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From Birth to Rebirth

A time comes when he has to exist by himself, when aids, supports, and guides are withdrawn. This happens in meditation, dying, or between births.

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Whether you ascribe the secrets of happenings in your life to karma, to fate, to other people, to blind processes of Nature, or to any other cause, leave some space for the X-factor, the unknown and unknowable which does not belong to anything which you can measure or comprehend.

1. Death, Dying, and Immortality
   • Continuity, transition, and transformation
   • The event of death
   • The aftermath of death
2. Rebirth and Reincarnation
   • The influence of past tendencies
   • Reincarnation and Mentalism
   • Beliefs about reincarnation
   • Reincarnation and the Overself
3. Laws and Patterns of Experience
   • Defining karma, fate, and destiny
   • Karma's role in human development
   • Destiny turns the wheel
   • Astrology, fate, and free will
   • Karma, free will, and the Overself
4. Free Will, Responsibility, and The World-Idea
   • The limitations of free will
   • The freedom we have to evolve
   • Human will in the World-Idea