Category Archives: Fate and Free Will

5 Major New Age, Spiritual Mistakes 

Virtually everybody ends up wasting time somewhere along the line in their pursuit of spiritual awareness because the path is replete with pitfalls.

Don’t feel bad if you’ve taken a time consuming detour down a spiritual dead-end street. You’re not alone.

Below we list some of the most common New Age blunders.

1. Buying into the myth that personal adversity doesn’t have to exist, that it’s not necessary for spiritual growth. You’ve likely been exposed to New Age offerings telling you that “You were born only to enjoy life and to end suffering.” As nice as it sounds, don’t buy it. Life is full of important lessons and some of the most important spiritual breakthroughs come through personal adversity. Besides, if life was constantly and forever rainbows and sunshine, you would quickly become so bored that your subconscious would generate some sort of drama and conflict to make you feel alive. The good news is that you have free will within the confines of your fate and you can diminish the effects of suffering through acceptance, gratitude, and awareness.

2. Embracing the feel-good, yet bogus New Age claims, such as “I’ve found my soul mate and you can too in 90 days or less.” Authentic love–unconditional love-has nothing to do with deadlines and legal contracts. Real love happens when it’s supposed to happen, not in accordance with ego-self ideals, and everyone has different love life timing. Also, you have many soul mates and our findings clearly show that most are not meant to be life-long or the most desirable type, but the sort that help the most in your spiritual growth (read: challenging relationships).

3. Avoiding meditation or time alone spent in reflection. Isn’t it funny that in Western society today it’s so common for people to express disbelief at the idea of enjoying spending extended periods of time in solitude? “Like, OMG, what would you do?!” Spending regular periods alone is important to your spiritual growth, as is regular meditation. The inner landscape can be infinitely more compelling than the outer world.

4. Mistaking New Age inspiration, such as “you can delete all of your karma in a blink of an eye, all you have to do is believe that you can” for spiritual truth. Look, we’re all for inspiration and getting inspired (did you know that initiates in select ancient mystery schools would shout “I am inspired!” on cue?), but it better be rooted in truth or you’re just wasting your time and money with New Age escapism.

5. Ignoring the other spiritual laws besides the law of attraction. Although we acknowledge that it can be tempting to focus exclusively on the law of attraction and to ignore any other (prevailing) spiritual laws, doing so will only set you up for major disappointment.

For example, the law of predestination/fate/destiny (all these words have the same meaning) dictates that, on a soul level (not your personality, which you shed at death), you select your major predestined life circumstances of each lifetime, before incarnating. Our findings show this to be valid, even if your personality in this life is not aware of it and even if you don’t believe in predestination/fate/destiny. Nobody cheats their fate, no matter how much they practice the law of attraction. You’re in luck, however, if your personal destiny matches your desires and the better you know yourself, the more likely it will.

Although it’s almost impossible to avoid all New Age, spiritual traps, if you watch out for the ones outlined above you will save an enormous amount of time and money.

Absolute Myth: Your Personality Selects Your Future Lives 

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New Age urban legend suggests that you’re empowered through “ascension” to consciously manipulate your past lives and future lives to live happily ever after in a never-ending utopia without any personal adversity.

All you have to do is spend enough money on the services of the gurus who spew such nonsense, excuse us, who divine such information, and you’ll be on your way to permanent bliss.

Unfortunately, the idea of consciously selecting your future lives like entrees from a dinner menu is just a New Age myth. This distortion of ancient spiritual truths originates from a heavy emphasis on Hollywood science fiction masquerading as spirituality, and possibly narcotics, including psychedelics; artificially altered minds yield half-truths and illusion.

Talk of “altering your density” and “3rd, 4th, 5th dimensions” as if they are TV channels for you to consciously flip through on your way to nirvana, for instance, is pure fantasy. Such myths are kept alive through the strong desire for escapism and quick-fix solutions.

The feel-good fantasies are an attempt to avoid personal accountability. “I’ll never have to pay for that appalling crime? Great, I’m in!”

Not so fast.

3 Reasons You Can’t Consciously Choose Your Past and Present Lives:

1. Your conscious mind is not your spiritual self, your soul. These are two different entities and once you cross over your personality does not have a say in your soul’s direction. While you may consciously think you want to choose the most desirable future life circumstances, your soul, like a loving parent guiding a child, frequently takes the road that holds the most important lessons with the most opportunity for spiritual growth; it usually does not favor the easy life, based on our empirical research involving past and future life regression.

