I'm not ready to give up the idea of infectious disease but this article nicely laid out the competing thesis in full for me and brought to mind some moments in my own life that would seem to support it. I remember putting off a thesis paper as a junior in HS and getting sick 2 days before it was due. I had a fever, I was legitimate sick and asked for an extension but had to admit to the teacher it was a heck of a coincidence and just shows that I need to learn not to put work off. (I never fully learned that lesson). I also remember a co-worker coming in after being sick for the first time in two years and he even exclaimed something like....'you know I think I needed to get sick to really disconnect from work and chill out for a bit.'
I'm not ready either, but there's so much more to the picture than we have yet discovered via Western medicine. I've often noticed people get a cold when they can't mourn something. Or people have post-nasal drip when they can't express their grief. I now seem to have change-of-season colds/allergies and I think this may be because the change-over challenges me and this makes sure I pay attention to the changes, because once the "cold" is over so are the "allergies".
Towards the end of our marriage my ex had a really bad cough. It went away when he was at work and come back when he was with me or even speaking to me on the phone. It was suppressed emotion.
YES, yes, and more YES, Jo! I'm writing about this very thing right now (I'll reference your post if that's ok.) I wrote about this a few weeks ago when I had a "detox" that lasted two weeks. I'm rarely sick but my body insisted this time. This is a tough one for most people. I love Dr. Sam Bailey's video about germ vs. terrain. She does such a great job of simplifying it. Great post! :)
It's interesting to me how people cling to ideas they feel comfortable with, whether it makes them feel good somehow or it's just "always been that way."
People talk about "faith" and in Western cultures, with Christianity being still very dominant, there is a LOT of talk about faith--
The irony for me is that on the one hand we have a LOT of belief that is based on really really OLD writings by men who were very like the men we have today... They believed certain things, had views about what is good/bad, right/wrong, whatever. Stone the witches.
And we talk about contagion...
Metaphorically speaking, contagion could be seen as the work of Satan. And we see the Human body and immune system and all the miraculous things, much of which we DON'T see, haven't really figured out, don't really understand, and yet we can believe in contagion because it's OLD NEWS, as it were, and the idea that our bodies can and will heal themselves of anything, that we're all connected spiritually, that we are able to do fantastic things without even thinking about it... THAT is all very very difficult for us to grasp and trust.
In short, we're willing to trust not Nature, which we don't understand, but trust the MEN in the Medical Industrial Complex who are trying to kill us.
Your comment related to an article I had just read and found very interesting.
The Suppression of our Inner Female & the Rise of the Tyrant
Human consciousness contains two different points of awareness – male and female – that are intimately connected, but which also display vastly different qualities.
The point of awareness of the male aspect of consciousness can be located in the head, and it is represented by qualities of logic, reason, hierarchy and structure, willful doing, as well as focus on linear time.
Conversely, the female aspect of consciousness – with its qualities of sensitivity, intuition, wisdom, and presence – is located in the gut. Specifically, the female aspect of consciousness resides in an area of the gut referred to as the ‘pelvic bowl’.
For a very long time, as a culture, we have over-identified with the male aspect of consciousness – with a major precedence being placed on ‘doing, thinking and reasoning’. We have done so at the expense of the inner female qualities of ‘being, ‘feeling and intuitively moving through life’.
“We’ve put all our faith in and all our accolades on the brain in the head. We think reason is supreme, and we try to think our way through problems and stop feeling them. When that schism between our thinking and our being actually heals, you feel every thought. There is no division between thinking and feeling. But we give reason this place of supremacy in our culture. In the most important things in our life, reason is utterly impotent. – Philip Shepherd
Okay, just because I have to, I'm going to unpack somma that...
First, and MOST importantly, we are ALL "male and female" in a sense, and not by gender (rarely), but because we are one kind of species and we carry aspects of both. People get the wrong idea about this, in my opinion...
It's not that men have an "inner female" and women have an "inner male." We all have what has been called Yin/Yang... Receptivity and Forcefulness... These terms can be other terms, too, as simple as "taking" and "giving" or whatever floats your boat... But in my view, it's not to do with GENDER or SEXUALITY at all. There are plenty of different kinds of people... I've know very "forceful" men and very "receptive" men, and same with women, and it's not a constant, even, but a general sort of vibe, if you will.
Both men and women are able to be both Yin and Yang, depending on an infinite variety of possible situations, and mood, and company, and so forth... We are not static, we are not machines! We are complex creatures capable of being or having many different aspects in any given time...
