https://www.michaelteachings.com/channeling/ Sun, 06 Sep 2026 06:31:41 +0000 Karma - Michael Teachings Channeling - Q & A en https://www.michaelteachings.com/channeling/discussion/204/violent-deaths-and-karma Sat, 25 May 2013 02:46:32 +0000 Karma ubiquitous 204@/channeling/discussions Are violent deaths karmic?

VIOLENT DEATH, WHEN IT OCCURS AS A SINGLE ISOLATED INCIDENT, IS KARMIC, YES.

What about plane crashes, in which many are killed?

[FOR SOME ON THE PLANE, YES.

Can it be an accident?

UNFORTUNATELY, IN LARGE VIOLENCES, THOSE WITH KARMIC RIBBONS DO TAKE OTHERS WITH THEM. IN MANY INSTANCES WHERE THE KILLING APPEARS AT RANDOM THE RIBBON GOES BACK MANY CENTURIES TO A TIME WHEN THE PRESENT VICTIM WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR MASS KILLINGS. ONE OF THE RECENT VICTIMS IN SAN FRANCISCO WAS A SLAVE TRADER IN THE EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY.

SOURCE: Michael Teachings Transcripts]]> https://www.michaelteachings.com/channeling/discussion/135/various-comments-on-karma Mon, 20 May 2013 16:01:24 +0000 Karma ubiquitous 135@/channeling/discussions Can karma be carried out for a long time?

YOU CAN CARRY IT ON FROM NOW UNTIL ETERNITY. THAT IS UP TO YOU.

Do you have to work out karma with the person actually present?

YES.

I understand that a person need not be present in order to acknowledge karma.

THAT IS VALID, BUT THE ACKNOWLEDGMENT MUST BE IN [physical] LIFE.

Do we have to know with whom we have karmic ribbons?

SOME OF YOU PERSIST IN OLD PATTERNS DESPITE THE FACT THAT MAJOR OVERLEAVES WERE CHOSEN TO BURN RIBBONS THAT HAVE BEEN BURNED. STUDYING YOUR TOTAL PICTURE SHOULD ENABLE YOU TO SEE WHERE THE PERSISTENCE IS COMING FROM: THOSE IN PARTICULAR WITH STUBBORNNESS AND PRIDE [arrogance] AS CHIEF FEATURES; ALSO, THOSE WITH REJECTION GOALS AND REPRESSION MODES.

Does essence force false personality to work off karma?

NO. IT IS MERELY THAT THE ESSENCE ACKNOWLEDGES THE DEBT. OF COURSE, MOST KARMIC RIBBONS ARE INCURRED BY FALSE PERSONALITY. REMEMBER NOW, ALL OF YOU, THAT ALL OF THE MYRIAD LITTLE INTERPERSONAL CRISES YOU WEATHER IN A GIVEN LIFETIME ARE NOT [karmic] RIBBONS.

What makes a karmic ribbon?

DELIBERATE ACTION: POSITIVE OR NEGATIVE, OF COURSE.

What is the criteria whether a ribbon is formed or not?

IF YOU COMMUNICATED ALL OF YOUR EXPECTATIONS, THE OTHER SOUL UNDERSTOOD ALL THE OPTIONS AND TOOK ACTION ON THAT BASIS, THEN A RIBBON PROBABLY EXISTS. MOST INTERPERSONAL CRISES REVOLVE AROUND UNFULFILLED EXPECTATIONS AND DO NOT INVOLVE KARMA OF A SUBSTANTIAL SORT. NEGLECT OF VERY YOUNG CHILDREN CONSTITUTES KARMA. BREAKING ENGAGEMENTS DOES NOT.

I would like instances in my personal life.

LATER. WE WISH TO CLARIFY THIS FURTHER IN A BROADER SORT FOR EVERYONE’S BENEFIT. HOSTILE ACTIONS SUCH AS MURDER, ARMED ROBBERY, KIDNAPPING, ABANDONMENT, EMBEZZLEMENT OF LARGE SUMS OF MONEY, LEAVING OTHER SOULS DESTITUTE, ALL INCUR DEBTS THAT MUST BE PAID. HUMANITARIAN ACTS, GREAT COURAGE IN THE FACE OF OVERWHELMING ADVERSITY, ACTS OF PUBLIC ALTRUISM, ALL INCUR KARMA OF A POSITIVE SORT. THIS CAN BE AS SIMPLE AS A MAN HELPING ANOTHER TO START A SMALL BUSINESS TO A MILLIONAIRE GIVING HIS ENTIRE FORTUNE TO A RESEARCH ORGANIZATION. FITS OF PIQUE DO NOT INCUR KARMA. YOU CAN YELL AND SCREAM YOURSELF BLUE IN THE FACE AND NOT INCUR KARMA. YOU CAN HAVE THE NASTIEST TEMPER ON THE PLANET AND STILL NOT INCUR KARMA, UNLESS YOU HURT SOMEONE IN YOUR RAGES. EMOTIONAL PAIN IS SELF INFLICTED AND INCURS NO KARMA.

