Spiritual Drifts from The River of Karma

In the study of Quantum Physics and its many phenomena’s involving particles, there exist one very unique event termed as Entraintment.

From I’ve gathered, Entrainment is the study of particle behavior when in interaction with another particle of either higher frequency or lower.

According to wikipedia, Entrainment is defined as “ the process whereby two interacting oscillating systems, which have different periods when they function independently, assume the same period. The two oscillators may fall into synchrony, but other phase relationships are also possible.”

To cut a complex story simple, what it means is this : When 2 particles of different wave lengths meet and interact, it is found that the particle with the lower wave length begins to change its wave frequency to match that of the other particle.

In a sense, it upgrades itself.

It’s called Entrainment in physics.

In spirituality, it’s called vibration increase.

For anyone who is an energy healer, it wouldn’t be uncommon to say that they literally walk in the energy field. I say this because all, if not most, modalities entail connecting to healing energy that’s around us.

How that relates to Entrainment is very simple if you can see it.

In this process of connection with the said Field, we become filled with higher vibration energies. This has to happen; it has to through us which it then goes out in what we call a healing session.
However what most people don’t know about energy healing is this : As the Healer immerses themselves in the Healing field, this energy fills up our physical body.

It goes into every organ, tissue, muscle, cells and even… our molecules. And as the fill up happens with this higher energy, our lower vibrating molecules come into dancing contact with it.
What results there after is the same the two particles mentioned at the beginning of this article.
And hence begins the purifying process.

Very slowly. Covering everything.

And for certain, very surely.

This has been an area of interest to me for awhile now. The question of what happens to us deep down when we interact with these energies? Deep down. To the building blocks that make us up?

Would there be any changes?

Apparently, there would be.

And the changes are noticeable too.

By changes I mean the dropping of old negative habits and the, very often from nowhere, adoption of new healthier habits like turning to vegetarian or yoga asanas, even meditation. (In fact, this happens in meditation too. Plus something else very unique we found to occur normal meditation which will be revealed in another post)

While I can’t exactly say it with certainty but it seems that habits seem to possess a frequency of its own. And when in contact with higher refined energies, these lower frequencies seem to lose hold and slowly start to drop away.

If this is so, then this would in fact be the very definition of Renunciation.

As Pranic Healers, we see changes in the Aura itself.
For one, the Aura becomes bigger in size. Not withstanding, we find that the Aura becomes refined, lighter, firmer and more flexible. (As GMCKS Pranic Healers, we can also feel the aura)
Somehow, this translates into a change in behavior. At least, what I have come to find through observations.

It makes sense to me in away; as we start to indulge in healthier habits like the aforesaid meditation or yoga, we start to value more the better habits and less the ones that aren’t. Perhaps. And as we continue to do them, we bring in better energy into us.
And as that happens, the good habits purify and the lower negative habits start to lose hold.

This sounds very interesting.

Entrainment is perhaps a very unique event. That the more we do something good, the more it makes us better. Science maybe catching up slowly; but Hindu Yogi's and Swami's knew this thousands of years ago.




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Meet Gregg Barden. Engineer turned Spiritualist.

He made a dvd called The Science of Miracles not too long ago. In it, he talks/gives some scientific rationale to what we normally consider is an amazing Miracle.

I didn't think much about it at first, but as I got into the video (below), I began to see some pearls of wisdom. The video I've uploaded here is part 5 of 7 in youtube. There's a reason I've chosen this specific video; there's truth in it.

Watch from start when you want. Enjoy.

Someone or someone's are going to throw a fit, probably get one too, (perhaps both) over this news item. No need to say whom since the article would already indicate it; but still, one wonders what could come of it.

"Fit bombs" away.

Professor Ellen van Wolde, a respected Old Testament scholar and author, claims the first sentence of Genesis "in the beginning God created the Heaven and the Earth" is not a true translation of the Hebrew.

She claims she has carried out fresh textual analysis that suggests the writers of the great book never intended to suggest that God created the world -- and in fact the Earth was already there when he created humans and animals.

Full story here

Is it right as a spiritualist to want/to be wealthy?

If you’re a true blue spiritualist, then you would have though about this question. More than once. For long periods of time every time.

Perhaps go on to argue with yourself, give up and surrender to the fact that maybe the Universe will present the idea in time.

If you’re unsure, ask any of your spiritualist friends.

We spiritualists tend to have this problem.

