Dear Rawn, ----------------------------------------------- We fear disease and fear witnessing another suffer, so we tend to think of illness and suffering as a negative things that must be obliterated as soon as possible and by whatever means available. However, from a perspective of Universal Legality, illness is a gift that is meant to teach us an important karmic lesson that we have not been able to learn in the absence of disease. A healer interferes with a patient's karma the moment they remove the symptoms of disease without assuring that the patient does indeed learn the lesson that the disease was meant to teach them. If the patient does not learn the karmic lesson then what the "healer" has done is taken away an opportunity for the patient's growth. That specific opportunity that the "healer" has taken away was the most appropriate way that was available for the patient to learn their karmic lesson. This means that the patient will still have to learn that lesson, either by other means or by a recurrence of the same disease that the "healer" has just treated. --------------------------------------- I must say, at first that I do not come from an hermetic root, at least not at this incarnation, although many of the hermetic principles I have been studing I have found similar to those I bring in my heart. I would like to point out my opinion on the matter, concerning our "interference" with other people's karma. I have heard time and time again people giving the convenient excuse that they should do nothing to help other people because it would interfere with their karma, and therefore the "helper" would be creating a karma debt for himself as well as complications for the person being helped. Although that is not the case with your work Rawn, I think some of the principles here apply, so that is why I took the liberty to answer this post. I think, first of all, the whole matter is very simple and resolved by 2 major conceptions. First, to think that by *helping* we are interfering with other persons karma, needs, spiritual development and thus we are surplanting the divine providence and Laws concerning that person is simply something out of uncounscious arrogance and lazyness. Although we are trully capable of channeling the divine energy into creative applications, to think we can change a person's path and the things that person has to deal with during it existence and growth is to think us equal to the ALL (although we are divine in essence and capable of divine creation, we are not the ALL). Also, that kind of thinking hides (in my opinion) the unmistakable and confortable reasoning as to why we shouldn't do anything about it and not intervine. Second, and this I think is clear, since we are not the ALL and although we can aquire a great deal and power of clairvoyance to percieve one's conditions and needs, simply because we are not the ALL it is silly to think we can know *everything* concerning one's needs and growth, and sufferings and karma. Also, we cannot forget that everything acts, atracts each other and happens according to the similarity in frequency of vibration. Therefore, I believe that if the divine providence has put someone in your way so you can help her, then it is part of your responsability to help her. Of course it will be according to you, your counscious being and your stage in evolution to come to terms with that realizations and do help her (we still have free will after all). But that answers the question. Even so if we remeber that many, many, many people gives up loads of money for new suicidal religions and don't do anything to sincerely help others (by their own mind) with that money... different beings operating in the same frequency attracts each other... and if we also remember that, no matter what we do have to go through there are many extra corporeal beings helping us whenever our vibrating frequency allows, even though our karma states that we must go through a lot of situations (specially because we attracted them to ourselves and only through them can we grow up), that points out the fact that we should help no matter what. Rawn, as to your working group and your philosophy of work, this is not really directed to you, exactly because those considerations of yours are not meant as excuse not to act... On the contrary you *are* acting. Even so, the way I see the matter, and as I try to work with it in my everyday life differ from yours in this way. Sorry if I rambled too much, Best regards, Decio __________________________________________________________________________ Acabe com aquelas janelinhas que pulam na sua tela. AntiPop-up UOL - É grátis! http://antipopup.uol.com.br/