I originally wrote this on March 31, 2004.  I have not changed anything because I wanted to keep not only the thought intact, but also my writing style.  Hope you enjoy it!

I was driving home the other night when I was stuck behind a large truck; it was one of those that are used to transport cars. I usually drive around an hour to an hour and 15 minutes home every day. Driving behind this truck caused me to become overly agitated because it was going around 40 miles an hour in a 50 mile an hour zone. While sitting at a traffic light, behind the truck of course, I thought of the Power of Now book that I read and I realized that it was useless to get aggravated. Instead I just turned up the music, I was listening to Mozart so I just focused my attention on the music and decided to just try and enjoy the ride home regardless of what the truck was doing. After about a half a mile of this the truck decided to turn off. The fact that the truck changed its path only after I decided not to let it bother me caused me to have a torrent of thoughts regarding Karma, parallel universes, and quantum entanglement.

I use the word Karma often in my life; sometimes in jest, sometimes in all seriousness and always when I play craps. I always thought of Karma as a reward system for doing good things, thinking good thoughts, etc. But this time when I thought of it at the exact moment when my mood went from bad to good I wondered if, instead of being rewarded, I just did a quantum shift from one universe to another. In the one universe the truck wouldn’t have turned off and I would’ve still been aggravated, but in the universe perceived as my reality the truck did turn off. Did my mood change cause a quantum shift or was the truck changing its path with my mood change just a coincidence. Now I’m not saying that I am moving between universes, I am trying to say that in this case the choice of positive over negative energy and the realization that I made this choice caused my positively charged consciousness to shift over to this forked universe. The consciousness that did not choose positive over negative stayed on the negative side and the truck didn’t switch paths.

There are other instances when I have been observant of this same set of circumstances. I mentioned playing craps before; this same set of circumstances also occurred twice before while playing craps. The first time was when I went to AC with friends. We ended up playing for around an hour and we all lost. We then went to a local bar for drinks and started just bullshitting and having a really fun time; laughing, telling jokes, etc. We then went back to the casino and started to play again, and again we were losing, but I wouldn’t let it dampen my mood. I kept yelling, joking, and having a great time, my friends then joined in, and then everyone at the table joined in. At this point we started to win. I then started to tip the dealers every time it was my roll, and we began to win even more. The guy next to me, whom I just met that night, was kind of busting the dealers’ chops whenever he lost. I repeatedly said to him that that was bad Karma and that he better watch it or it would bite him. He eventually came around to my way of thinking and just enjoyed the ride, he won a lot, was comped a room and a car home the next day. We played for around 4 hours and all won hundreds of dollars. Yeah, it’s not a fortune but we got to play craps for 4 hours, which is a damn good time if you like that sought of stuff.

There was also a time in Reno where the same thing occurred. This time we ended up playing for around 6 or 7 hours. We started at around 2 am and ended somewhere around 7 or 8 am, I kind of lost track of time as I have a habit of always having a Vodka on the rocks in my left had as I shoot the dice with my right.

OK, enough of my gambling history, I just wanted to ground you with the sum of the experiences that I used to come up with my theory. The theory continues… After thinking about the theory some more I have also begun looking at each roll of the dice in a crap game causing a quantum shift. I might consider it a random choice as to which universe I end up in when the dice finally stop, sometimes I win and sometimes I lose, my negative consciousness goes with the loss and my positive goes with the win. If I look back to those past experiences and see continuous wins that coincides with my positive energy I might think that I am actually causing this, which if the theory is correct I am. I’m looking at it as a forked road leading down forked roads ad infinitum. Each fork has a positive and negative path and each time I come to a fork my consciousness shifts into 2 universes where the positive universe continues down one path and the negative continues down the second path until the next fork. Of course the degree to which each path can be viewed as positive or negative is totally up to the observer; a negative path could range from a stubbed toe to accidental death and a positive path could range from a smile to enlightenment.

When I speak of quantum entanglement I am trying to say that for every quantum shift I make I also bring along with me everything that I am entangled with, mentally or physically. Even as I write this more thoughts are coming to me regarding what I actually know as being real, and what makes these things that I perceive as being real my reality. If every split of my universe which in turn causes a quantum split of my consciousness, or is it vice versa, causes my entire reality to follow because of quantum entanglement can I actually bring others along for the ride down the positive and negative paths. If I looked at the other winners when I played craps and the person driving behind me when I was following the truck then apparently I can.

Maybe Karma is just conscious choice with a conscience that is rationalized; I consciously choose to do the good thing because I know if I do the bad thing that somehow something bad will happen to me. I’m not saying that other unconscious choices should be dismissed I just haven’t thought about it too much yet and the fact that they are unconscious and that you don’t realize you’re doing them makes it kind of hard to observe their outcomes.