We would like to talk to you about karma, and releasing karma. It is a very interesting subject, because people tend to think that karma is a thing that is unavoidable. One of the great things of now is that it is possible to be karma free. Becoming karma free is extremely simple. Most people don't actually realise how karma works.

This word karma has been bandied around for years and years.

People say; "How are you today?" and you say; "Well, everything is terrible. I'm working out my karma with the person." So this word karma actually means cause and effect. Every cause has an effect, so if you think this through you will understand how we can become slaves to the effect. We're the people that put the cause into it. The effects then ripple out, just like throwing a stone into a pond. If the pond is calm, and peaceful and serene and you hurl a huge stone into the middle of it, then what happens is that longer after the stone has disappeared, and you have already done the action of throwing it, you get the ripples; the effect of throwing the stone in. This is a very easy way of summing up this doctrine or this law of cause and effect.

There was a time when people thought; "If I do good works I will get good karma." So people tended to get involved in healing, spiritual work, spiritual counselling; they became peaceful and thought; "Yes, with all these good works I am gathering good karma." But what I, Quan Yin, would like to say to you is that all karma is undesirable, be it good or bad, or supposedly good or bad; because a lot of things that human beings tend to think of as bad are actually good for that person. It is through these effects that people are able to learn.

But what is being said to you now is that there is no need to go through any pain and suffering in order to learn anymore, because all the information is available for you to work with. It is not a question of doing good works for good karma because all karma has to be balanced, be it supposedly good or bad. You imagine that if you are doing lots of good works, and you are saying to yourself that you are gathering good karma, well you will have to balance that out somehow. The people and the situations that you are involved with, those situations have to be balanced. so good karma is as undesirable as bad karma, and we will put both those words "good" and "bad" in inverted commas and underline them to make you realise that in the eyes of the Source, in the eyes of the Creator, this energy that many people would term God, or Mother/Father God, that there really isn't anything such as good or bad. Good or bad does not exist. It is conditioning that makes people believe that some things are good and some things are bad. In fact it is a judgement, and when you understand what judgement does, judgement also encircles you in energy which is limiting. So every time that you say; "This is good, this is bad," or; "This person is good, this person is bad," or "This act is good and this act is bad," well then you are judging and that is not good. As human beings you have been told that God is the judge and God judges everybody, but in fact God judges nobody. This is why the Ascended Masters, and many other beings that are working for the Light, and for the Source, in the advancement of consciousness, and the anchoring of the Light, are not actually looking for saints as representatives.

They say; "Saintly person, that has no relevance to me." God doesn't judge, we judge ourselves. And when we say that this is a bad act, or this is a good act, both are acts of judgement, which is undesirable in this process. What we have to realise is that as Kuthumi said earlier on, there is no such thing as mistakes only lessons, and no such thing as problems, only solutions. Through letting go and appreciating that you are a Christed being, that you as individuals are Christed beings, means that you can let go of judgement, judgement against yourself. A lot of people say; "I can't do this, and I can't do that, and I can't do the other, because I did this, or that, or the other thing." What I would say to you is that every time you hold those thoughts within your mind then you limit yourself, and bind yourselves to karma, the law of cause and effect. So it is now a question of just allowing yourself to BE.

Many people now have the ability of tuning into past lives.

There are many people around who have the capability of tuning into past lives for those who can't do it for themselves, and a lot of information comes forward on past life scenarios. People say; "Well, I did such and such a thing in a past life, so therefore I can't be all that good." But many ones have had a very chequered life upon Earth. Any ones that can say that they have always been whiter than white and with the Light, who is going to put their hand up? Nobody is going to put their hand up, because it never happened. Even the Ascended Masters went through their processes, so if the Ascended Masters were holding onto the times when they had actually been in the dark T-shirt teams, they would still be asking; "How can I wear a light T-shirt, how can I be a worker for the Light?" So as you hold onto these deeds and events in past lives and in this life, that ties you to the energy of that event or thought. And that ties you to that level of consciousness, and that is karma in action.

