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Originally Posted by annie  Does LOA "HAVE" to involve karma & reincarnation...like impaul99 claims?
And are you insinuating by using these terms that it has a religious flavor to it? |
I would invite you to look at things like reincarnation as "spiritual" as opposed to religious.
My definition of believing in spirituality is that one believes that we are spiritual beings that occupy a human body for our time here on earth but after we biologically die we do NOT cease to exist. If you believe spirit goes on beyond a single human lifetime, then you believe in some form of spirituality.
If you believe that we are simply biological machines who live for 70 years and then become dirt and our consciousness is really our brain which dies, then you don't believe in the presence of spirit.
*IF* you believe in the presence of spirit, then you can build your own set of beliefs from the ground up. RELIGION is just ONE set of beliefs around spirituality. You do not have to prescribe to all the beliefs of any one religion to be spiritual. In fact, I don't, and neither does Steve Pavlina or many others here. A lot of us believe in the concept of spirituality, but not in the concept of following any one religion 100%.
Anyway, just something to think about.