2. Karma follows you like an ever-faithful servant. It’s inescapable, even if your current personality doesn’t believe in the concept. Consider it one of the most important spiritual laws: whatever you say, do, or intend comes back to you in equal measure. Exude compassion and understanding? That’s what you get back. Thieve and cheat? That’s also what you get back.

By the way, one of the biggest misconceptions about karma is that you get it all back in this lifetime. We’ve found the opposite to be true: most of it comes back to you in future lives. This explains why some of the most notorious villains seem to live their lives untouched, at least until the next time around when they are born into unfortunate conditions. Even if it seemed like someone got away with something, they really didn’t.

3. Past lives make you who you are today. While it may be true that when you are on the other side you can view your past and future like clips from a movie, you can’t alter what has already transpired, nor would your soul-self even desire to do so. While forgiveness might soften up karma, it doesn’t erase it, and you can’t dodge your future karma (good and bad) no matter how much you try to make amends after the fact.

Is there a way to assure that you are more fortunate in future lives? The only way you can consciously direct your destiny is to simply do the “right” thing in every situation. By this we do not mean what is necessarily correct or proper as deemed by society. Instead, simply treat others as you would like to be treated, and maintain an honorable life.

Additionally, we believe that accepting where you are now, being grateful for what you have rather than excessive wanting for what you don’t, and repetitive, emotionalized positive visualizations, such as those involving financial and romantic abundance, help you attract more of that in future lives. Of course, you also have to take appropriate action toward your goals.

Everything you are and will ever be, you have earned. When in doubt, taking the high road is always your best option, striving to express more compassion and unconditional love.

Explanations For Psychic Visions

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We received this inquiry recently:

“Just what is a psychic looking at? How do they ‘see’ the future? What in the world are they looking at? Where do they get their information about things 30 years in the future about people who were not even born yet?”

As professional mystics, we readily spot psychic talent and have met many excellent psychics over the past 25+ years. We’ve also encountered some sham psychics. There are frauds in every industry, so it’s wise to do your own objective research about the topic before you form a strong opinion.

The concept of supernaturally perceiving hidden details about your or someone’s past, present, and future takes some getting used to. But once you’re comfortable with it, either doing it yourself or consulting with a pro, the insight you gain can be indispensable, saving you time, money, and heartache.

But just where does the psychic insight come from? Below we list three possible explanations of prophetic perceptions, whether by visions, hearing, tasting, or simply knowing.

1) The person having the psychic impressions is tapping into the other side, an other-dimensional source.

For instance, the person is tapping into the subject’s super-conscious (or higher-self, soul-self), or the Akashic Records, where all information about the past, present, and future is stored. It comes in very handy to automatically perceive the true meaning and sometimes intention and back-story behind people’s words. Another source is spiritual guides who serve as fact-check auditors. These methods work well for us both, but being “on” and sometimes “elsewhere” for most of our waking hours tends to undermine our everyday lives.

We’ve known many psychics who are very skilled at psychically reading individuals, but very few, if any, who are consistently accurate with mundane predictions, such as earthquakes and terrorist attacks. Why? In part, because cities or states don’t have higher-selves to tune into.

Psychic perception of the future isn’t about knowing everything. Instead, it’s similar to remembering an event from your past like a holiday dinner or vacation; you won’t recall every single detail, but do remember the basics and the overall feeling.

Our belief is that at least 75% of the core events and conditions in your life are fated (or destined, predetermined, predestined–these words all have the same meaning). The 25% category includes information the psychic may pick up that never transpires.

The difficulty with accessing the future is that it’s often a challenge to frame the timing. To the person having the extrasensory vision, it may appear to be a circumstance only two years in the future, yet may not really take place until ten or more years from now. Comprehensive astrology and numerology greatly assist to define the timing of the life occurrence.

2. The psychic is reading your mind. It’s possible you have a belief about how your future is going to go, the psychic perceives that, and mistakes your mental impressions for prophesy. However, we believe this is not nearly as common as option number one above.

Keep in mind that many psychics are extremely sensitive to their environments. Thus, if you are anxious, unsettled and, or very skeptical, for example, they are going to pick up on that and it could have a detrimental effect on the session.

