
Dreams & Karma
Karma and Reincarnation:
Reincarnation suggests that a person is basically
spirit or consciousness which takes on bodily form and is born lifetime after
lifetime. Reincarnation is the natural, normal process of the evolution of
the soul. The soul is the etheric or energy body, the eternal part of our
beings. It is neither male or female, but an integration of
energies. You have layers or energy bodies within the soul which you shed
as you go to higher levels of spiritual awareness. At physical death you
shed the earth body as a coat, which is the lowest of the energy vibrations.
Once you have learned your lessons on the earth plane, having gained balance
mentally, emotionally, physically and spiritually, you then go to the celestial
plane and live in a much higher energy level.
Each soul chooses how fast it wishes to progress. Between incarnations and in the dream state at night one receives teachings. When the soul returns to earth, to time-space awareness, it brings back knowledge and training and works to put it into practical application while in the body. Each being designs a plan for growth before an incarnation, what it hopes to achieve in that lifetime, what karma it wishes to work out. The soul is free once it incarnates to go ahead with the plan or change its mind. Your teachers, of course, are going to be there encouraging you to get on with the program. But you are free to do whatever you want to do with an incarnation.
Karma refers to the law of cause and effect which governs one's experiences over collective lifetimes and within the individual lifetime. Karma means as you sow, you reap. It is the principle of individual responsibility which underlies all the teachings of my channel.
To effectively work with dreams we must recognize
that we control our own destiny through our thoughts, words and deeds. We
have to relinquish our martyr and victim mind sets and accept responsibility for
what is going on in our lives. Then we will benefit from dreams as a
tremendous teaching source. Quite often we are given dreams showing our
"reflection" in terms of karmic status, how we are to love, in
respects to fear. Dreams of ourselves in past culture costumes can denote a
reference to karma from that era we are re-living in the now.
The Chance of a Lifetime
Because of your past karmic ties and awareness of lessons to be learned, you intentionally have chosen the circumstances of your present existence. Before you ever incarnated you knew what the first 28 years of life had in store for you. You chose your parents, sex, race, nationality, socio-economic conditions, astrological sign. Whatever your circumstances, you set them up. If you chose anything less than a perfect body, it was for a reason: never to punish, only to teach. There is no accident or coincidence in life. Nothing happens by chance. Everything we perceive of as suffering is really a wonderful opportunity to correct past mistakes or imbalances and move toward our ultimate goal of enlightenment.
Once we get the idea that we have created our own
situation here in the earth school, we are able to ask why. What is my
positive lesson? What is this teaching me? Then at last we stop blaming others
for our unhappiness and realize no one can limit our lives. We cannot
change others, but we can change ourselves and move beyond any given
situation. Every relationship and every experience is nothing more than an
opportunity to grow through limitations.
Self-Love as Karmic Key
Karma follows you from your very first incarnation and continues throughout all succeeding lives. As you sow, you reap. What you build you have to pay off. Some souls wait two or three incarnations before they face former ties. But if you handle situations with love and awareness, you not only will transcend your karma, but you will free the other soul. It is in forgiving that you are forgiven.
The message of karma, in fact of all the earth plane existence, is learning to love yourself. As you fully love and honour the God within your own being, you fully love and honour the God within all beings. You can then never hurt self or another soul.
All of our lessons evolve around self-love. To love self you must go beyond ego identification and attachments. The true self is the spiritual energy within, the creative power behind all forms. Love is the absence of fear, and fear is the last great illusion that separates us from inner truth.
Most dreams are showing you fears and limitations that you imposed upon yourself; they help you recognize the importance of facing your fears. As you do, you discover a deeper level of insight, beauty and joy within.
You are free to create your own heaven or hell on earth. But it is just as easy and a lot more fun to create your own personal paradise to share with others.