We want to lead a more spiritual life. We want to do away with all burden that comes with a fast paced, stress induced, processed food, tv dictating society. We want the all natural life – fresh veggies, peace, a square mile of silence, contemplation.

And well lets face….no desires. It comes with the territory. Anywhere you go, there’s always someone who will spout about the “slow removal of all desires and wants” thru meditation, yoga, energy healing or what not.

We do, because it’s the life we choose.

So how not then, to have spiritualists fight themselves on whether its right to to want/to be rich? We need money to survive, but having a need is what we’re supposed to discard.

So where is the reconciliation here?

Chances are, there will be just as many responses to this as the many people who respond.

Lets face it. You need money. It just goes without saying. You need money. What more in our current economic climate. You can’t help yourself, or anyone, in any good way when you’re rolling on a red line account. What more, isn’t life meant to be abundant in the first place. Meaning therefore money as part of our life should also be in abundance.

If it is wrong, surely God/Universe wouldn’t have created the Law of Attraction to help us lead an abundant life in the first place.

Maybe it’s not the “need” per se. Maybe, and this is just an outlook , it is something else

Maybe it’s the “Obsession” of making money that’s not right.

Perhaps, just perhaps, this is what all the scriptures and teachings speak about. The obsession.

I say obsession simply because in the unhealthy want of something is where we just could get lost in the materialism. Or greed. Or paranoia. Or whatever word that aptly fits.



These are the moments when in the pursuit of what we want, we don’t care what happens to anyone, so long we get our due. Forget family, best friend since age 3, and the whole world. If they can’t help me get what we want; we don’t need them.

Afterall, is not the saying “Obsession can make people do crazy things”?

Maybe also it is because we lose much a rational mind, and rationale thinking, when we become obsessed with what ever it is we’re thinking. And that’s when we really begin to lose sight. Of anything.

Makes sense?

So to answer the question of this post, in my opinion that is, it is ok to be want/to be wealthy. Afterall, life was meant to be abundant. All areas of life that is.

And it will be hard Life to express itself through you if you’re not well financially. So perhaps, it’s ok want/be wealthy.

But to obsess about it - hmm, maybe not.




PS to all: In the next post on this topic, I will look into what is money from spiritual perspective.

I just realised that, again, I missed the birthday of this blog. It's 2nd April.

This time, I'm putting out a post. For all my readers - This blog is in part what it is because of your support. Your feedback, and even just reading, is inspiration for me to want to blog more. You don't know how grateful I am for that.

To my bloggie - Sorry for the late wishes. Happy Birthday.

RoK



PS to all - Posting resumes soon.

It has come to my attention, quite recently in fact, that apparently now Aum is not part of any religion.

And who is saying this – Yoga Instructors.

You would know them – Most of them are the now famous well being purveyors who supposedly got in the system for the spiritual side, but since seeing the moolah, has sold out the religion that provided them with it. Ah, what money can’t buy!

Can the Hindu religion get ransacked anymore than it is right now, I wonder?

Perhaps yes because at the rate these pirates are going, they’re one step short of actually claiming that the Hindu scriptures aren’t religious, the Hindu way isn’t religious and to clinch it, the Hindu way isn’t Hindu at all. Meaning therefore the philosophies are up for grabs to line their pockets full for the mullahs.

Like I asked, can the Hindu religion get ransacked anymore?

This sudden realization came during one of my yoga classes when a non-Hindu instructor (not that it matters her religion really) openly stated that Aum is the peaceful vibration of the Universe and is not religion?

IS NOT RELIGION?

Who the heck is she kidding?

Yeah, Aum is peaceful vibration of the Universe – As defined in Hindu scriptures. How that does not entail part of religion eludes me.

Keeping in mind, Hinduism is the religion to first introduce Aum. Again, her point goes out the door.

For some reason, its always Hinduism who’s getting ransacked, not any other religions. Stupid cop-outs are used like “Its Vedic” or “Indian texts” or “Brahmanical system” or worse, “Eastern philosophy”. Anything will suffice as long as it doesn’t show any relationship to the religion!

Do you think these clowns would dare say the Hadith is not Islamic, but is Arabic? Or the Genesis is not Biblic but Abrahamanic? Yeah, I’d reckon they get a face full of it.

More than this, my instructor is only a reflection of a bigger problem – Hindu’s are letting this happen.

