Hi Calypso,

What I meant was that we are bound to action and reaction (karma) until we understand our true spiritual nature, and seek to act lovingly.

The majority of unhappiness comes from people so immersed in their own ego and the physical world that they go through repeated loops of trauma, attracting negative situations into their lives again and again; making some material gains here and there but feeling that something is missing.  Being unhappy, yet not knowing why...

When we understand that we are creative beings - that thought means something - that our deepest thoughts affect probabilities and outcomes in our own lives and the lives of others, then at some point we decide we will either act and think lovingly/unselfishly or continue on the path of ego and selfishness. 

Do the vast majority of people "get it," and rise above selfish/egotistical thought and action?  Probably not.  But there is limitless time, and with each life experience we get another chance to get the message.

So yeah, if you and I examine our lives, really honestly and open up, we often can see what we attracted into our earth lives, and then (and here is the great thing) we have the option to change our thought, and change what we become.  It can happen now, while we are "alive" (incarnate) or later after our bodies fall off.  But it is up to each of us individually to decide when to evolve.

Matthew