karmic impressions

The system of cause and effect which creates mortal conditions on a causal level.

Karma lay at the root of all conditions.  In a subtle-yet-ultimately-physical way, karma are the threads of the elemental relationships which play out as the infinite variety of manifest conditions in the mortal plane.

The idea of karma is directly related to will, for it is the idea of volition expressed in a structural way as related to the etching of impressions into the ethers of consciousness.

From Wikipedia – “in the philosophical theories of Hinduism, every karma (action, intent) leaves a samskara (impression, impact, imprint) in the deeper structure of human mind”

Since all events are ultimately karmic events and since karmic impressions define point of view, it’s worthy to discuss the perception of karma through point of view itself.

All beings have their own perception of what ‘karma’ is.  Here it is less about the word or the culture that is referenced but about the physics of causality, the idea of what-causes-what over time and space.  In this context, karma is no more or less than a symbol for understanding a process.

Karma is directly related to point-of-view.  Put simply, karma creates point of view, for it is the causal reason for the repetition of certain thoughts, beliefs and ultimately experiences along one’s timeline that define one’s story.  Accordingly, all of the arts of change work to transform the substance of our karmas such that we are liberated from the repetition of what was come before.  When we apply this concept to the idea of the soul’s journey across multiple lifetimes and bodies, we gain the context for understanding the karmic due we carry into our current incarnation from previous lives and gain insight into the conditions we are currently experiencing.

Because all aspects of the Creation can ultimatley be perceived as waves of sound upon the oceans of consciousness, karmic patterns may be seen as ripples across that substance.

Because karma defines our point-of-view on a structural level, it also defines our sense of choice, for we cannot make choices about what we cannot see.

Everything in reality is made from karmic impressions. When we are wishing to change the conditions of our reality, we are intentionally working with the structure of karmic impressions.

Structurally, everything that we experience in reality is made of the ripples of sound across the ethers within the space of the Akasha, and which manifest as the various conditions in the world tree of the material plate.

Along our timeline, the impressions in the ether occur in the form of karmic repetition.  Understanding this is crucial, fundamental instance of the all realities, all of which are different configurations of karmic impressions.

To understand this, think of a  rubber stamp with an image on it, that you push into Clay. When you lift up the stem, it leaves an impression of itself in the clay. If it is the shape of a boat, it molds the clay into the shape of a boat. If it is the shape of a horse, it molds the clay into the shape of a horse, regardless of the shape that it molds into the clay, the action of leaving its shape in the clay is known as “making an impression” in the clay. This is a simple way of understanding that all realities are shapes impressed into the clay of consciousness.

This has a direct relationship with our desire to manifest, for the intent to manifest. A new reality, is essentially the desire to sculpt the impressions in the clay of consciousness, and every act of self development is one of sculpting that Clay.