Something Is Definitely Not As It Seems

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It’s been a while since I’ve written, mostly because I’ve been rather flummoxed over the past few months and didn’t know what to say.

Doesn’t it seem like we’re all living in some kind of strange dream? I feel like we’re floating in unknown waters with our heads above the surface, trying to pretend that everything is “normal.” But below the surface, we sense that something is definitely not as it seems.

Naturally, how we respond to this state of affairs can tell us much about our inner life. My usual pattern is to go into fear and sadness, but lately I’ve also felt frustration and stagnation. I’ve come to realize that, beneath these feelings, I am actually resisting accepting the new “status quo.” But as I’ve written about before, resistance is ultimately futile. Instead, we must accept what is and go from there. And in order to do so in a way that is healthy and effective, we must find a way to heal our personal patterns and wounds.

So what finally inspired me to write? It was an unusual day of contrasts that occurred a few weeks ago. It all began during a video chat with a spiritual group I meet with every Saturday morning. One of the participants (who has usually been supportive of alternative medical views) declared that she now intended to wear a mask for the rest of her life, even after COVID is done — just in case. Somehow this really rattled me.

Only hours later, my husband and I went to a gathering at a local park organized by a group opposed to mandatory vaccination. We knew nothing else about the group or who would be there. But we soon experienced something even more rattling — and quite at the opposite extreme.

After some introductions, we all embarked on a 2 hour hike, during which our experience gradually became more extreme. First, it emerged that everyone (except us) adamantly refused to temporarily put on a mask when masked folks passed closely on the narrow hiking trail. One woman in the group proudly told me she even refused to put on a mask to go grocery shopping and has to make a special appointment at the store in order to do so!

Over time, it then emerged that most of the group espoused some rather extremist views. Some were anti-BLM, some didn’t believe in climate change, some blamed the Jewish media for everything, and so on. What an experience! These people fulfilled every media stereotype of “anti-vaxxers.”

And once again, as has been happening repeatedly lately, my husband and I found ourselves to be outliers — sitting in the middle and belonging nowhere, except with a few of our friends who are alternative medicine practitioners or adherents.

So what’s my message today?

I believe that no matter what you believe or what media outlet you’re listening to, most people are at least sensing that no one truly knows what’s going on.

This is certainly true of the medical authorities. None of the COVID vaccines have been tested in the way vaccines are normally tested before they’re released. As a result, medical researchers actually have no idea what the long term consequences of the vaccine campaign will be, including its ultimate safety or effectiveness. My friend who works at the CDC confirmed this. The authorities know that there are significant risks in the vaccine campaign, but they just don’t know what else to do. Each of the vaccines represents an experiment with a different technique, dosage, and dosing regimen. Only time will tell what happens. And in my experience, even the most enthusiastic of vaccine recipients is a bit nervous when they get it and, afterward, seems relieved that they are still alive.

And of course, we still have no definitive information about the origin of the pandemic, what will happen with developing variants, or what will happen with our world economy. We also have no idea whether society will become bifurcated into the vaccinated/unvaccinated, whether basic freedoms of movement will be upheld or forbidden to the unvaccinated (including the possibility of forced vaccination), what kind of monitoring and tracking we will all be subject to in the future, and so on. Add in climate change, social unrest, and all the rest and you get an almost complete state of utter uncertainty. No wonder the internet is full of seminars on depression, anxiety, and how to sleep! These days, the furthest any of us can forecast into the future is about a week or two, a month or two at best.

So how do we, as humans, react to such an extreme state of not knowing? I think there are three main types of reaction: denial (in all its many forms), conspiracy thinking, and searching or inquiring within. The first two are focused outward onto the external world. The third turns the focus inward.

In general, denial has become the most common reaction and is characterized by an undercurrent of fear and sometimes sadness and/or numbness. As far as I can see, this denial has been taking two forms:

1) Blocking or escaping from thinking about the situation through a variety of often addictive pursuits: drugs, eating, social media, shopping, and other entertaining distractions. All of these behaviors have increased significantly since March 2020. Of course, another (and healthier) form of escape is occupying oneself with busyness — e.g., work, exercise, home improvement, learning new skills, etc.

2) Attempting to find a sense of control and safety by rabidly embracing the conventional narrative and following every mainstream media directive, usually without questioning it or its consistency with previous directives or common sense. Such folks tend to be glued to the news, may wear many masks at once, even if the authorities say it is no longer necessary, and are also the most likely to demonize or ostracize those who question the narrative in any way.

Next, we have the conspiracy folks. Their general state is dominated by anger. Often their conspiracy ideation is another type of denial: e.g., a belief that there is no pandemic, there is no climate change, cops don’t treat black and brown people any differently than white people, etc.

Another aspect of angry conspiracy thinking is scapegoating — usually the authorities, but also specific individuals or groups of people. Such people also tend to angrily refuse to consider multiple points of view or have sympathy for those who do not agree with them. In many ways, they are much like the conventionally-minded rabid news junkies; they are just listening to different news, each calling the other side “fake.”

Then there’s the third option — going within. Increasingly, I have found it is the only healthy path for me going forward.

In my last newsletter, I talked about the vaccine debate. If you read it, you will understand why my husband and I want to avoid getting vaccinated, at least as long as we can. We know better than most about the inherent dangers of the COVID vaccines and their likely shortcomings as a strategy in the long run. We also have faith in non-invasive methods of prevention and alternative medical options of healing if we do get sick.

Unfortunately, our beliefs and choices have made our lives increasingly more difficult since January 2021. We are in our mid-late 60s and almost everyone we know is vaccinated. Many friends and acquaintances think we’re either nuts, irresponsible, selfish, or reckless. We are occasionally ostracized and are increasingly dismayed at what’s going on. Unfortunately, this has affected both of us physically. In my case, my blood pressure has risen considerably since January.

Most people in the USA are feeling better in 2021 than in 2020. For us, it is the opposite. Each week my husband downloads the vaccine injury data from the government and this data (which is never publicized by the media) is shocking. We now have over 4400 deaths associated with the COVID vaccines in the USA, with about 30-50 people currently dying per day. These vaccines are the most dangerous in history by a huge margin. For example, they are statistically 200 times as dangerous as a flu vaccine. But no one seems to know about this, and if they do know, they don’t seem to care. This has affected our peace of mind and our bodies in a palpable way.

So now, with my blood pressure speaking loudly to me, I realize that I have no other choice but to confront my own personal demons. Going within is truly my only option. And in many ways, this is true for all of us — whether it means confronting our fear or our anger or our sadness. Because the bottom line is that, in all cases and for all people, our demons have not originated in 2020 or 2021. They usually go all the way back to childhood and our family patterns of experience and trauma. I know this is true for me.

I’m now engaging (once again!) in a concerted effort to deal with my own lifelong patterns and issues. This has involved unsubscribing from or filtering out several email lists that have been consistently triggering me. I’m also utilizing several therapeutic modalities in order to heal myself. I know that I don’t want resort to escapism or denial or conspiracy anger or sadness and shutdown. I want peace. I want ease. We all do! So I believe we must all now work hard — perhaps harder than ever before — to release our personal demons. I believe my life — and the future of our world — depends on it.

