Basic Universal Truth: Stealing is Wrong

I’m going to lay down a truth that apparently is really upsetting and controversial to some people:

Stealing is wrong.

It is wrong to take things from others without their permission.

Theft is wrong.  It is bad.  If you steal, it damages your karma and bad things will follow.  This is just the way it is. 

This should be obvious to people, but for whatever reason a certain significant minority of people have a problem with this.  In their mind, stealing is okay, or even a good thing. At some level, they support a kleptocracy and see this as a way to right some wrongs or something.  But to put it very simply, they’re wrong.  They’re full of shit.  And they can repeat their BS as often as they want, it’s still BS.

The truth is the truth – taking things from other people is wrong and it damages your karma.  Period.

Please stop with your Burning Man “share everything” nonsense.  That’s not how the world works – it’s not even how Burning Man works, so please stop. 

This is a simple, basic, universal truth – stealing is wrong.  Don’t do it, period.

I’m getting very tired of people blaming cops for shooting someone who inevitably turns out was stealing.  Bad things happen to you when you do bad things – sometimes spectacularly bad and right away, sometimes later or over time or into the next lifetime.  Instead of complaining about how karma dishes out punishment, learn to accept it and – again – STOP DOING BAD THINGS!

And I know people will react with the typical “oh you’re not supposed to be judgmental” nonsense. Hey dummy, I’m not the one punishing you.  I don’t deliver the karmic justice. Instead of blaming me for stating an obvious truth, try ACCEPTING the truth for a change.

A person was shot by the cops because he was caught stealing.  People might want to complain it’s “harsh,” but the reality is the only reason he was shot was because he had decided to steal.  This is how the law of cause and effect works.

It seems there is a significant portion of the leftist – I’m not sure if it’s a majority, but it’s a lot – who either approve of theft of think it’s not a big deal.  And yes, it cuts very clearly along ideological lines – people on the “liberal” end of the spectrum are MUCH more okay with theft.  The leftists are also okay with (or even actively supportive of) murder of babies.  The lines are pretty distinct here.

And this is the group that will whine and complain “you can’t say stealing is wrong, you can’t say abortion is wrong, that’s judgmental!”  Folks, karma does not care one bit about your feelings.  Stealing is wrong.  “Oh, but I really want to steal!”  Doesn’t matter.  “Telling me it’s wrong makes me feel bad!”  No, you choose to feel bad when presented objective information – that’s not the information’s fault, it’s your fault for lacking proper emotional coping skills.  “Saying abortion is wrong is offensive!”  Only to someone who lacks basic emotional skills.

“You can’t tell me what to do!”  I’m NOT.  I’m not the authority here.  Take it up with the universe.  Universal Law says stealing and murder are wrong.  If this truth hurts your feelings, that’s because you are painfully out of alignment with the universe.  If you want to stop feeling that pain, then you need to adjust to align with the universe – by changing your behavior so you’re no longer stealing and killing, for example.  And change your behavior so you’re not enabling others to fall out of alignment with the universe.

If all this makes you feel bad, then really you should be feeling bad and then do something positive about it. Because the truth isn’t going to change – but YOU can change. 

So instead of arguing with me when I state universal law, try FOLLOWING THE LAW.  Because one way or another, the universe is going to make you change.  And karmic justice can really suck for you and everyone around you. 

Sealing is wrong.  Murder is wrong.  Stop arguing and accept it. 

My Thoughts on the Florida School Shooting - You Probably Won't Like This

My higher purpose is to further freedom and life.  The universe seeks expanded freedom.  The ego opposes freedom under the guise of safety, but it’s really about fear-based control.  Keeping this truth in mind helps to resolve many dilemmas.

It also helps maintain perspective when people present distortions.

My perspective on the social, political and media reaction to a school shooting goes through this truth.  And looking at this through that truth I can see that my original reaction – didn’t read a single news report about it and never stopped ignoring it until the social overreaction got on my nerves – was the right one.

When society goes off its nut, the best thing is not to look and to ignore it. Except when the idiocy boils over begins to run athwart of my higher purpose.  Then I have to punch back

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So my take – the students brought their karma upon themselves and instead of acknowledging their own culpability and changing their abusive behavior, they have retreated into self-delusion, blame-shifting and social justice craziness. 

