Those who believe on the basis of faith, a poet’s sensitive attunement to the vast riches of a wondrous world that surrounds them—that a loving Spirit created this plane generally believe that this magnificent Creative force continues to govern our mundane sphere through certain inviolate laws. Gravity is a tangible example; yet there is also that gravity attributable to human actions, individually and collectively motivated. Most religions define the Deity as a God of love. Ironically in the name of religious devotion, history demonstrates all too often that one divisive religious sect is all too ready to destroy another (equally holy facet of Creation) to theoretically prove its fealty to the Creator of it all! Love, a benevolent force arises when a shared respect for life is duly appreciated among all related parties. To meet this spiritual truth, we must understand that in the totality of Creation, every person and particle IS related. To understand that each “tribe” is sacred unto the Deity, enables us to grow in the practice of tolerance for that which is unfamiliar to our myopic cultural orientation. This level of enlightenment provides a basis for global justice. However, due to our human limitations and imperfections, our justice systems can only approximate Divine justice at best. According to Judeo-Christian Scripture, we are instructed to “judge not that ye not be judged.” We are further apprised that “Justice belongs to the Lord.” For a great many individuals that points to the inexorable, universal law of karma. Set by the Master Clockmaker, its workings prevail to balance the scales, metaphorically speaking. Given that the human life span is a short one, from our limited cognitive context we do not often live long enough to bear witness to this unerring cosmic system of accounting. It must be taken on the basis of faith that it holds each individual accountable for acts against Love, or those which senselessly jeopardize the pantheon of creation. In this hour of darkness when the world’s most powerful nation acts as if it possessed a Divine mandate for impunity in its arrogant wrongdoing, I take a small measure of comfort in recognizing that this immutable law cannot be broken. Prophetic voices of America’s Indigenous Indians along with that of the noted psychic Edgar Cayce, point to the great powers inherent to the natural world with respect to righting wrongs and setting Creation back on its intended course, the one inspired by Love. In The Once and Future King, White recounts the Avalon legend to remind us that the legendary Merlin told King Arthur that “the king and land are one.” As I contemplated writing this very article, the Spacecraft Columbia blew up over President (King) Bush’s home state. This was nothing short of an omen. It was cast as a sign designed to warn the grave bombastic interloper of the highest seat in the land, before he goes further in making a mockery of democratic values while deploying a deft sleight of ideological hand to term a thing (justice) what it is not (vengeance). The heavens speak. They remind this president that there are higher powers, forces that act as universal equalizers. The sacrifice of those precious lives was to demonstrate to our nation that it can’t abdicate responsibility for moral trespasses set upon other nations on the grounds that such aggression does not constitute any error (or breach of the basic humanity of “other”). And while I am on the subject, I’d like to remind the following parties that they are not immune to the law of karma, either. They include:

1. Those who utter anti-abortion rhetoric while being the first to boast new weapons, as they offer unscrupulous support for an heinous military budget that has turned America into the # 1 global arms merchant!

2. Those who steal from their employees to line their own pockets while flattering themselves that such fiscal strategy reflects “good business sense.”

3. Those who deny just employment to others on the basis of skin tone, religious orientation, gender, political views. 4. Those who rape the sacred kingdoms of nature for quarterly profits, while degrading the voice of earth’s primary ecologists, the Indigenous, who considered the impact their actions would have upon future generations.

5. Those who pretend the need for Affirmative Action has passed.

6. Those who spill poisons, pesticides, herbicides, and other chemical Molotov cocktails into the rivers and streams.

7. Those who espouse a Calvinistic ethos that rewards the already welltodo while punishing those who are struggling to basically survive.

8. Those who model entertainment to meet Roman Arena “standards,” and in the process normalize the worst aspects of human nature so that modern life increasingly mirrors these aberrant “norms.”

9. Those arrogant, proud hordes of young men who lay with tender-hearted women only to abandon them once their bellies grow full of the life they helped to usher into existence.

10. Those who choreograph “comedy” which intentionally mocks the handicapped, those who deserve our compassion not derision.

11. Those who race the nation’s highways placing sensible drivers at risk.

12. Those who steal the trees and mutate the genetic seed-banks of time, and lay open to waste that which constitutes a holy treasure intended for all. “Let no man tear asunder what God hath joined together.”

13. Those who render fashion trends to reflect artificial clone-like images of the feminine, so that thousands of young girls starve themselves (and risk bulimia) to meet these unnatural standards.

14. Those who support a “war on drugs” while profiting from the sale of cigarettes, pornography, guns, and alcohol.
15. Those who use their political clout to block the next generation of innovators.

16. Those who promote “big oil” while fighting alternative energy policies as the earth itself rumbles with climatic uncertainty, the fruit of fossil fuel overload (a/k/a global warming).

17. Those who call high caloric, greasy faux food “happy meals” and deceive the nation’s children who are already joining the ranks in epidemic levels of obesity and diabetes.

18. Those who exploit their sexuality in the name of free enterprise, thus demeaning women’s status (supporting the prevailing notion of “sex object”) worldwide.

19. Those who design, deploy, and market increasingly “efficient” weapons systems.

20. Those who play God with biotech; and those who believe that such innovation warrants the protections offered under “intellectual copyright” law.

21. Those who purposely demonize another tribe in order to launch yet another Inquisition, holocaust, or spiritually bankrupt debacle with lasting karmic effects.

22. Those who wear uniforms to veil their disdain for other human beings they willfully destroy while taking false solace in the fact that they are only “following orders.”

23. Those who turn world populations into guinea pigs exposed to countless toxic chemicals as rates of cancer and degenerative disease skyrocket as they hide behind the juridical presumption of innocence for their breach of the public trust.

For so long have these actions been tolerated by so-called modern civilization, that the vast majority presume these deplorable expressions constitute “reality.” But today, as I rode my bike across rural north Florida terrain, commenting to myself about the specifics of trash (beer bottles mostly) lining the roadways, I wondered if the earth remembers those who tossed each vice upon her breast? I wondered if the stars bear witness? If, as the mystics believe, a vast energetic field known as the Akashic record really records all such active impressions and maintains it as a universal memory force-field. It’s not so hard to consider this possibility when mankind uses this very ether for the express purpose of transmitting and receiving countless communication signals. In less than a century, huge phonographic disks have been replaced by tiny silicon chips which retain vast amounts of data. The information highway that we utilize may represent (and likely reflect) the one deployed by those heavenly agencies that measure and mete out karma. There truly is no escape for consciously evoked careless actions that jeopardize humanity, misdeeds that pass beneath the radar of modern society. If the law of karma as universal principle was taught in school, it might inspire young people to live in accord with a higher truth than that being personified by today’s excuse for leaders. So for those who have participated in peace marches, lived by ideals, and sought to follow spiritually conscious lives, let us take a measure of solace in the understanding that the law of karma is still at work. History allows for periodic dark ages, along with the rise and fall of particularly aggressive “dynasties.” However, since this new millennium represents a symbolic (and perhaps fateful) turning point for mankind, isn’t it time that we demonstrate to Creator that we have learned something? That the ravages of past experience need not be replicated over and over again as if mankind’s vehicle was destined to rotate upon an axis of stupidity, unwilling to reach beyond its ego-centrism to embrace the unlimited path of genuine progress. To do so, the dangerous self-defeating focus on the singular oar of aggression must be replaced by utilizing a secondary oar of reason for balance. Like the parable of Venus and Mars or that of Yin and Yang, twin perspectives are necessary to advance this tango called life across the waters of perpetual uncertainty. Together, both make the circle and deploy the universal law that what goes around, indeed comes (back) around.