In Active Consciousness, I talked about the manifestation process. An important part of it is developing the ability to truly believe that a goal can and will occur. But as Huna teachings also stress, this cannot fully happen as long as there are emotional and mental obstacles (often subconscious) that stand in the way. For this reason, being mired in negativity — fear, anger, sadness, etc. — will ultimately block you, especially if you desire peace.

Unraveling the Vaccine Debate: Finding the Fulcrum Beneath Polarity

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Many of us are growing to realize the dangers inherent in the increasing polarities in our world. Polarity is all about two camps fighting one another on two sides of an issue, each side “othering” and dehumanizing the other as an enemy to be vanquished at all costs. Of course, polarities have likely plagued humanity for thousands of years. But the information age and the rise of social media have worsened the problem and also made it much more obvious.

Lately, I’ve been listening to Charles Eisenstein‘s 10-part lecture series on political hope. Charles encourages his listeners to not only understand where each side of a polarity is coming from — in essence, putting oneself in the other’s shoes — but also to search for what truly lies beneath a polarity. When I think about the nature of polarity, what springs to mind is the image of a see-saw. One side goes up at the expense of the other, which must go down. But under a see-saw lies its fulcrum. The word “fulcrum” derives from the Latin word “fulcire,” which means “to prop”.  Besides being a prop for a lever, a fulcrum has also been defined as something that plays a central role in or is in the center of a situation or activity. Given any polarity that you may be embroiled in, what is supporting it? What lies at its true center?

As it turns out, on the exact same day that I listened to Charles’ talk about polarity, I had a Zoom chat with two lifelong friends from elementary school — two women with quite different mindsets than me but who are also much like sisters. One lives in Jerusalem and the other in Washington, D.C. Before COVID times, we talked to each other on our birthdays and got together every 10 years or so, but since March 2020, we have been Zooming once a month. This particular Zoom took place the day after the inauguration, so our conversation naturally drifted to the next topic that is dominating the news — the COVID vaccine.

Unfortunately, this conversation pushed on my own hot-button polarity issue: vaccination. I will discuss my own views in more detail later, but let me just say that one of my friends had already gotten the shot and the other was having it the next day. In contrast, my husband and I want to avoid it if we can. The truth is, my friends have always viewed my involvement with alternative medicine as nonsense and we avoid talking about the subject. But it was hard to avoid it when it came to this Zoom discussion. In fact, I experienced my first dose of “vaccine shaming” from one them, who accused me of avoiding the vaccine at her expense, intimating that she was doing her duty to achieve a herd immunity that I could ride upon. In actuality, this couldn’t be further from my true thoughts. And after the Zoom ended, her comment triggered a response in me much like Charles had warned against: a desire to completely disengage from my friends and to view them as “sheep-le” who unthinkingly follow media directives. This article is my effort to follow Charles’s advice and disengage as best I can from this polarity, to put myself in my friends’ shoes, and to find the fulcrum that underlies this increasingly divisive issue. (Please forgive the fact that this article is written from the perspective of a person living in the USA.)

Let me begin letting you know more about where I’m coming from. Unlike the stereotype of the “anti-vaxxer” who knows nothing about science and ignores the obvious facts, much like a flat-earther or climate-disaster-denier, my own experience of people on “my side” of the vaccine debate is very different. Many (if not most) are parents of children who have been injured or even killed by vaccines. Some have been injured themselves and are suffering from a lifelong chronic disability. Among them are medical doctors and many other types of professionals. Because their vaccine injury experiences were swept under the rug or outright denied by the medical establishment and by society in general, and because vaccine manufacturers have had no liability for vaccine injuries since 1986, most of these people have spent years trying to recover from their injuries at their own expense, usually with the aid of “alternative medicine” in various forms. They also tend to be highly educated on the topic of vaccines, and know more about it than most doctors. They are also familiar with the many scientific studies that go against the media party-line that vaccines are “safe and effective”.

While I have never had a vaccine reaction myself (though I haven’t been vaccinated in at least 35 years), I believe one of my sons was vaccine injured and eventually healed with the aid of homeopathic medicine.  I was so inspired by this event that I gave up my career as a research computer scientist in Silicon Valley to write about this form of medicine and become an advocate for it. After my book on homeopathy (Impossible Cure) was published, I was approached by someone to see if I could do something about making the government’s vaccine injury data (VAERS — the CDC’s Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System) more accessible. At the time, it was available to the public for download, but as pretty cryptic raw file data.  Over the course of a weekend, my husband (also a computer scientist) downloaded the data files and created a more usable database. About a year  later, he put it online (medalerts.org). Although the CDC eventually created their own website to share this data with the public, my husband’s website still provides the most complete and usable view of the VAERS data and is thus the one often used, even by CDC researchers and vaccine manufacturers.

Up until recently, new VAERS data was made available for access once a month. Since the COVID vaccines came out, new downloads have been made available once a week. As a result, my husband and I are some of the very first people in the world to know the latest stats on COVID vaccine injuries. As of March 5, 2021, there have been 1524 deaths associated with a COVID vaccination and 3470 hospitalizations (you can find a summary of the latest stats here).  So when I say that I am aware of the potential dangers of getting a COVID vaccine, I am not exaggerating. I also know that, in the past, every vaccine that has been rushed to market has ultimately been pulled because of injuries. I am also dubious about whether the action of the COVID vaccines released so far (which are experimental in nature and different from traditional vaccines) will create herd immunity.

I’ve also got to admit that I have been personally traumatized by the vaccine debate, aside from my own child’s injury.  Because of my husband’s involvement with VAERS, he was asked to testify in Sacramento in 2015 when they were considering SB277, a bill which ultimately removed California children’s ability to obtain philosophical and religious vaccine exemptions, mandating vaccination for attendance at any public or private school or child care center. Thus, it forced anyone who didn’t want to vaccinate their child to homeschool or move to another state. Although medical exemptions were allowed, they have been increasingly circumscribed and many doctors have been persecuted for writing exemptions since that time.

As part of the SB277 hearing, hundreds of protesters came to Sacramento to voice their plea to the legislators. Since I was in the hearing room with my husband, I got to see it all. Over the course of many long hours, parent after parent, sometimes towing an injured child in a wheelchair, came up to the microphone to ask the legislators not to pass this bill. Some of these parents were doctors. Some had children who died. One man was removed by guards for an angry and anguished outburst. The author of the bill, Senator Pan (the largest recipient of donations in the California Senate from the pharmaceutical industry), smiled and nodded at each one. The legislators paid rapt attention to the people who gave formal testimony in favor of the bill. But when the anti-SB277 contingent provided testimony (including my husband), the legislators talked amongst themselves and ignored them. The bill was rubber-stamped by the committee and within weeks, had become law.

This experience traumatized me so much that I got sick for several weeks afterward. In addition, the newspapers wrote articles about the event that differed from what I had actually witnessed. I cancelled our longstanding subscription to the San Francisco newspaper. I no longer trusted the media or the political system. In many ways, my complete view of reality was pulled out from underneath me because of this experience.

