Question: The law of karma. The masters have said that only 2% of events on earth are not karmic returns. This implies that 98% of all instances where someone abuses power against another are tied to the fact that the person affected either committed a similar act in the past or in some way earned this karma. In that case, could you explain how this ratio applies to the Russian Ukrainian conflict? After all, you have said that Ukraine did not have such karma with Russia to have provoked this invasion.
Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2025 New Year Webinar
Again, you have to be careful with the linear mind. Most of what happens on earth is a result of karma. But karma has two aspects. In the, we might say, older view of karma that we to some degree gave during previous dispensations, karma is tied to a physical action. You take a certain action, you kill somebody. You are creating a karmic impulse. When that karmic impulse returns to you, you will be killed. There is what we might call a physical aspect of karma. But we have also explained that much of what we call karma in this dispensation is the psychological aspect of karma.
We have explained that if you killed somebody in a past life, that impulse will cycle upwards from the physical to the emotional, mental and identity. Then it will turn and start descending towards the physical. And there is a time delay. And the time delay is that you have time to transmute the psychology that caused you to kill that person. And if you do overcome that psychology, the karma either will not descend physically or will descend in a milder form so that you, instead of being killed, might have some other event such as an accident. When you say that 98% of all instances where someone abuses power against another are tied to the fact that the person affected either committed a similar act in the past or in some way earned this karma, you have to see that this is not all physical. It does not mean that Ukraine in the past attacked Russia in order to deserve Russia attacking Ukraine. But it does mean that Ukraine had not transcended the psychology, the consciousness of seeing violence and fighting as a viable solution.
There was a psychological reason that made Ukraine vulnerable. But as we have also explained, many among the Ukrainian people volunteered to be exposed to this attack in order to give the Russian people an opportunity to see their psychology that caused them to attack a brotherly nation.
You have to realize here that karma is a very complicated equation on a planet like earth, on an unnatural planet. We have said before that the Karmic Board has something, a device that is more powerful than any supercomputer you have developed on earth. And it uses this to look at all these karmic connections and how they can be worked out. What we are trying to give you is a very simplified version of this. The reality of it is much more complex. Ukraine did not have the physical karma of having attacked Russia in the past, but they did have some psychological karma of not having transcended the force-based mindset. This is also, as we have said, why Ukraine did not become a member of NATO in 2004, because they were not ready for it. They had not transcended the corruption either.
Again, if you look at it just with the linear mind, you cannot really grasp karma and how it works itself out. It is so complex. True, we have tried to simplify it to give you some understanding, but there is much complexity we have not explained to you. I said that you take a physical action, you are sending out an energy impulse that goes into the emotional, mental and identity and then starts descending again. And this is true, but a very simplified view, because the energy impulse that you are sending out from the physical reacts completely differently with the emotional realm than what you see at the physical level. Again, there is a difference in how the energy reacts with the mental realm and a difference in the identity realm. You cannot look at this in a simple way with an analytical mind. There is much more complexity here. We may give some teachings about this in the future, but this would require us to have a different foundation for you to grasp this.
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