Knowing the truth about Karma is important. I do not subscribe to people’s common thinking about this concept. I base my view on experience, research and much thought. To explain the truth about Karma, I am going to take you on a journey starting thousands of years ago.

Through millennia our ancestors struggled to survive. Strength prevailed. The strongest men were most likely to prosper, genetically passing their advantages down to their offspring.

As society evolved, our leaders learned that they did not have to rely on mere physical strength to control others. They found more subtle ways to kept control. 

Constantine, the fourth century Roman Emperor, inherited a divided and rebellious empire. He saw religion as a tool he could use to control the masses. He converted to Christianity and mandated that it be the official religion. 

In the sixth century, Justinian, then Emperor united the people further by convening the Second Ecumenical Council in Constantinople, which further decreed formal Christian doctrine.

How the truth about Karma has been distorted.

Powerful people want to keep control of their populations

• Rulers in Asian and Indo-European countries used religion as a means of control; 
• The Islamic caliphate governed in accordance with religious law; 
• Sultans and Rajahs used the Hindu caste system to maintain their power;
• Ordinary people had no access to any religious texts, and few could read;
• Vedic Sanskrit is the language of Buddhist texts and Aramaic is the original language of the Christian Bible;
• Even if they could read, common people are unable to understand the language, .
• Consequences of disobedience to religious laws and doctrine was dire. 
• People feared punishment, on Earth and in Hell;
• The ruling classes ignored and distorted the deeper truth about Karma. 

Thus it was easy for the ruling classes to use religious beliefs to keep their subjects in control—beliefs that enshrined obedience, submission, and humility. By remaining meek, the masses believed they would assure their place in heaven, or in a more favourable incarnation.

I personally know how this works. When I was a young girl, the minister in our Methodist church preached hell-fire and damnation. Many of us still believe that our bad deeds, or even bad thoughts, attract eternal punishment.

Only now in the twenty-first century are we beginning to seriously challenge these deeply held views.

What we wrongly believed about Karma

‘Karma’ is a Sanskrit word that means ‘deed’ or ‘action.’ To Christians Karma also embodies the idea that we reap what we sow. Our future depends on our current actions. We believe that bad deeds bring suffering while good deeds bring rewards. But Karma is not as simple as that.

In Hinduism, karma plays a role in the caste system. It assumes that people born into a lower caste have accumulated negative karma. Bad deeds committed in previous lives lead to low status in the current life.

You don’t need me to point out the coercive power that karma wields over those born into the lower castes. It justifies their inferior status, while emphasising the importance of humility as a means to progress in later lives.

What regressions tell about the truth of Karma

By undertaking regressions, we have the opportunity to see the bigger picture of our lives and their purpose. In our life-between-lives, we meet our guides and sometimes our Council of Elders, all wise beings who answer our most searching questions.

The truth about Karma is clear. We are neither punished nor are we rewarded for out actions. Instead, we are given opportunities to be helped and guided. Our free will is sacrosanct. The bottom line is clear, and its consequences inescapable: we choose our experiences.

In many session, I have listened as my clients received the same message from these wise beings. We create our reality. Our higher self makes plans, with others, to take on certain roles in our incarnations. We endeavour to act out these roles. Even if we fail, our guides and Council of Elders never chastise us for our performance. Any punishment we experience is our own creation. We punish ourselves through our sense of guilt.

You know this. Remember a time when you felt deep guilt and were found out. Even with your fear and shame, the chance to come clean offered you a sense of relief.

Guilt is a source of suffering and learning

One of my clients experienced a past life as a soldier named Bill, in World War I. Bill felt a great deal of guilt about surviving the war, where his brother and mates all died. At the beginning of the war, he had convinced them to join up. Thus felt responsible for their deaths.

When he crossed over into his life-between-lives, he visited his Council of Elders. My client saw them as judges with wigs and red gowns on a high bench presiding over a courtroom. He felt small and insignificant, standing with his head bowed. Waiting for their judgement, he trembled.

The council members gently told him that he alone imagined them to be judges. He had no reason to feel guilty. His mates had free will and had chosen their fate. The council members suddenly changed appearance. He now found himself with the council members sitting casually together on lounge chairs.

His family bought him up in a strictly Christian household. As a teen, he rejected his Christian roots. While he initially approached the council with guilt carried over from his previous life, he soon relaxed and let go of that old conditioning. He was open enough to see the council as friendly advisors rather than judges.

We sign up for the consequences

The information we receive during regressions tells that every soul has agreed to experience the consequences their actions. It is how we learn to be discerning.

In my book, Other Lives, Other Realms, I outline the case of Morris, a man in his thirties who suffered from cancer. Before incarnating, his higher-self chose a very sensitive body. There were several reasons for this choice and Morris accepted all the possible consequences, including the likelihood of suffering cancer.

In a recent regression, another client’s saw himself murdered in a past life. In that life, he’d had an affair with the wife of the man who murdered him. ‘What was the purpose of that life?’ I asked during his regression. ‘It was a gift,’ he replied.

Further investigation revealed that the wife and the husband were soul related to my client. This means they belonged to the same soul group. As souls, they had all planned their lives together. The husband (the murderer) was working on jealousy, an issue he’d spent many lives trying to resolve. My client volunteered to play an important role. He and the wife have an affair. Then if the husband has not learnt his jealousy, the husband murders my client.

This is the way it plays out and authorities catch the murderer. They excute the murderer. When his soul ascends, he suffers no karmic consequences. However, he is probably disappointed and feeling guilty. Once again he failed to overcome the jealousy challenge and forgive.  Now, in another incarnation, he will face the similar circumstances with another opportunity of resolution.

Punishment is not the truth about Karma

Our idea of karma as punishment is flawed. Most of us think our bad deeds, thoughts or intentions will bring punishment. This is not true. Through our mistakes, we have opportunities to learn.

Reincarnation and karma are eastern concepts that we, in the western hemisphere, have adopted. They align with the biblical idea of hell. We all, east and west, are full of fear. Those who wish to control us use these religious ideas for their own purposes.

It is true that we can suffer consequences from one life to another. But these consequences are not intended to be punishment. They are opportunities to learn valuable lessons. We are learning who we really are and how we can create what we wish, while here on Earth. That is the truth about Karma.