3. The reader makes a wild guess, and miraculously hits the mark. Seriously though, the odds of accurately foretelling your path in life, including specific years you’ll encounter key events, and even some of the distinct details are slim to none. In our experience, the skeptics who claim that psychics are guessing, making it up, or otherwise bluffing, have never experienced authentic psychic readings.

Ultimately, our view is that discerning personal fate is a matter of having access to hidden information, the truth of the matter, whether it’s by pure extrasensory talent, astrological and numerological charting and, or through other means. We believe psychic talent is largely inborn, yet you can cultivate and fine-tune what you innately possess.

Who You Really Are vs. Masks and the Mundane

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It’s easy to get caught up in seemingly important material, physical, and other labels because it’s the nature of everyone in society to judge based on those labels.

The real, spiritual you is not your race, personality, gender, age, religion, sexual orientation, height, weight, muscles, legs, breasts, biceps, butt, hair, lack of hair, beautiful or not face, fit or not body, net worth, car, friends, lover, family, city, state, country, clothes, home, pets, toys, habits or addictions, illness, or political affiliation.

Some of these things may enhance the real you, yet excessive focus on many of them can interfere with your true essence. Much of how people identify themselves is far from who they really are on a soul level.

If you find yourself predominantly identifying with one or more of these mundane classifications, you may be straying too far from your authentic self.

Who are you really?

Your soul, including your spiritual history, makes you who you are and we believe you arrived on this planet knowing, subconsciously, all of it. You can remember some of it if you choose, and those memories may help you more easily fulfill your life purposes for this lifetime and deal with the challenges on your path. Past life regression, meditation, comprehensive astrology and numerology, and other tools can help reveal your genuine nature.

Earthbound Personality vs. Spiritual Essence

In addition to numerous mundane incarnations, we believe we have been spiritual aspirants (of various faiths) and metaphysical teachers in many lifetimes and have returned, in part, to do more of the same.

Even though we are responsible, disciplined, work hard, take a very practical approach to life, and are far from being New Age cosmonauts, our mother resists our career paths.

She has told us she wishes we’d never read Shirley Maclaine’s book, “Out on a Limb,” when we were in our early teens. Even though the book was only one of many that helped remind us of who we are and started us on this path again, she blames Shirley for our metaphysical interests and chooses to avoid trying to understand or believe in them.

It’s like a young musician being influenced by multitudes of successful artists in his early years, and having his intolerant mother blame his career path on David Bowie. If her son had only never been exposed to David Bowie, he would be the lawyer or doctor she always wanted, instead of the successful musician, doing what he loves.

Years ago, we took it personally that our mother chose to have a highly skeptical and judgmental attitude about our beliefs and careers. Then one day we did a series of past life regressions about the subject. What we perceived astounded us and caused us to appreciate and love her all the more and even be grateful for her position.

We saw her being terribly traumatized in lifetimes where she witnessed us being persecuted for our beliefs, and lifetimes in which she was persecuted, in part, for her non-traditional spiritual convictions and society believing her to have witch-like psychic powers (she has a lot of psychic talent now, which she denies).

We also had a glimpse of our mother, or the soul of our mother, on the other side, giving us a knowing look and smile. We instantly and intuitively knew that her soul agreed to have a negative position (as our mother) towards our metaphysical interests. This served to help fortify our convictions and belief in ourselves in the face of opposition.

The opposition also came from friends, other family members, and coworkers, especially early on. Now we realize that the resistance was part of the plan and even relates, to some degree, to our own essence: our objective is to identify and share the truth as we interpret it–if we are rejected by some (even family and friends) for simply occasionally being vocal about our view on the spiritual side of life, then so be it. We accept and detach from those who shun us; it’s part of our spiritual agreement and we embrace it.

The lesson? Try not to take it personally when people don’t express their nature beyond the mundane, or acknowledge or accept the spiritual, inner-self you express to the world. It’s just their earthbound personality and they may be serving you perfectly.

Watch Out For Psychics Who Say “Nothing is Set in Stone” 

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Recently, someone e-mailed the following feedback and question about fate, free will, and psychics to us:

“First, I want to say that the older I get the more I believe you are right that the major events in our life were planned by us before we reincarnated. While many may find this frustrating and not want to believe that they don’t have total control over their future, I actually find it comforting.

