Length8h 27m
About this audiobook
Being is what doing leaves behind: what karma claims, what has been measured, and where the evidence stops.
A friend asked me why one child is born into a bombed street and another into a painted room. I said it was karma. He did not accept that, and he was right not to.
Four religions built systems around the idea, and many others arrived at some version of it. For the last thirty years, laboratories have been measuring the things it actually claims: that intention is what counts, that repeated action builds the person acting, that good returns to the doer through people who gained nothing by it.
Some of those claims held up remarkably well. Others failed exactly where they could be checked. And one — that the return is deserved — turns out to be the one nothing can reach.
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GenreSpirituality and Religion
Length8 hrs 27 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 5, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Copyright
2Dedication
3Acknowledgements
4Prologue: A Friday Evening Question
5Part One — The Word and the World
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6Chapter 1: A Word for Work
7Chapter 2: Three Kinds of Karma
8Chapter 3: Karma Is Intention
9Chapter 4: Karma Is Not Fate
10Chapter 5: Karma as Matter
11Chapter 6: Grace and the Ledger
12Chapter 7: Everyone Invented It
13Part Two — What the Teachers Said
14Chapter 8: The Sages
15Chapter 9: The Moderns and the Borrowers
16Part Three — The Science
17Chapter 10: Causation Without a Judge
18Chapter 11: Intention in the Brain
19Chapter 12: Action Shapes the Actor
20Chapter 13: The Just-World Machine
21Chapter 14: Reciprocity, the Physics of Karma
22Chapter 15: Three Degrees of Karma
23Chapter 16: Inherited Karma
24Chapter 17: Karma as Feedback
25Part Four — Rebirth, Doubt and Honest Limits
26Chapter 18: The Children Who Remember
27Chapter 19: Where Karma Goes Wrong
28Chapter 20: The Evidence So Far
29Part Five — Living It
30Chapter 21: Karma Yoga for Secular People
31Chapter 22: Karma at Scale
32Chapter 23: The Science of Being
33A Note on Sources
34Appendix: Things Nobody Said
35Glossary
36Further Reading
37References and Bibliography
38About the Author
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