I honestly believe that the single most important concept that human beings need to understand is Karma. My reasons for believing so are as follows: (1) Karma affects and determines the quality of our life experience in this world (i.e., in the physical plane); and (2) Karma is the system by which we can learn and grow spiritually, thus it has a profound effect on our eternal lives in the spiritual plane. To my knowledge, there is nothing in our experience – physical or spiritual – that is so precisely correlated with, and causally connected with, our well-being than Karma. Understanding what Karma is, and how it operates, is therefore critically important to our efforts to direct our lives – again, both physical and spiritual – so as to achieve maximum peace, fulfillment, and joy. In my book The Afterlife and the True Nature of Reality I refer to these efforts to enhance and enrich our life experience as hacking reality, by which I mean the ways in which we can affect and manipulate our reality so as to create for ourselves the most enjoyable and comfortable experience of life possible. In my book I discuss several specific ways in which we can hack reality to our advantage, but now, in this blog post, I'd like to discuss a way that we can broadly and powerfully change our overall life experience for the better. The first important question is: What is Karma? Karma is a natural law of the Universe;...