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Buy
into a Group
Buy
into its Karma
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You are born into a family or family arrangement and into a nation and
however you decide to deal with it, you will have acquired the Karma of those
group entities.
You do,
however, have some choice about the other groups you join, support or merely
associate with. You join a group and you will acquire a piece of its Karma. The
level of Karma will be determined by the influence the group has over you and
by your commitment of the group. Even by just passively supporting a group you
will get a Karmic payback.
Annie
Besant outlines the mechanics of Group Karma here:-
Extracts from A Study in Karma
By
Annie Besant 1917
This short extract on Group Karma is the
pre-ample to the piece on Family Karma which I used in the Family Karma entry
of
Collective
Karma
We must consider
what is termed Collective Karma, the complex into which are woven the results
of the collective thoughts, desires and activities of groups, whether large or
small. The
principles
at work are the same, but the factors are far more numerous, and this
multiplicity immensely increases the difficulty of understanding the effects.
The idea
of considering a group as a larger individual is not alien from modern science,
and such larger individuals generate karma along lines similar to those which
we have been studying. A family, a nation, a race, are all but larger
individuals, each having a past behind it, the creator of its present, each
with a future ahead of it, now in course of creation. An ego coming into
such a
larger individual must share in its general karma; his own special karma has
brought him into it, and must be worked out within it, the larger karma often
offering conditions which enable the smaller to act.
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The associations and things which attract you during your life
are Karmic as are your family etc but you still have free will and the ability
to discern which groups are likely to dump some bad Karma on you.
You can pick up some Karma from a group which existed in the
past. Mind and attitude are important here and just reading about something
won’t do much. If you study and have an affinity with a group from history such
as the Cathars then you can expect a small piece of their Karma. Some members
of historical re-enactment groups such as the Sealed Knot (English Civil War)
have an affinity with the people and ideas of the period they cover and will
thereby acquire some appropriate Karma.
By reviving and promoting ideas from a historical group, you not
only buy some of the group’s Karma but also generate some new Karma for that
group and yourself as if you were a group member.
It is possible that an affinity with a historical group could
have arisen from past life experience and by picking up on the group in this
life you are already working out group and personal Karma. This often emerges
at an early age and is usually coupled with a desire to return the relevant
earlier period of history.
A Study in Karma By Annie Besant
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