the decision regarding abortion after the pregnancy has actually happened.  Part of the lesson may be for the mother and the involved parties to decide if a baby born through rape or incest would be the right choice.  Would there be birth defects from incest and if so, how serious would they be?  Could the mother or other family members love this child conceived under such difficult circumstances?

In another situation where there might be genetic defects such as Down syndrome, what choice would be appropriate?  Also, if the life of the mother was legitimately in danger, that would factor into the choice regarding a possible abortion.

In some instances, the karmic plan may actually be for an abortion to occur.  With lessons, it is not always what appears pleasant or “nice” to us as human beings, but what needs to be learned on a deep spiritual level.  What if the lesson was for the mother to feel loss (a lesson of losing what one wants) and the unborn baby to have to wait (a lesson of patience) to come into the physical world?   What if the mother was to have an abortion to learn to feel regret, so that later down the road, she would conceive and give birth?  Or perhaps, if the mother and other parties needed to learn the value and appreciation of life, an abortion may teach that lesson. 

With pregnancy, miscarriage, abortion and birth, the question needs to be asked, “When does life actually begin?”  Metaphysically, life is considered to begin at the point of conception; however, the soul does not immediately enter the mother’s body when the sperm meets the egg.   It is throughout the pregnancy that the soul travels back and forth from the other side to the mother, preparing for the tremendous trauma of being born again and getting used to the sensation of being an infant.  It is a conditioning process, much like an astronaut who puts themselves through rigorous training to prepare to do something quite unnatural – to travel into outer space. 

As we are far more in our natural state of being in the spirit world, coming into a body with its physical limitations and personality restrictions is tremendously difficult to do.  So with this training process, the soul prepares to be born.  Right before the birth, the soul permanently enters the baby’s body, in preparation for the conclusion of the pregnancy, its process and ultimately, birth.

With abortion, we’ve established that it may be chosen in spite of a karmic plan to give birth, left up to the parties involved where the decision is to be made at the time of the actual pregnancy; or a karmic plan where the abortion is pre-agreed to.   Yet, the question remains, is there a black and white solution regarding abortion?  For instance, should the government legislate its opinion regarding abortion for one and all to abide by, or is abortion a matter of personal karma, which some would refer to this as personal choice? 

Abortion is clearly a matter of personal karma – meaning that it is the karma of the partied involved, not a matter of every abortion being right or wrong.  Even if an abortion creates karma, which in certain instances it does, it is still the karma of the parties involved and based on individual choice.  In the short of it, a government is not here to tell people what to do regarding their own karmic choices as this is not a government based issue.  Whatever the repercussions are, they are to be experienced by those who have made the choices.  Abortion is not a societal karma, meaning that all of society must abide by the same standard or viewpoint.  It is interwoven into all of the parties’ choices, repercussions, karma, dharma, evolution and growth.

Just as some doctors perform abortions and some don’t, it is a matter of their personal karma and beliefs.  However, many in the world feel that abortion is always murder – plain and simple.  These people try to superimpose their own personal religious beliefs onto everyone else.  Since everyone is not spiritually supposed to be of the same religion or belief systems as we are all on different paths (with all pathways leading back to God), some people will stop at nothing to end abortion. Bombing of clinics, murdering of doctors who practice abortion, websites listing these doctor’s home addresses to promote attack and attempts at reversing Roe V. Wade are all done by those who can only see things from one point of view.  Here, they are indeed creating negative karma themselves.  Even though they believe their violent choices to be righteous and supremely justified, they refuse to accept anyone else’s perspective, based on their strong religious convictions.  We must all learn to co exist, even with those who are diametrically opposed to our way of thinking, believing and living.

Regarding an actual abortion, the question would be posed as to how would the soul on the other side connected to an abortion react to this choice?  Depending on the lessons involved and the choices made, many variables occur regarding how a soul would experience this choice.

??First, with contraception, would the soul on the other side experience anything at all, as contraception precedes conception, which is where life begins.  The sperm plus the egg equals conception, which begins life.  The soul of a child on the other side plus the biological fetus equals a baby.  With contraception, the potential negativity that can be experienced through abortion is alleviated for the soul on the other side. 

