Hi Chloe

You are asking some profound questions at a very young age.

My perspective:

– I am not religious but know the essence of each religion.
– I have been practicing meditation for a little while now and have been working on self for some time too to answer the same questions that you have raised. Finally, I have come to a stage where I do not have a questioning state of mind but a state of mind, which seeks solutions 🙂 and am still a work in progress.

– There is universal consciousness (some call it God or superpower etc) and there is individual consciousness (each being) but we are all part of one as it is all energy.

– You can also call it as “absolutely nothing” or you can call it as, “it is everything”. It doesn’t really matter.

– I do believe in Karma Law now, which says that we are responsible for everything that happens in our lives. It gives the power back to us to take charge of our existence. Each action of ours lead to an outcome and every outcome can be a favourable one or an unfavourable one. What we do with an action and an outcome depends purely on the level of our consciousness.

– With my growing understanding, I have come to a conclusion that things do happen as they are meant to be but we have a choice of how to react to them and that determines our future. For example: an incident occurs – we can either respond to it in a negative way and get stuck to it or we can become detached from it and learn what the incident is teaching us. If we decide to learn, we grow our consciousness and move forward. Our future becomes light and bright. It is very simple to test this law out. What don’t you try it ?

– Another way of looking at Karma law is to see how things operate in the nature. When a tomato seed is sown, it grows into a tomato plant and we get tomatoes in a few weeks. Sow a mango seed and in a few years, we will see a mango tree and some beautiful mangoes. Some seeds germinate quickly while others take years to grow into a form. Similarly, our actions today may lead to immediate outcomes or they can lead to delayed outcomes depending on the intensity and persistence of our reaction.

– What goes around comes around multifold. Again, try it before you believe it. As for the timing of when it comes around, no one knows as at a higher consciousness level, time has no meaning. Some things materialise quickly and others takes a life time and there after (if you believe in that) but the ledger has to balance out. For example: If someone borrows a dollar from you, they will have to return the dollar or some form of it someday. There are no favours or negative balance sheet.

– Have you ever wondered why you got the set of parents you did and not Prince Charles or Dianna as your parents ? Have you wondered why you meet certain people at certain points in life ? Why do some people bring so much love into our lives while others make our lives difficult at the drop of a hat? Why does a total stranger transform our life in a second and then disappear ?

– Fortune tellers are accurate to a point. They use science to determine some aspects of how things have been and how your current thinking can lead to similar outcomes in the future. Do you think Bill Gates or Obama frequent fortune tellers ? There is a select group of people who go to fortune tellers as they feel that life is outside of their control and someone else is controlling their destiny. Once you realise that you are the creator of your today and tomo and every other day, you wont need fortune tellers and even if you do trial them out, they wont be able to predict your future then as your thinking has gone beyond their science.

– Yes, many people can see future or predict things. It is an ability that ALL of us have but we just don’t know about it as yet. Grow your consciousness and you will be a clairvoyant one day too 🙂

Ok enough of high level stuff. As long as Chloe believes that Chloe is responsible for everything that happens in life, she will take an action to improve her life. When the responsibility is placed on anything else other than Chloe, the action disappears and life becomes a drag.

Hope this helps. I am sure there are many evolved Buddhas on this site who will offer a different insight and I look forward to their inputs.

Jasmine