Page3 Of107Author's PrefaceNo Time For KarmaStepping off the Wheel of Pain and Struggleby © Paxton Robey--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Author's PrefaceI heard Ram Dass speak in Oklahoma City some months back. He was telling of his discarnate friendEmmanuel, who is channeled by Pat Rodegast. A member of the audience asked how he knew that theinformation he received from Emmanuel was credible. Ram Dass replied, "because he agrees with me.How else would one know?"When we are trying to clarify our own spiritual or philosophical basis for living, inner guidance is the oneand only yardstick we have for measuring the validity of the different messages we hear these days.Historical or legal precedence based on past intellectual analysis and pragmatism, no matter how valuedby our elders, is irrelevant in matters of the heart.Inner guidance frees us from dependence on the beliefs of others. Inner guidance allows us to release our dependence on the accepted norm. Inner guidance is what empowers us as individuals.No segment of society is yet ready to become so free and so empowered as to begin outpicturing thecharacteristics of the Christ. There are no peer group precedents for becoming enlightened. One mustdiscover a new source of precedents, values and beliefs if one is to be "in the world but not of the world".Well, that "new source" is now and has always been available to any spiritual seeker. The guru leads us tothat source when he extols us to enter meditation, to "be still and know that I am God".On our planet today, amazingly, there are tens of thousands of individuals who are ready to voluntarilyrelease the teachings of the authority figures who raised them. They are ready to embrace the spiritualmethods and truths which will allow them to do miracles in their lives and on their planet. They are readyto integrate higher awareness into their everyday lives.Higher awareness is non verbal, therefore the stories contained herein are distortions. They have beenparsed, limited, cutback, humanized, and heavily paraphrased when compared to the insights whichbirthed them. If this book has any value, it will be to intrigue you, to seduce you into pondering your presence on earth. Maybe even to the point of verbalizing your own stories. Never pedal you own storiesas "truth". But if you will make them up and share them with your fellow humans, the consensus that we alleventually reach will be one of amazing freedom, peace and joy - - enlightenment. Don't underestimatethe power of your own words.There is such a difference between how we hear the spoken word and how we read the written word.Nearly always I have preferred to listen to the tape of a speaker rather than read their transcribed words. Iam one of those people who thinks the movie is better than the book. The inflection and energy of thespeaker is very much a part of the content of the message to me. There are others, I know, for whom theanimation or energy of the speaker distracts from or overrides the message. For those folks, the writtenword allows them to create their own inflection and emphasis in a way that personalizes the message for them specifically.Speaking is my way of clarifying concepts, so I tend to take many liberties during my story telling which