Product Description

Karma is the powerful ancient law of cosmic cause and effect: your actions in past lifetimes can determine what happens to you ... today! Simply put: What goes around comes around. But you do have the power to control your destiny, no matter what your past karma.

Renowned psychic, visionary, and noted author Mary T. Browne brings you fascinating real-life stories from her clients who have transformed their lives by changing their karma. With indispensable tips, easy-to-follow exercises, and powerful affirmations, she teaches you how to do the same, so you can find greater health, love, security, and balance in your life. Tapping into the "power of karma" can help you:

• Discover the secrets of your past lives
• Spot the difference between bad karma and bad judgment
• Recognize and avoid the "karmic boomerang"
• Find powerful love and passion in this lifetime
• Make positive "deposits" in your karmic bank account
• Find spiritual growth -- and real change

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #153442 in Books
• Published on: 2003-01-23
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 272 pages

From Amazon.com
In The Power of Karma, renowned psychic Mary T. Browne debunks our fatalistic assumptions about this mysterious universal law. "Many people think there's nothing they can do to change their karma--it's preordained so why bother trying to change their situation?" she writes. Yet karma is an active process, according to Browne, one that we can seize control of simply by taking positive action. Although many of her karmic theories are reassuring--basically, you get out of life what you put into it--some may find her delivery simplistic. Nonetheless, her carpe diem attitude toward improving karma is inspiring, whether it's dieting to lose weight or reaching out to a homeless person. Browne (Life After Death) uses her clients' real-life stories to illustrate how readers can alter and improve their karma. She also suggests numerous exercises, including guided meditations, jotting notes on index cards, and practicing karma-altering affirmations such as, "I will let go of the past" or "I'm not a victim and will not act like one." --Gail Hudson

From Publishers Weekly
In her work as a psychic adviser, clairvoyant Browne (Life After Death) downplays her talent to predict the future and instructs clients on the simple rules of karma, how to identify their karmic patterns and how to accept responsibility for negative intentions, emotions and actions. Of the cases she describes here, many tell of persons disturbed by the past or anxious for the future, and a surprising number are driven by barely disguised greed, envy or lust for power and recognition. Browne draws on the inextricable link between reincarnation and karma to explain why people must make amends for harmful motivations and actions. According to the author, the ancient Buddhist doctrine of karma, as a law of cause and effect, is "the only practical, sound, sensible, comprehensive, intelligent, logical, down-to-earth, matter-of-fact, sane answer to why good things happen to bad people or why bad things happen to good people." Throughout every lifetime, each soul carries with it a karma "bank account" that maintains a cumulative balance of negative and positive actions. To improve the balance and increase harmony, Browne recommends the use of a karma journal to track the diminution of negative behavior. In each chapter, she offers a collection of reminders, affirmations and prayers about karmic issues concerning health, sex, money, power and balance. As an interpretation of the multifaceted and subtle concepts behind the law of karma, her rendering is often simplistic and may dishearten serious students of Buddhism, but as a practical beginner's guide to a profound doctrine a kind of kindergarten karma the approach is effective. Agent, Jan Miller.

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About the Author

A renowned psychic and spiritual healer with clients all over the world, Mary T. Browne had her first clairvoyant experience when she was seven. She is the author of two previous books, Love in Action and Life After Death, and has had extensive media exposure -- including more than three-hundred radio interviews, and television appearances on Weekend Today, CNN News, Good Day New York, America's Talking, and other programs. She has been featured in many magazines, including New York, Worth, American Health, Elle, and Psychology Today. Her client list includes many high-profile business leaders, as well as entertainment and media personalities. She and her psychic gifts were profiled by Frank Perry in his documentary film Across the Bridge, and writer-director Paul Schrader based the psychic character in his film Light Sleeper on Ms. Browne. She lives in New York City.

Customer Reviews

A great Teacher
Mary T. Browne never disappoints. In simple language, her lessons deliver understanding. In Love In Action, Mary T. explained how a life of service leads to fulfillment, satisfaction, peace and balanced karma. Life After Death explained the continuation of life and how karma always seeks balance. Like water seeking its own level, karma finds equilibrium in physical life or spiritual. No action lacks an equal reaction. Mary T. teaches that karma is action. The Power of Karma emphasizes this fact by supplying the reader with action. The serious reader has a supply of colored index cards and records the messages and keeps a Karma Journal. These exercises ensure that the reader/student is involved-action =karma.

Want to find out more about dealing with issues?
I absolutely loved this book. Mary Browne is apparently a fairly well known psychic, and she offers advice here in the form of cases from her files of clients dealing with life issues. The book summarizes the tales of the woman that can't stop spending money, of other women that feel they would be better off leaving their husbands for the men they are having affairs with, and many other interesting stories. Browne also discusses the issues of reincarnation and karma. She specifically goes into the effects on one's karma from various actions, which is interesting and believable, even if the concepts of reincarnation and karma are not ideas you believe in.

The most interesting point of the book for me was the specifics she provided on going through past lives. For anyone that is interested in this kind of thing, you must pick up this book. I have already recommended it to one friend, and I believe she enjoyed it greatly. I need to get my mom to read this book, and plan to read more books by Mary Browne.

A good message clouded by self-absorption
I'm not going to bash this book because overall I found author Mary Browne's explanation of karma and anecdotal evidence of how it works to be effective and interesting.
But she could have reduced the size of this book and saved some trees in the process by cutting back on the amount of time she spends praising herself.
To say Mary Browne is full of herself is an understatement. This is an author who can barely get through a passage without shoe-horning in some reference to how gifted or evolved she is.
For instance, she brags that she has a spirit guide - something she points out that most people don't have because they just aren't good enough.
The descriptions of her sessions as a psychic to the wealthy ooze with arrogance, self-importance and condescension.
The only person she seems to believe has surpassed her at all is her mysterious teacher, Lawrence, whom she emphasizes selected her as a pupil presumably because - you got it - she was just so darn worthy.
The book is peppered with conversations between her and this near-perfect fellow in which they dazzle each other with their brilliance.
After reading this book, while the concept of karma was clearer, the author remained a puzzle. Is Mary Browne really as egotistical as she appears or is she so insecure that she feels the need to prove her importance to readers ad nauseum?
If it truly is karma to learn from the missteps of our current lives, perhaps the author can learn something from her own book and exercise a little humility in her next one.