Law of One: Ra's How to Burn Off Karma & Raise Your Frequency

How the Law of One Found Me

I did not go looking for the Ra Material. It found me, through a young man named Jacob Palmer, someone I hold in high regard. Jacob introduced me to the Law of One during a time in my life when I was focused on other work, had other questions, and other distractions. I listened. I took it in. But I wasn’t ready for what it actually was.

What I didn’t know at the time was that Jacob’s mother owns Nourishing Journey, a well-known wellness center in Columbia, Maryland. On her podcast, she’d hosted the actor Kerr Smith, best known for Dawson’s Creek, who spoke passionately about the Law of One and its impact on his life. Here was this material, circling around me from multiple directions, and I still hadn’t really grasped its depth.

A few years later, I returned to the Ra Material on a much deeper level. This is the spiral of awakening: wisdom doesn’t always arrive when we expect it, and the messengers are not always who we think they’ll be. Sometimes the teaching reaches us long before the student is ready. And sometimes that’s exactly how it’s supposed to work.

What follows is my understanding of four exercises that Ra offered to help accelerate the release of karma and raise spiritual frequency. These exercises come from Session 10.14 of The Law of One: Book One, channeled through Carla Rueckert by Ra, a sixth-density social memory complex and humble messenger of the Law of One. I share them here not as an academic summary, but as a practitioner and psycho-spiritual guide who has spent over twenty years holding space for the kind of transformation these exercises describe.

What Is Karma in the Law of One?

Before we look at the exercises, it helps to understand what Ra actually means by karma—because it’s not what most people think.

In many spiritual traditions, karma is treated as a cosmic scorecard: do bad things, and bad things come back to you. Ra’s definition is more precise and, to my mind, more useful. When asked to define karma, Ra said:

“Our understanding of karma is that which may be called inertia. Those actions which are put into motion will continue using the ways of balancing until such time as the controlling or higher principle which you may liken unto your braking or stopping is invoked. This stoppage of the inertia of action may be called forgiveness. These two concepts are inseparable.”

Read that again slowly. Karma is inertia. It is not punishment. It is the continuation of an energetic pattern that was set in motion, by an action, a wound, a choice, a violation of love, and that pattern keeps repeating until something stops it. That stopping force is forgiveness. Not punishment, not penance, not suffering enough to “earn” release. Forgiveness.

Ra goes further: “Forgiveness of other-self is forgiveness of self.” These are not two separate acts. They are one act, experienced from two angles. You cannot fully forgive another person while withholding forgiveness from yourself, and you cannot fully forgive yourself while holding resentment toward another. This is the mechanics of liberation, described with extraordinary precision.

In Ra’s cosmology, we are living in the third density, the density of choice. We incarnate under a “veil of forgetting” that obscures our awareness of our true nature as sparks of the One Infinite Creator. The entire purpose of this density is to learn one lesson: love. Everything else, every trial, every heartbreak, every moment of friction, is what Ra calls catalyst: raw material for the soul’s growth. Karma is simply catalyst that has not yet been processed through love and forgiveness.

Ra’s Four Exercises for Burning Off Karma (Session 10.14)

In Session 10.14, Ra offers four exercises designed to accelerate the burning off of negative karma and raise one’s spiritual frequency. I’ll share each exercise in Ra’s own words and then offer my reflection as a clinician and guide who has spent decades working with the very patterns these exercises are meant to dissolve.

Exercise One: See Love in the Present Moment

“This is the most nearly centered and useable within your illusion complex. The moment contains love. That is the lesson/goal of this illusion or density. The exercise is to consciously see that love in awareness and understanding distortions. The first attempt is the cornerstone. Upon this choosing rests the remainder of the life experience of an entity. The second seeking of love within the moment begins the addition. The third seeking empowers the second, the fourth powering or doubling the third. As with the previous type of empowerment, there will be some loss of power due to flaws within the seeking in the distortion of insincerity. However, the conscious statement of self to self of the desire to seek love is so central an act of will that, as before, the loss of power due to this friction is inconsequential.”

This is Ra’s cornerstone exercise, and I believe it is the most powerful instruction in the entire body of channeled material. The moment contains love. Not some moments—every moment. Even the ones that feel barren, hostile, confusing, or painful. Especially those.

Ra is telling us that the single most important choice you will ever make is the intention to seek love in the present moment. Your first attempt is the cornerstone—it doesn’t need to be perfect. Ra explicitly says that insincerity creates friction, but that the conscious declaration of the desire to seek love is so central an act of will that the friction barely matters. This is enormously compassionate. You don’t have to get it right. You have to choose it.

