Karma the conceptualization of righteous actions (and lack thereof ...!) creates a jolly ambience of coffee-house prattle in etheric congregations, although pretty much most of it is based on the moral juris-prudence model of you do the crime, you do the time! Or you reap what you sow agricultural model or the violent an eye for the eye conceptualization.
Then we meandre into the messy minefield of reincarnation and rebirth to improve our lot through an essentially timeless multidimensional (for the most part assumed possibilities) raising the debates and doubts.
Now, many good folks bring in scriptures and the conversation becomes guarded and controlled and we drift off and away...!
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The 'recycle-camp' (reincarnation yay-sayers) tends to believe (with patchy anecdotal accounts etc) insists that past sins build up a karmic ledger of sorts that we discharge (or should!) while we are born and live through lifetimes and even as we do so, more debts accumulate and so the reincarnation counter keeps turning and turning and the game never ends!
Sure, there are placebos available including gemstones and magic amulets and spiritual-divinatory magazines (ink and electrons) are choc full of those as well as TV promotionals promising instant salvation by calling a toll-free number displayed on the screen.
We also believe that the body dies and the spirit-essence escapes into a timeless dimension for days to centuries (clocked by Earth-time) before showing up as an infant with a clean hard drive (and different suite of free bloat-ware!) and the merry-go-round begins again.
Some insist that karma can only be discharged while in the earthly reality but that sounds rather inefficient! Maybe the essence that really is the entity responsible for karma, like Satan, never rests! Perhaps it continues to amortize this Karma debt (or should!).
Are some of these what we think of as spirit-guides and other helper entities? So, the wheel of amortization never sleeps...?
Which essentially means that if *A* dies with (for instance) 1 million Karma debt, when it is reborn as *B* it comes back with (again, for example) 900000 karma debt or maybe even less, depending on good helpful deeds done in the afterlife!
Now, that should come as a cheerful thought for many! :smt004