Abortion and Sin

Today’s blog was originally going to be on the topic of sin. Someone pointed out to me the following blog post on abortion as viewed through the eyes of a Virginia Republican State Delegate, Bob Marshall. I take this opportunity to express my beliefs about abortion so I decided that abortion and sin can sit side by side in today’s blog and will likely do fine. The two topics are written separately, but I think it will work out. As always feel free to comment and share your opinions.
The following was posted to a Seattle PI blog on Feb. 22, 2010 by Joel Connelly and can be found at this link:
http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlepolitics/archives/195392.asp?source=mypi


Disabled children -- God's punishment, lawmaker claims
Disabled children are the Lord's punishment for women who "abort the first born," a Republican state legislator from Virginia has argued in calling on state officials to eliminate state money going to Planned Parenthood. State Delegate Bob Marshall, from the Washington, D.C., suburb of Manassas, told Planned Parenthood foes: The number of children who are born subsequent to a first abortion with handicaps has increased dramatically. Why? Because when you abort the first born of any, nature takes its vengeance on the subsequent children. In the Old Testament, the first born of every being, animal and man, was dedicated to the Lord. There's a special punishment Christians would suggest.

The News-Leader newspaper reported that about 20 people, "mostly Christian pastors and clergy" heard Marshall's remarks at the General Assembly Building in Richmond.

The petition to cease Planned Parenthood funding was signed by prominent religious right leaders including the Rev. Pat Robertson and the Rev. Jonathan Falwell. Gov. Bob McDonnell, a Republican elected last November, has publicly backed calls to cut off money to Planned Parenthood.

At the gathering, Dean Nelson, executive director of the Network of Politically Active Christians, said: "We are gathered to draw attention to the unethical, immoral and racist practices of the largest abortion provider in America."


A tricky notion to wrap my values around, abortion calls out all my wits. I do not believe in killing, yet I do believe abortion is a woman’s right and I feel no judgment for her doing so. How is it that I can justify these two seemingly paradoxical ideas? I look beyond the physical form and I fall back on what I know or can find out for myself. Is it killing to abort a fetus? Since I have a value that says I don’t kill, that becomes a very important question. What I know as an intuitive practitioner is that during the incarnation process, an entity will go in and out of the newly created physical body, but won’t stay permanently until about the seventh month. That’s been my experience and that process may not always be the same for every being coming into the earth plane. In reality, I don’t think it matters when a soul occupies a body because I also know that if a fetus is aborted, the soul set to occupy it will find another way to come back and often enter another fetus of the same mother later on. No wrong is being done to the incarnating entity.

What does matter is how the pregnant woman feels about it. It is the same with someone who takes a life at any point. If you kill something or someone and your values say that is wrong, then you create karmic energy for yourself. Your actions and values either match or they don’t. When they don’t, sin is created (see following piece on sin).

The entity incarnating experiences the same thing if a miscarriage occurs. There is no difference between miscarriage and abortion as far as the incarnating entity is concerned. Their main concern is timing. For them, entering the earth plane at the best time is most important. We all choose to come in when astrological alignments (magnetic radiations) are best suited to create the personality we need for our purpose. Abortion can interfere with that timing, but other plans can, and are, made.
In my opinion, abortion itself is not sinful, but rather it creates ill timing for those entities incarnating and can create karma for the woman having the abortion if her values say it’s wrong. On the other hand, if everyone felt ok about abortions to the point that entities could no longer incarnate with right timing, I suspect the Universe would do something to change our belief system so our process as humans could continue. I’m not sure about that or what could be done, but that isn’t for me to know.



Sin. I sin on a daily basis as I struggle to maintain my sense of values and inner calm. I thank Edgar Cayce for his definition of sin, the misuse of divine source. It helps me to make sense of sin and how it sends me to hell. New Age thought tells me that sin doesn’t exist yet I see hell all around me. I see heaven all around me too. Hell on earth or heaven on earth. Which shall it be? Do I contribute to one or the other? Yes.

I strive to capture heaven both outside of me and inside of me, but at times it is as elusive as a lynx in the woods. It jumps wildly from here to there and back again moving with lightening speed and stealthy silence.