Some feel that contraception should not be used whatsoever.  This idea was established at a time when the world population was dramatically less than it is now, and where perhaps there was a fear of human extinction.  In today’s culture, contraception can be quite positive, as the world is overpopulated, plus the soul on the other side is not actually connected until the point of conception.  With the morning after pill, whatever feelings a soul may experience from an abortion are greatly diminished.  Why?  Because the connection to the mother and the birth process had just started – therefore, there is far less attachment involved.  The longer the pregnancy occurs, the more connected the soul becomes to being born – so the abortion has the potential of being more intense and traumatic.  Certainly, contraception greatly diminishes the potential of the karma that can be created by an abortion. 

When an actual abortion occurs, it is hardly just a matter of the act that terminates the pregnancy; then all is done and over with.  There is often a tremendous and far-reaching emotional aftermath, especially for the mother.  (Although, conversely, abortion is the most prominent form of birth control in Japan, where it is considered commonplace.)  However, in America, it is much more of a volatile and emotionally charged issue, as we all know.  In fact, abortion may be the single strongest issue that divides this country:  politically, socially and religiously.

My experience as a psychic, has given me quite an up close and personal viewpoint of what women have emotionally been through after an abortion, as many have shared their experiences with me regarding the abortions they have had.  I have heard countless stories from women of just how haunted they had been through an abortion or abortions, often ones that happened decades ago.  “Jim, my baby would now be 15 years old.  I’ll never know my child, because I had an abortion,” a client sobs.  “I’ve had four abortions Jim, so how could you say that I am a good person?  I deserve to be punished forever buy God,” another client exclaims!  “I wish I would have never had an abortion because now, there’s nothing I can do to change it or fix it,” another client explains.

With these emotions, one needs to look at the tremendous complexities that are involved in such a choice as abortion.  Serious questions need to be asked:  How young was the woman at the time?  Did she know any better?  Has she learned from this choice?  Through her choice, has she been able to assist others, because she has grown herself?  Did the father try and force her into the abortion?  If it was one abortion, it can be seen as a “mistake,” where one moves on to future choices that they feel better about.  If there have been multiple abortions, the woman needs to ask herself what difficulties was she going through at the time.  What repetitive behavior patterns were present at the time?  Was her family history abusive?  Was there an alcohol or drug problem that contributed to this choice?  Were there serious emotional or mental issues in play at the time of the abortions?  As life is not black or white, certainly abortion isn’t either.  With understanding these often very complex interpersonal structures, we begin to achieve the real task at hand, which is – letting go, moving forward and ultimately – forgiveness.

No matter what any of us have chosen (and abortion can be one of the most painful choices for a woman, often long after the fact), we must learn to forgive ourselves and release the burden to infinite spirit and divine love.  That great Bible phrase rings so true, “Let the person without sin throw the first stone.”  Are my choices any better than yours or vice-versa?  Of course not!  Who are any of us to judge others?  But beyond that, who are any of us to even judge ourselves? We do the best we can, we learn from whatever we’ve chosen, and hopefully, we move on to more enriched and positive journeys!  That is all any of us can do – and it is good enough.

It is important to know that none of us can ever truly know what the karmic plans are regarding pregnancy, miscarriage, abortion and birth – as those plans come together before we incarnate into this world.  There are countless variables and possibilities of what karmic lessons and spiritual plans can teach us.  However, none of us can prove what these lessons are or are not.  A psychic making a prediction is not proof of what the karmic plan may or may not be.  We will probably not really know the complete answers and the lessons that were agreed to until we are on the other side and can review the agreements, choices and consequences involved.  These answers will be given to us by the lords of karma and our master spiritual teachers, after we have crossed over into the light.

Even though we still are in this physical world, though, it is important that now – right now, we live in the light — the eternal light of hope, eternal blessings and divine forgiveness.  Whatever has happened regarding pregnancy, birth, miscarriage, or abortion  — no matter how horribly any of us have ever felt about our past choices or experiences, we now release it to the most profound and pure form of God’s undying and unconditional love for all of us, knowing that it has all happened for the highest good and that everything will be OK – eternally. 

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Topic: Coming to peace with past choices
Goal: To not hold onto negative feelings regarding past choices already made.

I now come to peace with my past choices by learning from all I have experienced!

