Hello, everybody, and welcome to this episode on the “Law of Karma: What is it and Why Should I Care?” Last episode, we talked about your heart chakra, where the spark of your Divine Self resides, and how it is the doorway to connect to your higher consciousness, your I AM Presence. In the episode before that, we review the life of best-selling author, Dannion Brinkley, who has had three near-death experiences where he visited higher spiritual realms and communicated with spiritual beings. So, if you haven't heard that episode, you might want to go back and listen. It's pretty cool.Well, while in the spiritual realms, Dannion described what he called a life review, where he holographically relived every single thing he had ever thought, said, and his every action, both from his own perspective as well as he became every person he had interacted with, feeling exactly what they felt. He said that this was the highlight of his experience there because it turned his life around. Now, this type of life review is what each of us experiences at the end of our lives.It's a learning experience so that we can learn firsthand the consequences of our actions. That brings us to the law of karma, which is nothing more than a term that describes the cycle of cause and effect. Karma is a Sanskrit word from the Eastern tradition that literally means “action.”Unpacking Karma: From Ancient Wisdom to Everyday ExpressionsBut it's not just a concept in the East. This universal law of karma has been with us since the beginning of time, and it's known by a number of different names. Like currently in our popular culture, we know it as the law of attraction. From a scientific perspective, there's Newton's third law - for every action, there's an opposite and equal reaction. Even more colloquial expressions, such as what goes around comes around, what you sow you reap. If you plant corn seeds, you don't get tomatoes. So this is nothing new to us. We innately understand this law.This same teaching is found in a number of the world's religions. An example from the Bible is in the book of Matthew. “Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.”Another example from the Buddhist scripture, from the Samyutta Nikaya, is “According to the seed that's sown, so is the fruit you reap therefrom. Doer of good will gather good. Doer of evil, evil reaps. Sown is the seed, and thou shalt taste the fruit thereof.” Now a more modern example is Florence Scovel Shinn, who was a spiritual practitioner in the early 20th century. She talks about the game of life. She says, most people consider life a battle, but it's not a battle. It's a game, a great game of giving and receiving, and we know that to be successful at any game, you have to know how to play. You have to know what the rules are, and what's the outcome that you're trying to go for. In life, this rule of giving and receiving, cause and effect, is very important to understand, because it guides us in the use of our free will. Because as we create, the results return to us.Now to fully understand this law, we have to begin with the basic premise that everything is energy, which we've covered in previous episodes. According to its vibrational speed and frequency, we have different manifestations. And this includes us. We are vibrational beings, and according to the level of our vibration, is what we're putting out to the universe that will come back to us. This initial premise that we are vibrational beings, and that we are physical extension of that which is non-physical, is vital to our understanding of the law of karma. It's important to understand that you're constantly creating. Your thoughts are creations, your emotions, your memories too, and of course your actions. All are manifestations of energy. Take for instance, if you had a traumatic experience, one perhaps that you've not completely released or gotten over, the energy imprint or record of that event is still in your memory body, even if you don't consciously think of it. But each time you do think about it, and feel it all over again, it's no longer something that happened in the past. It's in your present moment. The energy is still there with you.By re-living the past, you create the situation all over again. As you recreate the past in this way, the situation is made stronger, imprisoning you within an energy pattern that can totally engulf you. I mean, think about the person who's unable to get over a particular fear or phobia, and they refuse to leave the house. That's just an example. But it's these records, our misuses of God's energy, that is what creates our illness, our disease, our emotional bondage. But the good news is, the same holds true for your good memories. You can likewise raise your vibration to a very high level, simply by remembering or re-experiencing a very wonderful event that happened in your life. Many people use this remembering technique in their meditations to get centered in ...
