Christine here. I’ll be hosting a voice chat again tomorrow, October 18th, at 3pm Pacific, 5pm Central, 6pm Eastern or whatever time it converts to in your time zone. For those who haven’t attended one before they’re an informal chance to say hi, connect, acknowledge where we’re at and explore whatever topics or themes feels most relevant for us. The banner at the top of the channel shows the countdown to it and you can click on that banner at the time of to join. Looking forward to it.

Christine here. The voice chat I’m hosting is starting in 4min. You can click on the banner at the top of the channel to join. For those who haven’t attended one before they’re an informal chance to say hi, connect, acknowledge where we’re at and explore whatever topics or themes feels most relevant for us today.

Thank you everyone who joined in for the voice chat today. I appreciate the chance to connect and support us all to give voice to what we’re thinking about, feeling and experiencing during these times. Also, to explore different topics and themes that are relevant and important to give attention to.

I’ll be back next week hosting another voice chat, Tuesday October 25th at 3pm Pacific, 5pm Central, 6pm Eastern or whatever time that converts to where you live. You’re welcome to join in for that.

~Christine

In the last 30 years, we’ve had 3 Republican presidents and 3 Democrat presidents. And what’s happened in that time— regardless of which “side” was in office?

More disease, more division, more surveillance, more chaos, more conflict, more disconnection from nature and each other, more environmental poisoning, more perpetual fear, more drama, more money taken away from the people and placed in the hands of multinational corporations.

Again, regardless of which “side” was in office, things have continued to get worse.

We’re playing tug-of-war inside of a service elevator. While we’re perpetually distracted with this tug-of-war game, the elevator continues to fall into the abyss. The tug-of-war is a distraction. Press the button. Get off the elevator.

This game is an illusion. There are no sides. There is only one loser, no matter who seems to be “elected”— the people. The opposing party isn’t the problem, the system is.

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Sometimes I’m the dude on the left.
Sometimes I’m the dude on the right.

Balance is found between the two.
Acknowledging the existence of psyops and all the other ridiculous shit going on, naming them, calling them out, but aligning our thoughts and feelings while focusing our energy on creating “the more beautiful world our hearts know is possible.”

I don’t know what the link is, but there’s a huge overlap between people who still believe in the lab-leak narrative and the people who still believe the election was “stolen” from Trump.

What do y’all think?

Please read claims related to viruses with caution; they are generally false and deceptive.

For example, consider a recent post on FB, “Boston University develops new COVID strain with 80% lethality, raising ethical questions about the research” (link).

It reflects the false claim made in the publication, “Role of spike in the pathogenic and antigenic behavior of SARS-CoV-2 BA.1 Omicron” (link)

In general terms, the claim cannot be correct because the virus or its variant has never been shown to exist; then how could a new version (variant or strain) is possible? It is not!

The abstract of the publication describes that “... an ancestral SARS-CoV-2 isolate and compared this virus with the naturally circulating Omicron variant.” Note that it compares the SARS-CoV-2 isolate with the Omicron variant. Isolate is soup or curry, while variant is supposed to be a particle that no one has isolated or identified. It is like comparing vegetable soup/curry with an unknown vegetable variant.

Under the Material and Methods section, the publication describes “ ... The culture medium was harvested, passed through a 0.45 µ filter, and kept at -80ºC as a P0 virus stock.” Note here the culture medium refers to virus stock, i.e., vegetable soup/curry considered/called an (unknown) vegetable.

In short, it is simply a false scientific study for the claim or objective.

For further details, please see here and here.

At one point as a child, I was told by my parents that Santa Claus doesn’t exist.

Of course, my immediate reaction was anger and confusion.

What about the presents under the tree?
What about the piece of beard I found in the fireplace? What about the half eaten cookies and milk? The half eaten carrots in the yard? What about the Santa Claus sleigh-tracking segment played on the news the night before Christmas?

What about the songs?
What about the decorations?
What about the movies & TV shows?

What about the joy I experienced when thinking about Santa bringing me gifts? What about the intense fear I experienced when I was told that I needed to behave because Santa was watching me? I had measurable and observable biological responses to Santa Claus— he HAD to be real, right? Right?

Of course, I grew up and realized all of these other things had plenty of other plausible explanations, and I’d simply been conditioned to believe what authority figures said. I then took the conditioning given to me by these authority figures and projected that onto my reality. Santa Claus doesn’t exist, but I believed he did, and I had measurable and observable biological responses to Santa Claus. Ah, the power of belief.

Luckily we’re adults now, and we’ve moved on from our conditioning, no longer relying on what’s told to us by authority figures while projecting this conditioning onto reality, right? Right…?

You’d hope so. But that isn’t reality. The overwhelming majority of adults— even amongst the so-called freedom community— are doing the same thing with viruses. There is no proof that adheres to the scientific method, or to logic, of their existence.

Experts assign characteristics to them (a reification fallacy) despite having never proven their existence. We point to symptoms of disease, especially when experienced amongst 2+ people in the same space, as proof that they exist (an affirming the consequent logical fallacy) when they’ve never been established to exist. We toss in the position of the majority (a bandwagon fallacy) or a position of a so-called expert (an appeal to authority) as our primary or sole justification for our beliefs about viruses. We then get angry and say “well, where’s your proof viruses don’t exist?”, a nonsensical burden of proof reversal fallacy.

Can I conduct a scientific experiment on Santa Claus? No. I can’t. Why? Because Santa Claus has to be shown to exist, first, in order to proceed with experimentation on Santa Claus. Virology has an observed phenomenon (people getting sick) but no independent variable. They must show that the virus actually exists, in nature, in the fluids of a sick host, in order to proceed with experimentation. This has never been done. Ever. Virologists acknowledge this. They assume the virus is in the fluids of a sick host, add that unpurified fluid to a monkey kidney cell alongside several other substances (many of which are toxic to kidney cells— amphotericin B as an example), watch the cell breakdown, assume none of the other substances have an effect, and assume that it must’ve been the virus that they assumed was in the fluids of the sick host. It is nonsense. It is anti-logical pseudoscience. It would be akin to throwing 100 people in a blender, pulling out a fragment of a red hat and some white beard and shouting “here’s my proof that Santa Claus exists!”

Belief isn’t bad. I have beliefs. You have beliefs. We all do. However, beliefs can and will be weaponized against us causing us to create a pseudo-reality in which that belief appears to be real despite the overwhelming lack of proof for that belief in reality. This is why it’s important to continually check our own beliefs and distinguish between what we believe and what we know— especially when we’re uncertain of where they’re coming from and when we notice someone trying to provoke fear within us.

It’s time for us adults to wake up. There are better explanations for the things that make us sick.

From Dr. E. She’s one of the best, no doubt.