If there is karma, does a person have free will?

Main subjects

AVAlexander VolchekKarma, free will, and causalityKarmaFreedomFree willChildren, parenting, and family life

Main threads of the conversation

• 00:00In this episode
• 00:19An example with children: limitations, boundaries, and the feeling of freedom
• 02:46Is everything predetermined, or is there room for choice?
• 05:36How energies form in a person
• 09:29Three energies that influence a person: karma, heredity, and freedom
• 13:04Freedom is…
• 15:35How karma arose
• 17:40Where free will exists
• 25:11How a person's system forms
• 30:00Difficult events, trauma, and the depth of their causes
• 33:10The other side of freedom
• 35:09The perception of time
• 45:05How a person's karma forms
• 50:11How to avoid chaos
• 51:10The material and spiritual worlds: which comes first?
• 53:17Consequences in the spiritual world and the question of responsibility

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• 05:26

  However much we examine children's karmic processes, today's fundamentally material-minded person does not approach a child with the idea that a particular energy may be present within them at that moment.

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• 10:37

  It is important to understand that karma is not simply a set of actions put into you at some earlier point. It is something being created now and constantly, endlessly projected into a person. That is one side.

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• 16:04

  Every person always has an impulse, and you could call it a cell of light.

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• 29:07

  The spiritual being resists, saying, “We do not need to save them. We need to live through their deaths.”

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• 32:11

  All this starts becoming increasingly useless. There is always a zone where the entire flow is, on the one hand, predetermined and, on the other, unimportant.

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• 38:14

  It is important to realize that there is time between death and birth, and that the time between death and birth is longer than the time between birth and death.

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• 47:43

  This time is actually needed not to create something new, but to truly live through, analyze, and understand what has happened in their life.

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• 48:35

  “Why do some people seem to open their eyes at forty-five and become clairvoyant?” Because a person can become an initiate at forty-five. They can readily become an initiate.

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• 49:56

  People will keep inventing things. They stand there saying, “It is a new moon: do this. It is a full moon: do that.”

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• 52:45

  We always need to truly examine the attitudes people form.

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