KARMA IS KRAP
I know, this is a drum I have been beating for decades now but for the sake of the five of you who have not read my books, (be ashamed and buy them NOW) I'm going to explain to you why this is the case, why we really can get away with anything we do with psionics.
Karma is, was and always will be a fraud, pure and simple. In this case we can prove it by the history of the word itself. In the beginning, karma only meant the proper performance of the rituals. And then came a power struggle between the priests and the warriors. We know this from the historic record. At that time, the meaning of the word changed to a general guide to behavior and life. How did this happen? It was very simple. The priests could not out-power the warriors. The warriors could simply kill them and they did have a lot of fun disturbing the worship of the sacred cow's holy behind. What happened next is pretty obvious, the priests came up with a new superstition to control the warriors, persuading them that if they did not do the right thing and keep the priests rich and happy they would reincarnate as insects, or worse, untouchables. And warriors, not being very bright, bought into it. And from there it grew and grew, kind of like a mental fungus.
Anyway, this noxious concept was brought to the west by my Theosophist brethren and they did it for a very specific and rather cynical reason. The Victorian age was beset by a problem. People were growing up and realizing that the notion of hell was pure superstitious rot and ignoring it, which terrified the do-gooders of that time. I mean think about it, they might go off and spend money, drink, have SEX! The world clearly needed a new superstition and karma seemed just right to fill the void. And they really got carried away with, coming up all kinds of strange formulae to figure out what the karmic price was for each action, and making total fools of themselves in the process and everyone else pretty much ignored them when they weren't laughing their heads off, spending money, drinking and having sex.
Anyway, it sort of lay fallow until the 1960s when the hippies and losers who would grow into the New Age grabbed onto it and spread it like the Black Death through the culture, because even with karma they could drink, spend money and have sex. But it is still nothing more than it was in the beginning, a tool of social control that only works on those stupid enough to buy into it. Of course they will try to come up with all manner of explanations of the thing, but their arguments are about the same value as the geography of the flat earth. The earth is not flat, the Pope is never infallible, virgins did not have babies two thousand years ago, there is no hell, there is no pixie dust and there is no karma.
The important thing is not to buy into it. Treat it as the pious fraud that it is, promoted by sanctimonious fools who have nothing better to do than try to tell you how to live. Ignore karma and laugh at those who try to use it on you.
I know, this is a drum I have been beating for decades now but for the sake of the five of you who have not read my books, (be ashamed and buy them NOW) I'm going to explain to you why this is the case, why we really can get away with anything we do with psionics.
Karma is, was and always will be a fraud, pure and simple. In this case we can prove it by the history of the word itself. In the beginning, karma only meant the proper performance of the rituals. And then came a power struggle between the priests and the warriors. We know this from the historic record. At that time, the meaning of the word changed to a general guide to behavior and life. How did this happen? It was very simple. The priests could not out-power the warriors. The warriors could simply kill them and they did have a lot of fun disturbing the worship of the sacred cow's holy behind. What happened next is pretty obvious, the priests came up with a new superstition to control the warriors, persuading them that if they did not do the right thing and keep the priests rich and happy they would reincarnate as insects, or worse, untouchables. And warriors, not being very bright, bought into it. And from there it grew and grew, kind of like a mental fungus.
Anyway, this noxious concept was brought to the west by my Theosophist brethren and they did it for a very specific and rather cynical reason. The Victorian age was beset by a problem. People were growing up and realizing that the notion of hell was pure superstitious rot and ignoring it, which terrified the do-gooders of that time. I mean think about it, they might go off and spend money, drink, have SEX! The world clearly needed a new superstition and karma seemed just right to fill the void. And they really got carried away with, coming up all kinds of strange formulae to figure out what the karmic price was for each action, and making total fools of themselves in the process and everyone else pretty much ignored them when they weren't laughing their heads off, spending money, drinking and having sex.
Anyway, it sort of lay fallow until the 1960s when the hippies and losers who would grow into the New Age grabbed onto it and spread it like the Black Death through the culture, because even with karma they could drink, spend money and have sex. But it is still nothing more than it was in the beginning, a tool of social control that only works on those stupid enough to buy into it. Of course they will try to come up with all manner of explanations of the thing, but their arguments are about the same value as the geography of the flat earth. The earth is not flat, the Pope is never infallible, virgins did not have babies two thousand years ago, there is no hell, there is no pixie dust and there is no karma.
The important thing is not to buy into it. Treat it as the pious fraud that it is, promoted by sanctimonious fools who have nothing better to do than try to tell you how to live. Ignore karma and laugh at those who try to use it on you.