In my practice as a mindfulness-based therapist, this maps directly onto what we cultivate in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR): the capacity to be fully present, purposefully, with kindness. What Ra adds to the clinical framework is the recognition that this is not just a stress management technique—it is the fundamental lesson of human existence. When you choose loving awareness, negative thoughts and emotions fall away without effort, the same way a river flows naturally to its source.

And notice the exponential quality Ra describes: each successive seeking of love within the moment doesn’t just add—it doubles. This is cumulative, compounding spiritual growth. Your practice builds on itself.

Exercise Two: See the Creator in Others

“The universe is one being. When a mind/body/spirit complex views another mind/body/spirit complex, see the Creator.”

The Nobel Prize-winning physicist Erwin Schrödinger once wrote: “The total number of minds in the universe is one. In fact, consciousness is a singularity phasing within all beings.” Here one of the greatest scientific minds in human history arrived at the same truth Ra teaches: the universe is one being, and every person you encounter is the Creator experiencing itself through a unique form.

This exercise asks you to see the Creator in every being you encounter. Not just the ones you love. Not just the ones who are easy to be around. The Creator is in the people you despise, the ones who have hurt you, the ones who throw stones, the ones who make your life difficult. God, Brahma, Christ, Allah, Yahweh, the Intelligent Infinity, whatever name you hold for the source of all things— resides in them too. They were created with the same love that created you.

This is where the exercise becomes alchemical. If you can see the spark of the cosmic flame in someone you fear or judge, you will make tremendous progress in releasing negative karma. Imagine you had the strength and courage to forgive everyone who has ever hurt you. Not to condone what they did, not to invite them back into your life, but to release the energetic inertia of the wound. That is what Ra means. Forgiveness is a form of love, and it is the most powerful solvent of karmic debt there is.

What about the friction Ra mentions—the “distortion of insincerity”? In my clinical experience, this is the frustration or resentment that arises when you try to love someone who doesn’t care, when love isn’t received, or when you extend forgiveness to someone who doesn’t love themselves. That friction is real. Ra doesn’t deny it. But Ra says the loss of power it creates is inconsequential compared to the magnitude of the choice itself.

Exercise Three: See the Creator in Yourself

“Gaze within the mirror. See the Creator.”

Six words. Perhaps the most difficult exercise of the four.

According to the lineage of Paramahansa Yogananda and Mahavatar Babaji, you are made of the substance of God—a spark of the fire of spirit, an atom of the cosmic flame, a cell of the vast universal body of the Creator. This is Dharma. This is universal truth.

And yet for many of us, this is the hardest truth to internalize. We can more easily see God in a sunset, in a child’s laughter, even in the eyes of someone who has wronged us, than we can see it in our own reflection. Twenty years of clinical practice have shown me this over and over: the last person most people learn to forgive is themselves.

Ra’s instruction here is not to admire yourself. It is to recognize yourself. Be curious. Look into your own eyes. Peer into your soul and wonder at the beautiful creation you are. Honor and cherish your existence and your divinity. If you need to forgive yourself, forgive yourself. Free yourself from the bondages of unresolved karma and embrace the miracle of your being. Love and compassion must include you to be complete and whole.

Exercise Four: See the Creator in All Things

“Gaze at the creation which lies about the mind/body/spirit complex of each entity. See the Creator.”

The fourth exercise expands the lens to include everything. Not just people. Not just yourself. All of creation—the trees, the stones, the water, the sky, the animals, the cities, the chaos, the silence. If the Creator made everything, then everything is a part of the Creator.

This is a simple thought, but I find it deeply challenging to sustain. The best way I can describe the feeling is to imagine the voice of Sir David Attenborough in a nature documentary—that quality of awe and reverence he brings to every creature, every landscape, every act of life unfolding. That is what this exercise asks us to cultivate: an unbroken awareness of the sacred within the ordinary.

This can only be accomplished, as Ra instructs, through sustained prayer, contemplation, and meditation, allowing the realization to sink in and be fully absorbed by the mind. It is not an intellectual exercise. It is a state of perception that must be practiced until it becomes the default way you see the world.

Forgiveness: The Eradicator of Karma

Across the 106 sessions of the Ra Material, perhaps no theme is as central as forgiveness. Ra was asked directly whether forgiveness removes karma, and the response was unequivocal: “You are correct. Forgiveness of other-self is forgiveness of self. An understanding of this insists upon full forgiveness upon the conscious level of self and other-self, for they are one.”