There is no "female aspect of consciousness," that just is so... flat. Our consciousness is profound, so much so that many of us are unaware of a great deal of it ourselves. And as for it being "male" or "female" that just feels patently absurd to me, no offense! It's like saying I had a "female thought." lol
Femininity is not ONLY about sex or gender, masculinity is not ONLY about sex or gender. Sex and sexuality are the most basic of all this, very very banal and primitive... This part of our being is the most animalistic, the most "earthy," the most reductionist. Our consciousness goes FAR beyond what we have or do in our bodies on this Earth. I don't KNOW yet how far, but further than we can know now.
We are all of us capable of both "logic, reason, hierarchy and structure, willful doing, as well as focus on linear time," as well as "sensitivity, intuition, wisdom, and presence." And the idea that these qualities are "located" in the head or the gut is quite bizarre. Please find them and show them to us! ^_^ It's like saying I left my idea on the kitchen table... Intangibles aren't "located" anywhere. (There are "chakras," which are general sort of "locations," but nothing is set in stone, in my opinion. I do agree pretty much with the typical chakra ideas, but I don't think it's absolute; maybe it is, but I don't worry about it!) And not to mention the old, old stereotypes that men are rational, women are irrational; men are intellectual, women are emotional, and so forth. We are not machines, we are not cookie cutter clones... I've seen macho guys cry when there are no other men around, and I've seen otherwise sophisticated women behave like little girls when men are around... ;)
Yes, there are tendencies, but many of those tendencies can be traced to CULTURAL conditioning and stereotyping in childhood. That said, those tendencies are not limited to gender, and while there are very general strands of men being one way and women being another, there is a lot of cross-over. Men do seem to be more inclined to linear thinking, and women do seem to be more intuitive. But there's lots of exceptions.
Human beings are extremely preoccupied with sex and sexuality, because most of us are biologically predisposed to procreation, like nearly every species... and pleasure is always a big draw. And we are extremely interested in who is "superior" to the other, particularly with men, but I see it in women sometimes, too. But sexuality is not EVERYTHING. It doesn't necessarily have an EFFECT on everything.
My point is, I think it would be good for culture to relax our rigidity around sexual and social roles and who should do this and that. All this recent insanity with trans this and that, and all that stuff is pretty outrageous, but I do think we could chill out about sexual roles without losing our identities... There are a very few things I would expect only men to do, like carry me out of a burning building, but I've known some women who could and would do it... carry ME out, but maybe not a 6'4 biggo guy! And sorry fellas, but MEN don't have babies. And have NO BUSINESS trying to have babies. That doesn't mean they aren't good caregivers or daddies or whatever. Some stuff is just physically a basis for gender comparisons...
But regarding the consciousness... That has no gender. That is spiritual, not corporeal.
And that is my sermon's end, for now. Cheers.
PS This is all my opinion, and nobody is required to agree with me!
I always think that whatever illness or symptom I have is a message from my subconscious that I don't want to hear. But because it's important my brain creates symptoms that I won't ignore so that I address the issue. Physical pain or discomfort or being sick always gets my attention.
Believing exclusively in contagion is a passive approach to health and just seems to encourage people to be afraid of people and of going out. The fear and seclusion alone are a huge negative to this belief system.
Absolutely, the fear is an added stressor to the body.
Yes, we forget so easily to look after ourselves. I think tiredness one of most important detox symptoms that gets attention and makes us cuddle up and rest.
Yes, the seclusion of being isolated in illness, like the poor 'AIDS' patients totally alone in wards, and the elderly in their care home rooms during lockdown is NOT how to support someone going through detox and will make their chances of surviving-even if they are not being killed with AZT or midazolam- significantly worse.
You know what breaks my heart, and keeps breaking it? I saw videos and photos of old folks pleading to have a hug from their children, or ANYONE, just hold my hand, and they died alone, while someone they loved WATCHED THROUGH A GD WINDOW... It makes me cry just thinking about it.
When more people can get this into their systems and draw out the washing of the brains that has been going on for eons………….., the light will come shining trough and open up minds for a bright future.
Hello!! I have a friend that has been diagnosed with stage 4 lymphoma. She is trying to stay out of the “medical system “....I would like to read anything you have written about cancer. If possible please and thank you.
stage 4 indicates the healing phase of a self devaluation or loss of self worth conflict. The last thing the body needs is to be pumped full of chemicals and toxins. Support with rest, water and diet of organic, regeneratively grown fresh fruit, vegetables, legumes and nuts.
