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August 2026

Karma Yoga Explained: The Yoga of Action

Quick answer Karma yoga is the discipline of doing your work without depending on how it turns out. It is not volunteering, it is not doing good deeds...

Iris Fern August 11, 2026 14 min read
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August 2026

Karmic Debt Numbers 13, 14, 16 and 19 Explained

What a karmic debt number is, how to check whether you have one, where the system really comes from, and what Indian sources actually say about karma and...

Dr. Aurelian Vheis August 11, 2026 15 min read
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August 2026

Dharma vs Karma: What the Difference Is

Dharma is what you ought to do; karma is what follows from what you did. Where each word came from, why karma began as a term for ritual,...

Dr. Aurelian Vheis August 11, 2026 12 min read
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Akashic Records: Origin and Meaning

Akasha is Sanskrit for space, and it never meant a record. The archive was assembled by Theosophists in the 1880s and Americanised by Edgar Cayce. The full paper...

Liv Amara Sonnborn August 11, 2026 12 min read
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August 2026

Past Life Regression: What It Can Show

Where the practice came from, why the Bridey Murphy case collapsed, what hypnosis actually does to memory, and how to hold a session that meant something to you...

Ida Falk August 11, 2026 12 min read
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Soul Contracts: Meaning and How to Release One

The full lineage from Plato to Caroline Myss, an honest accounting of what a release ritual does and does not do, a four-step version we can defend, and...

Temple of Desire August 11, 2026 10 min read
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Karmic Relationship: Signs and Meaning

What a karmic relationship is said to be, where the term actually comes from, each sign set against the psychology that explains it, and the point at which...

Temple of Desire August 11, 2026 10 min read