I have always been accepting and never judgemental of other people's religion. When my youngest son was a toddler he was obsessed with Jesus. Maybe not so unusual, except, we're Jewish. He was home with me full-time, had never had a babysitter and I didn't allow TV. In all seriousness, I would ask him, "Who is this Jesus dude you speak of? A park friend?" When he was in his car seat I would over hear him telling his older brothers, "You might think that's a house, but it's not. It's a house of G-d." when we drove by a church. I found him a protestant preschool, he told me it was the wrong chapel. I took him with me to interview schools, a Catholic School was the right one. And he wasn't wrong, it was the best school for our family until we decided to homeschool. By the time he was 6 he was begging to be baptized. He said it would set him free like a butterfly. I took him to Mass every Sunday. I taught his older brothers it was never acceptable to make fun of or question his religious choices, to always accept when someone offers to bless you or pray for you, to be gracious. He would invite them to Mass by saying "It is the must fun, ever!"
My oldest son was home over this past holiday break I reminded him of this. I told him I love him and respect his vaccine decisions just as I had respected his younger brother's religious choices. And that I hope he can respect mine. He became angry. Vaccines are not religion they are science! There is no G-d in science! It's not about G-d! I calmly explained not every religion is about G-d. But they do always involve a strong belief that cannot always be rationally explained by the believer. When I ask why he is so angry that most of his family is not vaccinated his answers revolve around our breaking the rules and making everyone unsafe. He doesn't want to hear about informed consent, medical circumstances or bodily autonomy, the science behind why my doctor says my genetic illness is contraindicated (if he got the shot (X3) and was fine, I'll be fine...ignore my doctor!) anger anger anger....just do it!
Like his brother before him, I respect his freedom of choice and his decision to believe as he chooses. And like his brother, I can sit in the back and be quietly polite but not agree. I had not read or heard of Forrest Maready before but I too could see there is an element of religious fervor to the vaccine hysteria and I tried to tell my oldest that the hunger for religious belief and guidance is very much part of being human. I will not attempt to take this from him, I will not try to convert him. He said I was trying simply by not getting vaccinated.
I came to the same conclusion several years ago. A friend and I were having a discussion about vaccinations. I was trying to share info about the potential connection between increasing rates of autism and the high number of vaccines. She tried to end the discussion by saying, “I believe in vaccines.” I replied, “Vaccination is not a religion.” As Maready says, sadly for some, it is.
Man has lost his connection with spirit, with the divine, with the transcendent, with nature. Your article is spot on and I couldn't agree more with your thesis. The 'age of enlightenment' replaced man's connection with these transcendental values, previously upheld by traditional faiths and beliefs, with the scientific view that man's existence was solely based on materialism whose origin was anything but divine. What traditional religion provided was the ability to go within, to pray or meditate, to let the mind transcend the boundaries of thought and experience the unboundedness of pure consciousness. Blaise Pascal said all man's problems might be resolved if he took time to sit quietly in a room alone.
We need the experience of silence in our lives to restore and nourish the soul to ponder the mysteries of our existence. Modern science has forgotten that.
Oh, that Garden State clip! Juxtapose that with the clip of the couple getting engaged at New Year and kissing with their masks on. It says all that needs to be said. Our infinite abyss is not in front of us. We are in it. Our fear of lack of existence has resulted in us barely existing at all. Dulled. Mediated. Virtual. We need to start affirming unmasked life, in all of its connected peril and glory. A flurry of pictures everywhere of people kissing, the proper way, next to a picture of that fear-filled travesty. Also, pictures of people holding hands, skin-to-skin, next to a latex-mediated version of hand-holding. Laughing children vs masked, isolated children. Juxtaposition as reminder. Over and over again, until we shake people out of their fear-induced slumbers.
It seems like a step beyond religion - like a cult. A world-wide godless cult with a small percentage of extreme zealots and a whole lot of scared and fragile converts (who may or may not be thoroughly convinced). I'm sorry for how this might sound, but I think there has to be an element of mental illness to go along with the religious fervor. How does a fundamentalist from any religion recover? Former cult members? Anyone with delusional paranoia? Obsessive behavior? Where are the mental health professionals who study these things?? Some people seem to be immune to the onslaught of cultist propaganda, at least in terms of what they believe (if not entirely how it effects them mentally), and I often wonder why. We are all human, after all.
Anyone familiar with John Michael Greer's ground-breaking blog "The Archdruid Report" will be familiar with this idea - he calls this new religion the "religion of progress".