I liken our clinging to contagion like the quest to make gold from other materials in the past, alchemy. It took a really long time, centuries, for folks to let it go, and some still seem to cling to it as well. Maybe its possible with light/energy technologies, but i wouldn't bet on it. (With gold?.) fun https://www.icysedgwick.com/alchemy-history/
Contagions are all around us and quite sure that we are being messed with laboratory wise. This is not only biological warfare but coupled with EMFs and food toxins. Metals released into our skies. Showing up in our soil... Etc. How do you steer through all this ? Not giving in to FEAR, and staying healthy with a purpose. Knowing how to detox amidst all this garbage is a reality we must utilize. And most importantly being grounded in our faith.
Really interesting post. It reminds me of a question I was musing about a while ago:
“It is often said that viruses tend to evolve towards more infectious but less dangerous variants, and eventually fizzle out by this mechanism, like Spanish Flu and Sars-Cov-1 apparently did. However, it doesn't make much adaptive sense for a virus to just evolve itself out of existence.
If we consider lineage level adaptation, would it make more sense that our immune systems not only have programs for improving individual survival against viral attack, but also programs for helping the survival of the wider lineage too? I believe this would look like a mechanism for signalling to other immune systems the information about the wild virus ahead of infection, preparing their systems for the attack.
Perhaps our immune systems collaborate to create natural herd immunity programs by generating and selecting strains which are faster to transmit but are less harmful than the wild virus - that it is actually some wisdom inherent in our adaptive lineage level biology which is selecting the virus out of existence?”
I'm not ready to give up the idea of infectious disease but this article nicely laid out the competing thesis in full for me and brought to mind some moments in my own life that would seem to support it. I remember putting off a thesis paper as a junior in HS and getting sick 2 days before it was due. I had a fever, I was legitimate sick and asked for an extension but had to admit to the teacher it was a heck of a coincidence and just shows that I need to learn not to put work off. (I never fully learned that lesson). I also remember a co-worker coming in after being sick for the first time in two years and he even exclaimed something like....'you know I think I needed to get sick to really disconnect from work and chill out for a bit.'
Thank you .
I used to be a bad procrastinator now I can be the extreme opposite, though am learning with yoga to be in the moment.
I'm not ready either, but there's so much more to the picture than we have yet discovered via Western medicine. I've often noticed people get a cold when they can't mourn something. Or people have post-nasal drip when they can't express their grief. I now seem to have change-of-season colds/allergies and I think this may be because the change-over challenges me and this makes sure I pay attention to the changes, because once the "cold" is over so are the "allergies".
Towards the end of our marriage my ex had a really bad cough. It went away when he was at work and come back when he was with me or even speaking to me on the phone. It was suppressed emotion.
Yes, coughing is a sign. Any time something upsets me I begin coughing and can't stop, which makes me pay attention to what the person just said.
YES, yes, and more YES, Jo! I'm writing about this very thing right now (I'll reference your post if that's ok.) I wrote about this a few weeks ago when I had a "detox" that lasted two weeks. I'm rarely sick but my body insisted this time. This is a tough one for most people. I love Dr. Sam Bailey's video about germ vs. terrain. She does such a great job of simplifying it. Great post! :)
Thank you Barbara, and by all means reference me, I'd be honoured.
Looking forward to reading...
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It's interesting to me how people cling to ideas they feel comfortable with, whether it makes them feel good somehow or it's just "always been that way."
People talk about "faith" and in Western cultures, with Christianity being still very dominant, there is a LOT of talk about faith--
The irony for me is that on the one hand we have a LOT of belief that is based on really really OLD writings by men who were very like the men we have today... They believed certain things, had views about what is good/bad, right/wrong, whatever. Stone the witches.
And we talk about contagion...
Metaphorically speaking, contagion could be seen as the work of Satan. And we see the Human body and immune system and all the miraculous things, much of which we DON'T see, haven't really figured out, don't really understand, and yet we can believe in contagion because it's OLD NEWS, as it were, and the idea that our bodies can and will heal themselves of anything, that we're all connected spiritually, that we are able to do fantastic things without even thinking about it... THAT is all very very difficult for us to grasp and trust.
In short, we're willing to trust not Nature, which we don't understand, but trust the MEN in the Medical Industrial Complex who are trying to kill us.
IRONY. It's not just for breakfast anymore.
Bravo!
Your comment related to an article I had just read and found very interesting.
The Suppression of our Inner Female & the Rise of the Tyrant
Human consciousness contains two different points of awareness – male and female – that are intimately connected, but which also display vastly different qualities.
