Karma - Cutting Through the Confusion

What karma really means

'Karma', along with various other terms used in religious and mystical traditions, is loaded with connotations of control agenda that, according to the understandings and working model that I present on this site, have been put upon it by the dark force via those traditions, and therefore is a term that is best let go of - despite the fact that it does have a very basic, straightforward and innocent meaning.

The underlying and actually useful meaning of 'karma' is simply the accumulation of distortions or blocks in any level or aspect of your entire being, resulting from any aspect of your life process. If you put your hand in a flame, your hand gets burnt. If you behave harmfully to others, that has distorting effects on subtle aspects of yourself, which in time will cause you problems at the mental / emotional and physical levels - unless in the meantime you take actions that clear those distortions. If, through no fault of your own you happen to have placed yourself where you get a particular environmental stress, say, in your home, you get adverse effects, whether or not they show up at that time. All these adverse effects, which accumulate in various levels and aspects of our entire being, are karmas.

Thus we can see that it's really not about good and bad / evil at all but simply about what strengthens and empowers you as a vibrantly aware being of love, and what weakens and distorts you, so obscuring your true nature. The more distorted you are in relation to your true nature, the more troublesome experiences, pain and suffering and indeed bad health you are liable to experience. As I say, it is simple cause and effect, relating to what is our true nature and what weakens and what strengthens us as whole beings. To put it in a nutshell our true nature is happy, and distortions to various degrees detract from that happiness. Simple!

To concern yourself with 'clearing of karma' rather than simply resolving your emotional issues and generally taking all reasonable measures for speedy self healing and self actualization is seriously problematical, and again is what the dark force seeks to get us doing. It seeks to have us terrified of the possible consequences of problematical things we've done, so that, instead of simply learning from our experiences and becoming more aware and loving, we live in increasing fear and are thus greatly obstructed in any true self actualization direction. Instead of the latter, then, we develop further unawareness by, say, overt materialism / hedonism or by turning to religions to salve our consciences. But salving your conscience by religious or supposedly spiritual practice is doing little or nothing for you in terms of the self actualization that would really clear all your karmas without your ever having to think of them as such.

The Milarepa story - a potent dark force sourced confusion over karma

The story of Milarepa, so revered by Tibetan Buddhist traditions, is actually a hair-raising dark force tract posing as a spiritual masterpiece. Indeed, the dark force, particularly during my ordeals of 2004-2005, sought repeatedly to drag me through severe experiences with remarkable echoes (still far from a carbon copy!) of what Milarepa was supposedly taken through in order to purge his 'karma', so I nowadays recognise very clearly the signs of dark force involvement in such a story.

N.B. I hold no view as to what extent the Milarepa story is historically correct.

Suppose you've done the sort of dark things Milarepa was supposed to have done before he took fright about his supposed karma and sought to purge himself, and, like him, you'd done dark practices and killed people. True, initially you've got one big problem, with serious distortions in your subtle aspects, quite apart from more tangible emotional issues, and without very purposeful positive action on your part you would undoubtedly have major problems and unhappiness in the future.

The positive 'message' in the Milarepa story is what I understand from life experience and my own self actualization process - that purposeful ongoing measures and practices for true and full self actualization are the antidote, for by taking such measures, as well as clearing blocks and distortions in your subtle aspects, you are then opening up your deeper awareness and thus resolving the original problem of unawareness and reactive behaviour. When you have truly cleared the blocks and distortions to your awareness that were involved in your earlier dark deeds, never mind how speedily and painlessly, you have cleared that 'karma'. All the rest about karma - self recrimination, Divine retribution (or retribution from the Universe), and 'you must have a hard time of it in order to make you compassionate [or, to attone for your deeds]', and of course the 'Damoclean sword' of hell experiences hanging over you, is dark force fiction and bullshit.

The problem with the Milarepa story, however, is that the 'self actualization' message is heavily contaminated with the notion that severe retributional karma and hells are waiting for anyone who has done seriously harmful things - and that one necessarily has to undergo major hardships and suffering to purge oneself before one can achieve 'self realization' (what I nowadays more readily call self actualization). Also, the picture given in that story of the fully actualized state is again a lure from the dark side - living in a sort of heaven and having all manner of special powers, including that of flight.

To my perception, the whole conception of the story - of a person who is clearly very much in the clutches of the dark force, not only through his initial dark deeds but in his fleeing in terror from the supposed retributions of his karma and then after massive hardships becoming a figure with all manner of special powers, who we are all encouraged to revere - is one of the myriad tools of the dark force, and made all the more potent because it also contains a valid and important message concerning the use of self actualization to clear one's karmas*. As I well know from my own experience, the dark force will pose as wise 'guidance' and make out to be supporting you in your self healing / self actualization process but present you with a seriously distorted and often harsh, hard going and indeed often terrifying or nightmarish version of what is fundamentally a simple, speedy and more or less painless process. That's what it has done with the Milarepa story.