That part doesn’t surprise me.  Kids were jerks when I was in high school too.  At my school, the “cool kids” created a “Shy Club” whose only purpose was to shame outcasts.  Really.  They made a tee shirt with the silhouette of an unpopular kid.  The kid later jumped off a building.  And the “cool kids” couldn’t have cared less.

Later in life I learned that the parents of the bullies are always aware of what their asshole kids are doing.  Most of the time they’re actively encouraging the behavior.  And sometimes actively engaging in the bullying themselves. 

So it doesn’t surprise me a lot of the parents are joining the kids in their complete non-self-reflective, blame-someone-else, social justice railing.  Virtue signaling is a lot easier than examining one’s one virtue, admitting one’s failings and seeking to improve.  You know, being virtuous in the true sense.

It does surprise me the media and the grown-ups are largely going along with this.  Wait, actually it doesn’t.  The media and most politicians promote fear, not freedom.  They value the ego, not God.  So to see them going overboard trying to rid us of freedoms, and using a whitewashed version of a school shooting to do it, is about what I’d expect from our society. 

Which is why completely ignoring all of this news really is the best choice.  Don’t engage at all.

Except for one big problem.  Statistically students don’t get killed in school shootings.  Thousands are bullied to death.  And what is going on now is going to result in more bullying, more oppression and more death.  The students and adults are showing their true colors – they love bullying, they want to see more kids kill themselves, they think the “Shy Club Kids” are funny and outcasts deserve to die, or be locked away. 

Nobody wants to look at the real problem.  Nobody wants to examine their own karma.  Nobody cares about life or freedom.  Just ego.  All this media circus is about is protecting and worshipping ego at the expense of life and freedom.  No wonder I found it annoying.

The shooter, like a lot of these sort of high school shooters, was bullied pretty badly.  No, that doesn’t mean the students deserved to die.  That’s not how karma works.  Karma is the result of one’s thoughts and actions and has nothing to do with justice or fairness or any other misattribution we assign to karma.  “Karma is a bitch” comes closest to accurately depicting karma.  It’s the effect of the Law of Cause and Effect.  When Hiroshima was nuked, that was the residents’ karma.  That doesn’t mean dropping the bomb was right.  History strongly suggests it was the best of a lot of really bad options.  War sucks.  And the US has received its own karma for World War II, however noble its intentions were in that war. 

So when I say the students brought about their own karma, I’m not saying the shooting was justified in any way.  I am saying, in a sense, it was inevitable.  And the students who created their karma are now doubling down on their bad karma.

No, most bully victims don’t kill.  They may kill themselves.  The huge majority move on.  Very evolved people can view their tormentors as a gift and grow from the experience.  But very few “very evolved people” are evolved as teenagers or children.

I have noticed that most people who are highly evolved were bullied or otherwise mistreated during their school years.  The cool kids rarely evolve, unless something else tests them.  In that sense the kids who suffer in school can have an advantage.  But also the most damaged and destructive people as adults were mistreated as kids.  And often the line between “highly evolved adult” and “damaged adult creating havoc in the world” is dangerously thin.  Learning to let go of one’s ego is the hardest lesson a person will ever learn.  The distance between “releasing ego” and “vengeance” is short. 

Society has also created its own karma by valuing the ego, by supporting the bullies and “cool kids,” by shunning the kids who are bullied.  Society pays lip service to compassion, but in every way society celebrates human cruelty, bullying, and shunning the outcasts.  And society pays its price for this without changing its behavior. 

Which gets back to my best advice – just don’t look.  Shun media.  Shun the mainstream news. If you want to cleanse your karma, you need to cleanse yourself of society’s karma through the mass media. 

Those friends of yours who nod their heads and say the kids who get bullied “brought it upon themselves?”  Get rid of them.  Don’t argue, just cut them out completely.  And of course that goes double for parents of kids who bully – treat them like the toxic waste they are.    There’s no point in fighting, that just attaches you to their negative energy.  Avoid them entirely.

As far as gun laws and all the political BS – I don’t care.  It’s virtue-signaling BS driven by guilt, fear or greed.  Follow your heart, not your ego or the collective Ego. 

Am I being harsh?  Maybe.  Am I lacking compassion for the victims?  Yes, but I don’t know any of them.  To say I have compassion for these strangers who show up on TV would be a lie.  I love all human life, whether it’s a student in Florida, a person in Syria, or the millions who suffer and die without any fanfare all over the world. These handful in Florida are no more important than any of the others.  The media is distorting the truth of the human condition, and in doing so actually DE-valuing human life.  But I’m callous for pointing this out?  Fuck that.  It’s media BS and as personally relevant to me as a dog barking in Kenya.

