Monday, May 4, 2020

Many feel that the Covid-19  pandemic began when the  virus escaped from a  laboratory in Wuhan, China.

Could the Wuhan Laboratory be behind the Covid-19 pandemic even if it did not physically release the coronavirus?

Possibly.

To understand how this may be the case I have posted an excerpt from my last book  Everything Has Karma: Learning to Embrace Our Interconnectedness pages 129-131 below. It explains how the way we approach the world has repercussions (karma) for us individually and as a society.


It explains how science and technology have failed to grasp the basic concepts of the universe such as the Law of Love and its corollary of resistance training. Somehow science does not understand the premise each of practices when we go to the gym--resistance training.

So the question becomes did the scientist's at the Wuhan Lab through their experiments unleash the coronavirus, or mutate it, or make if stronger in some way?

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Guided by Selfishness, Violence, Scientific Materialism
Unfortunately, instead of following the law of love as prescribed by the prophets and teachers, we have built a world based upon selfishness and competition. Our guiding principal is Adam Smith’s law of ‘self-interest.’ Instead of cooperation and working together we revel in competition; believing it makes us work harder and breeds success. But, does it?

Are the Golden Rule, do unto others, and love your enemy merely slogans for religious services and spiritual adherents? I think not.



The law of love is the guiding principle of the universe. Go against it at your own peril.
Take science and disease. Instead of employing the law of love the scientific approach looks to conquer and defeat. Beat back and destroy that nasty disease; or learn how to control the weather; or how to better extract minerals, rather than developing a holistic alternative based upon cooperation and love. Because of this ‘kill the enemy approach’ we have created numerous Frankenstein’s that are coming back to haunt us.

As German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche famously said, “Whatever does not kill me, makes me stronger.”138 Science has made some very wicked things very, very strong.

The CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) calls them “superbugs”: “nightmare bacteria” that have developed unusually resistant genes that do not respond to antibiotics, killing tens of thousands each year in the USA and posing an enormous risk to the health of Americans.139 

Richard D. Smith and Joanna Coast note that medicine thought it had conquered infectious diseases with antibiotics, but all it has done “is made diseases stronger and more resistant. A new class of superbugs from ear infections and strep throat to malaria and tuberculosis formed in response. And the resistance is growing.”140 

We created superbugs with resistant genes because of the resistance training we put them through. We tried to wipe them out, defeat them, kill them, and exterminate them; and because of this, they developed resistance to our assaults.

You all know about and probably have even practiced resistance training. When you go to the gym and lift weights, you are practicing resistance training. By lifting weights, you are putting extra pressure on your muscles, and in response, they get stronger. This is a basic law of the universe. 

Understandably, helping people get well is a good thing. Unfortunately, we have chosen a violent approach of killing and defeating a particular disease, and in the process have created new mutations that are even more dangerous. We need to consider alternative approaches not based on violence—and we have to be creative here—but some other alternative, or approach or doing something unrelated, that helps. Secondly, we need to understand that it may take time, a very long time, to develop alternatives. It took centuries, arguably millennia, to get to our current state of curing individuals.

Our approach to disease is a microcosm of our approach to the world around us. It matters to you, because you are linked to its karma. You don’t need to be a scientist creating new drugs, or a researcher testing those drugs on animals, or even a consumer of them; although your degree of linkage will be how duplicitous you have been in the process.
The question is: what are you going to do about it?  



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