Karma in the aspect of Spiritual Growth

In this article, I will not explain how to work with Karma, as those techniques are quite advanced and not suitable for the public.

I will talk about common misconceptions and delusions about Karma; how Karma affects spiritual growth and development; and share practical examples of the accumulation of negative karma and how positive karma may manifest. Why you should never seek free cheese on the spiritual development path, and strive to generate more merit in life.

Many people who have never worked with Karma simply use the word they do not understand for their own egocentric benefit. I have been repeatedly accused by qigong practitioners of generating negative Karma. Yes, a qigong practitioner who has never ever had a chance to work with Karma thinks that a Mage in the Magic tradition, who has spent hundreds of hours on dedicated practice with Karma, will generate negative Karma through his actions.

Delusional beings are not interested in truth or cultivation; they are only ever interested in maintaining their delusions and beliefs. So anything that breaks through their “worldview” is labeled as “negative,” “bad karma,” “ego”.
It is like a chained slave who views anyone sharing information on how to free themselves from slavery as an assault and misconduct. A well-taught slave is taught how to maintain and defend his status at all costs.

The term Karma has become popular through various ancient traditions being articulated in pop spirituality. For example, Yogis write that feeding pigeons generates positive karma for 7 lifetimes.

When something is oversimplified too much for the mass consumer, it completely loses its original meaning. Feeding pigeons, which are like flying rats and transmitters of dirt and diseases, multiplies their population. Instead of doing something beneficial and productive, you increase the rat population in your local area.

Thinking that will generate positive karma that lasts 7 lifetimes is a definition of stupidity.

Karma plays a critical role in spiritual development.

While the principle of sowing seeds and reaping rewards is readily observable and yields clear, direct consequences in everyday life, karma in the spiritual domain is far more subtle and harder to perceive. Many people even deny its existence altogether.

There are numerous examples of practitioners who have been cultivating diligently for 30–50 years with little or no real progress. The reason is often overlooked and lies in their karma.

How does Karma operate?

With a positive net overflow in the Karmic balance, even small actions can lead to smooth progress. A person with vast positive karma will make strides in cultivation; even when he is not doing practice — insights can arise naturally. You may go for a walk and stumble upon something that helps you progress further. You may just go to sleep and find a lucky encounter in the dream world that will accelerate your progression.

Stumbling upon a good Teacher or proper cultivation circles can also be defined as Karmic goodwill.

You can think of it as sailing with the wind at your back.

Past accomplishments can also be considered Karma. Someone who worked hard and cultivated in a previous life won’t they reap the rewards of this in their current incarnation?

One thing to mention is that karmic balance is shared across all incarnations. In the system, you are the same being, even if you have no memories of the past. Often, people think their karma is undeserved and that they are being punished for nothing, but Karma is unbiased; there are always consequences for actions.

You can think of a Karmic value as a balance in your bank account: if it's positive, you can spend it on upgrading yourself and improving your life. Now with a net negative Karma, it's like being in debt. Imagine you work for a salary, but the entire salary goes toward paying down the debt. Progress may hardly come, or never come at all. Problems arise every single day.

As you can see, Karma adds an entirely new layer of complexity to spirituality and cultivation.

Karma is your balance with the System, and your AP position reflects your spiritual development within it. The system does not allow people with outstanding debts to progress.

In a simplified model, it is similar to studying at university: if you have outstanding debts in current subjects, you are not allowed to progress to the next year or to the next modules.

Often, Ancient traditions emphasized that an upright character is essential to becoming a disciple.

This is not some fantasy-novel “we only accept righteous people” approach; it has a more practical basis.

You can spend a lot of time and effort on raising someone with negative karma, and it will have no impact.

A bucket with holes cannot be filled. Karma is often identified as a distortion in the psyche that causes certain events to recur.

There are people who come to us and ask, "Can you guarantee results?" As if they are buying shoes in a shop.

You should already realize that every case is unique, and the progress you can achieve will vary. But it does not mean you can do nothing to improve the current situation or strive to get in a better position for the future and for your future incarnations.

We can make an example of a very popular qigong teacher in the West, who is bald, smokes cigars, drinks whiskey, and engages in attention-seeking behavior on social media.

So what happens when someone unqualified starts teaching? The teacher always leaves imprints. When you are learning from someone, you are copying them.

Teaching others is very much like sowing seeds; you reap what you sow. And if spread degradation and pathological qualities along with scamgong, false claims about ancient arts, visualization, and many other things.

Someone who is underdeveloped will be transmitting all his existing problems and imperfections onto his followers. And those poor beings will suffer and generate massive, absolutely astounding amounts of negative karma that will be projected back onto the teacher.