To paraphrase John Michael Greer: "The greatest conflict of the 21st century will be between the believers in the religion of progress and those who understand its multiple disconfirmations".
The failure of the "vaccination" program is one such disconfirmation, but unfortunately it won't be sufficient to overcome the religion of progress: that will require either a completely new religion, or the revival of an old one. Logic alone won't do the job.
Or maybe we could return to the indigenous ways of perceiving the world: that the natural world itself is sacred and worthy of reverence and respect. Mother Earth provides for all human needs freely and abundantly.
The thing is many of these cultures were matriarchal, egalitarian and truly humane. In fact, it's how our species evolved. With democratic ideals built into the fabric of daily life, and a healthy respect for the cycles of life and death, perhaps a recognition, honouring and preservation of their wisdom is the way forward. After all, any culture built on dominance, exploitation and slavery only brings misery and suffering to the vast majority.
Very interesting. Honestly, they need to find God. The real one, and then repent. Until that happens we’re all screwed. But honestly, I don’t believe it will happen until Christ comes again and reigns personally on the Earth when every knee will bow and every person will confess that He is the Christ. At that point, they won’t be able to deny Him any longer. But until then, I think they will continue to become more and more evil. Just my thoughts…
The main reason for those vaccines is in fact blockchain. It is data, health care (if you have graphene biosensor and you own data and apps, you do telemedicine, you sell drugs, etc.). Blockchain is also Voting system and of course DIGITAL CURRENCY. This is why all those companies as MasterCard and banks are behind. This is also surveillance of everybody, so it is great for governing and mind control, as you can stimulate this technology with EMF, serotonin production (Klaus Swab: You'll own nothing but will be happy - or at least YOU WILL THINK SO). This is the end goal. This is why WEF and sorts of businesses are involved. Ultimately it is also "climate change"/ property / resources business
Paul Levy brilliantly writes about Wetiko the mind-virus and a way out of this nightmare. I think you'd find it interesting. This is a bit about wetiko and his latest book: "Paul Levy’s new book Wetiko: Healing the Mind-Virus that Plagues our World is a call to awaken to a mind-parasite that has infected humanity with a collective psychosis of titanic proportions, yet is so familiar to be almost undetectable. Levy contemplates how wetiko—which is a form of mind blindness—has been creatively represented and symbolized in not only various spiritual wisdom traditions from time immemorial, but by creative artists and philosophers throughout the ages as well. In a unique and original synthesis of Eastern and Western spiritual traditions, evolutionary mysticism, shamanism, quantum physics, transpersonal psychology and the insights of C. G. Jung, Paul Levy shows us how to alchemically extract the healing remedy from the poisonous mind-virus known as wetiko by bringing forth the creative spirit that is thirsting to be born within—and through—us." Wetiko comes from creativity gone awry which is based on the belief that we all share a collective consciousness that is always creating, on some level, this dream reality.
It's totally wrong to claim that they are worshiping "science" and "progress", for these things depend on transparency, accountability, willingness to question, rationality, and consent.
Do they call what they worship "science" -- yes, and they are intentionally lying in order to trick people into giving them power, which is what they really worship.
There is a certain level of truth in this. However, I don't think people can continue to worship the vaccine god once it is shown to be failing. They could just as easily worship the prophylactic and early treatment gods assuming that is more effective. I think what people are worshiping is the government.
We notice this when the government changes the narrative, the people readily follow the new government narrative however far it is from the original. For example the original narrative was that with the vaccine, you'll no longer catch the disease, no longer die of it or no longer pass it on to your loved ones. The new narrative is that the vaccines stop the hospitals from being blocked up. People seem to accept this without question as long as the word comes from the medical high priest.
I think it works like this: a large number of people no longer look to God for their salvation in this life or the next. Having denied God, there is nobody to save them from death, so this life is all they've got. Along comes an engineered situation (pandemic) whose objective is to spread fear and panic across the globe. Since this life is all the non-believers have, they clutch onto whatever might save them and in their panic they may have no qualms about sacrificing others so they can continue to live. People do have consciences, but in a state of fear, or other extreme emotion, it seems that they can temporarily lose their minds and their consciences.
it seems to me that fear is the key driver - look at how the media and governments have stoked the fires of fear with Omicron. So the solution is to remove fear. If Omicron is mild we have an opportunity to win these people over once they realise that their fears were unfounded. But we will need to act quickly before the oligarchs launch their next fear-mongering project, so they can keep people under control.
I could say a lot more about true saving faith in God, but that would confuse the point I'm trying to make above.
