Dr Christine Page wrote: “Karma is not punishment for wrong doing. It is there to help us to understand both poles of existence (spirit and matter) and to choose to become neither. ”

“If we choose or fail to take advantage of the opportunity before us then in view of the fact that life is a spiral, the same experience will be offered again in a different guise. However, there is no guarantee that it will be easier next time. ”

“the purpose of man is to develop self-consciousness, i.e. to see himself as separate from his personality and then to lose this separation as the energies of the soul and personality merge to form spiritual man.

This is an esoteric strategy to attain final union with our God. For me this is a more doable injunction than the religious mandate to be perfect as the father is How?

Dr Page continued: ” This increase in consciousness is achieved by experiencing and accepting various aspects of duality and recognizing first their differences and then their sameness. In this way man can start to see himself as both spirit and matter and then to see that they are from the same source.”

I can’t help but wonder why in college we were not taught the above. In college and through life the strong dictum of religion and mainstream Catholicism has been to know, to love and serve God. How? How in the 21st century when conditions are sooooo different from Biblical times? I pray that soon my Catholic religion will be made more relevant. I still go to Mass and the sacraments but not due to compliance but I believe they truly connect me to my God.