The point of awareness of the male aspect of consciousness can be located in the head, and it is represented by qualities of logic, reason, hierarchy and structure, willful doing, as well as focus on linear time.
Conversely, the female aspect of consciousness – with its qualities of sensitivity, intuition, wisdom, and presence – is located in the gut. Specifically, the female aspect of consciousness resides in an area of the gut referred to as the ‘pelvic bowl’.
For a very long time, as a culture, we have over-identified with the male aspect of consciousness – with a major precedence being placed on ‘doing, thinking and reasoning’. We have done so at the expense of the inner female qualities of ‘being, ‘feeling and intuitively moving through life’.
“We’ve put all our faith in and all our accolades on the brain in the head. We think reason is supreme, and we try to think our way through problems and stop feeling them. When that schism between our thinking and our being actually heals, you feel every thought. There is no division between thinking and feeling. But we give reason this place of supremacy in our culture. In the most important things in our life, reason is utterly impotent. – Philip Shepherd
https://seedsofawareness.com.au/humanitys-primary-wound-inner-tyrant/
Woah! There's a lot of stuff in there! lol
Okay, just because I have to, I'm going to unpack somma that...
First, and MOST importantly, we are ALL "male and female" in a sense, and not by gender (rarely), but because we are one kind of species and we carry aspects of both. People get the wrong idea about this, in my opinion...
It's not that men have an "inner female" and women have an "inner male." We all have what has been called Yin/Yang... Receptivity and Forcefulness... These terms can be other terms, too, as simple as "taking" and "giving" or whatever floats your boat... But in my view, it's not to do with GENDER or SEXUALITY at all. There are plenty of different kinds of people... I've know very "forceful" men and very "receptive" men, and same with women, and it's not a constant, even, but a general sort of vibe, if you will.
Both men and women are able to be both Yin and Yang, depending on an infinite variety of possible situations, and mood, and company, and so forth... We are not static, we are not machines! We are complex creatures capable of being or having many different aspects in any given time...
There is no "female aspect of consciousness," that just is so... flat. Our consciousness is profound, so much so that many of us are unaware of a great deal of it ourselves. And as for it being "male" or "female" that just feels patently absurd to me, no offense! It's like saying I had a "female thought." lol
Femininity is not ONLY about sex or gender, masculinity is not ONLY about sex or gender. Sex and sexuality are the most basic of all this, very very banal and primitive... This part of our being is the most animalistic, the most "earthy," the most reductionist. Our consciousness goes FAR beyond what we have or do in our bodies on this Earth. I don't KNOW yet how far, but further than we can know now.
We are all of us capable of both "logic, reason, hierarchy and structure, willful doing, as well as focus on linear time," as well as "sensitivity, intuition, wisdom, and presence." And the idea that these qualities are "located" in the head or the gut is quite bizarre. Please find them and show them to us! ^_^ It's like saying I left my idea on the kitchen table... Intangibles aren't "located" anywhere. (There are "chakras," which are general sort of "locations," but nothing is set in stone, in my opinion. I do agree pretty much with the typical chakra ideas, but I don't think it's absolute; maybe it is, but I don't worry about it!) And not to mention the old, old stereotypes that men are rational, women are irrational; men are intellectual, women are emotional, and so forth. We are not machines, we are not cookie cutter clones... I've seen macho guys cry when there are no other men around, and I've seen otherwise sophisticated women behave like little girls when men are around... ;)
Yes, there are tendencies, but many of those tendencies can be traced to CULTURAL conditioning and stereotyping in childhood. That said, those tendencies are not limited to gender, and while there are very general strands of men being one way and women being another, there is a lot of cross-over. Men do seem to be more inclined to linear thinking, and women do seem to be more intuitive. But there's lots of exceptions.
Human beings are extremely preoccupied with sex and sexuality, because most of us are biologically predisposed to procreation, like nearly every species... and pleasure is always a big draw. And we are extremely interested in who is "superior" to the other, particularly with men, but I see it in women sometimes, too. But sexuality is not EVERYTHING. It doesn't necessarily have an EFFECT on everything.
My point is, I think it would be good for culture to relax our rigidity around sexual and social roles and who should do this and that. All this recent insanity with trans this and that, and all that stuff is pretty outrageous, but I do think we could chill out about sexual roles without losing our identities... There are a very few things I would expect only men to do, like carry me out of a burning building, but I've known some women who could and would do it... carry ME out, but maybe not a 6'4 biggo guy! And sorry fellas, but MEN don't have babies. And have NO BUSINESS trying to have babies. That doesn't mean they aren't good caregivers or daddies or whatever. Some stuff is just physically a basis for gender comparisons...