People won’t take something they’re not allowed to take. Who’s giving the greenlight here? Well no points for guessing right, it’s too obvious.

Anyone who knows me knows how I always say that “Hindu’s need to start getting up and defending their religion!” Being tolerant is one thing, but this “Aum not religion” bit is a far reaching crime of distortion that requires anything but tolerance.

I left that class now having a better idea of the mindset I’m up against. The good thing about knowledge is, lies falter at the sight of it.

Until then……

HINDUS – GROW A BACKBONE. PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OUR RELIGION, GROW A DAMN BACKBONE.

- Jiddu Krishnamurti


In the Oxford dictionary (2000), the word solution is defined as the “means of solving a problem or dealing with different situation”. By itself in the English language, the word solution is categorized as a Noun.

In the study of Mathematics, solution also considered the same; the answer to a problem.

While Maths and English may differ in the actual usage of “what” and “where” a solution is, the interpretation of the word remains nearly identical – The immediate, short term, and long term end to a problem. Meaning to say in different sense, the complete neutralization of a state that shows something is missing.

It’s inherent in a way. For every problem, there exists a neutralizing answer. In simpler word, for every problem there is an answer. Some days I look at, it seems almost a must – For every problem there will be a solution.

Of course, we face problems everywhere – From the choice of food we choose to consume for lunch, to color of shoes to match a specified outfit, a need of society to which businesses cater for, even dealings with family relatives right up to the need for software updates. No one in anyway would be exempt. A very usual situation is that romantic girlfriend/boyfriend phase. They’re usually loaded with problem landmines waiting to go off.

Perhaps, in a very uniquely positioned point of view, if you were look at it from an angle, it almost says the “problem” is only half of a whole; the “Answer” being the other half. Both combined to form……something. Say a lesson perhaps? Maybe.

Afterall, we do learn when we find the answer don’t we? On top of that, we also become a better person for it. I’m digressing; that’s not the point of this post.

Now, say for a minute one was to throw a monkey wrench into this scenario. I’m being figurative here when I ask this question - what if the “solution” that was supposed to get rid of the problem didn’t exactly do it? What if, say after X amount time of implementing the solution, the problem reappears? Would that by technical definition still fall under “Solution”?

I think I can hear many of my readers going “Not really!” Well, in a way of language, I agree with you. The reason here is, if the problem rears its head again, then it wasn’t solved.

Which means what was applied to it wasn’t a solution so much as it was just another way of looking the problem. A different perspective; different view on looking at the scenario.

Therefore then, we haven’t in actual terms, “solved” anything. And it is this very fact that gets me.

Every time a system or a Religion, any religion, comes about claiming and promising to be solution to all of people’s woes and misdeeds, then go on to conveniently blame the same people for being bad at implementing it when the problem re-appears, only in some ways just show that they misconstrued the concept of solving a problem.

Theft, murder, rape, gays, lesbians, what ever it is that supposedly to be an ailment to mankind. If a problem is solved, then its gone. Its’ done, its over, it neutralized, its finished, its ended, bye bye, hasta la vista, bon voyage. But if it hasn’t disappeared, then one cannot make the claim to be the answer to anything.

Why? Because if nothing has changed, then nothing was solved.

If it’s a solution, once you apply it – in this case the religion – to the context, it should eventually disappear. Be it people you know or don’t; it just shouldn’t exist. But that’s not happening. The promised utopia on Earth has not come to pass.

More interestingly, we find people from within a system or religion going out to perform the very same evils that very system or religion has promised to eradicate. Now what?


To add, we find believers are more incline to believe the problem is “out there” with other people, and go so far as to condemn them to an eternity of punishment in a fiery hell or with threats to ones life to forcefully follow that particular system. Which of the two is the worst of the lot? I don’t know.

We have missed the point I think.

I’m going to end this post this way. Why? Simply because there is no real answer or solution I can give to this. Neither am I claiming this post will provide one. But perhaps if we all took a great big look, someone might come up with one. Maybe. Then for sure, we wouldn’t have this problem anymore.




PS to E-Sanctuary peeps: Nice to see you too!

This is very interesting. The article (and title) was taken from sciencedaily, a science based website I visit from time to time. I honestly don't know what to make of this article - More ammo in the side of Religionist in their war against Atheism perhaps?

I've highlighted two lines I think are interesting. Link to full story is at the bottom.