“There have been many times in my life where I have put forth great effort professionally and personally and things just didn’t work out despite how hard I tried. It’s actually comforting to a large extent to know that those things just weren’t meant to be and there is a larger plan for me.

“Unlike other people who may find your philosophy off putting or limiting I like knowing that the next step or steps in my life are inevitable (if I understand you correctly) as long as I put one step in front of the other and take action and do my best along the way.

“I wanted to ask though, I have been to psychics before and many of them have been quite accurate in predicting events in my life though their timing has been off, why is it that many psychics believe that the future is not fixed and free will can change anything? This actually frustrates me when they say this because I don’t agree!

“Major events in my life have unfolded despite my ‘free will’ and efforts to change them. I just don’t believe things are ALWAYS in my control. You would think a psychic would realize this? Why is it so many don’t?”

Our Response

We believe it’s important to always proactively take appropriate action and assertively strive to reach your goals, yet also realize that the belief of being able to entirely “control your destiny” is largely futile and an ego-self construct.

Directing your destiny is about taking the most appropriate action (free will), which is innately part of your destiny, and also directing your future life destiny through doing the right thing now–destiny is something that extends beyond this life, into future lives.

As we always recommend, keep forging ahead in the direction you feel is optimum.

We believe the major events in your life are predestined, as is meeting the major players. The minor ones may not be, unless they influence you greatly. For example, if you have a “chance” conversation with a stranger who gives you information that leads you to significantly change your life direction, that was likely destined. You then used your free will to achieve your destiny; you moved in that direction and made those choices because they felt like the best options (such decisions hardly seem like “choices”).

You would think that most psychics would tell you that many of your future life circumstances, events, and conditions are set in stone, if they really can predict the future. However, many of them don’t, for one or more of these reasons:

1. They don’t know any better.
2. They don’t want to disappoint you.
3. They don’t want to believe it themselves.
4. They want an excuse as to why their prediction didn’t manifest and it’s easier to blame it on the faulty “nothing is set in stone” myth, or you for “not taking the right path” or “not trying hard enough.”

So what do you do? Keep doing everything you can to reach your goals, yet take comfort in knowing that there is much in life that you can’t alter or avoid, and that your energy is better allocated toward embracing and working with your fate instead of attempting to override it.

Worried She Will Miss Her Destiny

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We received the following question recently:

“What happens if you don’t take action at the right time to manifest your destiny? Does this mean you will miss it? Or miss important events in your life? Will the opportunity present itself again at a later time?”

Based on our empirical research, we believe that at least 75% of the core events, circumstances, and conditions (rewarding and challenging) in your life are predestined. That means those things will transpire no matter what.

To make an analogy, if you miss an exit ramp and that opportunity is passed up, that exit was only part of the 25% that really wasn’t part of your core predetermination. If it, or rather the lessons related to it, were part of your path, something similar will present itself, in time.

Children and Fate

If you are meant to be a parent or mentor for a particular soul, it will happen even if you are unable or choose not to have your own children. The soul will find you through adoption, as a niece or nephew, or perhaps as a neighbor. The bond will usually be special from the beginning, and you’ll both likely recognize the significance.

Career and Fate

If you are meant to influence people through a certain type of work, it will happen even if you don’t consciously plan it. It’s likely you will feel passionate about the work, and sharing it with others will give you pleasure and be something that you just feel compelled to do. The specific form of the work may not be destined, but if it’s meant to be, you’ll somehow get the message, technique, or lesson out to the public.

Love Relationships and Fate

If you are meant to enter a serious relationship during a predestined window of time, you will. That is not to say the relationship is guaranteed to be all that you expect and desire it to be.

If you’re already involved, yet are meant to meet another soul mate, perhaps because your current relationship has expired even though you’re still going through the motions, a marriage certificate or commitment will not prevent destiny. You have free will to act responsibly and honestly, although we’ve witnessed time and time again the swift current of predetermination making a mockery of marriage vows.

If a person has very challenging love life karma, it could very well be their fate to endure excessive anxiety about it. Regrettably, those with challenging love life karma may strong-arm a partner into a “permanent” relationship, then when it falls apart, blame their partner. Enduring romantic satisfaction just isn’t part of their personal fate. However, generating gratitude and acceptance of what they can’t change (which tends to foster happiness) is always an option.

