COVID-19 might help us see those costs more clearly, he says.
"More broadly, the fact that disruption of this magnitude could actually lead to some large (partial) benefits suggests that our normal way of doing things might need disrupting."
Article photographs of the Earth's Troposphere show NO2 levels dropping and the skies clearing: over China and Italy. Arguably, a process of purification occurring.
In 1950, Alice Bailey discussed the individual aura, in her book entitled Telepathy. She wrote:
There is a true teaching in the statement in The New Testament that "the shadow of Peter passing by healed...." The control of the Christ over His aura was such that "He knew when virtue had gone out of Him"--He knew, therefore, that healing energies had poured through one of his centers to a needy person or group of persons....One radiant, creative life, consciously using the heart or the throat centers, can carry inspiration to hundreds....You must however, bear in mind that these centers are brought into activity by the cultivation of certain major virtues, and not by meditation or concentration upon the centers. They are brought automatically into the needed radiatory condition by right living, high thinking and loving activity."
Swami Sri Yukteswar, states in his book The Holy Science:
Moral courage is strengthened by observances of Yama (morality or self-control) and Niyama (religious rules).
Yama comprises non-injury to others, truthfulness, non-stealing, continence, and non-covetousness. Niyama means purity of body and mind, contentment in all circumstances, and obedience....
Rage, Rights and Masks
So isn't it interesting that wearing a mask in public has become a moral, and political-rights issue contesting whether "high thinking and loving activity" should be the norm?
Professor Seth Gilman, in his article: Why Are Masks Triggering Conflict and Rage? Reports that:
Anger has also filled online bulletin boards here in the suburbs of Philadelphia, with people posting rage-filled comments.... Grocery store employees have been verbally assaulted for asking shoppers to wear masks, a man at a Dollar Tree store wiped his face on an employee's shirt when she asked him to wear a mask, and there has been at least one mask-related murder.
Until recently, generally, society has concluded that "purification" is a physical process. But this discussion reveals that the wise also see purification as a causal psychic process. And another word for "psychic purification" is HEALING.
Purification
Bailey says the "....thoughts of man are largely responsible for....the destructive quality of some of nature's processes, including certain phenomena, such as plague...." And Dr. Burke says, "Our normal way of doing things might need disrupting." Clearly, the evidence before us indicates a need to restore the discipline of purification.
Failing to practice "non-injury to others, truthfulness, and contentment," definitely causes violence--and arguably even plague. Violence alone compels the practice of Yama and Niyama. "Right living, high thinking and loving activity," are the only ways to compensate for violence. Freedom cannot grant the right to rage.
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