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Old 31st July 2008, 02:28 PM
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I have no clue whether there is karma in the context of reincarnation/rebirth, but I do tend to think there's sort of a karmic reaction in our everyday lives in that what so often goes around, comes around. IOW, I tend to think we so often create our own "heavens" and "hells", although I'm not going to go so far as to declare that fairness always works out in the final analysis.

Whether there's some sort of karmic process, or even if there are such things as nirvana, moksha, heaven, hell, or whatever, I simply cannot say, nor do I lose any sleep over it. Whatever happens, happens.
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Is the belief in a law of attraction the western take on the belief in Karma? Or is there a difference?

What law of attraction?
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From Wikipedia:
The phrase Law of Attraction, although used widely by esoteric writers, does not have a consensual definition. However, the general consensus among New Thought thinkers is that the Law of Attraction takes the principal "Like Attracts Like" and applies it to conscious desire. That is, a person's thoughts (conscious and subconscious), emotions, and beliefs cause a change in the physical world that attracts positive or negative experiences that correspond to the aforementioned thoughts, with or without the person taking action to attain such experiences. This process has been described as "harmonious vibrations of the law of attraction"[1], or "you get what you think about; your thoughts determine your experience".[2]

The phrase is closely associated with New Thought beliefs and practices, from which its most common definition arises, but it also has a long standing (and more complex development) in other esoteric fields such as Hermeticism and Theosophy. Recently, the New Thought version was popularized by the 2006 film The Secret.

The more materialistic interpretations of The Law of Attraction have been criticized. The scientific community cites the misuse of the scientific term law and the lack of any scientific evidence for the claims made by advocates for the Law of Attraction, and by some proponents within the New Thought Movement and spirituality in general.[1]
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