How You Know Which Path to Take

Whichever action feels most right, that you naturally take, especially that which you all but can’t help but take, is part of your fate. Even the apparent mistakes, especially those from which you learn the most, are destined.

The best approach is to let go (daily meditation helps a lot), follow your heart, and avoid fear-based decision-making.

As we mentioned, if you don’t take action at a point in your life to attempt to seize on an evident opportunity, and you likely will if it’s meant to be, fate will find you regardless, within the bounds of your unique personal destiny. By the way, contrary to popular New Age thought, these words all have the same meaning: fate, destiny, predestination, and predetermination.

Life is only meant to be fair related to the degree your karma is rewarding.

Also understand that you aren’t being punished if you have tough karma. Your soul (not your personality) has chosen it in this lifetime for whatever reason, which can be discovered, in part, through past life regression. Realizing the root reasons why often makes it easier to tolerate.

Sociopaths: Identifying and Dealing With Them 

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According to Martha Stout, PhD, author of The Sociopath Next Door, about one in 25 individuals is a sociopath.

A sociopath is someone who lacks a sense of moral responsibility. They’re often very charming and will look you in the eye and smile, be your friend, then later when you’re not around, do whatever they can to get what they want or even intentionally hurt you for their own pleasure. They have no conscience.

Traits of a Sociopath

According to Dr. Stout, other characteristics include the following: they look and act like normal people; they never take responsibility for their actions; when confronted with the outcomes of their behavior, they’ll simply deny it and believe their own lies; they see others as “naive” for doing the right thing; they view their friends, family, and partners as possessions, there to serve them; they can instantly recognize someone who is honest, trusting, yet vulnerable and will prey upon them; they appeal for your sympathy; they’re not able to feel any empathy for anyone, they feel bad when they get caught, but it’s not guilt, they feel bad for themselves.

Does that sound like anyone you know?

We can tell you, based on our work with past life regression, that they’re going to have a very rude awakening when they are faced with their life review on the other side.

Where Does Your Conscience Come From?

Do you have a conscience? If yes, you may think about killing your insane and sadistic boss, but you would never follow through. We believe there exists a spiritual angle to this.

Your parents, we hope, taught you right from wrong. Still, many sociopaths had good parents, so this alone isn’t enough to make someone virtuous.

For some, religion has taught them to do the right thing. Perhaps they are “God fearing” or they believe what their spiritual leaders have told them about the consequences of bad behavior. This can be a very positive thing, but potentially harmful regarding behavior that isn’t truly a “sin.”

We believe everyone has guardian angels (or spiritual guides, or whatever you want to call them) and they often encourage you to do the right thing.

Our findings indicate that past life awareness also contributes to your conscience. If you really messed up in past lives, this time you may be extra careful and overcompensate to avoid making the same mistakes, even if you have no conscious memory of your past lives.

What about people who do follow through and commit horrendous acts? Those who, for instance, plan them ahead of time or casually orchestrate them for the heck of it very well may be sociopaths. They may have been born that way, have gradually acquired mental imbalances and, or abuse in their childhood and other experiences may have contributed.

For others, believe it or not, our findings indicate to us that demons or dark energy can encourage destructive behavior. Our experience with Spiritual Detox ™ shows us that although it’s very rare, extreme possession is possible.

How to Deal With Sociopaths

The author of The Sociopath Next Door gives many tips, including the following:

1) Accept that not everyone has a conscience.

2) Suspect excessive flattery.

3) Abstain from interacting with a sociopath. Cut your losses and avoid them.

4) Trust your instincts.

We’ve found that the best way to enhance your intuition is through meditation. Also, handwriting analysis is a proven way to discover red flags.

Go Ahead and do it–Zero Negative Karma Gained from These 7 Disreputable Acts 

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As you journey through your unique spiritual path, it may be helpful to know which sort of behavior won’t come back to haunt you in a future life. Do you want to avoid some of the problems you’ve experienced in this life? Then you need to always be mindful of your actions.

Through over 25 years of empirical research, our findings regarding negative and positive karma may surprise you. What you may have thought is a negative karma-incurring act actually isn’t.

Below we list 7 things that you can do all you want and not gain a shred of harsh karma.

1. Cussing like a sailor. Although it’s not recommended around kids, of course, they’re just words. Swearing repeatedly, such as while emotionally venting frustration, doesn’t make you incur bad karma.