Believing in God can help block anxiety and minimize stress, according to new University of Toronto research that shows distinct brain differences between believers and non-believers.

Compared to non-believers, the religious participants showed significantly less activity in the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), a portion of the brain that helps modify behavior by signaling when attention and control are needed, usually as a result of some anxiety-producing event like making a mistake. The stronger their religious zeal and the more they believed in God, the less their ACC fired in response to their own errors, and the fewer errors they made.

Link to full post - Click Here

I’m happy to note that my Pranic Healing classes has finally hit the Channeling topic. By that I actually mean learning how to tap into the Universal Energies then redirect them to the palms for a session. (bet you thought I meant channeling entities…but blah..I didn’t)

This is the cream of the entire 9 month course; the one I’ve waited for since day one – Moving the Energy.


In Pranic Healing, I’m thought to connect to the Universe or Maha-Prana first before I can, in a manner of speaking, begin to connect with the subtle Pranic Energies. For those who know, it’s connect then flow.

Connect to the Energies. And then flow it.

It’s standard modus operandi for all, where you’re taught to connect to the Energies/Universe/It because through them comes the healing.

But for the longest time, I’ve wondered just where “It” comes from; the healing energies. And it’s not just me who asks this question. People in general too, be them practitioners or non.

With the number of practitioners increasing, as a result the number of people having done a “session” also increasing, it is slowly moving to mainstream. I speak at least in Malaysian context. I know it’s achieved some degree of acceptance in US and England.



Which as conclusion means you’re bound to run into someone who’s going to say “I had a session with a (insert modality) practitioner. I’m completely healed now!”. The usual story of a persisting problem discharged by the hospital that disappeared after just a few sessions.

So, what really happens?

How does it work?

In Reiki, it’s connecting to spirits existing around us, in Pranic Healing it the Maha-Prana, The Reconnection the Universe and so on forth.

It’s a little tough to accept some of these explanations. And knowing me, I’d down right just laugh. ( I can’t help it.. :))



However, when you consider that people actually do get healed coming out of these sessions, there is something at work. Something moving, only we can’t see it.

Well, the answer to this comes from Dr. Eric Pearl, Stewart (originator?) of the well known The Reconnection modality.

After his healing ritual with a gypsy, he realized a mysterious ability to heal people without touching. In his quest for answers, he conducted one laboratory test that would shed some light on the nature of healing.

I reproduce this from his book, The Reconnection

“Back at the University of Arizona, under the direction of Dr. Gary Schwartz, research was now underway. We were conducting a number of experiments intended to impart further insight into the nature and scope of this work. One of these experiments involved measuring the level of gamma radiation in an enclosed room where we were working with the reconnective energy. Some of the researchers and participants had attended my seminar that weekend. When I told them, “Remember, you’re not sending, you receiving,” they didn’t what I meant.

“How do you get a healing from here to there if you don’t send it?” they asked.

I replied scientifically: “I don’t know.”

Typically, as the number of people and the amount of activity in a given enclosed space increases, so does the level of gamma radiation. The researches were trying to see if there was a measurable difference between the gamma radiation level in the room when we were bringing in the reconnective frequencies compared to what was present otherwise.

Later while the researchers were analyzing the data, I got a call from them. “Well you won’t believe this one,” they said. “ The gamma radiation detectors registered a significant drop in gamma levels” in the presence of the reconnective energies.

What they took that to mean – and this is a tentative hypothesis – is that while people are using reconnective energy, something is actually being absorbed. They’re receiving energy, not sending it.”

If it is in fact tentative, then it is also true from the teachings of healing that when you go in for a healing session, something is moving and there is something happening.

Which would mean, there’s a lot more to Energy Healing than meets the eye. When broken bones mend, then a healing is definitely taking place.

I have to say, for a Pranic Healer to be, that’s an enticing prospect.

This ends the entry at this time.



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To my Hindu family, friends, and everyone, I would like to wish you a merry and much blessed Happy Deepavali. In Hinduism, the "Festival of Lights" denotes dispelling the darkness of ego and ignorance through the light of Realization.

Happy Deepavali and God bless everyone.

Namaste.


PS to everyone: Have a great weekend.

In one of my earlier posts, I spoke about The Shift, the spiritual change that is apparently happening (as you read). As I said in the post, I am not very clear as to what exactly is shifting, but I am however certain it is and that many people (me included) are feeling it. Acutely.

