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KARMA

"Karma Is Geometry"

Not punishment. Not reward. Not a cosmic ledger. Just the geometry of a single experiencer.

What Karma Actually Is

Most people think of karma as cosmic accounting. Do good things, good things come back. Do bad things, suffer later. A universal reward-and-punishment system.

That's not what karma is.

Karma is much simpler—and much more profound. If there's only one experiencer living all lives, then what you do to "another" you do to yourself. Not eventually. Not in some future lifetime. Geometrically.

Scientific support

Single experiencer theorem: if all ε-centers are identical, and consciousness resides at ε, then Actor and Recipient share the same experiencer. Action A → Recipient is simultaneously Action A → Self (same ε). No time delay required; the identity is structural, not sequential.

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When you hurt someone, you are hurting yourself from another angle.

When you help someone, you are helping yourself from another angle.

There are no others. There is only you, everywhere.

THE GOLDEN RULE DECODED

"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."

This isn't moral instruction. It's physics. "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you" because there are no others. What you do to "them," you ARE doing to you.

Why It Doesn't Feel That Way

If hurting someone is hurting yourself, why doesn't it feel like it immediately?

Because you're identified with a surface position.

From your current angle on the torus, you appear separate from the person you're affecting. The pain registers at their position, not yours. The feedback is real, but it's distributed across the surface—across what appears to be "other lives" and "other times."

The experiencer at ε receives it all. You just don't remember being in both positions until you shift perspective.

Scientific support

Surface-level separation creates apparent isolation of feedback. But ε-consciousness integrates all surface experiences. "Past life" memory, spontaneous guilt/joy without apparent cause, deep empathic response—these may be ε-integration bleeding through surface boundaries. The "karma delay" is an artifact of surface-time; at ε, all experiences are simultaneous.

Reframing Ethics

This changes everything about how we think about morality:

COMPASSION

Being nice to others

Accurate perception of reality

CRUELTY

Evil or malice

Geometric confusion—acting against your own nature

FORGIVENESS

Letting someone off the hook

Recognizing you were both actors in the scene

SERVICE

Sacrifice for others

Self-care across positions

Liberation Through Understanding

Traditional karma implies you're trapped—bound to a wheel of consequence that spans lifetimes. Pay off debts. Accumulate merit. Try to escape the cycle.

But understanding the geometry changes everything.

You're not trapped by karma. You're simply experiencing the natural result of being one experiencer across many positions. There's nothing to escape—only something to understand.

When you truly see that every being is you, cruelty becomes impossible. Not because you're following a rule, but because you can't unsee what you've seen. You don't hurt yourself on purpose.

That recognition IS the liberation.

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Karma isn't a trap. It's a teacher.

It keeps showing you, through experience after experience, that separation is illusion—until you finally see it.

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