However, directing negative energy at another person as you swear will create negative karma. Intending harm to someone, even if you don’t lay a hand on that person, is a spiritual crime. Thoughts really are things, and just as it’s possible to feel uplifted by someone sending you love and appreciation, the opposite is true too.

2. Telling a white lie to protect someone. As long as you’re not hurting anyone else, including that person you’re telling the white life for, zero bad karma is incurred.

3. Unintentionally hurting someone in any way. Although the associated guilt makes it tricky; it’s very difficult to avoid negative karma if you can’t forgive yourself and let go of the guilt (including subconscious guilt).

4. Drinking alcohol to the point of moderate drunkenness. If you’re not bothering anyone around you, neglecting your responsibilities, or putting yourself or others in danger, then you’re not incurring negative karma. However, if you drink to excess regularly, you’re harming your health and you’ll have to balance it in future lives.

Our findings indicate that you carry with you into future lives the health you maintain and nurture in this life.

For example, we both have recurring past life themes of drinking too much. That excess and overall neglect of health, whether it was in a monastery as monks through self-deprivation, sailing the seas with few provisions, or as mercenary soldiers in times of famine, negative health karma has caught up to us.

We’re paying the price now with hyper-sensitive digestive tracts and we are forced to take better care of our physical health and maintain a fairly strict diet. If we don’t, we feel, sleep, and look terrible. It’s no fun at times, but our good health practices in this life are balancing out the previous lifetimes of carelessness.

Treat your body right or pay the price in a future incarnation.

5) Killing a mosquito, fly, wasp, roach, ant, rat, or other living organism, unless you do it in a cruel way to intentionally make it suffer. Likewise, killing the negative bacteria and parasites in your body won’t incur negative karma in the least. On the other hand, if you intentionally kill your neighbor’s pet, you’ll incur negative karma.

6) Exceeding the speed limit, running a red light, or otherwise violating traffic laws. Breaking the law in such a way, by itself won’t incur negative karma, but if you put yourself or others at risk, then things could turn disastrous, so it’s best to avoid reckless behavior.

7) Killing or hurting someone in self-defense. Look, if someone broke into either of our homes and our lives were at risk, we’d be happy to greet them with a bullet.

This, by itself does not incur negative karma. However, the associated (false) guilt, if you don’t let go of it, might bind you to that person for another encounter far in the future.

Trying to always do the right thing can be stressful. Go easy on yourself and accept that you won’t indenture yourself to a future lifetime of servitude if you do any of the above things.

Money and Karma: You Won’t Gain Negative Karma With These 7 Things

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Money and spirituality are commonly viewed as incompatible. However, since financial resources are necessary to survive and money by itself takes nothing away from your spirituality, it’s reasonable and wise to simultaneously strive for a healthy spiritual foundation and relationship with money.

Along your spiritual path in life, you may wonder about the karmic implications of assorted financial situations.

Of course, it’s no surprise that negative karma is gained through bullying, manipulating, making false promises, or otherwise abusing your financial power. But there are other situations related to money that are commonly misinterpreted as “not spiritual,” perhaps partially stemming from subconscious past life memories, for example, of vows of poverty.

The conclusions we have drawn from over 25 years of empirical research involving karma and predestination show that no negative karma is picked up from the following seven financial related circumstances.

1. Having more money than God. As long as you earn or otherwise acquire your money through honest means, it’s acceptable, no matter if you’re a millionaire, billionaire, trillionaire, or gazillionaire.

While it’s true that there are individuals in this world who have gained their money dishonestly, it’s wise to avoid grouping everyone of means in that nefarious category. As the saying goes, you can’t become (wealthy) what you resent.

By the way, even though those who inherit wealth are often vilified, we’ve found time and again that they’ve earned every penny through their past life actions. Gaining positive karma now through good deeds is how you positively direct your (future-life) destiny, despite your the core of your current life destiny (fate) being unchangeable.

2. Not giving your wealth to an official charity. Of course, you gain a lot of good karma if you give to those in need, but isn’t everyone in need? Whether you choose to help others through your words, advice, or time rather than donations, or if you elect to give money directly to specific individuals, instead of to an official charity with a bloated budget-It’s your money and no one’s business but your own what you do with it.

3. Gambling. Considering you’re not speculating on credit or avoiding your financial responsibilities, it’s your money and you can do what you want with it. Addiction, which can involve anything, causes neglect and ruin. Gambling itself does not.