A karmic connection may create a bond; the teacher may become famous and rich, with an ego the size of Mt Tai, rubbed daily by his followers and admirers. But from a spiritual development perspective, that path is closed. Then you go around saying that traditions are dead, that masters cannot be found, and that no progress can be made for decades upon decades.

You cannot possibly work all that negative karma back into a positive balance within a single lifetime. It will even carry over, and future incarnations will become crippled until it all ticks back into the balance.

Students who copied those imprints will follow the same path as the Teacher went. By materializing incorrect behavioral patterns and pathological mental imprints, they will accumulate massive negative karma themselves.

Can you fight against Karma? You may think it’s like carrying a heavy weight uphill on the mountain, but no. It is more like fighting back against a loaded spring. The more you fight back, the stronger the load is, and it will find a way to release back either way, returning you to the base.

I have once discussed sorcery and “practical” occultism on our Discord forum.

(School Discord is now accessible through trial membership permanently, it allows for opening forum threads, discussions, sharing your practical experiences, commenting and discussing any existing articles, and asking questions in the guestbook.)

So, the idea of sorcery that is being peddled by people like Jason Miller and others. It means you can take specific actions to make things happen. It is a very appealing idea for many to get something by doing nothing.

The thing that is possible by subtracting from your karmic balance. It is like teaching people that if they go to a shop and swipe their bank account card, they can buy things. Yes, you can, until you run into debt and have to pay it all back with a percentage on top.

It is not a cultivation; it is not a self-development practice. Spending merit is much easier than earning merit.

What is interesting is that walking the genuine path of self-cultivation and training in magic is considered positive merit by the system. As you improve yourself, get rid of imperfections, and grow, you are also part of the system, so it starts to think you are doing something positive, and your balance grows. Some students report substantial improvements in their lives, including material well-being, after practicing for a while.

Free teachings are a karmic disaster. To benefit from spiritual teachings, you have to absorb and embody them; they have to become a part of yourself. If you take something for free like that, you would have to be paying interest forever. Eventually, that interest would outpace your progression, and you would get stuck.

When a teacher charges you for teaching, he is basically creating a law stating that you will not generate negative karma by taking in and absorbing the knowledge.

Tuition fees vary by teacher and school, but the general idea is not to charge too little or too much, as both can have adverse effects.

(The numbers here are abstract for the sake of visualizing it as a picture.)

How does that work? For example, a value for teaching is X. A student is being charged 1/10 of the total amount in smaller installments over a 5-year period. The value of the teaching given to a student, when he absorbs it, will be recorded as positive karma for the teacher. But the student will not be liable for that payment. He already paid the agreed amount.

The system itself will be paying for the student, think of studying in a university on a budget, where you only pay a minimal sum for your study materials. The reason such generosity can happen and move you forward is that you are also a part of the system. So a cell working on its own development is also considered a positive action.

The situation is dramatically different with free teaching. Teaching for free also creates a karmic attachment that will drag a teacher down.

A person who absorbs free teaching has no means of repaying. The vacuum left by being unable to repay what you were given creates a lasting connection, meaning you will have to personally repay the full cost of teaching.

On the other hand, such a teacher will not gain anything from the system.

He will only be creating attachments with his “free students”, and because those students will not grow and will eventually suffer due to heavy karma, he will also be generating negative karma as a result of his deeds.
The system does not like parasites, like your body does not like cancer cells, so it will not credit the student. It does not like the person who is growing parasites either.
So the entire value of teaching will have to be paid in full. But it cannot be paid, so it creates a karmic attachment that will impede both sides like a knot and may carry over into a future lifetime, awaiting resolution.

In addition to the things listed above, many traditions, such as ancient Egregores, also do not “tolerate” a disrespectful attitude. Most people who come for free cheese lack basic respect. Stealing is also considered disrespectful. What does it mean? It means you will naturally feel that it is not yours and that you are not meant to be here. It will be very hard to learn anything if the door closes and you are an unwelcome guest.

There were cases of various people studying the same materials, but one was doing it in a proper setting, and another was just reading the stolen materials online. Do you need to guess which one made more progress and which one dropped out and got perpetually stuck?

In the laws of physics, Karma is associated with inertia. If you run towards a thick concrete wall, you will get harmed, and the concrete wall will get nothing. Because people are not aware of energetic, astral, and mental planes, they often get harmed without being aware of it.

The harm you get is Karma, a direct result of your action of running into a concrete block. Ethics are vital for learning for all adepts and truth seekers, because people far above in evolution those who may teach you something valuable are the very same concrete blocks, a huge mental mass, that if you run into, you will acquire Karma that can easily block the path forward and make evolution impossible.

Be responsible for your actions and for your thoughts. Thinking in magic is also considered an action that carries weight.