Human life is all around.  The media distorts it and dehumanizes it.  You want compassion, turn off the TV, get off the Internet, and go outside.  There it is.  Feel into your heart for the truth. And the truth is, in the larger picture of human life, what happened in Florida is a tiny crevice on a small grain of sand on the infinite scale of life.  Your life and mine are utterly meaningless to the universe.  That’s the truth. You want to really be connected to life?  Stop distorting it, stop listening to your ego, and listen to your heart. 

And I guarantee your heart doesn’t have one word to say about some high school in Florida, unless you happen to live there or have family there.  And when you get to the heart of the matter, neither do I.

On Karma

I want to revisit an important spiritual subject I’ve talked about regularly here, because I feel like this subject gets twisted and misconstrued a lot.  I want to talk about karma.

What is karma?

Well let’s use my situation as an example.  Right now I’m sitting on the sofa, writing, basking in the glow of a good workout at the gym and a nice long walk at the beach.  I just had a nice late lunch and I’m enjoying a beer as I relax and enjoy this afternoon and share my thoughts with you.

I could go on – job, family, everything else in my life.  This is my karma.

Karma isn’t just bad things happening to you.  It’s good things too.  It’s everything.  Because karma is the “effect” of the Law of Cause and Effect.  Every thought, every word, every belief, every action, these create energy in the universe and there is a direct effect to each of these. Collectively they directly create the effect that is our life situation.

People who are hurtful or damaging in their thoughts, words and/or actions receive hurt and damage in their own life and often in future lifetimes.  You can’t fool karma – you may be able to fool your friends into thinking you’re a nice person, or your evil is justified, but karma doesn’t care.  What you create is what you receive, and there is no other way.

You say well, some people are so nice and they don’t deserve the bad things happening to them.  But, first, you don’t know.  Maybe they had you fooled.  Maybe their thoughts are filled with hateful thoughts.  Maybe their karma is carrying over from prior lifetimes.  And maybe that “bad thing” you’re observing isn’t actually “bad,” maybe the universe is trying to push your friend in a direction they refuse to go and then there is suffering – but your friend brought this upon themselves by refusing to change.

And what about those “bad people” whose lives seem to be happy and they never get their comeuppance?  Many explanations, but it all boils down to the fact that you really don’t know and need to refrain from making assumptions and jumping to conclusions.

Most often we know.  I’ve seen more than a few people who have been unfair to me and others and I’ve seen them get a strong dose of karmic realignment.  And in almost every case, they didn’t get the message and more “bad karma” followed. 

“Bad karma” is not “bad luck.”  Tipping or not tipping the barista is not going to change your karma in any significant way by itself.  If your intention in tipping was to assuage your guilt over something you’re doing that you know is wrong, you’re probably making your karma worse and would be better off stiffing the barista and gaining clarity on what is driving parts of you to behave in ways you know are wrong than blurring things with false generosity.

I believe most people receiving good or bad karma knew deep down it was coming.  They may outwardly be “surprised” by their change in circumstance, but in their heart they knew it was coming.

Karma includes the universe’s various ways of communicating with us – some subtle, some harsh – in order to get us to change.  A lot of human suffering is people attached to their routine, or their story, or their right-ness and as such unable or unwilling to heed the instructions when they’re being told to change.

The worst response to karma is to act as a victim.  Nobody is a victim.  I realize what I just said here is jarring and will challenge the beliefs of many people, but it’s absolutely true.  There are no victims in this world.  However wronged you think you have been, you are not a victim.  And it’s even possible what you think was wrong was not what you thought it was.

This is where I’ve ended up in negative cycles.  Someone did something wrong to me and I’d engage in hurtful thinking and actions.  Then I’d wonder why bad stuff kept happening to me.  It took me learning the truth about karma to finally let that stuff go.  And when I did, I noticed something interesting – people trying to do bad things to me ended up having much worse things happen to them, thanks to their karma. 

Acting like a victim or seeking revenge will only bring a person more negative karma.  The way out is understanding and acceptance, and taking control of one’s thoughts, words and actions.  Once you accept that you are the sole creator of your life, your thoughts naturally shift toward “what do I want to create? More shit, or something good?”  You stop holding onto the illusion of victimhood or the fantasy or revenge and place more and more intention on good thoughts, good words, good actions.  And “magically,” karma starts improving.  But of course it’s not magic.  It’s a law of the universe. 

