okay, so Im an athiest, but I also believe in yer basic hippie-dippy spirituality, reincarnation, karma, 'energy', has anyone else found these beliefs to coexist well before? it works out fine for me, Id like to see if theres anyone else out there with similar beliefs, or anything like that.
Just for clarity the word Karma means intentional action. There is another term; vipaka, which means " th result of intentional action. So karma/vipaka just means that the quality of your experience now (vipaka) is the result of your past intentional actions (karma). Actions motivated by greed, hatred etc. degrade the quality of ones experience, while actions motivated by compassion uplift the quality of ones experince. This ties in with reincarnation and energy. Not energy in the sense of being some mystical spiritual force, but energy in the sense that things are simply happening. Like me typing my thoughts on this thread, finger hitting hitting the butons, words appearing on screen, people reading and comprehending, etc. It takes energy to do stuff and for stuff to happen. Its process or transformation, not birth and death or beginning and ending. Like cotton into thread, thread into shirt, shirt into dirty ragged shirt, dirty ragged shirt into something to wipe your ass with when there is no toilet paper, shitty ragged shirt tossed on side of the road to disentegrate into the earth, worm food, worm excrement, grass, flowers plants an so on... That is just how shit works, it applies to everything, even the thing we think is a self, mind, emotions, individuality. It just another phenomena, part of the weave that is the frabric of reality. Doesnt come from anywhere or go anwhere just transforms through process which in our sentient realm takes the form of karma/vipaka.
I dont if that answers your question or not.