Instant Karma – Article

Getting a good take for my sixth video blog entitled “Psychic Ecology” was no easy matter. Every time I would press record on the camera, there would be some obstacle. Neighboring children running down the hallway of my apartment building as they returned from school, apparently wearing 10-pound platform shoes that Herman Munster would envy; the ice cream truck with its continuous and insidiously catchy carousel rendition of “It’s a Small World” that makes it impossible to focus on anything, let alone a page-long monologue; the neighbors upstairs who must own the world’s heaviest kitchen furniture, because they seem to be unable to move them without dragging them across the floor; and the emergency down the street, which required at least 20 fire trucks, all blaring their sirens – spaced several minutes apart to maximize the number of takes that were ruined. And let us not forget the encircling helicopter that added the base line to the cacophony, teasing me every time the sound of the blades receded, only to return again seemingly closer and lower than before.

However, the piece de resistance: the remote control for the stereo. I had planned to use a song to finish the blog, and I needed to use the remote to play it on the stereo. I tested it to make sure it would work at the right point in the blog, which was at the very end. It did, for every single rehearsal. But Murphy’s Law was in full effect, and as I pressed play on the remote to cap a perfect 4 ½-minute speech, it decided to freeze up like a 5-year-old with stage fright. Take 103 ruined. I pressed again. Nothing. I walked over to the stereo, and I could tell that it was registering the signal from the remote. It just wasn’t working. I checked the batteries. They were fine. I pressed more buttons. Nothing. I called my next-door neighbor, who’s a wiz with anything audio/visual. He wasn’t home. More frantic button-pushing, more silence. Finally, I knelt down in front of my stereo with my remote control in hand, and started to talk to them. I explained that I knew there was nothing wrong with them and that they worked just fine, and I needed their assistance to get this blog done. I sent them positive, healing thoughts of encouragement, and focused on what I needed to accomplish. I pressed the play button, and music piped through the speakers.

I believe this is an example of something that a wonderful psychic named Melinda Hess mentioned to me in a conversation a few days earlier. She said that we are living in a time of instant karma, where the consequences of our thoughts and behavior manifest almost instantaneously. This has been demonstrated by the numerous recent anecdotes recounted to me by friends and acquaintances, all with the same basic story of how they put out an intention for X, and X showed up very shortly thereafter. I myself, besides the cooperation of my home appliances, have been able to conjure necessities and opportunities in miraculous ways.

Karma is a Sanskit word meaning “deed” or “act”, and it essentially refers to the Law of Cause and Effect. Everything has a cause, and everything has an effect. If we pull back and look at a specific act, we would see everything that led up to it, and all of its consequences, just like dominos falling in sequential order. We all have an instinctive sense of this concept, as evidenced by sayings like, “What goes around comes around,” and “You reap what you sow.” With instant karma, the resulting effect is extremely obvious and rapid, and it seems that our minds are becoming a primary cause of change in our environment.

We can only hypothesize about why this is so. Maybe our solar system’s migration to the center of our galaxy is causing time to speed up, compressing the lag time between events. Maybe the increasing solar emissions are altering the magnetic field of our planet, consequently making it possible to attract things to us more easily. Or maybe we are experiencing an evolutionary shift in our consciousness that brings with it a greater ability to manifest with our minds. Whatever the cause, elevated awareness and an increased sense of responsibility are both necessary if we are to take advantage of this curious phenomenon. Any tool carelessly used can be harmful, and it would be a shame to waste the wonderful opportunity we have been given to create in ways we could only previously imagine.