There are mornings when I wake up reflecting on the error of my ways. Credit to the full moon perhaps, but today I woke up with a bundle of new insights about changes I want to make in my behavior.
I don’t ever want to miss the beauty and possibility around every corner, from fear of what might be there, around the bend.
Tucker Carlson released a new bit1 with Casey and Calley Means, How Big Pharma Keeps You Sick2. Casey, who was top of her Stanford class, left her surgical residency in her fifth and final year, with hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt, to investigate why all of these surgeries were necessary. She and her brother, Calley, have since become advocates/whistleblowers about the corruption of the food and pharma industries. They discuss how various industries are strategically profiting from the diseases they help create.*
She stepped away from it all due to a moral imperative. If you care about your food and your health, it is a fantastic episode.
Get this: In crediting the strength of her parents for supporting her choice to leave her residency, she describes them as “spiritually grounded, not afraid of death, and not driven by the materialism that makes you rack up a wall full of awards”.
That is a benchmark to aspire to.
“Doctors are in a trap. $500,000 of education, guaranteed salary, all you have to do is drink the kool-aid. All you have to do is stay head-down and not ask questions, not ask why… It is so imperative for people to understand the reasons why we’re having surgery, the reasons why we’re getting sick, the reasons why American competitiveness is plummeting, the reasons why our kids are chronically ill, (half of the kids in America are chronically ill), all from preventable issues. So if you’re a doctor not spending any time on that, then unfortunately, for better or worse, you are bankrolling on the problem.”
50% of American children today are chronically sick, compared to less than 1% fifty years ago.
Why, as we spend more on “healthcare” every year, are we also getting sicker every year? How is it that the more we understand about the human body, the more skilled we become in prolonging our suffering?
We’re not thinking about root causes. The algorithmic and robotic ways we look at humans are destroying our vitality. We don’t understand the gift and treasure in our humanity.
It is so easy to get overwhelmed by all that’s wrong, but there is also so much good coming through that blows the mind.
My childhood friend from Alaska came to visit recently with her husband. Her husband is a year out of a heart transplant. As in they cut out the heart he was born with and sewed in someone else’s. And now he gets to live. Brought back from the brink of death through the love of those connected to him.
This. Is. aaMAAA-ZING.
He showed us the pictures of the stitches across his original heart from his last surgery. He looks ten years younger. He said he feels the best he ever has. He’s not grumpy like he used to be because his body feels so much better now.
This is amazing. So grateful that a good family has a fresh lease on life, as a result of the capabilities of skilled surgeons, and of love shared from strangers. The physical and the non-material. One does not exist without the other.
Which brings me back to the gift of our humanity. And our search for spirit.
I keep circling back to Christianity as metaphor to gain insight into the plight we’re in as human beings every day today. For back story, check out my Midsummer posts My Summer Occupations and Then Came the Summer.
Yesterday in Elizabeth’s The Sovereign Way group3, we spoke about the context of the shortest verse in the Bible, “ Jesus wept.” Mary and Martha’s brother Lazarus had died four days before and came alive again when Jesus arrived. This miracle led many who witnessed it to believe, while others reported Jesus to the Pharisees, aiming to protect their own positions and avoid Roman persecution. Season Four4 of The Chosen tells the story.
What was it that caused Jesus to weep?
It was this moment that marked a clear divide between those who embraced their own ability to assess and discern, and those who clung to what was familiar, worn, and dead.
We mirror this story over and over again.
Some people recognize and celebrate the beauty and significance of unique achievements, reflect on their own responsibility, their own choices, and respond accordingly, while others go looking for someone with bigger guns to complain to and issue punishment.
We are commonly led to believe that Jesus wept due to the death of his friend. What if Jesus was weeping with his awareness of how easily we in our human bodies choose to be overwhelmed, frightened, and defeated by death, negating the gorgeous beauty that lies in love, past the fear?
Our spirits are currently bound to our physical bodies. Our task is to fully explore and express our potential, in this lifetime, aiming to bring glory to those who seek lasting purpose and meaning through the ages.
Russell Brand uses a segment of AI-generated content5, depicting a loving relationship between Trump and Kamala, to reflect on how attempts to legitimize censorship and surveillance become irrelevant when we have the capacity to discern truth for ourselves.
What makes us able to assess what is true and meaningful?
Why do we choose to remain “hysterical and pessimistic, unable to control our emotions,” missing out on the insights that are trying to reach our awareness?
Are we aligned with our higher self, or subjecting our selves to our own lack of will?
We needn’t be a slave to our narrow impulses. We can choose something different.
Corporate self-interest and individual self-interest share a fundamental similarity: both often involve protecting and prioritizing one's own benefits at the expense of broader considerations. Just as corporations may shield themselves from judgment, responsibility, and accountability to maintain their profitability and influence, individuals similarly defend their own interests, ignoring facts and external perspectives that challenge their views or disrupt their comfort.
In both scenarios, we build barriers to growth and understanding. When we cling to personal biases or outdated beliefs to protect our ego, we narrow our focus, which hinders progress and prevents a more balanced or truthful view of reality.
* Profiting off of a problem that you’re creating?! How does this relate? Stay tuned…
https://tuckercarlson.com/tucker-show-casey-calley-means
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