The Law of Responsibility. An Extraordinary Story

Diana Cooper – We are only responsible for ourselves, but we are responsible to everyone. This is a story of something that happened to a friend of mine. I will call her Sarah.

Sarah’s beloved Dad died two years ago and his house is on the market. It is a beautiful house, set back in lovely gardens and hidden from the road by a long driveway and gracious, mature trees. Sarah lived there though her teenage and young adult years and it holds many dear memories for her. She and her husband visit it at least once a week to make sure everything is in order while it is up for sale.

One Monday morning, they arrived as usual. As they opened the door, they knew something was different. They found two windows had been smashed in the kitchen and a contraption set up for a quick exit. Washing was spread out over the furniture in the sitting room. And all the family pictures had been removed from all the rooms. They found them piled up in a back room. There was no more damage, but every drawer and cupboard had been explored and valuables taken.

In the sitting room there was a notebook containing 10 pages of numbers, which later transpired to be telephone numbers in Nigeria, Chad and other parts of Africa.

And then they noticed that a big new padlock had been put onto the shed door.

Sarah’s husband took off the shed door. Inside were bags full of silver and goods from the house, though alas not the missing personal items of her Dad’s, lots of brand-new expensive power tools, an unused shovel and a bag containing amongst other things two full face masks. One was of old wrinkled white man with a with a fringe of hair and the other a bald white man – complete disguises.

Neither of them had their mobile phones with them so Sarah went to phone the police from a neighbor’s house. The police said they were busy and would come two days later!

When Sarah returned, she found her husband talking to a man with a bicycle, wearing her Dads jacket! He was also wearing gloves despite the heat wave. He had evidently just popped out to Tesco’s as the bag of shopping was hanging from the handlebars. The man, an African, was well educated and articulate. He was telling Sarah’s husband that it wasn’t necessarily their house as you couldn’t own anything; you can’t own the trees or the wind or a house. He eventually cycled away.

The police did come two days later with forensics. Sarah pointed out that the man had popped into Tesco’s so his face would be on their CCTV as he was not wearing a mask when he cycled back to the house, and possibly a credit card would be available there too. The police said they’d follow it up in a few days. They eventually did after 5 weeks!

Sarah and her husband were so concerned and afraid he would come back that they are still sleeping in the house and driving an hour to their own home each morning.

But the story continues. The man continued to walk around the neighborhood!

A couple of weeks later, Sarah’s husband followed him. He went to the local golf course and observed it for half an hour. They warned the golf course manager.

Sarah also went to Tesco’s where the manager was very helpful. She did indeed have a picture of the man on CCTV and a credit card with which he had paid. It may well have been stolen but added evidence. Sarah phoned the police who noted it! They eventually followed it up 5 weeks later and issued a public notice and image to find the intruder.

My guide ‘A’ said that the man was extremely dangerous and would continue to cause much heartbreak and be a danger, unless stopped.

So, at a spiritual level, what is Sarah’s responsibility?

‘A’ says, ‘this man has caused much harm in the past and will continue to do so. Sarah had choices. If she did nothing, and the man caused more damage to people and to belongings then she bears karma, for she is responsible to everyone. {now that the Board of Karma has withdrawn, the karma would be administered by her soul}.

If on the other hand she did all she could to get the police to take action, which she did by constantly phoning the police, then the police force in general and those police officers immediately ‘responsible’ for the case bear the karma! Belonging to an organization does not absolve you from spiritual responsibility.

I have just received this follow up from Sarah, ‘The police have recently taken action following our numerous calls and emails requesting them to find this man. They put out a public notice last week on Facebook and in the local paper with the brief story and the CCTV image of him. So with the forensics report due soon, the credit card being followed up (albeit slowly) and the public release of the story & image it looks like we have done what we can at this stage.’

Interestingly, I asked ‘A’ what the current karmic situation was. He says that Sarah has done everything that she can and bears no Karma whatsoever. However, the local police force, who have not taken the matter seriously at any stage and are only reluctantly taking action bears responsibility and this is spread throughout the officers concerned. He added, ‘no one can hide behind anyone else or a group or organization when it comes to responsibility.’

© 2026 Diana Cooper @ dianacooper.com

SF Source Spirit Library Aug 2026