Karma, Manifestation & the Laws

Part one covers karma in the Vedas and Upanishads, the Bhagavad Gita and karma yoga, and how Hindu, Buddhist, Jain and Sikh traditions each understand it, then how it reached Europe and America, from the Theosophists and Swami Vivekananda to the Beatles and “Instant Karma!”, with six things karma is not.

Part two tells the story of manifestation: the New Thought pioneers, The Secret, vision boards, scripting and the 369 method, what researchers have found about goals, hope and belief, and WOOP, a research-based way to bring dreams down to earth.

Part three gathers the popular 12 Universal Laws and 12 Laws of Karma, where each comes from, and a kind, honest note on each. Every chapter ends with a simple practice. Beliefs are shared as beliefs, and research findings come from named sources, checked in October 2026.

• Start here: karma in one page
• A word that means “action”: the Vedas and Upanishads
• Karma yoga and the Bhagavad Gita
• Buddhist, Jain and Sikh teaching
• How karma came to the West
• Six things karma is not
• Kindness, fairness and the science of giving
• New Thought, The Secret and modern manifesting
• Hope, goals and the power of belief
• WOOP: a practice that brings dreams down to earth
• The 12 Universal Laws and the 12 Laws of Karma
• Jargon buster and sources