The Nature of Human Nature

I told a story in yesterday’s blog of a past life in which I killed a man who had wronged me. Justice and injustice came swiftly in those days before a formal legal system developed. Times were simpler and people were generally much more aware of the potentially high cost of cheating or stealing. Since they constantly lived with the awareness that serious bodily injury or worse could result if they didn’t follow the golden rule, people were generally more considerate – or they led carelessly short lives.

Today, humanity is struggling through an awkward growing phase where we don’t have law and order even though we have laws. Roughly 7% of the US population is serving time behind bars at any one time, but criminals are protected from the retribution of their victims. That’s civilization as we know it, and sometimes, usually when I’m really mad, I wish there was a better way.

However, being really mad is what traps us into a scenario with only two choices: Either we follow the rules and try to act like civilized humans, or we take the law into our own hands. Still, the days when you could do that without fear of third party retribution are over. Now, there’s no other choice but to evolve.

Learning to evolve beyond the control of our tempers is the test that’s growing more imperative every day as tempers rise in every civilized society around the world. When I left my isolated little dome in the woods to travel to Seattle a couple weeks ago, I literally couldn’t even think because of all the tension in the air.

Along with increased tension comes an increase in civil unrest. Personally, I expect the isolated riots we’re seeing in this country and around the world to spread this summer as injustices reach the boiling point and people everywhere face their age-old demons of ego and anger, which most people have come to accept as just part of our human nature.

We've seen human nature remain fairly constant for all of recorded history. However, what isn’t seen is how far it’s drifted away from our divine, natural path. Ever since we made that tower to human ego 5000 years ago in Babylon, people have acted more and more selfishly.

However, as we approach the end of an era with 2012 just around the corner, it’s now clear that our experiment with furthering our self interest with anger and every tool at our disposal at the expense of others hasn’t yielded the desired results. Every major social and economic system in place is falling apart. If it doesn’t look that way to you now, just wait until the end of summer.

Maybe our 5000+ year experiment with selfishness was a good and needed experience. Still, the virtues of the alternative will become obvious before too long – because the old economic and social systems that were built by ego are toppling under their own weight! Soon the rubble of this failed experiment will be scattered about for all to see.

In the meantime, many are rediscovering their true, loving nature. Before long, I’ll bet we’ll be looking back at this time, and our experience with what we now think of as our baseline “human nature,” and realize it was all just the learning process of an awkward adolescence.

The Source of Karma

I sold my business many years ago to a man who kept my wife on as an employee until he squeezed every possible concession out me. Then, he fired my wife. It was a horrible experience, which I contemplated until discovered a past life with him. He was just as devious and unscrupulous hundreds of years ago. However back then, people handled their own affairs rather than relying on attorneys.

In that previous life, I killed him, took his possessions, and no one blamed me. Still, as I the pondered how this present life must be payback for that past one, a message came to me: “The problem isn’t that you killed him in the past. It’s that you want to do it again now.”

I didn’t think that was a problem as long as I restrained myself. However, that’s when I learned that karma doesn’t work that way. It’s the attitudes we carry with us that determine our future, not our past actions. Actions build attitudes, but our whole linear dualistic thinking about the justification of punishments for crimes is childishly innocent in the real world.

Actions are just motion in a dream world. Thoughts and attitudes, which most people think of as existing only in their own private world, aren’t private at all. They touch others and change our world in ways we can’t imagine. So, the invisible is what really matters, and the visible, which is what most people think matters most, is mostly just dead images, smoke and mirrors.


We all work with exterior circumstances and people, and we tend to think our exterior goals are the only ones. Still, successes pale and failures disappear when we realize that all we see in this world are just tools, and that we are all but actors trying out various roles and attitudes -- until we find one that really works.

Living Consciously – Rising Above Duality

“When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.” – Jimmie Hendrix

We’ve analyzed our lives and separated the good from the bad, fighting the bad at every turn for countless lifetimes, and where has it gotten us? Personally, I remember a past life in which I fought in the Bolshevik Revolution. History records that the government we helped install quickly folded, and the experimental socialistic government that replaced it was also doomed to a slow death.

I was told in channeling that the Dowager Empress Marie (Anastasia’s grandmother), was working behind the scenes to make the same changes that all of us revolutionaries wanted. I also discovered that this woman who I thought was the enemy was a close member of my soul family who, incidentally, reincarnated as my daughter in this lifetime. Yet, I helped cause her demise because I thought I knew what was right and what wasn’t at the time. Oopse.

That’s just one example of when commitment to fight turned out to be more of a fight against a cycle and circumstance than it was a fight against any real evil. Now, I firmly believe that when we decide to battle evil, we set ourselves up for losing the war. The illusion of evil is probably one of the biggest tests in this dualistic world!

After fighting wars since before recorded history, maybe now we’re beginning to become open to a better way. Maybe someday soon, we’ll open our minds enough to look for what’s good instead of giving in to the instinct to fight what appears not to be.

It’s easy to let disappointment in ourselves and others can capture our attention. It’s instinct to draw a line in the sand between good and bad and then fight the endless evil our entire lives – lifetime after lifetime. However, if we give into that focus, we’ll never create the loving space we all want. Many are discovering that now, and the world is about to experience an amazing transformation as we approach 2012 and many of us turn in our traditional weapons for the soft and subtle ways of peace and harmony.