After doing some research on the Vudon religions of Africa, I came up with a reasoning against my prior beliefs on the Karmic laws.
Within the voodoo society, there are no accidents. Practitioners believe that nothing and no event has a life of its own. That is why "vous deux", you two, you too. The universe is all one. Each thing affects something else. Scientists know that. Nature knows it. Many spiritualists agree that we are not separate, we all serve as parts of One. So, in essence, what you do unto another, you do unto you, because you ARE the other. Voodoo. View you. We are mirrors of each others souls. "God" is manifest through the spirits of ancestors who can bring good or harm and must be honored in ceremonies. There is a sacred cycle between the living and the dead. Believers ask for their misery to end. Rituals include prayers, drumming, dancing, singing and animal sacrifice.
I have come to believe that If we all are as "one" energy and are reflections to ourselves (which completely makes sense), then what we do does come back to us, when? we don't know, to what extent? again, we don't know, but it eventually will come back to us.
This should answer the question to "But he/she did harm to the other yet recieved no signs of pernicious karma", that will most probably happen later (perhaps afterlife).
And this is my present conclusion on the matter, until proven otherwise.
-DS
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