Thoughtful words.. creation cannot tolerate a vacuum so yes people who never really know God Always fall to worshiping other things ... and so the cure to all these ills is to put Jesus as Lord and give Him the honour due... it’s really that simple...
if we do that He will fight for us against the idol of Pharma and many see He is exposing them for what they really are now... but there is more than that, there is the need to replace those who worship Pharma with those who Trust God.. those who trust God put their faith in Him... Ron De Santis shows there is a rightful place for medical intervention but it does not surpass individual rights and freedom.. God given rights
Those who ignore God fear evil and try to be God .. insisting on making decisions for everyone mandating vaccines.. sad but true ... God gives them over to irrational thinking..
We can only know freedom when we accept Jesus righteousness.. that I am weak He paid the price I never could.. what is amazing is that price was for healing .. by His Stripes we are healed..
So sickness need not bring fear.. faith in Jesus is faith for healing and very little need for doctors medications or vaccines... He took my sickness and pains..
Our materialist modern world dismisses the possibility of the supernatural. With God's death, a meaningful life is impossible. An atheist ascribing any ultimate meaning to his life is simply being delusional. When he dies and those who knew him die, it will be as if he never existed. Hence, so much of our Western world's angst.
As a Christian, every day is meaningful. The standard is set. I know how I am to live my life, and I know that I will be judged on how I lived it, especially on how I treated the "least" among us.
Please know that when you dismiss Christianity, you dismiss Christian morality, a point made by Nietzsche. Then look around and see how many of our political, science, and economic "elites" driving this pandemic narrative are devout believers. The dignity of each and every human being is a notion derived from a belief in God. Without God, human life is equal to that of a rodent, an equivalence PETA correctly made about a decade ago. Many atheists vigorously disagree with this point but they are wrong to do so. It is absolutely true. Now revisit elite belief that there are too many people on this planet. Frightening, no?
Like the era pre-Enlightenment, I do think many have latched on to medical science as a sort of religion. At the same time, just like high priests of that era, the powerful ARE driven by lust for power and money - no amount is enough: one’s motivation is simply to have more of it - and manipulate the religious zeal of the masses
One approach being discussed by Robert Malone and others in the mass formation discussion is to work with the fear state induced by discussion of vaccine failure. Vaccine Zealots maybe able to transpose their fear of vaccine failure onto a greater - and more rational fear of totalitarian government policies
I have always been accepting and never judgemental of other people's religion. When my youngest son was a toddler he was obsessed with Jesus. Maybe not so unusual, except, we're Jewish. He was home with me full-time, had never had a babysitter and I didn't allow TV. In all seriousness, I would ask him, "Who is this Jesus dude you speak of? A park friend?" When he was in his car seat I would over hear him telling his older brothers, "You might think that's a house, but it's not. It's a house of G-d." when we drove by a church. I found him a protestant preschool, he told me it was the wrong chapel. I took him with me to interview schools, a Catholic School was the right one. And he wasn't wrong, it was the best school for our family until we decided to homeschool. By the time he was 6 he was begging to be baptized. He said it would set him free like a butterfly. I took him to Mass every Sunday. I taught his older brothers it was never acceptable to make fun of or question his religious choices, to always accept when someone offers to bless you or pray for you, to be gracious. He would invite them to Mass by saying "It is the must fun, ever!"
My oldest son was home over this past holiday break I reminded him of this. I told him I love him and respect his vaccine decisions just as I had respected his younger brother's religious choices. And that I hope he can respect mine. He became angry. Vaccines are not religion they are science! There is no G-d in science! It's not about G-d! I calmly explained not every religion is about G-d. But they do always involve a strong belief that cannot always be rationally explained by the believer. When I ask why he is so angry that most of his family is not vaccinated his answers revolve around our breaking the rules and making everyone unsafe. He doesn't want to hear about informed consent, medical circumstances or bodily autonomy, the science behind why my doctor says my genetic illness is contraindicated (if he got the shot (X3) and was fine, I'll be fine...ignore my doctor!) anger anger anger....just do it!
Like his brother before him, I respect his freedom of choice and his decision to believe as he chooses. And like his brother, I can sit in the back and be quietly polite but not agree. I had not read or heard of Forrest Maready before but I too could see there is an element of religious fervor to the vaccine hysteria and I tried to tell my oldest that the hunger for religious belief and guidance is very much part of being human. I will not attempt to take this from him, I will not try to convert him. He said I was trying simply by not getting vaccinated.
I came to the same conclusion several years ago. A friend and I were having a discussion about vaccinations. I was trying to share info about the potential connection between increasing rates of autism and the high number of vaccines. She tried to end the discussion by saying, “I believe in vaccines.” I replied, “Vaccination is not a religion.” As Maready says, sadly for some, it is.