So what about putting myself in my friends’ shoes? I must admit it’s hard to do now, but with effort, I can recreate my world view before all this happened.  I totally trusted doctors and conventional medicine back then, and I would follow their directives without question. I would never think of not vaccinating my child or myself. Injuries from prescribed medicines and treatments? Surely these things must be rare or apocryphal.  Besides — and perhaps this is the key thing — what other choice did I have but to trust my doctor and medical authorities? Alternative medical ideas seemed archaic and bogus to me. Everyone was saying this was true, especially the media. So if I didn’t have modern medicine, I would have no way to heal myself. To question this would be to question science — perhaps even the foundations of civil society. More importantly, to question it would be to endanger my health, my children’s health. 

So I get it. To my friends, I am their “crazy sister” who followed her delusional ideas about homeopathy, alternative medicine, and vaccines. They love me anyway, but they certainly don’t want to follow my advice and wait a few months before getting vaccinated. In fact, they worry about my own health, as much as I worry about them getting vaccinated. They may also fear that I am some kind of dangerous outlier, perhaps as dangerous as a Trump supporter (even though they simultaneously think I am much too left-wing in my views). So they pat me on the head and hope that I will finally get a clue and get vaccinated. After all, they do love me.

So where is the fulcrum? What lies beneath this vaccination polarity?  Charles suggests that one strategy is to discover something both sides hold in common. In the case of vaccines, it seems clear that at the center is everyone’s natural desire to be healthy and to keep themselves and their loved ones safe from disease and death. The main difference between the two sides is how to go about it. One side has lost faith in the conventional medical establishment to achieve this aim, and the other has not.

Perhaps it is also a matter of degree and a knowledge of and access to alternatives. While it is well known that many people have, for one reason or another, lost some confidence and trust in mainstream allopathic medicine and especially in the pharmaceutical industry, some have greater distrust than others. In addition, awareness of, and the ability to afford, other options for staying well can differ greatly. And herein lies the conundrum and the debate. And it is also now clear why imposing severe mandates on “anti-vaxxers” and marginalizing the vaccine-injured isn’t going to help matters much; it will only make their distrust grow. So let’s explore this issue a bit more.

Perhaps first and foremost is the current state of health in modernized countries and especially in the USA. Chronic disease has become rampant, even among children. A majority of both children and adults are now taking prescribed medicines on a regular basis. Parents have grown to accept chronic disease in their children as the new norm, and are likely not aware that this kind of thing was rare 50 years ago. In this context, a dependence on conventional medical solutions seems more necessary now than ever. And the specter of some new acute epidemic disease being added into the mix is too much for many to bear. Vaccines and “accepted” solutions seem to be the only answer. 

On the other side, from the standpoint of alternative health approaches and the people who use them, the rise of chronic disease is directly linked to over-vaccination and the overuse of medicine. They also believe that an underlying factor for chronic disease is our increasingly poor state of nutrition. Soils have been depleted, foods have been poisoned by pesticides like glyphosate, people have become addicted to nutrient-empty junk food, and obesity is rampant. Add into this mix a growing toxic stew of electromagnetic radiation and air pollution. So once again, while most can agree that people are increasingly and chronically unwell, an awareness of the severity of the trend and an agreement about what is causing it differs.

Another factor is that, in general, the conventional approach to disease (and especially the use of vaccines), tends to be blanket in nature, without taking into consideration that each individual has their own health tendencies and therefore may be more disposed to injuries than others, especially long-term chronic injuries. In contrast, alternative medical approaches are generally  all about individualization, and those who use them are very much aware of this. Unfortunately, vaccine mandates only allow for a very narrow form of exemption based on acute and rapid reactions and therefore do not take individual health tendencies into account. To those who already distrust mainstream medicine, this further exacerbates it.

Let’s talk a bit more about the awareness issue. After the early 1900s, many forms of medical alternatives were actively suppressed, denigrated, and virtually disappeared. Initially, it was largely about medical competition, fueled by the rise of the pharmaceutical industry and the fact that some of the more modern medicines finally did work well. This period also coincided with the rise of the notion that science was the only solution to mankind’s problems. It featured the “green revolution” and the rise of big-agriculture, along with the development of many amazing medical technologies. Although several medical alternatives re-emerged and gained a lot of traction after the 1970s, over the past couple of years (and especially since the pandemic began), they have been targeted and intensively suppressed with the aid of big-tech and the media. This is true not only of more controversial systems like homeopathy, but also of the use of vitamins and various foods and supplements to bolster immunity and avoid disease. As a result the public’s awareness of and willingness to try alternative approaches has become weakened, while at the same time, it has increased distrust among those who already rely upon these alternative health approaches. 

Another factor in all of this is our view of illness and death itself. Over the past 50 years or so, it has become increasingly intolerable to people to suffer and recover from an acute disease, whether it be the flu or even a cold. Even in my childhood (I am 65), people expected to be sick for a few days occasionally and spend some time recovering at home. Everyone (and especially doctors) understood that getting and recovering from an acute disease strengthened one’s immune system. In addition, pretty much every child in the USA got the measles, mumps, and chickenpox to no ill effect. It was anticipated and accepted, like a rite of passage, and doctors knew that experiencing these childhood diseases led to leaps in cognitive and bodily immune development, and also conferred lifelong immunity. In contrast, today, taking time out for illness and recovery has become unacceptable, with people taking suppressive medicines so that they can go to work anyway. This is the new norm. The collective memory and acceptance of acute illness as part of our everyday experience has been lost. Could an underlying reason for this be the societal breakdown of family structures and supports? For example, if no one is available to care for sick children, it is no wonder that working parents want to avoid the childhood diseases which often kept them at home for a week or more.

When it comes to death, most people will undergo any form of treatment if it affords them one more day of life, even if it renders their remaining days miserable and bankrupts their families. Doctors and hospitals actually encourage this, due to their own fear of lawsuits. In the end, our acceptance of death as part of life has been lost. Death has become almost unspeakable, with the dying largely hidden from view. In contrast, suffering from a lifelong chronic ailment has sometimes become a badge of honor and even identity. Is an underlying reason for this phenomenon the breakdown of the extended family? After all, when the elderly were living with their families, everyone got to see the dying process first hand. Or could it be the modern notion that “science” can cure every ill and death is no longer required? The growing transhumanist movement is actually touting such ideas.

I’m sure there is more beneath the polarity of the vaccine debate. I also suspect that the COVID-19 vaccine experience will, ultimately, bring this polarity to a head, much as the BLM and Me-Too movements have intensified our awareness of racism and misogyny. Our world seems to be going through a kind of cleansing, with polarities intensifying and coming more clearly into view, and hopefully, ultimately, bringing awareness of their underlying issues and solutions into focus. 2021 will no doubt be an interesting year.

















Homeopathic Success in Treating Cancer, Vaccine Injuries Climbing, and More Signs of a Momentous Year of Change Ahead

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As we enter a new year, I sense that 2021 will be a year of change. Many are hoping that the COVID vaccine will enable our world to get back to the old normal. But I believe it will be a year of surprises and action that takes us into a new reality that none of us could have ever anticipated.

In a recent post, I wrote about the power of uncertainty. When the world becomes utterly unpredictable, we have an increased opportunity to shift things toward the direction we’d like to go. As a result, it is now more important than ever to visualize the desired future that we’d like to see.

