An exercise for self-knowledge and knowledge about the corona situation.

For this exercise, primarily the situation in Italy was taken into account, because in Italy the belief in the authority of the state regarding health issues is surprisingly strong. The exercise itself, however, is not addressed specifically to a certain mentality, but can above all assist the German-speaking and also other nations to develop knowledge of the situation in a very meaningful way.

The practitioner imagines, in quiet contemplation, that the quarantine measures, the so-called lockdown and the restrictions, have been decided on with a clear conscience and that the state is therefore concerned for the well-being of the citizens. The state leadership has chosen the current situation according to the best of its ability and there is no other reason for it than to ensure the well-being and health of the citizens. Then the person picturing this image exactly in this way can think that the restrictive measures, such as wearing a face mask and the special monitoring of mobile phone data, are only a temporary and therefore very bearable phase of life. After the end of the crisis, life will be more or less as it was before, or maybe even calmer and happier.

What feelings arise when the practitioner’s attention is fully focused on this thought and in the belief of the just authority of the state, and furthermore considers the virus to be extremely serious and a danger to people’s health? As a result of the danger, the measures must be carried out and they are fair, perhaps even wise. The dedicated belief, with complete trust, in the validity of the measures causes an inner emotional reaction. How do practitioners experience themselves, in their feelings, when they fully engage with the reality just described?

In a second step of the exercise, individuals question the existing measures, check them according to their logic and compare them in context with other statements that speak out against the lockdown. Now they create a creative fantasy and say to themselves that the state lies to the people with the official figures and even with the depiction of the disease. They develop the clear image that through suggestions and fears the entire situation exceeds reality by 95% and that the spectre of the virus really only appears so serious because the way it affects people is not properly substantiated and scientifically presented. The image is created that the corona situation arises only through suggestion and not through a significantly fatal pathology. If the practitioner now devotes himself to this idea completely and pushes himself, pushes himself in the way he would if he had to jump over a two-meter wide river, he would construct a large, ultra large question mark with respect to society. Does the practitioner dare to think this idea through to the end and to become aware of the consequences?

At any rate, it is perceptible in the subtle awareness that there are great differences in the way one creates the images of the situation in oneself by thinking and visualising. The first picture is largely promoted by the media and the information of the time, while the second picture, which consciously faces a hypothesis of daring lies, you have to think up and create yourselves. Passive surrender and unreflected trust in the system and in statements from the media gives a kind of belonging with a feeling of security. Those who only complete the first exercise will definitely remain in collective connection with their fellow human beings. They do not need to emancipate or expose themselves. The first mental picture allows a quiet experience, because one does not have to jump over a river, which might be wider than the possible jumping distance. The practitioner, at any rate, does not fall into the water with the first picture.

With the second hypothesis that is developed, individuals experience themselves quite differently, as if they are suddenly exposed and cannot support themselves or hold onto a railing when jumping over the stream. There is a demand or even a very strong challenge to their dynamic, their backbone and their ability to independently judge themselves and the external reality. The daring ability to think that a massive error could have been drawn into humanity through suggestions and fears, creates a bold, free, almost light though absolutely individual new orientation. In any event, those who sufficiently think the train of thought to the end, and do not think it only once, but repeat it often, carefully making comparisons, sense astonishing consequences. They will experience themselves as liberated from the earth and will feel alone, far from the collective of the times. Past impressions dissolve and they enter a vision of the future as if homeless. ¹⁾Are not people like Prof. Sucharit Bhakdi, Dr. Claus Köhnlein, Prof. Klaus Püschel, Dr. Wolfgang Wodarg, Dr. Bodo Schiffmann and many others undergoing this process of strengthening their conscious which forms in aloneness and this process is happening precisely because they are facing a collective view with their opinion and scientific research. ²⁾Surprisingly, those who take an individual position on the corona crisis with factual arguments are attacked, while the fearful messages of the media and the propaganda tendencies of the times receive few attacks, even though they are perceived by a large part of society as untrue and uncongenial. In any case, it can be seen very clearly in the corona crisis that humanity is increasingly losing its individual ability to judge, and external opinions are burdened with fear and very questionable scientific arguments.

This article was originally posted in German on 5th May 2020.