Man has lost his connection with spirit, with the divine, with the transcendent, with nature. Your article is spot on and I couldn't agree more with your thesis. The 'age of enlightenment' replaced man's connection with these transcendental values, previously upheld by traditional faiths and beliefs, with the scientific view that man's existence was solely based on materialism whose origin was anything but divine. What traditional religion provided was the ability to go within, to pray or meditate, to let the mind transcend the boundaries of thought and experience the unboundedness of pure consciousness. Blaise Pascal said all man's problems might be resolved if he took time to sit quietly in a room alone.
We need the experience of silence in our lives to restore and nourish the soul to ponder the mysteries of our existence. Modern science has forgotten that.
Oh, that Garden State clip! Juxtapose that with the clip of the couple getting engaged at New Year and kissing with their masks on. It says all that needs to be said. Our infinite abyss is not in front of us. We are in it. Our fear of lack of existence has resulted in us barely existing at all. Dulled. Mediated. Virtual. We need to start affirming unmasked life, in all of its connected peril and glory. A flurry of pictures everywhere of people kissing, the proper way, next to a picture of that fear-filled travesty. Also, pictures of people holding hands, skin-to-skin, next to a latex-mediated version of hand-holding. Laughing children vs masked, isolated children. Juxtaposition as reminder. Over and over again, until we shake people out of their fear-induced slumbers.
It seems like a step beyond religion - like a cult. A world-wide godless cult with a small percentage of extreme zealots and a whole lot of scared and fragile converts (who may or may not be thoroughly convinced). I'm sorry for how this might sound, but I think there has to be an element of mental illness to go along with the religious fervor. How does a fundamentalist from any religion recover? Former cult members? Anyone with delusional paranoia? Obsessive behavior? Where are the mental health professionals who study these things?? Some people seem to be immune to the onslaught of cultist propaganda, at least in terms of what they believe (if not entirely how it effects them mentally), and I often wonder why. We are all human, after all.
Anyone familiar with John Michael Greer's ground-breaking blog "The Archdruid Report" will be familiar with this idea - he calls this new religion the "religion of progress".
To paraphrase John Michael Greer: "The greatest conflict of the 21st century will be between the believers in the religion of progress and those who understand its multiple disconfirmations".
The failure of the "vaccination" program is one such disconfirmation, but unfortunately it won't be sufficient to overcome the religion of progress: that will require either a completely new religion, or the revival of an old one. Logic alone won't do the job.
Or maybe we could return to the indigenous ways of perceiving the world: that the natural world itself is sacred and worthy of reverence and respect. Mother Earth provides for all human needs freely and abundantly.
The thing is many of these cultures were matriarchal, egalitarian and truly humane. In fact, it's how our species evolved. With democratic ideals built into the fabric of daily life, and a healthy respect for the cycles of life and death, perhaps a recognition, honouring and preservation of their wisdom is the way forward. After all, any culture built on dominance, exploitation and slavery only brings misery and suffering to the vast majority.
Very interesting. Honestly, they need to find God. The real one, and then repent. Until that happens we’re all screwed. But honestly, I don’t believe it will happen until Christ comes again and reigns personally on the Earth when every knee will bow and every person will confess that He is the Christ. At that point, they won’t be able to deny Him any longer. But until then, I think they will continue to become more and more evil. Just my thoughts…
The main reason for those vaccines is in fact blockchain. It is data, health care (if you have graphene biosensor and you own data and apps, you do telemedicine, you sell drugs, etc.). Blockchain is also Voting system and of course DIGITAL CURRENCY. This is why all those companies as MasterCard and banks are behind. This is also surveillance of everybody, so it is great for governing and mind control, as you can stimulate this technology with EMF, serotonin production (Klaus Swab: You'll own nothing but will be happy - or at least YOU WILL THINK SO). This is the end goal. This is why WEF and sorts of businesses are involved. Ultimately it is also "climate change"/ property / resources business
Paul Levy brilliantly writes about Wetiko the mind-virus and a way out of this nightmare. I think you'd find it interesting. This is a bit about wetiko and his latest book: "Paul Levy’s new book Wetiko: Healing the Mind-Virus that Plagues our World is a call to awaken to a mind-parasite that has infected humanity with a collective psychosis of titanic proportions, yet is so familiar to be almost undetectable. Levy contemplates how wetiko—which is a form of mind blindness—has been creatively represented and symbolized in not only various spiritual wisdom traditions from time immemorial, but by creative artists and philosophers throughout the ages as well. In a unique and original synthesis of Eastern and Western spiritual traditions, evolutionary mysticism, shamanism, quantum physics, transpersonal psychology and the insights of C. G. Jung, Paul Levy shows us how to alchemically extract the healing remedy from the poisonous mind-virus known as wetiko by bringing forth the creative spirit that is thirsting to be born within—and through—us." Wetiko comes from creativity gone awry which is based on the belief that we all share a collective consciousness that is always creating, on some level, this dream reality.