Consider what is being said here. Karma, that inertia of unresolved action, can be stopped at any point in an incarnative pattern. You do not have to wait for the “right” lifetime. You do not have to suffer enough. The moment, potentially this present moment, you genuinely understand, accept, and forgive, the wheel stops.

Ra also offers a crucial nuance about the difference between forgiveness and control. When asked about discipline and the control of thoughts, Ra cautioned against it: “Control may seem to be a short-cut to discipline, peace, and illumination. However, this very control potentiates and necessitates the further incarnative experience.” Instead, Ra recommends: “Acceptance of self, forgiveness of self, and the direction of the will; this is the path towards the disciplined personality.”

In clinical terms, this is the difference between suppression and integration, between pushing down what we feel and metabolizing it through awareness. My work as a psycho-spiritual guide sits precisely at this intersection. The therapeutic process of understanding and forgiving ourselves, of recognizing the patterns we carry and choosing not to perpetuate them, is the clinical expression of what Ra is describing in cosmic terms.

The Prerequisite: Meditation, Contemplation, and Prayer

Ra closes the four exercises with a critical instruction that is easy to overlook:

“The foundation or prerequisite of these exercises is a predilection towards what may be called meditation, contemplation, or prayer. With this attitude, these exercises can be processed. Without it, the data will not sink down into the roots of the tree of mind, thus enabling and ennobling the body and touching the spirit.”

This is not optional. Without a contemplative practice, some form of meditation, prayer, or deep reflection, the exercises remain intellectual concepts. They might inspire you for a moment, but they will not sink into the roots of the tree of mind. They will not transform you.

As an MBSR instructor and Vipassana meditation practitioner, I can tell you that Ra’s language here maps precisely onto what we see in mindfulness research: insight without embodied practice doesn’t produce lasting change. The data doesn’t “sink down.” It stays in the prefrontal cortex as theory. It never reaches the body, the nervous system, the deeper layers of the self where karmic patterns are stored.

If you do not yet have a meditation or contemplative practice, that is where I would encourage you to begin. Not with the exercises themselves, but with the foundation Ra says they require. Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) is one structured, evidence-based path into that foundation, and it is one I teach. But whatever form your practice takes, sitting meditation, contemplative prayer, walking in nature with full attention, the key is consistency, intention, and sincerity.

How to Begin: Practical Steps for Spiritual Seekers

God is love. God is truth. God is light. There are no coincidences. There is a natural polarity in the world and in ourselves, aspects of light and shadow, held in creative tension. The greater the balance that exists in our mind, body, and spirit, the more energy and power we have to overcome obstacles. Things begin to flow without effort. We were created with a thought, and our thoughts have the power to create. Loving thoughts manifest love. Fear and negativity create correspondingly.

If you are drawn to this material, if the Law of One found you the way it found me, unexpectedly, through a messenger you didn’t anticipate, then consider beginning here:

Start with one moment. Today, in one difficult or ordinary moment, make the conscious choice to seek love. That’s Exercise One. That’s the cornerstone. Ra says the rest builds from there.

Practice forgiveness as liberation. Forgiveness is not about condoning harm. It is about releasing the inertia of old wounds so they stop running your life. Begin with yourself.

Build a contemplative foundation. Without meditation, contemplation, or prayer, these exercises remain ideas. With practice, they become lived truth.

Read the source. The full text of Session 10.14 and the entire Law of One is freely available at lawofone.info. Let the material speak to you directly. My friend and fellow seeker, actor Reuben Langdon has discovered a living RA Channel that is phenomenal on his show Interview with E.D.

Seek support. If you are ready to do the deeper work of releasing karmic patterns, healing old wounds, and integrating the psycho-spiritual dimensions of your being, I work with individuals in this exact space. Therapy, MBSR, Quantum Healing Hypnosis (QHHT), and psycho-spiritual integration are all paths I walk with my clients.

We all have the power to create beauty in this world. The world needs more love now than ever. The more you increase your vibration and frequency, the more empowered you become. What are you willing to try? Go create beautiful things.

 James O’Neill, LCPC, is a licensed clinical professional counselor, MBSR instructor, hypnotherapist, and QHHT practitioner with over 20 years of experience. He is the founder of Journey Mindfulness in Columbia, Maryland, and host of the Journey Mindfulness Podcast. His work lives at the intersection of evidence-based therapy and spiritual depth, where science meets soul.