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COVID-19 Reflections from social isolation by Mark Carpenter, UK
The body is sick. Time has caught up in this world of time, and the results of all the over-indulgences and abuse of the gifts freely given through love has reached the crescendo. For a time, all worked in beautiful union. Harmony ruled, and all was well. Then there came a change: a change in energy; a change in intention; a change in connection; a change in dynamics of the whole organism.
It was subtle at first, and a few seemingly disconnected
incidents of malaise were felt, then passed. But all was not well. The vital force, peacefully and smoothly running the show in the background, free from effort, free from any stresses, just being and doing, started to respond, without any planning, without any intention, simply reflecting the energetic turbulence being imposed upon it.
When all constituent parts of the body fail to work in a state of blessed co-ordination, so is disharmony created.
Only when there is a movement away from that gentle unity of purpose does the vital force become disrupted, and progressive symptoms resulting from the disturbed projection become perceivable. When all functions work as one, guided invisibly by the fatherly vital force, nothing is to be seen. No ripple is present to ruffle the flawless refection of all things mirrored.
But when the winds gain force, and the intensity of their
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