It's totally wrong to claim that they are worshiping "science" and "progress", for these things depend on transparency, accountability, willingness to question, rationality, and consent.
Do they call what they worship "science" -- yes, and they are intentionally lying in order to trick people into giving them power, which is what they really worship.
There is a certain level of truth in this. However, I don't think people can continue to worship the vaccine god once it is shown to be failing. They could just as easily worship the prophylactic and early treatment gods assuming that is more effective. I think what people are worshiping is the government.
We notice this when the government changes the narrative, the people readily follow the new government narrative however far it is from the original. For example the original narrative was that with the vaccine, you'll no longer catch the disease, no longer die of it or no longer pass it on to your loved ones. The new narrative is that the vaccines stop the hospitals from being blocked up. People seem to accept this without question as long as the word comes from the medical high priest.
I think it works like this: a large number of people no longer look to God for their salvation in this life or the next. Having denied God, there is nobody to save them from death, so this life is all they've got. Along comes an engineered situation (pandemic) whose objective is to spread fear and panic across the globe. Since this life is all the non-believers have, they clutch onto whatever might save them and in their panic they may have no qualms about sacrificing others so they can continue to live. People do have consciences, but in a state of fear, or other extreme emotion, it seems that they can temporarily lose their minds and their consciences.
it seems to me that fear is the key driver - look at how the media and governments have stoked the fires of fear with Omicron. So the solution is to remove fear. If Omicron is mild we have an opportunity to win these people over once they realise that their fears were unfounded. But we will need to act quickly before the oligarchs launch their next fear-mongering project, so they can keep people under control.
I could say a lot more about true saving faith in God, but that would confuse the point I'm trying to make above.
Thoughtful words.. creation cannot tolerate a vacuum so yes people who never really know God Always fall to worshiping other things ... and so the cure to all these ills is to put Jesus as Lord and give Him the honour due... it’s really that simple...
if we do that He will fight for us against the idol of Pharma and many see He is exposing them for what they really are now... but there is more than that, there is the need to replace those who worship Pharma with those who Trust God.. those who trust God put their faith in Him... Ron De Santis shows there is a rightful place for medical intervention but it does not surpass individual rights and freedom.. God given rights
Those who ignore God fear evil and try to be God .. insisting on making decisions for everyone mandating vaccines.. sad but true ... God gives them over to irrational thinking..
We can only know freedom when we accept Jesus righteousness.. that I am weak He paid the price I never could.. what is amazing is that price was for healing .. by His Stripes we are healed..
So sickness need not bring fear.. faith in Jesus is faith for healing and very little need for doctors medications or vaccines... He took my sickness and pains..
Our materialist modern world dismisses the possibility of the supernatural. With God's death, a meaningful life is impossible. An atheist ascribing any ultimate meaning to his life is simply being delusional. When he dies and those who knew him die, it will be as if he never existed. Hence, so much of our Western world's angst.
As a Christian, every day is meaningful. The standard is set. I know how I am to live my life, and I know that I will be judged on how I lived it, especially on how I treated the "least" among us.
Please know that when you dismiss Christianity, you dismiss Christian morality, a point made by Nietzsche. Then look around and see how many of our political, science, and economic "elites" driving this pandemic narrative are devout believers. The dignity of each and every human being is a notion derived from a belief in God. Without God, human life is equal to that of a rodent, an equivalence PETA correctly made about a decade ago. Many atheists vigorously disagree with this point but they are wrong to do so. It is absolutely true. Now revisit elite belief that there are too many people on this planet. Frightening, no?
Like the era pre-Enlightenment, I do think many have latched on to medical science as a sort of religion. At the same time, just like high priests of that era, the powerful ARE driven by lust for power and money - no amount is enough: one’s motivation is simply to have more of it - and manipulate the religious zeal of the masses
One approach being discussed by Robert Malone and others in the mass formation discussion is to work with the fear state induced by discussion of vaccine failure. Vaccine Zealots maybe able to transpose their fear of vaccine failure onto a greater - and more rational fear of totalitarian government policies