Chapter Three

God is Freedom

Words of Wisdom

Gal. 6:7 - Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A person reaps what he sows.

Matt. 7:2 - With what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.

Rom. 2:1 - Wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself, for thou that judgest doest the same things.

Job 4:8 - They that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.

Chapter Three - Karma

If you are new to the term Karma, it is just another way of saying "You reap what you sow" as described in the Bible by Jesus. Which is, if you do harm to another, the same harm you did to another will be done unto you, in the same manner you harmed another.

The returned karma may not happen in this lifetime, it could happen in a future lifetime. So if you find that bad things happen to you in this lifetime and you haven't figured out why, it could very well be your past karma is being returned to you.

There is a way to balance karma and to not create any more, which is what this page is about, and it will give you information of how to find your way out of the crazy maze of karma on your path of Self-Transcendence.

Karma in the Bible

I would like to start this page of an example that can found in the Bible that has to do with returning karma, which will explain that no matter who you are, you will not get away from your returning karma.

I'm sure you've heard the story of John the Baptist of when he was beheaded by a request by the Kings daughter, which the King granted the request. When you read the story about this it's not hard to think of what a cruel thing to ask for and what a heartless person this daughter must have been. When you look more closely at this story, you'll see there is more to the story that has to do with John the Baptist and the beheading of him that has do to with returning karma, as you will see in the following verses from the Bible.

(Mark 9:2-4)
After six days Jesus took Peter, James and John with him and led them up a high mountain, where they were all alone. There he was transfigured before them. His clothes became dazzling white, whiter than anyone in the world could bleach them. And there appeared before them Elijah and Moses, who were talking with Jesus.

(Mark 9:9-13)
As they were coming down the mountain, Jesus gave them orders not to tell anyone what they had seen until the Son of Man had risen from the dead. They kept the matter to themselves, discussing what "rising from the dead" meant.

And they asked him, "Why do the teachers of the law say that Elijah must come first?"

Jesus replied, "To be sure, Elijah does come first, and restores all things.

Why then is it written that the Son of Man must suffer much and be rejected?

But I tell you, Elijah has come, and they have done to him everything they wished, just as it is written about him."

It clearly shows that John the Baptist was Elijah in a past life. We know that John the Baptist was killed when the King's daughter's wish was granted to her that John be beheaded from the following...

(Matt. 14: 6-10)
"Prompted by her mother, she said, "Give me here on a platter the head of John the Baptist." The king was distressed, but because of his oaths and his dinner guests, he ordered that her request be granted and had John beheaded in the prison."

And again, it seems very cruel that this request was granted to have this holy man be beheaded for no good reason. But when you look at it from a returning karma standpoint, you can see that the karma that John the Baptist made in his past life had been returned to him as you can see he had created from a past life:

(1 Kings 18:40)
"Then Elijah commanded them, "Seize the prophets of Baal. Don't let anyone get away!" They seized them, and Elijah had them brought down to the Kishon Valley and slaughtered there."

(1 Kings 19:1)
"Now Ahab told Jezebel everything Elijah had done and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword."

In one lifetime Elijah had killed with the sword, then in his next lifetime he died by the sword. Elijah made karma for himself, and that karma returned to him in a future life when he was John the Baptist.

It states in the Bible:

(Gal. 6:7)
Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A person reaps what he sows.

And so we know that there is nothing we can get away with, we will reap the things that we have done from our past. The way we could think of John the Baptist now is one of three ways.

1.) "what a cruel thing to have happened to John the Baptist."
2.) "John the Baptist got what he deserved due to his past life actions."
3.) "John the Baptist past life karma was returned to him and hopefully he learned from his past mistakes and does not repeat them mistakes in a future life."

Depending on what was going through John the Baptists mind at the time of his beheading will determine if he made more karma for himself. Such as moments before his beheading if he had negative feelings towards his murderers, or if he had forgiveness for his murderers. Lets look at when Jesus was on the cross. Jesus had forgiveness for his murderers and even asked God to forgive them. If Jesus had not forgiven his murderers and instead had hatred for them, he would have created karma for himself, and that karma of hatred would have eventually returned to him.

