Julia Karmic Astrology
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I re-read one of Jane Roberts' Seth books last winter but it has been a long time since I've read the others. He confirms reincarnation but I don't recall him agreeing with karma in a Hindu sense.
Basically he says that people incarnate into the kind of life that will best promote their learning experiences and soul growth. If they incarnate into a rotten life, it's not that they're being punished; but that perhaps over a previous life of harming other people, their soul growth depends upon experiencing life from the victim's perspective. But this is a choice, not a deterministic punishment.
I was pleasantly surprised in reading Jim Tucker's books Life Before Life and Return to Life, that Seth's perspective correlates with his own findings. Tucker is a MD and professor of child psychiatry at the University of Virginia. His scientific credentials are legit. Tucker's research field is interviewing young children who claim to remember past lives, and then trying to track down through a lot of detective work, whether the person the child recalled actually lived, and had a life corresponding to the child's recollections. Some of Tucker's findings are just uncanny, like a young boy who talked about events and friends that matched the life of a downed young WW II pilot.
But again, Tucker found no evidence that the present life functioned as some kind of reward or punishment for the previous life.
Seth says that all time is simultaneous. A shift for the better in one reality alters the other realities.
Hi Waybread,
I have read Dr. Tucker's work and it is excellent, yes.
I think you are hitting some key differences between karmic astrology, western based, and the Eastern traditions, Hindu, etc.
The Eastern traditions tend to see a karmic fated life script, punishment and reward based.
Western karmic thought is based more upon the notion of free will, choice, and soul purpose and goals. The chart is not seen as punishment, but a learning experience.
As a Western based karmic astrologer, I share some of tenets of Eastern astrolgogy: belief in an eternal soul, reincarnation, karma, etc. But there is a sharp divergence of thought about the reasons for incarnation, the purpose of the karmic wheel, free will, etc.
And yes Seth is correct. Linear time is an artifact of life on Earth. In reality time is fluid and simultaneous. What happens in the now is impacting past and present. The ripples are felt throughout the river of time.
Julia
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