When I had my awakening, I awoke aware that I was feeling someone in my head, in my space….it was hard to pin down at first….but some part of me that woke up KNEW this was so, even as my rational mind was struggling just to keep up with the newness that was taking place. All of it was novel, interesting, sometimes even scary or anxiety-producing. I lived with the idea that I had a soul twin because, simply, there was no other theory out there that explained it so….well.
Cracks began to show up in that fairy-tale world when I heard the really hard and mean things this twin of mine would say sometimes. I began to question, and as I questioned, more things popped up that showed me that something was amiss. The concept of the twin soul was a fairy-tale. Like angels on clouds and happily ever afters and gurus who are perfect (note: there is no such thing-these are things we would like to be true but are not). The experience was cosmic and I WAS feeling this person at the soul level deeply. Yes. Wonderful, yes. But human still, yes.
In perfect timing, as I was beginning to question the mythos of the Twin Soul and the Twin Flame along came a person who had gone through all of this herself and we began this dialog. It was one of the most insightful of any kind of dialog I have had with another person. She spoke my language, and she helped to fill in some spots that I was clamoring around in the dark for. One of the things that she talked about was how karma creates chemistry. At first, this was so non-intuitive that while I took it all in, I honestly had some trouble with it. After all, the energy that was a part of the connection felt so….natural. It just felt like it was so deep within me, right?
But the same is true for karma. Whoops.
I have been at the cleansing process that is a part of awakening since early 2007 (early February) and I have slowly come to a realization through many many releases that some of the biggest troubles have been in the more base chakras. Each release in the meridians or chakras (or both) has always been accompanied by changes in how I felt and how I reacted to things that might have upset me before. I have been hard at “work” getting my field cleared because of how much better it has made me feel, how richer and more…..buoyant….my energy has felt following a clearing. Despite how some have said that the root is cleared first, I have to take issue with this and call such tales utter nonsense. No, kundalini clears the easiest to the hardest. It is like water, following the path of least resistance. If it had tackled my poor solar plexus, sacral, or root chakras first, I would still be here today telling you how kundalini is still trying to bust down that one hardened armored wall! Instead, I have hundreds, thousands of victories both big and small that has made the last three years easier.
The last three years has been a time period where MOST of my energy field was cleared with mostly sacral/root blocks remaining. it has been challenging and sometimes utterly frustrating to see how big the block was, but I can say that over the last year especially, I have spent every single day surrendering to the flow of prana in the hopes that it would flow into those hard places and break up the material. My meditations have shown me that it was a densely packed series of layers. Some of the work that I have done has included utilizing a reiki practitioner as well as a massage therapist who specializes in the Kahuna method, which honors the balance of the masculine and feminine current in our bodies. I was able to break a lot of material free from those sessions. I even reported a year or two ago how one reiki practitioner could not detect ANY blockages in my root and patted me on the back and admonished me about not trying to create a problem where no problem existed. This was a person who was the head of a massage school and is well known in our community for her therapy work. And this is mentioned as a cautionary tale that for those of you who are going extra deep into yourselves that there may be some who could help you that don’t….or can’t…perhaps because they themselves cannot feel that deep or detect what exists at such a cleared level.
I mean, think about it….most everyone on the planet is blocked from head to toe in some way or another. I know this may sound severe, but as I awoke, my ability to sense energy was increased about three to four-fold. Before then, I had been reading auras since I was 18 and I am now 50. So lots of experience with this end of awareness…..and I can say that those who slumber are simply not aware all that much. And it is probably good that they are not aware for the time being. Only when you are ready to tackle such a backlog of material as we all have here on the planet can you really have any hope of getting it done. otherwise it simply seems to be too big of a mountain. I know that it has been a mountain for me, and I also know people who have been at this for decades who are still wearing away the stone, so to speak. I am not saying this to be negative, I am saying it because I observe that it is true.
So the “proof” part….
I was reflecting how I was able to magically release the soul connection I had when I first awakened. God bless her, but she had issues that made dealing with her hard, and being connected to this, once I became aware of the hardness (I was not aware of the hardness in the beginning you see), it got more difficult. But what “did it” was a couple of years ago when I initiated a correspondence with her in the hopes of clearing up whatever was left was the moment when she wrote to me, “Parker, I am really HAPPY in my life now…..I woke up and had someone like you to help me through it, to share and make sense of it…..and I now feel things I had not felt before but knew was possible….I really love my life!” Poof! In that moment, it was like this thing gave way in me and I realized I was holding something up I just didn’t need to hold up anymore. Then thre came this awareness in the clarified moment that I had known her in some official capacity as an advisor. It FELT like she was a leader of some kind….and somehow I had let her down in some way. THIS led to a hitch karmically that led to our connection later while in the super-charged environs of an awakening (a double-whammy!). Then, as I began breathing more deeply and more slowly, I dropped down into it deeper and I was shown that no, I had not let her down. It wasn’t event THAT clear-cut. I had FELT like I had let her down. Her problem was HER problem, but I had taken it to mean that I had failed her.
The interesting thing is that this was exactly what happened in another relationship…I was hooked, literally hooked into this fear of failing another person and letting it eat me up energetically and karmically. It doesn’t matter what actually happened, it is HOW we choose to FEEL about an event that is the hook of karma. And this is one reason why I have so much trouble with the concept of karma. It is called “action” and I have recently considered maybe they were including inner action, because otherwise the definition as given by the Buddha seems…shallow….and prone to turning into being a punishment or something of the like. People do this, though. They are upset that something didn’t turn out the way they would like and they say “Karma is gonna get you!!!” All the while, though, the deeper truth is that karma isn’t a punishment. It is based on how far we have chosen, yes chosen, to turn away from our inner divine natures. THAT nature is….perfect. it does not NEED to be anything except perfectly itself. And yet, we allow ourselves to get pulled in all these directions that are not in our highest. Like me, just wanting people to be happy and failing at it because…..well…I am not the Lord of people’s happiness. They are. This was so bad in a prior relationship that my ex told my children that I had failed them at a time when I was sticking to my guns when the economy was in a rut. Truth be told, when you tell children this kind of thing, YOU are the one “failing.” But this was the consequence of living in this way. The person who acted as the put-upon victim became the victimizer. Terrible. So it was in my interest to untangle this mess as soon as possible, right?
To learn more about how this all turned out, I have broken this post into two chapters, with the second one immediately following this one. So now for chapter two….
Well said! Love your take on karma.