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 Time tends to be the one thing that everyone wants in a reading:  “When is he going to call?”  “When am I getting married?”  “When will I have more money?”  When talking about “timing” in a session, there are many factors as to why some time-based predictions are spot on, while others are not accurate at all.  Yet, it is not as simple as to say that the gifts a reader possesses are strictly defined by how they can or can’t predict time.  As I will show below, time is not at all as clear-cut in a consultation as people would like to think.  In reality, it has a lot to do with the spiritual journey a client is on, their choices and what path they may decide to travel on.

In psychic readings, there are two types of timing for predictions:  1) – The first is “Lesson Driven.” This means that the karmic / dharmic spiritual lesson or lessons the client needs to learn must be completed for the prediction to happen (time-wise).  With lesson-based predictions, the time will not be able to be perceived in a rock solid “look at your watch” fashion.  Since the client may choose to either learn or not learn their lessons, it is not a just a simple “this week” or “it will happen next year” answer.  In addition, since these are karmic / dharmic lessons that tie into one’s overall soul growth, they are not easily or quickly learned.

Here I will illustrate the point:  I remember a female client who had stated the following to me in a reading:  “Jim, I’ve had at least 20 readings over the last few years, and everyone says I’m going to meet somebody new, but I never do.”   In this instance, I clairvoyantly knew that the client’s love life was not just a matter of a date when a certain person would be coming into her life (as it sometimes is), but that it is based on her spiritual growth (lessons).  Her situation needed to be looked at from a different point of view regarding time.  I picked up that she was closed to commitment, needed to open her heart to receive someone new, which entailed forgiving her ex husband.  These things needed to be done to bring someone new into her life.

Then I indicated that if she did these things, a new person would come enter the picture in about 2 years, however as I pointed out, the work would have to be done (the lessons learned) to open the door to receive this new blessing.  In this instance, the other readers weren’t wrong; they just may have not perceived the complexity of her situation and that it required more in depth insight that just a date of occurrence.

So always remember that if lessons, especially deep karmic ones are involved, “time” will always be based on what you learn and how you proceed with learning your lessons and not just “written in stone” dates.

2) – The second type of timing for predictions is “Event Driven.”  An event driven time and date prediction is based on the current path the client is on at the point when they receive a reading.  These event driven predictions are less difficult to do, as the pathway the client is traveling on is already a journey in progress.  It would be like looking at someone on a road trip and viewing where things are already heading.  These events are usually based upon choices the client has already made in the past, not on choices the person is making in the present.  As we look at the future, though, choices that will be made by the client can and will also affect the ultimate outcomes predicted.

However, even with “Event Driven” predictions, the client’s choice always comes into play.  It is never as if a psychic can make a prediction and that it would be unable to be changed by the client.  Any choice the client makes between the moment a reading was offered and the actual date of a prediction, alters the prediction and the outcome – often dramatically.  Especially if the time frame predicted is for the long term, let’s say, several months or years, there are more chances for a client to make various choices that could completely change the end prediction.

Here’s a for instance:  I remember telling a man that if he did not contact his ex, the ex would reach out to him in 6 months and be interested in reuniting with him.  That prediction, though, was based on him not doing anything but waiting it out for that 6 month time period:  No text messages, no emails, no phone calls or correspondence of any kind. 

This man refused to wait and began trying to have contact with his ex almost immediately after our reading, which his ex was not happy about as she was still in another relationship, although, one that was coming to an end.  Because of him refusing to leave well enough alone, his ex became frustrated with his pushiness and did not attempt to reunite with him 6 months later. 

The client then became angry and stated to me, “You said that she was going to try and reunite with me in 6 months, but your prediction never happened.”  As in many instances, the client forgets that the prediction, like a contract, has different clauses to it.  This prediction was not a simple one-line sentence, which said: She will contact you in 6 months – period.  There was also the factor of him absolutely having to refuse to try and connect with her during that 6-month period and needing to just wait it out.

Through his choices, the final prediction did not come true.  It is important to realize that since life is not “written in stone,” meaning that any of us could make any number of choices on any given day, that time based psychic predictions are also not a guaranteed fact.  Especially when the pathway the client is on has been altered by the client’s choices. 