But regarding the consciousness... That has no gender. That is spiritual, not corporeal.
And that is my sermon's end, for now. Cheers.
PS This is all my opinion, and nobody is required to agree with me!
I always think that whatever illness or symptom I have is a message from my subconscious that I don't want to hear. But because it's important my brain creates symptoms that I won't ignore so that I address the issue. Physical pain or discomfort or being sick always gets my attention.
Believing exclusively in contagion is a passive approach to health and just seems to encourage people to be afraid of people and of going out. The fear and seclusion alone are a huge negative to this belief system.
Absolutely, the fear is an added stressor to the body.
Yes, we forget so easily to look after ourselves. I think tiredness one of most important detox symptoms that gets attention and makes us cuddle up and rest.
Yes, the seclusion of being isolated in illness, like the poor 'AIDS' patients totally alone in wards, and the elderly in their care home rooms during lockdown is NOT how to support someone going through detox and will make their chances of surviving-even if they are not being killed with AZT or midazolam- significantly worse.
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SO true! Well said.
You know what breaks my heart, and keeps breaking it? I saw videos and photos of old folks pleading to have a hug from their children, or ANYONE, just hold my hand, and they died alone, while someone they loved WATCHED THROUGH A GD WINDOW... It makes me cry just thinking about it.
Me too.
Have you seen Russel T Davis series 'it's a sin' with young guys dying alone in hospital wards- it's unbearable x
No, I don't want to see any more stuff like that... It haunts me for a long time.
yes.
Woah, you're half-way there, woah! Livin' on a prayer, take my hand, we'll make it I swear, WOAH! Livin' on a prayer...
^_^
xo
Thank you Jo.
When more people can get this into their systems and draw out the washing of the brains that has been going on for eons………….., the light will come shining trough and open up minds for a bright future.
A pleasure.
Thank you for your support x
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Hello!! I have a friend that has been diagnosed with stage 4 lymphoma. She is trying to stay out of the “medical system “....I would like to read anything you have written about cancer. If possible please and thank you.
Hiya JSR
Your friend is very wise it seems https://georgiedonny.substack.com/p/how-effective-is-chemotherapy, I would def advise looking into the GNM https://georgiedonny.substack.com/p/nothing-in-nature-is-meaningless
Hope this helps
Jo
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stage 4 indicates the healing phase of a self devaluation or loss of self worth conflict. The last thing the body needs is to be pumped full of chemicals and toxins. Support with rest, water and diet of organic, regeneratively grown fresh fruit, vegetables, legumes and nuts.
https://learninggnm.com/SBS/documents/lymph_system.html#Lymphoma
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Thank you!!
You're very welcome.
I liken our clinging to contagion like the quest to make gold from other materials in the past, alchemy. It took a really long time, centuries, for folks to let it go, and some still seem to cling to it as well. Maybe its possible with light/energy technologies, but i wouldn't bet on it. (With gold?.) fun https://www.icysedgwick.com/alchemy-history/
Thank you , great link, I love this sort of thing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkZFuKHXa7w the colour of gold is gold
Contagions are all around us and quite sure that we are being messed with laboratory wise. This is not only biological warfare but coupled with EMFs and food toxins. Metals released into our skies. Showing up in our soil... Etc. How do you steer through all this ? Not giving in to FEAR, and staying healthy with a purpose. Knowing how to detox amidst all this garbage is a reality we must utilize. And most importantly being grounded in our faith.
Really interesting post. It reminds me of a question I was musing about a while ago:
“It is often said that viruses tend to evolve towards more infectious but less dangerous variants, and eventually fizzle out by this mechanism, like Spanish Flu and Sars-Cov-1 apparently did. However, it doesn't make much adaptive sense for a virus to just evolve itself out of existence.
If we consider lineage level adaptation, would it make more sense that our immune systems not only have programs for improving individual survival against viral attack, but also programs for helping the survival of the wider lineage too? I believe this would look like a mechanism for signalling to other immune systems the information about the wild virus ahead of infection, preparing their systems for the attack.
Perhaps our immune systems collaborate to create natural herd immunity programs by generating and selecting strains which are faster to transmit but are less harmful than the wild virus - that it is actually some wisdom inherent in our adaptive lineage level biology which is selecting the virus out of existence?”
Hiya,
is HIV looking like it's going to fizzle out? https://georgiedonny.substack.com/p/the-importance-of-intellectual-freedom
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