It's the same way for John the Baptist too, so if John the Baptist had hatred towards his murderers he would have created karma for himself and would not have learned from his past life mistakes. But if John the Baptist had forgiveness and had Love for his murderers, he would not have made karma for himself and that he accepted his past life karma being returned to him and did not have negative feelings from it, whether he was conscious of his past life mistakes or not.

Learning Through Experimenting

When we were created as co-creators with Free Will, we weren't created at the same conscious level that God's Consciousness is at. You could compare us to how a baby is when a baby is born, it's obvious a woman does not give birth to an 18 year old with a complete education and ready to move out of the house and live on their own. So, when we were created, you could say we were created at the level of consciousness a new born would have, not literally, but just using it as an example.

When we were first created as Spirit Beings, We learned through experimenting. We learned from our successes and from our failures. We learned that if we created something that worked we could move on, but if we created something that didn't work, we knew to stay with it and find the mistake we made so we could learn from the mistake, fix it, and then we could move on.

If we were unable to learn as we were experimenting, we would not know what worked and what did not work as co-creators with Free Will. We knew that the mistakes we made would have to be fixed, or what you might say needed to be balanced before moving on.

Even though we have been Reincarnating for a long long time, we have not stopped being co-creators with Free Will. So, you could say that we forgot we are still learning from our experiments which is what we are doing as we live our Lives, we just aren't conscious of it any more. The karma that is returned to us are them experiments we did not take the time to learn from and fix before we moved onto a new experiment. So, that experiment we worked on and did not work for us will eventually come back around for us to work on again, and if we don't work on it and fix it, we can't move on.

Example of Learning Through Experimenting

Way back when, a friend of mine was driving me home one winters evening after having taken me out for dinner. The roads were fine to drive on when we were on our way to the restaurant, but while we were at the restaurant the roads had iced up. My friend didn't mind driving on the ice, as he worked at nights driving a truck, so he was use to driving on the ice. Well, as my friend was driving me back home, and as we were crossing an intersection we saw this lady in her car skidding around trying to get her car to stop at the red light. We had the green light so we were passing her by as she was skidding around and we were laughing about how lucky we were not to have had to stop, because we would have been skidding around too.

The next intersection we came to, my friend thought he could make the light but the light changed to quickly and he put on his brake for us to stop, but we didn't and we skidded through a safeway parking lot, and onto a road that was going the opposite direction we were originally heading for, and the car kept skidding until we finally came to a stop two blocks from where he had first put on his brakes. You talk about returning karma on the both of us for laughing and talking about how lucky we were that we weren't skidding around like the lady we had just passed at the last intersection.

We both learned to have compassion for people who are trying to drive on the ice and pray for them instead of laughing and feeling lucky it wasn't us. We had to learn how that lady felt when she couldn't stop her car and was skidding around so we would have more compassion for people like her. After we learned that, he hasn't skidded on the ice while driving since then. And the reason he hasn't is because he learned from his mistake. You could say that it was an unconscious experiment that we created for ourselves that did not work, but that experiment was returned to us so we could learn from the mistake we made and fix it so we could move on.

So, this is very much why karma is returned to us, which is nothing more than our past experiments that needs to be returned to us so we can learn why our experiment didn't work, so we can fix them and then move on.

It was a few years later I was driving on the ice and I skidded and almost went over an embankment that would have taken me down a mountain side and straight into a river that was at the foot of the mountain. I knew that was my returning karma from years back. I accepted it as that and was thankful that I didn't go over and that an unseen force helped stop my car, which I call an absolute Miracle that happened that day, but that is another story I might write about another time.

Balance and Karma

Since we were created as co-creators with Free Will, we were created with the same creative drive that God has, we just aren't at the same level of consciousness God is at. When we are on the Spiritual path, our goal is to rise in consciousness, which is learning from our past mistakes and learning of what works so we can live our lives from what works. Having compassion for others is something that works, so we would live our lives having compassion for each other and for ourselves.

When we make mistakes, we must balance those mistakes, which is learning from our mistakes, rise above the consciousness that caused for us to make them mistakes so we don't continue to repeat them mistakes. When we make mistakes and don't learn from them, we will find ourselves recreating the same mistakes until we finally see through them and decide to stop recreating the mistakes.

