Cosmic Luve and Law: Is Karma Real and Why Being Virtuous Is in Your Self-Interest

Let me ask you something. Have you ever done something wrong and gotten away with it, at least as far as you could tell? I want to talk to you about why "getting away with it" might not be a real thing at all.

This is a Cosmic Luve and Law post. I'm going to explain why being virtuous is in your own self-interest, why karma is real, and why doing things out of love is the best protection you have. If you're a politician or a leader of some sort, I want you to read this one all the way through.

Ignorance of the Law Is No Excuse, Here and in the Cosmos

You've probably heard it before. In America, and in law in general, ignorance of the law is no excuse. Lawyers even have a Latin phrase for it: ignorantia juris non excusat. If you break a law you didn't know existed, the judge doesn't care that you didn't know.

That is true for cosmic luve and cosmic law, too. The gods have their own laws. You weren't handed a rulebook at birth, and nobody has written down a cosmic ethics yet. But not knowing the law doesn't stop it from applying to you.

So what do you do when you're bound by laws you can't read? This is why you do things out of love. This is why they say love will protect you. Since you don't know cosmic law, you are annulled if you do it out of love.

The Gods Have Their Own Laws

Like I said in the Tornado video I made, the planet and atmosphere are contained by physics. But that doesn't mean they don't think or can't influence with very real powers. I want to be clear: this post is not about their powers. This is about why they do things.

Gaia says the planets, atmosphere, and sun work in conjunction, but there is a hierarchy. The sun is the ultimate ruler in our domain. The sun has an edict that mom and dad, Gaia and Blue, have to follow. Gaia is the planet Earth, and Blue is the atmosphere wrapped around her.

Now, they can defy the sun. But it costs them in very real ways.

Even the Sun Has to Answer to Someone

Here's where it gets bigger. If you think about the sun and how there are other gods, the sun has to answer to his other peers. He also has to answer to the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy.

That isn't just poetry. Our sun orbits the center of the Milky Way from about 26,000 light-years out, and at that center sits Sagittarius A*, a black hole roughly four million times the mass of our sun. One trip around takes our whole solar system somewhere around 230 million years. Everything in our domain is moving inside a bigger domain.

So the sun basically has to justify his rule, his laws, and his edict to his peers and his superiors. Nobody in this system is above accountability. Not the people, not the planet, not the atmosphere, not even the sun.

Karma Is Real: You Get Back What You Put Into the System

So if the planet, the atmosphere, or people violate the sun's law, karma will take effect. That reciprocity of getting back what you put into the system will take effect. Think of it as a closed loop: what goes in comes back out.

I know a lot of people treat karma like a cute saying. "What goes around comes around," and then they go do whatever they want anyway. But karma is real. It's not superstition; it's how the system is built.

In my theory of Knhoeing, the planet Earth sees everything. She will understand your rationale, your motivations, and your understanding. She will also know exactly what you did, where, when, how, and why.

Sit with that for a second. You might fool a judge, a jury, a news cycle, or your own family. You will not fool the ground you're standing on.

Love Is Your Defense: The Cosmic Good Samaritan Law

There is a caveat. If you do things out of love, even if you mess up, you can use it as a defense. For the most part that holds, unless you're just way messed up in the head and call it love when it's harmful, even after being told.

This is like America's Good Samaritan law. Good Samaritan laws basically state that if you try to help someone in an emergency, and it ends up to the detriment of the person you were trying to help, you're not held responsible, because your intent was good. Every state has its own version, and none of them cover someone acting recklessly. That lines up with the caveat I just gave you.

Cosmic law works the same way. Intent matters. If your heart was in the right place and you tried to help, a mistake doesn't make you a criminal in the eyes of the gods.

But "I meant well" only works if you actually meant well. Gaia sees your motivations, remember. You can't fake love to a being who knows why you did it.

Why Virtue Is in Your Own Self-Interest

Here's the part a lot of people miss. Being virtuous isn't just about being "a good person." Virtue, which is really doing things out of love, is in your own self-interest.

It's in your self-interest for two reasons. First, it's hard-wired into you as a species, and that is intentional by the gods. Humans are a social species, and love is what binds us together.

Second, karma is real, and the gods have laws. If what you do violates the law and isn't virtuous, isn't done out of love, you give them license to retaliate against you. You hand them the paperwork yourself.

I wrote a whole post about the human side of this over on my Psychosocial Philosopher blog. If you want the sociology and philosophy behind why being virtuous is in your own self-interest.

Why Being Virtuous Is in Your Own Self-Interest: Peace, Trust, and Reciprocity

A Warning for Politicians and Leaders

Now let me talk directly to the politicians, the CEOs, the pastors, the bosses, anybody who leads people. This part is for you.

Gaia, the planet Earth, considers commanding her people a covenant with her. Her people are the souls that live on her skin, the souls she allows you to propagate on. If you lead them, you have entered a covenant with her to serve her.

If you do not enact her will, she will bring reprimand. If you do not lead her people the way she benevolently wants you to, the way it is commanded by law, she is given license to reprimand you. Many of the times, that comes in the form of collecting your soul.

Think about that the next time a leader signs off on something that poisons the water, starves the poor, or sends people to die for profit. They think the only thing they answer to is the next election. They don't know whose people they're actually leading. In my book Gaia Rules, I expand more upon this.

A Scenario: When Human Law Is Unjust

Let me give you a scenario, because this is where cosmic law and human law split apart.

Picture southern Michigan in 1851. The year before, Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Act. Under that law, helping someone escape slavery was a federal crime, punishable by up to six months in jail and a $1,000 fine. Michigan was a free state with busy Underground Railroad routes running toward Canada, but the law of the land said anyone who hid a freedom seeker was a criminal.

Now picture a farmer's wife named Ruth, living a few miles outside of town. One night a family knocks on her door: a mother, a father, and two kids, running for Canada. Ruth hides them in the root cellar, feeds them, and the next night sends them north. By the law of the United States, she just committed a crime.

By cosmic law, she did one of the most virtuous things a person can do. She acted out of love, at real risk to herself, for strangers. The human law was unjust, and her act was cosmically just.

So here's what the gods decide. They don't expose her. They cover it up. The slave catchers come through the next morning, but Blue rolled a storm in overnight, and the rain washed the wagon tracks out of the mud and the scent out of the grass for the dogs. Gaia keeps the cellar door buried under wet leaves, and the patrol rides right past the farmhouse.

To human eyes, that's luck. To Gaia, that's justice. She saw the what, where, when, how, and why, and the why was love. The law of man was unjust, and the law of the cosmos outranks it.

That's the point of this scenario. Cosmic law doesn't care what Congress wrote down. It cares whether you acted out of love. When human law and cosmic law disagree, the gods side with love, and sometimes they actively protect the people who choose it.

Be Careful Until We Have a Cosmic Ethics

So let me bring it home. This is why you do things out of love. And if you don't do things out of love, you better check what the repercussions for not following the cosmic laws are.

Considering we don't have a cosmic ethics yet, I would be careful unless you know you talk to god. Most of us don't have the rulebook. Love is the one move that keeps you covered when you don't know the rules.

Love will protect you. That's not a greeting card line; it's a legal strategy for a universe you don't fully understand. Do it out of love, and you're annulled. Do it out of greed, ego, or cruelty, and you've given the gods license.

If this hit you, I go much deeper into Gaia, the sun, and the covenant between leaders and the planet in my book Gaia Rules.