4. Spending a lot of money on alcohol or lavish, gourmet meals. While it’s true abusing alcohol or food can make you pick up some nasty karma, in our view, having a few drinks or an expensive meal with friends once in a while won’t break the karma bank. As long as you’re not putting anyone at risk, you’re fine.

5. Blowing all your disposable income on your music collection, art, jewelry, or other non-essential items instead of helping the disadvantaged. Although you’ll always gain good karma by helping others financially, aside from legal or parental obligations, or verbal agreements, the financial needs of others are not your responsibility. However, keep in mind that if you feel guilty about refusing to help someone, that guilt could manifest as negative karma, even if it’s only false guilt.

6. Refusing to give in to pressure and donate your hard-earned money to a political or other cause. Don’t let anyone guilt you into donating. Turning down a request to donate your money won’t incur negative karma.

7. No matter how much in need the person may seem to be, even if he or she gives you a nasty look when you fail to offer your spare change as you pass by, you won’t pick up any negative karma by refusing to give to panhandlers. Their financial situation is not your obligation. Just because you earn more than someone doesn’t mean you owe them. Assist the less fortunate when you are compelled to, not when pressured.

The honest acquisition of and use of financial abundance toward positive means won’t make you incur any negative karma as long as you are not harming yourself or anyone else. Don’t let anyone convince you otherwise.

Zero Negative Karma Gained With These Sex and Relationship Oriented Matters

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There may have been a lot of things you got away with as a kid. But now you know better, we hope. If you’re like most people, you live your life aligned with the expectations of society, but is everything you abide by really for your own good?

Laws, regulations, rules, and more rules. But are they all legitimate from the standpoint of karma, freedom, and personal responsibility?

In your spiritual quest, maybe you’ve asked yourself, “What is acceptable behavior in a karmic sense? What won’t make me gain negative karma?”

Our findings through over 25 years of empirical research on the issue tell us that it’s mostly a matter of making sure you don’t intentionally hurt anyone, or yourself.

Morality is frequently subjective; be wary of conventional wisdom involving “right and wrong.” We believe you won’t ever be punished in the afterlife for many behaviors that are deemed iniquitous in today’s world.

Below we list seven things that are frowned upon in many societies, yet won’t make you incur any negative karma.

1. Breaking up with someone: in other words, dumping him or her. As long as you’re not trying to harm them in the process, you’re in the clear. If it’s over for you, the best thing you can do is leave peacefully. By the way, staying when it’s over for you and not freeing them so they can find someone more compatible could incur negative karma.

2. The act of divorce. Yes, you vowed to be with him or her forever, but feelings change, as do people. An ex who drags their feet and makes it very difficult, out of spite, for the one who wants to leave, however, will incur negative karma.

3. Prostitution between two consenting adults. What about a sex worker (or non sex worker) who has sex with 100s, even 1000s of people? Isn’t that an ethical offense? No, only if you’re under the mistaken impression that sex is wrong or dirty, and in terms of karma, it isn’t.

Sleeping with more than one person will result in zero negative karma being picked up, as long as you’re not ripping off or hurting anyone. In fact, due to the healing benefits of sex, you may even gain positive karma, especially if you’re good in bed. Sex between two consenting adults, no matter if one (or both) is getting paid, just as with matrimonial prostitution, is nobody’s business but theirs.

Conspicuous sanctimoniousness, arising from warped morality and corrupt religiosity, is the root source of many laws today relating to sex and intimate relationships. Interestingly, those who force their personal, subjective morality onto others, through laws that rob personal freedoms, incur negative karma.

4. Living together before marriage. Another religiously based forbidden act, yet zero negative karma related to it.

5. Having children out of wedlock. Absolutely no bad karma acquired here, as long as you don’t neglect your responsibilities.

6. Having an open relationship or marriage. Yes, even if you have 100 lovers at the same time, as long as you are honest about it and you haven’t made any false promises or intentionally hurt anyone, you are in the clear. Just act responsibly, including having safe sex.

7. Homosexuality. Interpret ancient religious texts as you choose, but consensual sex between two people of the same gender won’t incur negative karma, at all.

It’s best to avoid illegal conduct, yet you’ll spare yourself the guilt if you live your life in accordance with an understanding of the law of karma instead of the restrictive code of conduct forced on you by the morality squad.

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