Think of it this way:  God has given you a life with infinite plans and possibilities.  If you put a gun to your head and commit suicide, which is your choice, not God’s, you end the game entirely.  In less perceivably dramatic ways, we do the same thing everyday of our lives through our choices.

As we see, our choices affect the event driven predictions we receive in a reading, yet that may not stop clients from searching for ever more correct time based insights.  Some may think to look to the spirit word for even more clear-cut dates.  After all, our spirit guides are presumably more enlightened than we are, so shouldn’t they be able to predict time better than human psychics can?

In actuality, human psychics are usually better than spirits in this regard.  Why?  Because humans live within the illusion of time, therefore, are able to perceive it more clearly.  In spirit where there is no time as we know it, spirit entities are often out of touch with the clock human beings experience, as it is not the reality they live in.  However, some spirits are better than others, as they may still be able to retain a connection with the parameters of the physical plane’s illusion of time.

If we break down time into different aspects or styles of readers, we’ll see how various psychics deal with time in a consultation.

Certain psychics often pick up numbers regarding time.  A reader may say to a client, “I pick up that you will meet someone new in a “3.”  That “3″ could be 3 days, 3 weeks, 3 months, or perhaps even 3 years.  Often a reader can fine tune or narrow down the time frame that initially presented itself as a number, and sometimes they cannot, as all they may receive is the actual number.

Some readers predict time in literal dates.  This type of psychic would say, “Your ex lover will be calling you this Tuesday.”  Keep in mind though, that the further out the date is, say, weeks, months, even years from the point of the actual session, the literal aspect of the prediction may become somewhat less literal.  This style of reader might say, “I see you meeting someone new in about 9 months.

Literal time frames are often provided by readers, which are like bookends, which indicate the first possibility of an occurrence, concluding with the latest likelihood of something happening.   A reader might state, “I see you getting a new job offer between summer and late fall of this year.”  Usually, these predictions fall somewhere in-between the two “bookends” so to speak.

A psychic I know once told me the story of a prediction she once made.  She told a client that she would hear from her boyfriend by the end of October.  The client called her on October 26th expressing frustration and stated, “I haven’t heard from him yet!”  The psychic told her, “It’s not the end of October yet.  Give it till the end of the month.”  A few days later, her client called her on the October 30th and said, “I heard from him.”  So here, by the end of the month was a literal time frame prediction.

“Time” may present itself to a reader in ways that are only partially literal.  Sometimes a month may come through regarding a prediction, let’s say, February — but it wasn’t that February when the prediction actually came true, it turned out to be February a year later.  This can also happen with a day of the week.  A psychic may say, “I see you hearing about your new job offer by Friday.”  However, it wasn’t that Friday the client heard about their job offer, it was on Friday three weeks later.

A reader recently shared this story with me:  She told a client who desperately needed a job this exact prediction regarding her career: “The job will open up in November.”  The psychic then went on to describe specific details regarding this job.  The client ended up getting this job, as exactly described.  However, this job came to her the following March.  When she accepted the position, her employer told her that this job had been opened up in the prior November and that the company had been trying to fill the position for all of that time.  Here we see that literal time based predictions can be seen in many different ways.

Often, readers see time in ways that are metaphorical or allegorical.  A psychic may say, “I see you getting engaged when the leaves are falling (which would indicate the fall season).  Another advisor may see a vision of the snow when offering a reading, stating, “When the snow is falling, I see you moving to another location across the country.”

Some things in a consultation may not be able to be seen through the lens of time.  Why?  Because, from a spiritual perspective, certain things are simply not supposed to be revealed to us.  A perfect example of not being able to see the time and date is when a reader is trying to predict death.  Knowing when someone close to us will die, or even being clear on when we are going to leave this world could be disastrous for us to know.  How could we live in a normal day to day fashion if we knew the time and date of our own passing?  If we know when someone around was going to transition, it could upset the flow of how we interact with them and cause irreparable emotional damage to all concerned.  Therefore, infinite intelligence may not let readers see when people are going to pass.

However, in rare instances, it can be a positive thing to know the time when someone may exit this existence.  I remember a client of mine who had a relative who had been chronically ill in a nursing home for many years.  My client needed to know when this person would leave this world for two reasons:  They were worried that they wouldn’t have enough money to keep paying the nursing home bill as well as they wanted to know when this egregious suffering of their loved one would finally come to an end?  I remember predicting the point of transition correctly, and in that instance, it was a spiritual blessing to be able to see such a thing.

