*Karma and Past Lives*



Q:  Can you explain to me how karma works?


B:  It is completely self-imposed, first of all. Karma is your cognition of
the continuance of the momentum of an idea that perhaps, in a sense, as you
say, was begun in one life and may need to be balanced and/or finalized in
another life. But it is simply your recognition of the balancing, and/or,
let us say, completion of a particular idea you have decided to be. It is
completely self-imposed; it is not judgment. Do you follow me?


Q:  Yes.

B:  Does that clarify the idea, or do you wish to explore it further?

Q:  Yes, I would. Well... it's really hard to do it without judging
because...

B:  It is hard to do without judging. (AUD: laughter)

Q:  Yes. I want to get into the subject but I have to separate my own
personal judgment - but I'll go for it anyway.

B:  All right.

Q:  If someone does something in one life, lifetime, that they see as being
negative or harmful to other people, or themselves, or something like
that...

B:  Yes.

Q:  ... do they have to be reincarnated in /another/ lifetime and...

B:  They do not /have/ to be. You will simply find that because of the energy
associated with the limitations you impose upon yourself in physical
reality, you know that it may be the allowance of, let us say, a very
/quick/ way. For in this way, the degree of limitation you experience in
physical reality will allow you to create those types of balances perhaps
more quickly, in one sense, than you could in a non-physical reality -
because of the concentration of effect that takes place in what you call
physical reality. Do you follow me?

Q:  Yes.

B:  So you may decide to do it physically simply because that will be the
way that will be, let us say, most conducive to the very rapid assimilation
of the balance. In the same way that you created the imbalance.

Q:  But it doesn't have to be that way. In other words...

B:  No, it does not /have/ to be.

Q:  ... if I murder somebody in one lifetime it doesn't mean that I'm going
to come back and be murdered in another life?

B:  That has happened many times, but again, it can be manifested in many
different ways. Perhaps you will simply be of assistance to someone
/else/ who has had the same experience; and your willingness to interact with
that individual will then be the balancing /you/ require. For then you are
giving yourself the opportunity to see what it is like from the other end
of the emotional experience. And perhaps, that is what to you will
constitute a balance - not so much the actual physiological act of being
murdered. Though that has happened as well.

Q:  Can you give me any information about my past lifetimes and any karmic
debts that I...

B:  Why do you assume that you have these debts? Why do you assume it is a
debt, in that way, and not a choice?

Q:  Okay.

B:  Simply recognize that your willingness to know that you wish to create
a balance of the polarities within you, in and of itself/, is/ the removal of
any so-called debt. Because you are now willing to be blended, to be
balanced, to trust that the life you are living is the life you chose to
live, and simply willing to act and function within service to All That Is.


The willingness to be of service, in that way, and the willingness to
experience the life you chose to live, is the balancing of that idea, and
the ceasing of the need to be reincarnated again. Do you follow me?

Q:  Yes, thank you.

B:  Thank you.

Q2:  Since you're talking about reincarnation, can you see a glimpse into
my past life, my experiences, or anything?

B:  All right, now listen, /every single one of you./ (AUD: laughter) Many
times we can share these ideas with you - and understand we are not
invalidating the exploration of your past lives - but in the /present/ you
can know every single thing you need to know to understand yourself in the
present, from the present. You do not necessarily need to go exploring the
so-called past connections you have, to understand who and what you are in
the present.

Again, this exploration can be valid, but you will always observe the idea
within us that we are reluctant to delineate this idea, since you will
understand that the exploration of your past lives is for the purpose of
bringing you back to the present anyway. And thus, many times, you simply
will find that while we will explore some of the aspects with you from time
to time that you have experienced, we will usually, first of all, point out
to you that the rigidizing and labeling of specifics in past lives will
have a tendency to focus you in the past, and not in the present where you
are.

We are not inclined to wish to focus you in the past. So it will be, let us
say, very, very, very irregular, which we will simply dive into the
exploration of a past life. Now, if you, right now, in your present, are
willing within your own imagination to bring to the surface
connections /you/ feel to be there, then perhaps, we can explore some of
those ideas with you. For then you will be specifically dealing with the
portions that you feel are valid - but do understand, you are creating the
past from the present. Therefore, the idea of any specific past life, the
one that is most valid to you now, is the one you simply will be creating a
connection to /from now/, in order to understand the idea that you are, /now/.

So if you are willing to bring up what you feel to be a connection, perhaps
we can explore it with you; and from time to time we can get a sensing of
the idea of areas that represent strong energy transformations in your so-
called past. Again, we will simply hesitate to label these ideas, because
that will tend to fix you in a past instead of the present. Now, do you
feel that there is any specific reason why you would wish to explore the
idea of your past lives?

Q:  I am bored with the moment.

B:  Bored? Then you are not living in it.

Q:  Right. I want to go back to the past, and the future, and roam around.

B:  You are missing the point. If you are bored then you are not in the
moment.

Q:  I understand.

B:  All right, but recognize, in this way, the idea of seeking to create
more excitement somewhere else, other than the moment, will always continue
the creation of boredom in your present life. For you will not be willing
to allow yourself to know that the past and the future are in the present.

Recognize in this way, you can have a high degree of excitement in the
exploration of connections you have had in the past, and in the future, but
do not forsake the present as not being able to create the same level of
excitement as your exploration of the past or the future. Because then you
will not be allowing your past and your future to integrate into the
present.

Q:  Great... but that's exactly what I am doing - this is exciting for me.

B:  All right. Then to what connections do you find yourself attracted to
in the past?

Q:  I'm not sure.

B:  You are not sure? You have no sensation, no feeling at all about the
idea of a past life; no association, no attractions, no draw, not even the
slightest inkling? Where is your imagination?

Q:  Well, maybe just 2,000 years ago.

B:  And what happened then for you? What is the experience? Not the number,
what is that experience?

Q:  Oh, just another person.

B:  /Just/ another.... oh, that sounds very exciting! (AUD: laughter) You
said that the exploration of past lives was more exciting - where is that
excitement that you are talking about?

Q:  In the moment and the past and future... combination of all.

B:  Yes.

Q:  I was wondering if /you/ could see something beyond what I see myself?

B:  Perhaps... but what purpose does it serve for us to delineate that?

Q:  Oh, just to have fun with it.

B:  Oh, fun. All right, here is some fun. (AUD: laughter) You were, and
very strongly so, as with /many/ individuals in your society at this time,
what you call a Roman Centurion. Very, very proper, as you say, in your
present colloquial language: "by the book!" (AUD: laughter) Very steadfast,
very loyal, very strong in your loyalty, highly regarded by your fellow
centurions and respected by the populace, even though they feared you, in a
sense.

But they knew that you were very, very, in a sense, fair, though many times
the idea of your fairness was to simply follow the law. Now, whether the
law was fair or not, that is another issue. But you were fair in your
dispensation /of/ the law, and so you were respected, in that way. At least
an individual coming under your attention and your jurisdiction would at
least know that it was nothing personal. Do you follow me?

Q:  Yes.

B:  Now that is what we can share with you at this time.

Q:  That is what I am experiencing just now. Thank you.

B:  Ah! Thank you. Sharing!