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THE KARMIC MOULD
Is ‘karma’*
the result of our actions? Is it something passed on to us? Are
there different kinds of karma? What can we do to lift it?
(* KARMA: A Sanskrit term denoting the dynamic of cause and
effect operating in human affairs.)
It often seems that we have to struggle against insurmountable
odds all of our lives before we are able to acquire mastery over
our own selves and the dynamic of worldly involvement. The
possiblity of real freedom is something we at best dream about
-- invoking the hand of Mercy to clear the way or hoping against
hope that something or someone will bequeath us money,
health or opportunities, or whatever will lead us out of the maze of
tribulations which characterize our lives. Christianity tells us
we are stigmatized by original sin. Eastern traditions depict us
caught within the ‘Wheel of Samsara’ (illusion). In either case
we see ourselves carrying a burden we do not understand in a
world we feel we have not created.
The term karmais widely used today to explain this confusing
situation we are born into, but its meaning is but rarely fully
understood. The reason for this is that it stands upon a
holistic premise which is completely alien to our Western linear
mentality. Karma not only means reaping the effects of what
one sows. It is a collective as well as individual phenomenon.
It is a hologrammic imprint borne by the entire body of humanity
and includes all past and present planetary behaviour, both as
physical action and psychological conditioning. This imprint is
formed from the emotional and vital energetic projection of
human beings throughout history into a compound thoughtform
charged with human experience and its myriad ideals and
perversions. The memory of suffering, joy, misery, victory,
defeat... impresses the entire global body of humanity at each
generation, giving each cycle an opportunity to elevate and
refine karma through personal experience. The Grace of God may
thus be seen as opportunity. It is up to us what we then do with
it.
The kind, quality, and quantity of karma we carry is
determined by a lot more than individual activity. And yet the
action of each individual can so purify karma that it may
serve higher consciousness. As inspiration, higher consciousness
lifts, stimulates and blesses every living thing upon this Earth.
Each human being carries the seeds of karma within his body and
personality complex through genetic and past-life legacy. Each
one animates or creates his own imprints through his own
conscious or unconscious style of living. These then become
integrated within the collective pool, serving to densify or
alleviate the karmic quality of collective thought-substance We
create negative karmic imprints through the dynamic of
preferential projection which filters our vision of reality. We
see and hear only what we want to see or hear, thus fostering
illusion. We are programmed and in turn program others through
our attitudes and actions, cultivating manipulation and
domination. Each human being, even one freed from most personal
karma, remains linked to many of the compulsions of the
collective impulse by virtue of being a member of the human race.
In my book, KARMA AND SEXUALITY: THE HUMAN ALCHEMICAL EXPERIENCE,
I explain the procedure of projection and perception and
elucidate the dynamics involved in karmic imprinting.
Projection and absorption relate to intention. Each ‘wanting’
sends out a loop of our own intention-substance to that
possibility and attracts whatever tunes into the same frequency
as our immediate level of consciousness. Lord Buddha called it ‘desire’.
Others have called it ‘will power’. In subtle or grosser ways we
emit our own vitality into the world through each intention.
This vitality, produced by our physical bodies, acquires density
as it interacts with the range of psychic vibrations of the
world at large, and returns to us with those qualifications.
These imprints then form adherences on the physical or quasi-physical
level. They are the virtual forms of karma.
Karma is impressed upon individuals as urges, frustrations,
abilities, and also as hereditary diseases and inclinations. It
coats most of the feet and sexual region of incarnated
individuals as a whole and, specifically, areas which relate to
previous individual or family misuse, with an opaque, dense
qualification. This substance, as adherence, produces
insensitivity or irritation. It is most often perceived as a
mucousy substance. Our most usual experience of it is the common
cold which accompanies climactic changes and most psychic
cleansing processes. Most of the time, however, these
hologrammic imprints remain undetected and enigmatic, as is the
case of the virus, one of their many possible manifestations.
Karmic imprints appear on all levels, including the compound
chemical by- products contaminating our food and water today,
the emissions from certain electronic equipment, music and
visual imagery, not to speak of dust and pollution. Yet the
most deadly is the ordinary human thought, charged with
selfish or egotistical qualifications which are directed against
our brothers and sisters, oftentimes without intent to harm and
unconsciously. The human being holds the key to the creation,
dissolution or redemption of karma, because it is the individual
human being who generates the prime ingredient for its
fabrication: the energy of Consciousness.
Consciousness is pure Power, Presence, Life. Without it nothing
can be formed or subsist. Consciousness is light. Our mind emits
light, and thought directs that light into forms and dictates the
activity of that light. Our every thought, word and deed
impresses upon the subtle atmosphere of our worlds as indelibly
as upon fine photographic film. We are continuously colouring
our world through the quality of light we irradiate as
unconsciousness, sub-consciousness , consciousness or super-consciousness.
If we understand this ‘karmic’ process, we can also understand
why enlightened teachers from all traditions warn us against
‘desiring’ and urge us to ‘go within’ in order to attain to
clear non-biased perception.
Liberation is achieved when the individual directly accesses and
applies higher consciousness. In the Inner Alchemy School we
know that we must live --body, mind and feeling-- according to
that spirit. We see this happening through three distinct phases
of work on oneself: (1) Will factor: Deciding to remove oneself
from the influence of the collective sub-conscious, (2) Self
observation: Gaining insight into the laws at work at physical,
mental and emotional levels in order to reshape and integrate
our vehicles of expression, (3) Practice: The regular
application of healthy, protective measures for body, mind and
feeling through meditation, yoga or the spiritual discipline of
one’s choice.
It is time that we think, live, and work for our children, the
men and women of the future, whose bodies and minds we are
creating this very moment through our own living
Zulma Reyo
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