Blessings and Curses

For those who believe that Dreams are insulated within our own heads and confined to our own personal Subconscious Minds, it must come as a puzzling experience when our dreams are assailed by belligerent Dream Characters or other disturbances that are not easily explained as mental residue from a hard days work. I think the Theory of Collective Consciousness and Higher Mind go farther to account for a wider range of Dream Phenomena.

In several posts today, the mention was made of family influence, and of even Past Life influence. It then occurred to me that the Past Lives that could affect us the most are the past lives of our own Ancestors – our deceased relatives – the Karma they gathered to themselves and then passed down to us.

Particularly eventful – One of our young men had a dream in which some dying Warrior spoke out and said, if I am not mistaken, “May my blood drain off into the Sea so that it might become one with the Water that will become one with the blood of my next Life.” Death and Return as a model for continuity of the Life Force. But the idea struck me that the Warrior’s Blood would call out for revenge on those who slay him. But, in that next generation, revenge upon whom? Not on those who personally wronged the dead Warrior – they would be dead also by that time, but upon the Blood, the children, of those who wronged that dead Warrior. We have here the description of Karmic Retribution going from one Generation to the next.

Of course, Blessings could also follow from one generation to the next. But I would not wonder that people may fear retributions more than they anticipate rewards.

When we are advancing in our Dreams, if there is much Bad Karma attached to one’s Family or Kin Connections, it will likely turn up in ways that would obstruct our progress and happiness. I’m not sure that anything could be done to interrupt the course of what might be an un-deflectable Justice, except maybe ask for forgiveness. Perhaps we can explain to the Higher Mind that our orientation is now no longer Selfish and that we now work for the good of Civilization and for the Glory of God, and ask that our request for forgiveness be submitted to the Original Instigators of the Curse, to see if it may now be lifted.

Yet, there is more to a Curse than being the victim of a Curse. One may have been born to be the Instrument of a Curse. Take the Blood of that Warrior we were speaking of. What of the Child born with that blood. His life will not really be his own, will it? His blood will carry a compulsion to seek revenge upon whatever represents to him the Enemy of generations before. So being an Instrument of a Curse may be only just a cut better than being its Victim. In this case our Prayers would have to be directed through the Higher Mind to our own Relatives and Ancestors, asking them to please be willing to bury these century old hatchets.

But I hardly know whether we could expect any luck in this regards – asking our Grandfathers to forgive ancient wrongs. People of the Past had quite a better developed sense of Honor than I suppose we have today, and unless some mellowing had taken place while in the Spiritual Realms I would suppose that many of the Spirits of the Dead would be just as demanding for the satisfaction of their Honor now as on the day they died.

Then I suppose the Decision upon Continuing the Curse would be made depending upon how much discretion we, as the present Representative of Our Blood, and how much discretion the Higher Mind has in relinquishing these Old Curses.

The Orientals speak of the possibility of Complete Liberation from the Wheels of Karma – Muksha – and so I suppose these Curses can be circumvented. I would hope they would not all have to entirely play out, like a pendulum that has to swing back and forth, back and forth until the oscillations slowly come to a stop on their own. One would hope a Divine Hand could simply reach in and stop it. Or that an exertion of the Personal Will could stop it. But for now, I’m not sure how it would work. When that time comes, when we are on the verge of Muksha, I’m sure our Dreams will point the way.