2020 was certainly a year of stasis. In spiritual jargon, we were sitting in “the void”, a dark and quiet place where all seemed rather gloomy, unchanging, vague, and uncertain. But the void is also where change and new manifestation incubates. I believe that we will begin to see these shifts occur in 2021 and onward into the next decade.

Things certainly were rather bleak for alternative medicine in general, and for homeopathy in particular, in 2020. It was a year in which homeopathy and every form of natural medicine was actively suppressed by the media, blacklisted by online venues, and the FDA continued to threaten our access to remedies. There was also the specter of looming COVID vaccine mandates. But one maxim of homeopathic philosophy is that attempts to suppress often create blow-back reactions. And there are now glimmers of this happening and a shift arising as a result. Let’s consider some of these.

Dana Ullman has recently reported an article in a major medical journal that confirms the utility of homeopathy in treating lung cancer.

An attempt to push back on a flu vaccine mandate for schools has been successful in Massachusetts.

Very surprisingly to me, California (known for its recently-passed draconian vaccine laws) has announced they will not mandate the COVID vaccine. (Go to the very bottom of this page and see the answer to the question: “Will you make the COVID-19 vaccine mandatory?”) Of course, it remains to be seen whether this holds and whether employer mandates will be enacted. Hopefully, there will be the opportunity for at least religious exemptions.

The VAERS database (the CDC’s vaccine injury database) used to be updated monthly, but is now being updated weekly. After just five weeks of entered COVID vaccine data, the number of deaths went from 0 to 13 to 66 to 181 to 329. You can find the most current weekly summary here. It is usually updated on Friday. In the meantime, hits on the this particular VAERS data site have gone from 50,000 a day to 320,000 per day. Part of this may be because major news outlets (like Good Morning America) have mentioned the existence of VAERS — something unthinkable before now.

People are certainly becoming more and more aware of the possibility of vaccine injury. A large percentage of medical professionals all over the USA are refusing the vaccine. In Norway, they have realized that the vaccine is killing or injuring very frail seniors and they are considering whether or not to administer the vaccine to this population. While much of this news is rather gruesome, it certainly portends a shift in consciousness about the inherent safety and effectiveness of vaccination in general. Much remains to be seen over the next few months.

My hope and vision? For whatever reason, the world decided to put all its COVID eggs into the vaccine basket in 2020. If this option fails or proves insufficient (and truthfully, I hope this will not be the case), we will have no other choice but to stop suppressing both allopathic and alternative medicine options for treating COVID in 2021. (Sadly, even in India, homeopathic treatment of COVID has been blocked, but a recent court case lifted this blockage.) All of this could mean a resurgence of homeopathy! After all, we have many COVID-treatment successes under our belts and data to prove it. Homeopaths will also have success in treating the vaccine injuries that will surely be increasing.

Let us pledge to rise to this task and let our amazing homeopathy shine for all the world to see. The genie will finally be out of the bottle! The limitations of the allopathic medical system will finally be understood. The high death rates in countries in which obesity, poor diet and food, and environmental toxins are most predominant will become increasingly obvious. The net effect, over time, will lead to a worldwide revolution in health and healing. And so it is!

The Power of Uncertainty

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If there’s one thing that COVID-times have brought us, it’s uncertainty. We wake up each morning wondering what unexpected changes are coming our way. Will there be work, will there be school, will there be money? Will we or our loved ones become sick or well? What governmental regulations will be imposed or lifted? Will there be flour or toilet paper at the grocery store? Will a COVID vaccine save us or harm us? Will we ever be allowed to travel and associate freely with others again?

Unfortunately, uncertainty is something we humans tend to dislike. We work very hard to cultivate the sense of safety that certainty can bring. But in our never-ending quest for more certainty, are we robbing ourselves of the very juiciness of life? At what price safety? At what price security? Those too, are questions we ponder each day in the times of COVID.

But what if uncertainty actually affords us even greater potential power?

I remember standing at a street corner as a child, waiting for the bus and not knowing when it would appear down the street. The anticipation and unknowing, and also, a kind of temporal space in which I could just look out at the world around me and take it all in. In contrast, today we may know exactly when a bus will arrive down to the second, thanks to a smart phone app. Since I (intentionally) don’t use a smart phone myself, I was unaware of this new capability until my son Izaak, who lives in Sydney, Australia, showed it to me. To him, knowing exactly when a bus will arrive is a wonderful convenience. To me it feels oddly unsettling. That level of certainty that is so characteristic of our too-much-information age feels unnatural and even imprisoning to me.

Now let’s consider the advantages of cultivating at least some degree of uncertainty in our lives. One of the things I love best about traveling is not knowing what will happen, what I will see, and how I will navigate it all. It’s invigorating and enlivening! Many of us have had the experience of spending a week on an exciting vacation and feeling like a month has gone by. It’s because of all that uncertainty, the newness and growth and unexpectedness of it all. Life becomes an adventure once again, much as it was for us when we were small children. Remember how summer vacations used to seem downright endless? Uncertainty and newness is actually youthifying.

Or consider sporting events. One of the wonderful and fun things about them is that we have no idea what will happen and who will win. Similarly, gamblers know that it is the uncertainty of the game that creates that rush of anticipation, possibility, and excitement. Similarly, soldiers who keep re-upping for another tour of duty know the addictive craving for uncertainty and even fear that the battlefield can bring. Without the potential for failure or even death, such intense experiences would be nullified.

Of course, another lesson of COVID-times is the wretched and depressing quality of monotony. If you’ve been mostly at home in 2020, have you noticed how quickly time has passed? Although our future may be uncertain “in the large,” how we live our lives each day has become increasingly predictable and confined. The unending certainty of our daily routines has become downright stifling. I recently heard a phrase that aptly describes this situation: the interminable interim. Many of us feel like our life potential is slowly and inexorably dripping down the drain. Drip, drip, drip. But introduce one tiny element of newness — a trip to a locale you’ve never been to, learning a new skill, or even trying a food you’ve never had before — can help break the spell.

But there is still more power lying within uncertainty than you might realize.

Think about it. Without uncertainty, no real change would be possible. As I discuss in my second book Active Consciousness,  at each moment in time, we are at a gateway of uncertainty. Which of the infinite possible futures will we step into next? It is uncertainty that enables our power to alter the course of our  individual and collective future. Moreover, it is often the seemingly minor or “insignificant” events that can create sudden and huge changes. Twenty years ago, who could have predicted the legalization of gay marriage swiftly spreading across the globe? Seemingly unmovable mountains of certainty can be shifted by just the right event at the right time. That’s the power of uncertainty.

As I describe in my first book Impossible Cure, it is this phenomenon that also enables the outsize power of homeopathy’s infinitesimal doses. How could a single dose of a substance that has been diluted and shaken into seeming nothingness dislodge a chronic disease of many years standing? It happens, and it happens surprisingly frequently in the practice of most homeopaths, because of the power of uncertainty.

