I wonder if the damage caused by any experience isn't more to do with shame felt at perceived transgressions of some moral code normally imposed upon you whilst you are too young to question the logic of said code? Isn't Karma just a sense of shame that you have failed to realise your potential due to some lack of courage or conviction or have caused another to fail in their ambition to do the same?

If we attract what we feel ourselves to be, what do we attract when we feel shame, guilt and worry - condemnation, ridicule and victimisation maybe?

What is a mistake anyway, 50 years ago a woman and child would be condemned for getting pregnant out of wedlock....... in south america indiginous indians see hallucinogenic plants as being gifts from God...so whose right?? who says what's right and whats wrong??