Again, the mistakes we make are returned to us in the form of karma, or another way of saying it which is "you reap what you sow." So, when our karma is returned to us, it is not a punishment, it is just our opportunity to take a look at the experiment we worked on from a past life that did not work. So, we are having to see what caused for that experiment to not work, so we can learn from it, and then we can move on.

Once the karma has been returned to us is when the karma will be balanced. You will stop creating karma when you learn from the karma that was returned to you and when you rise above the state of consciousness that caused for the karma to have been created in the first place.

False Beliefs Create Karma

When we create karma, it is usually caused from false beliefs that says it is ok to behave towards others or things according to our false beliefs. We may not know it's a false belief until the actions we take against others are returned to us. Such as, you may believe that it's ok to cut others off when you're driving. But when someone cuts you off, you have negative thoughts towards those who cut you off. It's obvious we don't like it when anyone cuts us off when we are driving. So, instead of having negative feelings towards those who cut you off when you're driving, look at it as returning karma from all the times when you cut others off when you were driving.

So, if you don't want others to cut you off when you're driving, don't do it to others. And just because you decide to never cut off another person when driving, doesn't mean your past karma isn't finished being returned to you, it could take a couple years of people cutting you off in traffic before your karma is fully returned to you. If your karma does not return to you, it can't be balanced.

When we have lived with false beliefs that is what caused for us to create the karma in the first place, we need to change our false beliefs to a True belief. A true belief would be of God, a false belief would be from the things that are of this world. According to this world at one time, the catholic church shared a belief that the Earth was flat. Those in high leadership positions in the Catholic Church had people tortured and put to death that believed the earth was round. Their false belief gave them the belief that it was ok to torture and put to death those who believed different than they did, we know today that their belief was a false belief and that the Earth really is round.

Hitler is another example we can use as he claimed to have been Christian, and we know his beliefs he had were false beliefs and his false beliefs gave him the belief that it was ok and a just thing to do by putting the Jews to death during world war II, we know today that this belief he had was a false belief. We also know that 2,000 years ago that the Jews that were shouting crucify him (Jesus) made it clear to have the sins be brought upon them and their children. The belief they had at the time we know was a false belief that it was ok to have an innocent man be murdered on the cross. It is quite clear that the sins, the mistake of having that false belief and acting from those false beliefs possibly could have been returned to the Jews in future lives, such as those who died at the hands of the Natzis during World War II. But I highly doubt that it was returning karma on the Jews during World War II.

As long as we carry within us false beliefs, these false beliefs will give us the belief that we have a right to treat others a certain way, and until we learn the True beliefs and begin treating others from True beliefs, we will continue to create karma that will need to be returned to us so we can learn from the mistakes we made when living our lives from false beliefs, while having the patience and understanding that that karma will continue to be returned to us until it has been completely balanced.

Forgiveness and Karma

There are many people who believe that Jesus died on the cross for their sins, and all they have to do is be baptized and verbally state that Jesus is their personal lord and savior. Their goal is to have a way out of their past mistakes they made so they can be saved and be able to go to heaven when they die. So as far as they are concerned, they don't need to change their state of consciousness that caused for them to have sinned in the first place. As long as these people believe this way, they will remain in the same state of consciousness that they had before that caused for them to sin. Hitler was a Christian and he believed that his sins were forgiven him, because he didn't believe he was creating any sin when he was putting the Jews to death during World War II. So, if one Christian were to believe that their sins were forgiven them through an outer ritual of baptism and declaring that Jesus was their personal lord and savior, it makes me wonder if they expect to see Hitler when they cross over into Heaven.

There was a lady who I use to know that was a self claimed Christian, who believed that Jesus died on the cross for her sins and she is forgiven of all her past sins. I asked her how would she ever learn of her past mistakes if she continued in the same mind set that caused for those sins to have been created? She said it doesn't matter, because she is washed clean by the blood of Jesus who died for her sins. It is very hard talking to a person who believes they can do whatever they want to people and not be held accountable for the karma they create. I understand she is experimenting with the false belief that she is not responsible for how she treats others and that she can treat people how ever she wants to, because through Jesus she will be saved no matter what.

