That’s a very good question. I chatted about this very thing with James. He remembers Glen Hoddle getting sacked as England football manager after stating that disabled folks are paying a karmic debt.

It caused an outrage as you can imagine.

Can I plead the 5th here? :-)

I wondered as a child why, if there was a God, why would He let bad stuff happen. I was told that we have choices — free will and we make our own mistakes. Clearly, God isn’t stopping bad stuff from happening.

Kids are getting cancer due to natural causes. Isn’t everything cause and effect? Why are kids getting cancer in the first place. I can’t help thinking it’s due to all the crazy stuff going on — our polluted world, polluted food, poor soils, poor nutrition of the mother, human milk ’substitutes’. The list of madness is long.

Did the child bring the cancer on in a spiritual sense? That’s too deep for me to answer with absolute certainly. It starts to ask questions of a profound philosophical nature and I don’t think this is the place for that.

All I can say is that I believe in the law of attraction and I have a feeling our very life is as it is because we were attracted to this particular life so that existing karma can be played out. So even at our birth, perhaps karma and LOA are at work?

Perhaps from a higher perspective, it’s all good… lessons are being learnt, we are always growing.

I am personally very comfortable with the idea of past and future lives and that being the case, one life from an eternity adds up to the blink of an eye. Apparently, there’s even a bit in the bible that refers to John the Baptist’s past lives and the Essenes believe in past life too.

I am doing plenty of expert political side stepping of the issue here and going off at tangents but the bottom line is I don’t know. I believe what I believe for good reason though.

This message is everywhere and once you see it, you do see it everywhere.

I visited a website last night about the ‘Maitraya Project’ and there they wish us all to meditate on ‘loving-kindness’. We focus on a supreme being of purity and absorb his/her loving kindness.

What’s this if it’s not setting a new cause in motion — putting ouselves in a new state, a new vibration — changing stuff from the inside out?

I remember a buddhist master saying that if one looked at this particular mandala, it would bring about enlightenment. Not immediately but would be a new cause that would have that effect. More LOA?

Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh urges people to always smile — a half smile or inner smile. What is this if not setting a cause in motion? Changing our ‘inner’ vibration?

There maybe unknown factors in childhood cancer apart from the obvious natural ones. Ultimately everything has a spiritual cause. Our inner states, if we are at peace or angry is bound to have massive physical consequences.

I remember reading Rudolf Steiner and he talked about individual, family, community and race ’spirit’.

In other words, as well as individual karma, perhaps we also have karma in connection with other close people throughout many lives?

As a whole human race we are doing very bad stuff to the planet and each other. We pay the price… we reap what we sow no?

Childhood cancer is only a fraction of the immense human suffering going on at the moment as well as suffering inflicted by us as a whole onto nature.

Like I said I don’t know but I believe in LOA because all religions speak of it — can they all be wrong, all the ancient and wise spiritual text drawn from the great masters, Lao Tzu, Buddha, Jesus, Krishna and others? But also like any belief it’s subject to doubt.

I’m not calling this ‘knowledge’ but belief so that says something — it says that I’m not 100% sure. It’s second hand knowledge to me at least. It’s definately an intellectual belief, a reasoning given the overwhelming evidence in its favour.

If I had to put a % on it I would say I’m 95% LOA is right. Bottom line on childhood cancer — I don’t know :-)

Ulimately we have to face the possibility that nothing is real, and that the song is really true — “life is but a dream.” Since I only experience my own nervous system, I could be making everything up… including this conversation with you :-)

Life sure is mysterious :-)

Take care
Mike.