Magic Monday

[ecosophia]

It's getting on for midnight, so we can proceed with a new Magic Monday. Ask me anything about occultism and I'll do my best to answer it. Any question received by midnight Monday Eastern time will get an answer. (Any question received after then will not get an answer, and will likely just be deleted.) If you're in a hurry, or suspect you may be the 143,916th person to ask a question, please check out the very rough version 1.0 of The Magic Monday FAQ here.

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A very serious question about karma

[(Anonymous)]

Do the more advanced* animals like primates incur a karmic burden for behaviors like (to pick one I personally find reprehensible) randomly battering subordinates to insure their own dominance? Or does that not matter because they are innocent animals acting according to their nature? *I do realize you can't fault a cat for playing with a mouse it's caught!*

And what about humans living in a culture where such behaviors are not only the norm, but considered right and proper. What karmic burden do they incur? We postmoderns have gone on a crusade to condemn people of the past for behaving in ways we of the future dislike, and am I projecting that when I ask this question? Even when the behaviors visibly do harm to others? That famous "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do," keeps coming to mind.

And if any of this is true, then the standards we are supposed to live up to are those of angels, and as one of Shakespeare's characters said, "then no man would escape a whipping."

Or is this just a formerly Christian background finding this to be a problem?

Thanks,

The Grey Badger

Re: A very serious question about karma

[ecosophia]

As I understand it, all human souls incur karma for everything they do, good, indifferent, and bad. So do animals -- the cat who plays with a mouse is helping to build the character of the soul incarnate in it, by taking on the karma of innocent cruelty. The crucial point to remember here is that karma is not blame. Karma is simply the consequences of action. We all inevitably generate it, and experience its consequences, life after life, as an inescapable part of learning the lessons of the human plane. By the time a soul on the human level has reached the point of assessing actions on the basis of their karmic results, that soul has come a long way and is preparing to move on beyond the human level.

Karma is not blame, and nobody gets punished for it; we simply experience the results of our actions, and learn from them.

Re: A very serious question about karma

[(Anonymous)]

A somewhat related question has been kicking around in my head lately:

What sort(s) of karma do our actions towards animals (or plants, for that matter) generate?

For instance, I was reading a kid's book on Jane Goodall. It makes mention of infant chimpanzees being kidnapped and sold to laboratories, which made me tear up. Does egregious cruelty towards less-developed souls generate less karma than egregious cruelty towards humans?

-Cliff

Re: A very serious question about karma

[ecosophia]

Every action without exception generates karma. It's not a matter of "more" or "less" but of the specific quality of karma, which varies according to a galaxy of subtle variables.