She continues: “This accident seems to have colored my grandmother’s life from that point forward. She spent several months recovering and was abandoned by her stepmother. She was in and out of psych wards multiple times in her life. There were nine children and two miscarriages, a raging alcoholic husband who spent his pay and caused her to seek food from the church. One daughter became an alcoholic, with pulmonary fibrosis and a creepy husband; one daughter suffered mental illness, heart disease, alcoholism, and rage (my mom); another daughter had a nervous breakdown and a pedophile husband; one daughter seemed somewhat stable; one daughter was sexually abused, manic, and lost a son; one son seems unremarkable; another son had a nervous breakdown, didn’t work; another daughter had an unhappy marriage; the final daughter had a nervous breakdown, and may be homeless. Many of her children suffered with alcoholism, or mental illness, or had breakdowns. Few were better than adequate parents, some were angry and combative. Her 26 grandchildren have attributed the less than “Leave it to Beaver” homelives to be the natural result of trauma trickling down. I now wonder if failure to transition was involved at all? Or were dark spirits attracted to the scene and stayed on? My grandmother, as the survivor, was the likely focus of any that were drawn.” What can Creator tell us?

While we cannot give you a detailed karmic scorecard, track record, and timeline for all in the family to show what overlap or interconnections from this tragic accident you are inquiring about have contributed to current difficulty of descendants now in the living who struggle, what is important to know is that every human being has an individual track record and karmic history that is no less difficult and troubled than the family grouping you are asking about. That past karma does not always descend at once, it is a complex force and variable in its consequences and timing, subject to many constraints and variables of all sorts that impinge. So while you view your family in the context of this known key traumatic watershed event, the reality is each and every person, including the 26 grandchildren, have a backstory of their own completely separate from that event, having lived hundreds of lifetimes, experiencing many such tragedies, and having much unhealed karmic trauma that can be awakened to pile on at any time during the current life. So as bleak as this appears, it is the cold, hard reality of your existence that by coming into the physical you have risked much wounding and its karmic consequences in order to carry out your important and sacred mission. The entire paradigm behind human existence is seeking the mastery of adversity through prevailing during dark times and challenges, as a consequence of spiritual wherewithal and inner strength, as a consequence of robust and healthy expression of soul attributes which represent the essence of your divinity. So while this horrible tragedy would seem to be more than what humans are usually subjected to, we can assure you that all in your family have much more besides, involved in the complex equation of karmic energy swirling about and seeking restitution. So we point this out for the sake of completeness, not to be dark and discouraging but to clarify with the truth of things and, in the process, point out despite the magnitude of the problem, it is a solvable one. Knowing you have something in need of healing is a necessary first step in moving forward. Without that awareness, you will nonetheless struggle and suffer without knowing why, and it will be done in an aimless, unproductive way that contributes nothing to progress but only your hindrance with a resulting greater karmic debt than its reduction.