Even another spiritual blogger, Dr. Paul. After reading my article, he has kindly written a little explanation about it. If you're not aware of what is The Shift, it would be best to read my post first so it will give you some clue.

Otherwise Dr. Paul's body of work gives the topic some light, which I reproduce 2 para here:

Twenty-one years ago, a man in Santa Fe created a chamber that
produced a continuous flow of higher vibrational energy. This
came about after working with several archetypal energy forms
until he hit upon the right combination. The chamber was finally
completed in 1986 after several more years of refining.

From 1986 to 1993 the energy was in a state of building and
solidifying. By the end of that time enough higher vibrational
energy had accumulated to allow a portal to develop, stabilize
and grow to an appropriate size.

Read the full story here.

I'm feeling a little dodgy today. It's one of the usual moods I get into when I combine gastronomic expeditions with Socratic like thinking. That's right; I'm working myself both North and South.

Now I've come to love the little Blogrush widget I installed. There's a sizeable number of spiritual blogs out there with gold in each of them. But like an actual precious metal, they're hard to find. Good little blogrush, how I love thee 2 days in.

Trolling that widget in exploration of blogs, I came across "lightsoflove". It's another website that had tried to get people to form a grid for the energy release back on 7^th July (777).

I'm okay with the concept of connecting the energies. Heck, I think it's a great idea to connect the energy inside us and help others. I myself initiated one just last week for the people of Burma. More people, better the effect.

So energy grids are good. What, however, captured my attention about this site was when reading one the articles posted on it. I reproduce it here:

"it matters not the technical semantics ... but only to know the shift is occurring .... the alignment is happening with or without your co-operation ... only know that anything that is not in resonance with the coming shift ... will disintegrate ... fall ... and fade away .... nothing will be spared from this transition ..."

Sounds like another channeling? It probably is. But that's not the point.

What interests me is the "shift is occurring" section

This is the second time in 7 months I've come across the term "Shift". The first time was when Vera Nadine answered my email on her blog and I quote "……feeling that something is changing in our world….". (Thanks Vera)

There's that word and there's me feeling like I resonate with it. Why I haven't a clue! All the time I felt something was indeed shifting in this world, I just didn't know I knew it at the time. Until I got my emailed answered, then it dawned on me what I was feeling.

But one crucial question was still left unanswered – What's shifting?

I feel something changing, Vera said it, as did the people at lightsoflove. But no one's saying what.

From what – To what? Are we at the start of it, middle, or tail end?

So far, I've heard these terms – 1) Human Consciousness or 2) Collective Consciousness or 3) Universal Energy or 4) Earth Energy Shift or even 5) Aeon Shift.

Researching the internet thus far has produced one significant detail – 2012. It's repeated on almost every website that speaks of the topic in hand. How the Mayan Calendar cycle ends and starts anew on 2012, bringing with it a shift in humanity.

Spiritually, something is supposed to happen, but no one has a clue. Theories abound with a coming Messiah, Prophet, God-Man, God-Incarnate, yada yada who will yet again bring us out misery and into some sort of salvation.

C. M. Kepler on his blog AeonShift say it differently "To alchemically transform ourselves from "animal-like humans" to "angelic humans" has been spoken of as Humanities Ultimate Ideal for millenia by various mystical, spiritual, and religious sects."

Even Wikipedia has gotten into the act with a rather detailed post of 2012 - "NASA predicts that the Sun will also reverse its own magnetic poles during 2012 as result of reaching the end of the current 11-year sunspot cycle".

All (and I mean ALL) are anything but concrete. Everyone's working on the pre-tense of "should, might, could – happen". No one has so far come out with a definitive answer. Not even channelers – those highly evolved spiritual entities from another dimension can agree on it. Each one has their own cheese, and each one more shocking than before.

Yupz, all the ingredients important to create that dodgy feeling right after work time lunch.

Well, either way you look at it, there's a shift happening in the spectrum right now. I know, I've felt it strongly since the year 2000/01/02.

Shifting to what or whom, now that's a tricky question.

PS to everyone: This is an open invitation for any mystics, clairvoyants, channeler, spirit/angel guide, Energy Healer, Spiritualist, Seeker, Anyone who knows anything significant about the Shift to Guest Post on my blog.

60 years ago, India was led to her Independence from the rule of British. The person behind the movement then was a thin, devout Hindu, oft soft-spoken man clad in white Indian attire with glasses. His name was Mahatma Gandhi.