In this instance, it was beneficial to be able to see the above-mentioned person’s transition point.  However, it is generally not a good idea to try to predict death in a reading.

Some readers perceive that they are not able to predict time.  By believing that they can’t offer time-based predictions, they limit their ability to do so.  Someone I know who taught psychic development classes to many students, told me that she always instructed her students from the beginning that would be able to predict time.  She presented tuning into dates as a normal part of the psychic process and therefore, her students never had a problem predicting time at all. 

If a reader believes that they indeed can predict time, they should be able to do so.  It’s just the issue of not being intimidated by seeing a possible date, trusting in one’s inner ability to look at time in a session and flow with that process.  One of the great things about predicting the clock is that the more one does it, the easier and more fluid it becomes.

Regarding time, some clients are tremendously impatient regarding the points of when something predicted will happen.  “You mean I have to wait another year to meet someone?  No way.  It has to be sooner.  C’mon, tell me that it could happen sooner.  I can’t wait a whole year to meet someone,” a client exclaims!  This process of badgering the reader will never make things happen more quickly.  Remember the psychic is NOT in control over what happens in a client’s life; the reader is simply a conduit or vehicle and a messenger, that’s all.  So in this instance, don’t shoot the messenger.  Whatever time frame is offered in a reading, take note of it and see how things unfold, as that’s all that anyone can do.

A reading is supposed to provide guidance and insight to the journey an individual is on in this lifetime.  Consultations are there to offer insights, show possibilities, indicate where choice is involved and provide higher guidance to the deep complexities any of us can face.

A session is never simply designed to fill in the calendar, in the same way you list dinner dates, birthdays and doctors appointments.  That would be as ridiculous as saying to a reader, “If you were really psychic, you would know what I ate for breakfast yesterday!”

“Time” can provide an overview of the journey.  Often time frames are revealed through a reading in the following way:  An issue starts with a question, which progresses to a murky, non-conclusive and sometimes rocky period, and ultimately leads to a conclusion.  Never forget though, that many factors affect the conclusion in time based ways:  The karmic / spiritual lessons the client must learn to see the ultimate predictions manifest, and the choices that the client makes along the way which can alter and / or nullify the dates originally offered in a reading.

With knowing that time is not a permanent fixture in the heavens or in our lives, we look at time as it should be perceived — as a guiding light, which is merely an overview in the journey — but one that can shine brighter, dim darker or simply be turned off, leaving us in darkness; by us – as we are the ones who truly have our finger on the light and the dimmer switch.  Here we see that we have always been and will always be far more in control of the proverbial  “when” we all wish to know – that “when” which has much more to do with “what” — as in what we think, choose, say, do, and ultimately, learn.

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Topic: Manifesting Good Timing
Goal: To bring together the right choices at the right time in our lives.

Everything manifests positively in my life at the right time in the right way!

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 Karma – “To Do”

To begin with, I would like to clarify some of the misconceptions regarding karma and to help define what karma is.  Simply stated, the word karma actually comes from a Sanskrit root that means “to do.” This refers to the consequences of our actions from past lives and this lifetime, too.  Also, karma can mean “comeback.” All we have done before comes back to us, as in what we have done prior which acts like a boomerang in our lives.  In the Bible it is stated, “Whatsoever you sow, ye shall reap.”  The Bible also indicates, “An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.”  These are statements that also define karma.  It’s common to hear people say the phrases “What goes around, comes around” and “Whatever you do, it comes back to you,” which both speak of karma.

Dharma – “To Be”

Sometimes people confuse karma with dharma.  The word Dharma actually comes from a Sanskrit root that means “to be.”  Dharma deals with the spiritual lessons you need to learn now to spiritually grow and evolve, but dharma is not tied into your actions from former lifetimes as it does with karma.  Dharma indicates the sum total of who you are and your entire being.  Since dharma deals with lessons, not consequences, we have done nothing from our past that creates our current dharma.

Here is an example of dharma:  If you were at the point in your spiritual evolution that you needed to learn the lesson of consideration, (as in being considerate of others) that lesson would come to bear in your life.  Circumstances would be set up for this dharmic lesson to be learned.  It is not based on your prior actions or choices, but simply based on what you need to learn at this time.

