making sense of Corona

Starting with first prin­ci­ples, again: Our Maker does not “have to” do any­thing. He did not “have to” make a uni­verse. But we’re here. So He must have chosen to create: a uni­verse with a sen­tient, self-aware species at its center. Maybe, it’s the self-aware­ness that cre­ates the sense of cen­trality. The effect is the same. This kind of thinking belongs into the branch of phi­los­ophy called ontology — a lofty branch, thinking about thinking itself, about being, about reality; in every moment scin­til­lating on the cusp of col­lapsing in on itself, a beau­tiful sym­metry that may just appear as a mirror reflec­tion in a mirror, a noth­ing­ness stretched between two sides of the same con­cept. Flimsy as it may appear, if you will enter­tain this kind of thinking to apply to cur­rent affairs for a few min­utes, then maybe we can make some sen­sible, plau­sible deduc­tions on this “set-up” we are in, by observing the way things seem to be run. 

Our Maker has set up His cre­ation in a way that max­i­mizes oppor­tu­nity for us sen­tient, free-willed beings to prove our­selves, i.e. show our true colors. In order to refine us, He first “has to” define us. And so, He involves us in the affairs that effect us. Specif­i­cally in this case: gain of func­tion research has plau­sibly made the Coro­n­avirus delib­er­ately more infec­tious and more dan­gerous. For details, see this WSJ article (behind pay­wall) with video, and also see this inter­view with inves­tiga­tive jour­nalist Sam Hus­seini, which has since been removed from YT. The “cure” appears to have been pre­pared well in advance already. It is a form of gene therapy, mis-labelled “vac­ci­na­tion” to enable it to be exempt from liability. 

[In the same fashion, without claiming prophetic abil­i­ties, it would make a lot of sense if the large asteroid (“Planet X”, “Star of Jacob”) that will soon impact earth, if not with a direct hit, then with a “near miss” of lit­er­ally earth-shat­tering con­se­quences (world­wide earth­quakes) – would be pre­cisely one, or frag­ment of one, that NASA nudges toward planet earth’s tra­jec­tory, in a mis­guided attempt to deflect it, as part of DART, or a sub­se­quent mission.]

HaShem cre­ates the mate­rial, but leaves it to us to mold and shape it. He does not over­whelm us with “fate” so He can gauge how we respond. Instead, He lets us be the mas­ters of our own fate. Things are geared such that we are respon­sible – we lie in the bed we make.

Free will is such a sub­lime, paradox con­cept for us humans, but it ulti­mately boils down to HaShem giving us con­di­tions in which we are invited, cajoled or com­pelled to decide. We can follow either Him – which is rec­om­mended, or our own devices.

Within our scope for action, we are invited to maneuver and shift. Those who cur­tail others’ free­doms and dic­tate their actions carry greater respon­si­bility. And yet we all, within our means, “have to” amend our ways, repent and repair.

The first step in this process needs to be gaining under­standing, in order to be able to follow a path toward the light. Then we walk, see more, learn more, it gets brighter around us, our step gets firmer, and a pos­i­tive cycle ensues.

Like­wise, if we decide to do what is best in our own eyes, the path will lead down into ever more con­fu­sion, entan­gle­ment and dark­ness. One mis­guided inter­ven­tion will neces­si­tate the next. Med­i­cine is one of the fields on which this dynamic plays out.

In our cur­rent state, sur­rounded by ram­pant pulsed elec­tro­mag­netic radi­a­tion; toxins in our air, food, and water; arti­fi­cial light at any time of day dis­rupting our and other species’ cir­ca­dian pat­terns; nearly no con­tact to the earth’s veg­e­tated sur­face with its mag­netic field, fresh­ness and biome; depending on cen­tral­ized sys­tems for the supply of almost all our goods and ser­vices. We lose touch · con­tact · social cohe­sion · inte­gra­tion… Yes, some of these con­cepts may be eso­teric, but ker­nels of truth lie in all.

We do not even know what healthy living should look like. We some­times see glimpses, thank­fully, (going self-suf­fi­cient with Per­ma­cul­ture, for example) so we don’t go com­pletely depressed. “Nat­ural immu­nity” is mostly dis­re­garded in the cur­rent nar­ra­tive, which makes me sus­pi­cious at what is actu­ally being played here.