Homeopaths understand that all living things are, at base, energetic beings. We have physical bodies, but these bodies are ultimately governed by our energetic state. You might think of yourself as a complex vibration that is unique to you. An intransigent disease can then be visualized as a state of vibration that you just can’t seem to shake. Somehow, you’ve gotten wedged into a vibration that creates arthritis, chronic pain, allergies and other sensitivities, or depression, and you can’t break free of it. You feel stuck and blocked, and it seems like the only certainty is needing to take an unending stream of palliative medicines for the rest of your life.

But always, there is the ever-arising current moment, the Now. The power of homeopathic remedies lies in the ability of a minute dose of vibration, a vibration that is very similar to your wedged vibrational state, to shift you onto another, less likely, path into the future. That’s why this form of healing is called “homeo-pathy” — which literally means “similar suffering”. The homeopath’s job is to find the best-matching similar remedy that will provide that critical trigger. It’s not always easy to do and it’s not always easy to apply in practice. But it is at least possible — because of the power of uncertainty.

How can we apply this homeopathic principle to heal our current collective world-state of suffering? The very nature of COVID itself provides us with a clue. After all, if the entire world is experiencing similar physical, emotional, mental, and behavioral symptoms at the same time, these symptoms must somehow be significant. I wrote an article about this earlier in 2020.

It turns out that homeopaths all over the world have been very successful in treating COVID and have usually been able to keep their patients from needing hospitalization. (And as is true for most alternative approaches to COVID — and even some allopathic approaches — this curative information has been suppressed. Speculation about why this is happening could fill another article or two!) Homeopaths have also been compiling information about the strategies and remedies that have been successful in global databases. By analyzing this information, it has emerged that many of these remedies are associated with symptoms of loss — and not just physical forms of loss (e.g., loss of oxygen), but emotional ones as well.

Now think about the state of our planet. Loss of habitat, loss of species, loss of hope for the future in the face of looming climate disaster. Is it any wonder that we are manifesting a global disease pandemic that is reflecting an energetic state of loss? And how could we apply the homeopathic principle to remedy our predicament?

One option would be to give everyone a dose of an appropriate homeopathic remedy. Another would be to use a method that it utilized by psychological support groups. In particular, sharing our experiences and feelings with others who are going through the same thing is actually a psychological form of homeopathy — like vibrations cure like vibrations.

Of course, I’m not suggesting that we intentionally wallow in loss. I’m talking about truly facing and hopefully learning and growing from our loss rather than running away from it. Indeed, could the emergence of COVID itself be Gaia’s way of healing the planet from the intense loss that was already underway, long before 2020? It’s possible, and only time will tell — if we ultimately experience a global form of healing as a result of it. If so, we may also experience other common symptoms of the healing process along the way (known to all alternative practitioners): an initial aggravation of symptoms (which we might be going through right now), discharges of various kinds in order to clear toxins, an increased need for rest, an enhanced self-awareness of the various delusions we have been carrying, and more. Sound familiar?

As we move forward into 2021, let us remember that the power of uncertainty is our ever-present and available saving grace. And, as I also point out in Active Consciousness, it is ultimately our own state of consciousness that determines how we navigate and    experience the future as it unfolds. In other words,  consciousness literally is the tool we use to wield the power of  uncertainty. If we constantly think about dire and bleak futures, we will be much more likely to manifest them. Or if we simply give up and abdicate our lives to circumstance and the dictates of the powers-that-be, we rob ourselves of our innate power to create something different.

Instead, let’s use the power of uncertainty to create a better future. And don’t forget that when we do so collectively, this creative power becomes even greater. Let’s envision and create the 2021 we would like to see, together.

How Much Is Too Much?

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How much is too much?  That seems to be a question that keeps coming up these days, in one form or another. 

How much surveillance is too much surveillance? How much money is too much money? How many immigrants are too many immigrants? How much state control is too much state control? How much freedom is too much freedom? How much population is too much population? How much food is too much food? How much medicine is too much medicine? How much safety is too much safety? How many mandatory vaccines are too many mandatory vaccines? How much parental control is too much parental control? How much nudity is too much nudity? How much alcohol is too much alcohol?

I could go on and on. The answer depends on where and when you live and what the norms of society are. Not too long ago, it was about how much women’s rights is too much women’s rights? Or, how much tolerance of different religions is too much tolerance?

We take many things for granted now and expect certain things, like our freedom of movement or expression. But norms are always changing. Social perceptions of propriety and safety change over time. As they do, friction can arise and increase until some threshold is met — and then big shifts happen and new norms are born. Women gain the right to vote, own property, and control whether or not they have a child. The divine right of monarchs or the inherent superiority of one group of people over another is questioned and then toppled. But freedoms won can also be lost. Thus, tolerance of philosophical or religious opposition to medical interventions (like vaccines) can be withdrawn, based on perceptions of public safety, whether these perceptions are valid or not.

In general, a key factor that can foster change is our inherent human sense of fairness. And especially, when something personally affects us adversely, we start opposing it. If your child has been injured by a vaccine and you don’t have the right to sue your doctor or the manufacturer, you get angry. If you then can’t can’t protect your other children (or that same child) from further vaccinations without taking them out of school and losing their right to an education — and perhaps even needing to move to another state, you get even more angry. And when this happens to enough people — say, a majority of families — something will be done. That’s why I predict that the recent mandated vaccine juggernaut that is affecting more and more states in the USA will end, one way or another, within the next 10-20 years. But in the meantime, people will suffer.

So do we need to wait until a majority of people are suffering (with respect to any kind of issue) in order to take action? Or can we do something sooner? Only if people are aware of what’s going on. When we see police killing unarmed black people on our cell phone, then it suddenly becomes clear that police brutality has gone too far — whereas before, enough people weren’t sufficiently aware of it to be spurred into action. 

That’s why freedom of the press is essential. That’s why it’s part of the first amendment to the Constitution. If we aren’t aware of what’s going on, we can’t feel it and react to it. And that’s why those who want to exert control over others do all they can to block free access to information. That’s the reason for state-controlled and corporate-controlled press and media.

Unfortunately, that’s also the reason why there is an increasing amount of censorship on the internet today. Most of us still believe that the internet is an open free for all, with the Google search engine indexing it all for us and allowing us to call it up on demand, like an infinite and fair library of the world. Indeed, it started out that way! But things have changed dramatically over the past few years. Under the guise of alleviating or saving us from “fake news from Russia”, whole swaths of information are now blocked from your view, especially on mainstream forums like Google, YouTube, Facebook, Wikipedia, etc. I’ve been seeing this for a few years now, and I’ve even been the victim of it.

My first true realization of this shift occurred in mid 2019. At that point, Google changed their search engine so that it “disappeared” various forms of content. The stated excuse was to filter out “fake news”. The content that I personally noticed  disappearing pertained to alternative medicine and health — even on seemingly innocuous  subjects like diet and supplements. The top-ranked and most trusted website on alternative approaches to health, Mercola.com, was demoted, overnight, so that its links now appeared on, say, page 20 or 30 in a search result, whereas before they would have appeared on page one. I also saw the effects on searches that pertained to me and my writings about homeopathy and autism. In response, I switched my search engine to DuckDuckGo.com (which provided fairer results) and moved on. (Much thanks to Charles Eisenstein who pointed to this search engine in one of his articles.)

