Manson and MacLaine Do The Karma Thing
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Here’s something from the Land of the Weird.
Shirley MacLaine: What if most Holocaust victims were balancing their karma from ages before…
Charles Manson: Adolf Hitler was a tuned in dude who tried to level the karma of the Jews.
Pen pals or something more?
(From the Daily Mail)
Outrage as Shirley MacLaine asks: Were Holocaust victims paying for sins in past lives? (and did ‘her friend’ Stephen Hawking bring his devastating disease on himself?)
- She also suggests Stephen Hawking gave himself motor neurone disease
- Holocaust victims may have been killers in previous incarnations, she says
- Miss MacLaine once insisted that she lived on Atlantis in an earlier life
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Her bizarre New Age views on topics such as reincarnation and UFOs have often left the public baffled.
Now Shirley MacLaine has provoked widespread fury by claiming the victims of the Holocaust may have brought their fate upon themselves.
The veteran Hollywood actress suggests the six million Jews and millions of others systematically murdered in Hitler’s death camps in the 1940s were ‘balancing their karma’ for crimes committed in past lives.
She also suggests that cosmologist Professor Stephen Hawking may have subconsciously given himself his debilitating motor neurone disease.

Really, Shirley? Actress Shirley MacLaine has been denounced by Jewish campaigners and other activists after suggesting that the millions of victims of Nazi death camps may have needed to balance their karma
Miss MacLaine’s comments, in a recently published book, were attacked last night by Jewish campaigners and other activists as offensive and wrong.
In her memoir, the 80-year-old, who won an Oscar for Terms Of Endearment, writes: ‘What if most Holocaust victims were balancing their karma from ages before, when they were Roman soldiers putting Christians to death, the Crusaders who murdered millions in the name of Christianity, soldiers with Hannibal, or those who stormed across the Near East with Alexander? The energy of killing is endless and will be experienced by the killer and the killee.’
In her book What If…, Miss MacLaine, who was raised a Baptist but is well known for her unconventional views on reincarnation and alien life, suggests Professor Hawking had subconsciously brought his crippling medical condition on himself.
She says he may have created his illness in order to ‘free his mind’ from the needs of his body, so he could focus completely on his scientific research.
Her book – subtitled A Lifetime Of Questions, Speculations, Reasonable Guesses And A Few Things I Know For Sure – poses the question: ‘Did he “create” the disease that has crippled him in order to learn to be dependent on caregivers and the kindness of strangers so that he could free his entire mind to the pursuit of knowledge?
‘Did he “create” the disease that has crippled him?’ asks Miss MacLaine of the disabled cosmologist Stephen Hawking, pictured with Eddie Redmayne
‘What if he inadvertently chose to set an example of himself to show the rest of us that cosmic travel and universal understanding are available, regardless of one’s physical condition or circumstance?
‘If Jesus chose to die in a state of martyrdom, then Stephen Hawking could just as readily have chosen to live in a dual state of being: visibly physical weakness and unseen knowledge and power. What if all reality is an illusion?’
Her views were branded ‘utterly ridiculous’ by disability charity Scope, while a spokesman for Disability Rights UK added: ‘She obviously has some very confused ideas that a lot of disabled people will be baffled by.
‘It’s completely wrong to say people choose their disabilities, especially Professor Stephen Hawking, who has a genetic condition.’
Miss MacLaine, who played Lady Grantham’s American mother in Downton Abbey, writes that she is recognised more for her part in the ITV drama than for any of her film roles.
She also suggests that she felt so at home on the set because she may have lived in the 1920s during a past life.
Representatives for Miss MacLaine declined to comment last night.
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