It's OK To Throw Out Your Crystal Ball.

What goes around comes around. Three-fold law. Karma. The common denominator between ideas like this is that your actions in life and towards others will effect the outcome of your own future. Cheat and be cheated on. Steal and get stolen from. Lie and be lied to. Only worse. But this isn't so much because you did that one thing which caused that other one thing to happen. It's more just the type of people you interact with, or environment you put yourself in to result in being hurt yourself in the end.

You can say someone who has led their life selling drugs, ripping people off, lying, and so on and so forth who eventually meets their own demise via overdose did so due to Karma. But I think it's more the (karma induced) painful life they were leading DUE to selling drugs, ripping people off, lying and so on and so forth and resulting own self hatred which led them to eventually OD on the very substance they hurt so many people in the process of obtaining. That's more irony. Which is for a totally different entry.

Or, of course, there's the better side which most people don't think about when they use terms such as karma. Take in a stray dog off the street, and you'll be blessed with a loyal and loving friend for years. Give up your seat on the subway for someone who needs it more (they don't have to be pregnant or elderly, sometimes it's obvious a person's internal baggage is weighing them down more than they can handle), not only will you receive a gracious smile (hopefully - and if not then that other person's own Karma just took a dip) but you'll also just feel better about yourself in general, knowing that you did the right thing.

I think it's the better side of Karma which people should learn to focus more upon. Even if it IS for the "selfish" reason of feeling better about yourself. Who cares? As long as you don't expect recognition for the things you do, big or small, you'll more often than not be pleasantly surprised when you receive it after all. Not to mention the more people who practice this, the better the world would be as a whole.

And then there's intuition. Intuition is what I believe people such as Psychics and Spiritualists possess. Which is not to say that they're able to see the future...kind of. It's more that hightened intuition gives one the ability to look at the same scenario and see it for what it really is, more so than the average person. They're able to pick up on the little things that most people would miss. And yes, to have that "sixth sense" of sometimes unexplainable thoughts or feelings about something or someone. So it's not so much the ability to see the future...but more the ability to know how events will pan out based upon the parties involved or just...that feeling. Hmm...and after rereading that last sentence, maybe it's intuition which would help a person read that and understand the difference.

While it helps to possess this trait, it can hinder a person as well. Because while it's easy enough to decipher the problems and situations in another person's life, it's when the problem's and situation's are ones own that the gut feelings can be ignored, the little things missed and better judgment based on hindsight (which isn't even intuition at this point, only factual evidence) dispelled. And then you're left with the how did I not see this coming? thought process which is counteracted with how did I let this happen to me...and ignore what I did see?

Ignorance is bliss until it isn't which is why it is.

To sum it up, all these concepts and phrases have the ability to ultimately either control your life and the directions it goes, if you believe in such things...or control your life and the directions it goes, if you don't believe in such things. Or that's the belief, at least ;)