Service to Self vs Karma

[rva_jeremy]

I found the Law of One material very insightful.  One thing i did not get a good understanding of, is Karma.  Since Karma is such a huge part of life, i'm surprised that there was only a small piece relating to it.  Ra's definition of Karma was interesting, but i've always thought there was a strong connection with service to self and karma.  Based on this material, it appears to be different.  Can anyone further clarify this for me, and can you give me examples of creating negative karma, negative path, and someone on the negative path not necessarily creating negative karma?  I would love a better understanding.

This is a really basic question to which I've given surprisingly little direct thought, so thanks for bringing this topic up.

When I reflect on this, I find this passage most useful.  Although it's not really what those of Ra meant in that passage, my suspicion is that the service-to-self philosophy uses karma as a generator of conflict in order to "hone a blunt edge of hatred and anger so that it may polarize".

I think of karma these days as a projection of balanced unity into space and time, a way to turn an unwaveringly balanced unified situation into one with action and narrative.  In reality, outside of the temporal illusion, it is clear that all of this evolutionary process exists within a single entity, and that all harms and forgiveness are of a self-to-self nature.  Karma is a way this feature of reality gets dilated by time and space into a whole cycle.  We experience what is really a timeless now as a sequence of balancing events that shift energy.

In service-to-others philosophy, we recognize karma as a balancing mechanism for forces that were put into motion long ago, and that it is through acceptance and forgiveness that we balance and unwind the karma.  This is desirable to the positive entity because the service-to-others polarity is all about reflecting the truth of unity to as great an extent as possible within the illusion.  

However, negatively polarized entities are not seeking balance. Their polarity relies on the template of the separate illusion.  So it seems to me that they would use karma's turning wheel as a way to build up anger, discipline themselves with misfortune and pain, and continue to separate further from the rest of Creation.  It's not that, because they are negative, they get a free pass to harm others without consequence.  They use the consequences of karma to further polarize.

It's kind of like the way criminals go to jail and, far from being reformed by the experience, are instead hardened and impelled towards further criminality by jail, even though jail sucks and it can hardly be said to be desirable.  Such is the single-mindedness of their pursuit of STS polarity that they assume the consequences as a disciplining tool against which to build their strength and resolve.

I should close by noting that this is somewhat speculative on my part, and I'd be very interested in hearing others' thoughts.