Coronavirus, Getting to Know It “I view the Earth as a big organism that breathes in and out eternally.” — Johann Goethe BY
JAROSLAV VLCEK
CORONAVIRUS ATTACKS HUMANS. What is its purpose? I will start the search by reading a passage about the Earth from my book Tracking Consciousness Before Birth and Beyond (Friesen Press 2017), a quotation of the prenatal child: “Above me a luminous tree spreads wide its crown. It speaks to me. As I gaze into its winding veins, small particles thread toward me. One speck enters me, seeking a place to settle down. I will give it a home, life within me. Another arrives. Each particle I adopt connects me with its source lastingly. Bit by bit the living Earth feeds me Her matter. Now I cannot turn from Her without breaking the bond and feeling the pain of separation. Forever I am bound to Earth, my true Mother. To Earth I owe my substance.” Explanation: The prenatal child is “gazing at” (being conscious of) the placenta and describes its experience of building its body with the particles of the earth matter that enter it. It listens to their stories and gives home to those it likes. We learn that the Earth is indeed a living organism and our true Mother. This proves that Earth is alive and we are her children. More about the Earth: The Earth has an eternal bond with the sun that goes back to the beginning of the solar system. Both were part of a cloud of star dust and gases that gave rise to it. Also, all the life forms on the Earth — including the coronavirus — are united by the same energy of life. Thus, the human being, the Earth and the coronavirus, each can say, “I am.”
ROLE OF HUMANS IN NATURE Every life form on the Earth occupies a rung on the evolutionary ladder. Humans are given the highest rung. It determines their role in nature as benevolent leaders of all the lower life. Thus, humans carry the aspirations of the lower life to better its life condition and progress in evolution. The coronavirus feeds on the lungs of human beings as a predator, aspiring to become human, just as plants aspire to become animals by offering themselves as food to animals. Animals feed on vegetation that is palatable to them. Life gravitates to what is familiar according to its design. Nature is full of wandering life, each looking for its home. “It is the central urge of every atom…To return to its divine source, however distant….” — Walt Whitman, “Persian Lesson” from Leaves of Grass The position of the leader among the life forms is determined during its first light-matter interaction, which takes place in the realm of elementary particles discussed below. I will illustrate it with an example of a flock of hungry farmyard chickens that catches the attention of the unborn child who wants to help quiet the unruly flock. From my poem “Hungry Birds”: “The birds shriek, fight, demand. I want to quiet the angry flock. My wish spins a dream, carries me into a deep past, an eternal realm where everything follows an exact law, the world of elementary particles, where I had my beginning. There I see myself being assembled: a glittering, rare precious matter, my first substance…. Invisible elementals inhabit this subtle world. They helped create me. They also know the birds. I appeal to them: Can you help the birds? …They reply: tell the one who harbors you to feed them.” I send a message to Mati who feeds them. They quiet. In a while I, too, sense receiving food.” The story illustrates the role of the unborn child as a benevolent leader of chickens. More importantly, it shows its origin in the realm of elementary particles such as atoms, electrons, photons, 1 2 WWW.EDGEMAGAZINE.NET
protons and neutrons. In this realm, every new life form is given its first matter and its purpose in life by the divine creation Source — its home. Without a purpose, a life has no meaning.
CURRENT STATE OF LIFE ON EARTH On the whole, the life on Earth today is not what it was designed to be. It all started in the West with the arrival of the industrial revolution and technology. Humans lost the awareness of Earth as a living organism and their true Mother: Mother Earth. At first, people used it as a means of their survival, but later also for selfish interests driven by greed. This led to a life of material realism. Matter has been regarded as the fundamental reality and everything else was believed to be derived from it. Today, material realism has been proven to be an ignorant way of understanding life. It is being replaced by consciousness-based experience of life by the participant. According to Albert Einstein, “All knowledge of reality begins and ends with experience.” “God always forgives, we forgive sometimes, but nature never forgives.” — Spanish folk wisdom The last part of the proverb explains the current racial struggle. The negative effect of material realism has led to environmental pollution, resource exploitation and general damage to the Earth by its inhabitants. People are part of the Earth. They are abusing and damaging Earth, not realizing that they are directing the abuse and damage toward themselves — amazing ignorance! Examples: holocaust, slavery, oppression of the indigenous people, racial and religious discrimination… the list goes on and on. It is painful to hear about wars killing innocent people or hurting them economically by imposing sanctions, aimed to force their leaders to submit to the will of the aggressor. I intend to show that the damage of Earth is the root cause of the current viral pandemic. “Mother Earth has become a forgotten myth. The health and survival of the planet has been seriously damaged and compromised. These are indisputable facts! We have sinned against the Earth.” — Pope Francis, on Earth Day To survive, Earth has tried to defend herself. Seeing that humans would not voluntarily abandon their evil ways, Earth resorted to a drastic measure to lower their number by diseases and plagues. Humans were able to stop the epidemics in the past by quarantine, increasing immunity and by various remedies, but never could eliminate the root cause of the diseases: damage to Earth. The coronavirus is the latest serious pandemic. Its spreading function follows an exponential curve defined by Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler’s number e raised to a power whose magnitude expresses the “nature” of the virus. At the beginning the only thing we know about its nature and influence is the geometry of its spreading. Thus, by restricting free movement of people and keeping the infected in huge hospitals, we can decrease the virus’s operating geography, flatten the exponential curve, and slow down the progress of its spreading. That will not lower its capacity to strike again. When we remove the movement restriction, keeping everything the same, we can expect the virus to resume its normal spreading. If at the same time we alter the “food” of the virus chemically, our modeling of its spreading becomes less reliable as the predictor of its future behavior. Still, if it accomplishes the slowing down of the virus spreading, it is the right thing to do, hoping at the same time that the virus will not mutate as it did by becoming COVID-19.