To differentiate between karma and dharma, here are some good points to remember:  Karma is what we owe, while dharma is about evolvement.  Karma is about consequence while dharma is about what we need to learn at this time.  Karma is more highly charged while dharma just “is,” and represents where we’re at now from a spiritual point of view. 

In understanding karma, I would like to further explain what karma is and how we create both good and bad karma.  It is easy to think of karma like a cosmic balance sheet.  For every good act you do, score one in the plus column while for every bad act you do, score one in the minus column.  It doesn’t matter whether you get caught or anyone sees what you have done, as whatever you do indeed comes back to you.

Creating Negative Karma

When anyone harms another, they create negative karma.  As mentioned above, karma is much more highly charged than dharma.  Why?  Because negative karma is created by the emotions that one feels when they have been hurt by another person’s harmful actions toward them.  Since these emotions are intense, negative karma is created.

Probably the worst of all negative karmic acts is murder.  With killing another, that person’s chance to grow and offer their unique singular contribution to this world is ended – forever.  Since each of us can only offer our particular gifts to the world, (no one else can take our place in this world) we are each a single, irreplaceable link in the cosmic chain of the supreme master plan.  When someone is taken out, their link is removed which weakens the universal chain.  Whatever that person was here to contribute is gone.  Besides it affecting the entity who was murdered, potentially for an incalculable amount of time, (as it may scar them for multiple lifetimes in the future) it dramatically wounds everyone who is connected to this individual: Friends, family and loved ones, a spouse, children and co workers.

Suicide also creates negative karma.  Think of it this way:  The person committing suicide may think that this is their life and they can do whatever they want with it.  However, I would say that this person has received the gift of a God given life and it is not theirs to take away; it is just the life they happen to be living in.  It would be like someone offering you the gift of staying in their home – that offer doesn’t include the option of destroying the home.  As in murder, suicide is final and adversely affects anyone connected to the person who has chosen to end their life.

Rape, child molestation, physically attacking another, robbery and drunk driving car accidents are all examples of what creates negative karma.  For egregious negative karma creating acts, it can literally take lifetimes for the negative karma to be resolved.  Think of the example of dropping a pebble into the water.  The ripples keep continuing.  With intense negative karma, it is like dropping a million pebbles into the water and trying to gage how far the ripple affect will reach.

However, most of us don’t do the things that are mentioned immediately above.  For most of us who create negative karma, it is often veiled in acts that are socially acceptable or at least tolerated.  If a person at work gossiped about a co-worker and ruined that person’s reputation, a possibility for a promotion and their overall career, that act would create negative karma.  This type of thing is quite common though and not something that would cause outrage in society, as someone molesting a child would, although both acts create negative karma. 

Taking away a persons ability to make a choice creates negative karma.  That old phrase of “The pathway to hell is paved with good intentions” rings so true here.  Let’s use this example:  John was dating Judy and through a misunderstanding, they broke up.  John ran into Judy’s friend Sue a week later.  John asked Sue to please give Judy a message from him.  However, Sue was attracted to John herself, so she decided to not pass on the message from John, hoping that John would become interested in her if he never heard back from Judy.  Here, Sue took away both Judy and John’s choice and therefore, created negative karma.

There are certainly other examples that can be illustrated of how we create negative karma: Manipulating others and stealing to name a few, but the point to always remember is that we create negative karma when we harm or hurt others.

The Consequences of Negative Karma

As negative karmic acts have already been indicated above, one might ask, “How is the degree of consequence for our negative karmic actions determined?  Is it always the same?  Does it vary and if so, why and how?”

In addition to the bad act we have perpetrated on another, it has to also be considered just how much we understand regarding the nature and consequences of our actions.  We hold children to a lesser degree of responsibility than adults, because children don’t know any better.  If a three year old was playing with matches and burned the house down, we would look at that act completely differently than if an adult set a house on fire purposefully and in clear conscience.  Not only do we hold the child and the adult to very different standards legally, the same also holds true karmically. 

