Trafficking in Illusions
The Covid Occupation as a Lesson in Politics
In my previous piece, I discussed how the pro and con- are always false binaries, in whatever form because dualistic thinking is born of the false identity of the ego, and the Truth is always the silent third. This is the reason why A Course in Miracles (ACIM) says that the world was made as an attack on God:
The world was made as an attack on God. ²It symbolizes fear. ³And what is fear except love’s absence? ⁴Thus the world was meant to be a place where God could enter not, and where His Son could be apart from Him. ⁵Here was perception born, for knowledge could not cause such insane thoughts. ⁶But eyes deceive, and ears hear falsely. ⁷Now mistakes become quite possible, for certainty has gone. (ACIM, W-pII.3.2:1-7)
Duality is the denial of our non-dual reality, an attack on the Oneness (i.e. non-duality, not-two-ness) of the Kingdom. So as long as we get caught in the ego’s double entry bookkeeping, we are dealing in fiction, for any business entity is a fictitious entity, just like individual self-hood is also a fictitious entity, and our likes and dislikes, loves, and hates, only serve one purpose: to pass the illusion of individual self-hood off as real. This is also why Byron Katie asks: Who would you be without your problems, for it is your problems that keep you in your ego identity, for you remain preoccupied in pro and con thinking. There are only false dichotomies, for duality IS the dreamstate, Maya. The following brilliant analysis of the Covid experience in Haiti (essentially nil), is a case in point.
The Covid delusion
Mundus vult decipi, decipiatur ergo
[Petronius, 1st century CE (Tr.: The World Wants to be Fooled, therefore she will be.)]
Haiti has become the great teacher for the rest of the world, along with Sweden. But Haiti had negligible Covid deaths, and a low single digit vaccination rate, while the Dominican Republic next door had about two thirds of the population vaccinated, and Covid deaths where a multiple of Haiti. For the US the numbers are even worse, all of which makes it very clear that we were dealing with solutions to an illusory problem, which caused plenty of new problems. The house of mirrors was in full operation.
If we put it all in context, it is clear that throughout we are dealing in illusions, solutions to non-existent problems, which then cause other problems and we keep on problem solving, but we never get anywhere:
We project a disease causation mechanism. It is imperative that it can be defined close enough for us to target it, never mind it is invisible, or doesn’t even exist, it just needs to be credible enough so we can sell the solution.
The reason we can sell the solution is because we can now focus peoples´fear, which seems to lower anxiety, but it really keeps the problem intact. This is the same mechanism as cited in the article about Haiti: the false dichotomies prevent the real question that should be asked. We get hung up between two alternatives, and if we buy into that, we bought the definition of the problem, but if the “virus” was illusory, it never was the problem to begin with, so we are back to dealing in illusions and the psychotic need of seeing an outside enemy - I am posting the relevant quote below again.
But if we buy into the “solution,” that may have a real cost in the now, to fix a possible (but improbable) problem. The price I pay is the cost of the vaccine, and the side effects, which can be quantified as a probability, ranging from death to various alternatives ranging between permanent disability or other health problems. That probability then needs to be compared to the probabilities of catching the disease and the consequent probabilities of equivalent or worse outcomes from the disease. We know enough by this time that the vaccine lost in that comparison. It was predictable in the minds of some, but by now, the results are fact, no longer probability.
If we do have adverse reactions, we can blame ourselves for taking the vaccines, and we can blame pharma and the politicians. If we made it without adverse events, we can blame the same group again on behalf of family and friends who did have adverse reactions. If we did not take the vaccines, we can blame others for taking it, and pharma and the politicians, etc. In other words, it becomes a never-ending blame game - which is the ego’s exact purpose, for it all translates into debit and credit entries for the illusory business that is the personality I play on the all-the-world’s-a-stage stage.
And of course, this is the gift that keeps on giving, for now we will need even more medical care, to find a treatment for our adverse reactions to the vaccines.
A brother separated from yourself, an ancient enemy, a murderer who stalks you in the night and plots your death, yet plans that it be lingering and slow; of this you dream. ²Yet underneath this dream is yet another, in which you become the murderer, the secret enemy, the scavenger and the destroyer of your brother and the world alike. ³Here is the cause of suffering, the space between your little dreams and your reality. ⁴The little gap you do not even see, the birthplace of illusions and of fear, the time of terror and of ancient hate, the instant of disaster, all are here. ⁵Here is the cause of unreality. ⁶And it is here that it will be undone. (ACIM, T-27.VII.12:1-6)
If you take a look at all the things that our wrong in our healthcare model, it is worth following A Midwestern Doctor, who lists some of the worst drugs in the arsenal in this article, and besides the Covid vaccines, it includes PPIs (Proton Pump Inhibitors - some of the strongest acid blockers), SSRI antidepressants, Statins, NSAIDS (like Ibuprofen), and a whole host of other well known offenders:
The general principle is that for medicine the money is in treating the problem, not in solving the problem. In other words, allopathic medicine in general fights symptoms instead of helping us heal, so again this is an antagonistic, dualistic stance, which perpetuates the problem and often even aggravates it. Beginning to question the model means throwing off the shackles and leaving the plantation, and beginning to take responsibility for your own health. It is the first step on the way to dealing with the cause. And the first step is owning the disease, and realizing it is your disease, not somebody else´s, and following your intuition in terms of what it is all about as a healing opportunity. And of course, do seek the treatment but by all means also do the spiritual work on what the opportunity is all about for you at this particular time in your life.
My MD father used to say, if you’re stuck at a red light with an allopath in the passenger’s seat, they might lend you a hammer to go knock out the red light, and they will feign ignorance about the causes of your accident, but they will happily send you a bill for patching you up. That kind of says it all.
Our system reduces everything to standard diagnoses with standard answers, thinking they are solving the problem. They are merely defining it out of existence, and in many cases those who go this route, end up in a never-ending medical game of whack-a-mole with symptoms. Here is where I always think back to Dr. Georg Groddek, who was the father of psychosomatic illness, and who always tuned into the psychological and spiritual dimensions of the issues. In short, by compartmentalizing the problem the way our vaunted healthcare system does, we are depriving ourselves of a healing opportunity, which then presents itself again in different ways.
The allopathic model is logical only if you believe the body is the ultimate reality and matter causes spirit. This is materialism. The alternative model is the body is in the mind, or rather it is a projection, and what it experiences is always an opportunity to heal. It can’t be any other way.
Translating this into the Covid experience specifically, the right question is why did I believe the story. It never made any sense. On the other hand it is never too late to wake up and smell the coffee, and if you walk the trail back, you end up dealing with your own belief system, and that may become a path to making different choices about how to conduct your life. The difference is in seeing illness as an attack that you want to suppress, versus as an opportunity for healing, that is where a reversal in thinking begins.
In purely practical terms of health and well being, there is a new podcast, by Laura Scappaticci of the Goetheanum in Switserland, and Dr. Adam Blanning, who is a anthroposophical family doctor in Denver, where they discuss one of Rudolf Steiner’s books. The title of the podcast is Extending the Art of Healing Through Anthroposophy, and it might be helpful to some in terms of finding a better way to relate to healthcare practictioners, and a better way of dealing with the healing process.