Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 150

[ecosophia]

We are now winding up the third year of these open posts. As the phrase "died suddenly" repeats in the mass media like a mantra, statistics for work days lost to illness and all-cause mortality mount up in heavily vaccinated nations, and more and more ugly facts about the official response to Covid spill out into public, we are entering what may well turn out to be the most difficult period of the Covid disaster -- the phase in which denial rises in lockstep with the death rate, and a great many people try not to admit what has been done to them by the people and institutions they trusted. It could get ugly, folks.

So it's time for another open post. The rules are the same as before: 

1. If you plan on parroting the party line of the medical industry and its paid shills, please go away. This is a place for people to talk openly, honestly, and freely about their concerns that the party line in question is dangerously flawed and that actions being pushed by the medical industry et al. are causing injury and death. It is not a place for you to dismiss those concerns. Anyone who wants to hear the official story and the arguments in favor of it can find those on hundreds of thousands of websites.

2. If you plan on insisting that the current situation is the result of a deliberate plot by some villainous group of people or other, please go away. There are tens of thousands of websites currently rehashing various conspiracy theories about the Covid-19 outbreak and the vaccines. This is not one of them. What we're exploring is the likelihood that what's going on is the product of the same arrogance, incompetence, and corruption that the medical industry and its tame politicians have displayed so abundantly in recent decades. That possibility deserves a space of its own for discussion, and that's what we're doing here. 
 
3. If you plan on using rent-a-troll derailing or disruption tactics, please go away. I'm quite familiar with the standard tactics used by troll farms to disrupt online forums, and am ready, willing, and able -- and in fact quite eager -- to ban people permanently for engaging in them here. Oh, and I also lurk on other Covid-19 vaccine skeptic blogs, so I'm likely to notice when the same posts are showing up on more than one venue. 

4. If you don't believe in treating people with common courtesy, please go away. I have, and enforce, a strict courtesy policy on my blogs and online forums, and this is no exception. The sort of schoolyard bullying that takes place on so many other internet forums will get you deleted and banned here. Also, please don't drag in current quarrels about sex, race, religions, etc. No, I don't care if you disagree with that: my journal, my rules. 

With that said, the floor is open for discussion.

Comments

Re: SOP analogue from a Chinese Medical Classic

[robertmathiesen]

The first half of the thrid paragraph ("shield me ... with ... before ... behind ... in ... beneath ... above ... on my right ... on my left") is a Christian version of the SoP, more or less, which is probably a major reason why the Lorica has been such a widely used prayer all these many centuries.

Re: SOP analogue from a Chinese Medical Classic

[(Anonymous)]

Does anyone know if studies have been done on the effect on the immune system of visualisation and/or prayer?

I had to look up lorica.

Not being a Christian, I was still struck by the words; for personal use this came up:

Prayer to Life

Arise!
In gratitude and awe, by the grace and love of the Divine.
May the loving fire of the sun, purify and gently touch my heart,
May I act in harmony and the beauty and richness of the earth sustains me;
May the swiftness of the wind blow away my foolishness and clear my thinking
May the waters of the world cleanse and support me
As I swim in the ocean of Life,
And lead me,
To compassionate wisdom through the flowing aether.

Arise!
May the Grace of the Divine fortify me on the way;
Divine Compassion uphold me, Divine wisdom guide me,
May I see within as I look without
May I hear the stillness of peace as I listen to the world,
And feel a Divine hand, touch and point the way, lighting a path in truth,
May Divine Grace touch my heart, like the perfume of an opening rose,
That I find courage through humility and love of life,
To have self control and keep actions in balance and harmony
To be Just and true through right relationships with all beings and things
I call out to life, near and afar,
When alone or in a mulitude.

Arise!
May the Divine guide me today in feelings, thoughts and actions
The beauty, love and richness of the earth below,
The majesty, beauty and love of the Sun above
Love, compassion and mercy within me,
Love, compassion and mercy before me and behind me,
Love, compassion and mercy on my right and on my left,
Held in the hands of the Cosmos
May I swim true in the ocean of Divine light.

Arise!
May I know the Divine in the heart of everyone I think of,
May I know the Divine in everyone I speak of,
May I know the Divine in those I meet,
And then, to find, and follow the pure light path

Arise!
And give thanks for the gift of life.

Re: SOP analogue from a Chinese Medical Classic

[claire_58]

Thank you for this.

Re: SOP analogue from a Chinese Medical Classic

[earthworm_uk]

Thank you. If you can make any use of it, please do.
Being inspired by a Saint from 433... Strange times.

There is an updated/corrected version on the dreamwidth journal for earthworm