The concept of karma is essential to understanding the different energies needed to function and develop in life, to die and to be born. All the processes that take place in the universe are dependent on the environmental situation of karma. It is rather like the atmosphere that the planet requires in order to function, in order for things to grow. When we talk about the karmic situation, we are speaking about the sense of individual relationship to the given situation, whatever it is. Any given situation is bounded by cause and effect, dependent on some cause and effect.

From The Future Is Open: Good Karma, Bad Karma, and Beyond Karma.