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We live in a post-truth society. We have access to huge quan­ti­ties of infor­ma­tion, more than we could ever process, yet little of that is ver­i­fi­able knowl­edge, that we have wit­nessed first hand, and could vouch for its veracity. Main­stream media and alter­na­tive news out­lets coexist and vie for atten­tion. What is “main­stream” any­more though? The old “offi­cial” news out­lets are losing ground, and often incor­po­rate social media con­tent, for the sake of speed, over thor­ough research. So called “fact-checkers” are employed to min­i­mize poten­tial legal prob­lems for the com­mis­sioners, not pri­marily to aid the preva­lence of “truth” – what is truth, anyway?

Mass for­ma­tion directs the common fear that had pre­vi­ously been dif­fuse, onto a target: a new threat, and a new remedy. This is how mass hys­teria and total­i­tar­i­anism begin. Narrow minds, focused on the imme­diate per­ceived threat are easy to con­trol. Cap­i­tal­izing on this fear, per­sonal rights and free­doms can be cur­tailed at will, almost without resis­tance. Society suf­fers, as social bonds get broken up fur­ther, humans are directed to evade one another. This gen­er­ates pos­i­tive feed­back onto the narrow-minded goal, if people are less able to reflect and enjoy social bonds. Com­mer­cially, the com­pa­nies pro­viding the per­ceived cure can cap­i­talize on this fear. And thus, the first genetic therapy is now being rolled out to bil­lions of people.

There are severe, per­ma­nent, life-changing con­se­quences of the dis­ease. There are equally severe, per­ma­nent, life-changing “side”-effects of the injec­tion. These latter ones are not dealt with trans­par­ently - not least because they con­tra­vene the sal­va­tion nar­ra­tive: the straw that society has grabbed cannot be found flimsy and frayed, or not even a straw at all, but a thistle.

It emerges now that effi­cacy of the admin­is­tered com­pounds is less than desired and antic­i­pated, as the observed pathogen keeps changing (mutating). The strategy is, para­dox­i­cally, to increase roll-out of the treat­ment. Is it really all we have? Has our cre­ativity and inge­nuity been exhausted in the cre­ation of these exper­i­mental genetic therapies?

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The סְפִירוֹת (“Sefiroth” – ema­na­tions) are the chan­nels through which divine energy (אור אין סוף ”Ohr Ein Sof” – divine, pri­mor­dial light) flows or shines. As the world degen­er­ates because of sin, the flow ceases. This can be seen as, HaShem averting His gaze as he cannot behold wicked­ness, and humans also detaching them­selves from the receiving end of this spir­i­tual light, through לשון הרע (“Lashon Hara” – evil speech / slander), שנאת חנם (“Sinat Chinam” – base­less hatred), impu­rity, vio­lence and other sin, all gen­er­ating low fre­quen­cies of coarse­ness and world­li­ness, becoming mis­aligned, out of tune from spir­i­tu­ality. We humans rou­tinely place other idols in place of HaShem, be they mate­ri­alism, plea­sure, self­ish­ness, ego­mania, nar­cis­sism… the vari­eties are man­i­fold. We set them up to sub­sti­tute the one Maker of the uni­verse, because He is too lofty, too pure, or we’re simply too embarrassed. 

If the flow of divine light would stop entirely, the cre­ation would be destroyed entirely. The שערים (“Sha’arim” – gates) were wide open ini­tially, at the time of the patri­archs. As humanity falls deeper into the entan­gle­ments of sin (pri­marily the Jews, but also the nations), the open­ings diminish, the energy reduces, the gates begin to close and the out­flow of energy gets reduced. HaSatan can block the divine energy, and is also enabled to divert the divine energy to him­self, growing his power. 

Tikkun (Repair work) that can inten­sify the flow again has three devices: Mitzvoth, Tshuva (repen­tance) and suf­fering. As the gates close, HaShem opens new חַלּוֹנוֹת (“Chalonoth” – win­dows) to com­pen­sate, as the Jews go into גָּלוּת (“galuth”, exile), in their own land, or evicted into dias­pora. By fur­ther dete­ri­o­ra­tion of world affairs, these win­dows close as well, down to a “nanometer” – i.e., a tiny slit that only allows through the min­imum amount of light to sus­tain merely the foun­da­tions of the world. This is the time of the greatest darkness. 

Then, HaShem will open the gates again, ush­ering in the begin­ning of the mes­sianic era. We are very close. 

We are right at the onset of this process of redemption. 

Go out of the exile with mercy.