Certainly, as adults we understand the repercussions of our actions far more than children do.  In addition, our adult level of spiritual understanding must be taken into consideration, as the more we know spiritually, the higher of a standard we are held to karmically.  Once you know better, you cannot pretend that you don’t understand or pretend to be ignorant as to “get away with it.”  This can also be an example of how dharma and karma work together.  If your dharma is such that your soul has already learned a lesson and you create negative karma anyway, the karmic repercussion will be far greater.

Let’s use our above mentioned gossiping example:  The repercussions are different for someone who would be gossiping about another and not thinking anything bad would come from it, versus someone who planned it out with complete malicious intent to deliberately harm that person’s reputation.  Of course, both acts create karma, but the repercussions would be greater for someone doing it knowingly.

It is sometimes confusing to people who falsely think that negative karma will immediately come back to someone who has wronged them.  In many people’s minds, they feel that if a person wronged them on January 1, 2008, that within days, weeks, or at the latest months, the person who has wronged them should have an equal consequence coming back on them. 

However, there is no strict set of rules as to how long it takes and exactly how karma comes back. Each situation is looked at specifically by the higher forces of the universe that govern and regulate karma (the lords of karma).  All things are taken into consideration: The person’s level of spiritual understanding who created the negative karma as well as any possible past life ties between the entities in question.  Besides that, a person may pay a karmic penalty in a completely separate area of their life different from where the original negative karma was created.  Let’s say that if Joe cheats on Mary, lies to her and destroys her life, he may pay the penalty through reaping health problems down the road and not necessarily through someone else who cheats on him in the future in the way he did to Mary.  Not only can it take years or even decades for a negative karmic consequence to come to bear, it can actually take lifetimes before it is resolved.

Recognizing and Resolving Negative Karma

With negative karma, we know that is based on consequences from former actions.  So how can we recognize it for what it is and resolve bad karma? 

There is a concept that states “If you’re compelled to run toward something or run away from something, there is probably karma involved.”  Karmic situations are complex and not easily diagnosed or perceived.  Since it is hard for most people to perceive karmic situations, (especially if they’re in the middle of it) it may take a great spiritual master to be able to look at the situation at hand from a point of overview to add clarity.  Also, different people enter our lives at various points to bring these karmic situations to bear.  Usually, these situations have an intensity attached to them.  However, what we want from the outcome is not always what we’re here to learn or teach. 

Most people tend to think about how people have hurt them versus focusing on how they have hurt others.  I think that it is important to realize that when someone hurts you, they may not be creating new karma; they may be the vehicle for a karmic debt that you owe.  It is important to note that you cannot tell strictly which it is by how you feel about a situation emotionally.

Also, if a negative situation arises, this may be an opportunity to resolve karma from the past – maybe things got violent or ended in murder in a past life and the two parties have agreed to come together to try to resolve it this time without violence.  Sometimes, people come back together and wind up making more karma in the process!

Often, we have to go through the journey, like following a plot line in a movie we’re seeing for the first time.  We may not know where the story is heading, yet we need to make the journey.  Sometimes, we don’t realize the lessons we are here to learn or teach when we’re in the story.  However, we must try to do the right thing, as to not create additional negative karma. 

We should always “deal with it,” make amends, and bring things to a resolution.  Since negative karmic situations are highly emotionally charged, we must be very careful of our emotions and not build our actions from an emotionally charged point of view.  With these feelings, we are capable of making bad decisions and adding on even more negative karma if our actions are solely or in part based on our emotions.

Family relationships, romantic partners and any people who serve an important role in our lives are probably karmic relationships.  With these often-complex interactions, we must try and step back from our emotions, call upon divine guidance and do what is spiritually correct, especially because there is always limited time in a given incarnation to fix things.  It is not as if we have eternity in this particular incarnation to get it right.  Certainly we don’t want to drag negative karma into future lifetimes if at all possible.  Resolving negative karma may not always be what you or the others involved desire, but when our actions are right, negative karma becomes lessened or resolved.

Buddhism teaches that the goal is to severe all karmic ties, as to not keep reincarnating into the physical dimension of illusion we are currently in.

Negative emotions are just like handcuffs that bind us to all we have anger, resentment or hatred toward.  Work toward coming to peace with anyone you have bad blood with and absolutely work on forgiving them!  Even if you can’t come to peace directly with them, work on achieving peace and forgiveness from within yourself regarding the person or persons where negativity exists.  Remember, peace and forgiveness lessens and heals negative emotions, which helps to resolve bad karma.