Do you need to acknowledge all karma before you can become conscious?

THAT IS VALID. THERE ARE ALSO WHAT WE WILL CALL FOR THE MOMENT “SEQUENCES” THAT LINK SOULS TOGETHER LIFE AFTER LIFE AND ARE NOT TRUE KARMIC RIBBONS. IN THESE SEQUENCES SOULS AGREE TO PLAY OUT CERTAIN SCENES TOGETHER, AGAIN REVERSING THE GOALS AND COMPLETING MONADS. MANY OF YOU ARE IN SEQUENCES WITH OTHER MEMBERS OF THIS GROUP, BUT THERE ARE NO KARMIC RIBBONS BETWEEN YOU.

Can karma be worked out when the other party to the ribbon is not around?

IT IS DOUBTFUL THAT ANYONE NOT ON THE (spiritual) PATH WOULD BE ABLE TO DO THIS.

If I have a falling out with someone and can see and can accept the reality and forgive him but he does not accept me, is there karma still there?

THEN THE COMMUNICATION HAS BEEN INCOMPLETE AND YOU MAY STILL FIND YOURSELF FACING THE BUSINESS END OF A SHOTGUN. ONE NEEDS ONLY TO BE AWARE THAT THERE IS A RIBBON, BUT FOR FULL UNDERSTANDING AND ACKNOWLEDGMENT, BOTH MUST KNOW.

Sometimes when I meet someone for the first time there is a closeness: is there karma there?

SOMETIMES THESE ARE SEQUENCES, SOMETIMES POSITIVE KARMA.

Does a person’s altruistic acts produce karmic debts to those involved? Could you comment on [the publisher and philanthropist] William Randolph Hearst?

THIS MAN IS PAYING DEBTS INCURRED IN THIS LIFETIME. HE IS PAYING THEM RIGHT AND LEFT.

When it is a positive gift, is the recipient in debt?

SOMETIMES.

It would seem it would have to do with your motivations for giving away, like Albert Schweitzer; seems he’s in a good place.

HE PAID MANY [karmic debts].

Comment: Some of the poor people would not accept the food even if given away. I wonder about those who steal food when they are starving?

STEALING FOOD WHEN YOU ARE STARVING IS NOT KARMA.

SOURCE: Michael Teachings Transcripts]]> https://www.michaelteachings.com/channeling/discussion/107/karma-as-vicious-circle Mon, 20 May 2013 13:27:06 +0000 Karma ubiquitous 107@/channeling/discussions I see karma as a vicious circle. If one kills someone in another life, then he has to be killed or persecuted in another life. If I don’t pay in the next life, I pay by being killed. How can you stop it? 

ONCE THE KARMIC DEBT IS PAID, THE CIRCLE STOPS. 

If you could be like Christ and turn the other cheek, would that stop the karma? 

THAT IS VALID. IT IS ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF THE RIBBON WITHOUT THE HOSTILE ACTION. 

SOURCE: Michael Teachings transcripts

]]> https://www.michaelteachings.com/channeling/discussion/72/how-to-burn-karmic-ribbons Sun, 19 May 2013 22:43:14 +0000 Karma ubiquitous 72@/channeling/discussions I would like to know how to burn karma.

