Bay Area Skeptics

The San Francisco Bay Area's skeptical organization since 1982

Is There a Need?

Originally published in BASIS
Volume: 

1

Number: 

1

June 1982

There are those in the Bay Area who “earn” their daily bread from the pain, suffering, guilt, fear, and hate of others.

Rev. B. Woods Mattingley, Founder-Director of The Seeker’s Quest, entitled the lead article in his current newsletter: “Why Do We Suffer Pain?”

His answer: “Most serious illness can be attributed to one of several reasons: karmic, in which current life pain results from the excesses or ‘sins’ of a past life…. Physical pain is also a telling statement that the person has some past-life reason which is creating his present-life pain.”

Those who are unfortunate enough to suffer pain do not need guilt piled on top of it!


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