Since hate also creates karma, we must work diligently on forgiving anyone or anything we have ever hated.  All hatred must be cleansed out of our systems, thoroughly and permanently.  By forgiving anyone and anything, we have resolved negative karma and are less likely to create new additional bad karma as we reach a higher level of vibration and spiritual understanding.  The Dali Lama says that to think of murdering someone is actually the same thing as murdering that person.  In the Bible, this concept is applied with the question being posed, “Am I my brother’s keeper?”  Here, “keeper” means “keeper in thought,” as in the thoughts we think of others.  Therefore, we should always hold everyone in loving thoughts.

Here is a good rule of thumb: Always be loving to yourself and loving to the other person or persons involved.  By living by the code of love, you won’t go wrong.  Make the sincere effort to handle all situations in your life with complete love of both yourself as well as all others involved.  This will take work, as our ego, defense mechanisms, emotions and smaller selves try to get involved and create negativity as opposed to seeing things resolved for the greater good.  Again, remember that by building all of your thoughts, intentions, actions and choices toward others solidly on the foundation of love, negative karma gets resolved!

Creating Good Karma

By performing positive acts toward others, we do indeed create good karma.  Even if no one sees it, it does come back to you.  Perform acts of kindness and goodness toward others regularly, without asking for anything in return.

Creating good karma now will be reaped later.  It is always good to know that you’re setting up your future consequences in a positive way.  Being generous, helpful, supportive and loving all creates good karma.  Remember, God will utilize you in positive ways if you’re open to it, so it won’t be as if you have to look all around you (like looking for a needle in a haystack) to know what to do.  Be willing to offer loving acts to others and those who can benefit from your loving acts will appear on your pathway!  Also, be honest, always loving, and wish everyone only good, especially those who have hurt you!  I love the phrase, “To give is to receive!  By giving lovingly to others, you will receive good karma in the future!

A Story

I would like to share a story with you that I heard a few years ago.  It came to me at a time when I had been seriously devastated by the actions of another and was working daily on forgiveness, which I did achieve.  This story, to me, illustrates quite profoundly and graphically the effects of our choices and the karma those actions create.

A man deliberately said something bad about his Rabbi that was completely false and therefore, ruined the Rabbis’ reputation.  He then felt bad for what he had done and consulted his Rabbi as to what he should do to “make it right.” The Rabbi told him to come back the next day with a feather pillow.  When the man came back with the pillow, the Rabbi took the pillow outside, cut it open and let all the feathers fly out of the pillow. The wind carried the feathers all over the place.  The Rabbi told the man, “Each feather represents someone to whom you told the lie, or someone who heard about the lie from someone you told.  The only way for you to undo what you have done is to collect each feather and put it back in the pillow.” The man was very sincere in his desire to repent, so he immediately went about trying to collect the feathers.  But the next day he returned to the Rabbi with only a half filled pillow case and told the Rabbi that it was impossible to collect all the feathers.  The Rabbi said, “Exactly. You can never fully remedy an attack on someone’s reputation.”

In Closing

As illustrated by the story of the Rabbi, negative karma is quite hard to resolve.  Most of us like to think of quick fixes, like going to confession to absolve us of our sins.  However, the repercussions for negative karma echo on, for years, decades, even lifetimes.  It is sobering to realize how far reaching our choices and consequences for such actions are and how complex it can be.

With that in mind, we work toward watching what we do and yes, we need to be afraid of our own boomerangs.  Remember that “The fear of the Lord (Karmic law)” is the beginning of wisdom.  With that fear, we are careful to only do all that is good and what is right by others and with that as our commitment, we not only stop creating negative karma, we resolve existing bad karma from before, and create good karma with all that is loving toward everyone.

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Topic: Creating Good Karma
Goal: To build a life based on creating good karma to manifest positive and wonderful repercussions for the future.

I create good karma by performing acts of kindness and love in my everyday life!

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Topic: Being Present In The Here And Now
Goal: To no longer live in the future or the past but rather, live
for today through being present in the here and now.

I am present in the here and now, living for the greater good of those around me and myself every day!

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