Personal Karma or Fate

Ok, GIRLS and GUYS --- here we go!
Tighten you belts, if you have them, and get all that little courage of yours together to support you. It's going to be rough --- it needs to be. You ask why should I do this hurtful thing and uncover my Karma? Because it's the only way to unlock the door for your development to higher Consciousness, and incidentally, also to a happier life. And why are you qualified to lead us into such a path of potential agony? I might not be, but after nearly 20 years of trying to do it for my own life, I have finally gotten the help (from the other plane) to discover my own Karma and solved it. This guide I have now, who talks like a psychiatrist, is still with me --- so why not make use of him?

Let me start with a few lines from EXCERPT A Chapter 1/2 of vol. 2 of SES by Ken Wilber, Part I. Kosmic Karma: --- Why is the Present a Little Bit like the Past?
The inheritance of the past is one the central topics we will be discussing, because it turns out to be a key in almost every area of human inquiry. But it also touches on what is perhaps the most crucial question in the whole area of spirituality. ................ This is karma-and-creativity and it appears to be the very matrix of our moment-to-moment reality, and how we conceptualize that matrix will therefore be a crucial ingredient in our own self-understanding. ....... We open with the specific topic of karma, or the inheritance of the past. In order to get started, let's simply assume that the present moment inherits something from the past, ------------ END OF QUOTE.

To a very large extent, we are dealing here with our Shadow material, collected and assembled in childhood. --- At this time I can't find the original quote from Robert Bly, but what I remember is this: "We are spending most of our childhood and youth filling a sack with shadow material, (our karmic set-up) And for the rest of our lives, carrying this very heavy sack around has an affect on everything we are doing. (But some of us are also are trying to get rid of it by dumping pieces of this garbage at other people.)"

If you are reading the next paper, "The boy who left home to learn how to fear" you have a good example of what needs to be done. And that too goes for intellectual geniuses. Especially them, because the World needs their "true" wisdom, and not just this highly sophisticated intellectual stuff you are writing now. I have the following quote under a file for "funny-stuff", but this one is both, funny and a very deep truth. --- As George Sim Johnston writes: Analytical jam --- As William James pointed out, analytical thinking always begins with some personal bias; scratch a mathematical model and you'll find that its creator prefers blueberry jam to marmalade. ------

Go back to our youth and childhood and finding our "personal" karmic-setup is very important. If there was anything "society" did not approve of, as it was for my two lesbian friends, the butches I loved, and for me --- it must be a big part of your "Set-up" too. And remember most of this stuff will be suppressed to a high degree by our ego.

To convince you how important this work is, allow me to give you a bunch of quotes from great minds in our history on this planet. (Prove by authority, I know, it is the weakest prove around, but it's all I got.)

Encounter of the Shadow in Midlife.------------------------- from BLYS 'IRON JOHN",

Midway upon the journey of our life
I found myself within a forest dark,
For the straightforward pathway had been lost . . .
So bitter is it, death is little more. -------------------------------------------------------Dante

At midlife I met my devils. Much of what I had counted as blessings became curse. The wide road narrowed; the light grew dark. And in the darkness, the saint in me, so well nurtured and well coiffed, met the sinner. --------------------------------------------------------------------------Connie Zweig

To go in the dark with a light is to
know the light.
To know the dark, go dark.
Go without sight, and find that the dark, too,
blooms and sings,
and is traveled by dark feet and dark wings. ---------------------------Wendell Berry

"We've all got to look at the scary places and commit ourselves to our own truths.
That's the power of midlife." ---------- Kenny Loggins

"The great epochs of our lives are the points when we gain courage to rebaptize
our badness as the best in us." ---------------- Nietzsche

The thing of darkness, I acknowledge mine. -------------------------Shakespeare
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If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth
will save you.
If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth,
will destroy you. -----------------------Jesus

And the same message 2000 years later as formulated by a scientific mind:

"One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light,
but by making the darkness conscious. . . . ."
"That which we do not bring to consciousness appears in our life as fate."--- C.G. Jung

Perhaps Jung's greatest accomplishment was to reveal the unconscious to be the creative source of all that we eventually become as individuals. In fact, our conscious mind and personalities develop and mature from the raw material of the unconscious, in interplay with life experiences. -------Jerami Abrams & Connie Zweig

How can we find our shadow?
How do you find 'a lion that has swallowed you'? --------------- C.G. Jung

How do I (Harry) find my shadow?
---- How do you find 'a hypodermic in a sea of elephants'? --- Anonymous angel/devil

How can I answer this devil? --- Maybe by paraphrasing Casio's Clay:

------ "DON'T YOU NEVER CALL ME NO ELEPHANT" ------