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88 <strong>Rebirth</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>Western</strong> <strong>Buddhist</strong><br />

96 Spinoza, B.: Ethics, Pt.III, prop.2. Quoted by Schrodinger.<br />

97 Monod, Ref.86, p.148.<br />

98 Merrell-Wolff, Ref.87, p.151.<br />

99 Or, as happened last week, a bus is driving through<br />

Lausanne when a crane collapses on it, killing seven<br />

people. Who would seriously claim that since <strong>the</strong><br />

victims must have created <strong>the</strong> karma for such a<br />

death, it is pointless to seek <strong>the</strong> physical cause of<br />

this accident, or that no responsibility attaches to<br />

whoever may have been negligent in maintaining<br />

<strong>the</strong> crane?<br />

100 e.g. Story's essay "<strong>Rebirth</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>Western</strong> Thinker"<br />

(Ref.29, pp.30-45) contains several blunders.<br />

101 See also Koestler, Arthur: The Roots of Coincidence.<br />

London, Picador, 1974. Chap.3, "Seriality <strong>and</strong> Synchronicity".<br />

102 Monod, Ref.86, pp.111-112.<br />

103 Mi la'i mgur 'bum (The Hundred Thous<strong>and</strong> Songs of<br />

Milarepa), Chap.3, p.18a.<br />

104 Story, Ref.29, pp.21o-i12.<br />

105 lb., pp.2o8-9.<br />

106 Nelli, Rene: La Philosophie du Catharisme. Paris,<br />

Payot, 1978. pp.183-4.<br />

107 Pisani, Ref.52, pp.194-7 & 202-6.<br />

108 lb., p.179·<br />

109 Story, Ref.29, pp.252 -9.<br />

110 Haich, Ref.42, p.336.<br />

111 Grant, Ref.36, Pt.IV, Chap.2-6.<br />

112 lb., Pt.VI, Chap.7.<br />

113 Cerminara, Ref. 64, p.29.<br />

114 lb., p.148.<br />

115 We assume that Wambach's subjects are more or<br />

less typical of <strong>the</strong> human race as a whole. While<br />

people of different countries must differ somewhat<br />

in <strong>the</strong>ir past-life histories, <strong>and</strong> conceivably people

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