Many thanks, Open, for your earlier post "Eons of karma to process".

This bit particularly spoke to me:

When you do work with people on their karma, it's then that you gain insight into what people actually have to deal with: which is eons of brutality and violence, both as the oppressor and the oppressed - take a brief contemplation of human history here on the planet, through all the troubles that have happened. People are reincarnating with all of that bottled up energy, most of whom haven't even yet begun to scratch the surface of. When people start to confront this, it comes in wave upon wave of deeply challenging processing - of which there is no avoidance if true and lasting progress is to be made.
I agree that the inflows of consciousness can elevate those that are truly feeling into this energy. But it is dangerously simplistic to suggest that this wave of higher consciousness can then somehow sweep all that inner distortion away; it becomes an intimately personal journey for each to then work persistently and diligently over many years and for the majority, over many more lifetimes.

I can sense that, in this lifetime, part of my soul's journey is to work through the karma of brutality & violence, which keeps coming up for me again & again, with my issues around torment & torture, & with my fascination for (& fear of) conflict & war.

It brought me relief to read your words, as it helped me to accept this (distressing & uncomfortable) part of my life experience some more. It reinforced my deeper belief that karma is something to be embraced & worked through, rather than something to be avoided or got rid of.

Blessings,

StarHawk