Like many before, and after, his fight for a moral based victory was based in itself on a moral value. A word for which has today etched its rank into the ethos of common day vernacular – Ahimsa.

Ahimsa, a Hindu term is Sanskrit for non-violence first taught by the sage Patanjali.

The teaching is taken to mean that one should never execute, nor engage in, any way or form activity that may bring hurt to anyone. Gandhi’s standing in history is testament to this fact with his use of words to liberate a country.

However, in the years it has since seen the acceptance of the public, the deeper teachings from the Hindu scriptures has been somewhat misunderstand to mean “Don’t perform anything violent. Period”

That right there is, in my opinion, where we start to derail and go off course.

In the years since Gandhi’s victory, many have use adage on the premise of no violent based responses. Which is fine until you realize that as an alternative, people started employing the use sarcasm, insults, name calling, even labels in the place where the physical hand once moved.

Again, that’s not being violent, isn’t it? There in lies the mistake.

“Hurt” purported by Patanjali is not just constrained in physical injury. It goes to mean - No hurting any living being in anyway, directly or indirectly, with intent.

It’s one thing if I, by accident, moved my hand that came into contact with someone. It’s another if I did it on purpose. To say it very simply, Non-violence, is not about what you physically do. It is about who you are. I repeat - It is about who YOU are. Inside.

And the moral value that is internalized is then reflected in what you do/say.

The ancient Hindu scriptures have always spoken about “Self Realisation”. Self-improvement of one owns self in the process of Realising the Divinity. The teachings of Ahimsa is just that. In a manner of speaking, the *uninstalling* Himsa (Violence) from your psychology.

As a result, you approach any all situations with pure peace and good intention.

This teaching is succinctly said by Sri Yukteswar when he addressed a young Yogananda Parahamsa’s about a mosquito in the latter’s biography:

“I raised an avenging hand. Reprieve from impending execution! An opportune memory had come to me of Patanjali's aphorism on ahimsa (harmlessness).

"Why didn't you finish the job?"

"Master! Do you advocate taking life?"

"No, but in your mind you had already struck the deathblow."

"I don't understand."

"By ahimsa Patanjali meant the removal of the desire to kill." Sri Yukteswar had found my mental processes an open book. "This world is inconveniently arranged for a literal practice of ahimsa. Man maybe compelled to exterminate harmful creatures. He is not under a similar compulsion to feel anger or animosity. All forms of life have an equal right to the air of maya. The saint who uncovers the secret of creation will be in harmony with Nature's countless bewildering expressions. All men may understand this truth by overcoming the passion for destruction. "

~ Autobiography of a Yogi

Indeed, the words of a Guru that rings true then as it does today.

Granted the reality is that it is not always easy to be patient, what more non-violent, but if we can phase it out of our psyche, the true teachings of Ahimsa would then ring true in all of us.

I’ve noticed on many blogs I come across, be it spiritual and/or non, many attribute changes in their lives to Karma. Significant events like break-ups, financial problems, or the works, you name it, all Karma.

I suppose it brings a certain degree of joy. My point of view has always been that the more people inviting spirituality is a good sign of progress in the collective consciousness of humanity.

Still the problem with these same blogs for the most part is they have a tendency of associating only the "Unfavorable" incidents on Karma.

Quotes like "How Karma got me good!" or "I suppose it was Karma!" or "What can I say – It was Karma!" is more often prevalent.

Before I go on with this post, let me clarify one point lest I get misunderstood – I totally understand why people would choose to associate any unpleasant events with Karma. It's always good to know, and easier to accept, when we believe in the reasoning that we’ve come full circle and paying for something we’ve done in the past. I get it; believe me I do.

Truth be told, when you get right down to it, that's probably the reason why things ever happen to us.

But people for some reason seem to think that Karma is *only* responsible for the bad things is life. That it’s our ever-loving friend just popping by when the scales fall more on that side.

Here is where I have to say, that's not true.

Karma isn't some little critter just waiting for you to make a mistake so it can land uppercut. It's not an evil little angel hiding behind that bush with an arrow aimed dead center to bring nothing but unhappiness into our lives.

Karma is, if anything, Neutral.

I know that sounds like quite a leap. Maybe even a far-fetched idea. But really, if you look at the picture whole, it makes sense.

By now, I think many people the world over have come to know the basic premise of Karma. Good Karma for all goodness and kindness you've shown. Bad for the opposite.

