Crystal Prescriptions: The A-Z Guide to Over 1,200 Symptoms and Their Healing Crystals - Judy Hall 2006
Layers and levels of karma
Karmic Healing
Karma occurs at various levels, which can override each other. Personal karma can, for instance, be dominated by transgenerational issues and ancestral themes. It may also be superseded by the needs or deeds of the collective. However, the karma of grace can override personal and collective karma. Karma does not have to be a continual round. When all that can be done has been done, or when karmic or ancestral healing takes place, the karma of grace kicks in. The souls can move on. Cosmic karma trumps all the other karmas so the need to evolve will always be the ultimate catalyst.
Karmic levels
Personal karma is carried from life to life by an individual soul. It has been created somewhere in ’the past’ and the soul incarnates to deal with it in the present or to fulfil its purpose.
Ancestral karma: the karma which travels down the family line.
Group or racial karma: The group can vary in size from a family, or group of friends or enemies, to a tribe or race or soul group. Group karma overrides individual. So, a soul who has no personal aggressive karma may nevertheless become caught up in a war or other mass movement, for instance. This is particularly so when the family carry an aggressive ’war gene’ which passes into the ’junk DNA’.
Collective karma arises from all that has gone before. It is the karma of the human race. Although positive collective karma is generated, negative collective karma is what creates problems for future generations. No one is responsible for collective karma in the sense of having personally created it although individuals may, in other lives, have been part of its source in wars, purges, ideologies and other mass movements. Certain people incarnate with the intention of taking on a portion of this collective karma and clearing it for the wider whole.
Cosmic karma is the need for the whole to grow and to evolve. Cosmic karma is the spiritual purpose that can override all other karmas. It is connected to the need for each soul to evolve and to recognise, and take responsibility for, their part in the whole.
Types of karma
Merit Karma: a reward for things the soul got right in other lives, the lessons learned, the insights put into practice. It is money in the karmic piggy bank and rarely if ever needs healing unless a soul has become complacent and ’stuck’ at a certain level of soul evolution.
Retributive Karma: boomerangs back to punish former actions. In other words, what is done to others comes back with a recognisable connection between cause and effect. Retributive karma is rare and only occurs when a soul refuses to evolve.
Recompense Karma: reward is given for the things that the soul ’got right’, or for the sacrifices made to help others.
Redemptive Karma: some souls incarnate to help others or to do something specific for the world. Special needs children may have chosen to come back to help their parents learn a lesson such as compassion and caring. Other souls take on tasks that will help to clear collective karma.
Attitudinal Karma: builds over several lives and arises out of an intransigent attitude, ingrained behaviour or an intractable or habitual emotional stance. It often manifests at the physical level. Mental states such as doubt can also affect the next life. Positive attitudes, such as a loving nature or innate trust, brought forward would creative positive effects in the present life.
Organic Karma: reflects injuries or conditions from other lives. Positive organic karma can arise when the soul has worked hard to strengthen an organ such as the heart in a past life. Organic karma can also arise from soul choices that have caused other people to suffer, and when the soul reincarnates, it has to learn what it feels like to go through that pain or trauma.
The Karmic Treadmill: destructive patterns that have not been outgrown go round and around. The soul is on a karmic treadmill. The expectation is reinforced, and round the soul goes again. Not only that, children will most probably inherit the attitude so that it multiplies.
Karma of Work: what a person did in another life, how they behaved with regard to work, what they experienced, or the skills they possessed, may manifest again in the present life. The karma of work arises from causes such as past behaviour, ethical decisions or choices made. Positive work karma creates skills and vocations in the present life.
Technological Karma: stems from having had to make ethical decisions about the use, or misuse, of technology in the past. It can also apply to having fought against the introduction of new technology — especially when this would have been beneficial to humankind. Technological karma can relate to all periods in history but most often involved industrial and technological revolutions and their effects on modern life. It can also occur with someone who misused or was abused by technology.
Vocational Karma: work is carried over from another incarnation. Vocational karma is an opportunity to capitalise on past skills and abilities.
Symbolic Karma: a present life condition symbolises what was done in the past. It can be a form of allegory.
Communication Karma: how and what was communicated can lead to communication karma. Words have been used to stir revolutions, to revile and condemn people, and to gain power over others. People have passed on gossip and scandal, made or ruined other people’s reputations. They have told truths and untruths; been open and honest or secretive and devious.
Ideological Karma: attachment to a belief, no matter how worthy, creates ideological karma. Imposing beliefs on other people also creates this karma. The beliefs may be religious, philosophical or purely secular.
Karma of Hypocrisy: having said one thing, or done things a certain way, and yet believed something totally different gives rise to the karma of hypocrisy. As does a people-pleasing ’anything for a quiet life’ approach to life. Hypocrisy arises from a lack of spiritual conviction and inner truth, or a betrayal of truth.
Karma of Mockery: mocking other people’s afflictions, thoughts, beliefs or actions gives rise to the karma of mockery. It is based on not valuing the pathway that another person travels.
’Sins of Omission and Commission’: the ’things that have been done that ought not to have been done, and the things that have not been done that should have been done’. If a soul always behaved in a certain way, or consistently refused to take action, or to learn a lesson, then the karma comes around and around until the message is understood. Lives can be experienced as ’sinning’ or ’sinned against’ as the soul struggles to find a way out of the repeating pattern. The soul’s failure to take a risk can accrue karma just as strongly as the soul who takes an unwise risk and fails.
Relationship Karma: can operate in families, love affairs, friendships and business relationships. Sometimes a bond of true love unites a couple down through the ages, but this is not always so. Hatred can be the cause of powerful attachments. Some people will not let go of someone they ’love’, and have to come back with that person until they can do so. The lesson can be painful, especially when the other person does not recognise the ’love’. Retribution can be a component of relationship karma, as can recompense and reparation. (See The Soulmate Myth.)
Pacts and Promises: vows made in another life can strongly affect the present. They may involve another person or be personal.
Phobias: stem from overwhelming fear. They have a karmic root.
Karma-in-suspension: not all karma can be dealt with at once, some of it remains in suspension to be dealt with at some other time — which may or may not occur during the present life depending on how other factors progress.
Karma-in-the-making: what goes on at the present time creates future karma. Each thought, deed, action and belief creates karma for the next life.
The karma of Grace: when sufficient work has been done, or all that is possible has been accomplished, the soul can move on through grace. It can step off the karmic wheel.