Early this morning, when I should-could-would have been dreaming, perhaps, I started writing up an invocation/invitation/description for this event, inspired by recent exchanges here. I did not get to finish putting it together, so glad you got this page up, @douggins. This is the beginning of how I wanted to frame things:
Cosmos Café [2020-03-20] - Countering the CoronaVirus of the Mind
Beyond facts and factoids, there is a zone. Let us call it the 5th dimension, wherein time and space are born and die—some call it the quantum foam; others, consciousness itself—the ontological primal, the incorporeal jelly-like substance we’re made of. Let’s meet there. No facemasks needed. Keep your skin cells to your self. Let your love light shine through virtual face, hands, gestures, and (weather permitting) well-tempered words. We are all zoomers now. Songs and crayons/paper welcome, and new faces come in from the social isolation of the retracting global dome—a nestweaving of birds appropriates the moment, gathers in the shady sun of still-brown branches that shiver and grow.
Reading / Watching / Listening
- "Second-order" culture & the Axial Age III
- To Not Abandon OURSELVES - #18 by johnnydavis54
- Exorcism of Corona - #6 by Michael_Stumpf
- Metaphors for Health ( an adjacent possibility)
- New York City is Floating Upon a Swarm of Thought-viruses - #5 by bradsayers
- Cosmos Café [2020-03-10] - The Idea of the World 2 (Part II)
I particularly wanted (would still like) to ask:
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How can we understand “CoronaVirus” from different metaphysical points of view?
- Materialist/physicalist
- Bottom-up panpsychic
- Idealist
- Spiritualist
- Panentheist
- Integral
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What is the significance of Cornavirus for our times?
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What is the occult emergent opportunity that Cornovirus perhaps presents for world change? What kind of good ideas might be possible to manifest and realize now that weren’t before?
I also thought I’d share Mirra Alfassa (aka The Mother’s) account of her encounter with the Spanish Flu, via @Matteo, who sent this to the members of the Savitri reading group after our last event.
My final questions for now:
- What is the occult reality of CoronaVirus?
- Who is CoronaVirus in the subtle realm?
- What is the relationship between CoronaVirus and God?