I asked her a few questions about her belief that Jesus died on the cross of her sins. I asked her if she was one of the High Priests who had plotted and planned to bring false charges against Jesus to have him arrested. she said "no" I continued on and asked her if she was one of the Roman Soldiers who beat, spit upon, flogged, and put a crown of thorns on Jesus. She said "no". I asked her if she was one of the people who were shouting "Crucify Him" She said "no". I asked her if she was one of the Soldiers who had nailed Jesus to a cross? She said "no." I asked her if she supported the crucifixion and the murder of Jesus 2,000 years ago and what she was doing 2,000 years ago. She said she wasn't doing anything 2,000 years ago, as she wasn't alive at the time to have done anything to Jesus.

I asked her to tell me what makes her think that Jesus died on the cross for her sins. She said that the purpose for Jesus being crucified on the cross was to die for her sins. I reminded her of what she had just told me and that was she was not alive at the time to have sinned against Jesus to where Jesus would have died on the cross for her sins. I told her that Jesus died on the cross for those people who were committing the sins against him that got him killed.

The Bible states, thou shalt not bare false witness against thy neighbor, and thou shalt not kill. If you do either it's a sin and that's what the High Priests, the Temple Priests, The Roman soldiers, the Jews and even Peter who denied knowing Jesus three times, all of them had sinned and because of their sinning, Jesus died for it.

When Jesus died on the cross for the sins of those who were sinning against Jesus, did not mean that Jesus took their sins away from them because his blood was shed. Jesus blood was shed because of those people at the time were sinning, so yes Jesus died on the cross for those who were sinning against him. If they had not been sinning, they would not have been shouting "Crucify him" If they had not been sinning, Jesus would not have been nailed to a cross. If they had not been sinning, Jesus would not have died on the cross.

So, basically, one could say that Jesus did not die on the cross for the sins of those who had nothing to do with his crucifixion, but only for those who actually were the ones who were sinning against Jesus at the time. And it does not mean Jesus took their sins away from them, it just means that if it wasn't for their sinning, Jesus would not have been crucified on the cross that led to his death on the cross.

I do believe that Jesus held back the karma for those who supported his crucifixion, so they would not have such a burden of that karma when it returned to them. I believe that those people may have learned of their mistakes, and that karma may have been returned gradually to them over a span of lifetimes to give them a chance to rise in consciousness, and to put in them the mind that was in Christ Jesus, which is the Christ Consciousness.

The Way out of Karma

There is a way out of creating karma, and that is we study ourselves so we can learn from our past mistakes, change the state of mind we were in when we created those mistakes, heal our past wounds and heal our psychology that caused for us to be attached to the things that others have done to us. When we are non attached to what others do, we will then be able to turn the other cheek so that we do not create any more Karma for ourselves.

Lets say someone calls you a name or flips you off, you would not be attached to what they did to you and you can walk away with no ill-will towards that person, knowing that you made no karma for yourself, but they did. When you turn the other cheek and do not pay back evil with an evil act of our own, we let ourselves off the hook of having karma be returned to us.

The way out of karma is work, and it takes time and patience on our part when we work on learning from our past and change the state of consciousness we were in to a different state of consciousness so we do not repeat our past mistakes again.

To me, you can't pretend to be something you're not, well, you can, but you still will not get away with it. So if you have not reached that state of consciousness that would cause for you to not react back, and even though you may not have. The feeling was still within you to react back. That feeling you have within you, lets you know that you still have work to do on changing your state of consciousness, because when you rise to a higher state of consciousness, you would not have the slightest thought or feeling to react back to anything anyone ever did to you. So, even though you did not react back, the wanting to was still there, which is still a form of karma and that negative inner feeling will still come back upon you in the form of returning karma.

So, we can work on rising above the state of consciousness that causes for us to react in certain ways that create karma before a situation comes up that would tempt us into reacting in a negative way that would create karma for ourselves, because Being karma Free is the Way to Being More I AM.

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