Theos-Talk Archives (March 2005 Message tt00229)

I wonder if anybody here might want to 
comment on how one might distinguish 
between effects or events in life in 
terms of how such might be seen as 
having been brought on by "Karma,' on 
the one hand, and/or "Chaos Factor," on 
the other hand ... I'm tending to 
speculate (when wearing my exoteric hat) 
along the lines that "Chaos Factor" 
might be seen to have a "karmic aspect" 
to it, in a sense: that "apparently 
chaotic occurances" might alternatively 
be interpreted as having some sort of 
"as-yet-undefined relationship" with 
what might be known as "collective 
karma." In other words, seems to me 
that some people (maybe even some 
mainstream scientists ... if not so much 
myself, exactly ...) might be inclined 
to speculate or "believe" that there 
might be some forms of "apparently 
random occurances" that might be 
essentially defined or calculable as to 
causes if enough of the causal factors 
(or how about "apparent causal 
factors"...) were taken into account 
(although I, myself, might tend to 
speculate along the lines that "causal 
factors" might generally tend to get 
"comparatively short shrift" in more or 
less mainstream terms, where one's 
worldview might be seen as having a 
somewhat limiting effect, [in some cases 
...], whereas the Esoteric/Wisdom 
Tradition, I suspect, might suggest that 
"causal factors" and "karma" might be 
seen as somewhat synonomous and kind of 
loopy and mayavic inasmuchas thay might 
be interpreted as having "origins" (note 
quotes) in dependent/conditional 
arisings, to begin with ... though 
"origins" in that context might not be 
Really applicable from a "more esoteric 
perspective," I tend to suspect ...). 
But inasmuchas we humans find ourselves 
kind of stuck in our worldview, what can 
we say ...

Speculatively,
Mauri