Editing Karma (section)

==Comparable concepts==
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[[File:It Shoots Further Than He Dreams.jpg|alt=|thumb|''It Shoots Further Than He Dreams'' by John F. Knott, March 1918]]
[[Western culture]], influenced by Christianity,<ref name=KarmaParveshSingla/> holds a notion similar to karma, as demonstrated in the phrase "[[wikt:what goes around comes around|what goes around comes around]]".

=== Christianity ===
Mary Jo Meadow suggests karma is akin to "Christian notions of [[Christian views on sin|sin]] and its effects."<ref name="Meadow2007">{{cite book|last=Meadow|first=Mary Jo|title=Christian Insight Meditation|date=28 August 2007|publisher=Wisdom Publications Inc|isbn=978-0-86171-526-8|page=199}}</ref> She states that the Christian teaching on a [[Last Judgment]] according to one's charity is a teaching on karma.<ref name="Meadow2007"/> Christianity also teaches morals such as [[wikt:reap what one sows|one reaps what one sows]] ([[Epistle to the Galatians|Galatians]] 6:7) and [[live by the sword, die by the sword]] ([[Gospel of Matthew|Matthew]] 26:52).<ref>{{cite book|title=Karma, rhythmic return to harmony |author=Haridas Chaudhuri|year=2001 |publisher=Motilal Banarsidass Publishers|isbn=978-81-208-1816-3|pages=78 & 79 |quote=The Meaning of Karma in Integral Philosophy |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ve_Nim-MChcC&pg=PA78}}</ref> Most scholars, however, consider the concept of Last Judgment as different from karma, with karma as an ongoing process that occurs every day in one's life, while Last Judgment, by contrast, is a one-time review at the end of life.<ref>Raymond Collyer Knox and Horace Leland Friess, The Review of Religion, Volume 1, Columbia University Press, pp 419–427</ref>

===Judaism===
There is a concept in Judaism called in Hebrew ''midah k'neged midah'', which is often translated as "measure for measure".<ref>{{citation |url=https://kotar.cet.ac.il/kotarapp/index/Page.aspx?nBookID=99643983&nTocEntryID=99646212&nPageID=99643996 |title=Measure for measure in the storytelling Bible |author=Jonathan Jacobs |isbn=965-7086-28-0 |publisher=Tvunot |year=2006 |access-date=30 January 2022 |archive-date=30 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220130055316/https://kotar.cet.ac.il/kotarapp/index/Page.aspx?nBookID=99643983&nTocEntryID=99646212&nPageID=99643996 |url-status=live }}</ref> The concept is used not so much in matters of law, but rather in matters of [[divine retribution]] for a person's actions. [[David Wolpe]] compared ''midah k'neged midah'' to karma.<ref>{{Cite AV media
|title=Toldot - Training the Hands of Esau with the Voice of Jacob
| last= Wolpe | first= David
| place=Los Angeles
| date= 18 November 2017
| chapter= Drash
|url=https://www.sinaitemple.org/worship/sermons/toldot-training-hands-esau-voice-jacob/|access-date=2023-01-14|publisher=Sinai Temple}}</ref>

===Psychoanalysis===
[[Carl Jung]] once opined on unresolved emotions and the [[synchronicity]] of karma;
{{Blockquote|When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.<ref>Jung, C.G. and Wolfgang Pauli, The Interpretation of Nature and Psyche, New York: Pantheon Books, 1955</ref>}}

Popular methods for negating [[cognitive dissonance]] include [[meditation]], [[metacognition]], [[counselling]], [[psychoanalysis]], etc., whose aim is to enhance emotional self-awareness and thus avoid negative karma. This results in better emotional hygiene and reduced karmic impacts.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.speakingtree.in/blog/what-is-karma-223607|title=What is Karma?|date=September 3, 2013 |access-date=2020-05-23|website=www.speakingtree.in|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200802235655/https://www.speakingtree.in/blog/what-is-karma-223607|url-status=live |archive-date=2 August 2020}}</ref> Permanent neuronal changes within the [[amygdala]] and left [[prefrontal cortex]] of the human brain attributed to long-term meditation and metacognition techniques have been proven scientifically.<ref>Davidson, Richard J.; Kabat-Zinn, Jon; Schumacher, Jessica; Rosenkranz, Melissa; Muller, Daniel; Santorelli, Saki F.; Urbanowski, Ferris; Harrington, Anne; Bonus, Katherine; and Sheridan, John F. (2003) "Alterations in Brain and Immune Function Produced by Mindfulness Meditation." ''Psychosomatic Medicine'' '''65''': 564–570.</ref> This process of emotional maturation aspires to a goal of [[Individuation]] or [[self-actualisation]]. Such [[peak experiences]] are hypothetically devoid of any karma ([[nirvana]] or [[moksha]]).

=== Theosophy ===
The idea of karma was popularized in the [[Western world]] through the work of the [[Theosophical Society]]. In this conception, karma was a precursor to the [[Neopaganism|Neopagan]] ''law of return'' or ''[[Rule of Three (Wicca)|Threefold Law]],'' the idea that the beneficial or harmful effects one has on the world will return to oneself. Colloquially this may be summed up as 'what goes around comes around.'

Theosophist [[I. K. Taimni]] wrote, "Karma is nothing but the Law of Cause and Effect operating in the realm of human life and bringing about adjustments between an individual and other individuals whom he has affected by his thoughts, emotions and actions."<ref>I.K. Taimni ''Man, God and the Universe'' Quest Books, 1974, p. 17</ref> [[Theosophy]] also teaches that when humans reincarnate they come back as humans only, not as animals or other organisms.<ref>E.L. Gardner ''Reincarnation: Some Testimony From Nature'' 1947</ref>