I'm guilty of it.
I know it, and yet, for some bizarre
reason, I forget.
It's the attitude that runs the show.
Daughter Dear reminded me that our
thoughts are a built-in mechanism to tell us if we are on the right track.
Well, well, that's telling.
If our thoughts run the show, we're in
trouble.
We are used to reacting to what we see,
hear, or feel. We bounce off reality, or what we think is reality. We jump to
conclusions and rail against the injustice of it all.
Take this Covid19 scare, for example. We
were driven by fear of getting sick, and of losing our lives. (Well, that's
natural.) But, wouldn't it help a bit to focus on what we want instead of what
is?
I remember a teacher telling us to
see the banquet table as full.
"But master, the table is empty."
"See it as full."
I can hear you…"Jo, for heaven's
sake, don't be a kook. If there is a killer virus out there, it is prudent to
protect yourself and those around you."
Yes, indeed, but to run scared and let
the propaganda machine drive us into hidey holes without questioning is
irresponsible.
Some say the virus isn't as deadly as we
have been led to believe.
Can we test that?
Some say that people don't die of
anything but Covid19. If a person goes into a hospital with a heart attack and
dies—chances are it's labeled as "Killed by Covid19," for they tested
positive. I've read that most people, if tested, have the antibodies for a
coronavirus. Perhaps they've had a similar virus in the past. So, a large
percent of the population would test positive.
Babies are born every day, and I'm
sorry, but people die every day. We don't usually follow the numbers.
But now, death numbers are thrown in our
faces daily.
Why?
And where did this social distancing
come from anyway?
Yes, wash your hands, keep your hands
away from your face. Be aware of distance if someone is sick, disinfect.
Grocery stores are carefully
disinfecting, why can't business stay open?
And there is unemployment.
The government wouldn't want to bite the
hand that feeds it. If people aren't working, they aren't paying taxes.
Don't you smell something rotten in
Denmark?
Yesterday I noticed how the media wants
to keep the word "Killer" in front of our faces. (Oh, heck, it
sells.) Now we have "Killer" hornets, and "Killer" white
cap mushrooms.
Don't eat any mushrooms growing up in
your yard, and get out the bug spray.
I read one blogger this morning who was
depressed out of her gourd.
I refuse to go there.
I am grateful for medical science. I
remember well the Polio rampage and how thankful we were for the Jonas Salk
vaccine. TB used to be a death sentence. They would send TB patients to
sanitariums, and they would get better for a while, then relapse and eventually
die of the disease. Talk about living in fear. Cough up blood. Whoops.
What I'm not grateful for are
FEAR-driven tactics that appear to be good for a few at the expense of the
many.
Have you ever had a feeling that
something was amiss, but you're afraid you might be wrong? It concerns me for
what if we wait too long to wake up?
I have been grateful for vaccinations—my
kids didn't get the measles or mumps or whooping cough as I did, they did get
the Chickenpox before there was a vaccine. And I had a terrible scare with
German measles, as my husband got it while I was three-months pregnant. I
didn't remember ever having it. I was shot in both arms and legs with Gamma
globin (a substance in the blood collected from many people, figuring someone
had the antibodies for the three-day measles). All turned out perfect, but it
was a worry. Before our time, many babies and children died of Diphtheria, and
not anymore.
However, and I hate to say it, but I'm
beginning to wonder if Pharmacia companies have an agenda. What do they want to
inject into us? Please don't let it be mercury or zinc or some of those
chemical preservatives, or anything that would make us sicker or more
susceptible to other invasions? (For which we need another vaccine.) Can we
have all vaccines tested by a third party the way they test Cannabis?
Have you seen The Awakening?
*I didn't know an Awakening was happening until a dear reader sent me the
video. (See below.) Around the world, especially in cities, people are peacefully
assembling to protest the lockdown. One lady said, "Well, is this our
choice, "Get the virus or starve to death?"
People around the world are mad as hell
and not going to take it anymore. Track the money. "What doesn't seem
right?
We can't question—we're afraid to.
So, to go back to my original comment on
HOW WE ARE FOCUSING ON THE WRONG THINGS:
Instead of reacting to what is, what is
we focus on how we want it to be?
I'm having trouble explaining this,
although I know many metaphysical teachers ascribe to this line of thinking. If
thought creates—then you begin with a thought. "In the beginning was the
word."
You might say, "Jo, thinking
doesn't make it so."
Yes, but the attitude pulls in more of
the same. Have a thought, hold it for a minute or so, and it will attract
another thought. It's like iron filings pulled to a magnet. What can we do to
fix it? Another thought joins it. Well, we can do this…and this, maybe this,
until a solution is found.
Woo-woo?
Could be, but what if it works?
I'm not a person who's standing on their
rooftop amid a flood praying to God to save me while ignoring a boat that comes
to the rescue.
I'm going to take it.
Something fun: I wish I had a picture, but I'll have to describe
it. A creative family eating out: Two adults and two children had set up a
table, complete with a table cloth and settings, and four chairs in the back of
a pickup and were having a dinner out. Real civilized opposed to balancing
dinner on their laps. They were parked in the middle of an empty mall parking
lot that had take-out restaurants along its periphery. Eugene, Oregon.
