The more we identify with the thoughts and feelings of the society in which we live, the more we are subject to its karma. As long as we think the same as everyone else, how can we not suffer the same reactions and interpretations of life’s events?
Each of us belongs to a “group,” whether we know it or not. And if that group makes a right-hand turn, or a left, we are swept along with it and call it fate.
The Mystical Christ 
Some people chose to sail thru life on a cruise ship, it’s easier, the group decides the ships path and no ONE person is held responsible. But you go where the group wants to go.
Or you can you can set sail on your own. Everything seems a bit harder because you deal with it by yourself but you get to go where you want.
What happens to the people who chose to pursue the Light independently? Rhetorical question .