Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: Stevens discusses karma

An article in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review on the success of the television show "My Name Is Earl," which revolves around a lowlife and petty thief determined to fix his karma by making amends with all those he's wronged, quotes Philips Stevens, associate professor of anthropology, who says, "Karma is much more complex than these others, because it doesn't give you much leeway. It takes everything that you've done, everything that's been done to you in your entire life cycle, everything you've done to or for everybody else, all the good, all the harm, even all the good and harmful thoughts.... In karma, all of this is combined into one great web into which you are ensnared. You really don't have much leeway." Go to article.