i love cazzer's view best. karma is in our subconscious and when anything bad happens after we have done something bad doesn't matter is it is after a decades an honest question is it possible to live life without occasional bad sides?! wake-up
this is a concept that has been thrown around for a while, if you dont believe in karma, then it shouldn't harm you. the biggest problem with that issue is getting people to completely rid themselves of the fear of karma. This is mainly why I have created hexes and I have created blessings, I figure they should equal each other out eh?
True. But you have to also remember Darwin's law's in this.
Just because sometyhing negative comes out of something we do, doesn't mean it comes from karma or the threefold law. It can easily be the results of our actions we didn't foresee. ;)
for me i know for sure there are lot of spells without bad effect, all these talk about karma is a lie and it comes from personal experience, i am not a spell caster though but i met this man who have cast spells for me 2 times and both worked accurately without any side effect i used to be scared about karma and all free will consideration but there is no bad effect to it and that was what the man told me before casting the spell.
I believe whatever you put out there good or bad will come back to you the same way. Funny thing that is though, because you could think that you are doing good, when you are causing harm...So bad will come back to you. Be as specific as you can in a spell. For instance if you do a spell for money, next week Grandma dies and leaves you an inheritance. Instead of asking for money, try asking for say, employment which would equate to money. Another example: You have to have this person be in love with you. You cast a spell and then this person becomes obsessed and stalker-ish. Instead ask for the right person to come into your life...
for me amichai has said it the best, even though she may not say its the simple law of karma, no one said you cannot do anything for your personal gain, but it must not deprive anyone else of their own desire etc
and its very true what you do comes back to you. we will all be "spanked" for wrong deeds and be blessed for right ones.
I personally find when people say "how can we tell what is right" it is an excuse to practice wicked deeds and block out their conscious. eg if i shot a man in cold blooded murder i go to jail, so mundane so magickal.
but commenting to ami's money spell issue, you can ask specifically where your money can come from keeping in mind to remove any negative elements.
"how can we tell what is right"
there is nothing that is right and nothing that is wrong, man has created these false moralities. if you choose to follow them so be it, but not everyone is inclined to believe everything they are told.
I am not saying we should all be able to run the streets, raping killing and stealing from everyone, but theres no place for "right and wrong" in religion and philosophy. The government is intact to enforce the laws of man, the gods are around to enforce the laws of life.
The problem of church and state first came around when governments used Christianity as a way for mass population control...(don't do things we dont want you to do because we dont want to have to stop you.)
if you look at many Christian morals they closely follow the laws of any established government. and when a religion was used to help control people in government, religion itself became tainted with governmental values.
so what I am really trying to say is dont kill people because then everyone else would want to kill people, causing civil disorder wich no one really wants.
don't kill for the government, not karma