A viewer asks: “Rational thought appears to have a lot of enemies or potential obstacles or impairments to overcome. Karmic energy is clearly one of them. (As recognized in Creator’s recent revelation that “karma” was the cause of my complacency and feelings of futility when failing to act on my raccoon problem in a timely and rational fashion.) Fear of failure, and harsh judgment, and penalties is clearly another obstacle (which can all be heightened by karma created from past failures – including past life failures). Strong negative belief is yet another potential barrier (which also can be reinforced by karma). Then there are the physical, energetic barriers: fatigue, poor cognitive memory, lack of spatial discernment, dyslexia, etc. Rational thought has a LOT to overcome. Can Creator comment on why the deck is so stacked?”

You are again making false distinctions to some extent here, contrasting presumed rational thinking with troubled minds—minds under siege from past traumas recalled and agonized over and various perturbations of thinking to create speed bumps, distractions, and interfere with memory recall. Those are, in a sense, a different kind of discussion because they represent dysfunction in some respect. But, for the main part, what you are describing as a karmic imperative compared to rational thought as introducing some kind of distortion, is a flawed differentiation to the deep subconscious mind wrestling with fear about how something that was devastating in a prior lifetime, it sees coming around again as a grave threat, will be a major distraction and impediment to forward progress, in many instances, because the deep subconscious will create severe inner conflict about engaging with making forward progress that may put the person at risk—in the thinking of the subconscious at least. This is not an irrational thought or an ill-considered idea. It is very much rational to the deep subconscious to preserve one’s life when threatened or to avoid major disappointment, failure, and humiliation when this has been experienced in the past and that painful time is resonating with a current situation that is looming and threatens to bring about the same kind of misfortune. It is perfectly rational to be worrying about this and weighing one’s chances and erring on the side of caution—to procrastinate and avoid rushing into something, and wanting desperately to fend it off and to delay it as long as possible because, in a sense, the expectation is one of doom. Why would you not want to run away from doom? That is a perfectly rational choice. The problem with the comparison is that it is a question of the level of insight and understanding of the data one is reacting to—the nature of the thoughts, what they are based on, and their history and origin. The mind deals with the rational all the time because it is always trying to figure out what life is bringing and making the best possible choices to stay safe first and foremost. That will tend to color everything and will be working at a disadvantage because of many distortions coming from conflicting perspectives held by portions of the mind that may be holding onto trauma events and agonizing over their possible return again. This is a tremendous complication. It may be, in one sense, irrational and even abnormal, but it is not faulty thinking based on the facts at hand as perceived by the different levels of the mind. The difficulty here is the inability to communicate among the levels of the mind and work through the problem to arrive at a solution to allay the fears and have a plan that brings confidence and likelihood of success if followed. That is more rational thinking, but the flow of rational thought is hampered by its inability to go where needed most, and that is the very deep subconscious layer where the worst of inner conflicts are occurring. They are literally out of sight and out of mind from the conscious level but yet will influence the body directly to trigger stress responses and quite severe emotional consequences in many cases. The person will experience severe anxiety and even panic attacks, in extreme cases, with no conscious awareness of the reason why. But is it irrational to worry about losing one’s life because of something that is looming and on the schedule? And the part of the mind seeing this probability based on past experience cannot sound a direct warning with specific information, but can only signal through vague emotion that something is amiss and you are in danger. That is not a conditioned response per se when talking about karmic events and parallels that will be seen as relevant by the subconscious and taken to heart and acted on as best it can. The system is flawed, so the discussion of rational thinking is incomplete and skewed by this reality, that thoughts are not existing in direct competition with one another out in the open where they can be considered and chosen freely. There are levels of disconnection, and this warps and distorts the playing field and will skew the outcome in a negative and undesirable direction resulting in inefficiency and many errors that will be noticed in hindsight, but not predictable because one is lacking information about the basis for the choices being made. They will occur oftentimes in response to deep inner fear and conflict without a knowing of the reasons and logic underlying what appears to be a compelling need to act or, in some cases, to not act.