Which means, other than couriering a large package problems, you’re also going to get a large package of great, happiness inducing luck.

You got that person to out on a date with you – Good Karma. You meet an old friend and get treated to dinner – Good Karma. You reached a point of note in your meditations – Good Karma.

You hit the jackpot and won the 100 mill – Then I’m jealous of you, but that’s Good Karma too.

See, it works both ways. And sometimes, after a dose of sunshine, in comes the sudden storm and we lose what we received. (Thought not necessarily in this order)

This happen because - Karma has to ensure the scales are always balanced. Always. And to achieve some degree of equilibrium, we have to experience them in order to burn them and bring the scales into level.

One other vital reason – Because there’s a lesson in every situation. The importance as to why we should know what we need to know at the time it happens. Which better way to learn a lesson than to go through it yourself.

Sometimes the message is obvious, other times subtle. Still, if the teachings is extracted and understood properly, easy to see that there isn’t much need to worry because in a spiritual way, you’ve matured.

So for all of this to happen, we have to go thru our karmic seeds. Good and Bad. One at a time.

I’ve now come to believe people the world over know this. Yet it sometimes perplexes me how rare it is to see or hear of people going "That's Good Karma for you!' or "Oh how Karma has treated me well".

Maybe people don’t realize it at that time as they feel un-empowered when facing a large, stiff problem. Maybe.

But it still doesn’t change that Karma isn’t out to get us; merely a friend who’s saying “Hey, let me teach you something!”

PS: I realise how comical it is to use smileys, but it was the best I could think of for a visual rep.

Ever had one of those moments where you just keep stumbling into some idea unendingly. You'll see a book on the subject, then your friend will from no where speak about it, followed by something or rather. It can get spooky at times.

Over the last few weeks, I find myself unusually caught in this one scenario. I don't know why, but every turn on the internet will somehow lead me a website or an ad or an article or something talking about this one idea – The Akashic Records.

I've been here before. Having run into something no matter how much I try to hide from it. It's almost like someone is shouting it at me. Fine. Being one to call a spade a spade, I took this as a celestial sign from the Man Upstairs to go do some investigative surfing.

Thus I began researching and after one week, if there's one thing I've come to realize about the Akashic Record, this would say it– it's just not possible to break it down in one para. The DNA of the Universe as its commonly known needs to be explained in sub-sections. So, here goes.

What are the Akashic Records

The starting point for this is the name itself. Akashic comes from the root name Akasha, which is Sanskrit for Sky, Space or ether. Translated, it means (somewhat) Records in the Sky.

According to long held belief, these Records in the Sky hold the complete details of every soul in existence. Everything from thought, word or act ever undertaken or said, these records will have it. They also include one entry - Every re-incarnation ever gone through by a soul. If a soul has taken a birth, or a re-birth, this is the Universe's database.

Simply put, it's all there.

How is this possible?

Believe me, I asked the same question. All research I've done point to one explanation in general that being every action undertaken by the soul is an act of energy. According to Ezines, "The soul emits energy with every thought, action or event that it engages in"

This energy however, does not disappear into nothingness. Instead it leaves a sort of finger print, a multi-dimensional holographic recording of the event, into the Akasha. It is these imprints which are then recorded in each individual's unique file in the Astral.

Meaning anything and everything we do/think/act is recorded in hologram into the Records.

This statement could very well be the rise for the saying "God knows everything you've done!"

Where are these records?

Unlike what the name may suggest, you're not going to find anything looking upwards, or even into outer space. And no, there are no special instruments to use.

Space or ether in reference here speaks of the Astral World. While I've written about the Astral in my Soul Traveling post, briefly, the Astral Plane is the place our souls travel to every night when we sleep and where we experience dreams.

In the astral, the Records are "located in the Hall of Records, located in the akashic plane of the universe, one of the 7 planes". Wikipedia lists Akashic in the Trikuti Causal Plane (as believed by Surat Shabda Yoga)

Which religion believes in this?

Oddly enough, while many religions today don't get along, this concept is in fact prevalent, one way or another, in almost all.

It's the Book of Ages, and the Book of the Lamb St. Peter held by the keeper of the Gates of Heaven (Christianity), Nature's Memory (Buddhism) and even as considered to be source of the language Sanskrit and the origin of the Hindu Scriptures, Vedas.