Unfortunately, ever since COVID-times began, things have dramatically escalated. At the onset of COVID, information now was being blocked on subjects like the utility of vitamin C or any holistic approach to COVID treatment. Alternative practitioners, like naturopaths, were even asked by their own professional associations not to talk to their clients or write about the importance of  bolstering ones inherent immunity. And just recently, several alternative health sites (like Mercola.com) were completely censored on Google search — many of them sites I personally trust and visit frequently. There are also an increasing number of warnings on sites like Facebook and Youtube, alerting users that this kind of content is “suspect”. Email from alternative health sites is also increasingly filtered out by spam filters, since these filters tend to be created by organizations that share their information across many platforms.

Of course, Wikipedia has been actively attacking this kind of information for ages. The pages on any form of alternative medicine, including popular ones like chiropractic, are essentially hit pieces on those subjects. If you try to edit any of this information, your changes are attacked and removed by an army of watch-dog “editors”. It would be a full-time job to fend them off and in the end, you’d fail. They are essentially the thought police. 

I gave up on Wikipedia years ago. There used to be a short page about me and my work in both computer science and homeopathy. Ultimately, so much content was “removed” from my Wikipedia page (despite an effort to defend it by a top Wikipedia editor) that it essentially became content free and was unilaterally removed. To tell you the truth, I was relieved. I truly don’t trust Wikipedia at all anymore, and certainly not if it’s about a subject that’s controversial in any way. You shouldn’t either!

For years, I’ve accepted the censorship and unfair degradation of homeopathy because homeopathy has always suffered these kinds of attacks. The mantra that there is “no scientific evidence for homeopathy” is repeated by the media ad nauseum, despite hundreds of positive studies, including ones on animals and even cell cultures. Homeopaths have always been resigned to it. They just sigh and carry on. It’s kind of like how women have always had to grin and bear the sexism they experience. We just sigh and carry on. But the lies and censorship have become more widespread and extreme, and it’s not just about homeopathy anymore. It’s not even just about vaccines anymore. And I keep asking myself — why is this happening?

Is it because Google is greedy and is now actively invested in the pharmaceutical industry? Is it truly a plot by people like Bill Gates who want to control us and make money off of us? In general, I chalk such things up to a series of random events that people decide to take advantage of — like the government establishing the surveillance state after 9-11. Was 9-11 a false flag operation created to allow for this, or just an opportunity for those who wanted to seize more control in the name of security? Was COVID hatched up by drug companies in order to exert more control over our health and track us, or just a great opportunity to do so?

I don’t know the answer to this, but I suspect that serendipity, human stupidity and error, greed, and shortsightedness are the usual reasons. And things can certainly get very bad — until enough of us find out about it (if we can) or are personally affected by it and rebel.

The essential point of this article is that the most important thing we need to do right now is to loosen the censorship that has taken hold of us. One form of censorship is blocking information. But another form is skewing it; in particular, the information presented to us is deliberately “curated” so that it is ostensibly more of “interest” to us. Outlets like Google and Facebook are actively doing both and it has definitely contributed to the silo-ing and polarization of our world. 

Yes, Google and Facebook are private companies and therefore can claim the “right” to do what they want. Or do they have this right? Have these companies essentially become utilities, like the phone company? Can they legally skew our access? That is the essential question, and that’s why I’m so glad that courageous people like RFK, Jr. are finally mounting law suits to question this kind of power.  In fact, just after I wrote this article, I watched a new video by RFK, Jr. on this very subject. I recommend you check it out and watch this brave man in action (before Youtube decides to remove it!)

In summary, I believe that if we don’t loosen this censorship in its many forms, things will continue to get more and more oppressive until the only solution is outright revolution. I hope it doesn’t come to that! But revolution can take many forms, not necessarily violence in the street. One form of revolt is taking hold of your own awareness and your own mind and refusing to participate in the madness as best you can. We can be like the Russians who learned to block the surveillance bugs in their apartment by playing loud music, or who passed around bootlegged copies of forbidden Beatles music. For goodness sake, remove all those various “dots” around your house! I can’t fathom how people have been cajoled into buying and placing listening devices into their homes.

As for me, I’ve always refused to keep my email in the cloud (I still download it “old style” onto my computer and do all the backing up myself), nor do I use a smart phone except for emergencies. Did you know that Google reads the contents of all gmail, supposedly for neutral “advertising” purposes?  And that your cell phone is tracked at all times when it’s on? 

While today’s surveillance has become much more insidious and difficult to avoid, your resistance is possible. And if the lessons of the past are still applicable, eventually the tide will shift, one way or another.

Personally, I tend to be an optimist and believe that things will progress in the right direction in the long term. We are awakening, as a global community, with respect to many things — LGBTQ rights, the BLM and “Me Too” movements, and more. Things certainly have improved in many areas in my own lifetime. And soon there will be a greater awareness of what I’m calling the “techno-pharma cabal” too. We need to take the long view, putting things in historical context. As Ken Wilber has stressed, things tend to evolve, not devolve. It’s just not a straight line as it happens. Two steps forward, one step back.

Finally, I  tend to have a spiritual view of what’s going on, trusting in what Great Spirit has in store for us. That doesn’t mean I don’t have days when I’m depressed, scared, and need to take a swig of wine to get to sleep. But I also believe that the ultimate goodness of the human soul will win the day. I also know that my thoughts and beliefs do have an impact on the greater whole, so I try to visualize the future I want, not dwell on apocalyptic scenarios.

What do you think?

When Will This All End?

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We are all asking ourselves that question right about now!

In the first couple of months of our “COVID Adventure,” it seemed a bit exciting and even interesting. Of course, there was suffering too, but we all felt engaged in a global joint effort. We learned new routines and many of us got into new diversions and interests. We thought it would last for a few months and then life would get back to normal.

Now that it seems this experience will go on for at least many more months, and perhaps even another year or two, we’re all wondering how long it will last, how we’ll fare on a personal level, and what the outcome for our society will be.

Naturally, most of us have adapted to life under COVID. That’s what humans are really good at — adapting. And in some places around the world, things may even be more or less back to normal, at least from a day-to-day perspective. In other areas, like where I live in northern California, restrictions have not eased very much since the end of May. It feels like we’re living in a perpetual twilight zone of indeterminate length. But no matter where you live, you probably feel the global collective energy of suffering that envelops us all.

So when will this end? This must be answered on two levels – on the personal and on the global level. For both, the answer is essentially the same: This will continue until what is no longer brings suffering.

On a personal level, the COVID experience will end for you when your outer experience no longer seems onerous and your inner life feels more joyful once again. On a global level, this experience will end when the world goes through the same transition. How can we get there? I believe that we must achieve the first in order to achieve the second. That is, global healing will require more of us to be personally healed.

So how exactly do we do this?

To answer this question, we need to ask another: Why is this happening? Is it because a virus spread from a market in China or from a bioweapons lab? Is it the work of a cabal of technopharma evildoers?

I would like to suggest this: Blaming your suffering on external causes is a sure path to continued suffering,

Let’s entertain a new and deeper possibility, one that many in the spiritual community have been suggesting. Let’s try on a new theory about why this is happening:

Our current state of angst has been triggered by a spiritual energy whose underlying goal or purpose is to coax us individually and collectively into a shift in consciousness.

