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Bodies or Souls? William Wildblood Explores A Crucial 'Corona 'Crisis' Question

4/15/2020

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Pen-friend and fellow blogger William Wildblood published a great post today, one in which he asks a crucial question most people, self-professed Christians and organized Christian institutions among them, have all but sidestepped or ignored: 

There is much debate, though not in the mainstream media, about whether the severity of the Covid 19 coronavirus is sufficient to justify the current global lockdown with the disastrous effect that will have on the economy. Are the death rates so bad, or could they potentially be so bad, that we should cripple ourselves for what might be the foreseeable future? 

I have come to believe that this is irrelevant. The coronavirus is not important. Whether it is just a bad flu or something more serious is really just a secondary issue. What is important is our reaction to it on a spiritual level. The fact is that we, the collective we, have no real spiritual beliefs at all and that applies to us whether we are the typical modern agnostic or the conventional religious believer or the 'spiritual' New Age type (or whatever the current version of that is). We all react to this crisis on a purely materialistic level, thinking only of the safety of our bodies. That is why we are so easily persuaded that protection, of ourselves and our medical systems, is paramount and everything else must be subordinated to that. It is why we willingly hand ourselves over to state supervision.

But what about our souls? Where do these come in?


Good question. Where do souls come in to all of this? For the answer, read the rest of William's excellent post here. 

For my own part, I have been harping on about the importance of the spiritual in all of this for a better part of a month. The spiritual level - your soul - is the only level at which anything that is happening now matters.  

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Jake
4/15/2020 15:29:50

Man, I love your posts, and now I've discovered Wildblood's blog. And I got here through Bruce.
What a blessing.
I was running/jogging last night, and the air was cold and crisp. I felt that I was being forced to make a fateful choice: between the world, and God. Between the System and Spirituality.
The mayor, my boss, came to a meeting yesterday with a home-made rag mask over his face, so I could only see his scared eyes at first.
I won't choose that.
I intend to move into the countryside, even more rural. I hope to find some kind of remote work that will enable me to do that.
Whatever is going on is epochal. A permanent change. Those of us who reject the System will be forced to live on the outskirts of society, both literally and figuratively. I think that will be great. Better than the way I've been living thus far.

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Francis Berger
4/15/2020 18:40:29

@ Jake - Yes, William is great. A fountain of wisdom - and he really hit it out of the park in this post.

Pertaining the other matters you mentioned, I found William Arkle's insights into and Bruce's commentary on Will Power vs. the Will very clarifying in terms of understanding whether an individual is doing the 'right' thing or on the right path. I humbly suggest you give it a read. It really helped me.

https://charltonteaching.blogspot.com/2016/06/what-should-we-do-now-some.html

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Jake
4/15/2020 20:36:54

wow

Francis Berger
4/15/2020 20:47:46

@ Jake - Yeah, it had the same effect on me when I read it a year or two ago. Really puts thing in the proper perspective - offers a gauge with which we can begin to understand if we are doing what we are meant to do and being what we are meant to be.

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