After reading Mike Quinsey’s post today, I thought I might add some thoughts about karma playing out in present suffering.
One ritual abuse survivor I spoke with was remembering the ‘meeting’ she had prior to birth and knew she had agreed to take on the role she took. She spoke of another survivor who went public and said she was glad she hadn’t taken on that woman’s role, as it was worse than what she went through. The question of why someone would agree to take on a ‘victim’ life was there.
What I learned was that these victims knew that their perpetrators would carry out their evil actions and ‘someone’ had to play the victim. In their strength of spirit they agreed to these roles – not as a karmic playing out but as a loving venture to do so instead of more vulnerable spirits who may have had much more damage done to them.
I agree with Mike that we choose to take on the learning experiences in our lifetimes but sometimes when people talk about karma there is an insinuation that when we suffer, it’s because we made others suffer in a previous lifetime. I imagine all of us have done hurtful things in previous lifetimes and karma does have it’s place. However I think it’s more complex than is often expressed in the spiritual community.
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