About midway into writing about COVID-19, I was interrupted. I could not bring myself back to the line of thought. That statement alone is indeed the reality of the NOW. One moment is gone…then it is only a memory, or something lost forever in this lifetime, like an old photo.
When we see a photo, play a CD, or watch a video, we can see, hear, or feel that recording. We can tap into its moving parts, sounds, visions, and memories, yet each is simply a ‘re-membering’ of something from the past. We in the NOW, are engaging something created in the PAST, and rushing continually into the FUTURE. That begs the question, “Are past, present, and future a reality, or are they one moment all wrapped together in what we call a lifetime? Can we learn to focus our personal laser anywhere on our, “CD of life”? Can we change the flow of our CD’s contents in a laser-flash of new enlightenment?
What are we feeling during these days of fear for our health, the health of our loved ones, and the insanity of all who believe they are the chosen ones, and only they can “fix it”? Is this time of COVID-19 a mask? If so, what is it hiding? Each of us looks at, feels into, and hopes for the best outcome for ourselves and our loved ones. Where is our energy in relationship to all others around the planet or even just next door? Do we pray for them? Do we offer our help to them? Do we care for the homeless, the refugees? Do we reach way beyond the wee comforts of ourselves to trust that our caring for all may likely be the only solution to the massive fear of multiple cases of illness and death? All such questions are deeply personal. When we ask inwardly for answers, we can begin to recognize our fears, strengths, and questions about our own part in healing or harming the entire planet.
We each are a significant part of the whole. We either add to or diminish the health of the whole. Does that infer each of us may be a germ …or a cure? Is it time to look more deeply into our own health of thoughts, actions, and cellular connections to one another, to the soil, to flowers, to fruits, to air, to water, to every particle of pollution, purity, or contamination?
Perhaps it is time to look at our egos and say, “Whoa! Let’s clean-up our own actions before condemning another’s.” Is the drunk or homeless lying on the sidewalk to be walked over as though a simple piece of pollution? Where does the edge of freedom, love, carelessness, entrapment begin or end? Who can define a part of creation as less valuable than another? A flower needs a bee, a fish needs healthy water, a deer needs chemical free browse, spiders need insects, vultures need dead meat, rhinos need safety from poachers, babies need mothers. Relationships are endless. The earth cannot supply life when we continue to pollute every part of her. She cannot be healthy when any single species is carelessly threatened or threatening.
Is the human species losing its health, not because of germs, or because its spirit has lost its way? The earth is a whole body. The human is simply a cell within that whole. When we look deeply inward, are we a healthy cell in thought, spirit, body, and action? Perhaps we could improve, look around, love one another, the environment, with awareness and concern for the health, safety, and beauty of the whole.
It is time to look seriously at how we eat, what we eat, what we kill, how much we kill, how we abuse living plants, how we experiment on each other and other species, to make unnecessary chemicals that pollute our bodies, soils, water, and air. To what end has all this experimenting, affected our world?
Are poisonous chemicals, GMO foods, and seeds, highly processed foods laced with chemicals to maintain a longer shelf-life, simply ideas gone awry, now slowly poisoning the very people and earth they were supposed to help? Have all our unnatural chemicals so deeply poisoned the environment that our immune systems have lost their way? Is this COVID-19 a natural virus, or perhaps nature’s attempt to slow and heal human-made poisoning of the water, soil, air, insects, fruits, and vegetables? We each are affected by the actions of one another. Perhaps we need to focus on our human behaviors more than on this mysterious virus.
We are witnessing great compassion by the masses, risking their health and lives to help one another. That compassion may well save the planet and all its abundance. Those putting greed, ego, lies, and the markets ahead of the life force of the planet may ultimately suffocate by their own priorities, while poisoning the entire earth, endangering the life force of billions, and killing millions.
Perhaps, the masses will now awaken to a more insidious virus, the virus of tyranny that is bursting forth from shameful leaders and individuals, putting ego, power, fame, and wealth above the health and life of all.
Confronting those tyrants and their arbitrary, man-made laws, artificial boundaries, usurped powers, inflated egos, corruption, and lies may be the vaccine that will begin to heal COVID-19 and put humane back into humanity. The collective and individual actions of humans shall determine if we have a future on the planet …
The planet will heal.
M. Chandler McLay © March 28, 2020