Karma, traditionally understood, is the ego's counterfeit for Truth. Traditionally, karma is understood as (primarily) "paying" for "misdeeds" in past lives. This is the ego at it's best, cloaking it's "somebody's gotta pay" song in a "spiritual" and spiritually dense framework. It keeps people bogged down with the past. The Course affirms there is no past.
Authentic "Karma" (for lack of a better word) is here and now and comes from our treatment of others, which is a treatment of ourselves because everything is everything (else). We cannot attack another --- not even with something as seemingly 'innocent' as a negative opinion (whatever is not love is attack) without doing untold harm to ourselves, both psychically and physically (the body is the mind).
Whatever we do to someone else we are doing to ourselves. Since there is no body/mind split a "psychic attack" (anything intended to hurt, attack, mistreat, etc) another manifests in some way in our own body. Whatever we do to another we are doing to ourselves, literally. There is no separation.
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