Hilarion: What has occurred for a significant level of individuals who have engaged in behaviors of that nature, other ways of killing or hurting that are indeed quite severe and involve high levels of karma and karmic entanglements and difficulties, who after going down such a path, (on average we’re going to go with about six, about six lifetimes of this), a significant portion of the soul is removed. This may manifest as lower stature, that is relative of course if in a previous life they were 6’ 5, in this life they might be 5 foot. But, as this is a sort of symbol to them, a beginning point. They have some opportunity to see it differently through the manifestation of disease or through other difficulties of a similar nature, they may find less energy available to engage in such practices should they become possible in this life.
If however, against all of this, coming into on average a seventh lifetime of this, they then continue to engage in such behavior, it is entirely possible that the soul will stop. The energies associated with it will dissolve, they do not in their own way completely cease. They will typically begin to recycle. Perhaps coming in as kingdom of air, or as a hive insect or perhaps even as a mineral, as the kingdom of rock etc. Some may choose a life as an animal and some of all of these give some credence to the ancient Hindi doctrines that might imply incarnation in animal bodies.
But, by and large the greater intelligence, (the awareness of the soul of itself), its own self awareness will dissolve under such situations. They simply cannot continue under such. Now this is not enforced by any external, it is as if internally the conflict between life and death is so strong that they would have the urge to hurt others to such a high degree and yet at the same time in themselves need to be alive and want to survive is a very powerful conflict within them. This would then lead to such as a larger solution. You see this sometimes in other situations with such as serial killers, or mass murderers.
But in some cases there is a turnaround.The individual comes into the world with the sufficient energy to re-examine and they have deeper revelatory experiences, memories of this seek to correct it or in some ways make shifts. You have of course the self-admitted shining example of this of William the Conqueror who incarnated as Yogananda and though you might have said William the Conqueror was a mass murderer and caused harm to many, as Yogananda he certainly had opportunity to inspire and assist and bring a great deal of enlightenment and understanding and inspiration to so many. So, then you see these sorts of energies and how they work and see that there are many different solutions.
Ultimately, it is a place of great sadness for any soul to be lost in the collective consciousness. This is in every way possible given as much assistance, new possibilities, new context to prevent this if at all possible. But, if individuals persist in such for too long the ingrained pattern is in itself that which causes the soul to dissipate. It tries to get into a body but it really can’t. It's as if this then leads to difficult and frustrating situations for a time for the soul which then it can only resolve by dissipating out of the level of self-awareness and self-consciousness.
Now, you can also see that what will often happen here is an individual will have a turnaround. They will see a different way and it is hard for them, they will struggle with it, there will be an urge for violence, there will be some sense within them as if they are not complete unless they act in such a way. That is often where the guides and helpers step in to help them channel that energy into something else. Be it writing or movement or teaching others but something in which some outward expression and release of that energy can come forth. You see this so obviously when you recognize the relationship between anger and enthusiasm. The very same energy can motivate and bring forth powerful and helpful things that can change aspects of your society that are deeply ingrained, that need that extra enthusiasm or anger energy to shift.
This is a dangerous path at times, of course, because they must be tempted over and over in the life to re-examine their own urges towards violence and make that correct choice several times so that it can be deeply ingrained in the soul in order for this to manifest in the most appropriate way in the following life. As is often the case that life is very difficult for that individual. That is the one in which they will bring up even more of these karmic issues and seek to balance them rather than simply chart a new path for themselves.
Along with all of this, naturally more and more love as society evolves and points out the other alternatives, more and more opportunity to shift this. We have already seen this take place. Some members of Isis watching the videos, seeing the world's response to this, at first cheering, saying, "it is our way to do this, it is a good thing," are suddenly fraught with a great deal of disharmonious, troublesome emotions. It may be guilt, it may be shame, it may be simply recognizing the path that this is going to take them on. What is going to happen to their soul doing this? Pushing them then to quit. To move in a different direction and try something that takes them out of this. Some of course are killed for this. You join such an organization knowing that you cannot leave it and this is sometimes the best way for the soul because then in the next life they will have more choices about such matters since being killed by those who were forcing you to kill is an immediate partial karmic balancing.
