This is an excerpt from the second book!
As originally intended in the Life Construct, Karma is a critical element for all Life. It is the great equalizer. Without Karma, existence would consist of wildly unbalanced Energies, and Soul contracts that have no goals intended to balance Karma. There would be no point to Life, except to live a Life without regard to anybody or anything around you. Every Soul would suffer under this scenario.
Karma impacts every action taken, every communication that is made, every interaction with another Soul, and how a Soul chooses to exist. It is often subtle, but does not have to be. Karma does not have intent, but the actions that influence Karma very often do.
When a Soul first comes into existence, its core Energies are balanced, they are in harmony not only with themselves, but with all of the other Energies around it. The Soul, essentially, has no Karmic record. It has no karma. But as the Soul begins to interact with all of the other Energies around it, including the Energies of other Souls, those interactions begin to change the Energies around it – they influence the Soul, and the Soul influences those Energies around it. Eventually, these Energies begin to change, the interactions with the other Energies around it begin to cause changes in how it interacts with the other Energies. Slowly, over a relatively long period of Time, the Energies begin to become slightly out of balance. Terran science has a word that describes this, Entropy – the gradual decline into disorder. It is this gradual decline into disorder that causes the accumulation of Karma to occur – Karma is the gradual accumulation of unbalanced Energies.
It is possible to avoid the accumulation of Karma, but it requires a very diligent approach to existence. From a practical viewpoint, it is extremely difficult to accomplish this accumulation; all Souls are subject to it, including the Souls of the Central Sun, and no Soul (including all of the Souls of the Central Sun) have accumulated some amount of Karma during their existence. The key to Karma, though, is to not allow the accumulation to continue, and to take steps to achieve balance as soon as possible when there is a realization that a Karmic imbalance has occurred. It is only when this imbalance is not immediately corrected that Souls tend to suffer longer term damage, making the correction of the Karmic accumulation difficult to achieve.
Karma has no equations that govern it; it is independent of Spatial or Temporal constraints, and once accumulated, it does not “go away”. Karma will follow a Soul from Life to Life, because it is a product (or element) of the Soul, and not any particular Life or existence. Once it exists, it “exists” with the Soul until it is resolved. Accumulated Karma need not be resolved in the Spatial and Temporal context in which it was created, it can be resolved wherever the Soul exists; if the Soul(s) that were involved in the creation of the Karma are not in the same Temporal or Spatial location, the Karma can be resolved by balancing the Energies between the locations, and between the Souls involved (although the difference in Spatial and Temporal characteristics between the different locations may make the resolution more complex).