IF YOU ARE TO PURPOSEFULLY BURN RIBBONS, YOU MUST FIRST KNOW WITH CERTAINTY WHAT HAS BEEN INCURRED. THIS TAKES STUDY AND RECALL. OTHERWISE YOU WILL PAY YOUR KARMIC DEBT IN THEIR NATURAL ORDER. THIS IS WHY THE KNOWLEDGE OF REINCARNATION COMES IN SOME WAY TO ALL OLD SOULS. PRIOR TO THAT, IT IS ONLY A MATTER OF CHANCE, SUCH AS BIRTH IN A COUNTRY SUCH AS INDIA WHERE THIS IS THE ACCEPTED THEOLOGY. BURNING KARMIC RIBBONS CONSISTS ESSENTIALLY OF COLLECTING OR REPAYING DEBTS INCURRED IN THE PAST. ALL YOUR SEQUENTIAL PARTNERS DO NOT NECESSARILY REINCARNATE AT THE SAME TIME ALWAYS. THIS PROCESS MAY TAKE CENTURIES, THE PROBLEM BEING THAT YOU AS THE DEBTOR WILL STILL HAVE SUBLIMINAL KNOWLEDGE OF THE DEBT WHETHER OR NOT THE PERSON TO WHOM IT IS OWED IS ON THE PHYSICAL PLANE. THIS WILL USUALLY RESULT IN SOME BARRIER TO SPIRITUAL GROWTH. SOMETIMES SOULS SEARCH FOR ENTIRE LIFETIMES, ARE RESTLESS AND INSECURE AND CANNOT GAIN ANY INSIGHT TO WHY THEY ARE COMPELLED TO SEARCH. THE PAYMENT OR COLLECTION CAN CONSIST OF A PHYSICAL REMITTANCE SUCH AS MONEY, OR AN EMOTIONAL ONE SUCH AS NURTURING, OR EVEN A SPIRITUAL BOND SUCH AS MASTER AND PUPIL. KARMIC RIBBONS CONCERNING VIOLENCE ARE USUALLY SETTLED WITH VIOLENCE IN THE EARLIER CYCLES. THOSE OCCURRING IN THE LATER CYCLES ARE USUALLY SETTLED MORE PACIFICALLY. WE WOULD ENCOURAGE ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF ANY OF THESE. THE OLDER SOULS ARE GENERALLY NOT GIVEN TO COMMIT VIOLENT ACTS. 

Is burning a karmic ribbon always a negative thing? 

SOMETIMES YOU ARE THE DEBTOR. SOMETIMES IT IS TO YOU THAT THE DEBT IS OWED. THE RIBBON IS THE THREAD THAT LINKS YOU TO THE OTHER FRAGMENTS OF A KARMIC PLAY. YOU WISH TO COMPLETE THE MONAD. AS SOON AS THIS IS ACCOMPLISHED, THE FRAGMENT HAS EVOLVED. AS SOON AS THE MAJOR MONADS ARE COMPLETED, THE FRAGMENTS ARE INTEGRATED. 

Can one burn ribbons through an experience which involves no person other than yourself? 

KARMIC RIBBONS RESULT FROM INTERACTION, EITHER WITH INDIVIDUALS OR WITH THE ENVIRONMENT. THE MAN, JACQUES COUSTEAU, DROWNED IN ANOTHER LIFE. 

Does being in prison burn karma. (In life, are you paying your debt to society by being in prison?) UNFORTUNATELY NOT. How do we burn ribbons on the astral plane? Is it easier that way? 

IT IS LESS PAINFUL IN A PHYSICAL SENSE, BUT THAT DOES NOT MEAN THAT IT IS PAIN-FREE. IT TAKES MUCH LONGER TO ACCOMPLISH ANYTHING THIS WAY, AS ALL [that] CAN BE OFFERED IS GUIDANCE TO THOSE WHO ARE ON THE PHYSICAL PLANE AND TO WHOM THE DEBT IS OWED. IT INVOLVES PATIENT MONITORING AND THE ESTABLISHMENT OF RAPPORT THROUGH THE BARRIERS OF THE PLANES. 

SOURCE: Michael Teachings Transcripts

]]> https://www.michaelteachings.com/channeling/discussion/68/definition-of-karma Sun, 19 May 2013 18:11:54 +0000 Karma ubiquitous 68@/channeling/discussions Q: Could we have a definition of karma from Michael? 

AS YOU REAP, SO YOU ALSO SOW; OR AS YOU SOW, SO YOU SHALL REAP. HOWEVER, THIS GOES FAR DEEPER THAN MERE ACTION BY THOSE IMMERSED IN THE WAKING SLEEP. FOR THEM, THE ENERGY LOSS IS FAR GREATER, FOR MOST OF THEIR LIVES ARE WASTED IN FANTASY, AND FANTASY COSTS MUCH IN KARMIC DEBTS. YOU MUST FULFILL ALL CARNAL DESIRES BEFORE SERIOUS WORK IS BEGUN ON THE ESSENCE. THIS CAN TAKE MANY LIVES, USUALLY A MINIMUM OF FORTY-NINE. 

SOURCE: Michael Teachings Transcripts

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