* Well, except that the picture of self actualization that is presented in that story, and indeed in much of the Buddhist teachings, is a distorted caricature of what genuine self actualization is.

...But all that is only one kind of karma!

What most people think of as karma is actually - thanks to the distorted beliefs introduced and promoted by 'the dark side' - only one kind of karma. In fact, as I've already intimated, most karma is nothing to do with whether you've hurt or harmed other people in some way. Let's take an example. You have a whole range of misfortunes and unhappinesses and developing ill health - all because that nice coffee table in your living room wasn't placed in a harmonious position. When people proficient in energy testing, and maybe also with direct healthy grounded energy awareness, look at the situation they can see that all that is needed is to move the table e.g. 30 cm nearer the window, and at once the problems start easing off (or maybe the type of table was the problem as well, in which case the person using energy testing / proper energy awareness would notice that and advise removing or changing the table). The karma here is simply the accumulation of distortions or 'lesions' in your subtle aspects caused by something energetically unharmonious in your surroundings - in other words, environmental stress.

What I'm saying here is that most karma can be viewed as simply the results of different types of environmental stress and also the results of choices of ours that in some way weaken our subtle aspects. Such choices include of course obviously negative actions, but they also include all sorts of weakening choices that people would generally never think of as good or bad, including choices of food, abode, friends and partners. Without energy testing and the sort of energy awarness that it supports and cultivates, who would have thought that it was a weakening choice, e.g. to go out for lunch on one particular day (or at one particular time) rather than another, or to put an ornament in one position in your living space rather than another, or indeed to sit or stand facing one direction rather than another at a particular time?

Such weakening choices are made by us all the time unless we have energy testing / proper grounded energy awareness and use it well, and thus we are pretty well constantly accumulating karma that has nothing to do with good / bad / evil but everything to do with what is energetically harmonious or unharmonious and stressful for us. In our ignorance of the real causes of our increasing physical problems, aided and abetted by the medical profession we put it all down to 'ageing', whereas actually most of it is nothing of the kind and indeed a surprising proportion of such physical problems are more or less reversible or at least can be halted in their progress through simply removing the causes of the stresses and using special methods to reverse the accumulated distortions in your subtle aspects.

How to clear karma - the easy and sensible way

So, in short, the simplest and most effective methods for self healing, self actualization and clearance of emotional traumas and issues are all that are necessary for clearance of all karmas - well, except that I would add to the list the removal of entities and interferences from the dark force, for the dark force seeks to keep karmas in place and indeed to magnify and add to them, in order to gain more control over you.

For more information, please see Healing and Self Actualization - The Safest and Quickest Way.

A real no-no is to have 'karmic healing' - especially of the type that invokes supposed higher beings such as the so-called Lords of Karma. This is all dark force involvement. Just look at that term 'Lords of Karma' - an immediate and brazen indication of power / control agenda! If you want to follow the way of power, control, fear and 'darkness', that's a pretty good way to go! What it WON'T do, however, is truly clear those karmas (indeed, it would be creating a whole lot more), and neither would it help you one little bit in the direction of true self actualization, love, free choice and happiness. Isn't that latter direction just what you were wanting to clear your karmas for?

As I understand it, there is actually a residue of karma that can remain in place after the karma has been apparently completely cleared through the self actualization practices (such as the range of methods that I present in Healing and Self Actualization - The Safest and Quickest Way). That residue is often called karmic debt, and, as far as I can see, it applies really only to karmas generated by one's interactions with other people (both direct and indirect). It is a certain residual imbalance or distortion in your subtle aspects that is finally cleared when you carry out positive actions that in some way counter the negative aspects of whatever situation caused the karma in the first place.

However, as with the main clearance process, it is by far the most effective for one not to focus on the notion of karmic debts at all and indeed not to act out of any sense of obligation or duty (which the dark force would seek to rub your nose in). Rather, 'karmic debts' are most effectively cleared simply by your spontaneously making more healthy and 'strengthening' choices as your self actualization process opens you up. As long as you carry out supposedly restorative acts on the basis of a sense of obligation or "I wronged him and now I must make some restoration to him", you are still letting the 'dark side' interfere with you and actually obstruct the true clearance of any karmic residue.

An example of this in my own experience is during my frequent hitch-hikes, when motorists who pick me up sometimes tell me that they used to hitch-hike themselves and now feel that they ought to pick people up themselves, effectively as a sort of karmic repayment. The problem here is the sense of obligation. The healthy way of looking at it would be something like "I used to go hitch-hiking myself, so I have a particular empathy with hitch-hiking and still enjoy the encounters even though I'm on 'the other side of the fence' now.".