A reader asked me the following question a few months ago. It’s a big question and I hope I was able to address all of it. :)

Why do you believe in Karma?? Is not such thing, I do not believe in that ridiculous thing. I believe that we are creators of our world, we experience negative situations because we think negative in this life not in past lives. And I know that you can eradicate negative situations by thinking positive in the eternal NOW.

We do not pay in this life for what we thought in past lives, we pay just what we think in the NOW. If you are thinking that you must pay then that you will create.

Namaste my very dear friend!

This really is an excellent question, because you see, I agree with all the points you raise. Clearly the belief in karma leads to it’s felt effects, because we are the creators of our experiences. You are absolutely right to bring up the power of our thoughts.

Generally when I use the word “karma” I mean something a little different then what most people think the word means.

It’s my guess that most people tend to think of karma as a punishment for wrong doing in previous lifetimes. This is really a dualistic understanding. Thinking of needing punishment to balance out something that you did wrong requires first the belief in “wrong” and “right” rather than simply experience. And the idea of punishment itself, either in this life or the next, is the manifestation of a fear based approach to life and reciprocity.

It’s a fairly simple concept that every action has a reaction. Its up to us how we interpret the reaction. If you give love, you receive love. If you are thinking icky thoughts, you experience icky things. However, if you look on the reaction from a more 5th dimensional perspective, even the icky things are wonderful experiences you are grateful to have! You may of course experience a wide variety of feelings in response to your experience, you may not want to repeat the experience, you may choose to dislike it, but still, it’s a joyful moment in your soul’s existence.

Ultimately there is no wrong or right, just what we choose to experience and believe. There is no good or bad, just love and more love. Because of our perspectives as incarnate homosapien, we tend to perceive duality, as we have learned from watching our parents interact with the world. It’s no wonder we do, we experience night and day, left and right, up and down. It’s no wonder we have created a world full of yes and no, love and fear, crime and punishment?

As an lightworker, I have a different perspective on “karma”. I can only speak from my own experience and what I have learned from working with energies left over from parallel lives. Because we are multidimensional beings, there are often layers and layers to our experiences that we barely grasp. Energy work is like melting an iceberg: you get to work at the tip, without even understanding the vast size of what is below you.

Let me give you a couple examples of what I think karma is.

I have an alternate me known as Solstice. She is currently living in the same NOW, but we experience different linear times, have different names and mothers and life circumstances. A couple years ago I had an intense experience where my future child came to me and asked to be born. I told him “not now”, because my life was not what I wanted for children. This was a good decision to make, yet I still felt a DEEP, intense wave of grief. It was huge and it would not go away. A few days later, I sat down to tea with Solstice and she told me her life story. Because of a random act of violence, she lost her pregnancy. The soul of the child is the same soul that came to me and asked to be born. Because I felt her grief, I was able to help her process the energies and make a shift in her experience of life. We were able to literally change her life. She made a different choice, walked home a different way, carried the child to term, and is now raising him with her version of our twin flame.

Isn’t that wonderful?

The point is, though, that because I felt her energy (my own, because we are the same soul in different incarnations) I was able to help myself clear that “karma” and become more happy and whole. I now understand why I used to look at little boys with such sadness. I now look at them with joy, with excitement for my future children (the same soul is still coming to me too!).

Such a huge shift all because I cleared that “karma”. Are you starting to get where I’m going with this?

To get my understanding of karma, you first have to get my growing understanding of alternate selves. I have stopped thinking of them as “past lives”, rather they are parallel lives. All mes happening at the same time, limited only by our collective perception of linear time. Much of my self healing work lately has been on more completely integrating my selves, like an accordion coming together.

Because we are the same soul, our experiences sometimes “leak” through to the other’s experience. This is why energy work can heal what other more physical methods miss. For example, I had a lot of fear and anger projected onto my father. While we may have had bumps in my childhood, I was upset with him in a way that wasn’t necessarily explained by my childhood alone. A few years ago, one of my guides explained to me that I had set my father up as the figure head of patriarchy. In other words, I blamed my dad for all the negative experiences I’ve ever had because of living in a patriarchal society, across all space and time. That’s really unfair. Once I integrated that knowledge, the anger I felt just evaporated. I cleared that “karma”.

In this respect, most energy work is about releasing/healing “karma”. In this sense, karma is simply energy that we experience. It is simply the energy we carry as a “reaction” to our experiences. It’s not necessarily about maintaining cosmic balance, or a punishment for wrongdoing. It’s a judgment neutral response to experience. Sometimes they leak through to other lives, sometimes we deal with them in this life. Either way it is good to release them.

When we release these “old” energies, we make room for more, higher vibrational energies. Think about the changes that happened in Solstice’s life because I helped her shift those energies! Think about what shifts have happened in your life? Who’s to say that some other you isn’t working away at clearing something for all of your soul?

I hope this has begun to explain what I think karma is and what I think energy work has to do with it. If you all have ANY more questions, please ask!!

Much love,

Selene