Make no mistake about this. This concept has been known for many millenias. A check on Wikipedia will give you a list "including the Indians, Moors, Tibetans, Bönpo and other peoples of the Himalaya, Egyptians, Persians, Chaldeans, Greeks, Chinese, Hebrews, Christians, Druids and Mayans."

Egyptians seers looked to the Akashic to provide the Pharaohs the best advice in decision making. Famous psychic Edgar Edward Cayce needed only to sleep after which he was able to give his customers accurate readings in his sessions.

Whom do I see about accessing my Records

Here is where it gets interesting. For me, it does.

By now, if I've written this right, you're under the impression that this celestial Soul Records are only reachable by Rishi's or Yogi's or someone who's a highly evolved soul with many hours of meditation under his belt.

NO – says almost every shred of research information I had to pour into.

Anyone, literally anyone who can Astral Travel has the chance access the Akashic. So if you know how to separate from your physical body and traverse the Astral, then you've got an access pass to go see.

If you don't know how to, and would like to know what Astral Travel is about, read my post on the subject matter.

I would like to personally wish every Buddhist, Enlightenment Seekers, and Everybody all around the world a very Happy and Joyous Wesak Day.



May the Spiritual Enlightenment achieved by Buddha himself under the Banyan Tree be acheived by everyone.

Happy Wesak Day Friends

.....from River of Karma.

The Thailand Monks are rallying to have the country instituted as officially a Buddhist country. I personally think that's fine because things like these add character to a country I feel. I think India should follow suit and let the birthplace of Hinduism be a Hindu state.

BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) -- Hundreds of Buddhist monks led by at least nine elephants marched to parliament in the Thai capital to demand that the country's new post-coup constitution enshrine Buddhism as the national religion.

"Buddhism is increasingly coming under threat," Thongchai Kuasakul, head of the Buddhists' Network of Thailand who led the march, said in a statement Wednesday.

Buddhism could be undermined and gradually phased out from Thailand, he said in the statement, citing violent incidents in the Muslim insurgency-wracked south where monks have been killed, temples bombed and fearful Buddhists have abandoned their homes.

More than 2,000 people have been killed in the south since the insurgency flared in 2004. More than 90 percent of Thailand's 64 million people are Buddhists, and Muslims -- who form the majority in the deep south -- have long complained of discrimination.

Nine elephants led hundreds of Buddhists in an eight-hour march Wednesday under a scorching sun from Bhuddhamonthon-- a major Buddhist center in the central province of Nakhon Pathom -- to the parliament building in the capital, Bangkok.

They reached parliament by dusk. Most sat peacefully in front of the building, chanting Buddhist prayers. They were expected to remain there overnight.

Elephants, considered sacred by many Buddhists, are often used in Thai religious ceremonies.

Police failed to persuade the monks, who were joined by hundreds of supporters, to leave the elephants at the city limits as they marched into the capital, leading to brief scuffles.

Read full news here

My usual routine surfing the internet first thing in the morning includes the unarguably well created news website, Google New. It's nice to be kept abreast of news formatted such that its pleasing to the eyes.

This morning I find myself shocked at the announcement of a possible second Earth like planet. You can read the news link here.



(Image rendering of the new planet. Taken from the Orlando Sentinel)







Why surprised you might ask?

Well, because I think that its not a good thing.

Some might be on the conclusion that this should be a great discovery, and from some perspectives, warranted so. For some. Not for me. I, for some reason, just really really think not.

No.1, the planet is said to be at a perfect condition that simulates Earth, meaning we can live in it. This also pushes the believe that therein might exist life outside this planet. You know what that means right - Alien enthusiasts are going overtime.

As humans, we have yet to find that unity among our kind. What more with a different kind? I know - That sentence was a leap of sorts. Just because we found a planet doesn't mean there's life in it. But if there is, how do you get along with another humanoid species when you can't even get along with your own?

Another ques - How do you introduce such a concept to a predominantly Christian world who view anything extraterrestrial as Heretic? (mind you, without the bloodshed)

Hypothetical Scenario - Assume we can't save this planet and need to leave. We've built a huge space ship to carry the people, animals and plants.

If we're starting a new world, whose religion would we bring? Whose "God" is kind enough to make the cut? Should we have a war to see the last one standing?

It's a hypothetical scenario. And I think I'm overthinking again. Who knows.

But lets hope a second Earth is more good news that bad.