Karma
... concept of life after death and rebirth before. My position is and always has been that there is no life after death. Why is it that I feel this way? There has not been any evidence presented to me in my life, so far, to suggest that there exists any mysticism in the universe. Karma is a type of mysticism. Some believe that karma: “stressed its bearing on the soul of man. What they saw was a plasmic jelly pulsating within the subtle bodies of each person. Embedded in this plasma, which persists from life to life, are the seeds of all past thought and action. In each lifetime, certain of these karmic seeds are released into the nerve system with coded impulsions and tendencies affecting present actions(www.).” I have always held an image of karma as a sort of ledger tabulating what I have done and what I can expect. The first thing that pops into my head when I hear the word karma is the famous cliché “what goes around, comes around”. As far as I’m concerned it is all coincidence. I am not a big believer in things I cannot experience with one of my five senses. I think to be able to buy into karma one would have to accept the Buddhist philosophies. I cannot believe in the cycle of birth, death and rebirth. I have a fantasy of ascending into a heaven-like place to spend eternity when I die, not to be born again, just to “be”. I think that this fantasy,like religious beliefs are ways people deal with the uncertainty of life...