How it has manifested has taken many outward forms: the virus, fear of viruses, misguided notions about maintaining health, pollution, corporate and government corruption, greater awareness of racism and misogyny, climate disaster, and more. But outer circumstances have always triggered outer and inner forms of evolution. That is what and why this is happening now.

We all knew a change was coming. We didn’t know when, but the time is now.

Our next step is to acknowledge that each of us is reacting to these changes in a way that is unique to us. For some of us it is anger and impatience. For others it is fear, worry, depression, or guilt. Yet others choose the escape route and go into self-indulgence, self-drugging, or perhaps even suicide.

Your job is to recognize that your personal reaction to what is going on is your clue to the work you must now do.

Of course, this has always been true, even before COVID. But now it is critical that you engage with this truth.

Are you angry and impatient? Work on that. It’s likely been your go-to reaction to many things in life. Are you scared and anxious? Work on trust and letting go. Are you too drunk or stoned to even read this? Shake yourself back into consciousness. Are you sitting in blank depression? Get up and get going. Each of us has a job to do now.

To motivate you, I suggest that you begin by assuming that this is going to go on for at least until the end of 2021. Stop waiting for a vaccine or some other magic bullet to appear that will end your suffering. Assume that nothing will change for the next year or two.

Now, you have a choice.

1) Stay stuck in your current state and remain in pain and suffering for what might be years.

2) Heal your reaction to what’s going on, which is likely your typical reaction to many things in life, and evolve.

If you choose option 2, you will find that your personal process of healing will require you to do various things. Some will be outer actions. More important, though, will be inner processes of healing. For me, my tasks include going out more in nature, meditating more, getting back to my art and music, reducing my watching or reading content that stokes my fears, making more of an effort to socially connect and form bubbles with select friends and family, more healing work vis-a-vis my lifelong emotional habits, and building up my inner gratitude and trust. For you, it will mean other actions. Once you embark on this path, you will gradually become joyful again and your suffering will diminish on a personal level.

Finally, if enough of us choose option 2, the whole dynamic of the world will change. Perhaps we’ll share more of our personal resources with our neighbors. We’ll become more generous and less isolated. Governments will become less corrupt and violence will decrease. Global efforts to repair climate disaster will be energized. In other words, there will be a cascading effect and humanity will start doing what it needs to do to create a more joyful world.

So it’s up to you. And, it’s up to us.

Where There’s Fire There’s Smoke

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Greetings from California and the West Coast of the United States, land of fire and smoke. Just when you thought things couldn’t get worse, those of us living in this part of the world have been visited by, first, unbelievable hot spells, then extremely rare lightning storms, and then rampant and huge fires accompanied by a blanket of smoky air. I myself was almost evacuated at one point due to the fire that raged on the San Francisco peninsula. Although it wasn’t the biggest fire in the state, it did cause some of the most damage to human life because it was in the most populated area, with about 1000 homes destroyed.

Thankfully, my husband and I were never evacuated, though we did have one set of friends who were evacuated for the same fire staying with us for a week. Now, just this past week, the Santa Rosa/Napa Glass Fire unfortunately claimed the home of another set of friends who are living with us while they get their bearings. One thing I can tell you — COVID recedes way into the back of ones consciousness during these experiences. They also put life and “possessions” in perspective.

We’ve lived in our home for nearly 40 years, so you can imagine — it’s chock full of possessions. During our own evacuation scare, we were all packed up and ready to flee, just in case. We also spent a day walking through our home thinking about the meaning or lack of meaning of all our “things” and what we’d do if we lost it all. At first we thought we might go northward to Oregon if we lost our home. That would have been a bad choice! Now the whole West Coast looks like burnt toast. Although our nearby fires are under control, we’ve had to stay inside because of the bad air and smoke. We even had one day that was so dark with smoke that it looked like it was night at 11am! Unfortunately, with climate disaster under way, the yearly fires, which have been growing steadily worse each year, are likely to continue and expand. We’re seriously contemplating relocating or at least buying some sort of “escape hatch” elsewhere. The recent loss of our friends’ home has only made that more clear.

I know this doesn’t have much to do with homeopathy, but while I have you here, I looked up the remedies recommended for smoke inhalation. In Murphy’s Repertory, the appropriate rubric is listed under: Toxicity, Vapors, Smoke inhalation. One of the number one remedies is Carbo Vegetabilis — not surprising! It’s made from burnt plants — vegetable charcoal. The full listing is as follows (note: italics, boldface, and capitalization all indicate various levels of importance or common use of the remedy for this symptom):

Bryonia, Calcarea Carbonica, Causticum, CARBO VEGETABILIS, Euphrasia, Natrum Muriaticum, Nux Vomica, Oleander, Sepia, SPIGELIA, Sulphur.

My Family’s COVID-19 Experience

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Today I am happy to report that my son Max, now 29 years old, has survived COVID-19 . Thankfully, his experience of the disease was no worse than a standard flu. I thought all of you might be interested in hearing about this experience, how homeopathy helped, and some lessons learned.

Max lives in Los Angeles and has worked for many years as a motion graphics artist, generally working in advertising for the movie and television industry. He spent March and April in lockdown on his own. For May and June, he came up north to the Bay Area (where my husband and I live) and stayed with us, but was anxious to return to LA at the end of June. Unfortunately, this was also when cases started to surge there.

Like many young people, Max wanted to get back to some semblance of his normally active social life. While he had been very careful about social distancing before he came up north, he became more lax upon his return to LA. He marched in a Black Lives Matter protest (that’s not where he got it) and started seeing some friends.

Max started feeling sick on July 25. He called all his recent contacts and they all got tested. Based on the results, it looks like Max got COVID from a friend who came to his apartment and was an asymptomatic carrier. Max later gave it to another friend the day before he felt sick. Happily, the asymptomatic carrier has remained well and the other friend got well within a week . Max, however, needed to spend a full two weeks at home before really feeling well.

So what did we do and what remedies did he take? The quick answer: during the entire two week period, Max only needed to take two doses of his standard constitutional remedy. Since this remedy (which had been prescribed by his homeopath about a year ago) helped him with another acute illness and because it happened to be a mineral remedy that included Phosphorus as a component (Phosphorus is one of the leading remedies for COVID), I was fairly confident it would be helpful for Max’s case of COVID — and it was.

Here’s a recap of Max’s symptom progression:
– Onset — tiredness, fever (which reached a maximum of 100.9 F), headache, and what he described as a “light-headed” feeling.
– This was followed by diarrhea, which lasted for several days.
– After taking the first dose of the remedy, Max’s fever went down below 100F and never went above that again. He felt more energy and the headache lessened. The diarrhea slowly diminished and normal stools reestablished by the end of the first week.
– I kept monitoring Max’s respiratory situation each day, but he never felt out of breath. The only respiratory symptoms he eventually developed were some nasal congestion, post nasal drip, and a bit of coughing.
– We called him twice a day and monitored his temperature. He also bought an oximeter online so that we could monitor his blood oxygen and it was always normal.
– After the first week, Max’s improvement seemed to stagnate and his fever went up slightly, so he took another dose.
– Over the course of the second week, his fever dissipated completely, the headache and lightheadedness went away, and all that remained was some nasal congestion and a bit of tiredness. He was also now able to do some work.
– According to the contact tracers who had called him after his positive COVID test, Max was free to come out of quarantine when there was no fever whatsoever for 3 days, and he emerged on August 10.
– After this, Max was still feeling a bit wiped out and didn’t feel 100% (eager to do work, exercise, etc.) until two weeks later, a month after he came down with symptoms. During that time, he took one more dose of his constitutional remedy, on the advice of his homeopath. It is also interesting that Max has been retested for COVID a couple of times since recovering and has had mixed results — both negative and positive. Apparently, you can test positive for a couple of months after recovering, even though you aren’t contagious anymore.

