Karma & the nature of our "perfect world"

A reader of my book, Looking Seeing & Knowing, wrote in saying:

"On page 55, you say that the Earth is scratching at disharmonious parts, but when natural cataclysms happen, they seem to happen to all types of people, and often in parts of the world where people are rather innocent and living close to nature."

Good question! After writing her a reply, I decided that this is a point in which others may be interested.

First of all, I've noticed that when Rasha talks about future events, he often sites some spiritual reason for their occurance. Sometimes, he'll comment on how the affected area is out of balance or out of harmony, and why it needs to be impacted in some way before our transition to the new beginning after 2012 can take hold.

Basically, we've been told that the reason we have to have the destructive earth changes is because of the negativity that needs to be purged. That's not just because of the people currently living in an area. Negativity has been building up in some areas for over 5000 years.

People currently living in an area can mitigate that historic negativity. However, it's more likely that they were attracted to the area in order to participate in it for the purpose of righting some wrong they feel on a deep level. Also, just because people live "simply" doesn't mean that they live close to nature or in harmony with it. Look at all the poor farmers who keep slashing and burning the rain forests.

Anyway, something my higher self said to me once comes to mind whenever I try to pin down an absolute ruling principle to explain how things must always have a divine order despite the appearance of things. I know many popular spiritual gurus proclaim that nothing ever goes wrong, and I'd agree in that broad principle. However, I'll just say that some major misconceptions abound in the understanding of this principle (just as they do with just about everything else we often think we know.)

Taking responsibility for our lives while humbly admitting that we're human and, while part of God, we ARE NOT the totality of God, is a big step over the erroneous belief that we have direct control over everything that happens in our life. (Read my blog on Magic versus Mysticism on Sept 18, 2009 or my April 18th Rant on the Secret in the middle of this page for more on that.)

Anyway, once when I was whining to my higher self about my life down here, he said, "It's not supposed to be perfect."

If we wanted perfect, fair and comfortable, we'd stay in heaven. It balances out eventually - when you consider our multiple lives here. Still, taken one life at a time, things can seem so unfair and wrong that we feel compelled to come back to settle the score. Actually, that's the essence of the principle of karma.

In Magical Mechanisms, I tell how the Hopi say that during these times of earth changes the land under those living in harmony with the Earth will raise into plateaus above all the problems, and how Edgar Casey also once said that our consciousness affects the land around us. Still, does that mean that good people won't ever be caught up in catastrophes? Well, according to Hunt anyway, absolutely not.

We definitely affect our environment, but in order to make karma the perfect system it is for testing our commitment and discretion, we simply need interaction with other forces here on earth. It IS a perfect world! However, perfection in a 3-D world just isn't what you might think!

Blessings & Peace,

Hunt


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Magic versus Mysticism

As we look for ways to expand our awareness of how things work these days; positive thinking, the law of attraction, and similar “mind over matter” concepts are being sold as the new Messiah. Motivational gurus make some good points about human potential. However, it seems to me there are some wrinkles in this new religion.

My parents visited from out of town the other day, and they tried to teach me how to play cribbage while they were here. My mom was explaining the strategy and told me once that we wanted to draw a 5. So, I cut the deck and got a 5. It did help us, but it helped my son and father even more, so we lost that hand. Next, Mom told me we were hoping for a 6, so I cut and we got a 6. Same thing – we got a couple points but our opponents got even more, so we lost again. This little game reminded me why I stopped following conventional guidance many years ago.

Lately, the current wisdom that most of us hear says “Take control of your life. Manifest what you want to happen!”

Sometimes, people ask “Does it work?”

Yes! Of course it works!

The question we should be asking is “Is it in our best interest to work that magic?”

Like those hands of cribbage I lost when I made things happen that I thought I wanted, it’s incredibly easy to force the wrong situations into our lives. During these times of change (i.e. destruction, and the threat of destruction, of just about everything in our lives) pulling a rabbit out of a hat could be really handy! Still, it’s really important to learn to rely on the only thing that is really reliable, and destroy all of our other illusions before they try to destroy us.

Learning to harmonize rather than using all the forces at our disposal to force our own way is the difference between mysticism and magic. Magic make things happen that we want to happen. Mysticism puts our desires and energy in action but leaves us detached from the results, placing our faith instead on the intelligence of the universe.

Those who are religious might want to remember Commandment #1. Reliance on the wisdom of our own ego instead of on our supreme source is a violation of that commandment. The rest of us pragmatic types probably just need to realize that whenever we try to take complete control of a situation, we’re on thin ice. We need to take responsibility for our lives, but that’s entirely different from taking control away from the intelligent, mystical force around us.

Hunt Henion

www.shiftawareness.com

Intent & Expectations

I’ve been contemplating my April 27th blog, and have come up with some interesting conclusions: First of all, I don’t believe that our efforts generally work for the reasons we think. And without diminishing our personal power over our lives and the world, it’s really a drop in the bucket compared to the will of The One of we’re all a part. It’s also miniscule compared to the angels and ET’s who help us manifest our intentions.

With that perspective, let’s talk about the power of our intents and expectations. Dean Radin’s book, Entangled Minds: Extrasensory Experiences in a Quantum Reality discusses how the future changes slightly each time we looked at it but more importantly, each time our expectations change. It seems that when a certain outcome is desired, the future drifts a little toward fulfilling that desire -- or denying that desire if fear of not getting it is the overpowering force.

I discuss how everyone’s expectations are polarizing right now and how that is going to manifest two completely separate realities (so everyone is happy) in my newest book, Looking, Seeing and Knowing. What I describe may sound far-fetched, but it is the logical outcome to what people claim is the power of prayer, meditation, affirmations, mindset/positive expectations, or magic – which isn’t nearly as dead as most tend to believe. But what do you think?

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