Sin dwells within me too, creating my own dark and stifling hell as I cower in the corner of uncertainty. To fear the unknown future, or to see the future as a past wrong done to me, begets wrongs and hell. Whether it’s fear of rage and anger as I spout my truth, or guileful wrath as I take a stand, I build my own hell and since energy projects out and affects you, I help to construct your hell also.

Sinful fear. It binds my spirit if I care what you think of me. It imprisons me if I can’t stand to be alone. It crushes me if I take better care of you than me. It ruins me if I allow it to take over the values and beliefs that define my Self.

Self: the ultimate heaven since God and I are the same. How can Self be heavenly if I fill Self with sinful fear? Self being Source Divine, how can I like me if I can’t follow my own philosophies and truths? I can’t. Heaven eludes as I cower. Hell persists through my fearful perceptions. Heaven exists softly within my ability to see life events as righteous. All events have a positive side. There is no exception to that. My belief in that truth is the very thing that allows me to possess heaven if I so choose. On earth as it is in heaven.

Boston Carter is a mystic, medical intuitive, karma specialist and relationship specialist as well as author, teacher and general psychic. Her website is http://nowageknowledge.com.

Connection and Separation

Connection. How do I stay connected and what does that mean? I sometimes feel like a giant wedge of vulnerability is driving my choices. I want to be an openhearted and kind person all the time, but I’m not. Many times my desire to control rears its head like a lion roars after its prey. If I control everything around me I can feel safe, but safe does not bring connection. Safe drives the wedge of separation deeper creating a crevasse of vulnerability in my mountainous desire to belong.
An endless cycle of wishes and dreams dashed in a single, reactive moment of safety that leaves me and others stymied. Control means to win. Control means to be in charge. Control means to separate, and that can be very purposeful. Connection? What does that look like and how does it serve me?
What I think of as safe brings separation. To what degree do I really feel safe if I'm separate from all those who matter to me? Connection to those I love is what makes me really feel safe. How do I do that? If I want to connect to you, I must be willing to risk. I tend to ask the question “can you hold me and my fragile self-esteem safe enough to connect to you”. The question I should be asking is “am I capable of holding my own fragile self-esteem and making it not so fragile”.
I connect to you now by telling you of these two opposing forces of connection and separation within me. I speak my truth. I am not as connective as I want to be. Truth: a confession of inner wellness that brings relief and lifts the burden and weight of safety and separation. Welcome to my inner self.

Real Power

As a person who has felt powerful most of my life I long to empower you who might feel powerless. Although I’ve mostly felt powerful, I haven’t always been powerful. I have cradled the illusion of power like a protective mother and I have held the breath of real power in my chest as it nurses passion for life. My travels through the mists of power have led me from a narrow, tunneled view to an open expanse of optimism.

Real power is an elusive and cunning creature. She moves lightening fast as she ekes in and out of consciousness. She thrives in stealthy silence and lonely humility. Real power does not shout from the rooftops nor slam her fist in a loud bullying obsession to control. She does not sit still with a white knuckled grip on circumstances. She does stand tall with eyes straight ahead and arms open wide. She does find you through your truth, ethics and integrity.

A mystical force, power is yours for the cooperating, not for the taking. She can only be with you if you are ripe to hold her within your giant hand of self-esteem. She will not bear with your arrogance, but only with your confidence. She will not flow with your actionable habits that are misaligned with your morals and ideals. Power dwells within a house that is built on congruent behaviors and values, actions and beliefs. Power knows its name is Self and claims itself within the center of your being where neutrality lives.

Having no enemies, power sits at the same table with anyone who asks. She is always available to you and she is always seeking the next moment to serve. Your truth, philosophy, values and beliefs determine where power lives and thrives. She is yours as long as you don’t try to capture her. She is loving as long as you don’t push her away. She will find you only if Self is valued by you. Value of Self becomes power when your beliefs and values flourish in congruent actions and behaviors, both inside your mind and in the outside world.

Copyright 2010 Now Age Knowledge

NowAgeKnowledge.com