Face to Face with Karma
By Dr Ric Neo
Out October 1st from Mantra Books
To escape the wheel of samsara, we first need to UNDERSTAND samsara. Face to Face with Karma provides the clearest and most in-depth modern explanation of how karma works — it is the metaphorical key to the kingdom.
Why does calamity follow some people like a shadow while others seem kissed by perpetual
luck? For millennia spiritual teachers have answered with a single word—karma—but the
concept has rarely been explained with the clarity modern seekers crave. In Face to Face
with Karma, I (Dr Ric Neo) offer a map combining both centuries of spiritual teachings with a
chain of visions in which I stood before the Lord of Karma and made to witness my own
karma. Those spiritual encounters dispelled every misconception I had ever entertained
about reward and punishment. What remained was a luminous, eight-law framework that
anyone can test in ordinary life.
THE POWER BEHIND THE CURTAIN
The first revelation is disarmingly simple: karma is as constant as gravity yet invisible to our
five senses. We drop a stone; it falls. We speak a word steeped in malice; a consequence
arcs back—sometimes in minutes, sometimes across centuries. Nothing evaporates. In
physics we call it the conservation of energy. In spirit we call it the Grand Law of Karma.
Recognizing that law does not cage your freedom; it multiplies it, because you finally
understand the levers that shape tomorrow.
LESSER VS. GREATER—TWO STRANDS OF FATE
Listeners often ask, “If karma is real, why are children born into suffering they never
caused?” Face to Face with Karma separates the ledger into two columns. Lesser karma is
the echo of our ego-driven choices—cheat on a partner, invite betrayal in return.
Greater karma is the soul-level curriculum we design with our higher self before incarnation.
A master soul may choose a childhood of poverty not as punishment but as a forge for
compassion. When you realize you helped write the script, victimhood gives way to
authorship.
THE EIGHT PILLARS—A QUICK TOUR
1. Oneness: Hurt another and you hurt yourself because there is only One
Consciousness playing many roles.
2. Eternity: Energy never dies, so neither do the ripples of your deeds.
3. Neutrality: Karma is a mirror, not a judge; it reflects both kindness and cruelty with
perfect impartiality.
4. Destiny: Free will and prewritten lessons co-author every scene of your life.
5. Duty: Sometimes righteous action means taking a stand—Arjuna on the battlefield
was fulfilling dharma, not courting damnation.
6. Relief: Indifference is karmically expensive; to refuse aid is to accrue debt.
7. Forgiveness: This is the solvent that dissolves karmic glue and rescues us from
endless tit-for-tat loops.
8. Grace: The Love that birthed the cosmos can override the ledger entirely once
genuine transformation dawns.
FORGIVENESS AS TECHNOLOGY
Of all eight laws, none shocks readers more than the claim that forgiveness is a technology.
We imagine it as a meek moral suggestion. In fact it is an energetic device that snaps the
tether binding predator to prey. The moment resentment melts, the polarity fueling karmic
attraction collapses. Repercussions still land, but they now arrive as gentle lessons rather
than sledgehammers.
THE MISTAKE OF SPIRITUAL PASSIVITY
Eastern cultures sometimes interpret karma to mean “Hands off—don’t tamper with another
soul’s chosen suffering.” Face to Face with Karma calls that out as a tragic misreading. The
Sixth Law, Relief, insists that refusing to help is itself an action that accrues consequence.
Compassionate intervention, offered respectfully, creates positive merit for giver and
receiver alike. Jesus healed because He could, not because people had “earned” a reprieve.
We are asked to do the same within our capacity.
MEAT, MONEY, AND MODERN LIFE
What about the mundane? Yes, diet stirs the karmic pot. Consuming animals is a lesser sin
than harming conscious humans, yet it imprints the body-mind and often rebounds as health
challenges decades later. Wealth works similarly: fortune gained through generosity blesses;
fortune clutched in fear corrodes.
The principle never changes—intention sets the vibrational speed of consequence.
A PRACTICAL EXIT RAMP
If you take nothing else from Face to Face with Karma, remember this two-step protocol:
1. Radical Ownership—Admit every circumstance, good or bad, is intertwined with choices
you (or your higher self) made. That confession alone detonates the illusion of helplessness.
2. Conscious Creation—From that ownership, sculpt the next moment with clear intent,
compassion and service. The wheel of samsara does not crack you like a whip; it moves at
the speed of your awareness.
WHY NOW?
Humanity is at an inflection point. Group karma—national, racial, ecological—is ripening
faster than ever. Understanding how collective choices loop back may be the difference
between renaissance and ruin. Face to Face with Karma equips individuals and communities
with the metaphysical literacy to choose wisely.
INVITATION
Whether you are a sceptic seeking logical coherence or a mystic longing for deeper practice,
the Grand Law is already engraving tomorrow’s headlines. Read the field notes of someone
who stood face to face with its keeper, then test the principles in your living room. The
universe will mark your paper instantly. And remember: the final law is Grace, forever
extending the unconditional love of God through to us even in our darkest periods.
Face to Face with Karma by Dr Ric Neo is out October 1st from Mantra Books or from wherever books are sold.
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