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A Letter to Neale
May 12, 2023
Hi, Mr. Walsch...

I have read and been taught by metaphysical teachers that Karma

plays a large part in the life we choose and the physical body we have
chosen to live and experience our lessons through. Sometimes people
are born blind or without limbs or other disfigurements because of
some act they have done in the past to others to cause them to be
blinded or lose limbs etc.

 God says people act and do the things they do based on their view of
their world, so is there no right or wrong with regard to actions? How
can it only be a case of what works and what doesn't ?   Is there no
payment for such actions?  

What about Hitler or other leaders who have done incredibly cruel and
inhumane things to their fellow human beings? Or people who batter
other people, or murder wives and children? Do they just pass from
their bodies, join the All that is, and that's it???  

It sounds as though no one does anything wrong, given their view of

the world.   How does it all even out? Can anyone do anything to
anybody else without some form of 'punishment' or retribution?  

And I use those words because I can't think of any other words right
now. I probably should pose the question as: can anyone do anything
to anyone without some form of lessons in life to be learned?  I thank
you for taking the time to read my letter to you and am looking forward
to a response.
 With love and light,

Rachel , CA

Neale Responds

Dear Rachel...

You have asked a number of very important questions. They are

important because one's whole theology rests on the answers.

Rachel, one either believes in a damning, condemning, punishing God, or

one doesn't. I do not.

I do not believe in that kind of God because God himself told me that
these ideas are false. She said that they are among the Ten Illusions of
Humans. These illusions are discussed with very wonderful clarity in
Communion with God , a book that I highly recommend that you read.

Two of the Ten Illusions of Humans are:

Judgment exists.

Condemnation exists.

These ideas are man-made. No such constructions exist in the mind of

God. That is because these ideas about God arise out of a basic
misunderstanding found in an earlier idea about God, which is that God
is separate from us.   (Disunity exists.)

If God was not separate from us, God could not judge us because, of
course, God would be judging herself. If God was not separate from us,
God could not condemn us, because, again, God would be condemning
himself.

Even if God was separate from us, God would have no reason to punish
us unless there was something specific that God demanded that we do
or not do. This, too, is an illusion. (Requirement exists.)

The last illusion is based on an even earlier idea that the reason God has
placed requirements on us is that God needs something from us in order
to be happy. (Need exists.)
Nothing could be further from the truth. God requires nothing of us. For
more on this concept, you may find it helpful to re-read The New
Revelations.   And you may wish to read it again, because it makes it very
clear that God needs nothing from humanity. A "needy" God is just not
part of the Cosmic Reality.

I realize that it is difficult for many people to embrace the idea of a God
who needs nothing from us and wants nothing from us, but that is
because they insist on seeing God as a separate being having human
qualities. A being not only separate from us, but also a being who can
actually experience being unhappy, and who becomes unhappy if he
doesn't get what he wants.

Such a God is not a God at all, but a mere tiny and limited version of the
Creator of the Universe and the Source of All Life. If that is the limit of
our imagination about God, I would say that we have a long way to go
before we can claim to truly understand who and what God is.

You ask, Rachel, about karma. Yes, God has spoken of karma in the CwG
series of books. God says that karma as we classically understand it
does not exist. That is, there is not in place in God's kingdom a system of
Reward and Punishment that plays out its effects as Conditions of our
Life from one lifetime to the next.

What there IS is a system called, in human terms, the Cosmic Wheel.

This is a simple name given to the Process of Life itself. It is meant to
indicate that all of Life is a cycle, or a wheel, on which we find and place
ourselves. The purpose of going "round and round" on the wheel is to
experience and re-experience the entire Life cycle, thus to know and
create again and again Who You Really Are. For there is no greater joy
and no greater glory and no greater wonder, and thus, no greater
pleasure for God.

Life is God's great pleasure.

You have spoken of the cruel actions people take in life, and have asked,
"How can it only be a case of what works and what doesn't ?   Is there no
payment for such actions? What about Hitler or other leaders who have
done incredibly cruel and inhumane things to their fellow human beings?
Or people who batter other people, or murder wives and children? Do
they just pass from their bodies, join the All that is, and that's it???"
CwG says that Hitler went to heaven. This does not mean that the soul of
Hitler did not experience the consequence of Hitler's actions. It does
mean that those consequences, once experienced, produce growth, not
eternal punishment--and growth is the highest outcome of Life itself. It
is, in short, heaven.

There is no punishment in God's kingdom, but there are consequences.

That is, things that happen as a result of other things. But this system is
not a process of "pay back" of "karmic debt." It is simply the way the
process of Life Itself works. Outcomes are the result of out puts .

Rachel, you have asked, "Can anyone do anything to anyone without

some form of lessons in life to be learned?" CwG indicates that in life,
there is nothing to be learned. There is only a process of remembering. It
is through remembering that we reclaim, and become once again, Who
We Really Are.

At the moment of our death, we experience what eastern mystics call

kama loca. This is a movement of the soul through every moment of the
life just lived, but from the viewpoint of every person who was impacted
or affected by that soul's choices and decisions and actions. In other
words, we have the opportunity to experience how other people
experienced us.

From this will come enormous growth. And growth is both the purpose
and the process of Life.

many blessings,
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