Black Magic and Energetic Attacks: Your Negative Thoughts Are Killing You

Someone I wouldn’t expect asked me recently if I did “magic.”  I said not really, I’m an energy healer, but it’s not magic in the sense laypeople think. I don’t “cast spells” on people or anything like that.  The person was concerned that I might be “placing curses” on people.  Which I thought was odd because 1) this person has done nothing but mock my energy work and 2) this person has been attacking me energetically on a constant basis, just not as a trained alchemist.  

As I posted before, I don’t use energy work unto others without their express permission.  To do so, either as an uninvited “good spell” or “curse” is black magic.  Generally black magic doesn’t work – that is, it doesn’t help nor harm the intended recipient.  It does, however, do a lot of damage to the energy of the person engaging in black magic.

Because most people who engage in energy work really don’t know what they’re doing, black magic is common.  And a lot of people aren’t even aware they’re engaging in black magic.  Simply saying a prayer asking God to change someone else in some way to your liking is black magic. 

So if you’re angry at someone and you wish for God to “smite” them in some way, you’re committing black magic, and almost certainly damaging your energy.  If you do this enough times, and with enough power, you will eventually kill yourself.  Even if you wish for God to change someone “for the better,” and that person rejects it, you’re poisoning your energy.  Even energy healers will full permission have to be careful – always asking for no more than what the recipient is willing to accept, and always for the greater good.  That way if a request falls outside the boundaries it’s negated.

At this point in my journey I can tell certain people are attacking me energetically.  Most of the attacks are pretty weak, but occasionally someone with some real power and intent will throw something at me.  I have a very strong energetic protection, which means energetic attacks (or even “beneficial” black magic) bounces straight off and hits the attacker with the same level of force in reverse. People who are consciously engaged in energy work figure it out quick and stop attacking, because they don’t like getting hit with their own negative juju.

The danger is those who either don’t believe in energy or don’t know what they’re doing.  They keep attacking and receiving the full brunt of their attacks and never realize their actions are making them more and more ill.  The worst of these attackers start becoming physically ill- maybe someone who never gets sick starts developing colds and flus on a regular basis.  Others get cysts or migraines.  Others it can be even more serious – over time people’s negative thoughts toward others will give them cancer, heart disease, stroke, diabetes, and/or severe mental illness.

I think this person is experiencing some serious medical issues, but it’s interesting this person thought to even approach me and suggest I might be “cursing” them – that’s the telltale sign this person has been engaging in a LOT of negative thought toward me.  I hadn’t been giving this person a moment’s thought since I told them to stop bothering me, but apparently this person has been spending a lot of time and energy thinking bad thoughts about me.

In Buddhism we talk about right thought, right action, right life, the Law of Cause and Effect. And Buddhists make no distinction between wrong thought and wrong action, they’re equally destructive to the person engaging in them.  The world around us is our thoughts – it’s impossible to fill one’s mind with bad thoughts and manifest a good world.  That’s not to say we’re perfect, but that we strive for purity in thought, which leads to purity in action, which leads to purity in life.  But other religions talk about this too. Christianity speaks about sinning through thought alone and many of the concepts are similar – you are your thoughts, and there’s no getting around it.

Too many people don’t get this, or they believe somehow their bad thoughts are “justified,” that if they were wronged then they’re entitled to think bad thoughts and engage in black magic.  But the universe did not create an exemption for revenge, or “he started it.” You are either committed to pure thought or not and your life will reflect that choice.  There are no exceptions.

When I see people suffering because of their decisions to engage in forms of black magic, I feel sad.  Often the negative reactions seem disproportionate to their thoughts and actions.  I’ve seen quite a few people who are victims of their own karma, and never once did I feel their karmic comeuppance was fair or justified.  But it’s not about fairness, it’s about the level of negative energy and the ability of the system to handle that energy without collapsing.  So for some people, a little negative thinking can practically kill them, while others can be like that for a long time before their system tips and bad things start manifesting in their lives. 

So no, I don’t cause people to have health problems.  I can help those who give me permission to heal their energy.  I can teach people how to heal their own energy.  And I can share what I know – like now – to hopefully help others from making terrible mistakes.

And as for now, I’m still going inward and healing my energy.  It’s frustrating at times, because it feels like I should be “doing something” more, but the message keeps coming back that this is what I need to be doing.  So I will.