So it is not a question now of everything has to be balanced, because everything can be balanced. All you have to do is to let go of these thoughts, let go of these ideas, let go of the fear that is associated with that, let go of the feelings of not being good enough, and go forward. You are all healers, you are all saints, you are all Ascended Masters, you are all beings of the Light. To stay in that situation all you have to do is make those affirmations. So this is why we say that everybody can become karma free. It is not because the Karmic Board, and I, Quan Yin, am the Chairperson of this Karmic Board, have actually got our heads together and decided to let everybody off. You see we are not particularly interested in individual karma at all.

We, the Karmic Board, are more worried with the karma of races, with the karma of towns, with the karma of countries, with the karma of cities. There are many, many things that hold different countries, even different towns, different communities, in karma situations, because many of the beings there have performed many, many different acts against others, at different times, in different lives, and these beings tend to conglomerate, they tend to reincarnate and come together again in other lives. They have still got these energies, these thoughts, these feelings. Now you can put this into a very simple context. The word is out that the cold war is over. Everybody knows what the cold war was, it was this thing between Russia and America. Of course Great Britain was involved too because of their association with America.

What everybody was told was that communism was bad, and not healthy, and that if the communists managed to invade your country either in person or in consciousness, because there is not a lot of difference, the result is the same, you will not have a very good time in your material lives. So many, many people came to the idea that Russians were bad. This was a very common idea, that Russians were bad, when in fact many Russian people are very beautiful people. But, in the minds of many, Russians were bad. So that gave Great Britain karma with the Russian people, and in some ways that has to be worked out. Of course we can work it out by sending the Russian people love and Light. So that is just one instance of the way that this karma between countries works. Now think of the karma that the German nation has with the country of Israel, not that the German's really ever attacked Israel, but what they did was to attack the Jewish race. Because many of the world's Jews are in Israel now, it is obvious that Germany has a lot of karma with Israel. In many ways the Germans are actually addressing that, because many Germans go to Israel now. It is amazing how many German people you find in Israel; tourists, holidaymakers. In the sixties when I lived in Israel, Germans were abused. If you had a Volkswagen car, people threw stones at it and chanted on the streets every time you pulled up in it. It was like that. But in fact the Germans are going there now, and one of the things that the Germans are doing is spending money there, and the fact that they spend money helps balance things out, because it gives the Israeli Government cash to play with, foreign currencies.

So you see they are helping to redress the balance of karma there.

All that I am saying is that all you have to do is affirm that you have no ties with anybody. Archangel Michael is the great one for this. He can give you ways of cutting these ties, and really cutting off your links with everybody. He will help you to cut the psychic ties, not only a blanket of psychic ties, but you can actually choose whatever psychic ties you wish to cut, preferably I would say that you should cut them all. But you see sometimes you have ties with people through your base chakra. You might have had sex with them. You might have had a marital relationship with them and on level you are tied through your base chakra, and through your second chakra, because that's where the energy of that activity flows from. But you also may have ties with the heart too. If you have ties with people, then this is undesirable, because through these psychic ties which you could say are like links, energies, cables, communication cables.

Every time they start thinking about you, be it positively or not so positively, you are actually bringing that energy into you. That energy is flowing into you, so it is very, very possible that many of the things that you feel, and the confusion that you feel in you lives now, is to do with somebody else. If you really think about what that means, it is like being a cork on a stormy sea. You are picking up so much psychic debris from others through these cords, through these communication lines, so it is necessary to cut them off. If you cut them off, again that helps you to sort your karma out, because if you've got this to-ing and froing of energies between others, and you can see so many people that have so many connections on a psychic level, and this toing and fro-ing of energy actually just binds you to everything that has gone on between you. So we would ask you to work on cutting these ties, and to work with Archangel Michael.