So what lessons have we learned?
– He was prepared. Max had kits of the 100 top remedies in both 30c and 200c potencies, which I had supplemented with some more obscure COVID-related remedies when he came to visit us. So I knew he was well prepared.
– The constitutional remedy is a good first line of defense, especially for healthy people. I am thankful that Max is under the care of a good homeopath, so we knew this remedy in advance.
– Guard and boost the immune system. Ever since the beginning of March, Max and the rest of my family have been taking daily doses of vitamin C (1000mg) and D3 (2000 IU = 50mcg). While he was sick, Max dosed with vitamin C three times a day. He will now reduce back down to once a day gradually (I have found that it’s important not to cut back on vitamin C too quickly).
– Stay in touch. Although Max doesn’t normally want to talk to Mom and Dad two times a day (what 29 year old does?), he was thankful for the fact that we were touching base frequently, especially since he was going through this alone. It was a big comfort to him (and to me!). At one point, some of his friends dropped some flowers and chicken soup outside his door, which was also a big morale booster.
– Asymptomatic carriers. I must admit, Max’s experience alerted me to the pervasiveness of asymptomatic carriers, especially among young people. Don’t get careless, even if someone is well, and especially if you’re not really sure of their behavior.
– Use tools to keep anxiety at bay. In general, Max stayed fairly calm throughout this experience. I’m proud to stay that I stayed pretty calm too — especially given that I tend to be an anxious person. One thing that helped both Max and me quite a lot was listening to the Logosynthesis meditation each day during this experience. I have mentioned the utility of this meditation in previous newsletters. I do it any time I feel any kind of anxiety about our collective experience of this virus. I can’t emphasize enough how helpful it has been! You can find it at this Youtube link. The essential component of the meditation starts at 5:40 and ends at 27:45, though I advise watching the full 30 minutes your first time around.

The good news is that hopefully! Max is now immune to COVID-19 going forward. The jury is still out on that. But if he’s not, then a vaccine will be of no use to anyone either (not that I’ll be standing in line to get one!). In the end, I believe the only way out is through. This experience, like every virus in history, must eventually run its course.

Our Purple Future

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If you have read my book Active Consciousness or have become familiar with my writing in general, then you know that having a vision of the future is what brings it into being. Toward that end, here is the bright future that lies ahead…

I have a dream. That the increasing possibility for and advantages of remote work will trigger a remarkable shift in human living patterns. Leaving crowded, expensive, and cramped quarters in the big cities, young families will now move to smaller and more affordable towns, bringing with them renewed energy and new ideas. That these once languishing rural outposts experience a rekindling of their past vigor and find new purpose. That these small towns also have the wisdom to enact laws that prevent gentrification and displacement and instead encourage cross-fertilization between new and old citizens. I have a dream!

I have a dream. That the newly reinvigorated towns dotting our landscape evolve in a remarkably wholesome way. Their local governments will now be composed of engaged people who bring new thoughts and old ideas together, merging big-city blue and small-town red into vibrant purple. The creativity and future-minded energy of the newcomers will blend with the experience, neighborliness, and grounded qualities of the old-timers. Wisdom from the region’s indigenous beginnings is sought out and welcomed too. I have a dream!

I have a dream. That the exodus from the big cities will bring to these once-frenetic citadels a calming of energy and pace. Their now diminished populations will enable service and support workers to once again live close to their jobs and in an affordable way. The new proliferation of electric self-driving cars will have a calming influence on pollution and tension as well. Shared public transport will be increasingly used. And weekend visits to the newly vibrant nearby towns will become a joyful diversion, which will also further invigorate them. I have a dream!

I have a dream. That the spreading out and localization of life on Earth changes the way we grow food and what we eat. All of us now have more room for home gardens. Local farms are able to serve the capacity of their region. Pesticide-free, renegerative agricultural practices become the norm and mitigate climate change. Waterways and the air are cleaner. Food is once again nutritious. The need for artificial medicines now lessens and local natural healers are able to handle most problems and become the norm. I have a dream!

I have a dream. That the localization of life also brings with it a lowered tendency towards global power and control. While we are definitely more interconnected globally, our local environments are more unique and creative. Although many jobs have become automated, it is handiwork and creativity — the personal touch — that is now most valued. The arts flourish. Each person becomes freer to follow their personal gifts and inclinations. I have a dream!

I have a dream. That this vision of our purple future is taking place worldwide. That we all look back on 2020 as the beginning of this change. That we know with certainty and trust that everything has happened for a reason — a reason that we couldn’t have understood or foreseen at the time. That our new human experience of life on Earth is unlike anything from the past and that, finally, we can say: humanity has reached a golden age. It is an age that we now know was fostered and nurtured by the force we call Gaia — the consciousness of our planet. I have a dream!

Get Current

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My teacher Gary Sherman often tells his students to “get current.” He means that, periodically, we all need to take stock of our lives and readjust to what is. That might mean looking through your clothes closet and donating items that you haven’t worn in years. It might mean looking at the design of your home or daily routine, getting out of whatever rut you’re in, and readjusting these things to your current needs and wants.

Right about now, it’s time for each of us to get current. I stopped looking at the “COVID curves” weeks ago. Why let them affect my mood each day, whether positively or negatively? What good does it do? Why waste time lamenting a lost job or something that was cancelled? Or constantly worrying about some hoped for event or feared scenario that may or may not take place? (As a worrier, that’s my own tendency). In the end, you’ll cross the bridges ahead when you come to them. Get current.

The Sedona Method teacher Hale Dwoskin often begins his release meditations with the phrase “Can you just be what you are?” or “Just for now, can you welcome what is?” I find that when I focus on these words, an inner sense of calm overtakes me. I just am. It’s also a great state of mind to be in when it’s time to get current.

The whole world seems to be busy getting current right now. The resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement in the wake of more police killings of black and brown people has given all of us a dose of what is. Of course, this has long been what was too. The same goes for the Me Too movement. It’s time to stop ignoring these societal patterns and get current. Let’s finally make real changes.

Ever since the beginning of June, I sense the tide is turning. The question is, will we return to our old habits and comfort zones, or shake ourselves awake and get current? As individuals and communities, we need to take these steps:

1) Let go of the past (and engage in whatever grieving process is necessary to do so);

2) Take stock of what is;

3) Decide what you really want and need now, given what is; and

4) Move forward to make that happen.

And don’t forget, when you engage in this process, active consciousness can help you along the way!

Let’s use this unusual time as an opportunity to create lives that truly serve us better. Your vision and intention really do play an important part.