Creating Good Karma: Release your karmic burdens and change your life

by Nevill Drury, Penny Lovelock (Illustrator), Sue Ninham (Illustrator)

We have all heard the expression "good karma," but what does it really mean? Expressed very simply, the Eastern concept of karma is based on the principle that our own personal actions and decisions will have specific consequences- that what we do now will have a spin-off effect further down the line. According to the karmic philosophy of life, positive thoughts and actions produce a positive outcome and create good karma. Negative thoughts and actions result in negative outcomes and create bad karma.

Creating Good Karma provides a guide to creating good karma and shows how we can apply the universal principles of karma to our modern Western lifestyle. Some of the fascinating themes explored here include:

Bringing karma into everyday living
Watching our actions, thoughts and emotions
Releasing ourselves from negativity
Karma and personal development
How to develop good karma

78 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2002

About the author

Nevill Drury PhD is an independent historical researcher whose specialist interests include modern Western magic, shamanism, transpersonal psychology and visionary art. His most recent publications include The Varieties of Magical Experience (co-authored with Lynne Hume; Praeger, January 2013), Dark Spirits: The Magical Art of Rosaleen Norton and Austin Osman Spare (Salamander, 2012); Stealing Fire from Heaven: the Rise of Modern Western Magic (Oxford University Press 2011); Homage to Pan (Creation Oneiros 2009), The Dictionary of Magic (Watkins 2005) and The New Age: the History of a Movement (Thames & Hudson 2004). He received his Ph.D from the University of Newcastle in 2008 for a dissertation on the visionary art and magical beliefs of Rosaleen Norton (awarded 'Best Humanities Ph.D'. in that year).

Born in England in 1947 but resident in Australia since 1963, Nevill has worked as an international art-book publisher, lecturer and magazine editor and is now a full-time writer. He is the author/co-author/editor of seventy books covering a range of subjects like contemporary art (Images in Contemporary Australian Painting, New Sculpture, Australian Painting Now, Fire and Shadow: Spirituality in Contemporary Australian Art), Aboriginal culture (Wisdom from the Earth), holistic health (The Healing Power, Inner Health) and the magical traditions (Dark Spirits; Stealing Fire from Heaven: Sacred Encounters; Homage to Pan, Inner Visions). He is also the author of a work of mythic fiction, The Shaman's Quest, which was described by Publisher's Weekly as a 'poetic' book that 'could become a classic'. His work has been published in 26 countries and 19 languages.

Reviews

[Tara Beal]

enjoyable and informative if you're into karma