A viewer asks: “What about owning a bar? There must be negative karma involved with just simply owning the establishment, correct? If bars are really just a spirit attachment factory is there any way to mitigate the negativity associated with it – specifically prayer work? If I have to say a prayer for every drink I serve, then so be it!”

It is correct that there is a karmic liability in promoting alcohol usage as a recreation and that is because some people will be drawn into a habit-forming experience and have serious consequences. This can take quite a long time to develop, but if they spent some time in your establishment as a part of their early exposure it will still be linked karmically to them and their dire outcome if it develops. Karma is absolute and relentless and will mete out responsibility in proportion to the contribution, active or passive, by anyone in the chain of events leading to a difficulty that causes harm. There are mitigating factors. Owning a bar is not as karmically negative as owning a criminal enterprise, so there are always degrees of negativity that are factored in. Using prayer as a countermeasure does not waive responsibility. It is a blessing for any recipient and is a karmically positive act of loving kindness and that will generate positive karma for a bar owner or employee who wishes their customers well and prays for them, but that will be only one factor in play in terms of the overall karma. It will not take away all the negative aspects. To the extent it is self-serving, this will reduce the karmic blessings accordingly. So it is an unreliable strategy if the intention is to simply negate the negative karmic consequences that are a potential always with this kind of an operation. The same is true for any kind of self-destructive activity. If you have liver problems and are a chronic drinker, you cannot simply say prayers to have healing for your liver and continue with your heavy alcohol use and expect the divine realm to keep you safe from the consequences. Human karma must always be allowed and if it is a predominant negative factor it cannot be overridden even when prayers may be launched unless there is truly a state of ignorance and someone is launching a prayer on their behalf through greater knowledge and wisdom. So what we are saying is: "You are on a slippery slope here with much to think about."